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First Line: Sad glad hairy drives
Last Line: Elitist for sure
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Time


14-FEB, by RONALD W. WALLACE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How time expands %to map the lost occasion
Last Line: On the face of a torn envelope, %a message never sent
Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron
Subject(s): Time


1950, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 1950 was the perfect year to be born
Subject(s): Time; Life; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity


1967, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In five-score summers! All new eyes
Last Line: That thy worm should be my worm, love!
Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The


1998, by TONY SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The halo of gadflies permeated the noontime
Last Line: While in the rearview mirrors, history blazed
Subject(s): Change; Time


4 A.M., by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is early evening, still, in honolulu, and in london now, it must be well past dawn
Subject(s): Time


4TH STREET, 2 O'CLOCK, by JENNIFER SNYDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the sluggish, hot wind arrives I think of the day
Last Line: What am I if not space filled with biting?
Subject(s): Life; Time


A BAD YEAR, by DANIEL HALPERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We call it a bad year, / diseases of the blood
Subject(s): Time


A BALLAD OF ANTIQUARIES, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The days decay as flowers of grass
Last Line: We are the gleaners after time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Time


A BIRTHDAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again I come / with my handful of song
Last Line: You who have soothed me with passion and roused me with passionate peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Time; Joy; Delight


A BLACK-LETTER STORY-BOOK, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In dingy binding dark with time
Last Line: In brimming flagons!
Subject(s): Books; Time; Reading


A BLURRY PHOTOGRAPH, by MARTHA RONK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tree azalea overwhelms the evening with its scent
Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Time; Smells; Memory; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 38, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is a day, what is a year
Last Line: Our souls are in heaven placed.
Subject(s): Time


A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 4, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow!
Last Line: The sun still proud, the shadow still disdained.
Variant Title(s): Follow
Subject(s): Love; Shadows; Sun; Time


A BRIDGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the church there stands a bridge
Last Line: "and the green weed's lazy beside his stone."
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Bridges; Time


A CANTICLE OF TIME, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hours of grieving, / hours of thought
Last Line: Saith the soul.
Subject(s): Life; Time


A CERTAIN KIND OF EDEN, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems like you could, but
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Time; Hope; Optimism


A COMPARISON, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lapse of time and rivers is the same
Last Line: Neglected, leaves a dreary waste behind.
Subject(s): Time


A CONTRAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can you open that ebony casket?
Last Line: Who is living in me to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Life; Memory; Tears; Time


A DAY IS VAST, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But you can lose it
Subject(s): Time


A DAY TO COME, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your own fair youth, you care so little for it
Last Line: Walk there awhile among my memories.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Time


A DENIAL, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have met late - it is too late to meet
Last Line: Look in my face and see.'
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Time


A DIM DOORWAY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forty years rolled back the curtain
Last Line: Laughter I had lost so long.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Time


A DREAM OF LIFE, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our time-career is yon dark cloud
Last Line: God grant! Shall mock their glance.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Tears; Time; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


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 FANCY FROM FONTENELLE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose in the garden slipped her bud
Last Line: For the rose is beauty; the gardener, time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Variant Title(s): The Rose And The Gardener
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time


A FRAGMENT, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should fickle hands in far-off days
Last Line: Would make thee young again.
Subject(s): Love; Time


A FUNERAL CHANT FOR THE OLD YEAT, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the death night of the solemn old year
Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine
Subject(s): Time; Transience; Impermanence


A GOLDEN WEDDING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your golden wedding! - fifty
Last Line: But take it -- I have more of it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A GREAT SQUARE HAS NO CORNERS, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "writes with a mop, ""a great square has no corners."
Subject(s): Time; Language; Words; Vocabulary


A GREETING, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But once or twice we met, touched hands
Last Line: But once or twice!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Time


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 LAMENTATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who hath known the ways of time
Last Line: Beyond the gods and fate.
Subject(s): Lament; Life; Pain; Time; Suffering; Misery


A LETTER IN OCTOBER, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn comes later and later now
Subject(s): Autumn; Time; Fall


A LIFETIME, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit in the early twilight
Last Line: The trees with a heavy sigh.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Time


A LITTLE GIRL IN SCHOOL, by FRANCES VIOLA HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little girl in school
Last Line: How merry were the days!
Subject(s): Girls; Happiness; Life; Praise; Time; Joy; Delight


A LITTLE OVERFLOWING WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As eloquent appears
Subject(s): Language; Time


A LITTLE SCRAPING, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True, the time, to one who does not love farce
Last Line: And gathers multitude like game to be hunted when the season comes
Subject(s): Time; Destruction


A LOOK-OUT FOR THIRTY YEARS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Deaf to science and her faithful words!
Last Line: Shall set my thin face heavenward, it may hap.
Subject(s): Meteors; Time


A MANTEL CLOCK, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A tireless servant of old time it stands
Last Line: To us it would be more than ornament.
Subject(s): Clocks; Old Age; Time


A MASQUE OF THE TIMES O' DAY, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the dawn, beloved by those that watch
Last Line: These too shall pass away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Day; Plays & Playwrights ; Time; Dramatists


A MEMORY, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did it flash at the window there
Last Line: Twould matter naught were it wind or rain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Memory; Thought; Time; Thinking


A MEMORY OF HER LODGED IN WET AIR AND SKIN, by MARTHA RONK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the slightly wet air in the skin is the hillside
Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Time


A MENDER OF CLOCKS, by MARGARET E. BRUNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think that in his youth he must have known
Last Line: Age vanishes -- his spirit soars with time.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


A MISSIVE MISSILE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone once in ancient mas d’ azil
Last Line: From company means coming to our senses
Subject(s): Time


A MOTHER'S CHRONOLOGY, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: You measure life by months and days
Last Line: With which I grieving deck his grave.
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Time; Dead, The


A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery
Last Line: For marian, our clear may, so long laid in earth.
Subject(s): Earth; Fools; Grief; Hope; Moon; Seasons; Time; World; Idiots; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: What does the new year hold in store for me
Last Line: And take what comes, conformable to plan.
Subject(s): Future; Holidays; Life Change Events; New Year; Time


A NOTE OF HUMILITY, by ARNA BONTEMPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When all our hopes are sown on stony ground
Last Line: An hour or two, but it will not be soon
Subject(s): African Americans; Liberty; Time; Negroes; American Blacks


A PALIMPSEST, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rest / of our life must be a palimpsest
Last Line: As 'mid moonbeams shifted through a cloud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Time


A PARTHIAN GLANCE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, my crony, let's think upon far-away days
Last Line: And I'm seeking to hide it -- by writing for bays!
Subject(s): Time


A PETITION TO TIME, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Touch us gently, time!
Last Line: Touch us gently, gentle time!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Home; Time


A PLACE IN MAINE, by SHEROD SANTOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Disappointment; Time; Family Life; Absence; Relatives; Separation; Isolation


A PLAIN SONG FOR COMADRE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though the unseen may vanish, though insight fails
Subject(s): Time


A PRE-RAPHAELITE NOTEBOOK, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Primroses; salutations; the miry skull
Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities; Time


A PRELUDE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know only the bare rocks of today
Last Line: "sisters,"" I say to them."
Subject(s): Time


A PROPER SONNET, HOW TIME CONSUMETH ALL EARTHLY THINGS, by THOMAS PROCTOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ay me, ay me, I sigh to see the scythe afield
Last Line: For all is thine, be it good or bad, that grows.
Subject(s): Time


A QUESTION OF TIME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ask a friend. She informs me it is ten years
Subject(s): Time


A RAMBLER'S REVERIE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We wander up a golden lane
Last Line: For back none ever strays.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Thought; Time; Fall; Thinking


A RECOLLECTION, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew that I should be his bride
Last Line: Which blesses every hour.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Time; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


A RECOMMENDATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When work is harassing
Last Line: "oneatatime."
Subject(s): Time


A ROSE WILL FADE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You were always a dreamer, rose - red rose
Last Line: A rose will fade in a day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time


A SEA-MARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rains have left the sea-blanks ill to climb
Last Line: Stands a sea-mark in the tides of time.
Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Time; Ocean


A SHAPE FOR IT, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when time goes by
Subject(s): Time


A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Last Line: To see the cherry hung with snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Variant Title(s): Cherry Trees;loveliest Of Trees
Subject(s): Aging; Carpe Diem; Cherries; Cherry Trees; Easter; Environment; Fruit; Holidays; Spring; Time; Trees; The Resurrection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 31, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On wenlock edge the wood's in trouble
Last Line: Are ashes under uricon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Variant Title(s): On Wenlock Edge;wenlock Edge
Subject(s): England; Shropshire, England; Time; Wind; English


A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 40, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into my heart an air that kills
Last Line: And cannot come again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Variant Title(s): Yon Far Country
Subject(s): Loss; Mourning; Time; Bereavement


A SMILE AND A SIGH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A smile because the nights are short
Last Line: We live who would be dying.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Time


A SONG (3), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The year's a little older grown
Last Line: Yet who can bring the may again?
Subject(s): Time


A SONG FOR ROSALYS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses lean from their slender stalks
Last Line: In the summer weather!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Time


A SONG OF EXPECTANCY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time will tell us: only wait
Last Line: Ripens day by day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Time


A SPEED OF HISTORY, by MARGARET AVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One brilliantly cold alberta day
Subject(s): New Year; Time; Canada; Canadians


A STORY AT DUSK, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An evening all aglow with summer light
Last Line: And wept away his passion by himself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Friendship; Time; Change; Dogs; Death


A STUDENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over an ancient scroll I bent
Last Line: The fluttering of an angel's wings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Schools; Time; Nightmares; Students


A TORCHBEARER, by EDITH WHARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great cities rise and have their fall; the brass
Last Line: Where else were darkness and a glutted shore.
Subject(s): Time


A TRYST WITH DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am footsore and very weary
Last Line: And he only can give me rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


A WATCHER'S REGRET; J.E.'S STORY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I slept across the front of the clock
Last Line: Of the hour in which she went.
Subject(s): Time


A WEDDED VALENTINE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, may I be your valentine?
Last Line: Dear, may I be your valentine?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Time; Valentine's Day


A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 1. COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wi' my haun on my haffit I sit by the fire
Last Line: I mourn for the days an' the folk that's awa.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time


A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 2. DRUMPELLIER, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye kenna, my cummers, ye never can ken
Last Line: But bonny drumpellier they've left evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time


A WITHERED NOSEGAY, by LOUIS FRECHETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here's a posy of poor faded flowers, that I keep
Last Line: Shall touch you caressingly even in death.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lament; Past; Time


A WOMAN'S DREAM, by MARCELINE DESBORDES-VALMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wilt thou begin thy life once more
Last Line: "nay! Pitying saviour! Let me die."
Subject(s): Aging; Time; Youth


A WORD FROM THE PSALMIST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take heed, ye unwise among the people
Last Line: O ye fools, when will ye understand?
Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology


A YEAR, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Paint me a portrait of the year.'
Last Line: "we have for memories—and to spare."
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Past; Time


A YEAR OR A LIFETIME, by ALICE CRAIG REDHEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swift-winged and white-silenced, each day is a bird
Last Line: Tomorrow you, also, may learn you can fly.
Subject(s): Time


ABEYANCE, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: It stopped snowing days ago
Last Line: The lingering weather out, %absent of pretension
Subject(s): Time


ABOUT TIME, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousands who pass behind the great clock's dial
Last Line: A century ago: the blaze of day %lives in the timeless lilies of monet
Subject(s): Musee D'orsay, Paris; Museums; Time


ABOUT TIME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What we have been doing
Subject(s): Time


ABOUT TIME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What we have been doing
Last Line: Not yet %soon
Subject(s): Time


ABRUPTLY ALL THE PALM TREES ROSE LIKE PARASOLS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Palm Trees; Time


ABSENCE, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Absence, hear thou my protestation
Last Line: And so enjoy her and none miss her.
Variant Title(s): That Time And Absence Proves Rather Helps Than Hurts To Love
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Time; Separation; Isolation


ACCUMULATION, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Busbound out of new york
Subject(s): Time


ACCUMULATION, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Busbound out of new york
Last Line: Who grew up where I did, %ages ago
Subject(s): Time


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


ACHIEVEMENT, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If we had sought adventurously, the stars
Last Line: —one day in spring. All other days are lost.
Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The


ACHRONOS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trunks of trees which I knew glorious green
Last Line: With the egyptian's first-born shares coeval death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Time


ACROSS THE BRIDGE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Away across the bridge they go
Last Line: They hurry back—I wonder why!
Subject(s): Night; October; Time; Bedtime


ACROSS THE YEARS, by MAUDE HAYNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through endless years I can't forget!
Last Line: That you have not forgotten me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hollowell, William Paul, Mrs.
Subject(s): Time


ACROSS THE YEARS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the years, I hear your laughter sweet
Last Line: You on the terrace there above the street!
Subject(s): Time


ACTS OF RECOVERY, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were spared the bad news
Last Line: A mama's magic prescription %for pockets for depression
Subject(s): Time


ADDRESS FROM THE SPIRIT OF COCKERMOUTH CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou look'st upon me, and dost fondly think ...'
Last Line: "still round my shattered brow in beauty wave."
Subject(s): Time; Transience


ADLESTROP, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, I remember adlestrop
Last Line: Of oxfordshire and gloucestershire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Adlestrop, England; England; June; Time; English


ADMIRATIONS AND CONTEMPTS OF TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Toward the god of him
Variant Title(s): Poem: 906; Poem: 83
Subject(s): Time


ADOLESCENCE, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: White morning, like a frosted window-pane
Last Line: Was dark with secrets as the depths below.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Growth; Maturity; Time; Youth; Teen Agers


ADVANCES, by KEITH WALDROP    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seventy wingbeats
Subject(s): Weather; Time; Nature; Mind, The


ADVERTISEMENT OF A LOST DAY, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lost! Lost! Lost! / a gem of countless price
Last Line: What shall it answer there?
Subject(s): Time


AEROMANCY: 6, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the incantation of the bells
Last Line: From life's loud pageant and mute pilgrimage
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Bells; Time


AFFINITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You and I have found the secret way
Last Line: Is a living music in us yet.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Time; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AFFRONTENBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time fleeteth, yet that castle old
Last Line: With bonds accurst, and pining sadly.
Subject(s): Envy; Fear; Ships & Shipping; Tears; Time


AFTER, by WILLIAM AIKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In 50 years no one will be thinking of you
Last Line: And we find that the stream of caring %has not mattered
Subject(s): Change; Time


AFTER A LITTLE WHILE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After a little while
Last Line: After a little while.
Subject(s): Time


AFTER A THOUSAND YEARS, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: That night the loud voice of the sea was roaring
Last Line: The muffled onset of embattled shades.
Subject(s): Sea; Time; Ocean


AFTER FORTY YEARS, by MAMIE A. MELOY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shining, friendly cottonwoods
Last Line: Beneath their changeless prairie sky.
Subject(s): Canadian River; Cottonwood Trees; Graves; Pioneers; Time; Tombs; Tombstones


AFTER IKKYU: 19, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time gets foreshortened late at night
Last Line: In my room. One blink, red mountain's still there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Time


AFTER IKKYU: 21, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just like today eternity is accomplished
Last Line: Time passed in sitting begs mercy from the clock.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Time


AFTER LONG YEARS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They told me then that time would heal my heart
Last Line: They do not know!
Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


AFTER SUNSET, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vast and solemn company of clouds
Last Line: Drops in the shadowy gulf of bygone things.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Evening; Memory; Past; Silence; Time; Sunset; Twilight


AFTER TWENTY YEARS, by JENNIFER MACKENZIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When odysseus built his bridal bed
Last Line: The shuttle weaves the cloth
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Time; Ulysses


AFTERGLOW, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray that time full many years may bring
Last Line: And I the long decembers count by half.
Subject(s): Aging; Singing & Singers; Spring; Time; Youth; Songs


AFTERNOONS, by MICHAEL ANANIA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quick passage into
Last Line: The wide world circling
Subject(s): Mdemory; Time


AFTERWARDS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay
Last Line: "he hears it not now, but used to notice such things""?"
Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Memory; Time; Dead, The


AGAINST THE LAWS, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Starting now the hours of the clock
Last Line: With the ticking of the law and its measure
Subject(s): Time


AGE, by K. H. BARRON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a remembering
Last Line: And they sang %to us
Subject(s): Change; Time


AGE AND SONG (TO BARRY CORNWALL), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain men tell us time can alter
Last Line: That lives in light above men's lives.
Variant Title(s): New Year's Eve
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Time; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.]


AGED CARLE, FR. THE ANTIQUARY, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why sit'st thou by that ruin'd hall
Last Line: When time and thou shall part for ever!
Variant Title(s): Time; The Omnipoten
Subject(s): Courage; Time


AGING: ON THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GREATNESS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls
Subject(s): Time; Transience; Vanity; Impermanence


AGING: ON THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GREATNESS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls
Last Line: And I don't feel so well myself
Subject(s): Time; Transience; Vanity


AIRY NOTHINGS. FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our revels are now ended. These our actors
Last Line: Is rounded with sleep.
Variant Title(s): Such Stuff As Dreams;the Pageant;finale;human Life;end Of All Earthly Glory;life's Pageant;after Seeing A Masque [the Grand Style];prospero's Farewell To His Magic
Subject(s): Fairies; Life Change Events; Time; Elves


ALARM CLOCKS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When dawn strides out to wake a dewy farm
Last Line: In many a high and dreary sleeping place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Clocks; Dawn; Time; Sunrise


ALBANY WINTER, by MICHAEL J. HENRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the foyer closet by the staircase
Last Line: But the strange skulls and wings of death %still clear, still indelible
Subject(s): Future; Home; Time; Winter


ALL SOULS, by SHEROD SANTOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive me, mother, it's october again
Subject(s): Autumn; Time; Fa,ily Life; Life, Modern; Fall


ALL THE CLOCKS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the house have stopped running
Last Line: Will historians write about %the revolution of the clocks
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Last Line: First the jar holds the umeboshi, then the rice does
Subject(s): Time


ALL THOSE YEARS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nickel-and-dime
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging; Nature; Time


AMORETTI: 86, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I did leave the presence of my love
Last Line: But joyous houres doo fly away too fast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Time


AN ANNIVERSARY, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two decades and a minute
Last Line: Two decades and a minute.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Time


AN AUTOGRAPH (1), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I write my name as one
Last Line: "may god forgive him wholly!"
Subject(s): Autographs; Memory; Mortality; Time


AN EMBLEM OF THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN PLEASURE; TO THE GRASSHOPPER, by SAMUEL SAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little insect! That on high
Last Line: But the winter long remains.
Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Life; Time


AN EMPTY GLOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An empty glove - long withering
Last Line: The poor husk of the hand I loved -- and love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Gloves; Love; Time; Mittens; Muffs


AN EPISTLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When crowding folks with strange ill faces
Last Line: That one mouse eats, while t'other's starved.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Paris, France; Portraits; Time; English


AN EVENING REVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer day is closed - the sun is set
Last Line: Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.
Subject(s): Evening; Time; Sunset; Twilight


AN EXPLANATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the young lady toad said her mother
Last Line: "why, mamma,"" she replied, ""'tis leap year!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Time


AN HOUR, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You only promised me a single hour
Last Line: Where all the forms of time are like a dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Time; Nightmares


AN OLD SONG, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I set my reed against my lips and blow
Last Line: And you grow young, and I alive once more.
Subject(s): Time


AN OLD TOMB OPENED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ivory and gold and jewels fashioned fine
Last Line: "behold, bright news of our long yesterday!"
Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


AN OUT-WORN SAPPHO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How tired I am! I sink down all alone
Last Line: Say simply: she was tired.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Aging; Time; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue


AN UNPRAISED PICTURE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a picture once by angelo
Last Line: Yet trembles forth a word of prayer and praise.
Subject(s): Portraits; Praise; Tears; Time; Youth


AN UNTIMELY THOUGHT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder what day of the week
Last Line: I wonder what month of the year.
Subject(s): Time; Death; Dead, The


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


ANCIENT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky is cold as pearl
Last Line: To a whiteness older than time.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Time; Winter


AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Break in the sun till the sun breaks down %and death shall have no dominion
Subject(s): Bible; Death; Life Change Events; Religion; Time


ANGELA ASKS FOR MORE STORIES, by CLAUDIA MONPERE MCISAAC    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was the year of the babysitter. Mother had slid
Last Line: She is a child, his voice a vine rustle as he holds her hand in his, %strokes the wet wool
Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Time


ANNE RUTLEDGE, by HESTER BARBOUR NEWEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long years ago my sweetheart said goodbye
Last Line: "if memories of anne live in your fame."
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Time


ANNIVERSARIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forty-odd years ago
Last Line: This whispering wrist sustains the dream of nations
Subject(s): Anniversaries; History; Time; Historians


ANOTHER DAY, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fleeting high that lifts you
Last Line: Ball of twine, fractal of lost feathers
Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of Life


ANOTHER RIDE FROM GHENT TO AIX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sprang for the side-holts - my gripsack and I
Last Line: Was no more than its due. 'twas the lecture they meant.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Railroads; Time; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


ANOTHER YEAR, by WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The years turn
Last Line: They are heading %home
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


ANSWER, by MARY ELIZABETH COLMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hungry unnumbered since the birth of time
Last Line: Is whipped, stripped, done and dead.
Subject(s): Time


ANSWER JULY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Here - said the year
Variant Title(s): Poem: 386; Poem: 66
Subject(s): Seasons; Time


ANSWER TO VERSES ADDRESSED TO ME BY PETER CLAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Backward down the stream of time
Last Line: Of my early girlhood days.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Time


ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY HOW TOWN, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sun moon stars rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Variant Title(s): 50 Poems: 2
Subject(s): Life; Seasons; Time


APPARENTLY WITH NO SURPRISE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To breakfast — to return —
Subject(s): Time


APPEARANCE/ REALITY, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A slash of shadow %across the sward
Last Line: In a touch %of hands: %both/and
Subject(s): Time


APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 3, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How slowly time is crawling on
Last Line: To place on record in the morning.
Subject(s): Death; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Dead, The; Optimism


APPREHENSION, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With what reserve of helpless fear
Last Line: Or dawn of his be heralding.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fear; Time


APRIL RISE, by LAURIE LEE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: If ever I saw blessing in the air
Subject(s): Time


APRIL RISE, by LAURIE LEE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If ever I saw blessing in the air
Last Line: Now, as my low blood scales its second chance %if ever worl d were blessed, now it is
Subject(s): Time


ARABIAN DAY'S ENTERTAINMENT, by LEONARD GASPARINI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a private, palm-shaded courtyard in the desert, a tourist, travelling alone
Last Line: The other. In the desert, time is measured by the ripening of a date
Subject(s): Arabia; Deserts; Food And Eating; Time


ARBASTO: DORALICIA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In time we see the silver drops
Last Line: In both content and pleas'd.
Variant Title(s): Time
Subject(s): Love; Time


ARE YOU SO POOR?, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Are you so poor? But in the past
Last Line: To find, is left.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Past; Time; Joy; Delight


ARMISTICE DAY, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Birds stayed not their singing
Last Line: A deeper breath than passion knew.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The


AS BEING IS ETERNAL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is sitting alone in the bright room
Last Line: So vast an event, so much becoming
Subject(s): Greece; Time; Greeks


AS REAL AS LIFE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say to the mild melancholy of regret
Subject(s): Time; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


AS SUMMER INTO AUTUMN SLIPS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of life's declivity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1346; Poem: 134
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Time


AS THE YEARS PASS', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To thousands of generations of men
Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Time


AS THY DAYS SO SHALL THY STRENGTH BE, by GEORGIANA KLINGLE HOLMES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God broke our years to hours and days
Last Line: We only bear the burden by the hour.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klingle, George
Variant Title(s): Hour By Hour
Subject(s): Religion; Time; Worship; Theology


AS TIME GOES ON, by EMILIO ADOLFO VON WESTPHALEN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Time


AS YOU CAME FROM THE HOLY LAND, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of western new york state
Subject(s): Emptiness; Experience; Time


ASCENDING ORDER, by JAMES CERVANTES    Poem Source                    
First Line: You have a choice, and so arrange dates
Last Line: Little difference in flight or fall
Subject(s): Night; Time


ASOLANDO: PROLOGUE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poet's age is sad: for why?
Last Line: "god is it who transcends."
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time


AT 3 PM, by DAVID CHORLTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clock in a narrow tavern
Last Line: Toward it, each one afraid %to mention a name
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


AT CASTLE BOTEREL, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I drive to the junction of lane and highway
Last Line: Never again.
Subject(s): Love; Time


AT EAGLE POND, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In april the ice rots. Over the pocked glaze
Subject(s): Daughters; Illness; Time


AT HALF-PAST THREE A SINGLE BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not so, said cunning jacob!
Subject(s): Birds; Time; Creative Ability


AT HALF-PAST THREE A SINGLE BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Circumference between
Subject(s): Time


AT LAST TO BE IDENTIFIED!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Between our feet, and day!
Subject(s): Time; Life


AT MY AGE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Time to move faster?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging; Nature; Time


AT O'HARE, by JOHN CIARDI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You!' we chanted together. 'how long has it been'
Subject(s): O'hare Airport (chicago); Time


AT O'HARE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You!' we chanted together. 'how long has it been'
Last Line: Longer now. This time forever
Subject(s): O'hare Airport (chicago); Time


AT PENSION TIME; TO A.R.F., by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At pension time when, worn and grey
Last Line: When we may rest—and pouch our pay—at pension time!
Subject(s): Aging; Friendship; Old Age; Pensions; Time


AT SUCH A TIME, IN SUCH A SPOT, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Time


AT THE LAST, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She cometh no more
Last Line: For evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Ocean


ATTIC LIGHT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The light moved with a kind of languor
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Attics; Time


AUCTION, by ANN LAUTERBACH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is a day?
Subject(s): Days; Time


AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2 (HELLOGOODBY), by PALMER. MICHAEL    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The book of company which
Subject(s): Life; Relationships; Time


AUTUMN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The color of stone when leaves are yellow
Subject(s): Autumn, Time; Squirrels


AUTUMN SKY, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my great grandmother's time
Subject(s): Sky; Stars; Time


AVE ATQUE VALE, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, my youth! For now we needs
Last Line: Dream you remember yet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R.
Subject(s): Aging; Time


BACCHANALIA; OR, THE NEW AGE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The evening comes, the fields are still
Last Line: Whatever thought, might think it too.
Subject(s): Time


BAD YEAR, by DANIEL HALPERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We call it a bad year, %diseases of the blood
Last Line: Of our bones?-is just a stone's throw away
Subject(s): Time


BALD HEAD WITH THE FRINGE, by JANE BEESON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Domed candles under a cathedral sky
Subject(s): Clocks; Dandelions; Flowers; Riddles; Time; Weeds


BALLADE OF MAYE AND VIRTUE, by CLEMENT MAROT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Full gladlye in this month of maye
Last Line: "my love doth laste throughout alle weather."
Subject(s): Love; May (month); Time


BC-AD, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was the moment when before
Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A.
Subject(s): Christmas; Time; Nativity, The


BC-AD, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was the moment when before
Last Line: Into the kingdom of heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A.
Subject(s): Christmas; Time


BED-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last year my bed-time was at eight
Last Line: "and it's time you went to bed!"
Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Time; Childhood


BEFORE AND AFTER, by OLIVER MADOX BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah! Long ago since I or thou
Last Line: Too dead to dread the eternities whose heaven its shame destroyed.
Subject(s): Time


BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE, by RAD SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Build the perfect house, then burn it down
Last Line: Any of it. Not be frightened by it
Subject(s): Time


BEFORE THE ICE IS IN THE POOLS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Answer me to wear?
Subject(s): Time


BEGINNING WITH 1914, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since it always begins
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): World War I; Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers; Time; First World War; Heritage; Heredity


BEGINNING WITH A PHRASE FROM SIMONE WEIL, by PETER GIZZI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no better time than the present when wehave lost everything. It doesn't mean rain falling
Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943); Time; Loss


BEHIND BLENDING, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Repair %of the moon
Subject(s): Memory; Time


BEHOLD THESE FLOWERS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And sculptured facade the visible sky
Subject(s): Time


BEYOND THE HOUR, by MONROE HEATH    Poem Text                    
First Line: These hills have stood too long
Last Line: Than linger, broken and diminished.
Subject(s): Beauty; Past; Time


BIG MOMENTS, by ETHEL VEVA KING    Poem Text                    
First Line: We live in little things through all our days
Last Line: When big intensive moments come whereby we measure life.
Subject(s): Life; Surprise; Time


BIRD MUST SING TO EARN THE CRUMB, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But once a century, the rose %superfluous becomes
Variant Title(s): Poem: 880; Poem: 92
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time


BIRD OF ENDLESS TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your fingers touch me like a bird's wing
Last Line: I want so many lives to feel your touch
Subject(s): Time


BIRD'S SONG AT MORNING, by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O thou that cleavest heaven
Last Line: Thou only hast the now.
Subject(s): Birds; Morning; Time


BIRDS OF PASSAGE, by DOROTHY FERN SEIBEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wild birds they were; and how we envied them
Last Line: White clouds and spindrift, wind, and white gulls flying.
Subject(s): Birds; Time


BIRTH OF THE BLUES, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: John keats never read dylan thomas or yeats
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time


BIRTHDAY POEM FOR RACHEL, by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For every year of life we light
Last Line: Out with your own breath
Subject(s): Time


BLACKBERRY-PICKING; FOR PHILIP HOBSBAUM, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Late august, given heavy rain and sun
Subject(s): Blackberries; Time


BLACKBERRY-PICKING; FOR PHILIP HOBSBAUM, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late august, given heavy rain and sun
Last Line: Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not
Subject(s): Blackberries; Time


BLIND LEADING THE BLIND AFTER BREUGHEL, by RON DE MARIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here they are dressed in the panoply
Last Line: Changed even today except for flickering %televisions and a smokeless sky
Subject(s): Change; Paintings And Painters; Time


BLUE SUNDAY, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today I'm confused
Last Line: Baby cedars at our %place in pollock pines
Subject(s): Change; Time


BODY GROWS OLD, HEART STAYS YOUNG', by FREDERICK GUY BUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before we troubled
Last Line: Again be the sequence %of all song
Subject(s): Time


BORROWED THOUGHTS: 3. FROM 'ALICE', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, dear, our love is slain
Last Line: Between us evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery


BORROWED TREASURE, by LOUISE HEJDA    Poem Text                    
First Line: This moment, dropped into my hand just now
Last Line: "you must not hold it longer than today."
Subject(s): Time


BOUQUET OF YEARS, by ELLA LOUISE LUICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The years are trickling through my fingers
Last Line: Alternately in smiles and bitter tears.
Subject(s): Time


BRAVURA LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He would tell you the grass this spring was a pale
Subject(s): Change; Lament; Nature; Time


BRAVURA LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He would tell you the grass this spring was a pale
Last Line: Drowning while showered by the fluid blow of keen insight
Subject(s): Change; Lament; Nature; Time


BREAK IN BY SUBTLER NEARER WAYS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Perfect new chime
Subject(s): Time


BRIEF MOMENT, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: You ask me what I saw? / it would be hard to
Last Line: I startled you just then.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Time


BRIEF WORDS FOR OCTOBER, by ELMO RUSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crying like a dervish born of dark
Last Line: To sing a hush-hush sound.
Subject(s): Autumn; Night; October; Seasons; Time; Fall; Bedtime


