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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OPTIMISM Matches Found: 490 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Twelve moneths agoe, what rate would I too dear Last Line: Dispair is better farr, than fruitless hope. Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Whilst I behinde me cast my annual ey Last Line: Thy graces aid, at least now gin to live. Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A BALLAD OF A WORKMAN, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day beneath polluted skies Last Line: And forge and mould the world anew.' Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Ambition; Death; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Temptation; Dead, The; Optimism; Work; Workers A BARGAIN SALE, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: I'm offering for sale today Last Line: The rubbish must be cleared away! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A CASTLE IN THE AIR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I built myself a castle Last Line: Only -- I looked beyond. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Grief; Hope; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A CERTAIN KIND OF EDEN, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems like you could, but Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Time; Hope; Optimism A CHURCHYARD SONG OF PATIENT HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All tears done away with the bitter unquiet sea Last Line: Beloved to the end? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Optimism A COUNSEL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh weep for the glory departed Last Line: And have paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hope; Dead, The; Paradise; Optimism A DIVINE PASTORAL, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord is my shepherd, my guardian, and guide Last Line: Be content all my life, and resign'd at my death. Subject(s): God; Hope; Lord's Supper; Praise; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Optimism A GIRL'S COMPLAINT TO HER HEART, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I felt a breeze blowing upon my brow Last Line: How may it hope for morning? It must die. Subject(s): Girls; Hearts; Hope; Love; Sleep; Optimism A HOPE CAROL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A night was near, a day was near Last Line: I long to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Optimism A LITTLE HOPE, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: Your care is not alone for roses, god Last Line: So I, too, dare to lift a hope to you. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism A LIVING HOPE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like the sweet, old fashioned phrase Last Line: It lives -- and never dies. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism A LOVE TOKEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you grieve no costly offering Last Line: Glittering at her side. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hope; Love; Pain; Tears; Optimism; Suffering; Misery A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery Last Line: For marian, our clear may, so long laid in earth. Subject(s): Earth; Fools; Grief; Hope; Moon; Seasons; Time; World; Idiots; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A NEW YEAR'S HOPE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dare not hope that in this dawning year Last Line: I still may courage have to struggle on. Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Valor; Bravery; Optimism A NIGHT: EARLIER, by ELSIE GLENN Poem Text First Line: The wind on the sill is groping Last Line: For a better and brighter day. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism A PEACE-HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a voice across the nation like a mighty ocean-hail Last Line: He sends us sailing on. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hope; Kentucky; Sailing & Sailors; Voices; Optimism A QUERY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh the wonder of our life Last Line: "all ther heaven and all the hell? / ah, we know not: god can tell" Subject(s): Faith;hope; Belief;creed;optimism A RETROSPECT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From this fair point of present bliss Last Line: And so rejoice my life may be all consecrated, dear, to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A RIBBON IN MY HAIR, by BELLE RUSH Poem Text First Line: I thought that hope was dead; that life would be Last Line: I stayed to twine a ribbon in my hair. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism A SMILE AS SMALL AS MINE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Precisely their necessity. Subject(s): Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology A SONNET SENT TO BLACKNESS TO MR. JOHN WELSCH, by ELIZABETH MELVILLE Poem Text First Line: My dear brother, wt courage bear the crosse Last Line: When shew of c's love thy rich reward shall be: Alternate Author Name(s): Colville, Elizabeth (melville); Colville Of Culros, Elizabeth (melville); Colross, Lady Subject(s): Brothers; Hope; Half-brothers; Optimism A SUMMER NIGHT, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the deserted moon-blanched street Last Line: Is left to each man still. Subject(s): Optimism A TIME TO DANCE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For those had the power Last Line: Our lives they are evergreen. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Death; Hope; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Optimism A VANISHED HOPE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet with the scents of the summer Last Line: Her firstborn out of her sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism A WISH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I were a little bird Last Line: That springs again no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Wishes; Optimism A YEAR'S BURDEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear Last Line: Cry wellaway, but well befall the right. Subject(s): Change; Death; Hope; Politics & Government; Dead, The; Optimism AD AMICOS; MOUNT CUBA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes an hour of fate's serenest weather Last Line: The happy song that cares not for its fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faith; Fate; Hope; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Optimism AD ASTRA: 49, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The tender, wistful smile that spoke of life Last Line: Yet stored for one unconscious of its worth! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism ADVENT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Once to this troubled world Last Line: To weary eyes. Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Hope; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Worship; Infants; Nativity, The; Optimism AFTER GREAT DROUGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The rain gropes with delicate pushing fingers Last Line: The world's as sweet as a rose: a rain-wet rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Drought; Flowers; God; Hope; Rain; Roses; Optimism AFTER THE CENTENNIAL (A HOPE), by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Before our eyes a pageant rolled Last Line: Can hold the runners lest they fall! Subject(s): Hope; Nations; Soul; Summer; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Optimism AFTER WINTER, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He snuggles his fingers Last Line: "runnin' space . . . " Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism AGAINST HOPE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, whose weak being ruin'd is Last Line: More wayes, and turnes, then hunted nature knowes. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism ALCHEMY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lift my heart as spring lifts up Last Line: To living gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE2, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How unhappy a lover am I Last Line: For the souls to meet closer above. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 7 Subject(s): Death; Fate; Hope; Love - Loss Of; Nymphs; Dead, The; Destiny; Optimism AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Last Line: Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Dillon, Wentworth. 4th Earl Of Roscommon; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536); Hope; Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Sozzini, Lelio (1525-1562); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Optimism; Soc AN IDEAL, by ARTHUR O. HUNTLEY Poem Text First Line: A heavenly day may come our way Last Line: The skies will speedily clear. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism AN ODE, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Almighty power! Who rul'st this world of storms! Last Line: Thus hope excentric points to happiness! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism AND THIS, by ELMO RUSS Poem Text First Line: And this is what my life is: hope without Last Line: I knew that nothing really was my own. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Night; Optimism; Bedtime ANSWER, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, you have broken my wings - I cried Last Line: There is a sound! Subject(s): Hope; Love - Complaints; Optimism ANSWER FOR HOPE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear hope! Earth's dowry, and heaven's debt! Last Line: The god of nature in the field of grace. Variant Title(s): Richard Crashaw's Answer For Hope;on Hope Subject(s): Hope; Optimism ANTICIPATION, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful the earth is still Last Line: Rewarding destiny!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Hope; Optimism APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How slowly time is crawling on Last Line: To place on record in the morning. Subject(s): Death; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Dead, The; Optimism ASPIRATION, by THEODOCIA PEARCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One cried....I would mount to the heights and there Last Line: To all I chance to meet. Subject(s): Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Optimism AUF WIEDERSEHEN, by S. ABBOTT Poem Text First Line: The coals have lower, fainter burned Last Line: To meet again. Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Thought; Nightmares; Optimism; Thinking AUTUMN (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Care flieth / hope and fear together Last Line: In blank autumn who could speak of love? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Autumn; Fear; Hope; Love; Seasons; Fall; Optimism AUTUMN SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A keen west wind from the hills away Last Line: Hopes and dreamings and dead desires. Subject(s): Autumn; Desire; Hope; Memory; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Wind; Fall; Optimism; Songs BALLADE OF PENTECOST, by EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS Poem Text First Line: On high pentecost I found Last Line: With a rose on either syde. Subject(s): Holidays; Hope; Love; Marriage; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BALLADE: 10, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hope, alas, hath me abused Last Line: And I remain all comfortless. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Truth; Joy; Delight; Optimism BALLADE: 26, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Greeting to you both in hearty wise Last Line: And hath him recommended to the cat and mouse. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Bodies; Fear; Hope; Love; Soul; Optimism BALLADE: 27, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When that I call unto my mind Last Line: I ask but right for my redress. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Wealth; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Riches; Fortunes BALLADE: 31, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! My dear, the word thou spakest Last Line: Alas, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Optimism BALLADE: 32, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being as none is, I do complain Last Line: With 'pity' for 'patience' and 'conscience' for 'wrong'. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hope; Pain; Dead, The; Optimism; Suffering; Misery BE HOPEFUL, by FRANCIS STRICKLAND Poem Text First Line: Be hopeful, friend, when clouds are dark Last Line: Press on, for victory's ahead. Be hopeful, friend, and win it. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism BE HOPEFUL: 1. THE LARK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morning is doffing her mantle of grey Last Line: On high, and thy song be poured not in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birds; Hope; Larks; Optimism; Skylarks BE HOPEFUL: 2. THE ROSE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blushing and glowing, the rose in full bloom Last Line: The rose and the gem smile up to the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Flowers; Hope; Roses; Optimism BE HOPEFUL: 3. THE STREAM, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bright stream may shrink in summer's hot fire Last Line: The life-stream again runs fresh 'mong the flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Hope; Streams; Creeks; Optimism BE HOPEFUL: 4. THE RESUME, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be hopeful, sweet singer; man may not raise Last Line: Dropped from her pinions, is trustful and calm. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Hope; Optimism BE STRONG, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be strong to hope, o heart Last Line: Thou wouldst be strong! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Love; Religion; Strength; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Theology BEEN THERE BEFORE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a stranger to walgett town Last Line: On a previous visit to walgett town. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Hope; Rivers; Strangers; Optimism BEGIN AT ONCE; BAND OF HOPE SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Begin at once! In the pleasant days Last Line: And swell the ranks of our happy band. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism BETTER TO CLIMB AND FALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Give me a man with an aim Last Line: And never to strive at all Subject(s): Hope; Optimism BLAKE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saw them glittering in the trees Last Line: Dreaming one poem Subject(s): Hope; Solitude; Blake, William (1757-1827); Optimism; Loneliness BORDERLAND, by HELEN FIELD FISCHER Poem Text First Line: There is a mystic borderland that lies Last Line: Across the distance, in the same old way. Variant Title(s): The Mystic Borderland Subject(s): Hope; Optimism BUSINESS IS BUSINESS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Business is business,' the little man said Last Line: "and that business is to serve!" Subject(s): Hope; Optimism BY AND BY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Was the parting very bitter? Last Line: "o'er a brighter ""by and by." Subject(s): Hope; Optimism BY WAY OF THE STARS, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Raise, gentle muse, a worthy note! Last Line: And take the stars along our way. Subject(s): Creation; Hope; Soul; Stars; Optimism BY-AND-BY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By-and-by, the maiden sighed -- by-and-by Last Line: Keep the promiscd by-and-by -- by-and-by? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Mothers; Soldiers; Time; War; Youth; Optimism CANTATA, by PIETRO METASTASIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, mournful clouds hang over the sun Last Line: Always the thunder-bolt contain. Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico Subject(s): Hope; Optimism CASSANDRA'S PROPHECY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time's frost shall touch thy temples in the morn Last Line: With lightning from the right struck blind mine eyes. Subject(s): Cassandra; Eyes; Hope; Prophecy & Prophets; Time; Optimism CASTLES IN THE SAND, by KATHARINE LIDDELL Poem Text First Line: We built them upon the shining sand Last Line: Their castles on the sand. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, in the heart of faith now wearing old Last Line: Eternal in youth, and hope, and love and home! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Christmas; Hope; Love; Youth; Nativity, The; Optimism CHRISTMAS ANTIPHONES: 2. OUTSIDE CHURCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We whose days and ways Last Line: Not for us is born? Subject(s): God; Hope; Life; Night; Optimism; Bedtime CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1917: THE LAST LAP, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We seldom were quick off the mark Last Line: Be your victorious christmas-tide. Subject(s): Christmas; England; Hope; Patience; Victory; War; World War I; Nativity, The; English; Optimism; First World War COMFORT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou o'er the clear heaven of thy soul Last Line: Eternal rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Comfort; Fate; Hope; Life; Soul; Destiny; Optimism CONCLUDING LINES OF PRIZE POEM ON HOPE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But, above all, the poet owns thy powers Last Line: To win the laurel, and possess the prize. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism COUPLET (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faith and hope are wings to love Last Line: Silver wings to golden dove. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Love; Belief; Creed; Optimism COURAGE REGAINED, by BERTHA TODD CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: A storm has damaged the corn crop Last Line: I am at peace. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism CUPID'S ARROWS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At venus' entreaty for cupid her son Last Line: His metal vulcan's cyclops sent from hell. Subject(s): Cupid; Hate; Hope; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Eros; Optimism DAPHNE, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunrise and spring, and the river agleam in the morning Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Youth; Hope; Optimism DAWN'S FIRST VOICE, by VIOLA MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I awoke - perhaps too late? Last Line: Of hope to a heart that breaks. Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Hope; Waking; Sunrise; Optimism DEAD HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope newborn one pleasant morn Last Line: No not in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Optimism DECEITFUL HOPE, by JULIUS POLYAENUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is the fool of hope, till one last morning Last Line: Sweeps all our schemes away, without a warning. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism DESNOS READING THE PALMS OF MEN ON THEIR WAY TO THE GAS CHAMBERS, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I should go back to the white leather Last Line: Don't you hear it? Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); Fortune Tellers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Hope; Jews; Palmistry; Shoah; Optimism; Judaism DIRE: 14. MENTANA: SECOND ANNIVERSARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the dead body of hope, the spotless lamb Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Hope; Nations; Dead, The; Optimism DIRE: 15. MENTANA: THIRD ANNIVERSARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such prayers last year were put up for thy sake Last Line: Satiate the immitigable hours in hell? Subject(s): Death; Hope; Nations; Prayer; Dead, The; Optimism DON'T BE DOWN-HEARTED (A PHILOSOPHIC POME), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world is extremely unpleasant Last Line: Then it will take a turn for the worse! Subject(s): Future; Hope; Luck; Optimism DON'T STOP AT THE STATION DESPAIR, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We must trust the conductor, most surely Last Line: Don't stop at the station despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Hope; Optimism DORA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A waxing moon that, crescent yet Last Line: To learn that tears are obsolete. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Love; Moon; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism DOULEUR, by PAUL ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Why do my hopes Last Line: Across my path ...? Subject(s): Hope; Optimism DURING DECEMBER'S DEATH, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The afternoon turned dark early Subject(s): Hope; Optimism DURING THE QUARREL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I hope, when we go down to dinner" Last Line: "I hope she'll accept my devotion: / then, oh to still opposite nell!" Subject(s): Hope; Optimism DUST OF SNOW, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way a crow Last Line: Of a day I had rued. Variant Title(s): A Favour;snow Dust Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Hope; Snow; Optimism DUST-SEALED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not wherefore, but mine eyes Last Line: Their eyes are blind, they cannot see. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Eden; Eyes; Hope; Vision; Optimism ECHOES, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late-born and woman-souled I dare not hope Last Line: To one in love with solitude and song. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs ECHOES: 4. INVICTUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night that covers me Last Line: I am the captain of my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): R. T. Hamilton Bruce;to R. T. H. B. ...;unconquered;urbs Fortitudinis;invictus;in Memoriam: R.t. Hamilton Bruce Subject(s): Bruce, R. T. Hamilton (1846-1899); Consolation; Courage; Hope; Independence; Life Change Events; Pain; Self-control; Self-reliance; Soldiers; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Suffering; Misery ECLOGUE: 1, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While you, o tityrus, beneath the shade Last Line: And from the hills the lengthening shadows spread. Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Freedom; Hope; Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Liberty; Optimism EGG-AND-DART, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: This never-ended searching for the eyes Last Line: Then the droll recommencement of the search. Subject(s): Eyes; Hope; Optimism EGOMANIA, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She-she-who is this she but my creation Last Line: With hands stretched outand feet that stray and falter. Subject(s): Desire; Egoism & Egotism; Hope; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Optimism; Male-female Relations EL CAMINO REAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king's highway is thronged with folk Last Line: But, oh, the by-roads and their song! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Hope; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Optimism; Songs ELEGIAC SONNET: 6. TO HOPE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O hope! Thou soother sweet of human woes! Last Line: And I will bless thee, who, tho' slow, art sure. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Hope; Optimism ELEGY, by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sigh not, ye winds, as passing o'er Last Line: Shall ever weep, shall ever sigh. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism ENGRAVEN ON A COLUMN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: View not this spire by measure given Last Line: While deathless charity remains. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Faith; Heaven; Hope; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism ENTHUSIASM IN TWO PARTS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe a wasp will sting my throat again Last Line: We get it back. Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Joy; Delight; Optimism ENTRE NOUS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If I can't hope then the hell with it Subject(s): Hope; Optimism EPIGRAM: 42, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O miserable sorrow withouten cure! Last Line: As was my pleasure when she was present. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism ESTHER: 39, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so we went our way, - yes, hand in hand Subject(s): Togetherness; Hope; Optimism EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT, by DEREK MAHON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should I not be glad to contemplate Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Optimism EXPECTATION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king's three daughters stood on ... Terrace Last Line: "is the loneliest depth of human pain." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hope; Life; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery FABLES: 1ST SER. 27. THE SICK MAN AND THE ANGEL, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no hope? The sick man said Last Line: Then why such haste? So groan'd and dy'd. Subject(s): Angels; Hope; Sickness; Optimism; Illness FAIR SINKS THE SUMMER EVENING NOW, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let those who low delights to earth are given Last Line: Shall sing like winged cherubim. Subject(s): Charity; Faith; Hope; Philanthropy; Belief; Creed; Optimism FALLEN, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Another idol toppled from its place Last Line: Nor admire. Subject(s): Hope; Idols; Optimism FAMOUS NIGHT, by ODYSSEUS ALEPOUDELI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: ...By the terraces, near the musical complaint of your hand's Last Line: And night is kneaded by the goodness of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Elytis, Odysseus; Elytis, Odysseas; Alepudelis, Odisseus Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Optimism FOR WE ARE A PART, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful days slip by Last Line: Revisits us once more. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hope; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Optimism FORGET IT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you see a tall fellow ahead of the crowd Last Line: It's a pretty good plan to forget it Subject(s): Hope; Optimism FORSAKEN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: My heart is far too sad to sing Last Line: A galling grief. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love - Complaints; Optimism FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have done with hope Last Line: But mine own crown tomorrow morn: Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Silence; Optimism FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SACRIFICE SELF-COMPENSATED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True I have had much comfort gazing on thee Last Line: That greater happiness will thence arise. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Hope; Love; Sacrifices; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Optimism FRIENDSHIP AND HOPE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Living and loved and delicate and lowly Last Line: Safe in the fellowship of friend and friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Hope; Optimism FUNERAL OF MAZEEN; THE LAST OF THE ... MOHEGAN NATION, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid the trodden turf is an open grave Last Line: And plead for your pale-brow'd brother's guilt. Subject(s): Funerals; Hope; Native Americans; Sin; Soul; Burials; Optimism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GEO-BESTIARY: 30, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much better these actual dreams Last Line: He's never heard except in the pulse of dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Nightmares; Optimism GET A TRANSFER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you are on the gloomy line Last Line: That lands you at the station hope -- / get a transfer! Subject(s): Hope;worry; Optimism GHOSTS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are ghosts in the room Last Line: In each shadowy corner there lurketh a ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Happiness; Hope; Life; Love; Supernatural; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Optimism GOING SOFTLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She makes no moan above her faded flowers Last Line: "she creeps, who must go softly all her days" Subject(s): Flowers;happiness;hope; Joy;delight;optimism GOOD HOPE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cup of life is not so shallow Last Line: Than angelo released. Subject(s): Hope; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Optimism GOOD INTENTIONS; SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair thoughts of good, and fantasies as fair! Last Line: And leave the world small space to nourish weeds of crime. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Hope; Optimism GREEK AND CHRISTIAN, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis neither wealth nor youth nor beauty fair Last Line: But all the deeper graces of the soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Soul; Optimism GREEK SPRING; MARCH, ATHENS, 1913, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rainbows, rainbows! O fantastic vision Last Line: Or is it the snows again? Subject(s): Greece; Hope; Rainbows; Spring; Winter; Greeks; Optimism HAG RIDING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why / is what I ask myself Last Line: I ride I ride Subject(s): Africa; Hope; Life; Self-satisfaction; Optimism HATIKVAH-A SONG OF HOPE, by NAPHTALI HERZ IMBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O while within a jewish breast Last Line: "with israel's last son!""" Alternate Author Name(s): Imber, Naftali Herts Subject(s): Hope; Jews; Zionism; Optimism; Judaism HEROIC LOVE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When our glowing dreams were dead Last Line: "love can never be till then." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Heroism; Hope; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares; Heroes; Heroines; Optimism HIGH HOPES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't that they were so Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by ABBATI Poem Text First Line: Grieve no more, mortals, dry your eyes Last Line: Sure he that lives on hope, feeds like an ass. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Yet still bear up: no bark did e'r Last Line: For hope, is every thing which she is not. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope was but a timid friend Last Line: Went - and ne'er returned again! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope evermore and believe, o man, for e'en as thy thought Last Line: Nevertheless it is good, though there is better than it. Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Theology HOPE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a star that cheers our way Last Line: A thing all sad and desolate! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask what is human life - the sage replies Last Line: Repays their work--the gleaning only mine. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: Hope in this day of ruin Last Line: Grown cold beyond entreaty. Subject(s): Birds; Hope; Optimism HOPE, by ANNA PEYRE DINNIES Poem Text First Line: In life's young morn, with buds and flowers Last Line: To endless peace in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See through yon cloud that rolls in wrath Last Line: Will smile amid affliction's night. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De dog go howlin' 'long de road Last Line: I see huh windah light at las'. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by MARTHA J. HADLEY Poem Text First Line: When the dark shadows fall Last Line: As heretofore. Subject(s): Hope; Justice; Truth; Optimism HOPE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the world is dark and drear Last Line: The sunshine sifts like grains of gold. Subject(s): Hope; Weariness; Optimism; Fatigue HOPE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though the blossom fall and die Last Line: Till thou his glory see. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave to hope a watch of mine: but he Last Line: I did expect a ring. Subject(s): Bible; Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology HOPE, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again - again she comes! Methinks I hear Last Line: And heaven's flowers -- the stars -- are at her feet. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by WARREN HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: Illusive hope, though oft deceived by thee Last Line: When we may walk in heaven's transcendent light. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by KEN HUGHES Poem Text First Line: As I looked into the sea Last Line: There were the stars as before. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life Last Line: A step is on the stairs Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the wails of grief and shame Last Line: And set the heaven with fresh stars. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As shines the sunbeam through dark clouds Last Line: Hope, hope revives them in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not the lark companion of the spring? Last Line: Sweet as the tender myrtle. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by JOHN LANGHORNE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sun of the soul! Whose cheerful ray Last Line: Till thy fair lamp dissolve in endless day. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her languid pulses thrill with sudden hope Last Line: She bows her head, and bides the certain dawn. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Hope that is blindfold is not blind Last Line: The veiling of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Time; Optimism HOPE, by CECIL R. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: The somber haze cannot for long conceal Last Line: Then face about to wait the hasting day. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What song is well sung not of sorrow? Last Line: For a god was the price of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope is a dream dreamed by the mummied past Last Line: Blind love and left unfound the path he missed. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It hovers in dark corners Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are not children of a guilty sire Last Line: We shall mount up to eden's long-lost gate. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As still as a shadow falling Last Line: With threads that are strong as steel. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by CAROLYN RENFREW Poem Text First Line: I am the sun within whose warmth and light Last Line: And with my rainbows bridge the gulf of death. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, bending o'er me one time, snowed the flakes Last Line: "what makes my little girl so sad to-night?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Kisses; Nightmares; Optimism HOPE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine eyes are dim Last Line: Into his arms -- and rest. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by ERNESTINE RENEE (WHITE) SELLIER Poem Text First Line: My days are tempered by your smile Last Line: My heart this rapture deep allows. Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Joy; Delight; Optimism HOPE, by L. GEORGIA TATE Poem Text First Line: Close-fitting fog / that drifts into the soul Last Line: There is light in the east. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, by HORTENSE DRUCKER WAGAR Poem Text First Line: Have you wished for summer sun Last Line: Takes the place of that which dies. Subject(s): Hope; Winter; Optimism HOPE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, only hope, for hope I wildly call Last Line: Than in a flattered waking dream remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE (1), by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope is the thing with feathers Last Line: It asked a crumb of me. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE (1), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail children of sorrow, dethroned by a hue Last Line: And each has his hourto dwell in the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE (2), by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope is a subtle glutton Last Line: The same amounts remain. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE AND DESPAIR, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said god, 'you sisters, ere ye go' Last Line: Which think ye lookt the more fair? Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Optimism HOPE AND DESPAIR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds, dark and lowering, hid the sky Last Line: Brave-hearted hope the shine. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Optimism HOPE AND FEAR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shadow of dawn's aerial cope Last Line: "hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all." Subject(s): Fear; Hope; Youth; Optimism HOPE AND LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was setting o'er the sea Last Line: Or hope grow cold, or love forget! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism HOPE AND TIME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the great city rear'd, my fancy rude Last Line: And knows not whether he is first or last. Subject(s): Fables; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Youth; Allegories; Optimism HOPE BENEATH THE WATERS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot mount to heaven beneath this ban Last Line: Grow best from bruises, hope from anguish springs.' Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE DEFERRED, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've closed my book of hope, love Last Line: I think you'll understand. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE DEFERRED, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis long since we were forced to part, at least it seems so to my grief Last Line: How long you're coming -- I am dying -- will you not come soon? Subject(s): Absence; Hope; Separation; Isolation; Optimism HOPE DEFERRED, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faint lines of gray are in that hair Last Line: One thrill before the nerves decay. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE DEFERRED, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, snows so pure! Oh, peaks so high! Last Line: I shall not reach you till I die! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Hope; Snow; Optimism HOPE HEARTENS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: None goes to warfare, but with this intent Last Line: The gaines must dead the feare of detriment. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE IN FAILURE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Though now thou hast failed and art fallen Last Line: The heart of whose shining is bright with the light of the ancient of days. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Failure; Hope; Optimism HOPE IN GRIEF, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not that death of grief Last Line: And surely will uprise the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hope; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope is not for the wise, fear is for fools; Last Line: Had perished utterly, oh perfect loveliness of earth and heaven Subject(s): Hope; Wisdom; Beauty; Optimism HOPE PREFERRED, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, what is kindlier than snow Last Line: Ere love's first word be spoken. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE'S YEARNINGS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it is, when wearied with the jars Last Line: To realise the aspirings of the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Soul; World; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism HOPE, FAITH, LOVE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are three lessons I would write Last Line: Thy charities on all. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Variant Title(s): Words Of Strength;three Words Of Strenth Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Love; Belief; Creed; Optimism HOPE; A RONDEAU, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just like hope is yonder bow Last Line: Glows with hope. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE; PINDARIC ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, thou darling, and delight Last Line: Never again to hope for anything but heaven. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPEFUL, by DAVID BROMIGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How meet your eyes Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPELESS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lay a soul in mortal pain Last Line: She 'll die amain, he said. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' day by day old hopes depart Last Line: And forward-looking eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Valor; Bravery; Optimism HOPING, by PEARL G. DOLLEAR Poem Text First Line: I sit by the window and watch and wait Last Line: And safe for another day! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPING AGAINST HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he would come today, today, today Last Line: But sleep on all the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): If Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hope; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Optimism HOUSE OF HOPE, by GEORGIA MACSENTRE STAMPER Poem Text First Line: Still keep my eyes fast-blinded to the end Last Line: And I shall live in love and sweet content. Subject(s): Hope; Houses; Optimism HUMAN PLEASURE OR PAIN, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When clouds and rain deform the sky Last Line: Her mantle over the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HUMILITY, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird that soars on highest wing Last Line: The footstool of humility. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Hope; Humility; Optimism HUNTING, HOPING, FINDING, by JAMES LARKIN Poem Text First Line: The room is dark, the air is heavy Last Line: And I'll go west with the rest. Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Hope; Love; Nightmares; Optimism I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOPE', by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not feel this suffering as cesar vallejo. I am not Last Line: Today I am in pain, no matter what happens. Today I am simply in pain Subject(s): Hope; Hunger; Poetry & Poets; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917); Optimism I OWN A STAR, by J. W. HAND Poem Text First Line: All day long on a white hospital cot Last Line: Will the light of it fade nor the hope it will give. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism I SHALL NOT DIE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Never shall I die Last Line: And faith-embraced my soul shall lie. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism I SING OF CHANGE, by NIYI OSUNDARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing / of the beauty of athens Subject(s): Change; Hope; Human Rights; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs IMMOLATED, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children of my happier prime Last Line: Snugged in the arms of comfortable night. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism IN BLOOD'S DOMAIN (PASSAGES), by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel syphilis in the circle of signators -- looses its hosts -- to swarm Last Line: My own counterpart of baudelaire's terrible ennuie? Subject(s): Hope; Optimism IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 30, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With trembling fingers did we weave Last Line: The light that shone when hope was born. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hope; Optimism IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 54, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh yet we trust that somehow good Last Line: And with no language but a cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Trust Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Religion; Worship; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Theology IN MEMORY OF AURELIO SAFFI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wider world of men that is not ours Last Line: April 1890. Subject(s): Death; Hope; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Optimism IN PASSING, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a half block off I see you coming, Subject(s): Hope; Identity; Memory; Optimism IN PRAISE OF HOPE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, of all ills that men endure Last Line: To which all soon returne that travaile out. Variant Title(s): For Hope Subject(s): Hope; Optimism IN THE STRAND, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midst of the busy and roaring strand Last Line: It preaches its mystical promise of life. Subject(s): Graves; Hope; Strand, London; Tombs; Tombstones; Optimism IN THE TIME OF FALSE MESSIAHS; CIRCA 1648, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in the shade of trees at moonrise Last Line: Everywhere below him there was hope. Subject(s): Clergy; Famine; Hope; Poland; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Optimism IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: A DREAM OF GOOD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To do some little good before I die Last Line: Scorned by the proud but with the poor at peace. Subject(s): Hope; Prisons & Prisoners; Time; Optimism; Convicts INVITED GUESTS, by FRANCES EKIN ALLISON Poem Text First Line: A crowd of troubles passed him by Last Line: "we go where we're expected." Subject(s): Courage; Guests; Hope; Valor; Bravery; Visiting; Optimism IS IT DONE?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is done! In the fire's fitful flashes Last Line: Will dream they are playing their parts. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Fire; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Kisses; Pain; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Optimism; Suffering; Misery IT IS THE FOLLOWING, by RUTH KNOWLES Poem Text First Line: No doubt it is the greater honor to the Last Line: Not back into the ark again with somewhere land ahead. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism JOHNNY RIGHT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Johnny right, his hand was brown Last Line: Her own self had evoked her fate. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Human Behavior; Optimism; Pessimism; Fate; Alcoholism & Alcoholics KNOWLEDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild swan over the marshes knows Last Line: Across the glaciers of eternity! Subject(s): Birds; Future Life; Happiness; Hawks; Hope; Knowledge; Owls; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism LA DAME REVOLUTION, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red was the might that sired thee Last Line: Waits man, the undefiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Hope; Love; Peace; Optimism LAST EVE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last eve as I leaned from my lattice, looked out / at the night Last Line: Let go! Get back to your graves, you have fought and have failed. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Nightmares; Optimism LEAN DOWN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lean down and lift me higher, josephine! Last Line: And lean, and lift me higher. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Soul; Youth; Optimism LIBERTY; NEW CASTLE, 1878, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a hundred years the pulse of time Last Line: Lights up thy first abiding place. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Hope; U.s. - Centennial Celebrations; War; Liberty; Optimism LIFE, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life, believe, is not a dream Last Line: Can courage quell despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Variant Title(s): Good Cheer Subject(s): Hope; Life; Optimism LIFE, by ANGELO DE PONCIANA Poem Text First Line: Have you ever sat by the railroad track Last Line: -- just emptys cuming back. Variant Title(s): Empties Coming Back Subject(s): Hope; Optimism LIFE AND HOPE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet, seer, philosopher, or friend Last Line: Far off events beyond the gates of death. Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Dead, The; Optimism LIGHT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be not much troubled about many things Last Line: Be it thy task, through his good grace, to win it. Subject(s): God; Optimism LIGHTS THROUGH THE MIST, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some for the sadness and sweetness of far evening bells Last Line: Lights through the mist! Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; God; Grief; Hope; Light; Mist; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism LIMITATIONS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Thou cravest sympathy yet never think Last Line: How much I dwarfed and wronged thy nature here below! Subject(s): Earth; Hope; Sympathy; Truth; World; Optimism; Empathy LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MARCH 1810, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When hope but made tranquillity be felt Last Line: Fann'd the calm air upon the brow of toil -- Subject(s): Hope; Optimism 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 LITTLE SISTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a girl of presence fresh and fair Last Line: Making her saintly, while they make her dear. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Pain; Sin; Sisters; Soul; Optimism; Suffering; Misery LOST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He ought to be home, said the old man, without there's / something amiss Last Line: Was an angel smile of gladness -- she had found her boy at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Eyes; Hope; Smiles; Optimism LOVE AND HOPE, by FRANCIS BROOKS Poem Text First Line: My hope sprang like a fountain, in the night Last Line: My soul, and all my fears and doubts dismiss. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Soul; Optimism LOVE AND HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love for ever dwells in heaven Last Line: For perfect love, and perfect bliss, shall be our lot on high. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Love - Nature Of; Optimism LOVE'S CONQUERING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If 't please you see how love's might overcame Last Line: To choose a child for lord; for guide, the blind. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Wind; Youth; Optimism LOVE'S VICISSITUDES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As love and hope together Last Line: The sweetest pipe of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Hope; Love; Travel; Optimism; Journeys; Trips LOVE, HOPE, AND BEAUTY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love may be increased by fears Last Line: For without hope it dies. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Love - Nature Of; Optimism LOVE, HOPE, DESIRE AND FEAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And many there were hurt by that strong boy Last Line: Ever will be near. Subject(s): Desire; Fear; Hope; Love; Pleasure; Optimism LOVERS AT THE LAKE SIDE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you brought him home? I did, ay ronald, it rested with me Last Line: Laura! But give me my troth kiss again.' 'and give me my ring.' Subject(s): Hope; Kisses; Lakes; Life; Love; Optimism; Pools; Ponds MAN, by JAMES GORDON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His heart beat joyously in spring Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Hope; Optimism MARAH, by EDWARD L. PONTZ Poem Text First Line: To the fresh vision of the charmed child Last Line: They give mankind to endure the present hour! Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Optimism MARY, MY HEART, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, my heart - because my heart is thine! Last Line: Heart, love, hope, soul, and universe to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Optimism MAURINE: PART 5, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A visit to a cave some miles away Last Line: E'en to the dregs, this bitter cup of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Caves; Hope; Love; Pain; Caverns; Optimism; Suffering; Misery MAURINE: PART 7, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With much hard labor and some pleasure fraught Last Line: Gazing upon us from the mystic shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Soul; Summer; Tears; Women; Optimism MEETING (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said goodbye in hope Last Line: But it is past. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hope; Life; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Optimism MELHILL FEAST, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye there, at the feast, by melhill's brow Last Line: Moon upon moon, an' year by year. Subject(s): Country Life; Feasts; Festivals; Hope; Love; Marriage; Time; Fairs; Pageants; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEMORY AND HOPE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back-looking memory Last Line: To 'reach the things before.' Subject(s): Memory; Hope; Dreams; Optimism; Nightmares MEMORY AND HOPE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Memory has a sister fair Last Line: Hopeful future,lovely past. Subject(s): Future; Hope; Memory; Past; Optimism METRICAL LETTER; WRITTEN FROM LONDON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret! My cousin, -- nay you must not smile Last Line: To find in heaven the things I loved on earth. Subject(s): Courtship; Cousins; Desire; Freedom; Hope; Letters; Liberty; Optimism MORNING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The star of hope doth light the way Last Line: To those whose crowns are won. Subject(s): Hope; Light; Morning; Victory; Optimism MY DREAM OF THE NEW YEAR, by OLIVA WARD BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the waning hours of moments Last Line: Brightening up my glad new year. Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward Subject(s): Faith; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Belief; Creed; Optimism MY GARDEN OF BLIGHTED HOPES, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I sowed in the hours of life's morning Last Line: In my garden of blighted hopes. Subject(s): Death; Failure; Hope; Life; Dead, The; Optimism MY HOPES, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My hopes are all like argent strands Last Line: And hold them to my heart. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism NEVER AGAIN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never again!' vow hearts when reunited Last Line: "never, never again, never again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Soul; Optimism NEW BODY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a sort of eternity Last Line: Love scratched out of sky, o my visitor. Subject(s): Future Life; Hope; Love - Beginnings; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism NOCTURNE, by JEANNE LOUISE FRESE Poem Text First Line: In silent ecstasy the moon showers her silver rays to earth Last Line: Resting in anticipation of tomorrow. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism NOT WISELY, NOR TOO WELL, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: So thou, unmindful of the past Last Line: Thy mission is to bless thy kind. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Past; Optimism ODE ON PROCLAMATION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With songs and crying and sound of acclamations Last Line: The cry thou gavest at heart was only of delight. Subject(s): France; Hope; Lament; Light; Nations; War; Optimism ODE TO A REDBREAST, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: The darling thou of many a heart Last Line: "thy glancing heaven may show!" Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hope; Nature; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Optimism ODE TO HOPE, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, who gladd'st the pensive soul Last Line: "in rapture too severe for weak mortality." Subject(s): Hope; Optimism ODE TO HOPE, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend to the wretch whose bosom knows no joy! Last Line: And never-fading joy in heaven's full glories reign. Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Strength; Joy; Delight; Optimism ODE TO ILLUSIONS, by JESSICA JEUNE CARTER Poem Text First Line: Bewildered, groping - though I try Last Line: The tender roots of hope and trust. Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Hope; Trust; Optimism OH, THE WATER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the hero of this poem Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Women; Valor; Bravery; Optimism OLD DOMINION, by ROBERT HASS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows of late afternoon and the odors Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904); Hope; Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965); Tennis; Optimism OLIVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who may praise her? Last Line: She remembers. Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Love; Praise; Optimism ON A DRAWING OF THE CRUCIFIXION STILL VISIBLE ON A DUNGEON WALL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, lake reflected, chillon's turrets shine Last Line: Hope pointed heavenward to his home above. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Drawing; Hope; Jesus Christ; Prisons & Prisoners; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Optimism; Convicts ON A PICTURE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a forlorn soul waiting by the styx Last Line: He stands at fault for joy, she whispering 'ay.' Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Rivers; Soul; Dead, The; Optimism ON HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY HOPE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reflected on the lake, I love Last Line: As false and fleeting as 'tis fair. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Hope; World; Paradise; Optimism ON THE BENEFACTIONS IN THE LATE FROST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, 'tis the time! I cry'd, impose the chain! Last Line: To take the only way to be forgiven. Variant Title(s): Epigram Explained By Carruthers To Refer To The Large Sums Subject(s): Charity; Forgiveness; Hope; Sin; Philanthropy; Clemency; Optimism OPTIMISM, by I. Z. JOSEPHSON Poem Text First Line: The rose is hid by prickly thorn Last Line: And joy is found in sorrow's train. Subject(s): Hope; Jews; Optimism; Judaism OPTIMISM, by NEWTON MACKINTOSH Poem Text First Line: Be brave, faint heart Last Line: Be brave, faint heart! Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Hope; Life; Valor; Bravery; Optimism OPTIMISM, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A freak spring snow storm made us take the old Subject(s): Storms; Optimism OPTIMIST, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye that labour! Every broken man Last Line: Through courage, truth, and kindness, back to hope. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The right will triumph,' jones declared Last Line: "it's what a fellow does." Subject(s): Hope; Pessimism; War Bonds; Optimism ORDER FOR A SONG, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Out of the fullness of your warm heart Last Line: And softly melt into heaven's hymn. Subject(s): Hope; Hymns (as Literary Form); Melodies; Music & Musicians; Optimism ORGAN SONGS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOR 1862, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skies are pale, the trees are stiff Last Line: Will soon be driven out. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Despair; Hope; Jesus Christ; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Optimism ORGAN SONGS: GOD; NOT GIFT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray clouds my heaven have covered o'er Last Line: And all the world may sleep for me! Subject(s): Faith; God; Hope; Nature; Belief; Creed; Optimism ORGAN SONGS: THE CHILDREN'S HEAVEN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The infant lies in blessed ease Last Line: And bid them dream again. Subject(s): Children; Heaven; Hope; Innocence; Jesus Christ; Childhood; Paradise; Optimism ORGAN SONGS: TO A. J. SCOTT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked all night: the darkness did not yield Last Line: Yet hear æolian sighs from thin chords blown? Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Dawn; Hope; Cathedrals; Sunrise; Optimism OUT OF DISCONTENT, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: Somewhere, I know, is peace for weary eyes Last Line: Distill our griefs to dissipate our fears. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 18, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Remembered is your every trick of speech Last Line: The splendored joy of love in faith enshrined. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism PAST SORROWS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As tangled driftwood barring up a stream Last Line: Forgets the old griefs, and heals their deepest scars. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Islands; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism PATIENCE AND HOPE, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a barren steep Last Line: Of patience nursing hope -- the angel and the child! Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Hope; Patience; Optimism PEASANT, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's the mixture of peasantry Last Line: That birds descend from. Subject(s): Birds; Hope; Peasantry; Optimism PERHAPS TOMORROW, by KAY WELLS Poem Text First Line: Someday - perhaps tomorrow Last Line: And while remembering, be not wholly sad! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism PESSIMIST AND OPTIMIST, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one sits shivering in fortune's smile Last Line: Laughs in the teeth of death. Subject(s): Pessimism; Optimism PHILOSOPHY, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there's no sun, I still can have the moon Last Line: Where I may sleep and dream there's light again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Hope; Optimism POEM FOR THE END OF THE CENTURY, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dreamer who remains Subject(s): Time; Optimism POETIC EPIGRAMS: 16. TO AN UNTHINKING OPTIMIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On wave or cloud or sand Last Line: A rainbow's arch will stand. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism POETIC EPIGRAMS: 22. A CRY IN THE DESERT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God is no more nor worse Last Line: Hope sees on the universe. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; God; Hope; Optimism POSTPONED, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: God! Did I hear you call? Yesterday? Today? Last Line: You see, I'm busy, because you made me that way. Subject(s): Ambition; Death; God; Hope; Learning; Prayer; Dead, The; Optimism PRAYER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not undertake to say Last Line: "says ""pray, for prayer availeth much." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Heaven; Hope; Life; Prayer; Soul; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism PROMISE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the moil and the gloom they have issued Last Line: The gleam of a bright morning star! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Hope; Optimism PSALM: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou witness of my truth sincere Last Line: From dangers all securely keep. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Hope; Peace; Religion; Soul; Truth; Optimism; Theology PSALM: 9, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thee & thy wondrous deeds, o god Last Line: They been but men of mortall kind. Subject(s): Fear; God; Grief; Hope; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism QUERY, by M. HORTENSE YONDORF Poem Text First Line: When our life's pattern we weave Last Line: To brighter, wider, finer skies. Subject(s): Hope; Weavers And Weaving; Optimism RENEWAL, by GLADYS NAOMI ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: When trees renew their life in spring Last Line: When trees renew their life in spring. Subject(s): Hope; Spring; Optimism RENEWAL, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope is renewed in foolish hearts like mine Last Line: Why in my sullen heart is hope renewed? Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 11. LOST WISHES, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Similar in disposition Last Line: That my inmost heart has enter'd. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Peace; Wishes; Optimism RONDEL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: When I see you my heart sings Last Line: When I see you! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Hope; Love; Singing & Singers; Optimism ROSES ANMD SUNSHINE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rough is the road I am journeying now Last Line: The roses of hope and the sunshine of cheer. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Hope; Optimism ROSINA, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weeks of wild delirium past Last Line: Remains a mortal shade!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Love; Hope; Death; Optimism; Dead, The SAINT PAUL: 7, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah what a hope! And when afar it glistens Last Line: Suffer with men and like a man be strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Variant Title(s): Saved By Hope;let Us Have Hope Subject(s): Hope; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Optimism; Saul Of Tarsus SALUTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We, about to die, salute you kindly Last Line: We, the elders, hail our brothers young! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Hope; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism SATURN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the place! / no moon, no mist, no sound Last Line: Oh love -- Subject(s): Death; Devil; Hope; Life; Moon; Planets; Sleep; Wind; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Optimism SAY NOT, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say not the struggle nought availeth Last Line: But westward, look, the land is bright. Variant Title(s): Courage;despondency Rebuked;the Incoming Tide;keeping On;hope Subject(s): Consolation; Courage; Freedom; Hope; Perseverance; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Optimism; Theology SCENE AT DUSK, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On our way to the city of the singing street Last Line: Shed by an april evening upon lovely hair. Subject(s): Birds; Dusk; Hope; Love; Optimism SEA-PICTURES; FAR NIENTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft languors on the bosom of the deep Last Line: Between the day and me, and end it all. Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Sea; Sun; Optimism; Ocean SELF-REJECTED, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plow not nor plant this arid mound Last Line: Spare your trouble. Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism SEVEN AGES, by JEWELL BOTHWELL TULL Poem Text First Line: Over the dim hill in the twilight Last Line: For I know it is the beginning. Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams; Future Life; Hope; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism SHADOWS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fairest summer hath its sudden showers Last Line: O'er ancient ruins, palaces, and graves. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism SMALL BEGINNINGS, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A traveller through a dusty road strewed with acorns on the lea Last Line: Ye were but little at the first, but mighty at the last. Variant Title(s): Little And [or, But] Great;song Of Life Subject(s): Hope; Religion; Service; Optimism; Theology SMILES, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world would rather see hope than just hear Subject(s): Hope; Statesmen; Optimism SNOW HOPES, by CHARLES B. NOBLE Poem Text First Line: One day ago the snow was laid Last Line: And cares and worries banish. Subject(s): Cold; Hope; Snow; Optimism SNOWED UNDER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a thousand things that the year snowed under Last Line: Your mantle of ermine, tell me, pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hope; Snow; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Optimism SOMEHOW OR OTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Life is a burden to every one's shoulder Last Line: And somehow or other we get to the end Subject(s): Hope; Optimism SOMETHING FOR HOPE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the present rate it must come to pass Last Line: But spes alii agricolam ‘tis said Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Hope; Luck; Optimism SONG, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I a claim to fame? Last Line: "he was her lover!" Subject(s): Hope; Love Affairs; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs SONG FROM AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, the great explorer Last Line: At death's gate! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Song From An Unfinished Play Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Optimism SONG OF HOPE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet to-morrow! Last Line: Shines soon! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism SONG OF THE ARTESIAN WATER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the stock have started dying, for the lord has sent a / drought Last Line: It is flowing, ever flowing, further down. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Earth; Hope; Singing & Singers; Water; World; Optimism SONG: 17, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After great storms the calm returns Last Line: And me also the most happy. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Hope; Pain; Storms; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 59, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suffering in sorrow, in hope to attain Last Line: Content to serve and suffer still I must. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 6, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most wretched heart, most miserable Last Line: Since unhap cannot kill me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Hearts; Hope; Quarrels; Truth; Optimism; Arguments; Disagreements SONG: 72, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, fortune, what aileth thee Last Line: That thou wilt change. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hope; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 75, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desire to sorrow doth me constrain Last Line: By patience. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism SONGS OF CAPTIVITY: THE SONG OF HOPE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Droop not, my brothers! I hear a glad strain Last Line: Droop not, my brothers! We yet shall be free! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Hope; Liberty; Optimism SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We bore him through the golden land Last Line: Are dreaming of the spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; Day; Death; Farm Life; Grief; Harvest; Hope; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle wind, of western birth Last Line: That we desire no more? Subject(s): Day; God; Happiness; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Spring; Waking; Joy; Delight; Paradise; Optimism SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 8, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, dorinda, I adore Last Line: I divorce myself for ever. Subject(s): Duplicity; Fear; Hope; Love; Virtue; Deceit; Optimism SONNET, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart be brave, and do not falter so Last Line: There is a power making for the right Subject(s): Fortitude; Hope; Morality; Love; Optimism; Ethics SONNET, by ERON DUNBAR ROWLAND Poem Text First Line: Dear heart, how often did we speak of this Last Line: The hardihood and courage to go on. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism SONNET TO HOPE, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, ever skilled to wear the form we love Last Line: That asks not happiness, but longs for rest! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism SONNET TO REFLECTION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, busy torturer, wherefore should mine eye Last Line: In darkness glimmering to disclose a tomb. Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Regret; Self-pity; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism SONNET TO THOSE WHO SEE BUT DARKLY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their gaze uplifting from shoals of despair Last Line: Charging the ultimate, rending the veil. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Hope; Optimism SONNET: 42, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving to desire, adread also to dare Last Line: Though double in deeds, a inward perfect man. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Faith; Fear; Hope; Belief; Creed; Optimism SONNET: 7. TO THE EVENING RAINBOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mild arch of promise! On the evening sky Last Line: Anticipates the realm where sorrows cease. Subject(s): Hope; Rainbows; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism SONNET: 9. HOPE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, by wasting sickness worn Subject(s): Sickness; Hope; Illness; Optimism SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 6, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah welladay and wherefore am I here? Last Line: Thankful if one would take her by the hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dawn; Hearts; Hope; Thought; Sunrise; Optimism; Thinking SONNETS: 4. VICTOR HUGO, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That hour the titan corsican first dared Last Line: Hope fired all plains and pinnacles of time. Subject(s): Fate; Hope; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Time; Destiny; Optimism SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wrack is lapping in the pools, the sea's lip feels the sand Last Line: Or with dull thunders plunge from shore to shore.) Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Prayer; Salvation; Sea; Tides; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Ocean SPERANZA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England puts on her purple, and pale, pale Last Line: And every soul of man be satisfied.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hope; Life; Sleep; Wind; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Optimism SPRING FLOODS, by MAURICE BARING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the first-born crocus of the spring Subject(s): Spring; Crocuses; Hope; Optimism STANZAS, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say not: life is one joyous festival Last Line: By a young flower's loveliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Life; Lips; Soul; Nightmares; Optimism STANZAS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why with its ring has the connecting sea Last Line: And speed its course with zealous heart and hand! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Love; Peace; Sea; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Ocean STANZAS FOR MUSIC (4), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that hope is happiness Last Line: Nor dare we think on what we are. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hope; Optimism STARLIGHT, by JOSEPH UPPER HARRIS Poem Text First Line: The stars / are numberless Last Line: Believe in it. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Hope; Life; Stars; Optimism STARS OF HOPE, by ELLA ALLISON Poem Text First Line: The grief that comes to weary lives, alone Last Line: In stars of hope. They'll shine in pools of grief. Subject(s): Hope; Stars; Optimism SUN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No man may him hyde Last Line: Multiplied flames, o sun! Variant Title(s): Fear Is Hope Subject(s): Fear; Hope; Optimism SUNDAY AT HAMPSTEAD: 10, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As we rush, as we rush in the train Last Line: While the earth slips from our feet! Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Variant Title(s): In The Train Subject(s): Hope; Railroads; Optimism; Railways; Trains SUNG ON A BY-WAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of all the will to do Last Line: Love has found itself the whole. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Soul; Truth; Optimism SUNSHINE AND MUSIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A laugh is just like sunshine Last Line: For making life sweet Subject(s): Hope; Optimism TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: ROBERT OF SICILY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robert of sicily, brother of pope urbane Last Line: Kneeling upon the floor, absorbed in silent prayer. Variant Title(s): The Sicilian's Tale Subject(s): Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology THE BALLAD OF THE HOPELESS MAN, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knocks for entrance at this hour?' Last Line: "forsoone friend shall mourn my fate!" Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism THE BIRD OF HOPE, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A golden cage of sunbeams Last Line: It was hope's golden bird! Subject(s): Birds; Hope; Optimism THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: JUANITA TINSLEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even after the letters, there is work, Subject(s): Hope; Freedom; Optimism; Liberty THE CASTLE OF TWENTY YEARS HENCE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a common young fellow, I don't own a mine Last Line: Your castle of twenty years hence. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE CHRONICLE OF HOPES, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not chronicle my life Last Line: Where that sublime succession ends? Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE COMING OF HOPE, by LYDIA M. WALKER Poem Text First Line: A patch of moonlight glimmered in the / cell Last Line: That seamed his roughened hands and felt an iron bar. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On starry heights / a bugle wails the long recall Last Line: Wisdom is vain, and prophesy. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Dreams; Hope; Past; United States - History; Wisdom; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism THE CRYSTAL PALACE BAND OF HOPE CHOIR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory shone o'er bethlehem's plains Last Line: "peace on earth, good will to men." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Christmas; God; Hope; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Optimism; Songs THE DARKLING THRUSH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I leant upon a coppice gate Last Line: And I was unaware. Subject(s): Birds; Despair; Hope; Thrushes; Optimism THE DAWN OF HOPE, by CONSTANCE PESSELS Poem Text First Line: See how the people of israel come trooping Last Line: Gather again in thy sheltering fold. Subject(s): Hope; Israel; Jews; Zionism; Optimism; Judaism THE DAY FULL SPENT, by JEAN HOLMES MINTY Poem Text First Line: I do not count the day full spent Last Line: Wherein was cause to love and smile. Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Hope; Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism THE DIRGE OF THE REPUBLIC (IN MEMORIAM, E. Z.), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the great days men heard afar the clarions of hope rejoice Last Line: "to be true men, and free, ""beneath the shadow of a crown""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Hope; Pain; Dead, The; Optimism; Suffering; Misery THE DOOR AJAR, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My door is always left ajar Last Line: Then vanish into flame. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism THE DRONE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God wrought you to produce the seed Last Line: As though you fairly served the hive! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE END OF TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who art dreary Last Line: And soon must end the night, and soon must dawn the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hope; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Optimism THE ENDURING, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the autumn ended Last Line: Over the hill. Subject(s): Autumn; Hope; Life; Seasons; Fall; Optimism THE EVERLASTING BATTLE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When in my shadowy hours I pierce the Last Line: I am of dana's race divine and know I am immortal still. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Immortality; Mythology - Celtic; Optimism THE FISH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A pale woman is cradling a large red fish Last Line: Swims toward the bottom to sleep in the mud. Subject(s): Despair; Fish & Fishing; Hope; Salvation; Anglers; Optimism THE FORLORN HOPE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long, vain hope, dost thou my joys suspend? Last Line: By scorning hope, ne'er to rely on thee. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE GAME OF LIFE; A HOMILY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a game much in fashion, I think it's called euchre Last Line: The victor is he who can go it alone! Variant Title(s): Go It Alone Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE GOLDEN SIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There's many a rest on the road of life Last Line: And sit and grieve and wonder Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE GOODLY SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad and lost I walked where wide Last Line: Us to each other in delight. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Singing & Singers; Voices; Optimism THE HOUR, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dark, thick branch in the last light is like Last Line: Go fireflies striking their soft, yellow lights. Subject(s): Activity; Dusk; Escapes; Evening; Hope; Exercise; Fugitives; Sunset; Twilight; Optimism THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 101. THE ONE HOPE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When vain desire at last and vain regret Last Line: Not less nor more, but even that word alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 42. HOPE OVERTAKEN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I deemed thy garments, o my hope, were grey Last Line: Alas, cling round me, for the day is done! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 43. LOVE AND HOPE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless love and hope. Full many a withered year Last Line: Scorn-fired at length the illusive eyes of hope. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 91. LOST ON BOTH SIDES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when two men have loved a woman well Last Line: Its bye-streets, knocking at the dusty inns. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Hope; Success; Optimism THE KINGS PROPHECY, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What stoick could his steely brest containe Last Line: Sawe too fewe dayes, to see too many yeares. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hope; Nations; Prophecy & Prophets; Treason & Traitors; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Optimism THE LAST HOPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Lord, in the gloom of my distress Last Line: "and ""death"" were life's supreme appeal." Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Despair; God; Hope; Religion; Dead, The; Optimism; Theology THE LEADERS, by LOUISE E. V. BOYD Poem Text First Line: The maiden read the spring time's idyl through Last Line: Death but the entrance to eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Hope; Memory; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism THE LOST ATLANTIS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in our soul-seas there are sunken hopes Last Line: The mute memorials of the lapsed years. Subject(s): Atlantis; Hope; Life; Mythology - Classical; Past; Sea; Soul; Optimism; Ocean THE MARSEILLAISE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A band a-playing a few sooty rods Last Line: Not france alone, but man! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; France; French Revolution (1789); Hope; Justice; National Songs; Optimism; National Anthems THE MASON'S LODGE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mason's ways / are a symbol of life Last Line: "we command thee to hope!" Subject(s): Heroism; Hope; Heroes; Heroines; Optimism THE MINUTE-GUNS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood within the little cove Last Line: I only heard the minute-guns. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Sea; Wind; Optimism; Ocean THE OPEN DOOR, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mystery of life Last Line: And crown his plan. Subject(s): Earth; God; Hearts; Hope; Life; Soul; World; Optimism THE OPTIMIST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fields were bleak and sodden. Not a wing Last Line: The optimistic willow spoke of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Willow Trees; Optimism THE OPTIMIST AND THE PESSIMIST; A DIALOGUE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: How glorious is the summer sun to-day! Last Line: Woman and god. Subject(s): Hope; Pessimism; Thought; Optimism; Thinking THE PATH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far I've strayed me in the long endeavor Last Line: And just ahead, my home. Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Truth; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails THE PLEASURES OF HOPE: 1, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer eve, when heaven's ethereal bow Last Line: "love! -- mercy -- wisdom! -- rule for evermore!" Variant Title(s): Hope;the Distant In Experience Subject(s): Beauty; Freedom; Hope; Landscape; Nature; Politics & Government; Liberty; Optimism THE PLEASURES OF HOPE: 2, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In joyous youth, what soul hath never known Last Line: And light thy torch at nature's funeral pile. Subject(s): Hope; Imagination; Optimism; Fancy THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE TORSO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In clay the statue stood complete Last Line: The ruined sculptor's monument. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Life; Patience; Statues; Optimism THE PROMISE OF TOMORROW, by CHARLES I. RITTER Poem Text First Line: Yesteryear. Thy promise made and broken Last Line: Hope we dare not desecrate? Subject(s): Hope; Prayer; Optimism THE QUARREL OF FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once faith, hope, and charity traversed the land Last Line: "when I choose for my temple an innocent heart." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Charity; Faith; God; Hope; Love; Religion; Philanthropy; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Theology THE QUEST OF THE IDEAL, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair hope with lucent light in her glad eyes Last Line: Yet count this quest the holiest of thy days. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE RAVINE OF SAINT-GILLES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The gorge is dark below the reeds' massed slimness Last Line: And lights in him the eternal hope unquelled! Subject(s): Hope; Nature; Water; Optimism THE SCHOLAR GIPSY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill Last Line: And on the beach undid his corded bales. Subject(s): Gypsies; Hope; Oxford University; Scholarship & Scholars; Gipsies; Optimism THE SERE AND YELLOW LEAF, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it time to write the sere Last Line: The brass flower of his horn into the city's evening. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Poetry & Poets; Optimism THE SMALL EARTH, by SAMUEL L. SCHIERLOH Poem Text First Line: A fisherman in provincetown Last Line: In you, and you, and me. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE SOUL'S COMPANIONS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Though floods shall fail, and empty holes Last Line: Would walk with me from day to day! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hope; Soul; Optimism THE STAR OF DISCONTENT, by X Poem Text First Line: O thou, sweet friend, would I might soothe thy / fear! Last Line: One ray of hopethe star of disconent. Subject(s): Hope; Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Optimism; Judaism THE STAR OF HOPE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Love is not love that can admit despair! Last Line: Griefs that no time can ever reconcile. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism THE SUNBEAM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art no lingerer in monarch's hall Last Line: The faith touching all things with hues of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Sun; Women; Joy; Delight; Optimism THE TIME WILL COME, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The time will come, when thou and I Last Line: The time will come. Subject(s): Hope; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Optimism THE TREASURE OF HOPE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fair bird, singing in the woods Last Line: The end, for which they are, fulfil. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE TRITON OF THE MINNOWS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you strike out something new? Last Line: "the triton of the minnows." Subject(s): Fame; Goddesses & Gods; Hope; Mythology; Time; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Optimism THE UNATTAINABLE, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS Poem Text First Line: You are a fragile and exclusive flower Last Line: Not to be held, but always to be cherished. Subject(s): Courtship; Hope; Love - Cultural Differences; Optimism THE UNFOLDING WILL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I spake; lo, my voice was heard in cathay Last Line: To man's dominating will. Subject(s): Future; Hope; Optimism THE VISIONARY HOPE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad lot, to have no hope! Though lowly kneeling Last Line: Such strength that he would bless his pains and live. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: TO CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not blame thee, that my life Last Line: Have nothing left to dread. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Hope; Netherlands; Travel; Optimism; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WAR WIDOW, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black-veiled, black-gowned, she rides in bus and train Last Line: No truth, no life, but leads through christmas day. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Love; War; Widows & Widowers; Optimism THE WAVERING LOVER WILLETH AND DREADETH, TO MOVE HIS DESIRE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such vain thought as wonted to mislead me Last Line: But such it is I not how to begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 26 Subject(s): Fear; Freedom; Hearts; Hope; Liberty; Optimism THE WEDDING, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her satin gown so fine Last Line: And our lilies wait the dead. Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Life; Love; Marriage; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WINGLESS VICTORY, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Nike of samothrace Last Line: Into stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Hope; Mythology; Victory; War; Optimism THE YEAR, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can be said in new year rhymes Last Line: And that's the burden of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Nightmares; Optimism THEN LAUGH, by BERTHA ADAMS BACKUS Poem Text First Line: Build for yourself a strong-box Last Line: Then sit on the lid and laugh. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THESE DO NOT DIE, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Now day is bright at dawning Last Line: Are hopes that do not die. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THESE THREE, by JENNIE M. TABB Poem Text First Line: To feel, though years in mystic silence pass Last Line: That, dear heart, is love. Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Love; Belief; Creed; Optimism THEY WAIT FOR YOU, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look not, o friend, with unavailing tears Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THO' LOVE HAS FLOWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the wind wail on, my dear Last Line: He will come back. Subject(s): Hope; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Wind; Optimism THREE DAYS, by JAMES ROBERT GILMORE Poem Text First Line: So much to do: so little done! Last Line: Will end in that great, glad to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Kirke, Edmund Subject(s): Hope; Time; Optimism THREE FRIENDS, by VIRGINIA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Many the friends you name Last Line: Thrust in my side. Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott Subject(s): Hope; Pride; Youth; Optimism; Self-esteem; Self-respect TIME, HOPE, AND MEMORY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a gentle maiden, in the spring Last Line: "thou hast loved hope, but memory loved thee." Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Time; Optimism TIMES GO BY TURNS, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lopped tree in time may grow again Last Line: Who least hath some, who most hath never all. Subject(s): Bible; Consolation; Fortune; Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology TO - ., by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is bright before thee Last Line: The sunbeam of the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Hope; Optimism TO A BUNCH OF LILAC, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Is it the april springing Last Line: And long but to love, and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Hope; Life; Lilacs; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Optimism TO A CHILD, by FRANK PUTNAM Poem Text First Line: The years stretch far above thee Last Line: His work will not forget. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Hope; Time; Youth; Childhood; Optimism TO AN OPTIMIST, by ALEC JOHNSTON Poem Text First Line: The dawn was lit with promise of high doing Last Line: These dead-sea fruits of random idleness. Subject(s): Hope; Oxford University; Optimism TO DELIA: 28, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raising my hopes on hills of high desire Last Line: Framed my desires fit for her eyes to kill. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism TO DELIA: 50, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, here the impost of a faith unfeigning Last Line: I say no more, I fear I said too much. Variant Title(s): The Trophies Subject(s): Eyes; Hope; Love; Optimism TO GEORGE BORROW (LAVENGRO), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: No 'book,' but your own heart, was written, borrow Last Line: Knight of the ancient ruth and fearless fibre! Subject(s): Borrow, George (1803-1881); Depression, Mental; Hope; Writing & Writers; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Optimism TO HELEN KELLER, by CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the dark leaved life, bloomed hope, riped love Last Line: Thus one brave heart ten thousand souls can stay. Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Love; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Words; Vocabulary TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate laid upon you silence and the night Last Line: God knows that I am with you in this fight! Subject(s): Fate; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Destiny; Optimism TO HOPE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh come, thou power divine Last Line: Like aphrodite from the salt sea waves. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Hope; Optimism TO HOPE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair enchantress, gaily kind Last Line: "ever bless thy poet's mind !" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Hope; Optimism TO HOPE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Take, young seraph, take thy harp Last Line: On skylark's wing! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism TO HOPE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When by my solitary hearth I sit Last Line: Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism TO HOPE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undying hope, memory's immortal heir Last Line: Thy magic is to make the weak soul strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Hope; Optimism TO L, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hope, child, is a reed Last Line: Laves a soul. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Graves; Heaven; Hope; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Optimism TO LYCON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On yon wild waste of ruin thron'd, what form Last Line: So let me live unknown, so let me die forgot. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 14. HOPE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: It is the helpless and the fallen soul Last Line: Nor chance has had its kindnesses to know. Subject(s): Hope; Soul; Optimism TO RECOVERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Recovery, where art thou? Last Line: Watches the dawn of day. Subject(s): Blessings; Depression, Mental; Healing; Hope; Prayer; Waiting; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Cures; Optimism TO SOLITUDE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary of the working Last Line: Wind about a thousand hills. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Solitude; Trust; Optimism; Loneliness TO THE MISS WEBSTERS, WITH DR. AIKIN'S WISH, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not this the wish in life's first, gayest page Last Line: Your wish is transport, and your hopes are bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Youth; Wishes; Hope; Optimism TOO LATE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Speak low; tread softly Last Line: Came a day too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism TRANSITION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said, in death, upon the face Last Line: With dreams of may. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Variant Title(s): Indian Summer (1) Subject(s): Hope; Indian Summer; Seasons; Optimism TRIUMPHALIS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soul, art thou sad again Last Line: Never surrender! Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism TRY SMILING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the weather suits you not Last Line: "then, it sort o' rests your face -- / just smiling !" Subject(s): Hope; Optimism TWO OPTIMISTS, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To send fit thanks, I would I had the art Last Line: And heaven sent both this troubled world to bless. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Religion; Optimism; Theology TWO PICTURES (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Somebody's heart is gay Last Line: With hope and sorrow allied! Subject(s): Grief;hope; Sorrow;sadness;optimism TWO THOUGHTS ON YOUTH, by RETTA IRWIN LEICHLITER Poem Text First Line: Full of slang Last Line: Of love our youth are sowing. Subject(s): Hope; Pessimism; Youth; Optimism UNFULFILLED, by EDITH WYMAN Poem Text First Line: Rainbow's arch against the sky Last Line: I wish my rainbow could be round! Subject(s): Hope; Love; Rainbows; Optimism UNLESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not wanted does not guess Last Line: You to your own at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Love; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery VAIN HOPE, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say Last Line: And may not be! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism VIA DOLOROSA: 5. THE ORDER OF RELEASE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou canst not give it. Grace enough is ours Last Line: Has brought forth better comfort, strength more strong. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Strength; Optimism VICTORY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that gathered round the light of hope Last Line: That god does little in the struggles of the race. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Pain; Soul; Victory; Optimism; Suffering; Misery VIEWS OF LIFE, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sinks my heart in hopeless gloom Last Line: And bliss shall reign for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Experience; Hope; Youth; Optimism VILLON TO HIS MISTRESS: A.D. 1456, by F. B. W. Poem Text First Line: Sweetheart, in thee my hopes behold Last Line: Sweetheart, in thee. Subject(s): Admiration; Hope; Longing; Love; Optimism VIOLIN SONGS: A SONG PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, / oh, ease us Last Line: To sing true. Subject(s): Comfort; Doubt; Faith; God; Hope; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Solitude; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness VIOLIN SONGS: HOPE DEFERRED, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come again. The sun is bright Last Line: And summer winds were out! Subject(s): Death; Despair; Future Life; God; Hope; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism VISIONS: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In blissful dream, in silent night Last Line: "thou'rt ours for all eternity!" Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Hope; Night; Nightmares; Paradise; Optimism; Bedtime VISITOR, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am dreaming of a house just like this one Subject(s): Hope; Desire; Optimism WAIT A LITTLE LONGER, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a good time coming, boys Last Line: Wait a little longer. Variant Title(s): The Good Time Coming Subject(s): Hope; Labor & Laborers; Optimism; Work; Workers WAITING, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH Poem Text First Line: My window looks upon the sea Last Line: Experience in living. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism WAITING, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again have come the evening tides Last Line: Already filled with pain and strife. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Pain; Waiting; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WAITING HOPES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Resting in the woodland where the lilies grow Last Line: That will requite the patience of the soul. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Rest; Waiting; Optimism WAR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are not the hours Last Line: Not worth it! -- of one torn and martyred one! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Hope; Love; Pain; Tears; War; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WARNING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Pure at heart we wander now Last Line: Then is sadness and decay. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Optimism WHAT SHALL ENDURE?, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: The poet squanders time in idle dreams Last Line: The dreamer's song, perchance, outlasts them all. Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Optimism; Work; Workers WHEN FIRST, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first I came here I had hope Last Line: At parting than at meeting be. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Hope; Optimism WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock Last Line: When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Hope; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Optimism WHEN THE LAMP IS QUENCHED, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your casement bright athwart the night Last Line: Some heartsome lifehas ceased to beat! Subject(s): Doubt; Hope; Light; Skepticism; Optimism WHICH ONE ARE YOU?, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pessimist sits glumly in the stand Last Line: And, if we don'twe'll surely win to-morrow! Subject(s): Baseball; Hope; Pain; Pessimism; Sports; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WHICH PATH SHALL YOURS BE?, by RAY D. SMITH Poem Text First Line: What is there in living when one has lost all Last Line: Which of them shall yours be the weak or the strong? Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails WHITE SMOKE, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: Our fathers twisted hay for fuel; their sons now twist their / lives Last Line: High dreams are dead and life will have its fire. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Parents; Optimism; Parenthood WITHDRAWALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look on his face, so aged, so set, so white Last Line: Death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Faces; Hope; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism WITHERED HOPES, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Last night my heart was as a fading rose Last Line: But, like my heart, the soul o' the rose had fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Hope; Love; Roses; Optimism WITHHELD, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Therein is sunlight, and sweet sound Last Line: How sweeter than all sweet it is. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Love; Optimism WORKWORN, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the street, an humble woman lives Last Line: My tasks, my heart, had much the lighter grown. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism; Work; Workers WORM-PROOF, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Have I not bored your teeth, said time Last Line: "defy you with his worm-proof dreams." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hope; Transience; Optimism; Impermanence WRITTEN IN MARCH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cock is crowing Last Line: The rain is over and gone! Variant Title(s): Lines Written In March;a March Landscape;march;the Merry Month Of March Subject(s): Hope; March (month); Optimism |
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