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First Line: Then from his throne the godhead bowed
Last Line: To wait the coming lord!
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Waiting; Nativity, The


A LOVER'S IDLE FEAR, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: You asked me to return at eight
Last Line: You promised me.
Subject(s): Fear; Longing; Love; Waiting


A SHORT DROP TO NOTHING, by JUDY JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can't say what of this day or its lack
Last Line: Tugs the evening over this darkening land
Subject(s): Waiting


A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home
Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god.
Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


A WORTH WHILE THEME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I sat and pondered, dreaming, vainly searching, vainly scheming
Last Line: Than are found in loving girls and boys.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fairies; Waiting; Nightmares; Elves


ALMOST AN ELEGY, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In days gone by I too would stand and wait
Last Line: Not music yet, already more than noise
Subject(s): Waiting; Jacob (bible); Love – Complaints; Memory


AN ELEGIAC THOUGHT OF MRS. ANNE WARNER: MRS. WARNER ARRIVES ABOVE, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold her ancestors (a pious race)
Last Line: "die, and partake my bliss; we are for ever one."
Subject(s): Fathers; Heaven; Mortality; Waiting; Paradise


ANTICIPATION, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been temperate always
Subject(s): Waiting; Desire


ARE THEY WAITING FOR A STAR, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clouds float back and forth through the wind's doors
Last Line: The earth's housekeepers, waiting for guests %who never come
Subject(s): Guests; Waiting


AS IF I WERE WAITING FOR SOMEONE, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon shines into my room
Last Line: As if I were waiting perpetually for someone
Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Waiting


AT COLD SOLSTICE, by HWANG JINI    Poem Source                    
First Line: At cold solstice I cut
Last Line: A night spread out again for you
Subject(s): Absence; Waiting


AWAY TO THE FAIR, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away to the fair my lad did repair
Last Line: Willie comes not from the fair?
Subject(s): Fear; Festivals; Love; Waiting; Fairs; Pageants


BANISHMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cliffs are battered like the people
Last Line: My dreams have banished me
Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains; Waiting


BE STILL AND WAIT, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be still, o soul!
Last Line: The shining robe of immortality.
Subject(s): Immortality; Patience; Waiting


BEE! I'M EXPECTING YOU!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "I will not let thee go"
Subject(s): Waiting


BEFORE SENTENCE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night, though every kind of poison sap
Last Line: And thine enslaving amour with the slav!
Subject(s): Courage; France; Honor; Justice; Trials; Waiting; Weariness; Valor; Bravery; Fatigue


BY THE GREY STONE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is quiet here: the wet hill-wind's sigh
Last Line: Is it love's lordly vow or mine own bitter shame?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Sighs; Silence; Stones; Waiting; Granite; Rocks


CAGE OF SIGHT, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Calmly waiting, finding %nothing more final
Subject(s): Waiting


CALLS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I have called to you
Subject(s): Waiting; Birds


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 34, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaves are dry on the gourd now
Last Line: I am waiting for my friend
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Waiting


CONDITION, by MOLLY BENDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: If they'd told me to recapture
Last Line: Anything to lie in wait for me
Subject(s): Love; Waiting


CONSTANT PENELOPE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When greeks and trojans fell at strife
Last Line: Nor used this complaint, nor have thought the day to be so long
Subject(s): Fidelity; Waiting


EVENINGS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As in a delirium %she awaits
Last Line: The gestures of the sea
Subject(s): Solitude; Waiting


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


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


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


HANGING THE STOCKINGS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve! It's christmas eve!
Last Line: Bet to-morrow'll never come!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Waiting; Childhood; Nativity, The


I AM WAITING, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am waiting for my case to come up
Subject(s): Waiting


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


I WAIT, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As some pale-lidded ghost that calls
Subject(s): Waiting


I WAIT, by HAROLD CRAWFORD STEARNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Day-long, night-long
Last Line: A sob in the lonely trees.
Subject(s): Solitude; Waiting; Loneliness


I WILL SET OUT TO-MORROW, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will set out to-morrow when the dawn-light whitens all the land
Last Line: Then will I lay this holly-spray and heather on thy bier.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Waiting; Dead, The


I'M SURE SHE SAID SIX-THIRTY, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of the hardest explanations to be found
Last Line: Standing around anywhere are any hour for any length of time: 'I'm waiting for my wife'
Subject(s): Waiting


I'M WRITING TO ASK YOU, by HEATHER RAMSDELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something that means something to me? Something that keeps me awake at
Last Line: Now what are you thinking? Anyone? Anyone who has been waiting
Subject(s): Waiting


IA'S SONG, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long before day I left my father's cottage
Last Line: Softly, my arm holding his waist, will kiss him—ah, when?
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Marriage; Waiting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


