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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: STORY-TELLING Matches Found: 133 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "CHARLEY, THE STORY-TELLER", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 |
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