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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAPE COD WOOD ROAD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silent woodlands bend above
Last Line: The real is here, it is not there!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Cape Cod; Roads; Paths; Trails


A COUNTRY PATHWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come upon it suddenly, alone
Last Line: That wanders home to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Nature; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Paths; Trails


A CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK, by ELIZABETH M. TEFFAULT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yesterday / as I walked along my way
Last Line: So I took it home with me.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


A NIGHT TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My tired horse nickers for his own home bars
Last Line: The wind is blowing and I want you so!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Variant Title(s): The Wind Is Blowin'
Subject(s): Love; Roads; Paths; Trails


A NIGHT-PIECE, OR, MODERN PHILOSOPHY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas when bright cynthia with her silver car
Last Line: And next morn pored in plato for more.
Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Roads; Silence; Travel; Bedtime; Railways; Trains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


A NIGHT-TIME RIVER ROAD, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We were driving down a road
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


A ROAD IN FLANDERS, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a road in flanders
Last Line: Or children any more.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


A SONG OF THE ROAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O I will walk wity you, my lad
Last Line: O I will walk with you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Love; Roads; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


A WALK THROUGH THE WOOD, by GEORGE W. DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wandered in the solemn wood
Last Line: And mark the way so gladly gone.
Subject(s): Forests; Roads; Woods; Paths; Trails


AFTER GOING BEYOND TALLEY ABBEY IN OCTOBER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was ever valley road so full of sound
Last Line: Turn in his tracks and swiftly steal away.
Subject(s): October; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Roads; Travel; Wales; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen


AN ENGLISH DRIVE, by GEORGIA M. REDPATH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the english roads and lanes
Last Line: But sleep at old land's end.
Subject(s): England; Roads; English; Paths; Trails


AN OLD ROAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In days that were- no matter when
Last Line: The road that leads not anywhere.
Subject(s): Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Roads; Paths; Trails


ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I started on a lonely road
Last Line: Till I am lost amid the crowd.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Life; Nature; Roads; Youth; Paths; Trails


ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 84, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Highway, since you my chief parnassus be
Last Line: Hundreds of years you stella's feet may kiss.
Variant Title(s): The Highway;via Amoris
Subject(s): Love; Roads; Paths; Trails


BESIDE THE SHORE ROAD, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies an old, worn highway winding far
Last Line: Defying sense to fathom.
Subject(s): New England; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


BY DIFFERENT PATHS, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have all had our heads in a book
Last Line: Now love is easy, pleases; no answer.
Subject(s): Love; Roads; Paths; Trails


BY HENSTRIDGE CROSS AT THE YEAR'S END, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why go the east road now?
Last Line: "we are for new feet now."
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


BY THE ROADSIDE, by LOUISE ROPES LOOMIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shy violets among the tangled grass
Last Line: Whisper to her that I came by and love her.
Subject(s): Love; Roads; Paths; Trails


CALIFORNIA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've seen the world, I've traveled far
Last Line: My heart doth yield to thee.
Subject(s): California; Cities; Home; Roads; Travel; Urban Life; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 33. A ROMAN ROAD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A road shines through the forest of the years
Last Line: The ruined roadway still endures and waits.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Roads; English History; Paths; Trails


CROSSROADS' BURIAL (SUGGESTED BY GALSWORTHY'S APPLE TREE), by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Green at the crossroads lifts the narrow mound
Last Line: And her proud feet have found a pathway home.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Funerals; Roads; Suicide; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Paths; Trails


DOORS, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The doors close softly, one by one
Last Line: Another door?
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


DRIVING HOME, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wheels keep pulling
Last Line: It may not carry me much longer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Night; Roads; Bedtime; Paths; Trails


ELYSIAN TRAIL, by KATHARINE BROWN BURT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here spreads the salt marsh, here the
Last Line: With a fair today?
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


EPIGRAM ON BAD ROADS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm now arrived, thanks to the gods
Last Line: Unless they mend their ways.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