BROCADE ZITHER, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This brocade zither, for no apparent reason, has fifty strings.
Last Line: But is at this instant already dispossessed
Subject(s): Time; Zithers (musical Instruments)


BROKEN CLOCK, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: How odd to watch the time tick off
Last Line: The others rigid as they lie.
Subject(s): Time


BROKEN EGG SUNSET, by MELISSA LAMBERTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've never seen the sky this color
Last Line: Dying day, minus the red %chili pepper sun
Subject(s): Evening; Time; Weather


BROKEN OFF, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the spring-time of youth didst thou bless me
Last Line: I leave thee for death.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Pride; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect


BROTHER BENEDICT, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother benedict rose and left his cell
Last Line: Benedicite?
Subject(s): Time; God


BUCH DER LIEDER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be these the selfsame verses
Last Line: Upon my wintry way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time


BURGLAR TIME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time's a burglar. On his toes
Last Line: You, my daughter and my wife!
Subject(s): Time


BY-AND-BY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By-and-by, the maiden sighed -- by-and-by
Last Line: Keep the promiscd by-and-by -- by-and-by?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hope; Mothers; Soldiers; Time; War; Youth; Optimism


CAELIA: SONNETS: 10, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To get a love and beauty so divine
Last Line: Fortune my mistress, or you not so fair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time


CALENDAR, by ERIKA MAILMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the cellar she fingers the jars of honey
Last Line: One urges forget me I was never here %and the speaker forgets who spoke
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Seasons; Time


CALENDAR, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blank days
Subject(s): Time


CALENDARS, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the winding
Subject(s): Time


CALMLY WE WALK THROUGH THIS APRIL'S DAY, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Time; Transience; City & Town Life; Memory; Impermanence


CAN I TEMPT YOU TO A POND WALK?, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tender fingers ran up my ankle
Subject(s): Walking; Time


CARDIOLOGICAL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten heartbeats back our lips were touching. Ten?
Subject(s): Hearts; Time


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


CASSANDRA'S PROPHECY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time's frost shall touch thy temples in the morn
Last Line: With lightning from the right struck blind mine eyes.
Subject(s): Cassandra; Eyes; Hope; Prophecy & Prophets; Time; Optimism


CENTURIES, by SARAH ARVIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The centuries are gone. There are no more
Last Line: Death is not sad but the end of life is. %for without your life can we have our death?'
Subject(s): Death; Life; Time


CHALLENGE TO TIME, by FLORENCE RALSTON WERUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dream alone, in contemplation here
Last Line: He wastes his breath who stars his path by time.
Subject(s): Time


CHAMBER MUSIC: 2, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The twilight turns from amethyst
Last Line: With lights of amethyst.
Subject(s): Time


CHAMBER MUSIC: 33, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, o now, in this brown land
Last Line: The year, the year is gathering.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time


CHANGES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed
Last Line: These thoughts and me. In heaven we shall know all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Change; Life; Time; Women


CHANGING EVER, by CHARLES B. NOBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We're happy, time, so stop with us
Last Line: And we be changed tomorrow.
Subject(s): Happiness; Time; Joy; Delight


CHICKEN TIME, by SEAN WHALEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rock %prairie %postville
Last Line: You're laughing too hard %to hear me
Subject(s): Memory; Time


CHIGWELL REVISITED, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deputed by the tuneful nine
Last Line: And wormwood at the bottom.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Time; Dead, The; Destiny


CHILD AT THE WINDOW, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember this, when childhood's far away
Last Line: When your own child looks down and makes your sad heart sing
Subject(s): Time


CHILDHOOD, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I used to think that grown-up people chose
Subject(s): Old Age; Time


CHILDHOOD, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I used to think that grown-up people chose
Last Line: And I knew that she was helplessly old, %as I was helplessly young
Subject(s): Old Age; Time


CHILDREN'S HOUR, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The death we brought to flowers %was not our death:
Last Line: Iridescent with mystery, %maculate with dust
Subject(s): Time


CHILDREN'S SONG, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We live in our own world
Last Line: That mock the faded blue %of your remoter heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Children; Time


CHIMNEY-SWEEP, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fallen leaves skitter fleet
Last Line: And ever clean the house of woe!
Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Life; Love; Moon; Time


CHRISTMAS EVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend, old friend in the manse by the fireside sitting
Last Line: Give ye good-night, but first thank god in your prayers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Books; Christmas; Past; Time; Reading; Nativity, The


CHRYSILLA, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spare me from seeing, goddess, by my bed
Last Line: Close unto everlasting night mine eyes.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Time; Youth


CLADE SONG. THIS TOO SHALL PASS, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You think of the time
Last Line: It's more than over
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Time; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


CLOCK, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Impassive god with baneful threatening hand
Subject(s): Love; Time


CLOCK, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clock %time's stone-mason
Last Line: Silence walks in its muffled slippers
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


CLOCK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A clock stopped - not the mantel's
Last Line: The dial life and him.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


CLOCK, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In appearance it is the peaceful face of a miller, full, shiny
Last Line: And this is supposed to lead us to eternity
Subject(s): Clocks; Future Life; Time


CLOCK, by HAROLD MONRO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When first you learn to read a clock
Subject(s): Time


CLOCK AND DIAL, by ALLAN RAMSAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ae day a clock wad brag a dial
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


CLOCK IN THE OLD JEWISH GHETTO, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: While time is running away on prikopy street
Last Line: If death surprised me I would die a six-year-old boy
Subject(s): Jews; Time


CLOCK STOP, by EVELYN HUDSON ROWLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am but an hour in your heart
Last Line: There's something real in this we've found.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


CLOCK STOPPED AT 5:30 FOR THREE MONTHS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Have a drink, cook dinner
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Time


CLOCK STRIKES ONE THAT JUST STRUCK TWO, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A vagabond for genesis %has wrecked the pendulum
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1569; Poem: 159
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


CLOCK SYMPHONY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time that brings children from the wizard den
Subject(s): Time


CLOCK WAS STRIKING TWELVE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You find your boat moored on another shore'
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Old Age; Time


CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hands are plated; they'll be brass
Subject(s): Time


CLOCKMAKER WITH BAD EYES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I close the shop at six. Welcome wind
Last Line: Love whatevr flows. Cooking smoke, woman's blood, %tears. Do you hear what I'm telling you?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Clocks; Labor And Laborers; Life; Time


CLOCKS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The clock I go to bed by is so very wee and small
Last Line: It has the biggest minutes of 'most any clock I know.
Subject(s): Children; Clocks; Time; Childhood


CLOCKS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is a face that says half-past seven the same way
Last Line: Eager to go to france...
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


CLOCKS, by TESSA SWEAZY WEBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like fashioned rock
Last Line: To keep my life and death apart.
Subject(s): Time


COACH OF TIME, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often with heavy burdens freighted
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Time


COCK-CROWING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon my bed at early dawn
Last Line: And through the fields had sprinkled perfumed dew.
Subject(s): Dawn; Time; Sunrise


COLOR OF TIME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From here the apple of
Last Line: Time is tall and yellow, the child %of the sun, the sun itself
Subject(s): Time


COMEDY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They parted, with clasps of hands
Last Line: And once he had known her tears!
Subject(s): Time; Change


COMING NIGHT, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It darkens brother
Subject(s): Time


COMING SOON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I placed one toe
Last Line: It said it did not need me.
Subject(s): Cold; December; Restaurants; Time; Waiters & Waitresses; Cafes; Diners


COMMUNION: 3. TO A MOMENT, by ARVIA MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O take me, break me
Last Line: One moment is infinity.
Subject(s): God; Time


COMMUNION: 4. A CATHEDRAL, by ARVIA MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sinewed shrine of man's desire
Last Line: To face thee, and endure.
Subject(s): Desire; Time; Universe; Wisdom


COMPLAINS OF THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE; AN IDYLLIUM, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tho' I had writ such poems, that my name
Last Line: And the short time fate has for us decreed.
Subject(s): Mortality; Time


COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth has not anything to show more fair
Last Line: And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802;calm;morning In London;upon Westminster Bridge;westminster Bridge
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Cities; England; London; Morning; Nature; Rivers; Time; Urban Life; English


CONQUISTADOR: PROLOGUE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the way goes on in the worn earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The


CONSTANT CHANGE FIGURES, by LYN HEJINIAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Passing on its effect / is experience
Subject(s): Time; Change


CONSULTING SUMMER'S CLOCK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I muffle with a jest
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1715; Poem: 175
Subject(s): Time


CONTRA MORTEM: THE BEING AS MOMENT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between a sea and a sea where the combers meet
Last Line: Between a sea and a sea in the faint starglow?
Subject(s): Time


CONTRA MORTEM: THE BEING AS VISION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mindseye is flitting like a moth among summer firs
Last Line: Burns burns for a dazzling instant and then turns blank
Subject(s): Time


COORDINATING CONJUNCTION, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And ... So it goes
Last Line: And and, and and, and
Subject(s): Time


CORINNA IN VENDOME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darling, each morning a blooded rose
Last Line: And shatter your virginity
Subject(s): Time


COULEUR DE ROSE, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her soft sables, you must know
Subject(s): Time; Courtship


COUNTING, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You remind me always it's thirteen years
Subject(s): Time


CRAGS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a good and reverend man
Last Line: In his by nature's sacred right.
Subject(s): Time; Life; Nature


CRISIS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Has life no seer, who, with enthralled throat
Last Line: Shall never again darken us with its woe.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Life; Time; U.s. - History; World War Ii; Nightmares; Second World War


CROSSING PATHS, by PAIGE TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere in space, although we can't sight'm
Last Line: Meet et al., etc., and ad infinitum
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel; Time


CROSSING THE DAYS, by JAMES SCRUTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My son's been learning time: big hand
Last Line: No day yet a cross to bear
Subject(s): Calendars; Children; Time


CROSSROADS IN THE PAST, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That night the wind stirred in the forsythia bushes
Subject(s): Time


CROSSWORD PUZZLE, by SABRINA MARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: To deaf the story to drive to montauk to safe the kiss I counted twice
Last Line: I stood for something call me impossible bully me into it say I'm not %ready for dinner shut up
Subject(s): Time


DANS LA BOHEME, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The leafless branches snap with cold
Last Line: We've but half way to go.
Variant Title(s): Epilogue
Subject(s): Time


DARK CLOUD, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a white horse she goes
Last Line: Making a horror of time.
Subject(s): Children; Horseback Riding; Time; Childhood


DARK HOUSE, by GENE BOARDMAN HOOVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the silence of a house when youth has fled
Last Line: I shall quietly go out -- and turn the key.
Subject(s): Loss; Time


DARKNESS, SELS., by PAAVO HAAVIKKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Days become years. Years
Last Line: Deep down below %or up high
Subject(s): Time


DAWN, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A house roof and the star
Last Line: Where it was chipped long ago
Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Presence; Time


DAWN, by VLADIMIR HOLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the hour when the priest goes to mass
Last Line: Where you must say it differently, quite differently
Subject(s): Dawn; Time


DAWN SONG, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like tears of lead
Last Line: The tiny bells of dawn %are tinkling through
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dawn; Grief; Tears; Time


DAY IN AUTUMN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It will not always be like this
Last Line: Against the heart in the long cold
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Time


DAYS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughters of time, the hypocritic days
Last Line: Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
Subject(s): Day; Time


DAYS, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are days for?
Subject(s): Day; Time


DAYS, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are days for?
Last Line: Brings the priest and the doctor %in their long coats %running over the fields
Subject(s): Day; Time


DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Every sort of day together
Last Line: In sunny or in windy weather.
Subject(s): Calendars; January; Seasons; Time; Weather


DECEMBER 18: FOR M, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the waning of the century
Subject(s): Time


DEDICATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The years are many, the changes more
Last Line: Bear home her signal across the sea.
Subject(s): Death; England; Sea; Time; Dead, The; English; Ocean


DEEP IN OUR REFRIGERATOR, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Time


DEER CROSSING, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The young deer %with oblivious grace
Last Line: The innocent, to behold %or long embrace
Subject(s): Time


DELAY, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: The radiance of that star leans on me
Last Line: And love arrived may find us somewhere else
Subject(s): Love; Patience; Stars; Time


DELIVERANCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deliverance? You mean this empty cup
Last Line: The irresistible current of my past?
Subject(s): Future; Life; Past; Time


DERELICT, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cloudy peril of the seas
Last Line: Shall time entomb.
Subject(s): Graves; Ignorance; Sex; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Dullness; Stupdity


DESERT, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Hereabouts is desert, it's a bad county
Last Line: Adding and subtracting itself for ever and ever.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Time


DIEM PERDIDE, by ELIZABETH J. EAMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: O greatly wise! Thou of the crown and rod
Last Line: Such triflers with the solemn trust of time!
Subject(s): Time


DIFFERENT HOURS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the small place descended through
Last Line: In a different hour he'll put it back
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Change; Time


DIRE: 10. A COUNSEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O strong republic of the nobler years
Subject(s): Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Nations; Time


DISARMED, by JEAN RASEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though time cut back so sharply
Last Line: With which time harassed me.
Subject(s): Time


DISCORD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unreconciled by life's fleet years, that fled
Last Line: Unreconciled.
Subject(s): Faith; Roundels; Time; Belief; Creed


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


DISTRESSED HAIKU, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a week or ten days
Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The


DIVIDED, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a word that you may never speak
Last Line: But oh, the years, the long years we must live!
Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The


DIVINE POEMS: ON AN HOUR-GLASS, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My life is measur'd by this glass, this glass
Last Line: How art thou nothing, when th' art most of all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John
Subject(s): Hourglasses; Love; Religion; Time; Theology


DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hate; Mourning; Old Age; Social Protest; Time


DOING MY HOMEWORK, by JOHN CORBEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Doing my homework last night
Last Line: As soon as I'd finished
Subject(s): Time


DOOR OPENS, by JILL DALIBARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The way back
Last Line: When a slight wind blows %and you enter
Subject(s): Memory; Time


DOVECOTT MILL: 6. THE SCHOOL, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swiftly the seasons sped away
Last Line: Dust to dust, till the judgment day!
Subject(s): Schools; Time; Students


DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea is calm to-night
Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


DOWN HERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down here the lilies wither away
Last Line: Always.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Dreams; Thought; Time; Nightmares; Thinking


DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 4, SELS., by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come back to the cottage in
Last Line: Long rollers wrinkling the dark bay
Variant Title(s): Only Year
Subject(s): Love; Time


DREAM OF TIME, by JESSICA BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today in june, rose-burdened june
Last Line: As china's wall or sheba's gold.
Subject(s): Time


DRINKING WINE: 3, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The way's been lost for a thousand years
Last Line: With your hundred years slipping slipping away, %what do you hope to do with a thing like that?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Time


DRIVING TIME, by JEANNETTE LYNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm driving an old clock
Last Line: Myself at odd intervals %'laugh, damn you.'
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


DRIZZLE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baudelaire: 'the dead, the poor dead, have their bad hours'
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Smoking; Time; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


DURING WIND AND RAIN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They sing their dearest songs
Last Line: Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs.
Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Rain; Time; Wind; Dead, The; Bereavement


EACH CLOCK TICK FALLS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As if it were nothing
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Clocks; Nature; Time


EAR IN THE CLOCK: 1, by DURS GRUNBEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strange how sounds change. In the century of violins
Last Line: Of grasses inaudibly growing and limestone boulders %ground into dust
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Time


EAR IN THE CLOCK: 2, by DURS GRUNBEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All of a sudden the fish had to have mouth-to-mouth
Last Line: A sound in dreams is dead. Didn't you know?
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Time; Water


EARLY ASPIRATIONS, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many a throb of the young poet-heart
Last Line: For a sad season: then, to active life he springs.
Subject(s): Time


EARLY AUTUMN PROVOKES NOSTALGIC FEELINGS, by YE WANWAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This autumn I recall our parting at the river shore
Last Line: Never ask why fleeting time proceeds in such a manner
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Time


EARLY RISER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The face of the clock at 4 a.M.
Last Line: Any mail herself.
Subject(s): Clocks; Dawn; Day; Sleep; Time; Sunrise


EARTHEN URN, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O when I hear a hill-far drum I'll know
Last Line: Into the earth, into the cradling mud.
Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The


EASTER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars wailed when the reed was born
Last Line: Time bowed before eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Immortality; Nature; Time; The Resurrection; Sorrow; Sadness


EASTER; APRIL 1, 1888, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lent gathers up her cloak of sombre shading
Last Line: Against the far blue sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): April; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Easter; Holidays; Lent; Time; The Resurrection


ECCLESIASTES 3: 1-8, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE                       
First Line: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose
Subject(s): Time


ECCLESIASTES 3: 1-8, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose
Last Line: A time to love, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace
Subject(s): Time


ECHOES: 11, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thick is the darkness
Last Line: Rest is before us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Time


ECHOES: 22, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The west a glimmering lake of light
Last Line: Love, we would remember.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Time


ECLOGUES, by PETER GIZZI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: This clock, entitled simply, my life speaks at irregular intervals
Subject(s): Time


EDUCATION, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: At recess little billy byrd %took a sharp stick
Last Line: Connection between the comings %and goings of small things
Subject(s): Time


EGYPT, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because nobody knew whether it was monday or tuesday
Subject(s): Egypt; Time


EIGHT O'CLOCK, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Supper comes at five o'clock,
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Time; Longing


ELEGANCE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: All that is uncared for.
Subject(s): Time; Beauty


ELEGY VI, by ERNIE HILBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: To pass the time we played backgammon with
Last Line: Sifting the ripples, feeling for a source
Subject(s): Children; Games; Time


ELEVATED, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fifty years the butcher shop
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Time


ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION, by LYN HEJINIAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spoons have clattered
Last Line: None of this is true
Subject(s): Time


ELUSIVE TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In love it may be dangerous to reckon on
Subject(s): Time


ELUSIVE TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In love it may be dangerous to reckon on
Last Line: Days on which we counted for happiness
Subject(s): Time


EMBERS, by LILLIAN ARNETT LEADMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hours like leaves burn
Last Line: A radiant glow overhead.
Subject(s): Time


EMIGRANTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Went up a year this evening
Last Line: Is all the rest I knew!
Subject(s): Time


ENGINE, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once a day a quintessential other
Last Line: Of forbidden switchyard sin
Subject(s): Time


ENGIRDED WITH OINTMENT YOU MOVE FORWARD, by IRENE SPEISER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Further and further %air drifitng %to you
Subject(s): Time


EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A veteran gambler, in a tempest caught
Subject(s): Gambling; Time; Wagering; Betting


EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No plate had john and joan to hoard
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Time; Wine


EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See! Stretch'd on nature's couch of grass
Subject(s): Smoking; Time; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas not so in my time,' surly grumio exclaims
Subject(s): Time


EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Need from excess - excess from folly growing
Last Line: Profusion's last sad dying speech—'gone! Gone!'
Subject(s): Time


EPILOGUE, by MAXWELL ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Children of dust, astray among the suns
Last Line: To mix our dust with dust of slaves and kings.
Subject(s): Death; Dust; Judgment Day; Life; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


EPILOGUE FOR A MASQUE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little time they lived again, and lo!
Last Line: Shall shape our pilgrimage into a rhyme.
Subject(s): Death; Masks; Time; Dead, The


EPITAPH IN LYDFORD CHURCHYARD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here lies in a horizontal position the outside case of
Last Line: Going in the world to come, when time shall be no more
Subject(s): Time


EPITAPH: THOMAS PEIRCE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When his own watch was done on the last day
Last Line: Until he rise again no more to die
Subject(s): Clocks;epitaphs;time


ETERNITY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The year has run
Last Line: And he who does inhabit thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Time


ETERNITY, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How should I, still a child, face timelessness?
Last Line: On timelessness.
Subject(s): Time


ETERNITY, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A poem written three thousand years ago
Subject(s): Poetry & Poems; Imagination; Time; Fancy


ETON: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four hundred summers and fifty have shone
Last Line: Haply here shall eton's record be what england finds it yet.
Subject(s): England; Eton College; Time; English


EVEN THEN (FOR A TANAGRA FIGURINE), by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A wearied earth prescribes the stale despair
Last Line: "the sin of ""charming time""—""do come again""?"
Subject(s): Time; Weariness; Fatigue


EVERY DAY'S A LITTLE YEAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Full of cheer and shining new
Subject(s): Time


EVERYTHING, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lately the wind burns
Subject(s): Time


EVICTED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time shut the door and turned the key
Last Line: With the immortal past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Life; Time


EX ABRUPTO, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A space of years divides us
Subject(s): Time


EXCEPT THE SMALLER SIZE, NO LIVES ARE ROUND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are long
Subject(s): Size & Shape; Time; Summer


EXCHANGE, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: At zero noon of winter
Last Line: Old man, in mere exchange %for stale semantic bread
Subject(s): Time


EXTEMPORE LINES IN ANSWER TO A CARD, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The king's most humble servant, I
Last Line: Or else the deil's be in it.
Subject(s): Time


FABLES: 2ND SER. 13. PLUTUS, CUPID AND TIME, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the burthens man must bear
Last Line: Is the most precious earthly good.
Subject(s): Time


FACT OR FANCY?, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In town I hear, scarce wakened yet
Last Line: Unbodied, like the cuckoo's song.
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Time


FAIRE FAIRE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It comes from eternity
Subject(s): Absence; Time; Separation; Isolation


FAIREST HOUR, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairest hour, we must part
Last Line: And I did not—truthfully—know you were here.
Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Waiting; Nightmares


FAR FLIGHT, by JESSIE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My hand upon the wheel, I rode
Last Line: My hand still on the wheel! When comes the dawn?
Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Memory; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight


FAREWELL TO ARMS, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His golden locks time hath to silver turned
Last Line: To be your beadsman now that was your knight.
Variant Title(s): The Aged-man At Arms;the Old Knight;an Old Soldier;youth's Waning;polyhmnia: Sonnet;farewell To Arms (to Queen Elizabeth)
Subject(s): Aging; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Lee, Sir Henry (1532-1611); Loyalty; Old Age; Retirement; Time


FAREWELL TO IDAHO, by H. F. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come all ye heroes of the land
Last Line: And see the country through.
Subject(s): Idaho; Pioneers; Time


FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, old year 'the bourne' is near
Last Line: To give new year good morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Civil War; Grief; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Time; United States; War; Sorrow; Sadness; America


FEATHERS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There falls with every wedding-chime
Last Line: Upon the hearse there nods the last.
Subject(s): Feathers; Time


FEATHERS ON THE GRASS, by LAURA FRANCES ALEXANDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gray feathers now lie scattered on the grass
Last Line: And though I sense a plan, I am confused.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Frances
Subject(s): Feathers; Time


FEBRUARY SUITE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Song, / angry bush
Last Line: A long year has gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Memory; Seasons; Time; Winter


FELICITY, QUICK OF FLIGHT, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every time seemes short to be
Last Line: With griefe; seemes longer then a yeare.
Subject(s): Time


FEMININE, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She might have known it in the earlier spring
Last Line: "my neck and cried, ""love, we have lost a year!"
Variant Title(s): A Woman's Way
Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Time; Women


FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Welshmen; Welshwomen


FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
Last Line: Time held me green and dying %though I sang in my chains like the sea
Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth


FIFTY APRIL YEARS, by KHALED MATTAWA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A soldier waved our bus
Subject(s): Time; Politics & Government


FIFTY YEARS AGO; FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1826, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fifty years have rolled away
Last Line: Fifty years ago!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Time; Independence Day


FIFTY YEARS SPENT, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I passed a girl when my heart cried loud!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Time; Regret


FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice
Last Line: And would suffice.
Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 9., by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear be still! Time's start of us lengthens slowly
Last Line: Lusts explode slambang at the first touch like bombs
Subject(s): Time


FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 9., by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear be still! Time's start of us lengthens slowly
Last Line: Lightnings. Leave it to me. Only a savage's %lusts explode slapbang at the first touch like bombs
Subject(s): Time


FIRST THREE MINUTES, by GILLIAN CONOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deathless galaxies
Last Line: And where was the mop against the door
Subject(s): Time


FLEEING TIME, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds grow keener every day, as from
Last Line: Fast!
Subject(s): Old Age; Time


FLOOR KEEPS TURNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: She looks at her watch
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Time


FLORENCE; APRIL FIRST, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, let us be the willing fools
Last Line: Trust we the larger sea.
Subject(s): April; Time


FLOWER FADETH, by ROBERT C. JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seasons come
Last Line: The words of god remain
Subject(s): Evolution; God; Religion; Time


FOOLISH WING, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is done now with bright thinness of upper air. Weight
Last Line: It is time's journalism only: we are reporting merely
Subject(s): Time Magazine


FOOLS OF DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You will find them in lone hidings
Last Line: To the deathless fools of dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Fools; Laughter; Time; Wind; Nightmares; Idiots


FOR A DEAD LADY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No more with overflowing light
Last Line: Makes time so vicious in his reaping.
Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Bereavement


FOR A THIRD ANNIVERSARY, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You brought me wildflowers once, not the real ones
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Flowers; Time


FOR AN HOUR, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I may not keep the heights I gain
Last Line: I gained the heights I could not keep.
Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology


FOR KATRINA'S SUN-DIAL; IN HER GARDEN OF YADOO, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hours fly
Last Line: Time is not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sundials; Time


FOR MARY STUART, IN CAPTIVITY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though by wide seas and time we sundered are
Last Line: To free from slavery a queen so fair!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Slavery; Time; Mary Stuart; Serfs


FOR RICHMOND'S GARDEN WALL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When thomas set this tablet here
Last Line: Time's chuckled laughter in the lane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Life; Time


FOR THE NEW CENTURY: 1, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nineteen long centuries to-day
Last Line: New heavens and new earth!
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


FOR THE NEW CENTURY: 2, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The new age comes, I hear its hidden wings
Last Line: Ascend, soar upward in the new-born light.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


FOR THE NEW CENTURY: 3. AN ODE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sound trumpets! Sound a peal for the new year
Last Line: Sound trumpets! Sound a peal for this the glad new year!
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


FOR YOU, FRIEND, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This valentine's day, I intend to stand
Subject(s): Time


FORCE THAT THROUGH THE GREEN FUSE DRIVES THE FLOWER, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb %how at my sheet goes the same crooked worm
Subject(s): Death; Life; Time


FOREVER, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forever! 'tis a single word!
Last Line: Are you?
Subject(s): Time


FOREVER -- IS COMPOSED OF NOWS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: From anno domini's
Variant Title(s): Poem: 624; Poem: 69
Subject(s): Time


FOUR QUARTETS: BURNT NORTON, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time present and time past
Last Line: Stretching before and after.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Time


FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Variant Title(s): Little Gidding
Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter; Historians


FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season
Last Line: Into the crowded knot of fire %and the fire and the rose are one
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Variant Title(s): Little Giddin
Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter


FOUR THEMES ON A VARIATION: TIME, by G. E. MURRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaning out from this wayside planet
Last Line: By continuity; some guiding light %phasing on and off like an unoriginal religion
Subject(s): Time


FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MAN'S GUARD AGAINST DEATH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Luckless man
Last Line: As a sunbeam with motes.
Subject(s): Death; Humanity; Mortality; Time; Dead, The


FRANCES REFUSES TO SET BACK HER CLOCK, by HELEN WALLACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She knows it's time. Time to wind the hands
Last Line: Breeze, that drops the swollen hours, %plump, urgent with seed
Subject(s): Clocks; Spring; Time


FRANKLY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No one has time for the dying
Subject(s): Time


FREIGHT, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call awe, then, what you will, long long ago
Subject(s): Railroads; Time; Railways; Trains


FREIGHT, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call awe, then, what you will, long long ago
Last Line: Far from the misty fens of yesterday
Subject(s): Railroads; Time


FRENCH CLOCK, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time is a heavy legend to be told
Last Line: And hot throats roaring that the king is dead!
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


FRENCH CLOCKS, 1876, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Electric clocks in paris now on trial
Last Line: Compel them all in unison to strike.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Clocks; France; Time


FROM A CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The darkening was like riches in the room
Last Line: As it were heavily in snowdrifts going, %over the white keys went
Subject(s): Children; Time


FROM DAWN TO EVE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The swift dawn groweth
Last Line: This is the sum of man's story from birth unto death.
Subject(s): Time


FROM THIS HEIGHT, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold wind comes out of the white hills
Last Line: Not to enjoy
Subject(s): Social Commentary; Time


FULFILLMENT, by JAMES LARKIN PEARSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sought the doubtful comfort of my grief
Last Line: The green creeps back along the wintered hedges.
Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


FULL MOON SHINES ON, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Attend you with gifts of joy
Subject(s): China; Holidays; New Year; Time


FUNERAL IN AUTUMN IN MEMORY OF DICK WATHEN, by EDWARD LOCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: One half of spring curls up in autumn's doubt
Last Line: One half of spring curls up in autumn's doubt %each wintry death must let the summer out
Variant Title(s): Funeral In Autum
Subject(s): Death; Seasons; Time


FUNNY - TO BE A CENTURY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So dainty of publicity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 345; Poem: 67
Subject(s): Time


GAME AT CHESS: THE CHESS CLOCK, by DAVID SOLWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When, having placed my piece
Last Line: The game we never knew we lived
Subject(s): Chess; Clocks; Time


GATHER ROSE-BUDS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While this green month is fleeting
Last Line: All joys expire.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hair; Life; Roses; Time; Dead, The


GENERATION GAP, by P. N. W. DONNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their names come back
Last Line: Points its unsteady %finger %asking %who are you
Subject(s): Names; Time


GENERATIONS, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The new generations do not always succeed
Last Line: Both derives and departs %from the old grounds below
Subject(s): Time


GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They said no one would ever care
Subject(s): Thought; Time; Waiting; Thinking


GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They said no one would ever care
Last Line: Some one screaming sees it from a boat
Subject(s): Thought; Time; Waiting


GEOGRAPHY OF TIME, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We think of time past
Last Line: Not even the clothes to wear
Subject(s): Geography; Time


GERMANY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me sing germania' s glory!
Last Line: Ever flourish germany!
Subject(s): Germany; Love; Singing & Singers; Time; Germans; Songs


GHAZAL (6), by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll do what I must if I'm bold in real time
Last Line: Read slowly: the plot will unfold in real time
Subject(s): Time


GHAZALS: 25, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy day! Said overpowered, had by it all and transfixed
Last Line: Crying out for ice, release from time, for a cool spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Time; Nightmares


GHOST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a jaggle of masonry here, on a small hill
Last Line: "with the trees that I planted."" ""there has to be room for people,"" he answers. ""my god,"" he sa
Subject(s): Time


GHOSTS ON THE NORTHERN LAND OF UR; CIRCA 2100 C.E., by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With bits of pale colored chalk
Last Line: That is still being slaughtered in our childhood...
Subject(s): Buddhism; Echoes; Sickness; Time; War; Buddha; Buddhists; Illness


GIOVANNI DE'DONDI, MASTER JOHN OF THE CLOCK: 1. PADUA, 1364, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For 16 years I found time for nothing
Last Line: Precisely this one life
Subject(s): Time


GIOVANNI DE'DONDI, MASTER JOHN OF THE CLOCK: 2. CLEVE. OHIO, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I recall my first watch, a gift
Last Line: This fatal spinning dance of the hands
Subject(s): Time


GIOVANNI DE'DONDI, MASTER JOHN OF THE CLOCK: 3. CLEVE. 1964, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time will pass. Will you? The sign
Last Line: To get me back again
Subject(s): Time


