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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PORTRAITS Matches Found: 201 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "STRIP ME NAKED, OR ROYAL GIN FOR EVER; A PICTURE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I must, I will have gin! - that skillet take" Last Line: "I was born naked, and I'll die naked" Subject(s): Art & Artists;indifference;nudity;portraits; Nakedness 11-NOV-54, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: November 11, 1954, at ten p.M. Last Line: And slowly began to fade away Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Genoa, Italy; Portraits A CAPTAIN OF SONG (ON A PORTRAIT OF COVENTRY PATMORE BY J.S. SARGENT), by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look on him. This is he whose works ye know Last Line: Ah, even as he! Subject(s): Patmore, Coventry (1823-1896); Portraits; Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) A CHILD'S PROTRAIT, by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON Poem Text First Line: Her face is hushed in perfect calm Last Line: Were caught into the smile of god. Subject(s): Girls; Portraits A LADY'S PORTRAIT, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: At last, with all its silent grace Last Line: The vision of this lady's face. Subject(s): Alexander, John White (1856-1915); Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Wheaton, Eliza Baylies (1809-1905) A LIKENESS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some people hang portraits up Last Line: "a thing of no value! Take it, I supplicate!" Subject(s): Portraits A MATISSE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the french grass, in that room on fifth ave., lay that woman Last Line: So she came to america Subject(s): Nudity; Paintings And Painters; Pornography; Portraits; Nakedness A MOTHER SHOWING THE PORTRAIT OF HER CHILD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living child or pictured cherub Last Line: Less than it bestows. Subject(s): Children; God; Kisses; Mothers; Portraits; Childhood A PICTURE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emerald, the rim of the sea Last Line: That the dawn of day Subject(s): Art & Artists; Pictures; Portraits A PICTURE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, in sleeping dreams of night Last Line: And from my heart the woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Portraits; Nightmares A PORTRAIT, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lorenzo's portrait! -- hard to hit Last Line: Now, if he has them, let him shew it. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Portraits A PORTRAIT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A still, sweet, placid, moonlight face Last Line: It mocked them when they sighed. Subject(s): Portraits A PORTRAIT, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou dream of beauty, round whose classic / brow Last Line: Or shasta's peak, or famed yosemite. Subject(s): Portraits A PORTRAIT, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In winter days you came to me Last Line: Your canvas hangs upon my wall. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Portraits A SONNET TO A PICTURE, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: I do not need this picture on my wall Last Line: And not as mangled by a shrapnel-shell. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Portraits A VERY WOEFUL BALLADE OF THE ART CRITIC (TO E.A. ABBEY), by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit came to my sad bed Last Line: "take up the pen, my friend, and write!" Subject(s): Art & Artists; Museums; Portraits; Writing & Writers; Art Gallerys ABE MARTIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abe martin! - dad-burn his old Last Line: Abe martin, the joker on facts. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Portraits AFTER FORTY YEARS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved your face for many a year Last Line: Alas! -- adieu! Subject(s): Aging; Auctions; Portraits ALEXANDRA, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breasting white whirlwinds Last Line: Ay, my comrade long and well-beloved, alexandra! Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Love; Pictures; Portraits; Thought; Thinking AN EPISTLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When crowding folks with strange ill faces Last Line: That one mouse eats, while t'other's starved. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Paris, France; Portraits; Time; English AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT NUGENT WITH PICTURE OF DR. SWIFT, SELECTION, by WILLIAM DUNKIN Poem Text First Line: Hibernia's helicon is dry, / invention, wit and humour die Last Line: Is but a shell without the gem. Subject(s): Old Age; Portraits; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) AN UNPRAISED PICTURE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a picture once by angelo Last Line: Yet trembles forth a word of prayer and praise. Subject(s): Portraits; Praise; Tears; Time; Youth ANCESTOR PORTRAIT, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Grandpa is covered with dust Last Line: Up in a dustpan every day Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Portraits ANCHERONTIA (A YOUNG PAINTER SPEAKS), by KATHARINE A. JENKINS Poem Text First Line: See, I have painted your portrait Last Line: Beating your cruel wings upon my soul. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Portraits ANOTHER PICTURE OF DAN, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clarissa draws her scissors from their case Last Line: Indeed it is -- behold the paper skull. Subject(s): Jackson, Daniel (1686-17?); Portraits AQUATINT FRAMED IN GOLD, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six flights up in an out-of-date apartment house Last Line: Ironically recording an hour of no importance. Subject(s): Old Age; Portraits ART INSTITUTE MEMORIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: It seems so long since she and I Last Line: Was but a picture in a frame. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fantasy; Imagination; Love; Memory; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Fancy AS HE PASSED BY, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Know johnson? Why he scoffs or storms at me Last Line: "a man whose praise is neither scorned nor bought." Subject(s): Portraits AS IF YOU HAD NEVER BEEN, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see your picture in its frame Subject(s): Portraits BEAUTY, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: To have it, you must make it Last Line: Composed, illuminated, wrung to clarity Subject(s): Beauty; Portraits BEFORE THE MIRROR (VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White rose in red rose-garden Last Line: The flowing of all men's tears beneath the sky. Variant Title(s): Before The Mirror Subject(s): Art & Artists; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Portraits; Roses; Whistler, James Abbott (1834-1903) BIRD CRIES FROM THE NEST IN THE EAVES AT MORNING: SELF-PORTRAIT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: When the mother's gone the young sparrows cry Last Line: Calculating the progress of the cat's claw Subject(s): Absence; Birds; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Portraits BOOKBINDER, MARY L. REYNOLDS, 1891-1950: SELF-PORTRAIT OF A MATE, by GLORI SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Beloved matthew, what cool ground Last Line: Cool my cheeks with the glass sweat. %your mary Subject(s): Portraits BRIAN AGE SEVEN, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Grateful for their tour Subject(s): Children; Portraits; Childhood CANZONETTA: OF HIS LADY, AND OF HER PORTRAIT, by JACOPO DA LENTINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Marvellously elate Alternate Author Name(s): Notary Of Lentino; Jacopo Da Lentini Subject(s): Portraits CANZONETTA: OF HIS LADY, AND OF HIS MAKING HER LIKENESS, by JACOPO DA LENTINO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady mine, I send Last Line: If worthy to be thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Notary Of Lentino; Jacopo Da Lentini Subject(s): Portraits CARMELITE CONVENT, MEXICO DF, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Past portraits of sedate saints Last Line: Skinned back to bare a knuckled wrist Subject(s): Convents; Death; Nuns; Portraits; Saints CAROLINA PORTRAIT ON STUYVESANT AVENUE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: A coconut brown man Last Line: Warm her to a smile Subject(s): Portraits CHRISTIE'S PORTRAIT, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your tiny picture makes me yearn Last Line: Taken of her in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Portraits COMPLAISANCE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. B -- , when she sat for her picture Last Line: "without any mouth, ma'am, at all." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Mouths; Paintings & Painters; Portraits CONE TRAVELS, by BOB HEMAN Poem Source First Line: Dr. Cone is tied into the metal frame and lowered over the edge of Last Line: Again and again from the alter to sit with the gods Subject(s): Portraits; Travel EMMIE AND CHILD, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In this portrait %the bold chintz Last Line: Flux of milk and dusk and something else Subject(s): Babies; Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926); Mothers; Paintings And Painters; Portraits EPIGRAM ON THE COUNTESS OF SOMERSET'S PICTURE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pitied fortune most men chiefly hate Last Line: Should quickly fall in love with misery. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Howard, Frances (d. 1632); Portraits EVENING CHANT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strew before our lady's picture Last Line: We will trust and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Mary And Martha (bible); Peace; Portraits; Roses; Women In The Bible F.C.P.-A PORTRAIT, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a certain beauty in her face Last Line: Courage and faith and humble majesty. Subject(s): Portraits FAMILY PORTRAIT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today we were cleaning out the attic Last Line: And that you'll be happy with them Subject(s): Portraits FAMILY PORTRAIT, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great tarry wings splatter softly up out of the rotting yolk of sun. In the Subject(s): Family Life; Portraits; Story-telling; Relatives FAMILY PORTRAIT, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great tarry wings splatter softly up out of the rotting yolk of sun. In the Last Line: Candles dripping slowly down on his stiff, dark clothes Subject(s): Family Life; Portraits; Story-telling FEMALE PORTRAIT, 19TH CENTURY, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice is stifled in the clothing. Her eyes Subject(s): Pictures; Portraits FEMALE PORTRAIT, 19TH CENTURY, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice is stifled in the clothing. Her eyes Last Line: A gilt frame %strangles the picture Subject(s): Pictures; Portraits FOR A PICTURE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straight lines and circles, triangles and squares Last Line: Inclusive number, and the circle squared. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Pictures; Portraits FOR A PORTRAIT OF FELICE ORSINI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steadfast as sorrow, fiery sad, and sweet Last Line: Men hail him patriot and tyrannicide. Subject(s): Death; Portraits; Dead, The FORESTS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Among the flames of the forest Last Line: The lost season of love Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters; Portraits FRIENDSHIP; ON SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY A WIFE TO A FRIEND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful eyes -- and shall I see no more Last Line: And feel a kind of regret. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Eyes; Friendship; Love - Marital; Portraits; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: SCRIBBLER, by ANN STRUTHERS Poem Source First Line: New yorkers were amazed at this portrait Last Line: Maybe that's why the corners of her mouth %turn up so slightly Subject(s): Literature; Museums; Portraits; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); Theater And Theaters HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: IN THE HOUSE OF MESSER SCONFORTO, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the solarium can be found Last Line: Facing it is his masterpiece: the shrug Subject(s): Art And Artists; Castles; Courts And Courtiers; Death; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Sanctuaries HISTORY OF A PORTRAIT, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Somewhere she has lost her glass Last Line: And who is coming next %in her direction Subject(s): Portraits; Women IF I TOLD HIM, A COMPLETE PORTRAIT OF PICASSO, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If I told him would he like it. Would he like it if I told him. Subject(s): Portraits; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Language; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Words; Vocabulary IN HER STUDIO; IN MEMORY OF SUSAN MERRILL FARNHAM, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Within her shadowed room, the hush Last Line: Whose media lay in all material things. Subject(s): Memory; Portraits IN THE ANTWERP GALLERY, by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Shadowed velvet and rosy pearls Last Line: Rembrandt's portrait of my aunt! Subject(s): Portraits; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669) IN THE BEST LIGHT, by BLYTHE GWYN SEARS Poem Text First Line: There is a lively portrait on my wall Last Line: Condemn her act? Real love should sense no slight. Subject(s): Portraits; Sonnet (as Literary Form) LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 1. LORD CRASHTON, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joining sir ulick's at the river's bend Last Line: And curses all things from his easy chair. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Despair; Fields; Landlords & Tenants; Portraits; Property; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Possessions LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 2. FINLAY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Finlay, next landlord (I'll abridge the tale), Last Line: A hard but honest man', as people say. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Distrust; Landlords & Tenants; Portraits; Property; Possessions LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 3. ISAAC BROWN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pass on to isaac brown, a man elect Last Line: Resumes his bench, and wipes his reeking face. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants; Mortgages; Neighbors; Portraits; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY C.R. LESLIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pride of my country! I delight Last Line: Till ends his reign, a third like thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Art & Artists; Leslie, Charles Robert (1794-1859); Museums; Paintings And Painters; Picture Books; Portraits; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Leslie, C. R.; Art Gallerys LITTLE DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 1. AFTER THE OPENING, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: There was a last, too-brief interlude in Last Line: Painting, nora? How has it been? Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Nudity; Paintings And Painters; Pornography; Portraits; Sin; Women LITTLE DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 2. HER PAINTINGS, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Were kept in a metal storage box Last Line: Even the ones they'd thought about taking out and %showing to somebody Subject(s): Abandonment; Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Portraits LOOK ON THE PICTURE AND ON THIS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish we once were wedded, - then I must be true Last Line: Will she sound our accusation in intolerable light Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love – Nature Of; Portraits; Memory; Death LOOKING AT A PICTURE ON AN ANNIVERSARY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But don't you know it, my dear Last Line: Lone-labouring here! Subject(s): Portraits LOOKING AT A PORTRAIT, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: O why are there eyes like these Last Line: O why are there arms like these? Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Portraits LOVE IN DIAN'S LAP: 7. HER PORTRAIT, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, but the heavenly grammar did I hold Last Line: Passionless passion, wild tranquillities. Subject(s): Portraits MATISSE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the french grass, in that room on fifth ave., lay that womaon who Last Line: French girl lies and smiles at the sun without seeing us Subject(s): Nudity; Paintings And Painters; Pornography; Portraits MENODOTIS, by LEONIDAS OF ALEXANDRIA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Menodotis's portrait here is kept Last Line: Menodotis. Subject(s): Memory; Portraits MONA LISA, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Is your captor, mona lisa! Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Art & Artists; Crime & Criminals; Mona Lisa; Portraits MY LAST DUCHESS; FERRRA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's my last duchess painted on the wall Last Line: Which claus of innsbruck cast in bronze for me! Subject(s): Este, Alfonso Ii D'. Duke Of Ferrara; Jealousy; Love - Marital; Marriage; Murder; Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Villains In Literature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY MOTHER'S PICTURE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I here her placid picture paint Last Line: So shall I see her, if we meet in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Mothers; Paintings And Painters; Portraits MY MOTHER'S PORTRAIT; FOR GERTRUDE SHERBY RAND 1913-1958, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those sumptuous, lacquered oils, a renaissance Last Line: Back, yisborach, v'yistabach, v'yispoar... Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Portraits MY PICTURE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, take my likeness with you, whilst 'tis so Last Line: Who then shalt but my picture's picture be. Subject(s): Portraits MY PICTURE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand this way - more near the window Last Line: It shall stay and cheer the end! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Portraits; Secrets MY PORTRAIT GALLERY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft round my hall of portraiture I gaze Last Line: Woven of that light that rose on easter morning. Subject(s): Portraits NADAR, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will be obscured by a cloud of postures Last Line: Future classics, leaving us to enlarge on what cannot be divided, individuals Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nadar [gaspar Tournachon] (1820-1910); Portraits NADAR, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will be obscured by a cloud of postures Last Line: What cannot be divided, individuals Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Art And Artists; Nadar [gaspar Tournachon] (1820-1910); Portraits NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON, by BARRY NATHAN GOLDENSOHN Poem Source First Line: Among the stuffed royals, great minds Last Line: The faces the public owns, the private life Subject(s): London; Museums; Portraits OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 18. FORD MADOX BROWN'S 'CHRIST WASHING..', by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a picture-you have seen it oft Last Line: A new world, where dull conscious self is dofft. Subject(s): Pictures; Portraits ON A CARICATURE, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you say this was made for friend dan, you belie it Last Line: I'll swear he's so like it that he was made by it. Subject(s): Portraits ON A PICTURE OF A SPANISH LADY IN THE GALLERY AT MADRID, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most gifted limner! Lifelike thus to trace Last Line: That glorious lady of the land of spain! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Madrid, Spain; Portraits; Spain ON A PORTRAIT, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest art! What magic powers with thine may vie Last Line: Nor would it speak of comfort, but despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Portraits ON A PORTRAIT OF DANTE BY GIOTTO, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can this be thou who, lean and pale Last Line: Like thine, scarred veteran of a lifelong war! Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337); Portraits ON A YOUTHFUL PORTRAIT OF STEVENSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A face of youth mature; a mouth Last Line: And all your lovely poems calling to you? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Portraits; Youth ON AN AUTUMN SKETCH OF H.G. WILD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks to the artist, ever on my wall Last Line: Even with a cloud whose light were yet to lose! Subject(s): Friendship; Portraits ON HER PORTRAIT, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This day that you see, this colorful pretense Last Line: It is a corpse, dust, shadow, nothingness Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Love; Portraits; Self ON MY OWN MINIATURE PICTURE, TAKEN AT TWO YEARS OF AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was once like this! That glowing cheek Last Line: Spirit of spenser! Was the wanderer wrong? Subject(s): Life Change Events; Maturity; Nations; Portraits; Self; Youth ON MY PORTRAIT, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't even know my own face Last Line: Best resign and depart, the sooner the better, %withdraw this body fit for clouds and streams Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Portraits ON RECEIVING A PORTRAIT, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To gaze on you when life's last gleams decline Last Line: And leave but one man happier here below. Subject(s): Portraits 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 ENGRAVER OF HIS PORTRAIT, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look on myself, and thou shalt own at once Last Line: Laugh. Would ye think it? He intended me! Subject(s): Portraits ON THE PICTURE OF THE AUTHOR, MR. SANDERSON, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let others style this page a chronicle Last Line: The head is sanderson's, fathern's the hand. Subject(s): Portraits ON THE PICTURE OF THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE; CUT AND SOLEN, MAY, 1867, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By none could her charms be surpass'd in their day Last Line: Her charms are cut out, and her canvass is lost! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Portraits; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens OUR MADONNA AT HOME, by RAFAEL POMBO Poem Source First Line: Couldst thou portray that face whose Last Line: Nor either mother could my soul %resign Subject(s): Mothers; Portraits PHYLLIS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: She might have stepped out of a little book Last Line: And there was phyllis playing by the brook! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Reading PICTURE OF A MAN WITH A BROKEN HEART, by ROBERT VISCUSI Poem Source First Line: In english we say padua; in italian, padova Last Line: Thank you for healing me,' they say. 'thank you for finding my glasses' Subject(s): Faith; Italy; Portraits; Saints PICTURE OF SENECA DYING IN A BATH, BY JORDAIN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While cruel nero only drains Last Line: And lives and speaks, restored and whole. Subject(s): Portraits; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (4 Bc - 65 Ad) PICTURES OF MEMORY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the beautiful pictures Last Line: Seemeth the best of all. Variant Title(s): The Little Brother;the Sweetest Picture;among The Beautiful Pictures Subject(s): Children; Memory; Portraits; Childhood POEM FOR PICTURE: TO A PORTRAIT BY EDWARD STEICHEN (RACHMANINOFF), by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. Poem Text First Line: Deep music comes Last Line: Hands have known. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Rachmaninoff, Sergey (1873-1943); Steichen, Edward (1879-1973) PORTRAIT, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: The rare smile Last Line: The vein, the calm %of hidden love Subject(s): Love; Portraits PORTRAIT, by CLAIRE EMERSON Poem Text First Line: You are my breath / ... By daylight Last Line: You've lied. Subject(s): Portraits; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PORTRAIT, by AVERY L. GILES Poem Text First Line: Your sunny smile, so bright and gay Last Line: Reposing on your empty head! Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Portraits PORTRAIT, by CAROL HEBALD Poem Source First Line: The affection beamed too bright in her Last Line: Come, calm child, among the sun-blue leaves Subject(s): Children; Portraits PORTRAIT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: ...Her hair like shredded brass Last Line: The cold, cold heart of her? Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Portraits PORTRAIT, by CECILIA MEIRELES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't have this face then Last Line: Was my face lost? Subject(s): Mirrors; Portraits; Self PORTRAIT, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: No one has yet harvested the dark bed of artificial flowers Last Line: Too close to the arms, too close to the curling hair Subject(s): Portraits PORTRAIT, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is in his daughter's gaze Subject(s): Portraits PORTRAIT, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is in his daughter's gaze Last Line: Seems so certain to withhold Subject(s): Portraits PORTRAIT, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thing to avoid is in that frame Last Line: Of the garden, then why not call it martyrdom? Subject(s): Portraits PORTRAIT, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thing to avoid is in that frame Last Line: Of the garden, then why not call it %martyrdom Subject(s): Portraits PORTRAIT BY ALICE NEEL, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: I'm not sure there will be walls Subject(s): Portraits PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: Good morning, madam Last Line: Wilting on your breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Portraits; Women PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Your thighs are appletrees Last Line: I said petals from an appletree. Subject(s): Portraits; Women PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN THE EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you, lady? - naught is here Last Line: Were half as silent as their pictures! Variant Title(s): Every-day Characters: Portrait Of A Lady Subject(s): Exhibitions; Portraits; Royal Academy Of Arts, Great Britain; World's Fairs; Expositions PORTRAIT OF A MAN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wear glasses Last Line: Having cogitated, you begin again to write Subject(s): Men; Portraits PORTRAIT OF A MAN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wear glasses Last Line: Having cogitated, you begin again to write Subject(s): Men; Portraits PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: It wasn't just time that had passed over her face, the goats Last Line: Wind blows. Portuguesa, so very poor Subject(s): Portraits PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN AT THE 7-11, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: She stands in the grocery line Last Line: Is lost to the autumn wind Subject(s): Portraits; Women PORTRAIT OF A WORLD, by CORAL MORGAN Poem Text First Line: Loveliness is yours, all gracious things Last Line: To nudge the sun-dial and sip the pool. