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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HEART'S PROTEST, by ETHEL OSBORN HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long years to raise my little brood I strove
Last Line: I am not old -- nor am I through with life.
Subject(s): Mothers; Widows & Widowers


A LYNMOUTH WIDOW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: He was straight and strong, his eyes were blue
Last Line: And the smell of the nets on the churchyard wall!
Subject(s): Grief; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness


A PAIR, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black and white cat / means to get off
Last Line: Stroke his electric body.
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


A SUTTEE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gather her raven hair in one rich cluster
Last Line: No more to part.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Sacrifices; Widows & Widowers


A WIDOW IN WINTERTIME, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night a baby gargled in the throes
Last Line: Or waken in a caterwaul of dying.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Self-consciousness; Widows & Widowers; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


A WIDOW SPEAKS TO THE AURORA'S OF A DECEMBER NIGHT, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My yard with its pines is almost spherical in winter
Last Line: Falling off the dangerous, true edge of daylight.
Subject(s): Night; Quiet Life; Widows & Widowers; Winter; Bedtime


CHILD-WIDOW, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Emaciated, tiny frame: the slave
Last Line: This somber widowed child of hindustan.
Subject(s): Children; Widows & Widowers; Childhood


COMFORT TO A LADY UPON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dry your sweet cheek, long drown'd with sorrows raine
Last Line: Now let the rose raigne like a queene, and smile.
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


DOMESDAY BOOK: WIDOW FORTELKA, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marie fortelka, widow, mother of josef
Last Line: To swim to shore! He couldn't walk the waves!
Subject(s): Death; Life; News; Soul; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The


DOVECOTT MILL: 14. THE WIFE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brightly the morning sunshine glowed
Last Line: "wife of the miller of dovecote mill!"
Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Widows & Widowers


DOWAGER, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hill fronts my garden
Last Line: In her own family.
Subject(s): Old Age; Widows & Widowers


EDITHA, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Breathing the violet-scented gale
Last Line: Of mingled reverence and love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M.
Subject(s): Sea Battles; Widows & Widowers; Naval Warfare


EPISTLE FROM LORD BORINGDON TO LORD GRANVILLE, by GEORGE CANNING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft you have ask'd me, granville, why
Last Line: Who's lost a lord, and gained a mister.
Subject(s): Leveson-gower, George Granville; Widows & Widowers


FARM WIDOW, by JESSIE HOLT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The green grain mocks me
Last Line: By lantern light.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Widows & Widowers; Agriculture; Farmers


FOR A WIDOWER OR WIDOW, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How near me came the hand of death
Last Line: The being of a faithful friend.
Variant Title(s): A Widow's Hymn;hymn For A Widower Or A Widow Deprived Of A Loving .. Fellow
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


GETTING TO KNOW YOU, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We slept into one another
Last Line: We were relative strangers.
Subject(s): Marriage; Retrospection; Widows & Widowers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


HER LATE HUSBAND, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No - not where I shall make my own
Last Line: "in our sight up above!""'"
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


HIS WIDOW, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wreaths shrivelled and froze upon his grave
Last Line: And slept -- and snored a little... Life isn't so bad.
Subject(s): Funerals; Life; Sleep; Widows & Widowers; Burials


IN REGENT STREET, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One of the nightly hundreds who pass
Last Line: Or ever I look on the like again.
Subject(s): Poverty; Widows & Widowers


KET THE TANNER, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Ket the tanner hath saddled his mare!
Last Line: For rich men make merry, while poor men weep.]
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Sin; Widows & Widowers


LIGHT, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The house across the way / facing east, light clips it
Last Line: And the body stirs and remembers.
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


LOUGHANAREE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: An' how are ye doin', och! Mrs. Magee?'
Last Line: A widow in white giv her hand!
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


MAN'S DEVOTION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lover said, o maiden, love me well
Last Line: He was a widower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Widows & Widowers


NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My husband was hanging wet sheets, almost in disbelief
Last Line: I told her I was done feeling sorry for myself.
Subject(s): Canyons; Hearts; Gays & Lesbians; Laundry & Laundering; Self-pity; Widows & Widowers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


NEW ENGLAND GRAVEYARD, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As a pale cypher set among the weeds
Last Line: "dear husband"", ""virtuous wife"", ""son lost at sea""."
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Widows & Widowers; Graveyards; Dead, The


