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First Line: Charles was a very wayward youth
Last Line: "fie, charley, you've been fibbing!"
Subject(s): Children;lies;story-telling; Childhood


A DESCRIPTION OF THE CELEBRATED STATUE OF THE STORYTELLER AT IOANNAPOLIS, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Robed in a flowing of his own bronze
Last Line: See how the artist has handled william's hair!
Subject(s): Story-telling


A DROUGHT IDYLL, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was the middle of the drought; the ground was hot and bare
Last Line: "my word!"" he said, ""it's up to me to feed on this meself!"
Subject(s): Cattle; Drinks & Drinking; Drought; Story-telling; Wine


A FAIRY TALE, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in days of yore a little princess, who had summers seen
Last Line: Then she laid her down, and, praying, slept the long unmorrowing sleep.
Subject(s): Books; Fairy Tales; Story-telling; Reading


A PARABLE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High-brow house was furnished well
Last Line: And there you'll find it still.
Subject(s): Grail; Housekeeping; Houses; Story-telling; Holy Grail; Graal


A STORY, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everyone loves a story. Let's begin with a house
Subject(s): Houses; Story-telling


A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home
Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god.
Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


A YARN OF LAMBING FLAT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Call that a yarn!' said old tom pugh
Last Line: His fix on lambing flat.'
Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners;practical Jokes;story-telling; Pranks


AVARO, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fast by the trent (whose gods this fable tell)
Last Line: So pride foretels we ne'er can need relief!
Subject(s): Envy; Farm Life; Greed; Knights & Knighthood; Pride; Story-telling; Agriculture; Farmers; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect


BEDTIME STORIES, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In key west I visited d.J.
Last Line: In search of what if not this love displaced?
Subject(s): Beds; Story-telling


BEDTIME STORIES, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the very nicest things
Last Line: Of that once-upon-a-time.
Subject(s): Children; Story-telling; Childhood


BILL MAYNE'S STORY, by R. HOLT    Poem Text                    
First Line: They were yarning in the bar-room of a shanty in the west
Last Line: Bout that truthful little story told by mayne.
Alternate Author Name(s): 6 X 8
Subject(s): Fights; Honesty; Story-telling


BOOK OF WHO ARE WAS (INSET), by BENJAMIN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Effortless forgetting. %over razed underbrush
Last Line: Penetrating each reading into sub-script worlds
Subject(s): Books; Language; Story-telling; Translating And Interpreting; Writing And Writers


BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: THE NEW TESTAMENT, by JOHN NELSON DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Four are the men who tell of the life of our saviour and master
Last Line: Next is the letter by judas, and last is the great revelation.
Subject(s): Bible; Books; Religion; Story-telling; Reading; Theology


CAESAREAN, by SCOTT FERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just finished reading 'indian camp'
Last Line: And when I get home %I wash
Subject(s): Birth; Story-telling


CHRONICLES: BEDTIME STORY, by ROBERT CORDING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He always ended prepared for a beginning
Last Line: Knowing how each day repeats itself come morning
Subject(s): Night; Story-telling


CREATION, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vollard loved to tell his clients this story
Last Line: -- the planet spinning now, luminous %as the archetypal pearl-- %did he ever manage to float such a
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Creation; Paintings And Painters; Story-telling


DEDICATION TO 'MYSTICS ALL', by ENID MAUD DINNIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Eyes that seeing cannot fill
Last Line: Once upon eternity.
Subject(s): Story-telling


DON'T READ THOSE STORIES, by CHARLOTTE NEKOLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother said don't read those stories
Last Line: I will write a story %where women can walk
Subject(s): Story-telling; Women; Women's Rights


ENDING TO A STORY, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have you. %this is how I tell you
Last Line: Unreached, %which I intend
Subject(s): Story-telling


EPISODE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman passes by an apartment house
Last Line: From room to room.
Variant Title(s): Story
Subject(s): Marriage; Story-telling; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


EUGENE FIELD BORN SEPTEMBER 3, 1850, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: At night when the rockaby lady comes
Last Line: And wrote it out plain in a small book for you.
Subject(s): Biography; Field, Eugene (1850-1895); September; Story-telling; Biographers


EVENSONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay away the story
Last Line: I'll be satisfied.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Mothers; Story-telling


EXCERPT FROM MANNIFEST MANNERS, by GERALD VIZENOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Native american indian literatures have been over burdened with
Last Line: Ries, are marooned as obscure moral simulations in translations
Subject(s): Anthropology; Books; Native Americans - Education; Story-telling; Translating And Interpreting


FAMILY PORTRAIT, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great tarry wings splatter softly up out of the rotting yolk of sun. In the
Subject(s): Family Life; Portraits; Story-telling; Relatives


FAMILY PORTRAIT, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great tarry wings splatter softly up out of the rotting yolk of sun. In the
Last Line: Candles dripping slowly down on his stiff, dark clothes
Subject(s): Family Life; Portraits; Story-telling


FAMILY STORIES, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a boyfriend who told me stories about his family
Subject(s): Family Life; Story-telling; Women; Relatives


FAMILY STORIES, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a boyfriend who told me stories about his family
Last Line: Deep in the icing, a few still burning
Subject(s): Family Life; Story-telling; Women


FUEL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even at this late date, sometimes I have to look up
Last Line: That's where I was going.
Subject(s): Story-telling


GEO-BESTIARY: 32, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How the love of tarzan in africa haunted my childhood, strapped with
Last Line: Of a sleeping elephant.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Children; Story-telling; Childhood


GLADYS AND HER ISLAND; AN IMPERFECT TALE WITH DOUBTFUL MORAL, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy gladys! I rejoice with her
Last Line: And mind your english.
Subject(s): Fables; Heroism; Islands; Story-telling; Tears; Youth; Allegories; Heroes; Heroines


HA'INA IA MAI ANA KA PUANA: 2. WHEN LAND IS BROKERED LIKE PORK BELLIES, by CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lani of leilani is body
Last Line: There were possibilities
Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans; Story-telling; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


HIS STORY, by JOHN PHILIP BURKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My name?' (he was wizened and wrinkled and grey
Last Line: "can you lend me a bob for a rum?"
Alternate Author Name(s): B., J. P.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Names; Story-telling; Wine


HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou chronicle of crimes! I read no
Last Line: As sidney in his hall of bliss may love.
Subject(s): Greece; History; Muses; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Greeks; Historians


HOMING, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river whispers the way
Last Line: In fire, food, all the old friends
Subject(s): Nature; Story-telling


HOW PALESTINIANS KEEP WARM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Choose one word and say it over
Last Line: And when your shawl is as thin as mine is, you tell stories.
Subject(s): Heat; Language; Palestine; Story-telling; Words; Vocabulary


HYMN TO THE PENATES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet one song more! One high and solemn strain
Last Line: Lives the pure song of liberty and truth.
Subject(s): Comfort; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Teaching & Teachers; Inspiration; Creativity


IN THE LAND OF OZ, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: They tell me
Last Line: In the land of oz things are different. %how could judy garland %be so wrong?
Subject(s): Books; Censorship; Story-telling; Witchcraft And Witches


JASPAR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jaspar was poor, and vice and want
Last Line: Upon the maniac's soul.
Subject(s): Guilt; Murder; Poverty; Sin; Story-telling


KING CHARLEMAGNE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas strange that he loved her, for youth was gone by
Last Line: Of the spell that possess'd charlemagne.
Subject(s): Beauty; Charlemagne (742-814); Curses; Festivals; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations


LIFE STORY, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I read to the wolf boy
Last Line: The rain isn't falling - %it is cleaved
Subject(s): Life; Story-telling


LIKE ROBINSON CRUSOE, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I too live on an island
Last Line: Whatever once was meant by it, them
Subject(s): Books; Story-telling; Writing And Writers


LONG SHORT STORY, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A mane of grass was matting the centre of the lane
Last Line: When the cattle grid rattled, the guard dog snarled
Subject(s): Story-telling