FINCHLEY ROAD, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As we come up at baker street
Last Line: And the twilight settling down on us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


FREIGHTIN', by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forty miles from taggart's store
Last Line: Out the stretchin' road.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


FROM ROMANY TO ROME, by WALLACE IRWIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the road to romany
Last Line: The birds are calling still!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


FROM THIS DISTANCE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He would take a small folded paper from his pocket
Last Line: As he stood under the tree looking up.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


FROM TOWN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're the children of the open and we hate / the haunts o' men
Last Line: Ee—yow! A-ridin' up the rocky trail from town!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Variant Title(s): Ridin' Up The Rocky Trail From Town
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States


GOLDEN - OF THE SELKIRKS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A trail upwinds from golden
Last Line: On the trail that leads from golden.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Children - Lost; God; Roads; Paths; Trails


HAVE YOU (ON THE ROAD TO KINLOCHEVEN), by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you tramped about in winter, when your / boots were minus soles?
Last Line: You do not know the happiness that fills a navvy's life.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


HE FINDS THE MANSION, by JAMES MCMICHAEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little road went on
Subject(s): Roads; Rivers; Paths; Trails


HERITAGE, by BLANCHE LEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have been down the long twisting road of pain
Last Line: I know the road the wizards built for elfin lads and lasses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lee-adams, Blanche Ruby
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Pain; Roads; Tears; Heritage; Heredity; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails


HIGH ROAD, by THEODORA HALFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The river-road / has left me far behind
Last Line: For drinking with the trees!
Subject(s): Roads; Trees; Paths; Trails


HIGHWAY, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The coast highway at our grade occasioned
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


HIGHWAY 2, ILLINOIS, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at this country
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Illinois; Roads; Solitude; Paths; Trails; Loneliness


HIGHWAY 30, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At two in the morning, when the moon
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


HIS WISDOM: 6 YEARS OLD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His feet whene'er they walk abroad
Last Line: Finds country in the end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Roads; Wisdom; Childhood; Paths; Trails


IN THE SANTA CLARITA VALLEY, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like skinny wildweed flowers sticking up
Subject(s): Signs & Signboards; Roads; Paths; Trails


JEWEL-WEED, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou lonely, dew-wet mountain road
Last Line: "and blur the dream!"
Subject(s): Aging; Nature - Religious Aspects; Roads; Travel; Weeds; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


KISMET, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the rock the road is cut full deep
Last Line: Dear hearts, farewell, farewell!'
Subject(s): Children; Earth; Roads; Sea; Childhood; World; Paths; Trails; Ocean


LAUREL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the road in the month of june
Last Line: Than any mood of roses!
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; June; Roads; Roses; Paths; Trails


LAY OF THE MOTOR-CAR, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're away! And the wind whistles shrewd
Last Line: That stuff on the wheel?
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Roads; Cars; Paths; Trails


LEAVE-TAKING NEAR SHOKU, by LI PO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say the roads of sanso are steep
Last Line: There is no need of asking diviners.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Farewell; Roads; Parting; Paths; Trails


LIFE ON THE LAKES: DERELICT, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Driving back thro' the night on the lonely last ride
Last Line: Hushed and wistfully.
Subject(s): Roads; Solitude; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


LIFE'S VENTURE, by JESSE SILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've followed the trail / for many a year
Last Line: Our feet getting caught.
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


LITTLE PATH, by MARTHA MARDEN BRIGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little path, where, where are you running
Last Line: Or is it everywhere, little path?
Subject(s): Heaven; Roads; Paradise; Paths; Trails


LOST ORIGINAL, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr. K said in times of great crudity
Last Line: Still asking on down the road
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


LOST ORIGINAL, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr. K. Said in times of great crudity
Last Line: Still asking on down the road
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


MADONNA DI CAMPAGNA..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Madonna di campagna is the name
Last Line: Whom the madonna gathers for repose?
Subject(s): Churches; Roads; Cathedrals; Paths; Trails


