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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NAMES Matches Found: 190 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF NAMES, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some love the laureate's 'tall elaine' Last Line: But rose is still the name for me.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Names A LEAF, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody said, in the crowd, last eve Last Line: When somebody mentioned your name last night Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Names; Summer A NAME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The name the gallic exile bore Last Line: I leave thee with my name. Subject(s): Names A SONNET ON CHRISTIAN NAMES, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In christian world mary the garland wears? Last Line: These all, than saxon edith, please me less. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Names AFTERNOON OF A MCGRATH, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning there was one mcgrath in aitken county Last Line: Dark holes in space I must recognize as home Subject(s): Fathers; Names; Sons; Towns AG LEVY, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two troops from the ag levy section Subject(s): Military Police; Names ALL-STARS SERIES II, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: 1b hamster %2b chesterton Last Line: Dh november Subject(s): Names; Poetry And Poets ALMOST NAMED HORACE, by JORDAN DAVIS Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Names; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ALPHABESTIARY: J, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: J is, splendidly, for john, my Last Line: Name. I mean truly have it Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Names ALTHOUGH SHE RARELY TRAVELED FARTHER THAN TOWN, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: The old woman is naming places Last Line: As though she has been there often %she has known it all of her life Subject(s): Aging; Names; Travel AMERICAN NAMES, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have fallen in love with american names Last Line: Bury my heart at wounded knee. Subject(s): Names; United States; America AMONG THE NAMES TO MORTALS GIVEN, by E. L. CASSAURIA Subject(s): Names; Mothers AMORETTI: 75, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One day I wrote her name upon the strand Last Line: Our love shall live, and later life renew. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "her Name;our Love Shall Live;to Immortalise His Love;one Day I Wrote Her Name;eternizing Her;""one Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand,""; Subject(s): Art & Artists; Immortality; Love; Names; Seashore; Thought; Beach; Coast; Shore; Thinking AN ELEGY ON A MAIDEN NAME, by JANE CAVE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, dear name which birth and nature gave Last Line: Each find in each a just, unshaken friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Winscom, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Names; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANAGRAMS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many have rearranged their names Subject(s): Names; Language; Words; Vocabulary AND THUS WITH ALL PRAISE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonderful creatures Last Line: Have these for name, none other. Subject(s): Women; Names ARCTURUS IS HIS OTHER NAME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "over the stile of ""pearl." Subject(s): Nature; Names ARMAZINDY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Armazindy;-- fambily name Last Line: Though I'm 'lectioneerin' still. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Names; Relatives AVATAR, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The imperceptible Last Line: And there you are Subject(s): California; Magic; Names BABY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teach him - when he makes the names Last Line: Some like 'emily' Variant Title(s): Poem: 198; Poem: 22 Subject(s): Babies; Names BALLADE OF LADIES' NAMES, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown's for lalage, jones for lelia Last Line: Anna's the name of names for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Names; Women BARBEE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Who is barbee? What sort of a thing Last Line: As lives in god's heaven above. Subject(s): Names BATTEN XXV, by JOSHUA MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: An unpronounceable name went and came Last Line: Out to be nothing this language of earth %that burned Subject(s): Change; Names; Silence BECKETT'S OBJECTS, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No things' Last Line: Difficult to know the use of. %make-shift. Abandoned Subject(s): Details; Names BIRD IN WHATEVER NAME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird with a name it does not itself Last Line: Told od itself, whatever name is given Subject(s): Names BOMBYKOL: 3., by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stinger's real name is robert. That became bob Last Line: Like a birdcage cover. Antoinette's red nest Subject(s): Names BUCKINGHAMSHIRE PLACE NAMES, by THEODORA ROSCOE Poem Text First Line: Go take the upper icknield way Last Line: Sweet to the ear as are old ballad rhymes. Subject(s): Buckinghamshire, England; Names CAGE, by SUSAN YUZNA Poem Source First Line: My father was named for st. Francis of assisi, Last Line: His name, the skull of an animal, pulled down over his face. Subject(s): Fathers; Names CALLED BY NAME, by JOHN E. HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: On the mountain simon became peter Last Line: He has a last name ... Like me Subject(s): Names CLARE OF ASSISI, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far ahead, we could already make out the bishop Last Line: Hear those bells under water. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Confirmation; Names; Nuns COME BACK, JACK!, by CATHERINE ANHOLT Poem Source First Line: There once was a little girl who didn't like Last Line: They laughed and laughed and laughed Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Names COMMON NAMES & COMPANIES, by CAROLYN KOO Poem Source First Line: Present in every garden Last Line: Shuffling out of our path Subject(s): Names; Nature CREOLE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Roman Empire; Names; Ancestors & Ancestry; Language; Creoles; Heritage; Heredity; Words; Vocabulary CROSS BROW, AMBLESIDE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My smallest daughter had wondered how Last Line: Can know of the brow that was crowned with thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Daughters; Home; Names DA FINE ITALIAN HAND, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Joe gessapalena can't write hees own name Last Line: Weell read w'at he's wrote an' be glad dat he came. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Names DEAR GONGLYA, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world Subject(s): Names; Gays & Lesbians; Desire; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DITTY, by ALMA DENNY Poem Source First Line: What a pity %that a city Last Line: Twould be correct %to call it schenect! Subject(s): Names; Towns DOG TAG, by CHARLES OWEN LAWSON Poem Source First Line: Today I walked my name around the park Last Line: Along with four rejection letters and an overdue %gas bill Subject(s): Names; Parks ELIZABETH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elizabeth! Elizabeth! / the first may-morning whispereth Last Line: Elizabeth! Elizabeth! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Love; May (month); Names; Dead, The ELIZABETH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little lady -- such a very stately dame! Last Line: Kaleidoscopic lassie! And elizabeth's her name. Subject(s): Girls; Names ELLIS ISLAND, SEPTEMBER 1907 (1), by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sadie, who was only twelve, wrote each letter down Last Line: Where she could become it Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Marginality, Social; Names ELSEWHERE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The delectable names of harsh places Subject(s): Names; Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension EMPTY DWELLING PLACES, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forever the little thud of names, falling Subject(s): Names ENVOY: 5. TO MY NAME-CHILD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day soon this rhyming volume, if you learn with proper speed Last Line: Beach of monterey! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Names EPIGRAM ON THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB, ANNO 1716, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence deathless kit-cat took its name Last Line: Of old cats and young kits. Subject(s): Kit-kat, Club; Names EVE NAMES THE ANIMALS, by SUSAN DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: To me, lion was sun on a wing %over the garden. Dove Last Line: As garlands on my long walks %the next day %I'd find them withered %I liked change Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Animals; Bible; Names EVENING WATERFALL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the name you called me? Subject(s): Names FOR NO ONE AMONG US IS WHOLLY WITHOUT A NAME.', by CHARLES P. R. TISDALE Poem Source First Line: Daybreak. Eye refuses to attach Last Line: Loss of meaning, saying once again their names Subject(s): Morning; Names GENERATION GAP, by P. N. W. DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: Their names come back Last Line: Points its unsteady %finger %asking %who are you Subject(s): Names; Time GIVEN NAMES, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could never be wendy - wendys %have pert noses, even perkier Last Line: Though we both know it never will be Subject(s): Names GROWING INTO MY NAME, by HARRIET JACOBS Poem Source First Line: Worn like a hand-me-down Last Line: By the side of the road Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Names; Women HELEN AGAIN, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: Is this the face taht launch'd a thousand ships Last Line: With a name like that you should be special, but you're not. %you're an ugly little slut Subject(s): Names HER NAME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in search, from a to z, they passed" Last Line: And she's simply 'little peg' Subject(s): Babies;names; Infants HER NAME, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With more than jewish reverence as yet Last Line: For thee, as 'tis to call the di'ety, jove. Subject(s): Names HEW SWEETIE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The things we call women! Housewife, honey Subject(s): Women; Names HIS STORY, by JOHN PHILIP BURKE Poem Text First Line: My name?' (he was wizened and wrinkled and grey Last Line: "can you lend me a bob for a rum?" Alternate Author Name(s): B., J. P. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Names; Story-telling; Wine HOW I CAME TO HAVE A MAN'S NAME, by EMMA LEE WARRIOR Poem Source First Line: It's a good thind dad deserted mon Subject(s): Birth; Names; Native Americans - Children I CAN HELP YOU SPEAK YOUR NAME, by HARRIET ZINNES Poem Source First Line: I can help you speak your name. And the names of the birds with flap Last Line: Moving reeds and name each one. I can help you speak your name Subject(s): Names IMPROMPTU LINES ADDRESSED TO HIS COUSIN, MRS. CREED, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So much religion in your name doth dwell Last Line: And practice is with endless glory crown'd. Subject(s): Names; Religion; Soul; Theology IN A LETTER TO A.R.C. ON HER WISHING TO BE CALLED ANNA, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me, if I wound your ear Last Line: But nancy , still with me. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Names IOWAY TO IOWA, by MAY M. HUNT Poem Text First Line: From his primal home in the woodland Last Line: For their chief so brave and true. Subject(s): Iowa; Names; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America KEEPING MY NAME, by LINDA MIZEJEWSKI Poem Source First Line: Love shouldn't make it vanish Last Line: Of the plucked-out ribs Subject(s): Identity; Names; Women L'INCONNUE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is thy name mary, maiden fair? Last Line: Forget, despise, but not reveal! Subject(s): Names LANDSCAPES OF MY NAME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like trumpets on a dry mountain, I blow Last Line: From the muddy throat of the gulf Subject(s): Names LEARNING THE NAMES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday afternoons we learned to love nature Last Line: As though deer had slept there Subject(s): Learning; Names LEARNING THE NAMES OF ALL THINGS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: When his father takes him to the river Last Line: When you call it by the proper name Subject(s): Names LOST FOR A WHILE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When I scratched through %my hair Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Names; Nature LOVE IS MY NAME, by MARGARET B. MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: Love is my name. Knowest thou me? Last Line: And love to thine eyes shall be unfurled! Subject(s): Love; Names MAIDEN NAME, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: In seventy six or seven Last Line: Hung you back around %my daddy's neck Subject(s): Movement; Names; Women's Rights MAPLE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her teacher's certainty it must be mabel Last Line: Name children some names and see what you do. Subject(s): Names MEREDITH, by ERICA PEDERSEN Poem Source First Line: Desires a name with greater economy: everyone Last Line: At home in your wide-eyed lap Subject(s): Names MISSISSIPPI, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death surrounds itself with the living Subject(s): Names; African Americans; Racism; Mississippi; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry MR. HIGH-MIND, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eleven rogues and he to judge a fool Last Line: To see it coinciding with the rest Subject(s): Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Names MR. HIGH-MIND, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eleven rogues and he to judge a fool Last Line: And for a passing moment is distressed %to see it coinciding with the rest Subject(s): Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Names MUTUAL PROBLEM, by WILLIAM ROSSA COLE Poem Source First Line: Said jerome k. Jerome to ford madox ford Last Line: It's the same thing with me Subject(s): Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939); Jerome, Jerome K. (1859-1927); Names MY CHRISTIAN NAME, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My christian name, my christian name Last Line: May be my christian name. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Names MY LADY'S PRETTY NAME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Sweetness is my lady's name Last Line: Love's celestial treasure. Subject(s): Honor; Names MY NAME, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From childish days I never heard Last Line: That noble martyr's name Subject(s): Names MY NAME, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child saw my name passing into Subject(s): Self; Names; Language; Words; Vocabulary MY NAME, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: My name arived from poland in 1910 stowed away in the engine room Last Line: Given it years of pain. My name has forgotten how to cry Subject(s): Identity; Immigrants; Names; Poland MY NAMESAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You scarcely need my tardy thanks Last Line: Of god, forever live! Subject(s): Names MY OWN NAME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every one is entitled to his own name Last Line: Both names are my own name and often I'm not certain which one is I %I like both names very much Subject(s): Names MYRTLE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How funny your name would be Last Line: Do what I want to do. But I want to stay here Subject(s): Names MYRTLE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How funny your name would be Last Line: While all along she is thinking, I can %do what I want to do. But I want to stay here Subject(s): Names NAME, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When did your name Subject(s): Names NAME, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy name was once the magic spell, by which my thoughts were bound Last Line: When the jocund sound that woke it once is gone -- for ever gone Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Names NAME FOR GRIEF, by HELEN BRYANT Poem Text First Line: Tell me any, any, tell me your name for grief Last Line: Of a young girl shakes in the withered crone. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Names; Sorrow; Sadness NAME GIVEAWAY, by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE Poem Source First Line: That teacher gave me a new name - again Last Line: Must be a name too hard to remember Subject(s): Education; Names; Native Americans; Schools NAME US NO NAMES NO MORE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, oh, rarest of roundelays! Last Line: "taste salt tears in our ""tee-hee-hee""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Laughter; Names; Singing & Singers; Youth NAME-DAYS, by JUDITH KAZANTZIS Poem Source First Line: This name-day feast of natasha Last Line: And perceptive glance of the story told Subject(s): Names NAMES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From somerset and devon Last Line: One race, one truth, one speech. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Names; New England; Heritage; Heredity; English NAMES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked my fair one happy day Last Line: Only, only call me thine.' Subject(s): Names NAMES, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Your mother gave you little names, as if the tide brought them Last Line: That's how your were loved. Sometimes by me Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Names NAMES, by DODIE MEEKS Poem Source First Line: If I had one like %makepeace Last Line: Saying what? What did you say? Subject(s): Fathers; Names NAMES, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few names tell it all Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Names; Social Commentaries NAMES, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Lou hon, suzie, cherry, doughnut, woody, wabbit, jackie Last Line: Chee, 'atsidi, tapahonso, haabaah, hastiin neez Subject(s): Children; Names; Native Americans - Children; Native Americans - Education; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations NAMES AND ALIASES, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helen pappamarkou (birth certificate) Last Line: The feral child Subject(s): Names; Greece NAMES OF ROMANCE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around the good world's wide expanse Last Line: To lure me forth from home! Subject(s): Names NAMES OF THINGS: 2., by BETH ANN FENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The names of things will never lose their hold on her Last Line: Staining her red clay and sunset and sclarlet - %lubricants, but still a lip-locked girl Subject(s): Cosmetics; Names NAMES WE TOOK IN FALLING, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Descending from elder, pine and ash Last Line: To shape the names we took in falling Subject(s): Names NAMING AUTUMN, by ALLAN BROWN Poem Source First Line: Walking for awhile in the creaky garden this afternoon and I thought of Last Line: At the stream's edge; the empty house. %images return Subject(s): Autumn; Names; Seasons NAMING HIM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You'd think, while they're trying to find me a name Last Line: Meanwhile they forget that I haven't been fed! Subject(s): Babies; Names; Parents; Infants; Parenthood NAMING OUR BOY, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The jokes come first Last Line: For us, %touched my arm, and whispered, your shot, son. Subject(s): Babies; Boys; Fathers And Sons; Names; Poetry And Poets NAMING THE ANIMALS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having commanded adam to bestow Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Names; Religion; Theology NAMING THE ANIMALS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having commanded adam to bestow Last Line: And shyly ventured, 'thou shalt be called 'fred'' Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Names; Religion NAMING THE ANIMALS, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first few were east. The dog looked just like a 'dog,' the cat Last Line: Capybara. Pangolin. Gnu. %('is that spelled n-u?' god asked.%'g-n-u.') Subject(s): Animals; Names NANNERL MOZART ON NAMES: TRAZOM, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: God's will. God's time. A long time Last Line: In german - gottlieb, that he, above all, loves you Subject(s): Names NEW MEXICAN CEMETERY: LAS CRUCES, by KURT LELAND Poem Source First Line: The young ones are blond with plastic placards Last Line: Each day's sameness blurs even thier names Subject(s): Cemeteries; Names NO LONGER A NAME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She's no longer a name, she's a number Last Line: The number's eyes are a laughing blue Subject(s): Memory; Names; Numbers; Prisons And Prisoners NO ROOM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There never was room for her anywhere Last Line: Lena? Louise? Lisette? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Names; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones ODE TO A STRAW, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence comest thou o wandering elf Last Line: There's but a name. Subject(s): Names; Storms; Straw; Wandering & Wanderers ON NAMING A HOUSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I a householder became Last Line: The house where brown eyes are. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Houses; Names ON SEEING SOME NAMES CUT ON A PANE OF GLASS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: True wit, with sablest ink Last Line: Must boast a pen of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Glass & Glassblowers; Names; Glaziers ON SIM AND SIMON, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though sim, whilst sim, in ill repute did live Last Line: Simon's a knave at length, and not in figure. Subject(s): Names; Size & Shape; Height ON THE MARRIAGE OF MR. GELL OF EAST BOURN TO MISS GILL, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of eastbourn, mr. Gell Last Line: By accepting my e.S. - Subject(s): Language; Names ONLY EACH OTHER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are not called human by deer Last Line: Not clubs to beat them with at night, %but sticks we toss on the fire Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Animals; Names OUR TITLES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are we not nobles? We who trace Last Line: The glory of our name? Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Courts & Courtiers; God; Names PERMANENCY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lover carved upon a bed of stone Last Line: The ice age spoke -- time's snow against love's flame! Subject(s): Faith; Love; Names; Passion; Belief; Creed PICKENSVILLE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ain't so strong for fancy names Last Line: Be good enough for pickensville. Subject(s): Names; Towns PIETA, by PEGGY ANN TARTT Poem Source First Line: At the start they were lodestones Last Line: In the dark body of this young man %was that small boy Subject(s): Names PINEAPPLES, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Back where I come from Last Line: And watch me explode Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Names POIHNATION; FOR J. P., by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in pleasant derbyshire Last Line: "tap o' th' hill! Tap o' th' hill!" Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Knowledge; Names POWER OF THE NAME, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: Forget the western sky's steep steps Last Line: Between stones & drink from anywhere Subject(s): Names; Nature; Self PSALM: 8, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How noble is thy mighty name Last Line: 9 how noble each-where is thy name! Subject(s): Angels; Animals; Names; Praise QUESTIONS ABOUT HOGS AND THEIR ABUSIVE NAMES, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Why are all their names so injurious Subject(s): Names; Pigs READING THE NAMES OF THE VIETNAM WAR DEAD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a long day and a night we read the names Last Line: "thousands of dense black stones fall forever through the darkness under the Subject(s): Death; Memory; Names; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Dead, The RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh you white guys, again Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Names; Nature RIALTO, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Poetry & Poets; Names; Stage Life RIBBLEDIN; OR THE CHRISTENING, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No name hast thou! Lone streamlet Last Line: The wildness of thy tresses. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Brooks; Names; Streams; Creeks RUTH, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be the baby's name! Last Line: Let us call the baby ruth Subject(s): Babies; Names SCOTTY'S LUCK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Fatty, one day, called red-nosed scot Last Line: To call me by that name.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Names SEA THRIFT & GORSE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the sea is not the most extravagant Subject(s): Sea; Names; Ocean SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES CREATIVE WRITING COURSE: NAMING ..., by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We're designated to travel Last Line: Means naming everything again Subject(s): Names SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 33, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, call me by my pet name! Let me hear Last Line: With the same heart, will answer and not wait. Subject(s): Names; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 34, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee Last Line: That no child's foot could run fast as this blood. Subject(s): Names; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations STORMY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What name could Subject(s): Dogs; Names SURFACE, by MOLLY LOU FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: Exhibiting a wave or a star Last Line: We name things as if we know them, %as if we understand extent Subject(s): Language; Names SURNAMES, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men once were surnamed for their shape or estate Last Line: Surnames ever go by contraries. Subject(s): Names TAKING AWAY THE NAME OF A NEPHEW, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One of the disappeared