LOUISA; A TALE, by JANE BOWDLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lend your wings, ye fav'ring gales
Last Line: "or time, or death, destroy."
Subject(s): Love; Peace; Story-telling; Tragedy


LOVE AND SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love said one morn to sorrow
Last Line: "he said; ""o ye who are broken-hearted."
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): God; Grief; Love; Story-telling; Sorrow; Sadness


LUNCH HOUR, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the newspaper, another feature
Last Line: From one story to the next
Subject(s): News; Newspapers; Story-telling


MAGIC, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take some little words
Last Line: Made from little words.
Subject(s): Books; September; Story-telling; Reading


MAMMON'S PLEA: A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many seeming weak acts by contrivance are done
Last Line: "may'r, aldermen, burgesses, town-clerk, and all."
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Devil; Greed; Law & Lawyers; Story-telling; Wills; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Avarice; Cupidity


MAN I LUNCH WITH OCCASIONALLY, by ANNA DEMAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eats %sparsely. %when I arrive
Last Line: It fills his glass %every empty space
Subject(s): Lunch; Men; Story-telling


MICKETY MULGA, by T. RANKEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: He worked wid us at wantigong
Last Line: He 'ad forgot the tea!
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Story-telling; Tea


MONSTRUM (LAT.) FROM THE VERB MONSTRARE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I add to the story, because no doubt
Last Line: Your guardian angel, your monster
Subject(s): Monsters; Story-telling


ODE TO THE SPECTRAL THIEF, ALPHA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The way grapes will cast a green rail
Last Line: And there was a greater acceptance of mirrors, and rhyme.
Subject(s): Nature; Story-telling; Time


OF SCHOONERS, ISLANDS, AND MAROONS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where these and their creations lie
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Story-telling


OLD STORY, by JUDITH MCCOMBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, in our time, he is safe
Last Line: Because he did not survive, he survives
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Story-telling; Survival


ON HOMO SAPIENS, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: With small cuts cro-magnon man
Last Line: Call storytellers blind—a taunt
Subject(s): Man; Story-telling


PHALARIS AND THE BULL: A STORY AND AN EXAMINATION, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The story
Last Line: And which am I
Subject(s): Death; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Story-telling; Tyranny And Tyrants


PRINCESS AND PEASANT, by MARYETTA LEHR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who is a princess? Mother, say
Last Line: "there's just a difference in their name!"
Subject(s): Death; Story-telling; Dead, The


PROBLEMS WITH THE STORY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The story was too long
Last Line: To find you.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Story-telling


REVELATION, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man on the corner
Last Line: The traffic cop riding his pale horse
Subject(s): Speech; Story-telling


SALT, by A. S. ALLISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I crossed the bogong plains that night on the box of a cobb and co.
Last Line: But only I and the horses heard jim's cry from the depths below.
Subject(s): Cattle; Salt; Story-telling; Trucks & Trucking; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


SCOTTY'S WILD STUFF STEW, by FRANCIS HUMPHRIS BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cause of all the trouble
Last Line: "what he christened ""wild stuff stoo""."
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Poisons & Poisoning; Story-telling; Cookery


SEARCH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The story never gives up its search
Last Line: The bride stepped naked out of the the church.'
Subject(s): Story-telling


SHEHERAZADE, by RICHARD SIKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake
Last Line: These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it
Subject(s): Story-telling


SNOW COME, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her tongue mimicked the color of her bikini
Last Line: The sun-bleached, primeval hoops of teeth.
Variant Title(s): Snow Cone
Subject(s): Desire; Seashore; Story-telling; Beach; Coast; Shore


SOMETIMES THE TEAKETTLE RATTLES, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To pour out all at once
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Noises; Story-telling; Teapots


SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a spinster
Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations


SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a spinster
Last Line: Did not want to stop imagining
Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing And Writers


STORY I JUST READ, by ROBIN REAGLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lake laps at the ferry. Hear the tattoo: footsteps pacing
Last Line: It weren't for these bodies, we would have been better friends
Subject(s): Lakes; Story-telling


STORYTELLER, by T. ALAN BROUGHTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I came to the hut
Last Line: Saying words against the pane %blurring the world we shared
Subject(s): Story-telling


