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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SIGHT Matches Found: 50 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN APPEAL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Deaf! Not a murmur or a loving word Last Line: Making the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear. Subject(s): Deafness; Eyes; Sight; Touch (sense) BEAUTIFUL ABERFOYLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains and glens of aberfoyle are beautiful to sight Last Line: When the face of nature's green in the spring of the year. Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Mountains; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BEYOND POSSESSION, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had it been you Last Line: Your eyes and my eyes. Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sight; Male-female Relations BI-FOCAL TROUBLE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wise optician smiled and said Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Opticians; Sight COMMON THINGS, by EUGENIA GRIESS Poem Text First Line: How lovely common things must seem to you Last Line: Who have such lovely eyes to see them through. Subject(s): Eyes; Sight COSMOS, by LILLIAN CRELLIN Poem Text First Line: One morning I sat at my window at dawn Last Line: God's whisper of love through all life's long way. Subject(s): Cosmology; Nature; Sight DISCRETION, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Of all things sweet a child may say Last Line: But only see. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Sight EYE AND TOOTH, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My whole eye was sunset red Subject(s): Sight EYE AND TOOTH, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My whole eye was sunset red Subject(s): Sight EYES, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Why is it that some eyes are merely two Last Line: Have helped me try. ..... Though they misunderstood Subject(s): Eyes; Sight FARSIGHTED, by WENDY M. MNOOKIN Poem Source First Line: My mother gave me Last Line: A girl, blurred and softened, %a little sidways Subject(s): Sight FIRST SIGHT, by KEN HANCOCK Poem Source First Line: Whenever I see Last Line: I've ever wanted %anyone else Subject(s): Beauty; Sight FLOWER VIEWING, by KATHERINE SONIAT Poem Source First Line: Like the thirteenth-century nun abutsu Last Line: Gathered on a night with no moon Subject(s): Flowers; Sight FREED FROM ANOTHER CONTEXT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, the foreground of the other Last Line: The other side. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Eyes; Owls; Sight; Vision; Wings GHOST EYE, by DAVE CASERIO Poem Source First Line: My mom woke me Last Line: And me %turned %the %other %way Subject(s): Sight I CAN STILL SEE, by TODD MOORE Poem Source First Line: Father sitting at Last Line: Wd take the skin off %his tongue Subject(s): Sight I CAN TOUCH SOMETHING, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: In the distance Subject(s): Native Americans; Riddles; Sight I TAKE MY GLASSES OFF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the hard Last Line: So I can see Subject(s): Sight IMMORTAL ELEMENT, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The watching inner eye which peers and sees Last Line: From this impersonal sight, released at last Subject(s): Sight LIGHT, by KATHERINE MCCORD Poem Source First Line: The sky is veined with trees Last Line: Please help me take my hands %from my face Subject(s): Light; Sight LOOKING BACK DOWN, by CHARLES HADFIELD Poem Source First Line: Rhythms of water Last Line: Almost within earshot Subject(s): Sight; Water LOOKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What knowledge do my ears provide Last Line: Stirs to her treachery. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Books; Eyes; Knowledge; Learning; Sight; Reading LOVE IN A LOOK, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me but feel thy look's embrace Last Line: Thy spirit blends with mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Sight MY FIRST SPECTACLES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first I laughed - for it was quite Last Line: "the first he has to wear?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Sight NAMING THE CATARACTS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If my doctors had told me, you have stars in your eyes, Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Old Age; Sight 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 ONE BY ONE AND WITH NO ONE SEEING, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: One by one and with no one seeing, like stars towards the dawn Last Line: And in my eye shine the tear and in my soul the secret cheer Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Sight OUT OF SIGHT, by VIRGINIA RUSS Poem Text First Line: The disenchantment of distance Last Line: You may still sing, I do not hear. Subject(s): Sight PERSPECTIVE, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sport, an adventurous sprout Subject(s): Sight SIGHT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the lamplit stall I loitered, feasting my eyes Last Line: I heard the tapping of a blind man's stick. Subject(s): Sight SIGHT AND SOUND, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh wonder shown! A sound to see Last Line: Shall I forget? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Sight; Sound; Vision SIGHT BEYOND SIGHT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the good lord had but restored Last Line: Beyond the reach of sight. Subject(s): God; Sight SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DIPPOLD THE OPTICIAN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you see now? Last Line: Very well, we'll make the glasses accordingly. Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Sight; Spectacles SYMPATHETIC MAGIC, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the loading docks, in implacable light, the potato farmers Subject(s): Sight THE DOOR IN THE DARK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In going from room to room in the dark Last Line: With what they used to pair with before Subject(s): Sight THE ENEMIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As fish that take the motion of the sea Last Line: But god who made me so? Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Finality; Hearing; Love - Unrequited; Self; Sight; Touch (sense); Winter; Dead, The THE LOOK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strephon kissed me in the spring Last Line: Haunts me night and day. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Eyes; Flirtation; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sight; Vision; Male-female Relations THE RIVER OF LEITH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon the dean bridge and viewed the beautiful scenery Last Line: Because the river of leith scenery cannot be beat. Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SECRET GATE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the dark of sleep, I rose, on the wings of desire Last Line: "ope not the gate." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fear; Fire; Sight; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE WORLD BELOW THE WINDOW, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The geraniums I left last night on the windowsill Subject(s): Sight THINGS TO SEE, by EUGENE MCNAMARA Poem Source First Line: A watertower with a name on it Last Line: Of the town leave all this %a hundred years behind- Subject(s): Sight TIME IS SOME SORT OF HINDSIGHT, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sight TO A PASSER-BY, by JEAN-RAYMOND TSCHUMI Poem Source First Line: This face Last Line: Let us go and explore the final rhymes Subject(s): Sight; Travel TO THOMAS SHERIDAN, by PATRICK DELANY Poem Text First Line: Dear sherry, I'm sorry for your bloodshedded sore eye Last Line: But away to clem barry's -- there's an end of my story. Subject(s): Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738); Sight TOWER VIEW, by SUSAN HAUSER Poem Source First Line: In the old mansion, I lean Last Line: Listening to the epic tale of the cicada Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Sight TYPICAL OPTICAL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the days of my youth Last Line: My old eyeballs enfold %no print any finer %than sans-serif bold Subject(s): Sight VIEW FROM HERE, by JOSEPH MILLER Poem Source First Line: I know you can see me, but just to test your set Last Line: And tickle me pink until I squealed Subject(s): Sight VISIBLE, by KEVIN BOYLE Poem Source First Line: I suppose it's hard to begin reading yeats Last Line: Something better that was not fucking art Subject(s): Art And Artists; Sight WHEN ALL MY FIVE AND COUNTRY SENSES SEE, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sight; Touch (sense); Taste (sense); Hearing; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances WITH ONE EYE OPEN, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A meltdown of pictorial signs Last Line: What you see is what you see.' 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