GIOVANNI DE'DONDI, MASTER JOHN OF THE CLOCK: 4. MARION, OHIO, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gently, an insistent whisper
Last Line: Wake up. Please. It's time
Subject(s): Time


GLENDEN'S DREAM, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, watcher, is it winter?
Last Line: Unavenged the avengers fall!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Nightmares


GLORY OF EXPANDED MOON, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Time


GNOMIC VERSES, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the road up the hill into the house
Subject(s): Time; Nature


GNOMONS, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In april, thirteen centuries ago,
Subject(s): Time; Bede, Saint. The Venerable (673-735); Christianity


GOD'S WEATHER: JANUARY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Up the whitening blue, as the day-star grows dimmer
Last Line: Whip out a mad peal to just weather—god's weather.
Subject(s): Months; Snow; Time; Weather; Winter


GOING AND STAYING, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moving sun-shapes on the spray
Last Line: Alike dissolving.
Subject(s): Time


GOING BACK, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How long, stone, did it take
Last Line: Sink again, you might cover bones.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging; Change; Time


GOING NORTH, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the soft south where, leaping like a / leopard
Last Line: Death nears with tongue and gestures imbecile.
Subject(s): Aging; Death; Love; Seasons; Time; Dead, The


GOLD, by GRACE ROREM ROBBINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As brilliant as a nugget on the floor
Last Line: Lest gold-flecked dreams become but ashen grey.
Subject(s): Gold; Time


GONDOLIED, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Kiss the red lips of thy mistress to-day
Last Line: Age soon with snow will extinguish its fires!
Subject(s): Gondolas & Gondoliers; Love; Time


GRADUALLY, IT OCCURS TO US, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Time is memory. We have the time
Subject(s): Time; Love; Absence


GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK, by HENRY CLAY WORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf
Last Line: When the old man died.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


GRAVIS SULCIS IMMUTABILIS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, let me kiss your wistful face
Last Line: In summer on forsaken shores.
Subject(s): Love; Time


GROWING UP, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three, and %there is no past for me
Last Line: Eighteen, and %I know no more of time
Subject(s): Time


H, by PALMER. MICHAEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet the after is still a storm
Subject(s): Time; Poetry & Poets


HAD THIS ONE DAY NOT BEEN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It cherishes before
Subject(s): Time


HALF-PAST TWO, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a schooltime
Last Line: Where time hides tick-less waiting to be born
Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A.
Subject(s): Time


HARM OF YEARS IS ON HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is a minuter pageant %then least vitality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1280; Poem: 121
Subject(s): Time


HASBEEN HILL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the slope of hasbeen hill
Last Line: On the slope of hasbeen hill!
Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HE POINTS OUT THE BREVITY OF LIFE, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My yesterday was dream, tomorrow earth
Last Line: Digs out a monument from my brief day
Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De
Subject(s): Mortality; Time; Transience


HE TOOK TIME TO DIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old fellow who never had time
Last Line: He found time to die.
Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The


HEAD OF A GIRL, AT THE MET, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vermeer's girl in your turban and pearl:
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Museums; Time; Art Gallerys


HEART BEAT, by JAMES CERVANTES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday, when I had more heartbeats left
Last Line: Will find the heart that wants to go along
Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Life; Time


HELEN GREY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because one loves you, helen grey
Last Line: When you yourself are nipped and grey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Time


HER IMMORTALITY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lady, had I but the heaven-sent grace
Last Line: And outsoar death itself on wings of rhyme!
Subject(s): Death; Fame; France; Immortality; Time; Dead, The; Reputation


HER YEARS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Years come and go, each bringing in his train
Last Line: And makes her new years old, ere yet begun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


HERE AND NOW, by CATHERINE CATER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If here and now be but a timely span
Last Line: The future as we see the now and here.
Subject(s): Time


HERE LIES ARCHEANASSA, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Though what a flame you passed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos
Subject(s): Time


HEREDITY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our dead forefathers, mighty though they be
Last Line: The board for thee is clean: write what thou wilt!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Life; Time


HERO, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A one - legged pigeon fighting a crust of bread
Last Line: A glimpse is a vision in time's womb
Subject(s): Dreams; Time


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


HIATUS, by MARGARET AVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The weedy light through the uncurtained glass
Subject(s): Home; Time; Moving & Movers


HIEROGLYPHIC, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bent over his time-polished pitchfork
Subject(s): Sycamore Trees; Time


HIGH NOON AT MIDSUMMER ON THE CAMPAGNA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High noon
Last Line: Of noon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Graves; Night; Rome, Italy; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime


HIGHGATE EASTER, by F. D. REEVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snowdrops in the corner of the garden
Last Line: Bursts in each garden with a mummers' show %of grace as green leaves overtake the woods
Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Seasons; Time


HISTORY, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The massif of the dahlias lay between
Last Line: Under the coming storm.
Subject(s): History; Storms; Time; Historians


HISTORY, by ROBERTA TEALE SWARTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: If, by the number of pebbles in the hand
Last Line: Even your hand is my bewilderment.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chalmers, Gordon Keith, Mrs.
Subject(s): History; Time; Historians


HOLY ISLAND, by ANDREW MOTION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am behind you on the mainland, leaning
Subject(s): Time


HOME FIRES, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know how big I'll be tomorrow, you
Last Line: I %care to %visit
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Growth; Home; Time


HOMEWORK, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lest the fair cheeks begin their shrivelling
Last Line: I cupboarded these pickled peaches in time's despite
Subject(s): Literary Form; Peaches; Time


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, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hope that is blindfold is not blind
Last Line: The veiling of the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hope; Time; Optimism


HOPE AND TIME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the great city rear'd, my fancy rude
Last Line: And knows not whether he is first or last.
Subject(s): Fables; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Youth; Allegories; Optimism


HOUR GLASS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm angry with time because
Last Line: Her - is she impatient too?
Subject(s): Time


HOUR IS A SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With them would harbor be
Variant Title(s): Poem: 825; Poem: 89
Subject(s): Time


HOURGLASS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flawless' is the word, no doubt, for this third of may
Subject(s): Time


HOURGLASS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flawless' is the word, no doubt, for this third of may
Last Line: And leans on the air that is hers and here
Subject(s): Time


HOURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the bright stars came out last night
Last Line: And passed into the skies
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Life; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


HOURS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We spend six hours
Last Line: More truly ours
Subject(s): Time


HOURS CONTINUING LONG, SORE AND HEAVY-HEARTED, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Does he see himself reflected in me? In these hours, does he see the face of his hours reflected?
Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships; Time


HOW LONG, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If on my grave the summer grass were growing
Last Line: So long, dear love, so long!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Farewell; Time; Parting


HOW LONG, by ANDREA ZANZOTTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: How long between the grain and the wind
Last Line: That still weigh down the borders
Subject(s): Time


HOW LONG THIS NIGHT IS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mirie it, while sumer ilast
Last Line: Soregh and murne and fast
Subject(s): Grief; Time


HUMMINGBIRD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can imagine, in some otherworld
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): Humming-bird
Subject(s): Birds; Hummingbirds; Time


HUMMINGBIRD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can imagine, in some otherworld
Last Line: We look at him through the wrong end of the long telescope of time, %luckily for us
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): Humming-bir
Subject(s): Birds; Hummingbirds; Time


HYMN TO THE SUN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light of the world, and ruler of the year
Last Line: And touch thy lyre, and shoot thy beams no more.
Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Light; New Year; Sun; Time; War; Heroes; Heroines


HYMN TO THE SUN AND MYSELF, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well! Well! %the day's at the morn
Last Line: Oh let every day for a long time not be my last
Subject(s): Time


HYMNS OF A HERMIT: 3, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time more than earthly o'er this hour prevail
Last Line: And he who dooms the flesh, redeems the soul.
Subject(s): Hermits; Time


I AM ..., by ROSIE MARTORANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am all the things of my past
Last Line: And everyone crying
Subject(s): Self; Time


I BLINK AND HALF MY LIFE IS OVER, by PETE WINSLOW    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Then surprised I look around at the smiling faces
Subject(s): Time


I COULD GIVE ALL TO TIME, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To time it never seems that he is brave
Last Line: And what I would not part with I have kept
Subject(s): Time


I COULD GIVE ALL TO TIME, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To time it never seems that he is brave
Last Line: And what I would not part with I have kept
Subject(s): Time


I COULD NOT PROVE THE YEARS HAD FEET, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Proves that - outgrown - I see
Variant Title(s): Poem: 563; Poem: 67
Subject(s): Time


I HAVE USED UP MORE THAN, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What the next would bring
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Future; Hope; Nature; Time


I HEAR LONGING STRINGS, by CAROLYN STOLOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The laundry I hauled home this morning over dirty ice
Last Line: One's barber will make the decision
Subject(s): Time


I HOPE THERE'S TIME, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And not just this
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Future; Nature; Time


I KNOW THIS VICIOUS MINUTE'S HOUR, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But I go or die
Subject(s): Time; Reality


I PAY THE PRICE, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Memory slipping more and more
Last Line: I pay the price
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Time


I PRETEND TO WAIT FOR YOU TO ENLARGE THE MINUTES, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Time; Waiting


I SAID IN MY HEART, by PATRICIA PEART    Poem Text                    
First Line: I said in my heart, I am one with running water
Last Line: Things as untamed as these, derisive of time and space?
Subject(s): Hearts; Rain; Time


I SAW THEE CHILD ONE SUMMER'S DAY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Children; Time; Fear; Childhood


I SHOULD NOT DARE TO LEAVE MY FRIEND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where midnight frosts – had lain!
Subject(s): Death; Time


I STILL HAVE EVERYTHING YOU GAVE ME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is dusty on the edges
Last Line: I would not trade.
Subject(s): Memory; Time


I THINK THE LONGEST HOUR OF ALL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And further north remove
Variant Title(s): Poem: 607; Poem: 63
Subject(s): Time


I USED TO HAVE TIME BY THE ASS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And it's going away
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Time


IDEA: 17. TO TIME, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, speedy time, behold, before thou pass
Last Line: That she is gone, her like again to see.
Subject(s): Time


IF I COULD TELL YOU, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time will say nothing but I told you so
Last Line: If I could tell you I would let you know
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Variant Title(s): But I Can'
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


IF I EVER HAVE TIME FOR THINGS THAT MATTER, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Castles; Time


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


II PETER II 22, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, the new year succeeds the dead
Last Line: The heights which crowned a deadlier year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Time; World War I; First World War


ILIAD IN ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE, by STEVEN RICHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Agamemnon insists on retaining the company he acquired
Last Line: The wall street journal pushing him for president
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Time


ILL-READ, by ESTHER MAZAKIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Years lapse like nothing and she thought it was two
Last Line: People, words, %that made her ill
Subject(s): Change; Time


IMMORTAL SAILS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, in a breath, we'll burst those gates of gold
Last Line: While eyes meet eyes, and look their last farewell.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Life; Love; Time; Dead, The; Paradise


IMMORTALITY, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In sleeping beauty's castle
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Sleeping Beauty; Time; Flies


IMMORTALITY, by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where goes the starry quire?
Last Line: The day that hath no night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand
Subject(s): Immortality; Time


IMPATIENCE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will the mocking daylight never be done
Last Line: You have grown so slow in setting!
Subject(s): Time


IN 1947 A SINGLE GOLD NUGGET WAS FOUND, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In between life has passed
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Explorers; Gold; Nature; Time


IN A COLUMBARIUM, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn sun still bravely streams
Last Line: Love soars immortal to the skies.
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Past; Roman Empire; Seasons; Time; Fall


IN A DARK STONE, by JENNIFER JOSEPH    Poem Source                    
First Line: About 7000 years ago
Last Line: And once I saw...But that's another story.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny
Subject(s): Time


IN A DISUSED GRAVEYARD, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The living come with grassy tread
Last Line: I think they would believe the lie
Subject(s): Mourning; Time; Bereavement


IN A DISUSED GRAVEYARD, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The living come with grassy tread
Last Line: I think they would believe the lie
Subject(s): Mourning; Time


IN CALM CONTENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little smoke lazed slowly up from my big cigar
Last Line: And back I leant in calm content that things are as they are
Subject(s): Contentment;labor & Laborers;memory;time


IN DAYS GONE BY, by LILLA CABOT PERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In days gone by when you were here
Last Line: In days gone by!
Subject(s): Hunger; Memory; Past; Time


IN HALF DARKNESS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your face is still so beautiful
Subject(s): Love; Time


IN HALF DARKNESS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your face is still so beautiful
Last Line: As the end of our time together
Subject(s): Love; Time


IN HIS SIGHT, by ANNA R. BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: God counts time not by minutes nor by days
Last Line: But marks the silence of god's timeless clock.
Subject(s): God; Time


IN LOVE WITH TIME, by LAURA BENET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw time in a dream and he was young
Subject(s): Time


IN MY EIGHTEENTH YEAR, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having measured the years today by the calendar
Last Line: Shine from the perverse beauty of the dead
Subject(s): Time; Teenagers


IN REPLY TO QUESTIONS, by T'AI-SHANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I happened to come to the foot of a pine tree
Last Line: There are no calendars here in the mountain; %the cold passes but I don't know what year it is
Subject(s): Time


IN THE END, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: With all thy gold, thou canst not make
Last Line: Should call thy name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Mortality; Time


IN THE EVENING, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heads of roses begin to droop
Last Line: Nothing but an only child with two different masks
Subject(s): Time


IN THE FADING YEAR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The goldenrod is nodding to the asters by the road
Last Line: Making lives leaf out in kindness as the fruitful days proceed.
Subject(s): Nature; Time


IN THE FORTY-FIFTH YEAR OF MARRIAGE IT GOES ON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would never say I feel like a million dollars, but I whistle
Subject(s): Marriage; Time; Conduct Of Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


IN THE GARDEN OF TIME AND DESTINY, by NABI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the garden of time and destiny, we have seen both
Last Line: Who have exchanged a cup full of their desires for a beggar's bowl
Subject(s): Fate; Time


IN THE GREEN MORNING, NOW, ONCE MORE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the green morning, before
Subject(s): Time; Renewal


IN THE GUTTER, by ANDREW FELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Having outstayed her month, miss november
Last Line: Another mouth, another way of speaking. It's not
Subject(s): Time; Winter


IN THE HALF-WAY HOUSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At twenty we fancied the blest middle ages
Last Line: And still climb the dream-tree for — ashes and dust!
Subject(s): Time


IN THE NEW GARDEN, IN ALL THE PARTS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: You, born years, centuries after me, I seek
Subject(s): Modern Life; Time


IN THE NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When it's night, and no light
Last Line: "go to sleep, my dear""?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Clocks; Night; Sleep; Time; Bedtime


IN THE PROCESSION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "spring comes: and baseball, robust flower, in every meadow's seen"
Last Line: As often sighs is the man who was -- and now is not -- a boy
Subject(s): Aging;old Age;seasons;time


IN THE SAME PLACE, WHEN NATURE WORE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Time


IN THE WOOD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I found at the root of a tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Time; Elves; Woods


IN THREE DAYS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So, I shall see her in three days
Last Line: Then just two hours, and that is morn.
Subject(s): Time


IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: A DREAM OF GOOD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To do some little good before I die
Last Line: Scorned by the proud but with the poor at peace.
Subject(s): Hope; Prisons & Prisoners; Time; Optimism; Convicts


INDIVIDUAL TIME, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm calling out from pictures to your vision creating it
Subject(s): Time


INDUSTRIAL POEMS, by ALOYSIUS MICHAEL SULLIVAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, A. M.
Subject(s): Time


INFANT SORROW, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother groaned, my father wept
Last Line: To sulk upon my mother's breast.
Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Mythology; Time; Child Birth; Midwifery


INISHMAAN, by RENNIE MCQUILKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Considering millennia of tooth and bone and carapace
Last Line: Nobbled things will translate well, bloom white as brides
Subject(s): Change; Sea; Time


INITIATION, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clinging like a koala
Last Line: Collapse forever %into soft, accepting snow
Subject(s): Time


INSCRIPTION FOR A LIBRARY, by GEORGE SEIBEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Put on the cowl, take up thy staff!
Last Line: Across the ancient aisles of time.
Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Poetry & Poets; Time; Reading


INSCRIPTION FOR MY DAUGHTERS' HOUR-GLASS, by JOHN LUCKEY MCCREERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mark the golden grains that pass
Last Line: Improv'd bid every moment pass - %see how the sand rolls down your glass
Subject(s): Time


INSCRIPTIONS FOR A HOUSE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cornerstone in truth is laid
Last Line: I shall live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Variant Title(s): For The Friends At Hurstmont
Subject(s): Faith; Houses; Time; Truth; Belief; Creed


INTERMEDIARY WILL, by FERENC RAKOCZY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every day I look for the unknown country, knowing all the while
Last Line: Only throw light on the hand held out above the muddy holes
Subject(s): Time; Wills


INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet
Last Line: Here: in america. In america.
Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration


INVOCATION TO THE CUCKOO, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, pursuivant and herald of the spring!
Last Line: I laugh at fortune, and defy old time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Fortune; Muses; Time


IRON PANTS, by DEBORAH WARREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: New they were black now top-frizzed like charcoal
Last Line: A winter warmth that underneath the hoar %frost's rime-skin wears like iron warms blood
Subject(s): Fathers; Time


IS IT ROBIN O'CLOCK?, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Do we still have to wait?
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Time


IT WAS LONG AGO, by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll tell you, shall I, something I remember?
Last Line: Then I grew up, you see
Subject(s): Time


IT WAS NIGHT, AND ON THE MOUNTAINS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Grief; Death - Animals; Sorrow; Sadness


IV, by LUIS DE GONGORA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The whistling arrow flies less eagerly
Last Line: Those brilliant hours that wore away our days, %our days that ate into eternity
Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De
Subject(s): Time


IVY SONG; ON RECEIVING IVY LEAVES .. CASTLE OF RHEINFELS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! How could fancy crown with thee
Last Line: And all is thine at length!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Castles; Germany; Ivy; Ruins; Time; Germans


JAY A-PASS'D, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When leaves, in evenen winds, do vlee
Last Line: When did my jaÿ all pass me by?
Subject(s): Children; Home; Jays; Mortality; Time; Childhood


JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 41. SUBURB, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If a naturalist came to this hillside
Subject(s): Time


JOHN JONES: 1. AT THE PIANO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love me and leave me; what love bids retrieve me? Can june's first grasp may?
Last Line: Love me and save me, take me or waive me; death takes one so soon!
Subject(s): Death; Love; Time; Dead, The


JOHN JONES: 5. OFF THE PIER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One last glance at these sands and stones!
Last Line: You would hardly salute me by choice, john jones?
Subject(s): Time; Wharves; Youth; Piers


JOHNNY HODGES DEATHBED BLUES, by GERALD MAJER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It must be the woman there %threading across his hands
Last Line: The in-between of knowing who was there %and pull of the look, over at her - %sheer interval
Subject(s): Beds; Death; Time


JOURNAL, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: November 2nd monday evening-took my place
Last Line: Myself-yours most obliged
Subject(s): Diaries; Life Change Events; Memory; Time


JUDGEMENT FLOOD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great storm will come when monday's a day
Last Line: A red cross on each right shoulder lain
Subject(s): Time


JUDICIUM PARIDIS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said, when young, 'beauty's the supreme joy'
Last Line: Renders me back a saint unto myself!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Beauty; Youth; Aging; Wisdom; Courtship; Time; Likes & Dislikes


JUST AS OF OLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as of old! The world rolls on
Last Line: Just as of old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Rivers; Time; World


KEVORKIAN ON THE BIRTH OF A SON, by BILL COLEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'd let him die if he weren't so healthy
Last Line: And killing of time, I'd let him die %just to even the score
Subject(s): Death; Time


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 9. OF THE TIME OF THE DAY, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: How high the sun
Last Line: The frame around the body
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Time; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KIARTAN THE ICELANDER: EPILOGUE, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glitter of seas, green meadows, sun and rain
Last Line: Than bid you die by mine.'
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Love; Mythology; Sea; Time


KILLING TIME, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Killing time pick up
Last Line: Not discriminate & %is beyond influence
Subject(s): Time


KILLINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He spent his time killing time
Last Line: Until time killed him. What's his name?
Subject(s): Time


L'AMITIE EST L'AMOUR SANS AILES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should my anxious breast repine
Last Line: Friendship is love without his wings!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of Life


LAMP AND THE BELL, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of this sense of expectation through all the universe
Last Line: I shall not face it with less decision for all that
Subject(s): Bells; Lamps; Night; Time


LAND OF STEADY HABITS, by DARA WIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Goats with baby goats chewed on shirts
Subject(s): Time; Nature; Chicago


LAND'S END, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A day all blue and white, and we
Last Line: Two gulls are circling where the woods begin
Subject(s): Sea; Time; Nature; Ocean


LASSITUDE, by NEAL BOWERS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A ruined garden where we %sometimes linger
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Time


LAST AUGUST HOURS BEFORE THE YEAR 2000, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spun silk of mercy,
Subject(s): Time


LAST NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it last summer, just last year
Last Line: And the new year, love, the new year!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory; Past; Peace; Time; War


LATE HOME, by BRIAN LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I looked up - the sun had gone down
Last Line: Will it all be over as soon?
Subject(s): Time


LATE SINGERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The spring was late in coming, so
Last Line: We'll sing our number through.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Time; Songs


LATER IN LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer heat, the first early morning
Subject(s): Seasons; Time; Communication


LAUGHTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the coziest corner of my
Last Line: His hair a raveled nimbus of gray gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Laughter; Time; Nightmares


LAUS MARIAE, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the brook of time man leaping goes
Last Line: Baltimore, 1874 - 5.
Subject(s): Time


LAVE THY LIMBS IN THE STREAM OF MY SONG!, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Before these eyes are dry this soul a desert
Subject(s): Time


LAZARUS (1ST DRAFT), by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside the rock on which we live, another rock
Last Line: Nothing else goes on. While a blurred and breathless hour
Subject(s): Time; Life


LEAVES A-VALLEN, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There the ash-tree leaves do vall
Last Line: Voremost they that dropp'd behind.
Subject(s): Autumn; Children; Death; Mortality; Seasons; Time; Fall; Childhood; Dead, The


LEISURE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this life if, full of care
Last Line: We have no time to stand and stare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Beauty; Leisure; Time


LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Khalifs and khans have we beheld, who trod
Last Line: Trumpet his name, and flood his deeds with day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Time; Dead, The; World


LET EVENING COME, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the light of late afternoon
Last Line: Comfortless, so let evening come
Subject(s): Evening; Time; Sunset; Twilight


LET NO SMALL SINNER ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If time should find a wayward stone therein
Last Line: Let no small sinner enter the mosaic.
Subject(s): Sin; Time


LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a bird alone
Last Line: Answer: yea, come, lord jesus, come
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Solitude; Eternity; Time; Patience


LETTER, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To sit on the veranda of a hotel in jerusalem
Last Line: What does he remember?
Subject(s): Time; Love


LETTER, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To sit on the veranda of a hotel in jerusalem
Last Line: What does he remember?
Subject(s): Time


LICIA: SONNET 28, by THE ELDER GILES FLETCHER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In time the strong and stately turrets fall
Last Line: Except thy beautie, vertues, and thy friend
Variant Title(s): Tim
Subject(s): Time


LIFE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a busy dream, forgotten ere it fades"
Last Line: So we in iron selfishness stand strong
Subject(s): Dreams;life;old Age;time; Nightmares


LIFE, by ALEXANDER R. SCHOOLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life has three parts to its day
Last Line: Our time is out, our race is run.
Subject(s): Day; Time


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


LIKE A SENTENCE, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How little we know
Subject(s): Life' Time


LIKE TIME'S INSIDIOUS WRINKLE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That none can punish him
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1236; Poem: 126
Subject(s): Time


LIMITATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Breathe above me or below
Last Line: Life in time's captivity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Life; Time


LINE OF VERSE, by KIM YANKSHIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soundless, %time alloted to us flows
Last Line: Flashes %and -
Subject(s): Time


LINES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just fifty years ago to-night
Last Line: And time will ever prove us so.
Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Time


LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 3. OF WEIGHTS OF A CLOCK, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So clocks to lead their nimble motions owe
Last Line: Actuates, maintains, and rules the moving frame.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


LINES FOR A PROLOGUE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These alternate nights and days, these seasons
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Time


LINES ON MR. HATTON'S CLOCKS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From hour to hour melodiously they chime
Last Line: With silver sounds, and sweetly tune out time.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


LINES ON MY THIRTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah me!-the moments will not stay!
Last Line: At twice the count of thirty-nine!
Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Time; Youth


LINES TO A DESERTED STUDY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush! Feel ye not around us teem
Last Line: Tread gently, we were flowers.
Subject(s): Aging; Life; Time; Youth


LINES UNDER A SUN-DIAL IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT THORNEY, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark well my shade, and seriously attend
Last Line: And know, each fleeting hour may be thy last.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The


LINES WRITTEN IN LADY'S ALBUM OF DIFFERENT-COLOURED PAPER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life's chequered scenes these varied leaves display
Last Line: When cold the heart that pens this feeble line!
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Time


LINES WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF LETTER FROM HENRY LAWES, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fix here ye overdated spheres
Last Line: That wing the restless foot of time.
Subject(s): Time


LINES WRITTEN ON THE BIRTH OF THE YEAR 1853, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail! Infant year, fresh from the womb of time
Last Line: This gift be yours, to crown the new-born year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Europe; Holidays; New Year; Time


LINGER, O GENTLE TIME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All that I hold from thee and call my own?
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Future; Hearts; Secrets; Time


LITTLE DICK AND THE CLOCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When dicky was sick
Last Line: "ty -- slippaty -- sleepaty!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Clocks; Night; Sickness; Time; Bedtime; Illness


LIVING, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fire in leaf and grass
Subject(s): Time


LIVING, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fire in leaf and grass
Last Line: Each minute the last minute
Subject(s): Time


LOCAL WOMAN'S DEATH UNDISCOVERED FOR TWO MONTHS, by MICHAEL BARNHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the body rests this long
Last Line: And they haven't found me yet
Subject(s): Death; Time


LOCK UP YOUR CLOCKS, by PHILIP GROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The grandfather clock in the hall
Last Line: Far off, another answers, slightly %out of time
Subject(s): Time


LONDON, by JOANNA BAILLIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a goodly sight through the clear air
Last Line: And time fast wending to eternity
Subject(s): London; Time


LONG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's about to be too late.
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Time


LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY, by CULVER VAN SLYCKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lovely the cheer of long ago
Last Line: Long ago and far away!
Subject(s): Memory; Time


LONG DELAYED, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft have I search'd the weary world in vain
Last Line: With multitudes of leaflets green and soft.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Pain; Solitude; Time; Waiting; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness


LONG LIFETIME', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Infinitely small - %infinitely large
Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Time


LONG NIGHT OF THE INCOMPLETE, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the brief light of the stolstice
Last Line: Dying in the throat like the year
Subject(s): Night; Mortality; Time


LONG SIGHT IN AGE, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say eyes clear with age
Subject(s): Time


LONG SIGHT IN AGE, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say eyes clear with age
Last Line: Wrinkling away the gold %wind-ridden waves - all these, %they say, come back to focus %as we grow ol
Subject(s): Time


LONG TIME AGO, by MICHAEL ROSEN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: But couldn't make sure he would be
Subject(s): Time


LONG-GONE SUN: YEARS LATER, AFTER THE WAR, MY GRANDMOTHER, by CLAIRE MALROUX    Poem Source                    
Last Line: An impotent witness and, as always, %present against her will
Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara
Subject(s): Grandparents; Time


LOOKING FORWARD, by SUE COWLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The days are getting longer
Last Line: My days are getting shorter
Subject(s): Time


LOST TIME, by LEN BLANCHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Desire doesn't conquer all, but, then, neither does
Last Line: Had stopped, making clocks unnecessary
Subject(s): Time


LOVE AND LIFE. A SONG, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All my past life is mine no more
Last Line: Tis all that heaven allows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Variant Title(s): The Present Moment
Subject(s): Fidelity; Time; Faithfulness; Constancy


LOVE AND TIME, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On stella's brow as lately envious time
Last Line: Nor time should quell the might of that immortal boy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Love; Time


LOVE AND TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The longest night of the year, they say
Last Line: Time was nothing and darkness best!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Night; Time; Bedtime


LOVE AND TIME, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature, that washed her hands in milk
Last Line: Shuts up the story of our days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Subject(s): Time


LOVE AND TIME, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I said, love laughs at time
Last Line: We will have lived -- long years that seemed as one!
Subject(s): Love; Time


LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 58, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half in a dream
Last Line: Grows fainter and fades away
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Time


LOVE SONNET, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why shall I chide the hand of wilful time
Last Line: Nor can reclaim, though all the rest be flown.
Subject(s): Time; Love; Love


LOVE'S ADVENT, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Passing the world's loud workshop, lo, within
Last Line: "the world from woe!"" -- alas, how vain the dream!"
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares


LOVE'S AUTUMN, by JOHN PAYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, love, the spring shall come again
Last Line: That now lie cold and sere.
Subject(s): Love; Spring; Time


LOVE'S CALENDAR, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer comes and the summer goes
Last Line: We only know winter is come -- by the snow.
Subject(s): Time


LOVE'S HOUR-GLASS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eros! Wherefore do I see thee, with the glass
Last Line: That is for the days of dalliance, and it melts with golden speed.'
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Love; Time


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


LUCASIA, ROSANIA, AND ORINDA PARTING AT A FOUNTAIN, by KATHERINE PHILIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, here are our enjoyments done
Last Line: The fears and sorrows of this day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda
Subject(s): Grief; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


LUCIFER: PART SIX, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But not unscathed did those gay revellers pass
Last Line: In pride yet haughtier, marched the milky way.
Subject(s): Devil; Fate; Fools; Revolutions; Stars; Time; War; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Destiny; Idiots


LULLABY FOR THE SECOND MILLENNIUM, by J. ALLYN ROSSER    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the point of view of all time
Last Line: And the rock will boil
Subject(s): Time


LYRIC, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Low laughter of light
Last Line: That spans the sky.
Subject(s): Memory; Sea; Time; Ocean


MADRIGAL: 51, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas, alas, that I am betrayed
Last Line: Since there is no harm equal to lost time
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Time


MADRIGAL: 52, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wo is me woe's me when I think
Last Line: And I am ready to fall infirm & outworn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Time


MAN, by JAMES GORDON BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His heart beat joyously in spring
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Hope; Optimism


MAN IN HIS LIFE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man in his life has no time to have
Last Line: To the place where there is time for everything
Subject(s): Time


MARCH: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendor of winter ha
Last Line: Of the winds of march.
Subject(s): March (month); Nature; Seasons; Time


MASKS OF DEATH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then the lark, his singing on a sudden done
Last Line: The clods roll their brown heads, all golgotha in wrath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Time


MASQUERADE, by FRED D'AGUIAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: His passage of time is a series of dustclouds
Subject(s): Time


MASTER OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 232, by HAN-SHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Man's life in this dust-clouded world
Last Line: And then, in an instant, he's old
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Time


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


MEASURE OF TIME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O you who made possible pure joy
Last Line: Only your snow is the crystal, the wall
Subject(s): Love; Time


MEASURING, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the measure of time:
Last Line: Or you and I asleep.
Subject(s): Time


MEDIEVAL MOTIF, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath our spell-binding play of faces there waits
Subject(s): Games; Poetry & Poets; Time; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