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Portraits PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: He came from the high country, he had known thirst and the Last Line: The severity of snow came later Subject(s): Portraits; Youth PORTRAIT OF AN UNFINISHED SELF-PORTRAIT, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Using the pad of her last clean finger, she smears a storm Last Line: Mysterious little bumps that surface %and sink away Subject(s): Babies; Portraits; Pregnancy PORTRAIT OF CARL VAN VECHTEN IN THE GENTLEMANLY INTEREST: PICCADILY, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: He polished snubs till they were regnant art Last Line: He felt he had used the finest snub of all. Subject(s): Portraits; Van Vechten, Carl (1880-1964) PORTRAIT OF HIS MISTRESS, by ANACREON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, master of the rosy art Last Line: O thou sweet face, speak to me Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Portraits PORTRAIT OF JOSE CEMI [FROM THE NOVEL PARADISO], by JOSE LEZAMA LIMA Poem Source First Line: No combat did he unleash, as panting Last Line: Between a column of air and the sacrificial stone Subject(s): Portraits; Statues; Stones PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The first time I felt his hands lifting me up like a gust of wind taking a Last Line: Nameless and unknown Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers; Portraits; Sermons PORTRAIT OF MY GERMAN GRANDPARENTS, 1952, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: I see them always in midsummer, the retired minister and his wife seated Last Line: And holds it there, feeling the slow winter pulse Subject(s): Grandparents; Portraits PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I can still remember Last Line: Cover the couch with plastic? %return to cuba? %I can still remember you. %sitting there Subject(s): Cuba; Memory; Mothers; Portraits; Retrospection PORTRAIT OF S.B., WITH A STEEL WING, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Sterling wears a steel wing Last Line: Ecstatic in the ultra-violet clouds! [or, light] Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Portraits; Wings PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I write about the house Last Line: Oh, raoul, you bring me to my knees Variant Title(s): Portrait Of The Author As Raou Subject(s): Love; Portraits PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AS RAOUL, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I write about the house Last Line: Oh raoul, you bring me to my knees Variant Title(s): Portrait Of The Author As Raoul Subject(s): Love; Portraits PORTRAIT OF THE FAMILY WITHOUT A FATHER, by KEN VICTOR Poem Source First Line: In memory of leah shapiro Last Line: Let the women practice constancy. We're always visitors Subject(s): Memory; Portraits; Single Parents PORTRAIT OF THE GREAT WHITE HUNTER FOXHUNTING IN THE ABSENCE OF BIG..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the stable gate! Last Line: Out of a hole in my head Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Hunting; Portraits; Rifles; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters PORTRAIT OF THE GREAT WHITE HUNTER FOXHUNTING IN THE ABSENCE OF BIG..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the stable gate! Last Line: These words are coming %out of a hole in my head Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Hunting; Portraits; Rifles PORTRAIT OF THE POET ASZLO NAGY, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What does he want? Last Line: Let all held breaths %be his Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Portraits PORTRAIT OF X (III), by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purblind, he rose, shot his cuffs, and hit Subject(s): Portraits PORTRAIT OF X (III), by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purblind, he rose, shot his cuffs, and hit Last Line: His famous sneer eats his gut like a worm Subject(s): Portraits PORTRAIT, SELF-PORTRAIT, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Can he ever, %more enigmatic than a reader Last Line: Like a man next to a statue Subject(s): Portraits PORTRAITE DE L'ARTISTE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When everybody's in bed Last Line: Even in sleep, not separated Subject(s): Art & Artists; Portraits PORTRAITE DE L'ARTISTE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When everybody's in bed Last Line: Even in sleep, not separated Subject(s): Art And Artists; Portraits PORTRAITS, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Keen as the breath Last Line: To those who share your spiritual fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Portraits PORTRAITS ARE TO DAILY FACES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In a satin vest! Subject(s): Portraits ROYAL PORTRAITS (AT LUDWIGSHOF), by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Confronting each other the pictures stare Last Line: Confronted the conscious pictures stare, %and their secret back into darkness dies Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Portraits SELF PORTRAIT AND MIRROR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Autumn fulfills %its promise Last Line: Cover myself with the mantle %of dream, %I paint them Subject(s): Portraits SELF PORTRAIT AS YOU, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always receding %you are %what I come out %to see Last Line: What is the sky anyway, %but a reply to the earth Subject(s): Portraits; Self-criticism SELF PORTRAITS, by CRICKET LEE Poem Source First Line: I take photographs of myself Last Line: The lens catches vulnerability %in black and white Subject(s): Art And Artists; Portraits; Self-criticism SELF-PORTRAIT, by UGO FOSCOLO Poem Source First Line: My forehead's lined, my eyes intense, deep-set Last Line: Death, you alone can give me fame and rest Subject(s): Portraits SELF-PORTRAIT, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Outside this cylinder of skin Last Line: They roost, cooing, at my