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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SLEEPLESSNESS Matches Found: 66 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SLEEPLESS NIGHT, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the hollow silence of the night Last Line: The awful wail of lone eternity. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness A WHITE NIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow moon across the clouds Last Line: A phantom day. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness ACCOUCHMENT, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Trailing a wall of mottled gray Last Line: Drips ... Ruddy wine. Subject(s): Insomnia; Memory; Sleeplessness AMORIS EXSUL: 10. SLEEPLESS NIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot sleep, the slow hours steal Last Line: The radiant malice of her eyes. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness AWAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Limp with night fears: hellebore, wolfsbane Last Line: Sections for burning. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Fear; Insomnia; Sleeplessness CALIGULA'S DREAM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of gold the bread on which he banqueted Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); Insomnia; Sleeplessness DAYTIME NAPS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother thinks that little chaps Last Line: But thanks me just for tryin' to.) Subject(s): Children; Insomnia; Sleep; Childhood; Sleeplessness DISTRACTION, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that you ever wakened me from sleep! Last Line: Makes me pursue you in my discontent. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Insomnia; Love; Thought; Sleeplessness; Thinking GROOM FALCONER; CIRCA 1903, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out walking along the river Last Line: One reserves for a ghost. Subject(s): Children; Insomnia; Self-mutilation; Childhood; Sleeplessness IN MY SON'S ROOM, NOT SLEEPING, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punishment? Banishment? The empty room Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Separation; Insomnia; Anxiety; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Insomnia, impalpable creature / is all your love in your head Last Line: We will sleep together a while. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wakened quivering on a golden rack Last Line: Implacably intent upon their task. Subject(s): Insomnia; Wealth; Sleeplessness; Riches; Fortunes INSOMNIA, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot sleep; the whole night through Last Line: And now at dawn I cannot weep. Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Sleeplessness; Bedtime INSOMNIA, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If one can go to bed and sleep, he has no cause Last Line: Money at the bank, because at night he seldom knows a solid hour of real repose. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But it's really fear you want to talk about Subject(s): Insomnia; Conduct Of Life; Fear; Failure; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thin are the night-skirts left behind Last Line: For ever nearer yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-ho! To sleep I vainly try Last Line: Surveying realms of lily light. Subject(s): Flowers; Insomnia; Lilies; Paris, France; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A house of sleepers - I, alone unblest Last Line: Oh, let me hot be last to fall asleep! Subject(s): Insomnia; Life; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is shipwrecked in the night Last Line: And watched the dawning of the day. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA (2), by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even though the house is deeply silent Last Line: The tiny hands that keep pointing this way and that Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep; Sleeplessness INSOMNIAC, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some nights when Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIAC, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is only a sort of carbon paper Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INVISIBLE DREAMS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness JOURNEY TOWARD EVENING, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty, not having expected to arrive here Last Line: But not to sleep. He finds it hard to sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Aging; Insomnia; Sleeplessness LIE-AWAKE SONGS: 1, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Often when awake I lie Last Line: My brother sleeps so sound. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness LOVE'S SLEEPLESSNESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I can no more mine eyes to sleep compose Last Line: Would stop for aye if sever'd from its shrine! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Sleeplessness MAGRITTE DANCING, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every night I have to go to bed twice Subject(s): Insomnia; Neighbors; Dancing & Dancers; Sleeplessness MY FOOLISH DEEDS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I, before the altars of repose Last Line: Denied me slumber all the livelong night. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness NATIVE STONE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light is laying waste the heavens Subject(s): Insomnia; Light; Sleeplessness NEVER TALK BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never talk back! Sich things is Last Line: With one good jolt of silence than a half a dozen kicks! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Insomnia; Quarrels; Sleeplessness; Arguments; Disagreements NEW YORK IN SUMMER: INSOMNIA, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath trees whose leaves Last Line: I must try to sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Insomnia; Nicaragua; Travel; Urban Life; Sleeplessness; Journeys; Trips NIGHTS WITHOUT SLEEP, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights without sleep and days Last Line: In an hour of ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness NOCTAMBULE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zut! It's two o'clock Last Line: Mad old world, good morning. Subject(s): Insomnia; Paris, France; Sleepwalking; Sleeplessness OLD FAIRINGDOWN, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft as a treader on mosses Last Line: There is that in the village that never will sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Boys; Dwarfs; Farewell; Insomnia; Knowledge; Pain; Sleep; Villages; Parting; Sleeplessness; Suffering; Misery SESTINA AT 3 A.M., by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the imperfect dark Subject(s): Night; Insomnia; Longing; Bedtime; Sleeplessness SLEEPLESS, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No use pushing against the dark Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness SLEEPLESS GRAFFITI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Insomnia; Sleeplessness SLEEPLESS NIGHT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One thing I know all men would buy Last Line: The harvest that you sowed unbidden. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness SLEEPLESSNESS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot rest when the cool is gone from june Last Line: The sleep that night denies. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness SLEEPLESSNESS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep quiets all but me Last Line: The draught wherewith all thirst is satisfied. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness SONNET: TO SLEEP, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flock of sheep that leisurely pass on Last Line: Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health! Variant Title(s): Sleeplessness Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness STRAIN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late Subject(s): Insomnia; Absence; Sleeplessness; Separation; Isolation SUNDAY NIGHT, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tossing throughout this tense and / nervous night Last Line: Groping, with restless anger, for a prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Sleeplessness; Bedtime THE DEATH OF THE RACE CAR DRIVER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have not slept for a week. / it is matchless-this feeling Last Line: Sack for eternity. Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Dreams; Insomnia; Memory; Sports; War; Race Car Driving; Nightmares; Sleeplessness THE ELDER WOMAN'S SONG: 3, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen has gone to bed Last Line: And nobody knows why. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness THE FIREFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: While on my bed I lay, watching the night Last Line: Compelling, and his radiant name is love. Subject(s): Fireflies; Insomnia; Love; Memory; Glowworms; Sleeplessness THE INGRATE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Night upon her darkling ways Last Line: Westward fled away to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Insomnia; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Sleeplessness; Bedtime THE INNER LIFE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm jittery, sleepless, I hover over a chair Subject(s): Insomnia; Life; Sleeplessness THE LAST DESIRE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: From dreamless nights to wake to mocking morrows Last Line: How blest a thing to die, if this be dying! Subject(s): Comfort; Insomnia; Sleep; Sleeplessness THE LOON, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not quite four a.M., when the rapture of being alive Subject(s): Insomnia; Books; Loons; Sleeplessness; Reading THE MYSTERY, by ELIZABETH S. SMITH Poem Text First Line: What go wid all de flies I kill? Last Line: Wid out a wink of sleep. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness THE NEW RIVER HEAD; A FRAGMENT, by E. DOWER Poem Text First Line: Tired with books and rolling on the bed Last Line: I leaned upon my staff and fell asleep. Subject(s): Books; Insomnia; Reading; Sleeplessness THE PLAINT OF THE WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "fain would I be sleeping, dreaming" Last Line: "driven out, thrown away, married too soon!" Subject(s): Insomnia;marriage; Sleeplessness;weddings;husbands;wives THE REMEDY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks can't sleep. 'insomnia' Last Line: "I do believe I've been asleep!" Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 37, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So toss'd upon her pillow fev'rously Last Line: Love's sleepless vigil her flush'd cheeks bespoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love; Sleeplessness THE STARS THEIR PERFECTION, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars their perfection Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep; Stars; Sleeplessness THE UNSLEEPNG GENIUS OF MISFORTUNE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever there was a story Subject(s): Insomnia; Man-woman Relationships; Sleeplessness; Male-female Relations THE WOOD THRUSH SINGS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of day, at the beginning of night Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness THREE AM, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wake in the night. I know you do Last Line: The drawn blinds; the surface of indifference. Subject(s): Eyes; Insomnia; Light; Sleeplessness TO HIS WATCH, WHEN HE COULD NOT SLEEP, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Uncessant minutes, whilst you move you tell Last Line: You die in time, time in eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Insomnia; Watches; Sleeplessness TO MISS --, ON HER ASKING THE AUTHOR WHY SHE HAD SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll ask the sylph who round thee flies Last Line: Perhaps, o sylph! Perhaps 'tis love! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Insomnia; Love; Sleeplessness TOSSING AND TURNING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit has infinite facets, but the body Last Line: We are turning Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness TWO A.M., by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: What evil in the yeast of night Last Line: Or doctor magnus justifies his tonic. Subject(s): Evil; Insomnia; Malice; Sleeplessness TZU-TEG SONG: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All night I could not sleep Last Line: "I kept on hearing a voice calling: / out of nowhere, nothing answered 'yes'" Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.);insomnia;night; Sleeplessness;bedtime 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 WITHIN THIS FRAME, by MATTHEW KAMM Poem Text First Line: A shadow rages in the walls of you, building fires and Last Line: Wandering, seeking, lonely, in a bleak, enormous room. Subject(s): Insomnia; Solitude; Sleeplessness; Loneliness |
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