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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VISION Matches Found: 352 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COAT, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made my song a coat Last Line: In walking naked. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy A CUP OF TEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have sipped, with drooping lashes Last Line: Fragrant laurel round its rim. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Food & Eating; Mythology; Tea; Vision; Nightmares A DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I summon to the winding ancient stair Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy A FANTASY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fantasy that came to me Last Line: Her mystic fingers knew so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Flowers; Trees; Vision; Nightmares A QUESTION, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, who can tell which guide were best Last Line: In sunshine born of thought and love. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Thought; Vision; Nightmares; Thinking A REVERIE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I linger in the sacred fane of god's eternal light Last Line: Of servant to all diviner art. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Life; Vision A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Fancy; Supermarkets A VISION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gloomy and black are the cypress-trees Last Line: The rain, and the rustling cyprus-trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Life; Pain; Vision; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Suffering; Misery A VISION OF SPRING IN WINTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O tender time that love thinks long to see Last Line: Give back, and half my april back to me. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Vision; Winter A VISION OF SUMMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a marvelous vision of Last Line: With a tremulous patter of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Heaven; Nature; Summer; Vision; Paradise A WORD TO PHILOSOPHERS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Cold philosophers, so apt Last Line: In its mystic involution. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Vision AFTER A BLACK ABSTRACT PAINTING, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: If nothing's ever really what it seems, Last Line: A cross, when neon shines a certain way. Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Reality; Vision AGAIN, AGAIN!, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again, again, even if we know the countryside of love Last Line: Beneath the ancient trees, we lie down again, %again, among the flowers, and face the sky Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ALL I WAS DOING WAS BREATHING, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Something has reached out and taken in the beams of my eyes Last Line: Mira says: without the energy that lifts mountains, how am ito live? Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision ALL OF YOU UNDISTURBED CITIES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He is the one who breaks down the walls, %and when he works,he works in silence Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ALL SOULS' NIGHT; EPILOGUE TO 'A VISION', by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight has come, and the great christ church bell Last Line: Wound in mind's wandering %as mummies in the mummy-cloth are wound Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision AMERICA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: America I've given you all and now I'm nothing Subject(s): Americans; Imagination; United States; Vision; Fancy; America AMERICA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America I've given you all and now I'm nothing Last Line: America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel Subject(s): Americans; Imagination; United States; Vision AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I walk through the long schoolroom questioning Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Schools; Vision; Childhood; Fancy; Students AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk through the long schoolroom questioning Last Line: How can we know the dancer from the dance? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Schools; Vision AN AUTUMN VISION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it midsummer here in the heavens that Last Line: The limitless lightnings of vision and passion, the measureless music of love. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Storms; Vision; Fall AN INFANT-EYE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A simple light from all contagion free Last Line: Inviting yet, and waiting thy command. Subject(s): Innocence; Vision AND THEN THAT GIRL THE ANGELS CAME TO VISIT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And she was like a slope with vines, heavily bearing Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot know his legendary head Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life Subject(s): Apollo; Imagination; Men; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Vision ASCETICS WANDER SHRINE TO SHRINE, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A little ways off, and even more %green farther on. Stay here Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ASSOCIATIONS WITH A VIEW FROM THE HOUSE, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can be compared to Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Eyes; Vision AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see a world in a grain of sand Last Line: To those who dwell in realms of day Variant Title(s): Blake's Testament;what A Wonderful World Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Freedom; Imagination; Innocence; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology BEAUTY, by L. L. HERSHBERGER Poem Text First Line: Beauty smiles from the rugged hills Last Line: Beauty's there! Have eyes and see it! Subject(s): Beauty; Vision BEFORE I GOT MY EYE PUT OUT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Incautious — of the sun Subject(s): Eyes; Vision; Sun BEFORE MY EYES, by CH'AN CH'ENG Poem Source First Line: The fragrance comes in Last Line: Take a sip from the flower Subject(s): Eyes; Vision; Waking; Zen Buddhism BINDING MY ANKLES WITH SILVER, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mira's lord can lift mountains, %he is her refuge Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision BIRTH OF MADAME DELUXE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: It didn't start with pains Last Line: All eyes. Ass first and eager %with rip-roaring hair Subject(s): Birth; Eyeglasses; Fashion; Vision; Women BLIND, by JUNE RICHARDSON LUCAS Poem Text First Line: He saw the noonday sun Last Line: He did not know that he was blind! Subject(s): Blindness; Social Protest; Vision; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War BLIND EYES THAT SEE; SONNET, by SAMUEL A. DE WITT Poem Text First Line: These eyes of mine, for all that they have seen Last Line: Before the inner vision of your eyes. Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision; Visually Handicapped BRIDGE: 1. AVE MARIA, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be with me, luis de san angel, now Last Line: Te deum laudamus %o thou hand of fire Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Imagination; Vision BRIDGE: 8. ATLANTIS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the bound cable strands, the arching path Last Line: Whispers antiphonal in azure swing Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Atlantis; Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Vision BROKEN TOWER, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bell-rope that gathers god at dawn Last Line: Unseals her earth, and lifts love in its shower Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision BUDDHA IN GLORY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Center of all centers, core of cores Last Line: Will be, when all the stars are dead Subject(s): Imagination; Religion; Vision BY THE TEREBINTH TREE, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: In the grove of mamre our heart has an encounter. Last Line: At the streaming threshold of the light... Subject(s): Vision CANDLE, WINE, FRIENDS, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Let shams cover %our shadows %like snow Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision CHANGE: KYOTO-TOKYO EXPRESS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black magicians %come home: the pink meat image Last Line: Making my body visible %thru my eyes! Subject(s): Imagination; Vision CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time in school drags along with so much worry Last Line: On childhood, what was us going away, %going where? Where? Subject(s): Imagination; Vision CHOICE, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Cloud-made mountains towered Last Line: O'er a poppy bed... Subject(s): Vision CUBES, by VLADIMIR NABOKOV Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Let us fold the wings of our visions Last Line: Our wings, my lofty angel Subject(s): Change; Vision DANDELIONS, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her on the yellow rise Last Line: Though I look every day. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Vision; Weeds DARK ONE, by MIRABAI Poet's Biography First Line: Dark one, / all I request is a portion of love Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Variant Title(s): Meera Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision; Fancy DARK ONE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dark one, %all I request is a portion of love Last Line: You've taken %this girl past the limits Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision DARK ONE, / HOW CAN I SLEEP?, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mira waits for a single glance from your eye Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision DAS KRIST KINDEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had fed the fire and stirred it, till the sparkles in delight Last Line: "who brings the world good tidings, -- ""it is christmas -- all is well!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Night; Santa Claus; Vision; Nativity, The; Bedtime; Nicholas, Saint DE PROFUNDIS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence hast thou gone Last Line: Alma victrix! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Rome, Italy; Soul; Vision; World DEFORMED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crouched at the corner of the Last Line: Leaves crimson trails of bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birth Defects; Faces; Streets; Vision; Avenues DELIRIUM, SELS., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DEMOCRACY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flag goes with the foul landscape, and our jargon muffles the drum Last Line: That's the system. Let's get going Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DEPARTURE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen enough: the vision has been met with in every air Last Line: Departure in new affection and new noise Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DERVISH AT THE DOOR, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dervish knocked at a house Last Line: Who doesn't try to turn a profit %from every human exchange Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Dervishes; Imagination; Vision DESERTS OF LOVE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time it is the woman whom I saw in the city Last Line: Then, o despair! The wall became dimly the shadow of trees, and I was plunged in the amorous sadness Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DESIRE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FAILING, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A window opens Last Line: It's spring, and finally %I have no will Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I summon to the winding ancient stair Last Line: We are blest by everything, %everything we look upon is blest Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DON'T GO, DON'T GO, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't go, don't go. I touch your soles. I'm sold to you Last Line: Mira says: you who lift the mountains, I have some light, I want to mingle it with yours Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision DOWN BY THE RIVER A FLUTE!, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Lord, this stumbling body, %free it from torment Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision DRUNK, TURBULENT CLOUDS, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Infidelity spits like a snake Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I came down the impassable rivers Last Line: Nor cross the pride of pennants and of flags, %nor swim pass prison hulks' hateful eyes! Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' Last Line: That harmony which now enraptures and comforts and helps us Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 10, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someday, emerging at last from the violent insight Last Line: Whenever a happy thing falls Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every angel is terrifying. And yet, alas Last Line: Where, measured more greatly, it achieves a greater repose Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fig-tree, for such a long time I have found meaning Last Line: At the end of all smiles, %-- transfigured Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, if this interval of being can be spent serenely Last Line: Grows any smaller -- superabundant %being wells up in my heart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUST-SEALED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not wherefore, but mine eyes Last Line: Their eyes are blind, they cannot see. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Eden; Eyes; Hope; Vision; Optimism DYING AND GIVING BIRTH GO ON, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: How inside that, those %are one event Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision EAR AS AID TO VISION, by CAROLYN KOO Poem Source First Line: There is a wildness gravity allows Last Line: There is a wildness allowed: the song aloft longer in the absence of light Subject(s): Vision EASTER 1916, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have met them at close of day Last Line: A terrible beauty is born. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Imagination; Ireland - Rebellions; Vision; Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Goone, Maud (1866-1953); Socialism; The Resurrection; Fancy EAT! BREAD-BIRD, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Being hungry is better Last Line: You're a bread-bird. Eat! Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ELUSIVE ONES, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They're lovers again: sugar dissolving in milk Last Line: Shams, my body is a candle touched by fire Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision EXPOSED ON THE CLIFFS OF THE HEART. LOOK, HOW TINY ..., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Without a shelter, here on the cliffs of the heart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision EYE, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: He was ashamed of the blinking eye that had materialized on Last Line: The pupil of the eye, would shine like a terrestrial star Subject(s): Eyes; Vision EYE TEST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The d is desperate Last Line: We are so tired of meaning nothing. Subject(s): Eyes; Letters; Vision FAME IS WATER, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: These are accomplishments %that will make you famous Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FAREWELL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn already! - but why regret an eternal sun Last Line: And I shall be free to possess truth in one soul and one body Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FOR HELEN KELLER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have said many words I much regret Last Line: May I not envy you? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Envy; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision FOR THE BLIND, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will enter morning Last Line: Your eyes will open %with delight Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Vision FOR THE MARRIAGE OF FAUSTUS AND HELEN, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind has shown itself at times Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy FOR THE MARRIAGE OF FAUSTUS AND HELEN, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind has shown itself at times Last Line: The imagination spans beyond despair, %outpacing bargain, vocable and prayer Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FOR THE SAKE OF A SINGLE POEM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life Last Line: Some very rare hour the first word of a poem arises in their midst and goes forth from them Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FOR YEARS, COPYING OTHER PEOPLE, I TRIED TO KNOW MYSELF, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Then I walked outside Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FORECAST, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Take back, take back the harsh word now Last Line: How couldst thou bear the vision? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Vision FORGET THE WORLD, AND SO, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A mouth is not for talking. %a mouth is for tasting this sweetness Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FORMULATION, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into which of the mind's moulds Last Line: Come in a form I shall not too much fear. Subject(s): Flowers; Soul; Vision FOUR ZOAS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: The dark relisions are departed and sweet science reigns Variant Title(s): Vala, Or The Four Zoas, Sels Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter FREED FROM ANOTHER CONTEXT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, the foreground of the other Last Line: The other side. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Eyes; Owls; Sight; Vision; Wings FRIEND, / THOUGH THE WORLD SLEEPS, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Strips her of pain [or, eases her pain] Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision FRIEND, I SEE / ONLY THE DARK ONE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She ambles the back %country roads Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision FROM THE CASTELLO, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My window is a frame for one dark tree Last Line: I shall possess thee now for all my days! Subject(s): Castles; Cypress Trees; Flowers; Lilacs; Vision GENIE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is affection and the present since he has made the house open Last Line: To follow his views, his breaths, his body, his day Subject(s): Imagination; Vision GERANIUM, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: How can you stand it -- looking at things? Last Line: Marry it? Are you so sure %of your position in the world? Subject(s): Flowers; Future; Geraniums; Vision GHAZALS: 55, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child crawls in widening circles, backs to the wall Last Line: On red paper and announcing the rebirth of three dead species. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Vision GLIMPSE OF YOU, A VISION, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: What else was I doing in the kitchen Last Line: Vanishing in the yard through leaves. Subject(s): Loss; Vision GOD GIVE ME EYES, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God give me seeing eyes Last Line: God give me eyes to see it where it lies! Subject(s): Beauty; Vision GUIDE THIS LITTLE BOAT, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Put an end to coming %and going Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision H, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every monstrosity violates the atrocious gestures of hortense Last Line: O terrible shudder of novice loves on the bloody ground and in the transparent hydrogen! - find hort Subject(s): Imagination; Vision HE HAS STAINED ME, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Birth after birth %she is his Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision HEAR MY PLEA, DARK ONE, I AM, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With me clasping your feet forever Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision HEAT OF MIDNIGHT TEARS, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, my friend, this road is the heart opening Last Line: Mirabai says, 'the heat of midnight tears will bring you to god' Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision HOPPOE'S TALENT, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever a pavilion was pitched in the countryside Last Line: Crow doesn't acknowledge that Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision HOW DOES A PART OF THE WORLD LEAVE THE WORLD?, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who am I, my friend? Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision HOWL; FOR CARL SOLOMON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Imagination; Vision; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Fancy HOWL; FOR CARL SOLOMON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness Last Line: Across america in tears to the door of my cottage in the western night Subject(s): Homosexuality; Imagination; Vision I AM YOUR SLAVE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: By the river %just for a glimpse Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision I AM, O ANXIOUS ONE. DON'T YOU HEAR MY VOICE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And turn myself into a star's vast silence %above the strange and distant city, time Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I CAME TO THIS BIRTH AND REBIRTH UNIVERSE, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It's good to die, %and good to live long Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I DON'T GET TIRED OF YOU. DON'T GROW WEARY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And I wonder why I ever thought %to use language Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I HAVE BEEN TRICKED BY FLYING TOO CLOSE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And tailors who sew beautiful clothes %by tearing them to pieces Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I LIKE MYOPIA, by LUCILLE T. LAUDUCCI Poem Source First Line: I like details lost Last Line: Can always wait. %I like myopia Subject(s): Vision I NEED A MOUTH AS WIDE AS THE SKY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Where something might be planted, %a seed, possibly, from the absolute Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I WAS DEAD, THEN ALIVE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of this game makes me %amazingly happy Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I WAS PASSIONATE, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I was at home Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I, OR SOMEONE LIKE ME, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wilderness, in some orchestral swing Subject(s): Forests; Music & Musicians; Vision; Woods I, OR SOMEONE LIKE ME, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wilderness, in some orchestral swing Last Line: And someone like me listening for a resolution Subject(s): Forests; Music And Musicians; Vision IF WE COULD BE, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: If we could see a beckoning gleam ahead Last Line: Our eyes grow keener searching for a spark? Subject(s): Vision IN MY DREAM, SISTER, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bears its [or, comes to] fruit Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision INDIAN PARROT, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a merchant setting out for india Last Line: As you go on your new way. %I hope to follow you Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision IT'S TRUE I WENT TO THE MARKET, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, I went to the market and bought the dark one Last Line: Be with me when I lie down; you promised me this in an earlier life Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision JAR WITH THE DRY RIM, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mind is an ocean - and so many words Last Line: And never sees the horse that is beneath him Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision LACHRYMAE CHRISTI, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whitely, while benzine Last Line: Dionysus, thy %unmagled target smile Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision LALLA, YOU'VE WANDERED SO MANY PLACES, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of this body-house, in the heart-shrine, %you discover where he lives Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision LANDSCAPES (FOR CLEMENT R. WOOD), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain was over, and the brilliant air Last Line: Good god, and what is all this beauty for? Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Variant Title(s): Landscapes Subject(s): Beauty; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Vision; Willow Trees LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision; Historians; Fancy; Theology LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say Last Line: Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, %their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art And Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 10, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground Last Line: Contented and desirous to the nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Vision; Eden LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Leda Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus; Fancy LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Last Line: Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Led Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus LET THEM GO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams Last Line: Let the love die! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Night; Vision; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime LET THEM THROW THEIR CURSES, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If a few ashes fall on a mirror, %use them to polish it Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision LETTERS TO YESENIN: 7, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death thou comest when I had thee least in mind said everyman Last Line: Who turns out to be a mermaid. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Vision; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LIFE ON THIS PLANET IS FRAGILE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But I'm the one %who crosses the limits [or, but it's me who crosses %the limits] Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision LIGHT AND SHADE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light! Emblem of all good and joy Last Line: The lord our everlasting light. Subject(s): Eyes; Lamps; Light; Sun; Vision LINES, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The moon grew pale. -- the weeping seraphim Last Line: A fall of stars which perfumed all the night. Subject(s): Kisses; Vision LIQUID CRYSTAL THOUGHTS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Looking through windshields at sixty-three Last Line: All venice, titian's colors and the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Aging; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Vision LIVES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the enormous avenues of the holy land, the temple terraces! Last Line: That is not even to be thought of any longer. %I am relly from beyond the tomb, and no messages Subject(s): Imagination; Vision LOOKING DOWN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mountains of sorrow, I have heard your moans Last Line: Might here come forth to us with bread and wine Subject(s): Mountains; Vision LOOSEN THE LOAD OF SWEETNESS I'M CARRYING, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You leave, so that we two %can do one dance Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision LOVE HAS STAINED MY BODY, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Day or night, she waits only on him Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 17, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loved one -- gladly would I know it Last Line: These the poet never made. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Poetry & Poets; Vision MEDITATE WITHIN ETERNITY, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And afraid, who with a little guidance, %can find the path of courage Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision MEMORY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One had a lovely face Last Line: Where the mountain hare has lain. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Imagination; Love; Vision; Fancy MEN AND WOMEN NOW, EVEN THE BEST, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Hand in hand to find new strangers %to lie down with Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision MORNING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I not once a lovely youth, heroic, fabulous, to be written Last Line: The song of the heavens, the marching of peoples! Slaves, let us not curse life Subject(s): Imagination; Vision MORNING OF DRUNKENESS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my good! O my beautiful! Atrocious fanfare where I never falter Last Line: The time of the assassins is here Subject(s): Imagination; Vision MY BELOVED IS LOVELY TO LOOK AT, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To be human and not know the lord %is truly the womb of sorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision MY DARK ONE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To what cannot perish, %her dark one Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision MY EYES IN THE MIRROR, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: At the eyes I see with Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Eyes; Vision NEW RULE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the old rule that drunks have to argue Last Line: Talking is pain. Lie down and rest, %now that you've found a friend to be with Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision NIGHT OF HELL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have swallowed a monstrous does of poison Last Line: It is the fire that flares up again with its damned Subject(s): Imagination; Vision NO SKY, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sky.......A gray backdrop merely and absence Subject(s): Vision; Landscape NOCTURNE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night of mid-june, in heavy vapours dying Last Line: Except its cross of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Crosses; Nature; Religion; Vision; Theology NORMAL LIGHT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Normal light never killed anything Subject(s): Light; Superman; Vision NOW I SEE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I see!' but not the parting Last Line: Now I see' that god is love. Subject(s): Bible; Faith; God; Love; Religion; Vision; Belief; Creed; Theology O CARIB ISLE!, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tarantula rattling at the lily's foot Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy O CARIB ISLE!, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tarantula rattling at the lily's foot Last Line: You have give me the shell, satan - carbonic amulet %sere of the sun exploded in the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision O FRIENDS, I AM MAD, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mira calls her lord: o dark one, %only you can heal this pain Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision O MY FRIENDS, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She says, the single lotus will swallow you whole Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision OF HELEN KELLER, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She, without eyes, sees more than I who know Last Line: Your visions fade before her high, pure heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision; Visually Handicapped OFAY-WATCHER LOOKS BACK, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poet's Biography First Line: I want to look at what happened Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Human Rights; Silence; Vision; Watchmen; Enigmas; Oddities OFAY-WATCHER LOOKS BACK, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to look at what happened Last Line: Like death comes out of disease, %I want to look at what happened Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Human Rights; Silence; Vision; Watchmen ON DISCOVERING THE IMPORTANCE OF A GARDEN SEAT, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: The lily pond lay sleeping amid the dark cavernous shubbery Last Line: Play a significant role in my community Subject(s): Explorers; Vision ON THE DAY I DIE, WHEN I'M BEING, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And immediately opens %with a shout of joy there Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ON THE WING, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little sun / silent on the table Last Line: Diaphanous arrival Subject(s): Sky; Vision; Sun ORPHEUS. EURYDICE. HERMES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was the deep uncanny mine of souls Last Line: Her steps constricted by the trailing graveclothes, %uncertain, gentle, and without impatience Subject(s): Imagination; Vision OVERTURE OF AN HALLUCINATION, by PRISCILLA BECKER Poem Source First Line: Six years have gone since I have been loved Last Line: You can do that with words, use one %for the other Subject(s): Imagination; Vision PANTHER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His vision, from the constantly passing bars Last Line: Plunge into the heart and is gone Subject(s): Imagination; Panthers; Paris, France; Vision PASSAGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the cedar leaf divides the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy PASSAGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the cedar leaf divides the sky Last Line: Memory, committed to the page, had broke Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision PERSEID SHOWER, by BERT ALMON Poem Source First Line: The whole family reclines in wicker chairs on the patio, eyes up for the Last Line: Bright lights are still streaking the sky's black negative Subject(s): Eyes; Light; Vision PICTURESQUE; A FRAGMENT, by JOHN AIKIN Poem Text First Line: New follies spring; and now we must be taught Last Line: Suffice to charm, and all it sees is good. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Vision PLAYFULLY, YOU HID FROM ME, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the celebration %of that began Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision PLEASURE OF SEEING, by LORINC SZABO Poem Source First Line: I loved smooth rocks Last Line: Of what I was doing Subject(s): Vision PLUMS TASTED, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Was a cowherding girl %at gokul Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision QUESTION, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One dervish to another, 'what was your vision of god's presence?' Last Line: The fire and water themselves: %accidental, done with mirrors Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision REALIST ( ), by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: I have seen the cruel blue threats of dawn, Last Line: (but still I say: distrust what you have seen.) Subject(s): Colors; Vision RECITATIVE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Regard the capture here, o janus-faced Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy RECITATIVE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Regard the capture here, o janus-faced Last Line: Forgive me for an echo of these things, %and let us walk through time with equal pride Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision REFUGE IN YOU, DARK ONE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Spring her from this noose we call 'world' Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision REPLY, by AMORY HARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty, I seek your image in my heart Last Line: And, somewhere in the wood, a thrush replied. Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Beauty; Soul; Vision REPOSE OF RIVERS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The willows carried a slow sound Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Rivers; Vision; Fancy REPOSE OF RIVERS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The willows carried a slow sound Last Line: I heard wind flaking sapphire, like this summer, %and willows could not hold more steady sound Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Rivers; Vision REVELATION, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH Poem Text First Line: You also, know, I hope Last Line: Beyond the eye's detection. Subject(s): Vision ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: THE UNBELIEVER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wilt repose within mine arms Last Line: I lay my eager finger. Subject(s): Doubt; Truth; Vision; Skepticism ROMANS IN DORSET; A.D. 1895, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stupor on the heath Last Line: My juvenal! Distraught with love of violated law. Subject(s): Dreams; Roman Empire; Vision; Nightmares SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Last Line: To lords and ladies of byzantium %of what is past, or passing, or to come Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art And Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry And Poets; Vision SALE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sale what the jews have not sold Last Line: No danger that travelers will be called to account in a hurry Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SCHOOL, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale opal summits of far mountains peeped Last Line: And, from her own shadow, a brown cow sucking her fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Vision SCIENCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A million globes awhirl in unlit space Last Line: At last, the meaning of the master-mind. Subject(s): Faith; God; Science; Space & Space Travel; Truth; Vision; Belief; Creed; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension SEASON OF HELL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, I I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened Last Line: Few, hideous pages from my notebook of one of the damned Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SEEN AND UNSEEN, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: A marble courtyard Last Line: Unnoticed on the chill marble. Subject(s): Contrariness; Vision SEMIOTICS OF WIND, by PATTY SEYBURN Poem Source First Line: I am concerned we are reading the winds wrong Last Line: And though we are wed by staccato and susurrus, %o uncontrollable, I can't go Subject(s): Vision; Wind SHADOWS OF RECOLLECTION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is no dream! Yet haunting visions come Last Line: To quench all memory of a former state? Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Memory; Shadows; Vision SHIVA IS THE HORSE, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Which are one thing, alone, %and the rider who mounts to ride Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SHOPPING TRIP, by MIRIAM GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: I try on clothes with you and fifty other women in a mirrored room Last Line: And though I can't make love to you, I could make a turkey with her %watching Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Fashion; Retail Trade; Shopping; Vision SIGHT, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine infant-eye Last Line: So that no light in heaven more clearly shines. Subject(s): Soul; Vision SIGHT AND SOUND, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh wonder shown! A sound to see Last Line: Shall I forget? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Sight; Sound; Vision SISTER, THE DARK ONE WON'T SPEAK TO ME, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mira's whole life is a long %night of craving Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision SOME PEOPLE ABANDPN THEIR HOMES, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This rivering mixture feels, %by turns, warm and cool Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SOMEONE SAID, 'THERE IS NO DERVISH, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All qualities of doing-ness %disappear Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW THE TIGRIS RIVER EXISTS, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You shake your thought-wings, loosen your shoulders, %and open Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SONGS OF INNOCENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Piping down the valleys wild Last Line: Every child may joy to hear. Variant Title(s): Child And The Piper;the Happy Piper;pipe A Song;reeds Of Innocence;a Song Of Singing;the Piper Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Innocence; Music & Musicians; Mythology; Pipers; Vision; Fancy SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tree ascended there. Oh pure transcendence Last Line: You built a temple deep inside their hearing Subject(s): Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Vision SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A god can do it. But will you tell me how Last Line: Nothing. A gust inside the god. A wind Subject(s): Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Vision SONORAN RADIO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking at a big moon too long Last Line: We've colored with blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mexico; Pain; Poverty; Vision; Suffering; Misery SOUL, LIKE THE MOON, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I began to go naked, and dance Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where do we reside Last Line: We can no longer see Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Shadows; Vision SUBLIME ILLUSION, by FLORENCE BROOKS Poem Text First Line: I cannot wait until hallucination Last Line: In beauty wrought, or in the sky, a vision. Alternate Author Name(s): Malone, John, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Hallucinations & Illusions; Vision 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 SUN, THE LOWEST CHAKRA OF ACTION, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Are they hiding in the nothing %like friends on a walk? Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SUNFLOWER SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the Subject(s): Imagination; Railroads; Sunflowers; Vision; Fancy; Railways; Trains SUNFLOWER SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the Last Line: Motive riverbank sunset frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown %vision Subject(s): Imagination; Railroads; Sunflowers; Vision SUNSET, by PHOEBE DANA KELLOGG Poem Text First Line: You have barred my vision, west-wind Last Line: To swirl through the gate of space and gold. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Vision; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Last Line: Bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of lethe? Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry And Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SUSPIRIUM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Life of my soule, bright lord of love Last Line: To thee ye easier shall I swimm. Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Love; Soul; Vision; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness TALE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A prince was vexed at having devoted himself only to the perfection Last Line: Skilled music is lacking to our desire Subject(s): Imagination; Vision TALL SHIPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The one who reaches the crow's-nest Last Line: And by turning his face to the blind dial of the cosmos Subject(s): Boats; Perception; Vision TARQUIN'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When repose had come upon me and I yielded Last Line: "that the old roman state shall flourish, and beyond all states endure" Subject(s): Dreams;roman Empire;vision; Nightmares 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 TEN THOUSAND THANKS, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Shyam, the ocean of pleasure %has come into me Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision THE BRIDGE: 1. AVE MARIA, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be with me, luis de san angel, now Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Imagination; Vision; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Fancy THE BRIDGE: 7. THE TUNNEL, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Performances, assortments, resumes Last Line: Gatherest -- Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Class Struggle; Imagination; New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Subways; Vision; Fancy; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE BRIDGE: 8. ATLANTIS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the bound cable strands, the arching path Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Atlantis; Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Vision; Fancy THE BRIDGE: PROEM. TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest Last Line: And of the curveship lend a myth to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Americans; Bible; Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; Freedom; Imagination; Religion; United States; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology; America THE BROKEN TOWER, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bell-rope that gathers god at dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you make so fair and bright? Last Line: "sudden and light." Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE DARK BLOT, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: He who has gazed against the sun sees everywhere Last Line: Can look, and not be hurt, on splendor and the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Blindness; Vision; Visually Handicapped THE DEAD PAINTER, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day he sat beneath these eaves Last Line: Whose vision holds a moment, not eternity. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Paintings And Painters; Vision; Dead, The THE DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere Last Line: "thy kingdom come." Subject(s): Dreams; God; Immortality; Night; Vision; Nightmares; Bedtime THE DUINO ELEGIES: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE FAR-OFF DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I behold a little bird Last Line: And bird and beast and man are one in thee. Subject(s): Birds; Cain; Faith; Love; Vision; Belief; Creed THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF, OR THE LADY IN THE ARBOUR; A VISION, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now turning from the wintry signs, the sun Last Line: Thy simple style to suit thy lowly kind. Subject(s): Fables; Flowers; Nature; Vision; Women; Allegories THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIFTH AND SIXTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infected mad he danced on his mountains high & dark as heaven Last Line: In their progressions & preparing urizens path before him Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIRST AND SECOND, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: Vala Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE NINTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And los & enitharmon builded jerusalem weeping Last Line: The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then urizen arose the spectre fled & tharmas fled Last Line: Babylon again in infancy calld natural religion Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE THIRD AND FOURTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now sat the king of light on high upon his starry throne Last Line: Into unusual forms dancing & howling stamping the abyss Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE GREY MONK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I die, I die!' the mother said Last Line: And became a tyrant in his stead Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Fancy THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay beside you ... On your lips the while Last Line: I hear strange voices calling through the night. Subject(s): Beauty; Ghosts; Kisses; Love; Supernatural; Vision THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LAKERS, A COMIC OPERA: PROLOGUE, SELECTION, by JAMES PLUMPTRE Poem Text First Line: Where cumbria's mountains in the north arise Last Line: The natives by the name of lakers call. Subject(s): Guests; Opera; Travel; Vision; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE LOOK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strephon kissed me in the spring Last Line: Haunts me night and day. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Eyes; Flirtation; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sight; Vision; Male-female Relations THE LORDS OF SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the water whispers 'mid the shadowy rowan-trees Last Line: And sealed my eyes with dew beneath the shadowy rowan-trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Shadows; Vision; Dead, The; Elves THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air Last Line: For every thing that lives is holy Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Judgment Day; Mythology; Vision; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MENTAL TRAVELLER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I travel'd thro' a land of men Last Line: And all is done as I have told. Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Fancy; Theology THE MERCY SEAT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in an enamel tub with a black Last Line: While he was content to settle on the facts... Subject(s): Angels; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mercy; Salvation; Vision; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE MORNING MIST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, william, how the morning mists Last Line: Shall beam eternal day. Subject(s): Immortality; Light; Mist; Morality; Morning; Vision; Ethics 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, OLD WISH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, in some lost mood of Last Line: "when will my wish come true?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Stars; Vision; Wishes; Bedtime THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 2, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When shall the laurel and the vocal string Last Line: Nor so effaced the image of its sire. Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Imagination; Philosophy & Philosophers; Vision; Fancy THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE VISION, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She came, long absent from my side Last Line: And still, in passing, smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Peace; Singing & Singers; Vision; Nightmares THE RETURN, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To infancy, o lord, again I come Last Line: My sweet companions all the year. Subject(s): Vision THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SHEPHERDS' VISION, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the dim judean hills Last Line: The glorious vision shineth still. Subject(s): Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vision THE SIGN: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no magic numbers or magic lives Last Line: You do not need the stars for that. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Magic; Night; Vision; Bedtime THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went out to the hazel wood Last Line: The golden apples of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fairies; Imagination; Men; Supernatural; Vision; Witchcraft & Witches; Elves; Fancy THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 9. VISION OF THE WORLD, by T. BAKER Poem Text First Line: I dream'd I walked, in raptures high Last Line: As I in vision view'd! Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vision; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE THINKER'S VISION, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those aerial osier bridges / swung from cordilleran ridges Last Line: Love, dare thou the gulf with me! Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Vision THE THREE HERMITS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three old hermits took the air Last Line: Sang unnoticed like a bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hermits; Imagination; Mortality; Old Age; Vision; Fancy THE TOWER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do with this absurdity Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy 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 UNATTAINED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A vision beauteous as the morn Last Line: "all shall pursue, but none shall claim me." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Desire; Dreams; Vision; Nightmares THE VIOLIN-PLAYER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who love music and comprehend Last Line: Which are the beginning and end of art. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Violins; Vision THE VISION, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are the vision, you are the image of the dream Last Line: Glorying the dream and the vision in the song you bring. Subject(s): Vision THE VISION, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft a white-robed angel I beheld Last Line: I saw the starry multitudes ablaze. Subject(s): Angels; Love; Vision THE VISION, by SUSAN M. KANE Poem Text First Line: She was there; she was there Last Line: Though some one may say I was spellbound with spring. Subject(s): Vision THE VISION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sister, sister, from the case- / ment leaning Last Line: "I saw,"" she said, ""I saw""—and spake no more." Subject(s): Vision; Wandering & Wanderers THE VISION, by WILLIAM TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: We met, a hundred of us met Last Line: Flew up and kicked the beam. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Facades; Judgment Day; Religion; Vision; Appearances; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE VISION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flight is but the preparative: the sight Last Line: Sees and enjoys the holy one. Subject(s): Self; Vision THE VISION (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me thought I saw (as I did dreame in bed) Last Line: And I am wilde and wanton like to him. Subject(s): Vision THE VISION OF ECHARD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The benedictine echard Last Line: "where all of him shall learn." Subject(s): Monks; Vision THE VISION OF JESUS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest son, what dost thou see? Last Line: The shadows of three gaunt crosses fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Predestination; Vision; Women - Bible; Childhood; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary THE VISION OF RABBI BEN ISAAC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For three score years my wandering Last Line: A snow-white feather fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clergy; God; Roads; Vision; Wandering & Wanderers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Paths; Trails THE VISION TEST, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My driver's license is lapsing and so I appear Last Line: For normal people who know where they want to go Subject(s): Literary Form; Examinations; Vision; Driving & Drivers THE WATCHERS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trains go roaring past by day and flashing by at night Last Line: Who never know the world is wide—and do not want to know! Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vision; Watchmen; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips 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 WILD SWANS AT COOLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The trees are in their autumn beauty Last Line: To find they have flown away? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Coole, Ireland; Imagination; Swans; Vision; Fancy THE WINDOW, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long, by a distant bell Last Line: "and the arms of god around her, she quietly takes her rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Perception; Thought; Vision; Thinking THERE ARE THOSE SLEEPING WHO ARE AWAKE, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Doing household chores %who are free of any action Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision THERE ONCE WAS A SNEERING WIFE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of water and dirt cracks open the head, %and afterwards there are other marriages Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision THEY ARRIVE AND OTHERS ARRIVE, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Does it mean anything? %nothing, nothing, nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision THEY SAY THAT PARADISE WILL BE PERFECT, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We hold on to times like this then, %since this is how it's going to be Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision THEY WHO COME BACK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My faithful dead come back to me in dreams Last Line: My changeless dead, who rest so long and well. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Love; Vision; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THICK OVERHEAD / CLOUDS OF THE MONSOON, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It's time to take my songs %into the street Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision THINK THAT YOU'RE GLIDING OUT FROM THE FACE OF A CLIFF, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. %one is just a voice, the other just a color Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision THIS IS HOW MY DREAMS, MY VISIONS TAKE PLACE, by ELICURA CHIHUAILAF Poem Source First Line: Your words are like the sounds of the kultrun Last Line: The pathways of my people with blood Subject(s): Dreams; Vision THIS IS THE SEAL OF, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Life after life %she awaits his arrival Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision THOSE WITH A KNACK FOR WALKING IN AIR, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They're street jugglers, nothing more Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision TO BE BORN IN THIS HUMAN BODY IS RARE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Awaken and sleep no more - %brief are the days of life Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision TO HELEN KELLER, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: You see with the cleansing eyes of love Last Line: And roll away the stone of doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Hate; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Vision TO THE EVENING STAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou fair-haired angel of the evening Last Line: Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influence. Subject(s): Bible; Evening; Evening Star; Imagination; Mythology; Stars; Vision; Sunset; Twilight; Fancy TO THE MUSES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether on ida's shady brow / or in the chambers of the east Last Line: The sound is forced, the notes are few! Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy TOO BRIGHT TO SEE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just before dark the light gets dark. Violet Last Line: Come quickly. I weep, face set, no tears, mouth open Subject(s): Vision TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. I SAW A VISION, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a vision of earth's multitudes going up and down over the earth Last Line: The sky. Subject(s): Vision TOWER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do with this absurdity Last Line: Or a bird's sleepy cry %among the deepening shades Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision TRAVELOGUE, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Never have I journeyed Last Line: Realm, the sky. Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Vision; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips TUMORS, by DAVID SWERDLOW Poem Source First Line: The stairs fall from her Last Line: Predication's straight line is the moon's %difficult white, neurological dark Subject(s): Change; Vision UNBREAKABLE, O LORD, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: O my beloved - %return Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision UNDER BEN BULBEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Swear by what the sages spoke Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy UNDER BEN BULBEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swear by what the sages spoke Last Line: Horseman, pass by! Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision UPON HIS EYE-SIGHT FALLING HIM, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I beginne to waine in sight Last Line: When the tapers once are out. Subject(s): Vision VAGABONDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful brother! What atrocious vigils I owe him! Last Line: We wandered, I impatient to find the place and the formula! Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VARIETY OF INTELLIGENCE IN HUMAN BEINGS, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As many kinds as might be marked on a vertical Last Line: Joseph's brothers wept, but inside %they were tricky and jealous Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VENICE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the skies of this northern november Last Line: By all the chill blasts of november! Subject(s): Beauty; Venice, Italy; Vision VIEW FROM HERE, by FREDERIC SIBLEY Poem Source First Line: To one umbilically adrift Last Line: One far too small %not to share Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Vision VIGILS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is repose in the light, neither fever nor languor, on a bed or on a meadow Last Line: In any case nothing of what it seems at present Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VILE SPRING!, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: I saw her at her window set Last Line: Vile spring! Why can't you keep away? Subject(s): Spring; Vision VISION, by SYLVIANE DUPUIS Poem Source First Line: Without the virtue of this empty Last Line: Or other %would have been enough) Subject(s): Vision VISION, by ETHEL VEVA KING Poem Text First Line: You see a woman in velvet and satin Last Line: And ever so slyly I try to hide mine. Subject(s): Eyes; Vision; Youth VISION, by KATIE F. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Here lies a dreamer Last Line: Shall make it less. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Vision; Nightmares VISION, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw myself when I shut my eyes Last Line: Where I am and am not Subject(s): Vision VISION, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the somnambulant dawn, in which your face Last Line: Revengeful silence masks, but cannot quell. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision VISION, by CHRISTIAN ERNST SCHNEIDER Poem Text First Line: The chisel's deft twist and the mallet's tap, tap Last Line: "with ""vision"" that effort inspires." Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Vision; Work; Workers VISION ON THE SHORE, by ANNA ROZELLE DILLER Poem Text First Line: When the moon is shining on the bayou Last Line: Sleeps beneath the bayou water. Subject(s): Vision VISIONS, by FLORENCE ENGLISH HADDEN Poem Text First Line: From childhood days through life, until old age Last Line: Are vision-born, and prove the vision's worth. Subject(s): Vision VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved theotormon Last Line: The daughters of albion hear her woes, & eccho back her sighs. Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Love; Mythology; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 1, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the fresh ruffles of the surf Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Variant Title(s): The Sea Subject(s): Imagination; Sea; Vision; Fancy; Ocean VOYAGES: 1, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the fresh ruffles of the surf Last Line: The bottom of the sea is cruel Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Variant Title(s): The Se Subject(s): Imagination; Sea; Vision VOYAGES: 2, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And yet this great wink of eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Men; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 2, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And yet this great wink of eternity Last Line: The seal's wide spindrift gaze toward paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Men; Vision VOYAGES: 3, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infinite consanguinity it bears Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 3, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infinite consanguinity it bears Last Line: Permit me voyage, love, into your hands Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VOYAGES: 4, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose counted smile of hours and days, suppose Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 4, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose counted smile of hours and days, suppose Last Line: The secret oar and petals of all love Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VOYAGES: 5, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 5, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime Last Line: Draw in your head and sleep the long way home Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VOYAGES: 6, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where icy and bright dungeons lift Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 6, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where icy and bright dungeons lift Last Line: Whose accent no farewell can know Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WALES VISITATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Wales; Fancy; Welshmen; Welshwomen WALES VISITATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow Last Line: Upward in motion with wet wind Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Wales WALKING, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To walk abroad is, not with eyes Last Line: From viewing herbs and trees. Subject(s): Vision WAY IN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever you are; some evening take a step Last Line: In the same moment that your will grasps it, %your eyes, feeling its subtlety, will leave it Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WE CAN'T HELP BEING THIRSTY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Almost in sight! The first word they call out %will be the last word of our last poem Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WEAR JUST ENOUGH CLOTHES TO KEEP WARM, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This body will become food %for the forest crows Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WHAT IS WORSHIP? WHO ARE THIS MAN, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Let that be your sacred pouring. %let your worship song be silence Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WHAT OUR EYES BEHOLD, by LORNA TALLENT KIDWELL Poem Text First Line: Why, son, it's lovely here,' she said Last Line: And the cracks in the kitchen floor. Subject(s): Vision WHAT UNDERSTANDING COMES THROUGH READING?, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Subtle intellect is a fox %who knows what I need Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WHEN CAN I MEET / THE DARK LORD?, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fate never swerves from its course Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision WHEN THINGS ARE HEARD, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages Last Line: But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WHY LIFE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: O beloved, take this raft quickly %and lead it to shore Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision WHY MIRA CAN'T GO BACK TO HER OLD HOUSE, by MIRABAI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The colors of the dark one have penetrated mira's body Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Variant Title(s): Meera Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision; Fancy WHY MIRA CAN'T GO BACK TO HER OLD HOUSE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The colors of the dark one have penetrated mira's body Last Line: And now you want me to climb on a jackass? Try to be serious! Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision WHY THIS IMPULSE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Singing from the deep in your throat Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision YOGIN, I DID NOT TOUCH, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: What mira obtains %has been written by fate Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision YOUR EYES, by PEARL A. WILCOX Poem Text First Line: If skies are grey or skies are blue Last Line: In your eyes. Subject(s): Emotions; Eyes; Vision YOUTH: 1. SUNDAY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Problems put by, the inevitable descent of heaven Last Line: Let us resume our study to the noise of the devouring work that is assembling and rising in the mass Subject(s): Imagination; Vision YOUTH: 2. SONNET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man of ordinary constitution, was not the flesh a fruit hung in the orchard Last Line: Might and right reflect your dance and your voice, only appreciated at present Subject(s): Imagination; Vision YOUTH: 3. TWENTY YEARS OLD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Instructive voices exiled Last Line: Quickly, indeed, the nerves take up the chase Subject(s): Imagination; Vision YOUTH: 4. WAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a child, certain skies refined my vision Last Line: It is as simple as a musical phrase Subject(s): Imagination; Vision |
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