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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF QUEENSLAND, by G. H. GIBSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Don't you remember black alice, sam holt
Last Line: To the end of the chapter of fate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ironbark
Subject(s): Envy; Luck; Memory; Nostalgia; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


A BERKSHIRE HOLIDAY, by CLIFFORD BAX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the spring had flowered away full summer burst in middle may
Last Line: World.
Subject(s): May (month); Nostalgia


A CHARACTER OF JOSEPH PRIESTLY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Champion of truth! Alike thro nature's field
Last Line: He tun'd his pipe to suit the wild cascade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Friendship; Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)


A TALE OF THE AIRLY DAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Tell me a tale of the airly days
Last Line: As they did in the airly days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Past; Pioneers


A TRANSCRIPTION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This young man comes from your way, tom
Last Line: "there's nothen now for nobody, only sorrow."
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Grief; Home; Nostalgia; Sports; Sorrow; Sadness


ABANDONED SELECTIONS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the crimson breast of the sunset
Last Line: Is watching you break your own!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry
Subject(s): Abandonment; Grief; Nostalgia; Property; Desertion; Sorrow; Sadness; Possessions


ACHILL, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lie and imagine a first light gleam in the bay
Subject(s): Emptiness; Longing; Nostalgia


ACHILL, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lie and imagine a first light gleam in the bay
Last Line: As I glance through a few thin pages and switch off the light
Subject(s): Emptiness; Longing; Nostalgia


ACTIVITIES, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grain belt beer, he who gets slapped
Subject(s): Human Conduct; Nostalgia


AFTER A JOURNEY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hereto I come to view a voiceless ghost
Last Line: Our days were a joy, and our paths through flowers.
Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Memory; New Year; Nostalgia


AGAINST PARADISE, by JONATHAN HOLDEN    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hounds that heralded the rich
Subject(s): Nostalgia


AGAINST PARADISE, by JONATHAN HOLDEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hounds that heralded the rich
Last Line: High on some wall as if alive, %perfectly composed in their huge frames
Subject(s): Nostalgia


ANAMNESIS AND NOSTALGIA; TO LIONEL JOHNSON, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The traveller in a burning clime
Last Line: And something of a mortal pang.
Subject(s): Country Life; England; Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902); Longing; Nature; Nostalgia; English


ANSEO, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the master was calling the roll
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Nostalgia


ANSEO, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the master was calling the roll
Last Line: And raise their hands %as their names occurred
Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Nostalgia


APAQUOGUE ELEGY [FOR CS AND WM], by JONATHAN GALASSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: September brightness sharpens everything
Last Line: Caught up in the ongoing game %in the blustery spring sun
Subject(s): Nostalgia


AROUND THE CORNER FROM FRANCIS BACON, by PAUL DURCAN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Nostalgia


AT CHIDEOCK: SEPT 2, 1914, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In skies washed over with bright amethyst
Last Line: For england, and for man, and for the world!
Subject(s): Anniversaries; France; Future; Nostalgia


BOLERO, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: So one day when the azalea bush was firing
Subject(s): Songs; Nostalgia


BREAK, BREAK, BREAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Break, break, break, / on thy cold gray stones, o sea!
Last Line: Will never come back to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nostalgia; Sea; Transience; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean; Impermanence


BROTHER GENE, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: He differed from the others; they were kind
Last Line: And how we miss him since he went away.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Longing; Nostalgia; Half-brothers; Dead, The


BROTHER OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, by PAUL MONETTE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Combing the attic for anything extra
Last Line: They couldn't stop singing and we were the song
Subject(s): Nostalgia


CERTAIN BEND, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Nostalgia


CHRISTMAS NOSTALGIA, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some want to see
Last Line: Just likes the ones I used to know
Subject(s): Christmas; Nostalgia


CLOSED DOORS, by MARIE THORSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stand in the hall upstairs
Subject(s): Nostalgia


CONSECRATION, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man in the yellow hard hat,
Subject(s): Cranes (machines); Home; Commuters; Nostalgia