MEDIEVAL MOTIF, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath our spell-binding play of faces there waits
Last Line: In the rainbow's silence
Subject(s): Games; Poetry And Poets; Time


MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: PAST AND PRESENT, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Change is a sweet and lovely sprite who brushes with a velvet pall
Last Line: Beauty of decay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Change; Melbourne, Australia; Time


MELHILL FEAST, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aye there, at the feast, by melhill's brow
Last Line: Moon upon moon, an' year by year.
Subject(s): Country Life; Feasts; Festivals; Hope; Love; Marriage; Time; Fairs; Pageants; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MEMENTO, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scattered through the ragtaggle underbrush starting to show green shoots
Subject(s): Time


MEMORABILIA, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A million years ago and men were not
Last Line: As on the night I walked alone by the sea's edge.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Night; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean


MEMORIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As his yarn a seaman spins
Last Line: O'er time's sea of songs and sins.
Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Memory; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Time; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


MEMORIES, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ships...They go,' said murphy, 'like a spent pay-roll
Last Line: "an' the times a man remembers . . . They're the best times of all!"
Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Ships & Shipping; Time


MEMORY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman I used to know well died
Last Line: How could you have let this happen to you?
Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Marriage; Memory; Past; Time; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MEMORY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When often I think and dream of thee
Last Line: As I live those days with thee once more.
Subject(s): Love; Memory; Past; Thought; Time; Thinking


MEMORY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are who deem that virtue's prize
Last Line: What can ye do but weep?
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Ocean


MEMORY AND HOPE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I rebehold you, o beloved death
Last Line: About the hearth-stone of eternity?
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Time; Dead, The


MEMORY'S RIVER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In nature's bright blossoms not always repose
Last Line: The music is over, and vanished the wrecks.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Time


MESSAGE, by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They've raised the speed limit I didn't want them to
Last Line: Maybe a million miles between each note
Subject(s): Change; Time


MESSAGE, by KIM YON'GYUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time passes %we pass kneeling down on the road
Last Line: Remember me. Remember me
Subject(s): Time


METRO: 10. THE LITTLE TIME MACHINE, by GEORGE SZIRTES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Burnt offerings: a little bonfire shivers
Last Line: Of the frame, spreads out into the city
Subject(s): Time Machines


MICAH 4: 1-14. NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: But in the last days it shall come to pass
Last Line: For the mouth of the lord of hosts hath spoken it
Variant Title(s): The Last Day
Subject(s): Religion; Time; War


MICHAEL F.M. ROSSETTI (APRIL 22, 1881 - JANUARY 24, 1883), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A holy innocent gone home
Last Line: On heavenly banks.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Spring; Time; Death - Babies; Paradise


MICHELANGELO, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stern and grim-visaged, gaunt, and dark of gaze
Last Line: Into unfurrowed fields of light.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Decay; Genius; History; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors; Sistine Chapel; Time; Rot; Decadence; Historians


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


MIDNIGHT: EARLY SUMMER, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time softens to silk now
Last Line: Is wrapped in prayer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Birds; Silence; Sleep; Summer; Time


MIDSUMMER, TOBAGO, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Broad sun-stoned beaches
Subject(s): Time


MIDSUMMER, TOBAGO, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Broad sun-stoned beaches
Last Line: Days that outgrow, like daughters, %my harbouring arms
Subject(s): Time


MILADY'S CLOCK, by RUTH TURNER WEAVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nature's clock is all awry
Last Line: It's half-past springtime -- by my hat!
Subject(s): Nature; Time


MILLRACE, by GEORGE BRADLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each april's different: this one saw a spate
Last Line: But mud and some erosion in the race
Subject(s): April; Evolution; Time


MIMOSA, by MARY RUEFLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pink dandruff of some tree
Subject(s): Time


MINUTES, by JERRY BROOKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swiftly - how swiftly they pass!
Last Line: Tis gone, on silvery wing!
Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Nightmares


MISSING DATES, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills
Subject(s): Time


MISSING DATES, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills
Last Line: The waste remains, the waste remains and kills
Subject(s): Time


MISSION BEACH, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of old it lay without a name - unplaced
Last Line: To dedicate today joy's high event.
Subject(s): Seashore; Time; Beach; Coast; Shore


MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the gulf enters the sea and so forth
Last Line: Only here. Only now
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Past; Rivers; Seashore; Time


MOMENT, by JULIA GRACE WALES    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no point upon the sphere of time
Last Line: Within the radiance of her sun.
Subject(s): Time


MOMENT IN A CAFE, by RUY CINATTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lovely hands I've seen leave me enraptured
Last Line: And an air of enchantment, a quavering %heard from afar, as if in secret
Subject(s): Restaurants; Time


MOMENT OF JOY, by CARROLL BLAIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: An old man sits in the shade
Last Line: Moment) both sun and son %will not find him
Subject(s): Family Life; Happiness; Time


MOMENTOS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arranging long-locked drawers and shelves
Last Line: In some more cheerful room.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer
Subject(s): Memory; Time; Grief; Marriage; Death; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The


MOMENTS AGO, by BARBARA A. ROUILLARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't care
Last Line: Were so slow %to fall
Subject(s): Faith; Time


MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 10, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time flies, hope flags, life plies a wearied wing
Last Line: Loss and decay and death, and all is love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Time; Women - Heroes


MONTH AFTER MONTH, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Month after month, year after year
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Time


MONTHS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: September ss
Last Line: May p
Subject(s): Calendars; Months; Time


MONTHS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Contorted by wind
Last Line: Turns towards %the solstice
Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Time


MONTHS HAVE ENDS - THE YEARS - A KNOT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They cannot put away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 416; Poem: 42
Subject(s): Time


MOPSA THE FAIRY: WINDING-UP TIME, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wake, baillie, wake! The crafts are out
Last Line: Tick, tick, tick!'
Variant Title(s): Sleep And Time
Subject(s): Sleep; Time


MORAL COSMETICS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye who would save your features florid
Last Line: Time, fortune, fate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Life; Time; Youth


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, by DIONNE BRAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day came in %on an old brown bus
Last Line: But day had come
Subject(s): Time


MORNING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will there really be a morning
Last Line: Where the place called morning lies.
Subject(s): Imagination; Morning; Night; Time; Fancy; Bedtime


MORNING SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love set you going like a fat gold watch
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Time; Women


MORNING SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love set you going like a fat gold watch
Last Line: The clear vowels rise like balloons
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Time; Women


MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 18, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis hard that the full summer of our round
Last Line: And we know then that some time since youth went.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time


MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 19, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life on the wane: yes, sudden that news breaks
Last Line: Love will have new glad secrets yet to teach.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time


MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 20, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's one I miss. A little questioning maid
Last Line: The eager baby voice outside my door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time


MOTLEY, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A rasp of distant crow %jars the morning hush
Last Line: They ravelled through %to weave october's shroud
Subject(s): Time


MOTTO ON THE KING'S CLOCK, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow comes the hour; its passing speed how great!
Last Line: Waiting to seize it--vigilantly wait!
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


MOUNTAIN FIRE, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above the black %of the unfound earth
Last Line: With a blue match %on a cold stove
Subject(s): Time


MOUTHFUL OF BOAT, by LAURIE ANN BLAUNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: True believers take time on its own terms
Last Line: Trees waving like all the little gods
Subject(s): Sea; Time


MOVING IN WITH TIME, by BONNIE JO JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unhesitating but not quite unwary
Last Line: I'm ready to befriend two-footed time
Subject(s): Time


MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1), by RUTH STONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Advanced systems
Last Line: The sludge of hypothesis, %the word become flesh
Subject(s): Time


MUSINGS ON THE OLD YEAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another year has rolled away
Last Line: And from memory's page blot out them all.
Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time


MY ALARM CLOCK, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a little dumpy sergeant that calls me to the fray
Last Line: Ah, heed the little sergeant while he is at the door!
Subject(s): Clocks; Morning; Time


MY FATHER MAPS THE WORLD, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: My untraveled father loved geography
Last Line: She ought to have been: watering the flowers %on her summer porch
Subject(s): Time


MY FATHER'S WATCH, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Consolation; Time


MY HEAVEN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the fresh, sweet charm of vernal skies in may
Last Line: -- more frightful unto me than the midnight of the tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; May (month); Nature; Seasons; Time; Dead, The; Paradise


MY JOURNAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a dreary evening
Last Line: And my eyes are dim to-night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Books; Life; Tears; Time; Reading


MY LADY AND I, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For a year and a day I must tarry away
Last Line: A year and a day!
Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Time; Unfaithfulness; Parting; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


MY LADY OF THE ROSES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At venice, while the twilight hour
Last Line: Venice, june 1891
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Love - Beginnings; Time


MY OLD FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You've a manner all so mellow,
Last Line: My old friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Time; Youth


MY STOPPED CLOCK IS ALWAYS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With every day as long as I wish it to be
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Clocks; Nature; Time


MY TIMEPIECE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hour has struck its advent and farewell
Last Line: One, two, three, four', - trips daintily away.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


MYCERINUS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not by the justice that my father spurned
Last Line: Mix'd with the murmur of the moving nile.
Subject(s): Pleasure; Time; Menkaure, Pharaoh Of Egypt


NAMELESS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, lovely spirit, in the first fond dusk-light / gleaming
Last Line: And still death's old, shallow mock.
Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The


NAMES, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was eliza for a few weeks
Last Line: She was eliza once again
Subject(s): Time


NATALITIUM: MARTIJ 13, 1643, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: What rash & hasty things are yeares, wch run
Last Line: Can swell so high, as is thy heavn, & thee.
Subject(s): Aging; Mortality; Prayer; Time


NATIVISM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Congress voted a quota bill
Last Line: Time machine! Time machine!
Subject(s): Time Machines; U.s. - History


NATURE'S RETICENCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silence golden is, I say
Last Line: Will heaven tell all past divining?
Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Nature; Silence; Time; Paradise


NAY, BUT I FANCY SOMEHOW, YEAR BY YEAR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the lit windows beckon o'er the lea
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Love – Marital; Time; Hope


NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 34TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spare in thy youth, lest age should find thee poor
Last Line: As age and want, when both do meet together.
Subject(s): Time


NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, wife,' said will, 'I pray you devote
Last Line: "but 't is 'never too late to mend'!"
Subject(s): Repairing; Time; Mending


NEVERNESS, OR THE ONE SHIP BEACHED ON ONE FAR DISTANT SHORE, by MARGARET AVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old adam, with his fist-full of plump earth
Last Line: And none be left to witness the blank mist?
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; History; Humanity; Time; Eve; Historians


NEW ENGLAND, by SUSAN N. PULSIFER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Houses of generous, ample line
Last Line: Tell of past springs the heart remembers.
Subject(s): Landscape; Life; New England; Time


NEW SPRING: PROLOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when o'er pictures turning
Last Line: In time's mighty fight to fight.
Subject(s): Love; Spring; Time


NEW THINGS ARE BEST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I tell you, child, in this new sonnet?
Last Line: Child, be we comforted! New things are best.
Subject(s): Time


NEW YEAR, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another flood is finished to a fall
Last Line: Will long bear us aberrants on the beach
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Floods; Holidays; New Year; Rain; Seashore; Time; Water


NEW YEAR, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stream of time glides ever swiftly by
Last Line: This glad refrain; a happy, bright new year!
Subject(s): Calendar; Holidays; New Year; Time


NEW YEAR (2), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over our heads the words hung down
Last Line: Wonderful dies.
Subject(s): Calendars; Holidays; New Year; Time


NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: New year, be good to england. Bid her name
Last Line: 01/01/89
Subject(s): England; Holidays; New Year; Time; English


NIGHT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart-hidden from the outer things I rose
Last Line: The planets may divide.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Day; Night; Time; Bedtime


NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 2. TIME, DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the cock crew he wept, -- smote by that eye
Last Line: With incommunicable lustre bright.
Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Friendship; Life; Nature; Night; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime


NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As when a traveller, a long day past
Last Line: And midnight, universal midnight! Reigns.
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Graves; Life; Mankind; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


NIGHT WILL NEVER STAY, by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The night will slip away %like a sorrow or a tune
Subject(s): Imagination; Night; Time


NIGHTWATCHES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While the slow clock, as they were miser's gold
Last Line: Half of that world I ever cared to please!
Subject(s): Time


NINE O'CLOCK, by LYDIA SHARPE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the great clock on the landing
Last Line: But enchantment.
Subject(s): Clocks; Day; Hearts; Time; Women


NO COUNTRIES BUT THE DISTANCE OF THE WORLD [AND THE SMOKE OF THE], by NICHOLAS SAMARAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My life has always been too large for me deep in the heart of the darkest
Last Line: Was the hand and that was the prayer and there is always a kind of %response
Subject(s): Earth; Time


NO PLACE OR TIME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: This curly childhood of the year
Last Line: That knows no place or time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Time


NO WORDS CAN DESCRIBE IT, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened
Subject(s): Languagel Time


NOISE THAT TIME MAKES, by MERRILL MOORE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Physicians; Time


NORTH WIND TO DUTIFUL BEAST MIDWAY BETWEEN DIAL & FOOT OF GARDEN CLOCK, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why clamber up the pedestal?
Last Line: Your conscientious feet sha'n't fall.
Subject(s): Time


NOT MINE THE YEARS TIME TOOK AWAY, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The maker of years and eternity is mine
Subject(s): Time


NOT ONLY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not only ruins their lichen have
Last Line: Denied its passing hour.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Time


NOT YET ENOUGH, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this expanse of brown %a single ragged dandelion
Last Line: A silent aorist, %simply there %and out of time
Subject(s): Time


NOTHING REMAINS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing remains of unrecorded ages
Last Line: This, this remains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Time; Dead, The


NOVEMBER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled
Last Line: Of how her end shall be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Autumn; November; Seasons; Time; Wind; Fall


NOW, by WARREN HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The past is dead. Let lethe's waters close
Last Line: The life that lives is one eternal now.
Subject(s): Time


NOW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rise! For the day is passing
Last Line: You may wake to find it past!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Activity; Courage; Time; Exercise; Valor; Bravery


NOW, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I see it: a few years
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time


NOW, by LUCY YAKEY WOOLEDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our yesterdays are gone
Last Line: Ere it, uncertain, flies away—away.
Subject(s): Memory; Time


NOW AND THEN, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing me a song, my nightingale
Last Line: "he said, ""the morning is not ours!"
Subject(s): Love; Time


NOW THAT TIME SEEMS ALL MINE, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Time; Nostalgia


NOW'S THE TIME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If a poem you would write
Last Line: While there's time!
Subject(s): Time


NUBIA, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A land of dreams and sleep, a poppied land!
Last Line: But she hath built an altar to repose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Time; Nightmares


NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When voices of children are heard on the green
Last Line: And your winter and night in disguise.
Subject(s): Bible; Children; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Play; Time; Childhood


NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the voices of children are heard on the green / and laughing is heard
Last Line: And all the hills ecchoed
Variant Title(s): Play Time
Subject(s): Bible; Children; Evening; Innocence; Mythology; Play; Time; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight


O SAY NOT PURE AFFECTIONS CHANGE!, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With tenfold force return!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time


O WINDS! YE ARE TOO ROUGH, TOO ROUGH, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Love; Time


O YE HOURS!, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O ye hours! Ye sunny hours!
Last Line: "question not the hours!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Time


O'CLOCK, by FANNY HOWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You float inside your water
Subject(s): Time; Leaves; Water


OBLIVION, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While I was under
Last Line: The same room you left
Subject(s): Time


OBLIVION'S GATE, by FRANK MADISON LARNED    Poem Text                    
First Line: I met the old year in the night
Last Line: I saw oblivion's gate ajar.
Subject(s): Time


OBSERVE THE ROSE-BUD ERE IT BLOWS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Let time possess it when it dies
Subject(s): Beauty;flowers;roses;time


ODE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Golden hues of youth are fled
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Time; Drinks & Drinking; Wine


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


ODE UPON THE SHORTNESS OF MAN'S LIFE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marke that swifte arrow how it cuts the ayre
Last Line: T' out-live nestor in a day.
Variant Title(s): On The Shortness Of Life
Subject(s): Mortality; Time


ODES 2, 14. EHEU FUGACES, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, what can stay the flying years?
Last Line: "I'll drink a health,"" says he."
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Farewell; Memory; Time; Parting


ODES II, 14, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You can't grip years, postume
Last Line: Wine puddle our table, %fit wine for a pope
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Time


ODES II, 14, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Friend, the posting years how fast they fly?
Last Line: Shall flow, and make the drunken pavement shine
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Time


ODES II, 14. HIS AGE, DEDICATED TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND, JOHN WICKES, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah posthumus! Our yeares hence flye
Last Line: Farre more then night bewearied.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Variant Title(s): His Age, Dedicated To His Peculiar Friend, M. John Wickes
Subject(s): Mourning; Time; Bereavement


ODES II, 14. TO POSTHUMUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! My posyhumus, the years
Last Line: Follow its short-liv'd lord, and shade his lonely tomb!
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Time


ODES II, 3. LIFE IS SHORT, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When life is hard, your soul possess
Last Line: Of exile's barge without recall
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Life; Time


ODES IV, 7. DIFFUGERE, REDEUNT IAM GRAMINA CAMPIS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow relents
Last Line: Nor can theseus break %his dead friend's chains
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Time; Transience


ODES IV, 7. TO TORQUATUS. DIFFUGERE NIVES, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws
Last Line: The love of comrades cannot take away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Seasons; Time


OEDIPUS AT COLONUS: TIME, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair aigeus' son, only to the gods in heaven
Last Line: One wind blow true for ever?
Subject(s): Time


OF ASPHODEL: CODA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inseparable from the fire
Subject(s): Time; Love; Imagination; Fancy


OF TIME, by RICHARD FANSHAWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Let us use it whilst we may
Last Line: Love may return, but never lover.
Variant Title(s): Of Beauty
Subject(s): Beauty; Time; Transience; Impermanence


OF YEARS, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of a few years
Subject(s): Time


OF YEARS, by WHILHELMINA T. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It does not matter who you are
Last Line: But their strength.
Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Youth


OFF TO OUTER SPACE TOMORROW MORNING, by NORMAN NICHOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You can start the count down, you can take a last look
Last Line: For I'm off to outer space tomorrow morning
Subject(s): Time


OH KNELL OF A PASSING TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Numbered to pass away
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Time; Transience


OH, GIVE US BACK THE DAYS OF OLD, by JOHN MASON NEALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, give us back the days of old! Oh! Give me back an hour!
Last Line: By all thy woes, by all thy joys, lord jesus grant them peace
Subject(s): Time


OLD ADAM, by MARGARET AVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The simple horizontal
Last Line: In a circumference.
Subject(s): Life; Time


OLD AND NEW; THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION, 1847-1897, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is that oft uttered adage true
Last Line: "no loss but only of the ship!"
Subject(s): Past; Time


OLD HYMN-TUNES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, old-time tunes of prayer and praise
Last Line: Till silence settles over all!
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Time; World


OLD KITCHEN CLOCK, by ANN HAWKSHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen to the kitchen clock!
Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


OLD LOVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old loves, once so alive, but now long dead!
Last Line: Give them remembrance for a coronal.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Memory; Time; Dead, The


OLD MAN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at him there on the wet road
Last Line: On the brow's anvil as the sun does now
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Time


OLD MAN KNOW-ALL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old man know-all, he comes around
Last Line: But he knew too much to cross that way
Subject(s): Time


OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There broods the pathos of a time long past
Last Line: That lit the players in the long-ago.
Subject(s): Faces; Life; Love; Past; Schools; Time; Students


OLD WOMAN, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today she is sitting by a window
Last Line: Time is crouching on the window
Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Women


OMEGA, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: An inchworm %on my sleeve %stands like a stick
Last Line: He writes over & over %the last word
Subject(s): Time


ON A CLOCK IN A MARKET-PLACE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What now thou dost or art about to do
Last Line: The moment, that secures thee heaven or hell.
Subject(s): Time


ON A CLOCK; SHREWSBURY, 1745, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O labour here with all my might
Last Line: Therefore example take by me, %and serve thy gdo as I serve thee
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


ON A FLY DRINKING FROM HIS CUP, by WILLIAM OLDYS    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Busy, curious, thirsty fly!
Last Line: Will appear as short as one!
Variant Title(s): The Fly. Occasioned By A Fly Drinking Out Of The Author's Cup;the Fly
Subject(s): Flies; Time


ON A LINE FROM SOPHOCLES, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see you cruel, you find me less than fair
Last Line: Time, time, my friend, makes havoc everywhere.
Subject(s): Enemies; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Time; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


ON AN AUTUMN MORNING, by KIM YANKSHIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My eyes chance to rest on my husband's hair
Last Line: I see there the coming years come as fast %as they have passed
Subject(s): Time


ON AN EMPTY HOUSE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A stately house I passed to-day
Last Line: "this noble mansion to be sold."
Subject(s): Houses; Time


ON ARRIVING ANYWHERE IN TIME FOR ANYTHING, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How good the universe can be!-what now?
Last Line: In this appointment kept, this fulfilled choice?
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time


ON BATTELL'S CHIMES, by O. H. COOPER JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The steady march of academic years
Last Line: Battell, from age to age thy chimes intone.
Subject(s): Bells; Time; Yale University


ON BEING TOLD THAT' TIME CURES SORROW, by RUTH SHEPARD PHELPS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My grief has vanquished me
Last Line: "ah, that was years ago."
Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


ON FINDING AN OLD PHOTOGRAPH, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yalding, 1912. My father
Last Line: There he is, happy, and I am unborn
Subject(s): Time


ON MR. HALL'S ESSAYS, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wits that matur'd by time have courted praise
Last Line: As many years as thou hast snatch'd from time.
Subject(s): Essays; Hall, John (1627-1656); Time


ON PARTING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time that is recorded is not now
Subject(s): Farewell; Time; Parting


ON REVISITING HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here once engaged the stranger's view
Last Line: And blotted out the line for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Friendship; Harrow, England; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect


ON SEEING A PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN MARY; A FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Roll back, thou tide of time, and tell
Last Line: Love's last, love's sweetest sacrifice. --
Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Time; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


ON SHOULDERS WHIRLED IN SOME ECCENTRIC ORBIT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where time doth plume his wings
Subject(s): Time


ON THAT SIDE, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: April and may. There, very near
Last Line: A memory — so vivid, I close my eyes
Subject(s): Time; Memory


ON THE CLOCK IN STRASBURG CATHEDRAL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Due praise be his whose skill to strasburg gave
Last Line: To ponder on eternity how few!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Clocks; Public Worship; Strasbourg, France; Time; Church Attendance


ON THE CLOCK-TOWER AT EMBERTON, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time's on the wing, how swiftly he speeds his way
Last Line: Live then in christ - in christ eternal gain, %no christ - no hope but everlasting pain!
Subject(s): Time


ON THE DEATH AND WORKS OF MASTER GREENHAM, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some skilfull caruer helpe me to endorse
Last Line: But emulate thy works eternitie.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Graves; Time; Trees; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


ON THE DOOR OF A LONG-CASE CLOCK BY THOMAS LISTER, C. 1730, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lo! Here I stand by you, upright
Last Line: Each day and night be on thy guard, %and thou shall have a just reward
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


ON THE EDGE OF TIME FUTURE, by BEN OKRI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the history well
Last Line: And frame time with our resolve
Subject(s): Freedom; Time


ON THE HURRY OF THIS TIME, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With slower pen men used to write
Last Line: With slower pen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Time; Writing & Writers


ON THE SOUTH COAST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hills and valleys where april rallies his
Last Line: Free by birth of a sacred earth, and regent ever of all the sea.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sea; Spring; Time; Nightmares; Ocean


ON TIME, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly, envious time, till thou run out thy race
Last Line: Triumphing over death, and chance, and thee o time.
Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology


ONCE THAT NEVER WAS, by AVERY L. GILES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The once that never was may be
Last Line: What is that roaring in the wood?
Subject(s): Time


ONE DAY, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the timeless scumble of summer
Last Line: The fragile history %of our ephemeracy
Subject(s): Time


ONE DAY'S HISTORY, by FERN WEEMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watched as day's near evidence
Last Line: And strolled beside the streams.
Subject(s): History; Memory; Time; Historians


ONE HOUR IS MINE, by GRACE MINER LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hour when dark enfolds the night is mine
Last Line: And listeners are silent and aware.
Subject(s): Time


ONE HUNDRED LOVE SONNETS: 91, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Age covers us like drizzle
Last Line: On the dust, eager to erase even absence
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Time


ONE MOMENT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One moment, to strictly run out by the sands
Last Line: But the nest waits, my darling, ah! Say, will you go?
Subject(s): Time


ONE MOMENT AND THE NEXT IN THE PINE BARRENS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One moment a crow
Last Line: The next the world just seems %like a pile of sticks
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Time


ONLY A MATTER OF TIME, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down-slipping time, sweet, swift, and shallow stream
Last Line: Trembles and burns an instant, and is gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Time


ONLY YEARS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come back to the cottage in
Last Line: Long rollers wrinkling the dark bay
Variant Title(s): Only Years
Subject(s): Love; Time


OPEN, TIME, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Open, time, and let him pass
Last Line: Into country grass.
Subject(s): Death; Time; Youth; Dead, The


OR ELSE: 19. THERE'S A GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK IN THE HALL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a grandfather's clock in the hall, watch it closely. The minute hand
Last Line: A mink's prick, time thrusts through the time of no-time
Subject(s): Time


ORIGAMI OF TIME, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O how I love clocks, %their roundness
Last Line: Does leap %from its high places
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Time


OUR FIFTY-FIFTH; 1843-1897, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our fifty-fifth! Since first, in '43
Last Line: This bond of friendship shall survive them all!
Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age; Time


OUR NEW CHURCH CLOCK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Henceforward shall our time be plainly read
Last Line: With summer flies and voices from the fields!
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


OUR THRONES DECAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I said my pleasure shall not move
Last Line: It turns to dust beneath the years.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pleasure; Time


OVERNIGHT, A ROSE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: That overnight a rose could come
Last Line: It took my life to grow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time; Worship


OVERSIGHT, by AVERY L. GILES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Years past, I trysted' neath the moon
Last Line: My arteries would harden.
Subject(s): Aging; Moon; Time


OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land
Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt
Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence


PACIFIC TIME, by CATHY SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is not my brother's dying
Last Line: Dark around it. How it shimmered %for a moment and was gone
Subject(s): Death; Time; West (u.s.)


PALINODE, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twenty years are gone
Subject(s): Physicians; Time


PALM, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An angel sets at my place
Last Line: To grow with what it gives!
Subject(s): Time


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 7. TO SAY, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To say `now' and yet again
Last Line: With its redolent folds.
Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Roses; Time; Paradise


PARADOX OF TIME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Subject(s): Time


PARINGS, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The teller held the orange and scored its globe
Last Line: And more to tell than story
Subject(s): Time


PARTING IN WARTIME, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How long ago hector took off his plume
Last Line: And now we three in euston waiting-room
Subject(s): Time; War


PASS IT ON, III, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lilacs look neon in fading light.
Subject(s): Nature; Time


PASSING, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To spring, to bloom, to fade
Last Line: New sorrows, alien hopes, strange pleasures, other fears.
Subject(s): Change; Time


PASSING AWAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Passing away, saith the world, passing away
Last Line: Then I answered: yea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Change; Time; Transience; Impermanence


PASSING HOURS, by HELENA A. BOOTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: A wisp of wind has drifted petals near
Last Line: Time weaves new hours upon her loom of gold.
Subject(s): Time


PASSING THE TIME DURING CHEMOTHERAPY, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We could almost be taken
Last Line: And then, unplugged, we turn %toward home
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Conversation; Sickness; Time; Women


PAST, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The corpses wait under my bed
Last Line: Even when I wake it doesn't go away
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time


PAST - PRESENT - FUTURE, by DELL HARTELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yesterday I said to love
Last Line: "is just a glimpse of you."
Subject(s): Love; Time


PAST AND PRESENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On four-horse coach, whose luggage pierced the sky
Last Line: Shot like a pellet from his own pop-gun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past; Progress; Schools; Time; Travel; Vacation; Students; Journeys; Trips


PAST AND PRESENT, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember, I remember, / the house where I was born
Last Line: Than when I was a boy.
Variant Title(s): The Old House At Home;i Remember;stanzas
Subject(s): Aging; Children; Memory; Religion; Time; Childhood; Theology


PAST AND PRESENT, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I hear the breath of the mother
Last Line: And the night falls heavy and sweet.
Subject(s): Time


PAST AND PRESENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Linger,' I cried, 'o radiant time!'
Last Line: I prize the past much, but the present more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Past; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


PAST, FUTURE, AND PRESENT; AN ALLEGORY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time -- we need not care
Last Line: "the present still is king of all!"
Subject(s): Time


PATCHES OF GOLD FLARING UP UNEXPECTEDLY, by INGRID FICHTNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Patches of gold flaring up unexpectedly
Last Line: Silently very fast %tout autre part
Subject(s): Beauty; Sun; Time; Water


PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM, by HAROLD KEOGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unwillingly the willow yields to fall
Last Line: And never know what fed the springing seed.
Subject(s): Time


PERCHE QUELLE STRANE GOCCE DI SANGUE SUL CORPO DI JENNIFER?, by KEVIN KILLIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: December 15, dodie, scornful, 'is he your %new boyfriend?'
Last Line: What are these strange drops of blood %on the body of %jennifer?
Subject(s): Death; Relationships; Time


PERFECT TIMING, by CY RICHIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A train and rushing car connected
Last Line: Note the train arrived on schedule
Subject(s): Railroads; Time


PERMANENT GLORIA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have wrought my work - more durable than steel
Last Line: And bind his brows with laurel ever green.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Muses; Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise


PERSISTENCE OF ANCESTORS, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nineteenth century is not over yet
Subject(s): Red Jacket. Seneca Chief (1756-1830); Buffalo (city), New York; Time


PETRIFIED FERN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a valley, centuries ago
Subject(s): Ferns; Time


PHILENA TO MENANDER, by SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Blest poet! Whose eolian lyre
Last Line: And be the palm of genius thine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Philenia
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Muses; Paine, Robert Treat (1773-1811); Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Time; Iliad; Odyssey


PHOEBE, OR MY GRANDMOTHER WEST, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, phoebe! How slily, love's arrow to barb
Last Line: A counterfeit true of her grandmamma west.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Girls; Grandparents; Love; Time; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


PIANO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me
Last Line: Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Time; Childhood; Songs


PISA: THE DUOMO, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, this is like a song writ long ago
Last Line: Won from the boundaries of day and night.
Subject(s): Italy; Life; Pisa, Italy; Time; Italians


PITY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm always saying, 'where's the time gone?'
Last Line: Why can't a watch have pity %on a man?
Subject(s): Pity; Time


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


PLEDGE, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a part of you that I shall keep
Last Line: My heart shall proudly keep, even from death.
Subject(s): Time


POEM, by ALICE MOSER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The memory of a flamelike shadow
Last Line: Recalling a forgotten vow.
Subject(s): Life; Time


POEM FOR A CLASS RE-UNION, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether we like it, or don't
Last Line: Shall rally together to dine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Aging; Classmates; Past; Reunions; Time; Schoolmates


POEM FOR ADLAI STEVENSON AND YELLOW JACKETS, by DAVID YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's summer, 1956, in maine, a camp resort
Subject(s): Summer; Time; Fish & Fishing; Wasps; Anglers; Yellow Jackets


POEM FOR THE END OF THE CENTURY, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the dreamer who remains
Subject(s): Time; Optimism


