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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: REST Matches Found: 213 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONTRAST, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset puts a necklace of cloud-pearls Last Line: Thy smile-adorned face? Subject(s): Emotions; Rest A CUP OF WATER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you awoke in the night and asked for water Last Line: A cup of water,—and sleep came down on the sight. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Rest; Dead, The A DIRGE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is done thy long day's work Last Line: Let them rave. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mortality; Rest; Nature A DYING SPEECH, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this unhappily divided state Last Line: Author of life, and vanquisher of death! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A LULLABY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Croon me a lullaby, / soothe me to rest Last Line: Soothe me to rest. Subject(s): Comfort; Rest; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs A RESTING-PLACE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sea of shade; with hollow heights above Last Line: Tired earth may taste heaven's honey-dew of rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Rest A WOMAN'S WISH, by MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND Poem Text First Line: Would I were lying in a field of clover Last Line: And the assurance they have all they need! Alternate Author Name(s): Xariffa Subject(s): Rest AARON LEVY GREEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now dimly thro' our tears we see his face Last Line: Us worthy of joining him on high Subject(s): Honor;immortality;jews;memory;rest; Judaism AFTER OZ, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Deeper and deeper / asleep Subject(s): Black (color); Death; Rest; Dead, The AN EMIGRANT, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she asleep, asleep Last Line: Rest she adream, adream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Immigrants; Rest; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration AN ODE WRITTEN ON A GROTTO NEAR FARNHAM IN SURRY, CALL'D LUDLOW'S CAVE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close in this deep retreat Last Line: "change it for a darker grave." Subject(s): Death; Nature; Nymphs; Rest; Virtue; Dead, The AN UNHISTORIC SPOT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah passionate is rest when to the earth Last Line: And every one that passes looks at me. Subject(s): Rest AND THEN THE VISIONARIES MADE ALTARS. ONE BROUGHT A MOTHER-OF-PEARL, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And someone lighted candles to %accompany the living Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Rest ANHINGA AT REST, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neck a slack snare, each naked feather soaked Last Line: As the sun retouches each of the lake's glittering scales Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Birds; Rest ANNIE: MY CHILD LOVER, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me gently climb the stair Last Line: And god speak not a word to chide. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children - Lost; Girls; Rest; Silence; Sleep ARE YOU THE COVE?, by JOSEPH FURPHY Poem Text First Line: Are you the cove?' he spoke the words Last Line: "where I can doss tonight." Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Tom Subject(s): Rest; Travel; Journeys; Trips AT PEACE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, footsteps sounding in the night Last Line: I am at peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Peace; Rest AT REST, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I lie down to sleep, and see no more Last Line: At rest -- at rest! What better thing to say? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Heaven; Rest; Paradise AT TWILIGHT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: On roads of gathering dusk Last Line: And thy peace. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Rest; Bedtime BODY'S TEMPERATURE AT REST, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While you are walking across the orient Last Line: I sit on a log under your poncho %burping back at the frogs Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Rest BOY'S SLEEP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day a boy plunges his hands into his pockets Last Line: While I'm not paying attention. Subject(s): Boys; Rest; Sleep CHANGELING, by IRENE HALDERSON Poem Text First Line: It's nice to see it snow,' she said Last Line: "unparalleled security." Subject(s): Comfort; Rest; Snow; Winter COLORADO, by FLORA BELLE DENNIS Poem Text First Line: Colorado, you are glorious Last Line: Near the mountains of our god. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Rest; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips CONSIDERATION, by BASIL CALVIN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: If I could forget the needless pain Last Line: God is in the sunshine when a spirit is low. Subject(s): Rest CRAWLER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The spider crawls into the bible Last Line: Deep in the book of genesis Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Insects; Rest; Spiders CREATED CLAY, by VIRGIL BROWNE Poem Text First Line: I stood today on a mound of clay Last Line: The breath of god. Subject(s): Death; Rest; Soul; Dead, The CREDO, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the end, then? Not a sigh, a kiss Last Line: In a cool meadow which salt winds leave wet. Subject(s): Life; Rest; Sleep DAVID AND BATHSHUA: A LULLABY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Darkness steals o'er hill and valley Last Line: For silence broods upon a world at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Peace; Rest; Silence; Spring DE LITTLE PICKANINNY'S GONE TO SLEEP, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cuddle down, ma honey, in yo' bed Last Line: Let de little pickaninny res'. Subject(s): Babies; Rest; Sleep; Infants DEAD SOLDIERS' AUTUMN, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: The leaves are falling now Last Line: The day when we could die for it is done Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Rest; Soldiers DEAD WAVES, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: In the deep darkness underneath the ground Last Line: O deep and silent currents of my soul! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Shadows; Silence DEATH, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Death! Is it thou whom bravest souls do fear Last Line: Reviving, creeping to calamity. Subject(s): Creation; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Rest; Tragedy; Dead, The; Declaration Day DEATH - ETERNITY'S REALM, by LOUISE L. PANNULLO Poem Text First Line: Peacefully yonder a million souls did sleep Last Line: "do I exempt from my field—where eternity I do sow." Subject(s): Death; Graves; Peace; Rest; Skulls; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me: doth it not grieve thee to lie here Last Line: I shall lie safe at rest and freed from care Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Transience; Death; God; Heaven; Rest EAST COKER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, whence his forbears sprang, a man is laid Last Line: And christmas song respond, and easter song. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Assassination; Crime & Criminals; Death; Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Rest; Somerset, England; Dead, The; Eliot, T. S. ELEGY WRITTEN AFTER READING THE 'SORROWS OF WERTER', by ROBERT MERRY Poem Text First Line: Alas, poor werter! To himself a prey Last Line: He lost that charlotte, and he sought for rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Prejudice; Rest; Sorrow; Sadness; Bias; Intolerance EPHEMERA, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Whither do the sweet sounds fly Last Line: Lives my love, o lady fair? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Rest EPITAPH ON LADY OSSORY'S BULLFINCH, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All flesh is grass and so are feather too: / finches must die, as well as I & yo Last Line: What serves for one will serve for t' other. Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Two Piping-bullfinches Of Lady Ossry's Subject(s): Epitaphs; Feathers; Finches; Funerals; Rest; Burials EPITAPH: 14, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wandering feet Last Line: Of every quest. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Peace; Rest EPITAPH: 4, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though life was good Last Line: Have need of rest. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Rest; Sleep EVEN AS THE GRASS, by RUTH ENCK ENGLE Poem Text First Line: Lay not your pencill'd cheek where love ... Read Last Line: But love can play a chord on bits of string. Subject(s): Rest EVENING, by ELLEN M. DODSON Poem Text First Line: Come love, let's wander to the woodland / west Last Line: E'en at life's close, I'm thrilled by that strange power. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The EVENING, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: From day's fair face the smile is gone Last Line: And lo, a jewelled coverlet o'er her they spread! Subject(s): Beds; Evening; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight EVENING ON THE LAKE, by KATHARINE P. WHITESIDE Poem Text First Line: In the depths of the sky is the blue of night Last Line: On the peaceful water's breast. Subject(s): Peace; Rest EVENING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Evening now is closing Last Line: From my god alone Subject(s): Evening;rest;sleep; Sunset;twilight FANCY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fancy, if thou flyest, come back anon Last Line: A netted halcyon bird to sing of rest. Subject(s): Birds; Fate; Love; Rest; Destiny FICHTE'S GRAVE; DOROTHEENSTADT CEMEMTERY, BERLIN, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here rests a pilgrim at his journey's end Last Line: The power to cleanse, illumine, and inspire. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814); Graves; Heaven; Rest; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise FROM SAGESSE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber dark and deep Last Line: Silence, like the grave. Subject(s): Dreams; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares GALLEYS OF SPAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye galleys of our land %arrest your oars again Last Line: Sp let my lover rest %who drags your heavy chain Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Peace; Rest; Spain HASTE NOT! REST NOT!, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without haste! Without rest! Last Line: God shall crown thy work at last. Subject(s): Deliberation; Labor & Laborers; Rest; Work; Workers HELICOPTERS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: This is a city of the dead and dying Last Line: Shiver in your sleep and dream of helicopters Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fate; Rest HIRAM HELSEL, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once was a boy, age fifteen year Last Line: In that place called heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Rest HOME-SICKNESS, by JUSTINUS KERNER Poem Text First Line: There calleth me ever a marvelous horn Last Line: I go to my rest! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Immortality; Rest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HOST, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: My father's body is the narrow grave Last Line: Pressed to the sternum of the world Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Peace; Rest; Silence HOW FAR IS IT TO THE LAND WE LEFT?, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the first day of his life Last Line: And he won't even flinch. Subject(s): Babies; Eyes; Rest; Tears; Infants HYMN FOR THE CONCLUSION OF THE SABBATH, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May he who sets the holy and profane Last Line: And as the stars of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Jews; Rest; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday I SHALL KNOW REST, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Rest, rest Last Line: Then, then comes the rest I seek! Subject(s): Death; Rest; Sleep; Dead, The IDLE HANDS, by NEVA DUMONT Poem Text First Line: Idle hands, all day with patience folded! Last Line: Of idle hands, all day with patience folded! Subject(s): Idleness; Rest; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence IDLENESS, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the stress Last Line: Of time untwisting ravelled threads. Subject(s): Boredom; Rest; Ennui IMPERIAL DELHI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial city! Dowered with sovereign grace Last Line: Before whose shrine the spells of death are vain. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Memory; Mourning; Rest; Dead, The; Bereavement IN MORTEM VENERABILIS ANDREAE PROUT CARMEN, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet upland! Where, like hermit old, in peace sojourd'd Last Line: Not so the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Morality; Rest; Tragedy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Ethics IN MY WINDOW-SEAT, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting in my window-seat Last Line: And the world is very still. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime IN THE HAMMOCK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the lazy, languid breezes sweep" Last Line: And fear forgotten dies Subject(s): Life;rest IN THE SHADOW, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We walk within the shadow, and we feel its Last Line: But the shadow fades at dawning, and the east is flecked with gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Echoes; Memory; Rest; Shadows INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT GODSTOW NUNNERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, stranger, rest thee! From the neighbouring towers Last Line: Young man, and learn to reverence womankind! Subject(s): Graves; Honor; Nuns; Oxford, England; Rest; Strangers; Women; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTION: UNDER AN OAK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, traveller! Pause awhile. This ancient oak Last Line: Of all that softens or ennobles man. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Nature; Oak Trees; Rest; Travel; Journeys; Trips INSTRUCTION, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a place in a little garden Last Line: And the leaping of a word. Subject(s): Laurels; Rest; Solitude; Loneliness INVOCATION TO SLEEP, by CAROLINE LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh balm of nature to the mind opprest Last Line: Lull, with thy poppy wreath, my soul to rest! Subject(s): Rest; Sleep IT'S NOT COLD HERE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere the flags are frozen Last Line: For the pure abandoned joy of sliding down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Home; Refugees; Rest JAIME SABINES; XI, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Newborn in the bed of death, Last Line: I'm going underground, a deep sob, %so I can see you once again. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Silence JUST DONE (1), by YUAN MEI Poem Source First Line: Possessed of but a dwelling place Last Line: How could he let them go? Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai Subject(s): Rest; Zen Buddhism KINDLY DEATH, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death touched her, not decay Last Line: And closed her eyes a while. Subject(s): Death; Love; Relationships; Rest; Silence; Dead, The LABORE CONFECTO, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah god, how good and sweet it is Last Line: On such a white, white breast! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Night; Rest; Work; Workers; Bedtime LET US LIE CLOSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Let us lie close, as lovers should Last Line: And with one kiss prepare for sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Rest; Sleep LIFE REMOVED, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How tranquil is the life %of him who, shunning the vain world's uproar Last Line: To the soft, tuneful sound %of zither touched by fingers' s kill profound Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Calm; Life; Peace; Rest LIGHT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Light is the life of all my thoughts Last Line: At twilight, in the woods, I gather marguerites. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Light; Rest; Sunset; Twilight LILIES I, by AMY LYNN SIPPLE Poem Source First Line: Labored breaths Last Line: He swore the lilies gave him breath Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Peace; Rest LISTENING IN DARKNESS - SPEAKING IN LIGHT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hath spoken in the darkness Last Line: In the everlasting light! Subject(s): Calm; Rest; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility LORD, GRANT US GRACE TO REST UPON THY WORD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Lord, grant us grace Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Prayer; Rest LOVE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, hush, o wind Last Line: I may not strive with you. Subject(s): Love; Rest; Touch (sense) MENINGITIS HONEYMOON, by LAURA BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: It's hours past that impossible midnight drive Last Line: Into my good lungs for all I'm worth Subject(s): Rest; Sickness MICHAEL ROBARTES BIDS HIS BELOVED BE AT PEACE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the shadowy horses, their long manes a-shake Last Line: And hiding their tossing manes and their tumultuous feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace Subject(s): Horses; Peace; Rest MOON, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Your sweet face hangs bruised in the night sky Last Line: The smoldering light of stars Subject(s): Death; Moon; Night; Peace; Rest MOON-DREAMS, by ALICE HARRIET WARE Poem Text First Line: Beneath my body as I lie Last Line: Empty and trivial as its own small shell! Subject(s): Peace; Rest MORE THAN PEACE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: More than peace %or joy Last Line: Go back to my %forests Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Peace; Rest MORVA (TO THE MEMORY OF COLONEL OWEN VAUGHAN - OWEN RHOSCOMYL), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the moon by morva Last Line: And the world's great songs be made. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Death; Memory; Rest; Soldiers; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen MOTHER, by M. E. PETEET Poem Text First Line: After your life of steadfast faith Last Line: With the eternal blest. Subject(s): Rest; Tears MOTHER NIGHT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternities before the first-born day Last Line: Into the quiet bosom of the night. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Rest; Dead, The MOTIF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On the garret sleeps the roof Last Line: In its crib by the mold'ring wall Subject(s): Babies;death - Children;rest; Infants;death - Babies MOTTO, FR. ARIOSTO, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to the land where the clouds love to rest Last Line: And the lake her lone bosom expands to the sky. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Farewell; Rest; Sky; Dead, The; Parting MY LOVE LIES DEAD, by EUGENE FOSTER MCSPEDDEN Poem Text Last Line: The sun must set but day-dawn never fails! Subject(s): Grief; Rest; Sorrow; Sadness NIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The weary day has leaned her head in slumber Last Line: From them, and me. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Sleep; Weariness; Bedtime; Fatigue NIGHT, by CARLYLE FERREN MACINTYRE Poem Text First Line: The ever-busy weaver clouds are carding Last Line: Wash clean the earth from stain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macintyre, C. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Peace; Rest; Dead, The NOONTIDE REST, by ANTIPHILUS OF BYZANTIUM Poem Text First Line: Tall oak, who spread on high your shady boughs Last Line: Protect me also from the hot sun's blaze. Subject(s): Rest NOT A GREEN WILLOW, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a green willow, veiled to hide her weeping, Last Line: Rest after labor, quiet after strife! Subject(s): Grief; Rest; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness NOT GOING, NOT COMING, by UNKNOWN+125 Poem Source Last Line: The way beyond Subject(s): Rest; Zen Buddhism ODE TO LAZINESS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I felt this ode Last Line: And soon I began to fall %asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Idleness; Rest; Sleep ODE TO SLEEP, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the sunset, and the amber sea Last Line: To thy diviner sleep, o sacred death! Subject(s): Rest; Sleep ODE TO SLEEP, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O gentle, feather-footed sleep Last Line: Confounds pale, trembling catiline. Subject(s): Calm; Dreams; Forgetfulness; Rest; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares OF ALL THE CORNERS TO FORGET: BESIDE REST, by GIAN LOMBARDO Poem Source First Line: Dropped by the road, full bloom from seed of exhaustin. Not some pretty ... Last Line: There's yet ample room to be fallen Subject(s): Rest; Sleep ON A CAVE, by ANYTE Poem Text First Line: Come, traveller, this hollow rock beneath Last Line: In these cool streams that from the cavern burst. Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes Subject(s): Caves; Rest; Travel; Caverns; Journeys; Trips ON HIS MISTRESS DROWNED, by THOMAS SPRAT Poem Text First Line: Sweet stream, that dost with equal pace Last Line: These tears, these tears shall mend thy way. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Grief; Love; Rest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE PASSING OF KING GEORGE V, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When time has sifted motives, passions, deeds Last Line: And ventured to a nobler marching word. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Memory; Prayer; Rest; Dead, The ONE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND DAYS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Like a king on a primitive island Last Line: Kept from it by a shameful curtain Subject(s): Birds; Death; Islands; Peace; Rest; Soldiers ORGAN SONGS: REST, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When round the earth the father's hands Last Line: My deep, still, resting sea. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Rest; Sleep; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORIGIN MEANS CRAB, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Changes of time go quietly Last Line: A matter of feeling over fire Subject(s): Night; Rest; Silence; Sleep PARTING, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moment more, the swelling sails Last Line: Within the grave a dreamless rest! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness PASTICHE FOR NEW YORK, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: They city, lit by a single fire Last Line: And, how still the spiderless city rests Subject(s): Dreams; Rest PEACE, by NORMAN CABOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A singular virtue is in the heat of spring Last Line: Or roman courtiers sauntering to the bath. Subject(s): Rest; Spring PRIMO VERE, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold from sluggish winter's arm Last Line: Has spring, too, felt the doom of years? Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Italian Renaissance; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise RED SUNSET, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: As if all were good Last Line: She says to sister night as she tucks you in %and rattles the stars by your bed Subject(s): Blood; Death; Evening; Rest; Sleep REPOSE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I laid me down in solitude, but not alone Last Line: "out-breathings from the fountain-head of rest above." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Rest REQUIESCAT IN PACE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have watched him to the last Last Line: Mind of mind, and love of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Death; Rest; Dead, The REST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "love, give me one of thy dear hands to hold" Last Line: "our blessed home, our little ark of rest" Subject(s): Memory;rest REST, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hills call, the dew-glad morning hills Last Line: The mother hills where weary men find sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Mountains; Rest; Hills; Downs (great Britain) REST, by FRANCES BELLE DELZELL Poem Text First Line: Twilight / and evening star / and night's velvet Last Line: Welcome me. Subject(s): Evening; Night; Rest; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime REST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On with thy worke, though thou beest hardly prest Last Line: Labour is held up, by the hope of rest. Subject(s): Rest REST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spread, spread thy silver wings, o dove! Last Line: Flutter again to thy quiet nest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Rest; Time; Dead, The REST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On me to rest, my bird, my bird Last Line: And lap you close with loving leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Birds; Rest REST, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My feet are wearied and my hands are tied Last Line: Where I shall rest. Subject(s): Rest REST, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To spend the long warm days Last Line: Low to herself when there is no one near. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Rest REST AND BE THANKFUL!' AT THE HEAD OF GLENCROE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doubling and doubling with laborious walk Last Line: Win rest, and ease, and peace, with bliss that angels share Subject(s): Rest; Peace REST AT EVENTIDE, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fold ye the ice-cold hands Last Line: And sweet is the christian's rest. Subject(s): Evening; Rest; Sunset; Twilight REST REFRESHES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay by the good a while; a resting field Last Line: Continuall reaping makes a land wax old. Subject(s): Rest RETIREMENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of solitude, silence, and rest Last Line: Freedom for solitude, silence, and rest. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Rest; Retirement; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness RETREAT, by YORK SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: Go into the silence, sons Last Line: Bang crass and bid you wake. Subject(s): Peace; Rest; Silence SANDY STAR: 3. EXIT, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, his exit by the gate Last Line: Pulsing through his sleep. Subject(s): Rest; Sleep SEEKING REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother said: the child is changed Last Line: And think and weep alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Rest; Seasons; Suffering; Misery SEVENTH DAY, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Somewhere outside our window we hear the ponder Last Line: We find our solace turning each to each. Subject(s): Prayer; Rest SILENCE, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night on her couch of the mountains Last Line: For the love of a child that is dead. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Cold; Death; Heaven; Rest; Wales; Dead, The; Paradise; Welshmen; Welshwomen SINERA CEMETERY: 27, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: Dream, meaning, concrete Last Line: Beneath dust and shadow Subject(s): Cemeteries; Peace; Rest SKELETON UNDER A LEDGE, by LEONARD JENNEWEIN Poem Text First Line: Perhaps it was a storm that on some night Last Line: To meet you now———most interesting. Subject(s): Death; Rest; Skeletons; Dead, The SLAGNOTES, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: In this lode of bulblight Last Line: Scattering slagnotes pell-mell? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rest SLEEP, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sleep, thou kindest minister to man Last Line: Since death be but an endless, dreamless sleep? Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Nightmares; Bedtime SLEEP, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: To sleep! To float upon a dreamless wave! Last Line: Far out to calm upon the ocean's night. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime SLEEP, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gentle sleep! Attend thy votary's prayer Last Line: And, without dying, o how sweet to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Rest; Sleep SLEEP-SONG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunken bell is ringing up through the sea of / sleep Last Line: Love, if we sank together beneath the sea of sleep! Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean SLUMBER SONG FOR SUNALINI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the golden, glowing Last Line: Sleep, my sunalini, sleep! Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Folk Songs - Indian; Heaven; Rest; Saints; Death - Babies; Paradise SOME DAY, SOME DAY, by CRISTOBAL DE CASTILLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Shalt thou find rest Subject(s): Love; Peace; Rest SOMETIMES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I long for a lazy isle Last Line: Back to the whirl again! Subject(s): Rest; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips SONG, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber on! While I watch o'er thee Last Line: Which I see before me now. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Rest; Sleep SONNET. PHILOSOPHY, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Throughout the world in vain, in vain they sought Last Line: Nor mind, nor nature breathed heaven's holiest whisper, rest. Subject(s): Nature; Rest; Thought; Thinking SONNET: 10. REST, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes we feel so spent for want of rest Last Line: "so quiet in the fellowship of dreams." Subject(s): Rest STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1794, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come melancholy moralizer, come Last Line: The grave the inn of rest. Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Happiness; Life; Morality; Mortality; Rest; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight; Ethics STRATEGIC, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I am playing, and I want to rest a bit Last Line: And rest as hard as possible to last me through the day. Subject(s): Children; Play; Rest; Childhood SUPPLICATION, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am so tired and weary Last Line: That I must journey on. Subject(s): Rest TARA-BINDU, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the breeze falls asleep Last Line: Behind the emerald screen of the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Rest; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean THE BLEST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The vision came, all grey and cold Last Line: And the dew on its skin was a tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Grief; Rest; Sorrow; Sadness THE BUILDERS; A NOCTURNE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On what dost thou dream, solitary all the night long Last Line: Drawing to thee, and the slow feet of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monasteries; Rest; Spirituality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Abbeys THE BURDEN BEARER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bearing the sky on his back Last Line: On him as doubt of his fate. Subject(s): Fate; God; Mankind; Rest; Destiny; Human Race THE CALL OF THE STREAM, by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL Poem Text First Line: I am sitting to - day at the desk alone Last Line: I'm catching the train for trout. Subject(s): Brooks; Fame; Rest; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Reputation; Loneliness THE CROSS ROADS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man breaking stones Last Line: And a stone is on her face. Subject(s): Funerals; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Lunch; Murder; Rest; Soldiers; Story-telling; Travel; Burials; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips THE CROWNING OF THE KING, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now within its narrow hall Last Line: By that chrism of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Rest; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE DAY OF REST, by GUSTAV GOTTHEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, o sabbath day, and bring Last Line: Thou shalt rest. Subject(s): Jews; Rest; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday THE DEMON DAWN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The twilight came to soothe my furrowed care Last Line: And shatter all the happiness I know? Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Silence; Nightmares; Bedtime THE DREAM MAID (SUGGESTED BY GENE STRATTON PORTER'S 'THE HARVESTER'), by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: South wind, south wind Last Line: The path to paradise. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise THE EVENING STAR, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of the sunset sky Last Line: Living again in thy life and thy light. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Sleep; Bedtime THE FALLEN, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toll the bell slowly Last Line: "where is no death nor shadow of the grave." Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Rest; Declaration Day THE FEAST OF THE DEAD, by CHARLOTTE BECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down old ways the monks pass ringing Last Line: Miserere, domine. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE PRINCE HENRY OF BATTENBERG, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Prince henry of battenberg is dead! Last Line: And each one left with a sad heart and went home. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Rest; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise THE GARDEN VIGIL, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep silence of the garden-bowers Last Line: May in thy flame adore his hidden face. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Rest; Silence; Graveyards; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF REST, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto a land unknown to me I came on some Last Line: I sleep content for endless years and never wish to speak a word. Subject(s): Death; God; Love; Rest; Dead, The THE JOURNEY, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Unwearied the seasons come and go Last Line: And the journey ends—who would not rest? Subject(s): Death; Rest; Dead, The THE LAST FAY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered where the cuckoo fills Last Line: In the ancient stillness brooding there. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Merlin; Rain; Rest; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue THE LIGHTKEEPER, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Above, below, how the wild winds go Last Line: Might strike and shuddering die. Subject(s): Death; Rest; Silence; Dead, The THE LOTOS-EATERS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the land Last Line: O rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Lotus-eaters Subject(s): Lotus; Mythology - Classical; Rest; Ulysses; Lotos; Odysseus THE MARTYR OF BRUSSELS, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Rest you, sweet martyr, nobly have you lain Last Line: "and hear from lips divine, ""abide with me." Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Martyrs; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise THE ODE OF PERFECT YEARS: 4. REST, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a joy in rest Last Line: A black night left behind. Subject(s): Rest THE OLD SAINT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The day is gone, the solemn night draws down Last Line: God's city with the mansions of the blest. Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Rest; Sleep; Nightmares THE SABBATH, by NINA DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Not for us the sabbath of the quiet streets Last Line: Ours 'tis to bear the sabbath in our souls. Subject(s): Jews; Rest; Sabbath; Silence; Judaism; Sunday THE SUPREME WISH, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God give you joy, I said,-and joy you had Last Line: O sweet, god give you rest! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Rest; Wishes; Dead, The; Paradise THE TOMB OF GAUGIN, by PIERRE CAMO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women of tahiti, when time's pace Last Line: And the infinite love of the archipelago! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory; Rest; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TROUBLESOME BABY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little ones cling to the mother Last Line: That may love thee better than all. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Caregivers; Mothers; Rest; Infants THE TWO OCEANS, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two seas, amid the night Last Line: Ne'er knew the track of a pilot. Subject(s): Rest; Sea; Sleep; Ocean THE UNFAILING ONE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who hath led will lead Last Line: We rest on him to-day, forever! Subject(s): Rest THE UNFORTUNATE GENTLEMAN, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He, whose warm hand had often pressed Last Line: Who now belongst to me! Subject(s): Death; Poisons And Poisoning; Rest; Dead, The THE VALLEY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fairy-like valley, with grim mountains / hiding it Last Line: And scent of the wild flowers filling the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Rest; Valleys THE VOYAGE OF SLEEP, by ARTHUR WENTWORTH HAMILTON EATON Poem Text First Line: To sleep I give myself away Last Line: And drift into the silent west. Subject(s): Rest; Sleep THE WAVELET, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Once a merry little wavelet Last Line: Now and for evermore. Subject(s): Rest; Sleep; Weariness; Fatigue THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: It has grown across his grave Last Line: In soul or body. And the world may catch the fragrance. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honeysuckle; Rest; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE WIND'S QUEST, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, where shall I find rest? Last Line: Anarchist journal, the torch, in 1891. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Rest; Wind THE WORLD AND THE QUIETEST, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, when the world's great mind Last Line: And drained his mighty bowl. Variant Title(s): To Critias Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Rest; Work; Workers THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest remains when all is done Last Line: Struggling panting up to god Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Rest THREE FATES: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dreamer, follow fast the star Last Line: The couch is flowered for you. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Future Life; Rest; Nightmares; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THREE ORCHESTRAL THEMES, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: Nightfall... / I hear the fainting echo of a muezzin's last call Last Line: Poet's dream of paradise... Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rest; Symphonies; Orchestras; Concerts TO, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Asleep within the deadest hour of night Last Line: Whose face would greet me in hell's fiery way. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise TO ALL IN HAVEN, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye who have gained the haven of safe days Last Line: That is in dreadful fellowship with night. Subject(s): Rest TO HIS BOOKE (9), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If hap it must, that I must see thee lye Last Line: With spice; that done, ile leave thee to thy rest Subject(s): Rest TO RETIREMENT, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last, o thou serene retreat Last Line: Mid such a sea of troubles blind and dire! Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Rest; Weariness TO THE DEPARTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know thou hast gone to the place of thy rest Last Line: "is born, like the rainbow, in tears" Subject(s): Death;mourning;regret;rest;solitude; "dead, The;bereavement;loneliness; TO THE LAND OF SLEEP, by JESSIE JANE HUSSEY CASKEY Poem Text First Line: Night shades are falling, gone is the day Last Line: Like the love that comes from above. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Sleep; Bedtime TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. REST AT LAST, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Love - having journeyed through all of life Last Line: And I in them attain at last to rest. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise TRANSITION, by MIRIAM BARRANGER Poem Text First Line: White sleeping tombs Last Line: In a million shafts of light. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones UNDER A LAUREL, by ANYTE Poem Text First Line: Sit all beneath fair leaves of spreading bay Last Line: Rest, in the west wind's airy buffeting. Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes Subject(s): Rest UNDINE: THE SONG OF THE UNDINES OR WATER-SPIRITS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We dwell in the depths of the opaline sea Last Line: Are but for a day! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Rest; Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore UNFINISHED FRAGMENT (1), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The master will guide the weary feet Last Line: With thee and for thee each sunny hour Subject(s): God; Rest UNFINISHED FRAGMENT (2), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, depart! For this is not your rest! Last Line: When he had risen, the shepherd good and fair. Subject(s): Calm; Rest; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility VALEDICTORY, by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay me low, my work is done Last Line: I am weary, lay me low. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Rest; Work; Workers VENERIS DIES, by JEAN PELLERIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman of sorrow and shame Last Line: Tonight ... For me. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Rest; Women; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness VERSES ON TEXTS: ESTHER, 8, 8, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For he hath given us a changeless writing Last Line: Sealed on our hearts with his own signet ring. Subject(s): God; Peace; Rest VOLUNTARY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the quiet eve Last Line: The hostel door. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Night; Rest; Woods; Bedtime VPON HIS SABBOTH, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whiles greenham writeth of the sabboths rest Last Line: Hard is to say whether is the happiest. Subject(s): Rest; Sabbath; Soul; Writing & Writers; Sunday WAITING HOPES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Resting in the woodland where the lilies grow Last Line: That will requite the patience of the soul. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Rest; Waiting; Optimism WATCHING; IN BURMAH, by EMILY CHUBBUCK JUDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, love, sleep! Last Line: Night deepens, and I sit, in cheerless doubt alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Forester, Fanny; Judson, Emily E. Subject(s): Burma; Rest; Sleep WE SHALL SLEEP, by FLORENCE STEINBERG Poem Text First Line: Let me lie on fragrant earth tonight Last Line: —and I shall be content. Subject(s): Rest; Silence; Sleep WHAT SPIRIT?, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: What spirit do I house? Last Line: Within the silence of the seed. Subject(s): Death; Love; Rest; Spirituality; Dead, The WHEN I AM DEAD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, o let it be Last Line: Wilt watch beside that grave of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Rest; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WHERE YOU MAY REST, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a pleasant mead Last Line: Where thy heart may rest. Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Rest; Sleep; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones WHO DOESN'T DREAM, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: I saw a rat come across the road Last Line: Not unlike birds set up without wings Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Rest; Sleep WHO SHALL SAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I toiled on, but thou Last Line: Still rememberest thou? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Rest; Separation; Isolation WISDOM, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young girl questions: 'whether were it better' Last Line: "nor may till we be dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Life; Rest; Wisdom; Dead, The WOMEN'S SLEEP, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Old women often sleep so heavily Last Line: But the sleep doors are too stiff. They sleep %deep as cement, and recognize no one Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Rest; Sleep WORK AND REST, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To work is good, to saw your wood, while Last Line: The shows and things like those, and leave your tasks for daytime. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Rest; Work; Workers |
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