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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: UNIVERSE Matches Found: 89 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NEW COMET, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maverick of the skies, charging with fiery tail Last Line: To live and laugh and dream and hope and love by. Subject(s): Comets; Universe ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The universe is but the thing of things, Last Line: Passionate preference such as love at sight Subject(s): Universe AN ATOM, by CLAUDE DU BEAU Poem Text First Line: A white shaft falls athwart the universe Last Line: Falls. It is night. Subject(s): Atoms; Light; Universe AN ELEGY FOR THE PAST, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will be darker soon, colder. You see Last Line: To do was wait, and everything was time Subject(s): Change; Evolution; Fate; Universe; Destiny APPEARANCES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under a sky of stars and no moon Last Line: As the light behind the stars. Subject(s): Aliens; Fear; Space & Space Travel; Universe; Extraterrestrials; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension ASTRAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh bright, from earthly things astray Last Line: Than earthly limit mars. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Property; Universe; Possessions ASTROLOGER'S ADDRESS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fellow citizens all, for whose safety I peep Last Line: And if none of these happen, 'twill be a great wonder. Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Planets; Prophecy & Prophets; Stars; Universe BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look - wool / in which: gold stars we got Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights. Subject(s): Cosmology; Earth; Geography; Maps; Travel; Universe; World; Journeys; Trips CHRIST IN THE UNIVERSE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With this ambiguous earth Last Line: When, in our turn, we show to them a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Universe 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 CONCLUSION, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If what began (look far and wide) will end: Subject(s): Universe; Love COSMISM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea asleep like a dreamer sighs Last Line: But never refute its innocence. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sea; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Ocean COSMOGRAPHY, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Who even came this way, bellow or saw Last Line: Sound as it comes. Alkali, snag snag sang %usher liberty Subject(s): Books; Korea; Language; Planets; Poetry And Poets; Universe; Writing And Writers CROCUS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When trees have lost remembrance of the leaves Last Line: And then lead on again the universe? Subject(s): Crocuses; Earth; Plants; Universe; World; Planting; Planters DIRGE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death alone / has sympathy for weariness Last Line: Or comparison. Subject(s): Death; Dirigibles; Universe; Dead, The ELEGY FOR SEVEN, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Outside your window, a world hardly more Last Line: You can go anywhere but %home Subject(s): Astronauts; Planets; Space And Space Travel; Stars; Universe FAMILY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late night %coming back to melbourne Last Line: And two in the bottomless water Subject(s): Stars; Universe FIX, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no caring less Subject(s): Universe FLY IN THE TELESCOPE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: It happened that a fly got into the telescope Last Line: That can only be seen in great telescopes. %deo gloria Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Sky; Telescopes And Binoculars; Universe FREEZING POINT OF THE UNIVERSE, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: I used to speak in anagrams during sex no wonder Last Line: Is where it all begins, the clean slate. Walk out now, you're freezing Subject(s): Cold; Universe FUTURE DEBRIS, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Until he died we thought our neighbor dull Last Line: Cabinets, ah, they'll glimmer like stars Subject(s): Astronauts; Hopkins, John (d. 1570); Space And Space Travel; Universe GENESIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the outer world that was before this earth Last Line: So shall a man be after among the dead. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Life; Light; Universe; World GULF LIGHTNING, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on a tower in the midst of the stars Last Line: Ah! To be nothing irretrievably! Subject(s): Life; Lightning; Noises; Universe; Lightning Rods HAPAX, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy week. Once more the full moon Last Line: What does it mean. This is not a question, but an exclamation Subject(s): Nature; Space And Space Travel; Speculation; Universe HAPAX, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy week. Once more the full moon Last Line: This is not a question, but %an exclamation Subject(s): Nature; Space And Space Travel; Speculation; Universe HUBBLE TROUBLE, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: She's younger than her children, is that right? Last Line: The universe, my dears, conceals her age? Subject(s): Aging; Universe HYMN OF MAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began Last Line: Glory to man in the highest! For man is master of things. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; Soul; Universe; World; Human Race HYMN TO THE STARS, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Full Text First Line: Stars that are suns to myriad millions of bepeopled spheres Subject(s): Stars; Universe I WILL SING YOU ONE-O, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was long I lay Last Line: And nation nation Subject(s): Night; Universe; Bedtime I'VE NEVER LEARNED FROM EXPERIENCE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How about ninety billion galaxies Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Experience; Learning; Nature; Universe ISOLATION OF TWO MILLIARD LIGHT YEARS, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: The human race, on its little ball Last Line: The isolation of two milliard light years %prompts an involuntary sneeze Subject(s): Universe LAUGHTER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I say yes Last Line: Yes, say I, and salute you. Subject(s): Laughter; Universe LEAVING THE DOOR OPEN: 19. STABILITY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a fault in the universe Last Line: Each particle of self in search %of assurance, constancy, stability Subject(s): Self; Universe LIFE, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To exalt thyself all life exalted deem Last Line: That holds the trembling universe in awe. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the dark we grope along Last Line: Which led us to the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Sea; Soul; Stars; Universe; Ocean LINES ON THE COMET, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trav'ller of th' etherial round Last Line: With such rapid speed away. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Comets; Universe LUNACY, by WALTER BARGEN Poem Source First Line: Decades ago he cried, %'no more poems about the moon!' Last Line: He follows a nervous column of ants %along a crack to the next moon Subject(s): Memory; Moon; Poetry And Poets; Universe MILD COSMOS, by RAYMOND FARINA Poem Source First Line: Strange how Last Line: In the subtle network of veins %in your wrist Subject(s): Hands; Universe MONOCLES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reducing the universe Last Line: I prefer to try the other. Subject(s): Eyes; God; Universe MY LOVE, by KILLARNEY CLARY Poem Source First Line: My love of the surprise moving where the rock had been - that was my Last Line: A microscope dives into a print-smudge resembling the milky way. %just heaven, again Subject(s): Love; Universe OMNISCIENT SCIENCE, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: O you, who look up to the stars Last Line: How is it weighed within what scales? Subject(s): Planets; Science; Universe; Scientists ON EXPLORATION, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hawk drops to the treetop Subject(s): Explorers; Poetry & Poets; Universe; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ORITHYIA: THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last peaks of the world, beyond all seas Last Line: The old garden of the sun. Subject(s): Universe PHYSICS OF THE NEW WORLD, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Here on the third planet, bulging vaguely like an egg Last Line: In the thermal energy and simple particles of the cosmic brine Subject(s): Earth; Evolution; Physics; Planets; Universe PRINCE ARTHUR: THE CRYSTAL PALACES, by RICHARD BLACKMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glorious illuminations, made on high Last Line: Which from th' eternal battlements were flung. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Creation; Crystallization; Physics; Sky; Universe; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PROGRESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a wave we catch at Last Line: To voyage the universe? Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Sea; Universe; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Ocean RHYTHM OF LIFE, by CORAL MORGAN Poem Text First Line: A rhythm is beating in the universe Last Line: A rhythm is beating. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Universe SAFE AND SANE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My theology, briefly Last Line: But not signed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Religion; Universe; Theology SATURN THROUGH A TELESCOPE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Like pilgrims we came, from our separate spaces Last Line: A votive in the cavernous dark Subject(s): Cosmology; Planets; Saturn (planet); Telescopes And Binoculars; Universe SCIENCE LESSONS, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Our galaxy is a spiral %of rotating arms Last Line: Into the heart's %inevitable divorce Subject(s): Physics; Science; Travel; Universe SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 6. THE SPECTROSCOPE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All honor to that keen promethean soul Last Line: With stars in their divine infinitude. Subject(s): Science; Spectroscopes; Universe; Scientists SONGS TO A.H.R.: 11. TRANSFUSION, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shoal-light flashes east Last Line: And all the stars above. Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Universe; Bedtime; Ocean SONNETS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal and omnipotent unseen! Last Line: God, man, and brute, in social unity. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): God; Love; Universe STOP TO THINK, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Stop to think-the earth Last Line: The earth has not been %till then Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Future Life; Planets; Universe STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING Poem Text First Line: A solar system drifting god knows where Last Line: The race, which speeds a toy balloon, at dawn. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Earth; Mars (planet); Planets; Stars; Universe; World SUBLIMITY, by LUCIUS MATLACK FALL Poem Text First Line: I climb the majestic mountain to its summit Last Line: "and the firmament showeth his handiwork." Subject(s): Universe SUCHNESS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the theosophy of light Subject(s): Universe SUCHNESS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the theosophy of light Last Line: Is camphor, whose flames leave no ashes Subject(s): Universe TASSO AND LEONORA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glorious vision hovers o'er his soul Last Line: Gazing upon him in the misty light. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Soul; Universe; Vision THE ANGEL OF THE SUN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While bending o'er my golden lyre Last Line: Rise, cherub, rise! Thy palm is won! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Angels; Universe THE GREAT EXPLOSION, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The universe expands and contracts like a great heart Last Line: Of faceless violence, the root of all things Subject(s): Universe; Astronomy & Astronomers THE GREAT WAGER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If need be, god of the living universe Last Line: Unless it is one you open and tread with us. Subject(s): Beauty; Evil; God; Nature; Universe THE MILKY WAY, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Evening has come; and across the skies Last Line: Guiding our thoughts to god. Subject(s): Evening; Sky; Stars; Universe; Sunset; Twilight THE POSITIVISTS, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Life and the universe show spontaneity Last Line: We're our own gods, say the positivists. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Universe THE SONG OF THE ELEMENTS, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit amidst the universe Last Line: Of its own unvanquished power. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Universe; Water; World THINKING OF OTHER UNIVERSES, by MUNEER NIAZI Poem Source First Line: Warm blue ocean Last Line: In some other universe Subject(s): Muslims; Universe THROUGH THE TELESCOPE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: A gulf in the sky beyond the outermost faintest / mark Last Line: Our god himself has ventured never as yet so far? Subject(s): Sky; Stars; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Opera Glasses TICK-TICK, TICK-TICK, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The sky all dark, clear Last Line: On all the planets, here too -- in the wolves, the swans, %in the giraffes grazing high in the trees Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Earth; Planets; Shadows; Universe 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 TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS TO YOU O MOON, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to you o moon Last Line: Lo! The quiet moon in the sky—yet to a child it has cold its secret. Subject(s): Air Travel; Astronomy & Astronomers; Moon; Science; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Scientists; Opera Glasses TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. ONE AT A TIME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A million faces, loves, bodies, lives - a million souls Last Line: And love, the lord of all, shall dwell between us. Subject(s): Togetherness; Universe TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE CENTRAL CALM, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drawing back for a moment from time, and its superficial claims and conclusions Last Line: And sit with all the gods in paradise. Subject(s): Progress; Universe TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WHO SHALL COMMAND THE HEART (1), by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because the starry lightnings and the life Last Line: Forsakes this world and seeks a fairer one. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Universe; World 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 UNI-VERSE, by BORIS NOVAK Poem Source First Line: The light and its night: shapes and their shades, waves and shores- their Last Line: Universe, an unspeakable rhyme of rhymes, universe, one and only %cosmic verse Subject(s): Planets; Poetry And Poets; Stars; Travel; Universe UNIVERSE, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: Beneath the bower %a hardened song Last Line: Tomorrow will be the end of the universe Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Travel; Universe UNIVERSE, by EDWARD R. HUXLEY Poem Source First Line: Wisdom of man, far reaching as it may Subject(s): Universe UNIVERSE, by ROGER LADD MEMMOTT Poem Source First Line: The universe is like my mother's cabinet Last Line: Where poems are written & father's train goes to meet the stars Subject(s): Parents; Universe UNIVERSE, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What %is it about Last Line: About %us? Subject(s): Universe UNIVERSE IS CLOSED AND HAS REMS: 1., by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: One. One. One. One Last Line: Perhaps %complicit. Something happening. Collapse Subject(s): Universe UNIVERSE IS CLOSED AND HAS REMS: 2., by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: Absolute bash, and then Last Line: And if the rose-red googols are a dud, %you bring it up at Subject(s): Universe UNIVERSE IS CLOSED AND HAS REMS: 3. QUESTION PERIOD, by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: Are we the first bounce, or the eightieth? Last Line: The euglena... %the ozone Subject(s): Universe UNIVERSE IS CLOSED AND HAS REMS: 4. NAP TIME, by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: Hush. %everything in a minute. What's the rush? Last Line: And buck the odds, and hope, and give it my %borrowed scratched-up happy hello-goodbye Subject(s): Universe UNIVERSE'S GENTLENESS PROVEN IN BUTTERFLY DESIGN, by TINA KELLY Poem Source First Line: Do not fret, fragilest one Last Line: Cakemix to the homeless, cans, no canopeners Subject(s): Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Universe UNSTILL UNIVERSE, by LUCIO PICCOLO Poem Source First Line: Unstill universe of gusts Last Line: In the unforseen burst from the march sun Subject(s): Sun; Universe WALKING NONSEQ IN NEW SNOW, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: In the beginning were deuterium Last Line: As we fling into the year 2000 Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Creation; Universe WAR IS KIND: 21, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man said to the universe: / 'sir, I exist!' Last Line: "a sense of obligation." Variant Title(s): The Man Subject(s): Universe; War WE'RE JUST ABOUT TO OBSERVE THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says in the kitchen. Everywhere else Subject(s): Universe WHAT THE STARS SANG IN THE DESERT, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the desert rude Last Line: The radiant silence hung. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Stars; Universe |
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