ON A PORTRAIT; A WIDOWER MUSES OVER THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEAD WIFE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The face, the beautiful face
Last Line: These passed from the world with her.
Subject(s): Mourning; Widows & Widowers; Bereavement


ON SEEING AN OFFICER'S WIDOW DISTRACTED - ARREARS OF PENSION, by MARY BARBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wretch! Hath madness cured thy dire despair?
Last Line: Ere pestilence or famine sweep the land.
Subject(s): Pensions; Widows & Widowers


ONE PRAYER, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: And now must I lose thee, o dark-eyed love, o darling?
Last Line: This once I look thee in the eyes and speak.
Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Widows & Widowers; Youth; Parting


OUR WIDOWED QUEEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The husband of the widow care for her
Last Line: Then may her husband praise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Albert Of Saxe-coburg-gotha (1819-1861); Death; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Widows & Widowers; Prince Consort Of Queen Victoria; Dead, The


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 21. A WIDOW IN A CEMETERY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lonely twilit thing
Last Line: The sun has taken wing
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Widows & Widowers; Graveyards


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 5; FOR R.P. BLACKMUR, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There are the countless, returning new england widows
Last Line: With alabaster. And suffer affliction like an insect.
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Habits; New England; Widows & Widowers


PRAYER OF A YOUNG WIDOW, by KATHRYN DYE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let me love no more, o lord
Last Line: An outcast of love.
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


RED AZALEAS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A wife I have never held in my arms
Last Line: And know why I am happy.
Subject(s): Azaleas; Flowers; Single Parents; Widows & Widowers; Parents Without Partners


REMEMBERANCE, by EVA SPARKS TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: We talked of intervening years today
Last Line: Alone he wraps his hurt with bandage frayed.
Subject(s): Old Age; Widows & Widowers


SABINA, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stair was steep; the tower was tall
Last Line: And let her boy run on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Widows & Widowers


SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 14. OVER THE COFFIN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They stand confronting, the coffin between
Last Line: Had lived like the wives in the patriarchs' days.'
Variant Title(s): Over The Coffin
Subject(s): Mourning; Widows & Widowers; Bereavement


SEEN BY THE WAITS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through snowy woods and shady
Last Line: We thought, but never said.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Widows & Widowers


SEVEN TIMES FIVE [ - WIDOWHOOD], by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sleep and rest, my heart makes moan
Last Line: On the hills of god!
Subject(s): God; Hearts; Sleep; Widows & Widowers


SONG OF THE CHICKASAH WIDOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the voice of my husband that came on the gale
Last Line: And I shall have joy in revenge.
Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Revenge; Vengeance; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SONNET: 23. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I saw my late espoused saint
Last Line: I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Variant Title(s): Katherine Milton;alcestis;sonnet: 19;sonnet 19;a Dream Of A Dead Wife
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Immortality; Love - Marital; Mourning; Powell, Mary (d. 1652); Widows & Widowers; Woodcock, Katherine (1628-1658); Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement


SQUIRE HAWKING'S STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hain't no hand at tellin' tales
Last Line: I heerd the roosters crow fer day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Love; Patience; Widows & Widowers


TALE: 7. THE WIDOW'S TALE, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To farmer moss, in langar vale, came down
Last Line: And he, th' improving skill and vigorous arm.
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE ANGEL'S TREASURE, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There stude a wee house on a lanely muirside
Last Line: "wha trusts thee in need, s'all be blest in the en'."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Angels; Widows & Widowers


THE COCK AND THE FOX, OR THE TALE OF THE NUN'S PRIEST, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There lived, as authors tell, in days of yore
Last Line: So take the corn, and leave the chaff behind.
Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Cock And The Fox
Subject(s): Animals; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Widows & Widowers; Allegories


THE COMRADE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger by the tavern board
Last Line: Winnowed by the wave and sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Ships & Shipping; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The


THE ELECTRIC FAN AND THE DEAD MAN ..., by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She remembers his covert sleeves, / the sadness of his quiet
Last Line: Ready for, at least mechanically, fin de siècle, à rebours.
Subject(s): Memory; Widows & Widowers


THE FISHER'S WIDOW, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boats go out and the boats come in
Last Line: But there's one away.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Widows & Widowers


THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 5. THE WIDOW OF NAIN, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth from the city, with the load
Last Line: And life is yet our fate!
Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 8. THE WIDOW WITH THE TWO MITES, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here much and little shift and change
Last Line: Nor knew her heavenly meed.
Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Widows & Widowers; Women


THE LADY ANN; A BALLAD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She'll soon be here, the lady ann
Last Line: "and, turning, strolls away."
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE LAMENT OF THE BORDER WIDOW, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My love he built me a bonny bower
Last Line: I'll chain my heart for evermair
Variant Title(s): The Border Widow's Lament;the Bonnie Bower
Subject(s): Fidelity;love;mourning;widows & Widowers; Faithfulness;constancy;bereavement


THE MAN WHO WAS AWAY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow
Last Line: The mystery of peter's life -- the man who was away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Life; Widows & Widowers


THE MESSAGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the house of the widow
Last Line: God touches his own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; God; Grief; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE NITHSDALE WIDOW AND HER SON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon
Last Line: And as for killing the ruffian dragoon he never did repent.
Subject(s): Cruelty; Desolation; Despair; Mourning; Widows & Widowers; Bereavement


THE QUAKER WIDOW, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Thee finds me in the garden, hannah
Last Line: The lord looks down contentedly upon a willing mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Widows & Widowers; Quakers


THE RUINED COTTAGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye
Last Line: I trust in god they will not pass away.
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Home; Life Change Events; Memory; Men; Nostalgia; Widows & Widowers; Childhood


THE SECOND WIFE, by KATE PORTER LEWIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You lived in a gray cottage on a street
Last Line: Could I but give to roger his first son!
Subject(s): Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE SOLDIER'S WIDOW (WRITTEN FOR A PICTURE), by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wo for my vine-clad home!
Last Line: I will forget my sorrow in my pride!
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE TRETIS OF THE TUA MARIIT WEMEN AND THE WEDO, by WILLIAM DUNBAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apon the midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis
Last Line: Quhilk wald ye waill to your wif, gif ye suld wed one?
Variant Title(s): The Book Of The Two Married Women And The Widow
Subject(s): Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE TRUE WIDOW: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heav'n save ye gallants, and this hopeful age
Last Line: Who needs will father what the parish got.
Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692); Theater & Theaters; Widows & Widowers; Dramatists; Stage Life


THE TYNESIDE WIDOW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's mony a man loves land and life
Last Line: For my bairn and my dear and me.
Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Widows & Widowers


THE VICTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! How the church-bells' thundering harmony
Last Line: Who art the widow's friend, her comforter!
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; England; Sacrifices; War; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; English


THE WAR WIDOW, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black-veiled, black-gowned, she rides in bus and train
Last Line: No truth, no life, but leads through christmas day.
Subject(s): Hope; Life; Love; War; Widows & Widowers; Optimism


THE WIDDOWES TEARES; OR, DIRGE OF DORCAS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come pitie us, all ye, who see
Last Line: Would cry out, thou art blessed.
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How dreary is winter to me
Last Line: My loss a sweet infant will mourn.
Subject(s): Grief; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WIDOW, by ELEANOR T. MACMILLAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am alone
Last Line: Depicting all my happy days with you.
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do you trouble me with empty words?
Last Line: Do not remind me of eternity!
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She hath no children, and no heart
Last Line: Of him she loves and never lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou a widow? Then, my friend
Last Line: Dust of thy loved one rest near by!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW AND HER CAT, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A widow kept a favourite cat
Last Line: Here, towzer! -- do him justice.'
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables; Honor; Mice; Widows & Widowers; Allegories


THE WIDOW AT THE BED OF HER SON, by FRANZ WERFEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Holding my flickering candle
Last Line: My child, my existence, my death.
Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW BETROTHED, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I passed the lodge and avenue
Last Line: She smiled as maid on me!
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW OF CRESCENTIUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midst tivoli's luxuriant glades
Last Line: By them unknown, by thee forgot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Crescentius Ii (d. 998); Otto Iii. Holy Roman Emperor (980-1002); Revenge; Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW OF GLENCOE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not lift him from the bracken
Last Line: Cry the coronach for thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fork in the garden, the widow digging
Last Line: Her husband's watch had just stopped in his grave.
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Marriage; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War


