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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WALLS Matches Found: 41 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ABIDING CITY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My city walls are builded sure Last Line: Pass in a dream of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; God; Walls; Urban Life ATMOSPHERE; INSCRIPTION FOR A GARDEN WALL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winds blow the open grassy places bleak Last Line: The hours of daylight gather atmosphere Subject(s): Walls ATMOSPHERE; INSCRIPTION FOR A GARDEN WALL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winds blow the open grassy places bleak Last Line: The hours of daylight gather atmosphere Subject(s): Walls BALLAD OF THE WALL, by BORRIES FREIHERR VON MUNCHHAUSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monteton, where is thy wall? Last Line: That is our tower, tournefort! Subject(s): Walls BARTLEBY AT THE WALL, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wall/is the side of the building Subject(s): Walls; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness BLOSSOMING WALL, by MARJORIE GRAFFLIN Poem Text First Line: They built a wall between us and the west Last Line: Sharp as forgotten pain, as forgiveness fair. Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Class Struggle; Walls BODIES ON THE WALL, by TOMAS HARRIS Poem Source First Line: On the limed wall through the night, they projected Last Line: In those bodies dismembered by imagination Subject(s): Bodies; Walls COMES WINTER, THE SEA HUNTING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was your very first wall, your crib against Last Line: Through... Subject(s): Birth; Fathers & Daughters; Ice; Poverty; Sea; Walls; Child Birth; Midwifery; Ocean GREY WALLS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Why, though I had seen those things Last Line: Yet ever united? Subject(s): Beauty; Walls HORIZONS, by CHRISTIE JEFFRIES Poem Text First Line: Where canyon walls of cities rise Last Line: Immeasurable and limitless. Subject(s): Cities; Walls; Urban Life LAYING STONE WALL, by FRED LAPE Poem Text First Line: I'll go and lay that corner of stonewall Last Line: One can be glad to be remembered by. Subject(s): Stones; Walls; Granite; Rocks LINES TO THE BOSTON Y.M.C.A., by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Thou mighty force which builds today and well Last Line: Has made this great association last. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Walls MENDING WALL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something there is that doesn't love a wall Last Line: He says again, 'good fences make good neighbors.' Subject(s): Neighbors; Walls MISUNDERSTANDING, by MAY RICHSTONE Poem Text First Line: Between us, stone on stone, we built a tall Last Line: "forgive me, love,"" and lo the wall was dust!" Subject(s): Walls NEW ENGLAND WALLS, by AMORY HARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not from the blow that shall deliver death Last Line: My flesh would pass, leaving my spirit here. Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; New England; Walls; Dead, The RECTANGULAR HOLE IN THE LIVING ROOM WALL, by BRADLEY PAUL Poem Source First Line: It was eleven inches wide %and half as high Last Line: With pounds of water %laid on top Subject(s): Rooms; Walls RETREATS, by CARRIE ADAMS BERRY Poem Text First Line: New england has her rocky walls, enclosing hilltop fields Last Line: To find the way to ultimates which give the soul new birth. Subject(s): New England; Soul; Walls SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES ARCHITECTURE CLASS: DOCTRINES WALL, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the city where sons come back Last Line: To stand, how soon we need to leave Subject(s): Walls SNOW-WHITE WALL, by LIANG XIAOBIN Poem Source First Line: Mother, %I saw a snow-white wall Last Line: Mother, %I saw a snow-white wall Subject(s): Colors; Human Rights; Walls; White (color) STONE WALL BUILDERS, by EDITH HASKELL TAPPAN Poem Text First Line: Sturdy and staunch were those new england men Last Line: In this the land we love! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; New England; Stones; Walls; Work; Workers; Granite; Rocks STONE WALLS, by JULIE MATHILDE LIPPMANN Poem Text First Line: Along the country roadside, stone on stone Last Line: Are lost like shadows in the morning-break. Subject(s): Walls STONE WALLS OF NEW ENGLAND, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: O walls of stone, built carefully and straight Last Line: Gray guardian walls in silent witness lie. Subject(s): New England; Walls THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE WRONG QUESTIONS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How. / walls are built why Last Line: Do they eat—light? Subject(s): Walls THE TOWER OF ERCILDOUNE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a stillness on the night Last Line: Except to lead us nearer heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Desolation; Haunted Houses; Scotland; Walls THE WALL, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not love a wall Last Line: How well I love the wall! Subject(s): Walls THE WALL, by DAVID JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We don't know the ins and outs Last Line: That's the new fatigue Subject(s): Soldiers; Rome, Italy; Walls THE WALL, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot answer, though I hear you call Last Line: But when I waken, I behold—the wall! Subject(s): Walls THE WALL, by ISIDOR SCHNEIDER Poem Text First Line: Oh, stately though we walk Last Line: Immediate on the wall. Subject(s): Relationships; Walls THE WOLD WALL, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, jeane, we vu'st did meet below Last Line: The wall is wold, my grief is new. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Memory; Walls; Sorrow; Sadness THE WOODEN WALLS OF ATHENS, by DELPHIC ORACLE Poem Text First Line: Vainly doth pallas strive to appease great zeus of olympus Last Line: Thou shalt destroy one day, in the season of seed-time or harvest. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Walls ULYSSES BUILDS HIS BED, by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE Poem Text First Line: Glorious ulysses, returned from the war Last Line: And the enraptured mothers smile. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Statues; Stones; Ulysses; Walls; Granite; Rocks; Odysseus UP AGAINST IT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wall was white, whitewash lime Last Line: The small leaves trembling with light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Dreams; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Murder; Walls; Nightmares VERMEER, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No protected world - just behind the wall the noise begins Last Line: I am not empty, I am open Subject(s): Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675); Walls WALL, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: It is a purplish stone Last Line: On the fleeing horizons Subject(s): Solitude; Stones; Walls WALL, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Sunday afternoon drove Last Line: Square it with myself Subject(s): Walls WALL, EARLY, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: It's just a brick wall lining the alley Last Line: Another local hero is dead. A plane hums closer Subject(s): Cities; Life; Walls WALLS, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The wall of his environment Last Line: Twit-tittering on the seething coals. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Walls WALLS, by O. J. BOWLES Poem Text First Line: My unrest fumbles like a hand Last Line: That's lying down! Subject(s): Walls WALLS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walls are relief/in lifting Subject(s): Walls WALLS, by VIRGINIA WOODS MACKALL Poem Text First Line: Down the highway and over the wall Last Line: And don't know the reason. Subject(s): Walls WHAT SHALL ENDURE?, by ETHELYN M. HARTWICK Poem Text First Line: Great roads the romans built that men might meet Last Line: The walls are fallen, but the roads endure. Subject(s): Permanence; Roads; Roman Empire; Walls; Paths; Trails |
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