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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VILLAGES Matches Found: 78 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NIGHT IN A VILLAGE, by IVAN SAVVICH NIKITIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sultry air, the smoke of shavings Last Line: "trust, my soul, be brave!" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Russia; Villages; Work; Workers; Soviet Union; Russians A VERMONT AUCTIONEER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er an auction bill I see Last Line: He lived and died an auctioneer. Subject(s): Farm Life; Vermont; Villages; Agriculture; Farmers AH ... TO THE VILLAGES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaving the splendid plaza and the esplanade Last Line: And contentment is momentary in the villages Subject(s): Towns; Villages ALMA KARMINA, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Past small villages %diego rivera might Last Line: Hearts melt like %spoons over flame Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Rivera, Diego (1886-1957); Villages BEAUTIFUL AND INVISIBLE TREE THAT RISES THROUGH THE UNIVERSE, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: Afternoons, I sit on the cafe terrace, here in the mercantile district where Last Line: Possible world Subject(s): Tyranny And Tyrants; Villages BEAUTIFUL COMRIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye lovers of the picturesque, away, away! Last Line: Also pines, ferns, and beautiful oaks, I do declare. Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Vacation; Villages; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL NORTH BERWICK AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: North berwick is a watering-place with golfing links green Last Line: Where the tourist can enjoy himself and be free from strite Subject(s): Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips BIG VILLAGE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Nome's front street, the manhattan Last Line: A face blank and cold %as the moon at minus ten Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Travel; Villages BUTCHERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The butchers whipped the herring through the town Last Line: If he did, it happened later Subject(s): Butchers; Shame; Villages CITY AND VILLAGE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once again within the city, 'mid its multitudinous din Last Line: Or in my walks at night-time when the village is at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Cithern (musical Instrument); Cities; Railroads; Villages; Urban Life; Railways; Trains CORNISH VILLAGES, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are nothing but sifted Last Line: Keeping them keen! Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Villages DUMB CAKE - A PASTORAL, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three years ago my self and sally grey Last Line: So let folks doubt and fortune explain %ill never watch the dumb cake night again Subject(s): Villages EARLY DAYS OF ROCKFORD, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friends, I pray you listen, Last Line: Have nearly passed away. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Villages EGLWYS NEWYDD, by JOHN TRIPP Poem Source First Line: The village is straddled on both sides Subject(s): Villages EVENING ON A VILLAGE STREET, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun flings lengthening shadows through the trees Last Line: The sum of streets like this—america! Subject(s): United States; Villages; America HOW TO READ A MAP, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The maps expose %seven continents, travel Last Line: Elegant as cryptograms, %falling and unafraid Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Maps; Travel; Travel Directions; Villages HSIN-VILLAGE, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: On a green knoll covered with spring grass Last Line: Amidst the hibiscus endless bloom and fall Subject(s): Villages; Zen Buddhism I LOVE A VILLAGE, by BLANCHE PALMER Poem Text First Line: I love a little village best Last Line: Till comes the last clear call. Subject(s): Homecoming; Neighbors; Villages I LOVINGLY KEEP WATCH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I had the seven rivers. All of them Last Line: To touch the line of life Subject(s): Villages IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can the village dead remain so / still Last Line: And dance in triumph on my crumbling shroud. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Mountains; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain) INVESTMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the old gombeen buys a young wife Last Line: They sniff his investment, like dogs their lice. Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Marriage; Villages LANCASTER, by SARAH STEELE SAMPLE Poem Text First Line: I came to live in a storybook town Last Line: I have told this tale as it looks to me. Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Villages MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO MR WILLIAM BOYD FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: ...Getting away was a bit dodgy Last Line: Chimneys guardians whose charges all have left Subject(s): Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel; Villages MIR, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shtetl, Subject(s): Villages; Jews; Judaism NEARING HAO-PA, by YUAN MEI Poem Source First Line: There's a stream, and there's bamboo Last Line: Have to live, to get %that simple Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai Subject(s): Villages; Zen Buddhism NEVERTHELESS, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inasmuch as I love you Last Line: Of cool lanes white in the splendor of the rising moon. Subject(s): Love; Villages NO DOUBT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the knowing village of castlerainbow Last Line: Or the dark magic of monica crowe. Subject(s): Legends; Magic; Villages NOCTURNE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: I take my place in the insomniac's village Last Line: 7 a.M., the blue gums edge-lit, %almost honed, almost revealing Subject(s): Absence; Jerusalem; Postage Stamps; Travel; Villages NOISE OF THE VILLAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whenever I pause Last Line: Of the village Subject(s): Villages NORTHERN VILLAGE: HAIKU, by PETER CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: Whirling words Last Line: In the deep foundations %athena sleeps Subject(s): Villages OLD FAIRINGDOWN, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft as a treader on mosses Last Line: There is that in the village that never will sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Boys; Dwarfs; Farewell; Insomnia; Knowledge; Pain; Sleep; Villages; Parting; Sleeplessness; Suffering; Misery ONE WEEK IN THE VILLAGE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But he saw my lost look %near other women bathing Last Line: No books to brace %them in the havoc Subject(s): Vacation; Villages OUR VILLAGE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our village, that's to say not miss mitford's village, but Last Line: That's the village poor house! Subject(s): Villages PASS-A-GRILLE, by CHARLES S. F. LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: Bright sand, the sea-grape and the saw-palmetto Last Line: These are scenes we love at pass-a-grille. Subject(s): Dawn; Stars; Villages; Sunrise POET, by JAMES REYNOLDS WITHERS Poem Source First Line: Deep in the rustic village shade Last Line: And chimed a song Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Villages POINT OF VIEW, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little villages along the way Last Line: Peer from behind the hollyhocks—and sigh? Subject(s): Villages PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new grave meets the hastiest passer's eye Last Line: What a low hillock by your path may mean. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Graves; Landscape; Villages; English; Tombs; Tombstones QUINCE, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near a small village in the west Last Line: I cannot leave you my direction!' Subject(s): Quince Trees; Villages RAMATUELLE, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look up: a dusty-footed, noon-slow track Last Line: This was ramatuelle. Subject(s): Nature; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips RED RAIN, by YEN CHEN Poem Source First Line: February rain, red rain, Last Line: Is silently spread on the south yangtze Subject(s): Farm Life; Rain; Villages SAINT CESAIRE, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A village quaint is saint cesaire Last Line: Beneath her mistletoe and holly. Subject(s): Villages SAINT-LIEUX, 1930'S, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: Studded with plane-trees Last Line: Beyond the ditch teeming with tadpoles Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Trees; Villages SATURDAY, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: Every saturday Last Line: By its virtue Subject(s): Spain - History; Travel; Villages SATURDAY EVENING IN THE VILLAGE, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The young girl now comes back from the open fields Last Line: Seems somewht tardy yet, let not that grieve you Subject(s): Villages SKETCHES OF VILLAGE CHARACTER IN DAYS 'O' LANGSYNE.', by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've aften been thinkin', whan sittin' alane Last Line: That droons her an' a' that is holy an' gude! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Neighbors; Villages SONG FOR A SMALL ISLAND, by JOHN MEREDITH HILL Poem Source First Line: To the village store Last Line: A wind like whispering %children almost asleep Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Villages SORROWS OF LOVE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sober wi sad truths the laughing mirth Last Line: Then laid her knitting down and shook her head %and stoopt to stir the fire and talk of bed Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Villages SPENDING THE NIGHT IN A LITTLE VILLAGE, by KUAN HSIU Poem Source First Line: Hard traveling, and then Last Line: Seining up fish from the pool Subject(s): Travel; Villages; Zen Buddhism STREETS OF PEARL AND GOLD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within, walls white as canvas stretched to stain Last Line: As I try to keep us, here upon this page. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; San Francisco; Villages; Wharves; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Piers; Feminism TALL WALL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She sleeps easily, the village at rest in her thighs Last Line: Drinking tears and cries Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Sleep; Villages TAXCO, by MARY LINDA BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: Villages strange and lovely I have known Last Line: She must have trailed her cloak along the grass. Subject(s): Taxco, Mexico; Villages THE BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE OF PENICUIK, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The village of penicuik, with its neighbouring spinning mills Last Line: And drink the pure water from their crystal rills. Subject(s): Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE DESERTED VILLAGE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet auburn! Loveliest village of the plain Last Line: As rocks resist the billows and the sky. Subject(s): Country Life; Freedom; Lishoy, Ireland; Mothers; Religion; Social Protest; Villages; Liberty; Theology THE HOURS; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The meadows are empty. There are two villages Last Line: We were always counting our losses. Subject(s): Bells; Echoes; Loss; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Villages THE LITTLE VILLAGE, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk as silent as an owl’s wing. The old wall, built by the romans, or built to keep the romans out Last Line: Planchette on the ouija board centered over no Subject(s): Villages; Ptovence, France THE PEOPLE OF THE OTHER VILLAGE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Hate the people of this village Subject(s): Villages; Hate; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 220, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As long as I stay in the village Last Line: And sparrows will dance like lords Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cities; Villages; Urban Life THE VILLAGE OF BALMAQUHAPPLE, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: D'ye ken the big village of balmaquhapple Last Line: Of the great wicked village of balmaquhapple!' Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Villages THE VILLAGE OF ERITH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There are men in the village of erith Last Line: That nobody roweth or streereth Variant Title(s): "erith, On The Thames; Subject(s): Supernatural;villages THE VILLAGE OF TAYPORT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye pleasure-seekers, where'er ye be Last Line: Along the bonnie banks o' the silvery tay. Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips THE VILLAGE ORACLE, by JOSEPH CROSBY LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: Old dan'l hanks he says this town Last Line: "I'm right because I be!" Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Sermons; Villages; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE WEDDING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you, wherefore are the village bells Last Line: To give sad meaning to the village bells! Subject(s): Bells; Idleness; Marriage; Poverty; Strangers; Travel; Villages; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips TRUE LIFE, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Come with us up from the ground %to the village of breathable air!' Subject(s): Life; Villages VILLAGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happy place we travel through! Last Line: Whose steps are wounds -- what happy place? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Facades; Landscape; Villages; English; Appearances VILLAGE, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still foreign %like drums, distant Subject(s): Villages VILLAGE, by JEAN EARLE Poem Source First Line: In this old village now, at night Last Line: Around this time, the mauve dead patiently peer and gossip %under the hoods Subject(s): Villages VILLAGE, by MARINA GASHE Poem Source First Line: Kanyariri, village of toil Last Line: To fend for the bony goats and the crying children Subject(s): Villages VILLAGE, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saloons are all closed now. Boards are across their doorways Last Line: Which I learned to swim is dry, life is so dry, dust dry there Subject(s): Neighbors; Villages VILLAGE, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saloons are all closed now. Boards are across their doorways Last Line: Is dry, life is so dry, dusty dry there Subject(s): Neighbors; Villages VILLAGE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source 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): Villages VILLAGE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarcely a street, too few houses Last Line: And meaningful as any poised %by great plato's solitary mind Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Villages VILLAGE FIDDLE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: I toted my junker, side seam already cracked Last Line: Is it hard to learn? One of my college students: %why are you out here? Where is your family? Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Villages VILLAGE GREEN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thatched roofs green with moss and grass stand round Last Line: With trousers daubed in mire and face all black. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Soccer; Villages; English VILLAGE IN LATE SUMMER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lips half-willing in a doorway Last Line: And the farmers make half-answers. Subject(s): Villages VILLAGE SLEEP SONG, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep! All who toil Last Line: And all you little children, sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Sleep; Villages VILLAGE TALK, by CATHERINE MOSS Poem Source First Line: The black cat and I Last Line: His eyes drink %her light Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Conversation; Villages WALKING TO A GYPSY VILLAGE THINKING OF EVA, by MAUREEN MICUS CRISICK Poem Source First Line: Your father who cannot read signs your homework Last Line: The sun in the lake is turning black Subject(s): Gypsies; Villages WESTERN VILLAGE, by CAROLYN ANNE RIDGEFIELD Poem Text First Line: A simple little village I know well Last Line: So genuine that not one child would roam. Subject(s): Villages |
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