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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "TO A GENTLEMAN, WHO DESIRED PROPER MATERIALS FOR A MONODY", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flowerets - wreaths - thy banks along
Last Line: Let these be well together blended - / dodsley's your man - the poem's ended
Subject(s): Gentlemen;poetry & Poets;rhyme


A FIT OF RHYME AGAINST RHYME [OR, RIME], by BEN JONSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rhyme, the rack of finest wits
Last Line: Was the founder!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


A LETTER TO A LADY; HER DESIRING AUTHOR TO POLISH POEMS OF BISHOP KEN, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your book again with thanks, - of worthy men
Last Line: "jesus! Th' eternal song of all the blest!"
Subject(s): Clergy; Ken, Thomas (1637-1711); Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


A NEW POET, by WILLIAM CANTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I write. He sits beside my chair
Last Line: We two have made the angels smile!
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Writing & Writers


A NONSENSE RHYME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ringlety-jing! / and what will we sing
Last Line: Like the wretched wraith of a whoopty-doo!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Rhyme; Singing & Singers


A PLEA, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, I have idled my time away
Last Line: But the heart perceives it,—and understands.
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


A RAMBLING RHYME OF DOROTHY, by ARTHUR CHENEY TRAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When ye crocuss shews his heade
Last Line: Dorothy!
Subject(s): Rhyme


A RHYME, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Babe, if rhyme be none
Last Line: O'er the babe.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


A RHYME FOR CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If browning only were here
Last Line: Though it took us till christmas next year to see through it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Kisses; Rhyme; Nativity, The


A RHYME OF MUSICIANS, by E. LEMKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Handel, bendel, mendelssohn
Last Line: Homberg, plomberg, reinecke.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Rhyme


A SCRAWL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to sing something - but
Last Line: That swings in the smile of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): God; Love; Rhyme


A SEA-CHAPLAIN'S PETITION TO THE LIEUTENANTS IN THE WARD ROOM, by J." "T. [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "you who can grant, or can refuse, the power"
Last Line: "thus grant my suit, as grant unhurt you may, / your chaplain,and without your groats, shall pray!"
Alternate Author Name(s): "t., J.;
Subject(s): Muses;poetry & Poets;prayer;rhyme


A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chant me a rhyme of christmas
Last Line: Run through the melody.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The


A SUMMER'S AFTERNOON, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the close of a summer's day
Last Line: That's all.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Afternoon; Rhyme; Summer


AND ONE IS TWO?, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who calls? I cannot say
Last Line: And live in the house -- one will build!
Subject(s): Death; Rhyme; Dead, The


APOLOGIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These bitter stammered rhymes
Last Line: To belong to the infinite stream.
Subject(s): Children; Earth; Life; Rhyme; Childhood; World


APPLE, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let's let this run, then
Last Line: The only worm in the apple %is that it's only an apple
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Rhyme; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


ART AND POETRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wess he says, and sort o' grins
Last Line: "art and poetry is twins."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


AUTOGRAPHIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I feel, if aught I ought to rhyme
Last Line: And ought to write -- an autograph.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autographs; Muses; Rhyme


BALLADE D'AUJOURD'HUI, by COATES CHAPMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bygone troubadours, grave and gay
Last Line: Here's to the singer who sings to-day!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Songs


BALLADE FOR THE LAUREATE, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rhyme, in a late disdainful age
Subject(s): Rhyme


BALLADE OF AN ANNUAL DIFFICULTY, by TED ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who named the best of holidays
Last Line: "for ""christmas"" hasn't any rhyme!"
Subject(s): Christmas; Rhyme; Nativity, The


BASHO II, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know the cheap perils of poetic poetry
Last Line: So that what vanished remains as something that vanished
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rhyme; Singing And Singers


BUT NO, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: So it's about learning things, then
Last Line: To break a pane of sky
Subject(s): Love; Poetry And Poets; Rhyme


CATCH A LITTLE RHYME, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once upon a time
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Rhyme


CATCH A LITTLE RHYME, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once upon a time
Last Line: Then it grew into a kite %and flew far out of sight
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Rhyme


CHRISTMAS SONNET TO R. H. S., by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The years go by, old friend! Each as it fleets
Last Line: Are nearer, dearer, faithfuller than before.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Friendship; Rhyme; Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825-1903)


CONQUERING EAGLES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I read the classic book -- and raised mine eyes
Last Line: The conquering eagles of imperial rome!
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Rhyme; Rome, Italy; Sea; War; Ocean


DAVE FIELD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me write you a rune of a rhyme
Last Line: Toward the topmost heights, dave field.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Dreams; Rhyme; Youth; Sunrise; Nightmares


DEFENSE OF RHYME, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because there is too much to say
Subject(s): Rhyme


DISTICHS AND SAWS, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rhyme the rudder is of verses
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Rhyme


EPIGRAM, by DENIS SANGUIN DE SAINT PAVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tircis makes rhymes as fast as ticking
Last Line: But mine will live when I'm in earth.
Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Rhyme; Writing & Writers


ERRING IN COMPANY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If e'er my rhyming be at fault
Last Line: In most illustrious company.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


