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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WIDOWS & WIDOWERS Matches Found: 103 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 |
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