DAY AT THE PARK, by DAN QUISENBERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good to see you again %you are right
Last Line: Full %of the mind of god
Subject(s): Baseball; Nostalgia; Sports


DESERTED HOME, by SIDNEY ROYSE LYSAGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here where the fields lie lonely and untended
Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia


DESIRE IN WINTER, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With your white %that is almost blue
Last Line: That will one day seem familiar
Subject(s): Desire; Nostalgia; Winter


DRIED SHRIMP, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When no alternatives are left
Last Line: And our old father leaves us
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Mexico; Nostalgia


DRIVING THROUGH TENNESSEE, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR.    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's strange what the past brings back
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): Nostalgia


EARLY AUTUMN PROVOKES NOSTALGIC FEELINGS, by YE WANWAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This autumn I recall our parting at the river shore
Last Line: Never ask why fleeting time proceeds in such a manner
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Time


FAREWELL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not soon shall I forget -- a sheet
Last Line: I shall remember them with tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Nostalgia


FIRST LETTER TO AN IRISH NOVELIST; FOR MICHAEL MCLAVERTY, by ROY MCFADDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Establishment has taken to the hills
Last Line: Turn to the running sea %that carries shells like mouths to the hushed sand
Subject(s): Nostalgia


FIRST MOVEMENT; FOR ALAN RODGERS, by PADRAIC FIACC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Low clouds yellow in a mist wind
Last Line: Would always darken suddenly
Subject(s): Nostalgia


FOR A SUICIDE, A LITTLE EARLY MORNING MUSIC, by GIBBONS RUARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most of the mornings here, when we awaken
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Suicide


FRAGMENT, by THELMA HILL WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I keep wondering why I see you
Last Line: And there is no meaning in any song—
Subject(s): Lament; Longing; Nostalgia; Relationships


GHOSTS IN DEPTFORD, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If ghosts should walk in deptford, as very well they may
Last Line: The shadowy ships of deptford should melt like mist away.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Nostalgia; Supernatural


GREY PASTURES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the grey gloaming where the white moth flies
Last Line: Mayhap I may thrill again at the touch of this.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Despair; Kisses; Life; Longing; Nostalgia; Dead, The


HANGING THE BLUE NUNS; FOR WARREN CARRIER, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like saints in cathedral windows, they look
Last Line: Errors — over the shrine of the past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Nuns


HAVE A NICE DAY, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No, no I don't want my heart broken again today
Last Line: For the sake of a kind word.
Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Loss; Nostalgia; Quiet Life


HEARTH SONG; FOR SEAMUS HEANEY, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nialls' cottage had one
Last Line: A hearth song of happiness
Subject(s): Nostalgia


HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR, by JILL WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In olden days we all could eat
Last Line: To put the heart before the course!
Subject(s): Nostalgia


I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming up england by a different line
Subject(s): Nostalgia


I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming up england by a different line
Last Line: I suppose it's not the place's fault,' I said. %'nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'
Subject(s): Nostalgia


IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the landscapes of mansiche
Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia; Travel; Journeys; Trips


IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the landscapes of mansiche
Last Line: As if a firmament were being exhumed
Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia; Travel


IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pensive, ancient woman, like a relief
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Old Age


IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pensive, ancient woman, like a relief
Last Line: Where a shipwrecked manco-capac weeps
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Old Age


IN A STRANGE LAND, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far hence a lonely exile strayed
Last Line: He'd no nostalgia now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Magazines; Nostalgia; Travel; United States; Journeys; Trips; America


IN THE TWILIGHT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men say the sullen instrument
Last Line: Long ago!
Subject(s): Nostalgia


IT IS AN ASHEN AND SHABBY EVENING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Always chasing after god in the haze
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Melancholy; Nostalgia; Poetry And Poets


IT MUST BE YEARS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It must be years and years ago
Last Line: It must be years and years ago.
Subject(s): Nostalgia


JOHN COMPANY'S SHIPS, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: John company's ships, they sailed the seas
Last Line: John company's ships of the days of old.
Subject(s): Imperialism; Nostalgia; Ships & Shipping; Trade


LANDSCAPE, DENSE WITH TREES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you move away, you see how much depends
Subject(s): Nostalgia