MEMORIES OF PIONEER DAYS, by LUCY BURGMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you remember the blizzard, brother?
Last Line: As I think of faithful old riley and wise old bill.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


METAPHYSIC, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearie I! When I up and follows
Last Line: And many a turnip-load!
Subject(s): Dreams; Roads; Wind; Nightmares; Paths; Trails


MIDDAY, by PASCAL D'ANGELO    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road is like a little child running ahead of me
Last Line: Of silence.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


MUTUAL COMPLAINT OF PLAINSTANES AND CAUSEY, IN THEIR MOTHER-TONGUE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since merlin laid auld reikie's causey
Last Line: And let our words gie place to toil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Conversation; Roads; Paths; Trails


MY MEMORY LANE, by LULU MINERVA SCHULTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a lane where shadows fall
Last Line: A boy walks there -- but with a cane.
Subject(s): Memory; Roads; Walking; Paths; Trails


NEEDLES ROAD, by GERNIE HUNTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lost on a winding roadway
Last Line: And the curve of needles road!
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


NIGHT ROAD, by ROBERT A. DONALDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A pitch-black road, and rain
Last Line: The noisy bumping of a camion train.
Subject(s): Night; Roads; War; World War I; Bedtime; Paths; Trails; First World War


OLD COUNTRY ROADS, by NELLIE I. CRABB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little-worn roads used to meander
Last Line: Where have the old roads gone to?
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


OLD VERMONT ROADS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old-time roads, they used to run
Last Line: Them roads the fathers used to travel.
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ON THE ROAD, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those dutiful dogtrots down airport corridors
Last Line: At whose end a man just like you guards the grail
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


ON WIRRABO ROAD, by ERNEST ROBIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gone are now old coaching ways
Last Line: On the road to wirrabo.
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Roads; Trucks & Trucking; Paths; Trails


ONE STEP AT A TIME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a mine of comfort for you and me
Last Line: A single step at a time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Faith; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prayer; Roads; Travel; Belief; Creed; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


PAUSE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boy needed / to stop by the road
Last Line: Across the fields.
Subject(s): Drought; Fields; Home; Roads; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


PRAIRIE NIGHT, by HARRIET SEYMOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love to go on a straight, white road
Last Line: At my scarf, as I go by.
Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


RIDDLE: 6, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long as ever / pounded ever
Last Line: What is it?
Subject(s): Riddles;roads; Paths;trails


ROAD AND PATH, by EDWIN FORD PIPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, road, and path, and path and road
Last Line: And the needs of folk long dead?
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


ROAD LAW, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drive a ford or a packard six
Last Line: "a load of stone has the right of way."
Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Roads; Traffic; Cars; Urban Life; Paths; Trails


ROAD TAR, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A kid said you could chew road tar
Subject(s): Roads; Tar; Paths; Trails


ROADS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a country laced with roads
Last Line: To the opaline gates of the castles of dream.
Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Paths; Trails


ROADS, by MARY MOORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the train the desert stretches to the sky
Last Line: Above forgotten graves beside abandoned roads.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


ROADS, by HILDA WORTHINGTON SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where are the songs that will bind us as
Last Line: New roads of peace for the oncoming race.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Roads; Stones; Work; Workers; Paths; Trails; Granite; Rocks


ROADS, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roads are the infinity of things cut out of paper
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


ROADS WE TRAVEL BUT ONCE, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A road runs down through wonder town
Last Line: Than roads we travel but once?
Subject(s): Life; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ROADWAYS, by SARA NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Just as the little country road divides
Last Line: By bringing peace to crown our happiness!
Subject(s): Old Age; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ROAMING, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I steady my staff at the crossroads, it falls with
Last Line: For the road runs the wide world over, and the life of the road is the best.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


RUBICAM ROAD, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where, in all the wide world, is the loveliest street?
Last Line: Into rubicam road.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


RUTS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I count the wrinkles in the road
Last Line: Whose track alone is here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


