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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTOGRAPHERS Matches Found: 81 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 25 EXPOSURES, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What makes our pictures Last Line: Then endures silence. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Slavery; Serfs A BLURRY PHOTOGRAPH, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tree azalea overwhelms the evening with its scent Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Time; Smells; Memory; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances A PHOTO OF A LOVER FROM MY JUNIOR YEAR IN COLLEGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or the earth: one half in sun Subject(s): Memory; Photography & Photographers; Universities & Colleges A PHOTOGRAPH, by NINA FARLEY WISHEK Poem Text First Line: Odd little, thin little brown little girl Last Line: Ever wear pretty dresses, have a wave and a curl? Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Photography & Photographers A PHOTOGRAPH ON THE RED GOLD; JERSEY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About the knoll the airs blew fresh and brisk Last Line: Bless all its bliss, and keep its pleasures pure! Subject(s): Jersey, Channel Island; Photography & Photographers A PICTURE OF SOLDIERS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are doughboys, of doughboy bearing Last Line: The next invention, the next impossible president. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War A THANKS TO A BOTANIST, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Setting his camera to blink a frame Last Line: Would be a / visible symphony Subject(s): Photography & Photographers AFTER THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRASSAI, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A whore moves a basin of green antiseptic water Last Line: It falls stiff like a drunk, like a drunk falling onto a whore. Subject(s): Brassai [gyula Halsz] (1899-1984); Life Change Events; Photography & Photographers; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels ALL OF US BENEATH RED COWBOY HATS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between his smaller brothers, he Last Line: That child. I'm trying to forgive him Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Photography & Photographers BERNARD AND SARAH, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hang them where they'll do some good,' my grandfather Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Photography & Photographers; Heritage; Heredity BUDAPEST, MARCH 1928: THE GENIUS OF FRIENDSHIP, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was not so much terror then Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Photography & Photographers; City & Town Life EXPOSURE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please do not tell me there is no voodoo Subject(s): Photography & Photographers FADED PICTURES, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only two patient eyes to stare Last Line: A picture keeps its eyes, somehow. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 2, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two pictures of a rose in the dark Subject(s): Flowers; Photography & Photographers; Roses FOUR POEMS ABOUT JAMAICA: 2. JAMAICANS POSING TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Illiterate esther watched me Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Jamaica, West Indies FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Children; Childhood FROM THE DARKROOM, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The image comes up slowly where light fell, Last Line: Against the lesson all love spurns. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Photography & Photographers HIAWATHA'S PHOTOGRAPHING, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From his shoulder hiawatha / took the camera of rosewood Last Line: Thus departed hiawatha. Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Photography & Photographers I STARTED SUBSCRIBING, by TRISH REEVES Poem Text First Line: To the christian science monitor Subject(s): Buses; Capital Punishment; Gays & Lesbians; Photography & Photographers; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ICONS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They are one answer to the human need Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Famous People IDEOGRAPHS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The small scaffolds, boards in the form of Subject(s): China; Photography & Photographers; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers LOUIS PRANG, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He holds a title deed to fame Last Line: A million photographs of her! Subject(s): Photography & Photographers LOVE IN DIAN'S LAP: 11. BENEATH A PHOTOGRAPH, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, who taught me art divine Last Line: Something the better of the two! Subject(s): Photography & Photographers MECHANIZATION, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The photographic plate makes clear Last Line: And it is they that feel. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Photography & Photographers MIRACLES, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His lens misses her Last Line: Is no longer his wife. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers MY HUSBAND TAKES SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF ME, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's like coal in your stocking Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Self; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY PHOTOGRAPH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sister sunshine smiled on me Last Line: "of radiance from above." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Photography & Photographers; Dead, The NARRATIVE OF THE VISION OF OUR LADY OF ARMEIRO, by NATHANIEL TARN Poem Text First Line: The photograph of our lady of armeiro has been placed Last Line: Have we ever known of any death so measured and so rigorous? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Photography & Photographers; United States; Dead, The; America NAVAL PHOTOGRAPH: 25 OCTOBER 1942: WHAT THE HAND, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reports of a japanese surface presence Last Line: Toward the camera, toward us, for all of the reasons anyone waves. Subject(s): Navy - United States; Photography & Photographers; Waves; World War Ii; American Navy; Second World War ON A PHOTO OF SGT. CIARDI A YEAR LATER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sgt. Stands so fluently in leather Last Line: The camera photographs the photographer; Subject(s): World War Ii; Photography & Photographers; Soldiers; Second World War ON AN UGLY PERSON SITTING FOR A DAGUERREOTYPE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here nature in her glass - the wanton elf Last Line: Repeats the blunders that she made before! Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Ugliness OUR PHOTOGRAPH, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She played me false, but that's not why Last Line: To leave my boots. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Variant Title(s): On Photographs Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Photography & Photographers PHOTO OF A MAN ON SUNSET DRIVE: 1914, 2008, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so it began: the earth torn, split open Last Line: For years after I too disappear into a photo Subject(s): City & Town Life; Photography & Photographers PHOTO OF THE AUTHOR WITH A FAVORITE PIG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind its snout like a huge button Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Pigs; Photography & Photographers; Boars; Hogs PHOTOGRAPH OF A GATHERING OF PEOPLE WAVING, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound, the whole thing Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Farewell; Photography & Photographers; Pictures; Silence; Heritage; Heredity; Parting PHOTOGRAPH OF MY ROOM, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years from now, you might Last Line: Who has no belongings. Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Photography & Photographers; Slovakia PHOTOGRAPHED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For years, an ever-shifting shade Last Line: Enshrined thee in my heart of heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Photography & Photographers PHOTOGRAPHING A RATTLESNAKE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On smooth sand among stones Last Line: Back to its still life Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Rattlesnakes PHOTOGRAPHS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the past we listened to photographs. They heard our voice speak. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers PHOTOGRAPHS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take what you want, we'll throw the rest away Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Memory; Parents; Parenthood PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A BOOK, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poem again, of several parts, each having to do Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916) PHOTOGRAPHY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My aunt yetta sleeps, her mouth hanging open, her eyes Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Aunts; Photography & Photographers PLATE 134. BY EAKINS. 'A COWBOY IN THE WEST ...', by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His hat, his gun, his gloves, his chair, his place Last Line: Heartbreaking canteen, empty on the ground Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cowboys; Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916); Photography & Photographers POEM FOR PICTURE: TO A PORTRAIT BY EDWARD STEICHEN (RACHMANINOFF), by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. Poem Text First Line: Deep music comes Last Line: Hands have known. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Rachmaninoff, Sergey (1873-1943); Steichen, Edward (1879-1973) RED BLUES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music. Then, more music. Does it matter what kind? Let's say it is bagpipes Last Line: It;s just me and my blues Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Dancing & Dancers; Native Americans; Uncles RESTRICTED VISTA, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where they've punched holes in the roof, Last Line: Panoramas pulsing beneath each shoe Subject(s): Photography & Photographers SCHOOLS OF LITTLE FISH, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Falling in snow beyond the window Last Line: Until you can carry your brains in your open hands Subject(s): Film (photography); Fish & Fishing; Photography & Photographers; Anglers SCRIBNER'S, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a little / more going Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Relationships SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 5. THE PHOTOGRAPH, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus apollo, from olympus driven Last Line: The sun-god's secret -- in the photograph. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Photography & Photographers SNAPSHOT, by DONALD LINDSAY Poem Text First Line: This, they tell me, is a photograph of you Last Line: Cut down. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Spring SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PENNIWIT, THE ARTIST, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lost my patronage in spoon river Last Line: "when saying ""I except." Subject(s): Photography & Photographers SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RUTHERFORD MCDOWELL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They brought me ambrotypes Last Line: Under the sun! Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Pioneers SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER; FOR JIM DRAKE, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a young man he ran. He knew Last Line: He can never run out of film. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers STORYVILLE DIARY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot now remember the first word Subject(s): Bellocq, E. J.; Fathers; Identity; Nudity; Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Prostitution; Storyville, New Orleans; Nakedness; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TAKING BROTHER'S PICTURE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He felt quite miser'ble, I know Last Line: "said ""look as pleasant as you can!" Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Discontent; Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Half-brothers; Childhood; Dissatisfaction TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: SEARCHING FOR THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have waited my lifetime for this Last Line: It is the summons from the ox Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Photography & Photographers THE COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They had photographs of baby Last Line: Each declared it was a fright! Subject(s): Photography & Photographers THE DAGUERREOTYPE, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This, then, is she Last Line: Inexorable to save! Subject(s): Mothers; Photography & Photographers THE DEATH OF A PHOTOGRAPHER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light was his paradigm Last Line: Down to its dark frame. Subject(s): Death; Photography & Photographers; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE EFFIGY, by P. P. S. Poem Text First Line: And so she smiles! - nor frown nor pout Last Line: So constant as thy photograph! Subject(s): Photography & Photographers THE MOTHER'S LAMENT UPON LOSS OF HER CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHS, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou no mercy, wind, that thou should'st tear from me Last Line: In colors rare, upon fond memory's page. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Children; Photography & Photographers; Childhood THE NEWS PHOTO, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This idiot had suffered his own faults Last Line: He could grin for his picture Subject(s): News; Photography & Photographers THE PHOTOGRAPH, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See dis pictyah in my han'? Last Line: Pictyah, lak she wan'ed a kiss! Subject(s): Photography & Photographers THE PHOTOGRAPH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flame crept up the portrait line by line Last Line: If in heaven, did she smile at me sadly and shake her head? Subject(s): Photography & Photographers THE PHOTOGRAPH: THE LYNCHING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the cut glass Subject(s): Lynching; Photography & Photographers THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ANNUAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are returning to new england for two weeks! My sister Last Line: Throughout the afternoon. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Erotic; Jews; Marriage; Mayas; Mexico; Morality; Photography & Photographers; Poetry & Poets; Vermont; World War Ii; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ethics; Second World War THE PHOTOS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sister in her well-tailored silk blouse hands me Subject(s): Family Life; Photography & Photographers; Relatives THE POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKS IN D. C., SELS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the photo of billie holiday at the 1957 newport jazz festival Last Line: Look for it and it’s not there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Famous People; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Photography & Photographers; Singing & Singers TO A PHOTOGRAPH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tender shade Last Line: Behold in me! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Photography & Photographers TO A PHOTOGRAPHER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known joy and woe and toil and fight Last Line: They are my scars of battle — put them back! Subject(s): Aging; Disdain; Photography & Photographers; Time; Scorn TO MRS. CAMERON, FRESHWATER, ISLE OF WIGHT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Modern beauty lends her lips and eyes Last Line: And all his fairest nereids sit to thee. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Cameron, Julia Margaret (1815-1879); Photography & Photographers; Arthur, King TO MY CAMERA, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: You truthful, cynical old box Last Line: A picture grew within my heart. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers TO MY PHOTOGRAPH: A.D. 1897, by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER Poem Text First Line: Dear, round-eyed one, I wish I knew Last Line: To your dewy charm and your smug complacence. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Self TO THE RETURNED GIRLS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you read my little pome Last Line: Lots of people do not care. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Vacations; Girls; Photography & Photographers; Poetry Readings TUOL SLENG: POL POT'S PRISON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like photographs of dutch schultz which show a slick Last Line: But all I can do is make them into words. Subject(s): Cambodia; Photography & Photographers; Prisons & Prisoners UPON SEEING AN ULTRASOUND PHOTO OF AN UNBORN CHILD, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tadpole, it's not time yet to nag you Subject(s): Unborn; Photography & Photographers; Children; Childhood VISIT WITH AN OLD MODEL AT NORWOOD, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As you see, I'm Last Line: Weary bones a spell Subject(s): Photography & Photographers VOGUE SHOOT, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Models; Cosmetics WEATHER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Church steeple through gray mist Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Pictures; Shadows; Weather WHEN I WAS THIRTY-FIVE YOU TOOK MY PHOTOGRAPH, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lying full length on the grass Last Line: By modigliani's nudes. Subject(s): Memory; Photography & Photographers; Youth YOUR MIRROR FRAME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks I see your mirror frame Last Line: To-night with all the rest of them. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Relationships; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes |
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