LANDSCAPE, DENSE WITH TREES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you move away, you see how much depends
Subject(s): Nostalgia


LAST JOURNEY, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I shall go away. And the birds will stay
Last Line: And the birds will remain still singing
Subject(s): Death; Nostalgia; Solitude


LETTER TO MAXINE SULLIVAN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just when I imagined I had conquered nostalgia so odious
Subject(s): Letters; Singing & Singers; Nostalgia


LIKELIHOOD OF SNOW - THE DANGER OF FIRE, by GERALD DAWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Around five in the next garden, a rooster
Last Line: And know that the only real news here today %is the danger of fire
Subject(s): Nostalgia


LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM AT ELBINGERODE, IN HARTZ FOREST, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood on brocken's sovran height, and saw
Last Line: Himself our father, and the world our home.
Subject(s): Hartz Forest, Germany; Nostalgia


LITTLE ELEGY FOR THE AGE, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We've sworn off nostalgia
Last Line: It is just dust, a gray-whiteness on our shoetops, %then not t even that
Subject(s): Nostalgia


LITTLE HOUSE, BIG HOUSE, by MEDBH MCGUCKIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a day or two the chairs will fall to pieces
Last Line: Where the strawberries are redder than anywhere else
Subject(s): Nostalgia


LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little orphant annie's come to our house to stay
Last Line: Out!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Variant Title(s): The Elf Child
Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Halloween; Hope; Nostalgia; Childhood; Elves; Optimism


LIVING MEMORY, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Open the book of tales you knew by heart
Subject(s): Nostalgia


MEDITATION AT PEARL STREET, by BRUCE WEIGL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The beauty of steel-yards, the long lines of workers
Last Line: Beauty of the feast, when all our hearts were opened
Subject(s): Nostalgia


MEET THE SUPREMES, by DAVID TRINIDAD                        Poet's Biography
First Line: When petula clark sang 'downtown,' I wished I could go there with her
Subject(s): Music, Rock; Nostalgia; Supremes, The (singing Group); Rock & Roll


MEET THE SUPREMES, by DAVID TRINIDAD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When petula clark sang 'downtown,' I wished I could go there with her
Last Line: Begins the long and painful process of letting go
Subject(s): Music, Rock; Nostalgia; Supremes, The (singing Group)


MEMOIRES NOSTALGIQUES DE COCKAIGNE, by BROOKS HAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Breath on the window froze. Before sleep
Last Line: Into the rattle under the striduolous gulls, %whoever wept felt cleansed
Subject(s): Nostalgia


METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING, by JILL WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's one cookie short of a dozen
Last Line: Expressed in a quaint metaphor
Subject(s): Metaphor; Nostalgia


MINIVER CHEEVY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Miniver cheevy, child of scorn / grew lean while he assailed the seasons
Last Line: And kept on drinking.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Men; Nostalgia; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Wine


MOVIN' WITH NANCY, by DAVID TRINIDAD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is almost time to grow up
Last Line: The wild angels roar into town %it is almost time to grow up
Subject(s): Nostalgia


MY BIRTHDAY, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother, there's no soft hand comes now
Last Line: Brighter than that of meeting thee.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers; Nostalgia


MY COUSIN MURIEL, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From manhattan, a glittering shambles
Subject(s): Nostalgia


MY COUSIN MURIEL, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From manhattan, a glittering shambles
Last Line: This last gray filament across a continent %where the unspeakable stirs like a stone
Subject(s): Nostalgia


MY LEMAN ON THE ROAD, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I see by the road
Last Line: If only I can, %if only I can
Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Nostalgia; Tears


MY MOTHER'S YOUNG SISTER, by ROY MCFADDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A new decade, the teacher cried
Last Line: Time being short, you had to travel fast
Subject(s): Aunts; Nostalgia


MY SISTER LIKED THE POSTCARD OF SNOW, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White and the seven dwarfs
Last Line: Light as a bird-bone
Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia


NEVER GET USED TO THIS, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never get used to this: the feathery, swaying casuarinas
Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia


NEVER GET USED TO THIS, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never get used to this: the feathery, swaying casuarinas
Last Line: The yachts studying their reflections in black glass
Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia


NIGHT ON THE GREAT RIVER, by MENG HAO-JAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We anchor the boat alongside a hazy island
Last Line: The moon comes down amongst men
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran
Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by KOFI ANYIDOHO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above all -- I shall forever
Last Line: Memories alone are not enough soulguide %into futures filled with many absences
Subject(s): Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We will see more passing than any
Last Line: When life was coming to only moderate harm
Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All through their lives men build or dream them homes
Last Line: Deeming it, more than mortal homes are, blest.
Subject(s): Desire; Heaven; Home; Nostalgia; Peace; Paradise


NOSTALGIA, by CHONG CHIYONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winding eastward through a wide plain
Last Line: How can I ever forget that place even in my dreams?
Subject(s): Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by MYRTLE HILL ERDMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O my heart is longing, longing
Last Line: Come, my children, come, come home.
Subject(s): Childlessness; Longing; Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by HARRIET GARRETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes a lilac tree in bloom
Last Line: In silence, weeping!
Subject(s): Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by LAURA M. GRADICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am homesick for the ocean
Last Line: And my humble, seaside home!
Subject(s): Homesickness; Nostalgia; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


NOSTALGIA, by GWENDOLEN HASTE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He brought the record home with sheepish pride
Last Line: With great buttes shouldering the windy skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs
Subject(s): Grief; Nostalgia; Sorrow; Sadness


NOSTALGIA, by IGNACE M. INGIANNI    Poem Text                    
First Line: I must go back where emerald waters hide
Last Line: By gazing at the glory of a field.
Subject(s): Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Could see the wedding guests step out of the house if I craned my
Last Line: Veiled, thistles in their hair, a dream of course, he said, thistles in %their hair
Subject(s): Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas, o hellas lorn and whist
Last Line: Smiles when we ask her what she said!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by WILLIAM JACOB SANDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As shipwrecked sailor on some sunny isle
Last Line: That blessed hope he must forever cherish.
Subject(s): Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My soul stands at the window of my room
Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My soul stands at the window of my room
Last Line: Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die
Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by LLOYD STONE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To wander in a foreign land... Alone
Last Line: To keep the tears away.
Subject(s): Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by ELEANOR VOSWINKEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear the tread of many restless feet
Last Line: God speaks, and faith and courage are reborn.
Subject(s): Nostalgia


NOSTALGIA, by MAUDE MILLER WHITLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: At sundown, when the first soft shadows lengthen
Last Line: My loneliness abides, and will not cease.
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Solitude; Loneliness


NOSTALGIA OF THE LAKEFRONTS, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cities burn behind us; the lake glitters
Subject(s): Lakes; Nostalgia; Pools; Ponds


NOSTALGIA OF THE LAKEFRONTS, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cities burn behind us; the lake glitters
Last Line: Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain, you know
Subject(s): Lakes; Nostalgia


NOSTALGIC SONG FOR MY BELOVED, by ADOLF WOLFLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing more beautiful have I, ever seen!
Last Line: Chehr: u.S.W
Subject(s): Nostalgia


NOW IS WINTER GONE, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long had I known you yet in truth I knew / you not
Last Line: Flushes and flowers as gilded fields in april shine.
Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Nostalgia; Relationships; Winter; Parting


NOW THAT TIME SEEMS ALL MINE, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Time; Nostalgia


ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 8. ON LEAVING HOLLAND, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell to leyden's lonely bound
Last Line: There public zeal shall all reproof disclaim.
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Travel; Journeys; Trips


OF POLITICS, & ART, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula
Last Line: God-rendering voice of a storm.
Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Nostalgia; Politics & Government; Storms; Teaching & Teachers; Tuberculosis; Women; Educators; Professors; Consumption (pathology)


OLD FOSSICKER JACK, by J. M. MARSHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis a desolate picture, whose colour is dead
Last Line: Came here, and has left but—old fossicker jack.
Alternate Author Name(s): M., J.
Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Memory; Nostalgia


