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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SILENCE Matches Found: 539 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ... IN THE LAND OF HYPNOSIS, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I have heard the latest news Last Line: The speck in on'es eye %when it blocks out %a much deeper %evil Subject(s): Hypnotism; Meditation; Silence ....THE KINGDOM OF THE AIR, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose peacock cry bereaves those myrtle groves? Last Line: Or make a lash close over its long stare. Subject(s): Love; Peace; Silence; War 1939, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just sit here telling myself all these stories Last Line: To the rising voice of my mind Subject(s): Silence 4 A.M., by JOHN SAMUEL TIEMAN Poem Source First Line: Like a leaf which wishes to drop Last Line: Her skin amid all the dark Subject(s): Death; Li Po (701-762); Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Silence 7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive through utah. They're silent Last Line: The sun pulls back toward noon. Subject(s): Absence; Bodies; Colors; Deserts; Food & Eating; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Silence; Travel; Utah; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips 95 POEMS: 40, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence Last Line: (inquiry before snow Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Silence A BALLADE OF THE NIGHT, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the earth the deep-descended day Last Line: Sigh in the silence of the midnight hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mourning; Night; Prayer; Silence; Bereavement; Bedtime A DUETTIST TO HER PIANOFORTE; SONG OF SILENCE (E.L.H - H.C.H.), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since every sound moves memories Last Line: Nay: hushed, hushed, hushed, you are for me! Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Silence A FANTASY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice is like clear water Last Line: Where quiet falls asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Silence A GIRL'S THOUGHTS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim apprehension of a trust Last Line: Life shrinks and instinct dreads surprise. Subject(s): Fear; Silence A KIDDIE'S DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A kiddie dreamed that a billy goat Last Line: Can be wrecked the same as pickle boats. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Night; Silence; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime A MIDSUMMER HOUR, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There comes not through the o'erarching cloud of green Last Line: The slow lapse of the gradual wave is heard. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Silence; Summer A MINUTE OF SILENCE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Text First Line: I abandon this too powerful repose Last Line: The clouds kiss in a swoop. Subject(s): Abandonment; Dadaism; Night; Silence; Sleep; Desertion; Bedtime A NIGHT-PIECE, OR, MODERN PHILOSOPHY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when bright cynthia with her silver car Last Line: And next morn pored in plato for more. Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Roads; Silence; Travel; Bedtime; Railways; Trains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips A PICTURE AND A PLEA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, your head a little downward bent Last Line: And bear sufficing witness of my love. Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Silence; Soul; Tears; Voices A RHPASODY; WRITTEN AT THE LAKES IN WESTMORLAND, by JOHN BROWN (1715-1766) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now sunk the sun, now twilight sunk, and night Last Line: Of quiet whispering to the ear of night. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Silence; Westmorland, England; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime A SEA-SIDE WALK, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walked beside the sea Last Line: Seen haply each was sad. Subject(s): Walking; Silence; Togetherness A SONG FROM SHIRAZ, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The singers of shiraz are feasting afar Last Line: Thy goblet of love, o mohamed ali! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Silence; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG OF SILENCE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the edge of silence Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Silence A SONG OF THE SILENT SOULS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some can talk, sagacious tender Last Line: Of the silent souls! Subject(s): Silence A SUMMER NIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Silent the vast of night Last Line: And share my brothers' silence. Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Silence; Summer; Bedtime A SUMMER'S EVENING, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet yearnings unexpressed Last Line: And peace divine the dewy landscape steeps! Subject(s): Love; Peace; Silence; Summer ABOUT THE SHELTERED GARDEN GROUND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Doth the morning stillness sink Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Silence ABSCHIED, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Not for someone else Last Line: You go around and gather up life. %now quiet Subject(s): Death; Love; Silence ABYSS OF SILENCE: 4 SILENCE, by CHONG HYONJONG Poem Source First Line: I watch a heap of quietness Last Line: Deadly enemies to each other Subject(s): Silence AD MONTEM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lift mine eyes, and lo! Impetuous tears Last Line: That sovereign calm inviolate remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence AFTER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And in the after silences Last Line: By monstrous rocks, a lonely soul. Subject(s): Silence; Soul; Wind AFTER LONG SILENCE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speech after long silence; it is right Last Line: We loved each other and were ignorant. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love; Silence AFTER MUSIC, by JANET RAMSAY Poem Text First Line: Let life and its bewildering music stop Last Line: Or unremembering songs, airs that are weightless. Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Silence; Dead, The AFTER SUNSET, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vast and solemn company of clouds Last Line: Drops in the shadowy gulf of bygone things. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Evening; Memory; Past; Silence; Time; Sunset; Twilight AGAINST SILENCE, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That silence on your end will cost us Last Line: The moon, rabbinical, mutters a prayer Subject(s): Religion; Silence AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 9. THE SILENCE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O voices of love's silences Last Line: Only the silence dares to hear. Subject(s): Silence AMORETTI: 43, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I then silent be, or shall I speak? Last Line: Wil soone conceive, and learne to construe well. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Silence AMORIS EXSUL: 6. FORESHADOWINGS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was your silence that I loved Last Line: Without a word we meet again. Subject(s): Love; Silence AMOROUS ANTICIPATION, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the intimacy of your forehead clear as a celebration Last Line: The fiction of time destroyed, %without love, without me Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Silence AN EVENING SKETCH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds have ceased their songs Last Line: There might be realms of real happiness! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Dreams; Evening Star; Serenity; Silence; Nightmares 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 ANSWERERS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are songs too wide for sound Last Line: It speaks in is, trying. And even if %only by a note like this, we answer Subject(s): Silence ANTENNA-FOREST, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Up on the city's roofs are great plains Last Line: --who rests here %in these deep graves? Subject(s): Death; Forests; Graves; Silence ANTIQUE FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something Last Line: If you ever knew Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Secrets; Silence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism APRONS OF SMOKE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Somber and full of winged Last Line: Lost among clots of venomous tides Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence; Terror AS I SIT IN THE SILENCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many pleasures of youth have been buoyantly sung Last Line: As I sit in the silence and gaze in the fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Envoy Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Past; Silence; Youth AT KENNEBUNKPORT, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together at the ocean's edge Last Line: The balm of silence and the strength of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Memory; Silence AT PARTYING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The night is silent, love, and here beside thee Last Line: Ah, holy, holy moment of farewell! Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Love; Silence; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness ATGET'S GARDENS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it always a dream then? Last Line: Water, in the eyes of the poet Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Emptiness; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 13, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the black and rocky caldron Last Line: Would they take the passage-money. Subject(s): Kisses; Night; Silence; Bedtime BATTEN XXV, by JOSHUA MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: An unpronounceable name went and came Last Line: Out to be nothing this language of earth %that burned Subject(s): Change; Names; Silence BEST OF ALL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all good gifts that the lord lets Last Line: Is not silence the best of all? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Silence BLESSING MYSELF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe in stillness Subject(s): Silence BLESSING MYSELF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe in stillness Last Line: I speak for it, %blessing myself Subject(s): Silence BLUE NUDE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Please take this shy spanish girl Last Line: Already stirring toward morning, where it will be white. Subject(s): Silence; Travel; Truth; Journeys; Trips BLUEBEARD'S CLOSET, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fasten the chamber! Last Line: The chamber is there! Variant Title(s): Blue Beard's Closet Subject(s): Murder; Pirates; Silence; Piracy; Buccaneers BOOK OF VISIONS: PHILOMEL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the heart of silence sing, shy bird that none may see! The garden Last Line: Listens to philomel. Subject(s): Birds; Silence BOTH SILENCE AND SPEECH TRANSGRESS, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: Goods can be defined as final product Last Line: Forgotten music, forgotten food in every day, %memorable in every sunrise Subject(s): Silence; Speech BOY UNABLE TO SPEAK, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The small boy is looking for his voice Last Line: Was getting dressed up like a cricket Subject(s): Silence; Voices BRAHMS IN DELIRIUM, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: He hears the sound of sunset as a cello Last Line: Come on with its own secret songs to sing Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Silence BRIGHT DELINEATION OF THE SILENCE, by DOUGLAS MESSERLI Poem Source First Line: The opposite force Last Line: Evidence of what %was never not Subject(s): Silence BROOM, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tommorrow waits with a big broom Subject(s): Silence; Sleep; Laughter BROTHERS: 6. 'THE SILENCE OF GOD IS GOD.', by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, tell us why Last Line: That world and you said nothing. Subject(s): God; Silence BROTHERS: 8. '............IS GOD.', by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So. / having no need to speak Last Line: The rest is silence. Subject(s): Brothers; God; Religious Education; Silence; Half-brothers; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools BURKE AND WILLS, by KEN BARRATT Poem Source First Line: So all men come at last to their explorer's tree Subject(s): Silence BY THE GREY STONE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is quiet here: the wet hill-wind's sigh Last Line: Is it love's lordly vow or mine own bitter shame? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Love; Sighs; Silence; Stones; Waiting; Granite; Rocks CAESURA, by GLORY E. