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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 on—benumbed—alone.
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 now—for 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 stay—and 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: Machree—machree!
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 breaks—unanswered, 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 nothing—less than nothing—to 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: Alone—alone!
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 end—I 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 bed—his 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