OLD FURNITURE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not how it may be with others
Last Line: But sink away.
Subject(s): Nostalgia


OLD MULEMBA, by GERALDO BESSA VICTOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: That old mulemba... %men armed with machetes
Last Line: My old mulemba... %ah! I alone know what make me suffer!
Subject(s): Nostalgia


OLD NOSTALGIA, by HARVEY SHAPIRO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night the old nostalgia
Last Line: Has enduring worth, %will light me a long way, %songs to sing
Subject(s): Nostalgia


OLD PICTURES, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old pictures, faded long, to-night
Last Line: Set in their midst, a child again!
Subject(s): Nostalgia


ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE VILLAGE AND SCHOOL OF HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye scenes of my childhood, whose loved recollection
Last Line: Oh, such were the days which my infancy knew!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Children; Harrow, England; Nostalgia; Schools; Childhood; Students


ON WIRRABO ROAD, by ERNEST ROBIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gone are now old coaching ways
Last Line: On the road to wirrabo.
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Roads; Trucks & Trucking; Paths; Trails


ONE OF THE BOYS, by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our youth was gay but rough
Last Line: We think of nights in cars %with energy to burn
Subject(s): Nostalgia


OTHER OBIT, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night, what more do you want
Last Line: Tock and such deep wagons on so many panged wheels
Subject(s): Nostalgia


OTHER OBIT, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night, what more do you want
Last Line: Tock and such deep wagons on so many panged wheels
Subject(s): Nostalgia


OTHER ORBIT, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night, what more do you want? Why this second per second
Subject(s): Nostalgia


OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR.    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Easter again, and a small rain falls
Last Line: Is a short life of trouble
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): Nostalgia


OUR HOMESTEAD, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our old brown homestead reared its walls
Last Line: They are in my heart to-night!
Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia; Parents; Parenthood


OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wasn't it pleasant, o brother
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Variant Title(s): Old Aunt Mary's
Subject(s): Aunts; Nostalgia; Youth


OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wasn't it pleasant, o brother
Last Line: Asleep this morning, whispering, %'tell %the boys to come.' ... And all is %well %out to old aunt ma
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Variant Title(s): Old Aunt Mary'
Subject(s): Aunts; Nostalgia; Youth


PERSONALITY; TO ANN, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A ray of sunlight flutters in my heart
Last Line: Of golden lilies breathing in the sun.
Subject(s): Character; Nostalgia; Relationships


PIANO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me
Last Line: Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Time; Childhood; Songs


PLAYER PIANO, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ate pancakes one night in a pancake house
Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos


PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION, by PETER MCDONALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again I'm caught staring %at the sky
Last Line: He aspires to symbolism %and perhaps, one day, to nothing at all
Subject(s): Nostalgia


PORT O' DREAMS, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a deal o' ports,' said murphy
Last Line: "an' the fireflies gleamin' golden in the palms I'll never see!"
Subject(s): Harbors; Nostalgia; Regret


PREMONITION, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking this field I remember
Last Line: But when he stood up, that face %was lost in a maze of water
Subject(s): Nostalgia


RAFT, by KATHY FAGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking this inland city under rain there are
Last Line: Out from a harbor the odor of loss, %the odor of a woman, looking back
Subject(s): Nostalgia


RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot go to the country
Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Rot; Decadence; Dramatists


RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot go to the country
Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace
Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays And Playwrights; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


RANGE-FINDING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung
Last Line: But finding nothing, sullenly withdrew.
Subject(s): Decay; Nostalgia; Soldiers; War; Rot; Decadence


RED CREEK; A REQUIEM, by MARGARET ROBISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fragrance of tea olive, mint
Last Line: The night sky is filled with their light
Subject(s): Brooks; Cairo, Georgia; Home; Nostalgia


RELEASE, by GLADYS NAOMI ARNOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nostalgic yearnings grip my heart
Last Line: That little town will bring release.
Subject(s): Nostalgia


REMEMBERED THINGS, by A. W. RANSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: A rose-hued dawn
Last Line: The comradeship of one I held most dear.
Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Nature; Nostalgia