SATAN'S HIGHWAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With satan joyously leading the way
Last Line: They follow the road to his old home town.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Roads; Towns; Travel; Travel Directions; Walking; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


SONG OF MY SOUL, by CAMILLE DU BARRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: As viking bold, I rode on the crest
Last Line: That scorns convention's putrid toll.
Subject(s): Roads; Vikings; Paths; Trails


SONG OF THE CATTLE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dust hangs thick upon the trail
Subject(s): Cattle;cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States


SONG OF THE FEDERATION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the nations sat together, grimly waiting
Last Line: Kneel thee down, new-made sister -- let us pray!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Nations; Roads; Singing & Singers; War; Paths; Trails


SONNET: 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard by the road, where on that little mound
Last Line: Whilst the proud levite scowls and passes by.
Subject(s): Children; Death; Graves; Pain; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails


SOUTHERN ROAD, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swing dat hammer - hunh - / steady, bo'
Subject(s): African Americans; Roads; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Paths; Trails; South (u.s.)


SPRING FANTASIES: 5. ROAD SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is wide and the wind smells sweet
Last Line: Then, ho for the inn that welcomes all!
Subject(s): Life; Roads; Singing & Singers; Sun; Paths; Trails; Songs


STRANGE PATHS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a way I used to know
Last Line: I know not which to take!
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


STREET LANTERNS, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Country roads are yellow and brown
Last Line: Topaz, and the ruby stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos
Subject(s): Light; London; Roads; Paths; Trails


TANGLED TRAILS, by GLADYS NAOMI ARNOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The forest has a tangled maze of trails
Last Line: The straighter ways that lead to joy or fame.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE ATHABASCA TRAIL, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My life is gliding downwards; it speeds swifter to the day
Last Line: I'll be out with pack and packer on the athabasca trail.
Subject(s): Canada; Nature; Roads; Canadians; Paths; Trails


THE BEAUTIES AROUND US, by JESSE SILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The beautiful scenes around us
Last Line: Old utah, is just good enough for me.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE BEST ROAD OF ALL, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I like a road that leads away to prospects white and fair
Last Line: But, best of all, I love a road that leads to god knows where.
Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE BLAZED TRAIL, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just when the path is lost to me
Last Line: The trail shows broad and plain.
Subject(s): Fire; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE ROAD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are roads to take when you think of your country
Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Travel; Roads; Journeys; Trips; Paths; Trails


THE BUFFALO TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deeply the buffalo trod it
Last Line: Over the green or the snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE CAMPUS IN VACATION, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road winds grey, deserted
Last Line: Waiting for many feet.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Vacation; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE CHANCELLOR'S GRAVEL-DRIVE, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A government-bull yoked to a government-cart!
Last Line: Need not trouble him at all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Government; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE CINDER PATH, by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The start - the strain - the springing!
Last Line: And make the race worth winning!
Subject(s): Roads; Victory; Paths; Trails


THE CIT'S COUNTRY BOX, by ROBERT LLOYD (1733-1764)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wealthy cit, grown old in trade, / now wishes for the rural shade
Last Line: To stare about them, and to eat.
Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Roads; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE CLIMBING ROAD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where do you go, oh climbing road, mounting, mounting ever
Last Line: For still my heart within me cries to seek the great endeavor!
Subject(s): Ambition; Climbing; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE CREEK-ROAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Calling, the heron flies athwart the blue
Last Line: And now a barefoot truant and his dog.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE CROSSROADS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stood at the crossroads one day
Last Line: When life on earth is done.
Subject(s): Advice; Life; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE DAMASCUS ROAD, by EMMA LEE GLENN    Poem Text                    
First Line: How far on the road to damascus
Last Line: You have traveled this glorious day.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE END OF THE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "soh, bossie, soh!"
Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States


THE FAIRY TRAIL, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over stick, over stone, over fence, over / rail
Last Line: In crookedy turns goes the fairy trail.
Subject(s): Roads; Summer; Paths; Trails