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Oh! Let me leave life Last Line: So destiny, involved, is solved. Subject(s): Calm; Happiness; Silence; Smiles; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Joy; Delight CANYON WALLS, by IRIS ELIZABETH SPARKS Poem Text First Line: I know the deep-browed peace of canyon walls Last Line: And the silence reigns. Subject(s): Canyons; Rocky Mountain Range; Silence CARNAGE: 3. LOUVAIN, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene in beauty's olden lineage Last Line: Where the dead hail him william of louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Louvain, Belgium; Silence; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War CAROL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On vague hills the prophet bird Last Line: Peace over our voices break Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Peace; Silence COLD AND QUIET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold, my dear, -- cold and quiet Last Line: Love, now the children slumber, I come out to thee. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Silence; Dead, The COLLOQUY OF SILENCES, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN Poem Source First Line: That calm above those trees in the gray spaces Last Line: Beyond the gray spaces around tree branches %where the silences of birds are the answer Subject(s): Silence COMMUNION, by OSHIMA RYOTA Poem Source First Line: From them no words come Last Line: Chrysanthemum Subject(s): Silence COMPANION PIECE TO A POEM BY QIAN-QUAN, by HUANG JING-REN Poem Source First Line: Here where the master, his whisk in hand Last Line: Yet after the great bell's single sound %there is sound no more Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Poetry And Poets; Silence CONFESSION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because she spoke no word, but parted wide Last Line: Nothing shall change it till the change of death!' Subject(s): Bashfulness; Doubt; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Silence; Shyness; Skepticism; Male-female Relations CONSIDER THE LILIES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the radiant star above Last Line: Than e'er was wedded unto sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Silence CONSTANCY, by ANNE REILEY NESOM Poem Text First Line: Beneath these trees delight with wonder meets Last Line: Within their home and keep their dream of truth. Subject(s): Silence; Sonnet (as Literary Form) CRESCENT MOON, by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO Poem Source First Line: O crescent of the waning moon Last Line: Now sways beneath your glowing blade Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silence 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 DAY AND NIGHT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight is falling on lake and on land Last Line: One added night, . . . To so many their last! Subject(s): Evening; Life; Peace; Silence; Sunset; Twilight DAY'S END IN DURHAM, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In the abbey at durham, / with its great stony silence Last Line: I wondered, and woke. Subject(s): Durham, England; Dusk; Prayer; Silence; Wisdom DEAD PINES, by DANE ZAJC Poem Source First Line: We were shrunken from fear Last Line: Close the doors of your hearing %before our silence Subject(s): Bones; Death; Funerals; Silence 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 DEAF EAR, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY Poem Source First Line: I watch a motorcycle smoking Last Line: Your huge countryside of silence Subject(s): Silence DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Last Line: Especially when they fight, and when they sing Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women DEDICATION, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not call you when the wind Last Line: With a low murmur, like the seas? Subject(s): Absence; Silence; Separation; Isolation DEEP IN THE QUIET WOOD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you bowed down in heart? Last Line: And holy harmonies. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Silence; Dead, The DEFINITION, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS Poem Text First Line: A sudden closing of the eyes Last Line: It's called by someone, passing, by another, death. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faces; Silence; Dead, The DESERTED CHURCHYARD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lay an ancient churchyard Last Line: The shadowy days of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Calm; Churchyards; Desolation; Silence; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Loneliness DESOLATION, by HELEN MARGUERITE PERRI Poem Text First Line: Bleak, barren waste of desert land Last Line: Trod on—benumbed—alone. Subject(s): Desolation; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness DIALOGUE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence comes down the street to us in the shape Subject(s): Girls; Silence DIFFERENT GAME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He broke his jaw, lost the sight of one eye Last Line: A different game then. Red and yellow cards today. Subject(s): Blindness; Fights; Silence; Violence DILEMMA, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You asked me if you should still go adventuring Last Line: But I do not know any other silence to give you Subject(s): Silence DORKIN'S NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "twas dorkin's night, and the house was a sight" Last Line: For an actor can be but a man Subject(s): Laughter;night;silence;tears; Bedtime DUSK: ASSUAN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene, he mounts the minaret of day Last Line: But faithful come those worshipers, the stars. Subject(s): Birds; Dusk; Silence ECHO (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, whither hath it flown Last Line: A neighboring nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence ECHOES, by MARGARET ROOT GARVIN Poem Text First Line: Snapped! - is the string of the harp Last Line: But who so eloquent as they! Subject(s): Echoes; Musical Instruments; Silence EDGAR WILSON NYE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saddest silence falls when Last Line: Calling your love back to us laughingly. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Silence; Winter; Dead, The EFFINGHAM NIGHT, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has put her garment of white madness Last Line: As hands, grown vague, drop listless to my side. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silence; Bedtime EMPTY HOUSE, by GARNET HAMRICK Poem Text First Line: Silence sits a-rocking in her chair Last Line: Craving warmth that comes with spring. Subject(s): Absence; Silence; Separation; Isolation EPIGRAM, by LOUIS-MARIE TURREAU DE LINIERES Poem Text First Line: My friend! You thought me stupid once Last Line: Whene'er—you silence broke. Alternate Author Name(s): Turreau De Garambouville, Louis-marie, Baron Subject(s): Silence EPILOGUE; IL BOSCO SACRO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the sweet silence Last Line: O bird, thy song! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Peace; Rome, Italy; Silence EPISTLE TO THE LADY ANNE CLIFFORD, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the tender youth of those fair eyes Last Line: Than th' ancestors' fair glory gone before. Subject(s): Clifford, Anne. Countess Of Pembroke; Eyes; Praise; Silence; Women; Youth EPITAPH, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death is not information Last Line: And I shall be still for him Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Silence EPITAPH: 23, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Break not my silence, trouble not my sleep Last Line: None knows—nor what death tells me now I'm dead. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The EPITAPH: 3, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My burial place Last Line: Through the long dark. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Graves; Silence; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones EROS (2), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They put their finger on their lip Last Line: They love but name not love. Variant Title(s): Silence Subject(s): Love; Silence ESSENCE, by MIRIAM ALLEN DEFORD Poem Text First Line: Out of the darkness - a light Last Line: Only the world's staunch lover! Subject(s): Despair; Fate; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Silence; Destiny 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 AT SEA, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A perfect night!-a night of calm at sea Last Line: Their linkéd hearts confess her gracious power. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Peace; Silence EVENING LINES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, dreamy world and liquid-sounding leaves Last Line: Mysterious harmony, perhaps heard elsewhere. Subject(s): Faith; Hearts; Lips; Silence; Belief; Creed EVENING STAR, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a twilight hour Last Line: Through the long, long hours of night, Subject(s): Desolation; Night; Silence; Bedtime EVENING TRANQUILLITY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still this hour! The mellow sun Last Line: Grief's sail is furl'd for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Calm; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility EXALTATION, by JEAN WHITE Poem Text First Line: For ho! I have come to you, god of the woods Last Line: Which I lose when I am among men. Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility FAIRY TALE, by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: Beyond the seven gates Last Line: Bubble volcanos Subject(s): Deafness; Fairy Tales; Silence FARM NIGHT, by SANDS-ROUX Poem Text First Line: Now, silence resting on the silvered hill Last Line: A thought which has a word that all may learn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Silence; Agriculture; Farmers FIREWORKS, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Not guns, not thunder, but a flutter of clouded drums Last Line: Night absorbs them %with the sponge of her silence Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Fireworks; Holidays; Silence FISHING THE SKY, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Through the lens of time Last Line: Hear their motors hum Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Imagination; Night; Silence FIVE STILLS, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: Our first night together Last Line: We uttered together, almost frightened by our gravity Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Peace; Silence; Togetherness FLOWERS SLEEP BY THE WINDOW, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Destiny counts the clock ticks in decimals Subject(s): Fate; Silence FOREST VOICES, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The forest hath its voices Last Line: Each forest-voice is sweet and true. Subject(s): Forests; Silence; Woods FRAGMENT, by FRANZ KAFKA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never will you draw the water out of the depths of this well Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Silence; Judaism FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have done with hope Last Line: But mine own crown tomorrow morn: Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Silence; Optimism FRESCO-SONNETS TO CHRISTIAN S.: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At evening's silent, melancholy hour Last Line: And many a year has dragg'd me thus along. Variant Title(s): A Lock Of Hair Subject(s): Love; Silence; Tears 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 FROZEN SEA, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walked on it, in the very flesh Last Line: Was north, the sides of the north, everywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cold; Old Age; Silence; Solitude GEO-BESTIARY: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear the cow dogs sleeping Last Line: Not one day clones itself. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Silence GIFT, by LEONARD COHEN Poem Source First Line: You tell me that silence Last Line: And you would hand it back to me Subject(s): Silence GLEN OF SILENCE, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where have I 'heard' a silence before Last Line: The tragedy of an unevolved people! Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Silence GOLDEN SILENCES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is silence that saith, 'ah me!' Last Line: While silences vanish away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Silence GREAT STREETS OF SILENCE LED AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For period exhaled Subject(s): Silence HAIKU, by OSHIMA RYOTA Poem Source First Line: No one spoke Last Line: The white chrysanthemums Subject(s): Silence HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How still the morning sea Last Line: Anointing the day Subject(s): Sea; Silence HAPPY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: The house was perfectly silent Last Line: And called it anything else: %daughter, cool wind, open window, silence Subject(s): Happiness; Mothers And Daughters; Silence; Wind HATCHING; FOR DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On university avenue in rangoon Last Line: To crack its walls with wings. Subject(s): Burma; Revolutions; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness HEAL-ALL: IN MEMORY OF KANA NAKAMA, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Because the sky is a cipher Last Line: I've grown too pale and thin Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Grandparents; Grief; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Silence HELL 2, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Nothing %can you believe here Last Line: Oh! These silent streets Subject(s): Danger; Hell; Human Rights; Silence; Streets; Tyranny And Tyrants HIS SECOND WIFE SPEAKS: 2. SILENT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not speak. For ever from old days Last Line: I will be faithful, but I will not speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Fidelity; Silence; Faithfulness; Constancy HONG KONG CHOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hong kong chow is dead, his loving heart hath ceased / to beat Last Line: In loved paownyc he doth sleep, at rest forevermore. Subject(s): Absence; Animals; Death; Dogs; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The 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 MANY TIMES DO I TALK WITH MY DEAD?