RESIDUE, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fragrance of the rain today
Last Line: That friend alone has stirred.
Subject(s): Friendship; Longing; Nature; Nostalgia


REVERIE OVER MEMORIES, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not dream. And yet if I had dreamed
Last Line: And the imagination of delight.
Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia; Past; Time


RUSTIC CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No city primness train'd our feet
Last Line: O shining grass, and shady bough.
Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Memory; Nostalgia; Childhood


SCENES OF CHILDHOOD, by EDWARD MOXON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And do I then behold again the scene
Last Line: With dream of years long past, and drop a tear.
Subject(s): Children; Nostalgia; Childhood


SEE SPOT RUN AKA CD-ROM, by JILL WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, for the days of dick and jane
Last Line: Lest the next generation forget
Subject(s): Nostalgia


SEVENTH ECLOGUE, by MIKLOS RADNOTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do you see night, the wild oakwood fence lined with barbed wire
Last Line: Lager heidenau, in the mountains above zagubica
Subject(s): Nostalgia


SEWING MACHINE, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A fair head over a sewing machine
Last Line: And there's nothing urgent anymore, %not for you or for me
Subject(s): Grief; Nostalgia


SINCE THE COUNTRY CARRIED SHEEP, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We trucked the cows to homebush, saw the girls, and started back
Last Line: You'd own the place was beggared—since the country carried sheep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Sheep


SINGLES' CLUB, by VERA HENKEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now I'm all alone again
Last Line: Safety in suitable arms others get nothing and return to their %companions
Subject(s): Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Single People; Solitude


SISTER'S REGRET, by JILL WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've always been ashamed of home somehow
Last Line: But it's too late to beg her pardon now
Subject(s): Nostalgia


SMALL WANTS, AGAIN, by BIBHU PADHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wants have dwindled
Last Line: My younger child, his voice %as rapturous as a bird's in itsnest, %asks me questions I cannot answer
Subject(s): Nostalgia


SONG (2), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Ye voices gone
Last Line: But more deeply lone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Nostalgia


SONG TO GUIOMAR, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your poet %thinks of you. The distance
Last Line: For you, guiomar, this nostalgia of mine
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Nostalgia; Poetry And Poets; Vengeance


SONGS OF TRAVEL: 17. TO THE TUNE OF WANDERING WILLIE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Home no more home to me, whither must I wander?
Last Line: But I go for ever and come again no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): Wandering Willie
Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia


SONNET, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man talking to his ex-wife on the phone.
Last Line: Patient animals, and tangled vines, and rain.
Subject(s): Love; Divorce; Nostalgia


SOY SAUCE, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing on a stepladder
Subject(s): Nostalgia


SOY SAUCE, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing on a stepladder
Subject(s): Nostalgia


STANZAS TO A HINDOO AIR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! - my lonely - lonely - lonely - pillow!
Last Line: Oh! My lone bosom! -- oh! My lonely pillow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Nostalgia


STEPHANO REMEMBERS, by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We broke out of our dream into a clearing
Last Line: We were no good as murderers, we were clowns
Subject(s): Nostalgia


STRAUS PARK, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you know about the babylonian jews
Subject(s): Nostalgia


STRAUS PARK, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you know about the babylonian jews
Last Line: Do not burn again for nothing. %do not cry out again in clumsiness and shame
Subject(s): Nostalgia


SUBJECT OF A LIMERICK, by JILL WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There once was a gerund named angling
Last Line: Was the sight of his participle dangling
Subject(s): Nostalgia


SUDDENLY. IN DECEMBER, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Suddenly. In december. I stand knee-deep in snow
Last Line: Dearest, you who are sleeping. Eurydice. %--under the snow. Under the wreath of cedar
Subject(s): Absence; Death; December; Love - Loss Of; Nostalgia; Winter


SUNDAY IN GREAT TEW; 8TH NOVEMBER 1987, by PETER MCDONALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's time to get back to the car. Already, at half-past three
Last Line: On our way home, leaving absolutely nothing behind us
Subject(s): Nostalgia


