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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— this—my 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 soft—good-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 listen—to 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 words—upon 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