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: A shore to be crossed Subject(s): Absence; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence HUNTING NEW CAVE ON CECIL CREEK, by AL ORTOLANI Poem Source First Line: Along the road that leads to cecil creek Last Line: Gray, solid as the quiet within Subject(s): Nature; Silence HYMN TO THE MOON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How lovely is this silent scene! Last Line: And ruling o'er the pathless waters. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Love; Moon; Night; Silence; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness I AM, by NIKO GRAFENAUER Poem Source First Line: Noon at mid-summer is cruel as clear consciousness Last Line: But everything seems to rot in the grip of darkness Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Silence I DO NOT KNOW IT FOR SURE, by JAIME SABINES GUTIERREZ Poem Source First Line: I do not know it for sure, but I suppose Last Line: They see themselves naked and they know everything Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Silence; Solitude I HAVE A KING WHO DOES NOT SPEAK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And it were perjury! Subject(s): God; Silence I HAVE LEARNED TO BE SILENT, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have learned to be silent Last Line: I have learned to be silent Subject(s): Silence ICE MELTING, OTSEGO LAKE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Some things wait Last Line: Like a stand of birch trees quickening %in this good cold Subject(s): Cold; Silence; Winter IDIOMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Like a perpetual, sweet-smelling surf Last Line: Regards herself with the face %of water in her words Subject(s): Absence; Language; Silence IF BIRD GETS NOISY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bird! Queen of the night! Last Line: Put sarong over cage) Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Loss; Nature; Parrots; Silence IMPORTANT VOICE, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN Poem Text First Line: Quiet held the house, and all Last Line: Until the important cock had spoken? Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Silence; Sleep; Voices IN A LIBRARY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wealth of silence, that is all. The air Last Line: The valor, bloom, and wisdom of a world. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Librarians & Libraries; Life; Silence; Reading; Library; Librarians IN A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I was not well the other day Last Line: Back to my labor in the rolling-mill Subject(s): Calm;home;neighbors;silence; Placid;undisturbed;tranquility IN MY CHILDHOOD , by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my childhood I awoke to my mother's voice Last Line: I am fighting panic that everything / does exist in itself alone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Silence; Fear 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 NEW YORK: 5. HOME, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a need of silence and of stars Last Line: And then -- the summer stars . . . I will go home. Variant Title(s): Home Subject(s): Eyes; Faith; Home; Life; Love; Silence; Belief; Creed IN PURSUIT OF THE DREAM, by DIEGO URIBE Poem Source First Line: We are wooed by the rainbow light of eve Last Line: Cease weeping, and hope anew! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Silence; Sleep IN SILENCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sees our faces bright and gay Last Line: "the virtue that hath made thee whole." Subject(s): Peace; Silence; Sin; Smiles; Soul IN THE DARKNESS, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Someone calls to me Last Line: Call to my raw, naked body %in the darkness Subject(s): Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Silence IN THE GARDEN AT THE DAWN HOUR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I arise in the silence of the dawn hour Last Line: In the silence of the dawn hour! Subject(s): Dawn; Silence; Sunrise IN THE LITTLE SATCHEL OF SILENCE, by BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA Poem Source Last Line: From the trees Subject(s): Air; Silence IN THE SILENCE, by ELEANOR BICHNELL FORBES Poem Text First Line: In the silence I am listening Last Line: "send them me, thy work to do." Subject(s): Silence IN THE SILENT REACHES OF MY SOUL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh, deep in the shadowy vales that lie Last Line: Unknown to a finite world. Subject(s): God; Silence; Soul IN THE STILLNESS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Lightning arises %in the stillness Last Line: Thank you, rinpoche %in the stillness Subject(s): Emptiness; Silence IN THE TRUEST SENSE OF THE WORD, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: We cannot speak without intermediaries Last Line: There's only one sense to what I'm saying, %but beware, %I, too, live off the traps Subject(s): Absence; Silence INCOHERENCE, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We that are swift with words Last Line: Is trembling more than mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Silence; Words; Vocabulary INNOGEN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal shadow, faint and ever fair Last Line: Nor what is sadder, life, nor any human woe. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Silence INTERMITTENT, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: You put out the moon your candle %in the darkness the highway's a curl of smoke Last Line: Or is it just the wind, a warm air mass, pressure, certain laws %a dragonfly ;lights on a sprinkler Subject(s): Night; Silence; Sleep INTO THE SILENCE (A DEATH IN THE WEST HIGHLANDS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ungather'd lie the peats upon the moss Last Line: "he lies, and waits the lord in darkness grim." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Sea; Silence; Dead, The; Ocean INTRUSION, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies sag with rain-drops Last Line: Your silence and the mist of soft words breaking it. ... Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Silence; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness INVENTION OF SECRECY, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ancients were not able, save Last Line: Silent, we would not grow too full Subject(s): Silence INVOCATION OF SILENCE, by RICHARD FLECKNOE Poem Text First Line: Still-born silence! Thou that art Last Line: Seize this maid, and strike her dumb. Variant Title(s): Silence Invoked Subject(s): Silence 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 JULY, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: The emperor's moon is an orange smudge. His sky, his heat wave. His dust Last Line: About sleep. Shut up, someone replies. You go to hell. Why don't you come %here and make me Subject(s): Serenity; Silence JUST KEEP QUIET AND NOBODY WILL NOTICE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges Last Line: But let them have the thrill of finding it out for themself Subject(s): Silence 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 LABYRINTH, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: Buried alive Last Line: Labyrinth of mirrors %buried alive Subject(s): Memory; Silence LAKE LOUISE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that when the master jeweler Last Line: As if a finger on their lips were laid! Subject(s): Lakes; Peace; Seashore; Silence; Pools; Ponds; Beach; Coast; Shore LANGUAGE OF SILENCE, by JULIA LISELLA Poem Source First Line: When we were children, we played Subject(s): Silence LAPSE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Measure the failure of print Last Line: A loathsome crime. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Bedtime LEO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a journey o'er the sea Last Line: That we shall meet again? Subject(s): Death; Past; Sea; Silence; Travel; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips LET ALL THE EARTH KEEP SILENCE, by LUCY A. K. ADEE Poem Text First Line: How lovely is the silence of green, growing things Last Line: All praise him in their beauty—keeping still. Subject(s): Nature; Silence; Worship LETRILLA, by VICENTE ESPINEL Poem Source First Line: A thousand, thousand times I seek Last Line: In words ungentle, o my heart would %break Subject(s): Silence LIKE A TREE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I saw a sturdy tree, wind crucified Last Line: He stood quite like the scarred and noble tree! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; Silence; War LISTENING, by MATA TRUE Poem Text First Line: My ear was tuned to listen for your step Last Line: Of this drear, aching void where lay my heart. Subject(s): Death; Night; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The; Bedtime LISTENING ANGELS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue against the bluer heavens Last Line: Slowly passed away. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Silence LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 42, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many visions of times long vanish'd Last Line: Stand fix'd, the image of woe. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Silence; Nightmares LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 3. THE SLEEPING-CAR, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The land is silent, and the moon Last Line: The heart's assumptions and its pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Moon; Railroads; Silence; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MAGIC, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Her speech was magic, the most magical bit Last Line: What she left out Subject(s): Magic; Silence; Speech MATER DOLOROSA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She, brooding ever, dwells amidst the hills Last Line: Peace hath she not and therefore cannot give. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Silence; Tears; Suffering; Misery MEMORIES, by HENRY BATAILLE Poem Text First Line: Memories are rooms without a lock Last Line: And yet I feel dim eyelids close within me. Subject(s): Memory; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness MEMORY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: In the cry %of heaven I hear Last Line: The air and %leaves ed their heads Subject(s): Memory; Silence METAL MATERIAL REACHES, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The jar that twitch ends Subject(s): Self-consciousness; Silence; Solitude MIDDAY SILENCE IS DIFFERENT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I can't tell you how Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Silence MIDNIGHT-BY THE OPEN WINDOW, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How rapt the sleeping stillness of the / night Last Line: Roused from the sleepy comfort of his seat. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Night; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime MIDNIGHT: EARLY SUMMER, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: Time softens to silk now Last Line: Is wrapped in prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Birds; Silence; Sleep; Summer; Time MIDSUMMER NIGHT THOUGHTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The full moon's mild and silvery light Last Line: What joy 'twould bring to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Night; Silence; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking MOON BATHERS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Falls from her heaven the moon, and stars sink burning Last Line: So slowly, who shall say when light is gone? Subject(s): Night; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime MORE THAN SWEET, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The noisy fire, / the drumming wind Last Line: Of the heart's breaking seas. Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness MORNING STAR, by CESARE PAVESE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The man alone gets up while the sea's still dark Last Line: The man quietly tamps his tobacco and lights his pipe Subject(s): Quiet Life; Silence; Solitude MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence. Shadows. A little wind in the elms Last Line: To other doors -- and other, and other, and other. Subject(s): Daughters; Funerals; Mothers; Silence; Soul; Burials MOTHERHOOD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the awful full-orb'd moon Last Line: Around the world, and link these three again. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birth; Love; Mothers; Silence; Sin; Child Birth; Midwifery MOURNING, by WILLA BLAKE Poem Text First Line: Draw the shades across the window Last Line: For a heart has died today. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Silence MUTABILITY, by EVELYN HAZLETT HUNT Poem Text First Line: Into the pewter cup of life / pour agony Last Line: Ere long. Subject(s): Grief; Mutability; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness MUTE, by JULIA VAN NORMAN Poem Text First Line: Some ever quiet thing Last Line: No need of you at all. Subject(s): Silence MY HIDING PLACE AND ME, by BARBARA BROOKS BIXLEY Poem Text First Line: Sh - big sister's going by Last Line: My hiding place and me! Subject(s): Castles; Silence NATURE'S RETICENCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Silence golden is, I say Last Line: Will heaven tell all past divining? Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Nature; Silence; Time; Paradise NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 29TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear much, but little speak; a wise man fears Last Line: Do let in wit; the tongue doth let out folly. Subject(s): Silence NEVER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Hate clings to his lips like sticky tape Last Line: That'll never let a fly escape Subject(s): Hate; Silence NEVER AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: At what moment in that town Last Line: Never to speak a word again? Subject(s): Pain; Silence; Speech Disorders; Towns NIGHT MANCEUVRES, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through january night we climbed Last Line: I was not desolate before. Subject(s): Desolation; Night; Silence; Winter; World War Ii; Bedtime; Second World War NIGHT RIVER, by BILLY C. CLARK Poem Source First Line: I cannot hear the river play tonight Last Line: Except within a dream, within a prayer Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Silence NIGHT THOUGHTS: 3. ENCOUNTER WITH SILENCE, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night thoughts. Night music. Now from buried labyrinths and Last Line: Even though we do not know each other's names Subject(s): Silence NIGHTFALL, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve goes slowly Last Line: Bold then beaten—now long lost, and here! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Shadows; Silence; Dead, The; Paradise NIGHTFALL, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: I blink, and the sun has swept up the last shadows Last Line: The silence taking all of me %into its mouth Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Silence; Sleep NILOTIC DRINKING SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may water your bays, brother-poets Last Line: And sing for the glory of ancient nilus! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Brooks; Drinks & Drinking; Silence; Singing & Singers; Streams; Creeks; Wine NO WORD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees hang silent Last Line: Has ever rung Subject(s): Silence; Talk NO WORD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees hang silent Last Line: Like bells no one %has ever rung Subject(s): Silence; Talk NOCTURNE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: All that the night Last Line: Dies on my hard lips Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Shadows; Silence NOON-SILENCE (AUSTRALIAN FOREST), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lyre-bird sings a low melodious song Last Line: And silence wakes and knows her dream is day. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Bell-birds Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Silence; Singing & Singers; Wind NORTHERN CALIFORNIA NIGHT (STRAITS OF CARQUINEZ), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like miraculous shining electrum / this wide amber light Last Line: Hushes heaven, whence radiance is drifting! Subject(s): Calm; Moon; Night; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime NOT ALWAYS: 2, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were long days when there was nothing said Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness NOT ALWAYS: 2, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were long days when there was nothing said Last Line: And shine for them through many sorts of weather Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Silence; Solitude NOW SOFTLY, SILENCE, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER Poem Text First Line: Now softly, silence, bend above her, dead Last Line: Who henceforth sings in butterfly and rose. Subject(s): Silence O'ERCOME, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pause for tears. But thou, my lute Last Line: How silence holds me prisoner. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence OBEDIENT GIRL, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The obedient girl %with the patent-leather shoes Last Line: As if her body were a country %of obscure travelers Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Obedience; Silence ODE TO A 'STRAD' VIOLIN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Conceived in heaven, formed on earth Last Line: Of its brief radiance pale! Subject(s): Heaven; Nature; Silence; Violins; Paradise ODE TO SILENCE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, but she? Last Line: But as for me, I seek your sister whither she is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Silence OF BEING NUMEROUS, 22, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Clarity / in the sense of transparence Subject(s): Silence; Knowledge OFAY-WATCHER LOOKS BACK, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poet's Biography First Line: I want to look at what happened Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Human Rights; Silence; Vision; Watchmen; Enigmas; Oddities OFAY-WATCHER LOOKS BACK, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to look at what happened Last Line: Like death comes out of disease, %I want to look at what happened Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Human Rights; Silence; Vision; Watchmen ON AN ANCIENT LANCE, HANGING IN AN ARMOURY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the breezy coppice didst thou dance Last Line: And with his mouldered eyes again replace. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Past; Silence ON ITS STAND ON THE EMPTY STAGE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Enjoys the silence Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nature; Silence ON SILENCE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence! Coeval with eternity Last Line: All rest in peace at last, and sleep eternally. Subject(s): Silence; Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Rochester, 2nd Earl Of ON THE DEATH OF MR. GARRICK, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last sad rites were done - the sacred ground Last Line: "and know—whoe'er thou art—the prize is thine." Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Graves; Mourning; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF OLD BENNET THE NEWS-CRIER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one evening, when the sun was just gone down" Last Line: "homer and bennet were in this agreed, / homer was blind, and bennet could not read" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;death;grief;news;silence; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness; ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE 1818, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death has gone up into our palaces Last Line: May best deserve our love. Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Epitaphs; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Grief; Marriage; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE DOWNS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Squeeze out the cowslip-wine and let me drink Last Line: My landscape; -- she is with me; -- I can die. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Orion (mythology); Silence; Dead, The; Nightmares; Wine ON THE WAY HOME, by CHESTER FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: Did n't you like the party, dear, to - night?' Last Line: "I merely wished to know what you had done." Subject(s): Quarrels; Silence; Arguments; Disagreements ON THE WESTERN FRONT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dreadful acre of the dead Last Line: If you fail now, we shall not see or hear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Peace; Silence; War; Dead, The; World 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 PALM-TREE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: When comes the hour I long for Last Line: Returning to the tree Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Silence PANNYRE OF THE GOLDEN HEELS, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the loud room falls silence like a trance Last Line: Pannyre now flashes -- naked and divine. Subject(s): Flowers; Silence PASTOURELLE, by DONALD JEFFREY HAYES Poem Source First Line: Walk this mile in silence Subject(s): Silence PATIENCE IS WHEN YOU STOP WAITING, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand on the first step under the torn mouths of hours Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Silence PAX ANIMAE, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Speak not a word of wild, blaspheming grief! Last Line: Infinite pity spreads its hue of white Subject(s): Art And Artists; Death; Poetry And Poets; Silence; Statues PHOTOGRAPH OF A GATHERING OF PEOPLE WAVING, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound, the whole thing Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Farewell; Photography & Photographers; Pictures; Silence; Heritage; Heredity; Parting PHOTOGRAPH OF A GATHERING OF PEOPLE WAVING, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound, the whole thing Last Line: And you wave down to future generations like this Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farewell; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Silence PILGRIMS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the fane of silence come Last Line: Release for prisoned thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence PIOUS EVENINGS, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To farthest off the sun at setting sheds Last Line: Of which we cannot see the towering stem. Subject(s): Calm; Evening; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sunset; Twilight POEM: 1, by KEITH ALTHAUS Poem Source First Line: Night's silence Last Line: Struck by sleepers' hands %moving at their sides Subject(s): Night; Silence POETIC EPIGRAMS: 24. WINTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under a priestly stole Last Line: With silence for a soul. Subject(s): Silence; Winter POINT LACE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kate, when you lace-work undertake Last Line: But none in what you say. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Lace; Silence; Talk; Work; Workers POINT LOMA SONNETS: 4. SILENCES, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There are long silences where lost winds blow Last Line: Blown to the sea; and as familiar. Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Silence POSTCARDS FROM SILENCE, by PAUL GENEGA Poem Source First Line: Long diseased with silence, our mouths Last Line: Longstanding message: wihs here oyu were [or, wish here you were] Subject(s): Silence PRAYER BEFORE SUMMER, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more across the frozen hills Last Line: That ends so starkly and so soon? Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Death; Memory; Prayer; Silence; Dead, The PRELUDE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the broken waters of our ever-restless thought Last Line: God's glory be its ocean home, the end it seeketh ever. Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness PRELUDE, by LYDIA SHARPE Poem Text First Line: No life - no sound! / the night's caress Last Line: In the chord of day. Subject(s): Silence PROCESSIONS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Beneath her eyes she carries the scars of absence, and her gait Last Line: A concave surface beneath her nebulous steps Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence QUATORZAINS: 8. TO SILENCE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Huge, viewless ocean into which we cast Last Line: And to our ears upon the wind are swung. Subject(s): Memory; Sea; Silence; Ocean QUATRAIN: SILENCE, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Her weary head poised on one upraised hand Last Line: What thought is hidden in her aching heart. Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness QUERY, by ELIZABETH STANTON LAY Poem Text First Line: Dear silent one Last Line: Your steadfast ways? Subject(s): Silence QUESTIONS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I will not rest easy with my questions Last Line: But the men %cloaked in darkness Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; History; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence QUIET, by HELEN AMANDA CORLETT Poem Text First Line: Do you know where the rainbow ends? Last Line: And there I found the pot of gold. Subject(s): Rainbows; Silence QUIET AND THE SHELL, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All this island music Subject(s): Silence QUIET OF THE MIND, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A giant, puffed, and creamy cloud Last Line: People, people, people. Subject(s): Peace; Silence READING LIPS, by BERNADETTE GEYER Poem Source First Line: I am trying not to stare at the man Last Line: That truth I know he knows, but he doesn't yet realize Subject(s): Secrets; Silence; Truth REASON FOR SILENCE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sang, you sang! You mountain brook Last Line: The voice you had in paradise? Subject(s): Silence REASONABLE SILENCE, by MARGO TAMEZ Poem Source First Line: Never briefly or suddenly do we know Last Line: Of an elder laborer grateful for rest Subject(s): Peace; Silence REGARDING THE ONE MINUTE OF SILENCE ON ARMISTICE DAY, by HENRY STEPHENS SALT Poem Text First Line: Small help from that famed silence can we win Last Line: Brief spell of silence? Nay! Long spell of thought! Subject(s): Holidays; Silence; Social Protest; Veterans Day; War REIGN OF SILENCE, SELS., by GEORGES RODENBACH Poet's Biography Subject(s): Silence REMEMBERED SONGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked an autumn lane, and ne'er a tune Last Line: Soft songs on hearts that loved us, long before? Subject(s): Autumn; June; Seasons; Silence; Singing & Singers; Fall; Songs 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 RETIREMENT DAYS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In my mountain retreat 'mid forest and lakes Last Line: That gives solace and joy to these last. Subject(s): Memory; 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 REVELATION, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: September-and an afternoon Last Line: And the heavens, a jubilant chorus, are flushed with the fires of song! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility REVELATIONS; CIRCA 1948, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made no sound, at all, like the wintering Last Line: I watched. And made no sound... Subject(s): Aliens; Jerusalem; Silence; World War Ii; Extraterrestrials; Second World War REVERIE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The landscape gleams in the soft moonlight Last Line: Are with us still at eventide. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Memory; Silence; Thought; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking ROAD OF THE DEAD: 1, by RAUL NINO Poem Source First Line: Gazing at the craftsmanship of mortar, skillfully silence is held through Last Line: The moon and sun just ahead, patient for my crimson love Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Silence SAME EMPTY UPWARDS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Of smoke pressure, pure sky %pressing nothing, numb Subject(s): Silence SANDHILL PEOPLE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took away three pictures Last Line: Wears between sunset and dusk. Subject(s): Death; Love; Silence; Dead, The SEA OF SILENCE EXHALES SECRETS, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source Last Line: Star after star falls Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Silence SEALED WORD, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Not by the spring Last Line: Against the too light perishing of leaves. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Silence; Dead, The SENLIS: THE LITTLE SILENT STREET, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The stormy silence stirs and hums. Will there be none that this way comes? Last Line: The stormy silence stirs and hums. Will there be none that this way comes? Subject(s): Silence; Storms; Streets; Avenues SENRYU: SPRING IS HERE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: With cherry blossoms Last Line: Stop talking so much! Subject(s): Spring; Silence SENTIMENTS RISE AS THOUGH SETTLED, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Just turned, approaching uselessness; %no one talks Subject(s): Memory; Night; Silence SEQUENCES, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Tonight I stretch my hands Last Line: My arms will drink %from them Subject(s): Self; Silence; Solitude SERENADE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The leaves in the shadows Last Line: The silence sing for me. Subject(s): Love; Night; Silence; Bedtime SHADOWED SOULS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She died indeed, but to him her breath Last Line: "the soul thou didst thy most to have slain." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Life; Silence; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness SHADOWS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Text First Line: I am here, the other elsewhere, the silence seems to live Last Line: I must pray, for it is the hour of the sovereign of the world. Subject(s): Night; Prayer; Religion; Shadows; Silence; Bedtime; Theology SHADOWS AT CLOSE OF DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A pekinese lay dreaming Last Line: Shadows at close of day. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime SHARKS' TEETH, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything contains some / silence. Noise gets Subject(s): Silence SHARKS' TEETH, by KAY RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything contains some %silence. Noise gets Last Line: Be sensed in parks Subject(s): Silence SHHH, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The language that remains unspoken, often Last Line: To the tires' susurration on the sodden leaves, & the slow, %unbroken seeping-upward of the combo. S Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Language; Music And Musicians; Silence SHIP, SOLID AND BLACK, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source Last Line: Will speak differently Subject(s): Silence; Sleep SHORE GRASS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is cold over the sand-dunes Last Line: But the windy beating of the sea. Subject(s): Silence SHREWSBURY NIGHT, by CHARLES WARE BORDEN Poem Text First Line: I love the stillness of the night Last Line: The whole world as it ought to be. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime SILENCE, by FRANCES BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Silence - not a leaf trembled Last Line: And then once more -- silence. Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT Poem Text First Line: God must have loved a silence for he laid Last Line: And silent, old, unconquerable love? Subject(s): Religion; Silence; Wellesley College; Theology SILENCE, by VIRGINIA BIDDLE Poem Text First Line: The battle raged with hellish spite Last Line: Where men had fallen like summer rain. Subject(s): Silence; World War I; First World War SILENCE, by STEFAN BRECHT Poem Source First Line: When on a summer dawn the birds start calling Last Line: There is no silence in the soundless world of death Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes we don't say anything. Sometimes Last Line: It’s the way love is in a late stage of the world Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There is the sudden silence of the crowd Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curse on this tongue, that has my heart betraid Last Line: We know the flood runs still, though under-ground. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Silence SILENCE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis better to sit here beside the sea Last Line: Is full of deepest speech. Subject(s): Friendship; Silence SILENCE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the city streets Last Line: There is nothing else beside Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Cities; Silence; Streets SILENCE, by ELENI FLORATOU-PAIDOUSSI Poem Source First Line: The snail tracks of centuries Last Line: In your tender palm %and let it be light! Subject(s): Silence; Time SILENCE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: In the depths of time a marvellous silence turns green Last Line: A flower, a bird, a crucifix, %crushed by the same stone Subject(s): Silence; Women SILENCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suffer thy legs, but not thy tongue to walk Last Line: God, the most wise, is sparing of his talk. Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by SLAVKO JANEVSKI Poem Source First Line: When poppies tear themselves away Last Line: For poppies silence is golden Subject(s): Poppies; Silence SILENCE, by LUCY KENT Poem Text First Line: Out into the afternoon Last Line: Whom silence made forever one. Subject(s): Afternoon; Earth; Life; Silence; World SILENCE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I lost you, I am silence-haunted Last Line: Down the noise of men. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do I love the dearest in my wood? Last Line: Yet bears within its bosom all eternity. Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by EDITH WILLIS LINN Poem Text First Line: I am the warden of the seals of sleep Last Line: Safe in my keeping have I hidden god. Subject(s): God; Silence; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs SILENCE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: This hush of death! How could I know hefore Last Line: Speaks not? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Silence; Dead, The SILENCE, by ? LYNCH Poem Text First Line: In silence mighty things are wrought Last Line: Is strengthened silently. Subject(s): Cities; Silence; Urban Life SILENCE, by JAYANTA MAHAPATRA Poem Source First Line: Rain, all night Last Line: And lies asleep on a mat in the darkened room Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea Last Line: As we approach them. Subject(s): Silence; Silence SILENCE, by MARCELLA DARLING MILBURN Poem Text First Line: The flooding, black silence of the night Last Line: In the streets outside. Subject(s): Silence; Thought; Thinking SILENCE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My father used to say Last Line: Inns are not residences. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fathers; Guests; Home; Silence; Visiting SILENCE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No word, no lie, can cross a carven lip Last Line: He thenceforth will disdain the uttered word. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So silent is the world to-night Last Line: Is silent 'neath this hour's control. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by MAUDE DE VERSE NEWTON Poem Text First Line: I who only knew Last Line: Did I know utter, tideless hush. Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way the word sinks Last Line: Parachuting toward earth. Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by LORI PETRI Poem Text First Line: Sometimes night is so still Last Line: From soil to star. Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, that crying in the heart Last Line: They call the music of the spheres! Subject(s): Hearts; Music & Musicians; Silence; Summer; Tears; Wind SILENCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thousands and thousands of Last Line: And came tiptoeing toward me down the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Chaos; Night; Silence; Bedtime SILENCE, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Silence walks through the city Last Line: How beautiful she was. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Silence; Urban Life SILENCE, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speech is silver, silence gold Last Line: Why should we speak? Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by JOSEPHINE PRICE SIMRALL Poem Text First Line: I sought a word, the perfect word, the one right Last Line: Encompasses the rest. Subject(s): Silence; Wellesley College SILENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sea wherein the rivers of all sound Last Line: An echo on the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet silent person may possess Last Line: Like god himself, and heaven and earth was there. Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: She was a quiet little body Last Line: Sweet, like lavender. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mystery too deep for words Last Line: The empty room, the moonlight on the wall, %speak for the unreturning traveller Subject(s): Silence SILENCE AFTERWARDS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Try to be done now Last Line: That lies like a small bird between your hands, %the only friend you have Subject(s): Silence; Solitude SILENCE COMES TO A GARDEN, by MURRAY C. KIRK Poem Text First Line: Pale petals slowly spiral to the earth Last Line: Each hope, like incensed bloom, we could not hold. Subject(s): Memory; Silence SILENCE IS ALL WE DREAD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Himself have not a face Variant Title(s): Poem: 1251; Poem: 130 Subject(s): Silence SILENCE IS THE SOUL OF PRAYER, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I meditate on thee, and know Last Line: That silence is the soul of prayer. Subject(s): Prayer; Silence SILENCE SINGS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So faint, no ear is sure it hears Last Line: That joy abound. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, 2, by STEFAN BRECHT Poem Source First Line: By noon, the bestial roar of surplus-driven labor Last Line: And with this breath breathe I Subject(s): Silence SILENCE, TYRANY'S POWER, by DORY LEVISS Poem Source First Line: In the screaming sience of her world Last Line: Remain mute with the silence that gives to %tyrants power Subject(s): Politics; Silence SILENCE. A SONNET, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, my heart's blab, be ever dumb Last Line: Which carries it, shall prove its tomb. Subject(s): Silence SILENCES, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: The three-year-old seemed puzzled Last Line: Your teeth are clenched Subject(s): Child Molesting; Grief; Silence; Speech Disorders; Tragedy SILENCES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I was there,' he said, 'the night the hitmen done in my friend Last Line: To ask forgiveness of the wind.' Subject(s): Murder; Secrets; Silence SILENCES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a world of silences. I gave a cry Last Line: With even a sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness SILENCES, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no silence upon the earth or under the earth like silence under the se Last Line: Are as silently slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Sea; Silence; Ocean SILENT EYES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There is a bird that, in her throat Last Line: That spreads in silent eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love; Silence SILENT LOVE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: If I hated you, I would give you my hate Last Line: More atrocious than facing death itself Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Romance; Silence SILENT THE FORESTS, by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Silent the forests, the streams Last Line: No sound a kiss, no voice or sound my sighs Subject(s): Peace; Silence SILENT THINGS, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: All silent things are beautiful Last Line: Within the quiet ground. Subject(s): Silence SILENT, BUT..., by TSUBOI SHIGEJI Poem Source First Line: I may be silent, but Last Line: I may not talk, but %don't mistake me for a wall Subject(s): Human Rights; Silence SILENTIUM, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Be no word spoken. Hide away Last Line: Mark them, love them, say no word. Subject(s): Silence SILENTIUM, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Be silent, hide yourself Last Line: Only in silence may you hear Subject(s): Silence SILENTIUM AUREATUM EST, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I give you some of my silence Last Line: A garment of warmth & protection Subject(s): Silence SINERA CEMETERY: 25, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: By the sea I had Last Line: A house, a slow dream Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Peace; Silence SLEEP, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft silence of the summer night Last Line: Of love intense. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Sleep; 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 SOLILOQUY, by EMA HELEN PERRY Poem Text First Line: I am a child of the universe / like the Last Line: In silence. Subject(s): Children's Rights; Silence SOLITUDE, by EDWIN E. DEAL Poem Text First Line: How rare the solitude-hour! Last Line: My whisperings sweet and true -- sweet you! Subject(s): Consolation; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: I searched a mountain top for solitude Last Line: Is where I found my utter solitude. Subject(s): Self; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by STUART MERRILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell that kings now dead once walked this path Last Line: And the everlasting moment of prayer, our kiss. Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness SOMEWHAT DISTURBED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He knows damn well he's not afraid Last Line: To be out of his mind Subject(s): Fear; Insanity; Nudity; Silence SONG OF MARGARET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, I saw her, we have met Last Line: Margaret, margaret. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Silence; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG, FR. BONDUCA, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lead me to some peaceful gloom Last Line: To conquer, yet be still a slave? Subject(s): Hearts; Peace; Silence SONG, FR. BONDUCA, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack, thou'rt a toper, let's have t'other quart Last Line: Boldly, though watchmen cry 'past two o'clock.' Subject(s): Hearts; Peace; Silence SONG, FR. BONDUCA, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Britons, strike home Last Line: Yourselves, in druids' songs! Subject(s): Hearts; Peace; Silence SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 1. BEHIND THE WAINSCOT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence is louder than any noise is Last Line: Things you have never dared venture on. Subject(s): Silence; Singing & Singers; Voices SONGS TO A.H.R.: 12. SHELTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been out where the winds are Last Line: And, if god wills, at dawn wake, again, to laugh or weep. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Silence; Sleep SONGS TO A.H.R.: 7. SWALLOWS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a room that we love Last Line: And happy swallows ranging. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Love; Silence; Swallows; Nightmares SONNET (FROM THE PSALMS), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All through the livelong night I lay awake Last Line: Witness that such a quietness is best. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Prayer; Silence; Tears SONNET TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad songstress of the night, no more I hear Last Line: No more responsive to the lay of love. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Love; Nightingales; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 37, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through vales of thrace, peneus' stream is flowing Last Line: Stars, dawn, shall find us here together lying. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Knowledge; Mythology - Classical; Night; Silence; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime SONNET: 37, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was silent. Now you do not know Last Line: Eternal echoes haunt us of this pain. Subject(s): Silence SONNET: 9. A SILENT VOICE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They bid me welcome in the proud new year Last Line: And days, and months, and years no message bring. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Silence SONNET: SILENCE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a silence where hath been no sound Last Line: There the true silence is, self-conscious and alone. Subject(s): Death; Silence; Dead, The SONNET: SILENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Temple of god, from all eternity Last Line: The voice of love's unutterable word. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence; Worship SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit among green shady valleys oft Last Line: What time the trees weep o'er me honeydew. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness SOR JUANA'S LAST DREAM, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Tar of my heart, the melancholia Last Line: What's been said. %you may read it Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Dreams; Faith; Freedom; Mexican American Families; Mothers; Silence; Women - Secluding; Women's Rights SOUND AND LIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When I stand here alone at night Last Line: A chapel for our god? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Silence SOUND IN SILENCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walking when all the ways seemed wondrous still Last Line: With many musics, for my solacement. Subject(s): Animals; Faces; Music & Musicians; Silence; Sound SOUNDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The words broke away from the sound Last Line: So I could repeat a name Subject(s): Deafness; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 155, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now the shepherds are going Last Line: Now the valley remains %silent and cold Subject(s): Farewell; Silence SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 62, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have much to tell you Last Line: If you have sense Subject(s): Silence SPEAK NOT, LET NO WORD BREAK', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the silence I have placed on them Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Loss; Relationships; Silence; Weariness SPEAKING SILENCE, by C. LEIREN MOWER Poem Source First Line: November 1994. Sitting on the porch, waiting for the Last Line: Un-becoming - re-becoming. Speaking what is always %already between - Subject(s): Lectures; Silence SPEECH IS A SYMPTOM OF AFFECTION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yet had not seen! Subject(s): Speech; Silence; Apostles SPIRIT QUICKENED, by GRACE HERSEY THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: Boldly enter into your own house of silence Last Line: To be met and solved by craftsmanship of mind. Subject(s): Silence; Spiritual Life; Towns SPUTTER AND BLAZE, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe because you never Last Line: Wherever they may be Subject(s): Absence; Love; Poetry And Poets; Silence STAR DUST, by ELIZABETH S. SMITH Poem Text First Line: Deep in the mellow afterglow Last Line: And light. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime STARS, by JOSE ASUNCION SILVA Poem Source First Line: Stars that in the shadowy darkness Last Line: Wherefore shine, if ye be dead? Subject(s): Absence; Night; Silence; Stars STILL NIGHT, by HELEN PRICE Poem Text First Line: Still night - only the tap of trees Last Line: Except when the heart remembers. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Bedtime STILLNESS, by J. C. M. Poem Text First Line: Far in recesses of the forest eld Last Line: As dives' was -- of course I paid too much! Subject(s): Silence STILLNESS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy white rooves / of rutherford Last Line: And say -- nothing. Subject(s): Silence STUDENT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious Last Line: For the body to blossom into speech Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women STUDY IN STILL LIFE, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: Regal lilies in a bowl Last Line: My buddah of desire. Subject(s): Silence; Soul; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth TALK IS CHEAP', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the tongue, with ready art Last Line: Talk is gold when life is gold Subject(s): Talk; Silence TANKA DIARY (9), by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awakened too early on saturday morning Subject(s): Morning; Silence THE AFTER SILENCES, by EDNA DENHAM RAYMOND Poem Text First Line: No, not within the depth of grief, one grieves Last Line: And grieves and grieves and longs to be no more. Subject(s): Memory; Night; Silence; Bedtime THE ALTRUIST ORDER, SELECTION, by RENE GHIL Poem Text First Line: He will not sleep, my child Last Line: May shine the radiant sun: mankind's first god! Subject(s): Babies; Home; Life; Mothers; Silence; Infants THE BELLS OF MOONLIGHT AND LEAF, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight and the leaves, / bells, these Last Line: Of the bells of moonlight and leaf. Subject(s): Death; Silence; Dead, The THE BOWER OF PEACE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When hope's illusions all have waned Last Line: His blood can make—has made them white! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility THE CENTER OF GRAVITY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is in speaking of silences about living Last Line: Such a silence that speaks to the density / of living Subject(s): Silence; Life THE CENTER OF INTENT, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a lesson in the way this new silence lasts? Last Line: Through the special silence at evening Subject(s): Silence THE CLOCKS OF THE DEAD, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: One night I went to keep the clock company Subject(s): Clocks; Time; Silence THE CLOISTER GARTH, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: I love the quiet of this place Last Line: And gifts of wonder, beauty, and of peace. Subject(s): Healing; Peace; Silence; Cures THE COMING OF THE SNOW, by MARION L. BERTRAND Poem Text First Line: At yestere'en the world was dull and bare Last Line: We had not been such fretful, restless men. Subject(s): Earth; Silence; World THE DEATH OF DAWN, by GERTRUDE RATHBUN Poem Text First Line: Morning light on a quivering leaf Last Line: The cold, gray shadow, hate. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Shadows; Silence; Snow; Dead, The THE DEEPS OF SILENCE, by JAQUELINE NEWTON DELAMATER Poem Text First Line: As softly in our shallop swaying slow Last Line: Old wounds with silence, audible, sincere. Subject(s): Silence 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 DOME OF STARS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the purple of the night Last Line: All the forest murmurs low. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime THE DREAM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A vision I dreamt of a lovely child Last Line: In silence and all-uncaring. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Love; Silence; Nightmares THE FAREWELL OF THE OLD GUARD AT FONTAINEBLEAU, 1814, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately court of fontainebleau Last Line: Falls no more on fontainebleau. Subject(s): Faces; Farewell; Silence; Tears; Parting 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 FIRST SILENCE, by HILDA DE STEIGER Poem Text First Line: The tide of sounds and voices rolled within our life Last Line: And in the stillness was fulfilment. Subject(s): Death; Silence; Dead, The 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 GIFT, by ALICE EWING BLACKWELL Poem Text First Line: Oh the glory of high places, wind-blown Last Line: In the glory of the morning, to height of heights I fly. Subject(s): Silence; Thought; Thinking THE GREAT VOICE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who have heard solemnities of sound Last Line: Silence, that speaks with deafening tones of god. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Silence; Voices THE HARDEST TIME OF ALL, by SARAH DOUDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are days of silent sorrow Last Line: That he taught us how to wait. Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness THE HORIZON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale trees on the horizon grow Last Line: So it goes. So it always will! Subject(s): Lakes; Silence; Trees; Wharves; Pools; Ponds; Piers THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the people and horses have gone Last Line: It whispers the world-secret. Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Roads; Silence; Soul; Stars; Sunrise; Bedtime; Paths; Trails THE IMAM BARA: 2, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come from this tomb of shadows Last Line: Ali! Hassan! Hussain! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Graves; Mourning; Silence; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement THE INVISIBLE SPECTRUM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Learn, if I dare, the order of the wind Last Line: Dreams not ours. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Silence; Tombs; Tombstones THE LAST DREAM, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In a dismal room in a city garret high Last Line: What misery when death becomes a hope! Subject(s): Immortality; Night; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime THE LAST LULLABY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The shepherd moon mothers her shining sheep Last Line: Wait what it saith! Subject(s): Comfort; Moon; Nature - Religious Aspects; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Silence; Sleep THE LAST NIGHT, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen's dark laugh is dreadful as the night Last Line: And desolate memphian silences remain. Subject(s): Silence 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 LONE TRAVELER, by DONALD J. PAQUETTE Poem Text First Line: Snake eating snake the darkness eats the light Last Line: And this is death. Subject(s): Death; Silence; Dead, The THE LOUD SILENCE, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Text First Line: His noise disturbed me - I could not abide Last Line: How loud, how very loud the silence seems. Subject(s): Silence THE LOVER'S SONNET. MIDNIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I waited through the night, while summer blew Last Line: Almost too great to bear my bliss appeared! Subject(s): Love; Night; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime THE MAN WHOSE VOICE HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM HIS THROAT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remains all supple hands and gesture Last Line: Like an answer Subject(s): Language; Silence; Words; Vocabulary THE MANDOLIN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tinkle-trink, tinkle-trink, trinkle-trinkle, trink! Last Line: Trink! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Rome, Italy; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares THE MUNICH MANNEQUINS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Silence; Language; Munich, Germany; Words; Vocabulary THE MYSTERY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can you not hear the sobbing in the night Last Line: And passes, as though it had not heard. Subject(s): Hate; Night; Sea; Silence; Time; Bedtime; Ocean THE NORSEMAN'S RIDE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frosty fires of northern starlight Last Line: "gleam surtur's hoofs of gold!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Mythology; Silence; Singing & Singers; World THE PASSING BELL: IN MEMORIAM, GEORGII GRANVILLE BRADLEY, S.T.P., by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, the bell hung in the tower and waited Last Line: Slowly the bell ceased on the listening midnight. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Bradley, George Granville (1821-1903),; Death; Graves; Memory; Silence; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 134, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday was so long ago Last Line: We looked but couldn't speak Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Silence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 228, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His mind is like a great peak Last Line: To sit and not speak and have no cares Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Silence; Wisdom THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 69, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you're still and never speak Last Line: Will never see a harvest day Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Legacies; Poetry & Poets; Silence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 82, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring water is pure in an emerald stream Last Line: Focus on emptiness and the world grows still Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Silence; Springs (water) THE POETRESS'S PETITION, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a fever's pulse my heart doth beat Last Line: And for her glory, garlands of fresh bayes. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Hearses; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Silence THE POWER OF SILENCE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: And will she never hold her tongue Last Line: No more of bangle, scarf or feather. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Silence THE PRECEPT OF SILENCE, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know you: solitary griefs Last Line: Save to one man, and unto god. Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness THE QUARREL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there were a monument Subject(s): Silence; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements 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 SEA DREAM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the loud waters, the loud and crying waters Last Line: Cities, sea-dreaming through the night! Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Silence; Water; Waves; Ocean THE SEEKER, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing delicate or fine seems to reach this soul of mine Last Line: Silence like the moonlight . . . Or a falling star. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Silence; Soul THE SETTLERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two stranger youths in the far west Last Line: The acacia-trees! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Home; Love; Pioneers; Silence THE SHADOW OF SILENCE, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind no longer sings to me Last Line: Is the one grief I know. Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness THE SHELL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence - a deeper sea Last Line: Hath taught thee song. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence THE SILENCE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Down the gray crags in the vale below Last Line: We shall hear till our life be spent. Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness THE SILENCE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walk through a yellow-ocher adobe house Last Line: Water is, taking the shape of the container. Subject(s): Decay; Houses; Silence; Rot; Decadence THE SILENCE OF LOVE, by HAMILTON DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: I hold that we are wrong to seek Last Line: Beyond the common line of men. Subject(s): Love; Silence THE SILENCE OF LOVE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I could praise you once with beautiful words ere you came Last Line: And quiet, the tender shepherd, shall keep the fold. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love; Silence THE SILENT MAN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In your first book of poems, printed Last Line: But you are silent. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Silence; Tragedy; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE SILENT TIME, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singing of birds is over; the curlew only Last Line: He thinks it a whistling boy coming over the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Silence; Singing & Singers THE SINGING SILENCES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: While the yellow constellations shine with pale and tender glory Last Line: Come: the yellow constellations shine with pale and tender glory! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So has she lain for centuries unguessed Last Line: No doubts, no dreams, no laughter and no tears! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE SNOWDROP MONUMENT (IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marvels of sleep, grown cold! Last Line: For when we wake -- with thee -- we shall be satisfied.' Subject(s): Churches; Lips; Love; Monuments; Silence; Sleep; Cathedrals THE SONG OF THE MERMAIDS, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Troop home to silent grots and caves Last Line: But we have none! But we have none! Variant Title(s): Chorus Of Sirens;siren Chorus;the Mermaidens' Versper-hymn Subject(s): Mourning; Seals (animals); Silence; Solitude; Bereavement; Loneliness THE SONG OF THE SILENCE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, heavens, the eloquent song of the silence! Last Line: The dreadful deep seas they are loudest when still. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Silence THE SOUL OF DAY MIGRATES INTO THE NIGHT, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: A reflection of god's eye in heaven's mirror Subject(s): Silence THE SPHINX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know all about the sphinx Last Line: She was just cut out for that! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Egypt; Silence; Sphinx; Statues; Nightmares THE STALLION OF NIGHT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the soft, gray-breasted even like a carrier-dove / goes freed Last Line: Who stamps at the fords of the starlight, and neighs at the gates of the moon! Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Moon; Night; Silence; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime THE STATUE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First fashioned in the artist's brain Last Line: That heaven reveals to earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence; Statues THE STILLED VOICE, by FERNAND GREGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain in my garden Last Line: Of a moan. ... Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Silence; Dead, The THE STUDENT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women; Stuttering; Muteness THE TOMBLESS MAN; A DREAM, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke from sleep at midnight; all was dark Last Line: And the glad waters murmuring to the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Calm; Dreams; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares THE TOWER OF SILENCE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent! Tread airily! Last Line: Walk hence reverently! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Silence; Dead, The; Paradise THE TREE STANDS VERY STRAIGHT AND STILL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Is there no word to tell to me? Subject(s): Trees; Silence THE UNKNOWN WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the day darkens Last Line: When the dew is falling? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dusk; Knowledge; Silence; Wind THE VALLEY OF SILENCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the secret valley of silence Last Line: Eddies of prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Prayer; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VALLEY OF WHITE POPPIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the grey pastures and the dark wood Last Line: I am alone now among the silent grasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Poppies; Salvation; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VEILS OF SILENCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three veils of silence, summer draws apace Last Line: And ache of inarticulate desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Sea; Silence; Summer; Ocean THE VOICE OF DEMOGORGON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Palsied and fevered and blind Last Line: "ye will wake one day!"" it saith." Subject(s): Death; God; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: SILENCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words of fire, and words of scorn Last Line: Guard empty chamber, moveless door. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Silence; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WASHER OF THE FORD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a lonely stream afar in a lone dim land Last Line: Along that silent strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brooks; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Redemption; Silence; Sin; Water; Streams; Creeks THE WHITE HORSE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Silence THE WOMAN IN THE ROOM, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She stands at the foot my bed and starts to speak Subject(s): Dreams; Silence; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations THERE ARE POINTS OF SILENCE CIRCLING THE HEART, by ROBERTO JUARROZ Poem Source Last Line: But they won't be tempted Subject(s): Death; Silence THERE IS BUT SILENCE, by MARY FERRELL DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: Savor well each sight and sound Last Line: But dark silence underground. Subject(s): Silence THERE IS NO SILENCE IN THE EARTH - SO SILENT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And haunt the world Variant Title(s): Poem: 100 Subject(s): Silence THERE MUST BE SILENCE AS WELL, by TRUDI GUDA Poem Source Last Line: Of wolves and sheep %life-size Subject(s): Silence THESE PINES, by KATHARINE WASHBURN HARDING Poem Text First Line: The pines grow tall, their boughs wide-spread Last Line: Will keep them in his heart, a shrine. Subject(s): Pine Trees; Silence; Trees THINKING OF HELEN IN HAVANA, by JULIAN H. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Oft in the darkness there shines a light Last Line: Where, and what, are the snows of tomorrow? Subject(s): Future Life; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Light; Silence; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THIS CALM, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Out of what hollow Last Line: He's been standing there for half the night Subject(s): Calm; Silence THIS EVENING, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sketched this evening Last Line: In the sadness of swans and the dew. Subject(s): Evening; Mourning; October; Silence; Sunset; Twilight; Bereavement THIS MORNING, GOD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four a.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab Last Line: The incessant beating in my chest for two now. Subject(s): Coffee; Dawn; Habits; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Memory; Morning; Past; Prayer; Silence; Solitude; Sunrise; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 2, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The studio is deserted Last Line: To comfort each new pain! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Love; Silence THREE SILENCES IN THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the mekong's silt-thick flow Last Line: I bear no offering but the abstinence of silence. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Silence; Thailand THRENODY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sunny ray, no silver night Last Line: . . . . . . Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Grief; Loss; Love; Poetry & Poets; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TIDE OF SILENCE, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: I wish for silence beating like a tide Last Line: Or let them fade like unforgotten moons. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Silence TO A PHOEBE-BIRD, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the eaves, out of the wet Last Line: What eloquence you teach! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Birds; Eloquence; Messages & Messengers; Phoebe (bird); Silence; Singing & Singers; Teaching & Teachers; Songs; Educators; Professors TO BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember how the twilight stood Last Line: When it is march -- do you remember still? Subject(s): Birds; Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Moon; Silence; Sunset; Twilight TO HELEN KELLER, by JANE A. ROULSTON Poem Text First Line: Alone in the far regions of the soul Last Line: O wonderful white soul beyond the light! Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Silence; Soul TO MRS. AMY BEACH, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In silence lie the snowy keys Last Line: We thank thee . . . With our tears. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hearts; Silence; Tears TO SILENCE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, silence, for thine endless I raise Last Line: Man, on his way to silence, stops to hear and see. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Silence TO SILENCE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O deep and clear as is the sky Last Line: Still be to my fond hope a friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Silence TO SILENCE, by GONZALO ROJAS Poem Source First Line: Oh, voice, matchless voice: all the hollowness of the sea Last Line: Because you are here and you aren't, and you are almost my god, %and you are almost my father when I Subject(s): Silence TO SILENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why the warning finger-tip? Last Line: "hushed for all eternity." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence TO SILENCE; A FRAGMENT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence! Oh, well are death and sleep and thou Last Line: Among lone mountains in some ... Subject(s): Silence TO SOME POOR FAULT ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let her so much as lend pale scrutiny Last Line: The brothers of the word for what it said. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TOO LONG SILENCE, by EDITH K. OLSON Poem Text First Line: Inoculated with renewed despair Last Line: What will be left alive of me to know? Subject(s): Silence TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. NIGHT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness o'erhead, around Last Line: Folding and brooding all the land in silence. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Bedtime TRANSLATION: 4. LIKELY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We never hear them Last Line: How noiseless the noise of the likely Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Silence TRAVELING AS A FAMILY, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the desert of itabira Last Line: The family, itabira, the rest Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Silence TRIAD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the silence of time, time's silence borrow Last Line: The builders of joy are the children of sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Silence; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TRIOLETS IN THE ARGOLID, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The taste is strong as ever, Subject(s): Time; Silence; Cell Phones; Taste (sense); Love; Worry TWILIGHT, by ALINE NEFF Poem Text First Line: Dusk comes creeping from horizon Last Line: Lets the dusk not linger long. Subject(s): Evening; Melancholy; Mourning; Silence; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Dejection; Bereavement; Loneliness TWILIGHT, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the darkening silence Last Line: Of a music ceased away. Subject(s): Silence; Evening TWILIGHT MUSINGS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, at this hour, when silently Last Line: To the life-key of thy soul! Subject(s): Memory; Silence; Thought; Time; Thinking TWO, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Two possible definitions of hell: Last Line: Two, maybe it's just as well. Subject(s): Apathy; Hell; Silence TWO PANELS: OR, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A kind of silence only possible at night and far away. Or Last Line: The bloody stars of our teeth when we have spoken too much Subject(s): Shadows; Silence TWO, SELS, by DANE ZAJC Poem Source First Line: The ice of her body melts %under his hands Last Line: And the cold water falling across the dam Subject(s): Cold; Corpses; Death; Graves; Silence UNSPOKEN, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a straight-laid, bordered path Last Line: Thus the silence tells the agony and pain. Subject(s): Home; Man-woman Relationships; Peace; Silence; Sleep; Male-female Relations UNUTTERED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for words - as on the broad expanse Last Line: In smiles, that on the lip of silence fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence VELVET SHOES, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us walk in the white snow Last Line: We shall walk in the snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Shoes; Silence; Snow; Walking; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers VENILIA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the faint shores of the foamless gulf Last Line: When on the gay wind swims the yellow leaf. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Circe; Flowers; Lilies; Silence VESPERS, by LOUIS MERCIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a sunday at home Last Line: Vespers sound. Subject(s): Calm; Grief; Peace; Silence; Winter; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sorrow; Sadness VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 5. NIGHT SONG AT AMALFI, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked the heaven of stars Last Line: My whole life long? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Amalfi, Italy; Silence VISIONS: 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came from the house of my mistress dear Last Line: And the spirits rush'd back to their graves with a yell Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Silence; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs VOICE IN SILENCE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghast in white moonshine shone the frozen / bones Last Line: Sudden, in a muted world, your human note. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Silence WAITING ROOM, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: To speak of crucial Last Line: Hurry write the choke of terror Subject(s): Silence WATCHES OF TIME QUIET, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The act a sky, an air %against the voice Subject(s): Silence WATCHING SUNRISE (1), by TOM SMITH Poem Source First Line: Silence piled behind us far Last Line: Darker, more silent, more far Subject(s): Dawn; Silence WATER NIGHT, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night with the eyes of a horse that trembles Last Line: Night brings its wetness to beaches in your soul Subject(s): Eyes; Silence; Solitude WE NEVER NOTICE--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: We never notice when the dark comes on, the earth Last Line: Are quietly drained to the bottom, you don't even %recognize your own face in the mirror Subject(s): Silence 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 THE COUNTRY MAN KNOWS BY HEART, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Why he lives there he can't say Last Line: And blood beats the walls of his heart Subject(s): Life; Men; Self; Silence WHAT WE DON'T KNOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is wednesday. My day off Last Line: Of two soundless fighter jets. Subject(s): Books; Insomnia; Silence; Reading; Sleeplessness WHEN I AM FULL OF SILENCE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Silence WHISTLING IN THE DARK, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What has happened, my friends, is this Last Line: Because they have to, because there is no other choice Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George Subject(s): Silence WHITE FOG, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS Poem Text First Line: Spreading ever outward with curved fingers Last Line: Through the ether. Subject(s): Fog; Silence; Haze WHITE HORSE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on Last Line: They are so silent, they are in another world Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Silence WHITE MAGIC, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the things that call a man to the road's delight Last Line: By the long white road. Subject(s): Comfort; Silence WHY, KNOW YOU NOT SOUL SPEAKS TO SOUL, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But silence is the perfect whole Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Silence WILL, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE Poem Text First Line: Something I give to all my loves Last Line: But I loved silence best. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory; Silence; Soul WINTER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pointed icicles hung on my porch in the moonlight / glittering bright Last Line: In my unfaith! Subject(s): Cold; Ice; Seasons; Silence; Snow; Winter WINTER'S SNOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Soft clinging robe of purest white Last Line: Beneath the sun of day. Subject(s): Seasons; Silence; Snow; White (color); Winter WITH NO NOTICE, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For while we are eating ice cream Last Line: The dry whisk of a leaf on the windowpane Subject(s): Silence WITHOUT WORDS, by RAFAEL CABRERA Poem Source First Line: My love shall be a silent exhalation Last Line: Shall yet prolong thy life eternally! Subject(s): Silence WOMAN, GALLUP, N.M., by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow of her profile lay stringent Last Line: She shattered on the pavement. Subject(s): Loss; Mothers; Silence WORDS WHEN WE NEED THEM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before this early moment Last Line: We could still say. Subject(s): Dawn; Language; Morning; Silence; Sunrise; Words; Vocabulary |
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