ESSAY: THE INFINITE ASSONANCES WITHIN, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The new york phone book is suggestive of a sublime
Last Line: What is happening anywhere, what has happened, and what will
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


FLATTERY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You tease for a rhyme
Last Line: "that will ""tickle and flatter."
Subject(s): Flattery; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


FOLK SONG, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every true poet is a monster
Last Line: From the body that he loves
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rhyme


HARMONY TO CHING HUI-SHU'S RHYMES, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bells and drums from the south bank of the river
Last Line: In the treetops the slanting line of a bridge
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rhyme; Zen Buddhism


HOW POETS PLAY, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How do poets play?
Last Line: Swoon in fainting silences away.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers


I'VE JUST SEEN MRS. HOPKINS-AND READ HER THE LINES, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For both reading-and pictures. Good bye. Edward lear
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Printing And Printers; Rhyme


INVITA MINERVA, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vex not the muse with idle prayers
Last Line: While memory sighs and sings.
Subject(s): Rhyme


KINDNESS TO INSECTS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a melancholy wasp
Last Line: Upon a purple clover knosp.
Subject(s): Insects; Rhyme; Bugs


LEARNING A DEAD LANGUAGE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is nothing for you to say. You must
Last Line: When there is nothing for you to say
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Rhyme


LITERARY NOTE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember a time in our moderate clime
Last Line: Used it until you could scream.
Subject(s): Rhyme


MAKIN' RHYMES, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose wuz a hand at makin' rhymes
Last Line: But he wan't seen no more.
Subject(s): Rhyme


MASTERMIND, by BARB LUNDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the alternative energy rally
Last Line: Probability holds at 50/50
Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Rhyme


MY NOTEBOOK, SELS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not marble hard and enduring
Last Line: Of yesterday that is still
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Melodies; Poetry And Poets; Rhyme


MY POEM, by SANDOR WEORES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Miklos and eva
Last Line: We always try for better kids
Subject(s): Language; Pens And Pencils; Poetry And Poets; Rhyme


NEW YEAR'S NURSERY JINGLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the rhymes of all the climes
Last Line: The golden age of now!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Rhyme


ON A LADY WHO SPOKE WITH SOME ILL-NATURE OF AD OF MY LITTLE WORK, by CHRISTIAN MILNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Says pert miss prue
Last Line: And raising such a racket!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian
Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Rhyme; Writing & Writers


ON RHYME AND BLANK VERSE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a deal of impertinent stuff at this time
Last Line: All the bus'ness he knows is—to execute well.
Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs


ON THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF READING MATTER, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lad whose life is pure and clean
Last Line: And love its cardiac motive power.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings; Rhyme; Reading


POETRY, by KATHARINE HOWE THOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poetry is something more than words
Last Line: Like carolling of thrushes.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Soul


POSTSCRIPT, by ANNE GRANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jean, fetch that heap of tangled yarn
Last Line: To plant in vain the barren laurel!
Alternate Author Name(s): Grant Of Laggan, Mrs.; Mac Vigar, Anne; Macvicar, Anne
Subject(s): Housewives; Labor & Laborers; Rhyme; Work; Workers


RAIN REVERY, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the lone of night by the pattering tree
Last Line: Rain on the roof.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Melodies; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers


RELAXATION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I always like the freakish verse
Last Line: Just see -- again
Subject(s): Calm;poetry & Poets;rhyme; Placid;undisturbed;tranquility


REMARKS ON A PAMPHLET ENTITLED, EPISTLES TO THE GREAT, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doctor, this new poetic species
Last Line: The singy-songing euterpees.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


RHYME FOR REMEMBRANCE OF MAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember may? / oh, till no more a color tincts the spray
Last Line: May means remembering you!
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; May (month); Memory; Rhyme; Nightmares


RHYME TO LISBON, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A health to kate!
Last Line: Who made her bone his bone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Catherine Of Bragnza, Queen Of England; Rhyme; Toasts


RHYMELESS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask a rhymeless sonnet since, you say
Last Line: Words of a tongue that else had died unspoken.
Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


RHYMES FOR THE TIMES: 1, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've juist been thinkin', neebour johnnie
Last Line: She bids you guard—o mithers! Mithers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Rhyme


RHYMES FOR THE TIMES: 2, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ae day short syne, when gaun afiel
Last Line: This mission's yours—obey the call.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Rhyme; Time


RHYMES FOR THE TIMES: 3. 1865, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This while I've been ettlin' to string a wheen rhymes
Last Line: That poison the body and ruin the soul!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Cholera; Rhyme


RHYMES FOR THE TIMES: 5, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again I ha'e ta'en to the clinkin' o' rhymes
Last Line: The van of progression, oor post, an' oor part.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Rhyme; Social Protest


RHYMES: 2, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An aimless darting arrow
Last Line: Never knowing where %my footsteps may be leading
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rhyme


RHYMING, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bells go chiming
Last Line: O'er high germany.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Germany; Rhyme; Germans


RHYMING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear words, alike yet deftly different
Last Line: Be shrewd in rhymed divergence to express.
Subject(s): Rhyme