window. Subject(s): Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Photography And Photographers; Portraits; Self-consciousness SELF-PORTRAIT IN EAST MELBOURNE FLAT, by PETER BAKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: My telephone wants a better job Last Line: Say, about the size %of a mouse or a matchbox Subject(s): Australia; Portraits; Self SELF-PORTRAIT IN FRONT OF AN EASEL, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Back to us, the easel's picture must burn blue Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Self SELF-PORTRAIT OF AN OTHER, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: It is late in th eyear, he is alone on the sheltered beach in the small bay... Last Line: Silent again. Only then did everything become silent Subject(s): Death; Life; Portraits; Self SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE OTHER, by HEBERTO PADILLA Poem Source First Line: Is it anxiety, nausea Last Line: If you see me, keep to one side Subject(s): Portraits SELF-PORTRAIT WITH SASKIA: THE PRODIGAL SON IN THE TAVERN, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Why reduce myself to rags Last Line: And the good father will forgive me Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Prodigal Son SELF-PORTRAIT: NOVEMBER, by SANDY LONGHORN Poem Source First Line: Walking home in the first hard freeze Last Line: To the metallic bite of birch bark and rust in my throat Subject(s): Homeless; Hunger; Portraits; Solitude; Winter SHUANG YE FEI: INSCRIPTION ON JUNSHAN'S PORTRAIT OF A TONSURED CLERIC, by SHEN YIXIU Poem Source First Line: It is hard to express my pent-up feelings Last Line: Cassia in groves, with boundless mist Subject(s): Portraits SONNET TO THE PORTRAIT OF HART CRANE, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unweathered stone beneath a rigid mane Last Line: A bitter rose falls on a marble stair Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Art And Artists; Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Portraits SONNET: ON A FAMILY PICTURE, by THOMAS EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When pensive on that portraiture I gaze Last Line: Single, unpropped, and nodding to my fall. Subject(s): Family Life; Portraits; Relatives SPECIMEN DAYS: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August 12th. - I see the president almost every day, as I happen to live Last Line: Of two or three centuries ago is needed Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Presidents, United States; White House (washington, D.c.) STORYVILLE DIARY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot now remember the first word Subject(s): Bellocq, E. J.; Fathers; Identity; Nudity; Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Prostitution; Storyville, New Orleans; Nakedness; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TAKING BROTHER'S PICTURE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He felt quite miser'ble, I know Last Line: "said ""look as pleasant as you can!" Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Discontent; Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Half-brothers; Childhood; Dissatisfaction THE BIRTH OF PORTRAITURE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As once a grecian maiden wove Last Line: Till song and painting learned from him. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Love; Portraits THE BOHEMIA OF THE HEART AND PENNY ROMANCES: MY PORTRAIT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: My eyes like two black diamonds shine 'neath my rembrandt hat Last Line: Shakespeare. Subject(s): Portraits; Soul THE COQUETTE; A PORTRAIT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're clever at drawing, I own Last Line: "to paint you -- a thorough coquette!" Subject(s): Portraits THE DESPERANTO OF WILLYNULLY, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her father's early portrait shows Subject(s): Time; Portraits; Fathers & Daughters THE ENEMY'S PORTRAIT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He saw the portrait of his enemy, offered Last Line: I thought they were the bitterest enemies?' Subject(s): Enemies; Hate; Portraits THE PICTURE, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that both feel'st and dost admire Last Line: Of nature this is; that of art. Subject(s): Portraits THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 4. THE PICTURE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, whose journey lies Last Line: And love with bliss, and life with wiser youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Portraits; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE PORTRAIT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: She sends her portrait, as a swallow Last Line: To show that her sweet spring will follow. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Portraits THE PORTRAIT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each has his angel-guardian. Mine, I know Last Line: His very self; but from himself how changed! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Change; Portraits THREE FLOORS: ART, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brushes alienate touch, the relation Last Line: You perceive in my work isn't art %but a pulse Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Portraits THREE PORTRAITS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Her manners were perfectly dainty Last Line: I hope to understand her. Subject(s): Grandparents; Portraits; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TO --'S PICTURE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go then, if she whose shade thou art Last Line: Smile at me once, and then -- adieu! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Portraits TO A LADY IN A PICTURE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in that picture Last Line: That you have not told. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Portraits TO A PICTURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lady fair, hanging there" Last Line: "lady fair, hanging there, / you're quite ugly, on the wall" Subject(s): Portraits TO A PICTURE, by HERBERT EUGENE MILLHOLEN Poem Text First Line: In other days - my thoughts retrace Last Line: In other days. Subject(s): Portraits TO A PICTURE OF MY MOTHER AS A GIRL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did ever a youth pass by the spot Last Line: Without that heart of gold! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Girls; Portraits; Youth TO A PORTRAIT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pensive photograph Last Line: And lost it, she and I. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Portraits; Sorrow; Sadness TO A PORTRAIT, by LALIA MITCHELL THORNTON Poem Text First Line: Look down upon me from your oaken frame Last Line: I've kindled flax, and cannot stop the fire. Subject(s): Eyes; Portraits; Secrets TO A PORTRAIT PAINTER WHO DESIRED HIM TO SIT, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, so bravely splashing reds and blues! Last Line: What can I do with a portrait such as that? Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Paintings And Painters; Portraits TO A REMEMBERED PICTURE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They haunt me still - those calm, pure, holy eyes! Last Line: To the deep souls that find no echo here. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Portraits; Dead, The TO BERTHA, by CLARENCE ALVA POWELL Poem Text First Line: I am a connoisseur of rare and priceless portraits Last Line: In that it is unfaltering and lasting. Subject(s): Portraits TO HENRY WRIGHT, OF MOBBERLEY, ON BUYING THE PICTURE OF F. MALEBRANCHE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, dear mr. Wright, I must send you a line Last Line: Huzza! Father malebranche and shorthand for ever. Subject(s): Auctions; Books; Malebranche, Nicolas De (1638-1715); Portraits; Reading TO HER PORTRAIT, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This that you see, the false presentment Last Line: Tis death, 'tis dust, 'tis shadow, yea, 'tis %nought Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Old Age; Portraits TO MR. LUCAS, WRITTEN WHILST SITTING TO HIM FOR MY PORTRAIT, 1828, by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh young and richly gifted! Born to claim Last Line: By the reflexion of their own pure light. Subject(s): Lucas, John (1807-1874); Models; Portraits TO MY LOTUS LADY, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: Background of dark deep brown Last Line: Back to its sad dwelling. ... Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Portraits TO MY OWN PORTRAIT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is it that before mine eyes Last Line: To flee away and be at rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Portraits; Self TO MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. PETER LELY, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See! What a clouded majesty, and eyes Last Line: None but my lely ever drew a mind. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Portraits TO THE PORTRAIT OF 'A GENTLEMAN', IN THE ATHENAEUM GALLERY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It may be so - perhaps thou hast Last Line: I've seen that face before. Subject(s): Portraits TO THE PORTRAIT OF 'A LADY', IN THE ATHENAEUM GALLERY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, miss, I wonder where you live Last Line: Hushed up among one's friends! Subject(s): Portraits TO THE PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON, AS FIRST CONSUL, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brilliant as lucifer, son of the morning Last Line: Beautiful gem of the larian shore. Subject(s): History; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Portraits; Stars; Time; Historians TUDOR PORTRAIT, by RICHMOND LATTIMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Brusque shoulders and bluff beard Last Line: On strong new worlds he planned %the king looks down Subject(s): Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Portraits TWO FROM THE MONTEREY HOTEL: 2. PORTRAIT OF A DESK CLERK, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: She takes as long as a kabuki actor making up Last Line: And descends to her estate Subject(s): Monterey, California; Paintings And Painters; Portraits UNDER MR. HALES PICTURE, by ANNE KING Poem Text First Line: Though by a sodaine and unfeard surprise Last Line: Which less resemblance of the persons have. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Graves; Hales, John (1585-1656); Memory; Portraits; Tombs; Tombstones UNFINISHED PORTRAIT, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Nothing seemed toirritate him as much as the transformation Last Line: Retain some words, few and crisp, with which they presently are etching his profile Subject(s): Portraits UPON HIS PICTURE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When age hath made me what I am not now Last Line: Whose shadow is less given to change than he. Variant Title(s): To My Picture Subject(s): Portraits; Self UPON THE SIGHT OF THE PORTRAIT OF A FEMALE FRIEND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon those lips, those placid lips, I look Last Line: And ask not speech from them, but long for breath. Subject(s): Portraits VERSES FOR A NOBLE EARL'S PICTURE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is that noble, dauntless brow Last Line: It dwells upon glencairn. Subject(s): Portraits |
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