THE WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There fell no rain on israel. The sad trees
Last Line: Turned from vain idols to the living god.
Subject(s): Faith; Widows & Widowers; Belief; Creed


THE WIDOW TO HER HOUR-GLASS, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, friend, I'll turn thee up again
Last Line: "I'll turn thee up again."
Subject(s): Hourglasses; Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW'S HOUSE (AT BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA), by SARAH ORNE JEWETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What of this house with massive walls
Last Line: They smile because a soul has fled.
Subject(s): Moravia & Moravians; Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW'S LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow is my own yard
Last Line: And sink into the marsh near them.
Subject(s): Grief; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WIDOW'S LULLABY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "lull-lully, my baby, oh, would that thy mother"
Last Line: "yea, go while we dream of the dawn that shall be!"
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW'S MITE, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A widow - she had only one!
Last Line: The little crutch.
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The


THE WIDOW'S PARTY, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where have you been this while away, / johnnie, johnie?
Last Line: (bugle: ta--rara--ra-ra-rara!)
Subject(s): War; Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW'S REMARRIAGE, by MARY F. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: While her fond heart against the deed rebels
Last Line: No second choice can to the first succeed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moncrieff, Mary F. Johnson
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW'S THANKSGIVING, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the precious years of my life, today
Last Line: And mine eyes behold the sun.
Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW-MAN, by ANN COBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've brung you my three babes, that lost their maw three years ago
Last Line: Little chaps get so sleepy-headed when the dark comes down!
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOW; SAPPHICS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold was the night wind, drifting fast the snow fell
Last Line: God had released her.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Cold; Death; God; Salvation; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The


THE WIDOWER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O doth it walk - that spirit bright and pure
Last Line: For one more look upon my wife and child.
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOWER OF HAIDERABUD, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At morning when I wake, no more
Last Line: Let not thy midnight be so long!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


THE WIDOWER'S COURTSHIP, by ELIZABETH HANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roger a doleful widower
Last Line: And homeward went his way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne
Subject(s): Courtship; Widows & Widowers


THE YOUNG OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mamma is a widow: there's only
Last Line: "good morning!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Nativity, The; Relatives


THREE DEAD FRIENDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always suddenly they are gone
Last Line: Half inaudibly shrieks to god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Graves; Grief; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


TO MRS. LEONARD, ON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grim monarch! See depriv'd of vital breath
Last Line: And better suited to th' immortal mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis
Variant Title(s): To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Widows & Widowers


TWO WIVES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the shadow-white chamber silts the white
Last Line: "back, you understand!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


UPON THE DEATH OF SIR ALBERT MORTON'S WIFE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He first deceased; she for a little tried
Last Line: To live without him, liked it not, and died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Widows & Widowers


VOTIVE SONG, by EDWARD COATE PINKNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I burn no incense, hang no wreath, / on this, thine early tomb
Last Line: And fall these heavy tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pinkney, Edward Coote
Variant Title(s): The Widow's Song
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


WIDOW IN A STONE HOUSE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone was calling me: come out! Come out!
Last Line: Listen. We think we can see you
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


WIDOW MACHREE, by SAMUEL LOVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Widow machree, it's no wonder you frown
Last Line: Och hone! Widow machree!
Subject(s): Courtship; Widows & Widowers


WIDOW MALONE, by CHARLES JAMES LEVER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you hear of the widow malone
Last Line: O, they're all like sweet mistress malone!
Subject(s): Courtship; Widows & Widowers; Women


WIDOW', by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Widow. The word consumes itself
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


WIDOW-MOTHER, by ADA JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soldier boy, soldier boy
Last Line: Presently I'll know.
Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Mothers & Sons; War; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War


WIDOWHOOD, by MARY ELIZABETH B. CROUSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now is she crowned with perfectness at last
Last Line: She labors, knowing that heaven hath her life.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Life; Widows & Widowers; Work; Workers


WIDOWS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For twenty years and more surviving after
Last Line: Patience and the withered hands of toil
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


WINDOWS RIDING AMTRAK; FOR ABE OPINCAR, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurtle through night tunnels
Last Line: The last remaining link.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Railroads; Solitude; Widows & Widowers; Railways; Trains; Loneliness