SISTER WATER: THE VOICES OF THE WATER, by AMADO NERVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: My drop seeks the entrails of the rock and penetrates them
Last Line: Yea, sister voices, I sing
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Praise; Rhyme; Singing And Singers; Voices


SOME HASTY RHYMES ON SLEEP, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mysterious deity, impart
Last Line: And thy soft arm support his head.
Subject(s): Rhyme; Sleep


SOMEP'N COMMON-LIKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somep'n 'at's common-like, and
Last Line: As ef the lord wuz listenun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Nature; Rhyme; Sympathy; Empathy


SWEATER WEATHER: A LOVE SONG TO LANGUAGE, by SHARON BRYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never better, mad as a hatter
Subject(s): Language; Rhyme; Words; Vocabulary


SWEATER WEATHER: A LOVE SONG TO LANGUAGE, by SHARON BRYAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never better, mad as a hatter
Last Line: Up and about, over and out
Subject(s): Language; Rhyme


THE BARD'S EXCUSE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maecenas, you wonder what spell I am
Last Line: Or twenty-one more)
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


THE BOX, by MARGUERITE ARNOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A dozen times she washed her hands
Last Line: Only a father and mother can tell.
Subject(s): Rhyme


THE GOLD ROOM - AN IDYL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They come from mansions far up-town
Last Line: Whom you can draw a check on!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Rhyme


THE LAST RHYME, SAVE ONE, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've sung in a wayward fashion
Last Line: The poet of later on.
Subject(s): Friendship; Labor & Laborers; Life; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Story-telling; Work; Workers


THE POET'S DREAM, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunset streaming o'er the river
Last Line: All his soul and mind doth fill!
Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Nightmares


THE POETESS'S BOUT-RIMES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "dear phoebus, hear my only vow"
Last Line: Delight
Subject(s): Rhyme;sex


THE RHYME OF SIR LAUNCELOT BOGLE; A LEGEND OF GLASGOW, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a pleasant place of rest
Last Line: Take my leave!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Rhyme


THE RHYME OF THE KIPPERLING, by OWEN SEAMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away by the haunts of the yang-tse-boo
Last Line: And the fuzzy-wuz took the bag.
Subject(s): Kippers; Rhyme; Story-telling


THE RHYMES OF IRONQUILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've allus held - till jest of late
Last Line: As rhymes of ironquill!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


THE SECRET PLACE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I shake off the outer things
Last Line: I fare me forth my fate to greet.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Love; Rhyme; Soul; Nightmares; Destiny


THE SMITTEN PURIST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thweet poethy! Let me lithp fortwith
Last Line: Pup -- patronymic of smith!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Names; Rhyme


THE VICTORIAN POET IN HIS RONDOTAGE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am too old to be ensnared
Last Line: I am too old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


THE WORLD'S WAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He wrote his soul into a book
Last Line: "behold, the world brought out his book!"
Subject(s): Books;rhyme;writing & Writers; Reading


THEY BOY-FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clarence, my boy-friend, hale
Last Line: Is this brave boy-friend of mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Love; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Soul


TO HELEN KELLER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If these my rimes ring true to you
Last Line: Beyond our shallow sight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs.
Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Rhyme; Singing & Singers


TRIOLET, AFTER CATULLUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Easy is the triolet
Last Line: If you really learn to make it!
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Lavatories; Rhyme; Toilets


TROUBLE RHYMING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It sort of put my spirits in the
Last Line: I take my share of shame for chica
Subject(s): Rhyme


UNCLE SIDNEY'S RHYMES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little rapacity greed was a glutton
Last Line: "and hopeless, -- ""he eats like -- he eats like an acid!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Gluttony; Rhyme


UNKNOWN FRIENDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O friends of mine, whose kindly
Last Line: She folds away her wings and swoons therein.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Friendship; Rhyme


VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (1), by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, they say is like a rose
Last Line: Tis mutual love the gift bestows
Subject(s): Flowers; Rhyme; Roses


VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (2), by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy the lab'rer in his sunday clothes
Last Line: And rouses joyous at the welcome close.
Subject(s): Flowers; Rhyme; Roses


VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (3), by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never before did I quarrel with a rose
Last Line: When I lie my head on welcome pillows
Subject(s): Flowers; Rhyme; Roses


VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (4), by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning I woke from a quite repose
Last Line: If I write any longer my verse will be prose
Subject(s): Flowers; Rhyme; Roses


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


VOORREDE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Steendam the poet (whom all men know)
Last Line: "rollicking lays of the good old times!"
Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


WATCH ON RHYME, by MAURICE DEAN BLEHERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun, boiling up each morning right on time
Last Line: Who would settle for casio?
Subject(s): Rhyme; Time


WET BREAD AND ROASTED PEARLS, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through a filmstrip of train windows
Last Line: Sliding over your taut silk %they sound like breath
Subject(s): Absence; Gothic Drama; Poetry And Poets; Rhyme; Writing And Writers


WHEN I DO MOCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I do mock the blackness of the night
Last Line: That I might drowse away such rhymes as these.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Despair; Moon; Night; Rhyme; Bedtime


WHY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why are they written - all these
Last Line: Why are they written -- all these lovers' rhymes?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Love; Rhyme