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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PAINTINGS & PAINTERS Matches Found: 336 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1400, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saps, and the anal juice of an otter, and pig's blood Subject(s): Paintings & Painters 1801: AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE ENVOY TO CONSTANTINOPLE, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May it please lord elgin, earl of kincardine, Last Line: Yours, &c. / philippe-jacques de loutherbourg Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Paintings & Painters A CHILD SCREENING A DOVE FROM A HAWK, BY STEWARDSON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, screen thy favourite dove, fair child Last Line: A hawk for every dove! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Doves; Paintings & Painters A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 1, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In goya's greatest scenes we seem to see Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Paintings & Painters A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 11, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wounded wilderness of morris graves Last Line: Among the hebrides Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters A CONTRAST, BETWEEN TWO EMINENT DIVINES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two diff'rent painters, artists in their way Last Line: That dress could givebut law has hit her face. Subject(s): Hervey, James (1714-1758); Law, William (1686-1761) .; Paintings & Painters A CONVERSATION WITH LEONARDO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a stew of a night. The power failed Last Line: You make me grateful I died in in god's formed day Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters A FACE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If one could have that little head of hers Last Line: Which fears to lose the wonder, should it wink. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters A FAVOURITE SCENE; RECALLED ON LOOKING AT BIRKET FOSTER'S LANDSCAPE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hauntest thou so my waking and my sleeping Last Line: Where boding beauty sighs alas! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Landscape; Paintings & Painters A GIRL AT HER DEVOTIONS, BY NEWTON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was just risen from her bended knee Last Line: On feelings which that picture may not tell. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prayer A LADY'S PORTRAIT, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: At last, with all its silent grace Last Line: The vision of this lady's face. Subject(s): Alexander, John White (1856-1915); Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Wheaton, Eliza Baylies (1809-1905) A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 32, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I was at milan, in such thought Last Line: "all shall abandon me to-night."" so I." Subject(s): Last Supper, The; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Milan, Italy; Paintings & Painters A PAINTER, by THOMAS COLE (1801-1848) Poem Text First Line: I know 'tis vain ye mountains, and ye woods Last Line: Their mystery of beauty! Then mine would be bliss! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What made my heart, at newstead, fullest swell? Last Line: Was woe than byron's woe more tragic far. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death - Children; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Death - Babies A POEM FOR PAINTERS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Our age bereft of nobility Subject(s): Paintings & Painters A SHORT NARRATIVE, by BARBARA GUEST Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Your painting took a long time to dry Subject(s): Paintings & Painters A SONNET. ON THE PICTURE OF CAVALIER GUARINI PAINTED BY BORGIANNI, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who to fam'd guarini, now he's dead Last Line: Borgianni's painting, or guarini's books. Subject(s): Guarini, Giovanni Battista (1538-1612); Paintings & Painters; Writing & Writers A SYMPHONY IN COLORS, by J. W. HAND Poem Text First Line: I never knew the seasons held Last Line: In bridal garments dressed. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Paintings & Painters A VIRTUOSO, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be seated, pray. 'a grave appeal?' Last Line: That durer figure, -- 'charity.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Paintings & Painters AFTER SEEEING THE IMPRESIONIST GROUP EXHIBIT IN KANSAS CITY, WE DRIVE BACK THROUGH FLATNESS TO WICHI, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fofr monet the light is always exclamation points Subject(s): Kansas; Paintings & Painters AFTER THE MASQUERADE, BY THOMPSON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She left the festival, for it seem'd dim Last Line: Of love known all too soon, repented all too late. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters AFTER WATTEAU, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Embarquons-nous!' I seem to go Last Line: Embarquons-nous!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) AIRBRUSH, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky was an occasion Last Line: And they have shadows, double Subject(s): Paintings & Painters AMSTERDAM, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pointed houses lean so you would swear Last Line: Under a gable: here lived francis jammes. Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Jammes, Francis (1868-1938); Memory; Paintings & Painters; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MOMENT, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young married couple Subject(s): Altars; Farewell; Paintings & Painters; Parting AN EPISTLE TO WILLIAM HOGARTH, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Amongst the sons of men how few are known Last Line: Reynolds, in time, may be like hogarth now. Subject(s): Envy; Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Paintings & Painters; Vanity; Virtue AN EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "painter, this likeness is too strong" Last Line: And we shall mourn the dead too long Subject(s): Mourning;paintings & Painters; Bereavement AN HOUR IN A STUDIO, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each picture was a painted memory Last Line: They circled them with music in the night. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Paintings & Painters AN OLD WOMAN'S PAINTING, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ANCHERONTIA (A YOUNG PAINTER SPEAKS), by KATHARINE A. JENKINS Poem Text First Line: See, I have painted your portrait Last Line: Beating your cruel wings upon my soul. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Portraits AND, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black walnut foliage … a burst of gold Last Line: In her studio's air Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Transience AND I TOO IN ARCADIA; SUGGESTED BY A CELEBRATED PICTURE OF POUSSIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have wandered in their glee Last Line: "-- ""I too, shepherds! In arcadia dwelt." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Arcadians; Paintings & Painters; Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665); Arcadia ANDREA DEL SARTO (CALLED THE FAULTLESS PAINTER), by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But do not let us quarrel any more Last Line: Again the cousin's whistle! Go, my love. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Religion; Sarto, Andrea Del (1486-1531); Theology APPEARANCE AND REALITY, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Higgledy-piggledy / josephine bonaparte Last Line: Prudence (her teeth were a carious green) Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Reality; Teeth ART, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I was brought up in a working class family Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ART CRITICISM, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First bring me raffael, who alone hath seen Last Line: On one warm sunset of ausonian claude. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ARTIST AND MODEL, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carefully, he set an easel out Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Models; Rape ARTIST, ONCE, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was in a room for rent. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Pregnancy ASOLANDO: BEATRICE SIGNORINI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This strange thing happened to a painter once Last Line: The pretty incident I put in rhyme. Subject(s): Infatuation; Paintings & Painters ASOLANDO: THE LADY AND THE PAINTER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet womanhood you reverence Last Line: She. That you jest! Subject(s): Women; Paintings & Painters; Models AT LUCA SIGNORELLI'S RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how they hurry Last Line: The open flesh / and mend itself Subject(s): Bodies; Signorelli, Luca (1445-1523); Paintings & Painters BALLADE DEDICATORY TO MRS. ELTON OF WHITE STAUNTON, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The painted briton built his mound Last Line: Beside your manor old. Subject(s): Memory; Paintings & Painters BEAUTIFUL HANDS, by INA LADD BROWN Poem Text First Line: Oh, artist, if I should ask you Last Line: I always keep in my heart. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hands; Memory; Paintings & Painters BEFORE A PAINTING, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine Last Line: The windows in some old cathedral dim. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters BEFORE A SAINT'S PICTURE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My serious son! I see thee look Last Line: And woos the arts with such pure sighs. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Saints BOCCIONI'S MORNING AND TWILIGHT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah the so-bright future Last Line: To the trembling future of the world Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters BOTTICELLI'S 'PRIMAVERA', by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Handmaids of the queen of love Last Line: All the world is love! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Paintings & Painters; Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano CAELICA: 24, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Painting, the eloquence of dumb conceit Last Line: Let him within his heart but cipher love. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Paintings & Painters CEREMONY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A striped blouse in a clearing by bazille Subject(s): Bazille, Jean Frederic (1841-1870); Paintings & Painters; Women CLAY BISON IN A CAVE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clay-tan, eyeless Subject(s): Caves; Paintings & Painters; Paleontology; Caverns COLOR, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: What part of life is hiding Last Line: Touched with diamonds of the sun. Subject(s): Colors; Paintings & Painters COLORS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colors are more complicated than a state Last Line: Our red desire, green aspiration Subject(s): Colors; Paintings & Painters COMPLAISANCE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. B -- , when she sat for her picture Last Line: "without any mouth, ma'am, at all." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Mouths; Paintings & Painters; Portraits CONDOLATORY ADDRESS TO SARAH, COUNTESS OF JERSEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the vain triumph of the imperial lord Last Line: Its hate of freedom's loveliness, and thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Paintings & Painters CONVERSATION WITH A JAPANESE STUDENT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That lovely climbing vine, so fresh Last Line: And tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Art & Artists; Japan; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Paintings & Painters; Women; Japanese; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb CUPID AND SWALLOWS FLYING FROM WINTER, BY DAGLEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away, away, o'er land and sea Last Line: While the winter lords it here. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Winter CUPID AS A LANDSCAPE PAINTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I sate upon a mountain Last Line: No, I trow -- not I! Subject(s): Cupid; Paintings & Painters; Eros CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they go, down to the fatal ship Last Line: Look lovlier still compared to the angry children Subject(s): Abandonment; Art & Artists; Children; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Desertion; Childhood DE KOONING'S WOMAN I, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the first in a series, probably not Subject(s): De Kooning, Willem (1904-1997); Paintings & Painters DEATH'S VALLEY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, do not dream, designer dark Last Line: Sweet, peaceful, welcome death. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Inness, George (1825-1894); Paintings & Painters; Religion; Theology DEGAS'S LAUNDRESSES, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You rise, you dawn Last Line: It’s your winding sheet Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Laundry & Laundering; Paintings & Painters; Women DENNER'S OLD WOMAN, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this mimic form of a matron in years Last Line: Since apelles not more for his venus obtained! Subject(s): Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women DON JUAN DISCOVERED BY HAIDEE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hot dog I got me a naked lover Last Line: On sunset earth Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Don Juan DON'T LET THAT HORSE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And there were no strings / attached Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Chagall, Marc (1889-1885) DREAM CARP, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People traveled from miles away to see Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Fish & Fishing; Anglers DUTCH INTERIORS, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ has been done to death Last Line: With an air of cautious pleasure Subject(s): Paintings & Painters EFFET DE NEIGE, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saying: / figures of light and dark, these two are walking Subject(s): Art & Artists; Monet, Claude (1840-1926); Paintings & Painters ELEGIAC STANZAS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF PEELE CASTLE, IN A STORM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged pile! Last Line: Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. Variant Title(s): On A Picture Of Peele Castle In A Storm;nature And The Poet;peele Castle Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Paintings & Painters; Wordsworth, John ELEGY FOR SOL LEWITT, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weather map today is pale. The lines on the map Subject(s): Lewitt, Sol (1928-2007); Paintings & Painters ELISABETTA SIRANI, 1665, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just to begin, - and end! So much, - no more Last Line: Safe, where old friends will pass; and still near home! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Sirani, Elisabetta (1638-1665); Paintings & Painters ELIZABETH BISHOP, CROTON (WATERCOLOR, 9 X 5.75, N.D.), by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exiles see exiles everywhere Last Line: Enisled, this ellipse is coral & sable Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ETHICS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In ethics class so many years ago Subject(s): Woman - Old Age; Paintings & Painters EURYDICE TO ORPHEUS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But give them me, the mouth, the eyes, the brow! Last Line: Defied, -- no past is mine, no future: look at me! Subject(s): Consolation; Eurydice (nymph); Leighton, Frederick (1830-1896); Paintings & Painters EVA, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Eva, the first of the fair ones Last Line: Making men see and believe. Subject(s): Daughters; Paintings & Painters EVERY MAN HIS HOBBY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wealthy cit, intent to buy Last Line: "call it my picture, and excuse me." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Collectors & Collecting; Money; Paintings & Painters EXPRESSIONIST HISTORY OF GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue rider rode over the bridge into the bauhaus Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters FABLES: 1ST SER. 18. PAINTER WHO PLEASED NOBODY & EVERYBODY, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest men suspect your tale untrue Last Line: Each found the likeness in his thought. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters FAIRIES ON THE SEA-SHORE, BY HOWARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My home and haunt are in every leaf Last Line: Will put us and our glow-worm lamps to flight! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Fairies; Paintings & Painters; Elves FIVE PAINTINGS BY CLARA VAN WANING, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I only paint landscapes. People are just Subject(s): Paintings & Painters FOR 'OUR LADY OF THE ROCKS' (BY LEONARDO DA VINCI), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, is this the darkness of the end Last Line: Amid the bitterness of things occult. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Art & Artists; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary FOR 'THE WINE OF CIRCE' (BY EDWARD BURNE JONES), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk-haired and gold-robed o'er the golden wine Last Line: Where the dishevelled seaweed hates the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Paintings & Painters FOR A MARRIAGE OF SAINT KATHERINE [OR, CATHERINE], by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystery: katherine [catherine] the bride of christ Last Line: The light is starred in gems and the gold burns. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonnets For Pictures: 2. A Marriage Of St. Katharine Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Paintings & Painters; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR A PICTURE OF ST. CECILIA ATTENDED BY ANGELS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can that eye, with inspiration beaming Last Line: Is the dream-haunted music-land for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Cecilia, Saint (3d Century); Paintings & Painters; Saints FOR AN ALLEGORICAL DANCE OF WOMEN (BY ANDREA MANTEGNA), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarcely, I think; yet it indeed may be Last Line: With all, though the mind's labour run to nought. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonnets For Pictures: 3. A Dance Of Nymphs, By Andrea Mantegna Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Mantegna, Andrea (1431-1506); Paintings & Painters FOR SPRING, BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mask [or, masque] of what old wind-withered new year Last Line: These mummers of that wind-withered new-year? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Art & Artists; Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Spring; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano FOR THE PICTURE, 'THE LAST OF ENGLAND', by FORD MADOX BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last of england! O'er the sea Last Line: She cannot see a void, where he will be. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farewell; Paintings & Painters; Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892); Parting FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sufferance of her race is shown Last Line: Sibylline, yet benign. Subject(s): American Civil War; Paintings & Painters; Slavery; United States - History; Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923); Serfs FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a budding morrow in midnight:' - / so sang our keats Last Line: "leave me--I do not know you--go away!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Paintings & Painters FRA LIPPO LIPPI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am poor brother lippo, by your leave Last Line: Don't fear me! There's the gray beginning zooks! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Guidi, Tommaso (1401-1428); Lippi, Fra Lippo (1406-1469); Paintings & Painters FROM THE PAINTING BACK FROM MARKET BY CHARDIN, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dressed in the colors of a country day Last Line: Like birds in the accumulating snow Subject(s): Chardin, Jean Baptiste (1699-1779); Paintings & Painters GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE ON THE SUBLIME, OR FRA ANGELICO'S 'LAST JUDGMENT', by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How to behold what cannot be held? Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Angelico, Fra (1400-1455); Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Guido Di Pietro GIVE ME NO HOME 'NEATH THE PALE PINK DOME OF EUROPEAN SKIES, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where I could paint, without restraint, creation redder still. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters HALATION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, you moved so rapidly through my life Last Line: Scored by the years, focused last, and free. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Paintings & Painters; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism HEAD OF A GIRL, AT THE MET, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vermeer's girl in your turban and pearl: Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Museums; Time; Art Gallerys HER PICTURE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Paint me her picture, master, thou who / know'st Last Line: The picture, master, never may be done. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Pictures HORSES AT DAWN, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses the horses the wild horses at dawn Last Line: Out of the night Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters HOW THE OLD MOUNTAINS DRIP WITH SUNSET, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Paralyzed, with gold Subject(s): Paintings & Painters HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 6. YEUX GLAUQUES, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gladstone was still respected / when john ruskin produced Last Line: Adulteries. Subject(s): Buchanan, Robert William (1841-1901); Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Critics & Criticism; Dramatists; Novels & Novelists; Paintings & Painters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Dramatists HUGO VAN DER GOES 'PORTINARI ALTARPIECE', by RANDALL JARRELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a while the masters show the crucifixion Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Van Der Goes, Hugo I PAINT WHAT I SEE (A BALLAD OF ARTISTIC INTEGRITY), by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do you paint, when you paint on a wall? Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Freedom; Paintings & Painters; Rivera, Diego (1886-1957); Rockefeller, Nelson (1908-1979); Liberty I WOULD NOT PAINT - A PICTURE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With bolts — of melody! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters IF AND IF, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were a painter, I could paint Last Line: I never shall paint it, nor you ever see. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters IMITATION, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Some flowers from my boy away Last Line: The likeness may be true, though dim. Subject(s): Flowers; Mother's Day; Paintings & Painters IN AN ARTIST'S STUDIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One face looks out from all his canvasses Last Line: Not as she is, but as fills his dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Models; Paintings & Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) IN AN ATELIER, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you, do not turn your head Last Line: Somehow -- as if you'd just been kissed! Variant Title(s): In An Artist's Studio Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Models; Paintings & Painters IN SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for when the sun an hour or less Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Caravaggio, Polidora Da (1500-1543); Paintings & Painters IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE END OF SOLITUDE, BEGINNING AGAIN:, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A painter, thin with auburn hair, works before an easel Subject(s): Paintings & Painters IN THE GALLERY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fields of argenteuil, / where the summer day / dreams of claude monet Last Line: Dreams of claude monet! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters IN WALKED BUD WITH A PALETTE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take one pompeii-eyed old man Last Line: Thrower behind the curtain . Subject(s): Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Paintings & Painters INSIDE OUT, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk the purple carpet into your eye Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Relationships INTERIOR OF THE OUDE KERK, DELFT, WITH OPEN GRAVE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you, friend, in a footnote, thanked Subject(s): Paintings & Painters INTERIOR WITH STILL LIFE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desire, artichoke green Last Line: To the woman who has just entered Subject(s): Paintings & Painters INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 1, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flee from london, good my walter! Boundless jail of bricks and gas Last Line: Landscape-lords are left alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Colors; Exhibitions; Landscape; Paintings & Painters; World's Fairs; Expositions INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 2, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are barren, I confess it; but our scope of view is fine Last Line: But, bring shoes to stand a mudding. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Paintings & Painters INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 3, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me take you by the murvagh, sprinkled with those golden weeds Last Line: Round its rocks and sandy verges. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Fairies; Landscape; Atlantic Ocean; Elves ISAAC BALL, by RICHARD HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Painting pictures / worth nothing at all Last Line: Than any man alive. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters JULIET AFTER THE MASQUERADE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has left the lighted hall Last Line: Beating thine unto the last! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters JUNKED BOILER, by LYNNE MCMAHON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For weeks it was his depression detour, / this futuristic box on legs Last Line: Thing whole and finish it, and give it to me Subject(s): Paintings & Painters KATRINA ON THE PORCH; A BIT OF TURNER PUT INTO WORDS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old, old house by the side of the sea Last Line: O'er the luminous air-built castle. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851) KNOWLEDGE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Anatomy And Anatomists; Paintings & Painters LAKESIDE GEESE, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desoltaion. The forest's bones Subject(s): Cold; Geese; Paintings & Painters LARGE BAD PICTURE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering the strait of belle isle or Subject(s): Paintings & Painters LATE IMPRESSIONIST DREAM, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a late impressionist dream I am riding in an open touring Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters LAUS VENERIS (A PICTURE BY BURNE-JONES), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pallid with too much longing Last Line: Daughter of foam and fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Variant Title(s): The Venus Of Burne-jones Subject(s): Art & Artists; Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women LAYING THE WAVES, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is almost dark, so dark Subject(s): Paintings & Painters LEONARDO DA VINCI'S, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint jerome and his lion Subject(s): Animals; Jerome, Saint (347-419); Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Lions; Paintings & Painters LEONARDO'S 'MONNA LISA', by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make thyself known, sibyl, or let despair Last Line: Allure us and reject us at thy will! Variant Title(s): Mona Lisa Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Mona Lisa; Paintings & Painters LETTER TO A PAINTER IN ENGLAND, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where you rot under the strict gray industry Last Line: That would inform the blind world of its flesh Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Letters; Seasons; West Indies LIKE MOST REVELATIONS; AFTER MORRIS LOUIS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the movement that incites the form Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Louis, Morris (1912-1962); Paintings & Painters LINES ON A PICTURE OF A GIRL IN THE ATTITUDE OF A PRAYER BY THE ARTIST GRUSE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was man e'er doomed that beauty made Last Line: Impassive on thy beauty. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prayer LINES TO A STUPID PICTURE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five geese, -- landscape damp and wild Last Line: In most unhopeful pictures. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Paintings & Painters LINES TO AN ARTIST, by GERTRUDE FRENCH Poem Text First Line: Each stroke of your brush, a true story doth tell Last Line: All the glory of life that enhances. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters LOOKING UP FROM TWO RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS TO MASSACRE TIANANMEN SQUARE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fruit flies lift off the bowl of brown pears Last Line: Will drag over the ground. Subject(s): Irony; Paintings & Painters; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 LOST AT SEA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face that carlo dolci drew Last Line: Looks down on them, and seems not sad. Subject(s): Dolci, Carlo (1616-1686); Paintings & Painters LOVE NURSED BY SOLITUDE, BY W. I. THOMSON, EDINBURGH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, surely it is here that love should come Last Line: With thy sweet wings furl'd but in solitude? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love; Paintings & Painters; Solitude; Loneliness LUNCH AT HELEN FRANKENTHALER'S, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake up / what was I dreaming about? Subject(s): Frankenthaler, Helen (b. 1928); Lunch; Paintings & Painters MARS AND VENUS (BOTTICELLI, CA. 1475), by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold tape gently billowing with her breathing Variant Title(s): Mars And Venus Subject(s): Art & Artists; Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano MARY'S GIRLHOOD (FOR A PICTURE): 1, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is that blessed mary, pre-elect Last Line: Because the fulness of the time was come. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Mary's Childhood Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary MASACCIO (IN THE BRANCACCI CHAPEL), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came to florence long ago Last Line: Shall silently be drained to you! Subject(s): Masaccio (1401-1428); Paintings & Painters; Tommaso Di Giovanni Di Simone Guidi MATISSE, TOO, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Matisse, too, when the fingers ceased to work Subject(s): Paintings & Painters MAUBERLEY: 5. MEDALLION, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Luini in porcelain! Last Line: The eyes turn topaz. Subject(s): Luini, Bernardino (1480-1532); Paintings & Painters MESSENGER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone has been painting Subject(s): Advertising; Graffiti; Letters; Messages & Messengers; Paintings & Painters MICHAEL MAZUR, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you really Subject(s): Mazur, Michael (1935-2009); Paintings & Painters MICHELANGELO, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stern and grim-visaged, gaunt, and dark of gaze Last Line: Into unfurrowed fields of light. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Decay; Genius; History; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors; Sistine Chapel; Time; Rot; Decadence; Historians MIRROR PAINTINGS, by JESSIE HAEFNER Poem Text First Line: God has painted varied scenes Last Line: And then -- the evening star. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters MONET'S LILIES SHUDDERING, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monet never knew Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters MOURNING PICTURE (PAINTED BY EDWIN ROMANZO ELMER), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have carried the mahogany chair and the cane rocker Variant Title(s): Mourning Picture Subject(s): Elmer, Edwin Romanzo (1850-1923); Fathers & Daughters; Paintings & Painters MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery MUSEUM PIECE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The good gray guardians of art Subject(s): Paintings & Painters MY CORNER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By now the view Last Line: I didn't have a good leg to stand on Subject(s): Paintings & Painters MY FIRST DAY AS A PAINTER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things to paint Last Line: Streams of human eggs! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Paintings & Painters MY LAST DUCHESS; FERRRA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's my last duchess painted on the wall Last Line: Which claus of innsbruck cast in bronze for me! Subject(s): Este, Alfonso Ii D'. Duke Of Ferrara; Jealousy; Love - Marital; Marriage; Murder; Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Villains In Literature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY PICTURE-GALLERY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house, Last Line: With finger rais'd he points to the prodigal pictures. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters NEAR THE BRIDGE OF SAINT-CLOUD; AFTER ROUSSEAU, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A swollen infant under a tree, rose petals Last Line: Equal to childhood, throughout the kingdoms of the east. Subject(s): Babies; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Paintings & Painters; Rousseau, Theodore (1812-1867); Infants; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin NEW YORK HARBOR, by PARK BENJAMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a painting? Are those pictured clouds Last Line: Jar the deep stillness and dissolve the spell! Subject(s): New York Harbor; Paintings & Painters NOCTURNAL VEILS, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In bed, looking up at the light-peppered dark, Subject(s): Night; Death; Paintings & Painters; Bedtime; Dead, The O YOU IN THAT LITTLE BARK, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Paintings & Painters OCTOBER, by MARGARETTA P. CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: The summer days were almost gone Last Line: "your work's well done, my child." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Paintings & Painters OLYMPIA, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I convinced manet to paint me with a tinge of ocher Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Paintings & Painters; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON A PAINTER, by MARGETTA FAUGERES Poem Text First Line: When laura appeared, poor apelles complain'd Last Line: The charms which destroy, or the charms which repair. Subject(s): Beauty; Paintings & Painters ON A PICTURE BY HOPPNER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you went once with myrtle crowned!' Last Line: By goldsmith's jasmine flowers! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774); Hoppner, John (1758-1810); Paintings & Painters ON A PICTURE OF CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS; PAINTED BY VELASQUEZ, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the dark stillness brooding in the sky Last Line: One living beam of dayspring from on high. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Crucifixion; Paintings & Painters; Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Jesus Christ - Crucifixion ON A REMEMBERED PICTURE OF CHRIST; AN ECCE HOMO, BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met that image on a mirthful day Last Line: Sounded all depths of love, grief, death, humanity! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters ON CARPACCIO'S PICTURE: THE DREAM OF ST. URSALA; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swept, clean, and still, across the polished floor Last Line: A lark is singing as he flies away. Subject(s): Carpaccio, Victore (1460-1525); Paintings & Painters ON GETTING HOME THE PORTRAIT OF A FEMALE CHILD; BY EUGENIO LATILLA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Type of the cherubim above Last Line: Back, -- and alive, unchanged, -- to heaven! Subject(s): Latilla, Eugenio (1808-1861); Paintings & Painters ON HIS PORTRAIT (IN A LETTER TO HAYLEY), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abbot is painting me so true Last Line: If I were here or there. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ON JULIA'S PICTURE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How am I ravisht! When I do but see Last Line: When once he gives it incarnation? Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ON MR. FREDERICK PORTER'S ROOM OF PICTURES, 1930, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's your radiant painter, he Last Line: Like these, and life's a pictured room. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ON SEEING A PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN MARY; A FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Roll back, thou tide of time, and tell Last Line: Love's last, love's sweetest sacrifice. -- Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Time; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ON THE DEATH OF SIR ANTHONY VANDIKE, THE FAMOUS PAINTER, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vandike is dead; but what bold muse shall dare Last Line: And let him end your picture with his life. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Vandyke, Sir Anthony (1599-1641); Vandike, Sir Anthony; Van Dyck, Sir Anthony ON THE GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT GIVEN BY ENGLISH NOBILITY & GENTRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the ignorant savage will sell his own wife Last Line: To give these rascals a dose of cawdle Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Paintings & Painters ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky Last Line: Gazing in death on heaven from those wet rocks. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters ON THE NOBLE ART OF PAINTING, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strike a bold stroke, my muse, and let me see Last Line: You'll praise the pencil and deride the pen. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ON THE PICTURE OF AN ANGEL BY FRA ANGELICO, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Press each on each, sweet wings, and roof me in Last Line: To rest me in a fairer italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Angelico, Fra (1400-1455); Angels; Italy; Paintings & Painters; Guido Di Pietro; Italians ON THE SEPARATION OF ADAM AND EVE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Goltzius, Hendrik (1558-1617); Paintings & Painters; Adam & Eve; Eve ONE OF THOSE PAINTINGS THAT WOULD NOT DIE', by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For lovers and sleepers Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ORCHID ABD ROCK, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have painted them in the same mild tones of grayish green Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Orchids PAINTED LADY, by ELIDA MERRIAM GREEN Poem Text First Line: You flashed across my vision Last Line: Until death -- and beyond. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters PAINTERS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: N the cave with a long-ago flare Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Women PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm Last Line: Beauty, which limbs and flesh enough invest. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors PAINTING SOMETIMES PERMITTED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If nature do deny Last Line: Colours, let art supply. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE: GERARD DE LAIRESSE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, but - because you were struck blind, could bless Last Line: Dance you, reds and whites and yellows! Subject(s): Lairesse, Gerard De (1641-1711); Paintings & Painters PARRHASIUS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stood an unsold captive in the mart Last Line: We! Subject(s): Greece; Paintings & Painters; Parrhasius (5th Century); Tragedy; Greeks PEOPLE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was painting dolphins on a silver sea Last Line: "whoo-oop!"" I bellowed. ""who will? Who will? When?" Subject(s): Humanity; Mankind; Paintings & Painters; Human Race PEOPLE WHO MUST, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I put my easel on the roof of a skyscraper Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; City & Town Life PHYLLIS LEE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a primrose 'broider'd rill Last Line: "I'll keep them shut,"" said phyllis lee." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Women PICTOR IGNOTUS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could have painted pictures like that youth's Last Line: Tastes sweet the water with such specks of earth? Subject(s): Paintings & Painters PICTURE GALLERY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a tight corner of the house, we'd kept Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art & Artists; Housekeeping; Paintings & Painters PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 1. SELF-PORTRAIT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a red winter hat blue Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings & Painters; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 3. THE HUNTERS IN THE SNOW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The over-all picture is winter Subject(s): Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 3, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hintertime praxiteles Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 8, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sarolla's women in their picture hats Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters PICTURESQUE; A FRAGMENT, by JOHN AIKIN Poem Text First Line: New follies spring; and now we must be taught Last Line: Suffice to charm, and all it sees is good. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Vision POEM BY A PERFECTLY FURIOUS ACADEMICIAN, by CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I takes and paints Last Line: Then nobody will buy. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, Shirley Subject(s): Paintings & Painters POEM FOR PICTURE: TO A DRAWING OF A HORSE BY GEORGIO DI CHIRICO, by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. Poem Text First Line: Out of what stabled brain have you pranced Last Line: Carrying me back to that lost age of beauty. Subject(s): Animals; Chirico, Giorgio De (1888-1978); Horses; Paintings & Painters POEM FOR PICTURE: TO AN OIL PAINTING BY WINSLOW HOMER (DRIFTWOOD), by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. Poem Text First Line: Water of sea-green Last Line: It one time knew in its lost youth. Subject(s): Driftwood; Homer, Winslow (1836-1910); Paintings & Painters POETICAL CATALOGUE OF PICTURES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful art! My worship is for thee Last Line: What his high communing had been. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters PORTRAIT OF A LADY, BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, thy lofty brow is fair Last Line: Grace and ornament of all! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830); Paintings & Painters PRAYER, by LILIAN B. FORDE Poem Text First Line: Dear god, of all the prayers I'd make Last Line: And may each picture bless the one who reads. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters PROJECT FOR AN AESTHETIC SUB-TITLE: MOONLIGHT OF A MAN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. And mrs. Longfellow little who Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Paintings & Painters; Taste (esthetics) PROMETHEUS ILL PAINTED, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How wretched does promethe'us state appear Last Line: The flames he once stole from thee grant him now. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prometheus RAILROADING, by NORMAN CABOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I paid two dollars and was hurled Last Line: Pen, brush, or sculptural instrument can show? Subject(s): Paintings & Painters REMEDIOS VARO AS DAPHNE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the rooms are tall, begin to open Last Line: And a welter / of water Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Daphne (mythology); Water; Paintings & Painters RESURRECTION (BY PIERO DEGLI FRANCESCHI, AT BORGO), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep holds you, sons of war: you may not see Last Line: Awake! This god will hunt you from the sun! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Piero Della Francesca (1420-1492) RETALIATION, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of old, when scarron his companions invited Last Line: He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Paintings & Painters; English History RETURNING TO PARIS WITH PISSARRO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am in a painting by camille pissarro Last Line: From the new world Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters RHYME FOR A CHILD VIEWING A NAKED VENUS IN A PAINTING, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed Last Line: Amazed, amazed, amazed, amazed. Subject(s): Nudity; Paintings & Painters; Nakedness RIVALS, by ARCHIE AUSTIN COATES Poem Text First Line: Along the avenue of an afternoon Last Line: Her rivals. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters SAINT PETER RELEASED FROM PRISON, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So whether you read from left Subject(s): Paintings & Painters SAN SEPOLCRO, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this blue light Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Piero Della Francesca (1420-1492) SANCTA URSULA, by WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is her room; this is her narrow bed Last Line: Since all her dreams start here or here abide. Subject(s): Carpaccio, Victore (1460-1525); Paintings & Painters SARA, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sara stays at home. / her looks are plain Last Line: A white cloth against the glass Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Insanity; Paintings & Painters; Suicide; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness SE APROVECHAN', by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They take advantage' -- the soldiers need clothes Last Line: Rears up! - bugt the head is out of the picture Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Paintings & Painters SEEING A WOMAN AS IN A PAINTING BY BERTHE MORISOT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah tes cuisses Last Line: As if we did not know the melody Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters SELF-PORTRAIT, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sitting in her living room Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Family Life; Relatives SHORT STORY ON A PAINTING OF GUSTAV KLIMT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are kneeling upright on a flowered bed Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters SINGING HANDS, by CAREY YATES BUSBY Poem Text First Line: Over-under-patient-slow Last Line: White men wait with yellow gold. Subject(s): Memory; Paintings & Painters; Pictures SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Divinest art, the stars above Last Line: By showing what her sex can be. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830); Paintings & Painters; Women SONNET FOR A PICTURE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That nose is out of drawing. With a gasp Last Line: But may be ravenously unripped in hell? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) SONNET: 24, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eye hath play'd the painter, and hath stell'd Last Line: They draw but what they see, know not the heart. Variant Title(s): "mine Eye Hath Played The Painter And Hath Stelled""; Subject(s): Friendship; Paintings & Painters SONNETS FOR PICTURES: A VENETIAN PASTORAL (BY GIOGIONE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water, for anguish of the solstice - nay Last Line: Life touching lips with immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonnets For Pictures: 4. A Venetian Pastoral, By Giorgione Subject(s): Art & Artists; Giorgione Da Castelfranco (1477-1511); Paintings & Painters; Venice, Italy SONNETS ON PICTURES: MARY MAGDALEN AT THE DOOR OF SIMON THE PHARISEE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why wilt thou cast the roses from thine hair? Last Line: He needs me, calls me, loves me: let me go!' Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Mary Magdalen; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Mary Magdalene SPACES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the dome that afternoon, she studies reproductions Subject(s): Paintings & Painters STANZAS TO PAINTING, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou by whose expressive art Last Line: And call thee brightest of the nine! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters STILL LIFE, WITH GLOXINIA, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will make something of you both pigment Subject(s): Paintings & Painters STUDY IN ORANGE AND WHITE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew that james whistler was part of the paris scene Last Line: Some water into the glass, milky-green Subject(s): Paintings & Painters SUBJECTS FOR PICTURES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seek I here to gather into words? Last Line: And grows distinct with poetry. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Imagination; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Fancy SUN AND MOON FLOWERS: PAUL KLEE, 1879-1940, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First, there is the memory of the dead priest in norway Last Line: With its ice water, blue spikes of lupine, and morphine. Subject(s): Europe; Klee, Paul (1879-1940); Paintings & Painters; Sickness; World War Ii; Illness; Second World War THE 'MOVING WATERS' OF GUSTAV KLIMT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are they then Last Line: And know each other Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters THE ARTIST, by ARTHUR GRISSOM Poem Text First Line: He wrought with patience long and weary years Last Line: And signed the canvas with his own great name! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters THE ARTIST, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you subdue yourself in golds and purples? Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Love THE BAPTISM OF THE NEOPHYTES, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knelt because the others knelt. And Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE BENCH OF BOORS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bed I muse on tenier's boors Last Line: Cat-naps take in pipe-bowl light. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Peasantry; Teniers, David, The Younger, (1610-1690) THE CAVE PAINTERS, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holding only a handful of rushlight Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Primative Man THE CHINA PAINTERS, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They have set aside their black tin boxes, Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How I remember cleaning that strange picture! Last Line: From the adjacent steeple. Subject(s): Collectors & Collecting; Paintings & Painters THE COMBAT, BY ETTY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They fled, - for there was for the brave Last Line: He strikes, -- the work of death is done! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Etty, William (1787-1849); Paintings & Painters THE COMING STORM' (A PICTURE BY R. S. GIFFORD), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All feeling hearts must feel for him Last Line: Man's final lore. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Gifford, Robert Swain (1840-1905); Paintings & Painters THE CURATOR, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We thought it would come, we thought the germans would come, Subject(s): Leningrad, Siege Of (1941); Paintings & Painters; Imagination; Museums; Blindness; Fancy; Art Gallerys; Visually Handicapped THE DILETTANT, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most oppressive form of cant Last Line: To win such praises -- from a fool! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Paintings & Painters THE EMBARKATION FOR CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The picnic-goers beautified themselves Last Line: He'd hidden there Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) THE ENCHANTED ISLAND, BY DANBY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And there the island lay, the waves around Last Line: His bride to the fair island. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Danby, Francis (1793-1861); Paintings & Painters THE FAIRY QUEEN SLEEPING, BY STOTHARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lay upon a bank, the favourite haunt Last Line: Wake, titania, wake, our queen! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) THE FLOWER SELLER AT COVENT GARDEN 1989, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great great great granddaughter Last Line: Over the madding crowd Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters THE GALLERY, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clora [or, chlora], come view my soul, & tell / whether I have contrived it well Last Line: To crown her head, and bosome fill. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE GUARDIAN ANGEL (A PICTURE AT FANO), by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear and great angel, would'st thou only leave Last Line: This is ancona, yonder is the sea. Subject(s): Catholics; Paintings & Painters; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE HEART'S PICTURES, by HIRAM H. BICE Poem Text First Line: Hearts are galleries, wide and long Last Line: Around that mystic shrine. Subject(s): Hearts; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE HISTORY OF PAINTING, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: A shadow and reflection quarreled once upon a time Last Line: That beauty might be glorified by love forever more. Subject(s): Nature; Paintings & Painters THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 10. THE PORTRAIT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord of all compassionate control Last Line: They that would look on her must come to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 74. ST. LUKE THE PAINTER (OLD & NEW ART), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give honour unto luke evangelist Last Line: Ere the night cometh and she may not work. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Paintings & Painters; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 77. SOUL'S BEAUTY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the arch of life, where love and death Last Line: In what fond flight, how many ways and days! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sibylla Palmifera Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Soul THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 78. BODY'S BEAUTY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of adam's first wife, lilith, it is told Last Line: And round his heart one strangling golden hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Lilith Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Lilith; Paintings & Painters THE INCOGNITA OF RAPHAEL, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long has the summer sunlight shone Last Line: The kindred rapture of the heart! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Raphael (1483-1520) THE IVORY PALETTE (FROM THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS), by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Safe from the fan of time's long winnowing Last Line: The daughter of a king! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE JEW AND THE ROOSTER ARE ONE, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After fighting with his dead brothers and his dead sisters Subject(s): Soutine, Chaim (1893-1943); Paintings & Painters; Jews; Butchery; Judaism THE KAKEMONO, by JESSIE GODDARD BROMAN Poem Text First Line: Then I arose before the rosy day Last Line: The dream must stay unseen -- forever bright. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE KING'S PICTURE, by HELEN LOUISE BARRON BOSTWICK Poem Text First Line: The king from the council chamber Last Line: "the form of the god within." Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE LION'S HEAD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, take thy pencil - paint my love Last Line: Sweet tale of love, &c., &c. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE MAN WITH THE HOE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Last Line: After the silence of the centuries? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology THE MASTER, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For leonardo, sound, my sonnet string! Last Line: But first he stayed the tremble of his hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters THE MYTH OF PERFECTABILITY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hand the still life of flowers Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE NATIONAL PAINTINGS: COL. TRUMBULL'S 'THE DECLARATION...', by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake! Ye forms of verse divine Last Line: I'll sound your praises in a sonnet. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Trumbull, John (1756-1843) THE NEW YORKER POEM, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is best to mention a painter Last Line: Delightfully difficult, bilingual Subject(s): New Yorker, The (periodical); Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE NUDE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Studios are stations of reminiscence Subject(s): Nudism; Paintings & Painters; Models THE ORIENTAL NOSEGAY, BY PICKERSGILL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the light curtains came the perfumed air Last Line: Fling, fling the flowers away! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Paintings & Painters THE PAINTED LADY, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sick of lust,' the painted lady said Last Line: "and I would to god that I were dead!" Subject(s): Beauty; Lust; Paintings & Painters; Women THE PAINTER, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting between the sea and the buildings Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE PAINTER ON SILK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Roses THE PAINTER'S LAST WORK-A SCENE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fever's hue hath left thy cheek, beloved Last Line: With thee and thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE PAINTER'S LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your skies are blue, your sun is bright Last Line: When hearts they would have soothed are broken! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love; Paintings & Painters THE PAINTER'S MISTRESS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And still you paint, and still I stand Last Line: And in dark hollow tresses, gold. Subject(s): Models; Paintings & Painters THE PAINTING AFTER LUNCH, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't working. Didn't look back. Needed something else. So Subject(s): Nature; Paintings & Painters THE PASSOVER IN THE HOLY FAMILY (FOR A DRAWING), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here meet together the prefiguring day Last Line: And mary culls the bitter herbs ordained. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Paintings & Painters; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE PHOTOGRAPH OF RAMONA POSING WHILE FATHER SKETCHES HER IN CHARCOAL, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father is transforming ramona Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE PICTURE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Painter, by unmatch'd desert Last Line: All of her, but voice, is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE PICTURE, by MARIA JAMES Poem Text First Line: Ere dissolves the house of clay Last Line: But in blessing was she bless'd. Subject(s): Models; Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 192, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seng-yao I hear was a talented man Last Line: He couldn't paint master pao-chih Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Paintings & Painters THE POET'S PROPOSAL, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phyllis, if I could I'd paint you Last Line: "paintings must be framed with gold!" Subject(s): Courtship; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE PRAYER IN THE DESERT'; PAINTED BY GEROME, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene, alone, the arab stands Last Line: And lo! We meet the lord alone Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prayer; God THE PRAYER IN THE WILDERNESS; SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF CORREGGIO'S, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep wilderness unseen she prayed Last Line: Like the dim night-flower's odour, up to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Correggio [antonio Allegri] (1494-1534); Paintings & Painters; Prayer THE PRICE, by EMMA J. BEASLEY Poem Text First Line: I painted a picture in gladness Last Line: Was the blood from a broken heart. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Paintings & Painters THE PROGRESS OF ART, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy time! Art's early days! Last Line: As nothing to the young! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Youth THE RUSTIC PAINTER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His sheep went idly over the hills Last Line: With his little sweetheart's face. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Farm Life; Love THE SCREAM, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Observe. Ridged, raised, tactile, the horror Variant Title(s): Munch's Scream Subject(s): Art & Artists; Munch, Edvard (1863-1944); Paintings & Painters THE SHOES THAT DANCED, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blossoms perish in the snow Last Line: Even to destruction and to utter death. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Paintings & Painters; Shoes; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE SITTING, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So like a god I sit here Last Line: And know not it ends in you. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE SONS OF HEAVEN, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: Deep in the shoreward crags of earth is cleft Last Line: Sightless before the ruddy sons of heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Paintings & Painters; Shadows; Paradise THE STORM-PAINTER IN HIS DUNGEON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight, and silence deep! Last Line: Answer, my spirit! -- answer, storm and night! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prisons & Prisoners; Storms; Convicts THE STORY OF ROSINA; INCIDENT IN LIFE OF FRANCOIS BOUCHER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene, a wood. A shepherd tip-toe creeping Last Line: Poor beating heart! And so the story's told. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Boucher, Francois (1703-1770); Paintings & Painters THE TEARS OF A PAINTER, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Apelles, hearing that his boy Last Line: Or of thy labour or thy love. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE TEMERAIRE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gloomy hulls, in armor grim Last Line: O, the temeraire no more! Subject(s): American Civil War; Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Sea Battles; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851); United States - History; Naval Warfare THE TWO PAINTERS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In art some hold themselves content Last Line: But one grew great. And which one? Guess. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE VIRTUOSO; IN IMITATION OF SPENCER'S STYLE AND STANZA, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilom by silver thame's gentle stream Last Line: And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Subject(s): Art Patronage; Museums; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Patrons Of The Arts; Art Gallerys THE WELL, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One hundred peaceable kingdoms, and in all of them Subject(s): Hicks, Edward (1780-1849); Paintings & Painters THE WINDOWS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delaunay wrote on / the back of his simultaneous windows Last Line: Bowl of fruit full of light Subject(s): Windows; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE YOUNG GLASS-STAINER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These gothic windows, how they wear me out Last Line: Mary, and think of aphrodite's form.' Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Glass & Glassblowers; Labor & Laborers; Paintings & Painters; Glaziers; Work; Workers THERE IS A GOLD LIGHT IN CERTAIN OLD PAINTINGS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Last Line: Shall be forgotten as though it had never existed Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO A PAINTER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conceal not time's misdeeds, but on my brow Last Line: May glance once more. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO A PAINTER IN THE DAYS OF SUNG, by ENID D. JONES Poem Text First Line: Across a thousand years you mutely gaze Last Line: Pure golden are the bells her temples ring! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO AN ARTIST, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear - , I'll gie ye some advice Last Line: But no sae weel a stranger. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO BESSIE DRENNAN, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO COLE, THE PAINTER, DEPARTING FOR EUROPE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine eyes shall see the light of distant skies Last Line: But keep that earlier, wilder image bright. Variant Title(s): Sonnet--to An American Painter Departing For Europe Subject(s): Americans In Europe; Cole, Thomas (1801-1848); Paintings & Painters TO FRANK PARKER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Forty years ago we were here Subject(s): Friendship; Paintings & Painters TO GEORGE H. BOUGHTON, R.A (1), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring stirs and wakes by holt and hill Last Line: Spring stirs and wakes! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Boughton, George Henry (1833-1905); Paintings & Painters TO GEORGE H. BOUGHTON, R.A (2), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spring will come, but ah! Will she? Last Line: The girl that boughton promised me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Boughton, George Henry (1833-1905); Paintings & Painters TO GIOVANNI DA PISTOIA ON THE PAINTING OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL, 1509, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've grown a goitre by dwelling in this den Last Line: Since foul I fare and painting is my shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Variant Title(s): On The Painting Of The Sistine Chapel Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Paintings & Painters; Sistine Chapel TO HIS NEPHEW, TO BE PROSPEROUS IN HIS ART OF PAINTING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On, as thou hast begunne, brave youth, and get Last Line: No, not the glory of the world, vandike. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO MY FRIEND MR. LELY, ON HIS PICTURE OF THE .. LADY ISABELLA THYNN, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature, and art are here at strife Last Line: A painter, no creator art. Subject(s): Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Paintings & Painters TO MY GRANDMOTHER'S PORTRAIT, by JULIA DAINGERFIELD GLASS Poem Text First Line: O lady fair, with your laughing eyes Last Line: And yet, so inexpressibly sweet. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO MY LOTUS LADY, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: Background of dark deep brown Last Line: Back to its sad dwelling. ... Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Portraits TO S.M., A YOUNG AFRICAN PAINTER, ON SEEING HIS WORKS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent Last Line: Now seals the fair creation from my sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Moorhead, Scipio (18th Century); Mortality; Paintings & Painters TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I beheld the fairest of her kind Last Line: And give more beauties, than he takes away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Speech Disorders; Voices; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Kniller, Gottfried; Stuttering; Muteness TO THE PAINTER, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond man, that hop'st to catch that face Last Line: When the glad world shall see their heir. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO THE PAINTER, TO DRAW HIM A PICTURE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, skilfull lupo, now, and take Last Line: Sho'd by his breathing, poyson thee. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO THE PIOUS MEMORY OF THE YOUNG LADY MRS. ANNE KILLIGREW, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies Last Line: The way which thou so well hast learn'd below. Variant Title(s): Ode To The Pious Memory Of Mrs. Anne Killigrew;to The Pious Memory Of The Accomplished Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew Subject(s): Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685); Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets TO THE YOUNG ARTIST, KAYSER OF KASERWERTH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kayser! To whom, as to a second self Last Line: Be wise! Be happy! And forget not me. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO VENETIAN ARTISTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That god is colouring newton does shew Last Line: Those who taste colouring love it more & more Subject(s): Bible; Colors; Mythology; Paintings & Painters TUESDAY, JUNE 4TH, 1991, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the time I get myself out of bed, my wife has left Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Chores UNE MARQUISE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As you sit there at your ease Last Line: Belle marquise!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Louvre, Paris; Paintings & Painters UPON THE CURTAIN OF LUCASTA'S PICTURE IT WAS THUS WROUGHT, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh stay that covetous hand, first turn all eye Last Line: Is but its shadow, as this its;---now draw. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters VENETIAN INTERIOR, 1889, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand to one side. No, over here with me: Last Line: But only that we yield. And we yield Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Browning, Pen (1849-1912); Paintings & Painters; Jews; Judaism VENICE BRIDGE: FOR A PAINTING, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away back in an old city Last Line: And end in the sky. Subject(s): Bridges; Paintings & Painters; Venice, Italy VENUS TRANSIENS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me / was venus more beautiful Last Line: The sands at my feet. Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men VERMEER'S A WOMAN HOLDING A BALANCE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picture-within-a-picture closed on themselves: a Last Line: Try to cross it. The painting means: itself. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) VERSES TO ORDER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How weary 'twas to wait! The year Last Line: Is found again -- and well! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Abbey, Edwin Austin (1852-1911); Paintings & Painters VINCENT, HOMESICK FOR THE LAND OF PICTURES, by PETER GIZZI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this what you intended, vincent Subject(s): Paintings & Painters WHISTLER'S MOTHER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father said his mother bought it for him Last Line: It was the only art my father owned Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Family Life WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not a painter, I am a poet Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No ideas / but in things? But then Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Landscape WHY I WOULD RATHER BE A PAINTER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For one thing Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Likes & Dislikes WHY KNOWING IS (& MATISSE'S WOMAN WITH A HAT, by MARTHA RONK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why knowing is a quality out of fashion and no one can decide to Subject(s): Knowledge; Paintings & Painters WITCHCRAFT BY A PICTURE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fixe mine eye on thine, and there Last Line: Being in thine owne heart, from all malice free. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters WITH A PICTURE SENT TO A FRIEND, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I paint so ill, my peece had need to bee Last Line: My love, or feign'd or painted should appeare. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters WOMAN AT LIT WINDOW, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps if she stood for an hour like that Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Models WRITTEN, AT THE REQUEST OF A GENTLEMAN, UNDER A .. PICTURE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even as apelles could not paint campaspes face aright Last Line: Till art by nature was supprest, as all the worlde may see. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Paintings & Painters |
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