IMPATIENCE, by LE BARON COOKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: April / seems so far away
Last Line: Of my heart?
Subject(s): Waiting; Winter


IN A BOAT SHED, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I waited too long
Subject(s): Waiting


IN TENEBRIS, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All within is warm
Last Line: Let the light fall on my face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Light; Longing; Waiting


IN THE DARK, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm seated beside my phone
Last Line: To ring in the dark
Subject(s): Telephones; Waiting


IS IT JUST THE WIND, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But I only become more restless
Subject(s): Longing; Waiting


KEPT WAITING IN THE BOAT AT CHIU-K'OU TEN DAYS BY AN ADVERSE WIND, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White billows and huge waves block the river crossing
Last Line: While I sit in a boat at chiu-k'ou, wasting ten days!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Waiting


LA VIE EN ROSE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fog fills the little square
Last Line: Around and around
Subject(s): France; Waiting


LA VIE EN ROSE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fog fills the little square
Last Line: Around and around
Subject(s): France; Waiting


LAST DAY, by WEN YI-TUO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water sobs and sobs in the bamboo pipe gutter.
Last Line: I close my eyelids then follow him out
Subject(s): Death; Waiting


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


LOVE LATER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you can't make it tonight
Last Line: Christmas will do
Subject(s): Love Affairs; Waiting


LYING IN WAIT, by TOMASZ JASTRUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cancer ward lies in wait
Last Line: Smiles and bright green eyes
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Hospitals; Waiting


MAD WIND, by CATHERINE BRADSHAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cold ashes crumble on my hearth tonight
Last Line: O god, sometimes I think I shall go mad.
Subject(s): Absence; Waiting; Separation; Isolation


MAGIC, by ELISE FELLOWS WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Waiting, listening, long I stood
Last Line: Held secrets I could never share.
Subject(s): Forests; Secrets; Waiting; Woods


NOT IN VAIN I WAITED, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was but a child, a child
Last Line: Down the dell she's coming -- coming, coming with me.
Subject(s): Aging; Children; Love; Waiting; Childhood


OLD SAM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old sam was on the ball, she said
Last Line: Lyrical as hell
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Waiting; Writing And Writers


ON THE TRAIN, by RUTH NOEL BENNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through wisps of smoke swift, backward
Last Line: Waiting the lips of you.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Waiting


ON TRIAL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We hold our breath, the island is on trial
Last Line: The flesh becomes word: guilty.
Subject(s): Guilt; Ireland; Trials; Waiting


PATIENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I put her letter by, because
Last Line: And wait in patience yet awhile.
Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of; Waiting


PATIENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was not patient in that olden time
Last Line: Could ever compass underneath the sky
Subject(s): Patience;waiting


PLACES, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses and gold
Subject(s): Waiting; Fame; Reputation


PRAELUDIUM, by CATHERINE THORNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is not peace
Last Line: This is praeludium.
Subject(s): Peace; Waiting


SEPTEMBER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Starlings gather in their thousands on the wires
Last Line: On a cloth drying on a windowsill %a wasp is dying.
Subject(s): Starlings; Waiting


SONG: SHE WAITS FOR ME, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wait for thee! I said it in the splendor
Last Line: She waits for me.
Subject(s): Solitude; Waiting; Loneliness


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 108, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another day comes up
Last Line: And lift the latch of your door.
Subject(s): Time; Waiting


THE AWAKENING, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that I was a rose
Last Line: That I had waited there for you.
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Hearts; Love; Passion; Waiting; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares


THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 4, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time passed, but still no letter came; she ceased
Last Line: As colts in april feel there in the daffodils.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; South America; Waiting; Desertion


THE FIFTH NIGHT: WHEN SHE MASTURBATES, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: First of all she eats jellybeans
Last Line: Until it melts.
Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl
Subject(s): Imagination; Longing; Sex; Story-telling; Survival; Waiting; Fancy


THE LAST COACH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Before her mirror in a pouting mood
Last Line: This humble coach did stop before their gate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Fate; Waiting; Destiny


THE LIFE OF TOWNS: DESERT TOWN, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the sage came back in
Last Line: Waiting itself
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Homecoming; Waiting


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 38, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I waited all night
Subject(s): Waiting


THE MOORISH MAIDEN'S VIGIL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does she watch him, fondly watch him
Last Line: And it is the grave!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Waiting


THE OLD BARK HUT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In an old bark hut on the mountainside
Last Line: And broken a woman's heart
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;family Life;fathers & Sons;hunting;waiting; "dead, The;relatives;hunters;


