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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