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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 give—but 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