THE FRIGHTENED PATH, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wood grew very quiet
Last Line: "and -- nothing living stays!"
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE GLORY TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Way high up the mogollons
Last Line: "I'll never turn him loose!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Variant Title(s): High Chin Bob
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States


THE GREEN ROADS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The green roads that end in the forest
Last Line: And hear all day long the thrush repeating his song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE GYPSIES' ROAD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall go on the gypsies' road
Last Line: The road that has no ending.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Gypsies; Roads; Gipsies; Paths; Trails


THE GYPSY ROAD, by EDITH TATUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road is a gypsy, it calls night and day
Last Line: I hear it, I answer ... I am up and away!
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE HAPPY TRAVELLER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is the monarch of the road?
Last Line: I travel to the far away!
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE HILL-ROAD TO ARDMORE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's the hill-road to ardmore, mary
Last Line: By the hill-road to ardmore?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Home; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the people and horses have gone
Last Line: It whispers the world-secret.
Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Roads; Silence; Soul; Stars; Sunrise; Bedtime; Paths; Trails


THE JOYS OF THE ROAD, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the joys of the road are chiefly these
Last Line: For him who travels without a load.
Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Fall; Paths; Trails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE KING'S HIGHWAY; EL CAMINO REAL, by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All in the golden weather, forth let us ride today
Last Line: With the breath of god about us on the king's highway.
Subject(s): California; Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE KNAPSACK TRAIL, by EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I like the wide and common road
Last Line: Till sudden—we are there!
Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE LEANE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They do zay that a travellen chap
Last Line: An' went vurder wi' them than a dreat.
Subject(s): Grass; Greed; Property; Roads; Social Protest; Avarice; Cupidity; Possessions; Paths; Trails


THE LEVEL WAY, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My road lies open, over level country
Last Line: Monotony.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: As o'er a sea untried and dark
Last Line: Throw open wide the door!
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Oregon; Roads; World's Fairs; Expositions; Paths; Trails


THE LITTLE ROADS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The great roads are all grown over
Last Line: And lead us by a wandering way.
Subject(s): April; Forests; Hearts; Roads; Woods; Paths; Trails


THE LONG ROAD, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down through our troubled age-long puzzlement
Last Line: Our feet must climb again, and yet again.
Subject(s): God; Life; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE LONG TRAIL, by MINNI MILLS NEAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Riding down the dixie highway
Last Line: That's just ahead of me.
Subject(s): Hunting; Roads; Wealth; Hunters; Paths; Trails; Riches; Fortunes


THE LONG TRAIL: ANSWER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the clearing's scope in the breaking wood
Last Line: The motherland is calling the children home!
Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE LONG TRAIL: CALLING THE CHILDREN HOME, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: So the long trail sleeps. But fast and far
Last Line: Mother-mine calling the children home!
Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE LONG TRAIL: OUTWARD BOUND, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out on the long trail. The foam drifts back
Last Line: These pioneers.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE LONG TRAIL: THE CORN LANDS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: And the corn-lands call! The long, long trail
Last Line: From the soft blue haze of the timber line.
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE LONG TRAIL: THE GOLD RUSH, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now it's gold and gold!
Last Line: And we strike it rich.
Subject(s): Canyons; Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE LONG TRAIL: THE MOUNTAIN WALL, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The long trail calls!
Last Line: The snows drift deep thro' the closing night.
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE LONG TRAIL: THE PIONEERS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thro' the breaking wood
Last Line: With its call to new days.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE LONG TRAIL: THE PRAIRIE FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Under the lifting ridges of smoke
Last Line: Is come—is come!
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE LONG TRAIL: THE TIMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hickory and walnut, the thicket's mass
Last Line: Thro' open glades to splashing feet.
Subject(s): Fields; Plums; Prairies; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Plum Trees; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE LOST PATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone they walked - their fingers knit
Last Line: Was leading safely on to paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Heaven; Roads; Spring; Paradise; Paths; Trails