SWEEP, by RODNEY JONES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The two garnett brothers who run the shell station here
Last Line: And the ballcarrier who follows the sweep, %and it comes, and comes on
Subject(s): Nostalgia


SWITCHBLADE, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most of the past is lost
Subject(s): Nostalgia


SWITCHBLADE, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most of the past is lost
Last Line: That sounds now like just a tsk of disappointment, %it has become so sweet and quiet
Subject(s): Nostalgia


TEARING DOWN THE HOTEL, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are tearing down the oldest hotel
Subject(s): Demolition; Past; Hotels; Nostalgia; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE ANTIQUE DESK, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: This maimed antique still holds
Last Line: By time and scars and truth.
Subject(s): Antiques; Furniture; Nostalgia; Past; Youth


THE BACHELOR'S CANE-BOTTOM CHAIR, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In tattered old slippers that toast at the bars
Last Line: And yonder she sits in my cane-bottomed chair.
Variant Title(s): The Cane-bottom'd Chair
Subject(s): Chairs; Friendship; Home; Nostalgia


THE BELL FROM EUROPE, by WELDON KEES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tower bell in the tenth street church
Last Line: As the sound of a dead europe hangs in the streets
Subject(s): Bells; Nostalgia; Europe


THE BLADE OF NOSTALGIA, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When fed into the crude, imaginary
Subject(s): Nostalgia


THE COLLAPSE OF THE TWO-RIVERS HOTEL, by SAADI YOUSSEF    Poem Text                    
First Line: The desert is not far from it
Alternate Author Name(s): Youssef, Saddi; Yusuf, Sa'di
Subject(s): Hotels; Nostalgia; Ruins; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE DAYS OF '84, by RANDOLPH BEDFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let's go back on to the roper, where they say they've struck the stuff
Last Line: We were men, and we dealt straight with all in the days of '84.
Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Nostalgia


THE DIRGE OF THE FOUR CITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Finias and falias, / where are they gone?
Last Line: The city of murias.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Cities; History; Lament; Nostalgia; Time; Urban Life; Historians


THE EXILE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not when the seamew cries above the grey-green foam
Last Line: Or the hill-wind in a broom-sweet place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Exiles; Home; Longing; Nostalgia; Sighs


THE EYE-MOTE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blameless as daylight I stood looking
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Eyes


THE GLAMOUR OF IT, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glamour of it to a child all sniffing
Last Line: Curiosity fattened on those scraps
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Nostalgia; Ancestors & Ancestry


THE GOOD INTENT, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They built her in the olden days
Last Line: "as honest as their grandads did!"
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Ships & Shipping


THE KING'S CONSORT, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, was it yesternoon, or years agone
Last Line: When you were king of egypt—dear, and I was egypt's queen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Love; Memory; Nostalgia; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes


THE LISTENERS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked down the street
Last Line: In the distance going away
Subject(s): Home; Childhood Memories; Nostalgia


THE MOURNERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When they had made the cradle
Last Line: On the wide green earth
Subject(s): Cradles;death;memory;mourning;nostalgia; "dead, The;bereavement;


THE OLD AGE OF NOSTALGIA, by MARK STRAND    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined
Subject(s): Nostalgia


THE OLD BAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's mighty good to git back to the old town, shore
Last Line: I want to hear the old band play.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bands; Kansas; Music & Musicians; Nostalgia; Orchestras


THE OLD CONSERVATIVE, by E. S. EMERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old bush-whacker bowed his head
Last Line: "orstralier is comin' to."
Alternate Author Name(s): White, Milky
Subject(s): Grief; Idleness; Nostalgia; Sorrow; Sadness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


THE OLD COOLGARDIE ROAD, by DORHAM DOOLETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A flitting shadow follows
Last Line: Back to her breast again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Prodigal, The
Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Horses; Nostalgia; Roads; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails


THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES, by CHARLES LAMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have had playmates, I have had companions
Last Line: All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Alternate Author Name(s): Elia
Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Grief; Mourning; Nostalgia; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How dear to my [or, this] heart are the scenes of my childhood
Last Line: The moss covered bucket which hangs in the well.
Variant Title(s): The Bucket
Subject(s): Children; Nostalgia; Scituate, Massachusetts; Childhood