TALES FROM A ROCKING CHAIR, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: April glistens after the rain
Last Line: And never could sing after that
Subject(s): Chairs; Story-telling


THAT DAY AT BOILING DOWNS, by JACK MATHIEU    Poem Text                    
First Line: He was driving irish tandem, but perhaps I talk at random
Last Line: "for my nerves were much affected that day out on boiling downs."
Subject(s): Insanity; Murder; Story-telling; Madness; Mental Illness


THE ART OF STORYTELLING, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once upon a time there was a shocket,
Subject(s): Story-telling


THE ASSAYER'S STORY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'gentlemen,' said the assayer, 'you may talk all you want to'"
Last Line: "saying, in tones of unprejudiced candor: I hold three inquests!"
Subject(s): Story-telling


THE AVENGED CROW, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: You have all heard the tale of the fox and the crow
Last Line: "in return, he lies there, carried off by disease!"
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Death; Foxes; Revenge; Story-telling; Dead, The


THE BIG WHITE BULLOCK, by T. RANKEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Under a guidin' providence
Last Line: To certify his tale!
Subject(s): Cattle; Story-telling


THE BLACK STONE OF THE KA'BA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now out great father, abraham, was fain his son to see
Last Line: But allah's love and tenderness beam through the blackness yet!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Abraham; Arabs; God; Story-telling


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#68), by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead man likes it when the soup simmers and the kettle hisses
Last Line: Some say the dead man was miserable to be so happy.
Subject(s): Death; Language; Happiness; Story-telling; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary


THE CIRCUS RINGMASTER'S APOLOGY TO GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is what we both knew in the sunlight of a restaurant's garden
Last Line: Remember? You were glad that I did it once before!
Subject(s): Circus; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Story-telling; Male-female Relations


THE COACHMAN'S YARN, by EDWIN JAMES BRADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This a tale that the coachman told
Last Line: Nimitybell on monaro.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brady, E. J.
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cold; Death; Fire; Story-telling; Winter; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The


THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: HUMPHREY AND WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See'st thou not, william, that the scorching sun
Last Line: And humphrey gets more good from guilt than glory.
Subject(s): Comfort; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Pleasure; Prisons & Prisoners; Story-telling; English


THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: JOHN, SAMUEL, AND RICHARD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a calm pleasant evening, the light fades away
Last Line: You drink up your grog and be merry together.
Subject(s): Friendship; Judgments; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Soldiers; Story-telling


THE CROSS ROADS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old man breaking stones
Last Line: And a stone is on her face.
Subject(s): Funerals; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Lunch; Murder; Rest; Soldiers; Story-telling; Travel; Burials; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips


THE DINGO-CHASER, by LEX MCLENNAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: His camp was warm in the wilgas, the scent of the dew was sweet
Last Line: He follows across the midnight the way that the wild dog goes.
Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Death; Dingoes; Dogs; Story-telling; Dead, The


THE FACE AT THE WINDOW, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We had gone down at christmas, where our host
Last Line: "only the fact could make my story true."
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Christmas; Fathers; Ghosts; Story-telling; Supernatural; Nativity, The


THE FIFTH NIGHT: WHEN SHE MASTURBATES, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: First of all she eats jellybeans
Last Line: Until it melts.
Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl
Subject(s): Imagination; Longing; Sex; Story-telling; Survival; Waiting; Fancy


THE FLOWERY ALCHEMIST, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hist, oh hist!
Last Line: Thou wildest bee in black and yellow!
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Flowers; Love; Story-telling


THE FROG, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Comes to mind as another small
Subject(s): Story-telling; Frogs


THE GHOST OF DEACON BROWN, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a backwoods town / lived deacon brown
Last Line: But the ghost is digging yet.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Legends; Story-telling; Supernatural


THE GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED PEOPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we hear uncle sidney
Last Line: At uncle used to know!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Memory; Past; Story-telling; Uncles


