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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SOUL Matches Found: 1109 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE INWARD JUDGE, FR. INSTITUTES OF MANU", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The soul itself its awful witness is Last Line: The solemn doomsman's seal is set on each Subject(s): Soul "THE RUBAIYAT OF PRINCE ALEXANDER, SELS.", by PRINCE" "ALEXANDER [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "for some are false, - the empire and the crown" Last Line: And shall through all the ages yet unscrolled! Alternate Author Name(s): "alexander, Prince; Subject(s): Beauty;memory;soul A BABY'S DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little soul scarce fledged for earth Last Line: The song that smiled. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Roundels; Soul; Infants; Dead, The A BEGGAR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I beg of you, I beg of you, my brothers Last Line: Pray for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Love; Pain; Sin; Soul; Suffering; Misery A CASTLE-BUILDER'S WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unripe harvest there hath none to reap it Last Line: Shades of bodies without souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Soul; Emptiness; Desolation A CHALLENGE, by THEODOCIA PEARCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I list with the ears of my soul to the world Last Line: And they say I am blind. Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Eyes; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Visually Handicapped A CHAPLET OF FLOWERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, set the casement open Last Line: Will call my soul away. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ; Love; Sin; Soul A CHILD-WORLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child world - long and long since lost to view Last Line: I should not be surprised. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Soul A CHOPIN PRELUDE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A certain chopin prelude once I heard Last Line: With beauty, shaken by magic of that song. Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Soul; Suffering; Misery; Songs A COMMON CASE, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: She tossed a soul Last Line: Just a common case. Subject(s): Soul A DEAD PAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare her at least: look you have taken Last Line: Even dearer still, -- since I have nothing more. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Pain; Past; Soul; Tears; Suffering; Misery A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND BODY, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, who shall from this dungeon raise / a soul enslaved so many ways? Last Line: Green trees that in the forest grew. Subject(s): Bodies; Sickness; Soul; Illness A DIRGE (1), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm on the bosom of thy god Last Line: In heaven is now thine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Fear; Soul; Dead, The A DREAM OF PERFECTION, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I found it in a vision fair Last Line: A perfect soul, and form, and face. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Perfection; Soul; Time; Nightmares A FABLE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some cawing crows, a hooting owl Last Line: Useless and unavailing. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Soul; Allegories A FEW WORDS ON THE SOUL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have a soul at times. Subject(s): Soul A GARDEN, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: My love is red as oleander Last Line: Were meeter for my love to sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Soul A HAVEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: East and north a waste of waters, south and west Last Line: Where the small town smiles, a warm still sea-side nest. Subject(s): Heaven; Soul; Paradise A HOP AT SARATOGA, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hall is ample; gilded arches shine Last Line: That cheerful and majestic measure. Subject(s): Beauty; Soul; Time A HUNGER SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some are fed on kingly fare Last Line: Feed me not, love, on crumbs. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Love; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The A HYMN TO JESUS, by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesu! The soul that thinks on thee Last Line: The pow'r of jesus and his love. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Soul A JOURNEY TO HELL: PART 3. THE PARISH POOR-OFFICERS, by EDWARD WARD Poem Text First Line: These souls, my lord, assembled at the bar Last Line: Shameful to own and scandalous to hear. Subject(s): Christianity; Guests; Soul; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips A LITTLE WRINKLED SOUL OF LOVELINESS, by WILLIAM BYRON CHARLES Poem Text First Line: She was a little wrinkled soul of loveliness Last Line: In youth or age it but reflects the inner self. Subject(s): Soul A MARSH MESSAGE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The melancholy marshes brood Last Line: The young fresh soul that was so fair? Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Soul; Swamps; Voices; Dead, The; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A METAPHYSICIAN DREAMS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I had died and that small analyst Last Line: And found himself again where he began. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Soul; Worms; Dead, The; Nightmares A MIDSUMMER MEMORY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swift april ardors bring the white of may Last Line: Rests, circled by that promise: they shall see! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Friendship; Love; Memory; Soul; Spring; Arthur, King; Dead, The 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 NIGHTMARE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend in ghostland Last Line: See a secret I must keep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Coast-nightmare Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Sea; Soul; Supernatural; Dead, The; Ocean A PAEAN TO THE DAWN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dusky sky fades into blue Last Line: I see the sunrise brighten! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dawn; Life; Love; Nature; Soul; Sunrise A PARADOX, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Till memory die one spot I shun Last Line: To ye this heaven I owe! Subject(s): Love; Memory; Soul; Tears A PASTORAL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell, dear alexis, tell thy damon, why Last Line: Whom present you revere, him absent praise. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Heaven; Life; Soul; Tears; Paradise A PAUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They made the chamber sweet with flowers and leaves Last Line: Put on a glory, and my soul expand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fidelity; Flowers; Love; Soul; Faithfulness; Constancy A PICTURE AND A PLEA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, your head a little downward bent Last Line: And bear sufficing witness of my love. Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Silence; Soul; Tears; Voices A PINDARICK, TO THE ATHENIAN SOCIETY, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: I've toucht each string, each muse I have invok't Last Line: A female breast did ne're before commence. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny A PRAYER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh heav'nly father! Gracious god above! Last Line: Which is not thee, or in thy spirit wrought. Subject(s): Fathers; God; Prayer; Soul A PRAYER OF THE PEOPLES, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of us who kill our kind! Last Line: We, who pray, ourselves are fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): God; Prayer Meetings; Religion; Soul; Theology A PRELUDE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little conjurer of keys Last Line: Little conjurer of keys. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs A QUERY, by GEORGE WESLEY DENNIS Poem Text First Line: Does stygic darkness reign wherein you dwell? Last Line: More blind are they who will not use their eyes? Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Peace; Soul; Visually Handicapped A RECORD; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the dark tempestuous sea Last Line: Through birth and death, doth upward range. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Sea; Soul; Tears; Nightmares; Ocean A REMINISCENCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose to the wind has yielded: all its leaves Last Line: O sorrow, and commune with thine heart: who knows? Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Roses; Soul A ROAMER REVERTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The same thatch and food Last Line: With what's at home to eat. Subject(s): Hearts; Memory; Soul; Wandering & Wanderers A ROSE, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day with bright, appealing face Last Line: His soul and breaks his fetter? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Perfume; Roses; Soul A SEAFOG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the sea came a chill gray mist Last Line: As it bows to its gracious king. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Fog; Grief; Praise; Soul; Dead, The; Haze; Sorrow; Sadness A SELF-SERVER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such was his greed of life and dread of the voidness of the tomb Last Line: And has taken with him only the pale posthumous tick of time. Subject(s): Coffins; Faces; Life; Soul A SINGING LESSON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far-fetched and dear-bought, as the proverb rehearses Last Line: Far-fetched and dear-bought. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Roundels; Soul A SONG, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain you tell your parting lover Last Line: Of slighted vows, and cold disdain. Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Soul; Venus (goddess); Wine A SONG OF LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the rapture of life and of living Last Line: And as full of delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Apollo; Hearts; Life; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Soul A SOUL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is evening. One bat dances Subject(s): Soul A SOUL SO SUNNY, by ETHEL BLACKWELL ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I know a soul so sunny Last Line: To thee, where is its home. Subject(s): Soul A SOUL'S LOSS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt the future and the past Last Line: Dare not question what thou art. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Soul A SOUL'S SOLILOQUY, by WENONAH STEVENS ABBOTT Poem Text First Line: Today the journey is ended Last Line: Tis but the beginning of life. Subject(s): Soul A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 5, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when two days were over, japhet said Last Line: His father answering, 'son, thy words are good.' Subject(s): God; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A STUDY FROM MEMORY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If that be yet a living soul which here Last Line: All these must be, or all she was be nought. Subject(s): Memory; Soul A TEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a test I designed, in a quiet Last Line: And no mist of distress in her glorious eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Soul; Separation; Isolation A TRAGEDY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Death! / plop / the barges down in the river flop Last Line: Plop. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Tragedy; Dead, The A WARNING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Place your hands in mine, dear Last Line: And -- just as much -- in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Soul A WORD TO PHILOSOPHERS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Cold philosophers, so apt Last Line: In its mystic involution. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Vision A YOUNG GIRL SPEAKS, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fennel says: so mad his love Last Line: Dear god, have pity on my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Girls; Mercy; Soul ACHIEVEMENT, by FLORENCE JENNEY Poem Text First Line: When my young soul went first to ride Last Line: She takes the air. Subject(s): Soul ACHIEVEMENT, by THEODOCIA PEARCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Better to climb the steep hill of existence Last Line: Mine is a growing soul! Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Time ACQUA FREDDA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By acqua fredda's cloister-wall Last Line: Long lost to me, is treasured there. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Life; Soul; Youth ACROSS THE INTERVALE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along life's lowlands, petty men Last Line: Like peaks across an intervale. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Life; Sky; Soul; Inspiration; Creativity ACTS: 3. AT NIGHT, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the day doth end Last Line: My spirit I resign. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Soul AD ASTRA PER ASPERA!, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: To the stars through difficulties! Go, my soul Last Line: And like a giant stride on to the stars. Subject(s): God; Soul AD ASTRA: 127, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Grant that in man may dwell empyreal power Last Line: Allot each world its orbit and its place! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Earth; Soul; World AD ASTRA: 72, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And some there be-poor, self-deluded souls! Last Line: May find it break them with an iron rod! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life; Soul AD ASTRA: 73, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Self is thy basic creed, philosophy! Last Line: No loftier sapience than this instil? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Self; Soul AD FRATREM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot let this perfect morning pass Last Line: Her garden slopes, and fruitful orchard vales. Subject(s): Grief; Morning; Nature; Oaths; Sea; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean ADDRESS TO THE ALABASTER SARCOPHAGUS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou alabaster relic! While I hold Last Line: But build a lasting mansion for thy soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Creation; Death; God; Soul; Dead, The AFTER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And in the after silences Last Line: By monstrous rocks, a lonely soul. Subject(s): Silence; Soul; Wind AFTER THE CENTENNIAL (A HOPE), by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Before our eyes a pageant rolled Last Line: Can hold the runners lest they fall! Subject(s): Hope; Nations; Soul; Summer; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Optimism AFTER-LIFE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O boon and curse in one - this ceaseless need Last Line: Born but to bloom a summer time and die. Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Life; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness AFTERWARD, by JULIET RODEMAN Poem Source First Line: One can not have two souls Last Line: Even the wind wicked out Subject(s): Soul AGAIN THE SOUL, by YONA WALLACH Poem Source First Line: Again the soul's too big on me hanging down like a giant piece of clothing Last Line: Ability ah ability too late like an old man %mood is the true clothing go tell a child Subject(s): Children; Soul ALL SOUL'S DAY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet with amber light Last Line: Doth courage and assurance bring. Subject(s): All Souls' Day; Death; Soul; Tears; Dead, The ALL SOUL'S EVE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The river drags across the plain Last Line: I will not call you back! Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The ALL SOULS DAY, by FERDINAND VON SAAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild and wan, and chill Last Line: Anticipates his own. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Soul; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ALLIES, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark of the mine Last Line: "is man's own soul." Subject(s): Soul ALMA DE CASA, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For last night, in your faded photograph album of a voice Last Line: With two immense wings, one heart Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Soul AMARANTHUS, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet quiet of death, made quieter by the sound Last Line: Robed by his hand in immortality. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mortality; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AMAZING FACTS ABOUT FOOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I yearn to bite on a colloid Subject(s): Food & Eating;soul;vegetables;waiters & Waitresses AMAZING GRACE, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard oswald's english respectability Subject(s): Soul AMAZING GRACE, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard oswald's english respectability Last Line: To account names and read bitter instruments? Subject(s): Soul AMBITION AND ART, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the maid of the lustrous eyes Last Line: That lives for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Eyes; Life; Love; Soul AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 10. THE BARGAIN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I called upon your soul Last Line: Price for your soul? Subject(s): Soul AN END OF TRAVEL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let now your soul in this substantial world Last Line: Vailima. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The AN IDEALIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I left him very ill Last Line: He fares farther on. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Idealism; Life; Soul; Dead, The AN IMPRESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The arching skies, the ancient wind Last Line: Deeper than mortal minstrelsy. Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Love; Soul; Trees AN OLD SAYING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many waters cannot quench love Last Line: As a seal upon thine arm. Subject(s): Love; Soul; Water ANAESTHETICS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I saw a healer stand Last Line: "upsteals the saintly moon!" Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Soul; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness ANIMA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me in feeble health, the hectic on your cheek Last Line: I have not loved you for your face—I've loved you for your soul! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Illness ANIMA ANCEPS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Till death have broken Last Line: Under the earth. Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The ANIMA MEA, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After we had made love Last Line: Tied with frightened %pieces of string Subject(s): Love; Soul ANIMA URBIS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, city, by two rivers made an isle Last Line: Since I have so loved you -- do you love me? Subject(s): Cities; Life; Love; Nature; Soul; Urban Life ANIMULA VAGULA, BLANDULA, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul, my pleasant soul and witty Last Line: Nor jests wilt thou afford me more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The ANNE BOLEYN O'SHAUGENNESY, by RUTH CRARY CLOUGH Poem Text Last Line: The soul of anne boleyn. Subject(s): Soul ANOTHER BOOK, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another book! How my heart flees Last Line: Toward the inclusive sinecure. Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Soul; Reading ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave o my soul this baser world below Last Line: Allelujahs to heavens king. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Heaven; Life; Soul; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Paradise ANY SOUL TO ANY BODY, by COSMO MONKHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So we must part, my body, you and I Last Line: Can scarcely tell what I shall do without you. Alternate Author Name(s): Monkhouse, William Cosmo Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Soul; Dead, The APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 11, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I scorn the heavenly plains above me Last Line: Beside my wife in statu quo! Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Paradise APPRIZALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I make apprizal of the maiden moon Last Line: That ever looked through eyes! Variant Title(s): Apprisals Subject(s): Eyes; Night; Soul; Bedtime ARABESQUE, by FLORENCE BROOKS Poem Text First Line: Out on the glassy surface of the lake Last Line: In my eyes' mirror, is but my own soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Malone, John, Mrs. Subject(s): Lakes; Love; Soul; Pools; Ponds ARMAND BARBES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire Last Line: Thy day shall be commensurate with time. Subject(s): Fire; Heaven; Love; Soul; Paradise ART, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art has her altars and her avatars Last Line: A poe sleeps, folded in that perfect dream. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Soul; Nightmares; World AS A VIOLINIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a violinist bends a loving face Last Line: So the poet looks to god, and yearns and sings. Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Soul; Violins; Songs AS LONG AS YOUR EYES ARE BLUE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you love me, sweet, when my hair is grey Last Line: Just as long as your eyes are blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Soul; Youth ASCENDANCY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Journey up the faraway river where ferns bend Last Line: Fleshy finned bodies, the filament of gills Subject(s): Soul; Spiritual Life; Travel ASCENSION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The body lay on the bier of death Last Line: "but say, from vienna or munich instead." Subject(s): Ascension Day; Death; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology ASH, by STAN SANVEL RUBIN Poem Source First Line: So the self begins in dirt and ends in ash Last Line: Like a hat lost in a storm Subject(s): Life; Soul AT A MONTH'S END, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night last night was strange and shaken Last Line: The wild-beast mark of panther's fangs. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Soul; Bedtime; Ocean AT HOCHFINSTERMUNZ, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more between its walls of pines Last Line: And, dying, trust thee for the rest. Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Soul; Switzerland; Swiss AT LEISURE IS THE SOUL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To help its vacant hands Variant Title(s): Poem: 618; Poem: 68 Subject(s): Soul AT THE GATE OF THE YEAR, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text First Line: Plunging through on a funeral gale Last Line: Ere you will kiss mine eyes again? Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; New Year; Sea; Soul; Ocean AT THE WHEEL, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: She holds my lost illusions in her hands Last Line: Untouched she turns the wheel. She has not heard. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Soul; Wheels; Dead, The; Belief; Creed AT TWILIGHT, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: A gentle peaceful gray Last Line: That knows of neither church nor soul. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise ATHEISM: REASON, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The infinite speaks in our silent hearts Last Line: Who, though divorced from good, bow to the lord of hosts. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Atheism; Death; Reason; Soul; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ATMAN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is taught that the soul Last Line: Into the blessed nothingness Subject(s): Soul ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the cavern, by his young ones Last Line: Rights of man that he is born to. Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a very virtuous burgher Last Line: "dance before the master's throne?" Subject(s): Creation; Grief; Religion; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology AUGUST THIRD, by YVONNE FLORENCE Poem Text First Line: We are so near the music Last Line: And be free! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Music & Musicians; Soul; Nightmares AUTONOMY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand forth, my soul, and take thine own! Last Line: Be thou the captain of thy soul! Subject(s): Hearts; Sea; Soul; Ocean AUTUMN AND WINTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three months bade wane and wax the wintering moon Last Line: A star had set? Subject(s): Roundels; Seasons; Soul; Stars AWAY! (1), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day's enamour'd of the night Last Line: Away from me and sorrow! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BACCHUS AND ARIADNE; 2ND DEBATE BETWEEN THE BODY AND SOUL, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw their lives curl upward like a wave Last Line: I am sure it is this %I am sure Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Bodies; Mythology - Classical; Soul BACK, MY SOUL, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back my soul, into thy nest Last Line: Be thou the courtier. Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Soul; Paradise; Judaism BAGATELLES: 4, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: To you who have no thought of god Last Line: Strikes life into my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Faces; God; Love; Soul BAKER TOWER BELLS (DARTMOUTH COLLEGE), by LEONARD B. GRAY Poem Text First Line: Across the board campus Last Line: In which one lives uplifted. Subject(s): Bells; Dartmouth College; Memory; Soul BALLAD OF THE UNSUCCESSFUL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the toilers from whom god barred Last Line: "god, give us another chance!" Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Unsuccessful Subject(s): Failure; God; Labor & Laborers; Life; Religion; Sin; Soul; Success; Work; Workers; Theology BALLADE OF THE BRAVE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prate not to me of weaklings, who Last Line: This is the ballade of the brave! Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Life; Soul; Valor; Bravery BALLADE: 24, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain of all pain, the most grievous pain Last Line: Unto the soul from the body depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 26, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Greeting to you both in hearty wise Last Line: And hath him recommended to the cat and mouse. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Bodies; Fear; Hope; Love; Soul; Optimism BALLADS OF THE STORM: CRADLE SONG FOR THE DYING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Do not believe in death. See how the sunlight streams through space Last Line: Begins. Subject(s): Death; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; Songs BATTLE FOUGHT BETWEEN THE SOUL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Enact and terminate Variant Title(s): Poem: 594; Poem: 62 Subject(s): Soul BE THOU A BIRD, MY SOUL, by A. G. C. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be thou a bird, my soul, and mount and soar Last Line: Unerring, home. Subject(s): Birds; Soul BEFORE A STATUE OF BUDDHA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O buddha, of the mystic smile Last Line: Atones for earthly pain. Subject(s): Buddhism; Life; Love; Soul; Statues; Buddha; Buddhists BEFORE DAWN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breath of the dawn, breath of the dawn Last Line: Purify me. Subject(s): Dawn; Sea; Soul; Sunrise; Ocean BEFORE DAWN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet life, if life were stronger Last Line: But all have found him fair. Subject(s): Dawn; Life; Love; Soul; Sunrise BEFORE THE SOUL'S TRIBUNAL, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: The champion of a lawless crew Last Line: And o'er my being reign! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Life; Pride; Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect BELLS JANGLED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie low-coiled in a nest of dreams Last Line: Where I neither sleep nor wake. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares BETTER SO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fast asleep, mine own familiar friend Last Line: "of rest, and good the sleep I took"" --?" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Faith; Life; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery BLUE EYES, by FROYLAN TURCIOS Poem Source First Line: Blue eyes, that charmed my soul with your Last Line: Two stars that light my soul forevermore! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Soul BODIES AND SOUL, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Happy fleshly lips that glow Last Line: And in espousal burnt away! Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Soul BODY AND SOUL, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor soul doth to the body say Last Line: Greet him from me a thousand times. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Fate; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny BODY AND SOUL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit is a spotless doe that haunts Last Line: The accusation of her hunted eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Soul; Spirituality BODY OF THE HOUR, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: To say, the soul Last Line: I was an absence, %like you. Like you Subject(s): Soul BONE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Understand, I am always trying to figure out Subject(s): Soul BORROWED THOUGHTS: 4. FROM ***, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the kingdom of my soul Last Line: The haunted chamber in my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Past; Soul BRIM-CHIPPED (78), by YADOLLAH ROYAII Poem Source First Line: At your sitting, my passing takes life Last Line: So you can spend me while you sit Subject(s): Death; Soul BROTHER BEASTS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is here / and there are no leaves Last Line: May have some goal. Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Soul; Stars; Winter; Nightmares BUCKETS OF SOULS, by ATAR HADARI Poem Source First Line: On five miles out of decatur Last Line: Young men throw stones from the dirt at the bucket of souls Subject(s): Soul BURIAL ANTHEM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone Last Line: Beside that river blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Funerals; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Burials; Suffering; Misery BURIED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepest where the lilies fade Last Line: The snow upon thy bosom. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Soul; Dead, The BY NIGHT AND DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I find you in the amber evening glow Last Line: But home-returning to your smile, -- your smile. Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Smiles; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime BY THE GREY GULF WATER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far to the northward there lies a land Last Line: And I wish I were back by the grey gulf-water. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Graves; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones BY WAY OF THE STARS, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Raise, gentle muse, a worthy note! Last Line: And take the stars along our way. Subject(s): Creation; Hope; Soul; Stars; Optimism CALL HIM HIGH SHELLEY NOW, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a frigid man whom men deplore Last Line: Call him high shelley now and praise his wake. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean CALLING BACK THE SOUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Soul! Turn back! Last Line: Have pity on the southland! Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Rites And Ceremonies; Soul CAMPUS ETCHING, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING Poem Text First Line: The chapel tower that lifts against the sky Last Line: Rapt in high song and austere orisons. Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Singing & Singers; Soul; Cathedrals; Theology CANDLE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, true love, as we sit and think Last Line: And we kiss by candle light! Subject(s): Candles; Love; Night; Sea; Soul; Wind; Winter; Bedtime; Ocean CAPRICE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reprove me not that still I change Last Line: We'll chase the light, caprice! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Independence; Love; Nature; Soul CARNAGE: 3. LOUVAIN, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene in beauty's olden lineage Last Line: Where the dead hail him william of louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Louvain, Belgium; Silence; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War CARPE DIEM, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Today what is there in the air Last Line: And my whole soul shall bloom and bear to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Love; Soul; Spring; Time CATHEDRAL, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Down the cobbled walkway that leads to the sea Last Line: And above it all the cerulean blue vault of the sky Subject(s): Soul; Transfiguration CELESTIAL DESOLATIONS; FOR MARJORIE SARGENT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now god wants even Last Line: Thread by thread. Subject(s): God; Life Change Events; Self-consciousness; Soul CELIA TO DAMON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can I say, what arguments can prove Last Line: Than any youth for any nymph before! Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Love; Soul; Women; Joy; Delight CHARMIAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter of the sun Last Line: Before thy dangerous beauty: I am free! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Daughters; Memory; Soul CHRISTMAS ANTIPHONES: 3. BEYOND CHURCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye that weep in sleep Last Line: When that day is born. Subject(s): Bodies; Soul; Stars CITIES OF ELD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the orient uplands afar Last Line: And even their gods unknown. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Dancing & Dancers; Fate; Life; Love; Soul; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Destiny COMFORT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou o'er the clear heaven of thy soul Last Line: Eternal rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Comfort; Fate; Hope; Life; Soul; Destiny; Optimism COMMUNION: 2. NOCTURNE, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, night, let down your hair Last Line: My soul's too vast alone. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul; Bedtime COMPENSATION, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When these sweet spirits, my most faithful friends Last Line: Close up like water, when the times go wrong. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul COMRADES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I and my soul are alone to-day Last Line: I find this soul of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; God; Love; Soul; Wine CONDITIONAL, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: But if the reason were that implement Last Line: With its indifferent blade? Subject(s): Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals CONFIDO ET CONQUIESCO, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fret not, poor soul: while doubt and fear Last Line: So trust and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; God; Love; Pride; Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect CONJUNCTION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Planets in close conjunction only seem Last Line: Farther apart than midnight star and star. Subject(s): Planets; Soul; Stars CONSTANT LOVE EVEN BEYOND DEATH, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes may close in the last remaining Last Line: Dust they shall be, yet dust in love Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Hearts; Memory; Soul CONSUMMATION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thoughts of men appear Last Line: We all in their true nature find. Subject(s): Soul CONTRASTS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is roaring down the lake Last Line: Will never bloom again! Subject(s): Evil; Mountains; Soul; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain) CORSICA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bordighera's groves of palm Last Line: Whose glory filled a million graves. Subject(s): England; Fame; Sea; Soul; English; Reputation; Ocean COSMISM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea asleep like a dreamer sighs Last Line: But never refute its innocence. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sea; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Ocean 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 CREATED CLAY, by VIRGIL BROWNE Poem Text First Line: I stood today on a mound of clay Last Line: The breath of god. Subject(s): Death; Rest; Soul; Dead, The CYRIL TOURNEUR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sea that heaves with horror of the night Last Line: And over all these one star -- chastity. Subject(s): Death; Hell; Sea; Soul; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean DAFFODILS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A battered english actor, hired to act Last Line: She stands -- the poor fool is no more forlorn. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Daffodils; Flowers; Fools; Marigolds; Plays & Playwrights; Soul; Idiots DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a handsome night %kindling with love in flame of yearning keen Last Line: Ceas'd, as I slumbere'd there %amid the lilies drowning all my care Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Soul DAWN OUTSIDE THE CITY WALLS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: You can see the face of everything, and it is white Last Line: In the soul, as they say, not in time at all Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Soul DAY DREAMS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gazing through her chamber window Last Line: While I wondered what she meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Reflection' Subject(s): Longing; Love; Peace; Soul DE PROFUNDIS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence hast thou gone Last Line: Alma victrix! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Rome, Italy; Soul; Vision; World DEAD OUT-OF-DOORS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High from the ground, and blown upon by air Last Line: "to cry, ""o grave, where is thy victory!" Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not loneliness of soul Last Line: The silver cords of love and life. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The DEATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, I am dying! And to feel the Last Line: Soh, bless me! I am dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The DEATH'S REPLY, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: I am not proud, nor do I seek dominion Last Line: For my lethean purity, my soothing %emptiness, when life has done its worst Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soul DEFINITION OF THE SOUL, by JOHN SKOYLES Poem Source First Line: The attempt to separate my soul from yours Last Line: And hack through the more fragile one Subject(s): Soul DEMI-MONDAINE, by FRANCES M. LIPP Poem Text First Line: I do not think your sin as grave Last Line: This, worse than sin! Subject(s): Punishment; Sin; Soul DESOLATED GARDENS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trampling armies leave discomforted Last Line: O desolated gardens, with your graves! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Love; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones DESPERATO'S BANQUET, by WILLIAM STRODE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, heavy souls, oppressed with the weight Last Line: Sigh, and sigh out; groan once, and groan no more. Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The DIALOGUE BETWEEN BODY AND SOUL, by DIANA O'HEHIR Poem Source First Line: In the ancient egyptian original, soul had the lines glorifying life Last Line: Good is the destiny, good the destruction Variant Title(s): Dialogue Between Body And Soul: Body Answer Subject(s): Bodies; Soul DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SELF & THE SOUL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within your delight I'm warm, exquisite, take pride Last Line: Or soar when you do. Subject(s): Soul DID NOT, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a new feeling - something more Last Line: And yet, who did not. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Love Affairs; Passion; Soul DIMANCHE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail sabbath-day! Of all the seven the best! Last Line: Thine own right arm, omnipotent to save! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean DIRE: 12. INTERCESSION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death, a little more, and then the worm Last Line: Paris, september, 1869. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Nations; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares DISCLOSED, by GEORGE HERBERT FULLERTON Poem Text First Line: Thrice have I seen the living soul disclosed Last Line: Each held a beauteous soul which god had given. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Soul DISCOVERY, by ESSIE M. CARMICHAEL Poem Text First Line: I have drained the cup Last Line: Brings peace to the soul. Subject(s): Soul; Cures DISQUISITION UPON THE SOUL, by JAMES RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: It doesn't register the kid on rollerblades Last Line: And heavier only by the sound of waters Subject(s): Soul DISTANCES, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just where that star above Last Line: Beyond that star, beyond! Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Soul; Time; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension DIVINE PORTRAITURE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: An artist painted a fair scene Last Line: Till beauty overpowers each taint. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Grief; Love; Soul; World; Sorrow; Sadness DO YOU NOT KNOW?, by KATHERINE RUGGLES Poem Text First Line: Dear heart, have you not learned Last Line: That heaven bends low? Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Soul; Paradise DOMESDAY BOOK: ALMA BELL TO THE CORONER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What my name is, or where I live, or if Last Line: Of gregory wenner first: Subject(s): Life; Love; Soul; Teaching & Teachers; Undertakers; Educators; Professors DOMESDAY BOOK: DOMESDAY BOOK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take any life you choose and study it Last Line: And of her birth: -- . . . Subject(s): Books; Death; Life; Loss; Soul; Reading; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: ELENOR MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coroner merival took the hundred letters Last Line: And at his house they talked the case and supped. Subject(s): Dreams; Friendship; Letters; Love; Soul; Nightmares DOMESDAY BOOK: GEORGE JOSLIN ON LA MENKEN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, coroner merival, look at this picture! Last Line: And reads this letter to the jurymen: Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Soul; Tears DOMESDAY BOOK: LILLI ALM, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In lola schaefer's studio in the tower Last Line: Is lodged in father whimsett's heart or words. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Confessions; Religion; Soul; Theology DOMESDAY BOOK: WIDOW FORTELKA, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marie fortelka, widow, mother of josef Last Line: To swim to shore! He couldn't walk the waves! Subject(s): Death; Life; News; Soul; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: WILL PAGET ON DEMOS AND HOGOS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To coroner merival, greetings, but a voice Last Line: To entertain his jury, in these words: Subject(s): Life; Nations; Religion; Soul; Theology DON QUIXOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smiles for him, yes, and tears -- but most of all Last Line: Who wrought so beautifully -- in his dream! Subject(s): Don Quixote; Dreams; Knights & Knighthood; Smiles; Soul; Tears; Nightmares DRAMATIC IDYLS: 2ND SERIES. PROLOGUE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are sick, that's sure,' they say Last Line: Man's soul! Subject(s): Soul DREAMER, by BEATRICE RAW Poem Text First Line: Let the brave soul boldly go Last Line: From tempests of reality. Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Soul; Nightmares DREAMS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god for dreams! I, desolate and lone Last Line: Thank god, thank god for dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Kisses; Pain; Soul; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery DREAMS AND FANCIES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every moment in the gloaming Last Line: Halos all our sorrow. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Memory; Soul; Nightmares DREAMS?, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit slips away at night Last Line: Will waken daily with a smile. Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Soul; Truth; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DRESS YOUR SOUL, by JULIUS C BRUTTO Poem Text First Line: Each man is but a shell Last Line: Or perish like the foredoomed shell. Subject(s): Soul; Vanity DRINK TO ME ONLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Drink to me only with thine eyes Last Line: I would not change for thine Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;eyes;kisses;soul DUALITY, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: While feet plod down dim paths of earth Last Line: Clay-bound, but destined to arise. Subject(s): Humanity; Mortality; Soul DUMB IN JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the thought hurts at my heart Last Line: Dumb in june! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Hearts; June; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; World; Songs DURING MUSIC, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tears that well up to my eyes Last Line: Too strange the hopes, too strange the fears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Soul; Tears EARTH AND HEAVEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water calmly flowing Last Line: In heaven is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Soul; World; Paradise ELEONORA; A PANEGYRICAL POEM, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when some great and gracious monarch dies Last Line: For thou shalt make it live, because it sings of thee. Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Soul; Dead, The EMPEROR HADRIAN ON HIS SOUL, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soul, little wandering friend Last Line: With no hint of the old repartee! Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian Subject(s): Soul EPIGRAM EXTEMPORE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood, sir, patient at your feet Last Line: Pay homage to the queen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soul EPIGRAM ON AN OLD LADY WHO HAD SOME CURIOUS NOTIONS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In nottingham county there lives at swan green Last Line: She firmly believes she will go to the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Soul EPIGRAM: SPIRIT OF PLATO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Eagle! Why soarest thou above that tomb? Last Line: Ascending heaven; athens doth inherit / his corpse below Variant Title(s): Plato's Tomb Subject(s): Birds;death;eagles;plato (428-348 B.c.);soul; "dead, The; EPILOGUE TO PHAEDRA AND HIPPOLITUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, to-night your pity I implore Last Line: And spare poor phaedra for ismena's sake. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Soul; Women ESSAY: AT NIGHT THE AUTOPORTRAIT AT NIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each evening from my bed I calculated & compared Last Line: Second elbow Subject(s): Essays; Soul ETHER, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pure air the soul demands Last Line: Heaven's dome of blue. Subject(s): Heaven; Soul; Paradise EVEN THOUGH MY SOUL, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Even though my soul fits so wonderfully Last Line: Hollow and stiff Subject(s): Death; Soul EVENING, by CLARA MCKEE BEEDE Poem Text First Line: There are some white clouds floating by Last Line: The weary souls akin. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Soul; World EVENING ON THE BROADS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over two shadowless waters, adrift as a pinnace in peril Last Line: Ghost or god, evermore moves on the face of the deep. Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Soul; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean EX-VOTO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When their last hour shall rise Last Line: Me too, my mother. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; World; Ocean 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 EXHILARATION - IS WITHIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Exhale in offering Variant Title(s): Poem: 383; Poem: 64 Subject(s): Soul EXILE, by MAURICE BARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They with the world would have you reconciled Subject(s): Soul FABRIQUE OF THINGS SPENT, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All must have beauty, else they pine and die Last Line: The lovely semblance when ye say 'tis flown! Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Soul FAIR MARGARET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The faith of years is broken Last Line: Once bound my soul to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Fate; Life; Love; Soul; Women; Belief; Creed; Destiny FAITHFUL OVER A FEW THINGS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All that was mine - I have loved it, and loved it both true and well Last Line: The soul that was mine will live on, and measure its life by its love. Subject(s): Life; Love; Soul FALLEN BY THE WAY, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall man surely save his soul? Last Line: That grows, and rows, as grows the fruitful seed Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Soul; Salvation FANTASY, FROM 'AN ADJUSTABLE LUNATIC', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood beneath a summer moon Last Line: Through life and all eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Life; Moon; Soul; Summer FAR AWAY, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By what pale light or moon-pale shore Last Line: Far below in earthly skies. Subject(s): Soul FAREWELL TO ETNA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great mountain, swathed in blue with foamy crest Last Line: May counsel with my soul to rival his. Subject(s): Farewell; Mountains; Soul; Tears; Parting; Hills; Downs (great Britain) FATE, by BERTHA Y. KRAMER Poem Text First Line: On such a little thing our future hinges! Last Line: A spoken word, a careless note dispatched. Subject(s): Fate; Future; Soul; Destiny FAUST BOOK: FAUST CONSIDERS THE SUBJECT OF SOULS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Gretchen has a large soul and small breasts Last Line: Faust loves not souls, especially large ones Subject(s): Faust; Soul FERN-LIFE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, life! Though it seems half a death Last Line: It may never attain. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Soul FINITE AND INFINITE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sounds only in opposing straits Last Line: And rush exultant on the infinite. Subject(s): Infinity; Soul FIRE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All begins in fire and ends in fire Last Line: Consumes the zeal of burning for the last day. Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Soul FIRST DEBATE BETWEEN THE BODY AND SOUL, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The august wind is shambling down the street Last Line: The withered leaves %of our sensations Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Bodies; Soul FIVE CRITICISMS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich Last Line: And we're the lonely dreamers after all. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Death; Dreams; England; Hate; Pride; Soul; Youth; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect FLAME ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind without that moans and cries, o dark Last Line: Mid dirges of white shapes that plunge and sway. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Wind; Suffering; Misery FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 3. SOLDANELLA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hermit: / what wilt thou with me, maiden? Little wins Last Line: That snow environed blossom, woman's love. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Hermits; Plays & Playwrights ; Soul; Spring; Dead, The; Woods; Dramatists FOR THE FEAST OF GIORDANO BRUNO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the lightning and the light that glows Last Line: And mix with yours a third incorporate name. Subject(s): Bruno, Giordano (1548-1600); Freedom; Light; Soul; Liberty FORMULATION, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into which of the mind's moulds Last Line: Come in a form I shall not too much fear. Subject(s): Flowers; Soul; Vision FORSAKEN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word is said, and I no more shall know Last Line: Save for a bedesman telling o'er his beads. Subject(s): Prayer; Purgatory; Soul FRA ANGELICO, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was this beata's grief in thought of christ upon the cross Last Line: That brought his body up to where -- it had to turn its head? Subject(s): Crucifixion; Grief; Jesus Christ; Soul; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness FRAGMENT, by SALLY CALKINS WOOD Poem Text First Line: Herakleitos of ephesos Last Line: Ashes. Subject(s): Soul FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MOURNER'S CONSOLED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, is he? What's that further than a word Last Line: This then is all your death. Subject(s): Bodies; Consolation; Death; Mourning; Soul; Dead, The; Bereavement FREED, by LALIA MITCHELL THORNTON Poem Text First Line: I have supped with fear and choked Last Line: I have paid, and freed the pawn. Subject(s): Fear; Freedom; Soul; Liberty FRUIT SALAD, by TERRI HOOVER DUNHAM Poem Source First Line: Strawberry Last Line: Apples %for my eyes Subject(s): Fruit; Salads; Soul FULFILMENT, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do you ask, o soul? Last Line: "shall ever be the token for the onset." Subject(s): Life; Self-satisfaction; Soul FUNERAL OF MAZEEN; THE LAST OF THE ... MOHEGAN NATION, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid the trodden turf is an open grave Last Line: And plead for your pale-brow'd brother's guilt. Subject(s): Funerals; Hope; Native Americans; Sin; Soul; Burials; Optimism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GALLERY OF PIGEONS, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Dame fancy has a gallery Last Line: "and rhyme sweet fantasy -- ""good morrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Pigeons; Soul; Women GEORGE LEVISON OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The noisy sparrows in our clematis Last Line: Supernal wisdom only knows how much. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Angels; Classmates; Death; Friendship; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Soul; Schoolmates; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise GEORGE RIPLEY, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Warm, generous and young in heart and brain Last Line: Whose souls toward truth and not its semblance, tend. Subject(s): Life; Ripley, George (1802-1880); Soul GETHSEMANE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In golden youth when seems the earth Last Line: The purpose in gethsemane. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair; Earth; Gethsemane; Soul; Youth; World GIVE ME THE BABY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the baby to hold, my Last Line: Give me the baby to hold, my dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Love; Soul; Infants GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 1. MOTHER MAGIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days of childhood, now long-lapsed and dim Last Line: The meek, sure magic of my mother's hand. Subject(s): Children; God; Smiles; Soul; Childhood GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 4. FRA ANGELICO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They called him angel brother, for his smile Last Line: Floats like a presence his so pure renown. Subject(s): Angels; Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Jesus Christ; Soul GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 5. LIKE PAESTUM'S TEMPLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moments there are that loom up from the past Last Line: Radiant with dreams and ancient ecstasy. Subject(s): Sea; Sleep; Soul; Temples; Ocean; Mosques GOD'S MEASURE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God measures souls by their capacity Last Line: And clasps all earth and heaven in its embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; God; Heaven; Love; Soul; World; Paradise GOD'S PLACES, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the soul care about the mightiness Last Line: The soul speaks about Subject(s): God; Love – Nature Of; Soul GODSPEED!, by JANE BELFIELD Poem Text First Line: Body o' mine - and must I lay thee low? Last Line: "godspeed!" Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Farewell; Soul; Dead, The; Parting GREED, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I tell the truth about what I want Last Line: I have dug and dug without once %striking oil Subject(s): Soul; Spirituality GREEK AND CHRISTIAN, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis neither wealth nor youth nor beauty fair Last Line: But all the deeper graces of the soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Soul; Optimism GREEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here fruit and flowers I bring to thee; green leaves and sprays I proffer Last Line: And sleep awhile, when thy fond love its haven shall have found. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Nature; Soul GUERDON, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the white cheek of the cherub year I saw a tear Last Line: My sorrow's guerdon. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness GUILTY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loathe this room, for it seems to blab Last Line: The spirit indwelling is mine, is mine! Subject(s): Fear; Guilt; Pain; Secrets; Soul; Suffering; Misery HARD WAYS TO SHU, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aiyaiyai!! High!! My, my!! Steep?!! Yep. Yipes!! Last Line: I sway gazing off toward the west %amd give a mighty sigh Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Soul HE WHO LOSETH HIS LIFE SHALL FIND IT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poignantly, the gothic arch Last Line: Lover, merge thee in the whole! Subject(s): Air; Heaven; Life; Soul; Sun; Paradise HEART, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some people sell their blood. You sell your heart Last Line: Deep in your shirt and chest / shyly, heartless Subject(s): Soul HEART, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some people sell their blood. You sell your heart Last Line: Deep in your shirt and chest, %shyly, heartless Subject(s): Soul HEAVEN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: O heaven, how glorious thou art Last Line: Thy holiness my heart? Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise HEAVENLY HOME, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Region of light eterne Last Line: Nor wander far from thee as one forlorn Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Heaven; Mourning; Peace; Soul HELEN KELLER, by ROSE O'NEILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: For us the shelter of the day Last Line: With long sidereal look. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Night; Soul; Bedtime 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 HELENA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast call'd me forth from out of the grave Last Line: The dead are never contented. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones HENRY HARDIMAN, AGED 55, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Affliction sore long time he bore Last Line: And ease him of his pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Pain; Physicians; Soul; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Doctors HERMAE...WHITAKERI, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Binde ye my browes with mourning cyparisse Last Line: A double life: that neither liu'd afore? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Poplar Trees; Soul; Sun HERTHA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am that which began Last Line: Man, equal and one with me, man that is made of me, man that is I. Subject(s): God; Mankind; Soul; Time; Human Race HESPERUS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is no spirit who from heaven hath flown Last Line: Tread there with steps that no one shall reprove! Subject(s): Soul; Starts HIS ALLY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He fought for his soul, and the stubborn fighting Last Line: Stood up at his side! Variant Title(s): The Last Ally Subject(s): Soul HIS EXPLANATION, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: I never saw their color, only light Last Line: To lead me through this maze of fairyland. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Soul HIS SOUL FLOWERS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: God planted the seed, he nourished the soil Last Line: His immortal spirit is there. Subject(s): Flowers; God; Soul HONORING THE SAND; IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: December's foolishness, embers fall, tempters Last Line: Forget the flower; learn to know the sand. Subject(s): Campbell, Joseph (1904-1987); Learning; Legacies; Soul; Time HOPE'S YEARNINGS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it is, when wearied with the jars Last Line: To realise the aspirings of the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Soul; World; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism HORACE, LIB. I, EPIST. IX. IMITATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear dick, howe'er it comes into his head Last Line: And, in one word, a good man and a true. Subject(s): Fortune; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Soul HOW WILL MY SOUL GET FREE, by SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT Poem Source First Line: Will she burst through my body Last Line: Like some erratic anti-moth toward a secret %flower Subject(s): Freedom; Metaphor; Soul HYMN 9, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: A breath of roses in the wind doth seize on me Last Line: God.—my heart is at ease! Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Roses; Soul; Spring HYMN EXULTANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of mankind, sing over Last Line: Our king returns to us, forever ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Mankind; Singing & Singers; Soul; The Resurrection; Human Race HYMN OF MAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began Last Line: Glory to man in the highest! For man is master of things. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; Soul; Universe; World; Human Race HYMN OF THE LOST SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pilgrims of life are we! Last Line: Ye are doomed and damned for ever! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Despair; Guilt; Soul; Dead, The HYMN OF THE STAR-SOULED, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord! Who art perfection's splendour Last Line: That emanates from thee!—the one divine! Subject(s): Religion; Soul; Theology HYMN TO THE FLOWERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day-stars! That ope your frownless eyes to twinkle Last Line: Priests, sermons, shrines! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; God; Soul I AM YOUR SOUL, YOUR DOVE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: You burned me down and strewed me about Last Line: As long as you love me. %mute Subject(s): Love; Passion; Soul I CANNOT SEE MY SOUL BUT KNOW 'TIS THERE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By dating it a sudden feast Variant Title(s): Poem: 1262; Poem: 127 Subject(s): Soul I DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have dreams. I sometimes dream of life Last Line: This is my dream of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones I GREET THEE, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, kindred soul, I give thee greeting Last Line: God bless thee, my own sunlight fair! Subject(s): Soul I HEAR A VOICE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I hear a voice from far away Last Line: Thy needs to satisfy. Subject(s): Holy Ghost; Prayer; Soul; Trinity, The; Voices; Holy Spirit I KNOW MY SOUL, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plucked my soul out of its secret place, Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Soul; Self I KNOW NOT WHY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On restless, frantic pinions Subject(s): Soul I SHALL BE GOD, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: God is spirit Last Line: And god is all. Subject(s): Angels; God; Religion; Soul; Spirituality; Theology I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES UNTO THE HILLS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am pale with sick desire Last Line: Be with me where I am Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Soul IDYLL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Each time that eve and adam meet, he builds Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Smoking; Soul; Spring; Eve; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes IF EVER THE LID GETS OFF MY HEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The soul there - all the time Variant Title(s): Poem: 1727; Poem: 58 Subject(s): Soul IF I HAD WORDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had words, if I had words / at least to vent my misery Last Line: Or if I died I could but die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The IF WE HAD THE TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had the time to find a place Last Line: If we had the time! Subject(s): God; Life; Soul; Tears; Time ILLUSION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the golden corn is bending Last Line: That my dream was false and vain! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Snow; Soul; Nightmares IMMEASURABLE BOUNDARIES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heraclitus wrote that we would not discover Last Line: The boundaries of the soul are immeasurable Subject(s): Pentastichs; Soul IMMORTAL, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH Poem Text First Line: They may bury your body, your dear, precious body Last Line: It is not really you that has died. Subject(s): Immortality; Soul IMPROMPTU LINES ADDRESSED TO HIS COUSIN, MRS. CREED, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So much religion in your name doth dwell Last Line: And practice is with endless glory crown'd. Subject(s): Names; Religion; Soul; Theology IN A FRIEND'S GARDEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years have you been known to me, my friend Last Line: You stand revealed, as earlier you were not. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Friendship; Gardens & Gardening; Soul IN EMULATION OF MR. COWLEYS POEM CALL'D THE MOTTO, by MARY ASTELL Poem Text First Line: What shall I do? Not to be rich or great Last Line: I'le be at lest a martyr in desire. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Love; Martyrs; Nature; Soul IN GATINAIS: DEDICATION TO THE LAND, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Green gatinais, 'neath whose shade the living waters shine, where Last Line: The moon that melts above thy foliage. Subject(s): Nature; Soul IN GOD'S ACRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marmoreal hands across unbreathing breasts Last Line: Of souls who rest on the almighty arm! Subject(s): God; Peace; Sleep; Soul; Tears IN MEMORY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the shining parapets Last Line: Your duty you did to the end. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Soul; Dead, The IN MY VINEYARD, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last the dream that clad the field Last Line: A fresher light of glory! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Soul; Vines And Vineyards; Nightmares IN NEW YORK: 2. THE SONG YOU LOVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I have sung the sweet songs and the sad Last Line: Restless with words it could not sing. Subject(s): New York City; Singing & Singers; Soul; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple IN PATHS UNTRODDEN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To celebrate the need of comrades Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Soul IN PLATO'S CAVE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I prayed for vision in the night Last Line: That no one, not even the wounded, feels. Subject(s): Love; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Soul IN PRAISE OF GREEK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, o lyric days, and bring Last Line: That bygone, golden tongue! Subject(s): Immortality; Love; Night; Praise; Sea; Soul; Bedtime; Ocean IN SEPULCRETIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not then enough that men who give Last Line: Not shakespeare's grave would scare them off with rhymes. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Memory; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IN SICKNESS (1714), by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true -- then why should I repine / to see my life so fast decline? Last Line: When known, will save a double sorrow. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Health; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness IN SILENCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sees our faces bright and gay Last Line: "the virtue that hath made thee whole." Subject(s): Peace; Silence; Sin; Smiles; Soul IN SLEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not drowsihood and dreams and mere idless Last Line: Rises a greatheart where a slave lay down. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Past; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares IN THE GRASS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am one with waving things Last Line: I am one with waving things. Subject(s): Dreams; Grass; Snow; Soul; Nightmares IN THE NIGHT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes at night, when I sit and write Last Line: May hear, if he lists aright. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime IN THE SILENT REACHES OF MY SOUL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh, deep in the shadowy vales that lie Last Line: Unknown to a finite world. Subject(s): God; Silence; Soul IN THE STORM, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shining moments are so far between! Last Line: And this, too, ends. There is a certain end. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Storms 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 INDIVIDUALITY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yes, I love you, and with all my heart Last Line: Through any channel, save the one he meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Passion; Soul INDOORS IS ENDLESS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's spring in 1827, beethoven %hoists his death-mask and sails off Last Line: The gentle downward slope gets steeper %and imperceptibly becomes an abyss Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Death; Music And Musicians; Soul INSATIABLENESS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No walls confine! Can nothing hold my mind Last Line: One infinite. Subject(s): Greed; Soul; Avarice; Cupidity INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE FOUR SIDES OF A PEDESTAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marlowe, the father of the sons of song Last Line: First gave our song a sound that matched our sea. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Soul; English INSUFFICIENCY (1), by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I attain to utter forth in verse Last Line: Fit peroration without let or thrall. Subject(s): Soul; Writing & Writers INTRODUCTORY AND VALEDICTORY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our patrons all! In form of simple lay Last Line: Fare you well. Subject(s): Commencement; Life; Schools; Soul; Graduation; Students INTROSPECTIVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish it were over the terrible pain Last Line: But I will not groan when I bite the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Pain; Sea; Soul; Suffering; Misery; Ocean IRIS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am born from the womb of the cloud Last Line: Is builded of light and air! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Art & Artists; Eyes; Soul IRONY, by MARY FRANCES WARD Poem Text First Line: His soul is like a secret room Last Line: I'd throw the key away! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Soul ISIDORA (SEE MATURIN'S 'MELMOTH'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, whom I have loved too well Last Line: Paradise, will he be there? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise JAPAN, -- OLD AND NEW, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The son of a japanese lord am I Last Line: That foreigners brought japan. Subject(s): Art & Artists; China; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Soul; Japanese JOHN JONES: 2. BY THE CLIFF, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it daytime (guess Last Line: Shut the book. Subject(s): Day; Soul JOURNEY TO THE PLACE OF THE GHOSTS, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death knocks all night at my door. Subject(s): Death; Soul; Mythology; Dead, The KARMA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phantom of mystery, older than history Last Line: Deathless associates, -- shadow and soul! Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Past; Sin; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life KOSMOS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of dust the primal adam came Last Line: Lifting the heart of man with love. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Art & Artists; Bible; Love; Mankind; Soul; Eve; Human Race L'ALBUM D'UNE CANADIENNE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis thought, it seems, a pretty thing Last Line: Thy sex to guard, the fair to crown. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Soul LACHRYMOSE WRITERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye human screech-owls, who delight Last Line: To bless the exhaustless grace they now deny. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Life; Soul; Writing & Writers; World LAMENT FOR GLASGERION, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full 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 LAST REVELATION, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR Poem Text First Line: Within this strange tenebrous shell Last Line: And deep-sequestered soul of him. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The LATE SHIFT (2), by MELODY GOETZ Poem Source First Line: Imagine the body as a restingplace for the soul-no, a covering, the soul needs Last Line: Yellow; branches wet & black & thin september morning, and I want to walk %& walk & walk Subject(s): Bodies; Soul; Walking LAUREL'S WORTH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My too great love of you hath been my bale Last Line: And on their fame the fates shall have no hold. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Youth; Iliad; Odyssey LAURENCE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew she did not love him; but so long Last Line: No, never. Some men are such gentlemen!' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Soul; Tears; Youth; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAZARUS CALLED FROM THE CAVE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: His illness came on slowly over time Last Line: Already another age of oblations had begun Subject(s): Death; Soul LEAN DOWN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lean down and lift me higher, josephine! Last Line: And lean, and lift me higher. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Soul; Youth; Optimism LEARNING HOW TO PRAY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: When I die, I will practice the humble submission Last Line: All creatures tumbling under the canopy of clouds Subject(s): Angels; Knees; Prayer; Religion; Soul LETTERS ON LIFE AND THE MORNING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said too late, too late, the work is done Last Line: And god comes down to him, and christ doth rise. Subject(s): God; Letters; Life; Morning; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Soul LIFE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friendly it stands, that inn upon the plain Last Line: What inn it was, or by whom tenanted. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Soul; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips LIFE, by E. DEVILLIERS-HERTZLER Poem Text First Line: How shall the heart measure its rich content Last Line: Without the gauge of storm and fears? Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery LIFE, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To exalt thyself all life exalted deem Last Line: That holds the trembling universe in awe. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the dark we grope along Last Line: Which led us to the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Sea; Soul; Stars; Universe; Ocean LIFE AND DEATH: 6, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, heralded by reason, faith may tread Last Line: And all the oracles are dumb and blind. Subject(s): Faith; Future Life; Soul; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE AND DEATH: 7, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wish behind the thought is the soul's star Last Line: If from its chosen work that soul were torn? Subject(s): Faith; Soul; Belief; Creed LIFE IN DEATH AND DEATH IN LIFE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the dread day that calls thee hence Last Line: Crowns it eternal and divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The LIFE-PHILOSOPHY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly to wait whatever chance may give Last Line: And the skies fall. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Time; Destiny LIGHT AND DARK, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not the soul that's whitest Last Line: For its burdened sister. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love; Soul LIGHT AND SHADE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast done well to kneel and say Last Line: Of its most sacred brotherhood. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evil; Good; Life; Love; Soul LIGHT: AN EPICEDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love will not weep because the seal is broken Last Line: Yet light like thine is ours, if love be light. Subject(s): Grief; Light; Love; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - APRIL/JUNE 1810, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body / eternal shadow of the finite soul Last Line: Its own yet not itself Subject(s): Soul LINES TO E. A. S., by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair in my sight as white lilies that shine in the sunrise Last Line: And flesh and spirit are one in the mystic union of love! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Love; Soul LITTLE GRAY SONGS FROM ST. JOSEPH'S: 6, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little soul I never saw Last Line: And cannot understand. Variant Title(s): Love Is A Terrible Thin Subject(s): Soul LITTLE LONESOME SOUL, by FRANCES WILLS SHAW Poem Text First Line: Through the pure ether Last Line: Seeks everywhere its mother. Subject(s): Soul LITTLE SISTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a girl of presence fresh and fair Last Line: Making her saintly, while they make her dear. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Pain; Sin; Sisters; Soul; Optimism; Suffering; Misery LOST!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has any one seen my soul? Last Line: Has any one seen my soul? Subject(s): Soul LOUIS BLANC, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stainless soul that smiled through glorious eyes Last Line: And knew that light should live and darkness die. Subject(s): Memory; Soul LOVE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Philosophy has told the world Last Line: And two are one forever. Subject(s): Love; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul LOVE AND HOPE, by FRANCIS BROOKS Poem Text First Line: My hope sprang like a fountain, in the night Last Line: My soul, and all my fears and doubts dismiss. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Soul; Optimism LOVE AND SCORN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, loyallest and lordliest born of things Last Line: That else it wears is love no more, but shame. Subject(s): Love; Soul LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys Subject(s): Christianity; Laundry & Laundering; Love; Mourning; Religion; Soul; Bereavement; Theology LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys Last Line: Of dark habits, %keeping their difficult balance Subject(s): Christianity; Laundry And Laundering; Love; Mourning; Religion; Soul LOVE IN EXILE I: 7, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our souls have touched each other Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Soul; Love LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE MINSTREL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: In the deep shadows round the fountain-space Last Line: And instant day shook out the violet stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Love; Soul; Time LOVE'S MASQUERADES: THE GHOST OF LOVE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The wan witch at the creepy midnight hour Last Line: And now the hell-worm all her body hath! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Moon; Soul; Supernatural LOVE'S QUICKENING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere love from barren chaos drew the skies Last Line: I find the ordered pathway of my soul. Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Truth; Paradise LOVER'S TEST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sat today beneath the pine Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Life; Love; Soul LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 25, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For thine ear many tales they invented Last Line: In my heart was hidden from view. Subject(s): Hearts; Soul LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 40, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet darling, beloved by me solely Last Line: One soul and body we'll be. Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Soul MADRIGAL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take my heart, lady, take my heart Last Line: And live but through my dying. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Hearts; Love; Soul; Dead, The MAGUS MUIR, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gently ye fall, ye summer showers Last Line: My soul might saved be! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Murder; Night; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; Bedtime MARCELIA; A TRAGICOMEDY, SELECTION, by FRANCES BOOTHBY Poem Text First Line: What strange effects of fortune do I prove! Last Line: The brave, their bodies, makes their troubles urn. Subject(s): Fortune; Grief; Love; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness MARY'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my heart it will break, my eyes they will weep" Last Line: For unbroken and still is the sleep on his head Subject(s): Hearts;lament;love;sea;soul; Ocean MASKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A certain friend of mine, whose daily praise Last Line: Whose common title with the world was saint. Subject(s): Hate; Life; Masks; Sin; Soul MATER DOLOROSA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this that sits by the way, by the wild wayside Last Line: And the soul of man and her soul and the world's be one. Subject(s): Dawn; Holidays; New Year; Soul; Time; Sunrise MATERIALISM; SUGGESTED BY BUCHNER'S KRAFT AND STOFF, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A faith that grasps the outer shell Last Line: Would weigh and measure pipe and lute. Subject(s): Materialism; Soul MATTERHORN QUESTS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As men essay the matterhorn Last Line: Bids them to climb and do their best. Subject(s): Alps; Labor & Laborers; Mountains; Pain; Soul; Work; Workers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery MAURINE: PART 6, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a week of bustle and of hurry Last Line: Should yield me golden fruit for all my toil. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Soul; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares MAURINE: PART 7, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With much hard labor and some pleasure fraught Last Line: Gazing upon us from the mystic shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Soul; Summer; Tears; Women; Optimism ME, by JANE WELLS BLISS Poem Text First Line: My soul is made of - what do you guess? Last Line: Fleur-de-lis and butterflies. Subject(s): Seasons; Soul MEDITATION, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Trumper blasts, that kind of morning Last Line: And more, and more, %a sum of untended time Subject(s): Death; Meditation; News; Soul MEMORIAL VERSES ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM BELL SCOTT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A life more bright than the sun's face, owed Last Line: Alive above us who strive below. Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Soul; Dead, The MEMORIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a land, I, too Last Line: And sets my sail to seek another sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Home; Memory; Pacific Ocean; Soul; Winter; Youth MENTAL HORIZONS: 3. MR. WHOLECOAST-THE WESTERN SPIRIT, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: But a larger soul rides in the list Last Line: And I cheer for the land of the setting sun. Subject(s): Soul; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States MIDNIGHT THOUGHT (ON THE DEATH OF MRS. E.H. & HER DAUGHTER), by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Oh sacred time! How soon thou'rt gone! Last Line: Tis want of sense makes superfluity. Subject(s): Death; Love; Soul; Time; Dead, The MIDSUMMER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the may time, and after the june time Last Line: And love's midsummer will fade too soon. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Soul; Summer MIDSUMMER NIGHT, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night I could not sleep for swift desire and longing Last Line: And dreaming thus, at last I drank -- and sleep came with the dawn. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Sleep; Soul; Summer; Bedtime; Ocean MISALLIANCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am troubled tonight with a curious pain Last Line: And my body's reply of passion. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Passion; Soul; Dead, The MISDIRECTED ZEAL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am at work in the office Last Line: From one end of the apartment to the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Soul MONICA PEVERIL TURNBULL, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more wild march, her mantle shaken Last Line: "for new buds' swelling." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; March (month); Soul; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares 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 MONOTROPA, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loves serene, uncarnate graces! Last Line: Cease thyself, vain rhythmic sound! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Soul; Nightmares MOONLIGHT, by JACK RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Sleep, all around you! Last Line: Affected by the moon! Subject(s): Moon; Sleep; Soul MOONLIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a landscape rare Last Line: To the tall fountains, slender among the statuary Subject(s): Moon; Gardens & Gardens & Gardening; Soul; Love; Landscape MORAL RUINS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Asia's rock-hollowed fanes, first-born of time Last Line: One father -- worshipped with one voice -- above! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Ruins; Soul; Time; Dead, The MORNING PAPER, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The morning paper is opened out on the 7:35 Last Line: A procession behind glass %as if to a restricted and private funeral on some star Subject(s): Angels; Death; Funerals; Soul MORNING SUMMONS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the mist is on the river, and the haze is on the hills Last Line: Lo! The dawn brings dew and fire and the rapture of the strong. Subject(s): Life; Mist; Morning; Soul MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence. Shadows. A little wind in the elms Last Line: To other doors -- and other, and other, and other. Subject(s): Daughters; Funerals; Mothers; Silence; Soul; Burials MUSIC AT THE VILLA MARINA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From some abiding central source of power Last Line: O even wings of music, bear my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Past; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness MUSIC IN THE SOUL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Over my soul the great thoughts roll Last Line: "wonderful, beautiful, soft, and slow" Subject(s): Music & Musicians;soul 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 BODY, by MICHAEL HETTICH Poem Source First Line: The first time I met her she was swimming out and couldn't hear me Last Line: Boardwalk fo just one song. They asked if I would sing their song Subject(s): Bodies; Funerals; Parents; Soul MY BRIDE THAT IS TO BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O soul of mine, look out and see Last Line: My bride -- my bride that is to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love - Marital; Marriage; Soul; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY DIRGE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the bell toll! Another soul Last Line: So far from home to die! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Parting; Illness MY FOE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My foe? You name yourself, then Last Line: I wave a hand to you, my helpless friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Soul MY LOST FRIENDS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One by one they have slipped from earth Last Line: Whose shores I cannot trace. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Friendship; Graves; Love; Soul; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones MY MUSE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear muse, the world will never guess Last Line: "I am thy soul." Subject(s): Hearts; Muses; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery MY SOUL, by NETTIE STEPHENSON BOWEN Poem Text First Line: I placed my soul in the sunlight Last Line: Cannot wash those stains away! Subject(s): Sin; Soul MY SOUL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my body bides a guest Last Line: And revealing him to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Soul MY SOUL ACCUSED ME AND I QUALIED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A finger of enamelled fire Variant Title(s): Poem: 753; Poem: 79 Subject(s): Soul MY SOUL AND I, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Soul MY SOUL AND I, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When winter shuts a fellow in and turns the lock upon his door Last Line: How fortunate I've been to have that sort of soul to counsel me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Soul 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 SOUL AND I, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand still, my soul, in the silent dark Last Line: And both are now! Subject(s): Soul MY SOUL BLOWS, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: My soul blows to earth Last Line: Each with his own heart's pains! Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Soul MY SOUL IS DARK, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is dark -- oh! Quickly string Last Line: And break at once -- or yield to song. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Soul MY SOUL IS ROBBED BY YOUR MOST TREACHEROUS EYES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "and takes unto itself the strangest of Subject(s): Love; Soul MYSTERIES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bound to the earth in its headlong flight Last Line: What does it mean to live and die? Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean NAMING OF THINGS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: We name the world to console ourselves Last Line: List the ways of longing, spell out our loneliness %in the nominal world Subject(s): Bodies; Consolation; Soul NATURE AND LIFE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave the uproar: at a leap Last Line: Give we it, and good the kiss. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Nature; Soul; Woods NERVOUS FIT OF ANGUISH, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet hebrew, unfasten my transit of clay Subject(s): Death; Heresy; Soul; Dead, The; Heretics NERVOUS FIT OF ANGUISH, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet hebrew, unfasten my transit of clay Last Line: A dionysiac surfeit of coffee! Subject(s): Death; Heresy; Soul NEVER AGAIN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never again!' vow hearts when reunited Last Line: "never, never again, never again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Soul; Optimism NIGHT HYMNS ON LAKE NEPIGON, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the midnight, where the dark mainland and island Last Line: Ringing like cymbals. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Soul; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime NIGHT IN AVIGNON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gherardo %listen. Another word, francesco Last Line: The green of the whole fair world!...O laura! %laura Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Plays And Playwrights; Soul; Women NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 3. AN ENGLISH VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the stars would come Last Line: O southward blowing wind, blow on! Subject(s): Death; Lesbos (island), Greece; Sea; Soul; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean NIGHT PIECE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The ship, slow and rushing at the same time Last Line: Through the kingdom it has owned from birth Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Soul NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 7. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (2), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heav'n gives the needful, but neglected, call Last Line: Let the grave listen; -- and be graver still. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Immortality; Life; Night; Reason; Soul; Virtue; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 8. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And has all nature, then, espoused my part? Last Line: Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Imagination; Immortality; Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); Night; Pleasure; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fancy; Bedtime NINE DESIRES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The desire of the fairy women, dew Last Line: The desire of the soul, wisdom. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fairies; Men; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women; Elves NINE YEARS OLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of light, whose shrine no hands destroy Last Line: Here it hails a lord whose years are nine. Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Love; Soul; Childhood NO-MORE-FEAR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came to the mountains of sleep Last Line: Back with me to the porch of day. Subject(s): Eucharist; Fear; Soul; Communion NOCTURNE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place, / here shalt thou find Last Line: Still in this place. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Soul; Supernatural NOT SOUL, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not soul, %not that tired tale anyway about preiterate Last Line: Had ineradicably fixed upon the eye Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Soul NOTHING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will my love come to me? Last Line: Alas! I have no love. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Jesus Christ; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Nothingness; Soul; Dead, The; Nihilism; Voids NOW ON TO GHAZAL GULCH, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did you last see your criteria?' Last Line: "souls free of the body" Subject(s): Bodies; Soul O FOOLISH SOUL! TO MAKE THY COUNT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Save thee, o foolish soul Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Soul; Forgiveness; Jesus Christ O FOR A SOUL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O for a soul surrendered of all guile! Last Line: My heart would rise still, a tumultuous sea. Subject(s): Soul O HEARKEN THE SO GENTLE PLAINT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O! Hearken the celestial song Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soul O SOUL, WITH STORMS BESET!, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Soul; God ODE TO SAPPHO, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright, glowing sappho! Child of love and song Last Line: Alas! A lyre and heart -- both broken! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Soul ODE TO SHELLEY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou dead? Upon the hills once more Last Line: His own soul's voice, nor crave a brother's string. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Soul; Dead, The ODES III, 9. DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORACE AND LYDIA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When no fond rival's favoured arms Last Line: To live with you, with you to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Smiles; Soul; Dead, The OF MY LIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I weary of my life Last Line: If I might die! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The OF THOSE WHO WALK ALONE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women there are on earth, of courage and high Last Line: Earth's wrongs are ended. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Earth; Faith; Loss; Love; Soul; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed OLGA OROZCO, by OLGA OROZCO Poem Source First Line: Olga orozco, tell everyone, from your heart, that I am Last Line: Now they're a stain of damp on the walls of the first %room Subject(s): Death; Soul ON A JUNIPER-TREE, CUT DOWN TO MAKE BUSKS, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst happy I triumphant stood Last Line: And of loves temple keep the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Soul; Trees ON A PICTURE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a forlorn soul waiting by the styx Last Line: He stands at fault for joy, she whispering 'ay.' Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Rivers; Soul; Dead, The; Optimism ON AN OLD ROUNDEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, from thy rigor a voice appealed Last Line: Ages ago. Subject(s): Death; Roundels; Soul; Dead, The ON BEING A WOMAN, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it, when I am in rome Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love; Soul; Women ON BEING A WOMAN, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it, when I am in rome Last Line: Yet do you up and leave me-then %I scream to have you back again Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love; Soul; Women ON HEARING MADAME OLGA SAMAROFF PLAY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hopes and fears, what tragical delight Last Line: Have poured out to the world his heart's red wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Hands; Music & Musicians; Soul ON LEAVING TAORMINA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O almond trees, beneath whose fruited shade Last Line: Take on, I pray, one shade of pink the more. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Soul; Summer; Trees; Ocean ON MY BOY HENRY, by JANE CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lyes a boy ye finest child from me Last Line: I mourne not for thy birth, nor cry. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Hearts; Soul; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness ON MY WEDDING DAY, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Abandon'd day, why dost thou now appear? Last Line: And be like me, that's by thy self no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Happiness; Marriage; Soul; Youth; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON ROSANIA'S APOSTASY, AND LUCASIA'S FRIENDSHIP, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great soul of friendship, whither art thou fled? Last Line: Since 'twas at first from thy orinda sent. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Friendship; Future Life; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ON THE CLIFFS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the moondawn and the sundown here Last Line: Fire everlasting of eternal life. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; Soul; Ocean ON THE DEATH OF A VERY YOUNG GENTLEMAN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who could view the book of destiny Last Line: Imagine all in one, and think that one is he. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Youth; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD BURTON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night or light is it now, wherein Last Line: That shines as dawn on a tideless sea. Subject(s): Death; England; Night; Soul; Dead, The; English; Bedtime ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD DOYLE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light of blameless laughter, fancy-bred Last Line: Between the grass grown greener round his head. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF SIR HENRY TAYLOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fourscore and five times has the gradual year Last Line: Into the light of peace and fame departs. Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The ON THE DOWNS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A faint sea without wind or sun Last Line: Time's deep dawn rise. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean ON THE MONUMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, WHO DIED AT BATH, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below this marble monument is laid Last Line: In sickness patient; and in death resign'd. Variant Title(s): On The Monument Of Miss Mary Frampton Subject(s): Death; Frampton, Mary (1676-1698); Monuments; Soul; Dead, The ON THE SOUL, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Gentle, fleeting, wavering sprite Last Line: But pallid, cheerless, and forlorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian Variant Title(s): Hadrian's Adress To His Soul When Dying Subject(s): Soul ONLY A JOCKEY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Richard bennison, a jockey, aged fourteen, while riding Last Line: Draw the shroud over the jockey-boy's face. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; God; Horses; Soul OPTIMUS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a deep and subtle snare Last Line: Because it is another's too. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evil; Hearts; Life; Soul ORA PRO ME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave maria! Bright and pure Last Line: Ora pro me. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hearts; Mary And Martha (bible); Soul; Women In The Bible; Dead, The ORMUZD AND AHRIMAN; A CANTATA: PART 1. DAYBREAK, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ye interstellar spaces, serene and still clear Last Line: Cease questioning. Have faith. Love reigns supreme Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Mankind; Plays And Playwrights; Religion; Soul ORMUZD AND AHRIMAN; A CANTATA: THE OVERTURE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Had I, instead of unsonorous words Last Line: Whose deep vibrations thrill from god to god alone! Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets; Soul ORPHIC SOUL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I walk slowly along Last Line: Kept secret even from myself Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul OUR TRAVELLER, by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL Poem Text First Line: If thou would'st stand on etna's burning brow Last Line: Then, why the dickens don't you go and do it? Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley Subject(s): Death; Soul; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips OURSELVES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: We live to read each other's soul Last Line: To cast their lightning on my own! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Self; Soul OUT OF DARKNESS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: There is more in earth and heaven Last Line: But we scarce have caught the gleam. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Immortality; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise PALL BEARER'S SONG: 2, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I used to have no wine to drink Last Line: One morning at dawn I went out my gate, %and I truly have not yet made it back Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Soul PARAPHRASE; FAILURE AND SUCCESS, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Who can tell how hard it is to climb Last Line: Levi bishop. Subject(s): Failure; Pride; Soul; Success; Self-esteem; Self-respect PAX VOBISCUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh eyelids of the dying day Last Line: And her madness passed away. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Insanity; Night; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Sun; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PEACE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the pulse of the tide again Last Line: And a broken soul to save. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Love; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul PEACE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul, there is a country Last Line: Thy god, thy life, thy cure. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Sweet Peace Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise PEACE OF MIND, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the pool were still Last Line: Bottomless well. Subject(s): Peace; Soul; Stars PEGASUS, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: His pure feet striking sparks of flint that rise Last Line: The white beast in forbidden heavens leap. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Orion (constellation); Soul; Nightmares PELAGIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shall praise him and the shores bear part Last Line: In every likeness of a little child. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Religion; Sea; Soul; Human Race; Theology; Ocean PERDITA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go beyond the commandment.' so be it. Then mine be the blame Last Line: And nothing, nothing, nothing, can do away with the past. Subject(s): Past; Soul; Tears PERPLEXITY, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in some cavern dark and deep Last Line: And, sighing, sleeps again. Subject(s): Soul; Self PERSPIRATION, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poor dear / looked dreadfully bored Last Line: Cambric kerchief? Subject(s): Bodies; Life; Perspiration; Soul; Sweat PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 10. THE OCEAN'S SPECTRE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But I upon the ship's edge was lying Last Line: "why, doctor, are you mad?" Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Seamen; Sails; Ocean PLANTING THE POPLAR, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because thou'rt not an oak Last Line: Poplar, by the stream. Subject(s): Love; Poplar Trees; Soul; Time PLAYING FIELD IN KIERI, by NIKOS-ALEXIS ASLANOGLOU Poem Source First Line: Whoever took refuge in my intoxicated soul while looking for Last Line: It is a playing field washed by rain that shelters me Subject(s): Play; Soul PLUS INTRA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul within sense, immeasurable obscure Last Line: Soul within sense. Subject(s): Roundels; Sensibility; Soul PLUS ULTRA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises Last Line: Far beyond. Subject(s): Day; Heaven; Night; Roundels; Soul; Paradise; Bedtime POEM ON MODERATION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In making bodies love could not express Last Line: God made man greater while he made him less. Subject(s): Creation; God; Soul POET PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF A SOUL FROM HIS LOVE FOR DELIA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some have denied a soul! They never loved Last Line: But sure with delia I exist a soul! Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Male-female Relations POETIC EPIGRAMS: 5. PILGRIMS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul wears like the snail Last Line: And fares with pace as frail. Subject(s): Soul POETRY, by KATHARINE HOWE THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: Poetry is something more than words Last Line: Like carolling of thrushes. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Soul POSSESSION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That which we had we still possess Last Line: For what was ours we still possess. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Fates (mythology); Life; Property; Soul; Destiny; Possessions PRAYER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us leave our island woods grown dim Last Line: For the soul unhearing them is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; God; Prayer; Soul; Dead, The PRAYER, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were in a book it would be the book Subject(s): Soul; Angels PRAYER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not undertake to say Last Line: "says ""pray, for prayer availeth much." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Heaven; Hope; Life; Prayer; Soul; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism PREPARATION, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have no time for those things now,' we say Last Line: The life we spent preparing well to live. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Soul PROEM, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some said, 'he was strong.' he was weak Last Line: At the stroke of death, at the touch of love. Subject(s): Soul PROGRESS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Mid faery voices, none Last Line: "on, on for aye!" Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Soul; Truth PROLOGUE: SPOKEN BY LORD BUCKHURST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pish, lord, I wish this prologue was but greek Last Line: Not cleomenes' more than dorset's spirit. Subject(s): Greece; Heroism; Soul; Greeks; Heroes; Heroines PROSE POEM, by JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay in the hall of mirrors Last Line: Processional sadness. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Mirrors; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PSALM: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah lord! How many be my foes! Last Line: Vpon thy people largely spred. Subject(s): Enemies; God; Praise; Soul PSALM: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou witness of my truth sincere Last Line: From dangers all securely keep. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Hope; Peace; Religion; Soul; Truth; Optimism; Theology PSALM: 6, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let mee not lord Last Line: And fly with sudden shame. Subject(s): God; Pain; Praise; Soul; Tears; Suffering; Misery PSALM: 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On thee, o lord my god, relyes Last Line: And tell of all his righteousnesse. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Fear; God; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology PSALM: 9, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thee & thy wondrous deeds, o god Last Line: They been but men of mortall kind. Subject(s): Fear; God; Grief; Hope; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism PSYCHE, by ZINAIDA HIPPIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shameless thing, of every vileness capable Last Line: This horror that I shrink from—is my soul. Subject(s): Psyche (mythology); Self; Soul QUATRAINS (FOR FOUR DRAWINGS BY JORGE PALOMINO): 3. SORROW, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: Nay, look again, and up, blind eyes of fear Last Line: The stricken soul still rises and aspires. Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness QUESTION AND ANSWER, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can the soul die, believe you? Last Line: The ever living soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Soul QUIA MULTUM AMAVIT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee Last Line: 18 brumaire, an 78. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Sea; Soul; Paradise; Ocean QUIET EYES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The boys come home, come home from war Last Line: Unharmed, unflawed, unhurt. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Eyes; Innocence; Soldiers; Soul; War; World War I; First World War R.W.E., by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doors hast thou opened for us, thinker, seer! Last Line: A sense of widening worlds and ampler air. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Life; Nature; Soul; Liberty RAINBOW-SHIMMER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day upon the hillside Last Line: It's deep in mother's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hearts; Rainbows; Soul RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the cloud that dimmed his sunset light Last Line: Itself, and stamps it with the seal of heaven. Subject(s): Death; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors RARE INTERVALS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: At times, all life's a chord, sublime Last Line: Earth's palpitating soul! Subject(s): Life; Soul RECOLLECTIONS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a lad deserted by his mates Last Line: They found him -- dazed and dumb that this could be. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hearts; Love; Memory; Soul; Tears; Dead, The REINCARNATION, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not how, I know not where Last Line: They left the hills of light. Subject(s): God; Life; Reincarnation; Soul; Transmigration; Pretas REJECTED ADDRESSES: CUI BONO, BY LORD B., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sated with home, of wife, of children tired Last Line: And moody madness laughs and hugs the chain he clanks. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Family Life; Home; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Relatives RELEASE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I paced the street at evening and my soul was fraught / with fears Last Line: From the ghosts and the sins and shadows, for christ had walked with me. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise RELEASE, by AUGUSTA WRAY Poem Text First Line: In the dark and tranquil stillness of the night Last Line: When sleep, or death, gives them their liberty. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The REPLY, by AMORY HARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty, I seek your image in my heart Last Line: And, somewhere in the wood, a thrush replied. Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Beauty; Soul; Vision REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: DREAM OF THE FIRST DAY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Rest in the wood, my soul, on the past no longer brood, on that van Last Line: Proud. Rejoice, rejoice, my soul, one sees pissefontaine . . . Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Soul; Nightmares; Woods RESPITE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty conflict, which we call existence Last Line: Grant us a respite in the grave between. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Bodies; Life; Sea; Soul; Ocean RESPONSIBILITY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus, lying among roses in the garden of the great inn Last Line: "I am dry: leave my soul at the inn." Subject(s): Death; Evil; Good; Soul; Dead, The RESURRECTION, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: A trivial offense, long years ago Last Line: Restore to life my sense of sin today! Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Sin; Soul; Dead, The RETREATS, by CARRIE ADAMS BERRY Poem Text First Line: New england has her rocky walls, enclosing hilltop fields Last Line: To find the way to ultimates which give the soul new birth. Subject(s): New England; Soul; Walls REVELATION, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far down the moonlight dim of memory Last Line: That brings us life forever and forever. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Life; Memory; Soul; Nightmares RHAPSODY, by RENE ALBOURNE DEPENDER Poem Text First Line: A kin am I this hour to winds that sing Last Line: One is my soul with life, and life goes on. Subject(s): Life; Soul RHYMES: 7, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark corner of the room the harp Last Line: Waiting, like lazarus, to hear a voice %saying 'come forth' Subject(s): Death; Soul RHYTHM OF LIFE, by CORAL MORGAN Poem Text First Line: A rhythm is beating in the universe Last Line: A rhythm is beating. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Universe ROAD, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: They all are asleep, below Last Line: The open treasures of the souls Subject(s): Death; Soul ROBERT BURNS WILSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What intuition named thee? Last Line: Than any joy of all the glory there. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Happiness; Soul; Joy; Delight ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 18. IT GOES OUT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The curtain falls, as ends the play Last Line: My soul was this poor light I tell of. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 7. IMPERFECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is perfect in this world of ours Last Line: A bosom, and a soul within it, fairest! Subject(s): Mythology; Perfection; Soul; Stars ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 9. THE COOLED-DOWN ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we are dead, we long must lie Last Line: And happy be, -- without a riot. Subject(s): Death; Love; Soul; Youth; Dead, The SAINTE MARGERIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Slim feet than lilies tenderer Last Line: C'est ca sainte margerie Subject(s): Love;saints;soul SAN BORONDON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Saint brandan, a scotch abbot, long ago Last Line: Whose boundless deep we name eternity. Subject(s): Brendan, Saint (484-578); Death; Future Life; Religion; Soul; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology SANTOS VEGA: THE SOUL OF THE SINGER, by RAFAEL OBLIGADO Poem Source First Line: When evening bends sighing towards the west, a Last Line: The country of echeverria, the land of santos vega! Subject(s): Argentina; Death; Soul; South America; Worship SEA-PICTURES; OFF THE HAVEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up stole a fog, a chill and ghastly thing Last Line: Lay green and glad beyond the waters gray. Subject(s): Fog; Night; Sea; Soul; Haze; Bedtime; Ocean SECOND FIDDLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just behind the first fiddle he bends Last Line: And the fiddle called second, be first. Subject(s): Fiddles; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Soul; Joy; Delight SEED, by THEODORE ANTHONY STANFORD Poem Text First Line: O freighted thought, trembling within my mind Last Line: And destiny is ineluctable! Subject(s): Seeds; Soul; Spring; Thought; Thinking SELF AND SOUL TAKE TWO, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hair was black as night sea Last Line: In my name and a red door to the house Subject(s): Identity; Self; Soul SELF-DISCIPLINE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When the soul sought refuge in the place of rest Last Line: And our lofty doom fulfilled. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Soul SELFLOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: To love thy neighbour as thy self, will prove Last Line: By self-loves rule mayst charity bestow. Subject(s): God; Self-love; Soul SEMELE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of light divine! Last Line: Then, clay, in fire depart! Then, soul, in heaven survive! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The SEND FORTH THE VOICE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Send forth the voice; it never shall return Last Line: Nor shall that golden voice fall mute again. Subject(s): God; Soul; Voices SERAPION, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, child! Thou silent, shy Last Line: Thy father now, thy brother then. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Love; Soul; Childhood SERENADE, by CORAL MORGAN Poem Text First Line: Rest your foot at the cocktail bar Last Line: . . . It's got a mate. Subject(s): Soul; Wolves SESTINA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw my soul at rest upon a day Last Line: Sing while he may, man hath no long delight. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares SEVEN SORROW, by RUAN YU Poem Source First Line: Hard to meet youth a second time Last Line: Come forth from the tomb, gaze on your home, %and see nothing but weeds and brambles Subject(s): Soul SHADOW AND SHINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storms of the winter, and deepening Last Line: And the world was dear to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sea; Soul; Storms; Winter; Ocean SHADOWED SOULS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She died indeed, but to him her breath Last Line: "the soul thou didst thy most to have slain." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Life; Silence; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness SHADOWS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Shadows are inverted souls Last Line: The shadow of a word is an echo Subject(s): Death; Shadows; Soul; Spirituality SHADOWS AT CLOSE OF DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A pekinese lay dreaming Last Line: Shadows at close of day. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime SHAKESPEARE TO HIS MIRROR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within thy crystal depths I see Last Line: Since thou dost bear false tales of me! Subject(s): Dramatists; Mirrors; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Soul; Dramatists SHE BEGINING TO STUDY PHISICK ... FALLS INTO A DEGRESSION ON ANATOMY, by JANE BARKER Poem Text First Line: Fare well fare well, kind poetry my friend Last Line: That cou'd prolong the motion of his heart. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Parting SHE HEARD MUSIC, by MAUDE SCRUGGS Poem Text First Line: She heard music. Her soul received Last Line: She heard music. Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Music & Musicians; Soul; Belief; Creed SHELF DECEPTION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On virtue all my soul is bent Last Line: And make myself an honest woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Books; Soul; Reading SHELTER, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: I have builded a shelter from storm Last Line: Your soul from shock. Subject(s): Love; Soul SHRINE AND SPIRIT, by HARRIET OLDS HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: A bridge of centuries in walls Last Line: That mortal men betray. Subject(s): Mankind; Shrines; Soul; Human Race SIGHT, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine infant-eye Last Line: So that no light in heaven more clearly shines. Subject(s): Soul; Vision SILK AND FLAX, SELS, by META KUSAR Poem Source First Line: Photosynthesis is a legitimate process Last Line: This line in the palm of my hand Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Soul SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS CLASS: SOUL, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For nine months weigh Last Line: The difference means your very soul Subject(s): Soul SISTER WATER: THE VAPOR, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Vapor is the soul of the water, my brother, as the dew Last Line: Brother vapor, let us praise god!' Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Soul SLINGS, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed a slinger bold was I Last Line: Lo, david's radiant soul am I!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Soul SLIPPER TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a homely time of ease and rest Last Line: This homely, human slipper time. Subject(s): Children; Life; Memory; Music & Musicians; Peace; Sleep; Soul; Childhood SO FAR, SO NEAR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, so far, we grope to grasp thee Last Line: Silence only may adore thee! Subject(s): God; Life; Religion; Soul; Theology SO MUCH TO LEARN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So much to learn! Old nature's ways Last Line: So brief the time, so much to learn! Subject(s): Learning; Life; Nature; Soul; Wisdom SOFTLY MY SOUL, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly my soul, softly o so softly Last Line: The asphalt shimmering with scales is indigo Subject(s): Soul SOLEMN THING WITHIN THE SOUL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The single to some lives Variant Title(s): Poem: 467; Poem: 48 Subject(s): Soul 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 SOMEDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someday: - so many tearful eyes Last Line: Bring round to them, someday. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Pain; Soul; Summer; Tears; Suffering; Misery SOMETHING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting by the glimmer Last Line: Something after all. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fireplaces; Shadows; Soul SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In olden days men drew their sword Last Line: Twas not so in the past, sir! Subject(s): Heaven; Sea; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Soul; Paradise; Ocean SONG, by IAN CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy dark eyes to mine, eilidh Last Line: A falling star! Alternate Author Name(s): Mor, Ian Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Longing; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love in my heart: oh, heart of me, heart of me! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Longing; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONG (6), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is alone in the sky Last Line: Beating to bliss that is past evermore. Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Soul; Ocean SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE: PRELUDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the green bud and the red Last Line: The sacred spaces of the sea. Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Soul; Youth; Ocean SONGS OF CREATION: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chiefest reason why I made Last Line: Creation made me once more sound. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Soul; World SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE MIDDLE WATCH, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the night, and the darkness was heavy and deep Last Line: I swear by myself, they are mine.' Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime; Songs SONGS TO A.H.R.: 1. FREE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O were your heart not wide, dear Last Line: Below me or above. Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Love; Soul; Liberty SONGS TO A.H.R.: 9. SUFFICINGS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day for the mind Last Line: But you for my breast! Subject(s): Moon; Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 15, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was unconfined and free Last Line: When both must quit the field. Subject(s): Cupid; Freedom; Hearts; Soul; Eros; Liberty SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 16, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, amynta, we must part Last Line: Because thou hadst my love. Subject(s): Absence; Anger; Charm; Cruelty; Love - Loss Of; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 26, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since, moggy, I mun bid adieu Last Line: Ought to be wretched ever. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 6, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, since we have both been kind Last Line: And pretty chloris stays for me. Subject(s): Fire; Love; Nature; Pain; Pleasure; Soul; Suffering; Misery SONNET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I sung how ocean woos the stars Last Line: Can it be love? Ah, god! If I were sure! Subject(s): Heaven; Moon; Praise; Soul; Paradise SONNET TO ARISTE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be his to court the muse, whose humble breast Last Line: The warbling lute to sound the soul of love? Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Muses; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul SONNET TO ARISTE: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I praise thee not, ariste, that thine eye Last Line: The fading orbit smiles serenely bright. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Praise; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Inspiration; Creativity SONNET: 3, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, happy time! When music bound in one Last Line: Art's standard high as dome or minaret. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Soul SONNETS IN SHADOW: 27, by ARLO BATES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We must be nobler for our dead, be sure Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 3, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dare but sing of you in such a strain Last Line: His soul to the winds that whirl his songs away. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Singing & Singers; Soul SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 7, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, said the chief of sophists, is born free Last Line: Lady! Is gathered up and sheaved in you. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty; Freedom; Soul; Liberty SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said within myself: I am a fool Last Line: Die if thou wilt; but what hast thou to fear? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Memory; Soul SONNETS: 3. MAN AND THE ELECTRIC THEORY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are then the souls of men as moonbeams lashed Last Line: Death doffs our robes; we sleep; we may not die! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Nature; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean SONNETS: 6. THE BERNINA SNOW-MOUNTAINS FROM THE VALE OF ROSEG, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vista seen, like truth down glooms of thought Last Line: Beacons thy eternal snow's refulgent shield. Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Soul; Truth; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONNETS: 9. GEORGE MEREDITH, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woven of sunlight was his deep romance Last Line: Triumphant fugues athwart life's tragic bass. Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Nature; Soul; Destiny SORROWS AND JOYS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury thy sorrows, and they shall rise Last Line: And warned by yearning sympathies. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight SOUL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is evening. One bat dances Last Line: Many times I had thought thee lost, %my poor soul, forever Subject(s): Soul SOUL, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ny soul! %my too much sheltered soul! Last Line: And the sadness of it all, my soul, and the sadness of it all! Subject(s): Soul SOUL, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soul, that in some world hast made Last Line: "yet ah—one moment linger here!" Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Soul SOUL AT PLAY, by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT Poem Text First Line: I like to walk with stately thoughts Last Line: For wider journeyings. Subject(s): Soul SOUL BEAUTY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Grace incarnate, glory's heir Last Line: Ripened for supernal glory. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Soul; Time; Youth SOUL DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "soul day, soul day, saul" Last Line: Give us an answer - and let us be gone Subject(s): Halloween;soul SOUL GROWTH, by ANNERIKA FRIES Poem Text First Line: Rebellious heart, in the grip of fate Last Line: Please god, a soul is growing! Subject(s): Soul SOUL HAS BANDAGED MOMENTS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: These, are not brayed of tongue Variant Title(s): Poem: 360; Poem: 51 Subject(s): Soul SOUL NOCTURNE, by GARRETT DOHERTY Poem Source First Line: All across america the soul gets up Last Line: When shifting your weight from foot to foot Subject(s): Soul SOUL SHADOW, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the shadow this body casts Last Line: The shadow of a soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Shadows; Soul SOUL SOLITUDE, by GERTRUDE WOODCOCK SEIBERT Poem Text First Line: Poor fools, we fondly gaze at one another Last Line: Till in his likeness all shall wake. Subject(s): Soul; Wellesley College SOUL'S BIRTH, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were born, beloved, was your soul Last Line: It heard god's voice that bade it down to earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Soul SOUL'S LIBERTY, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He who has lost soul's liberty Last Line: We see god clear and high above the town Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Property; Soul SOUL, WHEREFORE FRET THEE?, by GERTRUDE BLOEDE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Immortal pledge of immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Sterne, Stuart Subject(s): Soul; Immortality SOUL, WILT THOU TOSS AGAIN?, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Raffle for my soul! Subject(s): Soul SOUL-MUSIC, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is as a bird Last Line: Then, the singer sings no more. Subject(s): Soul 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, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: The body covered with faces, the Last Line: So that the soul can say to the body, %I am in the bells Subject(s): Soul SOULS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul (abjured by scorners Last Line: To leave his soul at home. Subject(s): Soul SOULS AND BIRDS, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Souls take flight, so god has willed it Last Line: To the dovecote they come home Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Soul SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 1. TO OUR LADY OF THE SEVEN SORROWS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady of the seven sorrows which are love Last Line: You carry the seven sorrows of the earth. Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 10. TO A GITANA DANCING: SEVILLE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you are fair as souls of the lost Last Line: You smile: was it all no longer ago than a dream? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Soul SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 2. STELLA MALIGNA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little slave Last Line: The miracle of the secret rose. Subject(s): Soul SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 3. THE PALE WOMAN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I spoke to the pale and heavy-lidded woman Last Line: And I fear lest they see that I desire their desire. Subject(s): Desire; Soul SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 4. MATER LILIORUM, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the remembering hours of night Last Line: Mother of lilies, pity me! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Soul SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 5. THE DOGS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My desires are upon me like dogs, I beat them back Last Line: And my soul be these dogs' meat. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Soul SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 6. SPONSI DEI, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus christ, I have longed with my whole heart for thee Last Line: Lick up the dust of this consuming martyrdom! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Soul SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 7. ROSA FLAMMEA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful demon, o veil those eyes of fire Last Line: And my soul for this shall whirl in the winds of flame. Subject(s): Soul SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 8. LAUS VIRGINITATIS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mirror of men's eyes delights me less Last Line: My beauty back to me. Subject(s): Love; Soul SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 9. THE RAPTURE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I drank your flesh, and when the soul brimmed up Last Line: This young delight is old as memory? Subject(s): Soul SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 126, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thou sentst me a message Last Line: Twas god's, thine and mine Subject(s): Soul SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 127, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I shall give you all my heart Last Line: For that treasure is not mine Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Soul SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 128, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I love you more than my life Last Line: For my soul belongs to god Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Soul SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 160, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Give me the fire of your eyes Last Line: And darkness within my soul Subject(s): Death; Soul SPIRIT OF SLEEP, by EDITH HASKELL TAPPAN Poem Text First Line: Now up the broad white path of dreams Last Line: Be borne aloft on wings of prayer. Subject(s): Dreams; Prayer; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares SPIRITS OF SUMMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three creatures of the summer are to me Last Line: Three summer creatures good to know and love. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Soul; Summer SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JAMES GARBER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember, passer-by, the path Last Line: The loneliness of the soul! Subject(s): Soul SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TENNESSEE CLAFLIN SHOPE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the laughing-stock of the village Last Line: Peace to all worlds! Subject(s): Soul SPRING FANTASIES: 1. MAY DAY IN MARCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March with her madcap winds, march with her weather Last Line: Twas ever anything on earth but may! Subject(s): Faith; Fantasy; March (month); May (month); Seasons; Soul; Spring; Belief; Creed SPRING FANTASIES: 4. HORN AND VIOLIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the autumn, in the weather Last Line: But the violin for spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Eyes; Love; Seasons; Soul; Spring; Fall ST GOVAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St govan he built him a cell Last Line: As his cell by that sounding sea? Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Soul; Wales; Dead, The; Liberty; Welshmen; Welshwomen ST. CAMPION AND THE MAID OF WICKLOW, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A highland glen and one white cottage there Last Line: "drink! You are thirsty, climbing all the day." Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Heaven; Soul; Nightmares; Paradise STANZA WRITTEN IN DEJECTION NEAR DULWICH, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lark soars up in the air Last Line: Were the truer type of my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Soul; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress STANZAS, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say not: life is one joyous festival Last Line: By a young flower's loveliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Life; Lips; Soul; Nightmares; Optimism STANZAS FOR MUSIC (5), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright be the place of thy soul! Last Line: For why should we mourn for the blest? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Soul STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR OF OBERMANN, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front the awful alpine track Last Line: A last, a last farewell! Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Senancour, Etienne Pivert De (1770-1846); Soul STARS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Across the harbor, up the mountain's base Last Line: The spirits pass? Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean STILL FROM THE UNSATISFYING QUEST, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Soul STOIC, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is a mind and a meander, a mrs. Luxe Last Line: There’s an animal up my sleeve, and it’s killing me Subject(s): Soul STRUGGLE, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is like the oar that momently Last Line: Each second I'm new-born from some new grave. Subject(s): Soul STUDIES STATIC AND ECSTATIC, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: In the house of my fathers Last Line: And goes on its way, whistling. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Home; Self; Soul; Relatives STUDY IN STILL LIFE, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: Regal lilies in a bowl Last Line: My buddah of desire. Subject(s): Silence; Soul; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth SUNG ON A BY-WAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of all the will to do Last Line: Love has found itself the whole. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Soul; Truth; Optimism SUNKEN GARDENS, by ADA VAN LOON BRANDOW Poem Text First Line: Your eyes, dear one, as sunken gardens deep Last Line: Of life, when cups are drunken to their fill. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Life; Soul SUNSET, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet to sit beneath these walnut-trees Last Line: Homage for which all language is too weak. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Soul; Sunset; Twilight SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 6. HE AND SHE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the moon sidles up Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Soul SUSPIRIUM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Life of my soule, bright lord of love Last Line: To thee ye easier shall I swimm. Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Love; Soul; Vision; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness SWEET CLOVER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Over and over the scent of sweet clover Last Line: To croon to my soul of an old, old theme. Subject(s): Clover; Soul SYMPATHY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, neighbor, stranger, as the case may be Last Line: Scorched fiercest, if it might not be the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Soul; Sympathy; Empathy T.Y.S.O.N., by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the queensland border line Last Line: That's t.Y.S.O.N.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Sin; Soul TARIM REPENTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul once was pagan Last Line: That I may not forget. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The TARPEIA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe! Lightly to part with one's soul as the sea with his foam! Last Line: Woe to tarpeia, tarpeia, daughter of rome! Subject(s): Daughters; Rome, Italy; Soul; Women TASSO AND LEONORA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glorious vision hovers o'er his soul Last Line: Gazing upon him in the misty light. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Soul; Universe; Vision TAURUS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scorpion's stars crawl down behind the sun Last Line: To warm my soul with more heroic song. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Life; Soul; Stars TELL ME, WHAT IS THE SOUL, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There is a prison room, Subject(s): Soul; Mandelstam, Osip (1892-1941) TENEBRAE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the chill high tide of the night Last Line: "spirit, and saviour, and life." Subject(s): Life; Night; Salvation; Soul; Bedtime TERCETS, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: Clatter in the landscape Last Line: Tomorrow, in night, in three warm cores, %I'll prepare Subject(s): Birds; Death; Ducks; Expressionism - Poets; Soul THE 'DISASTER', by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without rudder, without sail Last Line: Lost -- exultant, desolate! Subject(s): Disasters; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Storms; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean THE AFFIANCED ONES, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou weep'st, and on me look'st, believing Last Line: Dear corpse, for ever fare thee well! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Grief; Life; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness THE ANGEL'S BIDDING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a sound is heard in the convent Last Line: "at the deed you have done to-night." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Death; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology THE ANIMAL INSIDE THE ANIMAL, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The short shadow Last Line: Over the rooted bloom Subject(s): Soul; Shadows THE ANSWER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cheer up, desponding soul Last Line: And rise for ever mine. Subject(s): Soul THE ANVIL OF SOULS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High o'er the frowning forest, from the red door of the smithy Last Line: "and, hissing from its bath of stars, the soul steeled true!" Subject(s): Soul THE ARMY OF THE LORD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To fight the battle of the cross, christ's Last Line: "o grave, where is thy victory! O death, where is thy sting!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Religion; Sin; Soul; War; Dead, The; Theology THE ARTIST'S PRAYER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, I have been guilty in my life Last Line: Speak, through my pigments, of the son of man. Subject(s): Faith; God; Love; Passion; Prayer; Soul; Belief; Creed THE AWAKENING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beauties of the world do master me Last Line: And make my nest and sing the joy thereof. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Soul; Nightmares THE AWAKENING, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me sleep on! I would not waken yet Last Line: The quiet land of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Memory; Soul; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness THE AXE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the soul there is no sound that chimes more dolorously, no sound Last Line: To the old chopper of oaks the robin blithely sings. Subject(s): Axes; Forests; Soul; Hatchets; Woods THE AZURE FROG: 3. REMORSE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I erred! The thing exists. Its little heart doth beat. But it dies be Last Line: Done? I would have tossed thee back. Imperfect is the heart. Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Remorse; Soul; Elves; Woods THE BALANCE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The body said to the soul one day Last Line: "I have dusted your conscience. Call it quits!" Subject(s): Mortality; Soul THE BALLAD OF SMILES AND TEARS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the gleeful spring on Last Line: Then hearts that are heavy may melt in tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Seasons; Smiles; Soul; Tears THE BARD, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It can not be, the baffled heart, in vain Last Line: And ye, charmed with the voice, gave but a stone instead. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness THE BARGAIN, by CLAIRE STEWART BOYER Poem Text First Line: I sold my soul to satan for a price Last Line: My soul and beauty are come back to me. Subject(s): Devil; Soul; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE BEAUTY OF GOOD DREAMS, by OWEN REDINGTON WASHBURN Poem Text First Line: How rich the world in beauty of good dreams! Last Line: Dream thou great dreams and make more fair the earth. Variant Title(s): Good Dreams Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Soul; Nightmares THE BIRD, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: O sweet song-bird in the sunlight winging Last Line: Sun thou art darkened -- bird thou art mute. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Love; Singing & Singers; Soul THE BLEAK OF THE YEAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a time of subtle browns, and grays Last Line: A mystery, the selah of the soul. Subject(s): Dreams; Seasons; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares THE BOHEMIA OF THE HEART AND PENNY ROMANCES: MY PORTRAIT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: My eyes like two black diamonds shine 'neath my rembrandt hat Last Line: Shakespeare. Subject(s): Portraits; Soul THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE KNOWETH THE SOULS OF THE WEST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: High on the mountain of sunrise where standeth the / temple of sebek Last Line: "the lord of the mountain of sunset, and hathor, the / lady of evening" Subject(s): Mythology - Egyptian;soul THE BOOTLEGGER, by STANLEY H. CAUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: I'm a peddler bold, and my trade's as old Last Line: To see who'll be damned the first! Subject(s): Cruelty; Pain; Peddlers & Peddling; Soul; Suffering; Misery THE BRIGHT DARK, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Text First Line: Forever conscript to profoundest dark Last Line: Assume terrestial orbit with the sun's. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Dead, The THE BROKEN FIELD, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is a dark ploughed field Last Line: With better grain. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Soul THE BROKEN SOLDIER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The broken soldier sings and whistles day to dark Last Line: The bird caught in the cage whistles its joyous stave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Soldiers; Soul; Strength; Women; World War I; First World War THE CALL, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: And god said 'come'; and all Last Line: Turning all my gloom to light. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Religion; Soul; Paradise; Theology THE CALL OF DEATH, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Last of myself-I thought how hard to die Last Line: Once and no more—ah! Make no cry! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE CALL OF ETERNITY, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, thou shalt be with me to-night Last Line: Shalt be learning thy spirit's grandest consummation. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE CASTLE OF GATHORE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a place none knows but I Last Line: And the castle of gathore! Subject(s): Castles; Death; Home; Love; Soul; Trees; Dead, The THE CATBIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A skulker in a thicket, loud and harsh Last Line: Enthralled, the melody is so divine. Subject(s): Birds; Catbirds; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs THE CHANGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With brunettes I now have finish'd Last Line: Klopstock wrote some time ago? Subject(s): Change; Faith; Hair; Soul; Belief; Creed THE CHINESE PEAKS; FOR DONALD HALL, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the mountain peak Last Line: Buried in mist. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Soul; Inspiration; Creativity THE CHRISTIAN'S NEW YEAR PRAYER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou christ of mine, thy gracious ear low bending Last Line: This is a christian's prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Holidays; Jesus Christ; New Year; Prayer; Soul; Paradise THE CIRCULATION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As fair ideas from the sky Last Line: And all it doth receive returns again. Subject(s): Imagination; Soul; Fancy THE CITY AT THE END OF THINGS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the pounding cataracts Last Line: Is deathless and eternal there. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Soul; Time; Urban Life; Bedtime THE CLAIM OF KINDRED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am not one, but many: murmuring through Last Line: The passions of my kindred clasp me still! Subject(s): Dreams; Evil; God; Soul; Nightmares THE CLASSIC TOUCH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are the little things Last Line: And that town was nothing to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Hell; Soul; Stars THE CLOUDED SOUL, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O what have you done with your heart, daughter Last Line: And we never shall see it again. Subject(s): Soul THE COMING OF THE WORDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wistful words, singing words, come to me at times Last Line: Of love, and give my longing a presence and a name! Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Words; Vocabulary THE COMPANIONS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How few are they that voyage through the night Last Line: By hosts of unknown men. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eyes; Flowers; Soul; Spring; Nightmares THE COMPLAINT OF ROSAMOND, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the horror of infernal deeps Last Line: Who made me known, must make me live unseen. Subject(s): Brooks; Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Death; Ghosts; Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Life; Soul; Supernatural; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The THE CRUEL FALCON, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contemplation would make a good life, keep it strict, only Last Line: To bruise himself on Subject(s): Soul THE DEBATE OF THE BODY AND THE SOUL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it chanced, as on a winter's night, / I drowsing lay, ere dawn of day" Last Line: "that he serve with perfect heart / father, son, and spirit!" Subject(s): Bodies;soul THE DIALOGUE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto my soul I said Last Line: "we meet at last in one." Subject(s): Soul THE DISCARD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is the discard of the pack Last Line: He is the discard of the pack. Subject(s): Love; Shame; Soul THE DREAM OF DEATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gentle death, bow down and Last Line: Forever on your loving breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DYING POETS FAREWELL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou wondrous arch of azure Last Line: To that high and laurelled quire. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Farewell; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Dead, The; World; Parting THE EARTH MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wise old mother lets man play a while Last Line: "welcome to love, and sleep, and holiday." Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Seasons; Soul; World THE ECLIPSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said, tonight is her plenilune Last Line: "and ""the law is the law,"" the astronomers said!" Subject(s): Dreams; Eclipses; Love; Moon; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean THE ECSTASY [EXTASIE], by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, like a pillow on a bed Last Line: Small change, when we're to bodies gone. Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Soul THE EMPTY SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have we but an empty song Last Line: But his soul is thirsty now. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soul; Thirst; Wind THE ENGINE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the gloom of the deep, dark night Last Line: Alone will carry you through the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Night; Soul; Truth; Destiny; Bedtime THE ESTATE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But shall my soul no wealth possess Last Line: His ancient ways, are his, and my estate. Subject(s): Soul THE ETERNAL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is his garment and also heaven Last Line: Answer with mercy and law and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Creation; Future Life; Heaven; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE ETHERIAL HUNGER, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been hungry all my days Last Line: O tables of the skies! Subject(s): Hunger; Love; Praise; Soul THE EVENING OF THE LORD'S DAY, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now to rest - the sacred day is o'er! Last Line: And with the shining of thy saviour's face. Subject(s): Holy Ghost; Soul; Holy Spirit THE FAIR STRANGER; A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy and free, securely blest Last Line: Yet kill us if you go away. Subject(s): Beauty; Smiles; Soul; Strangers THE FIRE WITHIN, by ROBERT BRENDON Poem Text First Line: A snow - covered garden in pain Last Line: Fades, -- but the I can never die. Subject(s): Future Life; Soul; Winter; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE FIRST SORROW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arise! This day shall shine Last Line: Thy soul to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): God; Grief; Soul; Time; Sorrow; Sadness THE FLIGHT OF SOULS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the rise and set of the starry host Last Line: And the glory that is to be! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise THE FOOD OF THE SOUL, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I came at eve upon a lowland mead Last Line: "they shall be all thy soul shall feed upon." Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The THE FOUR BRIDGES, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love this grey old church, the low, long nave Last Line: Nor sleep so sweet: -- the word was -- eglantine. Subject(s): Churches; God; Grief; Landscape; Love; Soul; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness THE GIDDY GIRL; A RECITATION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A giddy young maiden with nimble feet Last Line: Chassée back, chassée back, whirl about quick. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Soul; Dead, The THE GOOD COUNSEL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ride thou for the crest, / beauty to thy breast Last Line: For that beauty yet to be! Subject(s): Beauty; Soul; Women THE GOOD FURIES, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From time to time I meet with those who cry Last Line: And carry there their flowers -- and grieve no more! Subject(s): Mythology; Punishment; Sin; Soul THE GREAT CAROUSAL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, do not think me dead when I Last Line: The rich eternity of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Happiness; Immortality; Laughter; Soul; Joy; Delight THE GREAT CITY, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: The great city / stretches out huge steel claws Last Line: The souls of the young. Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Soul; Youth; Urban Life THE GREAT UNSEEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Like unto the ocean Last Line: Is the great unseen. Subject(s): Men; Soul THE GROOMING, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the branches of the elm Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Bodies; Cleanliness; Soul; Showers & Showering THE HAPPY ISLES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How comes the spring in those far lands of yours? Last Line: And on their crest the calm of sunset. Subject(s): Islands; Soul; Spring; Tears THE HAPPY LIFE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll purge, my friend, the humors that still devour Last Line: This is my kingdom -- to live contented. Subject(s): Life; Money; Muses; Soul THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the overwork of life Last Line: I full of christ and christ of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Life; Soul; Work; Workers THE HEATHEN TO HIS DEPARTING SOUL, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fleeting spirit! Wand'ring fire Last Line: And wit and humour are no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian Subject(s): Soul THE HERM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind I know with senses rising from fern and tree Last Line: Heaven's swift-winged fiat, earth's primeval monolith. Subject(s): Blindness; Love; Soul; Visually Handicapped THE HILL WATER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a little brook Last Line: Dear, murmuring water! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brooks; Singing & Singers; Soul; Streams; Creeks THE HILLS OF HOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the mighty levels of the west Last Line: The hills of home! Subject(s): Home; Memory; Soul; Trees; Youth THE HOME, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Within your portals she has dwelt Last Line: Her soul is like a shining star. Subject(s): Home; Mothers; Soul THE HOMING BIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul is like a homing bird that's sure Last Line: To reach the native loft, the lonesome mate. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Soul THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the people and horses have gone Last Line: It whispers the world-secret. Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Roads; Silence; Soul; Stars; Sunrise; Bedtime; Paths; Trails THE 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 HOUSE OF LIFE: 25. WINGED HOURS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each hour until we meet is as a bird Last Line: Sees through the untuneful bough the wingless skies? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Soul THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 62. THE SOUL'S SPHERE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some prisoned moon in steep cloud-fastness Last Line: That clangs and flashes for a drowning man. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Soul THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 77. SOUL'S BEAUTY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the arch of life, where love and death Last Line: In what fond flight, how many ways and days! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sibylla Palmifera Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Soul THE HUMAN FROM DIVINE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The human contours are so easily lost Last Line: To trace in chaos the contours of your beloved form! Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Soul THE HUMAN TOUCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High thoughts and noble in all lands Last Line: These need I most, and now, and here. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Thought; Touch (sense); Thinking THE HUSSAIN SAAGAR, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young dawn woos thee with his amorous grace Last Line: O lake, o living image of my soul. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Soul; Dead, The THE ICONOCLAST, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years shall come and go Last Line: The soul that knows its god was dust. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Soul; Time; Tragedy; Youth; Dramatists THE IDOL SPEAKS, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: I, who have listened to man's groveling prayers Last Line: And I have spoken who so long was dumb. Subject(s): Idols; Prayer; Soul THE IMPRISONED SOUL, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh weary, sorrowful soul of man Last Line: And time and fate shall bind no more. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Soul; Paradise THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): HYMN TO VISHNU, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou that held'st the blessed veda dry Last Line: Unto wise ears he tells. Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE EIGHHTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For when the weary night had worn away Last Line: Vilakshalakshmipati.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE ELEVENTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus followed soft and lasting peace, and griefs Last Line: Displayed; may all approve! Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE FIFTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low whispers the wind from malaya Last Line: Sakandkshapundarikaksho.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE FIRST, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful radha, jasmine-bosomed radha Last Line: (here ends that sarga of the gîta govinda entitled samodadamodaro.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE FOURTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then she whom radha sent came to the canes Last Line: (here ends that sarga of the gîta govinda entitled snigdhamadhusudano.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE NINTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet not quite did the doubts of radha die Last Line: Mugdhamukundo.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE SECOND, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus lingered krishna in the deep, green wood Last Line: (here ends that sarga of the gîta govinda entitled kleshakeshavo.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE SEVENTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meantime the moon, the rolling moon, clomb high Last Line: Nadaranarayano.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE SIXTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But seeing that, for all her loving will Last Line: (here ends that sarga of the gîta govinda entitled dhrishtavaikunto.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE TENTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But she, abasing still her glorious eyes Last Line: ^1^ much here also is necessarily paraphrased. Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE THIRD, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thereat, as one who welcomes to her throne Last Line: (here ends that sarga of the gîta govinda entitled mugdhamadhusudano.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDOORS IS ENDLESS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's spring in 1827, beethoven / hoists his death-mask and sails off Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Death; Music & Musicians; Soul; Dead, The THE INTERPRETERS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days dawn on us that make amends for many sometimes Last Line: July 16th, 1885. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul; Thought; Thinking THE JUDGMENT-BOOK, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The book was opened! Men in wonder stood! Last Line: Then passed into the dark — his page was white! Subject(s): Books; Judgments; Soul; Reading THE LAND OF CONTENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I set out for the land of content Last Line: I came to the land of content. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Anxiety; Fame; God; Soul; Travel; Reputation; Journeys; Trips THE LAST DREAM, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In a dismal room in a city garret high Last Line: What misery when death becomes a hope! Subject(s): Immortality; Night; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime THE LAST SAINT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With vesture torn and air forlorn Last Line: "still justifies my quest." Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Saints; Soul; Bedtime THE LAST SOUL, by CATULLE MENDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heaven was void of gods and, altarless Last Line: And, as departing incense, soared to god. Subject(s): Fear; Heaven; Soul; Youth; Paradise THE LAUGHTER OF THE RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My very soul smiles as I listen to Last Line: The universe to music dripping-wet! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Laughter; Rain; Soul THE LIE, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, soul, the body's guest Last Line: No stab the soule can kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): The Soul's Errand;the Lye Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Lies; Social Protest; Soul; Truth; Valor; Bravery; Liberty THE LIFE AND DEATH; THE DEATH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the toll of the passing bell Last Line: And rush from my own sad thoughts away. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Bells; Coffins; Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE EXHUMATION, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old mother fingers coming down through the dark Last Line: At the back Subject(s): Soul THE LIGHT, by EVE P. COX Poem Text First Line: That tiny spark within Last Line: Which shine through fellow channels. Subject(s): Soul THE LITTLE BRETHREN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brendan went to the greenwood Last Line: Wept: and he heard their tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Brendan, Saint (484-578); Fairies; Flowers; God; Jesus Christ; Soul; Tears; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; Elves THE LONE OF SOUL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The world has many lovers, but the one Last Line: And, nesting there, will rear her brood of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Soul THE LONG WHITE SEAM, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I came round the harbor buoy Last Line: Sewing the long white seam. Subject(s): Harbors; Light; Love; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LOST ATLANTIS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in our soul-seas there are sunken hopes Last Line: The mute memorials of the lapsed years. Subject(s): Atlantis; Hope; Life; Mythology - Classical; Past; Sea; Soul; Optimism; Ocean THE LOST CROWN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me why I sometimes drop Last Line: And I again am serf with you. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soul; Time 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 LOVER'S MESSAGE; SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, tell amynta, gentle swain Last Line: Attends but death to close his eyes. Subject(s): Death; Love; Soul; Voices; Dead, The THE LOVERS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Away in the woods - for the ears of love are sharp Last Line: "to-morrow in all your valleys the drum of death shall beat." Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love; Soul THE MAID-MARTYR, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only you'd have me speak Last Line: Truly my soul is silent unto god. Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Love; Martyrs; Soul; Time; Dead, The THE MAKING OF THE SOUL OF MAN, by UPTON BEALL SINCLAIR Poem Text First Line: I am grown haggard and forlorn, from dreams Last Line: Unto the making of the soul of man. Subject(s): Mankind; Soul; Human Race THE MAN AND THE CENTAUR; THE MAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the mountain-heights thou goest Last Line: The shadow of woe? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Centaurs; Grief; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness THE MAN AT THE TURNPIKE BAR, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: I was fifty-odd year on the lancaster pike Last Line: All the dear roads that I sit an' look afther, now! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE MATERIALIST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul has left its tent of clay Last Line: "when death said, ""you may die." Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE MATIN-SONG OF FRIAR TUCK, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If souls could sing to heaven's high king Last Line: Te deum! Te deum laudamus! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Earth; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE MONUMENT OF GIORDANO BRUNO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not from without us, only from within Last Line: June 9,1889. Subject(s): England; Rome, Italy; Soul; English THE MOON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul was like the sea Last Line: Moves its great deeps through life and death. Subject(s): Moon; Soul THE NAMING OF MY FAIR, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: When night is come and lovers meet Last Line: And call you -- my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Love; Lutes; Night; Soul; Stars; Bedtime THE NEW PLANET, by EDWARD GRUSE Poem Text First Line: Twas there before man learned to watch the skies Last Line: And our new neighbor's staggering distance span. Subject(s): Cosmology; Planets; Soul; Spiritual Life THE OATH, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Stiff on the tongue, the oath Last Line: Witness to the soul's ways. Subject(s): Soul THE OBSTACLE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oceans of bliss around us gently roll Last Line: To bar the final -- happy consummation. Subject(s): Cruelty; Love; Soul THE OCEAN OF SONG, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a land beyond sight or conceiving Last Line: And are gladder than gods are, with glee. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): God; Light; Sea; Soul; Ocean THE OLD PIER-POST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sea-ward-looking one Last Line: Christ must be coming soon! Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jesus Christ; Moon; Sea; Soul; Wharves; Dead, The; Ocean; Piers THE OPEN DOOR, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mystery of life Last Line: And crown his plan. Subject(s): Earth; God; Hearts; Hope; Life; Soul; World; Optimism THE ORPHIC SOUL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I walk slowly along Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul; Bugs THE PANNIKIN POET, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing here sublime Last Line: About a pannikin. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul THE PARABLE, by ZUELLA STERLING Poem Text First Line: If thou hast money for two loaves of bread Last Line: While golden daffodils delight the soul. Subject(s): Fables; Life; Prophecy & Prophets; Soul; Allegories THE PARADOX, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis evanescence that endures Last Line: The loveliness which dies the soonest always lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Memory; Soul THE PARALLEL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prometheus, forming mr day Last Line: To prove all poetry but fable. Subject(s): Fables; God; Prometheus; Soul; Allegories THE PASSING MOON, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my loggia bright I watch to-night Last Line: Yet sail another sea. Subject(s): Life; Moon; Mountains; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean THE PASSING OF A SOUL, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who whispers in the ivy? Last Line: "to whisper back ""farewell!" Subject(s): Soul THE PASSING SHOW, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not if it was a dream. I viewed Last Line: A wolf sat howling on a broken tomb. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE PHANTOM FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset lingered in the pale green west Last Line: Then -- that high fleet of stars led on the night. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; England; Evening; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Sunset; Twilight THE PILGRIM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A temple bell Last Line: Toward nirvana!' Subject(s): Bells; Buddhism; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Soul; Temples; Buddha; Buddhists; Mosques THE PINE TREE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The somber pine is a norseman grave Last Line: And what remembering roots has he! Subject(s): Cold; Graves; Pine Trees; Soul; Trees; Winter; Tombs; Tombstones THE PINES AND THE SEA, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the low marsh-meadows and the beach Last Line: The mournful strain was in thyself alone. Subject(s): Pine Trees; Seashore; Soul; Trees; Beach; Coast; Shore THE POET AND HIS DOGS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come on, my dogs! Come sandy, mozambique Last Line: Home let us wander o'er the dusky hills! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Soul THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said a poet to a woodlouse - 'thou art certainly my brother Last Line: While he makes his mundane music -- and he will not stop, I think.' Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Soul THE POET IN THE EAST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet came to the land of the east Last Line: And the dream deceives no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Sun; Nightmares THE POET TO THE READER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full many a poem have I made Last Line: Save when two mingle, soul in soul. Subject(s): Creation; Poetry & Poets; Soul THE POET'S DEATH-BED, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of splendour! / linked to corruption! Last Line: Fare thee well! Fare thee well! Subject(s): Aging; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Weariness; Parting; Fatigue THE POET'S JOURNAL: SYLVAN SPIRITS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray stems rise, the branches braid Last Line: She is not purer than her child. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Life; Nature; Soul; Woods THE POOR STUDENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With song elate we celebrate Last Line: O'er his immortal soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Poverty; Schools; Soul; Students THE PORT OF PEACE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair crescent moon, with rim of gold Last Line: The stormy sea. Subject(s): Peace; Sea; Soul; Ocean THE PRAEEXISTENCY OF THE SOUL, by HENRY MORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise then aristo's son! Assist my muse Last Line: Full freedome, joy and peace she lively doth possesse. Subject(s): Religion; Soul; Theology THE PRAYING-MANTIS, by ANNIE CHARLOTTE DALTON Poem Text First Line: In the dark dungeons of the mind Last Line: The mantis mounts the stair. Subject(s): Mantis; Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PREPARATIVE (VERSION A), by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body being dead, my limbs unknown Last Line: Get free, and so thou shalt even all admire. Subject(s): Soul THE PROBLEM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like a church; I like a cowl; / I like a prophet of the soul Last Line: I would not the good bishop be. Subject(s): Clergy; Soul; Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667); Worship; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Where once I loved my flesh Last Line: I find it was always here Subject(s): Skeletons; Skin; Soul THE PROPS ASSIST THE HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Affirming it a soul Subject(s): Houses; Building & Builders; Soul THE QUESTION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Is it enough to feel the opal spring Last Line: It is enough? Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Life; Soul; Destiny THE QUIET PILGRIM, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on my soul in nakedness Last Line: Lord, I go softly all my years! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE RAGGEDY MAN ON CHILDREN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Childern - take 'em as they Last Line: Then be good ef they'd be good. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Soul; Childhood THE RECALL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Return, they cry, ere yet your day Last Line: Return. Subject(s): Heaven; Soul; Paradise THE RECALL, OR SOUL MELODY, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor dulcimer nor harp shall breathe Last Line: Unto a deathless melody. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Soul THE RECOMPENSE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ancient ocean, with what courage stern Last Line: Make pure the deeps of the aspiring soul. Subject(s): Sea; Soul; Ocean THE RETURN, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The shadow far and wide Last Line: Its home where great souls dwell. Subject(s): Death, Return From; Shadows; Soul THE ROSICRUCIAN, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tripod flared with a purple spark Last Line: Were one; and he saw that this was she. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Love; Soul; Dead, The THE ROUGH SKETCH, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great grieved heart, an iron will Last Line: In high resolve and hardihood. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women THE SANCTUARY: 6. LOVE TRANSCENDENT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When time shall cease and the world be ended Last Line: O my saint with the sinless eyes! Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Soul; Transcendentalism; Paradise THE SAVAGE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Civilization causes me / alternate fits: disgust and glee Last Line: (like pilate, when his hands he rinsed). Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Civilization; Soul THE SECOND BAPTISM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When tiny babes we touch on brow and breast Last Line: Wetting them with our tears. Subject(s): Baptism; Fear; Smiles; Soul; Tears; Christenings THE SECOND COVENANT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt that we were lying Last Line: Was the love after death. Subject(s): Love; Soul THE SECRET OF THE STARS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah well! If were so Last Line: Do thy work, and do it well. Subject(s): Secrets; Sky; Soul; Stars THE SECRET PLACE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I shake off the outer things Last Line: I fare me forth my fate to greet. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Love; Rhyme; Soul; Nightmares; Destiny THE SEEKER, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing delicate or fine seems to reach this soul of mine Last Line: Silence like the moonlight . . . Or a falling star. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Silence; Soul THE SEVEN WORDS, by GEORGE WILLARD BONTE Poem Text First Line: Come - come, get up, we must be off Last Line: "may god have mercy on my soul." Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Soul; Clemency THE SHELTER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body grows outside Last Line: In timid honesty Subject(s): Body, Human; Soul THE SHOES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a pair of new shoes Last Line: "they are nice. They have low heels." Subject(s): Shoes; Soul; Stars; Tears; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE SHOWER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The landscape, like the awed face of a child Last Line: Drenched with the love of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Soul; Storms THE SONG OF FLOWERS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is a bird but a living flower? Last Line: The song of a flow'r-soul hears! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nature; Singing & Singers; Soul THE SONG OF THE SPIRIT OVER THE WATERS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul of man Last Line: How like the wind! Subject(s): Mankind; Soul; Human Race THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 4, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For me, the eldest and the loveliest god Last Line: Leaving his outworn body for my food. Subject(s): Bodies; Flowers; Soul; Women THE SOUL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am the falcon of the spirit world Last Line: Who has escaped from his nest Subject(s): Soul THE SOUL, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If mine eyes do e'er declare Last Line: May thy dear body ne'ere be mine. Subject(s): Soul THE SOUL, by RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, brother, turn with me from pining thought Last Line: And be like man at first, a living soul. Variant Title(s): The Life Of God In The Soul Of Man Subject(s): Soul THE SOUL, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul is its own destiny Last Line: Behold the human soul! Subject(s): Humanity; Immortality; Soul THE SOUL, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shaft of narrative peers down Subject(s): Soul THE SOUL BONE, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Soul; Death; Dead, The THE SOUL IN NATURE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the message of the thunderous main? Last Line: And blight her hope with unregarding eyes. Subject(s): Soul THE SOUL IS THE SALT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body's salt, the soule is; which when gon Last Line: The flesh soone sucks in putrifaction. Subject(s): Soul THE SOUL OF BRITAIN, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Thro' the dark of the night we have trodden Last Line: Must sink again to the prison, of party and place and creed. Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - Civil War; Heaven; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; English Civil War; Paradise THE SOUL OF THINGS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day by day the soul of things / up its countless ladders springs Last Line: Up its countless ladders springs. Subject(s): Flowers; Soul THE SOUL REVISITING THE BODY, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do youj return? Subject(s): Soul; Body, Human; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SOUL SHOULD ALWAYS STAND AJAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Her visitor, no more Subject(s): Soul THE SOUL SPEAKS, by SARA ADLER ROSALSKY Poem Text First Line: I shall discover; I shall know Last Line: This gift from god ... To his somewhere.... Subject(s): Soul THE SOUL TO THE BODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mate, who long hast friended me Last Line: I may behold thee face to face! Subject(s): Bodies; Friendship; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tears; Time; Songs THE SOUL UNTO ITSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The soul should stand in awe Subject(s): Soul THE SOUL'S ARMAGEDDON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where I go Last Line: With immeasurable fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Knowledge; Messengers; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SOUL'S AWAKENING, by JOHN EDWARD COLBURN Poem Text First Line: I pressed mine ear close to the warm, brown earth Last Line: And all my heart prepared for blossoming. Alternate Author Name(s): Colburn, John Subject(s): Soul; Spring THE SOUL'S COMPANIONS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Though floods shall fail, and empty holes Last Line: Would walk with me from day to day! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hope; Soul; Optimism THE SOUL'S CRY, by RAY PALMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, ever from the deeps Last Line: Where the sweet streams of peace and safety flow. Subject(s): Religion; Soul; Theology THE SOUL'S CRY (THE HIGHER ANTHROPOMORPHISM), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father, let thy little child Last Line: "to land, by the hushed wondering sea!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Soul; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE SOUL'S DEFIANCE, by LAVINIA STONE STODDARD Poem Text First Line: I said to sorrow's awful storm Last Line: Shall pass away. Subject(s): Religion; Soul; Theology THE SOUL'S GARMENT, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great nature clothes the soul, which is but thin Last Line: Fit for the soul to wear those clothes again. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Soul THE SOUL'S QUEST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I laid my vesture by Last Line: "what shall again be thine." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Soul THE SOUL'S RUBAIYAT: 1, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Of him who walked a thousand years ago Last Line: Why dream I, mad? All dreams for man are vain. Subject(s): Death; God; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Salvation; Soul; Truth; Dead, The THE SOUL'S RUBAIYAT: 2, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The I, the creature man, unto my soul Last Line: That god in man is love in human care. Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Love; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Soul THE SOUL'S SEASON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god who seasons thus the year Last Line: And strews his honors on the summer's bier. Subject(s): Seasons; Soul THE SOUL'S STORM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It struck me every day / the lightning was as new Last Line: And left it in the sky. Variant Title(s): Poem: 362 Subject(s): Soul; Storms THE SOUL'S SUPERIOR INSTANTS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of immortality Subject(s): Immortality; Soul THE SOUL'S TENDENCY TOWARDS ITS TRUE CENTRE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stones towards the earth descend Last Line: Peace to ev'ry christian heart! Subject(s): Peace; Soul THE SOUL-HUNTER, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hunts so late 'neath evening skies Last Line: Who hunts so late, so dark. Subject(s): Devil; Hunting; Soul; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Hunters THE SOUL-PATH, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Out of my darkened vision Last Line: To god I shall return. Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The THE SOULE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When once the soule has lost her way Last Line: How do's she erre in endlesse night! Subject(s): Soul THE SOULE (2), by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some dull philosopher, when he hears me say Last Line: And separation from it is my death. Subject(s): Soul THE SPIRIT'S FLIGHT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There is a flight much greater far Last Line: Forever pass away. Subject(s): Ghosts; Mortality; Soul; Supernatural THE SPIRIT'S LONGINGS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the loveliest flowers are waking Last Line: And with perfect bliss 'tis filled. Subject(s): Soul THE SPIRITUAL BODY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a heavenly home Last Line: Upon my naked and unsheltered soul! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology THE STATUE OF THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH. MERAN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is seated by the river Last Line: Where all rivers wend their way. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Soul; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness THE STORY OF THE FAITHFUL SOUL; FOUNDED ON AN OLD FRENCH LEGEND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fettered spirits linger Last Line: "your thousand years have passed." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Soul THE SURGEON'S WARNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor whisper'd to the nurse Last Line: Was never to mortal known. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Guilt; Physicians; Soul; Surgery; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Doctors THE SUTTEE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon the pile by her dead lord Last Line: That burning mother's scream. Subject(s): Mothers; Nature; Soul; War THE TERROR, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: No, I did not dare - but find no excuses, for my mind the poet in me impeaches Last Line: Child. Subject(s): Fear; Poetry & Poets; Soul THE THRILL OF THE FOREST, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: In the green-lit solitudes of the road beneath the woods as clear, Last Line: Forest leaves, pierced by the scent of smoke from distant villages! Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Soul; Woods THE TINY HAT UPON THE BROW, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That elfin crown, so light and neat Last Line: Not diadem upon the brow. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Courts & Courtiers; Nature; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TRANSIT OF THE GODS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that the self's continuum should outlast Last Line: To dance my dust at last into the tomb. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness THE TREASURE-SEEKER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many weary days I suffer'd Last Line: So shall peace return to thee!' Subject(s): Peace; Soul; Treasures THE TREES WILL UNDERSTAND, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER Poem Text First Line: How still a house can be on such a night! Last Line: For they and I have lost our all, my dear! Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Houses; Seasons; Soul; Trees; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness THE TRIPLE LEAGUE TO MRS. SUSAN DOVE, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Pensive eliza lately sat Last Line: That charming iris still is mine. Subject(s): Cupid; Fate; Friendship; Soul; Eros; Destiny THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH: THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE, CHASTITY, DEATH. ARGUMENT, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glorious maid, whose soule to heaven is gone Last Line: Death seem'd in her exceeding faire to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology THE TROUT, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: O gay little troutlet, that runs in the river Last Line: The pool is all silent -- trout, thou art still. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Rivers; Soul; Trout THE TWIN-SOUL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dead of the night a spirit came Last Line: O spirit-enchantress, o demon-will! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Night; Soul; Dead, The; Bedtime THE ULTIMATE (2), by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So this is the ultimate Last Line: Towards eternity! Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Reason; Sea; Soul; Destiny; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's easy to oblige you Subject(s): Love; Soul THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man has explored all countries and all lands Last Line: The undiscovered country of thy soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Soul THE VESTURE OF THE SOUL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I pitied one whose tattered dress Last Line: "I live and breathe the joy of it." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Soul THE VINDICTIVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should we praise those lads of the old vindictive Last Line: In those red gates of hell? Subject(s): Death; Desire; England; Fear; Hearts; Ships & Shipping; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THE VOICE OF A SOUL, by MARGUERITE EMMA LOUGEE Poem Text First Line: I hear a voice exceeding rare Last Line: And lead me upward to my god. Subject(s): Soul THE VOICE OF DEMOGORGON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Palsied and fevered and blind Last Line: "ye will wake one day!"" it saith." Subject(s): Death; God; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The THE WANING FIRE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If death's dread angel came to me to-night Last Line: I see again the faces of old days. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Soul; Dead, The THE WARRIOR TO HIS DEAD BRIDE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If in the fight my arm was strong Last Line: I have an angel there! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Brides; Death; Love; Soul; Dead, The THE WASHERWOMAN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the north end of our village stands Last Line: In marriage-robes, I trust. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Laundry & Laundering; Soul; Washerwomen; Work; Workers THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the waiting in the watches of Last Line: In the waning of the watches of the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Night; Soul; Waiting; Belief; Creed; Bedtime THE WEARY SOUL, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is wasted with trouble and toil Last Line: In god's own arms, a child indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Soul THE WEAVER OF SOULS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this unseen messenger Last Line: From thee, o angel of the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Angels; God; Love; Relationships; Soul THE WEIRD OF MICHAEL SCOTT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild wind moaned: fast waned the light Last Line: A black corpse tossing on the tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fire; Mountains; Soul; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE WEREWIFE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to me in a dazzling guise Last Line: And the kiss of her stung like the fang of a snake. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHOLE, by FRANK HARTMAN Poem Text First Line: Within the precinct of the soul Last Line: Are vibrant with the pulse of god. Subject(s): Soul THE WHOLE SOUL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it long as a noodle Subject(s): Soul THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: It has grown across his grave Last Line: In soul or body. And the world may catch the fragrance. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honeysuckle; Rest; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE WORLD ASLEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waking by night, a great and tender thought Last Line: One in the father's watch and ward of love. Subject(s): God; Love; Night; Sin; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime THE WRECK ON LOCH MCGARRY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you should search all scotland round Last Line: May just help you to begin it. Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Epiphany; Ignorance; Lakes; Scotland; Shipwrecks; Soul; Virtue; Twelfth Night; Dullness; Stupdity; Pools; Ponds THE YEAR OUTGROWS THE SPRING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who lends new zest, and interest to my days. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Passion; Soul; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness THEREFORE FIGHT, by HELEN PHILBROOK PATTEN Poem Text First Line: Lo, I would seek to be alone with peace Last Line: And only these, can lead to final glory. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Peace; Soul THEY BOY-FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clarence, my boy-friend, hale Last Line: Is this brave boy-friend of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Soul THING MAN, by COLIN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Who stiched me so %and left Last Line: To shake %the bone dust %from them Subject(s): Life; Soul THINK OF THE SOUL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: See, hear, and am silent Subject(s): Men; Women; Soul; Racism; Past; Death; Social Commentaries; Grief; Conduct Of Life THOUGH ALL GREAT DEEDS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though all great deeds were proved but fables fine Last Line: Would this remain, -- to live, as though they were. Subject(s): God; Soul; Virtue THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 3, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house is all deserted Last Line: God, and her own true heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Life; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THROUGH MELANCHOLY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: When in forest depths I hear the mourning of the mere, red with the Last Line: World . . . 'tis I. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Grief; Soul; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THROUGH; A VISION OF VICTORY, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! One whose back was sunward, caught the eye Last Line: In the great daytime of love's stainless truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Devil; Soul; Conduct Of Life; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub TIME, by ALICE MARY DOWD Poem Text First Line: An empty cup is placed within our hands Last Line: Beyond the sunset lies the fount of youth. Subject(s): Cups; Soul; Time TO A WELSH MYSTIC, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your eyes inspire: they draw their clear conviction Last Line: As I have seen him at your clear windows. Subject(s): Mysticism; Soul; Travel; Wales; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO A YOUTH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, with strong heart, o youth, the change Last Line: Companionably down. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Growth; Soul; Youth TO A. E. HOUSMAN, by MARGARET ASH Poem Text First Line: Your fifty springs and seven more you saw Last Line: Whose soul still lingers here in songs, too few? Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Singing & Singers; Soul; Spring; Songs TO AN ELDERLY AMORIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even in passion, when grape-hung Last Line: Is in the very look of thee! Subject(s): Beauty; Laughter; Soul; Tears; Truth; Youth TO AN IDEALISTIC POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why, dear heart, drag in Last Line: With the over-souls and democracies. Subject(s): Lies; Life; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Soul TO APOLLO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luminous master of song and sunbeams Last Line: Harlots and publicans enter in. Subject(s): Apollo; Flowers; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Soul TO C. M. D., by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it be true, as some have dreamed Last Line: Still you with me and I with you. Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean TO CHATTERTON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal boy! Whose years scarce reached my own Last Line: Have I, and still my fields are green and wet. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Fortune; Life; Soul; Dead, The TO DAD, by MARY CRANE CLARK Poem Text First Line: He never feared november days Last Line: Of youth revitalized by age. Subject(s): Aging; Fathers; Soul; Youth TO DELIA: 28 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the spotless ermelin distressed Last Line: Thus shades my life so long as wants endure. Subject(s): Earth; Fortune; Life; Soul; World TO DR. THEODOR CHRISTOMANNOS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great lover of the upper world Last Line: Of thy beloved tirol. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Soul TO E.O.S., by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When issuing from the realms of 'shadow land' Last Line: Are with the breath of morning fragrance fraught. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Morning; Mythology; Smith, Elizabeth Oakes (1806-1893); Soul TO EACH HIS DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With each his little, secret dream Last Line: Throws back a wonder on each face! Subject(s): Dreams; Lies; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Time; Nightmares TO FLORA'S LILY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maid of the mystic kirtle splashed with gold Last Line: Chanting the great antiphone of god! Subject(s): Life; Soul TO G. W. C., by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still shines our august day, as calm, as bright Last Line: Hope, faith, and strength for life's dim future borrow. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Youth TO H. H., by LUCILE ENLOW Poem Text First Line: Your soul bears the same resemblance to a healthy soul Last Line: Chained to a starved soul, beautiful and dead. Subject(s): Bodies; Soul TO HELEN KELLER, by TOSCAN BENNETT Poem Text First Line: Our eyes to you no beauty can unfold Last Line: To wait the morning's call. Subject(s): Beauty; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Soul TO HELEN KELLER, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: You live in a country stranger than the moon Last Line: And from the grown soul's deep and arrowy voice. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Blindness; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Night; Soul; Visually Handicapped; Nightmares; Bedtime TO HELEN KELLER, by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are one of our great spirits Last Line: You are a flaming beacon for us all. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Love; Soul TO HELEN KELLER, by THOMAS NUNAN Poem Text First Line: A rose unfolding in the sun Last Line: And radiates a light divine. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Roses; Soul; Stars TO HELEN KELLER, by JANE A. ROULSTON Poem Text First Line: Alone in the far regions of the soul Last Line: O wonderful white soul beyond the light! Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Silence; Soul TO HELEN KELLER, by MARY CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text First Line: I used to marvel at the sunset glow Last Line: Smile through their tears, and faith and hope renew. Subject(s): Faith; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Tears; Belief; Creed TO HIS SOUL, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor little, pretty, fluttering thing Last Line: Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st not what. Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian Variant Title(s): Adriani Morientis Ad Animam Suam. Imitated;the Dying Adrian To His Soul Subject(s): Soul TO IONE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day within me, sweet and clear Last Line: I hear you singing -- singing. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs TO JOHN HODDESDON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast inspired me with thy soul, and I Last Line: Will onely serve to be a foil to his. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Inspiration; Creativity TO L, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hope, child, is a reed Last Line: Laves a soul. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Graves; Heaven; Hope; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Optimism TO LULU, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only love Last Line: Like spokes of the same wheel! Subject(s): Flowers; God; Love; Pain; Rain; Sleep; Soul; Suffering; Misery TO MARIE, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the breeze from the bluebottle's ... Blim Last Line: "panky-doodle ker-chuggetty-chug!" Subject(s): Dreams; Nonsense; Soul; Nightmares TO MERAN'S NORTHERN MOUNTAINS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe on my soul your everlasting calm Last Line: Retain, as well, the sweetness of the rose. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Mountains; Soul; Destiny; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 14. HOPE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: It is the helpless and the fallen soul Last Line: Nor chance has had its kindnesses to know. Subject(s): Hope; Soul; Optimism TO MRS. MARY AWBREY, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soule of my soule, my joy, my crown, my friend Last Line: Which they and all the sullen world have lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): L'amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbrey Subject(s): Envy; Grief; Love; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, today I sit on the brick bench outside the house Last Line: Coming out. All right? Mama might worry Subject(s): Brothers; Memory; Shadows; Soul TO MY DAUGHTER, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, are they proud, whose leafy pomp outshone Last Line: Strews flowers beneath us, holy stars above. Subject(s): Daughters; Love; Pride; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO MY SOUL IN ITS BLINDNESS, by PHINEAS FLETCHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is't, my soul, that thou giv'st eyes their sight Last Line: And dazels thy weak eyes; see with thine ears. Subject(s): Soul TO MY SOUL'S DESIRE, by KAREN MULHALLEN Poem Source First Line: In the tapestries the lady consorts with her lover Last Line: The jewel of the soft pink velvet folded casket Subject(s): Desire; Soul TO OWN THE ART WITHIN THE SOUL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or a reduceless mine Variant Title(s): Poem: 855; Poem: 109 Subject(s): Soul TO SARAH, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In these drab days, alone there never cloys Last Line: The lips of shakspere on your jeweled fingers. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Soul; Dead, The TO THE EXCELLENT ORINDA, by PHILO PHILIPPA Poem Text First Line: Let the male poets their male phoebus chuse Last Line: Wit is still higher by humility. Subject(s): "humility; Philips, Katherine (""orinda"") (1631-64); Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women; TO THE HONOURED EUGENIA, COMMANDING ME TO WRITE TO HER, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair excellence! Such strange commands you lay Last Line: Quarrel with them that give you not your due. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Heaven; Pride; Soul; Paradise; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO THE INVINCIBLE REPUBLIC, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America! I have never breathed thy air Last Line: Of some vast advent that makes all things new. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; Kisses; Life; Soul; United States; English; America TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flooded are the brakes and dell Last Line: Make the night so drear. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul; Bedtime TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bush and vale are filled by thee Last Line: In the night alone. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul; Bedtime TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bush and vale thou fill'st again Last Line: Boldly into night. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul; Bedtime TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flooding with a brilliant mist Last Line: Wanders in the night Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Filling wood and vale you cast %quiet misty sheen Last Line: Roams the labyrinthine zone %of the heart at night Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul TO THE RING NEBULA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O pallid spectre of the midnight skies Last Line: Alike obey the power pervading space. Subject(s): Despair; Life; Soul TO THE WINE-GOD MERLUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Ho! Thou jolly god, with kinked Last Line: And roll me o'er thy tongue eternally. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Soul; Wine TO TRY TO SPEAK, AND MISS THE WAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Whose title is 'the soul' Variant Title(s): Poem: 1617; Poem: 162 Subject(s): Soul TO WILLIAM COWPER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never hath gentler soul or purer heart Last Line: To thy meek sons, or make thy sages kind. Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Soul; Destiny; Paradise TO WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, by HERBERT HERON Poem Text First Line: Dead! And we gaze, unseeing, on your bier Last Line: That music from your soul! Subject(s): Death; Moody, William Vaughn (1853-1917); Soul; Dead, The TOIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had toiled away for a weary Last Line: "but toil is sweeter than all things else." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Day; Labor & Laborers; Love; Night; Soul; Work; Workers; Bedtime TOLL, BELL, TOLL. FOR HOPE IS FLYING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Toll, bell, toll Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bells; Hope; Moles; Soul TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. TO ONE IN TROUBLE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord of heaven and earth, out of darkness, out of silence Last Line: Thou understandest not, shall redeem thy soul. Subject(s): Self; Soul TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. O EARTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth, scene of what toil and anguish Last Line: Scarce sustain! Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Soul; Paradise TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. SOL, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coruscating flame I behold the soul Last Line: Thousands of years. Subject(s): Soul TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TO THE END OF TIME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know that to the end of time and the remotest corner Last Line: Rain), yourself equal in magnificence and splendor. Subject(s): Immortality; Soul TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE BODY WITHIN THE BODY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When life like a ghastly panorama stretches before the eye of the spirit Last Line: And the source of all the light in the universe. Subject(s): Bodies; Religion; Soul; Spirituality; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE SOUL TO THE BODY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now at last after thousands of years, dear body, from thy prison emerging Last Line: Thy form, my love, I accept—and am no more divided from thee. Subject(s): Soul TRAGEDIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two kinds there are: the one theatric, bold Last Line: Yet knows the stars shine silvery and high. Subject(s): Murder; Soul; Stars; Tragedy TREASURES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me count my treasures Last Line: Whom I know at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Faith; Pain; Pity; Soul; Treasures; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery TRIPOLI, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the singing on the boats Last Line: Tripoli! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: TRISTRAM AND ISEULT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, that is first and last of all things made Last Line: From morning into morning, sea to sea. Subject(s): Life; Love; Soul TRUE OR FALSE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you think you love me, do you? Last Line: We will -- wait and see! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Soul 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 JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh day of shadows and scents! Oh day of roses! Last Line: Have mercy! Give me back the one I need! Subject(s): Evening; Love; Moon; Sea; Soul; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean TWO LEADERS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O great and wise, clear-souled and high of heart Last Line: Pass with the stars, and leave us with the sun.' Subject(s): Leadership; Praise; Soul TWO PRELUDES: 1. LOHENGRIN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, out of the depth of things Last Line: Love. Subject(s): Clouds; Love; Roundels; Soul TWO PRELUDES: 2. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate out of the deep sea's gloom Last Line: Fate. Subject(s): Fate; Roundels; Sea; Soul; Destiny; Ocean ULALUME, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The skies they were ashen and sober Last Line: This ghoul-haunted woodland of weir Variant Title(s): Ulalume - A Ballad;ulalume - A Ballad (2) Subject(s): Auber, Daniel Francois (1782-1871); Death; Halloween; Landscape; Love - Loss Of; Mysticism; October; Soul; Supernatural; Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889); Dead, The ULTIMA THULE, by INEZ SHELDON TYLER Poem Text First Line: Our souls are temples, vaulted high and spaced Last Line: We'll later place them in the hands of god. Subject(s): God; Soul; Temples; Mosques UNANSWERABLE QUESTION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's easy to oblige you Last Line: The soul - what is its lo- %cation - where does it reside? Subject(s): Love; Soul UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 24, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet, my soul, these friendly fields desert Last Line: Solely delights, and all the camps rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The UNEXPRESSED, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dwells within the soul of every artist Last Line: And waves of an unfathomable sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Love; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Time UNREST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the youth of the year, when the birds were building Last Line: O where is the treasure which men call rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Soul; Summer; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness UNSPOKEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O he can hold her hand, and full Last Line: There lives a love unspeakably sub lime. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Love; Soul; Nightmares; Joy; Delight UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD HASTINGS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must noble hastings immaturely die Last Line: Monument is his spouses marble brest. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Friendship; Life; Soul; Dead, The UPON THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF LADY ELIZABETH LANGHAM, by BATHSUA PELL MAKIN Poem Text First Line: Pass not, but wonder, and amazed stand Last Line: Installed with bliss, and hallelejahs sound. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1882, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My blessed mother dozing in her chair Last Line: A lifelong love to this dear saint of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Soul; Valentine's Day; Songs VALLEY OF THE HEAVENS, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Resplendent precinct of the skies Last Line: Leadst them through Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Peace; Soul VALUES, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The soul is years in making Last Line: God only knows the soul. Subject(s): Mankind; Soul; Human Race VANISHED!, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I saw her first as when one sees Last Line: The due of lordly death. Subject(s): Death; Seasons; Soul; Time; Dead, The VERSES: ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pythagoras, an ancient sage, opin'd Last Line: What beauteous forms will they produce above! Subject(s): Soul VESPERS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Though I be old, alone, and dying fast Last Line: Not long this fading form will hinder thee. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Soul; Dead, The VIA DOLOROSA: 1. TRANSFIGURATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But half a man's days - and his days were nights Last Line: And eyes that meet a brother's now not blind. Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The VICE BRUTALIZES, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What use has he made of his soul Subject(s): Evil; Soul VICTORY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that gathered round the light of hope Last Line: That god does little in the struggles of the race. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Pain; Soul; Victory; Optimism; Suffering; Misery VIGIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should it irk me, the night Last Line: Dearest, be mine with daybreak! Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Soul; Stars; Wind; Bedtime VILLA PLINIANA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It stands where darkly wooded cliffs Last Line: O roman poet, dost thou know? Subject(s): Life; Love; Soul VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 6, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When gullion died (who knows not gullion?) Last Line: Desunt nonnulla. Variant Title(s): Toothless Satires: A Drunkard Arrives In Hades Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Soul; Wine VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old driueling lolio drudges all he can Last Line: Brasse gentlemen, and caesars laureate. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Prisons & Prisoners; Schools; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Convicts; Students VIRTUE [OR, VERTUE], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright Last Line: Then chiefly lives. Variant Title(s): Memento Mori;sweet Day;virtue [immortal];sweet Life Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Mortality; Soul; Transience; Virtue; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Impermanence VISTAS OF LABOR: 1. THE STEAMSHIP STOKER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweat-drenched, and blinded by the heat, he reels Last Line: The seeming dead grow light and labor-strong! Subject(s): Eyes; Heaven; Labor & Laborers; Soul; Paradise; Work; Workers VISTAS OF LABOR: 3. IN A SWEATSHOP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pent in, and sickening for one wholesome draught Last Line: That on the morrow they must meet again. Subject(s): God; Home; Justice; Sin; Soul; Sweatshops; Sweating System VOICE AND VISION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had never known your face at all Last Line: And the blind cry of all the seas that roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Miranda: 8 Subject(s): Faces; Pain; Soul; Voices; Suffering; Misery VOICES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man died yesternight. To-day the town Last Line: Nay, ask me not: ask only god. He knows. Subject(s): Death; God; Hearts; Soul; Voices; Dead, The VOICES OF THE PAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder that my tears should flow Last Line: The echoes that remain! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Past; Soul; Tears; Voices VPON HIS SABBOTH, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whiles greenham writeth of the sabboths rest Last Line: Hard is to say whether is the happiest. Subject(s): Rest; Sabbath; Soul; Writing & Writers; Sunday WAY IT MUST BE, by ENRIQUE MOLINA Poem Source First Line: Here is my soul, with its strange %dissatisfaction, like the teeth of the wold Last Line: Amid this upside down land that pricks up in the cold air Subject(s): Farewell; Soul; Travel WAY OF GRAIN, by VLADISLAV FELITZIANOVICH KHODASEVICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Along the even furrows walks the sower Last Line: All living things must go the way of grain Subject(s): Soul; Wheat WAYFARERS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is very cold! Last Line: "follow the wind!" Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Memory; Sea; Soul; Wind; Urban Life; Nightmares; Ocean WE DEAD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the brooding home Last Line: Named, glorying: allah, jehovah, god. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farewell; Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Parting; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WEIGHTLESS NOW, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: For a god who is laughing like a child Last Line: Who fears, who judges now Subject(s): Soul WHAT ELSE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is what else the soul does. It tugs me Last Line: It likes the beach. In winter, it wants to die Subject(s): Soul WHAT HAPPENS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thy hand touches mine, through all the mesh Last Line: In heart and brain and spirit makes thee mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Eyes; Hands; Hearts; Soul WHAT IS A FRIEND?, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: A friend is one soul which oft-times dwells Last Line: Nor blow defiance at their door. Subject(s): Friendship; Soul WHAT PRIZES AND AWARDS WILL I GET FOR REVEALING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I know how to win the war but I'm not telling Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Soul WHAT WE NEED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does our country need? Not armies standing Last Line: These are our country's pride, our country's need. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Sin; Soul; Truth; Youth WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lives there a man with soul so dead Last Line: Whatever is, is right! Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Greece; Soul; Greeks WHEN HE COMES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A vision fair - of clouds and sky Last Line: To do him honor there. Subject(s): Earth; Holy Ghost; Lightning; Religion; Soul; World; Holy Spirit; Lightning Rods; Theology WHEN I WAS ALIVE ..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was alive--only glimpses Last Line: Of my skin and stepped out? Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Soul WHEN NERVES ARE DEAD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the nerve is alive, and the dentist cuts and grinds Last Line: As it rots and fades in an ugly, swift decay, when the nerve of the soul is dead. Subject(s): Soul WHEN SOULS AWAKE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When souls awake then eyes behold Last Line: Into eternity. Subject(s): God; Religion; Soul; Theology WHEN TIME WAS YOUNG, by SARITA HOLT BROWNLEE Poem Text First Line: When time was young, man had his birth Last Line: His spirit dwelling with his god. Subject(s): Birth; Mankind; Soul; Time; Child Birth; Midwifery; Human Race WHERE BODIES GAIN A SOUL ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It needs a spark or two of gold before Last Line: And bodies gain a soul and find a man! Subject(s): Bodies; Soul WHERE YOU MAY REST, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a pleasant mead Last Line: Where thy heart may rest. Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Rest; Sleep; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones WHETHER MY BARK WENT DOWN AT SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Out upon the bay Subject(s): Boats; Soul WHITE, PILLARED NECK, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White, pillared neck; a brow to make men quake Last Line: All—save her soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Soul; Women WHY ARE THEY SHUT?, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why are our churches shut with jealous care Last Line: Why are they shut? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Sabbath; Sin; Soul; Cathedrals; Sunday WHY COUNT THE YEARS?, by FLORENCE JENKINSON WHITE Poem Text First Line: Why count the years? The worth of life Last Line: Who sees life as a whole. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Time WHY NOT? (WITH APOLOGIES TO WILLIAM KNOX), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why shouldn't the soul of a mortal be proud? Last Line: Why shouldn't the soul of a mortal be proud? Subject(s): Soul WIEGENLIED, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be still and sleep, my soul! Last Line: Be still and sleep, my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Sleep; Soul; Transcendentalism WILL, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE Poem Text First Line: Something I give to all my loves Last Line: But I loved silence best. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory; Silence; Soul WILL (1), by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no chance, no destiny, no fate Last Line: And waits an hour sometimes for such a will. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean WILLIAM MORRIS, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, eyes that beauty brightens! Last Line: In chaucer's heir. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Freedom; Life; Love; Muses; Soul; Dead, The; Liberty WINDOWS AND DOORS, by EPHRAIM CUTLER SHEDD Poem Text First Line: The mind can open windows wide Last Line: May enter by that door. Subject(s): Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals WINDOWS FOR MY SOUL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I will hew great windows for my soul Last Line: Measureless windows for my soul Subject(s): Soul WINGS IN THE NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the soft spring midnight Last Line: Over the wild grey water. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Comfort; Mothers; Soul; War; World War I; First World War WINTER DAY, by LEON DIERX Poem Text First Line: This morning not one beam cleaves the cloud-blind Last Line: Then ponder on sleep and dark funerëal! Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness WISHES FOR A LITTLE GIRL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would I ask the kindly fates to give Last Line: To make the best of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Girls; Love; Soul; Wishes WISHING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I reflect how little I have done Last Line: When his new world rose from the charmed deep. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Soul; Wishes; Nightmares; Joy; Delight WIT'S ABUSE, by ANNE WHARTON Poem Text First Line: I ask not why astrea fled away Last Line: And can with borrow'd beams be always bright. Subject(s): Life; Love; Soul WITH OMAR, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sat with omar by the tavern door Last Line: Would ask and answer -- trust and doubt and pray. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Future Life; Soul; Dead, The; Wine; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITH PINIONS OF DISDAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To put off filaments like this %for immortality Variant Title(s): Poem: 1431; Poem: 144 Subject(s): Soul WITHIN THE HEART, by RUFINO BLANCO-FOMBONA Poem Source First Line: I called to my heart. No one answered. No one was Last Line: And I remained gazing at the heights Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Soul; Thought WOODCUT, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is autumn but early. No crow cries from the dry woods Last Line: Those trained to it see signs of they say god Subject(s): Autumn; God; Seasons; Soul; Fall WORDS OF PARTING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The words of parting in our english tongue Last Line: Farewell, -- our very souls are in that cry! Subject(s): Farewell; Language; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Parting; Words; Vocabulary WORKERS' OFFSPRING, by VINCENT FERRINI Poem Text First Line: Out of iron earth our tenement lives Last Line: In false nation, born unalive. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Nations; Soul; Work; Workers WRITTEN BY THE SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are white dreams I' the dusk, yet sweeter far Last Line: White joy, white peace, white balm that healeth me! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean YE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE EXHORTATION', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury thy dead, dear friend Last Line: Take comfort, he will not forget Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Funerals; Soul; Angels; Heaven; God YE WHO MOURN-, by GRACE WILSON EVERETT Poem Text First Line: Ye who mourn Last Line: Weep in anguish ... For the dead living. Subject(s): Lament; Mourning; Soul; Bereavement YEARNING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: My soul has a sigh to be free Last Line: In the happiest moments of yearning. Subject(s): Freedom; Soul; Spirituality; Liberty YOUNG DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying a-dying / such sweet things untasted Last Line: And god the temple. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Voices; Dead, The YOUNGSTER AND OLDSTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she not fair? Last Line: Is one right, or the other -- or are both? Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Sleep; Soul; Stars; Nightmares YOUR EYES, by KEN HUGHES Poem Text First Line: Two temples of beauty are Last Line: Lurk in those pools—your eyes. Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness ZARA (2) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pale sad face of her I wronged Last Line: Shall not we twain repose together? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cups; Love; Memory; Soul ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 6. BRIDAL OF HELEN, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the evening twilight; but, alas! Last Line: Come, and I will gaze on thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Evening; Love; Solitude; Soul; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness |
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