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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: POETRY & POETS Matches Found: 3097 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "'TWAS ROLLOG, AND THE MINIM POTES", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "came piffling through the headley bod, / and flippered as it flew" Subject(s): "carroll, Lewis (1832-1898);poetry & Poets;" "dodgson, Charles Lutwidge; "AEGLE, BEAUTY AND POET, HAS TWO LITTLE CRIMES", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "she makes her own face, and does not make her rhvmes" Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets "FETCH ME BEN JONSON'S SKULL, AND FILL'T WITH SACK", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: It was no sin to be as drunk as he Subject(s): "alcohol & Alcoholics;jonson, Ben (1572-1637);poetry & Poets; "IMITATION OF ANACREON'S GRASSHOPPER, APPLIED TO MR. T. S.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hail, happy little animal" Last Line: And nearly to the gods allied Subject(s): "anacreon (582-485 B.c.);grasshoppers;poetry & Poets;sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738); "THE BATCHELOR'S SOLILOQUY, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to wed, or not wed -- that is the question" Last Line: Of matrimony join Subject(s): "dramatists;poetry & Poets;shakespeare - Hamlet;shakespeare, William (1564-1616); "TO A GENTLEMAN, WHO DESIRED PROPER MATERIALS FOR A MONODY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Flowerets - wreaths - thy banks along Last Line: Let these be well together blended - / dodsley's your man - the poem's ended Subject(s): Gentlemen;poetry & Poets;rhyme "TURN, AMARYLLIS, TO THY SWAIN", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Sing to my pipe a roundelay Subject(s): Poetry & Poets 140 SYLLABLES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All my life I have wondered Last Line: Out of all the dirty squares Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Poetry & Poets; Social Protest 16 NOVEMBER 1964, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As this morning seemed special when I woke up Last Line: Where is it? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers 1811, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise Last Line: O wretched man, the throne of tyranny! Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Liberty A BALLAD OF THE HEATHER, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We spent a day together Last Line: And love and our two lives. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets A BARD'S EPITAPH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a whim-inspired fool Last Line: Is wisdom's root. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers A BIRTHDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is like a singing bird Last Line: Is come, my love is come to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A BOOK OF CELTIC VERSE (TO SEUMAS MACMANUS), by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That was never a book that you brought me and gave to my hand Last Line: That you gave to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Celts; Poetry & Poets; Reading A BOOK OF VERSES, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a little book of singing rhymes Last Line: To spring at last in this new singer's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs A CAT'S EXAMPLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: For three whole days I and my cat Last Line: Would burn up any human lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love; Passion; Poetry & Poets A CAUTION TO POETS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What poets feel not, when they make Last Line: Pleasure in contemplating. Subject(s): Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets A CENTO MADE BY WORDSWORTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throned in the sun's descending car Last Line: Favourite passages from different authors, seems uobjectionable.] Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Beattie, James (1735-1803); Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Teaching & Teachers; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Doctors A CERTAIN POET, by YORK SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: Little snows flit in the valley of li Last Line: Of consequence against the autumn dusk. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A CHILD'S WISDOM, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cares of day are ended Last Line: But I know he is not dead. Subject(s): Children; Poetry & Poets; Love A CHINESE POET, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today the lightest breeze Last Line: One leaf, or life, more? Subject(s): Leaves; Life; Poetry & Poets A CITY PIPER, by MORRIS ABEL BEER Poem Text First Line: Whenever I see him pass this way Last Line: Can leave behind a trail of light! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pipers; Poetry & Poets A CLOUD SHADOW, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A breeze discovered my open book Last Line: For fear I would make her miss the place Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring A COAT, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made my song a coat Last Line: In walking naked. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 15, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Constantly risking absurdity Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A CONVERSATION WITH THE DEVIL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indulgent, or candid, or uncommon reader Last Line: He was right. And now, to have no choice! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub A COOKING EGG, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pipit sate upright in her chair Last Line: Droop in a hundred a.B.C.'s Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A COUNTRY NOSEGAY, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you been through the long sweet hours Last Line: And I will accept your wilding flowers. Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets A CROWNED POET, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thy coach of state Last Line: To whom god giveth song. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A CURE FOR POETRY, by ANNABELLA (GUISE) BLOUNT Poem Text First Line: I sought instruction from my dawning years Last Line: Improved my judgement, and reformed my heart. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A DEAD POET; QUATRAIN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was the brightest thing beneath the sun Last Line: The world seems strange and chill. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A DEFENSE OF POETRY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My problem with deploying a term liek Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary A DIALOGUE, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1580-1630) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If her disdain least change in you can move Last Line: Which never should to publique tend? Alternate Author Name(s): Pembroke, 3d Earl Of Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets; Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639) A DIALOGUE: JOHN AND RICHARD, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John: what! Must maecenas, when he sups Last Line: Does horace's intent remain! Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets A DITTY OF NO TONE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that my lips might pour Last Line: A crown of mingled song and bloom for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers A DOUBTFUL NECESSITY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What use have I for verse as rough Last Line: Life would be dissonant enough! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A DREAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guid-mornin' to our majesty Last Line: Fu' clean that day. Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares A DREAM OF THREE SISTERS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: From night rocks, above an ocean alive with yellow kelp Last Line: Being wholly ordinary. Subject(s): Animals; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Dogs; Murder; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets A DREAM-POEM, by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: Lost in a dream one night Last Line: Lyrical word! Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary A FAREWELL TO HIS MUSE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Subject(s): Old Age; Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The A FAREWELL TO POETRY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Arcadian scenes adieu! In cyrrha's vale Last Line: Tho' ev'ry moving trill be steep'd in tears. Subject(s): Duty; Farewell; Great Britain; Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Parting A FAT LADY HEARS SHAKESPEARE AT THE CLUB, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rustles in with sweep of many laces Last Line: Sighing with sentiment, she sits there, creaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Dramatists; Obesity; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) A FIT OF RHYME AGAINST RHYME [OR, RIME], by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rhyme, the rack of finest wits Last Line: Was the founder! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme A FOOT-NOTE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walk on the delicate parts Subject(s): Communism; Poetry & Poets A FOOT-RULE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a poet gives his hand Last Line: It is metre. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall essenc'd coxcombs who from toilettes Last Line: Own the supreme omnipotence of gold. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Sin; Vanity; Virtue A GEOLOGICAL MADRIGAL, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have found out a gift for my fair Last Line: Our fossil ancestors in rock! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Fossils; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets A GIRTONIAN FUNERAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let us begin and portion out these sweets Last Line: Gen us undying? Subject(s): "browning, Robert (1812-1889);funerals;poetry & Poets;" Burials A GRACE BEFORE SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Weary and wishful of the woods, we hear Last Line: Always thyself abideth, calm and strong! Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Destiny; Dramatists A HANDBOOK TO HOMER, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poluphloisboisterous homer of old Last Line: That is the homer for college and school! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Greek Language; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey A HANGING SCREEN, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In warm sunlight jade Last Line: The line out of reach Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Dreams; Nightmares A HEALTH, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: When we crown a bowl to him Last Line: We, byron, drink to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron A HIGH-TONED OLD CHRISTIAN WOMAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame Last Line: Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A HINT TO CHRISTIAN POETS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where now the jove, the phoebus, and the nine Last Line: Will rise spontaneous in your purer breast. Subject(s): Bible; Christian Science; Christianity; Poetry & Poets A HISTORY OF MODERN POETRY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The idea was to have a voice of your own Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A HISTORY OF THE LYRIC, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Objects in mirror are closer Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A HYMN OF HATE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the drama Last Line: It cuts in on my sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Dramatists; Hate; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets A LAMENT FOR PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no fading of thy central fire Last Line: It is where it should be -- beside the good and brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Lament; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Dead, The A LATE HISTORY, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Black, under the candlesticks, moving in harness Last Line: Do I wake or sleep? It is late tonight as it will ever be Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Books & Reading; Social Commentary; Nature; Eton College; Historians A LETTER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since hired for life thy servile muse must sing Last Line: And where old spenser sung, a new eliza reigns. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Danube (river); Goddesses & Gods; Letters; Mythology; Poetry & Poets A LETTER FROM ARTEMISA IN THE TOWN TO CHLOE IN THE COUNTRY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe, / in verse by your command I write Last Line: Farewell. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women A LETTER TO A LADY; HER DESIRING AUTHOR TO POLISH POEMS OF BISHOP KEN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your book again with thanks, - of worthy men Last Line: "jesus! Th' eternal song of all the blest!" Subject(s): Clergy; Ken, Thomas (1637-1711); Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops A LETTER TO SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you who live in chill degree Last Line: Has writ without a ten years warning. Subject(s): Etherege, Sir George (1635-1692); Letters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists A LETTER TO WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear bill / when I search the past for you Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) A LUNCHEON (THOMAS HARDY ENTERTAINS THE PRINCE OF WALES), by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM Poem Text First Line: Lift latch, step in, be welcome, sir Last Line: Farewell, farewell, your royal highness. Alternate Author Name(s): Beerbohm, Max Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Poetry & Poets A LUTE SONG, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou seen the down in the air Last Line: Oh so fickle, oh so vain, oh so false, so false is she! Variant Title(s): A Song To A Lute Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Love; Lutes; Poetry & Poets; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy A LYRICK TO MIRTH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the milder fates consent Last Line: Never sing, or play more here. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A MAY SONG, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O shepherdess come Last Line: And fresh is the may. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Love; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Singing & Singers A MINOR POET, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a shell. From me you shall not hear Last Line: A tremulous murmur from great days long dead. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A MINOR POET, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the phial; here I turn the key Last Line: The chain which binds all being ? Subject(s): Appetite; Poetry & Poets A MINOR POET, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: The sun is a fire Last Line: When the moon is dark. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A MISSAL LIKE A BONE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Link by link / I can disown Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A MONTH IN SUMMER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Several years ago, I wrote haiku in this way Last Line: "is that what is meant by dwelling in unreality? And here too I end my words." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Family Life; Japan; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Summer; Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Japanese; Loneliness; Feminism A MORAL TALE, by ROGER WODDIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me tell you a little story Last Line: As wicked as miss gee. Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets A MUSE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was wakened from her afternoon nap today by a fierce Last Line: I wrote the poems for her. I still do. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Discontent; Mothers & Daughters; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Dissatisfaction; Feminism A NEW DIALOGUE OF THE DEAD; ODYSSEUS AND ARISTOTLE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: News from the earth, odysseus! 'tis of you Last Line: Thou hast endured, -- but o these literary men! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Truth A NEW POEM (FOR JACK SPICER), by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are right. What we call poetry is the boat Last Line: A bird I cannot name crows Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A NEW POET, by WILLIAM CANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I write. He sits beside my chair Last Line: We two have made the angels smile! Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Writing & Writers A NEW POET, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finding a new poet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A NICE CORRESPONDENT, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glow and the glory are plighted Last Line: Was written to you.' Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets A NOCTURNE AT DANIELI'S, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caro mio, pulcinello, kindly hear my wail of woe Last Line: There's the sea! And — ecco l'alba! Ha! (in other words) the dawn! Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets A NORTHERN POEM, by NIKOLAY KLUYEV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset dreams on fir-tree cones Last Line: Glimmer soft as wedding fires. Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Poetry & Poets A OUTRANCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Say, why should I sing of an angel of light Last Line: Like an ardent red rose in a tropical breeze! Subject(s): Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Male-female Relations A PACT, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make a pact with you, walt whitman Last Line: Let there be commerce between us. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) A PARABLE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One had the marble ready to his hand Last Line: "behold! I did my best; whose then the blame?" Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A PAUPER POET, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In a vast city's swarming street, / where crowds sweep wave-like on Last Line: In climes that oceans part! Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Poetry & Poets; Poverty A PENNY'S WORTH OF POESY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, when you noted a deflection Last Line: What to write. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Thinking A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What made my heart, at newstead, fullest swell? Last Line: Was woe than byron's woe more tragic far. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death - Children; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Death - Babies A PINDARICK TO MRS. BEHN ON HER POEM ON THE CORONATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hail, thou sole empress of the land of wit" Last Line: Since the first mother of mankind rebell'd Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);james Ii, King Of England (1633-1701);life;poetry & Poets;women; A PLEA, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Yes, I have idled my time away Last Line: But the heart perceives it,—and understands. Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme A POEM, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a poem Last Line: Lit up those days Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POEM TO BE SAID ON HEARING THE BIRDS SING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A fragrant prayer upon the air Last Line: Was slain for thee Subject(s): Poetry & Poets;prayer A POEM WITHOUT A NAME: 2, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you this my song to take Last Line: Indeed a poem, though without a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: His lips have been hallowed with flame Last Line: Is joining their hands in the dark. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Attentive eyes, fantastic heed Last Line: It will be word enough of praise. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet! He hath put his heart to school Last Line: But from its 'own' divine vitality. Variant Title(s): Thy Art Be Nature Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET - SELF-SLAIN, by JULIA BOYNTON GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who handles words as he did? All their grace Last Line: The silence self-imposed. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Suicide A POET ENLISTS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: And all the songs that I might sing Last Line: And never sing again. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs A POET SPEAKS FROM THE VISITOR'S GALLERY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have gentlemen perhaps forgotten this? Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET THINKS, by LUI CHI Poem Text First Line: The rain is due to fall Last Line: Old songs. Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness A POET TO HIS BABY SON, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny bit of humanity Last Line: Not to be a poet Subject(s): Babies; Poetry & Poets; Infants A POET TO HIS BELOVED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bring you with reverent hands Last Line: I bring you my passionate rhyme. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 1, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: You may hover round the drowsy hearth Last Line: Calk-shod, across the continent. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 2. THE TREES, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: And I love the shaggy bark on trees Last Line: "disfigures what you would refine!" Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Trees A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 3. THE MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: And measure not our mountain peaks Last Line: And trace his signature in stone! Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 4. THE HORSE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: For native rhythm, and poetry Last Line: Across the trembling firmament. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans - History; Poetry & Poets; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A POET'S CENTENARY, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: We were a busy people; axes rang Last Line: Breaks from beyond the sunset and the stars! Subject(s): Anniversaries; Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets A POET'S DAUGHTER, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lady asks the minstrel's rhyme.' a lady asks? There was a time Last Line: All bard can give. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets A POET'S EDUCATION, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fact, the classroom overlooked a street Last Line: His dusty classrom beckoned, high aloft Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Medical Students; Poetry & Poets; Education; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A POET'S ELEGY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here rests, at last, from worldly care and strife Last Line: "than aught he ever wrote!" Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The A POET'S EPITAPH, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop, mortal! Here thy brother lies Last Line: Who drew them as they are. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Variant Title(s): Burns Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers A POET'S FANCIES: 1. THE LOVE OF NARCISSUS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like him who met his own eyes in the river Last Line: His weary tears that touch him with the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Poetry & Poets A POET'S FANCIES: 10. UNLINKED, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should quit thee, sacrifice, forswear Last Line: And make my poem; and I shall not know. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET'S FANCIES: 2. TO ANY POET, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who singest through the earth Last Line: Of thy poems, last, and sweetest. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET'S FANCIES: 3. TO ONE POEM IN SILENT TIME, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who looked for thee, thou little song of mine Last Line: How, my december violet, shall I name thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET'S FANCIES: 4. THE MOON TO THE SUN, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the full moon shining there Last Line: Day all night. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Moon; Poetry & Poets; Sun A POET'S FANCIES: 5. THE SPRING TO THE SUMMER, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poet of the time to be Last Line: I led thy feet before I died. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring; Summer A POET'S FANCIES: 7. CHANGELESS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet of one mood in all my lays Last Line: And in mine arms, clasped, like a child in tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET'S FANCIES: 8. THE MODERN POET; A SONG OF DERIVATIONS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come from nothing; but from where Last Line: Presses this immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Variant Title(s): A Song Of Derivations Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking A POET'S FANCIES: 9. SINGERS TO COME, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No new delights to our desire Last Line: Have found a more mysterious lyre. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Future; Poetry & Poets A POET'S HOUSEHOLD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The stout poet tiptoes Last Line: Is chanting words to himself. Subject(s): Family Life; Poetry & Poets; Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963); Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Feminism A POET'S LOVE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Lady, look from out thy bower Last Line: When centuries have pass'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Poetry & Poets A POET'S POEM, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it takes me all day, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET'S SOLILOQUY, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a time - not of old Last Line: What need of applause from the world, when art is its own reward? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET'S STUDIO, by CHARLOTTE HAZLEWOOD Poem Text First Line: Beside the unwearied singing brook it lies Last Line: When inspiration all about him brings. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET'S THOUGHT, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, what is a poet's thought? Last Line: From the poet's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET'S WIFE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a tract of ocean locked inland Last Line: Who locks thee to her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POETS' WOOING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What may I do to make you glad Last Line: "but oh, so glad -- so glad -- so glad!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courtship; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers A PORTRAIT IN DELIA'S PARLOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were that portly gentleman Last Line: With gold-laced hat and golden-headed cane. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4. .. Feelings Respecting A Portrait... Subject(s): Desire; Envy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Male-female Relations A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood A PRAYER FOR MY SON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bid a strong ghost stand at the head Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Poetry & Poets; Prayer A PREFATORY EPISTLE TO THE REVIEWERS, by MARIA FALCONAR Poem Text First Line: Stay, gentle child of taste! Who'er thou art Last Line: Shall shine an ode in quarto to your praise.' Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sent him away Last Line: And one of us forgot. Subject(s): Immigrants; Poetry & Poets; Russia; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Soviet Union; Russians A PROJECT FOR FREIGHT TRAINS, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting at crossings and waiting for freights to pass, we have all noticed Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Railroads; Words; Vocabulary; Railways; Trains A PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gallants, a bashful poet bids me say Last Line: Tis hard, he thinks, if neither part will do. Subject(s): Muses; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists A PURIM POEM, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: You know the tale of queen esther Last Line: "the story of esther the ""star." Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism A QUICK ONE BEFORE I GO, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There comes a time in every man's life Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Poetry & Poets A RED CARPET FOR SHELLEY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But this is nothing; an eccentric joke Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) A REFUSAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the grave dean of westminster Last Line: That I ensconce swinburne! Subject(s): Christianity; Poetry & Poets; Westminster Abbey A REJECTED NEWDIGATE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sicily! Upon whose torrid shores Last Line: But yet I can't believe much more than half of what I'm told. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Literary Prizes; Poetry & Poets A REMEMBRANCE OF SOME ENGLISH POETS, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Live spenser ever, in thy fairy queene Last Line: Well may the bodye dye, but fame dies never. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists A REMONSTRANCE; ADDRESSED TO D. FLORENCE M'CARTHY, M.R.I.A., by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand on the heights, o poet! Nor come down Last Line: This is the poet's mission, therefore -- thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Mccarthy, Denis Florence (1817-82); Poetry & Poets; Liberty A REPLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My poems no longer are 'beautiful' Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The A REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest Variant Title(s): Coy Mistress Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism A RHYME, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Babe, if rhyme be none Last Line: O'er the babe. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme A RHYMED REVIEW; 'LAUGHING MUSE' (BY ARTHUR GUITERMAN), by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An obvious thing for one to do Last Line: "I hope to god a lion bit her." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Guiterman, Arthur (1871-1943); Literature; Poetry & Poets; Reading A RHYMESTER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jem writes his verses with more speed Last Line: And only not so fast as we forget 'em. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A ROUNDEL SEEMS TO FIT A ROUND OF DAYS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In building up, all poets to amaze Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Roundels; Poetry & Poets A SATIRE: THE GHOST OF SPENSER SPEAKS, by JOHN OLDHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But, grant thy poetry should find success Last Line: Be all but poet, and there's way to live. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) A SEA-CHAPLAIN'S PETITION TO THE LIEUTENANTS IN THE WARD ROOM, by J." "T. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "you who can grant, or can refuse, the power" Last Line: "thus grant my suit, as grant unhurt you may, / your chaplain,and without your groats, shall pray!" Alternate Author Name(s): "t., J.; Subject(s): Muses;poetry & Poets;prayer;rhyme A SELLER OF HERBS (A RHYME OF A BALTIMORE MARKET), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black, comely, of abiding cheer Last Line: And just as full of bees! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Markets; Poetry & Poets; Supermarkets A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 1, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clearest eyes in all the world they read Last Line: Nor england's memory clasp not browning's name. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 2, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, what hast thou to do with one for whom Last Line: What part hast thou then in his glory, death? Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 3, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A graceless doom it seems that bids us grieve Last Line: What gift, what gift is this thou hast given us back? Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 4, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But he -- to him, who knows what gift is thine Last Line: The sun, may match the sovereign eagle's eye. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 5, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the wondrous ways of men and time Last Line: With sense invasive as the dawn of doom. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 6, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What secret thing of splendor or of shade Last Line: The living sound of all men's souls alive? Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING: 7, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He held no dream worth waking: so he said Last Line: And life and death but shadows of the soul. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl who was once my mistress Last Line: Focus to this dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Loss; Midas; Poetry & Poets; Women; Dead, The A SESSION OF THE POETS, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the sons of the muses, grew num'rous, and loud Last Line: For he had writ plays, yet ne're came in print. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Betterton, Tom (1635-1710); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets A SESSIONS OF THE POETS, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A sessions was held the other day Last Line: When he lends any poets about the town. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 62, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Terence, this is stupid stuff Last Line: Mithridates, he died old. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Methridates;epilogue Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A SONG, by ZELLA MURIEL WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: My soul is full of poetry to-day Last Line: It is eternal vagabondage. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A SONNET, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two voices are there: one is of the deep Last Line: Than write such bopeless rubbish as thy worst. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) A SONNET TO JOHN KEATS, by IRVINE GODDARD Poem Text First Line: From birds that pour their liquid notes of song Last Line: Before, so seemed the life of keats when spent. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Yale University A SONNET TO OPIUM; CELEBRATING ITS VIRTUES, by ORESTES [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Soul-soothing drug! Your virtues let me laud Last Line: When maddening rapture goads to my vice my throbbing sense Alternate Author Name(s): Orestes Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse;poetry & Poets A SOUTHERN SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Herein are blown from out the Last Line: The night-breath of magnolia-bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Southern States; South (u.s.) A STRIKE AMONG THE POETS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in his chamber, weak and dying" Last Line: Shorter hours and better pay Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A SUMMER WITH TU FU: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does it mean Last Line: Two smiling old men standing on the end of a pier. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near no name, colorado Last Line: I knew I'd lost it. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Fancy; Supermarkets A SUPPLEMENT OF AN IMPERFECT COPY OF VERSES OF MR. WILL. SHAKESPEARE'S, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One of her hands one of her cheeks lay under Last Line: To bite the part so unkindly held them in. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists A TALE FROM THE TALMUD, by WILLIAM DEARNESS Poem Text First Line: In judah, in the days of story Last Line: Her hero dames shall bloom amain. Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism; Dictators A TELEGRAM FROM THE MUSE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caro those last few poems are dynamite Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A TERROR IS MORE CERTAIN, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A terror is more certain than all the rare desirable popular songs I Last Line: Fuck on t.V. & all those cowboys watching Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Poetry & Poets A TEST OF POETRY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you mean by rashes of ash? Is industry Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary A TIME-WORN TUNE, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breezes sweep like fairy brooms Last Line: The joy of living! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets; Spring A TIP TO POETS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though shakespeare and calm wordsworth loved it well Last Line: Fie! Here's another sonnet for the fire! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A TRENTA-SEI OF THE PLEASURE WE TAKE .. EARLY DEATH OF KEATS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is old school custom to pretent to be sad Last Line: The saddest music keeps the sweetest time Subject(s): Customs, Social; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets A TRIBUTE OF GRASSES, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene, vast head, with silver cloud of hair Last Line: Here by the eastern sea. Subject(s): Grass; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) A TRIBUTE TO THE GENIUS OF ROBERT BURNS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in the lone sequestered grove Last Line: The wreath of fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets A TRUE POEM, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm working on a poem that's so true, I can't show it to anyone. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My swirling wants. Your frozen lips Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Pain; Poetry & Poets; Suffering; Misery A VALENTINE FOR ERNEST MANN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can't order a poem like you order a taco Subject(s): Valentine's Day; Gifts & Giving; Poetry & Poets A VALLEY WHERE I DON'T BELONG, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first cocks begin clearing the throat of morning Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A VENDOR OF POEMS, by VIRGINIA O'DARE Poem Text First Line: A vendor of poems is a vendor of dreams Last Line: That never perish or change with time. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A VINDICATION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Say what you will of 'rhymesters' Last Line: As he presses to the goal. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs A VISION OF POETS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet could not sleep aright Last Line: And life is perfected by death.' Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A VISION OF THE GODS: HALOES, NOT HATS, by JOHN CLOSE Poem Text First Line: Around the gods, each seated on a throne Last Line: And sparkled in their grand majestic heads. Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (1), by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I saw the grave, where laura lay Last Line: And curst th' accesse of that celestiall theife. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Of Spenser's Faery Queene;the Faerie Queen (to Spenser);of Edmund Spenser's Fairy Queen, A Vision Upon This Conceit Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Francesco Petrarca A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (2), by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prayse of meaner wits this worke like profit brings Last Line: Of all which speak our english tongue, but those of thy device Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): A Vision Upon This Conceipt Of The Faery Queene Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) A VISIT TO THE POET, by RODOLFO PUCELLI Poem Text First Line: The bard received me with open-heartedness ... Last Line: Bowed underneath the universe. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading A VISIT TO THOMAS HARDY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roman road runs by the wall Last Line: I touch the immortal. Subject(s): Death; Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Obituaries; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The A WARRANT FOR PABLO NERUDA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With the fury of cinders, with the despair of dusty Last Line: An alchemy of resistance transmutes your flowering name Subject(s): Chile; Government; Nobel Prizes; Poetry & Poets; Socialism; South America A WELCOME TO LOWELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take our hands, james russell lowell Last Line: I speak for comrades dead! Subject(s): Diplomacy And Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets A WHOLLY UNSCHOLASTIC OPINION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plain hoss-sense in poetry-writin' Last Line: And moanin' and groanin' and paraphrasin'! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A WORK OF ARTIFACE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bonsai / in the attractive pot Subject(s): Bonsai; Poetry & Poets A YOUTHFUL EXPERIMENT IN ENGLISH HEXAMETERS: IMPRESSIONS OF HOMER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes come pauses of calm, when the rapt bard, holding his heart back Last Line: Swaying the listener's fantasy hither and thither like driftweed. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey A' - 9, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: An impulse to action sings of a semblance Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Work; Workers ABLA, by ANTARA IBN SHADDAD Poem Text First Line: The poets have muddied all the little fountains Last Line: Who will guide me to the dwelling of abla? Alternate Author Name(s): Black Knight; Antarah Subject(s): Camels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Valleys ABOUT MY POEMS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fashionably sad my early poems are! Last Line: And the pieces of sky that will go on falling for days Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ABOUT SUFFERING THEY WERE NEVER WRONG, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They could have told us that the particulars Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets ABOUT THE CANZONE, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the canzone, a form that's almost too Last Line: Down to the rest for which we've labored so Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ABOVE THE CLOUDS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid white sierras, that slope to the sea Last Line: For never were clouds but the sun came through. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Yosemite Valley And National Park; Thinking ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets ACCEPTED AND WILL APPEAR, by ANDREW J. KELLEY Poem Text First Line: One evening while reclining Last Line: "in the year of nineteen-forty, when the birds begin to sing." Alternate Author Name(s): Mix, Parmenas Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ACHIEVEMENT, by MORRIS ABEL BEER Poem Text First Line: The poet is a lazy man Last Line: Still cling to time! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ACROSS THE FIELDS TO ANNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often in the summer-tide Last Line: Across the fields to anne! Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Summer; Songs AD AMICUM LITIGANTEM, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you commence a poet, sir, and be Last Line: And then 'tis ta'en for granted you are mad. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AD QUODLIBET, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wheel around on best days riding the hum Last Line: Raise cup of quest to speeding fugitive Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers ADAGIO: A DUET, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Should you / lay ear to these lines Last Line: For the labour of an ear? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ADDRESS TO DELLA CRUSCA, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, who with thy blue cerulean blaze Last Line: And swear that sense in verse shall be no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Della Cruscanism (poetic Style); Mcgillivery, Albert (1739-1793); Poetry & Poets ADDRESS TO THE POETS, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye whose hearts are beating high Last Line: If it flow from childlike hearts. Subject(s): Palm Sunday; Poetry & Poets ADEQUATE, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: A true philosopher!' Last Line: Philosopher! Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I weep for adonais -- he is dead Last Line: Beacons from the abode where the eternal are. Variant Title(s): Adonais Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Death; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ADOREE (ON READING BROWNING'S 'LAST RIDE TOGETHER'), by VIRGINIA WAINRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Onward we go to our destination Last Line: You with a smile, I with a tear? Subject(s): Aging; Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets; Regret ADVICE TO A CITY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O city, cage your poets! Hem them in Last Line: The savage, sweet, unpalatable truth! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life ADVICE TO MY SON, by PETER MEINKE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trick is, to live your days Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sons ADVICE TO MY STUDENTSL HOW TO WRITE A POEM, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forget now, fofr a moment Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ADVICE TO POETS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Would you to poetry aspire Last Line: Their readers did the crowning. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ADVISING AN ADULT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No wish to leave unseen Subject(s): Advice; Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Life; Poetry & Poets AFTER A LECTURE ON KEATS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wreath that star-crowned shelley gave Last Line: Shall lie upon that roman grave! Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets AFTER A LECTURE ON SHELLEY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One broad, white sail in spezzia's treacherous bay Last Line: Say not that mercy has not one for him! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) AFTER A LECTURE ON WORDSWORTH, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, spread your wings, as I spread mine Last Line: Earth's last sweet even-song! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) AFTER A PASSAGE IN BAUDELAIRE, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ship, leaving or arriving, of my lover Last Line: Complique, mais eurythmique Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry & Poets AFTER CATALLUS AND HORACE, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the manners of centuries ago can teach me Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Love AFTER HORACE, by KIZER. CAROLYN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare me the roman wars, and those Last Line: She won't accept your kiss; she'll steal it! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Flirtation AFTER MY LAST SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where I shall rest when my last song is over Last Line: You'll sleep here on wan cheeks grown thin and old. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Poetry & Poets; World War I; Dead, The; First World War AFTER OUR WAR, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After our war, the dismembered bits Last Line: After our war, how will love speak? Subject(s): Asian Americans; Poetry & Poets; Scars; Social Problems; Soldiers; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War AFTER READING 'THE GOLDEN TREASURY' IN THE GREEN PARK, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off piccadilly with its pavement cries Last Line: We too, much-wandering, hail this hour of peace! Subject(s): Green Park, London; Poetry & Poets AFTER READING HASSAN: 1, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haroun, haroun, thou art gone from us, haroun! Last Line: Haroun the caliph wears a blackened brow. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading AFTER READING HOMER, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, who on the mountain-side Last Line: O dear divine old giant, at thy feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey AFTER READING SHAKESPERE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe fancy lightly builds with airy hands Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AFTER SUPPING WITH A POET, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You called your mystic draught canary sack Last Line: You called your magic draught canary sack! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AFTER WRITING A POEM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not want to be seen or heard or spoken to Last Line: For one hour to eternity. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness AFTERNOON HAPPINESS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At a party I spy a handsome psychiatrist Last Line: There is only this useless happiness as gift. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Poetry & Poets; Psychiatry; Women; Women's Rights; Joy; Delight; Psychiatrists; Feminism AFTERWARDS, THEY SHALL DANCE, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the city of st. Francis they have taken down the statue of st. Francis, Last Line: The-foot song, drinking cool beatitudes Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AKHMATOVA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The dark stair's colder than the snow-wan world Last Line: He who would torture for such adulation. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AKHMATOVA'S HUSBAND, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Akhmatova's husband, gumilev / was a poet and an explorer Subject(s): Akhmatova, Anna (1889-1966); Poetry & Poets ALCAICS: TO H. F. BROWN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave lads in olden musical centuries Last Line: Dear to me here in my alpine exile. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Brown, Horatio Forbes (1854-1926); Poetry & Poets ALCIDA: VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF VENUS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nature forg'd the fair unhappy mould Last Line: Lent gods and men a poison and a hell. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Trojan War; Venus (goddess) ALDRICH, 1866-1907, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has become of it, your youth and mine Last Line: Planet you dwell, our youth and gladness are. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907); Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets; Youth ALERE FLAMMAM, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In ancient rome, the secret fire Last Line: If still the sacred embers burn. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ALFRED TENNYSON, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears, idle tears! Ah, who shall bid us weep Last Line: Since all that tears would tell thyself hast said. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron ALL FOR LOVE, OR THE WORLD WELL LOST: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets, like disputants, when reasons fail Last Line: Tis more than one man's work to please you all. Variant Title(s): Prologue And Epilogue To All For Love: Epilogue Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists ALL FOR LOVE, OR THE WORLD WELL LOST: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What flocks of critics hover here to-day Last Line: Such rivell'd fruits as winter can afford. Variant Title(s): Prologue And Epilogue To All For Love: Prologue To Antony And Cleopatr Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists ALL THE WOMEN POETS I LIKE DIDN'T HAVE THEIR FATHERS, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thanking you, ben for letting me be one Last Line: And haunts Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets ALL THINGS CAN TEMPT ME, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things can tempt me from this craft of verse Last Line: Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Temptation ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This jeast was first of t' other houses making Last Line: As, in a combat, coats of mayle, and charms. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 1 Subject(s): Gwynn, Eleanor (nell) (1650-1687); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Gwyn, Eleanor (nell); Gwynne, Eleanor (nell); Dramatists ALONE I SAT -- THE SUMMER DAY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Failure ALWAYS ON THE TRAIN, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Writing poems about writing poems Last Line: And the black high flung patterns of flocking birds. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers AMBOYNA: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet once the spartan's led to fight Last Line: Let caesar live, and carthage be subdu'd! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists AMELIA ASKS FOR A POEM, by LELAND DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Long may the sandstone cherubs keep Last Line: In red-heeled dancing shoes! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AMERICAN POETRY, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it is, it must have Last Line: Uttering cries that are almost human. Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary AMERICAN POETRY; A FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Must every shore ring boldly to the voice Last Line: And canst thou then -- Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; United States; America AMERICAN SONNET, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We do not speak like petrarch or wear a hat like spenser Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AMERICAN VARIATION ON HOW RILKE LOVED A PRINCESS AND GO TO STAY IN ..., by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said that underneath the surface Last Line: Cling to your knife Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; United States; America AMORETTI: 2, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unquiet thought! Whom at the first I bred Last Line: If not, die soone, and I with thee will perish. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Courtsdhip; Poetry & Poets AMORETTI: 33, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great wrong I do, I can it not deny Last Line: Or lend you me another living brest. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AMORETTI: 80, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After so long a race as I have run Last Line: Fit for the handmayd of the faery queene. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AMORETTI: DEDICATION. G.W. SENIOR, TO THE AUTHOR, by GEOFFREY WHITNEY SR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darke is the day, when phoebus face is shrowed Last Line: G.W.I. Alternate Author Name(s): Whitney, Geffrey Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) AMOUR DE VOYAGE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was a man who could write you rhyme Last Line: And who in their senses would wish for more? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets AMUSING OUR DAUGHTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We don't lack people here on the northern coast Last Line: Sending our messages over the mountains and waters. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Daughters; Death; Guests; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Visiting; Feminism AN ADDRESS TO SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal! William shakespeare, there's none can you excel Last Line: While seated around the fireside on a cold winter's night. Subject(s): Dramatists; Play; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters AN AMERICAN POEM, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in boston in Subject(s): Self; Gays & Lesbians; Ancestors & Ancestry; Boston; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Heritage; Heredity; Caste AN AMOURET ANACREONTICK, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most good, most faire Last Line: Happie so loving. Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets AN ANGEL SINGS OF SHELLEY NEWLY DEAD, by THOMAS LAKE HARRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathe him with jonquils and anemones Last Line: Shelley the spirit lives eternally. Subject(s): Angels; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) AN ANNOTATION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Emblem of early seeking, early finding Last Line: So tossed you to the hooves of infamy? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Dramatists; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AN ANSWER, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I make shoddy verse Last Line: To hear the silver whisper of the frost. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets AN ANSWER TO A COPY OF VERSES SENT ME TO JERSEY, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As to a northern people (whom the sun Last Line: And gave him the whole prize, their tenths and fifteens too. Subject(s): Jersey, Channel Island; Poetry & Poets AN ANSWER TO BEN JONSON'S ODE, TO PERSUADE HIM NOT TO LEAVE THE STAGE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ben, do not leave the stage Last Line: Thou, that canst sing so high, canst reach as low. Subject(s): Brome, Richard (d. 1652); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters AN ANSWER TO SOME VERSES MADE IN HIS PRAISE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ancient poets and their learned rhymes Last Line: Be well contented, since you do't with art. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AN ANSWER TO VARIOUS BARDS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in Last Line: And then return to sydney and vermilionize the bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Death; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Camps; Summer Camps; Dead, The AN APOLOGY FOR NOT INVOKING THE MUSE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erato popped in. What a talent for suspicion! Last Line: By those who haven't had your advantages Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets AN APPEAL FOR THOMAS ELLIOT, THE SHOEMAKER POET, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor tom's a-cold!' upon his shrinking head Last Line: Lend to the lord—he surely will repay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Healing; Poetry & Poets; Sickness; Cures; Illness AN ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD: 13 (DEDICATIONS), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know you are reading this poem Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AN ECHO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keats! Keats! Last Line: His brother-bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Echoes; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Thrushes AN ECLOGUE TO MASTER JONSON, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under this beech why sitt'st thou here so sad Last Line: Hesperus leading forth his beauteous herd? Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets AN ELEGIE ON DR. DONNE, by LUCIUS CARIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poets attend, the elegie I sing Last Line: His age saw visions, though his youth dream'd dreams. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets AN ELEGIE UPON DR. DONNE, by IZAAK WALTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is donne, great donne deceas'd? Then england say Last Line: Write no encomium, but an elegie. Alternate Author Name(s): Walton, Isaac Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets AN ELEGIE UPON THE INCOMPARABLE DR. DONNE, by HENRY VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: All is not well when such a one as I Last Line: His glory is as his gifts, 'bove others farre. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets AN ELEGY (2), by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be what I am, as virgil cold Last Line: More then of eithers manners, wit, or face! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AN ELEGY ON BEN JONSON, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who first reformed our stage with justest laws Last Line: Than can be now, when plenty makes me poor. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF DOCTOR DONNE, DEAN OF PAUL'S, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can we not force from widowed poetry Last Line: Apollo's first, at last the true god's priest. Variant Title(s): An Elegy Upon The Death Of The Dean Of Paul's, John Donne Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The art of english poetry, I find Last Line: With righter verdict, tho' the court's a dream. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; English Language; Language Poetry; Poetry & Poets; Reading AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PAUL METHUEN, ESQ., by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That, 'tis encouragement makes science spread Last Line: To shoot at crows is powder flung away. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (1), by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While born to bring the muse's happier days Last Line: A fond alliance with the poet's name. Subject(s): Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Lucan (marcus Annaeus Lucanus); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Racine, Jean (1639-1699); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); V AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (2), by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No second growth the western isle could bear Last Line: A fond alliance with the poet's name. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (2) (VARIANT TEXT), by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While, own'd by you, with smiles the muse surveys Last Line: A fond alliance with the poet's name. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AN EPITAPH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here a gentle poet lies Last Line: Hush thy laughter, whisper low. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Last Line: Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Dillon, Wentworth. 4th Earl Of Roscommon; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536); Hope; Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Sozzini, Lelio (1525-1562); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Optimism; Soc AN EVANGELIST'S WIFE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I not myself these many days Last Line: "jealous of god? Well, if you like it so." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AN EVENING'S LOVE, OR THE MOCK ASTROLOGER: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My part being small, I have had time to-day Last Line: And please you to a height, or not at all. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dramatists AN EVENING'S LOVE, OR THE MOCK ASTROLOGER: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first our poet set himself to write Last Line: Be kind to day, and cuckold him to morrow. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets AN EXHORTATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chameleons feed on light and air Last Line: Oh, refuse the boon! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) AN HANDFUL OF MEAL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I sat in my cosy study, with naught but the light from Last Line: From sharing our joys alway. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers AN IMITATION (TO M.M.), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my sylvia, let us rove Last Line: Sporting o'er the velvet green. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dramatists; Fairies; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elves; Male-female Relations; Dramatists AN IMITATION OF SPENCER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Golden apollo, that thro' heaven wide Last Line: Or does th' afflicted man thy heav'nly bosom move? Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) AN IMITATION OF WORDSWORTH, by CATHERINE MARIA FANSHAWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a river clear and fair Last Line: And live three times as long. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) AN INCIDENT IN A RAILROAD CAR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He spoke of burns: men rude and rough Last Line: Who live and speak for aye. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets AN INFORMAL EPITAPH IN MEMORY OF A YOUNG POET, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who so loved all grey religious things Last Line: And long and long for your return alone! Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Death; Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900); Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Writing & Writers; Dead, The AN INSCRIPTION, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At this fair oak table sat Last Line: Dumb when we have ceased to weep. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AN INTRODUCTION TO MY ANTHOLOGY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a book must contain Last Line: But only as a peacock among barn fowl. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Love; Poetry & Poets; Reading AN INVITATION TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF THE POET MOORE, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: O come and hail the day Last Line: And bind more closely friend to friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Birthdays; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Poetry & Poets AN INVOCATION TO POESY, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay with me, poesy! Playmate of childhood! Last Line: Source of true happiness, light of my soul! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AN ODE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake faire muse, for I intend Last Line: No king shall owne my verses for his tombe. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death; Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Dead, The AN OLD FRENCH POET, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in your sober mood my body have ye laid Last Line: Or wheresoever, following death, my feet have strayed. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings AN OLD LIFE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow fell in the nght Subject(s): Family Life; Poetry & Poets; Relatives AN OLD MAN'S ASPIRATION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O glorious sun! Whose car sublime Last Line: And mine old age attest its meliorating power! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Aging; Faith; Fate; Poetry & Poets; Youth; Belief; Creed; Destiny AN OLD POET, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My hand, my pen, lie still Last Line: Flows calm at last! Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets AN OLD SONG BY NEW SINGERS: 'MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB': 2. BROWNING, by A. C. WILKIE Poem Text First Line: You knew her? -- mary the small Last Line: That lamb was sure to soon be caught in. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets AN ORSON OF THE MUSE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her son, albeit the muse's livery Last Line: If in no vessel built for sea they swim. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ANACREON, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At length thy golden hours have winged Last Line: Which thou, with all thy soul, didst give her! Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ANACREON'S TOMB, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pour a libation, stranger, as you pass" Last Line: It is an anacreon's tomb. He loved his glass Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.);drinks & Drinking;poetry & Poets ANCIENT HISTORY, UNDYING LOVE, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a hidden treasure and loved to be known, beloved Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Innocence AND UT PICTURA POESIS IS HER NAME, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ANDREW MARVELL, by CHARLES HARPUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit, that lookest from the starry fold Last Line: And feel how nobly all may live and die. Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets ANDROMACHE'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whither shall I flee for refuge? Last Line: "foully murdered, and the altar of the highest bears the stain" Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.);lament;murder;mythology - Classical;poetry & Poets; Iliad;odyssey ANGEL WINGS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: High / on the great Last Line: Utah Subject(s): Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary ANOTHER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me say this finally Last Line: My dear. Subject(s): Justice; Poetry & Poets ANOTHER CANTO, by JOHN CAMERON AUDRIEU BINGHAM MORTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur ezra pound croit que Last Line: Quelque chose très deep, ma foi! Alternate Author Name(s): Beachcomber; Morton, J. B.; Morton, John Bingham Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) ANOTHER ELEGY; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM TROUT, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rained all night on the remaining elms. April soaked Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ANOTHER EPIGRAM UPON M. BEN. JOHNSON, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou had'st the wreath before, now take the tree Last Line: That henceforth none be laurel crown'd but thee. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets ANSWER TO A BEAUTIFUL POEM ENTITLED 'THE COMMON LOT', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Montgomery! True, the common lot Last Line: Shall burst the bondage of the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Montgomery, James (1771-1854); Poetry & Poets ANSWER TO A KIND ENQUIRY, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Text First Line: O, what can ail thee, knight at arms Last Line: And feel so sick. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Knights & Knighthood; Poetry & Poets ANSWER TO WORDSWORTH'S SONNET AGAINST KENDAL AND BOWNESS RAILWAY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hour may come, nay must in these our days Last Line: Nor lose one dream for all their homely gain. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Railroads; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Railways; Trains ANSWERING, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The buddha / is in / in the vacuum cleaner Last Line: Enjoy your termites and bourbon Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ANTHOLOGY: THE HUNDRED BEST POETS OF ..., by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two flourish. And a few may bud. But oh Variant Title(s): On Reading A Contemporary Anthology, From Juvenal, I, 79;anthology: The Hundred Best N.y. - S.f. Poets Subject(s): Poetry & Poets APOCRYPHA HIPPONACTEA, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly likes smell of shit Last Line: Has nothing to do with you Subject(s): Poetry & Poets APOLLO MUSAGETE, POETRY, AND THE LEADER OF THE MUSES, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is given which is not taken Subject(s): Poetry & Poets APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet in his lone yet genial hour Last Line: Phantoms of sublimity. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets APOLOGY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A word sticks in the wind's throat Last Line: Wind's word, apple-heart, haven of grasses Subject(s): Poetry & Poets APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How slowly time is crawling on Last Line: To place on record in the morning. Subject(s): Death; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Dead, The; Optimism APPRENTICESHIP, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am Last Line: By ... Paratactic co-ordination /& fire Subject(s): Poetry & Poets APPROACHING ELSINORE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-morrow I shall be at elsinore Last Line: Hourly the play begins at elsinore. Subject(s): Dramatists; Elsinore, Denmark; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists APRIL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A whole new freshman class Subject(s): Poetry & Poets APRIL TWENTY-THIRD, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Death sallied forth upon this fateful day Last Line: "and shakespeare bowed: ""you are don quixote still." Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Cervantes, Miguel De (1547-1616); Death; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De; Dead, The ARABEL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twists of smoke rise from the limpness of jeweled fingers Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Books; Youth; Reading ARCANA GARDENS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's apprehensive inside her head Last Line: "time for your van morrison sir" Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary ARISTOTLE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This is the beginning Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Aristotle (384-322 B.c.) ARS POETICA, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, / poet by trade, / condemned so many times Last Line: I catch sight of the promised land Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government ARS POETICA, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty miles to the only decent restaurant Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ARS POETICA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is almost polio season. The girls Last Line: Considering how beautiful she was. Subject(s): Dreams; Girls; Massachusetts; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ARS POETICA, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poem should be palpable and mute / as a globed fruit Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ARS POETICA, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the edge of the forest Last Line: For the sake of this poem. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Slavery; Serfs ARS POETICA, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They wanted from us Last Line: Is our continual surprise. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Art & Artists; Despair; Poetry & Poets ARS POETICA #100: I BELIEVE, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry, I tell my students Last Line: And are we not of interest to each other? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ARS POETICA: A STONE SOUP, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's the obese three-quarters moon of aquinas Last Line: What else? Subject(s): Bell, Marvin; Poetry & Poets ARS POETICA: OR: WHO LIVES IN THE IVORY TOWER?, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps you'd like a marching song for the embattled proletariat ... Last Line: Your feet are muddy, you son-of-a-bitch, get out of our ivory tower Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Poetry & Poets; South Sea Islands; Movies; Cinema ART, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art has her altars and her avatars Last Line: A poe sleeps, folded in that perfect dream. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Soul; Nightmares; World ART AND POETRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wess he says, and sort o' grins Last Line: "art and poetry is twins." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme ART CLASS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us begin with a simple line Last Line: The horizon will not stop abstracting us Subject(s): Art & Artists; Drawing; Poetry & Poets ARTHUR'S PARTY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came with some trepidation to your vernissage Last Line: Fingered you young, as we played in our garage. Subject(s): Children; Poetry & Poets; Success; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism ARTS POETICA, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anguish exists Last Line: For whom shall the voice of the poet speak? Subject(s): Hunger; Poetry & Poets; Vengeance AS A VIOLINIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a violinist bends a loving face Last Line: So the poet looks to god, and yearns and sings. Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Soul; Violins; Songs AS I PONDERED IN SILENCE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I above all promote brave soldiers Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soldiers AS I SAIL, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far on the gray sea glooms and glowers Last Line: And poets love while love is new. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AS I SIT WRITING HERE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit writing here, sick and grown old Last Line: May filter in my daily songs. Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets AS I STUMBLE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must make my own sun Last Line: As I stumble upon them Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AS LEAVES SWEEP PAST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister & joe & mistah rilke Last Line: Way up in the flying dust Subject(s): Memory; Past; Poetry & Poets AS YOU LIKE IT, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm so with it I can't believe it Last Line: Boogie boogie boogie. Subject(s): Editors; Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Publishers ASKING FOR ROSES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master Last Line: And grants us by silence the boon of her roses. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets; Roses ASOLANDO: PROLOGUE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet's age is sad: for why? Last Line: "god is it who transcends." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time ASPIRATIONS TO THE INFINITE; ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ne'er felt a feeling deep arise Last Line: Star-throned in your heart such utterance to inspire! Subject(s): Future Life; Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ASTIGMATISM, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet took his walking-stick Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism ASTRAEA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poet rare and old! Last Line: As now in heaven! Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Millenium; Poetry & Poets; Social Protest ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 1, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show Last Line: "fool,"" said my muse to me, ""look in thy heart, and write." Variant Title(s): "loving In Truth;""loving In Truth, And Faine In Verse My Love To Show,""; Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking AT A BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL; TO J.R. LOWELL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will not speak of years to-night Last Line: Round nature's last eclipse! Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets AT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poet, come you haunting here Last Line: Passed to the dim. Subject(s): Hampstead Heath, London; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets AT A TUBE STATION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of deep tubes and tunnels Last Line: Woe-stricken ladurlad. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AT AN INN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are talkative proud, and assured, and self-sufficient, Last Line: When we are cold. Subject(s): England; History; Poetry & Poets; English; Historians AT APOLLINAIRE'S GRAVE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I visited pere lachaise to look for the remains of apollinaire Last Line: I am buried here and sit by my grave beneath a tree Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry & Poets; Surrealism AT APOLLINAIRE'S TOMB, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The death of guillaume apollinaire still calls forth feelings of sorrow Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry & Poets; Surrealism AT CAMDEN, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But why, walt whitman, loveliest serenader Last Line: Beats vainly on that sullen mausoleum. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) AT EVENFALL, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Recall enormous heave of moment Last Line: Always treat language like a dangerous toy Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Proverbs; Maxims; Adages AT KEAT'S GRAVE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the flowers growing over me Last Line: They weave around thee one perpetual spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I but lived a hundred years ago Last Line: And bend with reverence where his ashes lie.' Subject(s): Dorset, England; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets AT MY DESK, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many times Subject(s): Stafford, William Edgar (1914-1993); Poetry & Poets AT SEVENTY-FIVE: REREADING AN OLD BOOK, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My prayers have been answered, if they were prayers. I live Last Line: Some of the words I said, which are these poems. Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Prayer AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare, thy legacy of peerless song Last Line: At honest daily work -- then found it fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AT THE BURNS CENTENNIAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years! They're quickly fled Last Line: Makes man of prince and peasant! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets AT THE FUNERAL OF A MINOR POET, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Room in your heart for him, o mother earth Last Line: To flower and leaf in thine unending springs! Subject(s): Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Burials AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS; SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shiver, spirit fierce and bold Last Line: By seraphim. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets AT THE GRAVE OF KEATS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago, in the sweet roman spring Last Line: Whose perfume lives to-day. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AT THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm still doing it Last Line: I'm still doing it Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Perseverance AT THE MERMAID, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I - 'next poet?' no, my hearties, / I nor am nor fain would be! Last Line: "with ""next poet"" -- (manners, ben!)" Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets AT THE MERMAID CAFETERIA, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Truth is enough for prose Last Line: A madness well restrained. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AT THE MERMAID TAVERN (APRIL 10, 1613), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, so I said: 'twas labored 'cataline' Last Line: And then I go. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AT THE POETRY CONFERENCE: BERKELEY AFTER THE NEW YORK STYLE, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning with sonnets for ted berrigan Last Line: To hear what we need and is lovely. Subject(s): Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Writer's Conferences And Workshops; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph AT THE ROADHOUSE: IN MEMORY OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You hearken, fellows? Turned aside Last Line: The velvet jacket at the door. Subject(s): Hotels; Poetry & Poets; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses ATLANTIS, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What poets sang in atlantis? Who can tell Last Line: Poetry's immortality will pass. Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 12, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How they rave, the race of poets Last Line: "giants, to the watery heaven!" Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 22, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus in his sunny droschka Last Line: "and not fall asleep instanter!" Subject(s): Kerner, Justinius (1786-1862); Poetry & Poets ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where in heaven, master louis Last Line: Had I only other ears! Subject(s): Birds; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom AU SALON, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose, when poetry comes down to facts Last Line: The absolute unimportant. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AUDIENCE TO POET, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poet with the pointed breath Last Line: Clang in our ear your uttered steel. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AUGUST 22, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it all for, this poetry Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AURENG-ZEBE, OR THE GREAT MOGUL: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty task! And so I told the fool Last Line: Their votes who cannot judge, than theirs who can. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists AURENG-ZEBE, OR THE GREAT MOGUL: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our author by experience finds it true Last Line: And see us play the tragedy of wit. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shame; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life AUSTERITY OF POETRY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That son of italy who tried to blow Last Line: Of thought and of austerity within. Variant Title(s): Jacopone Da Todi Subject(s): Jacopone Da Todi (1230-1306); Muses; Poetry & Poets AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child Subject(s): Children; Education; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Childhood; Students AUTUMN COLORS (2), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How tedious it seems, and strange Last Line: From chlorophyll to xanthophyll. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN SONGS, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jews, my brothers, will they understand me? Last Line: My song, my melancholy song. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Jews; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Judaism; Dejection AUTUMN-SONG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roads are laid with cloth-of-gold Last Line: Love cometh to his own. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets AVE ATQUE VALE; IN MEMORY OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel Last Line: All waters as the shore. Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry & Poets €ŒNOTHING IS REALLY HARD BUT TO BE REAL€”€?, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Poetry & Poets; Theology BABY UP AT BATTENBERG'S, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heerd 'bout what's happened Last Line: Haven't ye heerd tell? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron BALLAD OF PLAGIARY, by JAMES BRANCH CABELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, my masters, lords and brothers, ye that till the fields of rhyme Last Line: Quite the fairest thing life boasts of, for I wrote of percie's eyes. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all Last Line: Sin' they nailed him to the tree. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology BALLAD. TO THE TUNE OF 'SALLY IN OUR ALLEY', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the twice ten thousand bards Last Line: Is rowing of my gally. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BALLADE D'AUJOURD'HUI, by COATES CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Bygone troubadours, grave and gay Last Line: Here's to the singer who sings to-day! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Songs BALLADE FOR THE DUKE OF ORLEANS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flailed from the heart of water in a bow Last Line: I die of thirst, here at the fountain-side Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BALLADE OF FORGOTTEN LOVES, by ARTHUR GRISSOM Poem Text First Line: Some poets sing of sweethearts dead Last Line: The little loves that I've forgot. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs BALLADE OF NEGLECTED MERIT, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have scribbled in verse and in prose Last Line: "but—I am not in ""men of the time!" Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets BALLADE OF RAILWAY NOVELS, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let others praise analysis Last Line: Miss braddon and gaboriau. Subject(s): Books; Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets; Reading BALLADE OF SCHOPENHAUER'S PHILOSOPHY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wishful to add to my mental power Last Line: The best you get is an even break. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets; Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860) BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: FORTINBRAS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I, brave prince fortinbras, who close this tragic pother, enter to say Last Line: Pulling in the wings. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: KING CLAUDIUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Cypress, geraniums, bleak hedge of my parterre, from the chase I Last Line: Madame, you need not fear. I shall have drunk the wine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dramatists; Flowers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Travel; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips BANTAMS IN PINE-WOODS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Chieftain iffucan of azcan in caftan Last Line: And fears not portly azcan nor his hoos. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BARE FEET, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vulnerable, bare feet of old men Last Line: Is bearable but filling it brings tears. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The BARTER, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Life has loveliness to sell Last Line: Give all you have been, or could be. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Poetry & Poets BEAUTIFUL WINGS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful wings that beat the void Last Line: Builds heaven overhead. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Poetry & Poets; Bugs BECOMING ANNE BRADSTREET, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It happens again Subject(s): Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1662); Poetry & Poets BEETLE LIGHT; FOR DANIEL HILLEN, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hornets collect on the side of the sun Last Line: The exterminator. Very soon they will die. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Extermination & Exterminators; Insects; Light; Poetry & Poets; Bugs BEFORE REREADING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether his loves were many or but two Last Line: Once, forest leaves, they murmured round his soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) BEHIND THE SCENES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Behind the scenes! What secrets dwell Last Line: Behind the scenes! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters BEING IMITATIONS, DERIVATIONS, AND VARIATIONS UPON CERTAIN CONCEITS AND FINDINGS MADE AMONG HARD LIN, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BESIDES THE AUTUMN POETS SING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy windy will to bear! Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry & Poets BEST, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greeks said: never to be born is best Last Line: But the greeks were wrong: to live and love is best. Subject(s): Greece; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Greeks BIRCHES, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see birches Last Line: One could do worse than see birches Subject(s): Birch Trees; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets BIRTH OF THE BLUES, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: John keats never read dylan thomas or yeats Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time BIRTHDAY POEM FOR THOMAS HARDY, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is birthday weather for you, dear soul Last Line: Since you have been. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Poetry & Poets BIRTHDAYS AND MILESTONES, by KATE M. CHIDESTER Poem Text First Line: Birthdays are milestones Last Line: At setting of sun. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Experience; Poetry & Poets BLACK LIZZIE, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gloved and jewelled bards who sing Last Line: Would bring displeasure to your face. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BLACKBERRY, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is time I believe we all confessed Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Blackberries BLAKE'S APOLOGY FOR HIS CATALOGUE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having given great offence by writing in prose Last Line: That I may put them in mind of their latter ends Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Poetry & Poets BLOOD AND SAND, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there ever was a spoiled darling Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Spanish Literature BLUE OR GREEN, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We don't belong to each other. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BOB & SIMON'S WALTZ, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People never seem to change at all - only their Last Line: May 9, 1982 Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Poetry & Poets; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph BOCCACCIO, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boccaccio, for you laughed all laughs that are Last Line: You, and lucretius, and thucydides. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Poetry & Poets BORED TO CHORESIS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inert and in the twilight ... Peace is not hers Last Line: Choreographic and polynesian. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Boredom; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Ennui BREAD, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why has our poetry eschewed Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BRICKS AND STRAW, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My desk is cleared of the litter of ages Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wit & Humor BRIGID, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Ring, ring, ring, ring! Hammers fall Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint BRITISH LEFTISH POETRY, 1930-40, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auden, macneice, day lewis, I have read them all Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Communism; Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972); Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Poetry & Poets BROKEN MUSIC, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not in what fashion she was made Last Line: Lies coiled in dark defeat. Subject(s): Levy, Amy (1861-1889); Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking BROKEN WINGS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gray-headed poets, whom the full years bless Last Line: Immortal lays. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Fate; Poetry & Poets; Youth; Dead, The; Reputation; Destiny BROTHER GIAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear jesus christ, I'm brother gian Last Line: From eve his sins forever rise! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary BROWNING, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Browning makes the verses: / your servant the critique Last Line: Nor he with my review. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Criticism & Critics; Poetry & Poets BROWNING AT ASOLO, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the loggia browning loved Last Line: But the love of the warm heart lingers here. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets BRUGES, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: O bruges, upon the waters Last Line: And all thy bridges songs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BRYANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The harp has fallen from the master's Last Line: How sweet must be the heavenly anthem now! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets BRYANT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For him all nature had a voice Last Line: Were companions all his life. Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Nature; Poetry & Poets BRYANT ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We praise not now the poet's art Last Line: Our country may be saved and freed! Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets BRYANT'S BIRTHPLACE, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid these haunts a poet's boyhood drew Last Line: And finds his soul, despite the years, at home. Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Cummington, Massachusetts; Poetry & Poets BRYANT'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O even-handed nature! We confess Last Line: And every white-throned star fixed in its lost abode! Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets BUCH DER LIEDER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be these the selfsame verses Last Line: Upon my wintry way. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time BUCOLIC COMEDY: AUBADE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jane, jane / tall as a crane Last Line: The morning light creaks down again! Subject(s): Morning; Poetry & Poets BUDDING FORTH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, oh, I love thee!' - how those words Last Line: Wilt thou not look upon me as I kneel? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets BUONA NOTTE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ariel to miranda: - hear Last Line: It is to pluto that I go. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Williams, Jane BURNS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To burns! Brave scotia's laurel'd son Last Line: We toast thy fame from year to year. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets BURNS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild rose of alloway! My thanks Last Line: The name of robert burns? Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets BURNS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eld druid oaks of ayr Last Line: Some weary feet will find repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets BURNS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more these simple flowers belong Last Line: "but spare his ""highland mary!" Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Heather; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By blue ontario's shore, / as I mused of these warlike days & of peace return'd Last Line: You by my charm I invoke. Variant Title(s): As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shore Subject(s): Democracy; Poetry & Poets; United States; America BY NIGHT AND DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I find you in the amber evening glow Last Line: But home-returning to your smile, -- your smile. Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Smiles; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime BY THE RIVERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That spring he was fourteen Last Line: By the rivers of salt. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Duty; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Survival; Shoah; Judaism BY THE WAY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text First Line: These be the little verses, rough and uncultured Last Line: Stamped with the brand of labor, the heel of a navvy's boot. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BYRON, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: His faults were great, his virtues less Last Line: That virtue in its recess dies. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron BYRON, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In men whom men condemn as ill Last Line: And england does not fear the shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): Judge Not Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron BYRON, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Admire the goodness of almighty god Last Line: To fill the embrace of all eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Variant Title(s): The Genius Of Byron Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron BYRON, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Byron, what clash in thee of sea and wind Last Line: While fades the chaos-tingeing fiery juice divine. . . . Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron BYRON, by ALBERT EDMUND TROMBLY Poem Text First Line: Outlaw of the genteel-sounding name Last Line: You took your place among the deathless gods! Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron BYRON THE VOLUPTUARY; EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too avid of earth's bliss, he was of those Last Line: Back in their faces hungering for her face. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron BYRON'S OAK AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE Poem Text First Line: The little twig that byron planted here Last Line: While byron's fame through endless time will reign! Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Newstead Abbey, England; Oak Trees; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron CAELIA: SONNETS: 5, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were't not for you, here should my pen have set Last Line: Others might wear, but I should win the bays. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets CALIFORNIA; FOR ADRIENNE RICH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come again into the place of revolutionary Last Line: Which were themselves. Subject(s): California; Change; Poetry & Poets CAMELUS SALTAT: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What say you, critic, now you have become Last Line: You dealt? -- the voice austere, the jeer, the sneer Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Poetry & Poets CAMELUS SALTAT: 2, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oracle of the market! Thence you drew Last Line: Not eggs, but the drowned soul of hildebrand. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Poetry & Poets CAMERA, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's an old box camera / a brownie, the color and shape Last Line: This little battery without a spark Subject(s): Cameras; Poetry & Poets CAMOENS (BEFORE) (1), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And ever must I fan this fire? Last Line: Flame to the height of epic song. Subject(s): Camoens, Luiz De (1524-1580); Poetry & Poets CAMPBELL'S FUNERAL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis well to see these accidental great Last Line: This all-unworthy wreath on such a poet's bier. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birth; Funerals; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Child Birth; Midwifery; Burials CAN POETRY MATTER?, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart feels the time has come to compose lyric poetry. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CANTO 1, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: And then went down to the ship Variant Title(s): The Odyssey: Book 11 (homer) Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus CAPUT MORTUUM, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not even if with a wizard force I might Last Line: Whether he play to win or toil to lose. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CARELESS LINES ON LABOUR, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye that lie on the sandy beach Last Line: I spoke of in ii and iii. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers CARP POEM, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After I have parked below the spray paint caked in the granite Last Line: Packed so close they might have eaten each other had there been nothing else to eat Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; African Americans; Youth; Poetry & Poets; Convicts; Negroes; American Blacks CASEAR BORGIA, SON OF POPE ALEXANDER THE SIXTH: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen Last Line: The pope says grace, but 'tis the devil gives thanks. Subject(s): Death; Nations; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; War; Dead, The; Stage Life CAUGHT WITH A PRONOUN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The nanosecond before choice itself (?) occurs Last Line: Not allowed on this reservation Subject(s): Grammar; Poetry & Poets CAVE PAINTING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might he (cro-magnon) have drawn bison ...' Last Line: Is this knowledge of loss Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Poetry & Poets CENCIAJA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I print, shelley, how it came to pass Last Line: That victor rules, this present year, in rome? Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians CENTENARY POEM, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He passed, our wonder, our regret Last Line: The poet straight from god. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets CENTENARY POEM, RECITED AT BURNS' CENTENARY FESTIVAL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, bard beloved! As pilgrims to thy shrine Last Line: To fame's bright zenith nearer, higher rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Death; Fame; Honor; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Reputation CHANT FOR THE BRYANT FESTIVAL, NOVEMBER 5, 1864, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One hour be silent, sounds of war! Last Line: Fulfil her poet's prophecies! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Truth; War; Reputation CHARADE: 7, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My whole, the poet of flood and fell Last Line: Of his second an index all may trace. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) CHARLES BAUDELAIRE IN THE BOIS, by EVA TRIEM Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Over the fountains, over the pavements where Last Line: That drugged his torment, lulled his heart to rest. Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry & Poets CHARLES HARPUR, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where harpur lies, the rainy streams Last Line: With hands that falter as they offer. Subject(s): Harpur, Charles (1813-1868); Poetry & Poets CHAUVINISM, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: I admit it. I cannot enter Last Line: "the neighbor's wife, or your mamma?" Subject(s): France; Poetry & Poets CHEMISTRY OF A POEM, by CAROLYN AUSTIN Poem Text First Line: A meteor flash, a mental urge Last Line: And rhythm conjures the whole into art. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CHILDE HAROLD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow and weary, moves a dreary Last Line: Gainst the bark the waves dash high. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME', by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first thought was, he lied in every word Last Line: "tower came." Subject(s): Courage; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Valor; Bravery; Dramatists CIRCE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were you but half so wise as you're severe Last Line: He may grow up to write, and you to judge. Subject(s): Circe; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Women; Dramatists CITY HALL AT NIGHT, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Dim, dark and spectral loom Last Line: Into view. Subject(s): Night; Poetry & Poets; Bedtime CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much of the great poetry Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Civilization; Poetry & Poets CLASS DAY POEM, by MERCEDES IRENE MORITZ Poem Text First Line: If we had lived a little time ago Last Line: For we have found the flower blue that springs from a sesame-seed. Alternate Author Name(s): Randall, Mercedes Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CLASS POEM, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Like lotus-eaters, late disturbed from sleep Last Line: The love of loyal hearts which thou must e'er command! Subject(s): Classmates; Dartmouth College; Poetry & Poets; Scholarship & Scholars; Schoolmates CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day, the poet, bloodily inclined Last Line: I'll cost you but your half-a-crown a day. Subject(s): Love; Mankind; Poetry & Poets; Human Race CLEON, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles) Last Line: Their doctrine could be held by no sane man. Variant Title(s): Greece Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CLOSINGS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Suicide; Poetry & Poets CLOVER, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear uplands, chester's favorite fields Last Line: West chester, pa., summer of 1876. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets COBWEB COLLEGE; AN ANTINOMIAN PARABLE ... FOR ROBERT FRIST, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A batch of freshman came to cobweb college Last Line: "better than day they know the day!" Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets; Universities & Colleges CODICIL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the world's poetry Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Poetry & Poets; Self COLERIDGE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes saw all things in the symmetry Last Line: When thou art walking, wake me, for my master's sake! Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets COLERIDGE, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see thee pine like her in golden story Last Line: But lets the poet see how heav'n can shine. Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets COLERIDGE AT CHAMOUNY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would I knew what ever happy stone Last Line: Dims the proud glory of its heavenward flight. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Death; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dead, The COLERIDGE CROSSING THE PLAIN OF JARS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gypsies carry sacks of walnuts out of groves Last Line: Was in her eyes like a widow's soul. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Gypsies; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Severn, Joseph (1793-1879); Snow; Gipsies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COMING DOWN IN OHIO, by DAVE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My uniform hung air force blue, way uncool Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Basketball; Death; Dead, The COMMANDED TO WRITE VERSES, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since your command inspires Last Line: A guardian angel be to me. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets COMMENDATORY VERSE FOR THE FAERIE QUEENE, by H. B. Poem Text First Line: Grave muses march in triumph with prayer Last Line: H.B. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) COMMENDATORY VERSE FOR THE FAERIE QUEENE, by W. L. (16TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: When stout achilles heard of helen's rape Last Line: W.L. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) COMMENDATORY VERSE FOR THE FAERIE QUEENE, by R. S. Poem Text First Line: Fayre thamis streame, that from ludds stately towne Last Line: R.S. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) COMMENDATORY VERSES FOR THE FAERIE QUEENE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: To looke upon a work of rare devise Last Line: Then looke you give your hoast his utmost dew Subject(s): "poetry & Poets;spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); COMMENDATORY VERSES TO WILLIAM BROWNE'S 'BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS', by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were there a thought so strange as to deny Last Line: Thy youth (herein) thine elders ouer-take. Subject(s): Browne, William (1591-1645); Poetry & Poets COMMENT ON THIS: IN THE REAL SCHEME OF THINGS, POETRY IS MARGINAL, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things - / the empty wine bottle under the bed Last Line: "I'm nobody,"" she spoke for us all." Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers COMMISSION, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied Last Line: Be against all sorts of mortmain. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets COMMUNICATION TO LEON-PAUL FARGUE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know what we say. I know that your poems Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Fargue, Leon-paul (1876-1947)' Poetry & Poets COMPENSATION, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When these sweet spirits, my most faithful friends Last Line: Close up like water, when the times go wrong. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul COMPOSITION, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, from the outside a poem is with us, of another composition Subject(s): Poetry & Poets COMPOSITION, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep: perchance to dream ...' he turned his Last Line: And spat into the thames. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) COMRADES AND LOVERS, REST NOT, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Oh, you genteel, conventional, uncourageous Last Line: Rest not. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) CONCERNING JESUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a race Last Line: Never a true crown but thy crown of thorn! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God; Jesus Christ; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Statues; Truth CONFIRMATION, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a poet who wrote clever verses Last Line: By letting the strength of his arm go to waist. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CONSTANT FEELINGS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some acts I could never, not Last Line: Which are lives, but do not depend on lives. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Sex COOKING, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slide down like a fireman into a cauldron-shaped machine Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR SAYS GOODBYE ... STUDENTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye, lady in bangor, who sent me Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Schools; Students COUNTRY COMMISSIONS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cousin charles, please to send down to-morrow Last Line: I cannot do half what you wish! Subject(s): Country Life; Parks; Poetry & Poets COUP DE GRACE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say you know what's up, what's what, what is or isn't true Last Line: Hostage taking. It is dangerous? Canst be thyself and true? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets COUPLET ON SHAKESPEAR'S MONUMENT (1), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a hundred and thirty years' nap Last Line: Enter shakespear, with a loud clap. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) COUPLET ON SHAKESPEAR'S MONUMENT (2), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus britain lov'd me; and preserv'd my fame Last Line: Clear from a barber's or a benson's name. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) COUPLETS IN CRITICISM, by JOHN ALBERT MACY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whan that aprille' - these five hundred years Last Line: Tame jungle tigers and make lambkins wild? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers COUPLETS IN PRAISE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet of love, I sing here my whole soul to you Last Line: Mourn me and weep with you. Here ends my litany. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Praise COWPER'S CONSOLATION, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew what mortals know when tried Last Line: God took his own! Subject(s): Consolation; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The COWPER'S GRAVE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a place where poets crowned / may feel the heart's decaying Last Line: And I, on cowper's grave, should see his rapture in a vision. Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones COWPER'S THREE HARES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They know not of their mission from above Last Line: And mix your woodland breath with cowper's sighs. Subject(s): Animals; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry & Poets; Rabbits; Hares CREDO, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What good is poetry Last Line: Has been my own salvation Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CRITIC AND POET, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No man had ever heard a nightingale Last Line: Were it a bird, 'twould answer to my law. Subject(s): Birds; Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets CRITICS AND CONNOISSEURS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious Last Line: Of carrying a stick? Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets CROSSARMS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a cold day, this six-foot stepladder's a hardship Last Line: Will sleep as one, our names written on water. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Journalism; Journalists CRYSTALLIZATION, by MABEL LYON Poem Text First Line: The tears that belong to the poet Last Line: Has melted it back to tears. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tears CUPID ACQUITTED, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever jove renews mankind Last Line: And pray—what answer shall they make? Subject(s): Cupid; Jupiter (god); Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CYNICUS TO W. SHAKESPEARE, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You wrote a line too much, my sage Last Line: And only all the women players. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) C_______'S LAMENT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How lovely was the light of heaven Last Line: O, lay it at his head -- a stone! Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets DANTE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, mid the grasses of the field Last Line: Crowns the last century's closing year. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Poetry & Poets DAWN CHORUS, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Text First Line: Hark, hark, the bark as fido springs Last Line: And bang the pan that fries. Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) DAYS, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some days my thoughts are just cocoons - all cold, and dull, and blind Last Line: I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DAYS OF 1986, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was believed by his peers to be an important poet Last Line: And rejoice at the inner voice, so lofty and pure. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism DE MUSA, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Write a poem - solemn - earnest Last Line: I shall be content! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DE RERUM NATURE: BOOK 4. THE ARGUMENT, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet first his owne high prayses sings Last Line: Retaine mens love, when beauty fades away. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Poetry & Poets; Praise DEA EX MACHINA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is like mies van der rohe's Last Line: Her supple shoulders call Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig (1886-1969); Poetry & Poets DEAD LETTERS (T.L.H.), by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lay the letters of a hundred friends Last Line: Seemed friends that we had always known. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets DEAF POEM, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don’t read this one out loud. It isn’t Last Line: A poem missing even the language / it is unwritten in Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DEAR HOMER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At five this morning I opened half an eye Last Line: Keeps coming up. Subject(s): Dawn; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Sunrise; Iliad; Odyssey DEAR POETRY:, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, my mailbox has been visited Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DEAR ROBERT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your roses are blooming in a basket Last Line: In its receptive soil Subject(s): Roses; Poetry & Poets; Survival; Perseverance DEATH NEWS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking at night on asphalt campus Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Dead, The DEC. 28. 1974, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plants against the light Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DEDICATED TO MRS. E.R. JONES, by L. LILLIAN STRAIN Poem Text First Line: Now mrs. Jones, she say to me Last Line: "so get fay butler to write your poetry." Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Poetry & Poets DEDICATION TO MY PICK AND SHOVEL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because we have swined in the drift Last Line: Volume of verses to you. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DEDICATION TO POEMS, LYRICS AND SONNETS, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not that the theme is worthy, nor the lay Last Line: To you memorial gratitude belongs. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DEDICATION TO THE LATER SONNETS TO URANIA, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I give thee what was never mine? Last Line: This book of verses, writ in love of thee. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets DEDICATORY SONNET TO S. T. COLERIDGE, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, and bard revered! To whom I owe Last Line: That good, my sire, I dedicate to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets DEFENDING WALT WHITMAN, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Basketball is like this for young indian boys, all arms and legs Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) DEFINITION, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Poetry. Is it not the heart's high tide Last Line: All hearts are knowing. Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets DEFINITION, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER Poem Text First Line: A sonnet, fourteen lines of measured rhyme Last Line: When poets strum a bold ecstatic lute! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) DESCRIPTION WITHOUT PLACE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it possible that to seem – itis to be Last Line: And very much more gaily Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Earth; Imagination DESIRING HER TO BURN HIS VERSES, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These papers, chariessa, let thy breath Last Line: Things without sense from flames, and yet not me. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Poetry & Poets DETACH, INVADING, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh humming all and Last Line: Strapping, apricot Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DETAIL, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Robins DIALOGUE BETWEEN A POOR POET AND THE AUTHOR, by PONCE-DENIS ECOUCHARD LEBRUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have just been robbed of papers! - I am sorry for your grief Last Line: Yes, of all my hand-writ verses!—o! I'm sorry for the thief. Alternate Author Name(s): Lebrun Pindare; Le Brun, Pierre Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Crime & Criminals; Poetry & Poets DIGGING, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between my finger and my thumb Subject(s): Food Habits; Poetry & Poets; Potatoes DIGNITY AT TRUMPETS, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The declaration of independence Last Line: It is a privilege to heal Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DIRGE FOR A LIVING POET, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Shall the mind of bard -- historian -- sage Last Line: Restore, restore, o god! Our poet's wandering mind! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Voices; Dead, The DIRGE FOR A POET, by MAURICE BARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ponder on a broken lute Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DIRGE FOR FIDELE, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fair fidele's grassy tomb Last Line: And mourned, till pity's self be dead. Variant Title(s): Dirge In Cymbeline;fidele ['s Dirge];a Song From Shakespeare's Cymbelyne [cymbeline] Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists DISCOVERY, by CAROL PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: I looked at me one day, one day Last Line: To think that I am all of these. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DIVERSIONS OF THE RE-ECHO CLUB, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, vain, deluding cows Last Line: Than to be one, anyhow. Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Cows; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Keats, John (1795-1821); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) DO NOT BELIEVE, by EMILE DESCHAMPS DE SAINT AMAND Poem Text First Line: Lady, they will tell you, 'you are foolish to believe him! Last Line: But weep above my idle lute and loosen all the strings. Alternate Author Name(s): Deschamps, Emile Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness DO NOT SPEAK KERESAN TO A MESCALERO APACHE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not speak Last Line: Is unmarked. Subject(s): Apache Indians; Conversation; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America DO POETS FAIL?, by ALFRED J. DAVIS Poem Text First Line: We pour upon the poet's head Last Line: Within to make our spirits bloom. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DO WHAT I KNOW BEST, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Actually, and weeping do nothing best Last Line: Holding edwin Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets DON JUAN: DEDICATION [OR, INVOCATION], by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bob southey! You're a poet -- poet-laureate Last Line: Is it not so, my tory, ultra-julian? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan; Poetry & Poets; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) DON'T GROW OLD, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old poet, poetry's final subject glimmers months ahead Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DOOR TO THE SECOND INFINITY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The inkwell periscope lies in wait around the bend Last Line: With a direct line / to fear Subject(s): Surrealism; Death; Identity; Poetry & Poets DOVE RIVER ANTHOLOGY, BY OWN WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: LUCY GRAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She dwelt among the untrodden ways Last Line: Eh, william wordsworth? Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm to-night Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night. Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore DOVER BEACH' - A NOTE TO THAT POEM, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wave withdrawing Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Middle Age; Poetry & Poets; Waves DOVER BEACH' - A NOTE TO THAT POEM, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wave withdrawing Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Middle Age; Poetry & Poets; Waves DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS IN HIS MORTAL STATE, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Renounce the greatest happiness on earth Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) DOWN WEIGAND WAY, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: All winter long I've heard the song Last Line: Down weigand way. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring DOWN-FLOWERS; TO MAURICE MAETERLINCK, by SADAKICHI HARTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weird phantoms rise in the dawn-wind's blow Last Line: To strew these dawn-flowers at their feet. Subject(s): Dawn; Dramatists; Flowers; Life; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Sunrise; Dramatists DOWN-HALL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing not old jason, who travelled through greece Last Line: Derry down, down, hey derry down. Subject(s): Canterbury, England; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers DREAM OF A LARGE LADY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The large lady laboriously climbs Last Line: Painted by the sun against the sky. Subject(s): Guns; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism DREAMERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There was a poet once who died Last Line: Of a little bird for the other! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DRIVING TOWARD BOSTON, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight we are driving past lac qui parle toward boston Last Line: High as the dakota mountains! High as the great mountain near fargo! Subject(s): Boston; Poetry & Poets DULL IS MY VERSE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dull is my verse: not even thou Last Line: "sings sweetest at the close of day." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DUNBAR, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, how poets sing and die! Last Line: Ah, how poets sing and die! Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Poetry & Poets DUNS SCOTUS'S OXFORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Towery city and branchy between towers Last Line: Who fired france for mary without spot. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; England; Oxford, England; Poetry & Poets; English E.A.P.; ON THE FLY-LEAF OF WHITTY'S 'POE', by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the proudest of the nations Last Line: And no poets there are born. Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets EARLY MAY STANZAS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A may wood. The invisible removal load Last Line: The load is burning with chilly flames Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers EARTH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grasshopper, your fairy song Last Line: Through my lips, and say her prayer. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EAST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Any man -- god, if he had the money Last Line: Because we are what we are and that hurts Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Poetry & Poets; Gays &y Lesbians; O'hara, Frank (1926-1966) EATING POETRY, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ink runs from the corners of my mouth Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ECHOES, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Once more riding down to venice on borrowed horses, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ECHOES OF SPRING: 6, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, birds, winged voices! Children of the light! Last Line: Ye, with the sunlight, range o'er land and main. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring EDGE OF THE WORLD, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is the hill of grass Last Line: And touch infinity! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EDWARD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Why dois your brand sae drap wi bluid [why does your sword so drap with blood] Last Line: "the curse of hell frae me sall ye bear: / sic counsels ye gave to me, o!" Variant Title(s): "edward, Edward; Subject(s): Hate;poetry & Poets EDWARD LEAR, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Left his friend to breakfast alone on the white Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Poetry & Poets EFFICIENCY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For one who is volitient Last Line: I never thought of you. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EGO TRIPPING, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in the congo / I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Variant Title(s): Ego-tripping (there May Be A Reason Why) Subject(s): Men; Mothers; Poetry & Poets EIGHTH SKY, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It is scribbled along the body Subject(s): Alphabets; Poetry & Poets EL KHALIL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am no chieftain, fit to lead Last Line: Yet in their hearts I rule, a king. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sin ELECTION TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Gather ye bank-notes while ye may Last Line: Too soon its brilliant course is run. / its beer will soon stop flowing Subject(s): "herrick, Robert (1591-1674);poetry & Poets; ELEGIAC SONNET: 82. TO THE SHADE OF BURNS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mute is thy wild harp, now, o bard sublime Last Line: "enjoys with them ""the liberty it loved." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ELEGIE ON D.D., by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by one yeare, time and our frailtie have Last Line: Of what you were, then what you are, expresse. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ELEGIE UPON ANACREON, WHO WAS CHOAKED BY A GRAPE-STONE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I lament thine end Last Line: As strong as thunder is in jove's. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ELEGY FOR A MINOR ROMANTIC POET, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If that's you gesturing frantically Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ELEGY FOR A POET WHOSE BOOKS I DIDN?ÇÖT THINK WERE WORTH RE-READING, NOT UNTIL NOW, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say she leapt from the bleachers, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ELEGY FOR DOCTOR DONNE, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though the vulgar and received praise Last Line: Such vice avail more than their virtues can. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ELEGY IMITATED FROM ONE OF AKENSIDE'S ... INSCRIPTIONS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near the lone pile with ivy overspread Last Line: That riches cannot pay for love or truth. Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Doctors ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Renowned spenser, lie a thought more nigh Last Line: Honour thereafter to be laid by thee. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On scotia's plains, in days of yore Last Line: Which now lies dead? Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Scotland ELEGY ON TOY PIANO, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You don't need a pony Last Line: About this, even diamonds do not lie Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ELEGY: IN COHERENT LIGHT, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Death; Dead, The ELEGY: THE POET INVOKES THE SPIRITS OF THE ELEMENTS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sylphs, who banquet on my delia's blush Last Line: And burst my feeble body's frail control. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2 Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Obsessions; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women ELLEN, IF KEATS, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: Ellen, when we walked in that turquoise night Last Line: To gorgeous torsos, statues warmly cold! Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets EMBERS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tragedy, I'll light for tilia Subject(s): Blood; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy EMBRYO, by MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND Poem Text First Line: I feel a poem in my heart tonight Last Line: Will be the better! Alternate Author Name(s): Xariffa Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EMILIA, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halfway up the hemlock valley turnpike Last Line: Deep in fancies of a fairy bride. Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers EMPTY, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can this be my poem? - this poor fragment Last Line: And 'twill never come to me again! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets END OF SUMMER, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An agitation of the air Subject(s): Farm Life; Middle Age; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will try to remember. It was light Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists ENDNOTE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great poems of / our elders in many Last Line: Asleep and alive. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ENGLAND, JULY 1913; TO RUPERT BROOKE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O england, england -- that july Last Line: In cambridge, I did not know you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); England; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; English ENIGMA, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noblest name in allegory's page Last Line: Which gathers all their glories in its own. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) ENVOIE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little book. If anybody asks Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS, by ROBERT HASS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In one version of the legend the sirens couldn't sing Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Iliad; Odyssey EPICEDIUM: WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Say, who shall mourn him first Last Line: And his first word was noble as his last! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Italy; Kisses; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Italians EPIGRAM, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here sleeps anacreon, in this ivied shade Last Line: And venus calls thee even in death her own! Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O stranger! If anacreon's shell Last Line: Divinity itself divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM, by VOLTAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bard, whose name I won't disclose Last Line: His verses prove he lied. Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM (2), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, every poet is a fool Last Line: Prove every fool to be a poet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM (4), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frank carves very ill, yet will palm all the meats Last Line: It cost thee more in whips than hay. Subject(s): Jokes; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes EPIGRAM ON THE BRAZIERS' COMPANY HAVING RESOLVED, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The braziers, it seems, are preparing to pass Last Line: I owe, in great part, to my passion for pastry. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) EPIGRAM ON THE CANDIDATES FOR THE LAUREL, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall royal praise be rhym'd by such a ribald Last Line: Oh! Save the salary, and drink the sack! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM ON THE CANDIDATES FOR THE LAUREL (2), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! Ambitious of the british bays Last Line: For duck can thresh, you know, as well as write. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM ON THOMAS OTWAY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To form a plot Last Line: Defaceth god's in every character. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Otway, Thomas (1652-1685); Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM: 'POET', by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After,each,word,he,places,a,comma Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM: ON POET-APE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor poet-ape, that would be thought our chief Last Line: From locks of wool, or shreds from the whole piece! Variant Title(s): On Poet-ape Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM: ON POETS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damnation follows death in other men Last Line: But your damn'd poet lives and writes agen. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM: THE PLAY OF 'KING LEAR', by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here love the slain with love the slayer lies Last Line: Bubbles the wan mirth of the mirthless fool. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) EPIGRAM: THE POET'S PARADOX, by R. T. KERLIN Poem Text First Line: In tears I sang my sweet content Last Line: With joy I wrote my wild lament. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Yale University EPIGRAMS: BOOK I, 1, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He unto whom thou art so partial Last Line: Post-obits rarely reach a poet. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): Post-obits And The Poets;preface Subject(s): Martial (40-104); Poetry & Poets EPILOGUE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPILOGUE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, words of mine! And if you live Last Line: Songs free from all the arts of art. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPILOGUE ON OCCASION OF REPRESENTATION FOR DRYDEN'S BENEFIT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps the parson stretched a point too far Last Line: While you have still your oats, and we our hains. Variant Title(s): Epilogue To The 'pilgrim,' Revived Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; English; Stage Life EPILOGUE TO 'TAMERLANE THE GREAT', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, the beardless author of this day Last Line: And always fails you at the second heat. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists EPILOGUE TO THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA BY THE SPANIARDS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Success, which can no more than beauty last Last Line: He had pleas'd better, had he lov'd you less. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 2 Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Success; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES: DIALOGUE 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not twice a twelvemonth you appear in print Last Line: Show there was one who held it in disdain. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft has our poet wisht [wished], this happy seat Last Line: Judges so just, so knowing, and so kind. Variant Title(s): Epilogue Spoken At Oxford By Mrs. Marshall Subject(s): Muses; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets EPISTLE TO COLONEL DE PEYSTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My honour'd colonel, deep I feel Last Line: Amen! Amen! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPISTLE TO DAVIE, A BROTHER POET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While winds frae aff ben-lomond blaw Last Line: His sweaty, wizen'd hide. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut, shut the door, good john! Fatigued I said Last Line: Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n. Variant Title(s): Prologue To The Satires Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Booksellers; Critics & Criticism; Gay, John (1685-1732); Hate; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Bookstores; Doctors EPISTLE TO DR. YOUNG UPON HIS POEM ON THE LAST DAY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the atheist tremble, thou alone Last Line: And practise o'er the angel in the man. Subject(s): Advice; Atheism; Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPISTLE TO JOHN LAPRAIK, AN OLD SCOTTISH BARD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While briers an' woodbines budding green Last Line: Your friend and servant. Subject(s): Lapraik, John (1727-1807); Poetry & Poets EPISTLE TO LORD BYRON: VIRTUE PROTESTS, by JOSEPH COTTLE Poem Text First Line: From thy compeers in genius wisely learn Last Line: To know that I shall ever reach the height! Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Genius; Poetry & Poets; Virtue; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron EPISTLE TO MR. M'ADAM; IN ANSWER TO AN OBLIGING LETTER ..., by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, o'er a gill I gat your card Last Line: A credit to his country. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPISTLE XIV, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask, aristippus, and I tell you Subject(s): Aristippus (435-366 B.c.); Poetry & Poets EPISTLE: TO THE AUTHOR OF 'FESTUS'; ON THE CLASSICK AND ROMANTICK, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Philip! I know thee not, thy song I know Last Line: Temper'd the strain; apollo calmly smiled. Subject(s): Bailey, Philip James (1816-1902); Poetry & Poets EPISTLES BETWEEN ANDREW GRAY AND ROBERT FERGUSSON: TO R. FERGUSSON, by ANDREW GRAY Poem Text First Line: Deer r.Ie'en man dip my pen, / but how to write I dinna ken Last Line: Yours, andrew gray. Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Praise EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here lies my poor wife, without bed or blanket" Last Line: But dead as a door-nail: god be thankit Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies deane donne; enough; those words alone Last Line: "his spirit, will day, it is lesse bold than true" Subject(s): "donne, John (1572-1631);epitaphs;poetry & Poets; EPITAPH FOR A POET WHO WROTE NO POETRY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the service of this poet? He Last Line: Who knew so little, and who felt so much. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets EPITAPH OF A STINKING POET, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here stinks a poet, I confess Last Line: Yet wanting breath stinks so much less. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances EPITAPH ON A YOUNG POET WHO DIED BEFORE ... ACHIEVED SUCCESS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this sod lie the remains Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPITAPH ON HIMSELF, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop, christian passer-by! Stop, child of god Last Line: He ask'd, and hoped, through christ, do thou the same! Variant Title(s): Coleridge's Epitaph For Himself, Written 9 November 1833 Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets EPITAPH ON JOHN KEATS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Some poets die consumed by love Last Line: To stop his craving after sweets. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What needs my shakespeare for his honour'd bones Last Line: That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Shakespeare;on Shakespeare. 1630 Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists EPITAPH UPON DR. DONNE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This decent urne a sad inscription weares Last Line: "which with amazements, we may now reherse" Subject(s): "donne, John (1572-1631);epitaphs;poetry & Poets; EPITAPH: FOR JOHN KEATS, APOSTLE OF BEAUTY, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not writ in water nor in mist Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets EPODES: 10. AGAINST MAEVIUS, A POET, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And art thou shipp'd, friend doggerel! - get thee gone Last Line: I can be civil too. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPODES: 4. AGAINST CASSIUS SEVERUS, A REVILEFUL AND WANTON POET, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou village-cur! Why dost thou bark at me? Last Line: Put finger in mine eye and cry? Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EROS TO HOWARD NEMEROV, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's funny, howard, I never thought I'd be Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Nemerov, Howard (1920-1991) ERRING IN COMPANY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If e'er my rhyming be at fault Last Line: In most illustrious company. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme ESSAY: IN THE LAND OF WHAT DRESS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to share this news Last Line: My poems made the low plains, the cowpalace, move. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ESSAY: THE INFINITE ASSONANCES WITHIN, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new york phone book is suggestive of a sublime Last Line: What is happening anywhere, what has happened, and what will Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme ETAIN THE QUEEN, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see with the eye of my mind where a lady sitteth Last Line: For poets had honour and praise of kings when the world was young. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Love - Marital; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love ETERNAL LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Piteous my rhyme is Last Line: Is all in all then. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Poetry & Poets EULOGY TO W. H. AUDEN, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assuredly, that fissured face Last Line: Shine with the wake that gives the / craftsman the gift of peace Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets EVANGELLE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ol / d / er / to make a spectable Subject(s): Mediums; Poetry & Poets; Witchcraft & Witches; Women; Spiritualists EVENING CLOUDS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little flock of clouds go down to rest Last Line: And still on purley common gooseboys sing. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Clouds; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings EVENING PASTIMES, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting by my fire alone Last Line: I shall wear that garment yet. Subject(s): Solitude; Aging; Poetry & Poets; Love EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should I not be glad to contemplate Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Optimism EVOLUTION (ACCORDING TO MAETERLINCK), by FRANCES REUBELT Poem Text First Line: Beneath the earth and hating sun and light Last Line: And climbs the radiant way to heaven and god. Subject(s): Dramatists; Evolution; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets EXEUNT, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Piecemeal the summer dies; / at the field's edge a daisy lives alone Last Line: Crawls from the dry grass Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EZRA POUND, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horizontal in a deckchair on the bleak ward Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) EZRY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe you ranted in the grove Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE POET AND HIS PATRON, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, caelia, is your spreading waist Last Line: The arts that taught them first to rise. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Desire; Poetry & Poets; Women FABLES: 1ST SER. 45. THE POET AND THE ROSE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the man who builds his name Last Line: To wither, envy, pine and fade? Subject(s): Fame; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses; Reputation FACADE: 1. PERE AMELOT, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars like quaking-grass grow in each gap Last Line: He knows there is nothing at all! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FACE THE ORIENT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need to be dancing over the birth Last Line: Look here. The horizon is the book. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading FACILITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So easy 'tis to make a rhyme Last Line: I've got to make my living. Subject(s): Paris, France; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers FAGGED OUT; A POEM WITHOUT ENERGY ENOUGH TO FIND RHYMES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to let go Last Line: Oh, I want to let go. Subject(s): Imitation; Poetry & Poets; Weariness; Fatigue FAIR POETRY EATS TREMBLING MATTER, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remote omar / lyrical bug Last Line: Punctuated by the other Subject(s): Poetry & Poets - French; Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894) FAIRY'S ANSWER; TO MRS. GREVILLE'S PRAYER FOR INDIFFERENCE, by ISABELLA (BYRON) HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Without preamble, to my friend / these hasty lines I'm bid to send Last Line: Imprinted on my mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Carlisle, Countess Of Subject(s): Greville, Francis (fanny) (1724-1789); Poetry & Poets; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals FALLEN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A friend had a minnesota catalogue company Last Line: In a glass jar, and place it under the word fallen. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dahlias; Poetry & Poets; Privacy; Redemption; Inspiration; Creativity FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is blue and scarlet on my page, Subject(s): Reading; Mythology; Dreams; Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Burials FALLOW, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, alone, let me wander alone Last Line: Fallow, fallow, and reposing! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness FALSE COLORS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not be alarmed by the truculence Last Line: In the iron glove. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FALSE POETS AND TRUE; TO WORDSWORTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look how the lark soars upward and is gone Last Line: Fill up the silences of night and morn. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FALSTAFF'S LAMENT OVER PRINCE HAL BECOME HENRY V, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One that I cherished Last Line: Here's to thee, hal! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) FAME MAKES US FORWARD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To print our poems, the propulsive cause Last Line: Is fame, (the breath of popular applause.) Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Reputation FAMOUS NIGHT, by ODYSSEUS ALEPOUDELI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: ...By the terraces, near the musical complaint of your hand's Last Line: And night is kneaded by the goodness of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Elytis, Odysseus; Elytis, Odysseas; Alepudelis, Odisseus Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Optimism FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 2, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I the choice to tally greatest bards Last Line: And leave its odor there. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets FAREWELL, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell!' another gloomy word Last Line: Without it? Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Farewell; Fate; Language; Poetry & Poets; Parting; Destiny; Words; Vocabulary FAREWELL TO CYNTHIA, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you bewitched? Or don't you care Last Line: Some day I'll get you! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Poetry & Poets; Parting FAREWELL TO HIS WIFE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fare thee well! And if forever Last Line: More than this I scarce can die. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Fare Thee Well Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Divorce; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Milbanke, Annabelle Isabella (1792-1860); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness FAREWELL TO J. R. LOWELL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, for the bark has her breast to the tide Last Line: As we empty our hearts of the blessings they hold. Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Farewell; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets; Parting FAREWELL TO POESY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sweet poesy, why art thou dumb? Last Line: The poet dies, his heart doth bleed. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Parting FASTBALL, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not just folklore, or / a tall can of corn (or grass on cranberry street) Last Line: Old solitary whiff-beard Variant Title(s): Fast Ball Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FEARS IN SOLITUDE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A green and silent spot, amid the hills Last Line: Love, and the thoughts that yearn for human kind. Variant Title(s): The Dell Subject(s): England; Fear; Poetry & Poets; War; English FEBRUARY MORNING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old man takes a nap Last Line: The snow falls all day long. Subject(s): Books; February; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Morning; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Winter; Reading FIAT ODE, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fiat! / you have freed us from our dusty dreadful past Last Line: Because they are dead! Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Fiat Automobiles; Poetry & Poets FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I'm told to write a paper Last Line: Seize the day. Subject(s): Morality; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Ethics; Dictators; Feminism FINAL MEETING; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, I dressed in my very best Last Line: Banked in the gutters with old snow. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Dead, The; Parting; Feminism FINDING WHAT'S LOST, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the poem my daughter reminds me Last Line: Like an orange flower over the gravel street. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Loss; Mothers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets FINIS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another little volume filled with varied verse and song Last Line: Touched with thine altar-fire, and made an offering pure and sweet. Subject(s): God; Poetry & Poets FINIS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have filled my book Last Line: Of the priceless gift of time. Subject(s): God; Poetry & Poets FIRE EXIT: 76, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nomad always has another planet up his sleeve Last Line: Pine cones on fire Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FIRST ANNIVERSARY BANQUET OF A NEWLY FORMED BURNS' CLUB IN MANCHESTER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High bard of scotia, brightest son of song Last Line: The day we bless—the natal day of burns. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Clubs (associations); Poetry & Poets FIRST PERSON, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One lies on one's back in the woods Last Line: The last one / to die Subject(s): Forests; Aging; Animals; Poetry & Poets; Mortality FIRST PRACTICE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Full Text First Line: After the doctor checked to see / we weren't ruptured Subject(s): Education; Hate; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Sports; Students FIRST RHYMES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the meadow by the mill Last Line: "when ""nature painted all things gay." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets FIVE HUNDRED A YEAR, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That gilt middle path, which the poet of rome Last Line: I'd gladly give up my five hundred a year. Subject(s): Animals; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 1. THE GESTURE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The question is: how does one hold an apple Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 2. THE LITTLE HOLE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The little hole in the eye Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 3. THAT LAND, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sing like a bird at the open Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 4. PAROUSIA, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Impossible to doubt the world: it can be seen Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FIVE POEMS ABOUT POETRY: 5. FROM VIRGIL, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I, says the buzzard, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FLARE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome to the silly, comforting poem Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets FLATTERY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: You tease for a rhyme Last Line: "that will ""tickle and flatter." Subject(s): Flattery; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme FOLLOW ROZEWICZ, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: . . . At twenty-four / led to slaughter, Last Line: Stained letters curkled into roses Subject(s): Rozewicz, Tadeuz (b. 1921}; Poetry & Poets FOOTLIGHT MOTIFS: 4. NATALIE ALT, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle, modest little flower Last Line: Nutty over natalie. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOR A COPY OF HERRICK, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many days have come and gone Last Line: And thy numbers are of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Variant Title(s): Verses For A Copy Of Herrick's Poems Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets FOR A COPY OF KEATS'S POEMS, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: You taught my eager heart to understand Last Line: All his, remembering this gift from you. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets FOR A CRITIC WHO TRIES TO WRITE POEMS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, well, little poet Last Line: In the middle of a thunderstorm! Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Poetry & Poets; Storms; Writing & Writers FOR A FLYLEAF OF HERRICK'S POEMS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In devon, when the year was new Last Line: Saved by a snatch of song. Subject(s): Daffodils; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets FOR A POET OF NATURE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opinions we only deemed to hold, to hoe Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Nature FOR A VOLUME OF VERSE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good sir, or madam, pray come in Last Line: No doubt you'll find a vacant seat. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT, by CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More luck to honest poverty Last Line: The man's an ass for a' that. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, Shirley Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes FOR ALLAN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who wanted to see how I wrote a poem Last Line: Excepting santa claus. Subject(s): Christmas; Neilson, Allan; Poetry & Poets; Nativity, The FOR AN APPENDIX TO THE ROWFANT LIBRARY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His books.' oh yes, his books I know Last Line: Produce no frederick locker. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Locker-lampson, Frederick (1821-1895); Poetry & Poets FOR BLACK POETS WHO THINK OF SUICIDE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Black poets should live -- not leap Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Suicide FOR CORIN TODAY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old shepherd in your wattle cote Last Line: The glimmer of your lanthorn lights. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOR FRANCES LEDWIDGE, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You fell; and on a distant field, shell-shatter'd Last Line: For you each morning shall her fields be wet. Subject(s): Ledwidge, Francis (1891-1917); Poetry & Poets; World War I - Casualties FOR JOHN BERRYMAN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're dead, what can I do for you? Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Poetry & Poets FOR KEATS, by IRENE SUTTON Poem Text First Line: Whenever I think of you now I think of a garden Last Line: All day, all youth's long long day Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets FOR L'S PRIVATE CONSUMPTION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When poets suffer long from lack of vogue Last Line: 01/18/14 Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; English FOR MAISTER GEOFFREY CHAUCER, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bard there was, and that a worthy wight Last Line: God send us such another in our time! Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Poetry & Poets FOR MAY SWENSON, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world beside this one, imagination's egg Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOR MILAREPA, IN RUSE, ON PAPER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: These farmers dressed in gold and blue Last Line: In their pear tree will be forgiven. Variant Title(s): For Confucius, In Ruse, On Rice Paper Subject(s): Disdain; Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Scorn; Agriculture; Farmers FOR OLIVER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright summers fade, and all bright faces too Last Line: Among the deathless, whom they call the dead. Variant Title(s): At Parting Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); War; Dramatists FOR ONE WHO CAME LATE TO POETRY, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not someone I knew well, not close Last Line: Everything a grown woman wants. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOR POETS, by WALLACE M. SLOANE Poem Text First Line: The poets have their little nook where they may live and love and rest Last Line: With nothing imprisoned but the soul between the pages of a book. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOR POETS SLAIN IN WAR, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the poets who fell in magnificent ways! Last Line: Splendidly dead for the patria, splendidly dead! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War FOR ROBERT FROST, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you talk so much Last Line: Down hills floating by heart on the bulldozed land. Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets FOR SAPPHO / AFTER SAPPHO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you sang eloquently Last Line: For this moment only Subject(s): Death; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Feminism FOR SYLVIA, FOR US, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: So much is aimless. Her poems are Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF JOHN KEATS' DEATH, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight when the moonlit cypress trees Last Line: With visions of the sunny earth and sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets FOR THE AVERY 'KNICKERBOCKER', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shade of herrick, muse of locker Last Line: This the muse can never do! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Boughton, George Henry (1833-1905); New York City - Dutch Period; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; United States - Dutch Settlements; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes FOR THE BURNS CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His birthday. - nay, we need not speak Last Line: The mountain-mist of glory! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets FOR THE CENTENARY OF KEATS'S SONNET, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a scientist, an engineer Last Line: Much have I travelled in the realms of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets FOR THE MEETING OF THE BURNS CLUB, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains glitter in the snow Last Line: The thames, the clyde, the shannon! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets FOR THE SOUL'S KEEPING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Mute are the chords Last Line: The muse that is sleeping. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOR THE YOUNG WHO WANT TO, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Talent is what they say / you have after the novel Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOR WALT WHITMAN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot read you Last Line: The boss? Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FOR WCW, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat in rows listening to your poems Last Line: Bleating his lines. Subject(s): Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Burials FOR WHITMAN, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have observed the learned astronomer Last Line: The unnamed / the unnameable Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FOR WHOM THIS PRETTY PAMPHLET, POLISHED NEW, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poet's Biography First Line: Http://books.Google.Com/books?Id=iu0vkq3dl7yc&pg=pa3&dq=catullus+%22cupids+and+loves,+and+men+of+gen Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FORGET TO NOT, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember, poet, while gallivanting across the sky Last Line: Of every nothing Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOUNDERED STAR, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little fevered island, blued to closing Last Line: About ourselves that aren't true. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Social Problems; Writing & Writers FOUR METRICAL EXPERIMENTS: 1. IAMBICS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No cold shall thee benumb Last Line: My pen shall give thee leave hereafter to be dumb. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOUR METRICAL EXPERIMENTS: 2. TROCHAICS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus she said, and all around Last Line: Love to-day, and thought to-morrow. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FRAGMENT, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is poetry? It is a mosaic Last Line: With storied meaning for religion's sake. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology FRAGMENT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou strainest through the mountain fern Last Line: Tern! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) FRAGMENT OF BRUTUS, AN EPIC, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The patient chief, who lab'ring long, arriv'd Last Line: My countrys poet, to record her fame. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FRAGMENTARY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like the little poems Last Line: In little books that hide. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FRAGMENTS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wander in fancy far away Last Line: Is far beyond a poet's dream. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FRAGMENTS, by JAMES BLANDING SLOAN Poem Text First Line: And when the dark without Last Line: Drinking up the light like a thousand-mouthed sponge. Alternate Author Name(s): Sloan, J. Blanding Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness FRAGMENTS OF AN ODE TO SHELLEY, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since men have always crowned the tomb Last Line: And bathed his forehead in the pool of night. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY, COLLECTED IN HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, SELECTION, by JAMES MACPHERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I sit by the mossy fountain; on top of the hill of winds Last Line: Passest, when mid-day is silent around. Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness FREE VERSE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I now delight / in spite Last Line: Academic extravaganza! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FREQUENTLY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shot a poem into the air Last Line: —exchange. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FRESH AIR, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the poem society a black-haired man stands up to say Subject(s): Air; Dadaism; Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Poetry Society Of America FRESHWATER: AN IDYLL, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A storm is coming, but the clouds are still Last Line: Surrenders to the storm at fishwater Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FRIDA AND HER POET, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A brave young poet born in days of eld Last Line: "thy little frida, loved so long ago!" Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FRIENDS: PROEM, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's gone / I do not understand Last Line: And he was gone. Variant Title(s): Battle: The Going;the Going Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Death; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; Dead, The FROG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First memory / of swimming underwater Last Line: And croaking in the reeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Authors & Authorship; Frogs; Poetry & Poets FROM A SPANISH CLOISTER, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grrr - what's that? A dog? A poet? Last Line: Ave, virgo! Gr-r-r — you swine! Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets FROM HIDDEN SOURCE, by JEAN ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: From hidden source the poet spins Last Line: His lyric web of lasting song! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FROM THREE FLY LEAVES, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah phyllis! Did I only dare Last Line: Have written quite in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Courtship; Poetry & Poets FROM WISHING-LAND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lady, tapping at your door Last Line: I pray it all come true. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wishes FROST AND HIS ENEMIES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When robert frost set down a poetic whim, Last Line: Or a patch of snow or the steeple of a church. Subject(s): Fate; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Innocence; Irony; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Destiny FUTILITY, by EDNA ZOE SCRIMGER Poem Text First Line: Since beauty, love and truth are said to be Last Line: Where beauty, tragic figure, walks alone! Subject(s): Despair; Poetry & Poets GAYHEART, A STORY OF DEFEAT, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gayheart came in june, I saw his heels Last Line: But I behold him in the city's eyes. Subject(s): Boarding Houses; Poetry & Poets; Success; City & Town Life GENTLE READER, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late in the night when I should be asleep Last Line: Saying like molly, yes, yes, yes o yes Subject(s): Books & Reading; Poetry & Poets GEO-BESTIARY: 10, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a private mountain range with a big bowl in its center that you Last Line: Haven't quite found the words. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 25, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some tea the goddess quickly made Last Line: And in my works as a poet. Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Poetry & Poets; Liberty; Germans GHALIB SPEAKS OF HIS POET FRIENDS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets GHAZALS: 28, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hotel room (far above the city) I said I bet you Last Line: But rats, raccoon bones, snake skeletons and dark. Black dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Sex GHAZALS: 30, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am walked on a leash by my dog and am water Last Line: An apple, the fat off the lamb, raw and coreless. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): New York City; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Songs GIVE ME A DAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a day, beloved, that I may set Last Line: An oasis with palm trees and a well! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets GIVE ME A SINGING HEART, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Give me a singing heart to free my life Last Line: Through inert shadows and through futile days. Subject(s): Contentment; Hearts; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets GIVEN TO A LADY WHO ASKED ME TO WRITE A POEM, by JANET LITTLE Poem Text First Line: In royal anna's golden days Last Line: My hand still trembles when I write. Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets GLORY, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pindar, poet of the victories, fitted names Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Pindar (522-440 B.c.); Poetry & Poets GLYPHS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: & the code / public record stopped midsentence Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Tongues; Words; Vocabulary; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GODDARD AND LYCIDAS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two dirges by two poets have I read Last Line: And gained, by lowlier means, a sweeter end. Subject(s): Goddard, Frederick William (d. 1820); King, Edward (1612-1637); Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) GOETHE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose voice shall so invade the spheres Last Line: And made one talent ten! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Life; Poetry & Poets; Destiny GOLDEN WORDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some words are played on golden strings Last Line: Shall answer when you call. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Honor; Language; Love; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary GOLDSMITH TO THE AUTHOR, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're in love with the muses! Well, grant it be true Last Line: When pleased with his honours, remember his fate. Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774); Poetry & Poets GOODBYE TO THE POETRY OF CALCIUM, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of roots, you have not seeded Last Line: I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Genial poets, pink-faced Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Women; Poetry & Poets GRACIOUS GOODNESS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the beach where we had been idly Subject(s): Poetry & Poets GREAT LOCALITIES. AN ASPIRATION (3), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor - could I bring within my visual scope Last Line: Of god and man conspiring to the sound! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Iliad; Odyssey; Fancy GREY MATTER, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They leave us nothing Last Line: Begins the ancient mystery anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Women; Male-female Relations GUILIELMUS REX, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The folk who lived in shakespeare's day Last Line: T is he alone that lives and reigns! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists H, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet the after is still a storm Subject(s): Time; Poetry & Poets HAD I THE CHOICE (AFTER WALT WHITMAN), by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I the choice to emulate the verse Last Line: And leave its odor there. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HAD I THE POWER THAT HAVE THE WILL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With active labour hand in hand Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HAD WE TWO MET, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had we two met, blithe-hearted burns Last Line: Is there a hand-rail to the stairs? Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets HAG OF BEARE (CAILLECH BERRI), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ebb like the ocean Subject(s): Irish Language; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Women's Rights; Gaelic; Feminism HAIKU: 9, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Making jazz swing in Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Jazz HALLUCINATION: 1, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One petal of a blood-red tulip pressed Last Line: One blood-red petal stained the baudelaire. Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Hallucinations And Illusions; Poetry & Poets HALLUCINATION: 2, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it your face, is it a dream Last Line: Came back into my mouth like fire Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Hallucinations And Illusions; Poetry & Poets HAMMER, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To be both author of Last Line: This statue, and the statue itself Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Self HANGZHOU, LAKE OF THE POETS, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reading the bones, wetting a fingertip Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets HARTLEY COLERIDGE, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Little we know of him whom best we know Last Line: High in these huge grey hills, whence foaming rivers start.' Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Coleridge, Hartley (1796-1849); Poetry & Poets HARTZ-JOURNEY IN WINTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vulture like Last Line: Of brothers beside thee Subject(s): Fortune; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Love; Poetry & Poets HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Never before have I so resembled british petroleum Last Line: Or notional, now that oceans are wheezing to a stop? Subject(s): Oil & Gas Companies; Environment; Poetry & Poets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation HAVING MY SAY SO, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a sweet dear good boy he is, I said aloud to the empty room. Subject(s): Gays 7 Lesbians; Poetry & Poets HAYING TIME IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's something more to 'haying time' Last Line: Is that it? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Vermont HEINE, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God said: 'I will make a poet' Last Line: Hush, draw close and hear him sing! Subject(s): Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Judaism HEINE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor life nor death had any peace for thee Last Line: George sylvester viereck. Subject(s): Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Judaism HEINE'S DREAM, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams my false love comes to me Last Line: Thou art in pain, in pain! Subject(s): Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Poetry & Poets HEINE'S GRAVE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henri heine'- 'tis here! Last Line: Made it a beat of thy joy! Subject(s): Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Poetry & Poets HEINRICH HEINE, by LUDWIG LEWISOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of a mystic race, he came Last Line: The child of a diviner will. Subject(s): Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Judaism HELLENICS: HOMER, LAERTES, AGATHA; FIRST DAY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this laertes who embraces me Last Line: Thy weary feet, and lead thee back, now late. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HELLENICS: HOMER, LAERTES, AGATHA; SECOND DAY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is the soft and pulpy hand that lies Last Line: This ithaca, this people, and this king! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HELLENICS: LAERTES, HOMER, AGATHA; THIRD DAY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now, maeonides, the sun hath risen Last Line: Were hard, but harder to behold thy grief. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HELLO, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello, drug addict, can you become a poem of perfect form? Last Line: Your napalmed brain and drug-addicted body Subject(s): Literary Prizes; Poetry & Poets; Social Commentaries; War; Drugs & Drug Abuse HENDECASYLLABICS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O you chorus of indolent reviewers Last Line: Maiden, not to be greeted unbenignly. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Critics & Criticism; Horticulture; Poetry & Poets HER 'LAST POEMS', by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Put her down — in italy? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HER POEM, by EVA JONES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: She looked to find a poem Last Line: "your poem -- 'tis your home." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers HER POET, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a bard / sang many a song Last Line: True as his. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets HER RIGHT NAME, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As nancy at her toilet sat Last Line: Your chloe, or your nut-brown maid?' Subject(s): Beauty; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Lavatories; Love; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey; Toilets HERACLITUS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me, heraclitus, they told me you were dead Last Line: For death he taketh all away, but these he can not take. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Friendship; Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HESPERIDES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thy soul, herrick, dwelt with me Last Line: And polished as the bosom of a star. Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Hesperides (mythology); Poetry & Poets HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These lame hexameters the strong-wing'd music of homer! Last Line: Barbarous experiment, barbarous hexameters. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Iliad; Odyssey HEXASTICHON AD BIBLIOPOLAM; INCERTI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In thy impression of donnes poems rare Last Line: "he, we, and thou shall live t' eternity" Subject(s): "donne, John (1572-1631);poetry & Poets; HEXASTICHON BIBLIOPOLAE, by JOHN MARRIOT Poem Text First Line: I see in his last preach'd, and printed booke Last Line: You have him living to eternity. Variant Title(s): On John Donne's Book Of Poems Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets HI, HAUNTING, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back then it seemed he had more to say Last Line: The dreadful great Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The HIDDEN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest warblers - one in light Last Line: As lark or nightingale. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HIERARCHY OF ANGELS, by THOMAS HEYWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mellifluous shakespeare, whose enchanting quill Last Line: And he's but now jack ford that once was john. Subject(s): Dramatists; Ford, John (1586-1639); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists HILLS ABOVE HALF MOON BAY, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often, those first mornings, pale disc Last Line: Had begun, and nothing you would do could make it stop Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets HIS ANTHOLOGY, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For whom, sweet muse, this harvest do you ravish Last Line: With samius' laurel darkly interleaving. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HIS FIRST POEM, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: He learned rhythm from the brook in his father's pasture Last Line: Where he was ostensibly copying a problem in permutations and combinations. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HIS POETRIE HIS PILLAR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Onely a little more Last Line: And my pyramides. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HIS PRAYER FOR ABSOLUTION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For those my unbaptized rhymes Last Line: The glory of my work, and me. Subject(s): God; Poetry & Poets HIS PRAYER TO BEN JONSON, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I a verse shall make Last Line: Writ in my psalter. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets HIS REQUEST TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Julia, if I chance to die Last Line: Then to live not perfected. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HITOPADESA: DEDICATION, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you, dear wife - to whom beside so well? Last Line: "bears a bright golden flower, if not in this soil." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HOMAGE AND LAMENT FOR EZRA POUND IN CAPTIVITY, MAY 12, 1944, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apprehension this spring ... The leaves, the leaves Last Line: Still, as still as everness returning Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) HOMAGE TO LITERATURE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you imagine trumpet-faced musicians Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets HOME TRUTHS FROM ABROAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, to be in england / now that april's there" Last Line: "and english spring sets men and women frowning, / despite the rhapsodies of robert browning" Subject(s): "browning, Robert (1812-1889);poetry & Poets; HOME, SWEET HOME WITH VARIATIONS: 6. WALT WHITMAN, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You over there, young man with the guide-book Last Line: Yawp! Subject(s): Payne, John Howard (1791-1852); Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) HOMER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Can all the wreaths that crown his head Last Line: To be as much renowned as he? / I would in sooth 'twere offered me Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.);poetry & Poets; Iliad;odyssey HOMER, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the glass of the aegean sea Last Line: Come near and pause, -- which choose you of the two? Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Memory; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMER, by ALBERT EHRENSTEIN Poem Text First Line: I sang the songs of red revenge Last Line: Trouble the limpid eyes of the world. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMER IN BASIC, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glitter of nausicaa's / embroideries, flashing arms Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMER'S BIRTHPLACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Seven cities now contend for homer dead Last Line: Through which the living homer begged his bread Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.);poetry & Poets; Iliad;odyssey HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the time he wrote, a sort of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMER, BLIND, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the tale wise aristoteles Last Line: And left the ages brighter for his loss. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMERIC UNITY, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sacred keep of ilion is rent Last Line: Of indivisible supremacy! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HONOURS, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Few chairs of dignity in england now Last Line: If a man held, he should be proud thereof. Subject(s): Literature; Poetry & Poets HOPE AND TIME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the great city rear'd, my fancy rude Last Line: And knows not whether he is first or last. Subject(s): Fables; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Youth; Allegories; Optimism HORACE GREELEY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As if in lone franconia one had said Last Line: And the great future with his spirit fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Greeley, Horace (1811-1872); Poetry & Poets HOTEL LAUTRéAMONT, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Research has shown that ballads were produced by all of society Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Chaos HOURS OF RECREATION, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Celestial muse! That still inspires / and fans to flame poetic fires! Last Line: And time confirms the greatness of the great. Subject(s): Life; Muses; Poetry & Poets HOUSE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I sonnet-sing you about myself? Last Line: He! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists HOW HARD IS IT TO KEEP FROM BEING KING WHEN IT'S IN YOU AND IN THE SITUATION, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or more than half I’m half inclined to say Subject(s): Darius I, King Of Persia; Poetry & Poets HOW I BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM AIX TO GHENT, OR VICE VERSA, by WALTER CARRUTHERS SELLAR Poem Text First Line: I sprang to the rollocks and jorrocks and me Last Line: And eventually sent a telegram. Alternate Author Name(s): Sellar, W. C. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets HOW I DISCOVERED POETRY, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was like soul-kissing, the way the words Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HOW IT STRIKES A CONTEMPORARY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I only knew one poet in my life Last Line: Let's to the prado and make the most of time. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HOW POEMS ARE MADE: A DISCREDITED VIEW, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Letting go / in order to hold on Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HOW POETRY COMES TO ME, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It comes blundering over the Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HOW POETS PLAY, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How do poets play? Last Line: Swoon in fainting silences away. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers HOW THE SONG WAS MADE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat low down, at midnight, in a vale Last Line: Silent awhile, and muse, but make no comment. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HOW TO BE A POET (TO REMIND MYSELF), by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make a place to sit down Last Line: The silence from which it came Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HOW TO PSALMODIZE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone awake when others are sleeping, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HOW TO SEE DEER, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forget roadside crossings Last Line: What you see Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Deer HOW TO WRITE A POEM ABOUT THE SKY, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You see the sky now Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sky HOW ZEN RUIINS POETS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I knew that mind Subject(s): Language; Thought; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary; Thinking HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 1. E.P. ODE POUR L'ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For three years, out of key with his time Last Line: No adjunct to the muses' diadem. Variant Title(s): Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre: E.p. Ode Subject(s): London; Poetry & Poets HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 6. YEUX GLAUQUES, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gladstone was still respected / when john ruskin produced Last Line: Adulteries. Subject(s): Buchanan, Robert William (1841-1901); Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Critics & Criticism; Dramatists; Novels & Novelists; Paintings & Painters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Dramatists HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 7. 'SIENA MI FE', by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Among the pickled fetuses and bottled bones Last Line: Because of these reveries. Subject(s): Exiles; Plarr, Victor Gustav (1863-1929); Poetry & Poets HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 9. MR. NIXON, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the cream gilded cabin of his steam yacht Last Line: And died, there's nothing in it. Subject(s): Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931); Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets HUMAN BEAUTY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If you write a poem about love Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HYMNS ANCIENT AND MODERN, by ROBERT LOVEJOY RAYMOND Poem Text First Line: Complexion like the winter snow Last Line: It's a go. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HYPOCRITE AUTEUR, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our epoch takes a voluptuous satisfaction Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The I AM A MEDE AND PERSIAN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOPE', by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not feel this suffering as cesar vallejo. I am not Last Line: Today I am in pain, no matter what happens. Today I am simply in pain Subject(s): Hope; Hunger; Poetry & Poets; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917); Optimism I AM OFFERING THIS POEM, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am offering this poem to you Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Love I APPLIED FOR THE BOARD, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flight of fancy and breath of fresh air Last Line: And partly fvom the joy that it was over Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To gather paradise Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Imagination; Freedom I LOVE OLD WHITMAN SO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youthful, caressing, boisterous, tender Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) I RECKON - WHEN I COUNT AT ALL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To justify the dream Subject(s): Summer; Poetry & Poets; Heaven I SHOULD LIKE TO LIVE IN A BALLAD WORLD, by EDA LOU WALTON Poem Text First Line: I should like to live as a ballad maid Last Line: Of a fate six stanzas long. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets I STOP WRITING THE POEM, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To fold the clothes. No matter who lives Last Line: Watching to see how it's done Subject(s): Housewives; Poetry & Poets; Women I TRAVEL TO THE POET'S MART, by AMY REDPATH RODDICK Poem Text First Line: A lovely song is in my heart Last Line: A lovely song. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets I WAS PROMISED ON A TIME, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I received nor rhyme nor reason Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets I WILL NOT EAT MY POEM, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I kill for pleasure Subject(s): Aging; Poetry & Poets I'M NOT A POET NOW, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady dear, the living flame Last Line: I'm not a poet now! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets I'M SITTING WRITING POEMS, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting writing poems in the middle Last Line: I'm sitting writing poems in the middle of the night Subject(s): Poetry & Poets I, MENICUS, PUPIL OF THE MASTER, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dross of verse, rhyme! Last Line: Who laid down such rails Variant Title(s): I, Mencius, Pupil Of Them Master Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) I.O.B.B. POEM: 47TH ANNIVERSARY, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The perfume of numberless roses Last Line: Of brotherly friendship and love. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Independent Order B'nai Brith; Jews; Love; Poetry & Poets; B'nai Brith; Judaism IAMBICUM TRIMETRUM, FR. LETTER TO HARVEY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappie verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state Last Line: "and I dye, who will saye"" this was, immerito?" Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary ID, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm having coffee at the last stop with amy Last Line: Of the article advised, so you should paraphrase Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Poetry & Poets IDEA: TO THE READER OF THESE SONNETS, INTRODUCTION, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into these loves, who but for passion looks Last Line: That cannot long one fashion entertain. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Virtue IF IT ALL WENT UP IN SMOKE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That smoke / would remain Subject(s): Poetry & Poets IF MY VERSES HAD THE WINGS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Songs as sweet as summer brings Last Line: Wings like love to speed the way. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets IF THE POETS HAD FEARED THE ADVERTISERS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the sledges with the bells Last Line: The liquefaction of her feminine apparel. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers IF WE BUT ONLY KNEW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I wrote a verse and sent it forth Last Line: Through all eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Knowledge; Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ILIAD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: False dreams, all false Last Line: When love's over, endures. Subject(s): Future Life; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Iliad; Odyssey IMAGE OF A SAINT, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many favor sunflowers seeding Last Line: You walk in sandals unimpeded Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Saints; Words; Vocabulary IMAGINATION, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Last Line: A local habitation and a name. Subject(s): Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Fancy IMITATION OF SPENSER, by CHRISTOPHER PITT Poem Text First Line: A well-known vase of sov'reign use I sing Last Line: Of china's fragile earth, with azure flowerets sheen. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) IMITATION OF SPENSER (1), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now morning from her orient chamber came Last Line: Outvieing all the buds in flora's diadem. Variant Title(s): Morning Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) IMITATION OF SPENSER (2), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman! When I behold thee flippant, vain Last Line: And o'er my eyes the trembling moisture shake. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While you, great patron of mankind! Sustain Last Line: Befringe the rails of bedlam and sohoe. Variant Title(s): To Augustus Subject(s): Dramatists; Dryden, John (1631-1700); George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Immortality; Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Paintings And Painters; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spen IMITATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Now summer with her wanton court is gone Last Line: And murmuring brooks within their channels play. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Youth; Dramatists IMITATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE: PROGNE'S DREAM, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Last night I dreamt Last Line: And with the struggling waked. Subject(s): Dramatists; Dreams; Mythology - Greek; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nightmares; Dramatists IMITATIONS OF WALT WHITMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who am I? Subject(s): "imitation;poetry & Poets;singing & Singers;whitman, Walt (1819-1891); IMMORTAL BEN IS DEAD; AND AS THAT BALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Thy poems shall be poet-lureate Subject(s): "jonson, Ben (1572-1637);poetry & Poets;randolph, Thomas (1605-1634); IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 4, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Withered, harvested, bare, the grass Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Weariness; Fatigue IMPRESSION, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In these restrained and careful times Last Line: Being godlike, to be bad and mad. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking IMPRESSION: 4 (FOR JAMES FINLAY), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: As - slave of friendship, serf to loyalty Last Line: More, Æsculapius. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets IMPROMPTU, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say you're glad I write - oh, say not so! Last Line: To me, it flows a sullen stream of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness IN A COPY OF BROWNING, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Browning, old fellow Last Line: My master still. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets IN A FACTORY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If you made your picture Last Line: Of me and you. Subject(s): Factories; Poetry & Poets IN A GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day you said you loved me, we found ourselves Last Line: (looking the other way.) Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love - Beginnings; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets IN A LETTER TO C.P., ESQ., IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trust me, the meed of praise, dealt thriftily Last Line: And comely guise of ornament disposed. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists IN A POEM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sentencing goes blithely on its way Last Line: In having its undeviable say Subject(s): Poetry & Poets IN AN AUCTION ROOM, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How about this lot? Said the auctioneer Last Line: Sold for eight hundred dollars -- doctor r.! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Auctions; Brawne, Fanny; Keats, John (1795-1821); Letters; Poetry & Poets; Rosenbach, Abraham Simon (1876-1952) IN ANCIENT DECEMBER, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ideal american Last Line: Singing singing? What am I singing? Subject(s): Americans; Forget-me-nots; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs IN ANSWER TO MR. POPE, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Disarmed with so genteel an air Last Line: By admonitions taught. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women IN BOHEMIA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! My dear! I'm back again Last Line: Ere it drowns me, kate, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bohemians; Poetry & Poets; Spring; Travel; Journeys; Trips IN CIRCE'S DEN, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dullard and sot crammed full Last Line: And its swine, that are men. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets IN DEAR VENDOME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My des autels, whose true Last Line: Your friend, ronsard. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Justice; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Wind; World; Paradise IN DEFENCE OF THE ADVERTISING MUSE, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare speaks: 'sometimes when I'm not at work on a play' Last Line: That they all were written by bacon. Subject(s): Advertising; Poetry & Poets IN ENGLISH IN A POEM, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am giving a lecture on poetry Last Line: I'll drive you home Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors IN IMMEMORIAM, by EDWARD BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: We seek to know, and knowing seek Last Line: O voices all! Like ye I die! Alternate Author Name(s): Bede, Cuthbert Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) IN LALEHAM CHURCHYARD (THE BURIAL-PLACE OF MATTHEW ARNOLD), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at this season, year by year Last Line: To work their will. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Churchyards; Poetry & Poets IN MEMORIAM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This warmish night of the thaw Last Line: And vanish into the mist Subject(s): Death; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, RAY THOMPSON (1943-1990), by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the streets, / of begging hands and windblown cardboard Last Line: Never-ending memory of his ascendings Subject(s): San Francisco; Homeless; Poetry & Poets IN MEMORIAM: BRYANT DEAD!, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! There he lies, our patriarch poet,dead! Last Line: Lifts to song's fadeless heaven his star-like fame! Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets IN MEMORY OF A CHILD-POET, L.L., by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a song the great musician made Last Line: Lo, there his barque, white on the glittering sea! Subject(s): Children; Death; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Dead, The; Songs IN MEMORY OF DOCTOR DONNE, by R. B. Poem Text First Line: Donne dead? 'tis here reported true, though I Last Line: And now beleeve that miracles are ceas'd. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets IN MEMORY OF RUPERT BROOKE, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In alien earth, across a troubled sea Last Line: Song on his lips, and in his hand a sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings IN MEMORY OF THE UTAH STARS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Each of them must have terrified Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sports IN MEMORY OF TWO FRIENDS: 1. GWALCHAI, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the oft-renewed request Last Line: Tis only here thou sing'st no more. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF TWO FRIENDS: 2. T. LL. T., by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good friend, whose heart, whose muse refined Last Line: This votive wreath of musing song. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF W.B. YEATS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He disappeared in the dead of winter Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Theology IN MEMORY OF W.H. AUDEN, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am going over my early rages again Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets IN MEMORY OF W.H. AUDEN, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When there are so many intervening years Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets IN MEMORY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back to the flower-town, side by side Last Line: His faultless fame. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM LEGGETT, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth may ring, from shore to shore Last Line: Burn in the breasts he kindled still. Subject(s): Leggett, William (1801-1839); Poetry & Poets IN MY OLD VERSES, by CHARLES GUERIN Poem Text First Line: In my old verses you could find Last Line: Thus naïve! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets IN POETS' DEFENCE, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rebel poets, who've given vicar aid Last Line: Compact from bones and gold, of quirinus and mars. Subject(s): Brooks, Van Wyck (1886-1963); Poetry & Poets; Revolutions IN PRAISE OF ALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the chill charokoe blows Last Line: O give me ale! Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking;poetry & Poets; Ale IN SOLITUDE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like as a brook that all night long Last Line: The lullaby to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness IN THE COLD SEASON, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For now the mullahs Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Home IN THE FIRST STANZA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, I tell you who I am Last Line: I tell you who I am. Subject(s): Identity; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism IN THE LIBRARY OF POETS' RECORDINGS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead speakers / we can hear Last Line: Can not be retrieved Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN THE OLD FARM-HOUSE; THE GHOST, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead of night, dead of night Last Line: And falstaff in view. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) IN THE ROOM OF A THOUSAND MILES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like writing about where I am Subject(s): Poetry & Poets IN THE SHADOWS: 4, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh many a time with ovid have I borne Last Line: Spirit of god in milton! Was it well? Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets IN THE WORKSHOP, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the workshop, ages ago Last Line: And beelzebub frowned, for he did not know. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets INCANTATION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light as motion, people flit lightly along Last Line: To hold the golden light of winter dusk. Subject(s): Conversation; Life; Old Age; Poetry & Poets INCLINED TO SPEAK, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw that. One woman, her personality Last Line: Inclined to speak only to those closest to us Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Truth INDIAN APRIL, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Allen ginsburg on a spring day you stopped Last Line: I hear you call: govinda, aaou, aoou! Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); India; Family Life; Poetry & Poets INDIRECTION, by RICHARD REALF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair are the flowers and the children Last Line: And the essence of life is divine. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Thought; Theology; Thinking INFLUENCE OF POETRY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the charm of poetry: it comes Last Line: Than dwelleth with the common-place of life. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Poetry & Poets INGATHERING, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poets are going home now Last Line: The patient earth that is waiting to receive you. Subject(s): Homecoming; Poetry & Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); War; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism INGRATEFUL [OR UNGRATEFUL] BEAUTY THREATENED, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know, celia, since thou art so proud Last Line: Knew her themselves through all her veils. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets INGRATITUDE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bearing walt whitman in mind Last Line: "not at home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The INNOGEN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal shadow, faint and ever fair Last Line: Nor what is sadder, life, nor any human woe. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Silence INSCRIPTION FOR A LIBRARY, by GEORGE SEIBEL Poem Text First Line: Put on the cowl, take up thy staff! Last Line: Across the ancient aisles of time. Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Poetry & Poets; Time; Reading INSCRIPTIONS: 4, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O youths and virgins: o declining eld Last Line: "which his own genius only could acquire." Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Monuments; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists INSIDE A POEM, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't always have to rhyme Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Poetry & Poets INSPIRATION, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you, jon! Your card Last Line: We can get on with art. It's long Subject(s): Inspiration; Poetry & Poets INSTRUCTIONS TO A MEDIUM, TO BE TRANSMITTED TO THE SHADE OF W.B. YEATS, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were wrong about the way it happens Subject(s): Death; Mediums; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Spiritualists INSTRUCTIONS TO BE LEFT BEHIND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've included this letter in the group Last Line: All that you (and I too) wanted to be: you. Subject(s): Legacies; Letters; Love; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers INTERPRETATION, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: What we hear in the voice of the stream Last Line: Keep telling just what we are waiting to hear. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets INTERPRETATION OF A POEM BY FROST, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young black girl stopped by the woods Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It knows but will not tell Last Line: Those hidden lips are dumb. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Children; Immortality; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Childhood INTRODUCTION, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet vallejo invented new ways of walking Last Line: He describes those inventions Subject(s): Inventions & Inventors; Poetry & Poets; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917) INTRODUCTION TO POETRY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I ask them to take a poem Subject(s): Poetry & Poets INTRODUCTORY VERSES TO MARIA HACK, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay! Do not half reproachfully exclaim Last Line: "^1^thomas day, the author of ""sandford and merton." Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Hack, Maria Barton (1777-1844); Sisters; Poetry & Poets INVISIBLE ARCHITECTURE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There is an invisible architecture often supporting Subject(s): Poetry & Poets INVOCATION AND INTERRUPTION [IN MEMORIAM TED HUGHES], by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gigantic iron hawk Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Se??Ora, it is true the greeks are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): United States; Social Classes; Poetry & Poets; America; Caste INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Senora, it is true the greeks are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ION, by JOE HORRELL Poem Text First Line: O sir, you have quaffed afflatuses with fire Last Line: But I can only take you with a smile. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets IOWA, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: If yeats, remembering the swans in irish Last Line: With many songs! Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930); Iowa; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) IRREGULAR ODE, ON THE DEATH OF LORD BYRON, by CALEB C. COLTON Poem Text First Line: We mourn thy wreck; that mighty mind Last Line: And scorned both hope and fear -- ambition and desire! Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron ISEULT AND THE BADGER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ink we use to write seeps in through our fingers Last Line: We are porous to the piled leaves on the ground Subject(s): Animals; Badgers; Poetry & Poets ISRAFEL, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picture the grave in his diabolical dream Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets IT'S ONLY FAIR, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother has had a heap of praise Last Line: I sing a little song to dad! Subject(s): Caregivers; Fathers; Poetry & Poets J. R. L. (ON HIS HOMEWARD VOYAGE): 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back from old england, in whose courts he stood Last Line: The light-winged wisdom of his gayer rhyme. Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets J. R. L. (ON HIS HOMEWARD VOYAGE): 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ship that bears him to his native shore Last Line: Beyond the enshrouding mysteries of earth. Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets JACOB, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dwelt among 'apartments let' Last Line: The difference to me! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Male-female Relations; Feminism JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steept in the muses' youthful, sultry maze Last Line: Where rosaline met ancient britomart. Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I left my door Last Line: And parry & deal the thunderstroke. Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shouldst have sung the swan-song for the choir Last Line: And grateful memory guard thy leafy shrine! Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From purest wells of english undefiled Last Line: And mine of battle overthrew them all. Subject(s): Diplomacy And Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets JAMMING WITH THE BAND AT THE VFW, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I played old country and western Last Line: And rhinestone earrings, moving suddenly toward me. Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Country Dances; Country Life; Country Music; Poetry & Poets JENNIE HARRIS OLIVER, by THERESA DRULEY BLACK Poem Text First Line: To you, sweet singer of the songs we love Last Line: Above them all, your notes so rich, so dear! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets JEWELS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Twice in one hour I've seen this lovely night Last Line: Still call on night to see my wasted time. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares JOB HUNTING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it references you want Last Line: Is my reference, my only one. Subject(s): Job Hunting; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) JOB WORK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Write me a rhyme of the present time Last Line: "you may print it -- upside down!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers JOCOSA LYRA, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In our hearts is the great one of avon Last Line: And after! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets JOHN BUTLER YEATS, by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We shall remember him Last Line: "myself seen through a glass darkly." Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) JOHN DONNE, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art coming home?' god said to me Last Line: That you and god had loved me so? Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great master of the poet's art! Last Line: Itself a canticle of love! Subject(s): Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892); Ocean JOHN KEATS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weltering london ways where children weep Last Line: Along time's flood goes echoing evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets JOHN KEATS (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who kill'd john keats? Last Line: Or southey or barrow!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hate; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets JOHN PERCY, by JOHN CAMERON AUDRIEU BINGHAM MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John percy / said to his nursy Last Line: We shouldn't have honey for tea!' Alternate Author Name(s): Beachcomber; Morton, J. B.; Morton, John Bingham Subject(s): Milne, Alan Alexander (1882-1956); Poetry & Poets JOHN SKELTON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What could be dafter Last Line: Old john, you do me good! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Skelton, John (1460-1529) JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Wizard of youth! How many years Last Line: Because her youth loved you! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets JUNE GHAZAL, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the sun a miner, a thief, a gambler Last Line: In silence to clear water. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sun JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The check I bounced was for $208. My buddy, alfonso s., did the design Last Line: By his bank. I wish my bank would do that once in a while Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Chicano JUST A SMACK AT AUDEN, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets JUSTICE TO SCOTLAND; AN UNPUBLISHED POEM BY BURNS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O mickle yeuks the keckle doup Last Line: An' cleek my duds for auld lang syne Subject(s): "burns, Robert (1759-1796);poetry & Poets; KEATS, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the wall that belts the town Last Line: It heaves its billows over earth! Subject(s): Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones KEATS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon thy tomb 'tis graven, 'here lies one Last Line: Thy name, a deathless syllable, remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets KEATS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The melancholy gift aurora gained Last Line: Become the poet of immortal youth. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets KEATS (1), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An english lad, who, reading in a book Last Line: But he rose up and knew himself a greek. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets KEATS (1821-1921), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sometimes, on a moony night, I've passed Last Line: Perfectly happy ... Talking about keats. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets KEATS (2), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fluting and singing, with young locks aflow Last Line: And they that mocked him, yea, they too are dead. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets KEATS (3), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though bitter weathers empty boughs of tune Last Line: Floods two worlds with his song. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets KEATS - SAPPHO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks, when first the nightingale Last Line: The pantings of her heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) KEATS TO FANNY BRAWNE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fanny! If in your arms my soul could slip Last Line: Who once desired you, but desire no more! Subject(s): Brawne, Fanny; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets KEATS TOOK SNUFF', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: So 'keats took snuff?' a few more years Last Line: "somewhere, if ever ghosts be gruff, / I trust some keats will 'give you snuff'" Subject(s): "keats, John (1795-1821);poetry & Poets;snuff (tobacco); KEATS WAS AN UNBELIEVER, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keats was an unbeliever,' - so they read Last Line: "he made ""believing"" possible for us." Subject(s): Agnosticism; Beauty; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology KEATS' GRAVE IN ROME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou liest prone and mute Last Line: Draw our hearts unto thy grave! Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Tombs; Tombstones KEATS; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young endymion sleeps endymion's sleep Last Line: "was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed." Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets KENTUCKY POEMS: PROLOGUE, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a poetry that speaks Last Line: And learn that rocks have souls as well as man. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets KIDNAP POEM, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever been kidnapped Last Line: Nap you Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets KILLING HIM: A RADIO PLAY, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet: again like a rebellious nation my heart Last Line: Will survive the test of time Subject(s): Poetry & Poets L'ENVOI, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the wreath the poet sent Last Line: Love for odour, tears for dew. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets L. OF G.'S PURPORT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to exclude or demarcate, or pick out Last Line: Draws sometimes close to me, as face to face. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strum / a ton / a rung Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LAMENT (OF ONE OF THE OLD REGIME), by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: O the times will never be again / as they were when we were young Last Line: "to show the ""march of mind." Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Lament; Life; Poetry & Poets; Youth LAMENT FOR THE POETS: 1916, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the poor old woman say Last Line: In derry of the little hills. Variant Title(s): The Blackbirds Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LAMIA, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a time, before the faery broods Last Line: And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep LANDOR, by ALEXANDER HAY JAPP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like crowned athlete that in a race has run Last Line: And leave the reckoning for a distant day. Alternate Author Name(s): Page, H. A. Subject(s): Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Poetry & Poets LAST DAYS OF BYRON, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just at the point / of facing death in Last Line: Beaten forever by the mighty sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Missolonghi, Greece; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece LAST SONG OF THE DRUNKEN POET, by MAURICE MAGRE Poem Text First Line: Once I wore a suit of blue Last Line: "and it brings good fortune. . . ." Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Poetry & Poets LAST SONG TO A POET, by MARJORIE MEEKER Poem Text First Line: This is the ancient irony of words Last Line: Whose very silences are lovelier. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LAST WORDS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His voice, toward the end, was a soft coal breaking Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Women LAST WORDS OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bill, I feel far from quite right -- if not further: already the pill Last Line: Jam satis. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Self-criticism; Dead, The LAUDANUM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Where somnus' temple rises from a ground Last Line: "and lest, great sirs, to you it should extend, / command your sleepy poet to descend" Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse;orphans;poetry & Poets; Foundlings LAUREL'S WORTH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My too great love of you hath been my bale Last Line: And on their fame the fates shall have no hold. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Youth; Iliad; Odyssey LAYS THAT PLEASE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In other days the poet's lays Last Line: Are those that grow in henneries. Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers LE PRINTEMPS VIENT TOUJOURS, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one who loves may seek to find Last Line: Le printemps vient toujours.' Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets LEAFLETS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The big star, and that other Subject(s): Modern Life; Poetry & Poets LEAVES OF GRASS': TITLE PAGE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, said my soul Last Line: Singing for soul and body, set to them my name Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LESSER EPISTLES: TO MY INGENIOUS AND WORTHY FRIEND W- L-, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When poets print their works, the scribbling crew Last Line: When once they're rais'd, they're cursed hard to lay. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Lowndes, William Thomas (1798-1843); Poetry & Poets LESSON IN POETRY, by RUTH EVELYN HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Coaxed by the waiting light in gracie's eyes Last Line: "yes, dorothy?" Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LESSON TO POETS; SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Try not, or murmur not if tried in vain Last Line: Who says that it shall be remember'd not? Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Before you go further Last Line: The mist becomes central to your existence Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LETTER FROM A PANDER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing, the cross-haired sky tells lenses Last Line: And loved you as god should Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LETTER TO A POET, by DOROTHY RANDOLPH BYARD Poem Text First Line: Climb no more. You will be lost Last Line: Arrowed falling -- through abyss -- abyss. Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets LETTER TO A YOUNG POET, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the biographies of rilke, you get the feeling Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Poetry & Poets; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LETTER TO B.W. PROCTOR, ESQ., FROM OXFORD; MAY, 1825, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In every tower, that oxford has, is swung Last Line: And unpersuaded drop the paper down. Subject(s): Education; Letters; Nature; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Spring; Writing & Writers; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.] LETTER TO DENISE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember when you put on that wig Last Line: Love the stone, and, yes, I know its soul. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations LETTERS ON LIFE AND THE MORNING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said too late, too late, the work is done Last Line: And god comes down to him, and christ doth rise. Subject(s): God; Letters; Life; Morning; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Soul LETTERS TO YESENIN: 11; TO DIANE W., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No tranquil pills this year wanting to live peeled as they Last Line: From want of her, cut off well past our prime. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 13, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All of those little five-dollar-a-week rooms smelling thick of Last Line: Blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 19, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth Last Line: Shedding tunics in my path, all dead friends come to life again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Miracles; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 21, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To answer some of the questions you might ask were you alive and Last Line: Like it and should I put it off for a while? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 22, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These last few notes to you have been a bit somber like biographies Last Line: His deathless lines commemorating your last leningrad night. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 23, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to bother you with some recent nonsense; a classmate dropped Last Line: Ropes. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 2; TO ROSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't have any medals. I feel their lack Last Line: Steam pipes running along the ceiling. The rope. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Regret; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 4, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am four years older than you but scarcely an unwobbling Last Line: I fed my dying dog a pound of beef and buried her happy in the barnyard. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Desire; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LI HO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Li ho of the province of honan Last Line: He hears a child cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): China; Grief; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness LI HUA'S MESSENGER, by PETER BETHANIS Poem Text First Line: In a hut far from the village Last Line: Until he is finished. Subject(s): Li Hua (717-768); Poetry & Poets LI PO, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jarred / the oars creaked in their locks Last Line: A dreamer's silver hands were at work. Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poetry & Poets LIES, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Probably no one noticed the mornings I disappeared to sit Last Line: The little mothers and sisters. Subject(s): Lies; Mothers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets; Sisters LIFE, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: To be, or not to be,' is not the question' Last Line: Is swallowed up in immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Dramatists; Life; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) LIFE IN THE TWISTS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bare freckled skin under black cloak Last Line: "or vice versa..." Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Skin; Male-female Relations LIGHT TRAVELS, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Common time I follow you un- Subject(s): Light; Poetry & Poets LILAC BLOOMS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Sweet was the kiss of the singing breeze Last Line: Content to dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilacs; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares LIMERICK, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That volatile poet called jonathan Last Line: But folks think he's just making fun o'them Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Williams, Jonathan (1929-2008); Wit & Humor LIMITATIONS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you could crowd them into forty lines Last Line: And there'll be forty lines not yet begun. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LINES FER ISAAC BRADWELL, OF INDIANAPOLIS, IND., by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through fire and flood this book has passed Last Line: Than 'fore they tried to burn the thing! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Fire; Poetry & Poets; Reading LINES IN AN AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Fairy voices, whisper to me Last Line: Drop your veil of charity. Subject(s): Autographs; Friendship; Poetry & Poets LINES IN REPLY TO THE BEAUTIFUL POET, WHO WELCOMED NEWS OF MCGONAGALLS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear johnny, I return my thanks to you Last Line: Or else you'll get the famous weekly news a bad name. Subject(s): Gratitude; News; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Journalism; Journalists; Publishers LINES ON READING TOO MANY POETS, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roses, rooted warm in earth, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LINES ON THE MERMAID TAVERN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Souls of poets dead and gone Last Line: Choicer than the mermaid tavern? Variant Title(s): The Mermaid Tavern Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Poetry & Poets; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons LINES PRINTED UNDER THE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF MILTON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three poets, in three distant ages born Last Line: To make a third she join'd the former two. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Nature; Poetry & Poets LINES TO A BEAUTIFUL AND BUS-RIDING LADY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who wert seated ahead of Last Line: Thy veil as it blew. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Inspiration; Creativity LINES TO A POET, by ETHEL W. DERBY Poem Text First Line: With living words he plied his art Last Line: Enchanted years from one brief hour. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets LINES TO JULIA M --; SENT WITH A COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S POEMS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since there is magic in your look Last Line: Read by the music of her tongue. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Praise LINES WRITTEN IN THE ISLE OF BUTE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet dim twilight brighten'd into day Last Line: Thy rothesay's lovely bay. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Islands; Poetry & Poets LINES WRITTEN IN A CITY COMPOSING-ROOM, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thomas gray, the famous bard Last Line: While gray was elegizing? Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Poetry & Poets LINES WRITTEN IN HIGHLANDS AFTER A VISIT TO BURNS'S COUNTRY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a charm in footing slow across a silent plain Last Line: And keep his vision clear from speck, his inward sight unblind. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Scotland LINES WRITTEN IN RIDICULE OF CERTAIN POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1777, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wheresoever I turn my view Last Line: Ode, and elegy, and sonnet. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Warton, Thomas (1728-1790) LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What silence drear in england's oaky forest Last Line: . . . . . . Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Galileo (1564-1642); Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Switzerland; Truth; English; Galileo Galilei; Dramatists; Self-este LINES WRITTEN IN THE 16TH CENTURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For aye be hynce ye vayne delyghts Last Line: Forlettying erthlie loste. Subject(s): England; Mexico; Poetry & Poets; Religion; English; Theology LINES WRITTEN IN THE 16TH CENTURY PARODIED IN THE 18TH CENTURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hither frolics and delights Last Line: Let angels have the rest. Subject(s): England; Parties; Poetry & Poets; English LINES WRITTEN TO BOB PERELMAN IN THE MARGINS OF THE MARGINALIZATION OF POETRY, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would have been nice Subject(s): Perelman, Bob (b. 1947); Poetry & Poets LINES [WRITTEN] IN THE TRAVELLER'S BOOK AT ORCHOMENUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The modest bard, like many a bard unknown Last Line: His name would bring more credit than his verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Written In The Travellers Book Of The Macri Family At Athens Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Poetry & Poets LINES; WRITTEN AFTER THE PROMISE OF A REWARD, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Whene'er the muse pleases to grace my dull page Last Line: Nor pegasus rear, till I've taken my ride. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect LINKED VERSES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read a thousand books! Last Line: "who will need us when we die?" Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism LIP OF THE REAL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exhaust appearance & / get the what-was-hidden or what's Subject(s): Art & Artists; Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997); Poetry & Poets LISPING IN NUMBERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We' got a' uncle writes poetry Last Line: "it's a purty good little poetry-piece!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Numbers; Poetry & Poets; Speech Disorders; Uncles; Stuttering; Muteness LITERARY LOVE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I broke my heart because of you, my dear Last Line: "I thought, ""what lovely poems this will make!" Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LITERATURE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I'd like to write beautiful verses Last Line: I've got another science I can confuse him with Subject(s): Surrealism; Poetry & Poets LITERATURE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most people who have things to sell now Last Line: Sweat, must take whatever they can get. Subject(s): Literature; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers LITTLE BLANCO RIVER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're only a foot deep Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets LITTLE THINGS, by POLLY CHASE Poem Text First Line: There is space in mountains Last Line: Very brief. Subject(s): Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean LO, VICTRESS ON THE PEAKS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And psalms of the dead Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LOADING A BOAR, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were loading a boar, a goddamn mean big sonofabitch Last Line: Writing and found out john he was right. Subject(s): Farm Life; Pigs; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs LOCALITIES OF BURNS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the bright crescent gleam'd o'er hill and dale Last Line: As though she look'd to be miscounted still. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets LOGIC, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Palmam qui meruit ferat'-he who wins the Last Line: Are wise. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading LONDON POETS (IN MEMORIAM), by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They trod the streets and squares where now I tread Last Line: "no more he comes, who this way came and went." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LONG I THOUGHT THAT KNOWLEDGE ALONE WOULD SUFFICE ME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It is to be enough for each of us that we are together—we never separate again Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Conduct Of Life LONGFELLOW, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sea the swift sad message darts Last Line: Of aspiration human and divine. Subject(s): Death; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Spring; Dead, The; Ocean LONGFELLOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds have talked with him confidingly Last Line: Of nature's voice he sings -- and will alway. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Nature; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Wind; Songs LORD BACON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Master of masters in the days of yore Last Line: Withdrawn to uttermost oblivion. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dramatists; Law & Lawyers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) LORD BYRON, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He touched his harp, and nations heard, entranced Last Line: On hearts and passions prostrate at his feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Variant Title(s): Byron Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron LOST ETC., by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The expatriates of the Last Line: Than the eighteenth amendment Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Revolutions; U.s. - Constitution; U.s. - History; Historians LOST ILIADS, by ESTHER FRIEDLANDER Poem Text First Line: A pile of ruins on a wind swept plain Last Line: Will perish for the singing youth lie slain. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Ruins; Iliad; Odyssey LOST IN TRANSLATION; FOR RICHARD HOWARD, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A card table in the library stands ready Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Translating & Interpreting; Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896) LOST TREASURE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn day steals, pallid as a ghost Last Line: Locked in oblivion -- shakespeare lost a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists LOVE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Why wilt thou so laboriously excuse Last Line: Since thee I love, and not thy love of me. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets LOVE, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O world! Somewhat I have to say to thee Last Line: Shall find fruition in a brighter sphere. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Poetry & Poets LOVE AND POETRY; A FABLE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To psyche, when her maiden heart Last Line: Love is the soul of poesy! Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets LOVE MAKES THE BEST POETS; AN IDYLLIUM, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darts, torch, or bow, the muses do not fear Last Line: My viol's tun'd, and sweetest numbers flow. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets LOVE POEM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to write you Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets LOVE THE WILD SWAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate my verses, every line, every word Last Line: Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan Subject(s): Relationships; Swans; Poetry & Poets; Freedom; Hate; Liberty LOVE TRIUMPHANT, OR NATURE WILL PREVAIL: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, in good manners, nothing shou'd be said Last Line: But, faith, I wou'd not trust her with a mouse. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists LOVE TRIUMPHANT, OR NATURE WILL PREVAIL: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, when some treasurer lays down the stick Last Line: To each, an omen of triumphant love. Subject(s): Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists LOVE'S AS BROAD AS LONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looky here! - you fellers - you Last Line: Love's as broad as long! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE POET, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: In broad brocades, three laughing ladies sat Last Line: And poesy had stolen all love's space. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Tears LOVE, THE SOUL OF POETRY, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first alexis did in verse delight Last Line: As the worlds soul, the soul of poetry. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LOVE, WEEPING, LAID THIS SONG, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! An old song, yellow with centuries! Last Line: Troy trembles like a reed before the blast! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mummies; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey LUCIA TRENT, by RAPHAELITA LOPEZ Poem Text First Line: You are a poet centuries to come Last Line: Your selfless life, your shared-with-many crumb! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) LUCRETIUS VERSUS THE LAKE POETS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dean, adult education may seem silly Last Line: God bless the dean and make his deanship plenary Subject(s): Education, Adult; Poetry & Poets LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 15, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my mistress's eyes so clear Last Line: I soon would write a charming sonnet. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Poetry & Poets LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 17, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loved one -- gladly would I know it Last Line: These the poet never made. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Poetry & Poets; Vision LYRICS AND EPICS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would be the lyric Last Line: Worn but once a year! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets M.A. 1822-1888, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good oars for arnold's sake Last Line: Slumber on. Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Poetry & Poets MACABRE, by JAMES WALDO FAWCETT Poem Text First Line: I saw them in the moonlight pass Last Line: I saw them . . . Fade! Subject(s): Ghosts; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural MADE IN ATHENS (APOLOGIES TO LORD BYRON), by DONOVAN MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: Maid of athens, ere we part Last Line: Et cetera! Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron MADLY SINGING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no one among men that has not a special failing Last Line: I choose a place that is unfrequented by men. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness MADMEN, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say you can jinx a poem Last Line: Staring down at me with tiny illuminated eyes Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets; Vandalism MADRIGAL; IN PRAISE OF MR. BULLEN ON HIS EDITION OF WORKS OF CAMPION, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes again! Last Line: Whose brain and lute are dust. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Bullen, Arthur Henry (1857-1920); Poetry & Poets MAGAZINE POETRY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where waves a line of larger growth Last Line: Nor cared a filbert. Subject(s): Magazines; Poetry & Poets MAKE ME A POEM, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me a poem of sweet words Last Line: To higher paths than I have known. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MAKING PEACE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice from the dark called out, Subject(s): Peace; Poetry & Poets MAKING POETRY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little one, what are you doing Last Line: Suffering before you sing. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers MAKING POETRY, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You have to inhabit poetry Subject(s): Human Rights; Poetry & Poets MANFRED, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Projected from the bilious childe Last Line: An after-dinner's indigest. Subject(s): Alps; Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MANIFESTO ON FEEBLE AND BITTER LOVE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To make a dada poem Last Line: The poem will be like you Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Jews; Mysticism – Judaism; Poetry & Poets; Judaism MANNERLY MARGERY, MILK AND ALE, by JOHN SKELTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, beshrewe yow! Be my fay Last Line: With mannerly margery milk and ale. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MANNERS, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gingerly, the poets sit Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MARGUERITE DE ROBERVAL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the long days and nights! The days that bring Last Line: With early flowers clustering here and there! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; France; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Sea Voyages MARIANA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With blackest moss the flower-plots Last Line: O god, that I were dead!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Desolation; Despair; Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Solitude; Dramatists; Loneliness MARRIAGE SONG; WITH COMMENTARY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We begin with the osprey who cries, 'clang, clang!' Last Line: "snow-breasted, and transfixed in abstract love." Subject(s): Birds; China; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus have my spouse and I informed the nation Last Line: I humbly cast myself upon the city. Subject(s): Marriage; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dramatists; Stage Life MARVOIL, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poor clerk I, 'arnaut the less' they call me Last Line: Mihi pergamena deest Subject(s): Arnaut De Marvoil [mareuil] (1170-1200); Poetry & Poets MARY ARDEN, by ERIC MACKAY Poem Text First Line: O thou to whom, athwart the perished days Last Line: And call thee england's pride forevermore! Subject(s): Arden, Mary (d. 1608); Dramatists; Mothers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) MATHEMATICS, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have envied those Last Line: I lied, or did not lie, / in answer Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MATINS: 3, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new day rises Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reality MATRIARCHLY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave this part away from me Last Line: To bring it on again Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Mothers; Poetry & Poets; Women - Writers MAXIMUS, 2, by CHARLES OLSON Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wrote my first poems Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MAYER SULZBERGER, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The muse, that first lent grace to gratitude Last Line: And held in love, our country's foremost jew! Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Sulzberger, Mayer (1843-1923); Judaism MEDIEVAL MOTIF, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath our spell-binding play of faces there waits Subject(s): Games; Poetry & Poets; Time; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements MELVILLE'S MARGINALIA, by SUSAN HOWE Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mangan, James Clarence (1803-1849); Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets MEMORABILIA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, did you once see shelley plain, / and did he stop and speak to you Last Line: Well, I forget the rest. Variant Title(s): Shelley;something To Remember Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Writing & Writers MEMORIAL VERSES, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goethe in weimar sleeps, and greece Last Line: Hears thy voice right, now he is gone. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Writing & Writers; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron MEMORIES OF WHITMAN AND LINCOLN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lilacs shall bloom for walt whitman Last Line: And lilacs for abraham lincoln. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Poetry & Poets; Presidents, United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) MENDING THE ADOBE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun dazzle and black shadow / crow caw and magpie rattle Last Line: I remember my mother Subject(s): Houses; Poetry & Poets MEREDITH NICHOLSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keats, and kirk white, david Last Line: Young yet in art, and his heart yet a boy's. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Muses; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers MESCALINE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rotting ginsberg, I stared in the mirror naked today Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Self; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) MESSAGE OF AN ANCIENT POET, by LEONORA CLAWSON STRYKER Poem Text First Line: I watched men digging in egyptian sands Last Line: "my love, your face is like a lotus bud." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) MESSAGE TO THE BARD, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON (1808-1870) Poem Text First Line: The morning is bright and sunlit Last Line: Found and as I saw, bring this message to the poet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets METAMORPHOSES: 20. PHAETON (EZRA POUND), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ate mush at the oldage home and waited for the jews Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) METAMORPHOSES: 3. PERSEUS (WALT WHITMAN), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seer died. No one claimed him Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) METAMORPHOSES: 9. JUNO (EDMUND SPENSER), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No dios or subcontinent gave him asylum Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) METRICAL FEET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trochee trips from long to short Last Line: Bred racer. Variant Title(s): Lessons For A Boy Subject(s): Ingenuity; Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets MILTON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What splendour of imperial station man Last Line: Rays of his glory on their foreheads bear. Subject(s): England; Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; English MILTON, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lover of beauty, walking on the height Last Line: The loftiest poet of the saxon race! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets MINOR TO MAJOR (EDMUND SPENSER, 1552-1599), by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What am I doing here Last Line: Breaks flooding through me and I say my say. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) MIRWA & RANDOLPH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ne'er felt at such an hour as this Last Line: But cheer thee!—— Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Primitive Man; Cavemen MODERN PARAPHRASE OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET 29, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When times are hard and old friends fall away Last Line: To own the world or be a millionaire? Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) MONKS FOR ANOTHER SMALL VOLUME, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, dear cousin, why Last Line: Well! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back to me, who wait and watch for you Last Line: When life was sweet because you call'd them sweet? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 10, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time flies, hope flags, life plies a wearied wing Last Line: Loss and decay and death, and all is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Time; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 11, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many in aftertimes will say of you Last Line: My love of you was life and not a breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 12, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there be any one can take my place Last Line: And you companion'd I am not alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Abnegation Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 13, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could trust mine own self with your fate Last Line: Whose love your love's capacity can fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Trust Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Women - Heroes; Theology MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 14, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth gone, and beauty gone if ever there Last Line: Silence of love that cannot sing again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could remember that first day Last Line: First touch of hand in hand -- did one but know! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The First Meeting;the First Day Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of you, to wake: would that I might Last Line: Though there be nothing new beneath the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you first: but afterwards your love Last Line: Both of us, of the love which makes us one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 5, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my heart's heart and you who are to me Last Line: Since woman is the helpmeet made for man. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 6, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke Last Line: I cannot love him if I love not you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love me, for I love you -- and answer me Last Line: And death be strong, yet love is strong as death. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 8, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, if I perish, perish' -- esther spake Last Line: And for love's sake by love be granted it! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 9, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking of you, and all that was, and all Last Line: Ready to spend and be spent for your sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON (SECOND VERSION), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what a wonder seems the fear of death Last Line: Muse on the sore ills I had left behind. Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Poetry & Poets MONOLOGUE FROM A MATTRESS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can that be you, la mouche? Wait till I lift Last Line: Mouche -- mathilde! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Love; Regret; Religion; Revolutions; Sickness; Poetry & Poets; German Literature; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Dead, The; Theology; Illness MOON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a white cat whose name is moon Subject(s): Animals; Authors And Authorship; Cats; Poetry & Poets MOONLIGHT AND GAS, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet in theory worships the moon Last Line: Draw up his venetians and welcome the moon. Subject(s): Moon; Poetry & Poets MOONLIGHT SONG OF THE MOCKING-BIRD; A QUATRAIN, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each golden note of music greets Last Line: Had found its new birth in a bird. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Mockingbirds; Poetry & Poets MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 2. TO A LADY: OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing so true as what you once let fall Last Line: To you gave sense, good humour, and a poet. Variant Title(s): An Epistle To A Lady: Of The Characters Of Women;epistle To A Lady Subject(s): Beauty; Blount, Martha (patty) (1690-1763); Character; Human Behavior; Inconsistency; Poetry & Poets; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MORE POETS YET!, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More poets yet!' - I hear him say Last Line: More poets yet! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MORN; IN IMITATION OF 'NIGHT', BY MONTGOMERY, by MRS. JOHN GRAY Poem Text First Line: Morn is the time to wake Last Line: Be such ecstatic rising mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewers, Miss Subject(s): Morning; Poetry & Poets MORNING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "offspring of modern poetry, attend" Last Line: "demands my care': then kiss me ere we part. / here, hannah, take these breakfast things away" Subject(s): Morning;poetry & Poets MORNING STAR, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This isn't the end. It simply Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Morning; Poetry & Poets; Relationships MORTIFICATION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone dies & / then a cat dies Subject(s): Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MOTHER EARTH, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed, Last Line: Holdest the poem of god, eternal thought and emotion. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; World MOTTO TO 'THE POET', by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A moody child and wildly wise Last Line: Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MR. FROST GOES SOUTH TO BOSTON, by FIRMAN HOUGHTON Poem Text First Line: When I see buildings in a town together Last Line: As I myself would ever want to go. Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets MR. POPE, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When alexander pope strolled in the city Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) MRS. NASSAU SENIOR, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: True woman, gentle and yet strong Last Line: We learn so slowly. Subject(s): Humanitarianism; Nassau Senior, Mrs. (1828-1877).; Poetry & Poets; Women - Writers MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING IN THE CITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sigh no more, dealers, sigh no more" Last Line: "converting all your notes of woe / into hey money, money" Subject(s): "dramatists;poetry & Poets;shakespeare, William (1564-1616); MUD SOUP, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Had the ham bone, had the lentils Last Line: Not like isle of innisfree. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Cookery; Feminism MURDER, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Language must suffice Subject(s): Love; Loss; Poetry & Poets MUSIC, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Han-shan sits on a flat stone Subject(s): Han Shan (680-769); Poetry & Poets MUSIC AND POETRY: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, poets, as ye list, of fields, of flowers Last Line: In human speech such mysteries divine. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets MUSIC AND POETRY: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet words though weak are all that poets own Last Line: One aim, one work, one destiny they share. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets MY AMBITION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is to become a footnote Last Line: Turgid lines of footnote. Subject(s): Ambition; Dahlberg, Edward (1900-1977); Footnotes; Legacies; Poetry & Poets MY ART, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: My prose is for others Last Line: To sing is my art. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MY DREAM, by MARY WOOLSEY HOWLAND Poem Text First Line: Sometimes a dream of poetry Last Line: That far in elfland rings. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MY LITTLE TASK, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I throw a guess out here or there Last Line: This is the most that I may do. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MY MOTHER'S POEM, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Redwing blackbird, sitting on a stalk Last Line: Already knowing the end and the answer Subject(s): Mothers; Poetry & Poets MY NEST, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lodging was on the cold rough ground Last Line: For my little birds so sweet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MY POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A love person Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Revenge MY POET, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, could I my poet only draw Last Line: In his dreams a fairer sight. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MY POETRY IS FOR THE NIGHT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And in sleep rejoice Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MY POETS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On was put in the lock-up Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets MY SONG, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My song I will not sell for gold Last Line: The laurel's leaf is bitter. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MY UPPER SHELVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close at my feet in stolid rows they sit Last Line: So long as love is love and blooms a sole red rose! Subject(s): Books; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Graves; Love; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Tombs; Tombstones MY WINDOW, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under my window my couch is set Last Line: Floats up to him the kind light-giver! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets NAMBY-PAMBY. A PANEGYRIC ON THE NEW VERSIFICATION, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All ye poets of the age Last Line: To his genius victims fall. Subject(s): Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749); Poetry & Poets NARCISSUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The god enamoured never knew Last Line: Of light above. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Poetry & Poets NATURE AND THE POET, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My rabbi was nature-she set me to learn Last Line: A poet, my brothers, a poor jewish poet. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Jews; Nature - Religious Aspects; Poetry & Poets; Judaism NATURE DISPLAYED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her in my innocent contemplation Last Line: I hailed, and listening loved and loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Collins, William (1721-1759); Country Life; Green, Matthew (1696-1737); Nature; Poetry & Poets NAY, IN A POET PUT NO TRUST, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: And spirit thee beyond the clouds Subject(s): Poetry & Poets NEAR MISS HAIKU, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Order out of chaos equals frogs Last Line: Opens the book Subject(s): Books; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Poetry & Poets; Violins; Reading NECESSARY ANGELS; POEMS IN THEIR YOUTH, by STEPHEN KUUSISTO Poem Text First Line: We stopped beside the road Last Line: And chewed the cemetery grass. Variant Title(s): Breton-esque Subject(s): Blindness; Poetry & Poets; Saints; Worship; Youth; Visually Handicapped NERVES: TERRORIST FOR LANGUAGE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nerves, blind / attraction to Subject(s): Language; Literary Form; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary NESSMUK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hail thee, nessmuk, for the lofty Last Line: To hail thee first and greet thee, as they should. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Robin Hood NEW ODE TO A GRECIAN URN, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! How sad that simple truth Last Line: I read the tale of how lhkqion apwlesen! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Elgin Marbles; Greece; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Greeks NEW TO ME, by IRMA DOVEY Poem Text First Line: New to me are the shining white words Last Line: Or the first to have heard. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets NIGHT POEMS: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again in a still peace, in clear Last Line: Endured by all, breathed by how few! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The NIKOLAUS MARDRUZ TO HIS MASTER FERDINAND, COUNT OF TYROL, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My lord recalls ferrara? How walls Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Ferrara, Italy; Poetry & Poets NINE DESIRES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The desire of the fairy women, dew Last Line: The desire of the soul, wisdom. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fairies; Men; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women; Elves NON EST MEUM, SI MUGIAT AFRICUS MALUS PROCELLIS ..., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This passage, sirs, may put ye, one would think Last Line: I thank my stars, I'm rowing safe to shore. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets NON OMNIS MORIAR, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask you: has the singer sung Last Line: Death frames the singer and the song. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Ford, John (1586-1639); Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The NONUMQUE PREMATUR IN ANNUM, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye poets, and critics, and men of the schools Last Line: And by all future printers unumque be printed. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting NORTH BEACH, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where the castle of bold pfeiffer throws Last Line: On her gay bonnet wears, and laugheth loud in glee! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) NOT GUILTY, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days are dog-eared, the edges torn, Subject(s): Johnson, Robert (1913-1938); Music & Musicians; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917); Poetry & Poets NOT MARBLE NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS', by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The praisers of women in their proud and beautiful poems Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Dramatists NOT ROSES TO THE ROSE, I TROW, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A verse they owe you at the least Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Poetry & Poets NOT TRANSHISTORICAL DEATH, OR AT LEAST NOT QUITE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jim wright, who was a good poet and my friend, died two or three years ago Subject(s): Wright, James (1927-1980); Poetry & Poets NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I gave birth to living metaphors Last Line: Springs from the very separateness of things. Subject(s): Children; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Loss; Metaphor; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Similes; Parenthood; Feminism NOT YOUTH PERTAINS TO ME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Composed these songs Subject(s): Self; Poetry & Poets NOTES FOR A LECTURE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will teach you to become american, my students Last Line: You have meaning Subject(s): Poetry & Poets NOTES FOR CANTO 120, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have tried to write paradise Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Heaven; Paradise NOTES FOR THE FIRST LINE OF A SPANISH POEM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We remember so little Last Line: Outside the mind, the snow undresses and lies down Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers NOVEMBER POEM FOR ALGERIA: 1996, by JUNE JORDAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen concrete Subject(s): Poetry & Poets NOW DRY THE EYES, by MIKHAIL ALEXEYEVICH KUZMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now dry thy eyes, and shed no tears Last Line: As a keen lance with edges burning. Subject(s): Boats; Navigation; Poetry & Poets NUNC ET CAMPUS, ET AREAEUM ..., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By campus and by areae, my friends Last Line: What further use have all the odes that horace writ? Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets NURSE WHITMAN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You move between the soldiers' cots Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) O HENLEY, IN MY HOURS OF EASE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: His correspondence to the devil! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903); Poetry & Poets O WHAT CAN AIL THEE, KNIGHT AT ARMS?, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day the students were arrested Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Poetry & Poets; Love - Erotic; Anti-war Protests OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 1, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, numbers, boldly pass, stay not for aid Last Line: Phœbus shuns none but in their flight from him. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 2, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some from the starry throne his fame derives Last Line: Renowned in every art there lives not any. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 4, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Greatest in thy wars Last Line: Worthy half thy fame. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OCTAVES: 1, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To get at the eternal strength of things, Last Line: Is always and unfailingly at hand. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OCTOBER XXIX, 1795 (KEATS' BIRTHDAY), by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time sitting on the throne of memory Last Line: Because he played with beauty for a toy!' Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets ODE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jake's store past pindaric mountain Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ODE (MUSIC-MAKERS), by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the music makers, / and we are the dreamers of dreams Last Line: Or one that is coming to birth. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Variant Title(s): The Music-makers;ode Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Liberty; Theology ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As once, if not with light regard / I read aright that gifted bard Last Line: Or curtained close such scene from every future view. Subject(s): Churchyards; Poetry & Poets ODE ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home, thou return'st from thames, whose naiads long Last Line: Friend. Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Home, John (1722-1808); Poetry & Poets ODE TO APOLLO, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In thy western halls of gold Last Line: From thee, great god of bards, receive their heavenly birth. Subject(s): Dramatists; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Iliad; Odyssey; Dramatists ODE TO FIDEL CASTRO, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O boy god, muse of poets Last Line: Whenever I spout a big, ripe absolute Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Poetry & Poets ODE TO GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE ON 'PASSAGE OVER MT. GOTHARD', by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Splendour's folly fostered child! Last Line: Thence learn'd you that heroic measure. Subject(s): Cavendish, Georgiana (1757-1806); Poetry & Poets; Tell, William ODE TO HIMSELF, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, leave the loathed stage Last Line: And see his chariot triumph 'bove his wain. Variant Title(s): On The New Inn. Ode. To Himself Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Pericles (490-429 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life ODE TO SHELLEY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou dead? Upon the hills once more Last Line: His own soul's voice, nor crave a brother's string. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Soul; Dead, The ODE TO TASTE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave not britannia's isle,since pope is fled Last Line: Hurl'd wildly to the ground! Subject(s): Civilization; Great Britain; Poetry & Poets ODE TO THE FUTURIST PAINTERS AND POETS, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Futurist painters and poets! Last Line: Painters and poets! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets ODE TO THE MEMORY OF BURNS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul of the poet! Wheresoe'er Last Line: To bless the spot that holds thy dust. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ODE TO THE WEST WIND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being Last Line: If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Variant Title(s): Ode To The West Wind: I;the West Wind Subject(s): Autumn; Florence, Italy; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Theology; Ocean ODE TO WALT WHITMAN, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now comes fourth month and the early buds on the trees Last Line: Always forever, mississippi, the god Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ODE WRITTEN AFTER READING SOME MODERN LOVE-VERSES, by JOHN SCOTT (1730-1783) Poem Text First Line: Take hence this tuneful trifler's lays Last Line: And dropped the tear on beauty's tomb. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ODE [ON THE POETS], by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bards of passion and of mirth Last Line: Double-lived in regions new! Variant Title(s): To The Poets Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ODE: IN IMITATION OF HORACE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, deluded, albion, wilt thou lie Last Line: And europe is redeemed, and william reigns! Subject(s): Fate; Fear; Heaven; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Destiny; Paradise ODE: ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: An old thorn tree in a stony place Last Line: Of the sky his cold and passionate song. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Death; Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The ODE: TO GARRICK, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no; the left - hand box in blue Last Line: Unvisited by ranby. Subject(s): Dramatists; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Marriage; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Weddings; Husbands; Wives ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 13. ON LYRIC POETRY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I join the thespian choir Last Line: Nor by another's fate submits to be confined. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poetry & Poets ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 7. ON THE USE OF POETRY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for themselves did human kind Last Line: Their dread assertor own. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ODES: IV, 9. THE IMMORTALTY OF VERSE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest you should think that verse shall die Last Line: They had no poet and are dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Variant Title(s): The Immortality Of Verse Subject(s): Immortality; Poetry & Poets OEDIPUS: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sophocles could undertake alone Last Line: To please you more, but burning of a pope. Subject(s): Greece; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Greeks; Dramatists OF A CERTAIN POET, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Text First Line: Sanely they told the sensitive youth Last Line: They spoke the truth. Subject(s): Irony; Poetry & Poets OF A POET; WRITTEN FOR A CHILD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sang of brooks, and trees, and flowers Last Line: In gentle words of golden worth. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OF BEING NUMEROUS, 10, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Or, in that light, new arts! Dithyrambic, audience-as-artists! But I will listen to a man Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 27, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is difficult now to speak of poetry-- Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OF ENGLISH VERSE, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets may boast [as safely vain] Last Line: But as long liv'd as present love. Variant Title(s): English Verse Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OF HIMSELF, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William was once a bashful youth Last Line: E'er claim him for her own. Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Modesty; Poetry & Poets OF LOVE AND WINE, by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Of love and wine old poets sung Last Line: With kisses paid his lyre! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love; Poetry & Poets; Wine OF MODERN POETRY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poem of the mind in the act of finding Last Line: Combing. The poem of the act of the mind Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Mind, The OF RHYTHM, by JANITH JACKSON WHITE Poem Text First Line: They tell me that it could be worse Last Line: So must my poetry? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OF ROBERT FROST, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a little lightning in his eyes Last Line: Some specialness within Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets OF THE ART OF POETRY, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If to a woman's head a painter would Last Line: Till he drop off, a horse-leech, full of blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OF THE LAST VERSES IN THE BOOK, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we for age could neither read nor write Last Line: That stand upon the threshold of the new. Variant Title(s): The Self Banished (1);on The Foregoing Divine Poems;of His Divine Poems;on The Last Verses In His Book Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The OF THE MOMENT, by JOHN KINSELLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rapturous nature of jet lag Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OFF MESOLONGI, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lights of mesolongi gleam Last Line: To gaze, and pass. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Missolonghi, Greece; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece; Ocean OH, THE WATER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the hero of this poem Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Women; Valor; Bravery; Optimism OLD ENGLISH, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When chaucer lived there were some other Last Line: In men's hearts through all the rolling years. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Poetry & Poets OLD LADY NECESSITY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When homer was writing his epics and such Last Line: "I don't wanta work but I gotta!" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Work; Workers OLD MAN SUCCUMBING TO RETROSPECTION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How his mind was always filled with music how Last Line: Even so something more or something a little less. Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Poetry & Poets OLD POETS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should live in a forest Last Line: And he lets the world spin by. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OLD WALT, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old walt whitman / went finding and seeking Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Negroes; American Blacks OMAR KHAYYAM, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Reading in omar till the thoughts that burned Last Line: That casts its light stain on the asian page. Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Poetry & Poets; Liberty OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, is it well with thee? Over thy grave Last Line: His love the fire that will consume and save? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Poetry & Poets; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON A BOY'S FIRST READING OF THE PLAY OF 'KING HENRY THE FIFTH', by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate Last Line: "with ""ho! For harry and red agincourt!" Subject(s): Boys; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - King Henry V; Dramatists ON A CERTAIN CRITIC, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, john keats Last Line: In the bodies of innumerable worms. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Moon; Poetry & Poets ON A CERTAIN GREAT POET, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet, thy strain, an alpine cataract, leaps Last Line: Yet made immortal in evanishment. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): To A Great Poet Of A Past Era Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON A COPY OF KEATS' 'ENDYMION', by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has not the glamoured season come once more Last Line: Still thrill the heart, still fill the listening sky! Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets ON A DEAD POET, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hand that swept the sounding lyre Last Line: Forevermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets ON A DIET, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ruth of soups and balm of sauces Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets ON A FLYLEAF OF THEOCRITUS, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those were good times, in olden days Last Line: And with his goat-hoof keeping time! Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Variant Title(s): Written On A Fly-leaf Of Theocritus Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON A MAGAZINE SONNET, by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES Poem Text First Line: Scorn not the sonnet,' though its strength be sapped Last Line: Had otherwise been covered with a hundred. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON A PEOPLE'S POET, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to letterd ken Last Line: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON A POET IN A WELSH CHURCHYARD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind souls! Who strive what pious hand shall bring Last Line: One sprig of each to trim a poet's grave. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On A Poet In A Welsh Courtyard Subject(s): Churchyards; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones ON A PORTRAIT OF WORDSWORTH BY B.R. HAYDON, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wordsworth upon helvellyn! Let the cloud Last Line: This is the poet and his poetry. Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) ON A PRESSED FLOWER IN MY CPOY OF KEATS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As keats' old honeyed volume of romance Last Line: The while my heart weeps for this dear flower's sake. Subject(s): Flowers; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets ON A READER OF HIS OWN VERSES; EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hoarse maevius reads his hobbling verse Last Line: An ass without an ear! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON A READING OF MATTHEW ARNOLD, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arnold is dead, and everyone forgets Last Line: Not chiefly good in this bœotian age?' Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Poetry & Poets; Praise ON A SCOTCH BARD, GONE TO THE WEST INDIES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A'ye wha live by sowps o' drink Last Line: Tho' owre the sea! Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Poetry & Poets ON A SQUINTING POETESS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To no one muse does she her glance confine Last Line: But has an eye, at once, to all the nine! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON A SQUIRREL CROSSING THE ROAD IN AUTUMN, IN NEW ENGLAND, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is what he does not know Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Squirrels ON A VOLUME OF ANONYNOUS POEMS ENTITLED A MASQUE OF POETS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vain is the mask. Who cannot at desire Last Line: The face, but lets the changeless heart lie bare. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON A YOUNG POET, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lay him down in peace to take his rest Last Line: But wheresoe'er god hides him, it is well. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ON A YOUNG POETESS'S GRAVE, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under her gentle seeing Last Line: Is the sweeter for the flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ON AN ACURA INTEGRA, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Please think of this as not merely a piece Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cities; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life ON AN ANNIVERSARY, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fifteen-ninety or sixteen-sixteen Last Line: For my poor passage to the stall of night? Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON ARRIVING ANYWHERE IN TIME FOR ANYTHING, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How good the universe can be!-what now? Last Line: In this appointment kept, this fulfilled choice? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE A POEM FOR 1979, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without kings and warriors occasional verse fails Subject(s): Africa; Death - Children; Poetry & Poets; Death - Babies ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE AN ORIGINAL POEM, by ALICE JUDD Poem Text First Line: An original poem! Is that all you ask? Last Line: For his is the god-given gift of heaven. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers ON BEING CHOSEN POET OF VERMONT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathes there a bard who isn't moved Last Line: By his country and his neighborhood? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON BEING YANKED FROM A FAVORITE ANTHOLOGY, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fame gave me a wrench and I cried ouch Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Reputation ON BOARD SHIP: READING YUAN CHEN'S POEMS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I take your poems in my hand and read them beside the candle Last Line: Listening to waves that, driven by the wind, strike the prow of the ship. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poetry & Poets ON BOARD THE '76; WRITTEN FOR BRYANT'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our ship lay tumbling in an angry sea Last Line: Himself our bravest crown. Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean ON BORROWING PLUMES, by GEORGE MEASON WHICHER Poem Text First Line: It is too true: my sonnets' every phrase Last Line: From long, loud-thundering billows of miltonic seas. Subject(s): Borrowers And Lenders; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets ON BURNS AND RAMSAY, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now burns and ramsay both are dead Last Line: My meter is of diff'rent kinds. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758) ON CHLORIS WALKING IN THE SNOW, by WILLIAM STRODE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw fair chloris walk alone Last Line: To deck her, froze into a gem. Variant Title(s): On A Gentlewoman Walking In The Snow;chloris In The Snow Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets ON COWPER'S GARDEN AT OLNEY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this forlornest place, at morn and even Last Line: "of truth to madness even than shun that fountain's brink." Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets ON DOCTOR DONNE, by RICHARD CORBET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hee that would write an epitaph for thee Last Line: He must be dead first, let'it alone for mee. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbett, Richard Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ON DONNE'S FIRST POEM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be proud, as spaniards! And leap for pride, ye fleas Last Line: The natural alien of their negative eye. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ON DONNE'S POETRY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With donne, whose muse on dromedary trots Last Line: Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ON DR. DONNES DEATH, by JASPER MAYNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall presume to mourn thee, donne, unlesse Last Line: Wee cannot hope the like, till thou returne. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ON DR. JOHN DONNE, LATE DEANE OF S. PAULES, LONDON, by I. CHUDLEIGH Poem Text First Line: Long since this taske of teares from you was due Last Line: Must weep here if he have ambition. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ON EXPLORATION, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hawk drops to the treetop Subject(s): Explorers; Poetry & Poets; Universe; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much have I traveled in the realms of gold Last Line: Silent, upon a peak in darien. Variant Title(s): To The Adventurous Subject(s): Books; Chapman, George (1559-1634); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Thought; Translating & Interpreting; Reading; Iliad; Odyssey; Thinking ON FIRST LOOKING THROUGH KRAFFT-EBING'S PSYCHOPATHIA..., by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much have I travelled in those realms of old Last Line: Potent behind a cart with mary ann? Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Obscenity; Poetry & Poets ON GREATNESS IN POETS, by AUGUST H. MASON Poem Text First Line: Blue presence fills the rising mountain Last Line: Their grandeur from his planet-circled sky. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON HEARING SOMEONE SONG A POEM BY YUAN CHEN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No new poems his brush will trace Last Line: A pain had stabbed my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poetry & Poets ON HEARING THE NEWS FROM VENICE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak Last Line: When song is murk from springs of turbid source. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Death; Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ON HIMSELFE (7), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ile sing no more, nor will I longer write Last Line: No more my dirges, and my trentalls have. Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets ON HIS 'SONNETS OF THE WINGLESS HOURS', by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrought them like a targe of hammered gold Last Line: Into the sun, and glitter through its dust. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Thought; Thinking ON HOMER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Still in our ears andromache complains Last Line: For all the world is proud that he was born Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.);poetry & Poets; Iliad;odyssey ON HOMER'S BIRTHPLACE, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From colophon some deem thee sprung Last Line: No other than calliope. Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey ON KEATS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A garden in a garden: a green spot Last Line: Shall be a fountain of love, verily. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets ON KEATS, WHO DESIRED THAT ON HIS TOMB SHOULD BE INSCRIBED:, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lieth one whose name was writ on water!' Last Line: A scroll of crystal, blazoning the name of adonais! Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets ON LAMB'S SPECIMENS OF DRAMATIC POETS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the flowers of all the fields on earth Last Line: Took subtler sweetness from the lips of lamb. Subject(s): Flowers; Light; Poetry & Poets ON LONELY COASTS, by CECILIA ELLERBE Poem Text First Line: Poems are waters that have lain Last Line: Where waters of the spirit reach. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON LOOKING AT A COPY FO ALICE MEYNELL'S POEMS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon this greying page you wrote Last Line: The living have so much to do Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Meynell, Alice (1847-1922); Books; Life ON LOVE: CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These speculations afford me great pleasure Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry & Poets; Love ON LOVE: HEINRICH HEINE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come to you as a whole-hearted man Last Line: We are drowning; all that rescues us is love Subject(s): Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Poetry & Poets; Love ON MEETING SHAKESPEARE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw shakespeare Last Line: But his chief wish was to be earning more money. Subject(s): Dramatists; Literature; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) ON MR. ABRAHAM COWLEY'S DEATH AND BURIAL AMONGST THE...POETS, by JOHN DENHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Old chaucer, like the morning-star Last Line: Nor death's dark vail their day o'recast.' Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Poetry & Poets ON MR. SHIRLEY'S POEMS, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, dearest friend, thy verse doth re-inspire Last Line: And poetry by this increase grow less. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shirley, James (1596-1666) ON MRS. WALKER'S POEMS: PARTICULARLY THAT ON THE AUTHOR, by CHRISTOPHER PITT Poem Text First Line: Blush, wilmot, blush; a female muse Last Line: The breeches and the bays. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Writers ON NOT SAYING EVERYTHING, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This tree outside my window here Last Line: From the not saying anything Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets ON PASTORAL POETRY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, poesie! Thou nymph reserv'd Last Line: The sternest move. Subject(s): Nature; Beauty; Poetry & Poets ON READING 'VORTICIST POEM ON LOVE', by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet many poems have been written Last Line: Some people write and some do not. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets ON READING -- ., by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth Last Line: Be cut and polished, it seems little worth. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON READING A POET'S FIRST BOOK, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a breath of summer wind Last Line: Blessed and strong, though overcast. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON READING A VOLUME OF POEMS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too oft, when our new minstrels sing Last Line: And the hot tears upon our hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON READING AN ANTHOLOGY OF POSTWAR GERMAN POETRY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America saved me Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Germany; Germans ON READING COLERIDGE'S EPITAPH, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit! So oft in radiant freedom soaring Last Line: One lesson breathing thence profound humility! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Epitaphs; Humility; Poetry & Poets ON READING KEATS IN WAR TIME, by KARL SHAPIRO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one long lost in no-man's-land of war Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets ON READING THE POETRY OF A MYSTIC, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a sound of waters; --not the combing Last Line: Dips in the liquid dusk a flaming wing. Subject(s): Mysticism; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Water; Theology ON RECORDS OF IMMATURE GENIUS; AFTER READING POEMS OF MRS. TIGHE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Judge in thoughtful tenderness of those Last Line: Their grand consummate hymn, from passion-gusts made free! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring; Tighe, Mary [blachford] (1773-1810) ON RHYME AND BLANK VERSE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a deal of impertinent stuff at this time Last Line: All the bus'ness he knows is—to execute well. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs ON SANNAZAR'S BEING HONOURED WITH SIX HUNDRED DUCATS BY CLARISSIMI, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a blithe prince exchang'd five hundred crowns Last Line: All wrath and storms do end in calms and praise. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Venice, Italy ON SEEING AN OLD POET IN THE CAFE ROYAL, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him in the cafe royal Last Line: And cheroots upon the floor. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON SHAKESPEARE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In poetry there is but one supreme Last Line: Mighty, and beauteous, while his face is hid. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ON SHAKESPEARE AND VOLTAIRE, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clad in the wealthy robes his genius wrought Last Line: Safely the gentle shakespeare slept and smiled. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ON SIR JOHN SUCKLING, HIS PICTURES AND POEMS, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suckling, whose numbers could invite Last Line: His form, by his own pen, his mind. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Portraits; Suckling, John (1609-1642) ON THE DEATH OF DR. DONNE, by EDWARD HYDE Poem Text First Line: I cannot blame those men, that knew thee well Last Line: Here lyes the best divinitie, all the arts. Alternate Author Name(s): Clarendon, 1st Earl Of Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ON THE DEATH OF LONGFELLOW, by KENNETH MCLACHLAN Poem Text First Line: Thy end hath come! An end will come to all Last Line: The song that's never mute, and evermore shall be. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF LORD BYRON, COMPOSED AT WESTHILL, IN THE GREAT STORM, by HUMPHRY DAVY Poem Text First Line: Gone is the bard, who, like a powerful spirit Last Line: In the bright flame, o'er earthly ashes glowing. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron ON THE DEATH OF SIR THOMAS WYATT, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wyatt resteth here that quick could never rest Last Line: The earth his bones, the heavens possess his ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Variant Title(s): Tribute To Wyatt;an Excellent Epitaph Of Sir Thomas Wyatt Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542) ON THE FERRY: WHITMAN, by MAX J. HERZBERG Poem Text First Line: He passed amid the noisy throngs Last Line: Our greatest man. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ON THE FLY-LEAF OF POUND'S CANTOS, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There are the alps. What is there to say about them? Last Line: Fools! Sit down and wait for them to crumble! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) ON THE FORTHCOMING VOLUME OF SIDNEY LANIER'S POEMS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snow! Snow! Snow Last Line: In spite of the snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881); Poetry & Poets; Snow ON THE FUTURE OF POETRY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bards of the future! You that come Last Line: When hector's wife smiled through her tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON THE INESTIMABLE CONTENT HE ENJOYS IN THE MUSES, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch Last Line: I might perchance get riches, and be poor. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poverty ON THE LATE S.T. COLERIDGE, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And thou art gone, most loved, most honored friend! Last Line: Of all he loved: thy living truths are left. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets ON THE LOWER RHINE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By dusseldorf the singing rhine-stream bends Last Line: And passionately soughtest thy mother-sea! Subject(s): Dusseldorf, Germany; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Poetry & Poets; Rhine (river), Europe; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THOMAS HARDY'S .. 'THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL', by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long years ago on cornish land Last Line: In song before we sleep. Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists ON THE PICTURE OF A DEPARTED POETESS, by ELIZABETH J. EAMES Poem Text First Line: This still, clear, radiant face! Doth it resemble Last Line: The better land thy dream of love fulfilled. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ON THE PORCH AT THE FROST PLACE, FRANCONIA, N.H., by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So here the great man stood Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This figure, that thou here seest put Last Line: Not at his picture, but his book. Variant Title(s): To The Reader Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Droeshout, Martin; Engraving & Engravers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading; Dramatists ON THE PRAYSE OF POETRY, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not a pyramide of marble stone Last Line: Mausolus, envied by thee! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON THE PROPOSAL TO ERECT A MONUMENT IN ENGLAND TO LORD BYRON, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass of fifty aprils hath waved green Last Line: Hers is the shame if such forgotten be! Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron ON THE REFUSAL OF OXFORD TO SUBSCRIDBE TO HIS TRANSLATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could homer come himself, distressed and poor Last Line: "begone! No tramper gets a farthing here!" Subject(s): Hate; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Iliad; Odyssey ON THE REMOVAL OF THE REMAINS OF CALDERON; 1840, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto a tomb more splendid than was thine Last Line: For lo, thy tomb is portugal and spain! Subject(s): Bones; Calderon De La Barca, Pedro (1600-1681); Dust; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE ROAD TO SAN ROMANO, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry like love is made in a bed Last Line: Against all the misery of the world Subject(s): Surrealism; Poetry & Poets ON THE ROADWAY TO MATANZAS, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the road to matanzas / I was busy building stanzas Last Line: In caesuras of those palms. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON THE SALE BY AUCTION OF KEATS' LOVE LETTERS, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the letters which endymion wrote Last Line: Not knowing the god's wonder, or his woe? Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Letters; Love; Poetry & Poets ON THE SITE OF A MULBERRY-TREE PLANTED BY SHAKESPEARE ..., by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This tree, here fall'n, no common birth or death Last Line: Some tailor's ninth allotment of a ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Dramatists; Hate; Mulberry Trees; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ON THE STATUE OF LORD BYRON (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange that I, who haply might have met Last Line: So still, so calm, so purely beautiful! Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Statues; Thorvaldsen, Bertel (1770-1844); Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Thorwaldsen, Bertel ON THE STATUE OF LORD BYRON (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And near thee hands a page, in boyhodd penn'd Last Line: Shares our fond gaze between itself and thee. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Statues; Thorvaldsen, Bertel (1770-1844); Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Thorwaldsen, Bertel ON THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL POETS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Falling untempered from the ethereal blue Last Line: And streams a mansion for the soul prepare. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets ON THE THRESHOLD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An usher standing at the door Last Line: And founts and flowers are all your own! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON THE UNCOMMON SCARCITY OF POETRY, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The springs of helicon can winter bind Last Line: And tune the lyre to nature or to love! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON VISITING PETRARCH'S HOUSE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary! When we to arqua's village came Last Line: Nor car'd for fame who was in love so blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Petrarch (1304-1374); Poetry & Poets; Francesco Petrarca ON VISITING THE TOMB OF BURNS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The town, the churchyard, and the setting sun Last Line: Thy face; I sin against thy native skies. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ON W.S., by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Shakespeare the boy with fairies in his head! Last Line: And most himself beneath the stratford thatch. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); English ON WORDSWORTH, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lived amidst the untrodden ways Last Line: The difference to him! Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Variant Title(s): Wordsworth Unvisited Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) ON WORDSWORTH'S COTTAGE; NEAR GRASMERE LAKE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the glory on their heads Last Line: Thy temple, is thy name alone. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) ONCE ON A TIME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, no matter when Last Line: Alone in being great. Subject(s): Contentment; Poetry & Poets; Success ONE, by ELEANOR MARIE WALKER Poem Text First Line: There are not many peoples / but a people Last Line: Makes it like unto a lie. Subject(s): Brothers; Poetry & Poets; Half-brothers ONE MODERN POET, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having heard the instruction Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ONE ROSE, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot bear the beauty of one rose Last Line: I cannot bear the beauty of one rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses ONLY SEVEN (A PASTORAL STORY AFTER WORDWORTH), by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I marvelled why a simple child Last Line: "lines after ache-inside." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) OPENING THE WINDOW, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus I lift the sash, so long Last Line: Go, like uncle toby's fly! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OR, TO HOCUS THE ANIMALS OF THE PURSUERS BY CHANGING THEIR DREAM..., by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold and windy cloud with delicate Last Line: Joseph cornell knew it well Subject(s): Books; Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Poetry & Poets; Reading ORIGINS, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Who sees Last Line: The poet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains of rock Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Poetry & Poets; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress OTHER LIVES AND DIMENSIONS AND FINALLY A LOVE POEM, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets; Separation; Isolation OTTERS, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: So much of poetry Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OUR LADY OF CONGRESS, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposition likes dry poems Last Line: But the luck we have left. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Slavery; Words; Vocabulary; Serfs OUR STARS COME FROM IRELAND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of him that I loved Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Irish OUT FROM A DREAM, by ELLA ALLISON Poem Text First Line: Through the night a poet listened Last Line: In living words of light. Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares OUT FROM BEHIND THIS MASK, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from behind this bending, rough-cut mask Last Line: Then travel, travel on. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Writing & Writers OUT OF SINGING DAYS, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Break out in fire, my hill, at autumn's calling Last Line: To be held dumb, when the soul breaks for a cry. Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Sound; Fall OVER COLORADO, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When whitman's beard unrolled like the pacific Last Line: Painting your leaves of grass Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But to return to the theme of the novel and poetry Last Line: "the only ones adequate to the attempt to say nothing Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Novels & Novelists OZYMANDIAS REVISITED, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveller from an antique land Last Line: Of 17 west 4th street, oyster bay. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) PACIFIC IDEAS-A LETTER TO WALT WHITMAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the schooners were drifting Last Line: O anything, to hold her in my arms! Variant Title(s): Pacific Ideas - A Letter To Walt Whitman Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) PALABRAS GRANDIOSAS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay I' the bosom of the sun Last Line: Yet I am yourn, and you are mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907); Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets PALE SONG, by ANDRE GERMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What music make with bells gulfed by the hours? Last Line: What poems draw from a heart drowned in despair? Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs PALIMPSEST OF CHALKED EQUATIONS AND ERASURES, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The freight of ambiguity can be figured as Last Line: Collapsed beneath a bountiful harvest Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PAPYRUS, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring / too long Last Line: Gongula . . . . . . Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PARADISE LOST (COMPLETE), by JOHN MILTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sin PARADOXES AND OXYMORONS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary PARASITICS: TO CERTAIN POETS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you, now, that thus presume Last Line: There will be music in his breath! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PARCELL-GIL'T-POETRY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's strive to be the best; the gods, we know it Last Line: Pillars and men, hate an indifferent poet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PARIS BY DAY, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: See the great circle of copper shine above Last Line: Our special sustenance is our flask of gall. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Day; Heat; Paris, France; Poetry & Poets - French; Sun PARNASSUS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What be those crowned forms high over the sacred fountain? Last Line: Let the golden iliad vanish, homer here is homer there. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey PASSING THE WORD, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poem as object; communicable; naked Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PASSING THOUGHT, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It must be peaceful to come to the end Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PASTORAL: UPON HIS MEETING WITH TWO WORTHY FRIENDS ... DYER & GREVILLE, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Join mates in mirth to me Last Line: As one forever joined be. Subject(s): Dyer, Sir Edward (1540-1607); Greville, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke; Poetry & Poets PAUL ELUARD, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been reading about paul eluard tonight Last Line: He lived on love, cold water, and poetry. Subject(s): Books; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Suffering; Misery PAX PAGANICA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good oars, for arnold's sake Last Line: Since he died. Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Poetry & Poets PEELING AN ORANGE, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tearing the skin carelessly Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: FOR CLAVIA ON A REJECTION SLIP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is full of yearning? So is this prose Last Line: You set to tick and rhyme under my nose Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PENELOPE TO ULYSSES, SELECTION, by ANNE WHARTON Poem Text First Line: Penelope this slow epistle sends Last Line: Would troy were glorious still, so I had you... Subject(s): Grief; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Love; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness; Iliad; Odyssey PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt those twin worlds, the world of sleep, which gave Last Line: Art first of praisers, being most praised here. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) PERHAPS ...; FOR THE LONELINESS OF AN AUTHOR, by GONG PEIYU Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps these thoughts of ours / will never find an audience Last Line: We have no choice Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): Anxiety; Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers PERPETUITY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a mighty poet passed away Last Line: At that same hour another bard was born! Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Rebirth; Dead, The PERSISTENCY OF POETRY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the muse be gone away Last Line: Ah! Still harp on what they heard. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PERSONAL POEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now when I walk around at lunchtime Subject(s): Baraka, Amiri (leroi Jones); Likes & Dislikes; New York City; Poetry & Poets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple PESSIMISM, by NEWTON MACKINTOSH Poem Text First Line: In the age that was golden, the halcyon time Last Line: And the voice of the turtle is dead in the soup. Subject(s): Cynicism; Pessimism; Poetry & Poets; Voices PETER BELL THE THIRD, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peter bells, one, two and three Last Line: How should it ever pass away? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) PETITION OF A SCHOOLBOY TO HIS FATHER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most honour'd sir, I must confess Last Line: And your petitioner shall pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Money; Schools; Poetry & Poets; Students PETRUCHIO'S WIFE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Ay, go your ways, my lord. Look where he struts Last Line: Then is the day grown bright for katharine! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists PHANTASMATA: 1, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world was sleeping in the lap of night Last Line: To stay the rise of hyperion's orb. Subject(s): Creation; Hearts; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes PHANTASMATA: PROEM, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts that from the soul come flowing Last Line: Judge not harshly of his day. Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking PHANTASMATA: PROLOGUE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boreal sea is bathed in golden mist Last Line: Sped swiftly upward through the smiling skies. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; Poetry & Poets PHANTASMATA: STANZAS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, thy works are very fair Last Line: And love him dearly evermore! Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets PHANTASUS, by ARNO HOLZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its roof among the stars projected Last Line: A dreamer and a prodigal. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery PHILANDER, AN IMITATION OF SPENCER: ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM LEVINZ, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me, ye weeping nine Last Line: And you in stella see philanders yet unborn! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Piety; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Spencer, William Robert (1769-1834); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement PHILENA TO MENANDER, by SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Blest poet! Whose eolian lyre Last Line: And be the palm of genius thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Philenia Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Muses; Paine, Robert Treat (1773-1811); Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Time; Iliad; Odyssey PHILOCTETES (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent they gaze from ilion's battlements Last Line: Her fate, - the ten-years' exile hath returned! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey PHILOCTETES (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Onward the fatal hours and minutes steal Last Line: The dreadful purport of his chief's recall. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey PIED BEAUTY, by STANLEY J. SHARPLESS Poem Text First Line: Glory be to god for hopkins' verse Last Line: Praise him! Subject(s): God; Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Religion; Theology PIERCED, by PETER GIZZI Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PIETRO ARETINO, by LUCIUS MORRIS BEEBE Poem Text First Line: Nay, I am free. To copy lesser minds Last Line: Before he challenge my supremacy. Subject(s): Aretino, Pietro (1492-1556); Poetry & Poets PINDARIC ODE: DESTINIE [DESTINY], by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange and unnatural! Lets stay and see Last Line: And all thy great forefathers were, from homer down to ben. Subject(s): Angels; Chess; Poetry & Poets PIRON, AND THE JUDGE OF THE POLICE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Piron, a poet of the gallic nation Last Line: "so we are quits." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judges; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Police PITY THE POOR POET, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: The poet burns, the whole night through Last Line: The poet burns. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Pity; Poetry & Poets PLAINT OF THE POET IN AN IGNORANT AGE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I had a flower-boy! Last Line: "the no-bird that sings in the no-name tree?" Subject(s): Household Employees; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism PLAYING THE INVISIBLE SAXOPHONE EN EL COMBO DE LA ESTRELLAS, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of these days I'm gonna write a real performance poem Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets PLEASE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god, let's go Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POEM, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here. Forget. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POEM, by MARY FERRELL DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: My father could not make a poem Last Line: He made a poem in living green. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers POEM, by KARL VON HALM Poem Text First Line: My heart, I will but ask thee Last Line: Love does not speak, but loves.' Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets POEM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Form is the woods: the beast Last Line: And slight, pink bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hunting; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hunters POEM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On getting a card Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Relationships POEM - UNFINISHED POEM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a way to spend the golden years, tomasito Last Line: To hell with that word, tomasito! Let's go out in the sun! Subject(s): Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Sons; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers POEM EN FORME DE LA BOUCHE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night first settles in the corners of your mouth Last Line: Vast rambling speeches. O mouth: swallow the night! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POEM FOR MY BROTHER TIMMY, by QUINCY TROUPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We walked streets / of river-rhythm town counting Last Line: With a brother's deep love Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POEM OF CIRCUMSTANCE, by JEAN COCTEAU Poem Text First Line: Carve your name upon a tree Last Line: For you can watch it grow. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POEM OF DISCONNECTED PARTS, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: At robben island the political prisoners studied. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Racism; Social Commentaries; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry POEM TO SOME OF MY RECENT POEMS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My beloved little billiard balls Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POEM, ADDRESSED TO COLLECTOR MITCHELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the poet, tried and leal Last Line: For ance and aye! Subject(s): Friendship; Future; Poetry & Poets POEMS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you come back to me / it will be crow time Last Line: The madness of my tongue. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary POEMS HAVE CHANTED MORTALITY, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It had better been hidden Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Mortality POEMS IN THE SEA, by MEDDIE MAZE LEBOLD Poem Text First Line: You say there are no poems in the sea Last Line: Your silver ship has cut across my dream. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean POEMS WRITTEN IN NORWAY IN 1899: 4. VERSES, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where below the bastion of the hills Last Line: And sisters were our ancient muses' mothers. Subject(s): Norway; Poetry & Poets POEMS, POTATOES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word, defining, muzzles; the drawn line Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Potatoes; Poetry & Poets POESY, by HENRY E. BAKER Poem Text First Line: What is the mission of poesy? Last Line: The viper spots of human rage. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POESY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A floating, fleecy cloud of poesy Last Line: Like phantom ships to reach the upper sky. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POET, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Do not take me to your breast Last Line: You shall harvest thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POET, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To clothe the fiery thought Last Line: To mask a king in weeds. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POET, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever the poet from the land Last Line: New worlds to find in pinnace frail. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POET, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Left leg flung out, head cocked to the right Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POET, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind dying, I find a city deserted, except for crowds of Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POET AND BIRD, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To sing a fleeting song and die! Last Line: And sing the music as their own. Subject(s): Melodies; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers POET AND PERSON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I send my messages ahead of me Last Line: Alone, as I came. Subject(s): Guests; Love; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Visiting; Loneliness POET AND SCIENTIST, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Sunlit day and starlit night Last Line: But never care to measure it. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Light; Poetry & Poets; Science; Sun; Scientists POET AS IMMORTAL BIRD, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A second ago my heart thump went Subject(s): Birds; Poetry & Poets POET LAUREATE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said they'd kill my son if I didn't go Last Line: Wear instead of the customary cap and bells Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POET WHO HAS IT MADE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bard in mauve mercedes, off to ski Last Line: Poet for sale sign overprinted sold? Variant Title(s): Poet Who Has It Made, From Juvenal I, 79 Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Success POET'S COMMONPLACE, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Impersonally I recognize the truth Last Line: ...The fallen leaf remembers autumn's bough! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POET'S CORNER, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand within the abbey walls Last Line: That never will be dumb. Subject(s): Graves; Poetry & Poets; Westminster Abbey; Tombs; Tombstones POET'S DUST AND A STAR, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Stript to ash in a white urn Last Line: At the breast of a mother-sky. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mourning; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Sky; Stars; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement POET'S PLEDGE, by MELVIN STITES Poem Text First Line: Oh, it shall be my pleasure Last Line: That it too come beautiful! Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets POET'S PRIDE, by IBN AMMAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am ben ammar: my repute Last Line: Are ever on the margins penned. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pride; Self; Self-esteem; Self-respect POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I be a poet? / how shall I write in rhyme Last Line: His face grew stern and sad. Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Boucicault, Dion (1820-1890); Poetry & Poets POETA NASCITUR, by THOMAS ASHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flame-wing'd seraph spake a word Last Line: To heal, or make them less. Subject(s): God; Poetry & Poets POETIC LICENSE, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This license certifies Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETIC STUFF, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lush orchid-blooms a-shimmer Last Line: "to the ritz!" Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, by MARK BENNITT Poem Text First Line: A poem is a crystal finely wrought Last Line: The feeling soul perceives the hand of god. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, by MARJORIE CRAIG Poem Text First Line: What is this quenching of immortal thirst? Last Line: To light his way and make his labor sweet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: True poetry is overflow Last Line: As soul the mind transcends. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! The living thrilling lines Last Line: Entwines the fragments of a heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, by LILLIAN LOWRY Poem Text First Line: Let all who search for beauty linger here Last Line: Old as the wonder dark within the heart. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I tremble like a storm-swept flower Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Fear' Poetry & Poets POETRY, by JANE MILLER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Invited onto the grounds of the god Last Line: Being made into words even as we speak. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary POETRY, by RAY MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: Sovereign poetry, the well of truth Last Line: Or in the falling petals of the rose. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, too dislike it: there are things that are important far beyond all .. Fiddle Last Line: Genuine, you are interested in poetry. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of poetry -- the air Last Line: Those feelings, which have died, to live no more. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morn on her rosy couch awoke Last Line: "for 'tis a holy thing." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gleam of heaven; the passion of a star Last Line: The rapture of the deep, -- eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, by KATHARINE HOWE THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: Poetry is something more than words Last Line: Like carolling of thrushes. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Soul POETRY, by PETER TUCCI Poem Text First Line: Poetry, said the sage of long ago Last Line: That rises from the heart and must be heard. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) POETRY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God made the world with rhythm and rime Last Line: The world god made with rhythm and rime. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Jews; Poetry & Poets; Judaism POETRY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, poem Last Line: World electric with you Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, by IDA WILSON ZEALEAR Poem Text First Line: Poetry is the faltering depiction Last Line: Of the soul's soft stirring. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY (FURTHER REVISED), by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY (REVISED VERSION), by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, dislike it Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY AND LOVE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cadenus many things had writ Last Line: With pains unknown increased ber smart. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets POETRY AND MUSIC, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it is to sit and read the tales Last Line: Fills the dim pause! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets POETRY AND REALITY, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The worldly minded, cast in common mould Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reality POETRY AND SORROW IN A 'RIGHT-TO-SING' STATE, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The music strikes / back, but doesn't walk off the job Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians POETRY AND THE POET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, in a frame of liquid verse Last Line: And mock the poet and the man. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY AND THE POOR, by W. WALSHAM STOWE Poem Text First Line: The world is very beautiful!' I said Last Line: To make the desert blossom as the rose. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poverty POETRY AS INSURGENT ART, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am signaling you through the flames. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War Ii; Second World War POETRY IS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's what misery is Last Line: It can kill a man Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary POETRY MACHINES, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw your new book today. Just after I saw your new book. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading POETRY MAKES RHYTHM IN PHILOSOPHY, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it was the bichot Last Line: Entered the room Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets POETRY PERPETUATES THE POET, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I my selfe might likewise die Last Line: When all now dead shall re-appeare. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY WEEK, by ELIZABETH B. ROBB Poem Text First Line: How fitting that a few short days Last Line: Poured from his heart. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, A NATURAL THING, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neither our vices nor our virtues Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poetry & Poets POETRY, A NATURAL THING, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Neither our vices nor our virtues Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY. A METRICAL ESSAY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scenes of my youth! Awake its slumbering fire! Last Line: Coiled the last whirlpool of the drowning sphere! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY: WHAT IS IT?, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is poetry? This question has been often propounded Last Line: Rank and character of a true poet. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary POETS, by MORRIS ABEL BEER Poem Text First Line: If a poet sings because he must Last Line: He should polish pans instead of verse! Subject(s): Money; Poetry & Poets POETS, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Heralds of joy, they walk the path of sorrow Last Line: They die in night whose souls are full of day. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Earth, you have had great lovers in your hour Last Line: And think it new -- about the weary moon! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wantons we are; and though our words be such Last Line: Our lives do differ from our lines by much. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETS, by ELLA MOORE MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: We build a dream to justify Last Line: We build a dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares POETS, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poets are strange - not always understood Last Line: With good's or evil's power. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETS AND CRITICS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One hound that trops. A thousand fleas that ride Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Critics & Criticism POETS AND POETS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He fishes in the night of deep sea pools Last Line: Thou toil'st, and hast thy end -- good store of pies and jays. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETS AND THEIR BIBLIOGRAPHIES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old poets foster'd under friendlier skies Last Line: Had swampt the sacred poets with themselves. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETS ARE BORN NOT MADE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My nose is out of joint Last Line: Anything they write. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets; Twins POETS ARE DIVINE, by JAMES E. RAMSEY Poem Text First Line: Poets are divine,' is sometimes said Last Line: Are really very fond of jokes! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETS EASILY CONSOLED, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The anguishes of poets are Last Line: A dash, a comma, or a semi-colon? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETS HAVE THE BEST OF TIMES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: With golden pen and scented ink Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETS HITCHHIKING ON THE HIGHWAY, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course I tried to tell him Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Hitchhikers; Poetry & Poets POETS OF THE NEW YORKER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To weep for the dead can be found / in cemeteries Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Hotels POETS TO COME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets to come! Orators, singers, musicians to come! Last Line: Expecting the main things from you. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POINT BALBIANELLO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From lake como's depths ascending Last Line: And the poet's dream. Subject(s): Beauty; Fear; Poetry & Poets; Roman Empire POMPEII, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rich men, they know about suffering Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POOR POLL, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw it all, polly, how when you had call'd for sop Last Line: Just as that monkey would, poor polly, have done for you. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POPE AT TWICKENHAM, by WILLIAM CHARLES MARK KENT Poem Text First Line: Beyond a hundred years and more Last Line: Love's wreath -- a crown of thorns. Alternate Author Name(s): Kent, Charles Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 7. SONG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bird drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille Last Line: No longer a bitter poem; no longer a poem that could continue! Subject(s): Birds; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marseilles, France; Nazis; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations; National Socialism POPULARITY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand still, true poet that you are! Last Line: What porridge had john keats? Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets POPULIST MANIFESTO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets, come out of your closets Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) PORPHYROGENITUS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born in the purple! Born in the purple! Last Line: Crown me with regal acclaim! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Birth; Courts & Courtiers; Poetry & Poets; Child Birth; Midwifery PORTRAIT IN SINISTER LIGHTS, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Doom walks with her Last Line: And doom will walk with her. Subject(s): Dunes; Helen Of Troy; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Stars; Iliad; Odyssey POSSESSION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet loved a star Last Line: "I miss from earth a poet." Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POSTCARDS ON MY WINDOW LEDGE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's there, yes with hardy, larkin heaney Last Line: My face, tiny, watching him Subject(s): Great Britain; Soccer; Writing & Writers; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Childhood Memories POSTHUMOUS, by HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put them in print? Last Line: "the breath that gave it life was thine." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POUND AT SPOLETO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked into a loge in the teatro melisson, the lovely renaissance salle Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) POVERTY AND POETRY, by WILLIAM BROOME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas sung of old how one amphion Last Line: And starv'd, the glorious vagrant begs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PREFACE, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sonja henie,' the young girl Last Line: Darnel, ragweed, wortle Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Failure; Poetry & Poets; Weeds PREFATORY POEMS TO DONNE'S ANNIVERSARIES: THE HARBINGER OF THE SOUL, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two soules move here, and mine (a third) must move Last Line: Which praise those awfull powers that make them blest. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets PREFATORY POEMS TO DONNE'S ANNIVERSARIES: TO THE PRAISE OF THE DEAD, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well dy'd the world, that we might live to see Last Line: Till wee shall sing thy ditty and thy note. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets PREFIX: FINDING THE MEASURE, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Finding the measure is finding the mantram Last Line: Consequence of the motion of the whole world Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PRELUDE, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis twilight dim, the musing dreamer sits Last Line: The dying note of georgia lullaby. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PRELUDE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have gathered these stories afar Last Line: Old comrades of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PRELUDE, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England! Since shakespeare died no loftier day Last Line: And sweet shall last until our tongue's far doom. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PRELUDE TO A MASQUE, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Princes, behold a masque, a vizored image Last Line: Become at length aware of an audience divine? Who knows? Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets PRELUDE TO AN AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the constellated matin choir Last Line: Their heralding, their more impassioned song. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PRELUDES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you stand where I stand Last Line: I must first dry my face! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Relationships PREPARE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you write me a poem that will prepare me for your death?' you said Last Line: Reading now. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The PRESTO FURIOSO, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spontaneous us! Last Line: Good old eagle! Subject(s): Army Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Drills & Minor Tactics PRICE, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON Poem Text First Line: A jewel Last Line: Broken heart. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PRO FEMINA: THREE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will speak about women of letters, for I'm in the racket Last Line: And the luck of our husbands and lovers, who keep free women. Subject(s): Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Progress; Women; Women Writers; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations; Feminism PROEM, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask us if by rule or no Last Line: Nor time can make its colors fade. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PROEM, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no rhyme that is half so sweet Last Line: And the world would be richer one poet the more. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking PROEM, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some poet dreams come to the soul Last Line: Flash out this life of god Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): God; Poetry & Poets PROEM, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PROEM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, when the mocking-bird, returned Last Line: That, denied to desire, obedience yet may invite thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): England; Life; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; English PROEM, AFTER READING AN ANTHOLOGY OF FIGURATIVE VERSE, by HENRY AYLETT SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: These have survived the seas' vicissitudes Last Line: While in the dusk the evening star grows bright. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO A BIRD MASQUE: PROLOGUE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentles, just now I met an elf Last Line: Be showered by my players' glad applause. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Robins; Inspiration; Creativity PROLOGUE TO 'ANDRE', by WILLIAM DUNLAP Poem Text First Line: A native bard, a native scene displays Last Line: And praise, or damn it, for its worth alone. Subject(s): Andre, John (1750-1780); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers PROLOGUE TO 'ESSAYS IN OLD FRENCH FORMS', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, to the pipe, with rythmic feet Last Line: And seem to say -- vos plaudite! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets - French PROLOGUE TO GIL BLAS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you all ready? Here's your music, here Last Line: So if you like it, save it; if not—damn it. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Poetry & Poets PROLOGUE TO MISTAKES, OR THE FALSE REPORT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentlemen, we must beg your pardon Last Line: So much for that; -- and the devil take small beer. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To wake the soul by tender strokes of art Last Line: As cato's self had not disdain'd to hear. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Cato The Younger (95-46 B.c.); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government PROLOGUE TO NAHUM TATE'S 'THE LOYAL GENERAL', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If yet there be a few that take delight Last Line: And act your selves the farce of your own age. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy; Dramatists PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What greece, when learning flourished, only knew Last Line: But 'tis your suffrage makes authentique wit. Subject(s): Greece; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Greeks; Dramatists PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets, your subjects, have their parts assigned Last Line: As what should be beyond what is, extends. Subject(s): Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1680, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thespis, the first professor of our art Last Line: But who disturb'd both bishop and a crown. Variant Title(s): Prologue To Sophonisba;the Prologue At Oxford, 1680 Subject(s): Art & Artists; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK AT ... THEATRE ROYALE, 1747, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes Last Line: And truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Dramatists; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theatre Royal, London; Dramatists PROLOGUE, TO JOANNA BAILLIE'S FAMILY LEGEND, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet to hear expiring summer's sigh Last Line: The filial token of a daughter's love. Subject(s): Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851); Poetry & Poets PROSE OR VERSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prose or verse - or verse or prose? Last Line: Prose or verse -- or verse or prose? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers PROSPECTUS AND SPECIMEN OF PROPOSED NATIONAL WORK: THE PROEM, by JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've often wish'd that I could write a book Last Line: And now I must sit down and write my poem. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PROTEST SONG, by PETER GIZZI Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This is not a declaration of love or a song of war Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Poetry & Poets; Iraq War (2003-2011); Anti-war Protests PROTOGENES AND APELLES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When poets wrote, and painters drew Last Line: That all was full, and round, and fair. Subject(s): Greece; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Venus (goddess); Greeks PROWESS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Let it be invisible Last Line: "wonder, in a blue plush chair." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PSYCHOLOGY FIVE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: No more of despair you poets Last Line: "only means sanitation and health." Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness PURCHASE OF A BLUE, GREEN, OR ORANGE ODE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jake's store past pindaric mountain Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PURIM, by LABEL Poem Text First Line: Queen esther-so the scriptures say Last Line: On purim. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism QUAIL IN AUTUMN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn has turned the dark trees toward the hill Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry & Poets; Quails; Seasons; Fall QUATORZAINS: 10. TO POESY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sister of my soul! Thou, that dost creep Last Line: And tremble in their loveliness and bliss. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sympathy; Empathy QUATORZAINS: 7. ANOTHER FANTASTIC SIMILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a moon-tinted primrose, with a well Last Line: And sheath their minds in scorn and self-conceit. Subject(s): Birds; Fairies; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Elves; Similes QUATRAIN: FAME, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the thousand verses you have writ Last Line: Nor shame nor fame can scale a churchyard wall. Variant Title(s): To Any Poet Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Reputation QUATRAIN: FROM EASTERN SOURCES: 2, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No wonder sajib wrote such verses, when Last Line: Whose only ink was tears and wine. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets QUATRAIN: HERRICK, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It often chances that the staunchest boat Last Line: Since herrick launched his cockle-shells of rhyme! Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets QUATRAIN: ON A FLY-LEAF OF SHELLEY'S POEMS, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Herein all words are living things that die Last Line: With half-remembered cadences of song. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) QUATRAIN: POETRY, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath beheld the goddess face to face Last Line: Weighed with song's sweet, inexorable woe. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets QUEM TU, MELPOMENE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, no! You never loved the muse Last Line: The happy shepherd she has blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Poetry & Poets QUESTIONNAIRE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Directions: for each pair of sentences, circle the letter, a or b, that best Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary QUIRKS: 2. THAT AFTERNOON I REMEMBERED, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a photo of walt whitman posed Last Line: Back through drowsy nowhere to nothing much Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) R. B., by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His soul went singing like a mountaineer Last Line: Was never stirred by man's vicissitudes. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets RAIN AT READING, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had gathered under a tent in the park Subject(s): Rain; Poetry & Poets RAIN REVERY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the lone of night by the pattering tree Last Line: Rain on the roof. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Art & Artists; Melodies; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monadnock calls the winds from peak to sea Last Line: Nor plato nearer to the empyrean! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Poetry & Poets RANDOM GENERATION OF ENGLISH SENTENCES OR, THE REVENGE OF THE POETS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does she put four whistles beside heated rugs for? Subject(s): Computers; Poetry & Poets RAPE POEM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no difference between being raped Subject(s): Poetry & Poets RAVENS HIDING IN A SHOE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something men and women living in houses Subject(s): Truth; Poetry & Poets READ THE GREAT POETS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What good is life without music Last Line: The great composers. It's the same everywhere. The masters. The thieves. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets READING ALOUD, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once we read tennyson aloud Last Line: A living lyric there! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading READING AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE POEMS OF THE SUNG DYNASTY, I PAUSE TO ADMIRE THE LENGTH AND CLARITY , by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems these poets have nothing Last Line: Cross my legs like his, and listen Subject(s): Poetry & Poets READING MY POEMS FROM WORLD WAR II, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ships in these verses course through a blue meadow Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War Ii; Navy - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Sailors & Sailing; Second World War; American Navy; Airplanes; Air Pilots READING REVERDY, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind that went through the head left it plural Last Line: I get up on top of an inhuman voice. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960) READING TIME: 1 MINUTE 26 SECONDS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fear of poetry is the Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Love READING WALT WHITMAN, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found his wool face, I went away Last Line: Good langston stood too long to lift me Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967); Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) READING YOUR POEMS IN YOUR HOUSE WHILE YOU ARE AWAY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning my first roadrunner Last Line: And give them back, like moonlight. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism READINGS IN FRENCH, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking into the eyes of gerard de nerval Subject(s): Poetry & Poets - French; Fathers REALITY AND WILLIE YEATS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reality and yeats were two Last Line: Signals from some reality Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reality; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) REALIZATION, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I have found a poet;-- Last Line: My vibrant song is pulsed by singing reed. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets RECIPE FOR A POEM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Take for your hero some thoroughbred scamp Last Line: "ere I swallow the brood of that ""heathen chinee." Subject(s): Creative Ability;poetry & Poets; Inspiration;creativity RECORDING THE SPIRIT VOICES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow below the hill vaults Last Line: Bury the truth these angels stand on: born and died. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; Death; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Spiritual Life; Graveyards; Confederacy; Dead, The; South (u.s.) REFLEXIONS: 3. IN TWO POETS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mirror faced a mirror: o thy word Last Line: Those visiting thoughts of thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets REJECTED ADDRESSES: CUI BONO, BY LORD B., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sated with home, of wife, of children tired Last Line: And moody madness laughs and hugs the chain he clanks. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Family Life; Home; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Relatives REJECTED ADDRESSES: MACBETH, BY MOMUS MEDLAR, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, boy, and thy good mistress tell Last Line: Ri fol de rol, &c. Subject(s): Dramatists; Life; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) REJECTED ADDRESSES: PLAY-HOUSE MUSINGS, BY S. T. C., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My pensive public, wherefore look you sad? Last Line: [exit hastily. Subject(s): Beauty; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Life; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Thought; Thinking REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE BABY'S DEBUT, BY W. W., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My brother jack was nine in may Last Line: I'll blow a kiss to you. Subject(s): Babies; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Infants REJECTIONS, by I. V. Poem Text First Line: I laughed when envelopes, self-addressed Last Line: A levee-breaking flood of tears! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Publishers RELAXATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I always like the freakish verse Last Line: Just see -- again Subject(s): Calm;poetry & Poets;rhyme; Placid;undisturbed;tranquility REMARKS ON A PAMPHLET ENTITLED, EPISTLES TO THE GREAT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor, this new poetic species Last Line: The singy-songing euterpees. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme REMARKS ON DR. AKENSIDE'S AND MR. WHITEHEAD'S VERSES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither is europe's ancient spirit fled? Last Line: "and whitehead grasp th' exacuating fife." Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Punishment; Whitehead, William (1715-1785); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Doctors REMEMBER US, DREAMER (TO WALT WHITMAN), by VIRGINIA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: To you, lover and beloved, held in my heart Last Line: Soul songs! And these, above all, we cherish -- light bearer! Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) REMEMBRANCE OF COLLINS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glide gently, thus for ever glide Last Line: By virtue's holiest powers attended. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets REPETITION OF WORDS AND WEATHER, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A basket of dirty clothes Subject(s): Words; Weather; Washerwomen; Poetry & Poets REPLY (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a cruel stab Last Line: The present poet laureate. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron REPLYING TO THE MANY KIND FRIENDS WHO ASK ME IF I, by SHAEMAS O'SHEEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Music is writ by the deaf Last Line: To lift and allure you. Alternate Author Name(s): Shield, Shaemus; O Sheel, Seamus Subject(s): Poetry & Poets REPRISE, by LAWRENCE R. KAHN Poem Text First Line: It was such a short time ago Last Line: Yet today I read a poem—? Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets REPROACH TO DEAD POETS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who have spoken words in the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary REQUESTS FOR A TOY PIANO, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Play the one about the family of the ducks Last Line: Not even flowers can remember Subject(s): Pianos; Poetry & Poets REREADING FROST, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think all the best poems Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Frost, Robert (1874-1963) RESOLUTION OF DEPENDENCE, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I encountered the crowd returning from amusements Last Line: The equation is the interdependence of parts.' Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) REVISIONIST POEM - OCTAVIO PAZ, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is an invention of the spirit the spirit Last Line: Is an invention of the world Subject(s): Essays; Poetry & Poets RHAPSODY ON A WINDY NIGHT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve o'clock. / among the reaches of the street Last Line: The last twist of the knife. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets RHYME, THE CONSOLER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The injuries of time Last Line: Rhyme brings with honeyed tones an anodyne to pain. Subject(s): Consolation; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Time RHYMELESS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask a rhymeless sonnet since, you say Last Line: Words of a tongue that else had died unspoken. Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme RIALTO, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Poetry & Poets; Names; Stage Life RICHARD WATSON GILDER; IN MEMORIAM, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soul of a soldier in a poet's frame Last Line: Amid the city's strife, thy noble deed! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Death; Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The RIDIG BODY SINGS, by JAMES CLERK-MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: Gin a body meet a body Last Line: But what the waur am I? Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets RIGID BODY SINGS, by JAMES CLERK MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: Gin a body meet a body / flyin' through the air Last Line: But what the waur am I? Variant Title(s): In Memory Of Edward Wilson Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets RIPOSTE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is like water or the air Last Line: Like poetry! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ROAD, by LISA WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: This is what poetry is (says the road) Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ROADSIDE POEMS: A MANCHESTER POEM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad Last Line: Dearer than eden-groves with rivers four. Subject(s): Christianity; Cities; Decay; Flowers; God; Home; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers ROB. FERGUSSON'S LAST WILL, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While sober folks, in humble prose, / estate, and goods, and gear dispose Last Line: Are sign'd by him at my command. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Death; Gifts & Giving; Inheritance & Succession; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Heirs ROBERT BROWNING, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is delight in singing, though none hear Last Line: The siren waits thee, singing song for song. Variant Title(s): To Robert Browning Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers ROBERT BROWNING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The century was young -- the month was may Last Line: Who shared heaven's secrets whilst thou walked on earth? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets ROBERT BROWNING, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blind the toil that burrows like the mole Last Line: The tragic mask of wise euripides. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, William (1816-1819) ROBERT BROWNING (DIED AT THE PALAZZO REZZONICO, VENICE), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, it is well: what need is there to mourn? Last Line: Uplift his soul to immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Death; Dreams; Life; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares ROBERT BURNS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1567-1640) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All scottish legends did his fancy fashion Last Line: Driving his laurell'd plough! Alternate Author Name(s): Stirling, 1st Earl Of Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal robert burns of ayr Last Line: And also an honour to scotland, for your genius it is rare. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Large hearted minstrel! From the sphere Last Line: That nestle warmly in each heart! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Honor; Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS, by WILSON STEWART ROSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail, o nithsdale's furrow'd field, a marathon art thou Last Line: O grandest city of the world, for you have burns's grave! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS AND MISTER PIERPONT MORGAN, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, heard ye, brither scots, the 'clash' Last Line: Where his lone heart is sleeping! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Manuscripts; Morgan, John Pierpont (1837-1913); Paper; Poetry & Poets; Printing And Printers ROBERT BURNS; WRITTEN FOR THE BURNS CENTENNIAL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the frost had killed the daisies Last Line: And the wide world's love has crowned him! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Scotland ROBERT FROST, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robert frost at midnight, the audience gone Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets ROBERT FROST RELATES THE DEATH OF THE TIRED MAN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were two of us left in the berry patch Last Line: "he never knew 'em. He was just tired,"" he said." Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets ROMAE, PRINCIPIS URBIUM ..., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is one ode, and much the best of two Last Line: The nicer taste of liquid verse, who not. Subject(s): Children; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets; Childhood ROMAN FOUNTAIN, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the bronze, I saw Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Fountains; Poetry & Poets ROMANCE, by PAUL GERALDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come in. Everything's yours, little come-sit-on-my-knee Last Line: Out of the circle I've marked. ... And here's my poetry. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE POET FERDUSI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of gold, and men of silver Last Line: That the dead ferdusi bore to his tomb. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Heroism; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE WHITE ELEPHANT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great mahawasant, of siam the king Last Line: Was by way of suez, and overland. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elephants; India; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: IN MATILDA'S ALBUM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On these mill'd rags -- a change mysterious! Last Line: I in her album scrawl some rhymes. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 18. IT GOES OUT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The curtain falls, as ends the play Last Line: My soul was this poor light I tell of. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: THE EX-LIVING ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, brutus, where can thy cassius be Last Line: "may die of ennui any minute." Subject(s): Boredom; Poetry & Poets; Ennui ROME. AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, then, was cestius / and what is he to me? Last Line: It is an ample fame. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Rome, Italy; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) ROTTING SYMBOLS, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon I shall take more Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ROUND, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wondrous life!' cried marvell at appleton house Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets RUPERT BROOKE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face was lifted to the golden sky Last Line: Tarry by that old garden of your delight. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties RUPERT BROOKE (DIED APRIL 23, 1915), by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I have talked with old euripides Last Line: While our immortal fellowship remains. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings RUPERT BROOKE (IN MEMORIAM), by MORAY DALTON Poem Text First Line: I never knew you save as all men know Last Line: And god has laid his finger on your lips. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties RURAL BLISS, by ANTHONY C. DEANE Poem Text First Line: The poet is, or ought to be, a hater of the city Last Line: As long as maud is there, you see, -- what matters all the rest? Subject(s): Country Life; Happiness; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives S. COLERIDGE TAYLOR, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mute thy strings, o israfel Last Line: O'er our israfel. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy SALUTATIONS TO FERNANDO PESSOA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I read pessoa I think Subject(s): Pessoa, Fernando (1888-1935); Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His soul fared forth (as from the deep home-grove) Last Line: Own them, a beacon to our centuries. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets SAN TERENZO, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-april seemed like some november day Last Line: Flew forth, like shelley's spirit, to the sea! Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians SAND DUNES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea waves are green and wet Last Line: For the one more cast off shell. Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore SATIRE: 1, by AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS Poem Text First Line: I never did on cleft pernassus dream Last Line: On dice, and drink, and drabs, they spend their afternoon. Alternate Author Name(s): Persius Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Speech; Oratory; Orators SATURDAY AT THE BORDER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am writing my first villanelle Last Line: Is what he's found in his first villanelle. Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets SAVONAROLA BROWN, SELECTION, by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM Poem Text First Line: When pears hang green on the garden wall Last Line: With a yea [etc.] Alternate Author Name(s): Beerbohm, Max Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SCHUBERT'S SERENADE, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: O, rare melody Last Line: That hauntingly stirs the soul. Subject(s): Composers; Love; Poetry & Poets; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) SCORN NOW THE SONNET, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Scorn now the sonnet -- that enchanted reed Last Line: The ringing splendor of the sonneteer? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SCRAPS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a habit I have nurtured Last Line: Feeling you are only scraps. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Habits; Poetry & Poets SCRIM, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I sit here in a shelter behind the words Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SCULPTURE AND SONG, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The statue - buonarroti said - doth wait Last Line: Till I ensnare it to captivity. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sculpture & Sculptors SEA GODS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But we bring violets Last Line: Of your own white surf. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean SEAGULLS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gull, up close, / looks surprisingly stuffed Last Line: Among our mortal apprehensions Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Poetry & Poets; Seagulls SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 6. WHAT THE CHAIRMAN TOLD TOM, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry? It's a hobby Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Poetry & Poets; Eliot, T. S. SECOND EPISTLE TO DAVIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld neibour / I'm three times doubly o'er your debtor Last Line: Frae door tae door. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SECRET LOVE, OR THE MAIDEN QUEEN: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who writ this, not without pains and thought Last Line: Are bankrupt gamesters, for they damn on tick. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists SEDER-NIGHT, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prosaic miles of streets stretch all around Last Line: Its god shall be the god of all the earth. Subject(s): Freedom; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Liberty; Judaism SEED LEAVES; HOMAGE TO R. F., by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here something stubborn comes Last Line: And starts to ramify Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets; Seeds; Spring SEEDINGS, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the dream Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Nightmares SELECTING A READER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, I would have her be beautiful, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SELF-ANALYSIS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not writing because I feel as though Last Line: Victims of their dreams. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Self; Dead, The SENTINEL SONGS: 2, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When falls the cause of right Last Line: And throb through a thousand years! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Southern States; South (u.s.) SENTINEL SONGS: 3, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And the songs, with brave, sad face Last Line: Watch the plain where sleep the slain. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Southern States; South (u.s.) SEPTEMBER, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rained in my sleep / and in the morning the fields were wet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SEVEN SIDES AND SEVEN SYLLABLES; FOR AIMEE CESAIRE AND PIERRE EMMANUEL, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happen you come on your own Last Line: With this, my derisive voice. Subject(s): Exiles; Identity; Negritude (literary Movement); Poetry & Poets SEVEN-SIDED POEM, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was born, one of the crooked Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, by HUMPHREY DILLERVILLE Poem Text First Line: In other ages men spoke other ways Last Line: And I had memorized you, unaware. Subject(s): Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682); Poetry & Poets SEX WITH A FAMOUS POET, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had sex with a famous poet last night Subject(s): Sex; Poetry & Poets SHAKE THE SUPERFLUX!, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets SHAKESPEARE, by ERIC ACHORN Poem Text First Line: Sometimes, when in disgust at petty men Last Line: No more than he their strength to spread his wings. Subject(s): Dramatists; Literature; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Others abide our question. Thou art free Last Line: Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by HENRY AMES BLOOD Poem Text First Line: I wish that I could have my wish tonight Last Line: By contrast with the outer storm. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Shakespeare! With all thy faults (and few have more) Last Line: His works we reverence, while we pity thine. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see all human wits Last Line: Lone as the blessed jew. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to rove o'er history's page Last Line: Each various feeling to the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, that gavest to the world so much Last Line: Nearest himself in universal power. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); World War I; English; Dramatists; First World War SHAKESPEARE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that in body and spirit shakespeare came Last Line: Teach us to write, and writing, to be men. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by EDWARD L. PONTZ Poem Text First Line: Thou livest still: some modicum of time Last Line: None but thyself thyself could valuate. Subject(s): Dramatists; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Fancy SHAKESPEARE, by COLIN RAE-BROWN Poem Text First Line: What glorious victories are here enshrined Last Line: All coming time shall fail thy like to find! Subject(s): Admiration; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How little fades from earth when sink to rest Last Line: Small tasks and strengths may be no less divine. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If many a daring spirit must discover Last Line: A circumnavigator of the soul. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O let me leave the plains behind Last Line: The long heave of the surging world. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue of england, that which myriads Last Line: Glory! Be glory! Not to me, to god. Subject(s): Dramatists; Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE IN THE THRUSH, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who sings so more than passing sweet Last Line: And gods go large in warwickshire! Subject(s): Birds; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Thrushes; Warwickshire, England; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE ODE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the glorious lyre Last Line: And what her monarch lost her monarch-bard shall save. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE READS THE KING JAMES VERSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by our lady, here is master speech! Last Line: "and pluck a heedless world anew from hell!" Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dramatists; God; James I, King Of England (1566-1625); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE TO HIS MIRROR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within thy crystal depths I see Last Line: Since thou dost bear false tales of me! Subject(s): Dramatists; Mirrors; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Soul; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE'S CLIFF, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, all along the high sea-cliff Last Line: "the tempest ""rose, at his command!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Climbing; Dramatists; Nature; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Ocean SHAKESPEARE'S FLOWER GARDEN, by JANE RAWLINS SHEEAN Poem Text First Line: The flowers that grew in shakespeare's garden lift Last Line: That live within his tender magic song! Subject(s): Dramatists; Gardens & Gardening; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Sonnet (as Literary Form) SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doggerel,' he thought, 'will do for churchwardens Subject(s): Consolation; Dramatists; Graves; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Tombs; Tombstones; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE'S KEY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unlocked his heart?' not he Last Line: And enter at his will. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE'S MOURNERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the grave of shakespeare in a dream Last Line: Kept vigil o'er the sacred spoils of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dramatists; Graves; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Tombs; Tombstones SHAKESPEARE'S SILENCES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When juliet from her balcony Last Line: Did shakespeare tell anne hathaway? Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE'S STATUE; CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this free pantheon of the air and sun Last Line: The reverence of what he was shall call it down Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Art & Artists; Central Park, New York City; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Statues SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What word to him hadst thou to tell Last Line: O stolen novice of saint clare? Subject(s): Dramatists; Literature; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SHAKESPEARE; TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who claims our shakespeare from that realm unknown Last Line: Our nation's second morn! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKSPERE'S WILL (SOMERSET HOUSE, LONDON), by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: I sought through shakspere's city far and wide Last Line: More precious grown than mine of golden ore. Subject(s): Dramatists; London; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKSPERE-BACON CIPHER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I doubt it not - then more, far more Last Line: A mystic cipher waits infolded. Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Dramatists; Philosophy & Philosophers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHE BEGINING TO STUDY PHISICK ... FALLS INTO A DEGRESSION ON ANATOMY, by JANE BARKER Poem Text First Line: Fare well fare well, kind poetry my friend Last Line: That cou'd prolong the motion of his heart. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Parting SHELLEY, by ALEXANDER HAY JAPP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The odor of a rose: light of a star Last Line: And dwell in free aerial abodes. Alternate Author Name(s): Page, H. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Writing & Writers SHELLEY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Poet of the dead leaves driven like ghosts Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shelley, the ceaseless music of thy soul Last Line: That clasped thee like an overflowing heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knight-errant of the never-ending quest Last Line: Thy wild song rings in ocean's yearning speech! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY AND HARRIET WESTBROOK, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A star looked down from heaven and loved a flower Last Line: Refuse not, to a ruin'd rosebud -- tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY AND TRELAWNEY, by JULIA COOLEY ALTROCCHI Poem Text First Line: Beyond the walls of rome Last Line: Trelawney, the corsair! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Trelawney, Edward John (1792-1881); Graveyards SHELLEY'S ARETHUSA SET TO NEW MEASURES, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now arethusa from her snow couch rises Last Line: Seeking their way to love once more. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY'S CENTENARY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a narrow span of time / three princes of the realm of rhyme Last Line: Smote him and slew. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron SHELLEY'S DEATH, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! And it was so! Thou wert then Last Line: As exiles for rough paths that help them to their home. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Dead, The SHELLEY'S SKYLARK, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere afield here something lies Last Line: Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme. Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians SHELLEY'S VISION, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering late by morning seas Last Line: Then did self-reverence awake. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY; FOR THE CENTENARY OF HIS DEATH, JULY, 1922, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rebel for faith Last Line: Till it swoons with joy in the flood of day. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHIELDED, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: From the strong threads of a hundred voices Last Line: Or blinded by death. Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets SI, SI, E.E., by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Warm legend, blue shadow Last Line: (& yes, they wore great big hats, size extra large Subject(s): Books; Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Words; Vocabulary SIMPLE ACCOUNT OF A POET'S LIFE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1892 / when literature and art in america Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SIN CITY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cynthia was feeling sinful in cincinnati. Subject(s): Cincinnati, Ohio; Sin; Poetry & Poets SINCE YEARS AGO FOR EVERMORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Interminable roads I tread Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Home; Contentment; Love – Marital; Poetry & Poets SINCERE FLATTERY OF R.B., by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birthdays? Yes, in a general way Last Line: A bridge to stop asses at, once for all. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Variant Title(s): Imitation Of Robert Browning Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets SINCERE FLATTERY OF W.W. (AMERICANUS), by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clear cool note of the cuckoo which has ousted the legitimate Last Line: The apparently inexhaustible pianoforte player. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Variant Title(s): Imitation Of Walt Whitman Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SING, MY POET, by HARRY MCGUIRE Poem Text First Line: And she said, 'my poet, sing to me' Last Line: In the dusk-light of her eyes. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets SINGING ALOUD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We all have our faults. Mine is trying to write poems Last Line: Or they'll lock us up like the apes, and control us forever. Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism SINGING DAY, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is a poem singing in my heart Last Line: This lovely day, jeweled and set apart! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL, OR THE FEIGNED INNOCENCE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fools, which each man meets in his dish Last Line: None welcome those who bring their chear along. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists SIREN SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one song everyone Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights; Iliad; Odyssey; Male-female Relations; Feminism SISTERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Me and you be sisters Last Line: Got black Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sisters SIX FROM ARNO HOLZ'S ?Ç£PHANTASUS?Ç¥, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to know all the secrets! Last Line: Into a golden chamber pot Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary SIX POETS IN SEATCH OF A LAWYER, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finesse be first, whose elegance deplores Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Poetry & Poets; Attorneys SKETCH OF LORD BYRON'S LIFE, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord byron' was an englishman Last Line: Of the nineteenth century. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Variant Title(s): Byron: A Critical Survey Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SKIM-MILK, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A small part only of my grief I write Last Line: In cormac uasail mac donagh of the golden hair! Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Irish SNOW, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Snow SO FAR, AND SO FAR, AND ON TOWARD THE END, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And you, contemporary america Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Modern Life SO HELP ME SAPPHO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lofty teacher had / put an end to his argument Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus SOCOBIE'S PASSING, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Socobie, aged and bent with pain Last Line: "what voice cries ""farewell"" to our mother saint john?" Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Parting SOLE SCHOLAR OF YOUR COLLEGE I APPEAR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And make my bow before our lady dean Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Speeches & Addresses; Universities & Colleges; Learning; Poetry & Poets SOLILOQUIES OF A SMALL-TOWN TAXI-DRIVER: ON THE WRITING OF POETRY, by EDGAR BARRATT Poem Text First Line: I wish I had finished high school Last Line: You know where that leaves him. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SOLILOQUY OF A BARD IN THE COUNTRY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas now the noon of night, and all was still Last Line: A fabius and some noble roman died. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SOLITARY OBSERVATION BROUGHT BACK FROM SHORT SOJOURN IN HELL, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight tears Last Line: Run in your ears Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SOME PART OF THE LYRIC, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some part of the lyric wants to exclude Last Line: Reflects the world it meant to exclude. Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Poetry & Poets; World; Sorrow; Sadness SOME SAY YOU'RE LUCKY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where the beloved is born Subject(s): Luck; Poetry & Poets SOME SORT OF CHRONICLER I AM, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some sort of chronicler I am, mixing Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SOMEONE TOLD ME, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SOMETIMES WITH ONE I LOVE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse Last Line: Yet out of that I have written these songs.) Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Unrequited; Poetry & Poets SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must you leave, john holmes, with the prayers and psalms Subject(s): Holmes, John (1904-1962); Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology SONG FOR ANTHOLOGIES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the burglar still continues enterprising, / enterprising Last Line: Just compile your wee anthology of verse. Subject(s): Burglars; Poetry & Poets SONG FOR THE CLATTER-BONES, by FREDERICK ROBERT HIGGINS Poem Full Text First Line: God rest that jewy woman Alternate Author Name(s): Higgins, F. R. Subject(s): Bible; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology SONG OF MYSELF, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I celebrate myself, and sing myself Last Line: I stop somewhere waiting for you. Variant Title(s): Walt Whitman Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Valor; Bravery; Theology; Ocean SONG TOURNAMENT: NEW STYLE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, said the first, as it falls in venice Last Line: At the shrine of the poetry contest in kansas. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tournaments SONG: BUTTERFLIES, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O child of joy! What idle life is thine! Last Line: The hopes thou chasest never to attain. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets SONG; IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE'S 'BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND', by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blow, blow, thou vernal gale! Last Line: Nor mitigate her pride. Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Wind SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 115, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not long for fame Last Line: "yvonne loved long ago!" Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Reputation SONNET, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enamored architect of airy rhyme Last Line: They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now Last Line: Blowout the lights, and come at last to bed Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: Well might john keats have wandered up and down Last Line: To think too closely is to banish him. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets SONNET, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who, harnessed in his mail of self, demands Last Line: This know the men who leave the world their names. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares SONNET (1), by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou hadst been a wife for shakespeare's self! Last Line: In martyrdom, than throned as caesar's mate. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SONNET (1), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God sent a poet to reform his earth Last Line: God spoke: therein, thou fool, hast lived and died! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET (14), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An idle poet, dreaming in the sun Last Line: To the world's scorn, o poet, with calm brow. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET (WRITTEN IN THE COTTAGE WHERE BURNS WAS BORN), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mortal body of a thousand days Last Line: O smile among the shades, for this is fame! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets SONNET AGAINST THE DISPRAYSERS OF POETRIE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chaucer is dead; and gower lyes in grave Last Line: As his lepanto, and his furies shoe it. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET IN ANAPAESTS, by KENNETH HOPEWELL Poem Text First Line: I would not build my song of such metrical sorrow Last Line: Buried by me should be, longside the grave of you. Subject(s): Anapaests (meter); Poetry & Poets SONNET ON MOOR PARK - WRITTEN AT PARIS, MAY 11, 1826, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High name of poet! - sought in every age Last Line: Let me the music of thy murmurs hear. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET ON READING THE POEM UPON THE MOUNTAIN DAISY, BY BURNS, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While soon the 'gardens' flaunting flowers' decay' Last Line: His heaven-taught numbers fate herself will guard. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Daisies; Flowers; Poetry & Poets SONNET ON SITTING DOWN TO READ KING LEAR ONCE AGAIN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O golden-tongued romance, with serene lute! Last Line: Give me new phoenix wings to fly at my desire. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SONNET SEQUENCE: FOR GESSNER, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether, like shelley, he is glorious youth Last Line: Speaks truth until his hair grows winter-white. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET TO A CERTAIN POET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At beauty's altar fervent acolyte Last Line: Where wordsworth stands, feeding the multitudes. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) SONNET TO A REJECTED POEM, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Poor little poem, how forlorn returning Last Line: Twas thus perhaps with thee, dear foolish rhyme. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET TO BYRON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I esteemed you less, envy would kill Last Line: May lift itself in homage of the god. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron SONNET TO HIS FRIEND R.L. IN PRAISE OF MUSIQUE AND POETRIE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If musique and sweet poetrie agree Last Line: One knight loves both, and both in thee remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Variant Title(s): In Praise Of Music And Poetry;song, Fr. The Passionate Pilgrim Subject(s): Dowland, John (1563-1626); Love; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets SONNET TO SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER; WITH THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I have twice been at the doors of death Last Line: The murmuring esk: -- may roses shade the place. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): From A Cypress Grove Subject(s): Alexander, Sir William (1567-1640); Poetry & Poets; Sickness; Illness SONNET TO SPENSER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spenser! A jealous honourer of thine Last Line: Will for thine honour and his pleasure try. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) SONNET TO ZOE KING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaf after leaf, like a magician's book Last Line: 02/29/24 Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNET WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF SHAKESPEARE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How bravely autumn paints upon the sky Last Line: And blazon'd on the very clouds of fate! Variant Title(s): The Memory Of Great Poets Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: HE IS NOT A POET, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not, if I could, be called a poet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: 10, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive - that thus the trumpet I have blown Last Line: Are surely worth the tribute of a rhyme. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Youth SONNET: 10. DRESDEN POETRY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dresden on the elbe, that handsome city Last Line: Tis a true oracle, that evening journal! Subject(s): Dresden, Germany; Poetry & Poets SONNET: 107, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not [or nor] mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Last Line: When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent. Variant Title(s): I'll Live In This Poor Rime Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Liberty SONNET: 11. BREADLESS ART, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How soon my poverty would ended be Last Line: I needs must go without, or drink on credit! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poverty SONNET: 14. ON READING WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS .., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the broad ocean endlessly upheaveth Last Line: And feel god flow forever through his breast. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 15. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once hardly in a cycle blossometh Last Line: At the next beating of the infinite heart. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 16. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love of all things springs from love of me Last Line: An old man faithless in humanity. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 17, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Who will believe my verse in time to come Last Line: You should live twice,--in it and in my rhyme. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: 17. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet cannot strive for despotism Last Line: But widens to the boundless perfectness. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 18. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Therefore think not the past is wise alone Last Line: Save in the forethought of the eternal one. Variant Title(s): Wisdom Of The Eternal One Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 19. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far 'yond this narrow parapet of time Last Line: Undimmed by clouds of weak mortality. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 23, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They may suppose, because I would not cloy your ear Last Line: Pompous and vague on the stump of his career Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: 5. TO THE SPIRIT OF KEATS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great soul, thou sittest with me in my room Last Line: After the moon-led pulse of ocean stops. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets SONNET: 55, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not marble nor the gilded monuments Last Line: You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes. Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 7. IN FRITZ STEINMANN'S ALBUM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bad victorious are, the good lie low Last Line: You'll then be by the public deified. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: 7. THE STANZA OF CHILDE HAROLD, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who framed the stanza of childe harold? He Last Line: About it, like a sunset in the skies? Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron SONNET: 78, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: So oft I have invoked thee for my muse Last Line: As high as learning my rude ignorance. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: 8. A LIVING POET, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He knows the sweet vexation in the stife Last Line: Wild winter bends across a beard of snow. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: 8. THE POET, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes last of the long processional Last Line: His heart's blood smelted to the ore of song. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is the rising morn when o'er the sky Last Line: Pour out the feelings of my burthened heart. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dawn; Happiness; Morning; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Sunrise; Joy; Delight SONNET: ANDREW MARVELL'S 'DEFINITION OF LOVE', by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My love is of a birth as rare Last Line: "yet I rejoice, and take thee for my king." Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets SONNET: AT STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus spake his dust (so seemed it as I read Last Line: Was hovering, and fain would speak with me. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SONNET: EUTERPE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now if euterpe held me not in scorn Last Line: Drawn by the flutings of the silvery wind. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: FRESHNESS OF POETIC PERCEPTION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day followed day; years perish; still mine eyes Last Line: A cloud rose-edged, and fleeting stars at night! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: GREAT POETS AND SMALL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I not falter on melodious wing Last Line: Sings in high realms that mock our straining sight. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: IN THE LANES BETWEEN STRATFORD AND SHOTTERY, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through dreamful meads, that still his spirit keep Last Line: And all his nature glowed with boundless life. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SONNET: MY STUDY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is my world! Within these narrow walls Last Line: Flashed through the gorgeous vistas of romance. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: POET AND BOTANIST, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair are the bells of this bright-flowering weed Last Line: To tinge his verse as with his own heart's blood. Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Poetry & Poets SONNET: POET TO POET, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why on a day, half unawares and swift Last Line: The foolish tale? -- art's pride, in sooth, was here. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: POETS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some thunder on the heights of song Last Line: O'er whose vast realm the master minstrels reign! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: POETS OF THE OLDEN TIME, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brave old poets sing of nobler themes Last Line: Of lovers whispering where sweet rivulets flow. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: SHELLEY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because they thought his doctrines were not just Last Line: His seal hath not been set to man's decree. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SONNET: TO HOMER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing aloof in giant ignorance Last Line: To dian, queen of earth, and heaven, and hell. Variant Title(s): To Homer Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey SONNET: TO MR. WHARTON, by JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not for muse like mine, in rude essay Alternate Author Name(s): Bamfylde, John Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: TO THE QUERULOUS POETS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throw by the trappings of your tinsel rhyme! Last Line: The first glad stars, the stars of morning, sung! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: YE POETS, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye poets of our transient poverty! Last Line: Than for mere music's sake hymn slavery. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: 2, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh I do love thee, meek simplicity Last Line: All very simple, meek simplicity! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Simplicity SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 17, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes Last Line: A grave, on which to rest from singing? Choose. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 4, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor Last Line: That weeps ... As thou must sing ... Alone, aloof. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNETS IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Absence and presence, born of elder night Last Line: Some thoughts on him whose all thoughts dwelt on thee. Subject(s): Absence; Dramatists; Night; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Separation; Isolation; Bedtime SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 18. ANONYMOUS PLAYS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More yet and more, and yet we mark not all Last Line: In the pleached lanes of pleasant edmonton. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not if men's tongues and angels' all in one Last Line: All stars are angels; but the sun is god. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 21. EPILOGUE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our mother, which wast twice, as history saith Last Line: And time bows down to thee as shake speare's land. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 3. BEN JOHNSON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Broad-based, broad-fronted, bounteous, multiform Last Line: Darkening thy soul with shadow of thunderous wings. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets SONNETS: 5. AN INCIDENT FROM BOCCACCIO, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When guido cavalcanti, dante's friend Last Line: They live, wax rich, and grow amid their hoard. Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Life; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom SONNETS: AFTER READING KEATS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down his great corridors of sumptuous Last Line: That passionate lover, young endymion! Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers SONORA DESERT POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ones who live in the desert Last Line: Of green incredible light Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William shakespeare of an actual presence Last Line: That hamlet will kill himself first in word, then in deed. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't say why he thinks himself shakespeare at the window Last Line: Across the stage when she thought he was not coming. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life SOUTHERN AGRARIAN POET, by MARY B. WARD Poem Text First Line: Kaleidoscopic, turning, turning Last Line: And antaeus-like takes strength from soil. Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers SPACE BAR, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lined up behind the space bartender Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Drinks & Drinking; Wine SPARK FROM THIS FLINT BY VON HEARTSTRUCK, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SPEAKING OF POETRY, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ceremony must be found Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SPECIMEN OF AN INDUCTION TO A POEM, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry Last Line: Clear streams, smooth lakes, and overlooking towers. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) SPENSER'S IRELAND, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spenser's ireland has not altered / a place as kind as it is green Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Irish SPENSERIAN STANZAS ON CHARLES ARMITAGE BROWN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is to weet a melancholy carle Last Line: Who as they walk abroad make tinkling with their feet. Variant Title(s): A Portrait;stanzas On Charles Armitage Brown;character Of Charles Brown Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) SPIRIT OF '76, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear miss monroe: provided you will allow me to use small letters Last Line: W. C. Williams Subject(s): Monroe, Harriet (1860-1936); Poetry & Poets SPLENDIDLY DEAD; AFTER READING FOR POETS SLAIN IN WAR, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Splendidly dead,' who dares such maudlin singing Last Line: But I hear the voice of lost song crying. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Death; Peace; Poetry & Poets; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PETIT THE POET, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick Last Line: While homer and whitman roared in the pines? Variant Title(s): Petit, The Poet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Social Protest SPRECHSTIMME (COUNTESS OF DIA), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth down at sides Subject(s): Art & Artists; Betrayal; Deception; Love; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women - Writers SPRING FANTASIES: 6. AS FLUTES OF ARCADY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The purity of water and the peace Last Line: And hero-deeds along a hundred hills! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Water; Childhood; Nightmares STAGE FRIGHT, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets and writers Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers STANZAS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That was not a barren time Last Line: Speaks the poet in his song. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Poetry & Poets STANZAS ADDRESSED TO PERCY BYSSHE SHELLY, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forests, and lakes, the majesty of mountains Last Line: Whom faith in god has given a world beyond the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) STANZAS FROM A BOOK OF POEMS, by H. THOMPSON RICH Poem Text First Line: They set me down beside the sea Last Line: And have the cool waves washing over me. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR OF OBERMANN, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front the awful alpine track Last Line: A last, a last farewell! Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Senancour, Etienne Pivert De (1770-1846); Soul STANZAS ON POETRY, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the pentecostal woods are seen Last Line: "until the keyboard's motions die away." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets STANZAS ON SHELLEY, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, not like ours that life was born Last Line: Her own unfolding, drew therein. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF DECEMBER, 1793, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though now no more the musing ear Last Line: And bid the flowret bloom. Subject(s): Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Winter STANZAS, ON PLANTING A BAY-TREE AT THE GRAVE OF CHURCHILL, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Above the bard's neglected grave Last Line: "which tells ""here churchill lies!" Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Churchill, Charles (1731-1764); Graves; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Tombs; Tombstones STILL I LOVE TO RHYME, AND STILL MORE, RHYMING, TO WANDER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Won with a groan and a curse Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Poetry & Poets STOCK IN TRADE OF MODERN POETESSES, by MARGUERITE POWER GARDINER Poem Text First Line: Lonely shades, and murm'ring founts Last Line: With which a modern poem's made. Alternate Author Name(s): Blessington, Countess Of Subject(s): Crichton, James (1560-1582); Poetry & Poets STONE AND FLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in america, / by the other ocean Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; United States; War; English; America STORIES ARE MADE OF MISTAKES, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the pole bean tendrils sought out and gripped their Last Line: My dad used to ride this black mare... Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets STREETS OF PEARL AND GOLD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within, walls white as canvas stretched to stain Last Line: As I try to keep us, here upon this page. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; San Francisco; Villages; Wharves; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Piers; Feminism STUDENT POEMS, by SUSAN KENNEDY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than a hundred Last Line: The universe is speaking fresh here Subject(s): Poetry & Poets STUFF OF POETS, by MARIE M. MOTT Poem Text First Line: Where do poets find their themes? Last Line: From the odds and ends of life! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets STYLE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes he would try to write a poem Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, shaping nations, the creative hand Last Line: Is filled with humour, irony, and song. Subject(s): Art & Artists; England; Literature; Poetry & Poets; English SUBJECTS FOR PICTURES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seek I here to gather into words? Last Line: And grows distinct with poetry. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Imagination; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Fancy SUDS, by LULU MINERVA SCHULTZ Poem Text First Line: O would you dream of poems in a wash-tub Last Line: Portraits clean cut, her swinging line of clothes. Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Dreams; Laundry & Laundering; Poetry & Poets; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants; Nightmares SUMMER DAWN, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some summer mornings - when you've taken tea Last Line: Has opened. Let the bards of old go rest. Subject(s): Animals; Morning; Night; Poetry & Poets; Summer; Bedtime SUMMONED BY THE KING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was at home in courts and knew the great Last Line: The courtier journeys -- called to court again. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Diplomacy And Diplomats; Heaven; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets; Paradise SUNSHINE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pool is edged with blade-like leaves of irises Subject(s): Pools; Poetry & Poets SUNSHINE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pool is edged with the blade-like leaves of irises Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SUPPER WITH LINDSAY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I deal in wisdom, not in dry desire Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SWALLOWS, by AFANASY FET SHENSHIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm nature's idle spy, I follow Last Line: Of alien streams I may not sip. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets SWEETHEART, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If I address it to you I have not, have I Last Line: For being what I have tonight Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SYNOPSIS OF A FAILED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every simile is elegy Subject(s): Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TABLE TALK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You told me, I remember, glory, built Last Line: And should, no doubt, if they were all forgot. Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Liberty TABLE TALK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To weave a culinary clue Last Line: Of these narcotic numbers. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; London; Marriage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TAKE THE I OUT, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But I love the I, steel I-beam Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TALENT, by MARION D. KENDALL Poem Text First Line: I am a namer of words Last Line: I am a poet. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary TALKING TO MYSELF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About my being a poet, the trees certainly haven't expressed an interest Last Line: I am digging a place for for a burial with my feet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TEA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the elephant's-ear in the park Last Line: Ike umbrellas in java. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TEACHING THE APE TO WRITE POEMS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They didn't have much trouble Subject(s): Apes; Poetry & Poets; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans TELLING OUR STORIES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fox came every evening to my door Last Line: The terrible stories she could tell Subject(s): Foxes; Poetry & Poets TENNYSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We of the new world clasp Last Line: From old and new world -- ay, and still the new! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TENNYSON: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His brows were circled by a wreath of bays Last Line: In the rich music of his english lyre. Subject(s): Fame; Love; Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Reputation; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TERMINAL LAUGHS, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years ago the young corso in his cups Last Line: “iriving feldman,” huh? Just another pretty name Subject(s): Names; Poetry & Poets TEXAS POESY, by ENID EASTLAND MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: Poems there were on every side last night Last Line: A kiss upon my ear right smartly fetched! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THALIA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say it under the rose Last Line: Down-town, look in to-morrow! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Death; Dead, The THANK YOU FOR SAYING THANK YOU, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This is a totally Subject(s): Self; Poetry & Poets; Gratitude THAT I AM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live because you have a sweet face Last Line: On me. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THAT I AM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live because you have a sweet face Last Line: On me. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THAT I COULD KNOW, by RUBY MARION WRAY Poem Text First Line: Would the poets dream that I could know Last Line: When these are mine, I'll know the poet's dreams. Subject(s): Faith; Poetry & Poets; Belief; Creed THE 'BOOK OF GEMS', by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With cunning plates the polished leaves were decked Last Line: Till other springs fell faintly on the ear. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE 16-YEAR OLD POET, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the prince the song Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Poetry & Poets; Youth; Judaism THE AGE OF HERBERT & VAUGHAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then it was faith and fairness Last Line: At once he stood rewarded! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Poetry & Poets; Vaughan, Henry (1621-1695) THE ALLEY. AN IMITATION OF SPENSER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In ev'ry town, where thamis rolls his tide Last Line: Vales, spires, meandring streams, and windsor's tow'ry pride. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) THE ANCIENT AND MODERN MUSES, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The monument outlasting bronze Last Line: With strains of fuller harmony. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE APOLOGY, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not be distant with me, do not be Last Line: For his unstinted gift of verse and wit! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE APOLOGY; ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride Last Line: If reason's for me, god is for me too. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism; Defamation; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771); Slander; Libel THE ARCHITECT AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My stride was two to my father's by the sea Last Line: Surge, master of the arch of element. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Fathers & Daughters; Memory; Poetry & Poets THE ART OF POETRY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To write a poem, perfect physical condition Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE ART OF POETRY; TO CHARLES MORICE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music must be paramount Last Line: And everything else is mere literature. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE ASHES; FOR WILLIAM GASS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This elderly poet, unpublished for five decades Last Line: Her name known to everyone, safe in her fame. Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Honor; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE ASSIGNATION, OR LOVE IN A NUNNERY: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some have expected, from our bills to-day Last Line: And, sure, behind our scenes you'll look for none. Subject(s): Nuns; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE ASSIGNATION, OR LOVE IN A NUNNERY: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prologues, like bells to churches, toll you in Last Line: Twas imitating you taught haynes to play. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Clergy; Poetry & Poets; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE ASYLUM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came to this place one november day Last Line: We lie nailed and living, love's pure gain Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); November; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) THE AUTHOR'S PARTING ADDRESS TO THE MUSE, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our task is ended now, and we may part Last Line: And freedom, peace, and love, with thee forever reign! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Parting THE BALLAD OF IMITATION, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If they hint, o musician, the piece that you played Last Line: And the man who plants cabbages imitates, too! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Art & Artists; Imitation; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets THE BALLAD OF PROSE AND RHYME, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the ways are heavy with mire and rut Last Line: Then hey! For the ripple of laughing rhyme! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE BARD, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It can not be, the baffled heart, in vain Last Line: And ye, charmed with the voice, gave but a stone instead. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness THE BARD'S ANNUAL DEFIANCE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring on the spring-I am wearied Last Line: Make for the sake of the sound of the thing! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring THE BARD'S EXCUSE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maecenas, you wonder what spell I am Last Line: Or twenty-one more) Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme THE BARD'S SONG TO HIS DAUGHTER, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter dear, my darling child Last Line: While thus I clasp thee to my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Daughters; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Tears THE BARD; A PINDARIC ODE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Last Line: Night. Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE BARDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bards falter in shame, their running verse Last Line: To stir his black pots and to bed on straw. Subject(s): Bards; Poetry & Poets THE BARDS WE QUOTE, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I quote I seldom take Last Line: Don't you? Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE BEAN-STALK, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, giant! This is I! Last Line: La, what a climb! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Supernatural THE BECKONING HILLS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: On a motto that hangs by my desk I can read Last Line: The peace that my nature would find. Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE BIRTH OF THE FLOWERS; A VISION, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, when all was still Last Line: To listen—to the watchman bawling! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Passion; Perfume; Poetry & Poets; Spring THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY, by IRVING LAYTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: And me happiest when I compose poems Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE BIRTH OF VERSE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blind thoughts which occupy the brain Last Line: "only the hand that wrote was mine." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE BLIND MAN, by NAZHUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All dumbly you'd behold Last Line: There sways a slender bough. Alternate Author Name(s): Nazhun Al-garnatiya Bint Al-qulai’iy Subject(s): Al-kutandi; Blindness; Poetry & Poets; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND POET, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a humble london room Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLUECOAT BOY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met an angel in the strand Last Line: "charles lamb." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; English THE BOOK, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: Red-gold and rough morocco are its covers Last Line: With truth at rhythmic heel of song, its lord. Subject(s): Books; Literature; Poetry & Poets; Reading THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#65), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man struggles not to become crabby, chronic or hypothetical Last Line: When the river met the shore. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reason; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE BREATH OF AVON; TO THE PILGRIMS OF GREATER BRITAIN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er of woe the dark may hide in Last Line: Hold still a dream of music where they fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Dramatists; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE BRIDGE: 3. CUTTY SARK, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met a man in south street, tall Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE BULLY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've doubtless encountered that terrible Last Line: A spade. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE BURIAL OF ROBERT BROWNING, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon st. Michael's isle Last Line: Or trafalgar. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Burials THE BURIAL OF SHELLEY, by JAMES LAVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A peasant, where the wooded apennines Last Line: And that demoniac ride. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) THE BURNS FESTIVAL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stir the beal-fire, wave the banner Last Line: In the wreath of burns's fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Festivals; Fire; Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Success; Fairs; Pageants THE BUSTS OF GOETHE AND SCHILLER IN WALHALLA, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is goethe, with a forehead Last Line: And the poet is the king! Subject(s): Death; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Dead, The; Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von THE CAMPS; FOR MARILYN HACKER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the young brown-haired Last Line: Rest on the unmoving forms. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Despair; Love; Poetry & Poets; Violence; Writing & Writers; Dead, The THE CANDIDATE: INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS- THE AUTHOR TO HIS POEMS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye idler things, that soothed my hours of care Last Line: Soothe without fear, and without trembling hope. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE CANDIDATE: TO THE AUTHORS OF THE 'MONTHLY REVIEW', by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pious pilot, whom the gods provide Last Line: And when you lash the poet, spare the man. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Monthly Review (periodical); Poetry & Poets THE CAPTIVE LINNET, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: Mycias, behold this bird! See how she tires Last Line: Death is the field of victory for the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Linnets; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government THE CASCADE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who saith that poetry is not in thee Last Line: Thou wild cascade, bright, beautiful, and free! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE CHERRY TREE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her gnarled sleep it Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE CHILDE'S DESTINY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No mistress of the hidden skill Last Line: "as woman is from thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron THE CIRCUS (II), by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I remember when I wrote the circus Subject(s): Circus; Poetry & Poets THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Memory; Past; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN), by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I once dreamt that cezanne lectured on the circumnavigation of a pear Last Line: And peace. Subject(s): Creative Ability; God; Knowledge; Metaphor; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Truth; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes THE COCK AND THE BULL, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You see this pebble-stone? It's a thing I bought Last Line: Extend from here to mesopotamy. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets THE COCKNEY OF THE NORTH, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to inverness Last Line: In scotland — now! Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) THE COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Se;f; Travel; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Imagination; Journeys; Trips; Fancy THE COMING OF LOVE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know? Shall I hear love / pass Last Line: "and a fear that whispered, ""love is come!" Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets; Spring THE COMING POET, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it far to the town?' said the poet Last Line: Fame at his crumbled head. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War THE COMPLAINT OF POETIE, FOR THE DEATH OF LIBERALITE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weepe heavens now, for you have lost your light Last Line: For fame shall live, when all the world shall dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Liberty THE COMPLETE WORKS, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The big black bear and the prowling panther lived near our beautiful school Last Line: At last at dusk the brisk skate returned. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets THE CONSTANT POET, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Once more, my muse, 'tis time to be invoking Last Line: And she's my wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Love; Names; Poetry & Poets THE CORRESPONDENCE-SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR SAYS GOODBYE TO HIS POETRY STUDENTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye, lady in bangor, who sent me Last Line: Their solitude given away in poems, only their loneliness kept Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Poetry & Poets; Educators; Professors THE CROWN OF THORNS, by JESSE WILLIS JEFFERIS Poem Text First Line: What recompense is theirs who, scorning gain and glory Last Line: A wreath ineffable above his cross behold! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Crowns; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Egypt; Galileo (1564-1642); Jesus Christ; Love; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Poetry & Poets; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Sphinx; Thorns; Galileo Galilei THE CRYSTAL, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight, death's and truth's unlocking time Last Line: Baltimore, 1880. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology THE CURSE OF LOVE, by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With heavy anguish, hopeless straining Last Line: Promised to death, and to love—doomed. Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri Subject(s): Christianity; Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets THE CUTTY WREN, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are you going?' said reader to rider Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): The Three Companions Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE DANDELION, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand poets have sung the rose Last Line: The dandelion! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Weeds; Wind THE DAY IS A POEM (SEPTEMBER 19, 1939), by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This morning hitler spoke in danzig, we hear his voice Last Line: Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Poetry & Poets THE DAY IS DONE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is done, and the darkness / falls from the wings of night Last Line: And as silently steal away. Subject(s): Evening; Home; Poetry & Poets; Sunset; Twilight THE DAY TO THE NIGHT, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From dawn to dusk, and from dusk to dawn Last Line: And hope and weariness kiss each other. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE DAY-DREAM: MORAL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, lady flora, take my lay Last Line: Should hook it to some useful end. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE DEAD ONES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have grown up in the belief that all the Last Line: Five cents a yard. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Authors And Authorship; Books; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Reading THE DEAD POET, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child that leans his ear beside the shell Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE DEATH-SMILE OF COWPER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O orphan smile! Born since our mourner died Last Line: A death-smile, and the sorrow that it quelled. Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry & Poets THE DEPARTURE OF PIERROTT, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We have housed, my columbine Last Line: Where the sons of earth carouse. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE DEPARTURE OF THE GOOD DAEMON, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can I do in poetry Last Line: And over-read what I have writ. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE DIDACTIC POEM, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soulless, colorless strain, thy words are Last Line: Is not a mule a mule, bear he a burden of gold? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE DIDACTIC POET, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not only where the universal mind Last Line: Forever more shall dwell. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE DISCONTENT POET; A MASQUE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely he sat, the men were strange Last Line: By the waters of life to seraphs heeding. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE DISTRESSED POET, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One knows the scene so well, - a touch Last Line: We feel that she has been. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE DOCTOR, by ROGER WODDIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should lose, think only this of me Last Line: I'm damned if I'll just be our man in devon. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings THE DOG STOLTZ, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dog stoltz pushed his paw pads into my neck Subject(s): Dogs; Poetry & Poets THE DOVER BITCH; A CRITICISM OF LIFE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: So there stood matthew arnold and this girl Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Poetry & Poets THE DREAM SONGS: 290, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth Last Line: Fate across all them rolls Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Historians; Irish THE DREAM. AN EPISTLE TO MR. DRYDEN, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: When yet a child, I read great virgil o'er Last Line: But envies those that in your presence stand. Subject(s): Dreams; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Poetry & Poets; Nightmares THE DYING BARD, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dinas emlinn, lament; for the moment is nigh Last Line: Farewell, my loved harp! My last treasure, farewell! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE DYING POET, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Text First Line: During this hour shadows touch his eyes Last Line: Nor beauty's voice again to teach him pain. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE DYING POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the motionless and silent grass Last Line: Falls, and I shall not see another morn. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Kisses; Life; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE DYING POETS FAREWELL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou wondrous arch of azure Last Line: To that high and laurelled quire. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Farewell; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Dead, The; World; Parting THE EIGHTH ODE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If ever justice with her iron hand Last Line: Debauch'd, like danäe, with a golden show'r? Subject(s): Deception; Great Britain; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Justice; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets; Revenge THE ELIZABETHAN POETS, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD Poem Text First Line: Like slender, rippling willow leaves Last Line: Eternally are glad. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wellesley College THE EMS DISPATCH, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opening up a mud duck Last Line: The close call packed away and sniffing at the edge Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE ENGLISH METRES, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rooted liberty of flowers in breeze Last Line: Did outrun peter, urgent in the break of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE ENGLISH POETS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I looked across the fields and saw a light Last Line: The spirit fire that keeps our england young? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; English THE ENGLISH TRADITION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was sixty, and gross, and good-tempered Last Line: Good-night!' Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE EPIC OF THE AGE: 1. THE UNPOPULARITY OF POETRY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Must modern harps be hung upon the tree Last Line: To cast her genius in the coins of trade? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE EPIC OF THE AGE: 2. THE THEME OF THE UNWRITTEN POEM, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: No theme, no poet, and no audience' Last Line: The pulsing passions of a list'ning world? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE EPIC OF THE AGE: 3. THE COMING POET, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Is there no homer for the age of gold? Last Line: The mouthpiece of our matchless century!— Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE ETERNAL ADVENTURE: BOOK 3, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I do not claim a writer's bays. A poet I, who sings his lays - what! Last Line: * * * * * * * Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs THE EVENING STROLL, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick o'er the wintry waste dart fiery shafts Last Line: Which gnaws his heart and bids him hope no more. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Evening; Poetry & Poets; Winter; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight THE EXCURSION, by TU FU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How delightful, at sunset, to loosen the boat! Last Line: By the time we reach the shore, it seems as though the fifth month were autumn. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Boats; Poetry & Poets; Sea Voyages THE EXILE'S REVERIES, SELECTION, by JAMES KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Chased from my calling to this hackneyed trade Last Line: Patriots drag the felon's chain. Subject(s): Books; Exiles; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Reading; Dejection; Seamen; Sails THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The credits and debits of cold sex Last Line: See: that's the dearest, cheapest prayer Subject(s): Dramatists; Lust; Poetry & Poets; Sex; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as I with state of present time Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAIRY QUEEN SLEEPING, BY STOTHARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lay upon a bank, the favourite haunt Last Line: Wake, titania, wake, our queen! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is filled with beginners. You are right. Now Last Line: Full of ruptures could be one from which all kinds of things are flying Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time THE FATE OF THE LYRIST, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul is ever clinging unto form Last Line: To list their orphic melody. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE FEE, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear author: / we are preparing Last Line: At your earliest convenience Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Work; Workers THE FINAL MOVEMENT OF THE POEM, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The welter of ambivalence through which each Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE FINALITY OF A POEM, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day, that Last Line: It is that’s ending Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE FIRST SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poet writ a song of may Last Line: Deep hidden in his heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs THE FLATTERERS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When some folks meet a colyuming man Last Line: "the feller was always a little queer."")" Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE FOGGY, FOGGY BLUE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a young man, I loved to write poems Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Aging; Truth; Masks THE FOOL AND THE POET, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I admit your general rule Last Line: That every fool is not a poet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE FOUNTS OF SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the song I am singing?' Last Line: "in these dumb solitudes." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Poetry & Poets; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Singing & Singers; Theology THE FOURTH SATIRE OF DR. JOHN DONNE, VERSIFYED, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, if it be time to quit the stage Last Line: In time to come, may pass for holy writ. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets THE FRESH START, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O give me back my rigorous english sunday Last Line: I'll write chaste sonnets of imagined loves. Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE RHYMER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a verse. It gives you little pains Last Line: R. Why then -- take these! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE FUNERAL, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Last Line: That since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. Variant Title(s): The Funerall Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Burials THE FUTURE, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O poet of the future! I Last Line: Ye write such words—as these of those who were!; Subject(s): Future; Poetry & Poets THE FUTURE OF THE CLASSICS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "no longer, o scholars, shall plautus" Subject(s): Future;literature;poetry & Poets;writing & Writers THE GAMESTERS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music and poesy, like gods at play Last Line: And let her heavenly sister snatch control. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets THE GARDEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were talking about poetry Last Line: Preparing to open the door. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Poetry & Poets; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE GARDEN OF ADONIS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is no fabled garden in the skies Last Line: And praise the gods for immortality. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) THE GATES OF UTTERANCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a throng within the gates Last Line: The melody it shares. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE GENERAL PUBLIC, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then Last Line: "thrice in the face. He made good sport that night." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) THE GINOINE AR-TICKLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Talkin' o' poetry, - there're few Last Line: Sich poetry as that from end to end. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets THE GODS LAUGHED ON HIGH OLYMPUS, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think the gods laughed on high olympus as thy Last Line: We listen -- for your coming, walt whitman! Subject(s): Olympus (mountain), Greece; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) THE GODS' TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair may has come with her bright golden radiance Last Line: Headlong together, and old night is lord. Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Grief; May (month); Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: IMR EL KAIS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, ah weep love's losing, love's with its dwelling-place Last Line: Cumbered the hollow places, drowned in the night-trouble. Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Love; Poetry & Poets; Tradition THE GOOD GRAY POET, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Walt whitman-'good gray poet,' as we say Last Line: Exponent of a newer artistry. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) THE GRAVE OF A POETESS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood beside thy lowly grave Last Line: And joy the poet's eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women; Woodstock, Ireland THE GRAVE OF HOMER, by ALCAEUS OF MESSENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The visionary dream of life is o'er Last Line: The star of song -- the grace of graces -- sleeps. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey THE GRAVE OF KEATS, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rid of the world's injustice, and his pain Last Line: As isabella did her basil-tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians THE GRAVE OF KEATS; THE PROTESTANT CEMETERY AT ROME, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair little city Last Line: Strong wine of fruit mature, whose flowers alone we know. Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians THE GRAVE OF SHELLEY, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed Last Line: Against the rocks of some wave-shattered steep. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE GRAVE-YARD AT SIPPICAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Come to this spot among the rocks and pines Last Line: To call her crying children to her breast. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GREY ROCK, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets with whom I learned my trade Last Line: So that the wandering foot's content. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: VERSES AGAINST ENTICING COURTEZANS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What mean the poets in invective verse Last Line: Till waste brings woe, and sorrow hastes despair. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness THE GYPSY'S WINDOW, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems a stage Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Reality; Roses THE HABEAS CORPUS BLUES, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cathedral the acolytes are praying Last Line: Imprisonment or indefinite time in prison without a trial Subject(s): Firefighters; Poetry & Poets THE HABIT, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear knows, 'tis long since brian lay Last Line: "like crows from haunted corn!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE HALF-ASLEEP, by THOMAS WADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for the mighty wakening that aroused Last Line: And feebly cease ere we have well begun. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE HANGED MAN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storm lifts from wales Last Line: It is all just like the poet said Subject(s): England; Love - Unrequited; Poetry & Poets; English THE HARP OF DAVID, by JEHOASH Poem Text First Line: When the night her vision is weaving Last Line: Is a youthful poet again! Alternate Author Name(s): Joash Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism THE HEART'S PICTURES, by HIRAM H. BICE Poem Text First Line: Hearts are galleries, wide and long Last Line: Around that mystic shrine. Subject(s): Hearts; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE HEAVY POET, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bunged-up like any general Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE HENYARD ROUND, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the dark yard by the sheep barn the cock crowed Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE HIGH-TONED OLD CHRISTIAN WOMAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Old Age THE HISTORY OF POETRY, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our masters are gone and if they returned Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE HOLE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the garden, the wind was like a dog Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows Last Line: Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey THE HONOUR OF THE GARTER: PROLOGUE, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plain is my coat, and humble is my gait Last Line: Nor herbs nor time such remedy affords. Subject(s): Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619); Harington, Sir John (1561-1612); Harvey, Gabriel (1545-1630); Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) THE HOPES OF SPRING, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: There's a mellow warmth in the soft south wind Last Line: Tis the land where the sun-sprites smile. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 60. TRANSFIGURED LIFE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As growth of form or momentary glance Last Line: There comes the sound as of abundant rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE HUNDRED BEST BOOKS, by MOSTYN T. PIGOTT Poem Text First Line: First there's the bible Last Line: And -- some verses of mine. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Reading; Theology THE HUSBAND HIS OWN CUCKOLD: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like some raw sophister that mounts the pulpit Last Line: One fool, for million that he left behind. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE HUSBANDMAN OF HEAVEN (LINES WRITTEN NEAR BURIAL-PLACE OF BURNS), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet, whose very dust, here shed Last Line: Yields to the ploughman of the spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets THE IMAGE BOY, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er has trudged, on frequent feet Last Line: "and his, poor boy, are on it!" Subject(s): London; Memory; Mythology; Poetry & Poets THE IMMORTAL URN, by ELMER O. LAUGHLIN Poem Text First Line: Unwedded bride, immortal shepherdess! Last Line: Gave life to them and immortality. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets THE IMMORTALITY OF GENIUS, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Orpheus, 'tis said, the thracian lyre-strings sweeping Last Line: And round the forehead wreathe the unfading crown. Subject(s): Genius; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE IMPOSSIBLE INDISPENSIBILITY OF THE ARS POETICA, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But of course the poem is not an assertion. Do you see? When I wrote Last Line: And gives it all to you Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE IMPROVISATORE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are the words? Last Line: And that is next to best! Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE INDIAN EMPEROR: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty critics! Whom our indians here Last Line: And leave the rest upon the poet's hands. Subject(s): Judges; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE INTERPRETERS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days dawn on us that make amends for many sometimes Last Line: July 16th, 1885. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul; Thought; Thinking THE INTRUDER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sat, to sift my dreaming Last Line: "I am poetry,"" said she." Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Laughter; Poetry & Poets THE ISLES; AN ODE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faithful reports of them have reached me oft! Last Line: Remembers not life's sword. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE ITALICS ARE RICHARD GIFFORD'S, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound Last Line: Verse sweetens toil. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets THE ITINERANT POET'S ROAD SONG, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Comin' out of lolo pass Last Line: All you got is the changes in time... The changes in time. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE IVORY GATE OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A continent of silver-gray and rose Last Line: Where deathless roses gleam like fragrant flames. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Mystery; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones THE JARABE, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten thousand tiny steps in the summer dust Last Line: And the audience breaks in quick applause, like foam. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE JESTER'S PLEA, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world! Was jester ever in Last Line: Forgive the bells their jingle. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE JEW (DEDICATED TO BENJAMIN F. PEIXOTTO), by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His dark face kindled in the east Last Line: Art, toil, and hope shall purify. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Memory; Peixotto, Benjamin Franklin (1834-1890); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism THE JOURNEY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking for a past / I can rely on Subject(s): Home; Memory; Poetry & Poets THE JOURNEY; FOR JANE KENYON (1947-1995), by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside me on the plane Last Line: Calling its petals home. Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the depth of ida's inmost grove Last Line: And the strong earthquake rends the shuddering ground. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey THE JUDGMENT OF THE POETS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two nymphs, both nearly of an age Last Line: "and pinch your noses blue." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE KINGDOM OF POETRY, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is certainly Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE KRAKEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below the thunders of the upper deep Last Line: In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sea Monsters; Supernatural; Sea Serpents THE LANGUAGE OF THE BRAG, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wanted excellence in the knife-throw Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism THE LAPSE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This poem must be done today Last Line: He 'll get no copy! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE LAST POEM IN THE WORLD, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would I write it if I could? Last Line: Bet your glitzy ass I would. Subject(s): Finality; Poetry & Poets THE LAST POEM TO BE WRITTEN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, when & whenever' Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) THE LAST RHYME, SAVE ONE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've sung in a wayward fashion Last Line: The poet of later on. Subject(s): Friendship; Labor & Laborers; Life; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Story-telling; Work; Workers THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER (FROM HER POINT OF VIEW), by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I had firmly answered 'no' Last Line: "ride, ride together, forever ride." Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets THE LAST SIGNAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silently I footed by an uphill road Last Line: As with a wave of his hand. Subject(s): Barnes, William (1801-1886); Poetry & Poets THE LAST WORD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Creep into thy narrow bed Last Line: Find thy body by the wall. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE LAWS OF VERSE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear laws, come to my breast! Last Line: That I am not a feather, but a bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE LIFE DIVINE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Give me the poet's life divine Last Line: His life is still divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE LIFE-MASK OF KEATS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet to poet gave this mask, of him Last Line: And with his spirit's gaze saw and was glad. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in the stilly night Last Line: Of other days around me. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Scotch Air Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Life Change Events; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness THE LIGHTS IN TOWN, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as bad as you are Subject(s): Time; Poetry & Poets THE LITERARY DRUDGE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not ride on pegasus Last Line: Will take me on behind! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE LOST ELIXIR, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, yes, that 'drop of human blood'! Last Line: Has gone with life's first leaf and bud. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE LOST FOLLOWER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I have known them passionate and fine Last Line: (as yet unbrought to earth) he means to try Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE LOST KISS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I put by the half-written poem Last Line: Cry up to me over it all. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Daughters; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares THE LOST LEADER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just for a handful of silver he left us Last Line: Pardoned in heaven, the first by the throne! Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Writing & Writers; Liberty THE LOST SUITCASE, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So it was with the suitcase left in front Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE LOTUS-EATERS; ULYSSES TO PENELOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a far distant land they dwell Last Line: All things resting everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus THE LOVE POEM, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cranky child curled in my lap Last Line: Who says he'll stay. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Inspiration; Creativity THE LYRE OF ANACREON, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The minstrel of the classic lay Last Line: As from anacreon's lyre! Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets THE LYRICS POET'S APOLOGY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strive to probe to other hearts, and find Last Line: In syllables of self, and can no other way. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Nature; Poetry & Poets THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 16, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look west, wystan, lone flier, birdman, my bully boy Last Line: Migrate, chaste my kestrel, you need a change of air Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets THE MAKING OF POEMS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The reason why I do it Last Line: And these failures are my job Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE MAN OF MOODS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sometimes I blow and praise a bubble Last Line: Your prophet, sage and friend – the poet. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE MARIGOLD, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When with a serious musing I behold Last Line: Which merit not the service we bestow.... Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Poetry & Poets THE MEMORY OF BURNS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweetly come the holy psalms Last Line: The holly and the pine! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets THE MERCHANT OF VENICE; A LEGEND OF ITALY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I believe there are few Last Line: And never let one of them come down the are'! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE MIDNIGHT OIL, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: I sought to sing of chloe's eyes Last Line: I took the hint, and went to bed! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE MILL, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spoiling daylight inched along the bar-top Last Line: It turns and turns in my mind, over and over Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets THE MINSTREL BARD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where awful summits rise around Last Line: In the soft dreams of poesy. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Minstrels; Poetry & Poets THE MISSING PAGE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a poem, the jittery sort Last Line: Yearning and delight Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading THE MONUMENT: 34, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are back, the angry poets. But look! They have come with hammers Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE MOON IS A DIAMOND, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flavio gonzales, seventy-two, made jackhammer Last Line: "is a diamond." Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets THE MOST COMMONLY USED WORDS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That light is again number one surprises me Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE MUSE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she was, for centuries, the big Last Line: The writer. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Language; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Psychoanalysis; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy THE MUSE'S WOOING, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Poet, take thy lute and kiss my mouth! Last Line: Quench my thirsty longing with thy wood! Subject(s): Desire; Kisses; Muses; Poetry & Poets THE MYSTERY OF EMILY DICKINSON, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the weather goes on for days Last Line: Unless there was time, and eternity's plenty. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Women THE NAMES, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare! - to such name's sounding, what succeeds Last Line: Though dread -- this finite from that infinite. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE NANTUCKET SKIPPER, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a long, long year ago Last Line: "right over old marm hackett's garden!" Variant Title(s): The Alarmed Skipper; 'it Was An Ancient Mariner' Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE NEST, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the poet's life-core lying Last Line: They rise to the heaven of song. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE NEW DOLL'S HOUSE: 5. THE BEDROOMS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bedrooms shall be / gay with hints Last Line: Her bed). Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE NEW POETRY HANDBOOK, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a man understands a poem, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE NEW TIMON AND THE POETS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know him, out of shakespeare's art Last Line: You bandbox. Off, and let him rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Timon (5th Century B.c.) THE NEW YORKER POEM, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is best to mention a painter Last Line: Delightfully difficult, bilingual Subject(s): New Yorker, The (periodical); Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE NEXT POEM, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever the question comes up Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How like a well-kept garden is your soul Last Line: To the making of bombs Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; 19th Century THE NORMAN POET'S REWARD, by CHARLES THEOPHILE FERET Poem Text First Line: Look not for gold -- the sickly sons of ease Last Line: -- the skald's undying ecstasy! Subject(s): Fame; Love; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Poetry & Poets - French; Reputation THE ODYSSEY, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one that for a weary space has lain Last Line: The surge and thunder of the odyssey. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Thinking; Odysseus THE OLD SCHOOL-CHUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He puts the poem by, to say Last Line: His eyes are not themselves to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Schools; Tears; Students THE ONLY WORK, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a poet leaves to see to all that matters Subject(s): Ali, Agha Shahid; Poetry & Poets THE ORANGE BEARS, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The orange bears with soft friendly eyes Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Work; Workers THE ORDINATION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kilmarnock wabsters, fidge and claw Last Line: Like oil, some day. Subject(s): Beattie, James (1735-1803); Clergy; Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Teaching & Teachers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Educators; Professors THE ORIGIN OF DIDACTIC POETRY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wise minerva still was young Last Line: "your morals in your living." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE ORIGIN OF SONG-WRITING, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When cupid, wanton boy, was young Last Line: To lay the wreath at beauty's feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE, DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column Last Line: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. Subject(s): Mnemonics; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Poetry & Poets THE PANNIKIN POET, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing here sublime Last Line: About a pannikin. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul THE PARISH REGISTER: 1. BAPTISMS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year revolves, and I again explore Last Line: As spenser his -- but not with spenser's oar. Subject(s): Baptism; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Christenings THE PASSING OF CADIEUX, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That man is brave who at the nod of fate Last Line: "thine arms that hold me when I wake to light!" Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Poetry & Poets; Sea Voyages THE PASSIONATE READER TO HIS POET, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doth it not thrill thee, poet Last Line: For that great song of thine. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE PAST, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The form of the poem subsided, it enters another poem. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE PAST, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The form of the poem subsided, it enters another poem Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE PATRIOT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce is my life more dear to me Last Line: I have my own; I envy none. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Rivers; English THE PATRIOT'S PROGRESS, by HORACE TWISS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St. Stephen's is a stage Last Line: With cash, with coronet — with all but conscience. Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE PEASANT POET, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He loved the brook's soft sound Last Line: A poet in his joy. Subject(s): Peasantry; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology THE PEDAGOGUE'S ANSWER, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I thank you for your comedies Last Line: These rhymes I've chosen for their easiness. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE PELICANS AT WHITE HORSE KEY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you follow the spiral Last Line: Set out to float on the sea of repentance Subject(s): Pelicans; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Repentance THE PENDULUM, by JURGIS BALTRUSHAITIS Poem Text First Line: When the dumb darkness most heavily clings Last Line: Cold, ineluctable footsteps of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Baltrushaitis, George; Baltrushaitis, Iurgis; Baltrushaitis, Yurgis Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean 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 PICTURE OF J.T. IN A PROSPECT OF STONE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What should one / wish a child Subject(s): Children; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Childhood THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: PROEM. TO THE ARTIST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because no other dream my childhood knew Last Line: In double faith, and from a twofold call! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Youth THE PLANET ON THE TABLE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Ariel was glad he had written his poems Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sun THE PLAYER, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His wardrobe is the world, and day and night Last Line: Between the two he stands, timeless — the poet-player. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Dramatists; Play; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters THE PLUTE'S LIBRARY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, stately books, in handsome cases, all Last Line: Come and read them. Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Libraries & Librarians; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading THE POEM, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this hill crossed Last Line: Knocked crazy on a locust / post Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; THE POEM AS MASK, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I wrote of the women in their dances and Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Self THE POEM I JUST WROTE, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poem I just wrote is not real. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POEM I SHOULD LIKE TO WRITE, by MARGARET A. WINDES Poem Text First Line: The poem I should like to write was written long ago Last Line: The master poet wrote it—each burning word and line. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology THE POEM IS A VEIL, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POEM OF THE SPANISH POET, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a hotel room somewhere in iowa an american poet, tired of his poems Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POEM TO FILL UP A PAGE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the poem the editor uses Last Line: Pegasus tied to a post! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POEM WRITTEN ON THE BODY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Death looks there, but we are here Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Death; Love; Life THE POEM-TREE, by ETHEL M. FEUERLICHT Poem Text First Line: Outside my latticed door it stands Last Line: Are gifts of mist and silver sheen. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POEMS OF BIG STICK: 3, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever cold mountain stops to visit Last Line: So anything real includes it all Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Reality THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 107, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My scrolls are filled with the poems of immortals Last Line: And hum a verse or two Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 144, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When stupid people read my poems Last Line: One look and he knew mystery Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 180, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I reached cold mountain and all cares stopped Last Line: And trust the current like an unmoored boat Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 188, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone sighed cold mountain air Last Line: With money your concern Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 2, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All you who read my poems Last Line: Do it as fast as an order Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Virtue; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 268, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My five-word poems number five hundred Last Line: Is truly the mother of buddhas Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 283, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mister wang the graduate Last Line: A blind man's songs about the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 299, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People laugh about my poems Last Line: Then my poems will plague the world Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 307, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever has cold mountain's poems Last Line: And read them from time to time Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 69, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you're still and never speak Last Line: Will never see a harvest day Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Legacies; Poetry & Poets; Silence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 99, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Disappointed impoverished scholars Last Line: Even mongrels won't touch them Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Scholarship & Scholars THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 16, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My poems are poems alright Last Line: They'll make it much more fun Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Virtue THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 17, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have millions of gathas Last Line: All you'll see is mountains Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 22, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain is a cold mountain Last Line: It's the power of doing nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets THE POET, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bard must have a kind, courageous heart Last Line: To every thing. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poet sat in his chamber Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by BURL BREDON Poem Text First Line: The poet breathes and lives the song he makes Last Line: And walks in sunlit morning all day long. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet hath the child's sight in his breast Last Line: And praise his world for ever, as thou bidst. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, who wouldst wear the name / of poet mid thy breathren of mankind Last Line: "that sway from mood to mood the willing mind!" Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night his window Last Line: Of the poet's light Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I beg my bones to be good but Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tell me, tell me Last Line: Is it sacrifice? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Seasons THE POET, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When I went down past charing cross Last Line: All crazy for my burning crown. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sang of life, serenely sweet Last Line: A jingle in a broken tongue. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: Does the poet understand what the nightingale Last Line: Do you, poet? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by ANITA GRANNIS Poem Text First Line: When I look back across the waste of years Last Line: And will be young when their last dust is gone! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by THOMAS ERNEST HULME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over a large table, smooth, he leaned in ecstasies Last Line: On the smooth table. Alternate Author Name(s): Hulme, T. E. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War THE POET, by HENRY JAMES (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: When whistling winds sweep down the village street Last Line: As long as he pursues the leaves as moo cows. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE POET, by MARIAN PHILLIPS JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: The poet reads and lives - and learns to feel Last Line: Do blend -- escaping not -- save through his pen! Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary THE POET, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the darkness he sings of the dawning Last Line: He sings at the gates of death! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet sits by his own fire-side Last Line: While all the world's his thankless debtor. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by JOHN ALBERT MACY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have composed the sun to my belief Last Line: And housed the universe in a woman's heart. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The barren music of a word or phrase Last Line: Not in his life. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! He traffics with the sun Last Line: And uncaring give us death. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fate; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; World; Destiny; Ocean THE POET, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet is the loneliest man that lives Last Line: Some come; some always sleep. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, sing - poet, sing! Last Line: Though it pierce, shall give thee rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness THE POET, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet in a golden clime was born Last Line: She shook the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Hate; Poetry & Poets; Liberty THE POET, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back of his splendid song, o think of the Last Line: Sung by an unborn singer in a new and wonderful spring! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: He is all utterance. His every vein Last Line: The passionate embodiment of the word. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE POET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou indeed derive thy light from heaven Last Line: Shine, poet! In thy place, and be content. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, by KATHRYN WORTH Poem Text First Line: I never had a schooner / with pink Last Line: In mountains of the moon. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET (2), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He takes the glory from the gold Last Line: Illumined from the hill. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE POET AMONG THE TREES, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oak is the noblest tree that grows Last Line: And dainty flavour to our custard! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Poetry & Poets; Trees THE POET AND HIS BOOK, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are my thoughts, alive within this form Last Line: That are with young. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET AND HIS BOOK, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down, you mongrel, death! Last Line: Yellow clay on dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE POET AND HIS POEMS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poem is this: Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET AND HIS SONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A song is but a little thing Last Line: And so I sing, and all is well. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET AND THE ALCHEMIST, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Authors of modern date are wealthy fellows Last Line: "simply by liking what we have!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets THE POET AND THE BABY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How's a man to write a sonnet, can you tell Last Line: That I wonder what 's the use of writing mine. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Poetry & Poets; Childhood THE POET AND THE BIRD; A FABLE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said a people to a poet - 'go out from among us straightway!' Last Line: Was only of the poet's song, and not the nightingale's. Subject(s): Nighingales; Poetry & Poets THE POET AND THE CRITICS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If those who wield the rod forget Last Line: There is no moral to this tale. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets THE POET AND THE REST OF CREATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up comes the sun with merry light Last Line: For me to write of them. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said a poet to a woodlouse - 'thou art certainly my brother Last Line: While he makes his mundane music -- and he will not stop, I think.' Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Soul THE POET AT COURT, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stands alone in the lordly hall Last Line: Kneel to the god-made king! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET AT THIRTY, by JEAN COCTEAU Poem Text First Line: Now I have reached the midmost of my years Last Line: I'd feel the void and tumble from the roof. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET IN ITALY; IMITATED AFTER RENATO RINALDI'S 'IL GIROVAGO', by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ragged sweet little fellow Last Line: "death comes, with a grin, to see." Subject(s): Country Life; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Italians THE POET IN THE CHILDREN'S EYES, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou of a poet's blood, and many a tie Last Line: May find a voice worthy the deathless line Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET IN THE CITY, by CATHERINE C. LIDDELL Poem Text First Line: The poet stood inthe sombre town Last Line: And a richer man by one suffering. Alternate Author Name(s): Fraser-tytler, Catherine C. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET IN THE EAST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet came to the land of the east Last Line: And the dream deceives no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Sun; Nightmares THE POET IN THE NURSERY, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The youngest poet down the shelves was fumbling Last Line: Wonderful words no one could understand. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET OF FASHION, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His book is successful, he's steeped in renown Last Line: The poet of fashion dines out in barge yard. Subject(s): London; Poetry & Poets THE POET OF THE FUTURE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the poet of the future! He will come to us as comes Last Line: His face to heaven, and the dew of duty on his brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Future; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers THE POET OF TODAY, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than the soul of ancient song is given Last Line: From the near heavens, of old so dim and far! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE POET ON THE HEARTH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fire is kindled on the dogs Last Line: May light some master into fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET PERPLEXT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brain! You must work! Begin, or we shall lose Last Line: So gentle brain! I thank you and conclude. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reason; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POET PRIEST, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not as of one whom multitudes admire Last Line: In prayers -- and thou shalt meet with me. Subject(s): Clergy; Poetry & Poets; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE POET REBUKES HIS FLATTERERS, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will you trouble me with praise? Last Line: Look there! His blood-stained hands and feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET REFLECTS ON HER SOLITARY FATE, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lives alone now Last Line: She must write poems Subject(s): Literary Form; Solitude; Poetry & Poets THE POET SPEAKS, by LOTUS J. COSTIGAN Poem Text First Line: God veils the mountains with violet-mist curtains Last Line: But only the poet will be articulate! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET TO HIS LOVE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the flight of thoughts here, shy, bold, scared, intrusive Last Line: Rustling wings, and distant flight, and empty cage and sky! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets THE POET TO THE READER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full many a poem have I made Last Line: Save when two mingle, soul in soul. Subject(s): Creation; Poetry & Poets; Soul THE POET TO THE YOUTH, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou by lingering for my song Last Line: For the new world's opening day. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers THE POET'S APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA, by RICHARD K. WASHBURN Poem Text First Line: What do we strive to do with words Last Line: To catch bright beauty hurrying by. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S BRIDAL DAY SONG, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my love's like the steadfast sun Last Line: The best of all that's not divine. Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S CHILD, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of the heart of a child of sweetest song! Last Line: His songs are letters in a book -- thou art their ray. Subject(s): Children; Poetry & Poets; Williams, Richard Dalton (1822-1862); Childhood THE POET'S DEATH, by EBENEZER JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the poet's death was certain, and the leech had left the room Last Line: And ten thousand thousand like him, stuff the earth with such like graves. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE POET'S DEATH-BED, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of splendour! / linked to corruption! Last Line: Fare thee well! Fare thee well! Subject(s): Aging; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Weariness; Parting; Fatigue THE POET'S DELAY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain I see the morning rise Last Line: No woods still echoing to my lay? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writer's Block THE POET'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He craves not the boon of pleasure Last Line: And the voice before he dies. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Voices; World THE POET'S DESTINY, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark is the soul of the minstrel Last Line: Spring plants of a heavenly birth! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S DESTINY, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The priest of beauty, the anointed one Last Line: He flings the pearl upon the shore -- and dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S DREAM, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset streaming o'er the river Last Line: All his soul and mind doth fill! Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Nightmares THE POET'S ESTATE, by ANNIE C. BURTON Poem Text First Line: The poet roams at will where heartsease grows Last Line: On them has been bestowed apollo's kiss. Subject(s): Houses; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE POET'S FANE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop! Come not anear the poet's fane Last Line: These drooping flowerets bloom in majesty. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S GARRET, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sportive fancy! Come with me, and trace Last Line: Bears thy sick fancy to immortal fame! Subject(s): Fame; Home; Poetry & Poets; Reputation THE POET'S GIFT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That century to century may tell Last Line: Of earth, so long as pens and books endure. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Gifts & Giving; Love; Poetry & Poets; Time; Dead, The THE POET'S HOME, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the cavern's lonely hall Last Line: Thou must see thy cave no more. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S HOUR, by FRANCIS CARO Poem Text First Line: The violet-laden flower girl Last Line: That I thought were dead. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets - French; Reading THE POET'S INVITATION (TO THE PROSPECTIVE READER OF HIS VERSES), by A. STROME GALLOWAY Poem Text First Line: Come, friend, into my tavern book Last Line: For each a dozen cures! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S JOURNAL: FIRST EVENING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day had come, the day of many years Last Line: Which she as fondly answered, thus he read: -- Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: SECOND EVENING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the evening of the second day Last Line: "the sole inscriptions they have left behind." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Sunset; Twilight THE POET'S LICENSE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet's license! - some there are Last Line: To have and hold forever! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S LOT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet's lovely faith creates Last Line: The beauty of the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S PAST, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembrance makes the poet: 'tis the past Last Line: Only to know it is not of our sphere? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Past; Poetry & Poets THE POET'S PETITION, by JOSIAH RELPH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If phoebus his poet's petition would crown Last Line: To virtue's improvement, and vice's decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Relph, Joseph Subject(s): Country Life; Poetry & Poets THE POET'S PORTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is a mine - a treasury - a dower Last Line: But live and bloom, and be a joy for ever. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S PRAYER, by OSCAR EMMANUEL SANDEN Poem Text First Line: Give me a soul, o god! Last Line: In the glory of poesy! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Prayer THE POET'S PROPOSAL, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phyllis, if I could I'd paint you Last Line: "paintings must be framed with gold!" Subject(s): Courtship; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE POET'S SOLILOQUY, by E. M. AVERILL Poem Text First Line: To write or not to write, that seems to be Last Line: The richest treasure of my humble heart. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain had fallen, the poet arose Last Line: When the years have died away.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S SOUL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Would you know the poet's soul Last Line: For such was king david's soul Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.);jews;poetry & Poets; Judaism THE POET'S SPIRIT, by JOSEPH FITZPATRICK Poem Text First Line: No dirge or solemn bell Last Line: Jehovah's living fire. Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Poetry & Poets; Zionism; Judaism THE POET'S TEAR, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tear welled up from a poet heart Last Line: Who knows? Who knows? Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness THE POET'S TESTAMENT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I give back to the earth what the earth gave Last Line: Fulfil in beauty my imperfect prayer. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S THRIFT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My landscape only need comprise low hills Last Line: In the simple realm of poetry. Subject(s): Landscape; Poetry & Poets THE POET'S TITLES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy euterpe teaches me to hate Last Line: And athens' fame. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rome, Italy THE POET'S VISION, by SSU-K'UNG T'U Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wine that recalls the glow of spring Last Line: And reads the books that never pall. Alternate Author Name(s): Piao-sheng Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S WIFE, by JESSICA BELL Poem Text First Line: Because you could say the things Last Line: By our cottage door. Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S WINTER SONG TO HIS WIFE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds that sang so sweet in the summer skies are fled Last Line: Till in ripeness of old age we both drop to earth together! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Love; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S WORDS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Language ends in the tongue's clay pit Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language THE POET'S ZENITH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night is heavy on the valley where the river mist is chill Last Line: Where the wave of life rose highest in that midnight still and dark. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET, AND HIS INTERPRETERS, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full of songs he woke one morning Last Line: In the years when they were married. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET-HEART, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, in time's mythical ages Last Line: Pain touched it once more.—and it broke. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Suffering; Misery THE POET: A RHAPSODY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the various lots around the ball Last Line: "to warn thee from the service of the ingrate." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET; A RHAPSODY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the various lots around the ball Last Line: To warn thee from the service of th' ingrate Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What instinct forces men to journey on Last Line: Life's loneliness of dreaming ecstasy. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POETASTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a poet, as poetry goes now-a-days Last Line: The man, after all, is but just where he was. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading THE POETESS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh smother me under your kisses Last Line: "so don't get familiar with me." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POETESS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A dollop is dolloping Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POETESS'S HASTY RESOLUTION, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reading my verses, I liked them so well Last Line: Wipe off my teares with handkerchiefes of praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POETIC MYSTERY (SUGGESTED BY 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND'), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "poet, sit and sing to me" Last Line: And the sounds care for themselves Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POETRESS'S PETITION, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a fever's pulse my heart doth beat Last Line: And for her glory, garlands of fresh bayes. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Hearses; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Silence THE POETRY OF CHAUCER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey with all honours of age! But fresh-featured and ruddy Last Line: Here beats true english blood richest joyance on sweet english ground. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Poetry & Poets THE POETRY OF COLERIDGE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A brook glancing under green leaves, self-delighting, exulting Last Line: Unceasing in moonlight, but hushed in the beams of the holier orb. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets THE POETRY OF KEATS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The song of a nightingale sent thro' a slumbrous valley Last Line: That wins immortality even while panting delirious with death. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets THE POETRY OF MILTON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to some deep-chested organ whose grand inspiration Last Line: The mystical harmonies chiming for ever throughout the bright spheres. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets THE POETRY OF SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picture some isle smiling green 'mid the white-foaming ocean Last Line: Life in all shapes, aims, and fates, is there warm'd by one great human heart. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE POETRY OF SHELLEY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See'st thou a skylark whose glistening winglets ascending Last Line: Wisdom and beauty and love are the treasures it brings down at eve. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) THE POETRY OF SOUTHEY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keen as an eagle whose flight towards the dim empyrean Last Line: Lo! The grand epic advances, unfolding the humanest truth. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Southey, Robert (1774-1843) THE POETRY OF SPENSER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lakes where the sunsheen is mystic with splendour and softness Last Line: Here in our may-blood we wander, careering 'mongst ladies and knights. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) THE POETRY OF WORDSWORTH, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A breath of the mountains, fresh born in the regions majestic Last Line: Yet earnest and simple as any sweet child of the green lowly vale. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) THE POETRY SHELF, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poems / stand in boxes on the shelves Last Line: Poem perpetually begins Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POETS, by MARY E. LEE Poem Text First Line: The poets! The poets! Last Line: Thanks be to god for them! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POETS, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We need you now, strong guardians Last Line: Give us again the solace of belief. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POETS AT TEA: 10. WALT WHITMAN, WHO DIDN'T STAY MORE THAN A MINUTE, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One cup for my self-hood Last Line: Allons, from all bat-eyed formula. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) THE POETS AT TEA: 4. COWPER, WHO THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cosy fire is bright and gay Last Line: And do not make it strong. Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea THE POETS AT TEA: 5. BROWNING, WHO TREAT IT ALLEGORICALLY, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tut! Bah! We take as another case Last Line: The sugar was salt, would the bohea be congo? Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea THE POETS AT TEA: 6. WORDSWORTH, WHO GAVE IT AWAY, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, little cottage girl Last Line: "you bade me speak the truth." Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) THE POETS AT TEA: 9. BURNS, WHO LIKED IT ADULTERATED, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weel, gin ye speir, I'm no inclined Last Line: Mix a' thegither. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea THE POETS OF HELL, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poe, a very sick man in baltimore Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) THE POETS OF OLD ISRAEL, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old israel's readers of the stars Last Line: Abides, quenchless forevermore. Subject(s): Books; God; Israel; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Judaism THE POINT OF TASTE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy poets of a sunken prime! Last Line: Chorus where lumpkin with his giles hobnobs. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Poetry & Poets THE POLITICS OF NARRATIVE: WHY I AM A POET, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jill's a good kid who's had some tough luck. But that's Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE PORT, by JAMES MACFARLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, upon a path of fairy flow'rs Last Line: And canopied with cloud! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE PORTRAIT, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My mother never forgave my father / for killing himself Subject(s): Men; Poetry & Poets THE POWER OF DESTINY, by MARY WHATELEY Poem Text First Line: Sure some malignant star diffused its ray Last Line: Had saved the poet from -- the poet's curse. Alternate Author Name(s): Darwall, Mrs. John Subject(s): Fate; Poetry & Poets; Destiny THE POWER OF SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Columns uplifted high Last Line: Throughout the earth. Subject(s): Earth; Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Virtue; World; Reputation THE PREGNANT COMMENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opening one day a book of mine Last Line: Her precious comment, poet deep. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE PRESENCE IN ABSENCE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is not made of words Last Line: And barking after the train is gone Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language THE PRESS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A worthy parson, once upon a time Last Line: On freedom's shores a weak and venal press. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Freedom; History; Libraries & Librarians; Literature; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Liberty; Historians; Journalism; Journalists THE PRINCESS OF HANOVER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed are the houses, the lamps are all sleeping Last Line: Princess. Blood!—whose blood? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Poetry & Poets THE PROGRESS OF POESY; A PINDARIC ODE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, aeolian lyre, awake Last Line: Beneath the good how far--but far above the great. Subject(s): Dramatists; Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE PROGRESS OF POETRY, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer's goose, who in the stubble Last Line: While from below all grub street rings. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once you've bought into the suspension of disbelief Last Line: To buy a thing you don't want Subject(s): California; Pacific Ocean; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE QUAKER POET; VERSES ON SEEING MYSELF SO DESIGNATED, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quaker poet!' -- is such name Last Line: Of him, who is its donor! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Poetry & Poets; Self; Quakers THE RAIN UPON THE ROOF, by MRS. F. B. GAGE Poem Text First Line: Long ago a poet dreaming Last Line: So the rain upon the roof. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rain THE REALMS OF GOLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the palms of san diego Last Line: A song that had out-soared death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gold; Poetry & Poets; San Diego, California; Dead, The; Nightmares THE RECITAL, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sits there, staring into the keyboard-- Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Cancer (disease); Death; Dead, The THE RED SHIRT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I gave 5 birds Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Poetry & Poets THE REED, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the poet, muttering low Last Line: "come,"" said she, ""sing thy reed-song through the world." Subject(s): Civilization; Criticism & Critics; Justice; Music & Musicians; Nations; Poetry & Poets; United States; America THE REPLY OF Q. HORATIUS FLACCUS TO A ROMAN 'ROUND-ROBIN', by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good friends, you urge my odes grow trite Last Line: Well, -- gentlemen, good morning! Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The veteran greeks came home Subject(s): Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Penelope (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Trojan War; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey THE RETURN TO NATURE; HISTORIES OF MODERN POETRY: 2. THETIS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her bright title poets dare Last Line: Her natural, greek, and silver feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) THE RETURN TO POETRY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the eternal melodies from far Last Line: The inmost, purest shrine of that august domain. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE RHYMES OF IRONQUILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've allus held - till jest of late Last Line: As rhymes of ironquill! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme THE RIVAL LADIES: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis much desired, you judges of the town Last Line: All that want wit, or hope to find it here. Subject(s): Judges; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE ROLE OF THE IDEA IN POETRY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask of the philosopher why he philosophizes Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE ROOKERY AT HAWTHORNDEN, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along this path ben johnson rode to visit Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Drummond, William (1585-1649); Poetry & Poets; Drummond Of Hawthornden, William THE ROSE: A BALLAD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his tower sat the poet Last Line: Down upon the poet's cheek. Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses THE ROUGH SKETCH, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great grieved heart, an iron will Last Line: In high resolve and hardihood. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: EPOLOGUE, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our poet tells me I am very pretty Last Line: May stamp our poet's work, and nature's too compleat. Subject(s): Nature; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Youth THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: PROLOGUE, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Critics, ye are grown so much unkind of late Last Line: So may you still be fair, your lovers ever true. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Fate; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Destiny THE RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 26, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, come with old khayyam, and leave the wise / to talk Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Paradise THE RUSTIC AT THE PLAY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our youth is like a rustic at the play Last Line: That prompts the passions of this strutting world. Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Poetry & Poets THE SAVING WAY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the little girl was told that the sun someday Last Line: To invent our lives from these rich hours of woe? Subject(s): Dramatists; Girls; Jews; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Judaism; Dramatists THE SCHOOL BOY READS HIS ILIAD, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sounding battles leave him nodding still Last Line: He dreams of marbles and of tops, and nods. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Schools; Iliad; Odyssey; Students THE SCHOOLMISTRESS; IN IMITATION OF SPENSER, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me! Full sorely is my heart forlorn Last Line: Till reason's morn arise, and light them on their way. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Students THE SCHOOLROOM OF POETS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An autumn dusk darkened my window-panes Last Line: Boy-dreamers by the fireside, arm on arm! Subject(s): Literature; Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers THE SEA REPLIES TO BYRON, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stroll on, thou dark not deep 'blue' dandy, stroll Last Line: Absconded; gone abroad; address unknown.' Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron THE SEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS; OR,THE QUEST OF SULTAUN SOLIMAUN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for a glance of that gay muse's eye Last Line: Went back to serendib as sad as he came. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron THE SECOND SATIRE OF DR. JOHN DONNE, VERSIFYED, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes; thank my stars! As early as I knew Last Line: Within the reach of treason, or the law. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets THE SECRET, by READ BAIN Poem Text First Line: Shall I seem silly speaking some of spring Last Line: The black manure -- the white killarney rose! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Spring THE SENTINEL OF THE AGES, by IBBIE MCCOLM WILSON Poem Text First Line: Under shining, under shadow Last Line: Brother to the prince of peace. Subject(s): Fate; God; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Destiny; Judaism THE SERE AND YELLOW LEAF, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it time to write the sere Last Line: The brass flower of his horn into the city's evening. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Poetry & Poets; Optimism THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: BEATTIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet minstrel! From thy hermit's cell Last Line: Thy harp is tuned to numbers glowing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Beattie, James (1735-1803); Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Stars; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: BLAIR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bard of the grave; o'er death's domain Last Line: Each ghastly scene she there discovers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Blair, Robert (1699-1746); Poetry & Poets; Scotland THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: BURNS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: True child of nature, heir of fame Last Line: A fire unknown to fail or falter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Scotland THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: CAMPBELL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poet of hope, of love, and woe Last Line: Swell high when poland's wrongs revealing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844); Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Statesmen THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: CUNNINGHAME, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O weird and wild in legend old Last Line: In magic, song, and haunted story. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Graham, Robert (1735-1797); Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Cunninghame-graham Of Gartmore THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: HOGG, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On ettrick's banks, her doric lays Last Line: O'er all her hills and glens was ringing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Hogg, James (1770-1835); Poetry & Poets; Scotland THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: SCOTT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sung of feudal halls and towers Last Line: Bright in their native radiance beaming. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Scotland THE SHAMEFUL PROFESSION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years I tried to conceal from the villagers that I wrote poetry Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE SHARING OF THE EARTH, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take the world,' cried god from his heaven Last Line: "we'll admit you whenever you call!" Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; Thought; World; Thinking THE SHEPHERD TO THE POET, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Och, what's the good o' spinnin' words Last Line: Poets an' useful men! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE SHEPHERD-POET OF THE ALPS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Singing of the free blue sky Last Line: Sister! Thy brother is won by thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Liberty THE SHOEMAKER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou poet, who, like any lark Last Line: Upon his latest tramp. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Feet; Poetry & Poets; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE SICKNESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If / one night / I write Last Line: It. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE SILENT MAN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In your first book of poems, printed Last Line: But you are silent. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Silence; Tragedy; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE SINGER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing my song the whole day long, and keep Last Line: Their piles for cheerful smiles and lays by lilting liars. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers THE SINGER OF ONE SONG, by HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sang one song and died - no more but that; / a single song carlessly complete Last Line: "high over all the lonely bugle grieves." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE SINGERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: When the twentieth century fadeth Last Line: For the distant sake of us who sleep? Subject(s): English Poetry - 19th Century; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THE SINGING FLOWER, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am already a singing flower Last Line: Your singing flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Water; Nightmares; Ocean THE SKEIN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight through my gauze curtains Last Line: So I memorize these lines, without salutation, without close. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Moon; Poetry & Poets; Window Treatments; Women; Women's Rights; Wu, Emperor (140-87 B.c.); Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes; Feminism THE SLEEPING GIANT; A HILL IN CONNECTICUT, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole day long, under the walking sun Subject(s): Children; Connecticut; Giants; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE SONG THAT LASTS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Songs I sang of lordly matters Last Line: But that little song of thine. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets THE SONNET, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is a sonnet? 'tis the pearly shell Last Line: Mid-ocean deep to the sheer mountain walls. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE SONNET, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As some old, rare and mellowed instrument Last Line: I summon back the great to earth again. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone it stands in poesy's fair land Last Line: These only with the sonnet can compare. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned Last Line: Soul-animating strains, -- alas! Too few. Variant Title(s): "scorn Not The Sonnet; Critic, You Have Frowned""; Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET ADDRESSES VERS LIBRE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you, free verse, exult in broken chains Last Line: Moored his rare spoil within my friendly strait. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE SPIRIT OF POETRY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a quiet spirit in these woods Last Line: Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence. Subject(s): Holidays; Poetry & Poets; Trees THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy greatest knew thee, mother earth; unsoured Last Line: To fatten earth when from her soul divorced. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE: 2, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How smiles he at a generation ranked Last Line: Thunders of laughter, clearing air and heart. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE SPRING AND THE BROOK; SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It may be that the poet is as a spring Last Line: The solitary parent spring behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Brooks; Poetry & Poets; Streams; Creeks THE STAR'S MONUMENT; CONCLUDING PART OF A DISCOURSE ON FAME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there be memory in the world to come Last Line: That gaze up dying into alien skies. Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Life; Love; Memory; Monuments; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Reputation THE STONE HARP (1), by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis First Line: A road deepening in the north Last Line: By a handful of leaves... Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE STORM, by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: Jove descends in sleet and snow Last Line: Be a downy pillow spread. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE STREETS OF BALTIMORE, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Woman weak, and woman mortal Last Line: In the streets of baltimore! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poetry & Poets; Speeches & Addresses THE STRICKEN HART, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stricken hart had fled the brake Last Line: And love, some say, has conquered heaven. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Paradise THE STUDENT, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As by salamanca's city Last Line: Travelled with me, ever near. Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Schools; Iliad; Odyssey; Students THE STUDENT; A FANTASIA, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sat the student alone in his chamber Last Line: The worship and praise of the sire! Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares THE SUBURBANS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgetting sounds that we no longer hear Last Line: Our limited salvation is the word. Subject(s): Conformity; Poetry & Poets; Self-consciousness; Suburbs; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE SUCCESSION, by FRANCES LAUGHTON MACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one by one the singers of our land Last Line: For his soul's peace his life to song has given. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; United States; America THE SUICIDE, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poet's Biography First Line: Didn't acknowledge receipt Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE SUMMER RAIN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read Last Line: Who in a beaded coat does gaily go. Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading THE SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun used to shine while we two walked Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Herefordshire, England; Poetry & Poets; Walking; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE TEARES OF THE MUSES, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rehearse to me ye sacred sisters nine Last Line: The rest untold no living tongue can speake. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE TEMPEST: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gallants, by all good signs it does appear Last Line: And you'll be troubled with 'em all agen. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Ghosts; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural; Actresses THE TEMPEST: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, when a tree's cut down, the secret root Last Line: To find her woman, it must be abed. Variant Title(s): The Tempest: Prologue, Or The Enchanted Island Subject(s): Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE TEMPTATION OF HASSAN BEN KHALED, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hassan ben khaled, singing in the streets Last Line: And allah grant he go no more astray. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Poetry & Poets; Temptation; Dead, The; Paradise THE TERROR, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: No, I did not dare - but find no excuses, for my mind the poet in me impeaches Last Line: Child. Subject(s): Fear; Poetry & Poets; Soul THE TEST, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hung my verses in the wind Last Line: Which five hundred did survive? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE TEST OF THE BARDS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, wouldst thou put thy poets to the proof Last Line: Which they with toil and battle and wounds did earn. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE THINKER AND THE POET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunshine often falls refulgent Last Line: Like the sun through autumn leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Middle East; Poetry & Poets; Near East; Levant THE THREE POETS, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Candidia has taken a new lover Last Line: And the third writes an epigram to candidia. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets THE TIME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is the time to write. I tell myself this Last Line: Maybe it is a title and this life is the poem. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Summer; Time; Writing & Writers THE TIRED MARKSMAN, by LUCY WHEELER KEGLEY Poem Text First Line: I know great birds are passing Last Line: Fall no longer at his feet. Subject(s): Birds; Hunting; Poetry & Poets; Hunters THE TISSUE, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Full Text First Line: Others make their poems of air Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE TOMB OF BURNS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What woos the world to yonder shrine? Last Line: The immortal tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through its sepulchral sewer mouth, ozzing mud and rubies Last Line: Always for us to breathe even if we perish from it. Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry & Poets THE TROUBADOUR, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows salt from off the sea Last Line: Life is supremest ecstacy! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE TROUBLE WITH POETRY, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE TRUTH, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Truth; Poetry & Poets; Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay) THE TWO BOBBIES, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bobbie burns and bobbie browning Last Line: Bobbie is the boy for me! Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets THE TWO MYSTERIES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and still Last Line: And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Death - Babies THE TWO POETS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is the speech Last Line: "o thou my voice, the word was thine."" ""was thine." Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE TWO SHAKESPEARE TERCENTARIES OF BIRTH, 1864; OF DEATH, 1916, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Longer than thine, than thine Last Line: My waste lies after thee, and lies before. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE ULTIMATE POEM IS ABSTRACT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day writhes with what? The lecturer Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE UNFROCKED GOVERNESS, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Round of face, with dimpled chin and cheeks Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Child Care; Poetry & Poets; Baby Sitters; Governesses THE UNKNOWN POETS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the light of a summer sky Last Line: They die, and are well content. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE UNWRITTEN POEM, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will never write the poem about italy. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE URBAN POET, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When reeks the foetid symplocarp Last Line: Supply the proper adjectives! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE USE OF POETRY, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day a fourteen year old disappaered in ojai, california Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE USES OF POETRY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've fond anticipation of a day Last Line: To worlds afar whose fruits all anguish mend. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE VALLEY OF VAIN VERSES, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grief that is but feigning Last Line: And they crumble into dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE VICTORIAN POET IN HIS RONDOTAGE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am too old to be ensnared Last Line: I am too old. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme THE VIGIL OF THE POET, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Pensive, from the high esplanade I stretch my hand, that of a god Last Line: Resurrected soul I ope to greet resuscitated france! Subject(s): France; Poetry & Poets THE VIRTUOSO; IN IMITATION OF SPENCER'S STYLE AND STANZA, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilom by silver thame's gentle stream Last Line: And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Subject(s): Art Patronage; Museums; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Patrons Of The Arts; Art Gallerys THE VISIT OF THE MUSE, by ELSA BARKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Being, that comes to me out of the night Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets THE VISITATION OF PEACE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I closed the book of verse where sorrow wept Last Line: Rising see clear the everlasting land. Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Grief; Keats, John (1795-1821); Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness THE VOICE OF A BIRD, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who then is 'he'? Last Line: The saddest cock-crow of our human years. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Birds; Poetry & Poets THE VOICES OF HISTORY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet in his vigil hears Last Line: And moral nature's lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Historians THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT; A POEM ON THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY, by RICHARD SAVAGE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Twice twenty tedious moons have rolled away Last Line: I lose all memory of wrongs and woes. Subject(s): Birthdays; Honor; Poetry & Poets THE WANDERER'S RETURN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old heart's mourning is a hideous thing Last Line: "and mine is weary at the break of day." Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Male-female Relations; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: KING SOLOMON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King solomon stood, in his crown of gold Last Line: And they picked from the dust a golden crown. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WARTONS AND OTHER EARLY ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE-POETS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mild hearts! And modest as the evening bell Last Line: Shall join with you and hear may-morning chime. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Landscape; Poetry & Poets; Warton, Joseph (1722-1800); Warton, Thomas (1728-1790) THE WAY WE WRITE LETTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We must lie long in the weeds Last Line: From the meadow. Turn on the poem & the light. Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Journeys; Trips; Feminism THE WAYS OF DEATH; I.M., R. G. C. B., by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ways of death are soothing and serene Last Line: The ways of death are soothing and serene. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE WEAVERS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a time your father gave me aid Last Line: -- and pay for them -- I'll pay you for your shirt! Subject(s): Money; Poetry & Poets; Weavers And Weaving THE WELSH POET, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE WEST, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The west! The wild, the distant west! Last Line: On thee the work must rest! Subject(s): Future; Poetry & Poets; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE WHITE FEET OF ATTHIS, by HENRY ANDERSON LAFLER Poem Text First Line: Then atthis to her lover-poet said Last Line: Her cold, sweet finger-tips. Subject(s): Feet; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations THE WHITE KNIGHT'S SONG, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell thee everything I can Last Line: A-sitting on a gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Variant Title(s): A-sitting On A Gate;the Aged Aged Man;it Is My Own Invention;ways And Means;the White Knight's Tale;the White Knight's Ballad;the Knight's Song Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) THE WHOLE DUTY OF A POEM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poem should be, as our best ever are Last Line: That which is felt but may never be told. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE WIFE'S POEM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My works, dear poet wife, are set Last Line: To time's remotest, fairest shelf! Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WILD GALLANT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not strange to hear a poet say Last Line: Now spare him, drown him when he comes again. Subject(s): England; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; English; Dramatists THE WILD GALLANT, REVIVED: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all dramatic writing, comic wit Last Line: In hope it may their staple trade advance. Subject(s): Comedy; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dramatists THE WINDOWS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delaunay wrote on / the back of his simultaneous windows Last Line: Bowl of fruit full of light Subject(s): Windows; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE WOOD-ROSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wordsworth found those beds of daffodil Last Line: Seen, lost and seen, along the reedy brink. Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) THE WOODCUT ON THE COVER OF ROBERT FROST'S COMPLETE POEMS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man plowing starts at the side of the field Last Line: Then walking home with the horses at end of day. Subject(s): Farm Life; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Plowing & Plowmen; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers THE WORD (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was auden, I don't remember Last Line: After we are / not Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary THE WORLD'S WAY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At haroun's court it chanced, upon a time Last Line: You get beheaded when your skill is gone. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE WREATHS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our german klopstock, if he had his will Last Line: That were at once their glory and their pang! Subject(s): Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones THE YOUNG CATS' CLUB FOR POETRY-MUSIC, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The philharmonic young cats' club Last Line: And simper'd and look'd the wiser. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Winter THE YOUNG POET, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Life's new and pleasant paths he trod Last Line: From heaven that filled his soul with song. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE YOUNG POET, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That I might stir these men Last Line: For, oh! I was afraid! Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE YOUNG POET'S FATE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trace the young poet's fate Last Line: His talents and his state! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE YOUTH OF NATURE: WORDSWORTH'S COUNTRY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raised are the dripping oars Last Line: I remain.' Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) THEIR CAROL CALL TO THEE, by DAISYMAY CAMPBELL HUBER Poem Text First Line: So might I, standing on this pleasant lea Last Line: From self-clung sorrow -- your whole mind reclaim. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) THEN AND NOW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain / is speaking it pelts Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rain; Time THEOCRITUS, by CHARLES HARTLEY LANGHORNE Poem Text First Line: Theocritus! Theocritus! Ah, thou hadst pleasant dreams Last Line: Theocritus! Theocritus! What pleasant dreams were thine! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Theocritus (310-250 B.c.) THEOCRITUS; FOR A. LANG'S TRANSLATION, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poplars and the ancient elms Last Line: The tomb of helice. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Theocritus (310-250 B.c.) THEORY AND PRACTICE IN POETRY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The idea that freezes me this time Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets THEORY OF POETRY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know the world by heart Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THERE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When trakl crossed over, the angels Last Line: Carved on a stone cheek. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Trakl, Georg (1887-1914); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THERE ARE POEMS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THERESA'S FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the outset / charmed by the soft, quick speech Last Line: Of poetry – was at last mine Subject(s): Baptists; Friendship; Irish Catholic Church; Poetry & Poets THESE POEMS, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Whoever I may become Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THEY MAY RAIL AT THIS LIFE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They may rail at this life-from the hour I began it Last Line: And leave earth to such spirits as you, love, and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; Love; Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight THINKING ABOUT SHELLEY, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arm over arm I swam out into the rain Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) THIRD REUNION POEM, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Oh, some are here and some are there, they are scattered Last Line: And clink and drink while heartstrings link for the best of dartmouth classes. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Poetry & Poets; Reunions THIS BRIDGE, LIKE POETRY, IS VERTIGO, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Describing the wind that drives it, cloud Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THIS IS A WONDERFUL POEM, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come at it carefully, don't trust it, that isn't its right name Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE WORLD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Judge tenderly — of me Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Judgments THIS PLACE IN THE WAYS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having come to this place Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THIS RAILWAY STATION, by ALLAN M. LAING Poem Text First Line: This squalid dome of soot-obscured glass Last Line: This builder's blot, this curse, this railway station. Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Railroads; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Railways; Trains THIS WAS A POET - IT IS THAT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Exterior — to time Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Not here, where that quick, subtle spirit of his Last Line: He hospitably waits and bids us come. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907); Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH: BIRTHDAY VERSES, 1906, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear aldrich, now november's mellow days Last Line: Behind them to the human heart of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907); Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH: MEMORIAL SONNET, 1908, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the house where little aldrich read Last Line: A man too wise to let his heart grow old! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907); Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets THOMAS HARDY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first morning after anyone's death, it is important Last Line: You can hear the milk as it drills into wooden pails. Subject(s): Death; Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Life; Poetry & Poets; Sex; Dead, The THOMAS HOOD, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who cloaked his bitterness within Last Line: Or sailed away with ines to the west. Subject(s): Hood, Thomas (1799-1845); Poetry & Poets THOMAS MOORE AT ST. ANNE'S, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On these swift waters borne along Last Line: The constant star that loves the north. Subject(s): Birds; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Poetry & Poets THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PERSON FROM PORLOCK, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coleridge received the person from porlock Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets THOUGHTS WHILE PACKING A TRUNK, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sonnet is a trunk, and you must pack Last Line: Ship to the editor, marked c. O. D. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips THRALL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is sparsely furnished Last Line: So you may write this poem. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THREE ENGLISH POETS (WORDSWORTH, SHELLEY, BROWNING), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read three poems in one changeful night Last Line: "the power and love are one: fight on! Rejoice!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) THREE KINDS OF SONG, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Song have I known that fed the soul Last Line: Is at once rare food and noble wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THREE MEN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a house born of the brown earth Last Line: And wondered where it was calling. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Variant Title(s): An Adobe House Subject(s): Earth; Houses; Men; Poetry & Poets; World THREE ON LUCK: SENIOR POET, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does anybody listen to advice? Last Line: Given a meal together, and time to talk Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Advice THREE ORCHESTRAL THEMES, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: Nightfall... / I hear the fainting echo of a muezzin's last call Last Line: Poet's dream of paradise... Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rest; Symphonies; Orchestras; Concerts THREE SECRETS FOR ALEXIS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eliot's lesson from dante Last Line: About the candle catching fire. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Writing & Writers THREE SEVERAL BIRDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The romancer's a nightingale Last Line: And only dreams for him!) Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Books; Nightingales; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Reading THRENODY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sunny ray, no silver night Last Line: . . . . . . Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Grief; Loss; Love; Poetry & Poets; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THROUGH DARKNESS TO LIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Far in the vaults of the deep-blue heaven Last Line: "angels were chanting ""the death of night." Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Paradise THROUGH TEARS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An artist toiled over his pictures Last Line: Of a world that looks on through its tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Time; Sorrow; Sadness THY SONGS AND MINE, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sing thou my songs for me when I am dead! Last Line: Sing thou my songs, and thine, when I am dead! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking TIBER, NILE, AND THAMES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The head and hands of murdered cicero Last Line: Breadless, with poison froze the god-fired breath? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.c.); Cleopatra's Needle (obelisks); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Keats, John (1795-1821); London; Poetry & Poets; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy TIC-TOC, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though he looked a bit jerky Last Line: I was reading then / ave alque vale Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Poetry & Poets; Oppenheimer, Joel (1930-1988); Orbison, Roy (1936-1988) TIME TO BE WISE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! I write verses now and then Last Line: The brave queen bess. Variant Title(s): The Effects Of Age Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Poetry & Poets TINTERN ABBEY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men who called their passion piety Last Line: Masking with good that ill which cannot be undone. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO (BYRON), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mighty mind, in whose deep stream this age Last Line: Why dost thou curb not thine own sacred rage? Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron TO - (1), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I send you here a sort of allegory Last Line: Of angels to the perfect shape of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A BULL MOOSE, by EUGENE GLADSTONE O'NEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Braw, snortin', roarin', fearsome beastie Last Line: The self-same way. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Elections; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage TO A CERTAIN POET, by LOTTIE BROWNING MURPHREE Poem Text First Line: Praxiteles revealed art thou Last Line: Of some grecian forest. Subject(s): Donatello (1386-1466); Poetry & Poets; Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Sculpture & Sculptors TO A CHILD, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greatest poem ever known Last Line: When you were poetry itself! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A CLASS IN SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Gossip of swains befooled by fairy charm Last Line: Because they've walked together and with him. Subject(s): Dramatists; Happiness; Humanity; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Teaching & Teachers; Joy; Delight; Dramatists; Educators; Professors TO A COUNTRY COUSIN, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cruel cousin kate, you ask me Last Line: In an album out of town. Subject(s): Country Life; Cousins; Poetry & Poets TO A DEAD POET, by ELEANOR ROGERS COX Poem Text First Line: I speak your name - a magic thing Last Line: God fashioned in his first day's dawn. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A DEAD POET, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew not if to laugh or weep Last Line: Perhaps I knew you best. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A DEAD POET, by RUTH SHEPARD PHELPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the language of that sundered sphere Last Line: When I call after you with bits of song! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A FAMOUS POET, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Text First Line: Why so defiant, gifted one, of death? Last Line: Than the warm hearthside, and the open door? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO A FASHIONABLE POET, by FRANK PUTNAM Poem Text First Line: Is the murmur of approval, high and higher Last Line: Who might have had dominion over men! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A FORGOTTEN POET, by ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hungry winds of time have swept away Last Line: His skylark soaring through eternity. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A FRIEND, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who prop, thou ask'st, in these bad days, my mind? Last Line: Singer of sweet colonus, and its child. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Iliad; Odyssey TO A FRIEND ON HIS DESIRING ME TO PUBLISH, by MARY JULIA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: With artless muse, and humble name Last Line: The artless muse, the humble name? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Publishers TO A HAPPY WARRIOR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory to god who made a man like this! Last Line: Who sleeps in paradise. Subject(s): Heroism; Poetry & Poets; Victory; War; Wyndham, George. 3d Earl Of Egremont; Heroes; Heroines TO A HERMIT THRUSH, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great lyricist, you sing of vanished ships Last Line: I think there are no poets save the birds. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A LADY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the siren songs on eastern shores Last Line: So draw the footstool nearer to your feet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A LADY WHO SENT AUTHOR SOME PAPER WITH READING OF SILLAR'S POEMS, by JANET LITTLE Poem Text First Line: Dear madam, with joy I read over your letter Last Line: O madam excuse, for I ne'er shall write more. Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sillar, David (1760-1830) TO A LADY WHO SENT ME A COPY OF VERSES AT MY GOING TO BED, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, your art or wit could ne'er devise Last Line: I, as the night invites me, fall asleep. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep TO A LOGICIAN, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold man, in whom no animating ray Last Line: You shall be marble, who were never blood. Subject(s): Mathematics; Poetry & Poets TO A LYRIC POET, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you bid me discuss Last Line: To join in the voices. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A MODERN POET, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noblest among the spirits that deny Last Line: Shall quench the epoch and the grief of man. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A MODERN POET (WITH A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take thou these words thine elder brother writ Last Line: Until death healed thine elder brother's grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Dramatists; Grief; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Sorrow; Sadness TO A PERSON WHO WROTE ILL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie, philo, untouched on my peaceable shelf Last Line: So may he cease to write, and learn to think. Subject(s): Envy; Love; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO A POET A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I who am dead a thousand years Last Line: To greet you. You will understand. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A POET AT THE PIANO (K.O), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not all unhappy,' said one wise of heart Last Line: And fill the measure of each two-fold song. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets TO A POET GOING TO ROME: 1, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you shall meet them, as you doubtless may Last Line: De la mare, abercrombie, most renowned.' Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) TO A POET GOING TO ROME: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then in your turn demand of them and ask Last Line: Who knew high eros in his earthly seats.' Subject(s): Art & Artists; Literature; Poetry & Poets TO A POET OF QUALITY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of thy judicious muse's sense Last Line: Thou shouldst forget his daughter's beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Poetry & Poets TO A POET THAT DIED YOUNG, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minstrel, what have you to do Last Line: Had withstood it to grow old? Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS ..., by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say, as I have often given tongue Last Line: But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A POETICAL CORRESPONDENT; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose hints she isn't one of those Last Line: You'll find his genius quite divine! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A POETICAL TRIO IN THE CITY OF GOTHAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bards of the island city! - where of old Last Line: "ye shall be blessed with, and not ""damned to fame""!" Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845); Lawson, James (1799-1880); Leggett, William (1801-1839); New York City; Poetry & Poets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO A SPIDER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spider! Thou need'st not run in fear about Last Line: I spin my brains. Subject(s): Insects; Poetry & Poets; Spiders; Bugs TO A SQUIRREL AT KYLE-NA-NO, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come play with me Last Line: And let you go. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Squirrels TO A TOWN POET, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snatch the departing mood Last Line: The horns of morning sound above the storm. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A VIOLENT LEAF (FROM THE GRAVE OF KEATS), by FRANCES MOYES Poem Text First Line: O violet leaf, you fill my eyes with tears! Last Line: But still the violets you loved abide. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets TO A VISITING POET IN A COLLEGE DORMITORY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here tame boys fly down the long light of halls Last Line: To father men and poems in your mind. Subject(s): Men; Poetry & Poets; Universities & Colleges; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism TO A WEAK GAMESTER IN POETRY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With thy small stock, why are thou venturing still Last Line: There's no vexation, that can make thee prime. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A WOMAN POET, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister anne, look from the casement, tell me you see Last Line: "all that I see on the road is the dust, the dust." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A YOUNG POET, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Go, like hippolytus, to win thee bays Last Line: With all her sullen, unrelenting waves. Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Poetry & Poets TO A YOUNG POET, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: There are two portals set before thy heart Last Line: Walk not the fens alone! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A YOUNG POET WHO KILLED HIMSELF, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you had played with life a space Last Line: "and don't you think you were an ass?" Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO ALEX. SMITH, THE 'GLASGOW POET' ON HIS SONNET TO 'FAME', by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not vainly doth the earnest voice of man Last Line: The mighty warning of a poet's birth. Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Smith, Alexander (1830-1867); Reputation TO ALEXIS IN ANSWER TO HIS POEM AGAINST FRUITION, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah hapless sex! Who bear no charms Last Line: After fruition ne're to be concern'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Happiness; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs TO ALL TO WHOM I WRITE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May none whose scattered names honour my book Last Line: And, I a poet here, no herald am. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO AN ADORED ONE, by JULIA A. FRENCH Poem Text First Line: There is no word expressing fragile charm Last Line: And falls a breathless poem at your feet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO AN AMERICAN POET, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take, poet, take these thanks too long deferred Last Line: The honour and the glory of the muse. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO AN AMERICAN POET JUST DEAD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the boston sunday herald just three lines Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Suburbs TO AN ARTIST, TO TAKE HEART, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride Last Line: Having endured them all Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO AN EDITOR (ON THE RETURN OF A MANUSCRIPT), by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: So my 'lines are too heavy'-you 'want something / light' Last Line: Than reams of the stuff you are printing for verse. Subject(s): Editors; Poetry & Poets; Printing & Printers; Publishing; Publishers TO AN ELDER POET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be able Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Old Age; Flowers TO AN IDEALISTIC POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why, dear heart, drag in Last Line: With the over-souls and democracies. Subject(s): Lies; Life; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Soul TO AN OLD POET IN PERU, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO AN UNKNOWN POET, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read far into the silent night Last Line: I hold them in memory. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO AN UNKNOWN POET, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't the heart to say Last Line: In this bastion of culture. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Estrangement; Outcasts; Feminism TO ANACREON, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around the tomb, o bard divine Last Line: And live again in blissful dreaming! Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Variant Title(s): Epigram Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets TO ANDREW CROSSE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Altho' with earth and heaven you deal Last Line: Philosophers can envy too. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Poetry & Poets; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO ANOTHER POET, by ELLA STRATTON COLBO Poem Text First Line: You filled a bowl with queen anne's lace Last Line: Making poems with flowers! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Queen Anne's Lace 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 BE ALIVE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: To be alive: not just the carcass Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Poetry & Poets TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, the poet william yeats Last Line: When all is ruin once again. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Irish TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, the poet william yeats Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Irish TO BE LIKED BY YOU WOULD BE A CALAMITY, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Attack is more piquant than concord,' but when Last Line: Are a shout. Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Poetry & Poets TO BELINDA ON THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleas'd in these lines, belinda, you may view Last Line: To have the rape recorded by his muse. Subject(s): Hair; Jervas, Charles (1675-1739); Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets TO BEN JOHNSON, by J. N. GREELY Poem Text First Line: Twere good, above a jovial cup Last Line: The laughter of thy song. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Yale University TO BEN JONSON, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah ben! / say how, or when Last Line: Of such a wit, the world should have no more. Variant Title(s): An Ode For Ben Jonson;an Ode For Him Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO BEN JONSON, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was not born to helicon, nor dare Last Line: Tis to pen anthems for an angel's quire. Variant Title(s): A Gratulatory To Ben Jonson For His Adopting Of Him To Be His Son Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO BEN JONSON, 6 JAN. 1603, by JOHN ROE Poem Text First Line: The state and mens affaires are the best playes Last Line: The bruised reed, nor quencheth smoaking flaxe. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO BEN JONSON, 9 NOVEMBRIS, 1603, by JOHN ROE Poem Text First Line: If great men wrong me, I will spare my selfe Last Line: If good, like gods, the naught are so like devils. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO BEN JONSON; UPON OCCASION OF HIS ODE OF DEFIANCE ..., by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true, dear ben, thy just chastising hand Last Line: Than all men else, than thyself only less. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO BLISS CARMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is the morning's poet-- Last Line: The dawning's troubadour. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Morning; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Range / a rest / face off Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating TO BROWNING, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If yellow betokens infidelity Last Line: Effrontery. Variant Title(s): Injudicious Gardening Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets TO BYRON, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Byron! How sweetly sad thy melody! Last Line: The enchanting tale, the tale of pleasing woe. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Byron Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron TO C. M. D., by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it be true, as some have dreamed Last Line: Still you with me and I with you. Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean TO CAROLEE COOMBS-STACY, WHO SET MY VERSES TO MUSIC, by JAMES WRIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One afternoon a few years ago, in a mountain forest in upstate new Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets TO CERTAIN POETS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the rhymer's honest trade Last Line: And leave the poet's craft to men! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soldiers; World War I; First World War TO CHARLES HARPUR, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would sit at your feet for long days Last Line: And a monarch of song in the land! Subject(s): Harpur, Charles (1813-1868); Poetry & Poets TO CHARLEY, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou the poet-gift? Thou hast Last Line: A sheridan—without his shames! Subject(s): Brothers; Canada; Epigram (as Literary Form); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Half-brothers; Canadians TO COLERIDGE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there are spirits of the air Last Line: Dark as it is, all change would aggravate. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets TO COWPER, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are thy strains, celestial bard Last Line: Oh! How shall I appear? Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry & Poets TO CRITICS, AND TO HELL WITH THEM, by JAMES WRIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets are handsome, as a rule Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Poetry & Poets TO CZARTORYSKI, ATTENDING ON FOOT THE FUNERAL OF THE POET MENINCIVICZ, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In czartoryski I commend Last Line: One nation in wide europe free. Subject(s): Czartorski, Prince Adam Jerzy (1770-1861; Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Poland; Burials TO DAFFODILS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yellow flowers that herrick sung! Last Line: O yellow flowers! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Daffodils; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets TO DOROTHY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You are not beautiful, exactly / you are beautiful, inexactly Last Line: I'd have to ask the grass to let me sleep. Subject(s): Beauty; Loss; Love; Poetry & Poets TO E.H.K. (ON THE RECEIPT OF A FAMILIAR POEM), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To me, like hauntings of a vagrant breath Last Line: Half sad, half glad, to one forgotten day! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO EDGAR ALLAN POE, by HOWARD ELSMERE FULLER Poem Text First Line: Thou art a thing of death Last Line: Pay thee homage at thy shrine. Subject(s): Grief; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness TO EDITH SOUTHEY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Edith! I brought thee late a humble gift Last Line: Robert southey. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Marital; Maturity; Poetry & Poets; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a various tribute you command Last Line: Your peerless gift of song -- your life of toil. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO EDWARD DOWDEN (ON RECEIVING A COPY OF 'THE LIFE OF SHELLEY'), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, ere I slake my hunger, let me thank Last Line: Struck from man's lyric heartstrings, shall survive. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Biography; Dowden, Edward (1843-1913); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Biographers TO ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF RUTLAND, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That poets are far rarer births than kings Last Line: As he would burn or better far his book. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sidney, Elizabeth. Countess Of Rutland; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) TO F - (MRS. FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved! Amid the earnest woes Last Line: Just o'er that one bright island smile. Subject(s): Osgood, Frances Sargent (1811-1850); Poetry & Poets TO FLETCHER REVIV'D, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How have I been religious? What strange good Last Line: Yet all men henceforth be afraid to write. Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO GET THE FINAL LILT OF SONGS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Old Age TO GIACOMO LEOPARDI, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold was thy thought, o stricken son Last Line: Grand as the presence of night's queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Leopardi, Giacomo (1798-1837); Poetry & Poets TO GUY MURCHIE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No flower I bring you Last Line: The heart will speak without the pomp of rhyme. Subject(s): Time; Poetry & Poets TO HARRIET SHELLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: As some blithe schooner sailing on the breast Last Line: The silent dark thereafter to inherit! Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO HARTLEY COLERIDGE; SIX YEARS OLD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou whose fancies from afar are brought Last Line: Slips in a moment out of life. Variant Title(s): To H. C.; Six Years Old Subject(s): Children; Coleridge, Hartley (1796-1849); Poetry & Poets; Childhood TO HEINRICH HEINE, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake to lyric rapture once again Last Line: The fatherland swift healing on its wing. Subject(s): Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Judaism TO HELEN KELLER, by MADGE BARTON FEURER Poem Text First Line: You've had rhapsodic lyrics Last Line: "from me and america sent!"" . . . . . W. W." Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Praise TO HELEN KELLER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Milton, struck blind, saw Last Line: And the echoes of your song. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers TO HERRICK - A HANDFUL OF HERBS, by LILLIAN BARNES LONG Poem Text First Line: From rue and mint and rosemary Last Line: Dear rue, and dearest rosemary. Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets; Wellesley College TO HILDA OF HER ROSES, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enough has been said about roses Last Line: Ledwidge, even! Subject(s): Flowers; Ledwidge, Francis (1891-1917); Poetry & Poets; Roses TO HIS FRIEND, BEN JONSON, OF HIS HORACE MADE ENGLISH, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas not enough, ben jonson, to be thought Last Line: To be the horace of our times and his. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting TO HIS LATE MAJESTY, CONCERNING..TRUE FORM OF ENGLISH POETRY, by JOHN BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great king, the soveraigne ruler of this land Last Line: And be their wonder, as we were their scorne. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO HIS MISTRSS, DEPLORING THAT HE IS NOT AN ELIZABETHAN GALAXY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did not fate to me bequeath an Last Line: And called, at college, required reading. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND MASTER THOMAS SHAPCOTT, LAWYER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've paid thee, what I promis'd; that's not all Last Line: Farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Parting TO HIS VALET, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want three days to read the iliad through! Last Line: His heaven, shut fast the door! Don't let him in! Subject(s): Books; Goddesses & Gods; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Iliad; Odyssey TO HIS VERSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will ye (my poor orphans) do Last Line: Ill us'd, then babes left fatherless. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1), by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is your month, the month of perfect days Last Line: "we have ""five hundred"" -- not ""as good as he." Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets TO JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (2), by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A health to him whose double wreath displays Last Line: In life's fair field beyond the seven-barred gate! Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets TO JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY; ON HIS 'BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN', by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yours is a garden of old-fashioned flowers Last Line: You keep close to the human heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916) TO JOANNA, ON SENDING ME THE LEAF OF A FLOWER ... WORDSWORTH'S GARDEN, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joanna! Though I well can guess Last Line: I in one page will place you! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Leaves; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO JOHN DONNE (1), by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall doubt, donne, where I a poet be Last Line: A man should seek great glory, and not broad. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets TO JOHN DONNE (2), by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Donne, the delight of phoebus and each muse Last Line: But leave, because I cannot as I should! Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets TO JOHN HODDESDON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast inspired me with thy soul, and I Last Line: Will onely serve to be a foil to his. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Inspiration; Creativity TO JOHN KEATS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Severn, I feel the flowers o'er me grow,' Last Line: Greening above you in eternal spring. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Funerals; Future Life; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO JOHN KEATS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis well you think me truly one of those Last Line: Young keats, a flowering laurel on your brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets TO JOHN KEATS, POET, AT SPRING TIME, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot hold my peace, john keats Last Line: John keats, keep revel with me, too. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Spring TO JOHN KEATS; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great master! Boyish, sympathetic man! Last Line: Faint throbbings of thy music overhear. Variant Title(s): To John Keats Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets TO JOSEPH SEVERN; FOR THE CENTENARY OF KEATS' DEATH, 26 FEBRUARY 1921, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who loved keats will never long forget Last Line: And watched the soul win free from time's eclipse. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Severn, Joseph (1793-1879) TO JULIA MARLOWE (READING KEATS' ODE ON A GRECIAN URN), by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long had I loved this 'attic shape,'the brede Last Line: The empty urn was filled with chian wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Greece; Keats, John (1795-1821); Marlowe, Julia (1866-1950); Poetry & Poets; Greeks TO LIVE MERRILY AND TO TRUST TO GOOD VERSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time for mirth Last Line: With endless life are crown'd. Variant Title(s): His Poets Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO LORD BYRON ON HIS DEPARTURE FOR ITALY AND GREECE, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you resolve, dear byron, once again Last Line: Remember what we all expect, who read you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Parting TO LUATH (ROBERT BURNS' DOG), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, luath, man, when you came prancing Last Line: And yours the blame! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Dogs; Poetry & Poets TO LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD, WITH MR. DONNE'S SATIRES, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy, you brightness of our sphere, who are Last Line: The muses evening, as their morning-starre. Subject(s): Bedford, Lucy, Countess Of (1581-1627); Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets; Russell, Lucy, Countess Of Bedford TO MAETERLINCK, by JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY Poem Text First Line: Weaver of dreams like cloudy tapestries Last Line: The awful eyes of the unhurried norns. Alternate Author Name(s): Newberry, J. S. Subject(s): Dramatists; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Yale University TO MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: Dear dead poet, in your lyric way Last Line: And you'll write new songs on a bright new page. Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers TO MARIA GISBORNE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In london, that great sea, whose ebb and flow Last Line: You and I know in london. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO MARY WOLSTONECRAFT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lily cheek, the 'purple light of love' Last Line: To offer, nor unworthy thy regard. Subject(s): Godwin, Mary Wollenstonecraft (1759-79); Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Poetry & Poets; Strength; Victory; Women's Rights; Wollenstone, Mary (1759-79); Feminism TO MR. --, AN UNLETTERED POET, ON GENIUS UNIMPROVED, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: Florus, canst thou define that innate spark / which blazes but for glory? Last Line: And that be thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Genius; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom TO MR. ADDISON, OCCASIONED BY RETURN FROM HANOVER WITH LORD HALIFAX, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for a muse of fire and lofty style Last Line: But language fails to give th'ideas birth. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Praise; War TO MR. GRANVILLE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auspicious poet, wert thou not my friend Last Line: Thou copiest homer, and they copy thee. Variant Title(s): To Mr. Granville, Afterwards Lord Lansdowne Subject(s): Granville, George. Lord Lansdowne; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy; Youth; Dramatists TO MR. HOWARD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear howard, from the soft assaults of love Last Line: Given thee the world, though I withheld the fair. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Poetry & Poets TO MR. MURRAY (3), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strahan, tonson, lintot of the times Last Line: My murray! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Impromptu Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Murray, John (1745-1793); Poetry & Poets TO MR. S.T. COLERIDGE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midway the hill of science, after steep Last Line: Now heaven conduct thee with a parent's love! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets TO MR. SAM. AUSTIN OF WADHAM COLLEGE, ON HIS MOST UNTELLIGIBLE POEMS, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that small inch of time I stole, to look Last Line: My much apocalyptic friend sam. Austin. Subject(s): Austin, Samuel (17th Century); Poetry & Poets; Tradescant, John (1608-1662) TO MRS W. ON HER EXCELLENT VERSES WRITTEN IN A FIT OF SICKNESS, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough kind heaven! To purpose I have liv'd Last Line: With humble adoration, humble praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wharton, Anne (1659-1685); Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Rochester, 2nd Earl Of TO MY COUNTRY, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've never praised you in my poems Last Line: And blame the poor for being poor Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Social Commentaries TO MY DEAR FRIEND BEN JONSON (DIED AUGUST 6, 1637), by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see that wreath, which doth the wearer arm Last Line: A relic fam'd by all posterity. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO MY DEAR FRIEND MR. ELDRED REVETT ON HIS POEMS MORAL AND DIVINE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cleft, as the top of the inspired hill Last Line: Sick, echo o'er thy halleluiahs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO MY FATHER, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: They tell me that I have this gift from you Last Line: Writing a poem upon the window-sill. Subject(s): Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO MY FATHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take of the first fruits, father, of thy care Last Line: Revealed man's glory, god's great human heart. Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Fathers & Sons; God; Poetry & Poets; Childhood TO MY FRIEND, MASTER JOHN FORD; ON 'LOVE'S SACRIFICE', by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto this altar, rich with thy own spice Last Line: To read this tragedy, and thy own be next. Subject(s): Ford, John (1586-1639); Poetry & Poets TO MY GOOD MASTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fancy, always, at thy desk, thrown Last Line: My listening heart and all the love of it! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Attics; Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading TO MY HONORED FRIEND SIR ROBERT HOWARD, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As there is music uninform'd by art Last Line: "it shares at once his fortune and its own." Subject(s): Friendship; Howard, Sir Robert (1626-1698); Poetry & Poets; Praise TO MY LORD VERULAM, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Of mankind meanest!' out upon the pen Last Line: The way more sure appearing. Subject(s): Honor; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Ethics TO MY MOST DEARELY-LOVED FRIEND HENERY REYNOLDS ESQUIRE, OF POETS, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dearely loved friend how oft have we Last Line: And so my deare friend, for this time adue. Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Beaumont, Sir John (1583-1627); Bryan, Sir Francis (d. 1550); Dramatists; Drummond, William (1585-1649); Gascoigne, George (1525-1577); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Reynolds, Henry (17th Century); Sylvester, Joshu TO MY MUSE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vast parnassus never knew thy face Last Line: And watch the world's disaster with a smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tuscany, Italy TO MY OLD AND MOST WORTHY FRIEND MR. IZAAK WALTON, ON LIFE OF DONNE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, to a nation's loss, the virtuous die Last Line: I think an honester can not be read. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683) TO MY OLD FRIEND, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who through every change remain Last Line: The days of eighteen-ninety-five! Subject(s): Change; Competition; Nostalgia; Poetry & Poets; Time; Writing & Writers TO MY OLD POEMS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You had no indpendence Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO MY POET, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear poet of the swift imperial ways Last Line: I gather from thy plenitude of song. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO MY READERS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, blame me not; I might have spared Last Line: The buds of song that never blow. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO MY WORTHY AND HONOURED FRIEND, MR. GEORGE CHAPMAN, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose work could this be, chapman, to refine Last Line: And who make thither else, rob, or invade. Subject(s): Chapman, George (1559-1634); Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting TO MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. ISAAC WALTON ON THE PUBLICATION OF THEALMA, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long had the bright thealma lain obscure Last Line: And shar'd that immortality he alone could give. Subject(s): Chalkhill, John (17th Century); Poetry & Poets; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683) TO MYRTALE (WITH HIS VERSES), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Myrtale, when I am gone Last Line: Ashes of anacreon.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets TO NIGHT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly walk o'er the western wave Last Line: Come soon, soon! Variant Title(s): Night;to The Night Subject(s): Death; Nature; Night; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Bedtime TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether you sing or scream Last Line: To no one in particular. Subject(s): Language; Murder; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs TO ONE WHO ASKED, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: Ah, what are poems? There is a kind of tree Last Line: And now you need not ask again of me. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO ONE WHO HAD SCOFFED AT THE POET'S POVERTY, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I am poor, callistratus! I own Last Line: A hundred of the crowd resemble thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking TO ONE WHO WOULD BE A POET, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In centre and circumference of all Last Line: Of noble thinking is the noble thought. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO P.J. (2 YRS OLD WHO SED WRITE A POEM FOR ME IN PORTLAND, OREGON), by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I cud ever write a Subject(s): African Americans; Poetry & Poets; Negroes; American Blacks TO PERCY SHELLEY, ON THE DEGRADING NOTIONS OF DEITY, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder, percy, that with jealous rage Last Line: Which his own lanthorn throws up from himself. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Freedom; God; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Liberty TO PILE LIKE THUNDER TO ITS CLOSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For none see god and live Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Love TO POETS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My children! Speak not ill of one another Last Line: The little poet must the great. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tolerance TO PYRRHA IN THE POCONOS, by RHEINHART KLEINER Poem Text First Line: Sweet, you have gone for a season's vacationing Last Line: You are expected at home in a week! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey TO Q. H. F., by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horatius flaccus, b.C. 8 Last Line: Unmatched, unmet, we have not known. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets TO R. H, by ELLA LEORA HOLDEMAN Poem Text First Line: With questing heart to drive my fainting soul Last Line: That you, its bread and wine, have never come. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO ROBERT BURNS; AN EPISTLE ON INSTINCT, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art a poet, robbie burns Last Line: My friendly sentence. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets TO RUDYARD KIPLING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To do some worthy deed of charity Last Line: Mine own goes homing back to thee and thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Poetry & Poets; Childhood TO RUPERT BROOKE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though we, a happy few Last Line: Hail, singer, and farewell! Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties TO SALSILLUS, A ROMAN POET, MUCH INDISPOSED, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My halting muse, that dragg'st by choice along Last Line: And guide them harmless, till they meet the main. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO SAMUEL COLERIDGE UPON HEARING HIS 'SOME I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS..', by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange to a sensing motherhood Last Line: Seeking the breast of an unknown face. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Mothers; Poetry & Poets TO SHAKESPEARE, by DONALD BAIN Poem Text First Line: We know you knew, but know not how you knew Last Line: Transmigrant over all the lands and seas. Subject(s): Dramatists; Genius; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO SHAKESPEARE, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul of man is larger than the sky Last Line: Serene of thought, unhurt by thy own flame. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Variant Title(s): Shakespeare Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO SHAKESPEARE, by RICHARD EDWIN DAY Poem Text First Line: Thou, who didst lay all other bosoms bare Last Line: Thou art, thyself, thy one unopened book. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO SHAKESPEARE'S MOTHER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Did he, madonna, on thy bosom turning Last Line: Girlish ophelia's love, and juliet's grave. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dramatists; Legacies; Mothers & Sons; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Inspiration; Creativity; Dramatists TO SHAKESPEARE; AFTER THREE HUNDRED YEARS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright baffling soul, least capturable of themes Last Line: Lodged there a radiant guest, and sped for ever thence. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO SHELLEY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shelley! Whose song so sweet was sweetest here Last Line: Kneels at thy feet and owns in shame a lie. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) TO SHELLEY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At shelley's birth Last Line: And the rekindling flame. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) TO SOME GREAT ONES; EPIGRAM, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets are great men's trumpets, poets fain Last Line: You make the poets, not the poets you. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO SOME MODERN POETS, by PASCAL D'ANGELO Poem Text First Line: Your names are like decapitated giants bleeding black Last Line: The flowers are few. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO SOUTHEY, 1833, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indweller of a peaceful vale Last Line: Showered upon my low head from thy most lofty lays. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Southey, Robert (1774-1843) TO SWINBURNE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poet! Thou art to me a faery king Last Line: Sea, wind and sun, the gods who rule the earth. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean TO THE AMERICAN POETS OF TO-DAY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades mine of muse and land Last Line: To find the measure of the wrong. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE ANSWERER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So now we are summoned together to worship and Last Line: The open road! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE AUTHOR OF 'GLARE', by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There comes a time when the story turns into twenty Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Ammons, Archibald Randolph TO THE AUTHOR OF 'THE ROBBERS' (SCHILLER), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Schiller! That hour I would have wished to die Last Line: Then weep aloud in a wild ecstasy! Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Author Of The Robbers Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von TO THE AUTHOR OF A SONNET BEGINNING 'SAD IS MY VERSE', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy verse is 'sad' enough, no doubt Last Line: Tell us you'll read them o'er again. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE AUTHOR OF AGNES DE CASTRO, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Orinda, and the fair astrea gone Last Line: Methinks we might more crowns than theirs subdue. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Trotter, Catherine Trotter (1679-1749) TO THE AUTHOR OF POEMS PUBLISHED ANONYMOUSLY (JOSEPH COTTLE), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unboastful bard! Whose verse concise yet clear Last Line: With fruits and flowers she loads the tempest-honour'd ground. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE BROWNING SOCIETY OF SHANGHAI, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be cruel to poets, and don't let them think Last Line: The time to praise poets is after they're dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Praise TO THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have ask'd for a verse - the request Last Line: The string which was worthy the strain. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S (3), by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear dean, I'm in a sad condition Last Line: Some ending where they just begun. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO THE DECEASED AUTHOR, UPON THE PROMISCUOUS PRINTING OF HIS POEMS, by THOMAS BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thy loose raptures, donne, shall meet with those Last Line: That they would buy thy goodnesse, with thy crimes. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets TO THE DETRACTER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where others love, and praise my verses; still Last Line: Are wanton with their itch; scratch, and 'twill please. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE EARL OF WARWICK ON THE DEATH OF MR. ADDISON, by THOMAS TICKELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, dumb too long, the drooping muse hath stayed Last Line: No chance could sever, nor the grave divide. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government TO THE EXCELLENT ORINDA, by PHILO PHILIPPA Poem Text First Line: Let the male poets their male phoebus chuse Last Line: Wit is still higher by humility. Subject(s): "humility; Philips, Katherine (""orinda"") (1631-64); Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women; TO THE FRENCH POETS OF TO-DAY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death-agonies, dances, resurrections hurled Last Line: Hanging each instant on a single breath. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets - French TO THE FRIENDLIEST OF POETS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Chaucer, kind heart, who with the score and ten Last Line: Your frank and winsome rhyme! Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom TO THE FURZE BUSH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let burns and old chaucer unite Last Line: And beneficence learn from the furze! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes TO THE KING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If when these lyricks (cesar) you shall heare Last Line: The heire to this great realme of poetry. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE LADY CASTLEMAIN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As seamen, shipwrecked on some happy shore Last Line: New life to my condemn'd and dying muse. Variant Title(s): To The Lady Castlemain - Afterwards Duchess Of Cleveland Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Villiers, Barbara. Duchess Of Cleveland; Women; Seamen; Sails TO THE LEARNED SHEPHEARD, by GABRIEL HARVEY Poem Text First Line: Collyn, I see, by the new taken taske Last Line: Hobynoll. Alternate Author Name(s): Hobynoll Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) TO THE MEMORY OF A POET, by EDWIN COULSON CLARK Poem Text First Line: A stranger strode across the breathless air Last Line: Of golden verse she penned . . . And legacied. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Strangers TO THE MEMORY OF BEN JONSON, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muse's fairest light in no dark time Last Line: With sorrow here, with wonder on his book. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO THE MEMORY OF HOOD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another star 'neath time's horizon dropped Last Line: "go, ask it of the poor." Subject(s): Hood, Thomas (1799-1845); Poetry & Poets TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN KEATS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world, its hopes, and fears, have passed away Last Line: Thy name with him shall linger, and be dear. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To draw no envy, shakespeare, on thy name Last Line: And despairs day, but for thy volume's light! Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists TO THE MEMORY OF POETS, by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fame of those pure bards whose faces lie Last Line: In the deep bosom of eternal rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Talfourd, Sergeant Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE MEMORY OF WILFRED OWEN, by CHARLES NORMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sunset of their youth they strode Last Line: When lads before them paced to pave the ground. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Memory; Military; Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers; Youth; Dead, The TO THE MOST VERTUOUS MISTRESSE POT, WHO .. ENTERTAINED HIM, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I through all my many poems look Last Line: He payes the halfe, who do's confesse the debt. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE MUSE, by EDWARD MOXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest of virgins, daughter of a god Last Line: As erst, with flowers, the path I pensive still pursue. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE MUSES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether on ida's shady brow / or in the chambers of the east Last Line: The sound is forced, the notes are few! Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister of love-lorn poets, philomel Last Line: She thrills me with the husband's promised name! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Poetry & Poets TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Exert thy voice, sweet harbinger of spring Last Line: Or censure what we cannot reach. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Variant Title(s): The Poet To The Nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Poetry & Poets TO THE PIOUS MEMORY OF THE YOUNG LADY MRS. ANNE KILLIGREW, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies Last Line: The way which thou so well hast learn'd below. Variant Title(s): Ode To The Pious Memory Of Mrs. Anne Killigrew;to The Pious Memory Of The Accomplished Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew Subject(s): Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685); Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets TO THE POET COLERIDGE, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rapt in the visionary theme! Last Line: Which gives to airy dreams a magic all thy own! Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets TO THE POETRY OF HUGH MCCRAE, by KENNETH SLESSOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uncles who burst on childhood, from the east, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE READER, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These flowers I gathered by the highway side Last Line: And plant some seed before we pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Transience; Impermanence TO THE REV. DR FRANCIS TURNER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If poets, ere they clothed their infant thought Last Line: And humbly bring the verse which you inspire. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets; Virtue TO THE REV. WILLIAM BULL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear friend / if reading verse be your delight Last Line: Be always filling, never full. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO THE RIGHT HON. HENRY PELHAM; THE HUMBLE PETITION, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That your honour's petitioners (dealers in rhymes Last Line: And your honour's petitioners ever shall pray. Subject(s): Pelham, Henry (1695 -1754); Poetry & Poets TO THE ROBIN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ox is all as happy, in his stall Last Line: And with a poet's fear when twigs are lim'd. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Robins TO THE SAME (PERCY SHELLEY, ON THE DEGRADING NOTIONS OF DEITY), by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet, percy, not for this, should he whose eye Last Line: Be still with thine own task in unison. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Freedom; God; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Liberty TO THE SIGHING STREPHON, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your pardon, my friend, if my rhymes did offend Last Line: For it only consists in the word. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Regret TO THE SONS OF BURNS, AFTER VISITING THE GRAVE OF FATHER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid crowded obelisks and urns Last Line: And think, and fear! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets TO THE SPIRIT OF BYRON, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou more than poet, freedom's laureate Last Line: To belgium thou hadst poured libation of thy life! Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron TO THE SPIRIT OF MAY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now she stands upon enthroning hills Last Line: And throws a ray of ripeness o'er that face where unborn harvest sleeps. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE SPIRIT OF POETRY, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things are changed save thee Last Line: And I have gain'd my spirit's paradise. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE SWEETWILLIAM, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I search the poet's honied lines Last Line: Sweetwilliam! Subject(s): Dramatists; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO THE VERS LIBRIST WHO USES ONLY THE MINOR KEY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not, o mournful poet Last Line: And I'm weary of the theme. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading TO THE WEST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the crowded east Last Line: The singers and thinkers for whom we wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking TO THE WINE TREASURER OF THE CIRCUIT MESS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wink at it only with thine eyes Last Line: Both at thy wine and thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO THEOPHILE GAUTIER, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The poet snares his prize Last Line: To ply the tool with skill. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventy years one well might choose Last Line: At seventy years! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907); Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets TO THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, IN ANSWER TO HIS 'ON READING PURPLE EAST', by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Idle the churlish leagues 'twixt you and me Last Line: Sang not alone, for with me was your muse. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907); Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets TO THOMAS MOORE (3), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you doing now Last Line: Oh thomas moore! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Poetry & Poets TO THOMAS SHERIDAN, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tom, I'm surprised that your verse did not jingle Last Line: For he says, short as 'tis, it will give you a stool. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738) TO THOMAS STANLEY, ON HIS POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If what we know be made ourselves, for by Last Line: To crown thee, ravish garlands from his dust. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678); Translating & Interpreting TO THOMAS STANLEY, ON HIS POEMS, .. MANIFEST HIS MORE SERIOUS LABOURS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou nature's step here treadest in Last Line: Castor alone bodes danger to the pine. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678) TO THOSE WORTHY HEROES OF OUR AGE, by NATHANIEL WHITING Poem Text First Line: You noble laureates, whose able quills Last Line: These lines and letters to the ken of prose. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO VERA, WHO ASKED A SONG, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I only had time! Last Line: As sweet as a linnet, your song! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO VIOLET (WITH A BUNCH OF NAMESAKES), by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a maid - I am afraid Last Line: My rhymes are filled with u. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Violets; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations TO VIRGIL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roman virgil, thou that singest Last Line: Ever moulded by the lips of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Writing & Writers; Vergil TO VIVIENNE, by ADRIAN SMITH Poem Text First Line: You lie back with delicate insolence, against pale Last Line: On a pale pink rosette! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO W. B. YEATS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathless of laurel plucked by delian springs Last Line: Where thy own rose reigns queen of all the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Temples; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Paradise; Mosques TO WALT WHITMAN, by TOM MACINNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello there, walt! Last Line: Forever on their own! Subject(s): Admiration; Language; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary TO WALT WHITMAN, by FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Bold innovator in the realm of thought Last Line: Of innocency on a thousand hills. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) TO WALT WHITMAN IN AMERICA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Send but a song oversea for us Last Line: Lives, and that only is god Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Liberty TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our kind vandalize the earth Last Line: The joy and burden of our song Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON TAGORE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is made clear by the phrase Last Line: Outshines ordinary jewels, is your praise. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tagore, Rabindranath, Sir (1861-1941); Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the wise! And teacher of the good! Last Line: And when I rose, I found myself in prayer. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH; ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS POEM, 'PETER BELL', by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful poet! As thou art Last Line: And live in history's latest page. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO WORDSWORTH, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Poet of calm,-like to a mountain mere Last Line: What hidden glory round their pathway lies! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO WORDSWORTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is a strain to read among the hills Last Line: Bright healthful waves flow forth, to each glad wanderer free. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO WORDSWORTH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those who have laid the harp aside Last Line: When 'mid their light thy light appears. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO WORDSWORTH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wordsworth, I envy thee, that from the strife Last Line: Flies far from thee, whose great reward is sure! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO WORDSWORTH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet of nature, thou hast wept to know Last Line: Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO-DAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day is a room Last Line: Upon that side. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Windows TO-MORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, then, another drink! Ben jonson knows Last Line: Let's walk and hear the lark. Subject(s): Birthdays; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Middle Age; Poetry & Poets TODAY'S NOT OPPOSITE DAY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't say can't not Last Line: It's not time to sleep but it feels like night Subject(s): Change; Conversation; Poetry & Poets TOMB OF BAUDELAIRE, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the bridge is a state of prison. Then Subject(s): Poetry Readings; Poetry & Poets TOMBSTONES IN THE STARLIGHT: 3. THE ACTRESS, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her name, cut clear upon this marble cross Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TOMORROW'S TANGLE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tomorrow's tangle to the winds resign' Last Line: The good old sun will shine; tomorrow's tangle to the winds resign. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TONE ARM, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds go rolling over Last Line: A shirt is here, too Subject(s): Columbia University; Poetry & Poets; Teaching & Teachers TOO LATE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sighed a poet when his fame Last Line: For I've lived just thirty years beyond the time! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Time; Reputation TOOTHACHE, by W. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: To have it out or not? That is the question Last Line: "with this regard his footsteps turns away, / scared at the name of dentist" Alternate Author Name(s): W. Subject(s): "dramatists;poetry & Poets;shakespeare, William (1564-1616);teeth;" Toothaches TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: AFTER LONG AGES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tired child, on thy way to paradise Last Line: "we also pass into peace and joy eternal." Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Paradise TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN THE DRAWING ROOMS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the drawing-rooms I saw scarce one that seemed at ease Last Line: Own life for them. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Men; Poetry & Poets; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. O LOVE - TO WHOM THE POETS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love - to whom the poets have made verses Last Line: Do I praise thee. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Poetry & Poets TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. NOT FOR A FEW MONTHS OR YEARS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think not that that which is growing inside you Last Line: Shall not satisfy it. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets TRAIN-MATES, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside hove shasta, snowy height on height Last Line: As discus-thrower and as laureate? Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Athletes; Poetry & Poets TRANSCRIPTION OF ORGAN MUSIC, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The flower in the glass peanut bottle formerly in the Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TRESPASSERS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, on this new page Last Line: As if drawn by a magnet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TRIOLET: 2. WHAT SHE THOUGHT, by HARRISON ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: To kiss a fan! Last Line: What a poky poet! Alternate Author Name(s): Robertson, T. H. Subject(s): Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations TRIPLETS FOR FATHER MALONE, by EDWARD FIELD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know I've sinned, father Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Poetry & Poets; Triplets TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These cruel critics put me into passion Last Line: By suffering for the plot, without confessing. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists TRUE RECOGNITION IS OFTEN REFUSED, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We poets by the past and future used Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TRYST (AFTER READING FROM SHAKESPEARE), by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, thou art heavy, with no stars to chain Last Line: A dead hand lies like flame upon my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Love - Loss Of; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists TULIPS AND ADDRESSES, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The museum of modern art on west fifty-third street Last Line: When they see the bright, red, beautiful flowers in my window. Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Museums; Poetry & Poets; Tulips; Art Gallerys TUNBRIDGE WELLS, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At five this morn, when phoebus raised his head Last Line: Did seem to me by much the wiser creature. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Tunbridge Wells, England TURKISH PEARS IN AUGUST, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes a poem has her own husband Last Line: As turkish pears picked in the garden in august. Variant Title(s): Snow Falling On Snow Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Food & Eating TURTLES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Orrick, poet-laureate of st. Louis Last Line: Is it feet carry them? Subject(s): New York City; Poetry & Poets; Turtles; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Tortoises TUT TUT!, by JULIA COPELAND Poem Text First Line: I have written a hundred poems in the last Last Line: The hell with balder dash! (wish I had his guts!) Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TWELVE O'CLOCK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I've come to read a poem Last Line: And everything, forever, everything is changed. Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976); Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; World War Ii; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Parenthood; Feminism; Second World War TWENTY-FOUR LOGICS IN MEMORY OF LEE HICKMAN, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The bend in the river followed us for days Subject(s): Time; Life; Poetry & Poets TWO ARGOSIES (ANTONIO'S AND SHAKESPEARE'S), by WALLACE BRUCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ducats take! I'll sign the bond today Last Line: Her titled language crowned in high entail. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TWO BOYHOODS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luminous passions reign Last Line: These two high childhoods in the heart of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TWO FOR GERTRUDE KASLE: 2. THE TITLE OF THE LAST POEM WAS WRONG AGAIN, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To trap a chipmunk put a bait of nuts Last Line: Difference, but hopeless not to Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TWO PARTS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen to me Last Line: Puking long streams of it Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary TWO POETS BY THE LAKE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lakeshore modulated to a cove Last Line: The balked need urgent in your words, and mine. Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Writing & Writers; Pools; Ponds; Feminism TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors TWO TOWNS, by RALPH LINTON Poem Text First Line: There was a mighty city Last Line: Your fate is in their hands. Subject(s): Crete; Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Troy; Ulysses; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus TYING ONE ON IN VIENNA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been, faithfully, to the thirty-nine birthplaces of beethoven Last Line: Hooray for purple and gold, for liquor and angels! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Christianity; Poetry & Poets; Vienna; Women; Women's Rights; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Feminism TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hold! Are you mad? You damned, confounded dog! Last Line: Yet dy'd a princess, acting in s.Cathar'n. Subject(s): Ghosts; Gwynn, Eleanor (nell) (1650-1687); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural; Gwyn, Eleanor (nell); Gwynne, Eleanor (nell); Dramatists TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Self-love, which, never rightly understood Last Line: Find but those faults, which they want wit to make. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Self-righteousness; Dramatists ULTIMA THULE: ROBERT BURNS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see amid the fields of ayr Last Line: Dear guest and ghost! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets UMBRA, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close to the best known author umbra sits Last Line: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 30. A PORTRAIT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a kind of farthing dip Last Line: Thank god, and there's an end of that! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Mallock, William Hurrell (1849-1923); Poetry & Poets UNEXPRESSED, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dwells within the soul of every artist Last Line: And waves of an unfathomable sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Love; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Time UNHISTORICAL EVENTS, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Appollinaire / never knew about rock gut charlie Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Modern Life; Poetry & Poets; Surrealism UNION OF WOMEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At a literary gathering in santa monica Last Line: So here's to solidarity, cinquains, brave bearded ladies -- hooray! Subject(s): Beards; Hotels; Labor Unions; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Feminism UNKNOWN FRIENDS, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One line may, like a friend who knows us well Last Line: Nor tell the eyes from whom I learnt my lore. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets UNREVEALED, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: No one will know that poems, which lie Last Line: Of one, who hears the grasses grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Poetry & Poets UNTITLED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely I am able to write poems Last Line: Another poem? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Poetry & Poets UNWANTED, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poster with my picture on it Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Social Protest; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Work; Workers UPON AN EUNUCH; A POET, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deem not that thou art barren, though, forlorn Last Line: And echo nurse thy words, a tuneful race. Subject(s): Enuchs; Poetry & Poets UPON BEN JONSON [JOHNSON], by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies jonson [johnson] with the rest Last Line: Of his glory. So farewell. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets UPON HIMSELF (4), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt not all die; for while love's fire shines Last Line: Fame, and his name, both set, and sing his lyricks. Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets UPON HIS DEPARTURE HENCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus I Last Line: Farewell. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The UPON HIS VERSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What off-spring other men have got Last Line: And no verse illegitimate. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES, by EDMUND GEORGE VALPY KNOX Poem Text First Line: Whenas in furs my julia goes Last Line: Oh, how their likeness taketh me! Alternate Author Name(s): Evoe; Knox, E. V. Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets UPON LOOKING INTO MY MIRROR, by MIRIAM S. LEWIS Poem Text First Line: The writing of fourteen-line sonnets Last Line: Too few are for half-quatrain! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Writing & Writers UPON M. BEN. JONSON - EPIGRAM, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the rare arch-poet jonson died [dy'd] Last Line: Her resurrection ha's again with thee. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets UPON MR. J. DONNE, AND HIS POEMS, by ARTHUR WILSON Poem Text First Line: Who dares say thou art dead, when he doth see Last Line: In panegyrique alleluiaes. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets UPON SEEING NOTES MADE BY A POET, by MILDRED W. CLARK Poem Text First Line: I feel the gentle dimness of a light Last Line: And show them, stumbling, how to lift, to lift! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) UPON THE DEATH OF MY EVER CONSTANT FRIEND DOCTOR DONNE, DEAN OF PAUL'S, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To have lived eminent, in a degree Last Line: To forme the diamond, but the diamonds dust. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets UPON THE DEATH OF SIR ALBERT MORTON'S WIFE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He first deceased; she for a little tried Last Line: To live without him, liked it not, and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Widows & Widowers UPON THE SAYING THAT MY VERSES WERE MADE BY ANOTHER, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Next heaven my vows to thee (o sacred muse!) Last Line: To speak the truth, although believ'd too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets USES OF THE LOST POETS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poems of others he clipped and saved in those distant summers Last Line: To save the lonesome traveller lost on the nightbound roads Subject(s): Poetry & Poets UT TUTO AB ATRIS CORPORE VIPERIS ..., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horace, an infant, (here he interweaves Last Line: "for bears read goats""—pro ursis lege hircis" Subject(s): Babies; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Infants VAIN LADY, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poet, you write me fair who am fair today Last Line: No later one shall discover my littleness. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets VALENTINE FOR ERNEST MANN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can't order a poem like you order a taco Last Line: And let me know. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Secrets VALENTINE: TO A POET, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tender and pale the young moon shone Last Line: Thou risen star of poesy! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Poetry & Poets; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO A POETESS, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A nameless power lives in thy verse Last Line: Thy flight of glory winging. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Poetry & Poets; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO THE WIFE OF A POET, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O faithful friend! O gentle wife! Last Line: Genius and infancy and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Poetry & Poets; Valentine's Day VARIATION ON BEN JONSON, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty! And oh 'twas I who saw Last Line: All beauty, and all in one spot. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Beauty; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets VENUS OF THE LOUVRE, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the long hall she glistens like a star Last Line: For vanished hellas and hebraic pain. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Louvre, Paris; Poetry & Poets; Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus De Milo VERMONT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's french, of course - our name. And I must think Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets; Vermont; Warren, Josiah (1798-1874) VERSE AND PROSE, by JOHN OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why swifter far than prose do verses run? Last Line: Verses have num'rous feet, and prose has none. Subject(s): Literature; Poetry & Poets VERSE TRANSLATOR, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goethe, racine, neruda, pushkin - next! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting VERSES FROM THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through alpine meadows soft-suffused Last Line: "and leave our desert to its peace!" Variant Title(s): Stanzas From The Grande Chartreuse Subject(s): Monasteries; Poetry & Poets; Abbeys VERSES INSCRIBED TO AN UNKNOWN POETICAL CORRESPONDENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou, my leal 'auld brither'? Last Line: Oh! My soul would fly afar. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The VERSES ON PREACHING EXTEMPORE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hint I gave some time ago Last Line: But ex Æternitate too. Subject(s): Advice; Poetry & Poets; Preaching & Preachers; Speech; Talk; Oratory; Orators VERSES TO RHYME WITH ROSE, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy gthe lab'rer in his sunday clothes Subject(s): Poetry & Poets VERSES TRIVOCULAR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of one scrap of science I've evidenced ocular Last Line: So with them will I finish these verses trivocular. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets VERSES VERSUS VERSES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, there's courtship Subject(s): Poetry & Poets VERSES WHY BURNT, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many verses have I thrown Last Line: Was irrecoverably lost! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking VERSES WRITTEN DURING A SLEEPLESS NIGHT (1), by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep I cannot find, nor light Last Line: I would study thy dark tongue ... Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Poetry & Poets VERSES: THE FIFTH BOY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When oxford saw in her radclivian dome Last Line: Help'd the rare thief to raise up a design. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets VERSES: THE MASTER'S SPEECH, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our worthy founder, gentlemen, this day Last Line: Take what you like, sirs, and excuse the rest. Subject(s): Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets; Speech; Oratory; Orators VERSICLES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read the christabel Last Line: God damn! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets VIEW FROM THE EUGANEAN HILLS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many a green isle needs must be Last Line: And the earth grow young again. Variant Title(s): Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills;written In The Euganean Hills, North Italy Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death; Italy; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sin; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Dead, The; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain) VIGILS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are talking about metaphor Subject(s): Language; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary; Similes VILLANELLE: EXCEPTION TO THE RULE - 1, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baboons were preening, and the sun was setting. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor ladies wanton loue, nor wandring knight Last Line: To tell our grant his banks are left forlore. Subject(s): Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With some pot-fury rauisht from their wit Last Line: For euery peasants brasse, on each scaffold. Subject(s): Fortune; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too popular is tragick poesie Last Line: Or let their vndeseruing temples bared bee. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great is the folly of a feeble braine Last Line: Sure will he saint her in his calendere. Variant Title(s): The Love-sick Poet Subject(s): Love; Lust; Poetry & Poets VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 9, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enuie ye muses, at your thriuing mate Last Line: Be gossips to those ribald rymes of thine. Subject(s): Cupid; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Eros VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 6: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Labeo reserves a long nayle for the nonce Last Line: Who would not but wed poets now a daies! Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Poetry & Poets VIRGILII CARMINA, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I love thee, little book! Last Line: With my virgil hand in hand! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Printing And Printers; Singing & Singers; Reading VISIONS IN VERSE; AN EPISTLE TO THE READER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Authors, you know, of greatest fame Last Line: You can't in conscience think me wrong. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets VOICES, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O there were many voices Last Line: Of mr. Bynner's rhyme. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets VOORREDE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steendam the poet (whom all men know) Last Line: "rollicking lays of the good old times!" Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme VORTICIST POEM ON LOVE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is the great inspirer Last Line: Archie. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets VORTIGREN: EPILOGUE, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Text First Line: Ye solemn critics! Wheresoe'er you're seated Last Line: A kind protector and a gen'rous friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Dramatists; Ireland, William Henry (1777-1835); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) VOS DEOS LAUDAMUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lords our gods, beneficent, sublime Last Line: And yours our worship yet, o lords our gods. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Praise W. W., by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye, walt! Last Line: Good-bye, old walt! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WAITING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the fervor Last Line: But I can't tell you how any of them sing. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Violence; Waiting; Dead, The; Judaism WAITING INSIDE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I protest my isolation / but protest is a mark of my defeat Last Line: With our arms around each other's waists, / in support Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WAKU, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Floating down the stream Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WALT WHITMAN, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Thy soul hath revelled in the forests green Last Line: Didst pass the heights where storms and the eagles meet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by SAMUEL DUNIEVITZ Poem Text First Line: Simplicity in purity of truth / that in all Last Line: Is the ever lingering object of walt whitman. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O shaggy god of the ground, barbaric pan! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS Poem Text First Line: He was in love with truth and knew her near Last Line: Till kind earth held him and he spake with death. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by CAVE OUTLAW Poem Text First Line: Sitting on a fence Last Line: Alone and without pretense. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The master-songs are ended, and the man Last Line: We write them there forever. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I am no slender singing bird Last Line: That it shall ring for aye and aye. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Darkness and death? Nay, pioneer, for thee Last Line: March 26, 1'92. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN AT BEAR MOUNTAIN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neither on horseback nor seated Last Line: Dances like italy, imagining red. Subject(s): Bear Mountain, New York; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN IN ALABAMA, by JAKE ADAM YORK Poem Text First Line: Maybe on his way to gadsden Subject(s): Alabama; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prescient, my hands soothing Last Line: To death which I have praised Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; United States - History; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WANG WEI, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At my window Last Line: The moon. Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poetry & Poets WAR POET, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the man who looked for peace and found Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; War; World War Ii; Second World War WAS THAT REALLY A SONNET?, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Human being' / has government Last Line: Compared to natural flutter Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) WASH LOWRY'S REMINISCENCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you're the poet of this concern? Last Line: By plowin' in rougher soil. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Health; Poetry & Poets WASHING-DAY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muses are turned gossips; they have lost Last Line: And verse is one of them -- this most of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Hot-air Balloons; Housewives; Laundry & Laundering; Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne (1745-1799); Montgolfier, Joseph Michael (1740-1810); Poetry & Poets WASHING-DAY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muses are turned gossips; they have lost Last Line: And verse is one of them -- this most of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Hot-air Balloons; Housewives; Laundry & Laundering; Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne (1745-1799); Montgolfier, Joseph Michael (1740-1810); Poetry & Poets WASSAIL CHORUS AT THE MERMAID TAVERN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas knows a merry, merry place Last Line: Rare!' Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Christmas; Dramatists; Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Heywood, Thomas (1574-1641); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Mermaid Tavern; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nativity, The WATCH THIS POEM DISAPPEAR, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WATERFALL, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry has often been described Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WE CATCH A BROKEN PRELUDE AND SUGGESTION, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mystery; Poetry & Poets WE HAVE KNOWN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have known such joy as a child knows Last Line: And will not survive, though you have them. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Love; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Joy; Delight; Parenthood WELL, WHY NOT?, by L. T. Poem Text First Line: Rhymer byron was a rake Last Line: I too ought to be a poet. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Poetry & Poets; Wine WHAT A WRITER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I liked about e.E. Cummings Last Line: One moon Subject(s): Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962); Poetry & Poets WHAT AILS THE WORLD?, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What ails the world?' the poet cried Last Line: Unanswered -- and the poet dies. Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; World WHAT CAN STOP THIS, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can stop this Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets WHAT EFFECT HAS YOUR NEW SON HAD ON YOUR WRITING LIFE?, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: While andrew sleeps Last Line: Andrew wants his bottle. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Childhood; Parenthood WHAT IS A POEM, by GERTRUDE GORE Poem Text First Line: I thought a poem was a prayer Last Line: Of an anguish in the heart. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHAT IS A POEM?, by CARMEN JUDSON Poem Text First Line: Ask him who knows the secret of the seed Last Line: "a mounting step on stairs that lead -- to god." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHAT IS A POEM?, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picture a man going from place Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHAT IS POETRY, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The medieval town, with frieze / of boy scouts from nagoa? Last Line: It might give us--what?--some flowers soon? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHAT IS POETRY?, by MARIA JAMES Poem Text First Line: A lambent flame within the breast Last Line: From nature's own impassion'd child. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHAT LASTS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So help me, love, you and I Last Line: The flower itself is to something or other. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, poet - you, who sing Last Line: When they take away our tears. Subject(s): Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime WHAT NEWS, WHAT NEWS? QUEEN ORRACA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Poetry & Poets WHAT SHALL ENDURE?, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: The poet squanders time in idle dreams Last Line: The dreamer's song, perchance, outlasts them all. Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Optimism; Work; Workers WHAT THE BONES KNOW, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering the past Last Line: I do not waste my breath. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Self-consciousness; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Feminism WHAT THE CHAIRMAN TOLD TOM, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry? It's a hobby Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW TO BE A POET, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All you can about animals as persons Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHEN AND WHERE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What man was in the moon last night? Last Line: That worked in gold, inside the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHEN HE WOULD HAVE HIS VERSES READ, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sober mornings, do not thou rehearse Last Line: Let rigid cato read these lines of mine. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHEN HELEN KELLER SPOKE (WALT WHITMAN DINNER, 1918), by GEORGE JAY SMITH Poem Text First Line: After others had said their say Last Line: Which she could not hear. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Words; Vocabulary WHEN I LOOK AT THE DATES OF ARTISTS, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at the dates of artists who died before my age Last Line: I was the homebody, tethered to my spiral notebook, alarmed by experience Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time WHEN I OPEN THE BOOK, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which raises green from the fallen seed Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Love; Language WHEN I READ SHAKESPEARE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I read shakespeare I am struck with wonder Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists WHEN ORION ON THE WANE, by GIUSEPPE PARINI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: With wavering steps return Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHEN THE GREAT CHINESE PAPERMAKERS CAME TO CUBA, GREAT POETS FOLLOWED, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because of the great stillness, a silence so deep it made the pink carp Last Line: Surfaces, this heavenly paperupon which to write a firest, lasting word Subject(s): China; Cuba; Paper; Poetry & Poets WHERE ARE THE WAR POETS, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They who in folly or mere greed Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; War WHERE ARE THE WAR POETS?, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They who in folly or mere greed Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; War WHERE ILIUM WAS PROUD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the sands where ilium was proud Last Line: Only a deathless tale in poets' mouths. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Iliad; Odyssey; Self-esteem; Self-respect WHEREVER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever I go Last Line: He will accept with terror Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHETHER MORAL VIRTUE COMES BY HABITUATION, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is said that sometimes even fear Last Line: The professionals of seared array Subject(s): Morality; Poetry & Poets WHILE DRIVING NORTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Note: when I drive alone Last Line: Literature the same Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Solitude; Poetry & Poets WHILE IN THE MOOD, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there is any kind of poetry Last Line: And I'll do some. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHITE CRANE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Fathers; Death; Cranes (birds); Dead, The WHITMAN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On long island, they moved my clapboard house Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); America WHO DO YOU WRITE AN ENDLESS HISTORY?, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why when you write do you most frequently Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHO DOES NOT LOVE TRUE POETRY, by HENRY CLAY HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: He has not known his god Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion WHY ARE YOUR POEMS SO DARK?, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't the moon dark too, / most of the time? Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness WHY DO POETS WRITE?, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My wife, a psychiatrist, sleeps Last Line: Things I would tell to a poem. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Psychiatry; Writing & Writers; Psychiatrists WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not a painter, I am a poet Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets WHY I DON'T WRITE FORMAL VERSE, by KAREN ALKALAY-GUT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WILD CREATURES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They say wild creatures hide themselves Last Line: And one small row of clean, white bones? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets WILLIAM COWPER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For this is being a friend just in the nick Last Line: For any man to pretend to inspiration Subject(s): Bible; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Mythology; Poetry & Poets WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO MRS. ANNE, REGULAR SERVANT, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A moment's patience, gentle mistress anne Last Line: For glorious puddings, & immortal pies. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists WILLIAM WORDSWORTH; 1845, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle and grave, in simple dress Last Line: That those white hands were laid on me Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WIND ON THE LYRE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was the chirp of ariel Last Line: The blood of us a lighted dew. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Singing & Singers WINE OF CYPRUS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If old bacchus were the speaker Last Line: I am sipping like a fly. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WINNING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is having by having Last Line: Containing the other carefully Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time WINNING HIS WAY, SELECTION, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is poetry. This. Is poetry Last Line: As they may. As. A. Treasure Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Fame WITH A COPY OF CALVERLEY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, lady, you applaud my rhymes Last Line: Me up! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WITH A COPY OF HERRICK, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh with all airs of woodland brooks Last Line: Of daffodils. Subject(s): Daffodils; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets WITH A COPY OF KEATS, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like listless lullabies of sail-swept seas Last Line: His lyric argosy! Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets WITH A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the holy missal shakespeare wrote Last Line: But the same burden weighs upon my heart. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists WITH A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS ON LEAVING COLLEGE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one of some fat tillage dispossessed Last Line: Some part of what thy friend once felt for thee. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) WITH A VOLUME OF VERSE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the ending of the ramadan Last Line: Which is the moral of more books than mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Ramadan WITH AN ALBUM, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not whether I am proud Last Line: Even to words so dull as mine. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Taste (esthetics) WITH TENURE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ezra pound were alive today Subject(s): Academia; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab WITHOUT FIGURES, by EDA LOU WALTON Poem Text First Line: I will write a poem Last Line: Touching me. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WOLF AND THE CASKET; OR THE UNITY OF THE ILIAD, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though wolf, in hypercritic zeal, insists Last Line: The war from fight to fight, from book to book. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Wolf, Friedrich August (1795-1824); Iliad; Odyssey WOMAN; WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF AN UNKNOWN LADY, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, although we have not met Last Line: A poet's immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Immortality; Poetry & Poets; Women WONDERFUL MEN (TO MY MOTHER), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Truly a wonderful man was caius julius caesar Last Line: Passed, as they all will pass, who have no throne for woman. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Poetry & Poets WOOD WITCHERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way ran under boughs of checkered green Last Line: Unaging beauty by another name. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Nature; New England; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets WORD BASKET WOMAN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Years after surviving Subject(s): Grandparents; Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Poetry & Poets; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WORD DRUNK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of the twenty thousand poems of li po Last Line: Suffused with light. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary WORD-PORTRAITS: THE DESCRIPTION OF SIR GEOFFREY CHAUCER, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His stature was not very tall Last Line: Thus did this ancient poet look. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Poetry & Poets WORDS FOR HART CRANE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the pulitzers showered on some dope Subject(s): Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Poetry & Poets WORDS IN THE VIOLENT WARD, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven, too Subject(s): Insanity; Poetry & Poets; Madness; Mental Illness WORDS, WORDS, WORDS'; TO ONE WHO FLOUTED THEM AS VAIN, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I not weary of them as your heart Last Line: This world were but for beasts, a darkling den Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WORDSWORTH, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grass hung wet on rydal banks Last Line: When, winged for heaven, thy soul ascended? Variant Title(s): With Wordsworth At Rydal Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WORDSWORTH, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet of the serene and thoughtful lay! Last Line: And grateful hail fair luna's tender light. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WORDSWORTH, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet of the serene and thoughtful lay Last Line: And grateful hail fair luna's tender light. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WORDSWORTH, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moonlit desert's yellow sands Last Line: Had yielded their serenity. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WORDSWORTH, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wordsworth, thy music like a river rolls Last Line: The hidden fountain of recovered joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WORDSWORTH ON LLOYD GEORGE, by MARY VISICK Poem Text First Line: I met a little cottage-girl Last Line: Must sure in heaven dwell. Subject(s): Lloyd George, David (1863-1945); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WORDSWORTH'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old rude church, with bare, bald tower, is here Last Line: In rest, in peace, his labour nobly done. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Graves; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Tombs; Tombstones WORDSWORTH; WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS MEMOIRS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friends, who read the world aright Last Line: With him surviveth all. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WORDSWORTHIAN REMINISCENCES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I walked and came upon a picket fence Last Line: "but where the posts comes in, I could not tell" Subject(s): "memory;poetry & Poets;wordsworth, William (1770-1850); WORLD'S BLISS, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men & women sang & played Subject(s): Women Writers; Poetry & Poets; Death; Dead, The WRITING ON NAPKINS AT THE SUNSHINE CLUB; MACON, GEORGIA 1970, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rock-o-la plays country and western Last Line: Even the low belch of the brunette behind the flippers. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Country Life; Country Music; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; South (u.s.) WRITING POETRY, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bear no grudge against the andes Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers WRITTEN AT HURSTMONCEAUX; ON READING A POEM OF WORDSWORTH'S, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Derwent! Winander! Sweetest of all sounds Last Line: With such an invocation . . Hail, and live! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WRITTEN AT LUDLOW CASTLE (IN THE HALL WHERE COMUS WAS FIRST PERFORMED), by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where wall and sill and broken window-frame Last Line: And they are more than ghosts who lived and sang. Subject(s): Ludlow Castle, England; Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets WRITTEN AT SEA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is my quarrel with thee, beautiful sea Last Line: Or bear thy beauty in my misery. Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements WRITTEN FOR A LADY'S COMMON-PLACE BOOK, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Who can imagine what plague and what bothers Last Line: Shall shine on the belle of the state of r-- I-- -- Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WRITTEN IN A COPY OF HORACE, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could you tell from all his satires Last Line: Say, then, chloe, could you tell? Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Satire (as Poetic Genre) WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM AT CLIFTON, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long have I racked my brains for rhymes to please Last Line: Forgive, and shut these pages up for ever. Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Longing; Poetry & Poets; Story-telling; Travel; Women; Reading; Clemency; Journeys; Trips WRITTEN IN KEATS' 'ENDYMION', by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw pale dian, sitting by the brink Last Line: Gave back endymion in a dreamlike tale. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets WRITTEN IN SIR SIDNEY LEE'S LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lee, who in niggard soil hast delved, to find Last Line: Glorious with casual sprinklings of the foam. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Biography; Dramatists; Lee, Sidney (1859-1926); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Biographers WRITTEN IN VISTORS' BOOK AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF ROBERT BURNS, by GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of heavenly stature, but most human smile Last Line: Whose thorns are in his hands. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets WRITTEN IN WINTERBORNE CAME CHURCH, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not use to listen well Last Line: And climb the pulpit-stair. Subject(s): April; Barnes, William (1801-1886); Churches; Poetry & Poets; Cathedrals X IS FOR X, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And x marks the spot Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Poetry & Poets YAK, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long-haired yak has long black hair Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Poetry & Poets YARILA, by SERGEI GORODETSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First to sharpen the ax-flint they bent Last Line: A new god. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Russian; Poetry & Poets; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians YELLOW GLOVE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can a yellow glove mean in a world of motorcars and / governments? Subject(s): Arabs - Women; Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets YES, I KNOW, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I know I am not Last Line: Like / this one Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Poetry & Poets YESTERDAY, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday, the sunshine made the air glow Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets YESTERDAY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've trod the links with many a man Last Line: These verses -- yesterday. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Poetry & Poets YESTERDAYS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sixty-two, sixty-three, I most remember Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Time; Friendship YOLANTE AND MARY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Both these ladies know by instinct Last Line: There have reign'd, then been dismiss'd Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Youth YOU ARE SUCHA FOOL, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are sucha fool/ I haveta love you Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets YOU CAN START THE POETRY NOW, OR: NEWS FROM CRAZY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I guess all I'm trying to say is I saw crazy horse die for Last Line: Start the poetry!! Start the poetry now!! Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Irony; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE SAY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sulky what-ifs Last Line: The norm is always incorrect. If what? Subject(s): Dramatists; Hell; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do your poems comfort me, I ask myself Subject(s): Poetry & Poets YOU WERE, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: You were white sky Last Line: In a wild prairie-hill bed. Subject(s): Beds; Poetry & Poets; Sleep YOU, ANDREW MARVELL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here face down beneath the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Night; Poetry & Poets; Time; Bedtime YOUNG LAUGHTER, by ROBIN LAMPSON Poem Text First Line: O ominous counting-out rhymes, o delirious Last Line: The perpetual april of poetry. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets YOUR HEIGHT IS OURS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O princely poet! - kingly heir Last Line: And then gave you to us. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Praise YOUR SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I am sentenced not to talk to you Last Line: Bits of glass in the head's reticent weather. Subject(s): Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists YOUTH, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young apollo, golden-haired Last Line: For the long littleness of life. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; Youth YOUTH AND AGE: NOTE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the tenth day of september Last Line: [the watch and clock do both agree] Subject(s): Poetry & Poets YOUTH AND THE MUSE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No poet of golden name do I remember Last Line: Come peace, come war, his songs will out in spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Youth |
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