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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: QUIET LIFE Matches Found: 52 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ?, by F. A." "LE H. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: This mortal body that I wear Last Line: The light of hope may linger still Alternate Author Name(s): "le H., F. A.; Subject(s): Quiet Life A HIDDEN LIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proudly the youth, sudden with manhood crowned Last Line: Arose and died upon the listener's ear. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Education; Family Life; Farm Life; God; Love; Quiet Life; Dead, The; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers A PLACE OF REFUGE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In this my den the haunting muse Last Line: In this my den. Subject(s): Calm; Quiet Life; Rooms; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a thing a garden is Last Line: To bid grow, to increase! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription A WIDOW SPEAKS TO THE AURORA'S OF A DECEMBER NIGHT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My yard with its pines is almost spherical in winter Last Line: Falling off the dangerous, true edge of daylight. Subject(s): Night; Quiet Life; Widows & Widowers; Winter; Bedtime ANSWERING MAGISTRATE ZHANG, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Now late in life I love only stillness Last Line: You ask the pattern of failure and success? - %the fisherman's song reaches deep past the shore Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Quiet Life ATOLL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woes of men beyond my ken Last Line: The plenitude of peace Subject(s): Peace; Quiet Life BETWEEN STORMS, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My son at five breathes straight into my face Last Line: And all I want is a little calm, moments of happiness %between the storms Subject(s): Quiet Life BLANDEUR, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If it please god Subject(s): Quiet Life COMPANION OF QUIET, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who have shared the sunset with me knows Last Line: And let no word be contemplate or said. Subject(s): Quiet Life EVEN THE LIGHT HAS DARKENED, by ROSA ALCALA Poem Source First Line: Where once fished the hand, tools of memory Last Line: Are scattered throughout the room Subject(s): Quiet Life HAVE A NICE DAY, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no I don't want my heart broken again today Last Line: For the sake of a kind word. Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Loss; Nostalgia; Quiet Life LOUISBERG SQUARE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet little space, set in Last Line: A quiet dream. Subject(s): Louisburg Square, Boston; Quiet Life MORNING STAR, by CESARE PAVESE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The man alone gets up while the sea's still dark Last Line: The man quietly tamps his tobacco and lights his pipe Subject(s): Quiet Life; Silence; Solitude NEXT MIDNIGHT, EVEN QUIETER, by JANE AUGUSTINE Poem Source First Line: Afternoon in the mind's eye Last Line: Where the roses pinked the tangle %and these darken too Subject(s): Night; Quiet Life ON THIS PATH OF TRANSUBSTANTIATION, by GLEN MAZIS Poem Source First Line: Lope, lope, I move through the skies Last Line: These steps have broken %the earth's gravity Subject(s): Quiet Life QUIET, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come not the earliest petal here, but only Last Line: With their bloom, passes. Subject(s): Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Time; Loneliness QUIET, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: The grapes are ripe, the field is plowed Last Line: The final agony Subject(s): Quiet Life QUIET LIFE, by DAVID EDGE COPE Poem Source First Line: Minh will turn down citizenship Last Line: Four people die, %& this in good weather Subject(s): Quiet Life QUIET LIFE AND A GOOD NAME, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nell scolded in so loud a din Last Line: Are used like dick, and bear the blame Subject(s): Quiet Life QUIETNESS, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: In city crowds, in whirls of sound and Last Line: My soul and I. Subject(s): Quiet Life SERENADE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a singing in my heart Last Line: Is my song's only word. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Quiet Life; Serenity SOLITUDE, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still it is here in the woods. The trees Last Line: His five pure notes succeeding pensively. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Woods; Loneliness STILL LIFE, by JOHN DICKSON Poem Source First Line: The fish, bleeding garlic-flavored butter Last Line: Rather than captured, all hope gone, %in a shallow pond of butter Subject(s): Quiet Life STILL LIFE, by BILL KECKLER Poem Source First Line: A sleeve without a person. A bowl sans shadows. None of this Last Line: Both happy automatons again, having shed the freezing skin of that image Subject(s): Quiet Life THE CHOICE, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant me, indulgent heaven! A rural seat Last Line: From silent life, I'd steal into my grave! Subject(s): Quiet Life THE HWOMESTEAD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had all the land my zight Last Line: To zee how things do grow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Property; Quiet Life; Wishes; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 107, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My scrolls are filled with the poems of immortals Last Line: And hum a verse or two Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 169, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I escaped to cold mountain Last Line: I'm happy here in the cliffs Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Mountains; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 180, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I reached cold mountain and all cares stopped Last Line: And trust the current like an unmoored boat Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 204, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down to the stream to watch the jade flow Last Line: What do I need in the faraway world Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 205, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My true home is on cold mountain Last Line: I can go anywhere everywhere is perfect Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 209, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When water is so clear it sparkles Last Line: From such awareness nothing hides Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 256, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where cold mountain dwells in peace Last Line: Resting on a perilous ledge Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 259, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the joys of the mountains Last Line: Looks like a lone-flying crane Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Freedom; Mountains; Quiet Life; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 264, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit on top of a boulder Last Line: And a lotus comes out of the mud Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 265, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When hermits hide from society Last Line: Aren't stained by the muddy world Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Happiness; Hermits; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 278, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I sat before the cliffs Last Line: A mind without a care Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 279, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid a thousand clouds and streams Last Line: Silent like a river in fall Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Ascesticism; Chinese Literature; Idleness; Quiet Life; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 290, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Relaxing below cold cliff Last Line: Reading the poems of the ancients Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 48, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath high cliffs I live alone Last Line: My dipper on a branch click clack Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Calm; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 54, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gathering lotuses we called to each other Last Line: Letting our thoughts surge on Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Boats; Chinese Literature; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 82, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring water is pure in an emerald stream Last Line: Focus on emptiness and the world grows still Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Silence; Springs (water) THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 40, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Past thousands of layers of mountains and clouds Last Line: And bird talk suddenly agrees with my thoughts Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birds; Brooks; Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Streams; Creeks THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 5, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I live in a place without limits Last Line: It wouldn't mean much to me Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Quiet Life; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE QUIET NIGHTS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unmindful of my low desert Last Line: And name my lovely nights of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blessings; God; Night; Quiet Life; Sleep; Bedtime THE SECOND EPODE OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who free from cares and strife Last Line: In innocence of joy and rural mirth. Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunting; Nature; Praise; Quiet Life; Agriculture; Farmers; Hunters THREE VARIATIONS ON ELEGIAC THEMES: III: 1886, by DON BOGEN Poem Source First Line: A stillness in %the air you heard Last Line: Of light you could %see to see Subject(s): Air; Quiet Life TO A HERMIT THRUSH, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Here in the shelter of tall, towering trees Last Line: To form your hymn of praise, o hermit thrush! Subject(s): Hermits; Music & Musicians; Quiet Life; Solitude; Loneliness VILLA ON ZHONG-NAN MOUNTAIN, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: In my middle years I came to much love the way Last Line: By chance I meet old men in the woods; %we laugh and chat, no fixed time to turn home Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Quiet Life WANG STREAM COLLECTION': LODGE IN THE BAMBOO, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: I sit alone in bamboo that hides me Last Line: The bright moon comes to shine on me Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Quiet Life WHEN LIVING QUIETLY AT WANG-CHUAN I GAVE THIS TO PEI DI, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Cold mountains grow ever more azure gray Last Line: Now once again I meet jie yu, the drunk, %that reckless singer before the five willows Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Quiet Life |
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