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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: REASON Matches Found: 237 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONTRAST, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A humble christian - to whose inward sight Last Line: Now I go hence to paradise—and died. Subject(s): Human Rights; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A CURIOUS THING, by CAROLINE M. LORD Poem Text First Line: My mind, it seems, is only Last Line: Of grass and sepal fold. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A FLIGHT OF FANCY, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the bar of judge conscience, stood reason Last Line: The hole in the lock, which she could not undo. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Judges; Law & Lawyers; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A HINT TO A YOUNG PERSON, .. IMPROVEMENT, BY READING OR CONVERSATION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In reading authors, when you find Last Line: That socrates does now speak truth. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reason; Reading; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A HUNDRED BOLTS OF SATIN, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All you / have to lose Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Reason; Railways; Trains; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A LOVER, ON AN ACCIDENT NECESSITATING DEPARTURE, CONSULTS WITH REASON, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, nor backward turn your beams Last Line: The wheel of fortune, not the sphere of love. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Reason; Parting; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A MORAL THOUGHT, by JOHN HAWKESWORTH Poem Text First Line: Through groves sequestered, dark and still Last Line: "and mingles with eternity." Subject(s): Life; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A PASSAGE IN THE MORALE ENCOMIUM OF ERASMUS IMITATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In awful pomp, and melancholy state Last Line: Wild schemes of mirth, and plans of loose delight. Subject(s): Fables; Fear; Reason; Allegories; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A POSSET FOR NATURE'S BREAKFAST, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life scums the cream of beauty with time's spoon Last Line: And with this meat doth nature please herself. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Health; Nature; Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking A REASON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The case is clear as case can be Last Line: "but I am d, e, f, you know." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A RECENT DIALOGUE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bishop and a bold dragoon Last Line: "his nose the cue) ""amen." Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Quarrels; Racism; Reason; Arguments; Disagreements; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A SATIRE [OR, SATYR] AGAINST MANKIND, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were I (who to my cost already am) Last Line: Man differs more from man, than man from beast. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): Homo Sapiens Subject(s): Ingelo, Nathaniel (1621-1683); Mankind; Meres, Sir Thomas (1635-1715); Patrick, Simon (1626-1707); Reason; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A SOLILOQUY ON THE COURSE AND CONSQUENCE OF A DOUBTING MIND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I muse, I doubt, I reason, and debate Last Line: A blessed christian, or a cursed fool. Subject(s): Doubt; Reason; Selflessness; Solitude; Thought; Skepticism; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Thinking AFTER A DIFFICULT DECISION, by PATRICIA HOOPER Poem Source First Line: Back from the netherworld Last Line: The milk, the cheese, the bread Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Reason AGAINST EXCESS OF SEA OR SUN OR REASON, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea that comes to the beach now softly Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Reason; Sea; Sun; Errors; Moderation; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Mistakes; Fallacies AGE OF REASON, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Car lights like lanterns in the pre-dawn dark Last Line: Forbearance she had long ago been widowed to Subject(s): Reason ALAS!, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The woe the high of heart Last Line: And dies a victim to its strength. Subject(s): Reason; Weariness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Fatigue ALMOST NOTHING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I see something in the mirror,' she said Last Line: Without a pen in your hand Subject(s): Reason; Writing And Writers ANNOUNCEMENT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is closed pending repairs Last Line: With a large line of plain and fancy goods. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals APOLITICAL INTELLECTUALS, by OTTO-RENE CASTILLO Poem Source First Line: One day, %the apolitical Last Line: And you will be mute %in your shame Subject(s): Politics; Reason APOSTASY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've run around lately with folk intellectual Last Line: Just like my own! Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At reason's solemn judgment-seat Last Line: That I am ruin'd and forsaken. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Reason; Nightmares; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ATHEISM: REASON, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The infinite speaks in our silent hearts Last Line: Who, though divorced from good, bow to the lord of hosts. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Atheism; Death; Reason; Soul; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals BAD MEMORY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Think of all your brain once knew Last Line: Pulling closed its heavy iron gate Subject(s): Heads; Memory; Past; Reason BAZOOKA, by WILLIAM HARMON Poem Source First Line: A bee is busy as can be with its Last Line: Worth less than many a tepid epitaph Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Reason BECAUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did we meet long years of Last Line: And only god knew why it was. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals BEFORE SHE BETRAYED ME WITH ART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: She seizes my reason as prize Subject(s): Love;reason; Intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals BIG MIND, by JOHN DONLAN Poem Source First Line: A fingernail catches on the cracked glaze Last Line: Your life an engine for generating life Subject(s): Life; Reason BRAIN, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The brain is an organ Last Line: And (as the schools would day) its form Subject(s): Bodies; Reason BRAIN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mysterious home of lofty thought Last Line: Is king of all. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals BUDDHIST LULLABY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is an apartment Last Line: On the floor overhead? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Buddhism; Reason; Buddha; Buddhists; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals BUTTERFLY MIND, by STEPHEN CRAIG KNAUTH Poem Source First Line: Little wood satyr Last Line: Here in the gragile confection of now Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Reason CASTA DIVA, by DURS GRUNBEIN Poem Source First Line: Exhausted, wearied by the burnt-out days Last Line: Turn to the wall. Sleep. The radio's silent Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Reason CAUTION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind needs no fire escape Last Line: Inflammatory notions. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals CHEDWORTH ROMAN VILLA, MANY HAPPY RETURNS, SELS., by JOHN REIBETANZ Poem Source First Line: Dear uncle chris, welcome back to my mind Last Line: Tasting, et fangs that bit deep, and went numb Subject(s): Family Life; Reason CLOSED EPISODE, by MARY N. S. WHITELEY Poem Text First Line: Let this experience / be a picture thrown Last Line: Of something past that once was very fair. Subject(s): Experience; Memory; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals COMMITTEE MEETING, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something important to say Last Line: The battle raging while my eyes are shut. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals CONDITIONAL, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: But if the reason were that implement Last Line: With its indifferent blade? Subject(s): Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals CONTEMPLATION OF THE SWORD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. Last Line: Reason will not decide at last: the sword will decide Subject(s): Swords; Strength; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals CONTENTMENT, by EDWARD DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My mind [or, minde] to me a kingdom is Last Line: Would all did so as well as I! Variant Title(s): Kingdom;in Praise Of A Contented Mind Subject(s): Contentment; Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking CONVENTIONS, by KATE CULKIN Poem Source First Line: Andy and I once drove five hours Last Line: Not waste a breath on how we die %hold on, hold up, hold tight Subject(s): Change; Death; Reason COPING PRANA, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the way I breathe Last Line: Being leakage from a barbarous index province Subject(s): Body, Human; Reason COREOPSIS INTELLIGENCE, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO Poem Source First Line: In a stuffed room Last Line: Puts them miles ahead of %anyone in the room Subject(s): Reason; Rooms CYBER-LOVE, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: In the tale of genji everyone writes poems Last Line: Space into the pearl of another's brain Subject(s): Love; Reason DADA, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Text First Line: Intelligence has a future Last Line: Dada is dada. Subject(s): Dadaism; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals DEATH FOR THE DARK STRANGER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The knave of darkness, limber in the leaves Last Line: So again the miraculous thunder of discovering wings is heard Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Police; Punishment; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals DEDICATION FOR THE LIFE OF REASON, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friends, my solace in your gentle youth Last Line: I suffered much, but something understood. Subject(s): Life Choices; Reason DISSECTION OF A BEAU'S HEAD, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We found by our glasses, that what at first sight Last Line: We'll reserve the coquette for another occasion. Subject(s): Heads; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals EINSTEIN'S BRAIN, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because of the certitude of death Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals EINSTEIN'S BRAIN, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because of the certitude of death Last Line: The results promise to be inconclusive Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Reason EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "while his beard has grown gray, black as ever remain" Last Line: The brain has had little or nothing to do Subject(s): Italy;reason;talk; Italians;intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals EPISTLES BETWEEN AND ANDREW GRAY AND ROBERT FERGUSSON: TO ANDREW GRAY, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nae langer bygane, than the streen Last Line: And crack and sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Cabbage; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ETERNAL DREAM, by MORRIS HURLEY Poem Text First Line: Intelligence in man conceived Last Line: In sleep for all eternity. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals FABLE: THE SCHOLAR AND THE CAT, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Labour entitles man to eat Last Line: Instruct vain supercilious man.' Subject(s): Activity; Animals; Cats; Fables; Reason; Scholarship & Scholars; Virtue; Exercise; Allegories; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals FAIRY'S ANSWER; TO MRS. GREVILLE'S PRAYER FOR INDIFFERENCE, by ISABELLA (BYRON) HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Without preamble, to my friend / these hasty lines I'm bid to send Last Line: Imprinted on my mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Carlisle, Countess Of Subject(s): Greville, Francis (fanny) (1724-1789); Poetry & Poets; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals FAITH AND REASON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reason unstrings the harp to see Last Line: And death is glorious gain. Subject(s): Faith; Reason; Belief; Creed; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange discourse, in all impartial views Last Line: A god-like love embracing ev'ry man. Subject(s): Advice; Friends, Religious Society Of; Mankind; Reason; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Quakers; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors FEELINGS ON REMEMBERING THE DAY I FIRST PRODUCED THE MIND, by HSU YUN Poem Source First Line: Drawn some sixty years ago by karma Last Line: Alone I walk through the cosmos, %connecting the past and its people Subject(s): Knowledge; Mediums; Reason; Zen Buddhism FOR ONE MUST WANT/TO SHUT THE OTHER'S GAZE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you thinking? Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals FOR ONE MUST WANT/TO SHUT THE OTHER'S GAZE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you thinking? Last Line: The real plot was invsisible. %what are you thinking? Subject(s): Reason FORTINE, by CHRISTOPHER ROSS Poem Source First Line: Funny what's important %in the midst of a revolution Last Line: From the chest and the eyes are the forehead %and dreaming like you? Subject(s): Reason; Revolutions; War FOUR SONNETS: 1, by LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have been diligent too many years Last Line: Unconscious of the loss you have sustained. Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: A LOFTY MIND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His thoughts are so much higher than his state Last Line: They chill and darken it. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals FURTHER WORK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Think of the brain Last Line: To the living room, %kitchen, bedroom, bath Subject(s): Bodies; Houses; Reason GENTLE READERS, TOMORROW I UNDERGO', by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Win some. Lose some. Mostly ties Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Reason; Surgery GOLDEN SAYINGS, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So you alone are blessed with thought, free-thinking man Last Line: Pure mind drives its bud through the husk of stone Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Reason GOLDEN VERSES, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man, free thinker! Do you believe you alone can reason Last Line: The spirit grows under the surface of stones! Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Reason; Spiritual Life; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals GOOD REASONS, by SUSAN AZAR PORTERFIELD Poem Source First Line: Surrender is never strength Last Line: Not answers, that asleep %we murder ourselves Subject(s): Reason HAND, by FRANK LIMA Poem Source First Line: The hand is all heart. It hops around like a toad to prove it Last Line: Appear like rubber slugs in the moonlight Subject(s): Hands; Reason HIGH STUDIO AT YADDO, by BENJAMIN W. HOWARD Poem Source First Line: Too many feet have climbed these wooden steps Last Line: And all he would discover were his own Subject(s): Reason; Religion HUNDRED BOLTS OF SATIN, by KAY RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All you %have to lose Last Line: Specialized %more than %you imagined Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Reason HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The awful shadow of some unseen power Last Line: To fear himself, and love all human kind. Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals IDEAL WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Prudence does o'er her wit preside Last Line: "serenes her brow, and calms her breast" Subject(s): Love;reason;women; Intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals IDEOGRAM, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY Poem Text First Line: Spacialesque trumpets corrode Last Line: On a spoke of the sick wheel Subject(s): Freedom; Reason; Liberty; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals IF I NEVER THINK, by J. MACEKURA Poem Source First Line: There are termitic pollsters Last Line: Except: I must dream and think Subject(s): Dreams; Reason IMAGE, by J. S. VENIT Poem Source First Line: The wind has no room for you Last Line: You saw, passing the big tent. The mind %is not a cave, it's a window washer Subject(s): Reason IMAGINATION, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich raptures, you say, our dreams assume Last Line: "and fondly believes that his thoughts are ""vast""!" Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Reason; Thought; Nightmares; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking IN A HARD INTELLECTUAL LIGHT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And brings the solemn, inward pain %of truth into the heart again Subject(s): Reason INCANTATION, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Human reason is beautiful and invincible Last Line: Their enemies have delivered themselves to destruction Subject(s): Justice; Reason; Truth INSIDE THE RIDDLE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's blue in here Last Line: Seems too petty for god. Subject(s): God; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals INTELLECT: 1, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Is night the excuse for such a star? Last Line: That darkest are? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Reason; Stars; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals INTELLECT: 2, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh spirit rare, / in thought devout, and tender with the speech Last Line: The burden of a fog to clear. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals INTELLECT: 3, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Since in the paths of mental liberty Last Line: Of thought's restraint. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking INTELLECT: 4, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Light meets you by a different way Last Line: Or pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals INTELLECT: 5, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: By day and night, / and everywhere Last Line: In ambush there. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals INTELLECTUAL, by JUDY DIGREGORIO Poem Source First Line: I'd rather be clever than dumb Last Line: But the words that pop out are ho hum Subject(s): Knowledge; Reason INTELLECTUAL, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man behind the book may not be man Last Line: I laugh, I fight; and you, l'homme qui rit, %swallow your stale saliva, and still sit Subject(s): Reason INTELLECTUAL DETACHMENT, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the man who classified the bits Last Line: It turned on him - he's dead. Shall we detest him? Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals INTELLIGENCE, by MARTHA ZWEIG Poem Source First Line: Believe it! There'll be the odd two, three Last Line: Of my baby teeth I want back. Pinch of my birthday dust Subject(s): Reason; Truth INTRODUCTION TO AN INTRODUCTION, by DAVID AVIDAN Poem Source First Line: The hand that strikes is the hand that has pity Last Line: That will presumably be its last officialdom, %its primary. And already someone is in pain Subject(s): Hands; Reason L'AMOUR TIMIDE, by JOHN HENRY MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If in that breast so good, so pure Last Line: But feel it will not last me long. Subject(s): Love; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals LECTURE ON HAPPINESS, by JEFF MOCK Poem Source First Line: The sun the old woman said Last Line: It's cloudy, and so very fine Subject(s): Reason; Weather LET GO OF THE MIND, THE THOUSAND BLUE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Each day to keep the world underfoot Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Reason; Self-reliance; Thought LET US REASON TOGETHER, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come now, let us reason together Last Line: We may fly to the bosom of god. Subject(s): God; Reason; Sin; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals LET US SUPPOSE THE MIND, by BARBARA MORAFF Poem Source Last Line: Not god %but its own miracle Subject(s): Reason LIFE OF THE MIND, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: She sees sky from his bed, red Last Line: All offers of a better life Subject(s): Life; Past; Reason; Relationships LINES FRAUGHT WITH NAUGHT BUT THOUGHT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you thirst to know who said, 'I think, therefore I Last Line: I thinkle so Subject(s): Descartes, Rene (1596-1650); Reason LOGIC, by EMILY FRAGOS Poem Source First Line: I started smoking again after a long time Last Line: Will seem the perfectly right thing to do Subject(s): Reason; Smoking LOGIC AND 'THE MAGIC FLUTE' (IMPRESSIONS OF A PREMIERE), by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up winding stair, / here, where, in what theatre lost? Subject(s): Flutes; Reason; Theater & Theaters; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Stage Life LOST BRAINS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He felt as if his brains Last Line: His ears. Without her he would %become a nobody too Subject(s): Reason; Relationships LOVE AND REASON, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When panting sighs the bosom fill Last Line: A dream of glory most exceeding. Subject(s): Love; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals LOVE AND REASON, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A woman grown, with sparkling eyes Last Line: "one tale, and love another." Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Love; Reason; Women; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals LOVE'S REASON, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For that thy face is fair I love thee not Last Line: When in her arms, and thine, I sink to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Love; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals MADRIGAL SET BY THOMAS WEELKES (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Like two proud armies marching Last Line: And dazzled reason yields as quite undone Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Beauty;reason; Intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals MASTERPIECE OF PROPHYLACTICS (SCHIZOPHRENIC), by ISHLE YI PARK Poem Source First Line: Socks a field of blue and white...Like that chess game you home-made at the Last Line: It is their very nature to trust plastic Subject(s): Chaos; Insanity; Reason MEN THAT THINK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Be damned, you cheeks, be damned and sink Last Line: Still keep their first, and have no second state. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals MENTAL BEAUTY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty has gone, but yet her mind is still Last Line: Fruition, which in hope will never end. Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals MERGER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Two things, merging, seem Last Line: Reason when you write. Subject(s): Insanity; Reason; Writing And Writers MIND AND HEART, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wisdom and passion Last Line: Power and bliss. Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Reason; Wisdom; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals MIND DESCENDING FROM ABOVE, by V. PENELOPE PELIZZON Poem Source First Line: What have they to do with love's bleakest shapes Last Line: Gestures of this once-flamboyant, least-expensive fish? Subject(s): Reason MIND IS AN ENCHANTING THING, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is an enchanted thing Last Line: Not a herod's oath that cannot change Variant Title(s): The Mind Is An Enchanting Thin Subject(s): Gieseking, Walter Wilhelm (1895-1956); Reason; Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) MIND, ITS DATED STATUARY, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: The somber galleries with their niches Last Line: His moveless pupils implied Subject(s): Reason MODERN LOVE: 30, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are we first? First, animals; and next Last Line: Lady, this is my sonnet to your eyes. Variant Title(s): "what Are We First? First, Animals; And Next""; Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals MOMENTS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there are moments in our life Last Line: When such a moment came to me! Subject(s): God; Life; Praise; Reason; Sea; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean NEAP PLUS ULTRA, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is like the ocean Last Line: He was afraid of the undertow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Reason; Sea; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean NEUROLOGY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't resent Last Line: As he blinks into the rain Subject(s): Reason; Thought NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 7. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (2), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heav'n gives the needful, but neglected, call Last Line: Let the grave listen; -- and be graver still. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Immortality; Life; Night; Reason; Soul; Virtue; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals NOT QUITE RIGHT, by IAN ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: The table cloth was very white Last Line: Soon there would be nothing here at all Subject(s): Mankind; Reason ON FAITH, REASON, AND SIGHT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a threefold correspondent light Last Line: The things of god without a light divine? Subject(s): Faith; Mankind; Mediums; Reason; Sight; Belief; Creed; Human Race; Spiritualists; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now six and thirty rapid years are fled Last Line: "but the fair guerdon is immortal fame." Subject(s): Birthdays; Fame; Happiness; Reason; Virtue; Reputation; Joy; Delight; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ON THE NATURE AND REASON OF ALL OUTWARD LAW, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this true saying one may learn to draw Last Line: Till the good saviour's hour is come, to cure. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Reason; Attorneys; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ONLY A THOUGHT, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas only a passing thought, my love Last Line: Only a passing thought. Subject(s): Heads; Reason; Thought; Wisdom; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking OVERDOING IT, by TARA FENLON Poem Source First Line: After slouching for some time throught he halls Last Line: I'm closing her %down Subject(s): Reason; Suicide; Windows PENANCES, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are my happy penances. To make Last Line: In beauty's courts the unappeasable mind. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PERSEID, by TIMOTHY HOUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Moods don't matter. We plug them into the arcs Last Line: They do not plead - %-- what we are is getting better Subject(s): Reason PETIT MAL, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: This is how, perhaps Last Line: We're stunned each time to wear Subject(s): God; Reason; Religion; Spirituality PLACES WE CAN'T THINK OUR WAY INTO, by DEBRA INNOCENTI Poem Source First Line: Something about the vent. A small door opening Last Line: Strewn like birthday streamers over the gaping door Subject(s): Reason POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: TO HER LADISHIP, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If those salt showers that your sad eyes haue shed Last Line: That your so loued mate is gone before. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Grief; Loss; Rain; Reason; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 1, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neither all nor any angels arrive in the mind where Last Line: Out in the first mud and forsythia. Far outside. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Memory; Reason; Time; Childhood; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 2, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And so a man I love says fifteen years is all he has Last Line: Each other's hair. They don't believe in me or you. Subject(s): Children; Death; Love; Men; Reason; Stairs; Childhood; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PRAYER FOR INDIFFERENCE, by FRANCES (FANNY) MACARTNEY GREVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ask no kind return in love Last Line: Content—but half to please. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PROBLEM, by XI MURONG Poem Source First Line: My problem is how to keep a memory Last Line: Feeling after we wave goodbye Subject(s): Memory; Reason PROPHECY, by LEONORA PEASE Poem Text First Line: When, formed by groping mind and tedious hand Last Line: It is the city that the dead have dreamed. Subject(s): Humanity; Prophecy & Prophets; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A beaker of yeast Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A beaker of yeast Last Line: At the pitch of the transmuted ozone body Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life QUERY, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: What holds the swift enquiring mind Last Line: Murmured a spell to guard the soul. Subject(s): Insanity; Reason; Shadows; Wandering & Wanderers; Madness; Mental Illness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals RATIONAL MAN, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His restless glance abruptly drew Last Line: Took comfort from the poplar trees. Subject(s): Men; Poplar Trees; Reason; Solitude; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness RATIONALIZATION #5: I'M NOT FROM HERE, by ANDREW STEEVES Poem Source First Line: ... Out of province driver's license exchanges Last Line: Because she simply assumes that everyone realizes that... Subject(s): Reason REASON, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You're free of the bias toward the familiar Last Line: That you tried to teach them but not to learn Subject(s): Change; Reason REASON, by JOHN POMFRET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The passions still predominant will rule Last Line: To conquer truth, and unmixed knowledge gain. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals REASON AND SONG, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Text First Line: Priestess ordained of the high god of speech Last Line: But not more heartbreaking. Subject(s): Language; Reason; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals REASON AND THE FOOL, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright reason mocked me from her silver / mask Last Line: "happy in loss, serene in strife." Subject(s): Fools; Reason; Idiots; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals REASON AND VANITY; AN APOLOGUE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Appeal to reason!' writes a sage Last Line: "I scarcely feel it now at all!" Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals REASON VERSUS CUSTOM; AN APOLOGUE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, a man of sterling sense Last Line: "my course by reason, and she brought me here!" Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals REASON, FOLLY AND BEAUTY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Reason, and folly, and beauty, they say Last Line: Yes,—liked him still better in that than his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals REASON. THE USE OF IT IN DIVINE MATTERS, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some blind themselves, 'cause possibly they may Last Line: And from afar 'tis all descryed. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals RECLAIMED RHYTHMIC HAND, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Mind rotation interleaved, %the end pin shadows a small Last Line: Pierce the moon, %muffling everything Subject(s): Reason REFLECTION ON INGENUITY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a good rule of thumb Last Line: Too clever is dumb Subject(s): Reason RIDDLES, by PATRICK F. KIRBY Poem Text First Line: Afterwards, let us make riddles Last Line: Not now would we let down the mind's gates. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals RITUAL SCARIFICATION, by DENNIS HOCKMAN Poem Source First Line: I believe we may have met once Last Line: Meals from orgasm and other limitations of language Subject(s): Reason ROOMS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That it would be okay very soon okay, that okay it could be sooner before I Subject(s): Buddhism; Psychoanalysis; Reason; Women; Buddha; Buddhists; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ROOMS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That it would be okay very soon okay, that okay it could be sooner before I Last Line: Over. You don't even have a vocabulary yet Subject(s): Buddhism; Psychoanalysis; Reason; Women SECOND THOUGHTS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ... And then of course the weeping: some demurely, some Last Line: That's sunlit at times %and at other times darkened Subject(s): Reason; Thought SEVEN POEMS: 3, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, we are cutting out Last Line: Half-recognizable things Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Reason; Skulls SIMPLE RULES OF COMMON SENSE, by MAY RICHSTONE Poem Source First Line: When we're wise enough to follow them Last Line: Our body finds ways of spanking us Subject(s): Bodies; Reason SLEEPING AND WORKING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Clever demons sleep in the mind Last Line: Live as if they'll never sleep again Subject(s): Devil; Reason; Waking SMOKE, by MARK TRUSCOTT Poem Source First Line: I was thinking walls Last Line: Itself were in thought. %the cats playing Subject(s): Reason; Smoke SO IS HE MADE, by SARAH LITSEY Poem Text First Line: Beneath the hill, athwart the stream Last Line: Conquers the deathless thing and dies. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals SOLUTIONS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The swallow flew like lightning over the green Last Line: Beheaded it for blooming insolence. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals SONGS TO A.H.R.: 9. SUFFICINGS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day for the mind Last Line: But you for my breast! Subject(s): Moon; Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals SONNET: 34, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find Last Line: Hugs the brown bough and sighs before it goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Reason; Male-female Relations; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 9, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the thoughts of all the minds of men Last Line: And beauty perfect from the hands of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Sea; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Thinking SPECIOUS AND SUPERFICIAL WRITERS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How rare the case, tho' common the pretence Last Line: Paid without scruple,—he enjoys the trash. Subject(s): Books; Reason; Writing & Writers; Reading; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals SPRING IN MANHATTAN, by DON WAHN Poem Text First Line: I wish that I could trade this spring for one Last Line: Why spring should bring them back ... Instead of you. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ST. ROMAULD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, it matters not to know Last Line: And so we meant to strangle him one night. Subject(s): Death; Devil; Reason; Religion; Saints; Spain; Travel; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Theology; Journeys; Trips STEAM SHOVELED NEEDED, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is like the panama canal Last Line: And all traffic is halted. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking STOICISM, by LOUIS MENARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brave strength breeds freedom, for each load we bear Last Line: In envy of the gods that know not death. Subject(s): Reason; Stoicism; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals STRIDES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Logic strides where the seagull's beak Last Line: Shreds of crab or gull or man. Subject(s): Chaos; Reason; Sea SUBSTANCE AND SHADOW, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They do but grope in learning's pedant round Last Line: Aided by heaven, by earth unthwarted still. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE AFFECTIONATE HEART, by JOSEPH COTTLE Poem Text First Line: Even genius may weary the sight Last Line: It shall last till the wreck of the mind. Subject(s): Genius; Hearts; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE AGE OF REASON, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Car lights like lanterns in the pre-dawn dark Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE ASTRONOMER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little dome that holds the brain Last Line: The deeper mind of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE BEINGS OF THE MIND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me with your triumphs and your woes Last Line: In the soul's world, with you, where change is not, to dwell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE BETTER WORLD, by HIERONYMUS LORM Poem Text First Line: Who lives by thought or by belief Last Line: Is in itself a better world. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#65), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man struggles not to become crabby, chronic or hypothetical Last Line: When the river met the shore. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reason; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE BRIDE, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse Last Line: "am reason, and the other was a dream." Subject(s): Reason; Drinks & Drinking; Rerality; Dreams; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Wine; Nightmares THE CAMERA OBSCURA, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the skull the wakeful brain Last Line: Where formless shades blindfold the light. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wherefore do the poor complain? Last Line: And these have answer'd thee! Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Experience; Pain; Poverty; Reason; Wealth; Suffering; Misery; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Riches; Fortunes THE CONFERENCE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree Last Line: Who lives to reason, and who dies a man. Subject(s): Conscience; England; Justice; Politics & Government; Reason; Virtue; English; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE DEATH OF MYTH-MAKING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two virtues ride, by stallion, by nag Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Mythology; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That garden of sedate philosophy Last Line: The crucifix that came of nazareth. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE INFINITE REASON, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke thought it was the human part Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Reason; Truth; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE INTELLECTUAL, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man behind the book may not be man Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE INTELLECTUAL ECSTASY, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of epicurus it is told Last Line: Walk down to darkness in great light. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE MIND IS AN ENCHANTING THING, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Is an enchanted thing Variant Title(s): "the Mind Is An Enchanting Thing""; Subject(s): Gieseking, Walter Wilhelm (1895-1956); Reason; Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757); Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE MIND'S LIBERTY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The mind, with its own eyes and ears Last Line: With its dark nipple in a cloud. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Reason; Mind, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE MIND'S UNREST, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mind, dangerous and glorious gift! Last Line: It is itself its sacrifice. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PILL, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pill, in the pill bottle, humming like a wheel at rest, confident ... Last Line: Could have sworn that it could see them, and that it blinked. Subject(s): Humanity; Medicine; Reason; Self-consciousness; Drugs, Prescription; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 1, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what attractive charms this goodly frame Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre. Subject(s): Imagination; Perception; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 3, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder therefore, since the endearing ties Last Line: And form to his, the relish of their souls. Subject(s): Imagination; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 1, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what enchantment nature's goodly scene Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre. Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 2, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus far of beauty and the pleasing forms Last Line: Nor so effaced the image of her sire. Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Truth; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 3, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What tongue then may explain the various fate Last Line: "I flung me, sad, faint, overworn with toil." Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 4, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One effort more, one cheerful sally more Last Line: The palm of spotless beauty doth resign. Subject(s): Imagination; Prophecy & Prophets; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 142, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People think the body's their root Last Line: You'll make bodhisattvas sick Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Bodies; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Reason; Buddha; Buddhists; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 239, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The superior man's mind is terribly sharp Last Line: When will creation end Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 20, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There exists one type of person Last Line: And all his wrongs return Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Punishment; Reason; Idiots; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POET PERPLEXT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brain! You must work! Begin, or we shall lose Last Line: So gentle brain! I thank you and conclude. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reason; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PRAYING-MANTIS, by ANNIE CHARLOTTE DALTON Poem Text First Line: In the dark dungeons of the mind Last Line: The mantis mounts the stair. Subject(s): Mantis; Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PREFACE TO DIVINE SONGS AND MEDITACIONS, by ANNE COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Being through weakness to the house confin'd Last Line: Will his and all their works for him defend. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, An Subject(s): Activity; Evil; Grief; Reason; Exercise; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PURPOSE OF LIFE, by FRANK PUTNAM Poem Text First Line: Do the tears that arise in the heat of the strife Last Line: But the weakest may live as becometh a man. Subject(s): Life; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE REELING BRAIN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is a movie film Last Line: Will applaud ironically. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Reason; Movies; Cinema; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE RESOLVE, by MARY LEE CHUDLEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For what the world admires I'll wish no more Last Line: Esteems it mean to court the world for praise. Subject(s): Humility; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE SOLITAIRES (ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH OF JOHN HAMPDEN, JUNE 24, 1643), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hampden, when charge on charge o'er chalgrove field Last Line: Through reason and old ever-beckoning death. Subject(s): Death; Hampden, John (1594-1643); Reason; Solitude; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness THE TRANSFIGURATION; THE OLD 'PAULUS' THEORY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fiction or a fact? An interview Last Line: That sternest link in the great unity. Subject(s): Gethsemane; Paulus, Heinrich (1761-1851); Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE TUTELARY SPIRIT, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind is strange Last Line: May the power use. Subject(s): Love; Reason; Time; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE TWO NESTS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wise thrush, the wise thrush, she choseth well her tree Last Line: Oh, pitiful her perished dreams to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Girls; Reason; Thrushes; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE ULTIMATE (2), by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So this is the ultimate Last Line: Towards eternity! Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Reason; Sea; Soul; Destiny; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean THINGS TO THINK, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think in ways you've never thought before Last Line: Been decided that if you lie down no one will die Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THINGS TO THINK, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think in ways you've never thought before Last Line: Been decided that if you lie down no one will die Subject(s): Reason THINKER, by HENRY G. FISCHER Poem Source First Line: Fraught with thought, the thinker thinks Last Line: And none of whom can well suppose %they'd think much better without clothes.' Subject(s): Reason THINKING IN THE SPACE CAROL TALKS ABOUT, by DEBORAH BYRNE Poem Source First Line: Seeds tossed into the wind Last Line: I call you persephone, and cut the earth open Subject(s): Reason; Seeds; Wind THOUGHT, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not poor, but I am proud Last Line: But thought will glow when the sun grows cold, %and mix with deity Subject(s): Reason THOUGHTS, by MORRIS WEISSMAN Poem Source First Line: Thoughts, random, like dreams Last Line: Of friendship -- of caring %of -- sharing Subject(s): Dreams; Reason THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 1. INTELLECTUAL POWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thought! O memory! Gems for ever heaping Last Line: Ere it can hold your gifts inalienably fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Reason; Sickness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Illness THOUGHTS UPON HUMAN REASON, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I have read them - but I cannot find Last Line: "have prov'd the point, by their complete rotation." Subject(s): Human Rights; Mankind; Reason; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THREE THINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Three things puzzled aristotle's wife: Last Line: The mind of her man. Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Bees; Insects; Reason; Tides; Women THROUGH THE WOOD (BY DARTMOOR, SEPT. 1893), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day long upon her throne Last Line: Now the heart must beat alone! Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Reason; Solitude; Travel; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THROW OUT THE ANCHOR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Out of my mind at last Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Reason TO COMRADE INTELLECTUALS, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How short a while ago you eagerly bent Last Line: Was it in books alone, made safe in song, %you loved remarkably and shattering things? Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich Subject(s): Reason; Russian Revolution TO DIDO, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With dumb belongings there can be Last Line: They learned what they are. How more can I make them yours? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Language; Reason; Tongues TO H. M., by FRANCIS BARNARD (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: I've disciplined my loving with a scourge Last Line: And to this logic leaves me wholly blind. Subject(s): Life; Love; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals TO HER MIND, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exalted mind! Whose character doth bear Last Line: Thyself to us, thou shouldst be still a wonder? Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals TO HIS LOVE THAT SENT HIM A RING ENGRAVED 'LET REASON RULE', by GEORGE TURBERVILLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall reason rule where reason hath no right? Last Line: To cupid I may homage earst have donne; %let reason rule the hearts that she hath wonne Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George Subject(s): Love; Reason UNDERSTANDING, by ELSIE GLENN Poem Text First Line: The cool, crisp air filtered with moonlight Last Line: I dropped asleep, thankful for this blessed peace. Subject(s): Peace; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals UNRELATED THOUGHTS, by NANCY WALSH Poem Text First Line: At night before my final sleep, I know Last Line: The secrets of its undiscovered way. Subject(s): Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking VOCABULARY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When was the last time something ensued Last Line: Wouldn't the kindling be enough wouldn't any single %twig of this world recite all of our names Subject(s): Language; Reason; Rhyme WHAT IS REASON?, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er the mist, that stands 'twixt god and thee Last Line: Which thou hadst seen, had that been shaken off. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals WHAT TO DO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell your mind and its Last Line: For a little while. Subject(s): Introspection; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals WHAT WE BELIEVED ABOUT THE BODY, by SHANNON BORG Poem Source First Line: Let us begin with bones, how none should be boiled Last Line: Let us begin to think the heart like any other muscle Subject(s): Bodies; Reason WHIRL OR TWO I'LL TAKE TO STIR OUR BEATING MINDS, by JOHN TAGLIABUE Poem Source First Line: Suffice it Last Line: This is at least for the moment sufi sufficient and more Subject(s): Reason WHY FOOL AROUND?, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How smart is smart? Thinks heart. Is smart Last Line: Smart or stupid they circle the hook: their education Subject(s): Reason; Schools; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Students WHY FOOL AROUND?, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How smart is smart? Thinks heart. Is smart Last Line: Smart or stupid they circle the hook: their education Subject(s): Reason; Schools WHY REASON CAN'T OVERCOME AN IRRATIONAL FEAR, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: The phobia whispers to me taht I am special Last Line: That only the force of my fear is lifting us up Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Fear; Reason WINDOWS AND DOORS, by EPHRAIM CUTLER SHEDD Poem Text First Line: The mind can open windows wide Last Line: May enter by that door. Subject(s): Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals WISDOM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often when I wanter talk, grown-ups say I ourghtn't Last Line: But I mostly want to know—will I feel it coming? Subject(s): Children; Reason; Wisdom; Childhood; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals |
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