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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SMILES Matches Found: 88 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEAVE-TAKING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She will not smile; Last Line: Thus, some day! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Lips; Smiles; Tears; Dead, The A SMILE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let others cheer the winning man Last Line: Who loses with a smile ! Subject(s): Smiles ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dost know grief well? Hast known her long? Last Line: "who walked beside you yesterday?" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs AFTERMATH, by LOUISE WILSON DUNWELL Poem Text First Line: Love came and walked beside me yesterday Last Line: His smile will brighten all my future years. Subject(s): Future; Love; Smiles; Walking ALL THE WIDE GRIN OF HIM, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is hovering in the air, there, in the highest Last Line: Soft, unsuspecting, milk rimming its grin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Cats; Smiles; Teeth; Toothaches AMORETTI: 40, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark when she smiles with amiable cheer Last Line: With that sunshine, when cloudy looks are cleared. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Smiles AT PARTING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so we part! Last Line: And I have heart to rhyme. Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Lips; Smiles; Separation; Isolation BABY, by FERN L. MOLLOY Poem Text First Line: Baby smiled today Last Line: Wept! Subject(s): Smiles BALLADE: 8, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In faith I wot not well what to say Last Line: But spite of thy hap, hap hath well happed. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Fortune; Happiness; Smiles; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight BY NIGHT AND DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I find you in the amber evening glow Last Line: But home-returning to your smile, -- your smile. Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Smiles; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime 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 CHRISTMAS GREETING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A word of godspeed and good Last Line: The world's face, with god's smile on it. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; God; Smiles; Stars; Nativity, The CLUB LAW, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tom, since by a lucky knack Last Line: You're safe in your location. Subject(s): Humility; Singing & Singers; Smiles COMPENSATIONS, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: The blackest clouds have suns beyond Last Line: Smile for smile, and glee for glee. Subject(s): Rewards; Smiles DIMENSIONS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad smiles that flash at sight of cash Last Line: Broad comedy—broadway! Subject(s): Comedy; Laughter; Smiles DON QUIXOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smiles for him, yes, and tears -- but most of all Last Line: Who wrought so beautifully -- in his dream! Subject(s): Don Quixote; Dreams; Knights & Knighthood; Smiles; Soul; Tears; Nightmares GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 1. MOTHER MAGIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days of childhood, now long-lapsed and dim Last Line: The meek, sure magic of my mother's hand. Subject(s): Children; God; Smiles; Soul; Childhood GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 1. IN AN ITALIAN HILL TOWN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I missed the uses of my mother tongue Last Line: The universal language of a smile! Subject(s): Beauty; Italy; Lips; Smiles; Italians HER SMILE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The odor is the rose Last Line: As though a rose were happy to be human! Subject(s): Smiles HER SMILE OF CHEER AND VOICE OF SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring fails, in all its bravery of Last Line: Reclaims those gifts of hers. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Smiles; Spring HER SMILE WAS SHAPED LIKE OTHER SMILES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like beads among the bog Variant Title(s): Poem: 335; Poem: 51 Subject(s): Smiles HER WINSOME SMILE, by HARRY KEISER MUNROE Poem Text First Line: Her winsome smile! It beams on me Last Line: Her winsome smile. Subject(s): Smiles 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 CROWD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy they are, in all seeming Last Line: T is better than showing the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Secrets; Smiles; Spring; World INTRUSION, by ANNEKE VAN ZINDRAN Poem Text First Line: The dark eagerness of the stranger Last Line: Ths smile of the stranger. Subject(s): Smiles; Strangers JUST SMILE, by ZELL STRUTHERS Poem Text First Line: If your heart is 'kinda' blue Last Line: When you smile. Subject(s): Smiles KIND FORTUNE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind fortune smiles, and she Last Line: Follow me, and you shall see. Subject(s): Happiness; Smiles; Joy; Delight LAND OF THE GIANTS, by STAN FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Good evening. Consider my dimple Last Line: Good evening. Interpret my smile Subject(s): Dimples; Smiles LELLOINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny queen / lelloine! Last Line: All your meaning, lelloine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Laughter; Smiles LOOK UP!, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: Look up, not down Last Line: Look up, not down! Subject(s): Advice; Happiness; Smiles; Joy; Delight LOOKING FOR A HAPPY SMILE, by JESSE