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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WAITING Matches Found: 136 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS SONG, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography 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 nottruthfullyknow 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 himah, 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 |
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