THE PILOT OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: False,' they said, thy pale-face lover, from the land of waking morn
Last Line: Hunters lost upon the plains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Death; Legends; Love - Cultural Differences; Native Americans; Waiting; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE PROPHET, by LYMAN BRYSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jeremiah, will you come?
Last Line: Are you coming? Are you coming? O prophet of the word!
Subject(s): God; Jeremiah (bible); Prophecy & Prophets; Redemption; Waiting


THE SUN IS LOW, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit and wait for you, dear, my dear
Last Line: In the long-ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Waiting


THE TIME OF WAITING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life is fleeting, joy is fleeting
Last Line: For meek patience, let us pray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Religion; Waiting; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Theology


THE UNLIGHTED HOUSE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love came to the unlighted house
Last Line: Love came to the unlighted house.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Waiting


THE WAITING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wait and watch: before my eyes
Last Line: And good but wished with god is done!
Subject(s): Waiting


THE WAITRESS, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She brings a drink to the table
Last Line: Beyond these late-night, practically empty streets
Subject(s): Life; Night; Waiting; Bedtime


THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the waiting in the watches of
Last Line: In the waning of the watches of the night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Faith; Night; Soul; Waiting; Belief; Creed; Bedtime


THE WAY TO WAIT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O whether by the lonesome road
Last Line: For love that finds a way to come, can find a way to wait!
Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Waiting; Separation; Isolation


THEIR WORK, by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the ones who don't
Last Line: For there is no work more difficult %than theirs, sitting and waiting
Subject(s): Idleness; Unemployment; Waiting


THERE'S A MAN, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reading late into the evening. When he looks up
Last Line: And take up the packages?
Subject(s): Railroads; Waiting


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. OF PLEASURE AND PAIN, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kind are her answers
Last Line: But one night went betwixt.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Waiting; Women


TO RECOVERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Recovery, where art thou?
Last Line: Watches the dawn of day.
Subject(s): Blessings; Depression, Mental; Healing; Hope; Prayer; Waiting; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Cures; Optimism


TO-MORROW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-morrow! O the glorious to-morrow!'
Last Line: And we be satisfied!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Future; Waiting


TRIOLET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The days pass by and still I wait
Last Line: With all my love for you unspoken.
Subject(s): Longing; Love - Unrequited; Waiting


VAIN EXCUSE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be patient, life, when love is at the gate
Last Line: Be patient now with death, for love has passed.
Variant Title(s): Dialogue
Subject(s): Death; Idleness; Life; Love; Patience; Waiting; Dead, The; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


VAIN WAITING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The western sky has begun to darken
Last Line: And flings me never a word or a sign.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Waiting


VIEW #20: NORTH, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So far north %they talk of temperature
Last Line: As for us %he wasn't wrong
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Waiting


VIOLIN SONGS: WAITING, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I waited for the master
Last Line: Lo, the master came!
Subject(s): Light; Waiting


VOLKSWISE, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A poor girl sat by a tower of the sea
Last Line: "just a token, just a glimmer of his ship's lant ... Horn?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Waiting; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails


WAIT, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm waiting, I don't know what for
Last Line: In front of my face
Subject(s): Waiting


WAIT, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day slows, fills
Last Line: Is making his way across the universe
Subject(s): Absence; Cuba; Home; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Waiting


WAIT, by TIMOTHY OTIS PAINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nature alway is in tune
Last Line: But my life became a song.
Subject(s): Nature; Waiting


WAIT, by JR. A. POULIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've been expecting you
Subject(s): Waiting


WAIT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We know, o faltering heart
Last Line: Press bravely on -- and wait.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Night; Waiting; Bedtime


WAITING, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "listening, yearning / while the lingering, lengthening shadows"
Last Line: Down from heaven for thy returning
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I did not know the dawn could be so fair
Last Line: And waiting yields to life its very breath.
Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Love; Waiting; Sunrise; Dead, The


WAITING, by WINIFRED BURKETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Waiting for you begins
Last Line: And ... Waiting for you ends.
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Again, a song! / would he be silent? Silence and doubt are wrong
Last Line: And in the cold night lies my life, under a beechen tree!
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Singing & Singers; Waiting; Joy; Delight; Songs


WAITING, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within unfriendly walls / we starve - or starve by stealth
Last Line: And the word we must obey.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Waiting; Wealth; Work; Workers; Riches; Fortunes


WAITING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Who can abide indoors this morn
Last Line: A light must fall across the earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've been waiting for thee-been waiting
Last Line: I'll sleep with the leaves of the blast.
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun has slipped his tether
Last Line: But it's weary, weary waiting, love.
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no calls from the outside
Last Line: Never were any enemies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING, by MIROSLAV HOLUB    Poem Source                    
First Line: The one who waits is always the mother
Last Line: Until in the end %no one sees her
Subject(s): Human Rights; Mothers; Patience; Waiting