SILL Poem Text First Line: Day after day / I while away Last Line: Which helps to more irritate. Subject(s): Happiness; Smiles; Joy; Delight LOST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He ought to be home, said the old man, without there's / something amiss Last Line: Was an angel smile of gladness -- she had found her boy at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Eyes; Hope; Smiles; Optimism LOVE IN EXILE 2: 4, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No butterfly whose frugal fare Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Smiles MEARY'S SMILE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When mornen winds, a-blowen high Last Line: My rwose o' mowy lea. Subject(s): Love; Smiles MEMORY LANE, by E. NOLD Poem Text First Line: When your day's work is done / and you have Last Line: As you wander down memory lane. Subject(s): Memory; Pleasure; Smiles; Thought; Thinking ODES III, 9. DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORACE AND LYDIA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When no fond rival's favoured arms Last Line: To live with you, with you to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Smiles; Soul; Dead, The ONCE IN A WHILE, by W. FRANCIS CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: Once in a while the skies seem blue Last Line: Once in a while. Subject(s): Laughter; Light; Smiles; Sun ONE MORE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a smile and a kiss he went away Last Line: The father whom they sacrificed. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Love; Smiles; Dead, The OTHERS WILL COME, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Others will come across the plain Last Line: Poured your sweetness into song. Subject(s): Love; Smiles OVER THE BANISTERS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the banisters bends a face Last Line: That shall brighten the world for him alway. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faces; Light; Smiles PORCH OF TEETH, by SANDOR WEORES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The place you entered is called Last Line: Are you at peace?' Subject(s): Happiness; Mouths; Peace; Smiles; Teeth PRESENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: His smile stresses his broken jaw Last Line: A christmas present %from the law. Subject(s): Christmas; Police; Smiles; Violence PROVENCE, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hers is a fine and buoyant face Last Line: And of tall grass made tenderer. Subject(s): Faces; Lips; Pain; Smiles; Suffering; Misery SHADOWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sometimes I smile, sometimes I sigh" Last Line: The flowers must perish in the cold Subject(s): Smiles SHE DRIED HER TEARS, AND THEY DID SMILE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Smiles; Tears; Masks SILVER LAUGHTER, by FLORENCE STEINBERG Poem Text First Line: Oft times I wonder Last Line: Arise. Subject(s): Laughter; Smiles; Sound SMILE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Like a bread without the spreadin' Last Line: "jes' smile, an' smile, an' smile !" Subject(s): Smiles SMILE AND SPEAK KINDLY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smile and speak kindly, dear brother Last Line: May win back their friendship again! Subject(s): Kindness; Smiles SMILE OF THE GOAT, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The smile of the goat has a meaning that few Last Line: The censor attending a risque revue %and combining stern duty with pleasure Subject(s): Goats; Smiles SMILE OF THE WALRUS, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The smile of the walrus is wild and distraught Last Line: Like the smile of a thinker who thinks a great thought %and isn't quite sure what it means Subject(s): Smiles; Walruses SMILES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I saw a black girl once Last Line: And night comes back. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Blacks; Smiles; Women SMILES, by ? ROLLS Poem Text First Line: What is that smile that over the cheek Last Line: A cloudless heavenly morn shall rise! Alternate Author Name(s): Rolls, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Smiles SMILES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smile a little, smile a little Last Line: Even through your tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Smiles SMILING IN HIS SLEEP, by HARRIET W. STILLMAN Poem Source First Line: The baby sleeps and smiles Last Line: So beautiful? Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Smiles SMILING WOMAN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her personable countenance Last Line: That cuts a curved and cruel stroke. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Laughter; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Songs SO WHAT IF WOMEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I smile to see them! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Smiles SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In olden days men drew their sword Last Line: Twas not so in the past, sir! Subject(s): Heaven; Sea; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Soul; Paradise; Ocean SONG OF THREE SMILES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me call a ghost Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Charity; Happiness; Laughter; Smiles; Philanthropy; Joy; Delight SONG OF THREE SMILES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me call a ghost Last Line: Cut me from ear to ear %and we all smile together Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Charity; Happiness; Laughter; Smiles TAXI-DANCER, by DONNA STONECIPHER Poem Source First Line: The photographic smile was the worst possible invention for the Last Line: Photographs of me emerged from the darkroom - I, I was not in them - Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Smiles THE ANGEL'S WHISPER, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A baby was sleeping Last Line: "said, ""I knew that the angels were whispering with thee." Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Children; Sleep; Smiles; Infants; Childhood THE BALLAD OF SMILES AND TEARS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the gleeful spring on Last Line: Then hearts that are heavy may melt in tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Seasons; Smiles; Soul; Tears THE BASILISK, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's fine for a man to be cheerful Last Line: Smile! Subject(s): Happiness; Smiles; Joy; Delight THE CIRCUS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The circus tent was crowded Last Line: Where they had stood before! Subject(s): Children; Circus; Smiles; Childhood THE CONSECRATION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely in the forest chapel Last Line: Where the myrtle blooms for ever. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Love; Smiles; Woods THE FAIR STRANGER; A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy and free, securely blest Last Line: Yet kill us if you go away. Subject(s): Beauty; Smiles; Soul; Strangers THE FIRST SMILE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A smile, a smile, my darling Last Line: And fuller note of praise. Subject(s): Praise; Smiles THE LAST SMILE, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sat beside me yesternight Last Line: And she would smile no more for me. Subject(s): Smiles THE LAUGHING WOMAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I heard a woman laughing Last Line: And life still crawls with maggots—that were men! Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Love; Smiles; Sound; Joy; Delight THE SECOND BAPTISM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When tiny babes we touch on brow and breast Last Line: Wetting them with our tears. Subject(s): Baptism; Fear; Smiles; Soul; Tears; Christenings THE SMILE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a smile of love Last Line: There's an end to all misery. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Smiles THE SMILE OF REIMS, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: The smile' they called her, - 'la sourire'; and fair Last Line: Thy smile, heroic france, love-given and immortal! Subject(s): France; Smiles THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a starved bank of moss Last Line: Grows his singing. (there, enough!) Variant Title(s): Apparitions;the Bard And The Cricket;an Awakening Subject(s): God; Smiles; Faces THY SMILE, by RUTH TABER WHITTLESEY Poem Text First Line: Like petals wafted on the breeze at night Last Line: As we see fruits that follow thy sweet smile. Subject(s): Smiles TO A MOTHER, ON SEEING HER SMILE REPEATED IN HER DAUGHTER'S EYES, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand songs I might have made Last Line: Immortal—and forgot! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Immortality; Mothers & Daughters; Smiles TO A PICTURE OF A LADY, by SARA KANE Poem Text First Line: Always you've hung in the dim old hall Last Line: Lady, here in the dim old hall. Subject(s): Smiles TO A YOUNG WRITER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Cry, if you will. I'd say, though, rather than Last Line: The knifey bunch are out to cut you down. Subject(s): Escapes; Smiles; Tears TO HELEN KELLER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breaking over your silence Last Line: To bear all and be still. Subject(s): Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Smiles TO MY FRIEND ELIZABETH; WITH SOME POSTAGE STAMPS FOR A COLLECTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest elizabeth, accept, I pray Last Line: Thought here, smiles there; perfection lies betwixt. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): To Elizabeth Read Subject(s): Friendship; Postage Stamps; Smiles TO THE LADY MAY, by AURELIAN TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your smiles are not, as other women's be Last Line: "so smiles the spring and so smiles lovely may." Alternate Author Name(s): Townshend, Aurelian Subject(s): Smiles TO THOMAS HARDY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master of human smiles and human moan Last Line: To live for love, and for love's sake to die. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Love; Praise; Smiles; Dead, The; Destiny TRE FILA D'ORO, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yonder o'er the sea like a swallow hasting over Last Line: Than rend you asunder golden threads that she hath sewn! Subject(s): Lips; Love; Smiles TWO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One leaned on velvet cushions like a queen Last Line: In basking in the death-light of his smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Heroism; Smiles; Heroes; Heroines VIRGIN'S SMILE, by RAFAEL MARIA DE MENDIVE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Purer than the early breeze Last Line: With thy virgin smile Subject(s): Love; Smiles; Women WE ALL LAUGH, by GLADYS HOUTZ Poem Text First Line: Some with the strange, sheer joy of it all Last Line: I laugh to hide despair. Subject(s): Contentment; Happiness; Laughter; Pleasure; Smiles; Joy; Delight WHAT HEAVENLY SMILES! O LADY MINE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And from the headlong streams. Subject(s): Smiles WHEN MORNING BREAKS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Nor flowers, nor honeyed words can bring him back Last Line: Thou too shalt smile. Subject(s): Death; Smiles; Dead, The YOUR SMILE, by LAURA L. ATKINS Poem Text First Line: There's a song in my heart, my friend Last Line: Because you gave one to me. 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