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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TOUCH (SENSE) Matches Found: 31 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HYMN OF TOUCH, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These magnificent senses Last Line: Of all senses magnificent. Subject(s): Touch (sense) A WAIL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: He touched me, and a vague unrest Last Line: "I say, ""he touched me for a ten!" Subject(s): Charm; Touch (sense) AN APPEAL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Deaf! Not a murmur or a loving word Last Line: Making the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear. Subject(s): Deafness; Eyes; Sight; Touch (sense) DIRT AND DESIRE: TOUCHES, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As members of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we face Last Line: Closed category where one does not belong Subject(s): Women; Relationships; Touch (sense) ETUDE FOR MEMORY AND GUITAR: 1. TWO SISTERS, by CONSTANCE MERRITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not unlikely that you will find the sisters quite alike Last Line: For all such musings. Subject(s): Memory; Race Awareness; Sickness; Sisters; Touch (sense); Illness FOR A MASSEUSE AND PROSTITUTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows what love is anymore Subject(s): Prostitution; Touch (sense); Women; Harlots; Whores; Brothels FOR A MASSEUSE AND PROSTITUTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows what love is anymore Last Line: Every hour there is less of that touch in the world Subject(s): Prostitution; Touch (sense); Women HARDEST IT IS, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Your touch is a torch Last Line: Hardest it is to touch yet have and hold. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Longing; Pleasure; Touch (sense) HIS STORY, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: He had gone to visit a once-famous pianist, now blind and living in Last Line: Days without food that he was weak and nearly fainting from hunger Subject(s): Gentility; Marriage; Touch (sense) I COULD IN SLEEP, by JOHN RIBOVICH Poem Source First Line: I could in sleep reach out and touch her now Last Line: I could in sleep reach out and touch her now %and feel her warmth her back beneath her gown Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Touch (sense) LOVE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, hush, o wind Last Line: I may not strive with you. Subject(s): Love; Rest; Touch (sense) NOLI ME TANGERE, by ELLEN GLINES Poem Text First Line: Touch beauty, and she flies; laces of frost Last Line: The intimate small kisses of the rain. Subject(s): Beauty; Touch (sense) QUIETUS, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN Poem Text First Line: I cannot ever feel alone / or lonely, where Last Line: Of a deep wood. Subject(s): Touch (sense) THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#43) , by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man itches, he thinks he has picked up a splinter Last Line: Stinger that cost something its life. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Touch (sense); Dead, The THE CHILD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was only the clinging touch Last Line: It hath made the whole day sweet. Subject(s): Children; Good Samaritan; Touch (sense); Childhood THE ENEMIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As fish that take the motion of the sea Last Line: But god who made me so? Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Finality; Hearing; Love - Unrequited; Self; Sight; Touch (sense); Winter; Dead, The THE HUMAN TOUCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High thoughts and noble in all lands Last Line: These need I most, and now, and here. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Thought; Touch (sense); Thinking THE JOB; FOR TOBEY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my friend lost her little finger Last Line: To what's turning in the world. Subject(s): Accidents; Factories; Fingers; Touch (sense) THE MASTER'S TOUCH, by ALICE LOUISE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you felt the master's touch Last Line: Give to him the bow. Subject(s): Touch (sense) THE TAO OF TOUCH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What magic does touch create Subject(s): Touch (sense) THE TOUCH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Age-old, age-silent, nature queen Last Line: Wavers along the boughs. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring; Touch (sense) THE TOUCH OF CHILDREN'S HANDS, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, touch of children's hands! And whether ta'en Last Line: Eternity — oh, touch of children's hands! Subject(s): Children; Hands; Touch (sense); Childhood THE TRANSIENCE OF HANDS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A swirl of dead skin Last Line: On a schoolroom counter. Subject(s): Hands; Memory; Men; Touch (sense) TO EVA, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source First Line: Your nakedness is hidden among the luminous autumn leaves Last Line: I will appear. I will be there Subject(s): Paralysis; Touch (sense) TOUCH, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even when standing on a bus Last Line: Love and abuse at the hands of many strangers Subject(s): Touch (sense) TOUCH, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even when standing on a bus Last Line: Love and abuse at the hands of many strangers Subject(s): Touch (sense) TOUCH, by REBA RAY Poem Text First Line: I like to go with hands ungloved that I Last Line: To clasp a hand I love in love's belief. Subject(s): Compassion; Gloves; Touch (sense); Mittens; Muffs TOUCHED, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold december nights I'd go Last Line: Each healing we begin. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cold; Death; Healing; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Touch (sense); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Cures; Illness; Feminism WARMTH, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Sometimes want makes touch too much Last Line: And holds out his hands to the stove Subject(s): Desire; Touch (sense) WHEN ALL MY FIVE AND COUNTRY SENSES SEE, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sight; Touch (sense); Taste (sense); Hearing; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances WIND IN A BOX, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This ink. This name. This blood. This blunder. Last Line: In the body. This wind in the blood Subject(s): Touch (sense); Self |
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