POEM IN JUNE, by MILTON ACORN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A breeze wipes creases off my forehead
Last Line: My trees lean into summer
Subject(s): Time


POEM: 22, by YUNUS EMRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good health to the soul of that lover who has union with the beloved. His
Last Line: Time will not touch love; love has no months and years
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time


POEM: 3, by KEITH ALTHAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am crossing years tonight
Last Line: The taste of wine %from an uprooted vineyard
Subject(s): Time


POEMS OF THE WEEK, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lie still and rest in that serene repose
Last Line: How sweet the sense of peace!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Day; Hearts; Life; Morning; Night; Time; Bedtime


POETS SPEAK OUT ON THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, by VICKI STRINGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beware the ides of march.' this fools us
Last Line: And kids have been saying it ever since
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Time


POINT LOMA SONNETS: 5. GRAY, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our days of gray on loma by the sea
Last Line: A rock of time's chiaroscure mists have mossed.
Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Time


POINT LOMA SONNETS: 9. OLD TRAILS, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Up from the lonely days that dawned remote
Last Line: Across to mountain, sea, sky, city . . . Leap.
Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Time


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 1, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neither all nor any angels arrive in the mind where
Last Line: Out in the first mud and forsythia. Far outside.
Subject(s): Angels; Children; Memory; Reason; Time; Childhood; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


POTATO CLOCK, by ROGER MCGOUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A potato clock, a potato clock
Last Line: Oh where can I find up at eight o'clock?
Subject(s): Time


POURRITURE NOBLE, by MARIE PONSOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never prophesy.
Subject(s): Wine; Aging; Time


PRAETERITA EX INSTANTIBUS, by WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How strange it is that, in the after age
Last Line: "and men will say, ""thus did the men of yore."
Alternate Author Name(s): Schuyler-lighthall, William Douw
Subject(s): Time


PRE-TEXT, by MARIE PONSOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Archaic, his gestures / hieratic, just like caesar or sappho
Subject(s): Babies; Ancestors & Ancestry; Time; Infants; Heritage; Heredity


PRECEPTS OF CHIRON: LENGTH OF LIFE, by HESIOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nine times the span of an old old man
Last Line: The nymphs of the shining hair.
Subject(s): Life; Time


PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time was, I walked in the february rain
Last Line: And the reassurances of my own pulse
Subject(s): Love; Self; Time; Writing And Writers


PREFACE TO THE PAST, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time all of a sudden tightens the tether
Last Line: Thank you, kids, I wouldn't have missed it
Subject(s): Time


PREHISTORIC CAMP, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the time of year
Last Line: Its race of men long flown
Subject(s): Time


PRELUDE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My song is born of rivalry. Cross time
Last Line: Save where I lift, and purify, and bless!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Singing & Singers; Time


PREMONITION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when at mary's voice elizabeth
Last Line: That sing the present in futurity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Omens; Time


PRESERVES, by ANITA GRAY CHANDLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: This summer I shall try preserving
Last Line: Into spring.
Subject(s): Fruit; Memory; Seasons; Summer; Time


PRIZE ADDRESS; SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE SALEM THEATRE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To call past ages from the sleep of time
Last Line: Above all hatred, and above all fear.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Time


PROBLEM OF ANXIETY, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fifty years have passed
Last Line: From the bronze mantel, and will never be appeased
Subject(s): Anxiety; Time


PROGRAM REVIEW, by J. MACEKURA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time is a figment: %bits of anxiety
Last Line: Just twenty-four %more hours
Subject(s): Day; Time


PROPER SONNET, HOW TIME CONSUMETH ALL EARTHLY THINGS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ay me, ay me, I sigh to see the scythe afield
Subject(s): Time


PROPERATE TEMPUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Which time is the real time
Last Line: Her as quickly as you can
Subject(s): Time


PROPOSITION AND QUESTION, by JAMES CERVANTES    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you shrink the universe to fifteen floors
Last Line: He watches her dive into the pool?
Subject(s): Past; Time


PSALM 39, VERSE 5, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou, by a span measur'st these days of mine
Last Line: His best estate is altogether vain.
Subject(s): Time


PYTHIAN ODES: 10. THE HYPERBOREANS, by PINDAR                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet in their midst the muses too are found
Subject(s): Time


PYTHIAN ODES: 10. THE HYPERBOREANS, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among them too are the muses
Last Line: Time means anything; %long, long ago
Subject(s): Time


QUATORZAINS: 11. A CLOCK STRIKING AT MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark to the echo of time's footsteps; gone
Last Line: While the glad spirit seeks a brighter birth.
Subject(s): Clocks; Death; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


QUATRAIN, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Birds are still whiter against river's sapphire
Last Line: And when will be the time that I turn home?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Time


QUATRAIN: THE PARCAE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In their dark house of cloud
Last Line: One waits to cut the thread.
Subject(s): Time


QUESTION OF TIME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ask a friend. She informs me it is ten years
Last Line: And barefoot, at that time, %and how you let me rest %a half a minute in your suntanned arms
Subject(s): Time


QUID HIC AGIS?, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I weekly knew
Last Line: What doest thou here?'
Subject(s): Time


QUIET, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come not the earliest petal here, but only
Last Line: With their bloom, passes.
Subject(s): Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Time; Loneliness


QUIETER THAN SNOW, by BERLIE DOHERTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I went to school a day too soon
Last Line: Quieter than snow
Subject(s): Time


RATE THE HOURS. ONE AND 5 A.M., by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The fool always feels safe at noon
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Time


REAR VISION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cars in the mirror come swiftly forward
Subject(s): Automobiles; Time; Cars


REAR VISION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cars in the mirror come swiftly forward
Last Line: The furies gather in a pack, &while all the sky above burns black, %unwinding still the darkening th
Subject(s): Automobiles; Time


RECKONING WITH TIME, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come on, old time, - nay, that is stuff
Last Line: Then, dying, said, - daw's occupation's gone
Subject(s): Time


RECOLLECTION, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wave-worn boulder, with green sea-moss wrapping
Last Line: This sweet world, filled with the peace of god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Time


RECYCLE, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every day I say that the last day coming
Last Line: Ill be there, high on the list, or low-down, %somersaulting,pedaling like mad, looking forward
Subject(s): Future; Time


REFERENCE BACK, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was a pretty one, I heard you call
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Time


REGRET, by YUAN CHI    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was young I learnt fencing
Last Line: That makes this fury tear my heart.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fencing; Time


RELIC, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found this jawbone at the sea's edge
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Bones; Time


RELIC, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found this jawbone at the sea's edge
Last Line: In the sea. This curved jawbone did not laugh %but gripped, gripped and is now a cenotaph
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Bones; Time


REMEMBRANCE, by ALFRED DE MUSSET    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O sacred ground, in wandering back to thee
Last Line: "while life and thought remain."
Subject(s): Forests; France; Graves; Sand, George (1804-1876); Time; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant


REPLY TO A LETTER, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the bottom drawer I find a letter which arrived for the first time twenty- six years ago
Subject(s): Letters; Time


RESCUE, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man sits in a timelessness
Last Line: They are running to arrive
Subject(s): Time


REST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spread, spread thy silver wings, o dove!
Last Line: Flutter again to thy quiet nest!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Life; Rest; Time; Dead, The


RESTORATIVES, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whisper with bated breath
Last Line: Joy lives anew.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Nature; Time; Dead, The


RETROSPECT, by ESTHER L. SCHEDIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: It seems but yesterday the buds were swelling on bare boughs
Last Line: "and say, ""it seems but yesterday that we were there."
Subject(s): Time


RETURNED - 'MISSING', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, I was sad and anxious
Last Line: Might be brought back at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Time; World


REVELATION 6: 1-8. THE FOUR HORSEMEN, by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: And I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals
Last Line: And with death %and with the beasts of the earth
Variant Title(s): Revelation:
Subject(s): Time; War


REVERIE OVER MEMORIES, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not dream. And yet if I had dreamed
Last Line: And the imagination of delight.
Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia; Past; Time


RHYME, THE CONSOLER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The injuries of time
Last Line: Rhyme brings with honeyed tones an anodyne to pain.
Subject(s): Consolation; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Time


RHYMES FOR THE TIMES: 2, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ae day short syne, when gaun afiel
Last Line: This mission's yours—obey the call.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Rhyme; Time


RIDDLE: 7, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is it that stands
Last Line: Has no feet at all?
Subject(s): Clocks;riddles;time


RITUALS, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The morning I left for the army
Last Line: And reached out his hand instead
Subject(s): Time


ROCK ME TO SLEEP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Backward, turn backward, o time, in your flight
Last Line: Rock me to sleep, mother, -- rock me to sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne
Subject(s): Home; Mothers & Daughters; Time; Women; Youth


ROCOCO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take hand and part with laughter
Last Line: And ten that you forget.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Time; Nightmares


ROLL ON TIME, ROLL ON, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roll on time, roll on, as it always has done
Last Line: And I found it was the truth when I married.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Time


ROMAN POEM, by JOHN FORBES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rhythms of the italian language %& the belgian figure skating team
Last Line: I do not love australia.'
Subject(s): Time


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE MOORISH KING, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the alpuxarres' exile
Last Line: In the land of andalusia.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Moors (people); Tears; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness


ROMANCIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'b'en a-kindo' musin', as the feller says
Last Line: "I kin wake and say ""dog-gone-it!"" jest as soft as any prayer!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Nature; Time


ROME, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou newcomer who seek'st rome in rome
Last Line: And that which fleeteth doth outrun swift time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Time


RONDEAU, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jenny kissed me when we met
Last Line: Jenny kissed me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Innocence; Kisses; Love; New Year; Time; Women


RONDEL, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lilacs are in bloom
Last Line: The lilacs are in bloom.
Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Summer; Time; Rot; Decadence; Sorrow; Sadness


RONSARD'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O caves, and you, o springs
Last Line: Of whoso hears.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 44, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, if the soul can fling the dust aside
Last Line: So long in this clay suburb to abide
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 55, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, plagued no more with human or divine
Last Line: The cypress-slender minister of wine
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 57, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You know, my friends, how bravely in my house
Last Line: And took my daughter of the vine to spouse
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Time


RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 74, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Impotent pieces of the game he plays
Last Line: And one by one back in the closet lays
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


RUINS OF TIME, by LUIS DE GONGORA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This chapel that you gaze at, these stern tombs
Last Line: Through the blue sky, and scale the golden stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De
Subject(s): Time


RUSSIAN LETTER, by JOHN YAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is said, the past
Subject(s): Time


RUT, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind the clock and feed the cat
Last Line: Time goes on
Subject(s): Time


SABBATH, 1985, VIII, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I go from the woods into the cleared field
Last Line: Beginning now, in our few troubled days
Subject(s): Time


SACRAMENTO O NO, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Time; Nature


SAD TALE O MR. MEARS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a man who had a clock
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


SALT AIRS, by TONY SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time not being an issue, he'd probably write
Last Line: At the tide of unfinished correspondence. Maybe he %would write
Subject(s): Relationships; Time; Writing And Writers


SAND OF THE DESERT IN AN HOUR-GLASS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A handful of red sand, from the hot clime
Last Line: The half-hour's sand is run!
Subject(s): Time


SATIE: TROIS MELODIES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The frog on the tumbler-game in the park
Subject(s): Trees; Statues; Time


SAVE THAT TIGER, by J. C. ELLEFSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: July fourth. Summer lake. Fish jumping. Fireworks. Four
Last Line: Quartet can hold a distinguished harmony forever
Subject(s): Clocks; Death; Friendship; Time


SAVING WORDS, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the night waves cascade
Last Line: Old depths beneath the brickle air
Subject(s): Time


SCHISM, by ANDREW SHIELDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every fifteen minutes
Last Line: Later, from the other
Subject(s): Churches; Music And Musicians; Time


SCRAMBLE, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I retreat to a field kitchen
Last Line: Then time and appetite ignite, %and the white corona blurs
Subject(s): Time


SCRATCH MUSIC, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many threads have I broken with my teeth. How any times
Last Line: Full, weary, and thankful to be spending the evening with no one
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Time


SEASONS AND TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Awhile in the dead of the winter
Last Line: When footsteps are few on the ground?
Subject(s): Seasons; Time


SEASONS HAVE TO PASS, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The frail, warm dream lay shattered like a glass
Last Line: (time is not stagnant; seasons have to pass)
Subject(s): Time


SECOND CHANCES, by WENDY BISHOP    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dark morning. The year creaks round its axis
Last Line: And hear: her breating. Surely, %the year moves on
Subject(s): Change; Time


SECOND SHADOW, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cast on the field from that full height
Subject(s): Time


SECRET HISTORY, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the light in my room:
Subject(s): Time


SECRETS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life has dark secrets; and the hearts are few
Last Line: Avenging, and betraying.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Secrets; Time


SELF-INTERROGATION, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The evening passes fast away
Last Line: "and break in glorious morn! "
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Time


SENSE OF PROPORTION, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old lion hunter and I
Last Line: Will never come around again
Subject(s): Aging; Death; Future; Hunting; Time; Dead, The; Hunters


SENSE OF PROPORTION, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old lion hunter and I
Last Line: Will never come round again
Subject(s): Aging; Death; Future; Hunting; Time


SENT TO MY FOURTH SON, SHAO-WU, by LIANG TE-SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are far away, blocked by passages and mountains
Last Line: Amidst the sound of firecrackers, another year is gone
Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Time


SENTIMENTAL HISTORY, by MARJORIE MEEKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Resistless time, they said, would break
Last Line: This burning blade with perilous edges.
Subject(s): Time


SEPTEMBER, by JOHN MOLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come back from summer
Last Line: Remember who you are
Subject(s): Time


SEPTEMBER, 1819 (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Departing summer hath assumed
Last Line: Can haughty time be just!
Variant Title(s): The Poet Growing Old
Subject(s): Summer; Time


SERVING TIME, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another dreary day in time's invisible
Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Time; Convicts


SETTING SAIL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Exultation is the going
Last Line: Of the first league out from land?
Subject(s): Life; Time


SEVENTH YEAR, by SANDRA MEEK-HENSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one knows if cicada dream the earth
Last Line: Deeper its skeleton, its own letting go
Subject(s): Time


SEVENTY YEARS ARE FEW, by LU CHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think a man's seventy years are few!
Last Line: What's better than %to be happy and at ease?
Subject(s): Life; Time


SHAPES AND SHADOWS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are but shapes and shadows
Last Line: But the screen remains unchanged!
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Life; Shadows; Time; Dead, The; World


SHED AND DREAM, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest with me under the linden tree.
Last Line: O pie in the sky
Subject(s): Trees; Time


SHINING STARS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shine, ye stars of heaven
Last Line: Bids the end arise!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Stars; Time; Nightmares


SHOREHAM: TWILIGHT TIME, by SAMUEL PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: And now the trembling light
Last Line: And mark'st when sparrows fall.
Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; God; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight


SHORT IS TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Short is time, and only time is bleak
Last Line: Short is time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Time


SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO QUINTO. CONTENT, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A day, a night, an hour of sweet content
Last Line: But hast thou bliss in youth? O sweet estate!
Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


SIGNATURE, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: My refrigerator door is papered with art
Last Line: My mark, they say, my name upon the world
Subject(s): Time


SILENCE, by ELENI FLORATOU-PAIDOUSSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snail tracks of centuries
Last Line: In your tender palm %and let it be light!
Subject(s): Silence; Time


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 37, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The days are clear
Last Line: And june!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): June; Time


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 41, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pocket-handkerchief to hem
Last Line: And after work is play!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Stitching
Subject(s): Sewing; Time


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 45, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many seconds in a minute?
Last Line: No one knows the rhyme.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): How Many Seconds?
Subject(s): Time


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATE LECTURES BIORHYTHM CLASS: DOCTRINES OF TIME, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand a woman or man before the sun. The way
Last Line: Our only inheritance, night and day, the grave
Subject(s): Time


SITTING WITH THE AIR, by MARK SENKUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a moment
Last Line: That you didn't know %was closed
Subject(s): Air; Time


SIX YEARS LATER, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So long had life together been that now
Subject(s): Time


SIX YEARS LATER, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So long had life together been that now
Last Line: Through them into the future, into night
Subject(s): Time


SKIRMISH, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old veteran postpones valediction
Last Line: Depleted. Their talk turns to turf: %fescue, mulch, reseeding
Subject(s): Time


SLOW DRAIN OF TIME, by JAMES CERVANTES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the third time she has found him
Last Line: While you look at nothing at all
Subject(s): Sickness; Time


SLOW MOVEMENT, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waking, he found himself in a train, andante
Last Line: And, so doing, open ours
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Time


SLOW SPRING, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O year, grow slowly, exquisite, holy
Last Line: Like a lamb or a child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Time


SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH, by LYN HEJINIAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I frequently slowly wish for more of the sudden experience
Last Line: We get music which is time moving loudly
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time


SMALL DAWN SONG, by PHILIP GROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is just to say thank you
Last Line: This is just to say thank you
Subject(s): Time


SMALL STONES, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are so smooth %and palpable
Last Line: To the unspoken gifts %of inexorable weathers
Subject(s): Time


SNAKESKIN, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is only the old yellow shell
Subject(s): Snakes; Time; Serpents; Vipers


SNAPSHOTLAND, by SYLVIA KANTARIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In snapshotland everyone is happy all the time
Last Line: And the buckets full of pebbles on the same sea-shore
Subject(s): Time


SNOWY MOUNTAINS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Higher and still more high
Last Line: The mists that dance and drive before the sun.
Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SO IT'S TODAY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And in the chokecherry this year
Last Line: For a few more days of summer.
Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Gifts & Giving; Leaves; Longevity; Seasons; Summer; Time; Fall


SOCIAL BLUNDER, by LINDA BACK MCKAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time was
Last Line: Eats astronauts for breakfast
Subject(s): Moon; Time


SOFTENED BY TIME'S CONSUMMATE PLUSH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So easy to repair
Subject(s): Children; Despair; Time; Healing


SOLILOQUY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: August and laurelled have been content to speak for an age
Last Line: That sheds pleasure and pain like hailstones
Subject(s): Time


SOLILOQUY, by ANN YEARSLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: How patiently toils on this little watch
Last Line: With us, the life of man is but a day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Time


SOLITUDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Laugh and the world laughs with you
Last Line: Through the narrow aisles of pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): The World As It Is;laughter;companionship;the Way Of The World;life's Magnet
Subject(s): Advice; Aging; Pain; Solitude; Time; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness


SOLSTICE, by ANN LAUINGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes the year bursts fruitily out on this
Last Line: The scrape of bone under pin-brick stars
Subject(s): Time


SOME - WORK FOR IMMORTALITY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ones' - money - one's the mine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 406; Poem: 53
Subject(s): Fame; Immortality; Time


SOME INFORMATION ABOUT TWENTY-THREE YEARS OF EXISTENCE, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the shrift, she says, 'it is always moving, even in slumber
Last Line: Terror now in the hangar: the little door slides back
Subject(s): Aging; Birth; Birthdays; Family Life; Ontology; Time


SOME NIGHTS ARE THREE NIGHTS LONG, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Back to work, the heart dredging sludge
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Time


SOMETHING THAT SHROUDS ITSELF, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twelve months ago, on new year's eve
Last Line: To all of manhattan coming ashore in the dark
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time


SOMETIMES, by LOUISA F. STORY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes - not often - when the days are long
Last Line: Sometimes?
Subject(s): Time


SONG, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I walked out one evening
Last Line: The clocks had ceased their chiming %and the deep river ran on
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Time; Transience; War


SONG, by JOANNA BAILLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All white hang the bushes o'er elaw's sweet stream
Subject(s): Love; Time; Love


SONG, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, moon of flowers! Sweet moon of flowers
Last Line: And wish my heart could change like thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A.
Subject(s): Moon; Time


SONG, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To love in my heart, I exclaimed, t'other morning
Last Line: Beauty, look not so killingly sweetly.
Subject(s): Love – Age Differences; Time; Fall


SONG, by WILLIAM CORKINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet cupid, ripen her desire
Last Line: Then will no more such sport be found.
Subject(s): Courtship; Time


SONG, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Years have flown since I knew thee first
Last Line: And thou art strange to me, love, tonight.
Subject(s): Time


SONG, by JOHN MCGRATH    Poem Source                    
First Line: And when our streets are green again
Last Line: Will laugh and grow to love again
Subject(s): Time


SONG, by JAMES ROBINSON PLANCHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three score and ten by common calculation
Last Line: You've reached four-score, but haven't lived a day!
Subject(s): Life; Singing & Singers; Time


SONG (10), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am dead, my dearest, / sing no sad songs for me
Last Line: And haply may forget.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Requiem
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Life Change Events; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement


SONG (6), by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me not of morrows, sweet
Last Line: Else to-day were incomplete.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Time


SONG AND SINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw him once, the while he sat and played
Last Line: Keep an immortal youth.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


SONG OF ACKWORTH CLOCK, by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clock beneath the cupola
Last Line: Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, slow
Subject(s): Clocks; Schools; Time


SONG OF OLD TIME, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wear not the purple of earth-born kings
Last Line: And time, old time, will be king after all.
Subject(s): Time


SONG OF THE EARTHLINGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the earth we came
Last Line: Old time has laid them low.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; Time; Trees; Nightmares; World; Songs


SONG OF THE MORNING STARS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the abysses of the sky
Last Line: Like us the over-lords of time.
Subject(s): Time


SONG: 105, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now all of change / must be my song
Last Line: To quit the craft that me beguiled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Time; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


SONG: 109, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Disdain not, madam, on him to look
Last Line: To keep the best and leave the bad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Love; Time


SONG: 83, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, cruel heart, where is thy faith?
Last Line: Farewell my love and all my woe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Cruelty; Faith; Hearts; Love; Tears; Time; Belief; Creed


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 9. OF SUCH STRANGE STUFF, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly my window darkens: each bare limb
Last Line: Of neither night nor morrow will be afraid.
Subject(s): Time; Trees; Youth


SONGS FOR MARIE'S LUTEBOOK, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue-eyed grass is opening now
Subject(s): Nature; Time


SONGS FOR MARIE'S LUTEBOOK, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue-eyed grass is opening now
Last Line: And when it is too late for haste, %remember this
Subject(s): Nature; Time


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 108, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another day comes up
Last Line: And lift the latch of your door.
Subject(s): Time; Waiting


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 58, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poppy, you shall live forever
Last Line: In a rhyme like this.
Subject(s): Time


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 73, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more the woods grow crimson
Last Line: Your hand-touch -- and be sure.
Subject(s): Time; Desire


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 75, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is swimming in the light
Last Line: Deep as the cold heart of the norns.
Subject(s): Nature; Time


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 8, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the greening willow
Last Line: That shall be by and by.
Subject(s): Time; Hope


SONGS TO A.H.R.: 8. HOROLOGUE, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a clock within me
Last Line: That heal the hurts of time.
Subject(s): Clocks; Hearts; Love; Time


SONNET, by MARIE LUHRS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time, of all artists, draws most clear, most true;
Last Line: Quivered and cried -- there is no other way.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Time


SONNET, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How change our days! Not oftener doth its hue
Last Line: Another generation earth prefers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Time


SONNET, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I gathered blushing roses kissed by june
Last Line: The pure child fragrance in thy soul complete.
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses; Time


SONNET (4), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The foot of time so soundless never pass'd
Last Line: And soothe the stranger from another sphere!
Subject(s): Time


SONNET TO MANON: HE DARES NOT DIE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four hours by the clock! How strange it is! Four hours
Subject(s): Life; Time


SONNET: 12, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I do count the clock that tells the time
Last Line: Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
Variant Title(s): The Approach Of Age
Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year; Time


SONNET: 18, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though I myself be bridled of my mind
Last Line: Whereby his absence turneth him to sorrow.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 27
Subject(s): Grief; Honor; Love; Time; Truth; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: 19. ON HIS BLINDNESS, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I consider how my light is spent
Last Line: "they also serve who only stand and wait."
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 16;sonnet On His Blindness;sonnet: 17
Subject(s): Bible; Blindness; Milton, John (1608-1674); Religion; Time; Visually Handicapped; Theology


SONNET: 2. FEBRUARY AFTERNOON, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men heard this roar of parleying starlings, saw
Last Line: That we have wrought him, stone-deaf and stone-blind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Variant Title(s): February Afternoon
Subject(s): Birds; Time; World War I; First World War


SONNET: 21, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, my beloved, have you thought of this
Last Line: Upon our anguish for each other's sake!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Time


SONNET: 32, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was never file half so well filed
Last Line: And the reward little trust forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 16
Subject(s): Time; Youth


SONNET: 5. TIME'S PRISONER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time was, beloved, when from this far-off place
Last Line: That for thy sake all heaven I would forego.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Time


SONNET: 6. TO A BROOK NEAR THE VILLAGE OF CORSTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream
Last Line: As thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze.
Subject(s): Aging; Brooks; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Time; Streams; Creeks


SONNET: 60, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
Last Line: Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
Variant Title(s): "revolutions;""like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore"";
Subject(s): Aging; Gays & Lesbians; Time; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


SONNET: 65, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
Last Line: That in black ink my love may still shine bright.
Variant Title(s): "time And Love (2);""since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea"";
Subject(s): Beauty; Language; Men; Time; Words; Vocabulary


SONNET: SIBYLLINE BOOKS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first, a boy, at your fair knees I kneeled
Subject(s): Books; Time; Reading


SONNET: STARLIGHT. 1, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night works like time: hushed is the busy street
Last Line: And feel eternity, where was but time.
Subject(s): Time


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 42, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My future will not copy fair my past.' / I wrote that once
Last Line: New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!
Variant Title(s): Past And Future
Subject(s): Time; Love


SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 19. THE MANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Greene, garlanded with february's few flowers
Last Line: Live likewise ye: time takes not you for slaves.
Subject(s): Seasons; Time


SONNETS: 4. VICTOR HUGO, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That hour the titan corsican first dared
Last Line: Hope fired all plains and pinnacles of time.
Subject(s): Fate; Hope; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Time; Destiny; Optimism


SOON, by JOE BOLTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soon, these great stadiums will be empty
Last Line: Near the end of what looked like forever
Subject(s): Future; Time


SOONEST MENDED, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Barely tolerated, living on the margin
Subject(s): Language; Time; Words; Vocabulary


SORGENDO DA LUNA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No sound / save the hush'd breath
Last Line: And falleth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Life; Rome, Italy; Time; Dead, The


SOROLLA, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am fleet,' said the joy of the sun
Last Line: And sorrow the sigh of a day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Time


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


SOUND DOCTRINE, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: On sundays, we were wayfaring strangers
Last Line: We waited passage on a midnight train
Subject(s): Time


SOUVENIR, by ALFRED DE MUSSET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I weep, but with no bitterness I weep
Last Line: My soul to god shall bear.
Subject(s): Death; Gethsemane; Grief; Nature; Souvenirs; Tears; Time; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SPECIAL PLEADING, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time, hurry my love to me
Last Line: Baltimore, 1875 -
Subject(s): Time


SPELL OF CREATION, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the flower there lies a seed
Last Line: Lie like the seeds within the flower
Subject(s): Time


SPENT AND MISSPENT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay yet a little longer in the sky
Last Line: Spare me the day a little longer yet!
Subject(s): Time


SPIRIT FLOWERS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear a voice, so close it makes me start
Last Line: In blasts of time.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CONRAD SIEVER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in that wasted garden
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Time


SPRING, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing is so beautiful as spring
Last Line: Most, o maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
Subject(s): Eden; Jesus Christ; Religion; Spring; Time; Theology


SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK, by TROY JOLLIMORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In november the hours are slower
Last Line: Before the river freezes altogether
Subject(s): Change; Time


SPRING IN NEW ENGLAND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The long years come and go
Last Line: Telling us spring has come again!
Subject(s): New England; Spring; Time


SPRING SPARKLE AND THE COCK-BIRD SHRIEK, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday the winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind
Last Line: May this movement spare me a final humiliation
Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Seasons; Singing And Singers; Time; Winter


SPRING WALK, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father and I go for a walk
Last Line: Rotting in the green spring sun.
Subject(s): Fathers; Mortality; Time


SPRING'S ADVENT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit of spring is in the air
Last Line: Mocking, she dares the circling shadow of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Spring; Time; World


ST. JAMES PARK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas june, and many a gossip wench
Last Line: "may be a little altered too."
Subject(s): London; Nature; Parks; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect


STANZAS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often rebuked, yet always back returning
Last Line: Can centre both the worlds of heaven and hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Travel; Books; Journeys; Trips; Reading


STANZAS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could love forever / run like a river
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Love; Time


STANZAS TO THE MARQUISE, by PIERRE CORNEILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Marquise, if on my face you spy
Last Line: Whose printed word may bless or blight you.
Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Time


STATUETTE: LATE MINOAN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Girl of the musing mouth
Last Line: As I, unblest
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Statues; Girls; Time


STEPPING STONES, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh years sunk mutely in the abyss
Last Line: "no costlier good than love can pay."
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Time


STEREOSCOPE, by PAUL GERALDY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't want to see them. Take the negatives
Last Line: Don't make it an historian.
Subject(s): Memory; Time; Travel; Journeys; Trips


STOLEN YEARS: WALL CALENDAR, by DAN PAGIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: December. An arctic wind, new
Last Line: All my stolen years drift by %like sweet water
Subject(s): Time


STRANGE FILAMENT, by LILLIAN M. (PETTES) AINSWORTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: This transient moment which we call our own
Last Line: Upon the endless treadmill of the years.
Subject(s): Life; Time


STRIKING, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a railway passenger / and he lept out jauntilie
Last Line: "for indeed -- the clocks have struck."
Subject(s): Time


STUDIES, by CARLOS PELLICER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clocks out of order, %willful paths
Last Line: These are the tropics, %prodigious and sad. %nobody knows what time it is
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


SUDDENLY MY CLOCKS AGREE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They have this tender moment
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Clocks; Nature; Time


SUGGESTIONS OF ETERNITY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: False time, so fleet, so fugitive!
Last Line: Where time's all ends.
Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Time; Vision; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


SUMMER HOLIDAY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the sun shouts and people abound
Last Line: In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain...
Subject(s): Time


SUMMER IS WANING, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer is waning, the roses are dead
Last Line: Sweet memories, never to fail!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Future; Life Change Events; Summer; Time; Youth


SUN MAY SPEED OR LOITER ON HIS WAY, by SARA COLERIDGE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where nothing whispers that the past is flown
Subject(s): Sun; Time


SUNDAY STILL LIFE - WITH TABLE, WITH KNIFE, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After six days, when the seventh %marches into my home
Last Line: And music keeping time to the marching of earth ants
Subject(s): Time


SUNDIAL, by GABRIEL ZAID    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weird hour. It's not
Last Line: On the verge of falling
Subject(s): Time


SUNDOWN, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: As the rose of the day lies dying
Last Line: On the stream of the vanished years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Nature; Past; Time


SUNSET, by JUNE CREBBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun %is having its last fling
Last Line: Beyond the sea of darkening fields
Subject(s): Time


SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 11. A NEEDLE'S EYE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the stream that's roaring by
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Time


SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Naught but the fittest lives,' I hear
Last Line: May weave into its nest of song.
Subject(s): Life; Nature; Survival; Time


SUSAN LOU, by LOUISE REDFIELD PEATTIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the young twilight gently drew her scarf
Last Line: Here in my hands, as thin as evening haze.
Subject(s): Time