THE GRANDMOTHER'S TALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw round
Last Line: From guilt, though not without a hope in christ.
Subject(s): England; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Guilt; Murder; Story-telling; English; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE HILLS OF RUEL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the hills and far away
Last Line: Honey-sweet folk of the hills of ruel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Fathers & Sons; Fear; Ireland; Lutes; Story-telling; Dead, The; Elves; Irish


THE HOLE IN THE SEA, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's there
Last Line: The driest thing there is.
Subject(s): Courage; Language; Religion; Sea; Secrets; Spirituality; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Ocean


THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 2. HERMAN THE BASTARD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He died alone, herman the bastard
Last Line: Ach ja, child, he says, humanity!
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Escapes; Relationships; Story-telling; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Fugitives


THE KIOSK: 1, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the shadow of a large-leaved plane
Last Line: That any one there present might have known.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Middle East; Story-telling; Near East; Levant


THE LAST RHYME, SAVE ONE, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've sung in a wayward fashion
Last Line: The poet of later on.
Subject(s): Friendship; Labor & Laborers; Life; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Story-telling; Work; Workers


THE LEADY'S TOWER, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An' then we went along the gleades
Last Line: Built up the tower upon the knowl.'
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Marriage; Memory; Monuments; Story-telling; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE SNOW, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of your old-world stories, uncle john
Last Line: As one would scatter flowers upon a bier.
Subject(s): Children; Story-telling; Snow; Childhood


THE MAILBOY'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He rode from port bowen bravely
Last Line: The boy brought the royal mail
Subject(s): Heroism;pain;postal Service;story-telling; Heroes;heroines;suffering;misery;postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen


THE MEN OF MONOMOY, by JOE CONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell ye the story far and wide
Last Line: Who sleep on handkerchief shoal.
Subject(s): Courage; Men; Sacrifices; Soldiers; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery


THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: ALICE'S STORY. PART I, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The firelight softly glanced upon
Last Line: And then her teacher smiled.
Subject(s): Children; Girls; Story-telling; Childhood


THE NOVEL, by RICHARD JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For two days I've been crying
Last Line: So astonished was he by her beauty.
Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Grief; Italy; Novels & Novelists; Story-telling; Travel; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE OLD HITCHING POST, by CONSTANCE ENTWHISTLE HOAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I discovered, one day, while taking a walk
Last Line: "of his story was true."
Subject(s): Story-telling


THE POET RELATES HOW HE OBTAINED DELIA'S POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis mine! What accents can my joy declare?
Last Line: And I will kiss thee o'er and o'er again.
Variant Title(s): Delia's Pocket-handkerchief;love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 1
Subject(s): Desire; Food & Eating; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Story-telling; Male-female Relations


THE PORTSMOUTH SAILOR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come back, o magical evenings
Last Line: To stories of over sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Family Life; New Hampshire; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Story-telling; Relatives


THE REGAL DREAM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the day that bosworth field was won
Last Line: Eternally to mourn a matchless queen.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Grief; Mourning; Prophecy & Prophets; Story-telling; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


THE RHYME OF THE KIPPERLING, by OWEN SEAMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away by the haunts of the yang-tse-boo
Last Line: And the fuzzy-wuz took the bag.
Subject(s): Kippers; Rhyme; Story-telling


THE ROMANCE OF THE LILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever love the lily pale
Last Line: Of the closing gates of hell.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Magic; Story-telling; Graveyards; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE STEALING OF THE MARE; AN ARABIC EPIC OF THE TENTH CENTURY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the name of god the merciful, the compassionate!
Last Line: To god be praise!
Subject(s): Animals; Arabia; Horses; Love; Story-telling


THE STOCKMAN'S TALE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the campfire's burning brightly, and the coals are glowing red"
Last Line: Pass it by as I always have with silent cool contempt
Subject(s): Abstinence;alcohol & Alcoholics;brothers;death;story-telling; "half-brothers;dead, The;


THE STORY AFTER THE STORY, by MARIE PONSOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: N bubbles to the elbow, on my knees
Subject(s): Story-telling; Family Life; Children; Absence; Disappointment; Relatives; Childhood; Separation; Isolation