THE LURE OF ROADS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Close to my heart, the roads of men!
Last Line: Follow, I follow wherever they go!
Subject(s): Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails


THE MAGIC OF ROADS, by GERNIE HUNTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes my heart rebels at concrete's gray
Last Line: Where the grass grows deep, and a hill road bends.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE MESSINES ROAD, by JOHN E. STEWART    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road that runs up to messines
Last Line: And give the highway back its state.
Subject(s): Roads; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Paths; Trails; First World War


THE MIDDLENESS OF THE ROAD, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The road at the top of the rise
Last Line: And local green suggest
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE NEW HIGHWAY, by ELIZABETH MORSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My fear is the fear of the road - of the new highway
Last Line: All the years in between the boy and the man -- all the fears!
Subject(s): Fear; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE NEW HIGHWAY, by EVA SMITH TURNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A smooth, broad highway girds our town
Last Line: Cast cold, dark shadows on my heart.
Subject(s): Environment; Roads; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Paths; Trails


THE NIGHT HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I laughed when the dawn was a-peepin'
Last Line: And a lone rider sings to the moon?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE OLD BUFFALO TRAIL, by ISABEL ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the old buffalo trail, I'm glad this autumn day
Last Line: O, buffalo trail, what legends and what marvels you could tell!
Subject(s): Autumn; Native Americans; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails


THE OLD COOLGARDIE ROAD, by DORHAM DOOLETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A flitting shadow follows
Last Line: Back to her breast again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Prodigal, The
Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Horses; Nostalgia; Roads; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails


THE OLD COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I go home at end of day, the old road
Last Line: And you sleeping so quietly under the grass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Fathers; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Roads; Dead, The; Irish; Paths; Trails


THE OLD MACKENZIE TRAIL, by JOHN AVERY LOMAX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See, stretching yonder o'er that low divide
Last Line: Went rangeing o'er the old mackenzie trail.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States


THE OLD MARLBOROUGH ROAD, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where they once dug for money
Last Line: By the old marlborough road.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE ONWARD TRAIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as of old, - with fearless foot
Last Line: Merge and be ever one again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farewell; Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Parting; Paths; Trails


THE PASSING OF THE TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a sunny, savage land
Last Line: Far riding down the years!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE PATH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far, far I've strayed me in the long endeavor
Last Line: And just ahead, my home.
Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Truth; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails


THE PATH, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He followed the curve of the sunrise
Last Line: Was no longer the way for him.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE PATH, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The path led just a shade too steeply
Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE PATH, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had a path, I'd keep it open
Last Line: Always wider, for people to pass.
Subject(s): Forests; Life; Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Woods; Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 16, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People ask the way to cold mountain
Last Line: You would be here
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 224, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I enjoy the simple path
Last Line: Until the moon comes up cold mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 255, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People search for cloud roads
Last Line: Cloud roads are in space
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Clouds; Roads; Taoism; Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 3, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cold mountain road is strange
Last Line: Form asks shadow where to
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 300, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On cold mountain road
Last Line: What are my signs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 32, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who takes the cold mountain road
Last Line: And sit with me in the clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 35, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trail to cold mountain is faint
Last Line: Year after year no spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 27, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Partial to pine cliffs and lonely trails
Last Line: Trusting the current like an unmoored boat
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Boats; Chinese Literature; Laughter; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 34, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old buddha road is deserted
Last Line: Need to see my teacher
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Roads; Teaching & Teachers; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity; Paths; Trails; Educators; Professors


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 45, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up high the trail turns steep
Last Line: To wait for that lone crane once more
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE ROAD, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now where are ye goin',' ses I, 'wid the shaw!
Last Line: Still 'twas me that went wid her right on to the end!
Subject(s): Friendship; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE ROAD, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On gilead road the shadows creep
Last Line: So dear is that before.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE ROAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My way of life is a winding road
Last Line: "and something coming around the bend!'"
Subject(s): Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Roads; Singing & Singers; Paths; Trails; Songs