SWEET HOURS HAVE PERISHED HERE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Now fallow in the tomb
Subject(s): Time


SWEETNESS OF REST WHEN THOU SHEDDEST REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Waiting to come to the birth
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): End Time; Patience


SWIFT DAYS, THAT UP TILL NOW, by SHELDON CHRISTIAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swift days, that up till now have flown
Last Line: We alone stand, eternal man and wife.
Subject(s): Life; Time


SWIFTLY THE DAYS FLY PAST, by GIUSEPPE PARINI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unto our parting day
Subject(s): Friendship; Time; Transcience; Aging


SWIFTS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How at once should I know
Last Line: Them to know them gone
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Time


T IS FOR TIME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: You false church clock, whose long-drawn chimes
Last Line: And stretch beyond his frantic face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Time


TAKE TIME WHILE TIME DOTH LAST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Friends fail and love grow cold
Variant Title(s): Madrigal Set By John Farmer
Subject(s): Time


TALKING TIME-TRAVEL BLUES, by ADRIAN RUMBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strap me in your time machine
Last Line: I'm earth bound -- just in time
Subject(s): Time; Time Machines


TEACH ME TO NUMBER MY DAYS', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And courage and worship and love
Subject(s): Time; Transience; Conduct Of Life


TELL ME A STORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ago, in kentucky, I, a boy, stood
Subject(s): Geese; Time


TEMPOCIDE, by BENJAMIN DOWNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I tried to kill time but it would not die
Last Line: I wished I'd let time be and wondered why %we try to kill what passes anyway
Subject(s): Time


TEN SUNS RISE IN THE EAST, by JUAN CHI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: When desire for profit or knowledge come to an end, %so will the sadness of man
Subject(s): Time


TEN YEARS AGO, by FREDERICK TENNYSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten years are swiftly fled since yesterday
Last Line: Since ye are not, o laughter-hearted years
Subject(s): Time


TEN YEARS SINCE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis ten years since / I saw her on the stairs
Last Line: Those ten years since!
Subject(s): Time


TENDRIL, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Indifferent to seed or source
Last Line: On the still and brittle air?
Subject(s): Time


TESTAMENT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So often it has been displayed to us, the hourglass
Last Line: On the mountain of my love below.
Subject(s): Hourglasses; Legacies; Love; Time


TESTAMENT, by W. J. KEITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Books burn, crumble, decay
Last Line: By a hard fate. %it is also true
Subject(s): Decay; Time


THE ABSENCE OF LITTLE WESLEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sence little wesley went, the place
Last Line: With our last prayers, and our last tears, sence little wesley's dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Absence; Clocks; Death; Moon; Prayer; Time; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


THE AFTER-ECHO (2), by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How long the echoes love to play
Last Line: And touches all the soul to tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Echoes; Memory; Time


THE AFTERMATH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swift away the century flies
Last Line: Where the kind dove would never brood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Time


THE AFTERNOTE OF THE HOUR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hour had struck, but still the air was fill'd
Last Line: And turn'd it heavenwards, to its proper bourne.
Subject(s): Time


THE AGES, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How swiftly pass a thousand years
Last Line: Its course is fix'd, its end sublime.
Subject(s): Time


THE AGING ACTRESS SEES HERSELF A STARLET ON THE LATE SHOW, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For centuries only painters, poets, and sculptors
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Time; Immortality; Actresses; Movies; Cinema


THE ALARM, by HILDEBRAND JACOB    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is't, good prying friend, you say?
Last Line: Tis time to be in haste, to live!
Subject(s): Barbers; Clocks; Hair; Old Age; Time


THE ALBUM, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I take your book -- of autographs
Last Line: Our love can ne'er decay.
Subject(s): Love; Memory; Time


THE ALMANAC OF TIME, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The almanac of time hangs in the brain
Subject(s): Time


THE ANCIENT FAMILY CLOCK, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So, here thou art, old friend
Last Line: And make thy peace with him, who rules above the storm.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


THE ANGEL-THIEF, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time is a thief who leaves his tools behind
Last Line: We lose our jewels, but we break our chains.
Subject(s): Time


THE ASCENT OF MAN, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood upon the earth, and turned
Last Line: Lord of two worlds, and child of god!
Subject(s): Mankind; Time; Human Race


THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust
Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible
Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence


THE AUTUMN WIND, by WU-TI (157 B.C.- 87 B.C.)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Autumn wind rises: white clouds fly
Last Line: Youth's years how few! Age how sure!
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Time; Wind


THE BALLAD OF CHRISTOPHER STREET, by FLOYD DELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it still there, I wonder, down in christopher street
Last Line: Eleven christopher street.
Subject(s): Change; Christopher Street, New York City; Greenwich Village, New York City; Time; Youth


THE BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me now in what hidden way is
Last Line: But where are the snows of yester-year?
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): Time; Women


THE BELLS OF SAN BLAS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What say the bells of san blas
Last Line: It is daybreak everywhere.
Subject(s): Time


THE BIRD OF ENDLESS TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your fingers touch me like a bird's wing
Subject(s): Time


THE BITER BIT, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jack dobson, honest son of tillage
Last Line: "must expect rubbers!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Time; Wine


THE BLUE HOUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is night with glaring sunshine. I stand in the woods and look towards my hous
Subject(s): Houses; Time


THE BLUES; A LITERARY ECLOGUE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You're too late
Last Line: With my marriage!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Time


THE BOYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are they? - the friends
Last Line: Of faces asleep where the bumblebees drone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Time; Youth; Childhood


THE BREEZE'S INVITATION, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come let's roam the breezy pastures
Last Line: Such sweet music as he'll hear.
Subject(s): Time; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind


THE BRIDEGROOM TO HIS BRIDE, by MARY ANN BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four years ago, dear love, / and we were strangers; in a distant land
Last Line: With souls, not bound, but blended evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne
Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Time; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE BRIDGE OF LIFE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the rapid stream of seventy years
Last Line: To where all glories of our being tend
Subject(s): Death;old Age;time; "dead, The;


THE BUILDER, by MAUD MORRISON HUEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the tinsel of my dreams
Last Line: Out of the memory of a dream?
Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Nightmares


THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I watched to-day a butterfly
Last Line: Have raised my thoughts from earth to god.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Earth; Insects; Life; Time; Dead, The; World; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY'S MADRIGAL, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love-for-a-day, come let's be gay!
Last Line: But love for aye—ah, never!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Time


THE CALENDAR, by RUPERT HUGHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: In those delicious days we spent together
Last Line: It clings a month to every daily page.
Subject(s): Absence; Time; Separation; Isolation


THE CANTAB, by VINCENT BOURNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With two spurs, or one; and no greater manner which
Last Line: The faster you ride, you're the longer about it.
Subject(s): Time; Horseback Riding


THE CASTLE OF TIME; A VISION, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up rose the full moon in a heaven of blue
Last Line: And heaven's o'erarching dome, eternal and sublime!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Castles; Memory; Past; Time


THE CHILD PLAYING WITH A WATCH, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou playing with time in thy sweet baby-glee?
Last Line: May time and my ellen be playmates together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Subject(s): Babies; Innocence; Life; Time; Infants


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 CITY-BOUND IN A PARK, by MARY C. SLEVIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This! This is earth! Beneath my heel
Last Line: Riding with fierce abandon past his shining face!
Subject(s): Earth; Parks; Time; World


THE CLOCK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Every tick and every tock
Last Line: "has molly dropped down dead?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


THE CLOCK, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Didactic in its safe stone tower
Last Line: The hour it does not tell.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


THE CLOCK, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clock is in a garden wide
Last Line: And strikes eternity.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


THE CLOCK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do you go to that grand hotel
Last Line: "and london, with their chimes."
Subject(s): Clocks; Guilt; Household Employees; Love; Time; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE CLOCK, by ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the dim-lit hall the old clock stands
Last Line: Down dark and silent passages of time.
Subject(s): Time


THE CLOCK'S SONG, by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eileen of four / eileen of smiles
Last Line: Eileen! Eileen! ...
Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


THE CLOCKS OF THE DEAD, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: One night I went to keep the clock company
Subject(s): Clocks; Time; Silence


THE CLOISTER OF YEARS, by VERA BROWN MOOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shall walk quietly
Last Line: Lost in the question of a night bird's call.
Subject(s): Time


THE CLOSED ROOM, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the marvelous house of life
Last Line: Is turned by the keeper -- time!
Subject(s): Time


THE COCK, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the black hour the friendly cock did cry
Last Line: A frozen sun to gild the frozen bough.
Subject(s): Roosters; Time; Cocks


THE COCK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before a clock was in the tower
Last Line: The oldest chronicler of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Roosters; Time; Cocks


THE COMMON LOT, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When youth and summer-time are gone
Last Line: The sailing of the caravan.
Subject(s): Time; Youth


THE COMPUTATION, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the first twenty years, since yesterday
Last Line: Am, by being dead, immortal. Can ghosts die?
Subject(s): Immortality; Time


THE CONTINENTS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a vision in that solemn hour
Last Line: "claim empire for the free!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Africa; Past; Prophecy & Prophets; Time


THE CONTRAST; THE STORMY SIDE, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now years have passed away, all years of toil
Last Line: Divorce a vinculo with alimony.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Time; Suffering; Misery


THE CREATION (A NEGRO SERMON), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And god stepped out on space
Last Line: Amen. Amen.
Subject(s): African Americans; Religion; Time; Negroes; American Blacks; Theology


THE CUCKOO, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth I wandered, years ago
Last Line: Cuckoo-clock.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


THE CUCKOO-CLOCK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wouldst thou be taught, when sleep has taken flight
Last Line: And those that seek his help, and for his mercy sigh.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


THE DANCE OF THE HOURS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the hours of dawn; ah, featly, featly
Last Line: Do we complete the measure of the hours!
Subject(s): Day; Time


THE DEAD LOVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time is so long when a man is
Last Line: That wants to fly back to you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Time; Dead, The


THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Full knee-deep lies the winter snow
Last Line: A new face at the door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


THE DELTA PARADE, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything stops. A fat man on his way to baltimore
Subject(s): Time


THE DEMOTION, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of course there has to be a reason, doctor
Last Line: We must begin all over …
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Time


THE DESIGN, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first eternity stoop'd down to nought
Last Line: Even in that way that is the best.
Variant Title(s): The Choice
Subject(s): Time; Truth


THE DESPERANTO OF WILLYNULLY, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her father's early portrait shows
Subject(s): Time; Portraits; Fathers & Daughters


THE DIRGE OF THE FOUR CITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Finias and falias, / where are they gone?
Last Line: The city of murias.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Cities; History; Lament; Nostalgia; Time; Urban Life; Historians


THE DIRGE [FOR FIDELE], FR. CYMBELINE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fear no more the heat o' the sun
Last Line: And renowned be thy grave!
Variant Title(s): Dirge Of Imogen
Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Mourning; Time; Transience; Dead, The; Bereavement; Impermanence


THE DREADFUL HAS ALREADY HAPPENED, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The relatives are leaning over, staring expectantly
Subject(s): Babies; Time; Ancestors & Ancestry; Infants; Heritage; Heredity


THE DUOMO, by MARIA LUISA SPAZIANI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I lived in milan the duomo was thirty years younger
Subject(s): Milan, Italy; Time


THE EIGHT-DAY CLOCK, by ALFRED COCHRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The days of bute and grafton's fame
Last Line: Sedately to and fro.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


THE ELOPEMENT, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman never agreed to it!' said my knowing friend to me
Last Line: And now she is rich and respectable, and time has buried the past.
Subject(s): Time; Women


THE ENCHANTED VALLEYS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the gate of sleep we enter the enchanted valleys
Last Line: It is past: there is no dawn: no to-morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THE END OF AODH-OF-THE-SONGS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The swift years slip and slide adown the steep
Last Line: Pain that alone survives, gaunt hound of the shadowy years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


THE END OF TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who art dreary
Last Line: And soon must end the night, and soon must dawn the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hope; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Optimism


THE ETERNAL FEMININE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For ever shall she beckon. Men may prate
Last Line: Yet ancient as the moaning of the sea!
Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Sea; Time; Nightmares; Ocean


THE EVENING OF THE YEAR, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wan mists enwrap the still-born day
Last Line: It is the evening of the year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Time


THE FALLEN LEAVES, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We stand among the fallen leaves
Last Line: The present fills our hearts!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): Leaves; Time


THE FAMILY TIME-PIECE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Friend of my heart, thou monitor of youth
Last Line: And tell how fast time flits with feathered tread.
Subject(s): Time


THE FAT MAN YEARNS, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though I've had my share of the pleasure
Last Line: Saturday market day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Longing; Obesity; Time


THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER, by LYN HEJINIAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come october, it’s the lake not the border
Last Line: But it never rained. At the end of the month, halloween should be clear
Subject(s): Time


THE FATALIST: HOME, by LYN HEJINIAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Home whose names are produced by motion
Last Line: But motion to the composition
Subject(s): Disappointment; Time; Nature


THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED, by LYN HEJINIAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time is filled with beginners. You are right. Now
Last Line: Full of ruptures could be one from which all kinds of things are flying
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time


THE FIGURE IN THE FACE, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Six-twenty seven, and I'm at my best
Last Line: I know my grasp of things exceeds my reach
Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of 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 FISHER'S SON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know the world where land and water meet
Last Line: The staunchest bark that floats is high and dry.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sea; Time; Ocean


THE FLAME-BRIDE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the red hearth of time
Last Line: Still slumbering till he wake her!
Subject(s): Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE FLIGHT OF TIME, by J. K. BLAKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tempus fugit,' said the romans
Last Line: "all I say is, ""let her fuge!"
Subject(s): Time


THE FLIGHT OF YOUTH, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, though all the winds that lie
Last Line: Can have no other end but death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Aging; Time; Youth


THE FLOOD OF YEARS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mighty hand, from an exhaustless urn
Last Line: With everlasting concord hand in hand.
Subject(s): Time


THE FOOLISH WING, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is done now with bright thinness of upper air. Weight
Last Line: It is time's journalism only; we are reporting merely
Subject(s): Time Magazine


THE FULLNESS OF TIME, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a rusty iron throne
Last Line: One who had been crucified!
Subject(s): Devil; Jesus Christ; Peace; Time; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


THE FUNERAL, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a pang that spurns all soothing cares
Last Line: Forever more adored his holy name!
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Memory; Time; Dead, The; Burials


THE FUTURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After ten thousand centuries have gone
Last Line: And, if akin to him, akin in vain.
Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE GIFT OF TIME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gift of time, god's freest boon to men
Last Line: Just to be wholly his, and his alone!
Subject(s): Time


THE GIRL IN THE GLASS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You've stood there long enough.' I said
Subject(s): Time; Hair


THE GLAD NEW YEAR, by WILLIAM SHATTUCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's coming a year all mirth and joy
Last Line: Are you that happy, glad new year?
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


THE GOAL, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent and very swift on spiry round
Last Line: Would'st check his tale to tell him speed and speed.
Subject(s): Time


THE GOLDEN HOUR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For every blade of grass
Last Line: A sweeter life shall give.
Subject(s): Memory; Time


THE GREY EROS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are desert leagues apart
Last Line: Do not lay thy rapture down.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Aging; Time; Youth


THE HAPPY LITTLE CLOCK, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In my garret room, I'm never quite / alone
Last Line: With my little china clock upon the shelf.
Subject(s): Children; Clocks; Friendship; January; Time; Childhood


THE HARVEST OF TIME, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time winnows beauty with a fiery wind
Last Line: O, speed the blown chaff down the smoking sky!
Subject(s): Time


THE HISTORY OF AN HOUR, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vain is the wish to try rhyming it, writing it!
Last Line: So catch that hour!
Subject(s): Time


THE HOUR, by PAUL BLACKBURN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Noon-and-a-half
Subject(s): Time


THE HOUR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why weepest thou, o twilight gray
Last Line: And ne'er shall find a morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Time


THE HOUR-GLASS, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do but consider this small dust, here running in the glass
Last Line: Even ashes of lovers find no rest.
Variant Title(s): On A Lover's Dust, Made Sand For An Hour-glass
Subject(s): Hourglasses; Love; Time


THE HOUREGLASSE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once as I in my study sate & saw
Last Line: Triumphs o'r time by sure eternitie.
Subject(s): Fate; Time; Destiny


THE HOURS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those hours are best when suddenly
Last Line: To the lucidity of song.
Subject(s): Hourglasses; Time


THE HUMAN FLOWER: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the old void of unrecorded time
Last Line: The world's consummate, peerless human flower.
Subject(s): Flowers; Time


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 IMMORTAL, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You're shivering my memory
Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Memory; Time; Memory; Educators; Professors


THE IMP OF SPRING-TIME, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the eaves where the sunbeams fall
Last Line: Let him deceive me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Love; Spring; Time


THE ISLE OF LOST DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an isle beyond our ken
Last Line: Drift through the isle beyond our ken.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Tears; Time; Nightmares


THE JUST MADE PERFECT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A stately music rises on my ear
Last Line: And domes continuous span the lengthening way.
Subject(s): Day; Death; Future Life; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THE KITCHEN CLOCK, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Knitting is the maid o' the kitchen, milly
Last Line: Goes the kitchen clock.
Subject(s): Clocks; Love; Time


THE LABORER, by RICHARD DEHMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: We have a bed, and a baby too
Last Line: Only time!
Subject(s): Family Life; Fields; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Time; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers


THE LADY AND THE DAME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So thou hast the art, good dame, thou swearest
Last Line: If thou wilt restore all these, good dame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Past; Time


THE LAKE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus ever drawn toward far shores uncharted
Last Line: "hereby they once did love!"
Subject(s): Lakes; Time; Pools; Ponds


THE LAKE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Must we for ever to some distant clime
Last Line: "here, two fond lovers strayed."
Subject(s): Lakes; Time; Pools; Ponds


THE LAST LOVER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is so late! Down all our days are set
Last Line: A rose, but at the last!
Subject(s): Time


THE LAST MAN: INSIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why what's the world and time? A fleeting thought
Last Line: A brief parenthesis in chaos.
Subject(s): Earth; Time; Transience; World; Impermanence


THE LATER LOVE, by MARY NARBY COTTREL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the later love is the greater love
Last Line: In quiet pools of rest.
Subject(s): Love; Time


THE LESSON OF TIME, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lead thou me, spirit of the world, and I
Last Line: Stretch forth thy hand, I grasp it, silently.
Subject(s): Time


THE LIGHTS IN TOWN, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not as bad as you are
Subject(s): Time; Poetry & Poets


THE LITTLE MOTHERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange mockery of motherhood!
Last Line: Give them a fate more frolicsome.
Subject(s): Home; Loss; Mothers; Tears; Time; Women


THE LONG AFTERNOON, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind the glass door
Last Line: Dear brother, I do!
Subject(s): Dolls; Time; Play


THE LONG AGO, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! A wonderful stream is the river of time
Last Line: May that greenwood of soul be in sight!
Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LOOM OF YEARS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the light of the silent stars that shine on the struggling sea
Last Line: We come from the loom of the weaver that weaves the web of years.
Variant Title(s): The Song Of Re-birth
Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology


THE LORCA VARIATIONS (3) A BOOK OF HOURS, by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The green man, more a man
Subject(s): Time


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 HERITAGE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty gone, and beauty gone
Last Line: And loveliness its toy.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Beauty; History; Knowledge; Love; Time; Historians


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 58, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half in a dream
Last Line: Grows fainter and fades away
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Time; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LOVER AND HIS WATCH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As one who eyes his watch, ere day is born
Last Line: And show'd the morn was near for her and him.
Subject(s): Time


THE LOVER'S CLOCK - THE SIEGE, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That none beguiled be by time's quick flowing
Last Line: And what you best like.
Subject(s): Time


THE LUST OF THE WORLD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since man first lifted up his eyes to hers
Last Line: And twixt the two maintain an equal course.
Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Lust; Mankind; Time; Human Race


THE MAD THING, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sirs, I have not seen him
Last Line: O sirs, a hundred years I've wept.
Subject(s): Sleep; Time


THE MAGIC OF NUMBERS, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: How strange it was to hear the furniture moved around in the apartment upstairs
Subject(s): Relationships; Ooetry And Poets; Love - Erotic; Time; Numbers; Conduct Of Life


THE MAGICAL VIEW OF NATURE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So. The old clock's broken
Subject(s): Time; Einstein, Alfred (1879-1955)


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 MAN, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the insect from the rock
Last Line: Friendlier than the smiling days.
Subject(s): Mankind; Time; Human Race


THE MAN AND THE CENTAUR; THE CENTAUR, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not change -- did not the waters
Last Line: Thou hast a goal!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Centaurs; Life; Time


THE MAN IN WHITE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soldier, knowest thou the land
Last Line: "and we shall be at home."
Subject(s): Kisses; Sleep; Soldiers; Strangers; Time


THE MASSY WAYS, CARRIED ACROSS THESE HEIGHTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of those pure minds that reverence the muse
Subject(s): Ruins; Time; Roads; History & Historians


THE MEASURE, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot/move backward
Subject(s): Time


THE MEASURE OF TIME, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A breath, like the wind's breath, may carry
Last Line: And truth has its birth.
Subject(s): Time


THE MEISTERSINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The magic moment of the eve has come
Last Line: So long as men have ears and time a tongue.
Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Time; Woods; Songs


THE MIGHTY MUST, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come mighty must!
Last Line: Shall be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S.
Subject(s): Time; Trust


THE MILLENNIUM, by ROBERT POLLOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The animals, as once in eden, lived
Last Line: And earth kept jubilee a thousand years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert
Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology


THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the gulf enters the sea and so forth
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Past; Rivers; Seashore; Time; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE MONODY OF ISLA THE SINGER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it time to let the hour rise and go forth as
Last Line: And hear her voice like mournful bells crying on the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Mourning; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Bereavement


THE MONTHS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Contorted by wind
Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Time


THE MOODS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time drops in decay
Last Line: Has fallen away?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Time; Transcience


THE MOON IN TIME LAPSE, by DAVID RIVARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon in time lapse sliding over skyline
Subject(s): Moon; Time


THE MORE THE YEARS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The more the years the more we all remember
Last Line: The more the years.
Subject(s): Time


THE MOUNT, by LEONIE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I have tempered haste
Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs.
Subject(s): Time; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE MYSTERY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can you not hear the sobbing in the night
Last Line: And passes, as though it had not heard.
Subject(s): Hate; Night; Sea; Silence; Time; Bedtime; Ocean


THE MYSTERY, by GEORGE FRANCIS SAVAGE-ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Year after year
Last Line: When I'm dust in the tomb?
Subject(s): Time


THE MYSTERY, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art not dead; thou art not gone to dust
Last Line: The light of mine, and give me death with thee?
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Kisses; Time; Dead, The


THE NATURE OF A MIRROR, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky has murder in the eye, and I
Subject(s): Time


THE NEGATIVE, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man hauling coal in the street is stilled forever.
Last Line: Lovers in the summer palace park.
Subject(s): Time; Social Commentaries


THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've known rivers
Last Line: My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Holidays; New Year; Racism; Rivers; Time; Black Heritage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE NEW YEAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood on a tower in the wet
Last Line: And new year blowing and roaring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): "1865-1866;""i Stood On A Tower In The Wet"";
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


THE NEXT FLOOR, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hours become young days
Subject(s): Time


THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: If all the world and love were young
Last Line: To live with thee and be thy love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): "reply To Marlow's ""the Passionate Shepherd"";answer To Marlowe;the Shepherdess Replies;the Milk-maid's Mother's Answer;
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Transience; Impermanence


THE OLD BRASS CLOCK, by MARY CROMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within the cracked and scarred mahogany frame
Last Line: Clangs through the house.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


THE OLD CLOCK, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clock of the household, the sound of thy bell
Last Line: When I, the forgotten one, sleep in the tomb!
Subject(s): Clocks; Home; Time


THE OLD CLOCK, by JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day low clouds and slanting rain
Last Line: Nic-noc, nic-noc, nic-noc!
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


THE OLD CLOCK OF PRAGUE, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a curious clock in the city of prague
Last Line: Who would live with a whole pair of eyes in his face.
Subject(s): Clocks; Prague, Czech Republic; Time


THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhat back from the village street
Last Line: "never -- forever!"
Subject(s): Clocks; Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Time


THE OLD GRAY CLOCK, by HARRIET GRACE MCINTOSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old gray clock upon the wall
Last Line: Tick, tick, tock:—old gray clock.
Subject(s): Clocks; Future; Time


THE OLD MAN'S PAEAN, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vainly, ye libellers! Your page
Last Line: "young septuagenary!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Life; Time; Truth; Youth


THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the old, old men say
Last Line: Like the waters.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Imagination; Time; Vision; Fancy


THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I sat an hour today, john"
Last Line: The faces that were gone
Subject(s): Classmates;schools;time; Schoolmates;students


THE OLD TIMES WERE THE BEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends, my heart is half aweary
Last Line: That the old times were the best.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Happiness; Nostalgia; Time; Joy; Delight


THE OLD YEAR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon was going down; the empty trees shook, sighing
Last Line: Remaining.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


THE OLD YEAR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O good old year! This night's your last
Last Line: I see your cab is waiting.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


THE OLD YEAR, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a corner of a cornfield
Last Line: For pulseless and still is the stricken old year.
Subject(s): Time


THE OLD YEAR, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Infirm and aged, doth he sit
Last Line: And through it comes the glad new year.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How swift they go
Last Line: And the stranger's face makes the friend's forgot.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by WILLIAM CLEAVER WILKINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night at twelve, amid the knee-deep snows
Last Line: O blithe young year, but keep thy promise true!
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time


THE OLD YEAR'S BLESSING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like simeon of old
Last Line: In peace depart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Time


THE PARADOX OF TIME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
Last Line: Alas, time stays, -- we go!
Subject(s): Time


THE PARK, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a park where oaks of atlas girth
Last Line: Lest on time's pitiless road I fall and faint!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Parks; Time; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE PASSING YEAR, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No breath of wind stirs in the painted leaves
Last Line: While winter winds howl a wild dirge above her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Time


THE PAST IS THE PRESENT (2), by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Revived bitterness / is unnecessary unless / one is ignorant
Last Line: A brass nailed echo.
Subject(s): Time


THE PATTERN-PARALLEL MAP OR GRAPH, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: An illuminated scroll unrolled on the counter
Subject(s): Time


THE PETRIFIED FERN, by MARY LYDIA BOLLES BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a valley, centuries ago
Last Line: Sweetly to surprise us, the last day.
Subject(s): Ferns; Time


THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 4. THE PICTURE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when a traveller, whose journey lies
Last Line: And love with bliss, and life with wiser youth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Death; Life; Portraits; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


THE PLAYMATE, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: For thee thine own self grows to be
Last Line: A stranger of the child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Friendship; Time


THE POACHER'S TIME-PIECE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the viewless belfry-top reared by the shades of night the round
Last Line: In the birds he finds the hour.
Subject(s): Poaching; Time; Watches


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 193, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many falls have I spent on cold mountain
Last Line: Smoothing the mind-ground leaning against rocks
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Time; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 1, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I came to tientai temple
Last Line: All I see are youngsters
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Temples; Time; Youth; Buddha; Buddhists; Mosques


THE POET'S GIFT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That century to century may tell
Last Line: Of earth, so long as pens and books endure.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Gifts & Giving; Love; Poetry & Poets; Time; Dead, The


THE POET'S JOURNAL: A SYMBOL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heavy, and hot, and gray
Last Line: Thou dust punish us with blessing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE FATHER, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fateful hour, when death stood by
Last Line: And lead me with thy helpless hands!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Life; Love; Time; Dead, The


THE POSTS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A year's a post, on which
Last Line: Alas!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Time


THE POWER OF INTERVAL, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fair girl tripping out to meet her love
Last Line: Her burning eyes on her forgetful hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord
Subject(s): Time


THE PROBLEM OF ANXIETY, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fifty years have passed
Last Line: From the bronze mantel, and will never be appeased
Subject(s): Anxiety; Time


THE PROCESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now let our womankind tend hearth and house
Last Line: Make deposition as to woman's worth.
Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE QUEEN OF CLOUDS, by KIANG KANG-HU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The queen of clouds riding down from her jade city
Last Line: O queen of clouds!
Alternate Author Name(s): Jiang Kangh
Subject(s): Clouds; Courts & Courtiers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE RESCUE, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man sits in a timelessness
Subject(s): Time


THE RETURN, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see myself sometimes, an old man
Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE REVISITATION, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I lay awake at night-time
Last Line: Love is lame at fifty years.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Time


THE RISING OF THE SESSION, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To a' men living be it kend
Last Line: Wi blythsome glee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Farm Life; Time; Writing & Writers; Agriculture; Farmers


THE RIVER OF LIFE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The more we live, more brief appear
Last Line: Proportion'd to their sweetness.
Variant Title(s): A Thought Suggested By The New Year
Subject(s): Time


THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
Last Line: And that has made all the difference.
Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Life Change Events; Roads; Time; Destiny; Liberty; Paths; Trails


THE ROCK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: By a flat rock on the shore of the sea
Last Line: And a sprig of the rosemary
Subject(s): Time


THE ROSE-BUSH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A child sleeps under a rose-bush fair
Last Line: And silently cover a new-made mound. / and the years glide by
Subject(s): Life;time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 1, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wake! For the sun who scattered into flight
Last Line: The sultan's turret with a shaft of light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 10, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, let it take them. What have we to do
Last Line: Or hatim call to supper -- heed not you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 100, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yon rising moon that looks for us again
Last Line: Through this same garden -- and for one in vain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 101, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And when like her, oh saki, you shall pass
Last Line: Where I made one -- turn down an empty glass!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 11, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With me along the strip of herbage strewn
Last Line: And peace to mahmud on his golden throne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 12, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A book of verses underneath the bough
Last Line: Oh, wilderness were paradise enow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Love; Time; Women


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 13, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some of the glories of this world; and some
Last Line: Nor heed the rumble of a distant drum!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 14, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look to the blowing rose about us - 'lo, / laughing,' she says
Last Line: "tear, and its treasure on the garden throw."
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 15, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And those who husbanded the golden grain
Last Line: As, buried once, men want dug up again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 16, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The worldly hope men set their hearts upon
Last Line: Lighting a little hour or two -- is gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Time; Liberty; Theology