WAITING, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again have come the evening tides
Last Line: Already filled with pain and strife.
Subject(s): Hope; Life; Pain; Waiting; Optimism; Suffering; Misery


WAITING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the fervor
Last Line: But I can't tell you how any of them sing.
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Violence; Waiting; Dead, The; Judaism


WAITING, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you have come to give me faith in life
Last Line: Of your unknown key turning in the lock.
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm waiting for my darling
Last Line: "he never brings again."
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING, by NELLIE GOWIN OLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: So much of life is spent in waiting
Last Line: Waiting for death's still, stirring call.
Subject(s): Death; Waiting; Dead, The


WAITING, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why am I restless?
Last Line: And the nearest jet of it is right here in this body of mine.
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING, by PAULINE PARKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Waiting is such a task / well do I know it
Last Line: At least I won't mind it.
Subject(s): Hate; Waiting


WAITING, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the trains go by
Subject(s): Railroads; Waiting; Railways; Trains


WAITING, by EDGAR A. POST    Poem Text                    
First Line: I could say nice things about him
Last Line: Till I stand before his bier.
Subject(s): Praise; Waiting


WAITING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flowerless weeds along the tangled hedge
Last Line: And from ourselves we hide our own hearts' mystery!
Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Night; Stars; Waiting; Weeds; World; Bedtime


WAITING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherefore dwell so sad and lonely
Last Line: "waiting, watching, hoping, still!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Life; Love; Waiting; Women


WAITING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dawn comes forth I wonder
Last Line: We will gaze on it with weeping.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Waiting; Sorrow; Sadness


WAITING, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I will let the old boat stand
Last Line: And we are husky and lusty and shouting-gay.
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bide mine hour, when thou
Last Line: Is setting to my side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Love; Waiting


WAITING (2), by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are mountains to ascend
Last Line: Pews, but the word ticks inside %remorselessly as the bomb that is timed soon to go off
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING FOR EASTER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! The clarion march wind! Its wild, defiant greeting
Last Line: We will wait the coming of the blessed easter day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Nature; Waiting; The Resurrection


WAITING FOR IT, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yeats said that. Young
Last Line: For one flower to open %on the mind's tree of thorns
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Variant Title(s): Waitin
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Waiting; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)


WAITING FOR MY WIFE, by RONALD BOYD KOERTGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the thumbprint of every car
Last Line: Margins hold that story hostage
Subject(s): Books; Waiting


WAITING FOR MY WIFE'S COMMUTER FLIGHT, 45 MINUTES LATE, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When a convulsive boom shakes
Last Line: Like a top. A screw needed tightening, %chuck said. Such a little thing
Subject(s): Air Travel; Airplane Accidents; Marriage; Waiting


WAITING FOR REAL LIFE TO BEGIN, by SUSAN GRIMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're stuck at the station. The train
Last Line: On linen, it cannot be contained
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING FOR SWEET BETTY, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweetest waiting is waiting for sweet betty
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING FOR SWEET BETTY, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweetest waiting is waiting for sweet betty
Last Line: But she will bloom next year
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING FOR YOU, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night is ocean, horizon
Last Line: I wait, I listen for you
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Waiting


WAITING HOPES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Resting in the woodland where the lilies grow
Last Line: That will requite the patience of the soul.
Subject(s): Hope; Love; Rest; Waiting; Optimism


WAITING ROOM, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On line once, waiting
Subject(s): Waiting


WAITING ROOM, by CHRISTINE STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are waiting, grandmother and I, for the white bird
Last Line: Until the white bird is free at last
Subject(s): Birds; Waiting


WAITING WITH YOU, by JULIE BROOKS BARBOUR    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Tell him we'll paint the bedroom and buy new drapes, %maybe a couch for the den
Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Dogs; Life; Waiting


WAITRESS, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She brings a drink to the table
Last Line: Beyond these late-night, nearly empty streets
Subject(s): Life; Night; Waiting


WATCHFUL WAITING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nothing to do but sit around--
Last Line: Muster their clans in the south!
Subject(s): Baseball; Longing; Sports; Waiting; Winter


WATCHING, by W. J. KEITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watch from our window
Last Line: The act of watching %itself an act of love
Subject(s): Waiting


WE SHOULD, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And wait for the door %to open
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Nature; Waiting


WHY DOES IT TAKE SO GODDAMN LONG-THE BURNED-UP YEARS, THE LANDSCAPE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Barred from both and you miss them terribly
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Time; Waiting


X IS FOR EXPECTING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Come, come, my love, the morning waits
Last Line: Of twelve may mornings came in one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love; Waiting