THE STORY AROUND THE CORNER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is not turning the way you thought
Subject(s): Story-telling


THE TALE OF A KANGAROO'S HEAD, by A HUGHES MCC.    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've a truthful reputation, boss, as you can well believe
Last Line: So I calls my little history, a bomer;—so it air!
Subject(s): Kangaroos; Story-telling; Whips


THE TELL-TALE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We used to like the little birds
Last Line: Would go and tell on bill and me!
Subject(s): Children; Story-telling; Childhood


THE THREE WISHES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because he has been starving
Last Line: A decent bottle of italian or even chilean red
Subject(s): Story-telling; Wishes


THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My pretty ladies, mid this christmas cheer
Last Line: As you shall hear who listen to my tale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Harps; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Musical Instruments; Story-telling; Lyres; Male-female Relations


THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY: 2. CRUEL END OF THE LOVERS' TALE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How quick breeds scandal. In some danksome place
Last Line: His weeping lady, kneeling there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Grief; Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Passion; Story-telling; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres


THE WHALER'S ODYSSEY, by C. H. WINTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I met him on the lachlan side
Last Line: When he pursued that gundaroo!
Alternate Author Name(s): Riverina
Subject(s): Language; Story-telling; Travel; Whales; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips


THE YETI POET RETURNS TO HIS VILLAGE TO TELL HIS STORY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: ...Found myself wondering
Last Line: What we are
Subject(s): Story-telling


THREE WISHES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because he has been starving
Last Line: A decent bottle of italian or even chilean red
Subject(s): Story-telling; Wishes


TO E.G. DEDICATING A BOOK, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A broken tale of endless things
Last Line: And does not mean to end.
Subject(s): Books; God; Gosse, Sir Edmund (1849-1928); Story-telling; Writing & Writers; Reading


TRUE LIFE STORIES, by PAULA GOLDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm going berserk, running up and down the aisles looking for a bald
Last Line: Shirt like mr. Clean's and enjoys himself. My mother says I'm lucky
Subject(s): Marriage; Story-telling


TRUE STORY, by MICHAEL HETTICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: As he walked, each house he passed grew smaller, at first this
Last Line: Her voice, from such a tiny body, behind a glued door, was too %small to hear
Subject(s): Story-telling


TV NEWS: DETOX CLOSED, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: No comment, just image after image
Last Line: Now tell me you wouldn't go
Subject(s): News; Story-telling; Television; War Correspondents


TWILIGHT STORIES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Neither daylight, starlight
Last Line: Drift about like flakes of starlight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Evening; Story-telling; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight


ULULANI; A SEA TALE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When ululani went to feed
Last Line: Will shine for ululani.
Subject(s): Boats; Children; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Story-telling; Travel; Childhood; Anglers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


UNDER THE STORYTELLER'S HAT, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are many heads, all troubled
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Affliction; Grief; Nature; Story-telling


WHALAN OF WAITIN' A WHILE, by J. W. GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Longlife to old whalan of waitin' a while
Last Line: And she doesn't mind waitin' a while.
Alternate Author Name(s): Grahame, Jim
Subject(s): Procrastination; Story-telling


WHEN GEORGE WAS KING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cards, and swords, and a lady's love
Last Line: And a life that was worth the leading.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Story-telling


WHISPERING FLOWERS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whispering flowers, murmuring hours
Last Line: Love which we know?
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Nature; Story-telling


WHY WE TELL STORIES, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because we used to have leaves
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Story-telling


WITT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: But who has witt enough to tell / me what it is?
Last Line: Tis best, and I had rather wise than witty be.
Subject(s): Story-telling; Wisdom; Wit & Humor


WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM AT CLIFTON, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long have I racked my brains for rhymes to please
Last Line: Forgive, and shut these pages up for ever.
Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Longing; Poetry & Poets; Story-telling; Travel; Women; Reading; Clemency; Journeys; Trips


YOUNG EDEN, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flushed from a fairy flagon
Last Line: The apple in her hand!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Apples; Eden; Fairies; Fruit; Love; Poison Ivy; Story-telling; Youth; Elves