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 17, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Think, in this battered caravanserai
Last Line: Abode his destined hour, and went his way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 18, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say the lion and the lizard keep
Last Line: Stamps o'er his head, but cannot break his sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 19, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sometimes think what never blows so red
Last Line: Dropt in her lap from some once lovely head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 2, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the phantom of false morning died
Last Line: "why nods the drowsy worshiper outside?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 20, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And this reviving herb whose tender green
Last Line: From what once lovely lip it springs unseen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 21, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, my beloved, fill the cup that clears
Last Line: Myself with yesterday's seven thousand years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 22, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
Last Line: And one by one crept silently to rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 23, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And we, that now make merry in the room
Last Line: Descend -- ourselves to make a couch -- for whom?
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 24, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend
Last Line: Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and -- sans end!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 25, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alike for those who for today prepare
Last Line: "fools! Your reward is neither here nor there."
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 26, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, all the saints and sages who discussed
Last Line: Are scattered, and their mouths are stopt with dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 27, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Last Line: Came out by the same door wherein I went.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Variant Title(s): Alas That Spring Should Vanish;wordly Wisdom
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 28, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With them the seed of wisdom did I sow
Last Line: "I came like water, and like wind I go."
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 29, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into this universe, and why not knowing
Last Line: I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 3, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And, as the cock crew, those who stood before
Last Line: "and once departed, may return no more."
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 30, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What, without asking, hither hurried whence?
Last Line: Must drown the memory of that insolence!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 31, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from earth's center through the seventh gate
Last Line: But not the master-knot of human fate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 32, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was the door to which I found no key
Last Line: There was--and then no more of thee and me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 33, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth could not answer; nor the seas that mourn
Last Line: And hidden by the sleeve of night and morn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 34, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then of the thee in me who works behind
Last Line: "as from without -- ""the me within time blind!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 35, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then to the lip of this poor earthern urn
Last Line: "drink! -- for once dead, you never shall return."
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 36, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think the vessel, that with fugitive
Last Line: How many kisses might it take -- and give!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 37, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For I remember stopping by the way
Last Line: "it murmured-- ""gently, brother, gently, pray!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 38, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And has not such a story from of old
Last Line: Cast by the maker into human mould?
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 39, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And not a drop that from our cups we throw
Last Line: Eye there hidden -- far beneath, and long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 4, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the new year reviving old desires
Last Line: Puts out, and jesus from the ground suspires.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 40, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As then the tulip for her morning sup
Last Line: To earth invert you -- like an empty cup.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 41, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perplext no more with human or divine
Last Line: The cypress-slender minister of wine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 42, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And if the wine you drink, the lip you press
Last Line: You were -- to-morrow you shall not be less.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 43, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So when that angel of the darker drink
Last Line: Forth to your lips to quaff -- you shall not shrink.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 45, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis but a tent where his one-day's rest
Last Line: Strikes and prepares it for another guest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 46, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And fear not lest existence closing your
Last Line: Millions of bubbles like us, and will pour.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 47, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you and I behind the veil are past
Last Line: As the sea's self should heed a pebble-east.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 48, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A moment's halt - a momentary taste
Last Line: The nothing it set out from -- oh, make haste!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 49, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would you that spangle of existence spend
Last Line: And upon what, prithee, may life depend?
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 5, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Iram indeed is gone with all his roses
Last Line: And many a garden by the water blows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 50, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hair perhaps divides the false and true
Last Line: And peradventure to the master too;
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 51, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose secret presence, through creation's veins
Last Line: They change and perish all--but he remains:
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 52, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold
Last Line: He doth himself contrive, enact, behold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 53, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor
Last Line: To-morrow, when you shall be you no more?
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 54, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Last Line: Than sadden after none, or bitter, fruit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 56, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For 'is' and 'is-not' though with rule and line
Last Line: I was never deep in anything but -- wine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 57, by OMAR KHAYYAM                        Poet's Biography
First Line: You know, my friends, how bravely in my house
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Time; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 58, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And lately, by the tarvern door agape
Last Line: E bid me taste of it; and 't was -- the grape!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 59, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grape that can with logic absolute
Last Line: Life's leaden metal into gold transmute;
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 6, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And david's lips are lockt; but in divine
Last Line: That sallow cheek of hers t' incarnadine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 60, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mighty mahmud, allah-breathing lord
Last Line: Scatters before him with his whirlwind sword.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 61, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, be this juice the growth of god, who dare
Last Line: And if a curse -- why, then, who set it there?
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 62, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I must abjure the balm of life, I must
Last Line: To fill the cup -- when crumbled into dust!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 63, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O threats of hell and hopes of paradise!
Last Line: The flower that once has blown forever dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 64, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who
Last Line: Which to discover we must travel too.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 65, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The revelations of devout and learned
Last Line: They told their comrades, and to sleep returned.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 66, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sent my soul through the invisible
Last Line: "and answered, ""I myself am heaven and hell:"
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 67, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire
Last Line: So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 68, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are no other than a moving row
Last Line: In midnight by the master of the show;
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Variant Title(s): Fatalism
Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 69, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But helpless pieces of the game he plays
Last Line: And one by one back in the closet lays.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 7, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring
Last Line: To flutter -- and the bird is on the wing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 70, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ball no question makes of ayes and noes
Last Line: He knows about it all -- he knows -- he knows!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 71, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moving finger writes; and, having writ
Last Line: Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 72, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And that inverted bowl they call the sky
Last Line: As impotently moves as you or I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 73, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With earth's first clay they did the last man knead
Last Line: What the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 75, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I tell you this - when, started from the goal
Last Line: In my predestined plot of dust and soul
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 76, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vine had struck a fiber; which about
Last Line: That shall unlock the door he howls without.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 77, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And this I know: whether the one true light
Last Line: Better than in the temple lost outright.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 78, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Out of senseless nothing to provoke
Last Line: Of everlasting penalties, if broke,
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 79, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What! From his helpless creature be repaid
Last Line: And cannot answer -- oh the sorry trade!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 8, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether at naishapur or babylon
Last Line: The leaves of life keep falling one by one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 80, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin
Last Line: Enmesh and then impute my fall to sin!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 81, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh thou, who man of baser earth did make
Last Line: Is blackened -- man's forgiveness give-- and take!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 82, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As under cover of departing day
Last Line: I stood, surrounded by the shapes of clay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 83, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small
Last Line: Listened, perhaps, but never talked at all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 84, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said one among them - 'surely not in vain'
Last Line: "or trampled back to shapeless earth again."
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 85, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then said a second - 'ne'er a peevish boy'
Last Line: "will surely not in after wrath destroy."
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 86, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After a momentary silence spake
Last Line: "what! Did the hand then of the potter shake?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 87, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whereat some one of the loquacious lot
Last Line: "who is the potter, pray, and who the pot?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 88, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why,' said another, 'some there are who tell'
Last Line: "he's a good fellow, and 't will all be well."
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 89, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well,' murmured one, 'let whoso make or buy'
Last Line: "methinks I might recover by-and-by."
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 9, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each moon a thousand roses brings, you say
Last Line: Shall take jamshyd and kaikobad away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 90, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So while the vessels one by one were speaking
Last Line: "now for the porter's shoulder-knot a-creaking!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 91, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide
Last Line: By some not unfrequented garden-side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 92, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That ev'n my buried ashes such a snare
Last Line: But shall be overtaken unaware.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 93, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Indeed the idols I have loved so long
Last Line: And sold my reputation for a song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 94, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Indeed, indeed, repentance oft before
Last Line: My threadbare penitence apieces tore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 95, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And much as wine has played the infidel
Last Line: One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 96, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet ah, that spring should vanish with the rose!
Last Line: Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 97, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would but the desert of the fountain yield
Last Line: As springs the trampled herbage of the field!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 98, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would but some winged angel ere too late
Last Line: Enregister, or quite obliterate!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 99, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah love! Could you and I with him conspire
Last Line: Remould it nearer to the heart's desire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time


THE SAME CLAY, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have it in oregon
Last Line: Gigantic , immoveable
Subject(s): Time


THE SCRUB-WOMAN, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time has placed his careful insult
Subject(s): Time;washerwomen


THE SEASONS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring's first flowerets, fair and white
Last Line: He lingers through life's dull decay!
Subject(s): Aging; Seasons; Time


THE SEASONS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: W'en de leaves begin to fall
Last Line: Mek it hard to tell which time o' year am bes'.
Subject(s): Seasons; Time; Weather


THE SENTIMENTALIST, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There lies a photograph of you
Last Line: Before us, which this poem ends.
Subject(s): Time


THE SIGNET, by ELIZABETH STANTON HARDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within four walls that hold
Last Line: Once upon a time.
Subject(s): Rooms; Time


THE SKY ABOVE THE ROOFING LIES, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With thy lost years?
Subject(s): Time; Mortality; God; Sky


THE SONG I NEVER SING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As when in dreams we sometimes
Last Line: Join in the song I never sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Sound; Time; Voices


THE SONG OF LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A sneeze from time gives life its little breath
Last Line: Without a single thought, o lord, of thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Life; Time


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 SPEAKERS, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: “a equals x,” says mister one
Last Line: That no one knows, and you’ll be dead
Subject(s): Time


THE SPELL, by EDNA FREDERIKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Set in strong inevitable flight
Last Line: For a golden moment time is still.
Subject(s): Seasons; Time


THE SPIRE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the bavarian steeple, on the hour,
Subject(s): Clocks; Time; Country Life; Nature


THE STARLINGS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Early in spring time, on raw and windy mornings
Last Line: "sad, sad, to think that the year is all but done."
Subject(s): Starlings; Time


THE STILLNESS OF THE FROST, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the frost-white wood comes winnowing through
Last Line: The grace of thine austerity sublime!
Subject(s): Frost; Life; Love; Time


THE STONES OF STANTON DREW, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bland was the morn, no fault or flaw
Last Line: The stones of stanton drew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Stones; Time; Granite; Rocks


THE STREETS OF TIME, by CHARLES A. TUPPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wandered down the streets of time
Last Line: Shone clear and still, glowed warm and still!
Subject(s): History; Time; Historians


THE STWONEN STEPS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thease stwonen steps a-zet so true
Last Line: O' veet trod vu'st the steäirs?
Subject(s): Family Life; History; Mortality; Stairs; Time; Relatives; Historians


THE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND ME, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The winter comes apace
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Seasons; Time


THE SUN-DIAL AT MORVEN; FOR BAYARD AND HELEN STOCKTON, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two hundred years of blessing I record
Last Line: To mark for morven many sunlit hours.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Sundials; Time


THE SUN-DIAL AT WELLS COLLEGE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadow by my finger cast
Last Line: The now on which the shadow stands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sundials; Time


THE SUNDIAL, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One summer day, / I stood beside a sundial; - tombs around
Last Line: They merge with it and lose their heaven-wings!
Subject(s): Life; Sundials; Time


THE SUNDIAL, CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sundial said to the daylight-saving clock
Last Line: Sticks to the truth in a world of lies.
Subject(s): Time


THE SUPREME CONSUMATIN, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, but the world is old, nigh old as hell
Last Line: Pass to my endless home with spirit clean!
Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The


THE SYLVAN YEAR, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the bards are sighing
Last Line: Reappear.
Subject(s): Nature; Time


THE THAW, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the civil sun drying earth's tears
Last Line: So shall my silence with their music chime.
Subject(s): Earth; Sun; Time; World


THE THEFT, by AMORY HARE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had forgotten what it was to wake
Last Line: And spend this hour as though it were a coin!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Time


THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Later when the gloated water
Subject(s): Memory; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect


THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Six months as timeless as dream
Subject(s): Relationships; Time


THE TIME, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They walk in and fall into
Subject(s): Time


THE TIME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer is the time to write. I tell myself this
Last Line: Maybe it is a title and this life is the poem.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Summer; Time; Writing & Writers


THE TIME WILL COME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Through endless time
Subject(s): Time


THE TIME-BROOD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder how the mother-hour
Last Line: In age and size and gender.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Time


THE TIMEPIECE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long has it uttered its warning cry
Last Line: Still let them rest in their lowly bed!
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Time; Dead, The; Parting


THE TIMES ARE NEVER RIGHT, by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Warm days hanging
Subject(s): Time


THE TIMES ARE TIDY, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unlucky the hero born
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Time; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines


THE TRANCE OF TIME, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In childhood, when with eager eyes
Last Line: Heaven's age of fearless rest.
Subject(s): Time


THE TRITON OF THE MINNOWS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why don't you strike out something new?
Last Line: "the triton of the minnows."
Subject(s): Fame; Goddesses & Gods; Hope; Mythology; Time; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Optimism


THE TRIUMPH OF TIME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tender, delicate flowers
Last Line: "and conquers all!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Future; Love; Time; Dead, The


THE TRIUMPH OF TIME, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before our lives divide for ever
Last Line: If I cry to you then, will you hear or know?
Subject(s): Aging; Death; Life; Nature; Time; Dead, The


THE TUNNEL, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Time


THE TURN OF THE ROAD, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where this narrow lane slips by
Last Line: At the turn of the road.'
Subject(s): Footprints; Roads; Solitude; Time; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


THE TUTELARY SPIRIT, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind is strange
Last Line: May the power use.
Subject(s): Love; Reason; Time; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE TWO VISIONS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through days of toil, through nightly fears
Last Line: And darkness over all the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Time; Vision


THE UNEQUAL FETTERS, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could we stop the time that's flying
Last Line: At the full length of their chain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE VANISHED YEARS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I climb them step by step
Last Line: I do not know.
Subject(s): Time


THE WANDERING JEW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars are failing, and the sky
Last Line: That I have any need of rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): God; Night; Time; Wandering Jew; Bedtime


THE WATCHERS, by ERNEST FAVENC    Poem Text                    
First Line: All things were old in that grim grey land
Last Line: Three dead men lay on the ground.
Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery


THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They shut the road through the woods
Last Line: But there is no road through the woods.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Roads; Time; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods; Paths; Trails


THE WAYS OF TIME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As butterflies are but winged flowers
Last Line: On the old things I love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Time


THE WHEEL, by WENDELL BERRY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the first strokes of the fiddle bow
Subject(s): Christianity; Dancing & Dancers; Religion; Time; Wheels; Theology


THE WHITE MOON, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It is the exquisite hour
Subject(s): Moon; Time; Dreams


THE WILD BOAT, TIME, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall a man never rest
Last Line: I will drink this water in the valley.
Subject(s): Life; Pigs; Time; Vision; Boars; Hogs


THE WORKINGMAN, by RICHARD DEHMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: We have a bed, we have a child
Last Line: Just time!
Subject(s): Time


THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again
Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle --
Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence


THE WORTH OF HOURS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Believe not that your inner eye
Last Line: Far better than a barren joy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Time


THE WOUNDED VULTURE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A kingly vulture sat alone
Last Line: Lost in the infinite.
Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Time; Vultures; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WOUNDED VULTURE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A kingly vulture sat alone
Last Line: Lost in the infinite.
Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Time; Vultures; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WRECK OF THE 'STELLA', by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Easter comes like the gleam of a dawn that delivers the slave
Last Line: For great is the empire of earth, more great the command of the soul.
Subject(s): Earth; Easter; Holidays; Love; Tears; Time; World; The Resurrection


THE YEAR, by NEVIN GREEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A year gone. Done. And waiting memory's hands
Last Line: And birth to fuller phantoms for the morrow.
Subject(s): Time


THE YEAR TWENTY-SIX, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis gone with its toys and its troubles
Last Line: And make me -- like thee -- twenty-six.
Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Time


THE YEARS, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each life is like a changing flower
Last Line: And leave rich seeds of memory!
Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Memory; Time


THE YEARS HAD WORN THEIR SEASONS' BELT, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Until the heart is warm.
Subject(s): Love; Time


THEN AND NOW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain / is speaking it pelts
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rain; Time


THEN AND NOW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain %is speaking it pelts
Last Line: Aside and go back to sleep
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rain; Time


THEN SPEND AN AGE IN WHETTING THY DESIRE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thou needs't not hasten if thou dost stand fast
Subject(s): Time; Desire


THERE CAME A DAY AT SUMMER'S FULL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Justified — through calvaries of love
Subject(s): Summer; Time; Heaven


THERE CAME A TIME, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a time when men no longer / died
Last Line: They seemed to hover on the edge of age. ...
Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The


THERE COMES A WARNING LIKE A SPY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And summers are away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1536; Poem: 156
Subject(s): Time


THERE IS A WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "is a soul ""forgot""!"
Subject(s): Time; Language


THERE ISN'T TIME, by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There isn't time, there isn't time
Last Line: About the rest I want to do
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Time


THERE'S A GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK IN THE HALL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a grandfather's clock in the hall, watch it closely. The minute hand
Subject(s): Time


THESE DAYS, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the mausoleum lies the corpse of a man who rode
Subject(s): Change; Death; Russia; Time; Dead, The; Soviet Union; Russians


THESE TIMELESS PEAKS, by ELEANOR ADAMS MATTHEWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sleeper awake! Here is eternity
Last Line: These timeless peaks are not akin to man.
Subject(s): Time


THEY SAY THAT 'TIME ASSUAGES', by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: There was no malady
Subject(s): Pain; Time


THIEF AND GIVER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time's a thief; he steals away
Last Line: Only what you want him to!
Subject(s): Time


THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Later when the gloated water
Last Line: Hugely, in vertigo and awe
Subject(s): Memory; Pride; Time


THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Six months as timeless as dream
Last Line: Circumvent its dial?
Subject(s): Relationships; Time


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou longest so much to learn, sweet boy, what 'tis to love
Last Line: They would make thee straight return.
Subject(s): Youth; Time; Love


THIS HOUR, by MIRIAM VEDDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Make not this hour less lovely with the fear
Last Line: And this brief hour enfold eternity.
Subject(s): Time; Wellesley College


THIS IS HERE, IT IS NOW, by JOHN ISLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always the glittering mineral mountain
Last Line: Here, an egret would launch into a shell of sky
Subject(s): Family Life; Time


THIS IS THE DAY, by JUNE CREBBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the sort of day
Last Line: This is my birthday
Subject(s): Time


THIS SLOW DAY MOVED ALONG, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And it was out of sight
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1120; Poem: 119
Subject(s): Time


THIS TIME, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was his picnic table and those were his two
Subject(s): Change; Time


THIS TIME, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was his picnic table and those were his two
Last Line: And three or four poor staccatos, hard time this time
Subject(s): Change; Time


THOSE WHO TRESPASS, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: High on a trestle of the abandoned railway
Last Line: Forever indifferent to intruders puffing by in the sky
Subject(s): Time


THOUGHTS ON T'IEN-CHIN BRIDGE, by SHAO YUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The countless great lords and statesmen of past regimes
Last Line: Goes on year after year, making the same sound
Subject(s): Time


THREE DAYS, by JAMES ROBERT GILMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: So much to do: so little done!
Last Line: Will end in that great, glad to-morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kirke, Edmund
Subject(s): Hope; Time; Optimism


THREE OR SO, by BERLIE DOHERTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is that child in the snapshot me?
Last Line: As if they had never been
Subject(s): Time


THREE VOICES, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the rack of love despised I lay
Last Line: God's seals still molten on the scrolls of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Time


THROUGH MANY A YEAR AND MANY A VAIN ASSAY, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Great nature's doomsday, or my love's delight
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Time


THROUGH TEARS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An artist toiled over his pictures
Last Line: Of a world that looks on through its tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


THUMBPRINT, by CELESTE TURNER WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Almost reluctant, we approach the block
Last Line: Can all our aspirations and our dreams %leave but filamentous line or two?
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sequoia Trees; Time


TICK-TOCK TALK, by DAVID MCCORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Big clocks go tick
Last Line: The sour way that clocks go bong!
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by HENRY GLASSFORD BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I strive against the strength of time
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by BHARTRIHARI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time is the root of all this earth
Last Line: Bow each in turn,—why tears for birth or death?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari
Subject(s): Life; Time


TIME, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is time, o glorious giver
Last Line: Sabbaths and new moons of love.
Subject(s): Change; Time


TIME, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: What thought can measure time?
Last Line: Losing themselves in one, unbourned eternity!
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clock struck one! We take no thought of time
Last Line: Of hours to come, when misery must prevail.
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by C. DONALD CROSNO    Poem Text                    
First Line: In some quaint cave of crude dissymmetry
Last Line: Of rhythm and light; and time shall be no more.
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look back on time with kindly eyes
Last Line: In human nature's west!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1478;poem: 1251
Subject(s): Time


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


TIME, by ESTHER VALCK GEORGNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the giver of all gifts, and I
Last Line: Though it may wound, I am the anodyne.
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by PAUL GERALDY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You trickle between our fingers. We scatter you with our eyes
Last Line: The moment drops like a pearl to the end of the thread.
Subject(s): Memory; Time


TIME, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The vague sea thuds against the marble cliffs
Last Line: Humouring age with filial flowers, %childhood with pebbles?
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by CAROLINE HAZARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We measure life with our short span of years
Last Line: Growth till we wake, and shall be satisfied.
Subject(s): Time; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College


TIME, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Meeting with time, slack thing, said I
Last Line: He doth not crave lesse time, but more.
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by RALPH HODGSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spiralwise it spins
Last Line: Groans like a ship aground; %shadow makes more noise
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by LILLIE EDSON HOLLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the black sky tonight, down by the dune
Last Line: To go my way as leaf and grass, and shed no tear.
Subject(s): Aging; Mothers; Time


TIME, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you wish me, then, away?
Last Line: Eternity and I are one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Future Life; Time; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


TIME, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They talked of palm beach lots
Last Line: We fell to talking trivial commonplaces.
Subject(s): Life; Time


TIME, by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Measureless time or ever thy years, o man, were reckon'd
Last Line: A flash, a point -- or less, if a lesser thing can be found.
Variant Title(s): On The Brevity Of Time
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by BERTHA OSLER MALCOLM    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I glided down the valley of time
Last Line: Can rob me of the joy and peace of the golden present, now.
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ticking-ticking-ticking of
Last Line: As hoarsely sad at throat as sobs. . . . Pray on!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grief; Morning; Prayer; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


TIME, by ANNA CORA OGDEN MOWATT RITCHIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay rail not at time, though a tyrant he be
Last Line: For he'll rob me in vain, if he leave me but you!
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Threefold the stride of time, from first to last
Last Line: And motionless forever stands the past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time is as feather footed as the snow
Last Line: Marking the swift iambics of his feet.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


TIME, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw time in his workshop carving faces
Last Line: Itself all changed, scarred, careworn, white with years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G.
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a happy spirit
Last Line: Time smote me on the brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Life; Spiritual Life; Time; Dead, The


TIME, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unfathomable sea! Whose waves are years
Last Line: Unfathomable sea?
Subject(s): Sea; Time; Ocean


TIME, by DABNEY STUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wander the snow gardens
Last Line: Which grounds us, tempers us, gives
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Time


TIME, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time is the meagre measure set by man
Subject(s): Time


TIME, by MARY SCOTT WILLOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear one, it seems a year since yesterday
Last Line: I spend the years between just marking time.
Subject(s): Time


TIME (2), by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moment to / moment
Subject(s): Time


TIME (2), by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moment to %moment
Last Line: Gets done, alone
Subject(s): Time


TIME AFTER TIME, by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time: it does things
Last Line: And that old distortion: joy
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty
Subject(s): Time


TIME AND CHANCE HAPPENTH TO ALL, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader, if fond of wonder and surprise
Last Line: Their virtues shall exalt them to the sky.
Subject(s): Luck; Time


TIME AND DEATH, by WILLIAM HENRY WHITWORTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw old time, destroyer of mankind
Last Line: And vanquish'd the great conquerors, time and death.
Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The


TIME AND LIFE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken
Last Line: Nay, but rest.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Roundels; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


TIME AND LOVE, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time hobbles, but love flies
Last Line: To heaven without you.
Subject(s): Love; Time


TIME AND LOVE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An artist painted time and love
Last Line: "and, after marriage, cupid."
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cupid; Love; Time; Eros


TIME AND LOVE; AN ALLEGORY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old time and young love, on a morning in may
Last Line: While he tugs at his oar and keeps steadily on!
Subject(s): Love; Time


TIME AND SENTIMENT, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a fair young couple in a wood
Last Line: Even such, and by this token, is their youth.
Subject(s): Aging; Time; Youth


TIME AND THE LADY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Haste, maiden, haste! The spray has come to budding
Last Line: "a moment, time, a moment, till I sleep."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Time


TIME AND TWILIGHT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dark twilight of an autumn morn
Last Line: To rush by night into the arms of time?'
Subject(s): Time


TIME AS MEMORY AS STORY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Time; Native Americans; Family Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Relatives


TIME DOES GO ON, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They don't believe it now
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1121; Poem: 133
Subject(s): Time


TIME EATING, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ravenous time has flowers for his food
Last Line: You can make no more of me, only destroy.
Subject(s): Time


TIME EXPOSURES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the exposed spirit, busy in daytime
Subject(s): Time


TIME FEELS SO VAST THAT WERE IT NOT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of his diameters
Variant Title(s): Poem: 802; Poem: 85
Subject(s): Time


TIME FLEW IN AND OUT OF THE WINDOW, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Until she dropped dead in the kitchen
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Time


TIME FLIES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moments fly, a minute's gone
Subject(s): Time


TIME HAS THREE PALACES, by RACHEL LUMPKIN WYLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time has three palaces that she will loan
Last Line: Are mingling as they near eternity.
Subject(s): Time


TIME IS A PRIEST, by ERIS GOFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old father time must don his april gown
Last Line: And I behold all beauty in his eyes.
Subject(s): Time


TIME IS A SPACE, by BERENICE VAN SLYKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time is a space between two miseries
Last Line: While it escapes between the ticks and tocks.
Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The


TIME IS AN INCLUSION SERIES SAID MCTAGGART, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In just a minute we will say goodbye
Subject(s): Time


TIME IS AN INCLUSION SERIES SAID MCTAGGART, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In just a minute we will say goodbye
Last Line: By the driftwood fires %singing forever forever
Subject(s): Time


TIME IS MOST UNQUIET, by TOONI GORDI    Poem Text                    
First Line: There we were sitting, like too-thin ghosts
Last Line: We were like ghosts awaiting some still doom.
Subject(s): Fear; Ghosts; Supernatural; Time


TIME IS NO THIEF, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the minutes, not the years, are ours
Last Line: Time is no thief!
Subject(s): Time


TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To get down to cases
Subject(s): Sex; Railroads; Time; Opportunity


TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To get down to cases
Subject(s): Railroads; Time


TIME IS THE MERCY OF ETERNITY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time is divided into
Subject(s): Future Life; Time; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


TIME IS THE MERCY OF ETERNITY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time is divided into
Last Line: Say about them, nothing at all
Subject(s): Future Life; Time


TIME LENGTHENING, IN THE LENGTHENING SEEMETH LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eternity still here and still to come
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Time; Eternity


TIME MACHINE, by DICK ALLEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ugly contraption into which I'm strapped
Last Line: And constantly repeated through all time
Subject(s): Time Machines


TIME MACHINE, by KENNETH GANGEMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a boy I remember kicking through
Last Line: Nights with crickets and stars, the sight %of small children sleeping in their beds
Subject(s): Time Machines


TIME MACHINE! ROB FELT AN ITCH, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Back when there wasn't any rob
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Time Machines


TIME MAKES US SUPPLICANT WHORES, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The bottle's iron mouth suckles the brain dry
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Nature; Time


TIME MARCHES ON, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask me, brothers, why I flinch
Last Line: The seconds spattering on the roof!
Subject(s): Time


TIME MENDS, by HAROLD VINAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time mends a ruined wall as well
Last Line: Are singing vernal orisions.
Subject(s): Healing; Nature; Repairing; Time; Cures; Mending


TIME NOT TO BE RECALLED, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mark that swift arrow, how it cuts the air
Subject(s): Mortality; Time


TIME OF SHADOW, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the hour marais told us about
Last Line: And singing again out of the dark trees
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Shadows; Time


TIME OF THE ATOM, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the time of the atom
Last Line: Fall against a graceful body
Subject(s): Atoms; Time


TIME OPTICS, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the ditch vaults the river
Last Line: I'll be alright gone
Subject(s): Rivers; Time


TIME OUT, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe it was the running-go
Last Line: Toward dusk, sure we would never die
Subject(s): Time


TIME PASSES, by RICHARD PERCIVAL LISTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once I was a boy and I sat in a meadow with flowers in it
Last Line: While the hands of the rude, insatiate clock %go tick, tock,tick, tock
Subject(s): Time


TIME PASSETH AWAY WITH ITS PLEASURE AND PAIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Time passeth away
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Time; Eternity


TIME PASSING, BELOVED, by DONALD DAVIE                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Time passing, and the memories of love
Subject(s): Time


TIME PASSING, BELOVED, by DONALD DAVIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time passing, and the memories of love
Last Line: This siege of a shore that no misgivings have steeled, %no doubts defend?
Subject(s): Time


TIME RECOVER'D, by GIROLAMO CASONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come (my dear) whilst youth conspires
Last Line: Use in time, from time thou tak'st.
Subject(s): Time


TIME REMAINING, by RENEE WEISS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Suddenly you who had, it seemed
Last Line: Accomodations, finally fitting %to a t
Subject(s): Life; Time


TIME RUNNING BACKWARDS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That afternoon in a hidden room
Last Line: A beloved voice counsels them from the past. %time running backwards
Subject(s): Time


TIME SEEMS NOT SHORT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And for a song?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Time


TIME SLIPS AWAY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's weeks, no months, perhaps a year
Last Line: Time slips away before you know.
Subject(s): Time


TIME SPACE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the universe I crawl
Last Line: And time a dream. . . .
Subject(s): God; Metaphysics; Space & Space Travel; Time; Universe; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


TIME SPIRALS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the second moon the
Subject(s): Introspection; Salmon; Time


TIME SPIRALS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the second moon the
Last Line: Cycle from the sky to the sea
Subject(s): Introspection; Salmon; Time


TIME STEALER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She bites off chunks of time
Last Line: So many big chunks of my time
Subject(s): Time


TIME SUITE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just seven weeks ago in paris
Last Line: Amen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Change; Time


TIME TALKED, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time used to talk to me with bells and whistles. The
Last Line: Used to be here. Even now, my dinner bell rings when I %am hungry
Subject(s): Language; Time


TIME THE CHANGER, by PLATO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life brings our all: long time leaves nought abiding
Last Line: Name, form, or nature, good or evil tiding.
Subject(s): Time


TIME TO KILL, by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man and his dog
Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann
Subject(s): Time; Old Age


TIME TO ME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time to me this truth hath taught
Last Line: Than from want of feeling
Subject(s): Time


TIME ZONES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Downstairs in montana the phone rings and it's my sister
Last Line: In the grass that never lies down, that wraps itself around the world
Variant Title(s): Time Zones: Sister To Siste
Subject(s): Relationships; Time; Travel


TIME'S ALTERCATION, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When this old cap was new
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Time


TIME'S BETRAYAL, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone, whose morals need mending
Last Line: "keats, stabbed by the muses, his garland's a splendor!"
Subject(s): Maple Trees; Time


TIME'S CHAMPION, by JOSEPH TWADELL SHIPLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The things that last forever are no more
Last Line: Carving the moment for eternity.
Subject(s): Time


TIME'S DICTUM, by DOUGLAS MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye fires that blaze with the oil of the infinite bowl
Last Line: Yea, the ultimate tomb of all things god created of dust.
Subject(s): Time


TIME'S HAND IS KIND, by MARGARET E. BRUNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: For those who place their blooms on new-made graves
Last Line: And, in its stead, will come a strange new peace.
Subject(s): Time


TIME'S LEGACY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night so long to grief
Last Line: To each, unaltered, be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Time


TIME'S LONG AGO!, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And wins the heart that hope can lure no more
Subject(s): Time


TIME'S MEZZOTINT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis in the shadows that we trace
Last Line: That life's immortal deeds remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Time


TIME'S PICTURE BOOK, by EDNA VALENTINE TRAPNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out on the edge of the worlds
Last Line: In his picture-book of the earth.
Subject(s): Picture Books; Time


TIME'S REMOTEST HOUR, by PAULINE COURTNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time annihilates most grief and tears
Last Line: When death will rob us of each other's power!
Subject(s): Time


TIME'S REVENGE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time he would have said
Last Line: No king at all, and scarce a man!
Subject(s): Time


TIME'S REVENGES, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've a friend, over the sea
Last Line: Meantime, there is our earth here -- well!
Subject(s): Time


TIME'S REVERSALS; A DAUGHTER'S PARADOX, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To his devoted heart
Last Line: Leaning a fading brow on your unfaded hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Love - Age Differences; Time


