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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MYSTERY Matches Found: 38 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GREAT MYSTERY, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Strangely, strangely, lord, this morning Last Line: Thou the fire consuming me. Subject(s): Mystery A GREAT MYSTERY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a hush in earth and sky Last Line: "for I am nothing, thou art all." Subject(s): Mystery A MYSTERY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus a young wife, alighting from the train Last Line: In mute amazement at each other stare. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Kisses; Marriage; Mystery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MYSTERY, by MARY E. HOYT Poem Text First Line: Once, a little while ago, 'twas so warm and still Last Line: And I know 'twas life, that anguish that I could not understand. Subject(s): Mystery A MYSTERY, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life held in her hands a measure Last Line: And life held the scale in suspense. Subject(s): Life; Mystery ALIAS AND MELISANDE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melisande misty is a british writer whose detective Last Line: A rose by any other name can be sold over and over and over,especially to me Subject(s): Mystery APPARITION, by RAYMOND DE LA TAILHDE Poem Text First Line: I come from ancient palaces and earlier mysteries Last Line: "for I was your god, o peoples! I am love." Subject(s): Clergy; Facades; Mystery; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Appearances BEHIND THE LAKE THE MOON'S NOT STIRRED, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the lake the moon's not stirred Last Line: Doleful, the cry of eagle-owls, and hot %in the garden the wind is blustering Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Human Rights; Mystery CONSTANT, A MYSTERY, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First cries of the outriding crows were all business Last Line: Blue as october decorating its chest, mystery %of the province of poetry Subject(s): Mystery DON'T GUESS, LET ME TELL YOU, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Personally I don't care whether a detective story writer was educated Last Line: I wouldn't have bought it had I known it was impregnatded with had I but knowns Subject(s): Mystery FAIRY TALE TO WALK INTO THE EDGE OF A WORD, by INGRID FICHTNER Poem Source First Line: The fairy tale to walk into the edge of a word Last Line: And beyond the sea flaring Subject(s): Mystery FEAR, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a sound of crying in the lane Last Line: At the door and in the lane! Subject(s): Fear; Mystery FLAMMONDE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man flammonde, from god knows where Last Line: Horizons for the man flammonde. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Mystery HAUNTED HOUSE, by EDYTHE HOPE GENEE Poem Text First Line: I don't know why I came; it haunts me so! Last Line: The things about this place that haunt me so! Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Mystery IN MYSTERY VEILED, by MAMIE OZBURN ODUM Poem Text First Line: Must our halls of heaven fling wide Last Line: To lose our birthright and our heritage. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mystery; Torture; Shoah; Judaism LIFE'S PAST AND FUTURE, by WILLIAM HANKINS CHITWOOD Poem Text First Line: Did I exist before my birth?' Last Line: I'll do again. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Mystery; Child Birth; Midwifery MAN WHO NEVER COMES BACK, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: He's always in his 60s or 70s Last Line: A long time for you. We thought you'd never come Subject(s): Death; Detective Stories; Mystery; News; Newspapers MYSTERY, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glittering of air, it glitters Subject(s): Absence; Mystery; Separation; Isolation MYSTERY, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glittering of air, it glitters Last Line: But he sees no sun Subject(s): Absence; Mystery MYSTERY, by C. W. Poem Text First Line: Where does the tall sun walk at night? Last Line: A dollar a line for this? Subject(s): Mystery; Nature MYSTERY THAT SURELY IS PRESENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or what is waiting to turn from us %even now? Subject(s): Mystery MYSTERY: 1, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Coral-tipped blossoms Last Line: Sap-lusty apple-tree! Subject(s): Mystery; Secrets MYSTERY: 2, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: In her petals, blue iris folds Last Line: Only clear mid-day skies. Subject(s): Iris (flower); Mystery; Secrets RHYTHMS OF A MAIMED SPRINGTIME, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mystery that weighs upon my soul! Why do the shadows stifle me? Last Line: Blast my thoughts that cling to the eternal grind! Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Dreams; Mystery; Spring; Enigmas; Oddities; Nightmares SANDY STAR: 4. THE WAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He could not tell the way he came Last Line: The dark's at his door. Subject(s): Mystery SATAN ABSOLVED; A VICTORIAN MYSTERY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Satan. To-day is the lord's 'day.' once more on his / good pleasure Last Line: Michael (aside). The anti-christ! Subject(s): Angels; Antichrist; Christianity; Devil; Evil; Heaven; Mystery; Religion & Science; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Paradise SIMPLE MYSTERIES, by CAROLYN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Lupine, for example: its dry Last Line: Without our even asking Subject(s): Mystery; Nature STUKA, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: The word for the long long moment is stuka Last Line: Of the black-pigmented tumor, mela- %noma Subject(s): History; Mystery; Past THE BUSINESS CHANGES HANDS, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The business changes hands; accountants come Last Line: "his god writes down: ""your pay will terminate----" Subject(s): Mystery THE COURSE OF TIME: PROXIMITIES, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The memphian mummy, that from age to age Last Line: The clown that long had slumbered in his arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Bones; Dust; Egyptology; Mummies; Mystery THE DIREFUL TALE OF HORROR, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's sure a dreadful story,' the captain said to me Last Line: "the story of the skipper of the lady barnaby." Subject(s): Ghosts; Mystery; Supernatural THE IVORY GATE OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A continent of silver-gray and rose Last Line: Where deathless roses gleam like fragrant flames. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Mystery; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones THE MOUNTAINS OF GLAMORGAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains of glamorgan Last Line: That look towards the sea. Subject(s): Mountains; Mystery; Nature; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen THE MYSTERY, by C. E. DEAL Poem Text First Line: I know I am a mystery / a mystery for sure Last Line: Nor do I find a cure. Subject(s): Doubt; Mystery; Skepticism THE WIZARD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, nobody knows Last Line: And the bones drift by with a rustling sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Mystery; Seashore; Tragedy; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore TONE PICTURE (MALIPIERO: IMPRESSONI DAL VERO), by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the hot square, where the barbaric sun Last Line: Aloof and silent. Subject(s): Markets; Mystery; Sun; Supermarkets WE CATCH A BROKEN PRELUDE AND SUGGESTION, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mystery; Poetry & Poets WHAT WE SAID THE LIGHT SAID, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystery moves in god-like ways Subject(s): God; Mystery; Saxophones; Women |
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