THE ROAD, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a road that turning aways
Subject(s): Roads; Transience; Paths; Trails; Impermanence


THE ROAD MENDERS, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How solitary gleams the lamplit street
Last Line: The fiery destiny of man.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Roads; Work; Workers; Paths; Trails


THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
Last Line: And that has made all the difference.
Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Life Change Events; Roads; Time; Destiny; Liberty; Paths; Trails


THE ROAD THROUGH CHAOS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is one road, one only, to the light
Last Line: Conquer your world, and find the eternal goal.
Subject(s): Beauty; Chaos; Hearts; Light; Pilate, Pontius; Roads; Truth; Paths; Trails


THE ROAD TO CABINTEELY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the lonely road, the road to cabinteely!
Last Line: Though my poor heart should break.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Roads; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails


THE ROAD TO CHURCH, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rutted by wheels and scarred by hoofs
Last Line: Which they shall walk no more.
Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Roads; Cathedrals; Theology; Paths; Trails


THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain road goes up and down
Last Line: The lonely road to gundagai.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Australia; Kisses; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE ROAD TO HOGAN'S GAP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now look, you see. It's this way like
Last Line: And hogan's old grey mare!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE ROAD TO OLD MAN'S TOWN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fields of youth are filled with flowers
Last Line: The road to old man's town!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Flowers; Roads; Towns; Youth; Paths; Trails


THE ROADS OF MEN, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The roads that men have made wind everywhere
Last Line: A shining lane to join all souls to god!
Subject(s): Men; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Paths; Trails


THE ROMAN ROAD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The roman road runs straight and bare
Last Line: The roman road.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE ROMAN ROAD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury me close to the roman road
Last Line: And still is the riding sweet.
Subject(s): Graves; Roads; Tombs; Tombstones; Paths; Trails


THE ROUND FISH, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With neither bones nor skin
Last Line: From the one that you are making as you go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Roads; Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Paths; Trails; Ocean; Swimmers


THE SAFE DRIVER, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the street I drive my car, my rate of
Last Line: "gets it in the neck, is he who swears by safety first!"
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode
Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


THE SHORT ROAD TO HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a short road to heaven, but you must take it young
Last Line: The night darkens on them—and there's god at the door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Roads; War; World War I; Youth; Paradise; Paths; Trails; First World War


THE SONG OF THE HILL TRAILS, by ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Quiet runs the valley way
Last Line: And of the years to be!
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE SPRING, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beating asphalt into highway potholes
Subject(s): Reparing; Roads; Drinks & Drinking; Paths; Trails; Wine


THE SUNFISH LAKE ROAD, by BEATRICE MARY BILLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The long road lures me and I leave the town
Last Line: And pale spires pierce the blue of evening sky.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE TRAIL, by DAVID ATKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In solemn rank on either hand
Last Line: Leads .... Home, like any old-world street.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE TRAIL, by J. O. GARRETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dust clouds and dragging hoofs
Last Line: Up the long trail to better pastures.
Subject(s): Cattle; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE TRAIL OF NO RETURN, by JESSIE JANE HUSSEY CASKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Along the trail my way I wend
Last Line: Away, from world sojourn.
Subject(s): Future Life; Roads; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paths; Trails


THE TRAIL TO LILLOOET, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sob of fall, and song of forest, come you here on haunting quest
Last Line: And call across the cañon on the trail to lillooet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Fraser (river), British Columbia; Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE TRAIN DOGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the night and the north
Last Line: The wolfish blood in their veins.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Native Americans; Roads; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails


THE TURN OF THE ROAD, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where this narrow lane slips by
Last Line: At the turn of the road.'
Subject(s): Footprints; Roads; Solitude; Time; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


THE UP-HILL STREET, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a lane through grassy meadows
Last Line: And merges in the sky.
Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE VIELD PATH, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here oonce did sound sweet words, a-spoke
Last Line: Wer here so long as I can mind.
Subject(s): Fields; Memory; Nostalgia; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails


THE VISION OF RABBI BEN ISAAC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For three score years my wandering
Last Line: A snow-white feather fell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Clergy; God; Roads; Vision; Wandering & Wanderers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Paths; Trails


THE WATCHERS ON THE ROAD, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hill road, the desert road
Last Line: With a white and terrible sword.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Angels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE WAY, by COLETTA RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall I find you, oh, my dear?'
Last Line: "so loving, loitering, mount the steps -- no doubt I will be there."
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They shut the road through the woods
Last Line: But there is no road through the woods.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Roads; Time; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods; Paths; Trails


THE WAYSIDE BANK, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With primroses gentle / she did her bedight
Last Line: For the dusty day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE WESTERN ROAD, by EDWIN JAMES BRADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My camp was by the western road - so new and yet so old
Last Line: And clearly rose another day—along the western road.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brady, E. J.
Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE WINDING ROAD, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The beckoning road winds round the hill
Last Line: My blithely winding road.
Subject(s): Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THEIR FIRST PILGRIMAGE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still is north hinksey very much the same
Last Line: The toiling masses come to try their hand on thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Oxford University; Roads; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Paths; Trails


THERE WAS A ROAD, by LOUISE SNODGRASS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a road, white sparred
Last Line: We found it and the night was starred.
Variant Title(s): The Road
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


TO A LITTLE GIRL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All on a day of gold and blue
Last Line: Follow them little darling!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Children; Roads; Childhood; Paths; Trails


TO ARCADY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, singer, of the way
Last Line: "love's at home in arcady!"
Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


TO HER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cut loose a hundred rivers
Last Line: Go clean-hearted to her!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Roads; Togetherness; Paths; Trails


TO MY MOTHER, by FLORANZ HILDRUP EMTAGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: She walked a high road, I could see her there
Last Line: But this I know, that she still walks -- and sings.
Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Roads; Singing & Singers; Walking; Paths; Trails; Songs


TO YOUR HEART, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The path to your heart is a new england roadway
Last Line: And ends with a stone.
Subject(s): Hearts; New England; Roads; Paths; Trails


TRAILER, by CONSTANCE R. DOWD    Poem Text                    
First Line: When people say a witty thing
Last Line: That will not come again!
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


TRAILS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: He leaves his silver trail behind
Last Line: And never see their golden trails.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


TWO PATHS, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had not hoped last year
Last Line: I cast—the other way.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


TWO ROADS, by MYRTLE WRIGHT GILILLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The new road runs in smooth, marked lanes
Last Line: Well suited to my dreams.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


VERMONT IN LATE SEPTEMBER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The roadside bloom I saw last week
Last Line: The goldenrod and asters.
Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


VIA SACRA: TO A FRENCH FRIEND, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou that in years to come shalt tread this sacred way
Last Line: Hark! Up the avenue, the nightride of the maid!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): France; Patriotism; Roads; Paths; Trails


VILLANELLE OF ROADS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, whither go the roads that lead away?
Last Line: Ah, whither go the roads that lead away?
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


WET GRASS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tinges corner dripped and sighed
Last Line: And not a word was said.
Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails


WHAT SHALL ENDURE?, by ETHELYN M. HARTWICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great roads the romans built that men might meet
Last Line: The walls are fallen, but the roads endure.
Subject(s): Permanence; Roads; Roman Empire; Walls; Paths; Trails


WHICH PATH SHALL YOURS BE?, by RAY D. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is there in living when one has lost all
Last Line: Which of them shall yours be — the weak or the strong?
Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails


WHICH ROAD?, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still green on the limbs o' the woak wer the leaves
Last Line: Gaït o' walkèn, so smooth as an aïr-zwimmèn cloud
Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants; Paths; Trails


WINTER ROADS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the spring thaw
Last Line: Looking for winter
Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Spring; Winter; Fall; Paths; Trails