TIME'S SHADOW, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy life, o man, in this brief moment lies
Last Line: The shadow lying only where we are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Time


TIME'S SONG, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the level plains, where mountains greet me as I go
Last Line: Where will rest my weary wings?—science turns away!
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Time


TIME'S WILY CHARGERS WILL NOT WAIT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They will not stir for blows
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1458; Poem: 149
Subject(s): Time


TIME, HOPE, AND MEMORY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a gentle maiden, in the spring
Last Line: "thou hast loved hope, but memory loved thee."
Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Time; Optimism


TIME, PLACE, AND PARENTHOOD, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we are, my son, aliens in this place
Last Line: Accept these words that can never say enough.
Subject(s): Children; Parents; Past; Time; Childhood; Parenthood


TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY; AN ALLEGORY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the wide level of a mountain's head
Last Line: And knows not whether he be first or last.
Subject(s): Fables; Time; Allegories


TIME: AN ODE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the chariot, where
Last Line: Live, when imperial time and death himself shall die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Time


TIME; AN ENIGMA, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever eating, never cloying
Last Line: Till I eat the world at last.
Variant Title(s): On Time; Riddle
Subject(s): Time


TIMEPIECE (MICHIGAN), OR A MOEBIUS TRIP, by CAROL PEPPIS BERGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On monday, she arrived at the aiport, expecting to be met there by a
Last Line: Clock had stopped at noon
Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Time


TIMES AIN'T WHAT THEY WAS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When pa an' ma was married in the days long gone and dead
Last Line: An' boys an' girls grow bigger - an' I'm glad to see the day
Subject(s): Family Life;modern Man;time;west (u.s.); Relatives;southwest;pacific States


TIMING, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Used to think when I
Last Line: Are patient & don't %waste as many strokes
Subject(s): Aging; Sex; Time


TIS HE WHOSE YESTER-EVENING'S HIGH DISDAIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness
Subject(s): Mortality; Time


TO A BUTTERFLY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've watched you now a full half-hour
Last Line: As twenty days are now.
Variant Title(s): To A Butterfly
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Time; Bugs


TO A CHILD, by FRANK PUTNAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The years stretch far above thee
Last Line: His work will not forget.
Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Hope; Time; Youth; Childhood; Optimism


TO A FRIEND WHO THREW AWAY HAIR DYES, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely history's seen a happy ruler!
Subject(s): Time


TO A GREEK GEM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it the signet of an antonine
Last Line: Have whelmed us in the sands we build upon.
Subject(s): Beauty; Greece; Jewelry & Jewelers; Time; Greeks


TO A PHOTOGRAPHER, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have known joy and woe and toil and fight
Last Line: They are my scars of battle — put them back!
Subject(s): Aging; Disdain; Photography & Photographers; Time; Scorn


TO A PRESSED ROSE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lovely faded rose
Last Line: A lovely faded rose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time


TO A TRIUMPHER, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chisel upon thine arch, great king, a knot
Last Line: And mar his blade upon thy glory humbled.
Subject(s): Honor; Time


TO A YOUNG MOTHER, by HELEN DARBY BERNING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little mother, hold her tightly!
Last Line: I know! I know!
Subject(s): Time


TO ALISON, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ghouls and ghosts shall science lay? Not ours!
Last Line: Their ghosts turn flowers; like angels they array them.
Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; Hearts; Supernatural; Time


TO AN ELECTRIC CLOCK, by WALTER G. RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Formal as your fathers, tranquil as night
Last Line: Why do you not speak if you wish to boast?
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


TO AN OAK AT NEWSTEAD, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Young oak! When I planted thee deep
Last Line: Are lost in the hours of eternity's day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Newstead Abbey, England; Oak Trees; Time


TO AN OLD CLOCK, by DONALD J. PAQUETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why do you always stand there
Last Line: Or a man go -- unhanged?
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


TO BILL, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I drew a line between the past and the present
Last Line: A long, slow walk away from you
Subject(s): Time


TO DELIA: 21 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time, cruel time, come and subdue that brow
Last Line: She may become more kind to thee or me.
Subject(s): Time


TO DELIA: 37, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Delia, these eyes that so admireth thine
Last Line: Doth her unto eternity assummon.
Subject(s): Love; Time


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 GUY MURCHIE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No flower I bring you
Last Line: The heart will speak without the pomp of rhyme.
Subject(s): Time; Poetry & Poets


TO HIMSELF, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So you've come to me now without knowing why
Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Time


TO HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Had we but world enough, and time / this coyness, lady, were no crime
Last Line: Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Desire; Holidays; Love; New Year; Time


TO J. B., by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within an old world, classic vase
Last Line: That triumphs over time.
Subject(s): Flowers; Time


TO JUDITH ASLEEP, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear, darkened in sleep, turned from the moon
Last Line: Time still must tick this, I am, we are are
Subject(s): Sleep; Time; Togetherness


TO JULIA ON HER BIRTHDAY, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When time was entwining the garland of years
Last Line: And pity shall nurse it with dew!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Birthdays; Time


TO LUCREZIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pause we within the sunset, love
Last Line: This barrier -- thy loveliness!
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Time; Youth


TO MIRIMOND (HER BIRTHDAY, IN DECEMBER), by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost think that time, to whom stars vainly sue
Last Line: If thou, when all is gone, wouldst still have all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Beauty; Time


TO MISS F. B. ON ASKING FOR MRS. BARBAULD'S LOVE AND TIME, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of love and time say what would fanny know
Last Line: With gay sixteen they both are in their prime.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Time; Love - Erotic


TO MR. J.L., UPON HIS TREASTISE OF DIALLING, by GEORGE UBA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old time, but for thy art, alone would pass
Last Line: Nothing a real science you create.
Subject(s): Time


TO MY BROTHER; KILLED: CHAUMONT WOOD, OCTOBER, 1918, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O you so long dead
Last Line: The language as long as the language survives
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): World War I; Brothers; Death; Time; First World War


TO MY CALENDAR, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How often have I reached my hand
Last Line: Who daily tears a day from me!
Subject(s): Aging; Time


TO MY MISTRESS, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Countess, I see the flying year
Last Line: Or spurn a poet such as I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Subject(s): Time


TO MY OLD FRIEND, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You, who through every change remain
Last Line: The days of eighteen-ninety-five!
Subject(s): Change; Competition; Nostalgia; Poetry & Poets; Time; Writing & Writers


TO MY OLD FRIEND, WILLIAM LEACHMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fer forty year and better you have been a friend to me
Last Line: Fer the name of william leachman and true manhood's jest the same!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Memory; Time


TO MY OLD WATCH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wondrous work of mind's invention
Last Line: So near to thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Aging; Clocks; Time; Weariness; Youth; Fatigue


TO OLIVER WENDELL HOMES, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A fountain in our green new england hills
Last Line: That guard the soul whose fire of youth still burns.
Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894); Time


TO SIR RICHARD F. BURTON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Westward the sun sinks, grave and glad; but far
Last Line: Whence laughing love dissolves her frosts and snows.
Subject(s): Evening; Time; Sunset; Twilight


TO THE BUILDERS OF MY HOUSE, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before you uncurl your euclidean plans
Last Line: A signing house, acquainted with wrens
Subject(s): Time


TO THE CLOCK, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail requiem of departed time
Last Line: The shuttles quiver as the loom's beams are shaken
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


TO THE KING OF THULE, by HENRI ALLORGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O thou, whose name is as a sigh exhaled
Last Line: O king of thule, it is thine.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tears; Thule (island); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


TO THE MOMENT LAST PAST, by WILLIAM HABINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O whither dost thou flye? Cannot my vow
Last Line: Ten of his fellow moments fled away.
Subject(s): Time


TO THE PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON, AS FIRST CONSUL, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brilliant as lucifer, son of the morning
Last Line: Beautiful gem of the larian shore.
Subject(s): History; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Portraits; Stars; Time; Historians


TO THE ROCK THAT WILL BE A CORNERSTONE OF THE HOUSE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old garden of grayish and ochre lichen
Last Line: How dear you will be to me when I too grow old, old comrade.
Subject(s): Houses; Time


TO THE SETTING SUN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, o sweet day, nor fleet so fast away
Last Line: Keeping sweet daylight, in each other's eyes.
Subject(s): Time


TO THE SPHINX, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sleepless sphinx!
Last Line: Eternal sphinx!
Subject(s): Earth; Egypt; Patience; Sphinx; Time; World


TO THE SUN-DIAL, by JOHN QUINCY ADAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou silent herald of time's silent flight!
Last Line: Aspiring still, with energy sublime, %by virtuous deeds to give eternity to time
Subject(s): Sundials; Time


TO THE URANIAN APHRODITE, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My days pass wreathed in dreams while time's dim room
Last Line: Hope's rainbow gleamed through foam of troubled seas.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Fate; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical; Time; Destiny


TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Last Line: You may forever tarry.
Variant Title(s): Counsel To Girls;counsel To Virgins
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; New Year; Roses; Time; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO THINK OF TIME, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To think of time - of all that retrospection
Last Line: And life and materials are altogether for it!
Subject(s): Time


TO THINK OF TIME (DIFFERENT VERSION), by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To think of time - to think through the retrospection
Last Line: And all preparation is for it - and identity is for it - and life and death are for it
Subject(s): Time


TO TIME, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time! On whose arbitrary wing
Last Line: Must fall upon -- a nameless stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Time


TO TIME, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day by day the threads of white
Last Line: Break not your arrow in my breast!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Time


TO TIME, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Space keeps us, time forgives us
Subject(s): Time


TO TIME, by MARY JULIA YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rouse thee, old time, thy folded pinions shake
Last Line: Secure beneath thy plumy umbrage rest.
Subject(s): Time


TO TIME, THE TYRANT, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time, in whose kingship is song
Last Line: Time!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Time


TO-DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To-morrow, what does it matter?
Last Line: And gratefully live each to-day!
Subject(s): January; Time


TO-MORROW, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old fraud, I know you in that gay disguise
Last Line: All the dull yesterdays that I have known.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Future; Past; Time


TO-MORROW, by MACEDONIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-morrow? Then your one word left is always now the same
Last Line: Since time began with women, but old age and wrinkled skin?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macedonius Of Thessalonica; Macedonius Consul
Subject(s): Time


TO-MORROW TO FRESH WOODS AND PASTURES NEW', by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As for a moment he stands, in hardy masculine beauty
Last Line: Eagerly scanning the future which is so soon to possess me.
Subject(s): Time


TODAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: And if tomorrow shall be sad
Last Line: At least today
Subject(s): Life;soldiers;time


TODAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is so nice to have today
Last Line: All peeking out and peeking in!
Subject(s): Children; Play; Time; Childhood


TODAY'S MUSIC, by ROBERT MCALMON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His being started with music
Subject(s): Time; Music & Musicians


TOM VAN ARDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tom van arden, my old friend
Last Line: . . . Tom van arden, my old friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Past; Time


TOMORROW, by JAMES BUCKHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: King hassan, well beloved, was wont to say
Last Line: Forget it, then—here lies the victor's way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul
Subject(s): Proverbs; Time; Maxims; Adages


TOMORROW, by ROBERT DESNOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred thousand years old, I would still have the strength
Last Line: Which will prove that at last we are living in the present
Subject(s): Surrealism; Time; Patience


TOMORROW, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where art thou, beloved tomorrow?
Last Line: We find the thing we fled -- to-day.
Subject(s): Time


TOMORROW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon thy face alone no trace
Last Line: That floods thy soul, sweet morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Time


TOMORROW THE PAST COMES, by ION CARAION    Poem Source                    
First Line: No longer for me is there anything late. All is late
Last Line: In the fog much becomes clear
Subject(s): Time


TOMORROW WONDERS, by RUSSELL HOBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What will they bring me, I wonder?'
Last Line: Bong bong bong, 'don't,' the clock says, %'count on it.'
Subject(s): Time


TOMORROW, YESTERDAY, by MARK SMITH-SOTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Back when the future was firmly in its place
Last Line: The figs, the long sweet breath of tomorrow
Subject(s): Time


TONIGHT, by MAURICE DU PLESSYS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tonight, while man and nature one accord encloses
Last Line: Flames of marble, as they dance under torches in the gloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Flandre-noblesse, Sylvan Francois Maurice
Subject(s): Night; Time; Bedtime


TOO HAPPY TIME DISSOLVES ITSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or too much weight to fly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1774; Poem: 118
Subject(s): Time


TOO LATE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blessings, alas! Unmerited
Last Line: We have no refuge, but our trust.
Subject(s): Time; Worship


TOO LATE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Delayed till she had ceased to know
Last Line: Doubtful if it be crowned!
Subject(s): Time


TOO LATE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Too late I bring my heart, too late 'tis yours
Last Line: Too late! Too long!
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time


TOO LATE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sighed a poet when his fame
Last Line: For I've lived just thirty years beyond the time!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Time; Reputation


TOO LATE FOR A HUSBAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where were you in the marriage season?
Last Line: Go home now, we're all sold out
Subject(s): Single People; Time


TOUCH ME, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer is late, my heart
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TOUCH ME, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer is late, my heart
Last Line: Remind me who I am
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Marriage; Time


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WIDENING CIRCLES, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no hap nor any flaw
Last Line: Our widening circles inevitably meet and interfuse some time.
Subject(s): Relationships; Time; Universe


TRAGEDY OF TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is that when we
Last Line: Can take comfort
Subject(s): Mortality; Time


TRAIN RIDE, by JOHN MICHAEL CARROLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The train sped past the station
Subject(s): Time


TRANSFIGURED, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watch a ball by rampant feet
Last Line: Shall chime eternal praise.
Subject(s): Evil; Heaven; Praise; Time; Paradise


TRAVEL ALARM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because everything still bears
Last Line: Of green.
Subject(s): Clocks; Family Life; Time; Travel; Relatives; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELLING, by PIERRE REVERDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Morning %when the pendulum moves more quickly
Last Line: A few yours more of not being any more
Subject(s): Time; Travel


TRIAD, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the silence of time, time's silence borrow
Last Line: The builders of joy are the children of sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Silence; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


TRILCE: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time time
Subject(s): Time


TRINKET, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love watching the water
Last Line: Small enough to contain it.
Subject(s): Plants; Self; Time; Water; Planting; Planters


TRIOLETS IN THE ARGOLID, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The taste is strong as ever,
Subject(s): Time; Silence; Cell Phones; Taste (sense); Love; Worry


TROPE, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I retreat to my backyard farm
Last Line: We are bound forever to her plight
Subject(s): Time


TRYPTYCH, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Morning: %6:30 (2) sunrise
Last Line: Stops. Jolting %finale avoided
Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets; Time


TWAS COMFORT IN HER DYING ROOM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And this of ours must die
Subject(s): Death; Time


TWAS LATER WHEN THE SUMMER WENT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Keeps esoteric time
Subject(s): Crickets; Time; Seasons


TWELVE MONTHS IN A ROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Take them, love them, let them go
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time


TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sound of noon floats o'er the village-pool
Last Line: Which tells us boldly how we pass away!
Subject(s): Time


TWELVE OF THE CLOCK, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twelve of the clock - lost hour when lovers' ghosts
Last Line: Then twelve of the clock - the hour for lovers' ghosts
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Time


TWENTY GOLDEN YEARS AGO, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O, the rain, the weary, dreary rain
Last Line: Twenty golden years ago!
Subject(s): Disappointment; Holidays; New Year; Past; Time


TWENTY YEARS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, I sit, with a new-comer chatting
Last Line: Of the future?)
Subject(s): Time


TWENTY-FOUR LOGICS IN MEMORY OF LEE HICKMAN, by PALMER. MICHAEL    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bend in the river followed us for days
Subject(s): Time; Life; Poetry & Poets


TWILIGHT MUSINGS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, at this hour, when silently
Last Line: To the life-key of thy soul!
Subject(s): Memory; Silence; Thought; Time; Thinking


TWO FIGURES, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These figures moving in my rhyme
Last Line: Who are they? Death and death's dog, time
Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott
Subject(s): Death; Time


TWO LENGTHS HAS EVERY DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remain thou as thou art
Subject(s): Time


TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end
Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed.
Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors


TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent in the moonlight
Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed.
Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors


TWO TWILIGHTS COME TO MAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: The twinned twilight
Subject(s): Evening;night;time; Sunset;twilight;bedtime


TWO VOICES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The life that was is dead and lost
Last Line: My fate is mine, and scorns the lie of time.
Subject(s): Mortality; Time


TWO YEARS LATER, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hollow eyes of shock remain
Subject(s): Time


UNCERTAIN, by MARY M. WOOLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Can I be sure that love is still for me?
Last Line: A muted melody, complete?
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time


UNCLE TIME, by DENNIS SCOTT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Uncle time is an ole, ole man
Last Line: Inside; an' when 'im touch yu', weep
Subject(s): Time


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


UNFULFILLMENT, by FRANCES LOUISA BUSHNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, june is here, but where is may?
Last Line: Lieth, nor yet is found.
Subject(s): Time


UNKNOWN QUANTITY, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man must ponder
Last Line: To me unknown.
Subject(s): Beauty; Orion (constellation); Thought; Time; Thinking


UNTIL AT LENGTH THE NORTH WINDS BLOW, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Leaving behind the cold, cold year
Subject(s): Winter; Geese; Time


UNTITLED, by ERIC BROGNIET    Poem Source                    
First Line: The almost unbearable blue
Last Line: The frock of tides, time unravelling
Subject(s): Sea; Time


UNTITLED, by MORRIE WARSHAWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: So here's the thing
Last Line: Of a dark night and its dreams
Subject(s): Change; Past; Time


UNTURNED STONE, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its basaltic black speaks of henry moore
Last Line: And discover that is weight has grown
Subject(s): Time


UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Uphill
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips


UPON THE DEATH OF LORD HASTINGS, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, intercept some fountain in the vein
Last Line: And art indeed is long, but life is short.
Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The


UPON THE HILL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred miles of landscape spread before me like a fan
Last Line: How many thousand times shall I look on them ere this fire in me is dead?
Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UPON TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time was upon / the wing, to flie away
Last Line: And so away he flew.
Subject(s): Time


USES, by EDITH WHARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, from the niggard tree of time
Last Line: With june's forgotten scent.
Subject(s): Time


VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1876, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairer than younger beauties, more beloved
Last Line: Last valentine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; Time; Valentine's Day


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


VARIATION ON BEAUMONT, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time, at his kindest, hath wild wings to fly with
Last Line: Ages and aeons of delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Time


VEILED MEMORIES, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Of love that was, of friendship in the days
Last Line: Is woven through the soul's strange warp and woof.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Memory; Time


VERSES READ AT THE TRIENNIAL DINNER OF THE CLASS OF 1886, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can it be three years are gone
Last Line: And an even vaster choir %shall make music in her praise
Subject(s): Time


VERY STRONG FEBRUARY, by BERNADETTE MAYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man and a woman pretend to be white ice
Subject(s): Time; Winter


VESTIGES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the isle of time we trace
Last Line: No memory of man is found.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Time


VI. (THE MOMENT FINALLY ARRIVED), by PAUL ANTSCHEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It did arrive, finally, the moment in front of the mirrors that cover the exter
Last Line: Around you, and your dreamy mouth utters your name
Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul
Subject(s): Time


VICISSITUDE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All things around us preach of death; yet mirth
Last Line: Earth is our pilgrimage, our home is heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Change; Death; Time; Dead, The


VILLAGE, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stones are time
Last Line: There is no water here for all the lustre of its eyes
Subject(s): Time


VILLANELLE: EXCEPTION TO THE RULE - 1, by DAVID YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baboons were preening, and the sun was setting.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time


VIOLIN SONGS: A PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who mad'st the mighty clock
Last Line: Make my willing true.
Subject(s): God; Planets; Prayer; Time


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time was, and that was term'd the time of gold
Last Line: Thriuing in ill, as it in age decayes.
Variant Title(s): The Golden Age
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Pride; Sea; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I not touch some vpstart carpet-shield
Last Line: And now he would, and now he cannot wed.
Subject(s): Time; Virginity; Vestals


VISIBLE LIE, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time is a visible lie
Last Line: She'll swallow an egg whole, %common as a moan
Subject(s): Lies; Time; Women


VISION, by WAYLAND A. DUNHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against time's feet / I erect a pedestal
Last Line: Upon which to dream.
Subject(s): Time


VISIONS: 1, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sitting one day beside the banks of mole
Last Line: As need another joseph to expound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Mole, River, England' Time; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


VISIONS: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dream both strange and sad to see
Last Line: Headlong I fell, and -- woke from sleep.
Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Time; Nightmares


VIVISECTION, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild nature not by kindness won, because
Last Line: Nor shall it die within me till I die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Life; Time; World; Belief; Creed


VOICE OF THE CONDEMNED, by ESTHER M. LEIBRAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Have you anything to say before you're scrapped
Last Line: For a few last words while their old bones bleach.
Subject(s): Decay; Time; Rot; Decadence


W.H.; AD. 1778-1830, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the wet trees and the sorry steeple
Last Line: Titian and wordsworth live; the people marches.
Subject(s): Beauty; Hazlitt, William (1778-1830); Love; Time; Truth


WAITING, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each afternoon now (the concierge foretold it)
Subject(s): Time


WAITING - BOTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A star looks down at me
Last Line: "so mean I."
Subject(s): Stars; Time; Transience; Impermanence


WAKING, SLEEPING, DREAMING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wake, the day is breaking
Last Line: Turn the clocks around.
Subject(s): Clocks; Day; Dreams; Time; Nightmares


WALL CALENDAR, by DAN PAGIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: December. A polar wind, sharp-edged, new
Last Line: Before my eyes all my stolen years stream past %like a sweet river
Subject(s): Time


WARNING, by JENNIFER JOSEPH    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny
Subject(s): Aging; Time; Women


WARNING, by JENNIFER JOSEPH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
Last Line: So people who know me are too shocked and surprised %when suddenly I am old and start to wear purple
Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny
Subject(s): Aging; Time; Women


WAS IT TIME?, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Was it time I spent with thee?
Last Line: In a narrow moment room?
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Time


WASTED HOURS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many buds in this warm light
Last Line: The nightingale and moon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Time


WATCH ON RHYME, by MAURICE DEAN BLEHERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun, boiling up each morning right on time
Last Line: Who would settle for casio?
Subject(s): Rhyme; Time


WAVES, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day the waves assailed the rock
Last Line: And breaks the glass of time.
Subject(s): Time; Waves


WE - GROWN OLD, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I who yesterday was young
Last Line: We, grown old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Old Age; Time


WE DO NOT KNOW THE TIME WE LOSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Whose substances are sand
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1106; Poem: 113
Subject(s): Time


WE DON'T NEED TO LEAVE YET, DO WE? OR, YES WE DO, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One kind of person when catching a train always wants to allow an hour
Last Line: Which wouldn't make any difference, except that each other is what they always marry
Subject(s): Time


WE UNCOMMISERATE PASS INTO THE NIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the new age forgets us and goes on
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Future; Time


WEARINESS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are now the dreams divine
Last Line: From the tired child at thy feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Time; Weariness; Fatigue


WELT, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would I mend the fabric of my youth
Last Line: Ere time has brushed cold fingers through my hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Time


WHAT ARE CITIES FOR?, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth has covered sicilian syracuse, there asphodel grows
Subject(s): Cities; Time; Urban Life


WHAT ARE CITIES FOR?, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth has covered sicilian syracuse, there asphodel grows
Last Line: Be the poorer by many beautiful agonies
Subject(s): Cities; Time


WHAT ARE YEARS?, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is our innocence
Subject(s): Time


WHAT ARE YEARS?, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is our innocence
Last Line: This is mortality, %this is eternity
Subject(s): Time


WHAT SAPPHO WOULD HAVE SAID .. LEAP CURED INSTEAD OF KILLING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, love, that having found a heart
Last Line: Fill me and make me wholly thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Hate; Hearts; Love; Time


WHAT TIME HAS DONE, by MILDRED HART    Poem Text                    
First Line: What time has done to others
Last Line: What now is sweetly ours.
Subject(s): Time


WHAT WE HAVE LOVED, by DARLENE FERN MATHIS-EDDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Near the steep banks by the flowing river
Last Line: School is out %teacher has gone home
Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Teaching And Teachers; Time


WHAT WINTER FLOODS, WHAT SHOWERS OF SPRING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Memory; Time


WHAT'S BROKEN, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The slate black sky. The middle step
Subject(s): Time; Life


WHEEL, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the first strokes of the fiddle bow
Last Line: And turn with them in the dance %in the sweet enclosure %of the song, and timeless %is the wheel tha
Subject(s): Christianity; Dancing And Dancers; Religion; Time; Wheels


WHEEL OF TIME, by SUSAN LUZZARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: If memories were genetic, the kumeyaay would be missing chula vista, which was
Last Line: That looks like the ghost of a beautiful bird on which we all might ride
Subject(s): Memory; Time


WHEN I LOOK AT THE DATES OF ARTISTS, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I look at the dates of artists who died before my age
Last Line: I was the homebody, tethered to my spiral notebook, alarmed by experience
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time


WHEN NIGHT IS ALMOST DONE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That frightened — but an hour
Subject(s): Night; Time


WHEN SUNSET OVERTAKES ME, by MARY ELIZABETH JONES    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And button it with clover.
Subject(s): Time


WHEN THE SPEED COMES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the speed comes a-creeping overhead
Last Line: Upon the soul, still sore from yesterday.
Subject(s): Time


WHEN TIME HAS TAKEN WINGS, by BERT MOREHOUSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I do not envy any man his wealth
Last Line: In love his friends when time has taken wings.
Subject(s): Time


WHEN TIME PASSES, by PARK IN-HWAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have forgotten her name
Last Line: Remain lodged in my heart, %in my chilled heart
Subject(s): Time


WHEN TIME PICKS APPLES, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It eats them with the yellow teeth %of bees
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Time


WHEN TIME STANDS STILL, by NANCY LAURENCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When time's swift flight
Last Line: Upon a world of summer skies!
Subject(s): Time


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 MOTH AND RUST, by DAN LEIDIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A small brown moth flutters %against the summer screen
Last Line: And bring the new calf tongue for this unspeakable plow
Subject(s): Time


WHERE THEY LIVED, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dishevelled leaves creep down
Last Line: Time calls, 'pass below!'
Subject(s): Time


WHICH WAY WILL THE CREEK, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: This wine bottle is empty
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Time


WHITE-HAIRED, I WALK IN ON MY PARENTS, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With the past in our future
Subject(s): Parents; Time; Past; Future


WHO LEARNS MY LESSON COMPLETE?, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderfu
Subject(s): Time; Knowledge


WHO LOVE AND PART, by HAMLEN HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who love and part, know parting for a knife
Last Line: Atlantis' doom repeated in the heart.
Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Time; Parting


WHO?, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is that child I see wandering, wandering
Last Line: Why does he say that his name is my own?
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Time


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 DOES IT TAKE SO GODDAMN LONG-THE BURNED-UP YEARS, THE LANDSCAPE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Barred from both and you miss them terribly
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Time; Waiting


WILD GEESE, by RUTH CURTIS DOUGLAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flying wedges of the wild, gray geese
Last Line: Through night, through storm -- god knows what lies in wait.
Subject(s): Flight; Geese; Time; Travel; Flying; Journeys; Trips


WILD OATS, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About twenty years ago
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Disappointment; Time; Male-female Relations


WINDING THE CLOCK, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The silence that had fallen stark between us
Last Line: Turned, turned -- and felt the willing wheels respond.
Subject(s): Clocks; Quarrels; Time; Arguments; Disagreements


WINNING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is having by having
Last Line: Containing the other carefully
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time


WITH A DIAMOND, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While time a grim old lion gnawing lay
Last Line: Signing the will that leaves it to an heir.
Subject(s): Diamonds; Inheritance & Succession; Tears; Time; Heirs


WITH FLOWERS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I send to you a nosegay that but now
Last Line: Then love me, while thou'rt fair, ere youth is gone!
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Time; Youth; Dead, The


WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I loved a maid (oh, she was fair of face!)
Last Line: I learned the maiden some one else had married!
Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Time; Words; Vocabulary


WORDSWORTH AT GRASMERE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These hills and waters fostered you
Last Line: Its kingdom in the thought of man.
Subject(s): Eyes; Mountains; Time; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WRAPPED SONGS, by LYNNE KNIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind sings in a smaller
Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Women


WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS POEMS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once fondly lov'd, and still remember'd dear
Last Line: Or haply lies beneath th' atlantic roar.
Subject(s): Love; Time


XAIPE: 65, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thank you god for most this amazing
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Time; War


XAIPE: 65, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thank you god for most this amazing
Last Line: Now the eyes of my eyes are opened
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Time; War


YE VERNAL HOURS, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye vernal hours, glad days that once have been!
Last Line: And youth, once past, for aye hath past away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Time; Youth


YE WHO ARE TO SING, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O silence of all silences, where wait
Last Line: If graves may listen then, I then shall listening be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The


YEAR'S INTERLUDE, by PEARL COUNCIL HIATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The nights grow cool and longer, and the days
Last Line: The quiet, deep-toned peace of past septembers.
Subject(s): Time


YEARS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Years, many parti-colour'd years
Last Line: I see it not, nor hear adieu.
Subject(s): Time


YEARS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have wished you dead and myself dead
Subject(s): Relationships; Time


YEARS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have wished you dead and myself dead
Last Line: And leaned over the railing at the top- %strong and warm, that summer wind
Subject(s): Relationships; Time


YEARS AFTER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The years upon you lightly lie
Last Line: And that, of course, is why I save them!
Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations


YEARS FROM NOW, by KIM SO-WOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Should you come to me
Last Line: But years from now, %I shall say: 'I have forgotten'
Subject(s): Time


YELLOW LEAVES, by BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS LOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Songs, once heard, are heard again
Last Line: There is no tomorrow.
Subject(s): Leaves; Time


YESTERDAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend, he spoke of a woman's face
Last Line: That yesterday is the long ago.
Subject(s): Faces; Flowers; Past; Time


YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday I held your hand
Last Line: Look where gleams the morrow.
Subject(s): Absence; Time; Separation; Isolation


YESTERDAYS, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sixty-two, sixty-three, I most remember
Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Time; Friendship


YIJIAN MEI: SEEING OFF SPRING, by XU CAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three months of spring radiance have all abandoned one
Last Line: Tomorrow will be late
Subject(s): Time


YOU AND I, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What would you say / if you were I
Last Line: Ah, not again!
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Time


YOU CONSTITUTED TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My slow idolatry
Variant Title(s): Poem: 488; Poem: 76
Subject(s): Time


YOU KNOW ALL THIS, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first, violent year
Subject(s): Time; Love


YOU STEP IN THE SAME RIVER ONCE ONLY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The bruised fingers of what might have been
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Chance; Life; Nature; Time


YOU TALK OF GOING BUT DON'T EVEN HAVE A SUITCASE, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will be an old man sometime
Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Memory


YOU WHO LOOK ON PASSED AGES AS A GLASS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It shall be nothing to the end of time
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Past; Time


YOU, ANDREW MARVELL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And here face down beneath the sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Night; Poetry & Poets; Time; Bedtime


YOU, ANDREW MARVELL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And here face down beneath the sun
Last Line: To feel how swift, how secretly, %the shadow of the night comes on
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Night; Poetry And Poets; Time


YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: PREMONITION, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The colorless thin voices of the dark
Last Line: In years to come, more desolate than these.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Time