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Subject: REBIRTH
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First Line: William carlos williams had finished
Last Line: The holiest dish to whiteness passing over...
Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; New Jersey; Rebirth; Snow; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight


ADVENT STANZAS, by ROBERT CORDING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are we always creating you, as rilke said
Last Line: I am too imperfect to bear
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Poetry And Poets; Rebirth


ANOTHER CHANCE; A DRAMATIC LYRIC, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, give me back my life again
Last Line: One prayer -- have mercy on a dreamer's soul -- god, this is death!
Subject(s): Death; God; Rebirth; Dead, The


ATTEMPTING TO ANSWER DAVID IGNATOW'S QUESTION, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are beautiful to the mother as we go
Last Line: Sleeping bodies are not alone.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Ignatow, David (1914-1997); Rebirth; Rites & Ceremonies; Dead, The; Destiny


AWAKE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A winter so hard you think the shrubs may never rouse
Last Line: And the tail washes up on your boot.
Subject(s): Rebirth; Spring; Winter


CREATION, by EUNICE ODIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: High propositions of barrenness
Last Line: And then restored
Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Heaven; Rebirth; Spiritual Life


FIRST SIGHT, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was born again today!
Last Line: And my eyes said no!
Subject(s): Rebirth


FRAGMENT: 3, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tired %no shapeless shadows
Last Line: Uncertain of the morning
Subject(s): Rebirth


GAPS, by CHI-HA KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the gaps %between the apartments
Last Line: Where new things %always begin
Subject(s): Flowers; Rebirth; Spring


HAPPINESS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Search the budding flower
Last Line: Happiness is born.
Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; Rebirth; Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight


I WAS BORN TODAY, by AMADO NERVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every day that passes, you must say to yourself, 'I
Last Line: Every day that passes, you must say to yourself, 'I was %born today!'
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Rebirth


IN THE MORNING YOU ALWAYS COME BACK, by CESARE PAVESE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The glimmer of dawn / breathes with your mouth
Last Line: You are light and morning.
Subject(s): Morning; Rebirth; Waking


IN THE PAST, by CHI-HA KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the confusing thoughts from the past
Last Line: Not the old self but my self newly-born
Subject(s): Past; Rebirth; Self


MAY DAY, by ADELAIDE A. ANDREWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, world, sometimes I cannot bear the load
Last Line: If I can see a may day born again.
Subject(s): May (month); Pain; Rebirth; Suffering; Misery


MOLTING, by NANCY CALLAHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anyone can molt the same way snakes do
Last Line: And be reborn from that which they outgrew
Subject(s): Rebirth


MORNING SHIFT IN BANARAS, by STEPHEN AJAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say this is the fast track for hindus; here the river is more full of
Last Line: Tomorrow
Subject(s): Death; Hinduism; Rebirth; Religion


OAK IN SPRING, by KATHLEEN HUNKELE SCHARDIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crisp brown oak leaves %hung on all winter
Last Line: But %first catching a glimpse of spring
Subject(s): Nature; Rebirth; Spring


OLD EARTHWORKS, by THOMAS SWEENEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within that semi-circle formed by mounds
Last Line: Which now ring with the call of whippoorwills.
Subject(s): Rebirth; War


PERPETUITY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night a mighty poet passed away
Last Line: At that same hour another bard was born!
Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Rebirth; Dead, The


REBIRTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In her condition she was used to fainting
Last Line: When superior george compared her %to an unfinished painting.
Subject(s): Rebirth


REBIRTH OF FORESTRY, by IMRE ORAVECZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day is breaking
Last Line: Hired men and twig gatherers
Subject(s): Rebirth


RENAISSANCE MAN, by BRIDGETTE YORK SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: He stands board straight
Last Line: ...Painter of the heavens. %renaissance man
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Rebirth


RESURRECTION, by HERMANN HAGEDORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not long did we lie on the torn, red field of pain
Last Line: Wondering what god would look like when he came.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Military; Rebirth; Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The


RESURRECTION; THE SOUL OF A BURIED BODY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought that I was dead
Last Line: To see the starlight shining on the snows.
Subject(s): Rebirth; Immortality


THE BREATH OF SWEET, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now did wallflower breathe
Last Line: His cold shade beneath.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Rebirth; Dead, The; Paradise


THE BROKEN WING, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great dawn breaks, the mournful night is past
Last Line: And scale the stars upon my broken wing!
Subject(s): Life; Rebirth; Spring


THE DAWN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shimmering, glimmering, mystical dawn
Last Line: Loosed from my doubts, I welcome thee, dawn.
Subject(s): Dawn; Morning; Rebirth; Sunrise


THE MAGIC OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I buried my heart so deep, so deep
Last Line: "is it the spring, the spring?"
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Rebirth; Spring; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


THE PEARL, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How long shall it suffice
Last Line: Return unblest into the primal sea?
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Rebirth


THE PHOENIX REBORN FROM ITS ASHES, by LOUIS ARAGON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On love it has been written
Last Line: On night no one at all has had anything to say.
Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Rebirth


THE WAKERS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The joyous morning ran and kissed the grass
Last Line: And there was the old scolding of the birds.
Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Death; Heaven; Rebirth; Shadows; Sleep; Dead, The; Paradise


THE WINGED EROS OF TUNIS, RECOVERED FROM THE SEA NEAR MAHDIA IN 1904, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful bronze boy, wing
Last Line: Of the waves for our worship and love.
Subject(s): Artifacts; Rebirth; Sea; Ocean


THEN SUDDENLY HIS BRAIN BECAME THE SOUND, by RAYMOND TONG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To every sense, making him whole again
Subject(s): Rebirth; Riddles


VERY FIRST WHEAT SHOOTS STARE UP, by JIM DEWITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Softly wounded loam is quick to heal
Last Line: Did mary get to have any %in the stable's dark?
Subject(s): Rebirth


WALKING THROUGH THE HORIZON, by MARGARET HOLLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It became my definition of summer, that july
Last Line: Birdsong, thunder, green, cicadas, and heat
Subject(s): Rebirth; Summer


WHY SHOULD I WAIT?, by LILITH LORRAINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If, as the oriental mystics say
Last Line: Why should I wait till death to be reborn?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M.
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Jesus Christ; Rebirth; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life