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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PATIENCE Matches Found: 122 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Talk not of sad november, when a day Last Line: For leaf and blossom when god gives us spring! Subject(s): Patience A SONG, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye swains cease to flatter, our hearts to obtain Last Line: The worthy man only can hold a place there. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Admiration; Worth, Patience A THROE UPON THE FEATURES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To rejoin its own Subject(s): Death; Patience A TRIBUTE TO DR MURISON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to the good and skilful dr murison Last Line: Is the honest confession of mcgonagall. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Honor; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Praise; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors ACCIDENT, by LIA PURPURA Poem Source First Line: Patience turned too sharply from Last Line: I mean %the patience %came back in Subject(s): Accidents; Patience ALLAH IS WITH THE PATIENT, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Allah is with the patient. Long ago Last Line: And give me of thy patience, while I wait. Subject(s): Patience AMORETTI: 6, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be nought dismayed that her unmoved mind Last Line: To knit the knot that ever shall remaine. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Patience; Oak Trees AN EPISTLE, FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS SISTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sister, / if soliloquy conduce Last Line: Of inward life thanksgiving is the sap. Subject(s): Patience; Relationships; Sisters BE PATIENT, by GEORGIANA KLINGLE HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are such dear familiar feet that go Last Line: There's such a little way to go. Alternate Author Name(s): Klingle, George Subject(s): Patience BE STILL AND WAIT, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be still, o soul! Last Line: The shining robe of immortality. Subject(s): Immortality; Patience; Waiting BRANDED, by JACKARANDALO [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: A swooning hot midsummer day Last Line: Who has the strength to wait Alternate Author Name(s): Jackarandalo Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;patience;revenge BRAZEN HAND, by KARL KIRCHWEY Poem Source First Line: Late in the day we realized: Last Line: Given what it had cost Subject(s): Vacation; Worth, Patience BY HIS BEDSIDE, by FERN MARY MUNSELL Poem Text First Line: Dear little fellow - you are fast Last Line: Gentleness. Subject(s): Children; Patience; Regret; Wisdom; Childhood CANZONE: 2, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patience, though I have not Last Line: Is a painful patience. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 39 Subject(s): Fortune; Patience CANZONE: 3, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patience for my device Last Line: Is easy to fulfill. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 40 Subject(s): Patience CANZONE: 7, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patience of all my smart Last Line: I must take patience. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Patience CARMEL POINT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The extraordinary patience of things! Last Line: As the rock and ocean that we were made from Subject(s): Carmel, California; Nature; Patience CARMEL POINT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The extraordinary patience of things! Last Line: As the rock and ocean that we were made from Subject(s): Carmel, California; Nature; Patience CASIDA OF THE CLUSTERS, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Through the groves of the tamarit Last Line: Waiting for them to break on their own Subject(s): Hunger; Patience CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1917: THE LAST LAP, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We seldom were quick off the mark Last Line: Be your victorious christmas-tide. Subject(s): Christmas; England; Hope; Patience; Victory; War; World War I; Nativity, The; English; Optimism; First World War CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 6. OF PATIENCE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How now (old nick) what! Ripe in age and teares? Last Line: In the way to heaven are they. Subject(s): Patience COUNSELS OF PRUDENCE AND PATIENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I see a rybane ryche and newe Subject(s): Patience; Prudence; Religion DARK GALLEY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Wouldst thou that she should quickly leave %thy waters Last Line: No life but shall fulfill its destiny! Subject(s): Grief; Patience DECIMA, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent daisies out of reach Last Line: Sweetly manifest the god. Subject(s): Patience; Daisies DELAY, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: The radiance of that star leans on me Last Line: And love arrived may find us somewhere else Subject(s): Love; Patience; Stars; Time EPIGRAM: 35, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patience, for I have [done] wrong Last Line: Hereafter comes not yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Patience EPITAPH FOR ANY NEW YORKER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, who all my life had hurried Last Line: "take your eternity,"" he said." Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): New York City; Patience; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple EXPECTATION, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chide, chide no more away Last Line: Will crown thy hope or fix thy fear. Variant Title(s): Destiny Subject(s): Patience FEW LESOTHO TRADITIONS: PATIENCE, by JACQUELINE LYONS Poem Source First Line: I wait, stand before the empty Last Line: They wish me to go well and now I can %go home to bake my cake Subject(s): Patience FORESIGHT AND PATIENCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sprung of the father blood, the mother brain Last Line: Counts conquest but a step, and through disaster sings. Subject(s): Faith; Materialism; Patience; Belief; Creed GOD WAITS FOR THE WANDERING WORLD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Patience is his promise Subject(s): God; Patience GOD WAITS FOR THE WANDERING WORLD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He will not mind my coming after hours. %his patience is his promise Subject(s): Patience HAGOP SANDALDJIAN'S MICROMINIATURES, by TINA KELLEY Poem Source First Line: I love the mere existence of the word patience Last Line: The match's first sharp instant, its small smell bright as mustard Subject(s): Patience HAVE PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The goblets all are broken Last Line: Are very near us. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Patience; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HE SPOILS HIS HOUSE AND THROWS HIS PAINS AWAY, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Patience HOLD ON A WHILE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the sky is very black Last Line: And -- just -- hold on -- a while. Subject(s): Patience I WAITED PATIENTLY FOR THE LORD', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I not be patient? Thou hast been Last Line: Hast waited long, hast kept thy lamp alight Subject(s): Patience; God; Faith I WOULD THAT I WERE LIKE A TREE, by LEILA CHAMBERLAIN DEANE Poem Text First Line: Wait ... Wait patiently ... / I would that I Last Line: . . . I shall wait as still -- as patiently. Subject(s): Patience IN PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not faint, but trust in god Last Line: But re-awakening on the morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Patience; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness IT HAPPENS LIKE THIS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was outside st. Cecelia's rectory Subject(s): Goats; Patience JAMES AND THE SHOULDER OF MUTTON, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young jem at noon returned from school Last Line: "and mind what says our sue. " Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide Subject(s): Food & Eating; Patience LEARN TO WAIT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Learn to wait - life's hardest lesson Last Line: Joy seeks not a brighter morrow; / only sad hearts learn to wait Subject(s): Patience LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can man rejoice who lives in hourly fear Last Line: Perfect his patience in the love of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Patience; Worship LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a bird alone Last Line: Answer: yea, come, lord jesus, come Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Solitude; Eternity; Time; Patience LINDISFAIRE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horses go down the dingy lane Last Line: You'll find the old bay hunter there. Subject(s): Animals; Caregivers; Despair; Horses; Luck; Patience; Poverty LONG LOOKT FOR COMES AT LAST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though long it be, yeeres may repay the debt Last Line: None loseth that, which he in time may get. Subject(s): Patience LOOK UP, by MARTHA SNELL NICHOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the cannon's roar we hear his voice Last Line: With ear of faith, his footfall drawing near! Variant Title(s): His Footfall Draweth Nea Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Patience MEDICAL TYRO WAITING FOR PATIENTS, by C. S. ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The young doctor sits through his advertised hours Last Line: And call number one he hails with delight. Subject(s): Medical Students; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Professions; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors MYSELF, by ADAH ISAACS MENKEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away down into the shadowy depths of the real I once lived Last Line: I can wait Alternate Author Name(s): Theodore, Philomene Croi; Mccord, Ada Subject(s): Patience O YE WHO LOVE TODAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then to her sun gives place Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Patience OLNEY HYMNS: 44. PRAYER FOR PATIENCE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me Last Line: But rather weep, remembering thine. Subject(s): Patience ON PATIENCE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A verse on patience?' yes; but then prepare Last Line: Learn to have patience with ourselves, and mend! Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: New come from church (a place where I Last Line: Patience is sure & ample victorie. Subject(s): Ambition; Fame; Patience; Prayer; Reputation PATIENCE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She hath no beauty in her face Last Line: Talk with the angels unaware! Subject(s): Patience; Religion; Theology PATIENCE, by STEPHEN CRAIG KNAUTH Poem Source First Line: Through the grimy window of the no. 19 bus Last Line: I call her. Some songs take a lifetime to sing Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind comes from the north Last Line: To the lode of her agony. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Suspicion Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The passion of despair is quelled at last Last Line: Hers is the holy calm of some meek saint. Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be patient, o be patient! Put your ear against the earth Last Line: Freedom's harvest day Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): Freedom; Patience; Liberty PATIENCE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day from noon on shifted Last Line: With a certain necessary patience Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patience is / wider than one Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patience is in my clothes Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patience is in my clothes Last Line: Simply what I said Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I wish that I might do Last Line: And see the perfect day. Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patience and I have traveled hand in hand Last Line: And patience fills their empty place instead. Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE, by PAMELIA VINING YULE Poem Source First Line: I saw how the patient sun Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE AND HOPE, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a barren steep Last Line: Of patience nursing hope -- the angel and the child! Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Hope; Patience; Optimism PATIENCE HAS A QUIET OUTER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Through the quivering Variant Title(s): Poem: 926; Poem: 84 Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE IN PRINCES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kings must not use the axe for each offence Last Line: Princes cure some faults by their patience. Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE MUST DWELL WITH LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Love only will be near Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Grief; Patience PATIENCE OF A MAN OF PRAYER, by FRANCOIS DEBLUE Poem Source First Line: Like a careful lacemaker Last Line: From heaven or from earth Subject(s): Mankind; Patience; Prayer PATIENCE OF THE MAN ON THE PATH, by FRANCOIS DEBLUE Poem Source First Line: See that path over there Last Line: Will go %on ours Subject(s): Mankind; Patience; Roads PATIENCE OF THE SPIDER'S WEB, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is not distubed by dew Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Patience; Spiders PATIENCE OF THE WARRIOR, by FRANCOIS DEBLUE Poem Source First Line: From the strong battlements of their citadel Last Line: Which was always victorious over their ramparts Subject(s): Patience; Soldiers PATIENCE TAUGHT BY NATURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dreary life,' we cry, 'o dreary life!' Last Line: Grows by, contented through the heat and cold. Subject(s): Nature; Patience; Religion; Theology PATIENCE, OR COMFORT IN CROSSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abundant plagues I late have had Last Line: Of suffring gives me patience. Subject(s): Patience PATIENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I was not patient in that olden time Last Line: Could ever compass underneath the sky Subject(s): Patience;waiting PATIENT JOE, OR THE NEWCASTLE COLLIER, by HANNAH MORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard of a collier of honest renown Last Line: That my life would be saved by the loss of my dinner?' Subject(s): Mines And Miners; Patience PENELOPE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have looked for you at the familiar center Last Line: Who in the dead thesis of voyage, avoids me. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Patience; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus PENELOPE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is scarcely Subject(s): Penelope (mythology); Patience PERPLEXED MUSIC, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Experience, like a pale musician holds Last Line: And, smiling down the stars, they whisper -- sweet. Subject(s): Patience; Experience PIETA, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hunted heaven Subject(s): Seeking; Patience POUR QUI SAIT ATTENDRE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things, they say, come home to those that wait Last Line: In thanks to heaven, who did not wait to kiss? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Patience RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: AQUARIUS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is faithbearing Last Line: Though the fish be gone Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Patience SEA-WEED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not always unimpeded can I pray Last Line: Abides its time to come in search of me. Subject(s): Patience; Seaweed SERENITY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Learn patience. Watch the quiet-moving hours Last Line: Become co-worker of god's patient years. Subject(s): Patience SEVEN, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Don't shove. The one who is cute enough Last Line: Cherries will redden. %summer will come Subject(s): Patience; Seasons SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it doesn't come bursting out of you Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Patience SONG OF MARVELS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is down Last Line: All for the love of patience Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Homeless; Patience SONG: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patience, surly pilot, shortly Last Line: Both thou broughtest, death and flame! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Love; Patience; Dead, The; Parting SONG: 64, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the change from that that was Last Line: I see the change. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Psalm Subject(s): Change; Faith; Patience; Belief; Creed SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; A POET IN HIS YOUTH, AND THE CUCKOO-BIRD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time, I lay Last Line: To-morrow, man, if not to-day %now it murmurs, wait, wait, wait! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Patience; Poetry And Poets; Voices SONNET. TO PATIENCE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down, stormy passions, down; no more Last Line: Which cures a tempest by a calm. Subject(s): Patience SQUIRE HAWKING'S STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hain't no hand at tellin' tales Last Line: I heerd the roosters crow fer day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Love; Patience; Widows & Widowers SWEETNESS OF REST WHEN THOU SHEDDEST REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Waiting to come to the birth Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): End Time; Patience TAKING TIME TO GROW, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mamma! Mamma!' two eaglets cried Last Line: An eaglet can afford to wait Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Growth; Patience TEACH US TO WAIT!, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why are we so impatient of delay Last Line: Lord, make us also to believe and trust! Subject(s): Faith; Patience; Belief; Creed TEN ILLS: PERTINAX, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let chaos storm Last Line: I wait for form Subject(s): Patience THE CHILDREN'S WAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children bear our froward mood Last Line: See, lord,—they bear with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Parents; Patience; Tolerance; Childhood; Parenthood THE CONFLICT: 4. WILSON, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patience - but peace of heart we cannot choose Last Line: The wolf of europe has not triumphed yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; Patience; United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); World War I; America; First World War THE GREATER PATIENCE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The passionless and imperceptible drifting Last Line: But doubt; the patient only can believe? Subject(s): God; Life; Patience THE MINISTER OF CULTURE GETS HIS WISH, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The minister of culture goes home after a grueling day at the office Subject(s): Patience; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids THE OVERWORKED GHOST, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the embalmer closed my eyes Last Line: That's patience worth there on the phone! Subject(s): Death; Worth, Patience; Dead, The THE PATIENCE OF THE POOR, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When leisurely the man of ease Last Line: Its thirst in an undoubted heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Patience; Poverty THE PATIENT CHURCH, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bide thou thy time! Last Line: True seed! Thou shalt prevail! Subject(s): Catholics; Patience; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE PATIENT WAYS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: We have not learned the patient ways to keep Last Line: All discord in the soul of him who hears. Subject(s): Patience THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE TORSO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In clay the statue stood complete Last Line: The ruined sculptor's monument. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Life; Patience; Statues; Optimism THROUGH WHAT TRANSPORTS OF PATIENCE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy privilege of dying %abbreviate this Variant Title(s): Poem: 1153; Poem: 126 Subject(s): Patience TO CHLOE, by JOHN OLDMIXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prithee, chloe, not so fast Last Line: Love without it will not please. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Patience TO G.M.T., by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is sinking in the west Last Line: To love as good as thine. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Love; Mourning; Patience; Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962); Dead, The; Bereavement TO GOD (6), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make, make me thine, my gracious god Last Line: But I as patient will be found. Subject(s): Patience TO PATIENCE, SELECTION, by CHARLES JENNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O may my soul direct her steps aright Last Line: "by patient steadiness to climb to heaven." Subject(s): Heaven; Patience; Paradise TO THE SPHINX, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sleepless sphinx! Last Line: Eternal sphinx! Subject(s): Earth; Egypt; Patience; Sphinx; Time; World TOMORROW, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred thousand years old, I would still have the strength Last Line: Which will prove that at last we are living in the present Subject(s): Surrealism; Time; Patience UPON GOD (3), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God when he takes my goods and chattels hence Last Line: He patience gives; he gives himselfe to me. Subject(s): Patience VAIN EXCUSE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be patient, life, when love is at the gate Last Line: Be patient now with death, for love has passed. Variant Title(s): Dialogue Subject(s): Death; Idleness; Life; Love; Patience; Waiting; Dead, The; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence WAIT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wait, for now Last Line: Rehearsed by the sorrows, play itself into total exhaustion Subject(s): Suicide; Love - Loss Of; Patience; Faith; Belief; Creed WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God doth not bid thee wait Last Line: "wait patiently for him." Subject(s): God; Patience WAITING, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Serene, I fold my hands and wait Last Line: Can keep my own away from me. Variant Title(s): My Own Shall Come To Me Subject(s): Consolation; Patience; Religion; Theology WAITING, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: The one who waits is always the mother Last Line: Until in the end %no one sees her Subject(s): Human Rights; Mothers; Patience; Waiting WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You shall have satin and silk to wear Last Line: When my ship comes in. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Faith; Patience; Wealth; Belief; Creed; Riches; Fortunes WOMAN WITH FLOWER, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wouldn't coax the plant if I were you Last Line: The things we love we have to learn to leave alone Subject(s): Patience YOU TAUGHT ME WAITING WITH MYSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon the further hand Variant Title(s): Poem: 740; Poem: 77 Subject(s): Faith; Patience |
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