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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PASSION Matches Found: 467 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "IF LOVE'S A SWEET PASSION, WHY DOES IT TORMENT?", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: For 'tis beauty that conquers and keeps the fair field Subject(s): Love;passion A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN TO HER LOVER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my heart breaketh with felicity Last Line: "farewell, farewell, for evermore farewell!" Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation A BED OF FORGET-ME-NOTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is love so prone to change and rot Last Line: This is forget-me-not and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Passion A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 6. CORRINA, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When to her lute corinna sings Last Line: Even from my heart the strings do break. Variant Title(s): Of Corina's Singing Subject(s): Lutes; Passion; Singing & Singers; Songs A CAT'S EXAMPLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: For three whole days I and my cat Last Line: Would burn up any human lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love; Passion; Poetry & Poets A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE FOURTH PEARLE. TEMPERANCE, by DIANA PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: The golden bridle of bellerophon Last Line: In sacred concord, and sweete symphonie! Subject(s): Love; Passion; Pearls; Temperance; Prohibition A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Misjudged, misread, mistrusted, unappeased Last Line: And stripped of his disguise! Subject(s): Anger; Eyes; Judgments; Passion A DIALOGUE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lalage, when I behold Last Line: And thou canst make us freeze beneath the line. Subject(s): Passion A DIALOGUE BETWIXT A NYMPH AND A SHEPHERD, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why sigh you, swain? This passion is not common Last Line: And thaws the icy frost of cold desire. Subject(s): Passion A DREAM, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I met her in the leafy woods Last Line: I woke, and lay alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Dreams; Passion; Nightmares A LADY AT THE OPERA, by EMMA GRAY TRIGG Poem Text First Line: In your pale hair is a coronet of diamonds Last Line: Alive and free! Subject(s): Diamonds; Love - Unrequited; Passion A LOVE SONG, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Dear maid, thou art with me though miles stretch between Last Line: To love thee is human, to possess thee divine. Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Passion A MADE-FOR-TV ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a year of spirited intercourse Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Romance; Sex; Male-female Relations A MAN'S LAST LOVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the tenth wave, that offers to the shore Last Line: Live yet in this one passion, grand and vast. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Passion; Past; Sea; Ocean A POE-'EM OF PASSION, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was many and many a year ago Last Line: In her solemn sepulcher, me. Variant Title(s): Cannibalee Subject(s): Cannibals; Graves; Love; Passion; Tombs; Tombstones A PROPOSAL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, I love thee! With such words / wouldst thou Last Line: In life, in love, in soul, unto eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Beginnings; Passion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A RED, RED ROSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, my love's [or, luv's] like a red, red rose, / that's newly sprung in june Last Line: Tho' it were ten thousand mile. Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Love - Marital; Metaphor; Passion; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Similes A STUDY IN RED; FROM THE OLD MASTERS, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Slippers-flaming like cardinal's crest Last Line: What god incarnadined veins that bled? Subject(s): Passion A VENETIAN NIGHT, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All thro' the breathing night there seemed to flow Last Line: That makes words empty and the senses dumb. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Passion; Joy; Delight A VINDICATION, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: I claim the eternal right to love, without conditions Last Line: Till he restored thee, smiling, unto me. Subject(s): Future Life; Hearts; Love; Passion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ABSORBENT GLIMMER OF THE NIGHT', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Great hills slide silently into the sea Subject(s): Night; Passion AD ASTRA: 142, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Seek not the unsanction'd joy, the illicit quest Last Line: Remorse shall ask no questions of thy dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Passion; Joy; Delight AD ASTRA: 54, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Be thou the guide and compass of my way! Last Line: And make my heart a habitation fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion AD ASTRA: 56, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: While in the mirror of thine own pure mind Last Line: A patriot of the world by gift of grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion AD ASTRA: 61, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Such the first cry of youth before it learns Last Line: Dazzles, while love glows steadfast from afar! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Passion; Youth AD ASTRA: 67, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Oh, when our passionate hearts have ceased to beat Last Line: How might we in thy clemency confide? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forgiveness; Hearts; Love; Passion; Clemency AD FINEM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the white throat of the useless passion Last Line: To change or alter a love like mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion ADDRESSED TO LADY --, WHO ASKED WHAT THE PASSION OF LOVE WAS, by CHARLES MORRIS Poem Text First Line: You ask me, what's love? - why, that virtue-fed vapour Last Line: And to hear it I'd always be willing and mute. Subject(s): Love; Passion AFTER ROCHESTER (OR SOMEBODY), by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought an angel from the air Last Line: May speak the passion of my heart Subject(s): Passion AFTER THE ANTHOLOGY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Artemis, more passionate Last Line: To sleep exhausted until you return Subject(s): Artemis; China; Mythology - Classical; Passion AFTER THE ANTHOLOGY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Artemis, more passionate Last Line: To sleep axhausted till you return Subject(s): Artemis; China; Mythology - Classical; Passion AIR CASTLES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I'd build an air castle for thee, love, and me Last Line: This world would but usher love's eternity. Subject(s): Castles; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion AIR FOR MERCURY, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: After the double party Last Line: Something. Passion brought you %here; passion will save you Subject(s): Passion ALMOST THERE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard to imagine getting Subject(s): Passion; Sex ALONG THE RIVERBANK, by JOSE ANTONIO MAZZOTTI Poem Source First Line: Does not overweening pride end up Last Line: Pleasure in the corpses of deer Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion AMMERGAU, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is he gone?' o men and maidens where Last Line: Bare witness to the fatherhood of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Oberammergau Passion-play AMOR MYSTICUS, by MARCELA DE CARPIO DE SAN FELIX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let them say to my lover Last Line: Of death to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion AMOR SEMPITERNUS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: When first I found thee, ruth, I thought: 'how rare!' Last Line: Remembering a chaos of caresses. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Luck; Marriage; Passion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AMORETTI: 73, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being myself captivated here in care Last Line: Him lodging in your bosome to have lent. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Passion AMRAN'S WOOING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask, o frank! How love is born Last Line: The shekh himself can better tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Singing & Singers; Dead, The ANDANTE PASSIONALE, by ALEXANDER JAVIS Poem Text First Line: Listen, o my city! O my beloved! Last Line: O my city! O my beloved! I have made for you thismy song! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Male-female Relations ANIMAE DIMIDIUM MEAE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: In phantasy of thought and phrase Last Line: Without the very half of me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion ANOTHER LINEAGE, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: Eros, blind father, let me show you the way Last Line: Of another breed sublimely insane! Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roses ANSWER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the year was summertime Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion ANSWERED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye - yes, I am going Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion APPULDURCOMBE PARK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman, sick for passion Subject(s): Passion; Desire; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Disappointment; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Male-female Relations ART AND HEART, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though critics may bow to art Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion AS BY FIRE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I feel so passionate a yearning Last Line: Our places are assigned. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Passion; War AS IF, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought it took Last Line: Having risen all night to see you Subject(s): Passion; Sex ASPHODEL, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As some pale shade in glorious battle slain Last Line: With sighs and tenderness, but no regret. Subject(s): Memory; Passion AT ELEUSIS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, at eleusis, saw the finest sight Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion ATTRACTION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The meadow and the mountain with desire Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion BANNERS OF FLAME, by VIRGINIA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Though love may pass in the murky Last Line: And one, a lurid flame to haunt the night.) Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott Subject(s): Passion BATHSHEBA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it was -- it was Last Line: Of the wife of uriah Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Bathsheba(bible); Male-female Relations BATHSHEBA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it was -- it was Last Line: Or the wife of uriah Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Passion BE STILL NOW, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be still now, for the wood is still, the light is Last Line: Be still and sleep as night sleeps now. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE', by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They drift down the hall together Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion BEPPO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou sad, my beppo? But last eve Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion BIANCA: 1. BIANCA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her cheeks are hot, her cheeks are white Last Line: The pulses leaping in her throat. Subject(s): Passion BIANCA: 2. BENEDICTINE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The benedictine scents and stains Last Line: Your lips that suck my soul away! Subject(s): Passion BITE BACK PASSION, by LI SHANG-YIN Poem Source First Line: Bite back passion. Spring now rests Last Line: The blossoming of the morning-star shines farewell on the jewelled saddle Subject(s): Passion BLACK GIRL, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She's black: what then? So are dead coales, but cherish Last Line: As spring-borne roses grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Facades; Passion; Appearances BLACK MOONLIGHT, by JOSEPH ELDRIDGE LOFTUS Poem Text First Line: The glaring lights discordant slash Last Line: As silhouette from lighting shade. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion BLEAK WEATHER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear love, where the red lilies blossomed Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion BLUES HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not a fire Last Line: Each time I see ya Subject(s): Passion BRIEF HISTORY OF DESIRE, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anise, wild raspberry, trout Last Line: Spontaneity, not purpose %I love Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion BUT ONE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year has but one june, dear friend Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion BY ALL THAT GLARE IN MY EYES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: On the hidden heart of men. %I love like I paint Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Passion BY THE IRISH SEA, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: On the sixth day of the heat-wave Last Line: So this is the future, this jubilance, %this embarrassment they've become Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion BY WAY OF EXPLANATION, by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN Poem Text First Line: I know you do not love me Last Line: Behold, the passion in a turnip. Subject(s): Love; Passion CAELIA: SONNETS: 11, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair laurel, that the only witness art Last Line: Embrace our fronts in sign of memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Passion CANZONE OF THE GENTLE HEART, by GUIDO GUINIZELLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Within the gentle heart love shelters him Last Line: Lord, if I loved her, count it not my shame Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion CANZONE: HE PERCEIVES HIS RASHNESS IN LOVE, BUT HAS NOT CHOICE, by GUIDO GUINICELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hold him, verily of mean emprise Last Line: That I am glad to die for love of her. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Hearts; Passion CARMINA: 75, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: None could ever say that she Last Line: Lesbia! I must love you still. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): Of His Love;de Amore Suo Subject(s): Passion CARMINA: 85, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate and love, wouldst thou the reason know Last Line: I know not, but I burn, and feel it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): Of His Love;de Amore Suo Subject(s): Passion CHALK, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence. Here it's already night Last Line: As in a cathedral in mourning Subject(s): Love; Memory; Passion CHANGE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Changed? Yes, I confess it - I have changed Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion CHANT D'AUTOMNE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamp is lit and all the world is gray Last Line: "I paint my dreams." Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Passion; Nightmares CHRIST AT HERMES' DOOR, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Your face is buried, ounces of ice looking out from the block Last Line: Have I shoved you in it Subject(s): Love; Passion CINDER-FRUIT, by PAUL JEAN TOULET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the apple fruit Last Line: It is ashen. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Passion; Tantalus (greek Mythology) COMMON LOT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a common fate - a woman's lot Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion COMPENSATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never told me, never, yet I know Last Line: Deprived, no boon avails to fill your need. Subject(s): Bashfulness; Passion; Shyness CONVERSION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have lived this life as the skeptic lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion COURAGE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a courage, a majestic thing Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion CREATION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The impulse of all love is to create Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion CREED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever was begotten by pure love Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion CROWNED, by MARY FRANCES HILL Poem Text First Line: It was a most wonderful poem Last Line: In his heart young and fair. Subject(s): Passion CUPID'S DARTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Do not worry if I scurry from the grill room in a hurry Subject(s): Beauty;cupid;passion; Eros DARE YOU SEE A SOUL AT THE WHITE HEAT?, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "peniel"" hills beyond," Subject(s): Passion DAVID, MUSING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was I who faced the lion and the bear Last Line: For later -- for her -- for israel -- for my sons Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Faith; Hunger; Introspection; Passion; Regret DEFIANT OF DEATH, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so strong it dares defy Last Line: That love has sought to lighten our distress. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Dead, The DEFINING LOVE, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's ice that burns, it is frozen fire Last Line: Who's in all things against himself! Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Passion DELILAH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the midnight of darkness and terror Last Line: And drop you down to sweet hell! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Delilah (bible); Passion; Women In The Bible DESOLATION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that the bitterest sorrow or pain Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion DID NOT, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a new feeling - something more Last Line: And yet, who did not. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Love Affairs; Passion; Soul DIXIELAND, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want the spell Last Line: The cops without one clue Subject(s): Passion DOMESDAY BOOK: GREGORY WENNER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gregory wenner's brother married the mother Last Line: A secret long concealed: -- Subject(s): Death; God; Love; Marriage; Passion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DON JUAN'S GOOD-NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "teach me, gentle leporello" Last Line: One his whole wealth could not pay Subject(s): Hearts;love;passion;romance DREAM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: All night huddled together, sleeping beyond the hills Last Line: Ing each other beside the sea, beyond the hills Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Passion DREAMLAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In wonderful dreamland where lovers are free Last Line: Not only for time, but for eternity. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Passion; Sleep; Nightmares DROUTH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we pity those who weep? The pain Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion EARNESTNESS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hurry of the times affects us so Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion ECLOGUE, by MAGDA GUTAI Poem Source First Line: I took off my clothes Last Line: Its eyes are filled with tears Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Passion; Pleasure EGOIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the night wood between the nether glow Last Line: "is only -- ""whippoorwill! Whippoorwill!" Subject(s): Birds; Egoism And Egotism; Forests; Life; Night; Passion; Whipporwills; Woods; Bedtime ELK, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That it was-fleshwarm, earthen, a marvelous Last Line: The wind-singing cage, toward the invisible bird of the heart Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion EPIGRAM: 6, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The furious gun in his raging ire Last Line: So inward force my heart doth all to-break. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 61 Subject(s): Passion EPISODE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, to begin with, dust blows down the street Last Line: Saying no word, since there's no word to say. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion EVANESCENCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty that I long to stay Last Line: ...And in my love for you! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion EXCAVATION, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Underneath you I dig Last Line: For you to dig-deep Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion EXERCISES WITH VOWELS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: One could say much about the confrontation of hand with Last Line: The light blinds me, I crawl to the end on hands and knees Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion FAERIE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the edge of midnight Last Line: And has this chanced to me? Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Passion; Dead, The FAITHFUL LOVERS, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Night, more night: love now a fact Last Line: Oh night, darker in our arms! Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Passion FANCIES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er mountain and valley Last Line: By healing its sorrow. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Passion; Sorrow; Sadness FAREWELL, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: I have placed you Last Line: Insanity of man's flesh! Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Passion; Male-female Relations FAREWELL OF CLARIMONDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, romauld! But thou canst not forget me Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion FIDDLE TIME, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off the fiddle of a man who rented a garage from my father Last Line: Not quite lost, over the curve of a finely honed bridge. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Passion; Childhood FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 30. THE OROTAVA ROAD, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four white heifers with sprawling hooves Last Line: And sharing our %desires and lack of faith in desire Subject(s): Passion FIRST LOVE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the pulse that beats in my throat Last Line: And my heart's low sound! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you or I should die Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Snakes; Desire; Passion; Adultery; Children; Love; Middle Age; Absence; Relationships; Serpents; Vipers; Childhood; Separation; Isolation FLAGELLANTS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul is bleeding in thy sight Last Line: O love supreme, o love supreme!) Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Dead, The FLOODS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark night, from sweet refreshing sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 5. VIOLET, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small fragrant print of april's feet Last Line: And lay it here among my rhymes. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Passion; Violets FOR EVER AND EVERMORE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The woods are no less rich for all the flowers within them Last Line: For ever and evermore! Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Passion; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FORBIDDEN SPEECH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The passion you forbade my lips to utter Last Line: "the voice of nature saying, ""he remembers." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Memory; Nature; Passion FRIENDSHIP IN PERFECTION, by ANDREW MICHAEL RAMSAY Poem Text First Line: Ye glowing seraphs, that now breathe above Last Line: And turn all light, all love, as well as I. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Passion FROM THE GRAVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the first sere leaves of the year Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion GAS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The trees on the other side Last Line: To slither off the interstate Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 4. EARLY LOVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mind me of a maid with tawny hair Last Line: A ten-year-old lamenting for his dead. Subject(s): Death; Love; Passion; Voices; Dead, The GRACIA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, nay, antonio! Nay, thou shalt not blame Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion GRIEVANCE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: One time I grieved; I shivered as in fright Last Line: "not in your wrath, god's noblest blessing spurn." Subject(s): Grief; Love; Passion; Sorrow; Sadness GUARD THY HEART!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Guard thy heart! As tho' thy ladye Last Line: Cheerly up the starry sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Love; Old Age; Passion; Religion; Separation; Isolation; Theology GUILO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, yes! I love thee, guilo; thee alone Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion GUILT AND PASSION, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The city transit vehicles are green Last Line: Pierce through the bottom of time, because it is right Subject(s): Passion HAIKU (FOR QUEEN MOTHER MOORE), by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They smell like rust Last Line: Obscure men in heat Subject(s): Passion HANDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: My hand, throbbing like a fish heart Last Line: I paint %paint and love %paint %love Subject(s): Art And Artists; Love; Paintings And Painters; Passion HANS CARVEL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hans carvel, impotent and old Last Line: You've thrust your finger g-d knows where! Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Passion; Singing & Singers HAVE WE NOT MET, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Have we not met, and must we weep Last Line: Our love shall bloom beyond regret. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Passion; Parting HEAT, by DEBORAH STEIN Poem Source First Line: Hot boys, she says, are sweet in the summertime Last Line: Sweat gleaming just beneath their skin Subject(s): Heat; High School Students; Passion; Teenagers HELEN TO MENELAUS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But I am constant to you, dearest one Last Line: My heart's true love is not spent with a kiss. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion HERDSMEN, SELS., by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O polyphemus, while your flocks you keep Last Line: She'll surely send me tidings of her love Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Passion; Shepherds And Shepherdesses HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT JUDEX, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Hair, strands of copper blent with skeins of gold Last Line: Supreme in self-abandon, artist effortless. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Passion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT MUSICUS (UNFINISHED SYMPHONY), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Just kissing-high, full-fleshed, yet not Last Line: "'twas you I loved, still love ... You spoiled me for the rest!" Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Passion; Separation; Isolation HIGHLAND SPRING, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's mating madness in the air Last Line: I can no longer keep from thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Passion HOPS, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the willow, wound round with ivy Last Line: Let's spread the greatcoat on the ground Subject(s): Love; Passion HORSE, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On a metal table, a horse's heart and lungs Last Line: That holds and carries us over the land, selflessly Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion HOW DOES LOVE SPEAK?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How does love speak? Last Line: Thus doth love speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Passion HYMN TO FIRE, by KONSTANTIN DMITRIYEVICH BALMONT Poem Text First Line: Oh, fire who purgeth us Last Line: Shed perpetual light! Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Passion; Prayer Meetings; Sabbath; Sunday HYMN TO PRIAPUS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love lies underground Last Line: As we have to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Passion; Priapus I AM YOUR SOUL, YOUR DOVE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: You burned me down and strewed me about Last Line: As long as you love me. %mute Subject(s): Love; Passion; Soul I BEG YOU, by LABAN ERAPU Poem Source Last Line: Then give me your hand Subject(s): Passion I GO DREAMING ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who could feel you %nailed in his heart.' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roads; Travel I HAVE PIPED AND YE DID NOT DANCE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man once lay at a woman's feet Last Line: "in the place that was flame in the once ago." Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Male-female Relations I WANT TO REMEMBER, by AKILAH NAYO OLIVER Poem Source First Line: When I open my thighs again Last Line: Lover %of %trees Subject(s): Love; Passion I WANTED TO PENETRATE THE BLAZING HEART, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: With the intensity of love Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters; Passion I WILL BE WORTHY OF IT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I may not reach the heights I seek Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion IANTHE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ianthe, the lovely, the joy of her swain" Last Line: And they still might be true Subject(s): Love - Beginnings;passion IDEAL PASSION, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady ne'er hath given herself to me Last Line: Of my sad verse, after I am dead! Subject(s): Desire; Immortality; Passion; Praise IDYLL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Sweet hour of night, within thy solitude Last Line: From o'er the waves of future heritages. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Passion; Nightmares IF I SHOULD DIE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion IMPATIENCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I wait until you come to me? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion IN MEMORIAN TECHNICAM, by THOMAS HOOD JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I count it true which sages teach Last Line: With all the darkness danced away! Alternate Author Name(s): Hood, Tom, The Younger Subject(s): Love; Passion; Youth IN THE PLAGUE YEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the old cartoon the terrified Last Line: In death's and mummy's %and big daddy's one shrinking eye Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Quarrels INDIVIDUALITY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yes, I love you, and with all my heart Last Line: Through any channel, save the one he meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Passion; Soul INOPPORTUNE, by THOMAS H. BRIGGS JR. Poem Text First Line: Too brief her sun of beauty glows Last Line: Not now, not now! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Passion; Roses INSANITY, by NORMAN CABOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passion and strength! Strength, passion! Last Line: Heaven help this silly world of gods and men! Subject(s): Hearts; Passion INTIMATIONS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The conversation went on through the night Last Line: Startled, wet with truth Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Passion ISAURA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou not tire, isaura, of this play? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion JACINTHS AND JESSAMINES, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jacinths and jessamines and jonquils sweet Last Line: Should seek a sign at that dread sanctuary? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Passion; Roses KISSES OF FIRE, by FRANCES W. CARLIN Poem Source First Line: A kiss is just a way to say Last Line: Our love is brief, but oh the passion Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion KNOWLEDGE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that I know Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion LA FELINE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have come back to me through the / ages Last Line: And forswear hope of god for your sake! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations LADY CLOTHED IN FLAME (PURGATORIO -- CANTO 30), by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen, at the beginning of day Last Line: I know the signs of the ancient flame Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Love; Passion LAMENT DROLATIQUE, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: Death overtook her Last Line: Than ever. ... Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The LAVENDER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In the forests of lavender Last Line: Before the certainties of love Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion LEFT IN LIFE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a dream. What then? Are dreams untrue? Last Line: Pleased with the folly of thy straining hands. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Passion; Solitude; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness LES GRANDES PASSIONS MANQUEES, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had she survived her immolation Last Line: Was earthen and too insipid to burn Subject(s): Fire; Passion; Survival LES GRANDES PASSIONS MANQUEES, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had she survived her immolation Last Line: Was earthen and too insipid to burn Subject(s): Fire; Passion; Survival LET ME LEAN HARD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion LIFE IS TOO SHORT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion LIGHT, by XAVIER DE MAGALLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistress of my days, light, o light Last Line: Is it thus you shine on the elysian fields? Subject(s): Light; Love; Passion LISTEN, LADY!, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, lady! Let me sing Last Line: Looks and wins the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Cultural Differences; Loyalty; Passion; Relationships LITTLE QUEEN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember the name I wore Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion LIVING AGAIN, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Her life, proscribed and narrow, had been spent Last Line: To clothe anew the life she thought was dead. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Relationships LIVING FLAME OF LOVE, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O living flame of love %that, burning, dost assail Last Line: How delicate the love thou mak'st me bear Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion LONG LIVE LIFE, by JACQUES BARON Poem Text First Line: Alone / delightful / for a couple of days Last Line: Every day Subject(s): Love; Passion LOOK AS A BOUGH CUT LATELY FROM THE RIND, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Passion LOST GARDEN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a fair green garden sloping Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion LOVE, by HENRY BAKER Poem Text First Line: Love's an headstrong wild desire / to possess what we admire Last Line: Or else worship and adore it. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion; Pleasure; Worship LOVE, by REITA M. CLAPSADDLE Poem Text First Line: When I ponder love and glean every depth Last Line: Till the call comes from the abode above. Subject(s): Love; Passion LOVE, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O world! Somewhat I have to say to thee Last Line: Shall find fruition in a brighter sphere. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Poetry & Poets LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Love is joy in the heart Last Line: Love, dear, is you. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion LOVE AND COQUETRY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That tender passion! From its birth Last Line: One only source -- 'tis all divine. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; May (month); Passion LOVE AND DEATH, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow lies upon the earth Last Line: Can this be death? Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE AND KINDNESS, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice of pity strove to bless Last Line: But only love. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion LOVE IS A BABEL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Then hang him and let him go Subject(s): Love;passion LOVE LIGHTS HIS FIRE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Love lights his fire to burn my past Last Line: From love, alone, I learn to live. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love; Passion LOVE SONG, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the day is done Last Line: Heart of my heart! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion LOVE SONG, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the world's first prime Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion LOVE'S APPEAL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: In vain, in vain, I try to tell thee, dear, / my love Last Line: Will quench the fire that once was love divine. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion LOVE'S DAY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tide of dawn silently Last Line: Sing bride! Sing blossom! Sing bird! Subject(s): Beauty; Hair; Life; Love; Passion LOVE'S FAIRYLAND; TO FLORENCE ON HER WEDDING DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There is beauty on the mountains Last Line: There dawns another day. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Passion; Eros; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE'S LOVERS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Upon the altars of queen venus we Last Line: "for love and thee!" Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion; Venus (goddess); Eros LOVE'S MESSAGE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Far out in love's dreamland a bird doth sing Last Line: With the gentle touch of an angel's wing. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Passion; Nightmares LOVE'S METEMPSYCHOSIS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brief space for tears and prayers Last Line: And lead me into life. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion LOVE'S WILDWOOD TRAIL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There's a trail that leads Last Line: With his shafts and bow for thee. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Eros LOVE: AN ELEGY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too much my heart of beauty's power hath known Last Line: And lose, with pride, the lover in the man. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Parting LUCY (4), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange fits of passion have I known Last Line: "if lucy should be dead!" Variant Title(s): "if Lucy Should Be Dead;a Lover's Dark Fancy;""strange Fits Of Passion I Have Known""; Subject(s): Love; Passion LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 55, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sat round the tea-table drinking Last Line: The tale of thy love, sweet, to say. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Tea MADE-FOR-TV ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a year of spirited intercourse Last Line: How lbullish she was on french kissing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Romance; Sex MARIAN/'CHAMA' IN THREE MOUNTAIN RANGES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Now we separate %branching letting go of pine cone Last Line: I have grown old and snowblind Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Passion; Romance ME IN PARADISE, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be ready for it, unfucked, ever-fucked Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Passion; Absence; Separation; Isolation MEETING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quite carelessly I turned the newsy sheet Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion MELISSIAS, by RUFINUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Melissias denies she's in love Last Line: I'm on heat Subject(s): Passion MIND AND HEART, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wisdom and passion Last Line: Power and bliss. Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Reason; Wisdom; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals MISALLIANCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am troubled tonight with a curious pain Last Line: And my body's reply of passion. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Passion; Soul; Dead, The MOCKERY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we grudge our sweets so to the living Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion MOTIONLESS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: He loved the statue with a reckless passion. It was a constant Last Line: I was becoming a statue, that I belonged' Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion MUCH IN LITTLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just seven little notes Last Line: All passion from hell to heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Hell; Music & Musicians; Passion; Paradise MY BIRDEEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On bonnie birdeen Last Line: My passion, my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Loss; Love; Pain; Passion; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery MY FRIEND, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first I looked upon the face of pain Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion MY HERITAGE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I into life so full of love was sent Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion MY LOVE: ODELET, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to say something about my love. My love is Last Line: Friends Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion MY PASSION IS LIKE TURBULENCE AT THE HEAD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: What causes my passion? Is love a joke? Subject(s): Passion MY SONG MUST NOT FORSAKE ME, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not mine from thee, loved heart, to feel such tide Last Line: My song must not forsake me! Subject(s): Love; Passion NAP IN SPRING, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world continues without you, rooted Last Line: Learning to let go, learning to hold Subject(s): Love; Passion; Spring NAPA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: As bountiful as love Last Line: And the men overflowed with poppies %and magueys Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Flowers; Human Rights - Argentina; Love; Passion NARRROW ROOM, TRIANGULAR IN SHAPE, by FRANCESC PARCERISAS Poem Source First Line: Like that famous table of contents I spoke of, your body's Last Line: Easy sweat, a tongue of fire split into bodies Subject(s): Love; Passion NATIONAL NUDIST CLUB NEWSLETTER, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the unisex nursery's toilet my undershirt falls Subject(s): Passion; Sex NEW AND OLD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I and new love, in all its living bloom Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion NIGHT IS THE LIGHT OF MY PLEASURE', by HENRY PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I sought my lady bright Last Line: Where passions were opposed in rest Subject(s): Desire; Passion; Disappointment NIGHT POEMS: 3, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Michal, what wealth of kisses do I owe Last Line: To bear the fullness of your I am yours! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age; Passion NIGHT TALK IN A DREAM CHAMBER, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whether by sea or river or in mountains Last Line: Intimate whispers, our bodies become at one Subject(s): Love; Passion; Togetherness NIGHT WIND, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Resonant with the day's din Last Line: O night wind, flooding my soul. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion NO HEAVEN, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the last prayer in the book Subject(s): Life; Passion NOT QUITE THE SAME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion O, COME WITH ME, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, come with me and we will bide Last Line: Then, come! O, come! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Passion OBERAMMERGAU, 1890, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trembling vow breathed in a night of fears Last Line: Show forth his passion till the saviour come. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Oberammergau Passion-play; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology OBSCURE NIGHT OF THE SOUL, by JOHN CROSS Poem Source First Line: Upon an obscure night Last Line: Among the lilies, and forgetting them Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Love - Marital; Passion ODE ON THE PASSION, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sable clad, urania come Last Line: And proud captivity an humbled captive led! Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Crucifixion; Death; Passion; Piety; Prayer; Sin; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The ODE TO A RING-DOVE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Vanish all vernal forms before the twain Last Line: Thine empire is humanity at last! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Passion ODE TO MISS HOYLAND: MISS HOYLAND IS COY, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Hoyland, empress of my heart Last Line: And make thy baker blest? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Pleasure OF BEAUTY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so passionate it tears Last Line: To loveliness that we should be denied? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Passion; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery OLD AND NEW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long have the poets vaunted, in their lays Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion OLD SONGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is many a simple song one hears Last Line: The tender magic of bygone things. Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Passion; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs OLD TRINITY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was a merchant, and that was a belle Last Line: Sorrow and ecstasy, hatred and love. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Passion; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails ON A LADY WHO FANCIED HERSELF A BEAUTY, by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1637-1706) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes Last Line: That runs his link full in your face. Alternate Author Name(s): Dorset, 6th Earl Of; Middlesex, 1st Earl Of Variant Title(s): On Dorinda Subject(s): Beauty; China (porcelain); Love; Passion ON PASSION AS A LITERARY TRADITION, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asked by a reporter out of questions Last Line: And go home to nick yourself on poetry Subject(s): Art & Artists; Passion ON PASSION AS A LITERARY TRADITION, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asked by a reporter out of questions Last Line: And go home to nick yourself on poetry Subject(s): Art And Artists; Passion ON THE PALATINE HILL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the palace of the caesars blow Last Line: Long time agone, such a great while ago! Subject(s): Flowers; Passion; Trees ONE PRAYER, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: And now must I lose thee, o dark-eyed love, o darling? Last Line: This once I look thee in the eyes and speak. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Widows & Widowers; Youth; Parting ONLY A SIMPLE RHYME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion ONLY LOOKING PASSIONATELY...', by PHILIPPE MORAND Poem Source Last Line: With no prejudging a return Subject(s): Life; Passion OUR LOVE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: If our love were not Last Line: Our love would not be! Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Togetherness OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 10, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Purpled to softness comes the twilight hour Last Line: Better it is than wield the conqueror's sword. Subject(s): Passion OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 5, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: There is no rest where weary mortals dwell Last Line: A fleeting moment from an hour of pain. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion OUTWORN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the winds and the steadfast stars Last Line: Of the love, and the pain, and sin? Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Passion PARKING, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I live where I have always been Last Line: Lands, and coos like a fool in the dark Subject(s): Automobiles; Middle Age; Youth; Passion PASSION, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some have won a wild delight Last Line: And perish in the charge! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Passion PASSION, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The raflesia Subject(s): Passion; Flowers; Daughters PASSION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were there not a matter known Last Line: There wo'd be no passion. Subject(s): Passion PASSION, by LAN CHU-FANG Poem Source First Line: I am utterly bumbling Last Line: Make a match found only in heaven Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Passion PASSION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that garden at evening Last Line: Non enim sciunt quid faciunt Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Love; Passion PASSION AND LOVE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A maiden wept and, as a comforter Last Line: Until she smiled, approached, and touched his hand! Subject(s): Passion PASSION IN THE METRO, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Antinous young lord of priapus lost Last Line: Antinous has slowly %eaten %a rose Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Passion; Roses PASSION PLAY, by JOHN BLAIR Poem Source First Line: It waits for the advent Last Line: Nothing, not even grace %can redeem us Subject(s): Passion Plays PASSION PLAY, by PRESCOTT FOSTER Poem Source First Line: It was a remarkable passion Subject(s): Passion PASSION'S HOUNDS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With mighty leaps and bounds Last Line: Hunt me to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Passion PASSIONFRUIT, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Here are rivers raining Last Line: Of memories, lean veins of new loves Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love; Passion PENALTY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because of the fullness of what I had Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion PERFECTNESS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All perfect things are saddening in effect Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion PERMANENCY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lover carved upon a bed of stone Last Line: The ice age spoke -- time's snow against love's flame! Subject(s): Faith; Love; Names; Passion; Belief; Creed PETITION (1), by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: O love! I watch for thee Last Line: If love should pass me by. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation PHAEDRA, by JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is settled, dear theramenes Subject(s): Passion PHAEDRA, by JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is decided, dear theramenes Last Line: I'll hold aricia as my own true child Subject(s): Passion PHILOMEL, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, love! Last Line: In rapture about us and o'er us. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Passion PICTURE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strolled last eve across the lonely down, %one solitary picture struck my eye Last Line: And, watching him, I asked myself if I %in very truth stood half as near to god Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion PONT-NEUF, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: You are my flower, my lips, my heaven Last Line: My traitor, prolonging my life Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion PRAISE OF LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And shall love cease? Ask thine own heart, o woman Last Line: And leads to endless glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Passion; Praise; Sorrow; Sadness PROGRESS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be many windows to your soul Last Line: To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion PURPLE AUTUMN, by GEORGY IVANOVICH CHULKOV Poem Text First Line: Purple autumn unloosened her tresses and flung them Last Line: Weaving a wreath of thorns. Variant Title(s): Autumnal Love Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The QUANTRAINS: PASSION, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who tastes not passion's burning cup Last Line: With infant's joys and infant's pains. Subject(s): Passion QUERIES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, how has it been with you since we met Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion QUINCE, by AL-MUSHAFI Poem Source First Line: Yellow its color Last Line: My fingers crushed it Subject(s): Passion RAPTURE, by STEFAN GEORGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel a breath from other planets blowing Last Line: And of the eternal voice I am the thunder! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion RED CARNATIONS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One time in arcadie's fair bowers Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion REFLECTING ON HIS PASSION FOR HIS MISTRISSE, by JOHN ROE Poem Text First Line: Come, fates; I feare you not. All whom I owe Last Line: How is't, I now was there, and now I fell. Subject(s): Passion REGRET, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a haunting phantom called regret Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion REGRET OF THE RANEE IN THE HALL OF PEACOCKS, by ADELE FLORENCE CORY NICOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This man has taken my husband's life Last Line: Take him away to death! Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, Laurence Subject(s): Assassination; Duty; India; Passion; Regret REJECTED, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: You cast my soul to the four winds of heaven Last Line: Comes back to me in strife! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Passion RESOLUTION OF A POETICAL QUESTION CONCERNING FOUR RURAL SISTERS: 2, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marg'ret of humbler stature by the head Last Line: Though ask'd, I know not how she would resist. Variant Title(s): Two Rural Sisters: 2;resolution In Four Sonnets, Of A Poetical Question Put To Me By A 2 Subject(s): Courtship; Passion RESPONSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said this morning, as I leaned and threw Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion REUNITED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us begin, dear love, where we left off Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion RHYME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't it good she asked (as Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Passion RHYME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't it good she asked (as Last Line: Our bodies love each other too? Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Passion RHYMES: 11, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am a passion; I am a flame Last Line: I cannot love you! Oh, come, come Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion RHYMES: 53, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dusky swallows will hang their nests Last Line: Ah! They'll not love you so Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion RIFFS AND RECIPROCITIES REDUX: PASSION, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The last supper over, christ's long night about to begin: suffering Last Line: Toward my job. Most of us know this: it hasn't been difficult at all Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Passion ROMANCE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born & lost in a throw of time Last Line: Not behaving like any government. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Romance; Eros RONDEL, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Oh, dark-brow'd witch, thy laughing eyes Last Line: Oh, dark-brow'd witch, thy laughing eyes! Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion ROSAMUND: ROSAMOND'S SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From walk to walk, from shade to shade Last Line: Fly to my arms, my monarch, fly! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Passion; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs ROSE OF FIRE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lovers, you are a weaving of the spring Last Line: And on, the rose of fire in your hand Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Passion SADDEST HOUR, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion SATURN OVER PISGAH, by STEPHEN CRAIG KNAUTH Poem Text First Line: Can you hear them tonight Subject(s): Passion; Saturn (planet) SCULPTOR, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the ambitious sculptor, tireless, lifts Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion SEA LASTS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: It is natural to describe knives as beautiful Last Line: Of its blueness shoot up, and the flame dies Subject(s): Love; Passion SESTINA [AL POCO GIORNO], by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have reached, alas, the long shadow Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Passion SESTINA [AL POCO GIORNO], by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have reached, alas, the long shadow Last Line: As one might hide a stone in grass Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Passion SHE CAME, AT FIRST, PURE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source Last Line: Oh passion of my life, poetry, %naked, mine forever! Subject(s): Erotic Love; Hearts; Passion; Poetry And Poets SHOW ME THE WAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion SILENT LOVE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: If I hated you, I would give you my hate Last Line: More atrocious than facing death itself Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Romance; Silence SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES 8TH GRADE: THE FAMILY JEWELS, by DAVID CITINO Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning he put man's parts Subject(s): Bodies; Christianity; Passion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES 8TH GRADE: THE FAMILY JEWELS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning he put man's parts Last Line: And profane, the family jewels Subject(s): Bodies; Christianity; Passion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA RECOUNTS A FOLKTALE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, no, no, no she said, squirming Last Line: As a scythe, the hook Subject(s): Passion; Youth SKIN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Beyond love %and the rooms of dark mist Last Line: Ascending me like words, fruits, shoulders Subject(s): Desire; Love; Paintings And Painters; Passion SMOTHERED FIRES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman with a burning flame Last Line: She breathed a softgood-night! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Passion SON AND MOTHER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know what you are fighting against, fatuous mother Last Line: Go -- and wait. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Mothers; Passion; Sons SONG (14), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy, chloris, were they free Last Line: The lusty juice of men. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Passion SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All are sleeping, my sad heart Last Line: All are sleeping, thou art not Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Passion SONG OF LASTING PAIN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Han's sovereign prized the beauty of flesh Last Line: Yet this pain of ours will continue %and never finally end Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Pain; Passion; Xuan-zong, Emperor Of China; Yang Yu-huan (prized Consort) SONG: FOR THEE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What woes are there Last Line: For thee. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Songs SONGS OF CREATION, by ZELLA MURIEL WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It is spring! Last Line: It has always seemed. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Spring; Male-female Relations SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 4, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Think what it is to me with life's black tempest blowing Last Line: The chainless sight and touch and sound of thee. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 5, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: And shall I then complain if thou, the sea-wind meeting Last Line: With equal kindred deep impassioned eyes. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Passion; Youth SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 64, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew, by that diviner sense Last Line: To glad one mortal lover more. Subject(s): Beauty; Passion SONGS TO CONSOLE ME FOR BEING HAPPY: RICHARD CAEUR-DE-LION, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Beneath the ruddy plume of the carnation wild that the ruin doth Last Line: Since in your chateau all the world abandons me. Subject(s): Happiness; Passion; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 12, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morella, charming without art Last Line: My gratitude maintains. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Charm; Hearts; Passion SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 19, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since we your husband daily see Last Line: With thy insipid fool. Subject(s): Charm; Hearts; Jealousy; Night; Passion; Bedtime SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 2, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither would my passion run Last Line: So each will equal triumph share. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Loss; Passion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The SONGS: 7. I KNOW THEE, O THOU WAILING WIND!, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Pass by and tread them under foot. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Passion SONNET, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus shall we live our separate lives unknit Last Line: Than any nest wherein the birds are kind. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Passion; Tombs; Tombstones SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 19. THE SOUTHERN PASSION, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: I held a woman fairer than the sun Last Line: Than any colder gaze our northland brings. Subject(s): Passion SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 128, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I love you more than my life Last Line: For my soul belongs to god Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Soul SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 136, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the water of the stream Last Line: I wear my heart away Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 46, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The lily is purity Last Line: You, my constant love Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Passion SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 65, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When I pass close by your side Last Line: Makes my bones shake in my body Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 71, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the deepest well Last Line: And a passion grew Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion SPEECH OF SILENCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The solemn sea of silence lies between us Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the mattress was a day-old newspaper rolled into a scroll Last Line: Him and her, in the levitating bed, in the flames. Subject(s): Fire; Passion SPRING PASSION, by XU ZAI-SI Poem Source First Line: I had never felt longing all my life Last Line: And the moon had grown %half bright Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Longing; Passion STOLEN MOMENTS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: What happened once so now it's best Last Line: We ate an orange and there were purple flowers %on the table and we still had hours Subject(s): Love; Oranges; Passion; Sex STOPPING BY THE TEMPLE OF INCENSE MASSED (1), by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: I knew not of the temple of incense massed Last Line: Towards dusk at the bend of a deserted pool, %in meditation's calm I mastered passion's dragon Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Meditation; Passion; Temples STOPPING BY THE TEMPLE OF INCENSE MASSED (1), by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Not know incense incense heap-up temple Last Line: Towards dusk at the bend of a deserted pool, %in meditation's calm I mastered passion's dragon Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Meditation; Passion; Temples SUBJECT LOVE, FOR THE VASE AT BATHEASTON VILLA, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With bow unstrung, and arrows broke Last Line: And sense and reason shall adore.' Subject(s): Courtship; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Eros SUNRISE AND SUNSET: 2. SUNSET, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Ah! - here I stand and dream, and sunset's red dominions Last Line: Wins, when all lesser loves are past. Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Passion SUNSET, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the day lean o'er the world's ... Edge Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion TANTRIC SEX, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: You hold a chrysanthemum blossom for me Last Line: All night the candles burning Subject(s): Love; Passion; Romance THAT MAN IS PEER OF THE GODS, WHO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Paler than grass and lack little of dying Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion THAT NIGHT I DIDN'T MAKE LOVE AT THE FLAMINGO MOTEL IN LONG PRAIRIE, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: Only yesterday someone swiped it Last Line: Under the last of these %last snows Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Passion; Travel THE AENEID: BOOK 4. THE PASSION OF DIDO FOR AENEAS, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meanwhile the queen, fanning a secret fire Last Line: (taught by degrees) with so great misery.' Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Passion THE ARTIST'S PRAYER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, I have been guilty in my life Last Line: Speak, through my pigments, of the son of man. Subject(s): Faith; God; Love; Passion; Prayer; Soul; Belief; Creed THE AWAKENING, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I was a rose Last Line: That I had waited there for you. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Hearts; Love; Passion; Waiting; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares THE AWAKENING, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you lie sleeping; golden hair Last Line: What though your heart should ache! Subject(s): Passion; Waking THE BALLAD OF A LOST HOUSE, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hungry heart, hungry heart, where have you been? Last Line: Over a clear and quickening sea. Subject(s): Hearts; Houses; Hunger; Passion THE BIRTH OF THE FLOWERS; A VISION, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, when all was still Last Line: To listento the watchman bawling! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Passion; Perfume; Poetry & Poets; Spring THE BLACK PANTHER, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a panther caged within my breast Last Line: And I lie silent, but my body shakes. Variant Title(s): Panther! Panther! Subject(s): Panthers; Passion THE CALL OF SCIENCE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: He speaks: / 'my girl,' quoth he, 'I feel each cell Last Line: Currents reversed for their divorce. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Eros THE CEMETERY BY THE SEA, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This tranquil roof, with walking pigeons, loom Last Line: This tranquil roof where jib-sails peck in flocks! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Life Choices; Religion; Passion THE CHANCE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The blue-black mountains are etched Last Line: Us, we have a chance, briefly, to shine. Subject(s): Passion THE DAYS OF OUR YOUTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: These are the days of our youth Last Line: "joy of joys for an hour to-day; then away, farewell!" Subject(s): Hearts;love;memory;passion;youth THE DISCARDED LOVER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O love is illusion and passion a snare Last Line: If you would have peace, with them you must part. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Passion THE ENTHUSIAST, SONGS OF ARLA: 1, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Wild wing my notes, fierce passions urge the strain Last Line: And drowning torrents cool my panting breast. Subject(s): Passion THE ENTHUSIAST, SONGS OF ARLA: 2, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: With awe my soul the wreck of nature views Last Line: The transient shadow of my glory flies. Subject(s): Passion THE ENTHUSIAST, SONGS OF ARLA: 3, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Impassioned strains my trembling lips rehearse Last Line: Her heart, resigned, to simple truth accords. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Passion THE FIRE, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched her, watched the tremulous fire Last Line: And bade the fire be brave. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion; Relationships THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 1. THE OFFERING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were beauty mine, beloved, I would bring it Last Line: And kiss the shadow of love's passing feet. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 3. ECSTASY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let spring illume the western hills with blossoming / brands of fire Last Line: Swept o'er the flood-gates of my life to drown my waiting heart! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Passion; Spring THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 4. THE LUTE-SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why need you a burnished mirror of gold Last Line: In the flame of immutable years! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Dead, The THE HOPELESS PASSION, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wanton and cheat and liar Last Line: Life! Subject(s): Hearts; Passion THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 21. LOVE-SWEETNESS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet dimness of her loosened hair's downfall Last Line: The breath of kindred plumes against its feet? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Passion THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 9. PASSION AND WORSHIP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One flame-winged brought a white-winged Last Line: "this harp still makes my name its voluntary." Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Passion THE ICONOCLAST, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since my soul grown sick of sordid things Last Line: And all the horrors of a world grown gray. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Passion; Torture; Dejection THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The island dreams under the dawn Last Line: With vapoury footsole among the water's drowsy blaze. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Nature; Passion THE INEXPRESSIBLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Thinking of my caged birds indoors Last Line: Lighten and thunder through the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Passion THE KING'S KISS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We rode through the shouting town Last Line: I kissed in the market place! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Happiness; King Kong; Love; Passion; Joy; Delight THE LADY OF REVERIE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: A lady sat in her carven chair Last Line: And a baffling smile upon her lips. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THE MAD-DOG, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A prude, at morn and ev'ning pray'r Last Line: And that this member ne'er lyes still.] Subject(s): Passion; Promiscuity THE MOUNTAIN RAPTURE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contentment have I known in lowlands green Last Line: Of fiery heavings, throbbed into repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Passion; Singing & Singers; World THE NIGHT BEFORE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look you, dominie; look you, and listen Subject(s): Passion; Adultery; Cuckolds; Anger; Hate; Forgiveness; Murder; Clemency THE NINTH DAWN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not for nothing we notice a wider theme Last Line: All along, will swarm out again under the pliant boughs Subject(s): Eurydice (mythology); Orpheus; Passion THE PASSION FLOWER HATH SPRUNG UP TALL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tending toward the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Passion Flowers THE PASSIONS, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From hate, fear, hope, anger, and envy free Last Line: Call in the states of holland to their aid. Subject(s): Passion THE PATH OF TEARS: 2. THE SILENCE OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since thus I have endowed you with the whole Last Line: A load of passionate silence and despair. Subject(s): Despair; Hearts; Love; Passion; Regret THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 1. THE ARTIST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Complete the altar stands; my task is done Last Line: "but by your hand am I forever crowned!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Passion; Saints THE POET TO HIS BELOVED, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, tonight you've been crucified Last Line: And there’s a good friday sweeter than that kiss Subject(s): Passion; Christianity THE POET'S JOURNAL: YOUNG LOVE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are not old, we are not cold Last Line: Comes never, never, nevermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Tears; Youth THE RIVER AND THE SEA, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Yes; sweet it was. Most sweet to watch your spanish glances Last Line: And the eternal memory of thy face. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Passion THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: ACT 3, SCENE 1, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What to conceal desire, when every Last Line: Whose sight I have not courage to abide. Subject(s): Desire; Fate; Love; Passion; Plays & Playwrights; Destiny THE RUNE OF THE PASSION OF WOMAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who love are those who suffer Last Line: Hopes unfulfilled, and unavailing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Life; Loss; Love; Mothers; Pain; Passion; Women; Suffering; Misery THE SANCTUARY: 8. DEVOTION, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take my flesh to feed your dogs if you choose Last Line: Or burn like a weed for your sake in the flame of hell. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THE SEASONS: AUTUMN, by KALIDASA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn comes, a maiden fair Last Line: The young man's eager heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 16, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sith nowise could he gain her sire's consent Last Line: By maid and childing wife alike abhorr'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 18, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thus was he bound in service for a year Last Line: How he might now that prince of spoilers bind. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 2, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why should we break the chancel of the dead? Last Line: Of loves and passions that long time have set. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Passion; Dead, The; Bereavement THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 40, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And she hath sent a ruby ring, thrice kiss'd Last Line: How limitless thy vast estranging seas! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Confessions; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 43, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Now passion hath him in her silken snare Last Line: His leaping thoughts have set his heart afire. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 50, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: He strains her to his passion-laden breast Last Line: And the swift heart-throbs at her column'd throat. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Hearts; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 52, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: While with himself he wrestled day by day Last Line: Ever thou findest entry unaware! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 54, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The sweetest dream foreshadows an awaking Last Line: So thro' the world they twain together fared. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 63, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And to the night winds cried out 'guillardun' Last Line: Rose up to shatter his resolvéd peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Memory; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 82, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Silent he kneels beside his muted dove Last Line: Homeward he turns his wistful wife to greet. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation THE SMALL THING LOVE IS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body is filled by a summer of lust Last Line: By a power only the earth could love Subject(s): Passion; Love – Nature Of THE SONG OF THE SUMMER, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I am here! I flower in all the trees Last Line: With promise burdened and with summer thrilled! Subject(s): Despair; Love; Passion THE TAMER OF STEEDS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond this world where skies are free from stain Last Line: Of all the passions of the human heart. Subject(s): Horses; Passion THE TEST OF LOVE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His lady fair a lover once reproved Last Line: "since you believe your eyes and not my word." Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Passion THE TIFF, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Text First Line: Ill-fated bard!' she cried, 'whose lengthening grief' Last Line: "anna matilda never can be thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Passion; Suicide; Tragedy; Parting THE TIGER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the still jungle of the senses lay Last Line: The wakened tiger will not sleep again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Fate; Passion; Tigers; Destiny THE TIME WILL COME, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The time will come, when thou and I Last Line: The time will come. Subject(s): Hope; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Optimism THE TRAVAIL OF PASSION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide Last Line: Lilies of death-pale hope, roses of passionate dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Passion THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love walks scatheless through the fire Last Line: Burns the supreme, surpassing flame! Subject(s): Passion THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Love came triumphant to my soul last night Last Line: Oh! Past, well dost thou know this love of mine! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY: 2. CRUEL END OF THE LOVERS' TALE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How quick breeds scandal. In some danksome place Last Line: His weeping lady, kneeling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Passion; Story-telling; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres THE TRYST, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the land of ra the flaming, by the shores of nile's slow Last Line: As of old, by nile's slow waters, in the land beyond the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich Subject(s): Love; Memory; Passion; Prayer Meetings; Thebes, Greece THE TWO FLAMES, by ELOISE BRITON Poem Text First Line: Behind my mask of life there lies a shrine Last Line: My leaping flames, the red one and the white. Subject(s): Fire; Friendship; Life; Love; Passion; Red (color); White (color) THE UNKNOWN ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every day I have a meeting Last Line: He himself no further ventured. Subject(s): Love; Names; Passion; Petrarch (1304-1374); Francesco Petrarca THE UNSPOTTED ONES, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think you, demoiselle demure Last Line: Ah, but not half so pure as fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Passion; Virtue THE VOICES TELL OVER, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The voices tell over: the song that breaks Last Line: Brusque reawakening and end of love. Subject(s): Flutes; Passion; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THE WILD OLD WICKED MAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I am mad about women Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Passion THE WIND OF FATE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O not by reason can we love Last Line: The issues of our fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Passion THE YEAR OUTGROWS THE SPRING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who lends new zest, and interest to my days. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Passion; Soul; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness THIS GREEN ORCHARD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The healthiest place for love is here Last Line: Be poorer in our bliss? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THREE WORDS, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved! I love thee! Ah, what an essay in Last Line: Three wordsupon each crest of passion burning! Subject(s): Passion THROUGH THE VALLEY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I came through the valley of despair Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion THROWN ASIDE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I have loved thee fondly Last Line: My love can never fade! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Worship TIME, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: I confront you, oh life without sheaves Last Line: Your fog is rising over my high tide Subject(s): Absence; Passion; Solitude TIME AND LOVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time flies. The swift hours hurry by Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion TIRED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired tonight, and something Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion TO A GOLEM, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Lost in thought %you came to watch me Last Line: Festive hall of your warm breath, %the impermanence of your life Subject(s): Love; Passion TO A LADY GOING VEILED, by GOMEZ MANRIQUE Poem Source First Line: The very heart went out of me Last Line: With my enraptured view Subject(s): Hearts; Likes And Dislikes; Love; Passion TO A LADY: IN A LETTER, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such perfect bliss, fair chloris, we Last Line: The juice of lusty men. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Passion TO A LOVER, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: Tonight, of all mad nights of moon and wind and sea Last Line: Ah, my beloved! Come not this way again! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Passion; Romance; Male-female Relations TO BAYARD TAYLOR, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To range, deep-wrapt, along a heavenly height Last Line: Baltimore, 1879. Subject(s): Passion Plays; Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878) TO CLOE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst I am scorched with hot desire Last Line: The rest in mine shall ever last. Subject(s): Desire; Friendship; Hearts; Passion TO LAUREN NEWLY BORN, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Lauren, your name is lovely Last Line: Wishing you faith and courage %whatever life may do Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion TO MASTER HENRY FIELDING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I' faith, good hal, you have a saucy wit Last Line: From storks to weeds and willows! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Fielding, Henry (1707-1754); Honor; Passion; Inspiration; Creativity TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A GOD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And feel my mind slip as I %go close to death Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion TO MY LOVE, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: You have as many defects as a pig has lice and you will rub against Last Line: With a great and insatiable appetite Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion TO NIMUE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had clean forgotten all, her face who had caused my / trouble Last Line: Blows. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion TO ONE WHO SCANTS WORDS, by IRENE M. MORSE Poem Text First Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do Last Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do. Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Romance; Words; Vocabulary TO ROMANCE: AN ODE, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gleam of lost wonder Last Line: Deathless romance! Subject(s): Love; Passion TO SILVIA (3), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon my trespasse (silvia) I confesse Last Line: Himselfe, at one time, can be wise, and love. Subject(s): Passion TO STELLA, WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF HER BIRTH...WHEN I WAS SICK, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tormented with incessant pains Last Line: Admiring you, you pitying us. Variant Title(s): To Stella, March 13, Mdccxxiii-iv Subject(s): Absence; Admiration; Grief; Pain; Passion; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery TO THE BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal beauty and immortal pain Last Line: And how to loose he hath himself forgot. Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Immortality; Louvre, Paris; Love; Pain; Passion; Suffering; Misery TO THE DISTANT PRINCESS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Princesse lointaine, whose regal sway Last Line: Princesse lointaine! Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Passion TO URBAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where the livid lightning flies Last Line: To slumber in the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Health; Life; Maturity; Passion; Dead, The TO YOU WHOM I SAW ONCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember / that your eyes were tranquil Last Line: And secret dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Memory; Passion; Nightmares TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THUS I YEARNED FOR LOVE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus as I yearned for love Last Line: Ever down. Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Love; Passion; Childhood TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. SUMMER HEAT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun burning down on back and loins, penetrating the skin Last Line: In savage play and amorous despite. Subject(s): Love; Passion; Summer TRIO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We love but once. The great gold orb of light Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion TWIN-BORN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who possesses virtue at its best Last Line: Twin-born I hold great evil and great good. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion; Sin; Sympathy; Empathy TWO FROM RANCHO CIENEGUILLA: MORNING, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The bird tracks in the dust Last Line: Shaking out her black and orange silks Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Passion ULTIMA II TRUE BLUE EYE SHADOWS OF THE PAST, by NAOMI HELENA QUINONEZ Poem Source First Line: It must be hard doing your teatro every day Last Line: True blue eye %shadows of the past Subject(s): Passion; Poetry And Poets UNDER A WINGED CUPID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis vain to haste when love pursues Last Line: "for he has wings, - thou, only feet" Subject(s): Angels;arrows;cupid;love;passion; Eros UPON THE SAND, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All love that has not friendship for its base Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion VALENTINES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: These chain- %links of consonants Last Line: Heart's syntac- %tic curve Subject(s): Hearts; Holidays; Love; Passion; Valentine's Day VANITIES, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could ye be very blest in hearkening Last Line: It is in vain, it is in vain!' Subject(s): Vanity; Passion VOLCANOS, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Every volcano rears its outlined height Last Line: Baskets o' erturned, that pour abroad their flowers Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Passion; Volcanoes WHAT SHALL BE DO?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here now, forevermore, our lives must part Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion WHEEL OF THE BEAST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through rivers of veins on a nameless quest Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion WHEREFORE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore in dreams are sorrows born anew Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion WHITE ROSES, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Raw as %marrow, blossoming, they burn Last Line: Of an endless winter, drawing %blood Subject(s): Despair; Flowers; Passion; Roses WILD NIGHTS! WILD NIGHTS!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild nights! Wild nights! / were I with thee Last Line: In thee Subject(s): Passion WILD OLD WICKED MAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I am mad about women Last Line: Daybreak and a candle-end Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Passion WORDS, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He never flickered a muscle, never stirred Last Line: And flood-tides find release. Subject(s): Language; Passion; Words; Vocabulary YOU ARE A MEDITERRANEAN, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Nerves can't reach %passion that spills on floorboards Last Line: And rock it to sleep Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Night; Passion YOU WILL FORGET ME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion YOUNG DESIRE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When young desire first shakes his lustrous wings Last Line: The sanctity of one true woman's kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Passion; Religion; Theology YOUR HAND IN MINE, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: But another day I touch your hand. Warm hand Last Line: Where I people you and sing you full within your flesh Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Relationships |
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