THE OLD TIMES WERE THE BEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends, my heart is half aweary
Last Line: That the old times were the best.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Happiness; Nostalgia; Time; Joy; Delight


THE PLAYER PIANO, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ate pancakes one night in a pancake house
Last Line: Plays itself out a half-inch from my fingers
Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos


THE RETREAT, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy those early days! When I / shined in my angel-infancy
Last Line: In that state I came return.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Absence; Children; Christianity; Faith; Innocence; Nostalgia; Regret; Separation; Isolation; Childhood; Belief; Creed


THE RUINED COTTAGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye
Last Line: I trust in god they will not pass away.
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Home; Life Change Events; Memory; Men; Nostalgia; Widows & Widowers; Childhood


THE SOWER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a sower walking slow
Last Line: "the happy days when I was young."
Subject(s): Nostalgia


THE STONE TABLE, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here at the stone table on the hill
Last Line: Grafted for our lifetimes onto paradise root-stock
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Nature; Death; Friendship


THE TOY BONE, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking through boxes
Subject(s): Nostalgia


THE VIELD PATH, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here oonce did sound sweet words, a-spoke
Last Line: Wer here so long as I can mind.
Subject(s): Fields; Memory; Nostalgia; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails


THE VIERZIDE CHAIRS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though days do gain upon the night
Last Line: A-look'd on as I look'd on you.
Subject(s): Chairs; Comfort; Fireplaces; Marriage; Nostalgia; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WESTERN ROAD, by EDWIN JAMES BRADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My camp was by the western road - so new and yet so old
Last Line: And clearly rose another day—along the western road.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brady, E. J.
Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE WIDENING SPELL OF THE LEAVES, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill
Subject(s): Nostalgia


THEN AND NOW, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When this old hat was new
Subject(s): Nostalgia


THINGS THAT MAKE ME CRY INSTANTLY€”, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Tears; Happiness; Nostalgia; Love; Joy; Delight


THINKING ABOUT THE PAST, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Certain moments will never change, nor stop being
Subject(s): Nostalgia


THINKING ABOUT THE PAST, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Certain moments will never change, nor stop being
Last Line: Time a bow bent with his certain failure. %dusks, dawns; waves; the ends of songs
Subject(s): Nostalgia


TIME'S ALTERCATION, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When this old cap was new
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Time


TO A LOVER, by MAY MCKEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tonight, of all mad nights of moon and wind and sea
Last Line: Ah, my beloved! Come not this way again!
Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Passion; Romance; Male-female Relations


TO MY OLD FRIEND, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You, who through every change remain
Last Line: The days of eighteen-ninety-five!
Subject(s): Change; Competition; Nostalgia; Poetry & Poets; Time; Writing & Writers


TO THE REPUBLIC, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Past / fences the first sheepmen cast across the land, processions
Subject(s): Life; Nostalgia


TOY BONE, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking through boxes
Last Line: I was happy %in the room dark with the shades drawn
Subject(s): Nostalgia


TWO LOVERS, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two lovers by a moss-grown spring
Last Line: O past that is!
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Aging; Children; Love - Marital; Marriage; Memory; Nostalgia; Parents; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood


WHEN THE TEAMS BROUGHT IN THE WOOL, by BARNEY O'TOOLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I loaded at george elbourne's some thirty bales of wool
Last Line: He simply took the good with the bad, and brought the wool-clip down.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Nostalgia; Trucks & Trucking; Wine


WHERE A ROMAN VILLA STOOD, ABOVE FREIBURG', by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On alien ground, breathing an alien air
Last Line: But not our english hills!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Roman Empire; Ruins; Travel; Journeys; Trips


WIDENING SPELL OF THE LEAVES, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill
Last Line: And always coming back-steadfast, orderly, %taciturn, oblivious-until the end of time
Subject(s): Nostalgia


YOUR RICHES TAUGHT ME POVERTY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: While just a girl at school
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Childhood Memories; School