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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SOLITUDE Matches Found: 1094 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` & YOU DO YOU LOOK UP, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: On its way to loneliness Subject(s): Solitude; Wind A CAPPELLA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five days of driving with no voices Last Line: Earth to the contour of its eloquence. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips A CHILD OF LONELINESS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pith of faith is gone. And as there lie Last Line: God's love, god's wisdom, child of loneliness. Subject(s): Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness A COWBOY ALONE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I ride into the mountains on my little broncho Last Line: When thar ain't nobody near him, 'ceptin' god. Subject(s): Conscience; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States A CYCLE, by MILICENT WASHBURN SHINN Poem Text First Line: Spring-time -- is it spring-time? Last Line: Thou my life, my best beloved, all my spring-time comes with thee. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Solitude; Spring; Fall; Loneliness A DATE WITH ROBBE-GRILLET, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember didn't happen Last Line: Where I alone could tell the story. Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Loneliness A DREAM, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: And at night we'd find a town Last Line: Coming, if she's sweet and solemn with grey eyes and hair of jet! Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness A DREAM, by MARY ENOLA RUDOLPH Poem Text First Line: Last night I dreamed of mystic isles Last Line: Of a loneliness for something lost. Subject(s): Dreams; Ships - Abandoning Of; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness A FRAGMENT, by HUMPHRY DAVY Poem Text First Line: It is alone in solitude we feel Last Line: Imagination wild, -- interminable! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness A HEART-HAUNTED HOME, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At lisnamaine, since thither he comes no more Last Line: Let so his eyes be dark, his heart be cold. Subject(s): Absence; Haunted Houses; Mothers & Sons; Shadows; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness A LAST COUNSEL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could you not in silence borrow Last Line: To the mother-bosom creeping. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Advice; Farewell; Grief; Solitude; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness A LITTLE BIT OF HOME, by KATHERINE J. BALL PUTNEY Poem Text First Line: When last to home I took some flowers Last Line: We're a little bit of home. Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Solitude; Loneliness A LITTLE SONG, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: It is midnight, I am alone Last Line: For this sacred grace, I thank thee! Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness A LONELY HOUSE, by A. HARDY HETH Poem Text First Line: I dreamed last night there were no / broken hearts Last Line: I'd dream forever that there were no broken hearts. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness A LONELY MAN, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's lonely in lodgings above the street Last Line: If you come into a house or go out of it. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness A LOVER'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my little breath, under the willows by the water-side we" Last Line: "oh, my little breath, now I go there alone in sorrow" Subject(s): Lament;love;memory;solitude; Loneliness A MONTH IN SUMMER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Several years ago, I wrote haiku in this way Last Line: "is that what is meant by dwelling in unreality? And here too I end my words." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Family Life; Japan; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Summer; Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Japanese; Loneliness; Feminism A MOOD, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The balmy air and cheerful mood Last Line: The happy soul of happy lover. Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness A MORAL EMBLEM OF MATURITY, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Text First Line: Man grows up Last Line: About myself. Subject(s): Maturity; Solitude; Loneliness A MORNING, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have carried it with me each day: that morning I took Subject(s): Boats; Solitude; Loneliness A MOUNTAIN VIEW, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No loneliness can come in wood or fell Last Line: Stilly moves the wilding heart in passion there. Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow on a line of flat rooftops beneath a sky of driven clouds Subject(s): Fields; France; Solitude; Southern Hemisphere; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Loneliness A NEVADA COWPUNCHER TO HIS BELOVED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lonesome? Well, I guess so!" Subject(s): Cowboys;nevada;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Loneliness;southwest;pacific States A NOCTURNE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has gone to her rest Last Line: Then shall ye sleep. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Loneliness A PEOPLED SOLITUDE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: They think I sit alone Last Line: Ah, pray that the end be good! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness A POET THINKS, by LUI CHI Poem Text First Line: The rain is due to fall Last Line: Old songs. Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness A POINT OF VIEW, by LETITIA A. BRACE Poem Text First Line: What shall I do / when you are gone? Last Line: And the scent of rain. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness A SOLILOQUY ON THE COURSE AND CONSQUENCE OF A DOUBTING MIND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I muse, I doubt, I reason, and debate Last Line: A blessed christian, or a cursed fool. Subject(s): Doubt; Reason; Selflessness; Solitude; Thought; Skepticism; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Thinking A SONG, by ADDIE I. LOCKE Poem Text First Line: She sat alone by the gray stone wall Last Line: That love passed by that day. Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness A SONG OF LONESOMENESS, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you are out in the westland and grow lonesome Last Line: You will find the sage-brush in my hair and the cactus through my heart. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness A STANFORD HYMN, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Against the night, the skies disclose Last Line: In time's advancing truth! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Solitude; Stanford University; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness A SUPPLICATION, by EFFIE TRUEX COOK Poem Text First Line: I could not be Last Line: And tree. Subject(s): Nature; Solitude; Togetherness; Loneliness A TRUCKER BREAKS DOWN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering himself pulling onto a highway Last Line: Flowing down through absolute darkness into a pool of rising vapor. Subject(s): Georgia (state); Solitude; Southern States; Trucks & Trucking; Loneliness; South (u.s.); Teamsters; Truckers; Freight A WINTER NIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a chilly winter's night Last Line: Were left in loneliness behind. Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Winter; Bedtime; Loneliness ABSENCE OF A HOUSE, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: I see wild-grown grass on a color photograph Last Line: And in the absence %of a house Subject(s): Absence; Houses, Deserted; Solitude ABSOLUTE SOLITUDE, by KIM HYUN-SUNG Poem Source First Line: Now at last I've come to touch Last Line: And at my fingertips that can reach no farther %I keep silent in the end - with my own poems Subject(s): Solitude ACCOUNT OF A DREAM IN XIAO TEMPLE, by NARA SINGDE Poem Source First Line: How can I pass these nights far from home? Last Line: And I was here facing %fire in a globe of glass Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Solitude ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been one acquainted with the night Last Line: I have been one acquainted with the night Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been one acquainted with the night Last Line: Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. %I have been one acquainted with the night Subject(s): Night; Solitude ACTUM EST!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: As one returning to native mountains Last Line: So am I now, alone, undone. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness AD ASTRA: 44, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How have I sigh'd, to think of my return! Last Line: Deepens my grief amid the enshrouding gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness AD ASTRA: 53, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thou star! That shone upon me from a height Last Line: Which else had founder'd in the midnight bare! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness ADVENTURE, by FERN WEEMS Poem Text First Line: I saw her strolling down the lane Last Line: Her hand scratched by a thorn. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ADVENTURER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The old priest back from africa Last Line: The wild adventure of being alone Subject(s): Clergy; Explorers; Knowledge; Solitude AERIN 4, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: There was a time when I could Last Line: Makes me this lonely Subject(s): Solitude AFFAIR, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Was there ever an option? For example, Last Line: Scheduled in the distance, coming on, pulling through. Subject(s): Sex; Solitude AFTER PARTING, by E. B. CROSSWHITE Poem Text First Line: Although the house which once felt your caress Last Line: And loneliness, filling every room... Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness AFTER READING AUSTIN DOBSON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In a crowded room I seemed to stand Last Line: "to find it closed, and ended the song / whose gay, glad cadence lived on in my heart" Subject(s): "books;dobson, Austin (1840-1921);parties;solitude;" Reading;loneliness AFTER TWELVE DAYS OF RAIN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't name it, the sweet Last Line: And smiled back. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Self-reliance; Solitude; Loneliness AFTER WRITING A POEM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not want to be seen or heard or spoken to Last Line: For one hour to eternity. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness AGAMEMNON: MENELAUS' LONELINESS AFTER HELEN'S DESERTION, by AESCHYLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So much he mourns the queen beyond the seas Last Line: The vision fades away, nor will return %companion of the winged path of sleep Subject(s): Solitude AGAPE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today no-one has come to inquire Subject(s): Solitude AGAPE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today no one's come by to inquire Last Line: And I've died so little this afternoon! Subject(s): Despair; Solitude AGAPE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today no-one has come to inquire Last Line: And today I have died how little on this evening Subject(s): Despair; Solitude AGED NINETY YEARS, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The loneliness of her old age flashed clear Last Line: Would sink, like her, in chilly arms of earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Graves; Old Age; Solitude; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness AH, YES, TO YOUR MISFORTUNE, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships; Solitude AHEAD - THE GREEN CREEK SPARKLES AS IT FLOWS, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: What need is there to search for anything Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Solitude; Zen Buddhism ALASTOR; OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood! Last Line: Birth and the grave, that are not as they were. Variant Title(s): Invocation To Nature Subject(s): Immortality; Solitude; Loneliness ALL ALONE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And shall we ever seek in vain Last Line: All alone! Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALL ALONE, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Wherefore by the church-yard side Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALL IS GONE NOW', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They break silently %into many pieces Subject(s): Grief; Solitude ALL THE WAY HOME, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lamps hung like a lynching Last Line: All the way home. Subject(s): Home; Slavery; Solitude; Serfs; Loneliness ALONE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying, thinking Subject(s): Solitude ALONE, by A. F. EHRENBURG Poem Text First Line: Again I stood alone upon that bridge Last Line: Of moon, and waves, and brooding april night. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE, by ELIZABETH FREAR Poem Text First Line: Over the trackless sea, from dawn to dawn Last Line: Fearlessly toward the sunset we shall sail away -- alone. Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Solitude; Loneliness ALONE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange thoughts come to the man alone Last Line: Strange thoughts come when a man's alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE, by MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lies a deep and sealed well Last Line: Flow forth, rejoicing, unto thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mary Elizabeth Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE, by IYDA REBECCA HIRSH Poem Text First Line: A man from youth to age has grown Last Line: Have made a prisoner of his heart. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon's soft golden meshes make Last Line: A swoon of shame Subject(s): Solitude; Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation ALONE, by DOROTHY LEONARD Poem Text First Line: On the thirtieth of september I heard a meadow lark Last Line: Reap; for the weed is my weed and the stone is my stone. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love and I sailed out to sea Last Line: For the wave that will bring me to her again. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall it profit a man Last Line: Than the bloom of lower pleasures, or the fleeting spell of love. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, o love, I seek the blossoming glades Last Line: Shall I attain the sanctuary of thy face? Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He grows used to the sound of the floor Last Line: That he didn't do. He would like to meet them. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Solitude; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness ALONE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From childhood's hour I have not been Last Line: Of a demon in my view -- Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE, by TOMAS RIVERA Poem Source First Line: I am alone Last Line: Now, I am really alone %can't stop. %perhaps %if I walk backwards with the faces Subject(s): Solitude ALONE, by RICHARD SHELTON Poem Source First Line: What a word and I thought it would be Last Line: In the rags of their light Subject(s): Solitude ALONE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am alone, in spite of love Last Line: Who are not lonely, having died. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE, by IRENE H. WILSON Poem Text First Line: Alone, alone in the wide, wide world Last Line: Shall belong to the ages, the ages shall bind. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A very old woman Last Line: In the hollow wall. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abode of the nightingale is bare Last Line: It is winter. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Grief; Love; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness ALONE (3), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound over the deep, only the desolate foam Last Line: Cry low, sad, keen, in so deep a peace, your dear name, once, in the height. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE AND TOGETHER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I had a lovely lonely day Last Line: It is such fun to be together! Subject(s): Children; Play; September; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness ALONE FOR A WEEK, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I washed a load of clothes Last Line: And allegorical. . . . Subject(s): Solitude ALONE IN SPRING, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never met the spring alone before Last Line: One should be dead -- or suddenly grown old. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Solitude; Spring; Loneliness ALONE IN YOUR HOUSE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I walk naked and Last Line: Slowly rises behind them Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Solitude ALONE ON EARTH, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He turned up at the baseball park-- Last Line: And all alone on earth! Subject(s): Baseball; Friendship; Solitude; Sports; Loneliness ALONE WITH GOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the bier I watched his rest divine Last Line: Each, in the stillness, was alone with god. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness ALONE! STARK ALONE!, by HARRIET HAMILTON COWELL Poem Text Last Line: As thou dost love me still. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness AN 'OLD MAID', by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: There's a spinster of thirty-some years whose abode Last Line: And she didn't seem just to well, you understand! Subject(s): Household Employees; Single People; Solitude; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Loneliness AN IZBA SONG, by NIKOLAY KLUYEV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stove is orphaned now; the old housewife has died Last Line: The lonely window stares out at the thaw and darkness. Variant Title(s): A Cottage Song Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness AN OLD OLD STORY, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Pierre was lonely Last Line: And the moon came up: a great white lily. Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Soldiers; Solitude; World War I; Parting; Loneliness; First World War AN OLD PRIMA DONNA SPEAKS, by HELEN WIEAND COLE Poem Text First Line: I made my choice: / 'twas children or my voice Last Line: With their remembered praise. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Regret; Solitude; Loneliness AN OLD WOMAN WALKING ON THE ROAD, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Grey the day! And grey her life! Last Line: Trudging, lonely, on her way. Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Solitude; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Loneliness AN OLD, OLD MAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here by the borderland Last Line: And heavy thoughts that tire. Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Wales; Loneliness; Welshmen; Welshwomen AN UPPER CHAMBER, by FRANCES BANNERMAN Poem Text First Line: I came into the city and none knew me Last Line: Shall I find that little chamber as of old! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ANCIENT BALLAD: CONSTANCY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My ornaments are arms %my bed the flinty stone Last Line: But know, fair lady! Know %all this I bear for thee Subject(s): Love; Solitude ANDREE REXROTH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purple and green, blue and white Subject(s): Love; Past; Solitude; Youth; Loneliness ANDREE REXROTH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purple and green, blue and white Last Line: Flesh is utterly consumed Subject(s): Love; Past; Solitude; Youth ANDREE REXROTH: KING RIVER CANYON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sorrow is so wide Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Grief; Love; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness ANDREE REXROTH: KING RIVER CANYON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sorrow is so wide Last Line: Over the cobbles, in a lost spring Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Grief; Love; Solitude ANIMAL OF WORDS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: He searched for words, his hands groping in the night Last Line: Spread out. On the grassy fields of june Subject(s): Child Molesting; Solitude ANNIVERSARY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were so many to pray for, o dear grey head Last Line: All night long you grieved with me until the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Anniversaries; Death; Dreams; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness ANORECTIC, by ANYA KRUGOVOY Poem Source First Line: I love a bare tree in the winter Last Line: Self the straight line the space with nothing %inside it no way to get in nothing to escape Subject(s): Self; Solitude; Winter ANOTHER COUNTRY, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: First rain of the rainy season %you never get used to it Last Line: Once upon a time there were carriages and horses %there were ribbons in her hair Subject(s): Solitude APOCRYPHA, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Everything will be forsaken then Last Line: Trickling, the empty ditch trickles down Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Exiles; Farewell; Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Orphans; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude APPEAL TO THE RED-HAIRED SOLDIERS, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The chief of the franks borne on a shield Last Line: O red-haired soldiers Subject(s): Soldiers; Solitude ARE YOU NAPPING?, by IM JE Poem Source First Line: Are you napping or just hiding, lying Last Line: That I cannot raise to my sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude ARLES IN THE RAIN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The rain like an old woman with silken steps Last Line: And of my father's footsteps haunting me Subject(s): Grief; Rain; Solitude ARMFUL OF FLOWERS FOR THE RUSTED LOCOMOTIVE, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: If you could come to me Last Line: When is the time for your glory! Subject(s): Locomotives; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude ARRIVAL IN ROME, by JENNIFER GROTZ Poem Text First Line: My head aches, and the stale air burns Subject(s): Absence; Love; Railroads; Rome, Italy; Solitude; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips ARTHURIAN SONGS: 1. AVALON, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King arthur lies alone Last Line: Is loyal quite? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Solitude; Loneliness AS EVENING ENTERED, by CHONGUM Poem Source First Line: As evening entered our mountain town Last Line: Stretched over the empty mountainside Subject(s): Cold; Evening; Solitude AS IF I WERE WAITING FOR SOMEONE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon shines into my room Last Line: As if I were waiting perpetually for someone Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Waiting AS TO BEING ALONE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you hate to be by yourself Last Line: Have the life-surging heavens no business but this? Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ASH WEDNESDAY (AFTER HEARING A LECTURE ON THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION), by JOHN ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: Here in the lonely chapel I will wait Last Line: Strong with new love where thou dost kneel, the cross whereon christ died. Subject(s): Ash Wednesday; Christianity; Faith; Prayer; Solitude; Belief; Creed; Loneliness ASIA, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Through the window of the school Last Line: He was grave %and alone in the world Subject(s): Asia; Death; Graves; Maps; Solitude AT EIGHTY-THREE SHE LIVES ALONE, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enclosure, steam-heated; a trial casket Last Line: Oh, paper bird with folded wings. Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness AT LAKE MAHOLE; DEDICATED TO LOUIS J. PAPINEAU OF MONTEBELLO, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Stretched on a hillside's wooded height Last Line: Awaking, onward we will roam. Subject(s): Lakes; Solitude; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness AT SUNSET, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the west o'er-brims with warmest dyes Last Line: Near to a heart that loves and leans to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Evening; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness AT THE BEACH ALONE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: At the beach alone %I step toward the creaming surf Last Line: One now too fragile, one distant one lost Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Solitude AT THE GALLERIA SHOPPING MALL, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just past the bin of pastel baby socks and underwear Last Line: To learn something about loneliness Subject(s): Shopping; Solitude AT THE STONE AGE TOMBS, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: An afternoon with the ancient dead on a ridge Last Line: In twos and threes, uneasy alone Subject(s): Cemeteries; Cold; Death; Graves; Solitude ATGET'S GARDENS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem 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 ATTAR OF VIOLET & LONELINESS, by RICHARD LYONS Poem Source First Line: Things are growing, but not collective yet Last Line: This grievous joy, away from us who give it away %with every little whispering mouth Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Solitude AUBADE, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: I lie in bed the way animals Last Line: Watching you leave it all behind %for me Subject(s): Farewell; Solitude AUTUMN (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell alone -- I dwell alone, alone Last Line: And lonesome, very lonesome, is my strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness BAFFLED, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Whenever I am fain to bless Last Line: I see her shadow, loneliness. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness BAIT, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Poetry can never be about me Last Line: Closed, sealed, composed, %and inviolable %form Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Solitude; Writing And Writers BALLAD OF A GRAY CLOAK, by ELIZABETH BUELL Poem Text First Line: The gray cloak of her motherhood Last Line: Is heavy -- sweet to bear. Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Sacrifices; Solitude; Loneliness BALLAD OF JOHN CABLE AND THREE GENTLEMEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that had come that morning Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness BALLAD OF JOHN CABLE AND THREE GENTLEMEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that had come that morning Last Line: Flags of white water %are his company Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Solitude BALLAD OF THE FOLLOWERS, by FRANZ WERFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I go, slowly vanishing, off through the snow Last Line: Alone, but forever thing-ridden, brute-haunted. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness BALLET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you not weary Last Line: Our laughter. Subject(s): Nature; Solitude BAMBOO GROVE, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: I sit alone in the secluded bamboo grove Last Line: The bright moon comes to shine on me Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Bamboo; Solitude BEANS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If I weren't a stranger to myself, he said Last Line: Hell, o, let me not spill the beans Subject(s): Fear; Home; Insanity; Solitude; Strangers BEAST, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Sitting in an apartment house Last Line: All the beasts of her species %live in her Subject(s): Solitude BECAUSE I DREAM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are only dreams Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude BECAUSE OF, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I said good-bye to the stranger one morning Last Line: He fell silent then, imitating a rock. Subject(s): Solitude; Strangers; Talk BEGGARS, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The one without legs reaches Subject(s): Solitude; Trees BEHIND PERFUME, ONLY SOLITUDE, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ink will come. Lamp lung Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness BEHOLD, LORD, THOU DIDST TEAR FROM ME WHAT I MOST DID LOVE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And now, lord, are we, my heart and the sea all alone Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude BEREFT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where had I heard this wind before Last Line: Word I had no one left but god. Subject(s): God; Solitude; Loneliness BEST REWARD, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best reward in going to the woods Last Line: Or answered by a certainn one, or two Subject(s): Nature; Solitude BEYOND, by ALLAN MUNIER Poem Text First Line: Beyond the prison cell Last Line: In peace without you? Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hunger; Prisons & Prisoners; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness BIRD IN THE NEST, by SALOME URENA DE HENRIQUEZ Poem Source First Line: Why are you terrified, innocent bird? Why do you Last Line: And leaves from the plain! Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Children; Innocence; Solitude BITTER-SWEET, by J. ROY ZEISS Poem Text First Line: Like the rustle of old silk thru barren halls Last Line: In fantastic transient moods. Subject(s): Solitude; Trees; Wind; Loneliness BLACK SNAKE; 15, by RAUL BOPP Poem Source First Line: Sky very blue Last Line: A lone enormous bird crosses the pregnant horizon Subject(s): Solitude; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering BLAKE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saw them glittering in the trees Last Line: Dreaming one poem Subject(s): Hope; Solitude; Blake, William (1757-1827); Optimism; Loneliness BLAKE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saw them glittering in the trees Last Line: Dreaming of blake, searching the branches %for just one poem Subject(s): Hope; Solitude BLINDNESS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our true hearts are forever lonely Last Line: Meet only when pain touches pain. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Pain; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness BLUE SUNDAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness BLUE SUNDAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Last Line: And papers blow down the street Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude BODY, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My body is too many children, they are all hungry at once. As I write Last Line: Sleep Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Solitude BONES OF PALINURUS PRAY TO THE NORTH STAR, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Console us. The wind chooses among us Last Line: Us desolate who gleam no direction Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Solitude BOY WHO SPLIT HIMSELF IN TWO, by COREY MEAD Poem Source First Line: I can make the sound Last Line: The boy who split himself in two? %it goes: he lied Subject(s): Lies; Solitude BRAUGHAN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Blue-bells grew thick in braughan Last Line: Ay, who be the grey-beard men? Subject(s): Children; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness BRIGHT INTERVALS, by JESSIE HAEFNER Poem Text First Line: Dreary and forsaken / the weatherbeaten Last Line: The old house lived anew. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness BRYANT PARK AT DUSK, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Floodlights have flared on behind and above Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Solitude BUILD ME A LODGE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Build me a lodge in the mountain tops Last Line: Through spirit powers. Subject(s): Calm; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Loneliness BY AN UNKNOWN POET FROM EASTERN EUROPE, 1955, by GYORGY PETRI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's fading Last Line: Crackles and flakes %like the rust on iron rails in the heat of the sun Subject(s): Solitude CABIN AT TARLETON, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: The cabin drowsed in calm content Last Line: But undisturbed, we drowsed in turn. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness CABIN FEVER, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: I stay in and draw up Last Line: My heart shrinks %to a mustard seed Subject(s): Solitude CABIN POEM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blond girl / with a polka heart Last Line: In ceaseless flow. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness CANTE HONDO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was meditating, absorbed, winding Last Line: The dust sweeps away and the ash expels Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; Meditation; Memory; Solitude CAPRICCIOS, by JAIME SABINES GUTIERREZ Poem Source First Line: The girl plays the piano Last Line: Not to have a home Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Solitude CARRICK-A-REDE, IRELAND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dwelt amid the gloomy rocks Last Line: A solitary man. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ireland; Solitude; Irish; Loneliness CARRYING THE BANNER, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: (which is tramp-argot for walking the street / all night) Last Line: And I said 'thank god' with all my heart, for it was day again! Subject(s): Cities; Night; Solitude; Walking; Urban Life; Bedtime; Loneliness CEZANNE'S SECLUSION, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have begun to think,' he wrote in a late letter Last Line: Writing, “a vague sense of apprehesnion persists” Subject(s): Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Solitude CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit. Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness CHIMONANTHUS FRAGRANS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These blossoms of empurpled hue Last Line: Its worth, when all the rest are flown! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Solitude; Loneliness CHRIST OF VELAZQUEZ: PART 2, SELS, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is finished!' thou didst cry like the roar %of a thousand cataracts Last Line: Of god. To thy last groan responded only %in the far distance the pitying sea Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Solitude CHRISTMAS ALONE IN KEY WEST, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That christmas alone in no difference really Last Line: Is there's no reason to go and less to stay Subject(s): Christmas; Selkirk, Alexander (1676-1721); Solitude CHRISTMAS, MADISON SQUARE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dismal darkness stands the christmas pine Last Line: Ascends. Subject(s): Christianity; Poverty; Solitude; Loneliness CINDERELLA, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apart from my sisters, estranged Last Line: For her joyful heart. Subject(s): Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Mythology - Classical; Oppression; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974); Solitude; Women's Rights; Loneliness; Feminism CLARIMONDE, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With elbow buried in the downy pillow Last Line: Thou owest to me? Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness CLOISTERED, by ALICE BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seal thou the window! Yea, shut out the light Last Line: Shall beat on in the dark. Subject(s): Solitude; Worship; Loneliness CLOUD MESSENGER: 85, by KALIDASA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wilt find her wasted with care, flung down on one side on her lonely mat Last Line: She now finds long in her solitude and spends in burning tears Subject(s): Solitude COCKROACHES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have become friendly with baby cockroaches that dare to come out in Last Line: It to a life of friends Subject(s): Solitude COMMENCEMENT POEM: 9. SOLITUDE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All alone - alone Last Line: God shall speak to thee out of the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Variant Title(s): Solitude Subject(s): Commencement; Solitude; Loneliness COMPANIONSHIP, by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: It is not good for man to be alone Last Line: And elves of trouble hie them to the shelves. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness COMPANY OF WOMEN, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK Poem Source First Line: I couldn't forget how much I'd paid for each dress Last Line: On a corner square, stitched taut over cotton batting Subject(s): Single People; Solitude; Women COMPENSATION, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should be glad of loneliness Last Line: On a winter night. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness COMPLEX ROBOT, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Under the dim light Last Line: I contemplate my steps, %like a robot that begins %to feel rewarded Subject(s): Memory; Solitude COMPOSITION: 1, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: It is here that I find my self. Inside Last Line: Old and young, black and white-yellow, I am Subject(s): Love; Solitude CONCERNS OF SUMMER, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Finally, my time is my own, all of it really my own, I may Last Line: Who will help me now to gnaw eternity Subject(s): Self; Solitude; Summer CONJURE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sitting what that afternoon I thought to be Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness CONSUMMATION, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: In a garden, soul to soul we met and loved Last Line: On a moonlit-glow: 'twere better death would wed. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness CORNERS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've sought out corner bars, lived in corner houses Last Line: The places we retreat to, the places we can't bear to be found Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Solitude CORNEY'S HUT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Old corney built in deadman's gap Last Line: Upon the dog that mourned his master Subject(s): Animals;death;dogs;funerals;solitude; "dead, The;burials;loneliness; COSMOS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tiny thing of painted gauze that Last Line: And cold, dead moons whose ghostly fires haunt unremembered years. Subject(s): Solitude; Soul; Loneliness COULD DEATH, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The order of lone things Subject(s): Death, Return From; Solitude COULD THAT SWEET DARKNESS WHERE THEY DWELL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Would burst the loneliness Variant Title(s): Poem: 1493; Poem: 152 Subject(s): Solitude COUPLE ON THE LEFT OF ME, by J. T. BARBARESE Poem Source First Line: Is breaking up the baby Last Line: O walk your body down don't let it go it alone Subject(s): Independence; Pride; Selfishness; Solitude CRAZY CHRISTOPHER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neighbored by a maple wood Last Line: That could half believe him wise. Subject(s): Solitude; Human Behavior; Insanity; Wisdom CROSSING THE DESERT, by MYLES A. J. RHYNES Poem Text First Line: Silently the desert spreads beneath the Last Line: The spanish suns setting, the evening shadows bow. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Solitude; Loneliness CROTONS, by BOB RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Supposed an obsessive compulsive Last Line: Because like you uncle I dance even after the stormy reception %alone in the litter of everyone's fl Subject(s): Metaphor; Solitude CROWNS OF FIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Autumn draws its crowns of fire %as in a wakeful sleep Last Line: I am happy galloping in this autumn of reddish horses Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Seasons; Shadows; Solitude DANCE OF DEATH: MONK, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hoped that all sinners who Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Monks; Sin; Solitude DANSE RUSSE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If when my wife is sleeping Last Line: The happy genius of my household? Subject(s): Family Life; Men; Solitude; Relatives; Loneliness DAVID, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: There on the hills Last Line: And commune with god. Subject(s): Exiles; Solitude; Loneliness DEATH, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have made light of death Last Line: None may be there to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Death; Humility; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Dead, The; Loneliness DECEMBER LAKE, by EDYTHE BARRETT GOELTZ Poem Text First Line: Each wave whispered of a departed summer Last Line: And meet it as one. Subject(s): Cold; December; Farewell; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness DECEMBER MOON, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Before going to bed Last Line: Sleeping away the cold white night %after a fall of snow Subject(s): Christmas; December; Solitude DEFINITIONS, by LOLLY WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Dreams are sticks of dynamite Last Line: I shall be warm. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness DEPARTURE FROM GRENADA, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Such a crush to push through Last Line: Without even iron over the neck, %wind with a king's grating voice Subject(s): Absence; Courts And Courtiers; Farewell; Grenada (island); Solitude DEPRIVATION, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dull knife cuts our hand Last Line: For a long time Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Solitude; Thirst; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Loneliness DESERT PICTURE, by ELIDA MERRIAM GREEN Poem Text First Line: The slowly moving centuries of time Last Line: Across the desert, folding it in sleep. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness DESERT PLACES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast Last Line: To scare myself with my own desert places Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness DESERT PLACES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast Last Line: I have it in me so much nearer home %to scare myself with my own desert places Subject(s): Solitude 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 onbenumbedalone. Subject(s): Desolation; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: DEEP NIGHT, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: New york deserted -- without a person Last Line: Around the night in the sky, now toward the west Subject(s): Abandonment; Diaries; New York City; Solitude DISTANCE, by ANDREA ZANZOTTO Poem Source First Line: Now that all your distance surrounds me Last Line: With mountain lights %has learned me by heart forever Subject(s): Solitude DOORS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Every solid door opens upon less than Last Line: Reaches the sea-line, or of the rising moon Subject(s): Solitude DOORS, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know what lies behind them in the attic Last Line: Behind the doors I have closed, %and all the rooms contain me Subject(s): Solitude DREAM OF THE CONDOR, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: As the choir of stars begins Last Line: Down in meditation when alone Subject(s): Meditation; Solitude DREAMSCAPE IN KUMMEL, by HAROLD WITT Poem Source First Line: Upward through crystal in a kummel bottle Last Line: The loneliness that I was drowning in Subject(s): Solitude DRIFTERS: BELLA COOLA TO WILLIAMS LAKE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Used to being his own listener Last Line: He travels this road. Subject(s): Conversation; Hitchhikers; Solitude; Loneliness DRINKING ALONE WITH THE MOON, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Among the flowers with a jug of wine, Last Line: May we meet in the far milky way Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Moon; Solitude DRINKING WINE(3), by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fall chrysanthemums have fine colors. Last Line: Go ahead, embrace this life Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Life; Nature; Solitude DRUNK, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too far away, o love, I know Last Line: Keep with you the troth I trowed. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness EARLINESS AT THE CAPE, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The color of silence is the oyster's color Last Line: Comes pricking; the hour's pallor, too, is bladed %like a shell, and as it opens, cuts Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Seashore; Solitude EIN FICHTENBAUM STEHT EINSAM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pine-tree standeth lonely Last Line: On its ridge of burning stone. Subject(s): Mourning; Pine Trees; Solitude; Trees; Bereavement; Loneliness EIN TRAUMBILD, by C. W. YEOMANS Poem Text First Line: A student sat in his room alone Last Line: Longs for the fragrance of that sweet flower. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Solitude; Loneliness ELEGIAC SONNET: 22. BY THE SAME. TO SOLITUDE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O solitude! To thy sequester'd vale Last Line: And bear awhile -- what death alone can cure! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ELEGY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: They will not remember how you looked sleeping Last Line: Will say they were your friend Subject(s): Books; Death; Grief; Memory; Poetry And Poets; Solitude ELEGY, by JOSE GOROSTIZA Poem Source First Line: Alone, with harsh marine aloneness Last Line: In the eyes of the sea Subject(s): Melancholy; Solitude ELEGY, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Through air beaten back, beaten Last Line: Begin their lonely dissolve %into swans Subject(s): Absence; Bones; Love - Loss Of; Solitude ELEGY FOR A MADRIGAL, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Recall a boring and lonely afternoon Last Line: As an irremediable universal yawn! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Solitude ELYSIUM, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have found a place of loneliness Last Line: Of time from out of which I come Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Solitude EMPTINESS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Give me rest eyes of the jealous film over Subject(s): Emptiness; Solitude EMPTY MOUNTAIN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: No one %climbs the empty mountain %anymore Last Line: You will be a flame %or a fresh green pine Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Solitude EPITAPH: 26, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All's done Last Line: A butterfly. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Solitude; Loneliness EPITAPH: 7, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely I lived and died: - let no footfall Last Line: Disturb me nowfor that were worse than all! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness ESCAPE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We raised our hands for the honor of leaving the class -- to carry a Last Line: We had what we wanted Subject(s): School; Locks; Doors; Solitude ESTELLE, by MARGARET DELANEY Poem Text First Line: You told me, dear, that you were oftimes lonely Last Line: Was often forced to walk his way alone. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness EVE, ON A MORNING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, on a morning, paused before the / gate Last Line: "and adam plans to break new ground to-day." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Peace; Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness EVENING, by DONALD R. STEELE Poem Text First Line: I see the sun Last Line: Alone, without you. Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness EVENING, by JON STEFANSSON Poem Text First Line: At twilight, when I am alone with my thoughts Last Line: The sun over darkness prevail. Alternate Author Name(s): Gjallandi, Thorgils Subject(s): Evening; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness EVENING PASTIMES, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting by my fire alone Last Line: I shall wear that garment yet. Subject(s): Solitude; Aging; Poetry & Poets; Love EVENING SOLACE, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The human heart has hidden treasures Last Line: Seeking a life and world to come. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Evening; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness EVENINGS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: As in a delirium %she awaits Last Line: The gestures of the sea Subject(s): Solitude; Waiting EVENTIME, by JESSIE M. GILMORE Poem Text First Line: They gather around me at eventime Last Line: That I see by the ember's glow. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Solitude; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness; Thinking EVERY MORNING THE CURTAIN RISES, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source Last Line: Takes your place. Step by step you leave yourself Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Morning; Solitude EVERYTHING THAT I MADE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Everything that I made I used to bring to you Last Line: And turn to you still with my tale, and there's no one to hear me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Grief; Love; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness EXAMPLE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine the hotel lucide, the set for the third act Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness EXCLUSION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul selects her own society Last Line: Like stone. Subject(s): Solitude; Soul; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Loneliness EXILE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A common folk I walk among Last Line: When this sad pilgrimage is done. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Secrets; Solitude; Loneliness FABLE, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time %there was a lonely wolf Last Line: And on into the morning when he was beaten to death Subject(s): Human Rights; Solitude; Wolves FACADE: 22. ALONE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vast grey trees Last Line: In the long avenue! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness FAERY LANDS FORLORN, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From aalesund at midnight northward seen Last Line: And joy's low islets lit in solitude Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Absence; Solitude FALL, by JOSEPH UPPER HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Two buzzards float solemnly over the lonely water Last Line: And far off the voice of winter, hungry, ominous. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness FALLOW, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, alone, let me wander alone Last Line: Fallow, fallow, and reposing! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness FAR BACK, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In one %of the valleys %of the whitewater Last Line: Deep %in winter %myself %I live on Subject(s): Cold; Solitude; Winter FEBRUARY SWANS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the hundred swans in west bay Last Line: Has glazed the window with frost. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; February; Love; Solitude; Swans; Loneliness FINAL TREE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: This solitary fretwork %they gave me at birth Last Line: And in death I sing beneath it without knowing Subject(s): Solitude FINLANDIA, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: I follow you through Last Line: To breathe the miracle alone Subject(s): Absence; Finland; Islands; Solitude; Travel FIRE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Clear smoke Last Line: To go on Subject(s): Fire; Solitude; Loneliness FIRE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear smoke Last Line: We can leave it all %to go on Subject(s): Fire; Solitude FIRST FROST, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: We bring the pots indoors Last Line: For love, for love, for love Subject(s): Frost; Love; Solitude FLOWER-GIFT, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: A good many years ago Last Line: A flower in hand, and %another child waiting for the gift? Subject(s): Solitude FOR A DISSOLVING MUSIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be seen? Last Line: Not hope of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Emptiness; Old Age; Solitude FOR CLAUDE, by MARGARET A. ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Curl yourself around my spine Last Line: For he is dead. She sleeps alone Subject(s): Death; Solitude FOR LAZY-BOYS, DEVOTED PETS, HEALTH, AND TRIBAL HOMELAND REALITY, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR Poem Source First Line: Deceived by %autumn dust Last Line: No massiveness %no eternity %in 1995 Subject(s): Solitude FOR REMEMBERING HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your loneliness and mine Subject(s): Absence; Change; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness FORSAKEN SOLITUDES, by DUKE COLE MEREDITH Poem Text First Line: The hand of modern age employs a prod Last Line: Forsaking joys in solitude we need. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness FORTH DOOR, by MANUEL ANTONIO PINA Poem Source First Line: It's solitude %what the heart is looking for Last Line: This is one side of everything %and the other is the same and another Subject(s): Solitude FORTY-ONE, ALONE, NO GERBIL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the strange quiet, I realize Subject(s): Death - Animals; Solitude FRAGMENT: 1, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Alone %I am counting Last Line: Of my big boned laughter Subject(s): Solitude FRAGMENT: THE QUANTOCKS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These populous slopes Last Line: Of peopled solitude. Subject(s): Quantock, England; Solitude; Loneliness FRAGMENTS, by JAMES BLANDING SLOAN Poem Text First Line: And when the dark without Last Line: Drinking up the light like a thousand-mouthed sponge. Alternate Author Name(s): Sloan, J. Blanding Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY, COLLECTED IN HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, SELECTION, by JAMES MACPHERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I sit by the mossy fountain; on top of the hill of winds Last Line: Passest, when mid-day is silent around. Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness FRAME OF REFERENCE, by YVETTE NELSON Poem Source First Line: I once believed those voices that said I was called by god. All other Last Line: The saints-in-waiting imitated him Subject(s): Pain; Solitude FREEDOM, by SYLVIA LEE Poem Text First Line: Take them away - the props, the stays Last Line: All naked and complete! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness FROM THE THRESHOLD OF A DREAM I WAS CALLED, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the gentle throb of the friendly hand Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Imagination; Solitude 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 FULL MOON, by LAJOS KASSAK Poem Source First Line: I'm middle-aged, a male Last Line: Who just found his tongue Subject(s): Love - Marital; Solitude FUNESTE, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: If the smoke should go out Last Line: This dawn, return, he dies Subject(s): Memory; Night; Self; Solitude; Writing And Writers FURIOUS CLARITY, by GABRIEL ZAID Poem Source First Line: We accept no givens: from here on illusion Last Line: Black light shuddering at the thump of day Subject(s): Solitude FUTURE, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: It will be one of those nights, cold Last Line: It will be that kind of night Subject(s): Fate; Hope; Solitude GALLANT CHATEAU, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it bad to have come here Subject(s): Houses; Solitude; Loneliness GARBAGE KEEPERS, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where is their calm, their rest? Last Line: Worm-pink, squirming for milk Subject(s): Poverty; Refuse And Refuse Disposal; Solitude GARDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What madness so stirs the heart of man Last Line: O hours worthy to be numbered in herbs and flowers Subject(s): Contentment; Gardens And Gardening; Retirement; Solitude GIANT SPRUCE, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The giant spruce; almost a forest in itself Last Line: That go sweeping by Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude GIC TO HAR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late at night, cold and damp Last Line: Ten years in an unfriendly city Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Introspection; Solitude; Loneliness GIC TO HAR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late at night, cold and damp Last Line: Ten years in an unfriendly city Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Introspection; Solitude GOD'S MOOD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These daughters are bone Last Line: Adam's whining ways Subject(s): Death - Children; Old Age; Solitude; Death - Babies; Loneliness GOD'S MOOD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These daughters are bone Last Line: He is tired of eve's fancy and %adam's whining ways Subject(s): Death - Children; Old Age; Solitude GOOD-BYE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home Last Line: When man in the bush with god may meet? Variant Title(s): Goodbye Subject(s): God; Home; Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness GOODBYE TO A POLTERGEIST, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an empty socket alone Last Line: And sink like ribbons, absorbed by the air Subject(s): Solitude GREAT DARKNESS, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: It is an old loneliness Last Line: Tying my names to the cloth of night Subject(s): Solitude GREEN THUMB, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shake out my pockets! Harken to the call Subject(s): Relationships; Farewell; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness GROWTH OF THINGS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The lines. %the ground Subject(s): Solitude HAIKU, by HATTORI RANSETSU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A leaf whirls down, alackaday! Last Line: A leaf whirls down upon the breeze. Subject(s): Leaves; Past; Solitude; Loneliness HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winter solitude Last Line: The sound of wind Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Solitude; Winter HANGING BRANCH SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Late at night my lover comes home Last Line: Beats lying in bed alone Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Solitude HARBORS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full many a noonday nook I know Last Line: This side the continent of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Loneliness HARDENED DROPPINGS OF A WHITE-EYE, by MURO SAISEI Poem Source First Line: Hardened droppings of a white-eye Last Line: Of winter. Subject(s): Love; Solitude HARMATAN, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday also has its leaves, newspapers Last Line: Of the earth ceaselessly emptying itself Subject(s): Europe; Immigrants; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Poetry And Poets; Poverty; Protestantism; Racism; Refugees; Sahara Desert; Solitude; U.s. - Foreign Population HASANAGINICA, by MAJDA KNE Poem Source First Line: I'll howl at the train in the full moon and in no moon Last Line: To your body, let the dust gather and the room become impassable Subject(s): Solitude 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 HE TAPS HIS BELLY AND, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Though beauty shines Last Line: Where she is not. Subject(s): Beauty; Solitude HEART OF OWL COUNTRY, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: Whatever blossoms is rooted Last Line: In its large community, alert and perfect Subject(s): Birds; Gardens And Gardening; Owls; Solitude HEARTBEAT OF THE WOODS, by ALICE DERRY Poem Source First Line: There's a grouse hidden somewhere inside Last Line: Lie in the clumps of phlox and primrose %their white blinding in windy sunshine Subject(s): Family Life; Human Behavior; Marriage; Solitude HELEN KELLER, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind her triple prison-bars shut in Last Line: Which wraps thee, as its fragrance wraps a rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness HELEN, THE SAD QUEEN, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Azure, 'tis I! From the caves of death withdrawn Last Line: Stretch toward me their indulgent, graven arms. Subject(s): Solitude HELP, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A creak in the floor where nobody walks Last Line: Help martha wain in her lonely fight. Subject(s): Details; Solitude HENRY THE HERMIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a little island where he dwelt Last Line: The lamp that stream'd a long unsteady light. Subject(s): Aging; Bells; Death; Hermits; Islands; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness HERE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My steps along this street Last Line: Only the mist is real Subject(s): Solitude HERE IS MUSIC: 14. RONDEAU, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Were you but here, this wan, unhappy west Last Line: Were you but here. Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Lament; Memory; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness HERE IS MUSIC: VILLANELLE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: I would not be a boy again Last Line: For castle situate in spain. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Youth; Loneliness HERMES OF THE LONELY HILL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "not of my choosing, traveller, this desert eminence" Last Line: "my solitude, wayfarer, does not reflect his own" Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness HIGH NOON AT LOS ALAMOS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To turn a stone / with its white squirming Last Line: For the silence Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Fire; Heat; Noon; Solitude; Sun; Loneliness HIGHWAY 2, ILLINOIS, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at this country Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Illinois; Roads; Solitude; Paths; Trails; Loneliness HIS SECRET, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The field wraps around him Last Line: Of three days. Subject(s): Secrets; Solitude; Loneliness HOLDING ON, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green fingers / holding the hillside, Subject(s): Solitude; Conduct Of Life; Loneliness HOME ALONE, by KENNETH H. BROWN Poem Source First Line: I have lived alone here Last Line: But who's that flounder in my face Subject(s): Solitude HOME'S DARKNESS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Solitude like home's darkness Last Line: At my easel, I %paint in a daze Subject(s): Solitude HOUSE, by NIKO GRAFENAUER Poem Source First Line: The house where you think things over Last Line: Is like the beginning of all that goes away Subject(s): Memory; Solitude HOUSE ON THE ISLAND, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: So many thoughts are sowed Last Line: I fold myself in a poem and wait Subject(s): Absence; Love; Poetry And Poets; Solitude HOW CAN I?, by IRENE H. WILSON Poem Text First Line: I cannot spend my loneliness upon idle things Last Line: And tomorrow is forever. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness HOW SHOULD THEY KNOW ME, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are those who deem they know me Last Line: The gift of self-knowledge were last! Subject(s): Selflessness; Solitude; Loneliness HUMIDITY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are no houses no trees there is no body Last Line: No trees and no body of water Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Solitude HUNDRED ACRES OF HATE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Crowned at the top of the long green hill Last Line: Links in a chain around his neck Subject(s): Anger; Barns; Hate; Solitude HYMN ON SOLITUDE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, mildly [or ever-pleasing] pleasing solitude! Last Line: Then shield me in the woods again. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness 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 ALONE, by LAUREN GILLIS Poem Source First Line: In the middle of a pasture with the whispering woods around Subject(s): Solitude I AM ALONE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am alone in the plains Last Line: Along deserted %roads Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Solitude I AM ALONE AS I WRITE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet writing this places me Last Line: Yet it is not life Subject(s): Solitude I AM BORNE ONWARD, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am borne onward from the faith of my fathers Last Line: They leant upon them -- I am alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness I CAME ONCE TO SIT ON COLD MOUNTAIN, by HAN-SHAN Poem Source Last Line: This morning I face my lonely shadow %and before I know it tears stream down Subject(s): Solitude I DANCE WITH MY CAT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dance with my cat in the kitchen Last Line: Snuggled into my breast Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude I DIDN'T LIKE HIM, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps you may a-noticed I been shot o' solemn lately Last Line: I didn't like him. Subject(s): Loss; Solitude; Women; Loneliness 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 DON'T MINGLE WITH PEOPLE, by LAJOS KASSAK Poem Source First Line: I don't mingle with people I feel sad Last Line: Who have to live in cramped places Subject(s): Solitude I FEAR THE NIGHT, BUT NIGHT TRANSPORTS ME, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX Poem Source Last Line: And a voice says: 'it's raining blood in the catch-basins' Subject(s): Death; Night; Solitude I GO SINGING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I go singing a song under my breath Last Line: And this is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness I LOOK FAR OFF AT T'IEN-T'AI'S SUMMIT, by HAN-SHAN Poem Source Last Line: In the wilderness mountains and seas are all right, %but I wish I had a companion in my search for t Subject(s): Solitude I MASCHI, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The masked rowers %came for him Last Line: A sight he would never again see Subject(s): Boats; Sailors And Sailing; Shadows; Solitude I REMEMBER, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almost I loved you Last Line: Dancing in the midnight sky. Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Loneliness I SENT MY TRUE LOVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sent my true love on his way Last Line: Through long and empty years. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness I SHALL GO BACK, by JULIA DAINGERFIELD GLASS Poem Text First Line: Cities are lonely, prison-like places to Last Line: I shall never be lonely again. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness I SIT AT MY DESK, LISTENING TO THE PHONE RING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Solitude I SIT UP, by SONG-I Poem Source First Line: I sit up alone tonight Last Line: I will not meet his thoughts Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Solitude I TRADE MY DREAMS, by PYON YONGNO Poem Source First Line: I have tried to trade my dreams for solitude Last Line: Liek stars studded in the sky, %like the moon moored in the empty sky Subject(s): Solitude I WAIT, by HAROLD CRAWFORD STEARNS Poem Text First Line: Day-long, night-long Last Line: A sob in the lonely trees. Subject(s): Solitude; Waiting; Loneliness I WANT MY TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm night guard all alone tonight Last Line: "say, gimme some tobacco, bill" Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;night;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Bedtime;loneliness;southwest;pacific States I'D LIKE TO BURROW A PLACE FOR MYSELF...', by JOSE-FLORE TAPPY Poem Source Last Line: Cries walled up in the brick Subject(s): Nature; Solitude I'M GOING TO SLEEP, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: Teeth of flowers, coif of dew Last Line: Tell him not to keep trying, tell him I've gone out Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude I'M NOT ALONE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not alone Last Line: The truth finds his own praise Subject(s): Solitude; Truth IF TEARS WERE PEARLS, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: If tears were pearls, I would have Last Line: That is my new sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Tears ILSAN POEMS: 2, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I'm alone %in white light Last Line: And I begin to walk % to meet it Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude IMAGE OF AN UNREAL PLACE-A SKETCH, by JOZE UDOVIC Poem Source First Line: The wind sighs, shut in a cage in the square Last Line: From house to house %the threatening letters of night Subject(s): Night; Old Age; Solitude IN A JAM, by HARRIET LEVIN Poem Source First Line: Driving one hour through rush Last Line: Then release may, %in good turn, be received Subject(s): Grief; Solitude IN A STRANGE CITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk-and a hunger for your face Last Line: And I am lonelier than ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Cities; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness IN A TREE STANDING, by SATO NORIKIYO Poem Source Last Line: Lonely, terrible evening Subject(s): Solitude IN A VACANT HOUSE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone was calling someone Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness IN ABEYANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No skilled hands Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Solitude; Loneliness IN BACHELOR'S HALL, by CLARENCE WEBSTER PEABODY Poem Text First Line: To sit in front of the open grate Last Line: And the fire burns brighter in bachelor's hall. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness IN FALL, WHEN THE MOON, by HOEYON Poem Source First Line: In fall when the moon visits my garden Last Line: You alone will emerge unchanged Subject(s): Memory; Solitude IN PRINCIPIO, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source First Line: In the beginning Last Line: A common horizon Subject(s): Abandonment; Creation; Solitude IN SOLITUDE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have pity thou, who all my heart hast known! Last Line: And think how I was glad, yet knew it not. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness IN SOLITUDE, by VIRNA SHEARD Poem Source First Line: He is not desolate whose ship is sailing Subject(s): Solitude IN SOLITUDE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like as a brook that all night long Last Line: The lullaby to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness IN THE BEAUTIFUL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be still. Be still. Do not speak Last Line: Or stayand be still! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness IN THE BIG CITY, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: Loneliness depressed me in the restaurant Last Line: Which over and over made its presence felt Subject(s): Solitude IN THE PAST, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lies a somnolent lake Last Line: That boatman am I. Subject(s): Lakes; Past; Solitude; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness INCARNATE, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day I heard you'd died, that day, toward evening, I was alone in the Last Line: Here, look at this. Hold this, feel this Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Soul INFLUENCE, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Like one who beats against the wind Last Line: For thy dear sake this I would do! Subject(s): Despair; Hunger; Solitude; Loneliness INHIBITION, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered along the beach Last Line: While watching cosmic interludes. Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness INSCRIPTION FOR A CAVERN THAT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter this cavern, stranger! The ascent Last Line: That man creates the evil he endures. Subject(s): Caves; Evil; Humanity; Introspection; Solitude; Strangers; Caverns; Loneliness INSCRIPTION: IN A FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Whose steps have reached this solitude Last Line: The weeds and mosses from this letter'd stone. Subject(s): Advice; Forests; Holidays; Solitude; Strangers; Trees; Woods; Loneliness INSTRUCTION, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a place in a little garden Last Line: And the leaping of a word. Subject(s): Laurels; Rest; Solitude; Loneliness INSULATION, by SUSAN BROWN Poem Source First Line: Did I really think I could live Last Line: The walls were still doing their job %holding in, holding apart Subject(s): Solitude INTERIOR, by BORIS NOVAK Poem Source First Line: Mysterious are the characters of things close to us Last Line: And my trousers without my legs. Empty Subject(s): Emptiness; Solitude INVERSELY, AS THE SQUARE OF THEIR DISTANCES APART, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is impossible to see anything Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness INVERSELY, AS THE SQUARE OF THEIR DISTANCES APART, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is impossible to see anything Last Line: Distance of loneliness Subject(s): Love; Solitude ISOLATION, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone! Yes, evermore alone -- isolated each his way' Last Line: We tread in solitude remote, the trail of destiny! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ISOLATIONIST, by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the many move, the man Last Line: While he sits with gloved hands in a buttoned confusion. Alternate Author Name(s): Page, P. K. Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness IT IS NIGHT, IN MY STUDY, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness IT JUST SO HAPPENS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You fingered the white top Last Line: That knocks the wind out of the ground Subject(s): Anxiety; Conversation; Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness IT MIGHT BE LONLIER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To perish — of delight — Subject(s): Solitude; Peace; Fate IT WOULD BE NEAT IF WITH THE NEW YEAR, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Solitude JAMIE'S PUZZLE, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was grief within our household Last Line: Their meaning will all be plain. Subject(s): Mothers; Solitude; Loneliness JEREMIAH PUCKETT, by BILLY C. CLARK Poem Source First Line: We carried him to the highland of no-time Last Line: Tucked on the mountain to a wind-made prayer Subject(s): Prayer; Salvation; Solitude JOE, by LEWIS W. BRITTON Poem Text First Line: A keerless, lanky sort was joe Last Line: "don't understand ""that wuthless scamp!" Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness JOSEF ISRAELS, by ELIAS LIEBERMAN Poem Text First Line: When the fisher-folk of the netherland coast Last Line: Who count the leaden years. Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jews; Solitude; Dead, The; Anglers; Judaism; Loneliness JOURNAL ENTRY NO. 1, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: I have been dancing Last Line: Reach for the worms Subject(s): Memory; Solitude JUDGMENT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they removed the bandages Last Line: On them -- for what they couldn't say -- they wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Blindness; Cold; Eyes; Judgments; Solitude; Visually Handicapped; Loneliness JUXTAPOSITIONS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The shadow of my head Last Line: To view the full and rising moon Subject(s): Nature; Oregon; Solitude KEY, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And still the planets go by Last Line: In the slow, blossoming traffic %and wallow of seamless oceans Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude KIN, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: I know the names of all great stars Last Line: To go and join you trooping by! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness L'ENVOI, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the loves that we have loved before Last Line: When once I am alone, and shut the door. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LABRADOR, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: White is the river's roar Last Line: And hills and seas, and on and on Subject(s): Abandonment; Solitude LAMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All is far %and long gone by Last Line: Stands like a white city Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Lament; Solitude LAMENT FOR GLASGERION, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lovely body of the dead Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Soul; Solitude; Aging; Dead, The; Loneliness LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF A FIELD, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: What was it that you wanted to say? Last Line: Of the house. I will go in. Subject(s): Houses; Solitude LAST JOURNEY, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: I shall go away. And the birds will stay Last Line: And the birds will remain still singing Subject(s): Death; Nostalgia; Solitude LATE DECEMBER AT THE BROOK I BREATHE A MOLECULE OF JAMES WRIGHT'S LAST, by DAN HANKE Poem Source First Line: The brook lay Last Line: Or %a map Subject(s): Nature; Solitude LATE ONE NIGHT, by KANG GANGWOL Poem Source First Line: Late one night, alone, unsleeping Last Line: Made me feel dimmer, farther away Subject(s): Absence; Solitude LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 4. BALLYTULLAGH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hamlet ballytullagh, small and old Last Line: Loy, a half-spade. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Despair; Mountains; Poverty; Solitude; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness; Journeys; Trips LE MAUDIT, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women’s tears are but water Last Line: Awaiting the tardy finish Subject(s): Grief; Solitude LE TOUR DE FRANCS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loneliness? When I think of loneliness Last Line: Left isolated in a harsh inimical land. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LEARNING STICK: 3. WITH ME, by JENNY FACTOR Poem Source First Line: Into a rhythm ruled by kgrrrr and bprrrr Last Line: Lessons of my life I've learned alone Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Homosexuality; Independence; Self-reliance; Solitude LEDA 3: A PERSONAL NOTE (RE: VISITATIONS), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always pyrotechnics; / stars spinning into phalluses Last Line: Or don't come. Subject(s): Leda; Mythology - Classical; Solitude; Spiritual Life; Loneliness LEFT IN LIFE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a dream. What then? Are dreams untrue? Last Line: Pleased with the folly of thy straining hands. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Passion; Solitude; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness LES CAMARADES EN VOYAGE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The vessel is restlessly rushing over the waters Last Line: And as they step upon the pier, lo the whiteness there! Subject(s): Boats; Moon; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips LESSING TABLE, by ADA LIMON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dinner table was too small Last Line: Do something, do something Subject(s): Life; Solitude LET HIM BE, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let the man be who had nothing to tell you Last Line: So let him be, this man who's walking down the hillside. %let him alone. Let him slam the table with Subject(s): Men; Solitude LET ME WALK ALONE WHERE BREAKS THE SEA, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loveliest girl in all the country-side Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude LET MY CASSIA BOAT, by KEJU Poem Source First Line: Let my cassia boat be tied Last Line: Alone, I'll take my boat across Subject(s): Boats; Solitude; Travel LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a bird alone Last Line: Answer: yea, come, lord jesus, come Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Solitude; Eternity; Time; Patience LIFE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solitude - life is inviolate solitude Last Line: But for the life that is better than life. Subject(s): Life; Solitude; Loneliness LIFE ON THE LAKES: DERELICT, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Driving back thro' the night on the lonely last ride Last Line: Hushed and wistfully. Subject(s): Roads; Solitude; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips LIGHT OF THE SOUTH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: That is born %and is %untamed %in its muteness Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Self; Solitude LIGHT POLE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: My streetlamp is so glacially alone in the night Last Line: It says: we are all far from home. %there's no hope anymore Subject(s): Solitude LIKE A WORN GRAY-HAIRED MARINER WHOM THE SEA, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Leaving behind a waste where desolate I may die Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Solitude; Mortality LIKE SOMEONE DRIVING TO TEXAS BY HERSELF, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A car that could not pass inspection an expired license Last Line: Like someone driving to texas Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Solitude; Texas LINES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bear it, bear it, lonely heart Last Line: And then alone as I? Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LINES, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voice, perhaps you are the universe Last Line: In a spasm of loneliness. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 5. SOLITUDE AND RETIREMENT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour and wealth, the joys we seek, deny Last Line: A type of paradise, the rural scene! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LINES FROM THE TESTAMENT, by PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Poem Source First Line: Solitude: you must be very strong Last Line: Where you must be wretched and strong, brothers to the dogs Subject(s): Sex; Solitude LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, OKLAHOMA, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have never lived on the reservation Last Line: Lifts his pony, flings it at the moon. Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Solitude; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Loneliness LISTENING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I listen and I listen Last Line: Will linger at my door? Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking LITTLE AIR: 1, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Somehow a solitude / with neither swan nor quay Last Line: Your naked jubilation. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the little children of the wind Last Line: The little tremulous leaves of the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Leaves; Solitude; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Loneliness LITTLE HOMAGES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Dear one, I deduce I'm drunk Last Line: Of skeptical music Subject(s): Absence; Solitude LITTLE HUT, by TS'AN LIAO TZU Poem Source First Line: One hut holds it all Last Line: An empty vault without a speck of dust Subject(s): Hermits; Solitude; Zen Buddhism LIVING, by DAISY COVIN WALKER Poem Text First Line: Heart-strings are delicately strung Last Line: In solitude's caress. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LOCK, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The water follows him Last Line: He is inside and out Subject(s): Solitude LONE CHILDER, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: When the wind was soft sobbin' the night Last Line: For to hush where lone childer had died! Subject(s): Death - Children; Solitude; Death - Babies; Loneliness LONE FREEDOM, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How lonely is vast freedom! I may go Last Line: "how lone is freedom!"" at her gate he cried." Subject(s): Freedom; Solitude; Liberty; Loneliness LONE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE DESERT, by BLANCHE POWELL MILLER Poem Text First Line: Oh lone little house on the desert Last Line: Tell us your secret so sad. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Houses; Solitude; Loneliness LONE WILD GOOSE, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lone goose, not drinking or pecking for food Last Line: The crows on the moors pay it no heed, %cawing and squawking in chaotic multitudes Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Geese; Solitude LONELIEST ROAD IN AMERICA, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: We could've gone the other way, freeway Last Line: Is lovely, yes lovely, like me Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Travel LONELINESS, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could not sleep last night for wondrous, pale Subject(s): Solitude LONELINESS, by VIRGINIA LEWIS CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: The slight chill sharpens Last Line: The slow chill sharpens. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONELINESS, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: Here on this patio, lonely as a mushroom, which way Last Line: & the oil lamp flickers Subject(s): Solitude LONELINESS, by SUSIE WHITMARSH FRY Poem Text First Line: Was e'er a pen so fine and strong Last Line: To pen its depths in verse refined. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONELINESS, by MARGUERITE GODE Poem Text First Line: Long after sundown Last Line: She burned her lonely light. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONELINESS, by NIKOLAI (NIKOLAY) STEPANOVICH GUMILEV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slumbered, and the white waves washed me thus Last Line: Of oracles told long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Gumilyov, Nikolay Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONELINESS, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I am long alone Last Line: Then I am lonely now. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONELINESS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my breast a lonely heart Last Line: All of god's creations are. Subject(s): God; Solitude; Loneliness LONELINESS, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Lonely %indeed Last Line: Is an unexpected gift Subject(s): Emptiness; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude LONELINESS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All stupor of surpise hath passed away Last Line: She dreams not they may ever cease nor wane. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONELINESS, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now it is loneliness who comes at night Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Solitude LONELINESS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To think of you surcharged with Last Line: The word freedom. The word peace Subject(s): Love; Solitude LONELINESS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known loneliness; - the mountain peak Last Line: (oh, blinding tears!) whereto she comes no more. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness LONELINESS, by NAOMI S. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: My sky is bound to earth Last Line: And make his noise of swiftness. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONELINESS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One evening in february I came near to dying here Subject(s): Solitude LONELINESS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who had all else heaven and earth Last Line: For loneliness, for loneliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Fathers; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Solitude; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Loneliness LONELINESS (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk beside a lonely lake Last Line: Thou comest now no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness LONELINESS (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead in the desert! With the great white moon Last Line: Escaped the struggles of a nerveless hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONELINESS 2, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: Friend, I'm reading your old poems on the north terrace Last Line: And the oil lamp flickers Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Solitude LONELINESS IN JERSEY CITY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deer and the dachshund are one Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONELINESS IN JERSEY CITY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deer and the dachshund are one Last Line: They think that things are all right, %since the deer and the dachshund are one Subject(s): Solitude LONELINESS OF MY BROTHER, by SHERYL NOETHE Poem Source First Line: This is the loneliness of my brother Last Line: Or maybe something winged lies hurt %in my deep grass Subject(s): Brothers; Solitude LONELINESS OF THE PREGNANT WOMAN, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: A kick at her inner walls Last Line: Singing earthly songs in her Subject(s): Pregnancy; Solitude LONELY, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who sits within the house and spins and spins Last Line: That aged thing, who spins and spins alone, %rush out upon me with a pale, drowned face! Subject(s): Solitude LONELY, by ANDRE SPIRE Poem Text First Line: They pity me Last Line: And the proud sweat glued to my skin. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONELY BROTHER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Art thou lonely, o my brother? Last Line: Shall come two's great happiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness LONELY DAYS (VERSIFIED FROM A DIARY), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely her fate was Last Line: And she knew nought. Subject(s): Diaries; Solitude; Loneliness LONELY DUSKS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So much of beauty runs to waste Last Line: To hear and know and care? Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONELY PLACE, by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The leafless trees, the untidy stack Last Line: The trees, the stack, still images %constant in who can say whose dreams? Subject(s): Solitude LONESOME, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Mother's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two Last Line: Sence mother 's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two. Subject(s): Mothers; Solitude; Loneliness LONESOME, by TOM G. MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen the dove Last Line: They're lonesome! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONESOME BALCONY, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Far inside a great city high up a lonesome balcony was hanging Last Line: And put up instead a neo sign red and blue %for scotch whisky Subject(s): Solitude LONG DELAYED, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I search'd the weary world in vain Last Line: With multitudes of leaflets green and soft. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Pain; Solitude; Time; Waiting; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness LONGING, by CLAIRE CAVE Poem Text First Line: I long for the peace of the desert Last Line: And the lull of a silent sea. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Longing; Solitude; Loneliness LONGING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the sadness of my days Last Line: Reach the comfort of your breast? Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Sanctuaries; Solitude; Loneliness LONGING, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O would I were the cool wind that's blowing from the sea Last Line: The grey silence, the grey waves, the grey wastes of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Longing; Love; Sea; Solitude; Wind; Ocean; Loneliness LOOP, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Sitting one morning %as in a movie theater, watching Last Line: A day already begun %without me Subject(s): Abandonment; Solitude LORD, NOW WHAT I LOVED MOST YOU TORE FROM ME, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Lord, now we are alone, my heart and sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Solitude LOST WHITE BROTHER, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are about / to move away from guys getting messy Last Line: My love. Subject(s): Absence; New Mexico; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness LOVE NURSED BY SOLITUDE, BY W. I. THOMSON, EDINBURGH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, surely it is here that love should come Last Line: With thy sweet wings furl'd but in solitude? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love; Paintings & Painters; Solitude; Loneliness LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 52, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I shone afar like a Last Line: Alone, like the unicorn Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 57, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night without end. Loneliness Last Line: Did it matter? They were only for me Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude LOVED, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: You were so fair to look upon Last Line: But now I walk alone. Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness LOVELY MONOCHROMES OF WINTER, by KAREN L. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Then comes the talking easily reconstructed then Last Line: -ungainly lives at best well-put savagery %at worst the visible bone the disappearing Subject(s): Relationships; Seasons; Solitude; Winter LULLABY, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Last night I found a loneliness I could hold Last Line: Startle this thing and I, locked in love and grief Subject(s): Solitude LWONESOMENESS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I do zew, wi' nimble hand Last Line: Up here a-while. Do come. Subject(s): Autumn; Parents; Seasons; Solitude; Fall; Parenthood; Loneliness LYNTON VERSES: 2, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At malmsmead, by the river side Last Line: And we are left so lonely. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Solitude; Songs; Loneliness LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 1, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has set Last Line: And I lie here alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 2, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has set Last Line: I sleep alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 3, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pleiades disappear Last Line: Sleepless, I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude MACHREE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, we laughed among the goolden gorse Last Line: Machreemachree! Subject(s): Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness MADLY SINGING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no one among men that has not a special failing Last Line: I choose a place that is unfrequented by men. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness MAN BY HIMSELF, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Text First Line: Because my grief is quiet and apart Last Line: Certain and unbefriended and alone. Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness MAN IN A ROOM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, no woman, nor man besides Last Line: Torn petals, dew-wet, yellowed my bare ankles. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness MAN IN GOD, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: The moon sometimes wanders past my backyard Last Line: Dared stop the decay, had judged %and failed you my prophet, oh, my prophet Subject(s): Solitude MARCH, by INDIA HUNT Poem Text First Line: Alone upon the hilltop Last Line: To the comrade heart of me! Subject(s): Solitude; Weather; Wind; Loneliness MARCH AFTERNOON, by LYDIA LITTELL Poem Text First Line: The moon's a faint vignette of gray Last Line: And would not come again. Subject(s): March (month); Solitude; Loneliness MARIANA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With blackest moss the flower-plots Last Line: O god, that I were dead!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Desolation; Despair; Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Solitude; Dramatists; Loneliness MARIANA IN THE SOUTH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With one black shadow at its feet Last Line: To live forgotten, and love forlorn.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Despair; Solitude MARRIAGE OF TWO OLD MEN (1), by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: Has he married my father? Have I married his Last Line: What will happen to us, tad, without a woman? Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Single People; Solitude MATER DOLOROSA, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He raised the latch in his father's door Last Line: For mary, mother, hears an' sees. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Solitude; Women - Bible; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Loneliness ME - I'M HAPPY WITH THE EVERYDAY WAY, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: While the round moon climbs the face of cold mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Solitude; Zen Buddhism MEDITATION, by MRS. GALE SPINK Poem Text First Line: I love solitude and god Last Line: And lead to god. Subject(s): God; Introspection; Nature; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking MELCHIZEDEK, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice bless'd are they, who feel their loneliness Last Line: Born through long woe his rare melchizedek. Subject(s): Consolation; Solitude; Loneliness 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 MEN WORSHIP ME, by VELONA PILCHER Poem Text First Line: I am the stark and silent pine Last Line: Men worship me. Subject(s): Solitude; Strength; Worship; Loneliness MENACE OF THE FLOWER, by ALFONSO REYES Poem Source First Line: Flower of drowsiness, %lull me but love me not Last Line: Your hand in mine, %tremble lest you turn %into a woman one day!) Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Flowers; Love; Solitude MENAPHON'S ECLOGUE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too weak the wit, too slender is the brain Last Line: My faith is firm, though homely be my lay. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness MENG TZU'S SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrows gleaning gutters Last Line: Sides flaps without passion Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude METAL MATERIAL REACHES, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The jar that twitch ends Subject(s): Self-consciousness; Silence; Solitude MEXICAN LONLINESS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I am an unhappy stranger Last Line: If I do nothing %nothing does Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Mexico; Nothingness; Solitude MIDSUMMER MADNESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a hearthrug Subject(s): Rugs;solitude;summer; Carpets;loneliness MIXER, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a pert moustache and a ready candid smile Last Line: And often spoken but no longer heard Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Solitude MONODY, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: My soul is a small, black island washed by the sea Last Line: When will its restless fingers reach my heart ... Subject(s): Fear; Introspection; Self; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness MONOLOGUE OF THE INHABITANT, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: My room opens like a flower Last Line: My monologue has ended Subject(s): Memory; Solitude MOOD, by GERTRUDE WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: My heart is a gypsy Last Line: Answer back. Subject(s): Hearts; Moods; Solitude; Loneliness MOONTAN, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bluish, pale Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness MOORED AT MAPLE BRIDGE, by CHING AN Poem Source First Line: Frost white across the river Last Line: But the moonlight fills the boat Subject(s): Solitude; Zen Buddhism MOORING ON AN AUTUMN NIGHT AT DAN LAKE, by DUAN SHUQING Poem Source First Line: Autumn waters vast and vague, belted by white duckgrass Last Line: I hear the sound of song, but see no one Subject(s): Lakes; Solitude 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 SONG, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A diamond of a morning Last Line: Only the lonely are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Morning; 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 MOUNTAIN, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The day is a remark made of clouds Last Line: On a field that stretches to the sea Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Solitude MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow on a line of flat rooftops beneath a sky of driven clouds Last Line: Like bugs beneath doormats in rainy weather Subject(s): Fields; France; Solitude; Southern Hemisphere MOVING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not those who have lived here and gone Last Line: Of all that happened there. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Longing; Memory; Moving & Movers; Property; Solitude; Possessions; Loneliness MR. FLOOD'S PARTY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old eben flood, climbing alone one night Last Line: That many friends had opened long ago. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Drinks & Drinking; Old Age; Solitude; Toasts; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts; Wine; Loneliness MRS. MCHUGH, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: He wrought in the field through the length av the day Last Line: An' him trimmin' the twist av a hedge! Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Marriage; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness MUSEUM, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays, like a stanza break Subject(s): Solitude MUSIC IN SOLITUDE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this valley far and lonely Last Line: That comes -- ah, surely comes -- at music's solemn call. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Solitude; Loneliness MY ALTER EGO, by JEANNETTE EUGENIE CUSHING Poem Text First Line: I took my soul, and walked the wide world thru Last Line: Forlorn, I wander, for my other self is dead. Subject(s): Mankind; Solitude; Soul; Human Race; Loneliness MY BORES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I take their hands with placid smile Last Line: With but the few I love and me. Subject(s): Faces; Life; Love; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness MY BROTHER THE ARTIST, AT SEVEN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a boy he played alone in the fields Subject(s): Brothers; Play; Solitude; Youth; Half-brothers; Loneliness MY COUSIN AGATHA, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: My godmother invited my cousin agatha Last Line: On the ebony of an age-old wardrobe Subject(s): Children; Fear; Solitude; Teenagers MY DREAM GIRL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flower in the mist of the moorland, spectral, / shadowy Last Line: The flower in the mist of the moorland, lonesome and shadowy. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Imagination; Love; Solitude; Youth; Death - Babies; Fancy; Loneliness MY DREAM HOUSE, by HELEN G. STEPHENSON Poem Text First Line: Last night I built a dream house Last Line: By the light the moonbeams made. Subject(s): Houses; Solitude; Loneliness MY EARTHLY LOVE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No dim and dreamy ghost I sing Last Line: And only feed on bitter breath. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness MY FATHER, by PABLO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: He had a big workshop. It was part of the world Last Line: He died alone, and with me. No one remembers him Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Solitude MY LIBRARY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrine of my mind, my library! Last Line: Hence to the outer world good night! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Libraries & Librarians; Life; Love; Solitude; Reading; Loneliness MY PIPE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fig for your flagons of sour old wine Last Line: I'm content with this old pipe of mine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Solitude; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Loneliness MY PROMENADE SOLITAIRE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down in my garden fair Last Line: As it follows its promenade solitaire? Subject(s): Earth; Gardens & Gardening; Solitude; World; Loneliness MY SADDLE, by E. A. L. GRIFFIN Poem Text First Line: My saddle hangs on yonder wall Last Line: To say my ridin's done. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Solitude; Loneliness MY SOLITUDE, by JAMES R. AGGELES Poem Text First Line: Is he of god who terms the 'solitude distress' Last Line: The gift of god, it offers light of day. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness MY SOUL AND I, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Why don't I die and set you free?' Last Line: You soon will cast a woman's vote. Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness MY SWEET HOME IS NO LONGER MINE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And ah! When life's summer is flown-my fond home-should I Last Line: Bright symbol of future repose,-I will ever think of thee sweet %home! Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Memory; Retrospection; Solitude NATALIA, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The slide in the park shines under the moon Last Line: That vacant spot between the stars %which must be filled so she can sleep Subject(s): Solitude; Thought NEAR A BUILDING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That sad summer, the loneliest thing Last Line: Bone emphasising perfect bone Subject(s): Bones; Death; Solitude; Summer NEARNESS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy hand my hand Last Line: Remain thy spirit and mine, past touch and sight. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness NEVER AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Anger flashing in the fist, the stick Last Line: Go with the stranger, or go alone. Subject(s): Ireland; Solitude; Violence; Youth NEW SPRING: 3, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I've been lonely %all through the winter Last Line: Like a benediction, %hovers over my head Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude NEW YEAR'S EVE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit here glad, glad of my comfort and so somber Last Line: With the helplessness of the newborn. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Solitude; Wind; Loneliness NIGHT, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was far beyond horizon's bar Last Line: The blue empyrean forever and forever. Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Stars; Bedtime; Loneliness NIGHT IN THE DESERT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With star-dust scintillant the vault is sown Last Line: As of some unimaginable thing! Subject(s): Calm; Deserts; Food & Eating; Night; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime; Loneliness NIGHT SONG, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The road runs up against the stars Last Line: For I am here alone. Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness NIGHT SOUNDS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight on my bed keeps me awake Last Line: A child with the moon on his face, a dog's hollow cadence. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Love - Complaints; Night; Solitude; Women; Women's Rights; Bedtime; Loneliness; Feminism NIGHT WORK, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's too much: this hard work Last Line: Hardly changed at all Subject(s): Morning; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness NIGHTINGALE'S SERENADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A song in my heart pipes ever and ever Last Line: My own! My own! Subject(s): Birds; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nightingales; Solitude; Loneliness NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 10, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Faraway lies that star, the oxherd Last Line: But across that bright and brimming stream, %she gazes with longing and cannot speak Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Night; Solitude NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 19, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Moonlight glowing so bright Last Line: I crane my neck, go back into the room, %and tears that fall are soaking my gown Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Night; Solitude NO MORE, by TOMAS BORGE Poem Source First Line: Have you seen a red curtain Last Line: But never again so alone Subject(s): Politics; Solitude NO ONE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would it surprise Last Line: Constantly and well Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Solitude NO ONE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The invisible received more and more names Last Line: Because there is nothing to see Subject(s): Absence; Solitude NO SOLITUDE IN NATURE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature has no solitude Last Line: It moves us thee to love. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness NOBODY'S LOOKIN' BUT DE OWL AND DE MOON (A NEGRO SERENADE), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: De river is a-glistenin' in de moonlight Last Line: An' cose you know we kin trus' de moon. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness NOME CALENDAR, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Minus twenty, little wind, my dawdle Last Line: By timelessness, I began to enter %an easier, more human season Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Solitude; Teaching And Teachers; Winter NORMAL BEHAVIOR OF THE FAMAS, by JULIO CORTAZAR Poem Source First Line: It happened that a fama was dancing respite and dancing Last Line: And the fama understood, and his solitude was less %embittered Subject(s): Anger; Human Behavior; Solitude NOSTALGIA, by MAUDE MILLER WHITLOW Poem Text First Line: At sundown, when the first soft shadows lengthen Last Line: My loneliness abides, and will not cease. Subject(s): Nostalgia; Solitude; Loneliness NOT ALWAYS: 1, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In surety and obscurity twice mailed Subject(s): Neighbors; Solitude; Loneliness NOT ALWAYS: 1, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In surety and obscurity twice mailed Last Line: A song somewhat as of the morning stars Subject(s): Neighbors; Solitude NOT ALWAYS: 2, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem 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 NOT JUST ANY DEATH, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But the kind that comes to the lonely %like a reunion Last Line: Who entered death with anticipation Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Graves; Solitude NOTES, PARABLES, PROVERBS AND SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I speak ,my own voice Last Line: Through her seven doors Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Solitude NOVEMBER, by JOSEPH FENNER FRY Poem Text First Line: With a dull moan and hollow-sounding cry Last Line: I find familiar places all so strange. Subject(s): November; Solitude; Loneliness NOW THAT I AM NEVER ALONE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bath I look up and see the brown moth Last Line: Your watch-fire, your killing light Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness O FAIR!-O PUREST!; SAINT AUGUSTINE TO HIS SISTER, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fair! O purest! Be thou the dove Last Line: O fair! O purest! Be like the dove. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Religion; Saints; Solitude; Augustine Of Hippo; Theology; Loneliness O WINDS!, by JEAN ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: O winds of the compass points Last Line: A lonely heart! Subject(s): Solitude; Wind; Loneliness OCTOBER THOUGHTS, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: How one loves %this great wine Last Line: An insect pauses %then goes on Subject(s): Solitude; Thought ODE, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Power of these awful regions, hail Last Line: The solitude of age. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To tinkling brooks, to twilight shades Last Line: "virtue alone is bliss compleat." Subject(s): Nature; Pleasure; Solitude; Virtue; Loneliness ODE ON SOLITUDE (FINAL PRINTED VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, whose wish and care Last Line: Tell where I lie. Variant Title(s): The Contented Man;the Quiet Life;ode To Solitude Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness ODE ON SOLITUDE (FIRST PRINTED VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy he, who free from care Last Line: Steal from the world, and not a stone %tell where I lie Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude ODE ON SOLITUDE (MANUSCRIPT VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, who free from care Last Line: Steal from the world, and not a stone %tell where I lie Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude OF LONELINESS, by NORMA R. WETHERED Poem Text First Line: There's a well of loneliness in men Last Line: The words never reach -- the thought to pen -- Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness OF SO DIVINE A LOSS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That such a bliss has been Subject(s): Solitude OF WOMEN: 1. STATION, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Here stares like stones fall Last Line: The posture of an ancient loneliness. Subject(s): Solitude; Women; Loneliness OH, GOD, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: When I am dead Last Line: Locked in sacred solitude. Subject(s): God; Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness OLD SONG OF THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE FEAR OF LONELINESS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sitting with friends Last Line: As mine again Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Solitude OLD TIMERS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When old men meet they ask for news of Last Line: "and dead they still remain," Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Weariness; Loneliness; Fatigue ON A MAINE COAST, by FLORA MARION LOUGEE Poem Text First Line: Whirling, swirling, seething mist Last Line: Till dreams and realities blur. Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ON GREDOS, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone here on the mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Hearts; Solitude; Spain; Loneliness ON GREDOS, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone here on the mountain Last Line: Here on the bosom of the mountain range %here in your midst , here I feel myself mine Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Hearts; Solitude; Spain ON MAY MORNING, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter no more the weeping fields deforms Last Line: And in their bosoms feel another spring. Subject(s): Forests; May (month); Morning; Nature; Nymphs; Praise; Solitude; Spring; Woods; Loneliness ON MY VOLCANO GROWS THE GRASS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Would populate with awe my solitude Subject(s): Solitude ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, by MURO SAISEI Poem Source First Line: On new year's day Last Line: In the snow. Subject(s): Love; Solitude ON SOLITUDE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! Last Line: A solitude almost. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ON SOLITUDE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Sweet solitude! I love thy silent shade Last Line: And hope to find that calm the world denied. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ON THE DEATH OF IDA, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight deep; the full, round moon Last Line: The bliss that once was ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Death; Farewell; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness ON THE WILLOW BRANCH, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the pond is still and the softest paddle stroke eases Last Line: To the spine. Subject(s): Boats; Solitude; Loneliness ONE MINUS ONE MINUS ONE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a first map of territory Last Line: In this loneliness Subject(s): Family Life; Solitude; Relatives ONE TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lone spot on the chanter who is writer Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing & Writers; Paradise; Male-female Relations; Loneliness ONE TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lon- (sounds like 'lawng') on-on-ong Last Line: Reach up now %reach reach Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing And Writers ONE WOMAN'S TEARS, by RUTH MALONE Poem Text First Line: Tears that well through selfish sand Last Line: Are hidden tears of loneliness. Subject(s): Solitude; Tears; Loneliness OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite two? Last Line: A lonely me, a lonely me Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms & Antonyms; Togetherness; Solitude ORPHAN GIRLS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: They looked too beautiful Last Line: Bearing no messages from the deep Subject(s): Beauty; Solitude OTHER LITTLE SHIPS, by EDNA BINTLIFF Poem Text First Line: Oh you little, wand'ring little Last Line: Leaving you, alone. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Solitude; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 13, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: O love, my love, thou'rt in the passing crowd Last Line: Thy blood-warm spirit to hearts bitter cold. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Solitude; Loneliness OVERLOOKED, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, with her tender balm, her touch so kind Last Line: But thou, and sleep, and peace, come not to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Peace; Sleep; Solitude; Loneliness PAPER ROUTE, NORTHWEST MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halfway home to the warm trailer, I stopped on a ledge Last Line: A stunned, white wolf. Subject(s): Montana; Solitude; Wolves; Loneliness PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 5. ALMOST A LONELINESS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One and by one Last Line: Bows them down. Subject(s): Heaven; Solitude; Paradise; Loneliness PATIOS OF ITHACA, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: And now he roams the boundaries of my orchard Last Line: There's nothing left to say Subject(s): Relationships; Solitude PAX BEATA, by MARY RACHEL NORRIS Poem Text First Line: I've closed my door and I am all alone Last Line: I've closed my door and I am all alone. Subject(s): Rooms; Solitude; Loneliness PENSEROSO, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soulless is all humanity to me Last Line: For god's grey earth has no cheap counterfeit. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Nature; Solitude; Loneliness PENT, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take me to some waste of being Last Line: For I must -- one life-pent prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness PERFECT LIFE, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Rabbit: timid brother! My teacher and philosopher! Last Line: The souls of children will play with your long ears! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Saints; Solitude PERPETUAL MOTION, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One, one Last Line: Live all alone Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness PERSEPHONE, SELECTION, by CHARLES DERENNES Poem Text First Line: My eternal desire, my child, my friend Last Line: Each is alone is time's immensity! Subject(s): Memory; Persephone; Solitude; Proserpine; Proserpina; Loneliness PERSONAL LETTER NO. 4, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: I am lost in my self today Last Line: In my mind I know you will help me realize I am naked Subject(s): Self-consciousness; Solitude PERSPECTIVES OF A LONESOME EYE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a green twilight the avenues of our love Last Line: Bound by perspectives, we are loosed by love Subject(s): Solitude PINK DAISIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: A couple av childer played out in a field Last Line: Ay, an' trudged the lone boreen! Subject(s): Children; Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness PIONEERS, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: As mountain peaks that tower above the plain Last Line: The pioneers, who run not with the herd. Subject(s): Pioneers; Solitude; Loneliness PLORATA VERIS LACHRYMIS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O now, my true and dearest bride Last Line: My life may now be waning. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness POEM, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Mark's place caught at night in hot summer Subject(s): St. Mark's Place, New York City; Self; Solitude POEM AFTER THE DEATH OF DAD'S GIRLFRIEND, by VITTORIA REPETTO Poem Source First Line: My father and I are alone together Last Line: And alone with each other Subject(s): Absence; Death; Poetry And Poets; Solitude POEM IN PRAISE OF SOLITUDE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep fall, the body awakes Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness POEMS OF SOLITARY DELIGHTS, SELS., by TACHIBANA AKEMI Subject(s): Happiness; Solitude POET AND PERSON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I send my messages ahead of me Last Line: Alone, as I came. Subject(s): Guests; Love; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Visiting; Loneliness POETRY, by JAMES DANIELS Poem Source First Line: Poetry, a unique form of expression Last Line: I found in the long-living art Subject(s): Art And Artists; Expressionism - Poets; Love; Poetry And Poets; Solitude POPLARS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The poplar is a lonely tree Last Line: Close to each other in a row. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness PORTRAIT SONNETS: 1, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was more like a tree upon a hill Last Line: By which we climbed to know a hill-top dream. Subject(s): Solitude; Trees; Loneliness PORTRAIT SONNETS: 2, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She must have lived so long with only trees Last Line: Nor can she tell us what it was she found. Subject(s): Solitude; Trees; Loneliness POT ROAST, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze upon a roast Subject(s): Food & Eating; Solitude; Childhood Memories; Loneliness PRAYER FOR A DAY'S WALK, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Text First Line: God let me find the lonely ones Last Line: In silent sympathy. Subject(s): Solitude; Sympathy; Loneliness; Empathy 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 PRESAGING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am like a flag unfurled in space Last Line: And thrust myself forth and am alone in the great storm. Subject(s): Selflessness; Solitude; Loneliness PUPPET-MAKER, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his fear of solitude, he made us. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Solitude; Night; Loneliness; Bedtime QUEEN OF HER HEART, by ELLIOTT FLOWER Poem Text First Line: The little rag doll is queen Last Line: It stands in her heart alone. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dolls; Household Employees; Solitude; Toys; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness QUIET, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A log-hut in the solitude Last Line: Fantastic with the towns of sleep. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness QUIET, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come not the earliest petal here, but only Last Line: With their bloom, passes. Subject(s): Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Time; Loneliness QUIET MENTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He bullied her for years Last Line: She didn't win and yet she won Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Solitude; Women - Abused QUO ABEO?, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The flood flows down, the sails are spreading Last Line: Alone, alone! Subject(s): Faith; God; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Travel; Belief; Creed; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips RAIN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain Last Line: Cannot, the tempest tells me, disappoint. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Rain; Solitude; World War I; Loneliness; First World War RATIONAL MAN, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His restless glance abruptly drew Last Line: Took comfort from the poplar trees. Subject(s): Men; Poplar Trees; Reason; Solitude; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness RE-VOYAGE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the days when we two dreamed together? Last Line: My lone canoe and I. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Summer; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness RECITING ALOUD, ALONE IN THE MOUNTAINS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each person has some one addiction Last Line: I'm afraid I'll be mocked by the times, %so I come to this place where no man is Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Solitude RECKLESS SONNET #7, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe only your closest confidante Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness RECLUSE, by EVELYN HUDSON ROWLEY Poem Text First Line: I can walk faster if I walk alone Last Line: My solitude shall be my home! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness RECOLLECTIONS OF SOLITUDE; AN ELEGY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ended are many days, and now but few Last Line: Of beauty shalt create for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness RECOMPENSE, by HAZEL CANNON BRINSON Poem Text First Line: Though we are many miles apart Last Line: And more I cannot say. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness RED JACK, by MARY DURACK Poem Text First Line: She rises clear to memory's eye Last Line: Went all their ways alone. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Solitude; Women; Loneliness REFLECTIONS ON MY OWN SITUATION, WRITTEN IN T-TT-NGST-NE HOUSE, by ANN CANDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many years are past and gone Last Line: But guide me with thy care. Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness REFUGE, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I shall go down from the stark, gray-stone towers Last Line: Which widen with a motion that is still. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness REMAIN?, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fancy, you are mad: remain Last Line: I'm tired of having been. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness REPROACH, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eyes still wide from visions Last Line: My eyes upon a star? Subject(s): Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness RESPECT FOR A PAL, by JOHN PARKER Poem Text First Line: Your letters are a blessing that I know I Last Line: For I'm lonesome and your letters always, always cheer me on anew. Subject(s): Letters; Solitude; Loneliness RESPONSES, by OTAKAR BREZINA Poem Text First Line: We are curse-laden: even amid our yearnings Last Line: "they have revealed." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness RESPONSES, by OTAKAR BREZINA Poem Source First Line: With a curse we are laden Subject(s): Death; Grief; Solitude RETIREMENT, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hermit's house beside a stream Subject(s): Solitude 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 RETURN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Don't let me be met by the loneliness of an empty house Last Line: A dream that I dream while you are dreaming Subject(s): Dreams; France; Love; Solitude RETURNING ALONE, by SHOU CH'UAN Poem Source First Line: Under a reclining sun, as cicadas cry Last Line: Once again press my way between green creepers Subject(s): Solitude; Zen Buddhism REVERBERATION, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night in the old house of life I lie alone Last Line: Of my heart's forest a far horn sounds drowsily . . . Subject(s): Dust; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness RIFFS AND RECIPROCITIES REDUX: PARADOX, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you fear loneliness,' chekhov wrote, 'then marriage is not for %you,' Last Line: As a jazzman once said, it hurt me good Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Marriage; Solitude RIVER, by JORGE HUBNER Poem Source First Line: The music of the river, full of our human weeping Last Line: Where memory floats as lightly as the roses on the stream Subject(s): Crying; Solitude; Tears RIVERBANK EPIPHANY, by LING YI Poem Source First Line: These evenings the hills are green again Last Line: Just listen to the rushing autumn springs Subject(s): Solitude; Zen Buddhism ROCKPLANT, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Wherever you see me Last Line: I bear life, %and I am Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Solitude; Stones ROMANCE, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loveliest girl in all our country-side Last Line: Oh let me walk alone where breaks the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance; Solitude ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WOOD SOLITUDE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In former days, in my life's young morning Last Line: As if she some fearful spectre had seen. Subject(s): Beauty; Fairies; Forests; Life; Solitude; Elves; Woods; Loneliness ROOMS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing on earth more lonely than a room Last Line: And knows that room is life, will pass unmoved through death. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Solitude; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness RUNNING AROUND THE RESERVOIR, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: God, it's not as if I don't know why you wanted her Last Line: That she should have to miss this perfect day Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Solitude RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was so certain yesterday Last Line: I'll hurry home to mother now. Subject(s): Children; Escapes; Fear; Solitude; Childhood; Fugitives; Loneliness RUTH, by H. HYMAN Poem Text First Line: Leave thee alone in sorrow! Ask me not Last Line: And whither thou goest will I also go. Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Love - Loss Of; Ruth (bible); Solitude; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism; Loneliness SAFE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I but set my casement high Last Line: To read the heart of me. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SAGADA, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Lonliness is not like sagada Last Line: Pronounce one harmony Subject(s): Solitude SAILORWIFE, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON Poem Text First Line: Orchid and green and the may winds blowing Last Line: And the lonely years for allan and me. Subject(s): Marriage; Solitude; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness SALUTATION, LATE AUTUMN, 1991, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: It is late afternoon, the beginning Last Line: What I love most, I have given away Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Solitude SANCTUARY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fear; Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness SATURDAY NIGHT, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We come home from the movie, and you head for the t.V. Last Line: "I am so lonely,"" I say. ""so lonely." Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Solitude; Loneliness SAY GOODNIGHT (1), by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is better to be alone. Tree and sun Subject(s): Solitude; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAY NOT ALONE, by RUTH KNOWLES Poem Text First Line: Say not alone that I was sitting Last Line: Not to be there alone. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SCHATTEN KUSSE, SCHATTEN LIEBE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow kisses, shadow love Last Line: Lamps once blazing with kisses Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are my friends? I am alone Last Line: Just eton boys grown heavy. Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Life; Memory; Solitude; Schoolmates; Loneliness SEASIDE LADIES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The seaside ladies come back in the summertime Last Line: Summer is a vast word that shelters them, and the %sea echos in their solitude Subject(s): Seashore; Solitude SECLUSION, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shut out the world, shut in the home! Last Line: Live thine own life, and win the day! Subject(s): Life; Love; Solitude; Tears; Loneliness SECOND WIFE, by EMILY DAWSON CRAIN Poem Text First Line: I know that what you say is true, and yet Last Line: (I wouldn't have had things different if I could.) Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SEEKING WATERS, by DORIS R. BECK Poem Text First Line: E'en as all waters seek the sea Last Line: I am the waters -- thou, the sea. Subject(s): Solitude; Tears; Loneliness SEER, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Even in crowded mart Last Line: And solacing his heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness SELF-PORTRAIT: NOVEMBER, by SANDY LONGHORN Poem Source First Line: Walking home in the first hard freeze Last Line: To the metallic bite of birch bark and rust in my throat Subject(s): Homeless; Hunger; Portraits; Solitude; Winter SENDING OFF MR. YUAN, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: The rain settles a light dust in wei city. Last Line: For west of yang pass you will meet no friend Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Solitude; Travel SENT TO RETIRED SCHOAR LIN HO-CHING, by CHIH YUAN Poem Source First Line: Reflecting %in the lake Last Line: I'll ride my inspiration %make a casual visit Subject(s): Retirement; Solitude; Zen Buddhism SEQUEL, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Each day ends, a record left turning Last Line: There must be someone there %waiting in the silence Subject(s): Introspection; Self; Self-reliance; Solitude 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 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the close-shut windows gleams no spark Last Line: Alone, alone, ah woe! Alone! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SEVEN AFTERNOONS: CASEWORK FOR A HEADLINE, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I don't remember what she said Last Line: To a dark of no flowers, a sea of no waves Subject(s): Love; Solitude SEVEN SORROWS: 2, by WANG CAN Poem Source First Line: Jing-man is not my home Last Line: This wayfaring will never end, %the sting of care is hard to endure Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Exiles; Night; Solitude SHOES, by WARREN LANG Poem Source First Line: One day they leave me. They walk through the door, out onto the street Last Line: Streets, shoeless and alone Subject(s): Solitude SHROUDED WOMAN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Between slits and amulets Last Line: Covers her with greenish and solitary %epitaphs Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Solitude; Terror; Women SHYNESS OF THE MUSE IN AN ALMOND ORCHARD, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray-green husks are opening. The wasps Last Line: But not that I was here, that he was lonely Subject(s): Farm Life; Solitude; Agriculture; Farmers SILENCE, by LUCIUS MATLACK FALL Poem Text First Line: Silence is magic / I hear her voice from Last Line: That reigns supreme -- alone with god. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness 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 LIKE COOL SAND, by PAT MORA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First lie in it Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SILENCED, by MATTHEW KAMM Poem Text First Line: Alone / I find myself Last Line: Of heedless youth. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SILVER MOONLIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER FOX Poem Source First Line: A silver dream of light Last Line: Meets the golden sunlight Subject(s): Solitude SINGLES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know anyone more lonely Last Line: With such a beautiful stranger Subject(s): Single People; Solitude SINGLES' CLUB, by VERA HENKEL Poem Source First Line: Now I'm all alone again Last Line: Safety in suitable arms others get nothing and return to their %companions Subject(s): Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Single People; Solitude SIX POEMS OF LONELINESS: 1, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: The unending loneliness from which others drink Last Line: As if I were living with an insane asylum Subject(s): Solitude SIX POEMS OF LONELINESS: 2, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: Pure one, I would be lying if I didn't tell you Last Line: Soon enough someone will give you a better one Subject(s): Solitude SIX POEMS OF LONELINESS: 3, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: Everything's ready for war except me Last Line: Standing for poetry, standing for nothing Subject(s): Nothingness; Solitude; War SIX POEMS OF LONELINESS: 4, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: Living on the other side of a woman Last Line: Without a woman, with fright, %plodding on Subject(s): Solitude SIX POEMS OF LONELINESS: 5, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: Next to a virgin who feeds me Last Line: Sadness, wanting to die Subject(s): Solitude SIX POEMS OF LONELINESS: 6, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: Women %steeped in everything there is Last Line: My loneliness, my daily bread Subject(s): Solitude SIXTEENTH KIND OF FEAR, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: Who was it moving the curtain then? Last Line: Only the future, love, coming and going Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Solitude SKID ROW, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the depths have I cried, o lord, Last Line: The bruised reed breaks and the sparrow falls. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night, wasted, I went back and climbed the fence Last Line: Of a newborn daughter. Subject(s): Divorce; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness SNOW, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Alone Last Line: Lone. Subject(s): Snow; Solitude; Loneliness SNOW, by JAVIER SOLOGUREN Poem Source First Line: One behind another the hours Last Line: To where I am alone, in isolation Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Thought; Writing And Writers SNOW ON THE RIVER, by LIU TSUNG-YUAN Poem Source First Line: Over thousands of mountains Last Line: In the cold snowy river Subject(s): Solitude SOLEDAD POEMS: ROAD TO THE YELLOW PRISON, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Are you going %to souldead tonight?' Last Line: Of stone maggots %for teeth Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Insanity; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude SOLEDAD PRISON POEMS: DRIVING TO CLASS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Driving through the salinas valley Last Line: Scorched with the pain of birth and death Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude SOLEDAD PRISON POEMS: FULL MOON OVER SOLEDAD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The light of a full moon Last Line: Like the wing of an owl Subject(s): Guard Duty; Police; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude SOLITAIRE, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your hands move across the table Last Line: Hour after hour Subject(s): Solitude SOLITARIES, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Their doors always open badly Last Line: Then at last it snows Subject(s): Solitude SOLITARY, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Have I ever lived elsewhere Last Line: Descending toward the earth Subject(s): Nature; Solitude SOLITARY, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Through childhood's years he struggled bitterly Last Line: And now, they brag they went to school with him! Subject(s): Children; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness SOLITARY, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH Poem Text First Line: The ties that bind two human lives Last Line: To rarer air enclosing him and god. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLITARY, by SAMAR SEN Poem Source First Line: Embarrassed presently Last Line: Absentminded, lonely, %knitting an ancient sorrow in the wind Subject(s): Solitude SOLITARY CONFINEMENT; HAYNEVILLE, ALABAMA, 1965, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as the last bars clang Last Line: In the magnolia across the moonlit road. Subject(s): Alabama; Prisons & Prisoners; Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Solitude is very sad Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Solitude SOLITUDE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as even's warning bell Last Line: And follow in thy steps to heaven Subject(s): Solitude 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 WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twere sweet to lie on desert land Last Line: More dreadful than the pains of hell. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O solitude,' I said, 'sweet solitude!' Last Line: Ha, loving comrade, met at last! Which way? Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Solitude SOLITUDE, by E. CAMPBELL KING Poem Text First Line: One white cloud up in the sky Last Line: Just solitude -- Subject(s): Clouds; Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Sunday. Starting to get light Last Line: Whether being alone %is a good or bad thing Subject(s): Sabbath; Solitude SOLITUDE, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still it is here in the woods. The trees Last Line: His five pure notes succeeding pensively. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Woods; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by HARLEY MATTHEWS Poem Text First Line: When solitude stalks over the world Last Line: Reminding one of things that might have been. Subject(s): 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 SOLITUDE, by ALEKSEY MERZLYAKOV Poem Source First Line: Upon a hill, which rears itself midst plains extending wide Subject(s): Solitude SOLITUDE, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you have tidied all things for the night Last Line: Solitude walks one heavy step more near. Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us rise, o my heart, let us go where the twilight / is calling Last Line: In petals of splendour to worship the lord of the world. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by FREDERICK PETERSON Poem Text First Line: It is the bittern's solemn cry Last Line: Of age on age of loneliness. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by MARY M. RANDLEMAN Poem Text First Line: A shadowy pool in frame of fern Last Line: A peace divine. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep solitude I sought. There was a dell Last Line: His maker there, to teach his listening heart. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I but lived when music-loving pan Last Line: And seek through thee acquaintanceship with god. Subject(s): Life; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Solitude; Soul; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wast to me what to the changing year Last Line: Stands charnelling a soul's funereal sighs. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How desolate Last Line: Shall I thee find to ease my mind! O where! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right here I was nearly killed one night in february Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right here I was nearly killed one night in february Last Line: Millions. %one Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Solitude SOLITUDE, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER Poem Text First Line: O, mountain, wearing diadem of stars Last Line: Dark mountain, where pale dogwood waits for spring. Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Mountains; Solitude; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness SOLITUDE, by GRACE SHUSTER VALLANCOURT Poem Text First Line: Let me live in god's great out-of-doors Last Line: I shall leave behind the haunts of men. Subject(s): Blessings; Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Laugh and the world laughs with you Last Line: Through the narrow aisles of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The World As It Is;laughter;companionship;the Way Of The World;life's Magnet Subject(s): Advice; Aging; Pain; Solitude; Time; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness SOLITUDE (1), by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone spirit of the silent shade Last Line: And peace, and joy, and heav'n be mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE (2), by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who lives retired Last Line: In brightest day. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE AND THE LILY, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bend above the moving stream Last Line: And, if illusion, feel it true. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE FOR TWO, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet to rove upon the hills Last Line: In solitude for two. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE IN THE HILLS, by KEN HUGHES Poem Text First Line: I live on a windy hill Last Line: Than man has known. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE; IN YOUTH AND AGE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youth we shrink from solitude! Last Line: But seek his fellow-sinner -- man! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOLO, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing to watch but the snow Subject(s): Snow; Solitude; Loneliness SOMETHING TO BE SAID FOR SOLITUDE, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: The envy one feels for nuns Last Line: When I return, I will wake %you to marvelous freedom Subject(s): Solitude; Travel SOMEWHERE ELSE, by OLIVIA RUIZ Poem Source First Line: A nickel won't get him chewing gum Last Line: Up in smoke %he doesn't even have a dime Subject(s): Poverty; Pride; Solitude SONG, by WILLIAM HAYLEY Poem Text First Line: From glaring shew, and giddy noise Last Line: A perfect world to me! Subject(s): Solitude; Togetherness; Loneliness SONG, by WILLIAM JUSTEMA Poem Source First Line: This is the song of those who live alone Last Line: Pariahs and saints - this is a song for you Subject(s): Solitude SONG BY THE WAY, by FRANCISCO A. DE ICAZA Poem Source First Line: A solitary pilgrim I Last Line: A song along the way! Subject(s): Grief; Solitude SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sore wounded by love, the heron Last Line: Wildly wailing she goes alone Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Solitude SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come at dawn, my loved one Last Line: Bring none from home away Subject(s): Absence; Love; Solitude SONG OF EGLA, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day in melting purple dying Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Solitude SONG: EIN FICHTENBAUM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fir tree standeth lonely Last Line: In burning wastes of sand. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Solitude; Loneliness SONG: SHE WAITS FOR ME, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wait for thee! I said it in the splendor Last Line: She waits for me. Subject(s): Solitude; Waiting; Loneliness SONGS OF MY CARES: 1, by RUAN JI Poem Source First Line: In the night I could not sleep Last Line: I wavered then, what would I see? - %troubled thoughts injure a heart all alone Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Night; Solitude SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dreary wind of night is out Last Line: With stars that shine and see. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Night; Rivers; Solitude; Summer; Dead, The; Bedtime; Loneliness SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 97, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How unutterably lonely Last Line: Where your lover still must go! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SONNET, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening, as slow thy placid shades descend Subject(s): Evening; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight SONNET, by FLORINE KITTS Poem Text First Line: Like a strange, unsheltered tree upon a hill Last Line: Leafed me, bloomed me, and stretched me up to god. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SONNET IN ASSONANCE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand bluebells blossom in the wood Subject(s): Nature; Beauty; Solitude; Loneliness SONNET: 29, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair picture of my life's estate Last Line: To wreck, and then rebuild it, stone by stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Labor & Laborers; Loss; Memory; Solitude; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Work; Workers; Loneliness SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 10. LONELY, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Alone! - and yet the poet hath the sun Last Line: Waiting the gold-winged word no woman speaks? Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SORROW, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living alone the feet turn voluptuous Last Line: But the other foot. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SOUL-SHADOWS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grass, with drops like diamonds bright Last Line: To none dare I make moan. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness SOULS LAKE, by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The evergreen shadow and the pale magnolia Last Line: And infinite still the discourse of the night. Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness SOUNDING HARVEY CREEK, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the narrow, splintering, slatted floor of the dock Last Line: Their bones showing like veins in a tiny leaf? Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Fish & Fishing; Solitude; Swamps; Anglers; Loneliness; Bogs; Fens; Marshes SPACE SONG, by ALFONSO CORTES Poem Source First Line: The distance that lies from here Subject(s): Absence; Solitude SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 108, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I envy the birds, that can Last Line: And give my song to the winds Subject(s): Absence; Solitude SPINSTER SONGS, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL Poem Text First Line: I mind me it was this very room Last Line: Where is my lover? Where is my lover? Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SPRING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When a song is in the wind Last Line: When a song is in the wind. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Spring; Loneliness SPRING SONG, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went up the avenue Last Line: "and keep spring away." Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Solitude; Spring; Loneliness SPRINGTIDE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All deep there stirs the throb of spring Last Line: And breaksunanswered, and alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Solitude; Spring; Loneliness SPRITE'S SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On lonely heights, / which a faint moon lights Last Line: You must just let me go again! Subject(s): Homeless; Solitude; Loneliness SQUARE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: On the square one hears the cries of a woman Last Line: And the happy driver %of an empty car Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude ST. PAUL, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Something like a desire for death as well as for life Last Line: Night, like the smell of gardenias and fields, in %courtyards of loneliness Subject(s): Solitude ST. PAUL'S, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Among the madmen %who play at magnificent Last Line: In the rooms with windows %like shards of light Subject(s): Art And Artists; Creation; Paintings And Painters; Solitude STILL ON THE WATER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solitude closes down around us Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Solitude; Loneliness STINGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Though bees have stings, I doubt if any bee Last Line: When I with all the world was still at war. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose woods these are I think I know Last Line: And miles to go before I sleep. Subject(s): Duty; Evening; Forests; Religion; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Theology; Loneliness STRANGE FEAST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Went to war, returned, found peace Last Line: Likes to walk the streets now, and the desolate beach Subject(s): Love; Memory; Peace; Regret; Solitude; Walking; War STREET IN SHADOW, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It cannot be. Walk on. In the blue a star Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Solitude SUBMERGENCE, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The only loneliness is the wind's Last Line: And the sea must hush an eternal cry. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SUBWAY, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN Poem Text First Line: Brother! Last Line: Are nothingless than nothingto each other! Subject(s): Envy; Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness SUITE TO QU TUNES: 4. YU FURONG, by ZHULIAN XIV Poem Source First Line: When will the loneliness end? Last Line: I'd still be a romantic ghost Subject(s): Self-pity; Solitude SUMMER NIGHT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a beautiful summer night Last Line: Alone like a ghost Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Night; Solitude SUN PORCH, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Again she had not come. Helen had not come. Goldin sat on the Last Line: Sound of a fan turning the air on itself, again and again Subject(s): Absence; Solitude SUNDAY ALONE IN A FIFTH FLOOR APARTMENT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The globe at the door, a jaunt Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SURELY YOU REMEMBER, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH Poem Source First Line: After they all leave %I remain alone with the poems Last Line: Sun and moon, winter and summer will come to you %infinite treasures Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Solitude SWEETIE AT LEICESTER COURT, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Up woodward on leicester court Last Line: She tells me: 'you were never crazy, just %too much alone.' Subject(s): Comfort; Insanity; Relationships; Solitude SWIMMER, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: He who goes rich and weighted with his lovers Last Line: Of a giant fin, a green shadow far under. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness TALK, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: You're going to ask me why I am Last Line: Of what you would say if you would talk Subject(s): Solitude; Talk TEACHING A STONE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: From the beach near st. Michael's I pocketed a stone Last Line: Thoughts skipping like stones on the sea Subject(s): Islands; Solitude; Stones TEDIUM, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hours of tedium hang on Last Line: What an eternity the dried-up foliage %has been sobbing! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Shadows; Sleep; Solitude TEDIUM, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: Even tonight will pass Last Line: In half-sleep %wavering Subject(s): Insomnia; Solitude THE ALIEN BOY, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a mountain, near the western main Last Line: By the wide world forgotten! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Solitude; Loneliness THE ARK, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: A flood of dark / sweeps on with night Last Line: Alonealone! Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Arks; Solitude; Loneliness THE AVENUES, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights when you're off Subject(s): Solitude; Night; Restaurants; City & Town Life; Love; Bedtime; Cafes; Diners THE BAD WORKMAN, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master laurent coster, with poetry in his heart Last Line: Through looking in your dark eyes overlong. Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Solitude; Work; Workers; Loneliness THE BASTARD, SELECTION, by RICHARD SAVAGE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: In gayer hours, when high my fancy ran Last Line: The raptures languish, and the numbers groan. Subject(s): Grief; Muses; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THE BEGGAR, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beggar through the world so wide Last Line: Shall rise a welcome guest. Subject(s): Longing; Marriage; Solitude; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness THE BELLS OF SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only when the sea is dark and chill and desolate Last Line: From lonely heights within my heart tolling their lonely sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bells; Drowning; Goddesses & Gods; Lament; Mythology; Solitude; Loneliness THE BEND OF THE ROAD, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that bend of the road, how it baffles, yet Last Line: I must go to the endI must know what comes after. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Solitude; Loneliness THE BEST REWARD, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best reward in going to the woods Last Line: Or answered by a certain one, or two Subject(s): Nature; Solitude; Loneliness THE BLUE SYMPHONY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness rolls upward Last Line: I shall creep out into darkness. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE BLUE TERRANCE, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If you subtract the minor losses, Last Line: Yes, I’m lonesome and I’m blue Subject(s): Solitude THE BROOK, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Bright mountain brook that flowest at my feet Last Line: To do each day the work appointed me. Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Loneliness THE BROOK: WINTER, by LAURA ABELL Poem Text First Line: Tawny grasses climb the fields Last Line: That spring will come, ere many moons. Subject(s): Cold; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Loneliness THE BROWNIE'S CELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To barren heath, bleak moor, and quaking fen Last Line: A foil to his celestial cheek! Subject(s): Loch Lomond, Scotland; Solitude; Loneliness THE CAGED BIRD, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And like myself lone, wholly lone Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE CALL OF THE STREAM, by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL Poem Text First Line: I am sitting to - day at the desk alone Last Line: I'm catching the train for trout. Subject(s): Brooks; Fame; Rest; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Reputation; Loneliness THE CAMPER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night 'neath the northern skies, lone, black, and grim Last Line: Watch o'er his hemlock bedhis sinless sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Night; Solitude; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime; Loneliness THE CELL, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the hush of this cool wood Last Line: And praise thee all day long. Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): God; Prayer; Solitude; Loneliness THE CHARCOAL-BURNER, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He lives within the hollow wood Last Line: Be all that's left to love him. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE CHILD ALONE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a pleasant thing to be free Last Line: A pirate that they put to bed? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Children; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness THE CHRISTIAN, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was free. But now in a net I am caught Last Line: I can not evade immortality. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sermons; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness THE CITY: 2. THE CITY, by STIRLING BOWEN Poem Text First Line: And now I roam the wide and thronging square Last Line: One listening, for what no one can say. Subject(s): Cities; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness THE CLOISTER OF THE FALLING SNOW, by SYLVIA HORTENSE BLISS Poem Text First Line: I am alone in the cloister of the falling snow Last Line: I am alone in the cloister of the falling snow. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE COMING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The mansion of my heart, my love Last Line: The happy, happy years! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness THE CONSECRATION OF BRAILLE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a barren tree before Last Line: In the darkness of the blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Blindness; Night; Solitude; Trees; Visually Handicapped; Bedtime; Loneliness THE CROWS AT 3 A.M., by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The politically correct, perfect snow of vermont Last Line: In the air live in a lonelness we can only imagine Subject(s): Vermont; Crows; Solitude; Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940) THE DARK MEMORY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was our love's gethsemane, and you wept Last Line: Shed for my sake, and how you wept alone. Subject(s): Farewell; Solitude; Tears; Parting; Loneliness THE DEAF GIRL, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: When childhood's laughing tones reveal Last Line: But god, god only, held the key! Subject(s): Deafness; Solitude; Loneliness THE DEATH OF COLMAN, by THOMAS FROST Poem Text First Line: Twas juet spoke - the half moon's mate Last Line: One choking thought -- the loneliness! Subject(s): Hudson, Henry (1550-1611); Native Americans; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness THE DEEPER DESIRE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From noon and afternoon rich blue has bled Last Line: Ocean and solitude had lured them there. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Solitude; Swimming & Swimmers; Loneliness; Swimmers THE DESERT, by ALICE HANSCHE SORENSON Poem Text First Line: I see no flowers growing as I pass Last Line: Your deep dark eyes. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Solitude; Loneliness THE DESERT LAND, by MARGARET DELANEY Poem Text First Line: Good god, can it be you made this place Last Line: Alone in the desert at night! Subject(s): Deserts; Desolation; Food & Eating; Hunger; Solitude; South Dakota; Loneliness THE ENTRANCE TO UNDERWORLD, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A common enough mistake Last Line: At her first touch? Variant Title(s): The Entrance To The Underworld Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Solitude; Loneliness THE FIGURE IN THE DOORWAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grade surmounted, we were riding high Last Line: And if so moved uncurl a hand in greeting Subject(s): Railways; Solitude; Loneliness THE FIRST TRUTH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The second truth is that the rose blooms Subject(s): Solitude THE FUGITIVE, by PRINGLE BARRET Poem Text First Line: I said, I will escape Last Line: But peace still tarries, and I wait alone. Subject(s): Solitude; Wellesley College; Loneliness THE GARDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How vainly men themselves amaze Last Line: Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers? Subject(s): Contentment; Gardens & Gardening; Retirement; Solitude; Loneliness THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE GOAT PATHS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The crooked paths / go every way Last Line: Of my mind. Subject(s): Goats; Solitude; Loneliness THE GREAT BLASKET, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone, lone / on tossing seas Last Line: Storm everlasting. Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Loneliness THE HEART'S JOURNEY: 3, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm alone' - the words tripped off his tongue Last Line: And all but inmost faith is overthrown. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE HEART'S WINTER, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! We part as ne'er before Last Line: Its joyous, happy hours! Subject(s): Cold; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness THE HILL WIFE: LONELINESS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One ought not to have to care / so much as you and I Last Line: And their built or driven nests. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Solitude; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Loneliness THE HONEY BEAR, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Billie holiday was on the radio Subject(s): Honey; Solitude; Conduct Of Life; Loneliness THE HOUNDS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far off a lonely hound Last Line: The unneighboured and uncomforted cold sea. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE HOUR OF THOUGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The orb of day is sinking Last Line: Grave oblivious, thou shalt hear! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Solitude; Thought; Declaration Day; Loneliness; Thinking THE HOUSE OF LIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The life of the body's a cage Last Line: That she be not alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Houses; Life; Solitude; Soul; Dead, The; Loneliness THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just heard a loon call on a t.V. Ad Last Line: Within their breasts. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Solitude; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness THE ISLAND, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Text First Line: Eastward lies the island Last Line: When the grey seals come up from the sea? Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Seals (animals); Solitude; Ocean; Loneliness THE KING, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the king of a wide domain, and you deem it a wonderful thing Last Line: But the kingly height is a terrible height -- god pity the lonely king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Solitude; Loneliness THE LAKE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in our drifting boat Last Line: Wishing that you were there! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LAKE OF THE LOST PLEIAD, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Enchanted lakelet! Crystal mountain well! Last Line: Her peace protected by these guardian hills. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Sympathy; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness; Empathy THE LAST QUARREL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay sleeping on my bed Last Line: Wherewith I sped my love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Love; Quarrels; Regret; Solitude; Dead, The; Arguments; Disagreements; Loneliness THE LESSING TABLE, by ADA LIMON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dinner table was too small Last Line: Do something, do something Subject(s): Life; Solitude; Loneliness THE LITTLE MAN IN GREEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a little man in green Last Line: "counting, ""three""." Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness THE LONE BUTTE, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: It towers above the sleekly rounded hills Last Line: A relic of the childhood of the world. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE LONE THORN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: A young, white-thorn - a young, white-thorn Last Line: Jist rockin' them soft on the wind! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE LONELIEST MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The loneliest mountain, with no house or tree Last Line: Can find no equal till I meet a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE LONELY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone and forgotten Last Line: A child lay weeping. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE LONELY, by RENEE VIVIEN Poem Text First Line: The lonely who are lapped in winding sheets of moan Last Line: Know that ecstatic joy of sorrow lived alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Tarn, Mary Pauline Subject(s): Grief; Life; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THE LONELY DEATH, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cold I will rise, I will bathe Last Line: And draw the sheet under my chin. Subject(s): Cold; Dawn; Death; Solitude; Sunrise; Dead, The; Loneliness THE LONELY DREAMER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: He lives his lonely life, and when he dies Last Line: And let his death bring tears in no one's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE LONELY ISLE, by CLAUDIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in a distant bay, deeply hidden Last Line: Where those curved arms shut in a tranquil sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Claudius Claudianus Subject(s): Calm; Death; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Dead, The; Loneliness THE LONELY LION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lion was lonely Last Line: "and must I then live forever alone?" Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Solitude; Loneliness THE LONELY MAN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat sits on the pavement by the house, a Last Line: Opening in a good firm for a former cat Subject(s): Cats; Solitude THE LONELY PEAKS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summit is deserted, is gloomy, inclement Last Line: And brought to the summit and left here alone. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE LONESOME CHILD, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The baby in the looking glass Last Line: To eat your crusts at tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE LONESOME HILL, by LILLIAS C. NEVIN Poem Text First Line: Low I hear the night wind Last Line: Past the lonesome hill. Subject(s): Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE LOOM OF DREAMS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I broider the world upon a loom Last Line: Sits weaving worlds out of loneliness? Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude; Weavers And Weaving; Nightmares; Loneliness THE LOST SPIRIT, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the solitude of night Last Line: "and look in mary's eyes." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Solitude; Soul; Loneliness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 52, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I shone afar like a Last Line: Alone like the unicorn Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 57, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night without end. Loneliness Last Line: Did it matter? They were only for me Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness THE LOVELINESS OF LOVE, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not beauty I demand Last Line: Hers could not stay, for sympathy. Variant Title(s): True Loveliness Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness THE MAID OF THE MOOR, OR THE WATER-FIENDS, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: Cold blows the blast - the night's obscure Last Line: Lies in the bottom of a well. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Drowning; Grief; Household Employees; Solitude; Wells; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who looked strong? That was years ago. That was me Subject(s): Strength; Divorce; Solitude; Transience; Impermanence THE MAN WITHOUT THE HOE, by J. GORDON COOGLER Poem Text First Line: In a dingy little hovel Last Line: Without the hoe. Subject(s): Markham, Edwin (1852-1940); Men; Selfishness; Solitude; Loneliness THE MAY MORNING AND THE OLD MAN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morn is very clear, the young morn Last Line: Listen, listen and follow! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness THE MINE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a pickaxe strong and rude Last Line: From new york to mandalay! Subject(s): Mines And Miners; Solitude; Loneliness THE MOUNTAIN FLOWER, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, the rude mountain turf adorning Last Line: And had bloom'd and died unseen. Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE MUSIC OF A FRIEND, by LOUIS V. LEDOUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a garden where for sunless days Last Line: Full-throated, came the music of a friend. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Solitude; Loneliness THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A grove of deep sycamores drifts into the hudson Last Line: Stepping out of a mountain into winter daylight. Subject(s): Fathers; Holidays; Moths; Solitude; Thanksgiving; Loneliness THE NIGHT BIRD, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down where the cedars are bending Last Line: "and sorrow is not eternal." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Birds; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THE OLD WORLDLING, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: He shambles by each sunny afternoon Last Line: Bitter forever! Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness THE OPEN BOAT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With no place to lay my head Last Line: Afraid, afraid / of a human Subject(s): Boats; Solitude; Alienation (social Psychology) THE PAGAN SAINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From this rock-girdled hight / these twenty barren years Last Line: And, ah, it may not be! ... Subject(s): Dawn; Memory; Mountains; Prayer; Solitude; Sunrise; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE PALM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreams on the lonely height Last Line: Mid wastes of burning sand. Subject(s): Palm Trees; Solitude; Loneliness THE PARROT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whiles, when I sit alone, I hear my soul Last Line: ... Then I cover it up, lest the dream should drive me mad. Subject(s): Birds; Parrots; Solitude; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 1, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Towering cliffs were the home I chose Last Line: What good are empty names Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 10, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the cliffs I sat alone Last Line: The moon is the hub of the mind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Caverns; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 11, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a hidden eddy Last Line: Nowadays lasts how many years Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 122, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where clouds and mountains are piled to the sky Last Line: Are mindless like the rivers flowing east Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 150, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting alone I keep slipping away Last Line: Yearend finds me old with regrets Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 170, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The people I see in this world Last Line: I'd rather be poor in the woods Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Humanity; Poverty; Solitude; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 274, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold cliff's remoteness is what I like Last Line: But the pearl of my mind stays safe Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Old Age; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 287, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain is nothing but clouds Last Line: He remains a man beyond form Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hermits; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 29, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pole your three winged galleons Last Line: I have nothing to convey Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 30, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wise ones you ignore me Last Line: And sit up straight with all this hair Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Solitude; Dullness; Stupdity; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 302, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain I live on Last Line: It's always deserted Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 303, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain's remoteness Last Line: He would know the tune Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 305, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sage of cold mountain Last Line: Neither dead nor alive Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Solitude; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 35, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trail to cold mountain is faint Last Line: Year after year no spring Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 44, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I usually live in seclusion Last Line: The spring is dry but not the stream Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 48, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath high cliffs I live alone Last Line: My dipper on a branch click clack Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Calm; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 53, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I reached cold mountain Last Line: Suddenly both eyes filled with tears Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 71, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone lives in a mountain gorge Last Line: He stands alone steadfast Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hermits; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 79, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chose a secluded place to live Last Line: Picking ferms I pass the years left Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Solitude; Loneliness THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 42, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you wonder who stays happy Last Line: I wonder about mankind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Peace; Solitude; Joy; Delight; Loneliness THE POET REFLECTS ON HER SOLITARY FATE, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lives alone now Last Line: She must write poems Subject(s): Literary Form; Solitude; Poetry & Poets THE POET'S WISH, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O would that in some wild and winding glen Last Line: I'd wed thee, solitude, dear nature's first-born daughter! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE PRAIRIE IMMIGRANT, by RACHEL COLE KATTERJOHN Poem Text First Line: The wind wailed over a granite stone Last Line: Alone forever alone! Subject(s): Immigrants; Prairies; Solitude; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Plains; Loneliness THE PRAYER OF A LONELY HEART, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am alone - oh be thou near to me Last Line: And fit me for such fellowship with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Prayer; Solitude; Loneliness THE RAT WHO WITHDREW FROM THE WORLD, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Among levantine legends you maye find Last Line: For I take it a monk is all loving charity. Subject(s): Fables; Rats; Solitude; Allegories; Loneliness THE RECLUSE, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am too much in love with loneliness Last Line: Life! Stab me! Make me fight before I die! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE RELIC TAKEN, WHAT AVAILS THE SHRINE?, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A separate furrow far from her and grace Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Solitude; Love – Loss Of THE RETURN, by PIERRE BENOIT Poem Text First Line: I have come back to the lonely house tonight Last Line: Of the ripe grapes of the arbor over my head. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE RIDE ROUND THE PARAPET, by FRIEDRICH RUECKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'I was not born to mope at home in loneliness' Last Line: Wooden lady eleanora von alleyne! Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints; Pain; Selfishness; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness THE RIDER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boy told me / if he roller-skated fast enough Last Line: No matter how slowly they fell. Subject(s): Bicycles; Solitude; Victory; Cycling; Loneliness THE ROAD TO CURRASHEEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: There's a lonesome, rugged road Last Line: Like what led to currasheen! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Solitude; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness THE RUINED NUNNERY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a tempestuous eve; the rains Last Line: Are swept from off the stage! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness THE SEARCH, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh!Where are you going to, my fine darling Last Line: And you may call a thousand years he'll never hear you call! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE SHEEP-HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day across the sagebrush flat Last Line: Thank god! Here comes a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States THE SHEPHERD BOY (1), by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleased in his loneliness, he often lies Last Line: Where he a prisoner from a shower hath been. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Solitude; Loneliness THE SHRINE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Alone, with hardened eyes which shed no tears Last Line: And lo! My lips burst forth in praise to god. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Solitude; Loneliness THE SHYNESS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then, when we were joined, I became Subject(s): Shyness; Love - Erotic; Solitude 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 SILENT MULTITUDE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty and a mingled throng Last Line: Thousands -- but each apart. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 71, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: His heart sings louder than the shrilling gale Last Line: His full sail swells before the straining mast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 78, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Now came to mind, as he rode sorrowing home Last Line: The silent fane seem'd stiller than of yore. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 90, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But soon astonishment their senses bound Last Line: And bore back with a red flower in its teeth. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE SOLITAIRES (ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH OF JOHN HAMPDEN, JUNE 24, 1643), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hampden, when charge on charge o'er chalgrove field Last Line: Through reason and old ever-beckoning death. Subject(s): Death; Hampden, John (1594-1643); Reason; Solitude; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness THE SOLITARY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart has grown rich with the passing of years Last Line: Who am self-complete as a flower or a stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE SOLITARY, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone! Alone! How drear it is Last Line: My spirit thirsts to hear? Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE SOLITUDE OF LIFE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fancy's exhalations rise Last Line: Already in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Life; Solitude; Loneliness THE SOLITUDE OF SPACE, by FLORA CECILE ALLISON Poem Text First Line: Oh, for the solitude of space! Last Line: Will say, right here, just smell how sweet! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE SONG OF THE DRAINER (ON TOWARD MOUNTAIN), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is the drainer- / out on the moorland bleak and grey, using his Last Line: Such is the drainer. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Solitude; Work; Workers; Loneliness 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 SLATTERN, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing me a song of the sloven Last Line: As she erred, so will many another fool err. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Self-pity; Solitude; Women; Loneliness THE SOWER, by ELIZABETH Poem Text First Line: Beneath the mild sun vanish the vapor's last wet traces Last Line: With steady hand he paces afield without a mutter. Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis Subject(s): Plants; Solitude; Planting; Planters; Loneliness THE SUMMER HOUSE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took his hand Subject(s): Human Behavior; Books; Solitude; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading; Loneliness THE TENT ASTRONOMER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a barrier against mosquitoes Last Line: Let lens and mirror lift me up toward light. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Camping; Solitude; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps; Loneliness THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 9, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After an hour the mild Subject(s): Footprints; Snow; Solitude; Loneliness THE THORN OF PRESTON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reviving with the genial airs Last Line: Sad relics of the fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Blood; Mourning; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Bereavement; Loneliness THE TOWN BETWEEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wall impregnable surrounds Last Line: The town that lies between? Subject(s): Solitude; Towns; Loneliness THE TRAVELLER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Byways and bygone Subject(s): Solitude THE TRYSTING-PLACE, by M. E. H. EVERETTE Poem Text First Line: The winds blow up through the blooming vale Last Line: Forgotten and left alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Everett, M. E. H. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Nature Of; Solitude; Loneliness THE TURN OF THE ROAD, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where this narrow lane slips by Last Line: At the turn of the road.' Subject(s): Footprints; Roads; Solitude; Time; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE UNQUIET, by DAVID O'NEIL Poem Text First Line: He thought to solve Last Line: For its silence. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE UNTHRIFT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the shade of the tree Last Line: Is gone. Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness THE VISION, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, friend, and thine are one Last Line: Friend, I am solitude. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE WET WOODS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This path leads to the laurel Last Line: I will be alone with sorrow. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE WISH, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well then; I now do plainly see Last Line: And so make a city here. Subject(s): Happiness; Solitude; Wishes; Joy; Delight; Loneliness THE WISH; WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF POPE'S 'ODE ON SOLITUDE', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "grant me, ye powers, some blest retreat" Last Line: Bring sylvia there! Subject(s): Contentment;country Life;solitude; Loneliness THE WOLF CALL, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The cry of the wolf in the forest brings me comfort Last Line: And cry out my own loneliness. Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Hunger; Solitude; Wilderness; Wolves; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THEN IS SHE GONE, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Solitude THEN TOO THERE IS THIS, by J. ALLYN ROSSER Poem Source First Line: Joy in the day's being done, however Last Line: In the throat much deeper down Subject(s): Absence; Solitude THERE IS A SOLITUDE OF SPACE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Finite infinity Subject(s): Solitude; Privacy THERE IS AN EMINENCE, OF THESE OUR HILLS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hath to this lonely summit given my name Subject(s): Nature; Solitude THERE IS ANOTHER LONELINESS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By mortal numeral Subject(s): Solitude THERE IS SO MUCH OF LONELINESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Yet we deny the brotherhood / the human heart demands Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF CARLISLE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who danced with that man of carlisle Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude THESE CHAIRS THEY HAVE NO WORDS TO UTTER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sweetness and breath with the quiet of death %peace, peace, peace Subject(s): Life; Solitude THESE SONS OF THE SUN, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: If you turn around Last Line: You will go headfirst alone %and they will watch you %from their treetops %mute Subject(s): Self; Solitude THEY AROSE ON TIPTOE, INTOXICATED IN THEIR DOOM, AND EACH FOOTSTEP, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: A feast of lights Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Insomnia; Solitude THEY DO NOT KNOW, by ALBERT MOCKEL Poem Text First Line: Far in the meadow, through the fountainrain Last Line: I had known my own kisses again. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Solitude; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Loneliness THEY SAW HER GRASP HER OWN WAIST, AND THE FRICTION FROM HER HANDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Rocked dead in her dreams-a memory-in her land of smoke Subject(s): Death - Children; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Mothers; Solitude; Sons THEY THAT DIE IN THE LORD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little boy is bringing some sticks of wood up the stairs Last Line: The beauty of expectancy and love. Subject(s): Children; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 9, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After an hour the mild Last Line: Line of footprints Subject(s): Footprints; Snow; Solitude THING TO WATCH OUT FOR, by DEBORAH TALL Poem Source First Line: Morning %becomes Last Line: The thing to watch out for while living %is this Subject(s): Life; Morning; Solitude THIS MORNING, GOD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem 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 THIS SOLITUDE, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: I sit in the thin man cafe, say an original prayer Last Line: Not for rain, but for lightning Subject(s): Solitude THIS STRANGENESS IN MY LIFE, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is so hard to see where it is Last Line: As someone else, not ever remembered. Subject(s): Emptiness; Solitude; Loneliness THOUGHTS ON A NIGHT JOURNEY, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A slight wind stirs grasses along the bank. Last Line: But a solitary gull between earth and heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Thought THREE SONGS SENT TO UNAMUNO IN 1913, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, life gets me tired Last Line: Only to go off and look Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): God; Poetry And Poets; Prayer; Solitude THROUGH THE WOOD (BY DARTMOOR, SEPT. 1893), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day long upon her throne Last Line: Now the heart must beat alone! Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Reason; Solitude; Travel; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TIME, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: I confront you, oh life without sheaves Last Line: Your fog is rising over my high tide Subject(s): Absence; Passion; Solitude TO A BLUEBELL, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Is that a drop of the ethereal blue Last Line: I know that that is well. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness TO A BRETON BEGGAR (DOL CATHEDRAL), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the brown shadow of the transept door Last Line: The glamour of the celt! Subject(s): Celts; Old Age; Poverty; Prayer; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wouldst thou seek the low abode Last Line: Of hermit happiness. Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Life; Peace; Self-reliance; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND EXPRESSING A WISH TO TRAVEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou, then, listening to the traveller's tale Last Line: Remember with a sigh the joys of home? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Comfort; Happiness; Home; Pain; Solitude; Travel; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A GREEK MARBLE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pótuia, pótuia / white grave goddess Last Line: Thou hearest me not Subject(s): Statues; Solitude; Loneliness TO A HERMIT THRUSH, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Here in the shelter of tall, towering trees Last Line: To form your hymn of praise, o hermit thrush! Subject(s): Hermits; Music & Musicians; Quiet Life; Solitude; Loneliness TO A NEST OF YOUNG THRUSHES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little birds, you're ready now to fly Last Line: From day to day. Subject(s): Birds; Explorers; Nature; Solitude; Youth; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness TO A WALL OF FLAME IN A STEEL MILL, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, 1969, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Except under the cool shadows of the pines Subject(s): Fathers; Solitude; Farm Life; Mills & Millers; Agriculture; Farmers TO A WHITETHROAT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou but pipe I will a pilgrim be Last Line: The gentle exclamation of the dove. Subject(s): Birds; Solitude; Walking; Loneliness TO AN UNSEEN BIRD, by KATHLEEN REA BRAID Poem Text First Line: Sharpened to a cutting edge on the whetstone Last Line: "nor cavil with loathed months in rack-ridden years." Subject(s): Birds; Solitude; Loneliness TO LYDIA, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight has stol'n upon me! Sound is none Last Line: The hours of stillness and of solitude! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness TO MELANCHOLY, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of love and sorrow -- hail Last Line: O'er foaming seas and distant sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Melancholy; Solitude; Dejection; Loneliness TO PLAY ALONE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A tom tit clinging upside down Last Line: Will teach me how to play alone? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness TO SAPPHO, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: Oh lonely lyric sappho Last Line: The glory of a dream. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Solitude; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Loneliness TO SOLITUDE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary of the working Last Line: Wind about a thousand hills. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Solitude; Trust; Optimism; Loneliness TO SOLITUDE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O solitude! If I must with thee dwell Last Line: When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: Solitude Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness TO THE BELOVED, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were a part of the green country Last Line: And wake, alas! To the lonely places. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness TO THE BIO-BIO, by ANDRES BELLO Poem Source First Line: Blest were he, o bio-bio! Last Line: Wish to live now for myself' Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Solitude TO THE BOY BRIAN, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: The poppy has spread out her petticoat red Last Line: Come quickly to me. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness TO THE DEPARTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know thou hast gone to the place of thy rest Last Line: "is born, like the rainbow, in tears" Subject(s): Death;mourning;regret;rest;solitude; "dead, The;bereavement;loneliness; TO THE TUNE OF JOY IN THE ORIOLE'S FLIGHT, by LI YU+(1) Poem Source First Line: The dawn moon begins to sink, Last Line: To step on as they walk home Subject(s): Night; Solitude TO THE TUNE OF MEETING HAPPINESS, by LI YU+(1) Poem Source First Line: Silent and alone, I ascend the west tower. Last Line: Another strange flavor in the heart Subject(s): Farewell; Solitude TONIGHT I'VE WATCHED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In bed alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. CHILD OF THE LONELY HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of the lonely heart Last Line: Through the great mother-heart eternally ascending! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Hearts; Solitude; Loneliness TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. I SAW A FAIR HOUSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a fair house standing in a garden, but no one moved about it Last Line: Others a sound of weeping. Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Selfishness; Solitude; Women - Secluding; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. SISTER HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little sister heart, without thy big brother the rude brain Last Line: Gazest again on the cameo in thy chamber. Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Love; Solitude; Loneliness TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. SPENDING THE NIGHT ALONE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To lie all night beside the loved on - how lovely Last Line: Spending the night alone. Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness TRAP SET BY THIEVES, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: A gray woman emerges and hobbles down an alley Last Line: Of its own solitude its enervating existence Subject(s): Solitude TREE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Be me, become me Last Line: In my unrepeatable form of innocence Subject(s): Pain; Self; Solitude TREES ARE NOT ENOUGH., by DI BRANDT Poem Source Last Line: As you float by Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Solitude TREES BE COMPANY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When zummer's burnen het's a-shed Last Line: The trees would still be company. Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Pleasure; Seasons; Solitude; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness TROPIC NIGHTFALL, by ROBERT AVRETT Poem Text First Line: The sunlight dies Last Line: And one youth sings. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 1, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bore me 'neath the streaming moon Last Line: The roses I behold are wan as they! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Solitude; Tuscany, Italy; Loneliness TWELVE SONNETS: 4. LONELY SEASONS, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: But there are lonely times when all the seas Last Line: Wherethrough once love's embroidered sandal strolled. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness TWENTIETH CENTURY CHILDREN (1), by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: One night sitting around the meteor pit Last Line: Here the gorge of solitude Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Soul TWILIGHT, by FOREST M. KELP Poem Text First Line: Jes' a-smokin' Last Line: Prayin' you're a-lovin' too! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness TWILIGHT, by MOISHE NADIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Opposite my house is a church Last Line: "I may be sure I have not become dumb." Subject(s): Self; Solitude; Loneliness 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 APRIL RAIN, by MADELEINE MOSCHENROSS Poem Text First Line: Comes a sudden rush of music in a melting minor strain Last Line: And the sting that every spring brings when there's twilight april rain! Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness TWO POEMS FOR LADY COLLATOR RIU RUSHI: 2, by LI YIN Poem Source First Line: I shut my door against the heat and turn to writing Last Line: Looking for the watershield to remind me of home in my loneliness Subject(s): Liu Shi (1618-1684); Poetry And Poets; Solitude TWO SONGS OF SOLITUDE AND LAMENT: 1, by JOE BOLTON Poem Source First Line: There's nothing to celebrate this evening Last Line: Ticks down like a bomb Subject(s): Solitude TWO SONGS OF SOLITUDE AND LAMENT: 2, by JOE BOLTON Poem Source First Line: Dozing to the tugging drone of fans Last Line: That won't touch down on the rooftops Subject(s): Solitude UNDER PRESSURE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness UP ON THE MOUNTAIN, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up on the mountain, where nobody comes Last Line: "and the wild bee hums --" Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness UPDATE ON JEKYLL AND HYDE, by DARA WIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you live alone with no one else Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness URANIA, SELS., by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Solitude VANISHING, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: You wish to pull yourself together Last Line: In order to help you out %of your loneliness Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude VARIATION ON A LINE BY EMERSON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In may, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes Last Line: Morning repeats the malice and the light Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Solitude VARIATIONS: 18, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun distills a golden light, Last Line: For the sky is everywhere. Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude; Nightmares VENETIANS, by EDUARDO URIOS-APARISI Poem Source First Line: The sun persists in leaving you here where Last Line: Not dreaming in gold Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Food And Eating; Solitude VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am monarch of all I survey Last Line: And reconciles man to his lot. Variant Title(s): Verses By Alexander Selkirk;alexander Selkirk;the Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk Subject(s): Explorers; Memory; Selkirk, Alexander (1676-1721); Solitude; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness VICIOUS, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Alone in a room watching it snow Last Line: Or maybe you did: her: you Subject(s): Memory; Solitude VINEGAR AND OIL, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wrong solitude vinegars the soul Last Line: Of a fallen donkey, above a church door in finland Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness VIOLIN SONGS: A SONG PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, / oh, ease us Last Line: To sing true. Subject(s): Comfort; Doubt; Faith; God; Hope; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Solitude; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness VIOLIN SONGS: AT MY WINDOW AFTER SUNSET, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven and the sea attend the dying day Last Line: Eternal love is my eternal prayer. Subject(s): Death; Evening; God; Life; Love; Prayer; Solitude; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness VIOLIN SONGS: HARD TIMES, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary, and very lonely Last Line: Awake thy life in me. Subject(s): God; Grief; Solitude; Thirst; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness VISIT, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: There are long cries before any one opens Last Line: My host does not arrive. I am alone Subject(s): China; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude VOICES OF TRANSITION, by BENEDICT ONYANGO OGUTU Poem Source First Line: I hear sweet voice and my heart beats Last Line: Overgrown with loneliness Subject(s): Solitude WAKING UP, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: It is the strangest way to wake up: Last Line: Being born, a word in the air like breath: %superfluous. Subject(s): Solitude; Waking WALKING ALONE IN ORSTEDS PARK, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: That place of lovers Last Line: This is joy Subject(s): Love; Romance; Solitude WALKING AROUND, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It so happens I'm tired of just being a man Last Line: Slowly dribbling a slovenly tear Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Death; Despair; Solitude WALKING THOUGHTS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sidewalk is growing soft. I am growing soft Subject(s): Conformity; Homecoming; Solitude; Loneliness WALL, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: It is a purplish stone Last Line: On the fleeing horizons Subject(s): Solitude; Stones; Walls WALTER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The changing moon will circle through the skies Last Line: And I am left alone. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that time, after being robbed of everything, I was a wanderer Last Line: Theirs were fixed positions, no upward mobility Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that time, after being robbed of everything, I was a wanderer Last Line: Lonely stranger, we loved having you among us, go home in peace Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Tourists; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering WATER NIGHT, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem 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 WAY OUT IN THE LOCAL WILDERNESS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pigeon-toed, aimless Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Footprints; Nature; Solitude WE MUST GO ALONE, by PHILIP DIAMOND Poem Text First Line: Mostly I go alone Last Line: Our day is done. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness WE WERE EACH ALONE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source Last Line: Carrying a photograph of your eyes Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; San Francisco; Solitude WE WERE THREE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was winter Last Line: And there are too many to bury Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness WE WERE THREE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was winter Last Line: I have no country %and they are too many to bury Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Solitude WE WERE THREE, WE WERE TWO, IT WAS ME ALONE, WE WERE NONE, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX Poem Source First Line: We were three, our heads down, in the darkness of vintages Last Line: Sets out, watchfully, towards the brilliant instant Subject(s): Fire; Smoking; Solitude; Survival WEARYIN' FOR YOU, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jes' a - wearyin' for you Last Line: Jes' a-wearyin' for you! Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness WEATHER, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: All week I moved through weather Last Line: Songbirds given to fear, %less given, chittering Subject(s): Solitude; Weather WEDNESDAY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray rainwater lay on the grass in the late afternoon Last Line: Might drop his arms, that he had held up all day since the dew. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness WELL BELOVED HOUSE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Poorly dressed and sad %along the old street I am walking Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude WHAT OF THAT?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "tired! Well, what of that?" Last Line: "and he will guide thee, light thee, help thee home." Variant Title(s): A Sermon In Verse Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness WHATEVER, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Any %sound is welcome Last Line: And a leaf %falls down like a prayer Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude WHEN I SLEEP, THEN I SEE CLEARLY, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX Poem Source First Line: When it rains I dance alone Last Line: Maddened [or, crazed] by sweet poison Subject(s): Solitude WHEN ONE HAS LIVED A LONG TIME ALONE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In a halo of being made one: kingdom come, %when one has lived a long time alone Subject(s): Solitude WHEN THE LIGHT DIES AWAY ON A CALM SUMMER'S EVE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That the joys which first woke it, are long ago crushed! Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Mourning; Solitude WHEN YOU ARE GONE, AND I'M ALONE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you are gone, and I'm alone Last Line: And yours the rusting key Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Solitude WHERE WE THINK WE LIVE, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the silent house %he left her, the cat and I Last Line: Trembling tissues, in this cold rain Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude WHILE DRIVING NORTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Note: when I drive alone Last Line: Literature the same Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Solitude; Poetry & Poets WHILE I WAS WRITING, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: While I was writing, a tree slowly began to grow through my Last Line: Palm. That's what I asked for; like one with a great thirst Subject(s): Home; Solitude WHITE IBIS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: The first white ibis ever recorded in minnesota was reported Last Line: He imagined it all white and shocking in the sun. %no ibis. No sun Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Teaching And Teachers WHO HAVE A FORM OF GODLINESS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am sick and tired it is god's will Last Line: Nor fainting though the time be almost past Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Weariness; God WHOM WE WORSHIP, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have the love of lips and eyes Last Line: In its lone ecstasy. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Solitude; Loneliness WHY FREEZE, by HANU Poem Source First Line: Why freeze to sleep Last Line: Tonight, I'll have a sleep that thaws Subject(s): Cold; Dreams; Frost; Sleep; Solitude; Winter WIFE IS AWAY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh welcome, lone cricket, thy song Last Line: The wife who is far, far away. Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness WILDFLOWER WALK, EAST TENNESSEE, by LIZ MCGEACHY Poem Source First Line: Here, it is not possible to drag along Last Line: Humming as you wander along Subject(s): Home; Solitude; Tennessee WIND-CLOUDS AND STAR-DRIFTS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another clouded night: the stars are hid Last Line: We know not his whose love embraces all. Subject(s): Ambition; Faith; Idols; Love; Regret; Solitude; Sympathy; Truth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Loneliness; Empathy WINDOWS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quarried from snow, the dark walks lead to doors Last Line: It moves so slowly that it does not move Subject(s): Winter; Solitude WINDOWS RIDING AMTRAK; FOR ABE OPINCAR, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurtle through night tunnels Last Line: The last remaining link. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Railroads; Solitude; Widows & Widowers; Railways; Trains; Loneliness WINGS OVER MAXIMUS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 51 pegasus a sun Last Line: "& her name was solitaire" Subject(s): Absence; Solitude WINTER SONG, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I go on, tediously on and on... Last Line: Who made the days and years seem worth enduring. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Loss; Love; Solitude; Women; Women's Rights; Loneliness; Feminism WINTER: TEXAS PLAINS, by HOLLIS WILLIAM SCHREIBER Poem Text First Line: This night Last Line: And the great loneliness seems strangely like a friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Schreiber, H. W. Subject(s): Solitude; Winter; Loneliness 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 WOMAN, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Where her house stood, she goes on living Last Line: To the fire of her breast Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Women WOMAN LIES ALONE, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's getting late -- the watchman's drum beats fast Last Line: With whom is she to share a little love Subject(s): Solitude WOODLAND GREETINGS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Pale and weird the landscape Last Line: Answer to the sky. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness WRITTEN IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ASYLUM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am: yet what I am none cares or knows Last Line: The grass below -- above the vaulted sky. Variant Title(s): His Last Verses Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Religion; Solitude; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology; Loneliness WRITTEN IN ZIMMERMAN'S SOLITUDE, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, melancholy sage! Whose thoughtful eye Last Line: Serenely joyful, there. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness WRITTEN TO A NEAR NEIGBOUR IN A TEMPESTUOUS NIGHT, 1748, by HENRIETTA (ST. JOHN) KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: You bid my muse not cease to sing Last Line: Th' intoxicated poet's bane. Alternate Author Name(s): Luxborough, Lady Subject(s): Solitude; Storms; Loneliness WUTHERIN HEIGHTS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horizons ring me like faggots, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Solitude; Nature; Loneliness YELLOW FLOWERS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: For the tombs %of the nameless Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Flowers; Graves; Human Rights - Argentina; Solitude; Women YOU TAKE THE FIRST STREET TO THE RIGHT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And your droning isolation from the rest of the world Subject(s): Surrealism; Solitude; Alienation (social Psychology) YOU TALK ALL ALONE THEN AGAIN NOT ALONE SINCE ONE NEVER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: But many have turned towards you Subject(s): Absence; Presence; Solitude YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: THE BUILDER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This loveliness is builded of despair Last Line: To keep their beauty hidden in the heart.) Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ZONES OF PAIN: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The pain, savage and exact Last Line: Now dream amid %the delirium Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Pain; Solitude ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 6. BRIDAL OF HELEN, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the evening twilight; but, alas! Last Line: Come, and I will gaze on thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Evening; Love; Solitude; Soul; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness |
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