looks like this Last Line: The breaking neck of a favorite nephew Subject(s): Names TERMINAL LAUGHS, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years ago the young corso in his cups Last Line: “iriving feldman,” huh? Just another pretty name Subject(s): Names; Poetry & Poets TERMINAL LAUGHS, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years ago the young corso in his cups Last Line: Irving feldman,' huh? Just another pretty name' Subject(s): Names; Poetry And Poets TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES 2, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: Hardy came up with great names for this one Last Line: Nights she left her body to search for fun Subject(s): Babies; Names THE 'NAME UNKNOWN' (IN IMITATION OF KLOPSTOCK), by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prophetic pencil! Wilt thou trace Last Line: "and bless the ""name unknown!" Subject(s): Names; Klopstock, Friedrich (1724-1803) THE BEST NAME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When writing verses, dear, to you Last Line: You bear, I still must call you mine. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Names; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations THE BIRD IN WHATEVER NAME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird with a name it does not itself Subject(s): Birds; Names THE CAREFUL PENMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A persian penman named aziz Subject(s): Names THE CONSTANT POET, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Once more, my muse, 'tis time to be invoking Last Line: And she's my wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Love; Names; Poetry & Poets THE FAMILY NAME, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What reason first imposed thee, gentle name Last Line: No deed of mine shall shame thee, gentle name. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Names; Heritage; Heredity THE FANTASTIC NAMES OF JAZZ, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zoot sims, joshua redman Last Line: And of course jelly roll morton. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Names THE GREAT HOLY ASSEMBLY: THE NAMES, by MOSES DE LEON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my distress Alternate Author Name(s): Moses Ben Shem Tov De Lion Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism; Names THE LOST BATTLE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not over yet -- the fight Last Line: Courage, it is not over yet. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Names; Night; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime THE NAME, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I come back from secret dreams Last Line: I shall put on for you. Subject(s): God; Names THE NAME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What tender love name can I call you by? Last Line: "my sweet, my sweet, and yet again, my dear""!" Subject(s): Love; Names THE NAMES OF OUR LADY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the wide world thy children raise Last Line: The first we breathe in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Mary And Martha (bible); Names; Prayer; Religion; Women; Women In The Bible; Theology THE NICKNAME, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a very little thing Last Line: As she used to be. Subject(s): Names THE OLD MEETING HOUSE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its quiet graves were made for peace till gabriel blows his horn Last Line: While the old cracked bell to southward shook the ancient meeting house. Subject(s): Bells; Gabriel; Graves; Judgment Day; Names; Peace; Public Meetings; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE PET NAME, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a name, a little name Last Line: And heighten it with heaven. Subject(s): Children; Names; Childhood THE SMITHS, by E. G. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: We had many problems set us when coolgardie was a camp Last Line: And the maidens who were promised still await the absent smith. Alternate Author Name(s): Dryblower Subject(s): Deception; Names; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE SMITTEN PURIST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thweet poethy! Let me lithp fortwith Last Line: Pup -- patronymic of smith! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Names; Rhyme THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 3, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once was my name as fire, and once my wine Last Line: And still the pained blood throbs thro' limbs of snow! Subject(s): Fire; Love; Names THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never quite understood who Subject(s): Names THE TWINS: 2, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're the twins from aunt marinn's Last Line: Iram, coram, dago. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fathers; Names; Twins THE UNKNOWN ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every day I have a meeting Last Line: He himself no further ventured. Subject(s): Love; Names; Passion; Petrarch (1304-1374); Francesco Petrarca THEOCRITUS SCHWARTZ, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Theo . . . / no one would have to know his real name Subject(s): Children; Names; Childhood THIS IS MY NAME, by NORMAN ROSTEN Poem Source Last Line: It can bring me back %(call patty, patty, patty) Subject(s): Babies; Labor And Laborers; Names THOSE NAMES, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shearers sat in the firelight, hearty and hale and strong Last Line: Just winked with his dexter eyelid, and then he retired to bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Names; Sheep TITLE DIVINE – IS MINE! , by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is this — the way? Subject(s): Names TO IRIS, by MILDRED SPARKS Poem Text First Line: You have a fitting name Last Line: Oh, sun, curl not with brown the petals of the iris. Subject(s): Iris (flower); Names TO OTHER MARYS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ said, 'mary,' as he walked within the garden Last Line: "mary"" was the first name that god ever said." Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Mary (name); Mary Magdalen; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Names; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Virgin Mary TOO MANY DAVES, by THEODORE GEISEL Poem Source First Line: Did I ever tell you that mrs. Mccave Last Line: But she didn't do it. And now it's too late Subject(s): Names TV MEN: LAZARUS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes I admit a degree of unease about my Last Line: Of the vermin in his ten fingers and I stand back to wait for the miracle Subject(s): Motion Pictures, Documentary; God; Television; Names UNDER GEMINI: 2: A BOY'S ATLAS OF THE HEAVENS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call these constellations by their fames Last Line: Or to be fooling anyone but you Subject(s): Constellations; Maps; Names; Stars UNTITLED, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As for the poem the adorable one slipped into your pocket Subject(s): Names UNTITLED, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As for the poem the adorable one slipped into your pocket Last Line: About to happen just at the moment it serves no purpose at all? Subject(s): Names VALENTINE WITH HYPHENS, by JAMES SEAY Poem Source First Line: Without your warmth or laugh or hyphened-name Last Line: If not for halfness, which I offer whole Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Names; Valentine's Day VERMONT FOR A LITTLE GIRL, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two hundred-forty towns, or more Last Line: And now I'd like to hear from you. Subject(s): Names; Towns; Vermont VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were yesterday polemons natales kept Last Line: With satten sleeues hath grac'd his sackcloth sute. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Names; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect WHAT AM I AFTER ALL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What am I after all but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? Last Line: Pronunciations in the sound of your name? Subject(s): Names WHAT GRANDFATHER SAID, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your thoughts are for the poor and weak? Last Line: Well, I'm your grandson. You'll grow wiser. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grandparents; Hate; Love; Names; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WHAT WAS IN A NAME, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thomas love peacock! Thomas love peacock! Last Line: I hail the three-in-one, the one-in-three. Subject(s): Names; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism WHAT'S IN A NAME, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reginald, algernon, archie and percy Last Line: Went algy and archie and reggie and perce! Subject(s): Names WHAT'S IN A NAME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why has spring one syllable less Last Line: Long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Names; Seasons WHAT'S IN A NAME?, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In letters large upon the frame Last Line: "v. Stuyvesant de vere!" Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cynicism; Letters; Names; Paintings And Painters WHAT'S IN A NAME? SOME LETTER I ALWAYS FORGET, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not only can I not remember anecdotes that are racy Last Line: Stuarts with a u or stewarts with an e-w that I didn't write to them Subject(s): Names WORD, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are so many things I have forgot Last Line: Over and over again, a pure thrush word Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Names WORD POWER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First doll, I rocked her blue-eyed blink in my lap Last Line: "I proclaimed, ""dirty." Subject(s): Dolls; Language; Names; Toys; Words; Vocabulary WRITING LIFE, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the names for things, just give me their real names Last Line: Short days. Short days. Dark soon the light overtaxes. %strump of a hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Names; Writing And Writers WRITTEN IN THE NOUVEAUX INTERETS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest be the princes, who have fought Last Line: That happiness is but opinion. Subject(s): Fights; Happiness; Names; Joy; Delight YOUR NAME ON IT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let this one clear square of thought be just Subject(s): Names; Rooms YOUR NAME ON IT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let this one clear square of thought be just Last Line: There's always the window, your signature Subject(s): Names; Rooms |
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