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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WISHES Matches Found: 235 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BENEDICTION, by ALICE MILLIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little boy Last Line: All I have wished for you. Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris Subject(s): Children; Wishes; Hope A BIRTHDAY WISH, by MARY LYDIA CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: As thy ship sails o'er life's ocean Last Line: In the harbor of thy home. Subject(s): Birthdays; Wishes A BIRTHDAY WISH, by DOROTHY NELL MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: I do not wish you joy without a sorrow Last Line: And god's sweet peace when every day is done. Subject(s): Birthdays; Wishes A GREETING, by JOSEPH TWYMAN Poem Text First Line: To my very best friend! To you, dear friend Last Line: Till every heart is full. Subject(s): Friendship; Greetings; Love; Wishes A HINTED WISH, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You told me, maro, whilst you live Last Line: If my next wish you cannot guess! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Wishes A LAST WISH, by CHRISTOPH CHRISTIAN STURM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my heart has ceased for ever beating out / the dirge of time Last Line: For the weary sleeper chooses but the evergreen and cross. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Wishes; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A SMILE AND A TEAR, by STEPHEN FRANCIS PRAISNER Poem Text First Line: It takes a smile to pull you through Last Line: No more to shed a tear? Subject(s): Wishes A SUMMER WISH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live all thy sweet life through Last Line: Cool with refreshing dew. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Summer; Wishes A WISH, by A. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "cupid laughs, nor seems to care" Last Line: Wound him with his golden arrow Alternate Author Name(s): A. Subject(s): Wishes A WISH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask not that my bed of death Last Line: To work or wait elsewhere or here! Subject(s): Wishes A WISH, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of two things one: with chaucer let me ride Last Line: Ring endless changes on the bells of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Petrarch (1304-1374); Wishes; Francesco Petrarca A WISH, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So much rain Last Line: Ways of water Subject(s): Wishes A WISH, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day and many days I rode Last Line: Lit by the sky's unfailing grace. Subject(s): Wishes A WISH, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May many happy moments come and go Last Line: That breaks upon my soul with no alloy. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Wishes; Joy; Delight A WISH, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! That I were a fairy sprite to wander Last Line: Like floating purple wreaths of mournful night-shade! Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Wishes A WISH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish thee length of days Last Line: Then come again to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Wishes A WISH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May it be mine, ye gods, to tread Last Line: To slumber undisturbed of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Peace; Wishes; Nightmares A WISH, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine be a cot beside the hill Last Line: And point with taper spire to heaven. Subject(s): Country Life; Home; Wishes A WISH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I were a little bird Last Line: That springs again no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Wishes; Optimism A WISH - TO THE NEW YEAR, 1705, by JOHN HUGHES (1677-1720) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Janus! Great leader of the rolling year Last Line: And cease to love in vain, and be a wretch no more. Subject(s): Holidays; Melancholy; New Year; Wishes; Dejection A WISH IS QUITE A TINY THING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: An builds a safe nest anywhere Subject(s): Wishes A-WISHING WELL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet would a-wishing go Last Line: To start the world all over at Subject(s): Wishes A-WISHING WELL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet would a-wishing go Last Line: Where someone someone else begat %to start the world all over at Subject(s): Wishes ANNUNCIATION, by MELISSA MORPHEW Poem Source First Line: In this photo %she is blonde, blanched almond Last Line: Exotic, holy, %an infinite abacus of bees Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Wishes ASPIRATION, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can strike the minor chord and sing Last Line: In heaven's eternal rose. Subject(s): Desire; Success; Wishes BEST WISHES, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Too often amazed and even shaken by affection Last Line: I wish them everything we wished ourselves Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Wishes BIRTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The moment he glimpsed the cat under the tree Last Line: To sink his teeth deep %into a neighbouring smartalec rat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Self; Wishes BOYHOOD WISH, by ALLEN BRADEN Poem Source First Line: Just once come down from the mountains Last Line: And comb stolen right from the hive Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Wishes BUNCHES OF GRAPES, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bunches of grapes,' says timothy Last Line: For me,' says jane. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Children; Likes & Dislikes; Wishes; Childhood DAUGHTER WISH, by LORI SHPUNT Poem Source First Line: I wanted to eat less Last Line: I wanted to be able to get away Subject(s): Daughters; Wishes DREAMS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hope some day to write a song that will Last Line: Coal, you struggle on accordin'. Subject(s): Ambition; Dreams; Wishes; Nightmares ENTHUSIASM, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly from enthusiasm - it is the pest Last Line: Tis a true christian wish, to live and die. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Desire; Wishes; Inspiration; Creativity FIRST WISH, by PHILIP BRADY Poem Source First Line: On her deathbed, my mother did one thing Last Line: Now, senile, barely visible, left to live Subject(s): Death; Mothers; Wishes FOUNTAIN IN AVIGNON, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, lovely retching moss-capped cherub: this penny's for you Last Line: Throw them back, throw them out. Subject(s): Angels; Avignon, France; Disdain; Faith; Fountains; Gratitude; Prayer; Wishes; Scorn; Belief; Creed FRIENDLY LITTLE WISHES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: My friendly little wishes fly Last Line: And mix the messages, I guess Subject(s): Wishes FROM WISHING-LAND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lady, tapping at your door Last Line: I pray it all come true. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wishes GRIEVOUS ANGEL, by KATHARINE WHITCOMB Poem Source First Line: I was punching touch-tones on a broken pay phone Last Line: Years ago by choice mine to you %if I go first don't leave me to my people Subject(s): Death; Wishes HIS MODEST WISH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know, alas, fair dame, that you Last Line: Oh, let me be your scepter-bearer! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Modesty; Wishes; Male-female Relations I WANT THIS CORNER EMPTY (PERSEPHONE SPEAKING)', by JULIE CARR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And in the bent backs of my knees Subject(s): Nature; Wishes I WANT THIS CORNER EMPTY (PERSEPHONE SPEAKING)', by JULIE CARR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My lost %heat does not hesitate Subject(s): Nature; Wishes IN THE SUBJUNCTIVE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were a hotel waiter Last Line: And you're on a magazine. Subject(s): Poverty; Wishes INSPIRATION, by GRACE HOLBROOK BLOOD Poem Text First Line: Oh, there are days when I can fly Last Line: My spirit soars upward, and sings! Subject(s): Flight; Sky; Wishes; Flying LAST WISH, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that where I am going Last Line: If the arrival is into light Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Wishes LAST WISHES, by PEARL FANCOLLY HALLETT Poem Text First Line: Infinite sorrow to me in slow decay Last Line: Adventuring up the endless hills of time. Subject(s): Wishes MATTIE'S WANTS AND WISHES, by GRACE GORDON Poem Text First Line: I wants a piece of talito [or cal'co] Last Line: You'd better bring me free. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Wishes MONODY TO THE SOUND OF ZITHERS, by KAY BOYLE Poem Text First Line: I have wanted other things more than lovers Last Line: Friended thus, I have let nothing pass. Subject(s): Desire; Wishes MULTATULI REMOULDED, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once lived a man who from a rock broke stone Last Line: "contents me with my sitting-pad and hammer!" Subject(s): Wishes; Contentment MY INSIDE-SELF, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My inside-self and my outside-self Last Line: You would not think she could belong %to staid and sober me Subject(s): Imagination; Wishes MY WIFE AND I, IN ONE ROMANTIC COT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of wife and I Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Marriage; Property; Wishes MY WISH, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I would wish for is nor praise nor fame Last Line: Let them think: good was she we've been burying. Subject(s): Funerals; Wishes; Burials MY WISH, by MILDRED ESTUS Poem Text First Line: My wish is not small Last Line: No less. Subject(s): Wishes MY WISH, by JESSIE FARNHAM Poem Text First Line: Reaching for stars that turn out to be brands Last Line: I wish that my poor hands could reach forth again. Subject(s): Wishes MY WISH, by WARREN PEASE Poem Text First Line: Unto the world's great diadem Last Line: I'd rest content. Subject(s): Contentment; Wishes MY WISH FOR THEE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Sweet maiden, I wonder, as time passes by Last Line: Life's brambles be laden with roses for thee. Subject(s): Wishes NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He throws a fifty-lire piece in the fountain Last Line: Rain through the roof of a pagan temple on this gentle soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy stood in the burning house. Set it up Last Line: Never allow words to occur. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green green grass of home is owned by another now Last Line: And I'm not allowed on the property for my ounce of sentiment. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Second sighting: / she was up on the roof when I went up to check Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake. A dab of numero uno in the smoking Last Line: And their eyes are pink with hopeless energy. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the montana whorehouse the madam yells 'burma' Last Line: He thinks. I'll miss supper and fishing the evening hatch. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Start with seven for luck Last Line: Feet deep. Nothing need be forgiven. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The announcement said get to the high ground Last Line: Their teethhold on the stomach. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For five days the moon was red from the dust storm Last Line: Established a white bladder-shaped object in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grease density Last Line: The midwest barren without good shellfish Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Third sighting: / is she the black-crowned night heron Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He became humbler with his journalism, bought a porkpie hat Last Line: His left ear as his only visible rebellion. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crudities: / implausible as this brilliantly cold Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the great shattering cold waves Last Line: It and would not trade it for all your princely heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snail is beautiful, nearly persian. Do we dwell in Last Line: But delicately with her lips. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phenomenon. Agonies. Mostly unshared. Dear friends Last Line: Place a kitten near a candle when bored. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dream I saw spicer's body hanging from a hundred feet Last Line: Spread and are they peaceful on the bottom? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are these horses less wonderful for my daughter having to shovel Last Line: Horse eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oooooooo, he said to himself. That night of wonderment Last Line: Afterward didn't seem to care. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More mad dogs and fewer streetlights, mr. Nixon. That advice Last Line: To throw stones at streetlights. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And my puppy is over her kidney infection, diagnosed Last Line: Let her wounds become my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First sighting: she was up in the apple tree with one leg hanging Last Line: I thought her bare feet were cloven a bit too obviously. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four in the morning my body bumped against the ceiling Last Line: Rather, earth lost to me as she doesn't know me well. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember her cheers? How you loved the cheerleader far beyond Last Line: No longer love the cheerleader. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sang I'm talking through a hat that isn't mine. It's Last Line: Small, treated themselves like garbage. Sanctus detrius redivivus Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt myself floating toward the shadow of the dreamer I once Last Line: In our dreams. There were poems before books on earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stewardess said you're a poet? Last Line: Around all day humming got a date with a daydream. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This fat & sexless life Last Line: This fat & sexless life. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mourned portia's unfair operation. Then the horse Last Line: Happened to be rex. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We must not think of our country as a ten-trillion-dolllar Last Line: Blowjob no matter how the idea tempts us. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overheard story in montana bar: she thought when she lost Last Line: With ambivalent affection for guns & ewes, mares & drudgery. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians O TO BE A DRAGON, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I, like solomon Subject(s): Wishes; Dragons; Bible; Dragons; Religion; Theology ON LOCATION, by EDITH BARRETT (PARKER) HINCKLEY Poem Text First Line: I will throw a coin in the wishing well Last Line: On happy road. Subject(s): Wishes PANCAKES WITH SANTA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Santa has a bad memory Last Line: Santa says ain't. Subject(s): Christmas; Memory; Santa Claus; Wishes; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint PENNY WISH, by IRENE THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: I wish I had an aeroplane Subject(s): Wishes QUESTION AND ITS MARK, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I cast a spell on the many swans of leda Last Line: Leda possessed a pair of knees that also bent %in prayer. I ask of you only what she asked for there Subject(s): Death; Memory; Wishes RE-JOYCE- FINNEGAN GETS HIS DYING WISH, by KENNETH LEONHARDT Poem Source First Line: Wake me when it's over Subject(s): Death; Wishes REFLECTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She reflected that when he'd be a corpse Last Line: Consider the stars Subject(s): Death; Stars; Wishes REFLECTIONS AT DAWN, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I owned a dior dress Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Wishes REFLECTIONS AT DAWN, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I owned a dior dress Last Line: I wish I didn't talk so much, %when I am at a party Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Wishes RICHARD ROE AND JOHN DOE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard roe wished himself solomon Subject(s): Wishes ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 11. LOST WISHES, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Similar in disposition Last Line: That my inmost heart has enter'd. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Peace; Wishes; Optimism SATIRE: 10, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: Look round the habitable world, how few Last Line: But, set aloft by fools, usurps the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Desire; Mankind; Wishes; Human Race SATIRE: 2, by AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS Poem Text First Line: Let this auspicious morning be exprest Last Line: A cake, thus giv'n, is worth a hecatomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Persius Subject(s): Prayer; Wishes SILVIO'S COMPLAINT: A SONG, TO A FINE SCOTCH TUNE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the blooming time o'th year Last Line: For wishing to be king. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): May (month); Singing & Singers; Spring; Wishes; Youth; Songs SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of fifteen Last Line: And sighing and kissing so close. Subject(s): Kisses; Prayer; Sex; Virginity; Wishes; Vestals SONGS FOR MARCH: THE WISH, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: My window shows the march snow come Last Line: Though they are very near. Subject(s): Wishes SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 56, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the tranquil hour Last Line: Because we wished as one. Subject(s): Dreams; Wishes SONNET, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon this day which hath but lately sped Last Line: Who tarrieth near to her, thrice happy he! Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Love; Wishes SONNET, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Guido, I wish that you and lapo and I Last Line: As I believe the three of us would be Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Love; Wishes SONNET (HE IMAGINES A PLEASANT VOYAGE), by GUIDO CAVALCANTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Guido, I wish that lapo, thou, and I Subject(s): Love; Wishes SONNET TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guido, I would that lapo, thou, and I Last Line: As I believe that thou and I should be. Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Cavalcanti, Guido (1255-1300); Italian Renaissance; Wishes THE ANGEL AND THE LITTLE OLD LADY, by ROBERT LAX Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: An angel / appeared to Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Angels; Wishes THE CALL OF THE UNKNOWN, by RUTH LAMBERT JONES Poem Text First Line: I am weary, I am wistful Last Line: For the things I do not know. Subject(s): Wishes THE CHRIST CHILD, by GRACE E. WILSON Poem Text First Line: A star shone in the east Last Line: With mary kneeling at his feet. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary And Martha (bible); Stars; Wishes; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The THE CHURCHMAN'S THREE WISHES IN FAVOUR OF THE BURIAL BILL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A churchman, three things in this christian land Last Line: Not solemnized in lent. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Christianity; Funerals; Religion; Wishes; Burials; Theology THE EMIGRANT'S WISH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I wish we were hame to our ain folk Last Line: The hames are the hames o' our ain folk Subject(s): Absence;wishes; Separation;isolation THE EXTRAVAGANT DRUNKARD'S WISH, by EDWARD WARD Poem Text First Line: Had I my wish, I would distend my guts Last Line: And settle satan's kingdom ev'rywhere. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Wishes THE FAIRY AND THE THREE WISHES; AN ORIENTAL TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fairy of the friendly sort Last Line: Which none can borrow, beg, or steal! Subject(s): Wishes THE GOLDEN NICKEL, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a nickel Last Line: As those that are good. Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Money; Wishes THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 1. THE GOOD OGRE'S BEARD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from the nuns once a month Last Line: Give me to him, may he live for ever and ever, amen. Subject(s): Children; Relationships; Wishes; Childhood THE HWOMESTEAD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had all the land my zight Last Line: To zee how things do grow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Property; Quiet Life; Wishes; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE MODEST WISH, by JOHN BARCLAY (1582-1621) Poem Text First Line: Reach incense, boy! Thou pious flamen, pray! Last Line: And crackling laurel triumphs in the fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Barclaii, Joannis Subject(s): Wishes THE OLD, OLD WISH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, in some lost mood of Last Line: "when will my wish come true?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Stars; Vision; Wishes; Bedtime THE PLUME, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a gift,' the brownie said Last Line: Of flattering love, or wealth, or fame. Subject(s): Quills; Wishes THE QUESTION AND ITS MARK, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I cast a spell on the many swans of leda Subject(s): Death; Memory; Wishes; Dead, The THE SEA-KING'S BURIAL; BY THE MIDSHIPMITE'S MOTHER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, as his henchman served Last Line: Most of all men? Subject(s): Death; Loyalty; Service; Wishes; Dead, The THE SUPREME WISH, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God give you joy, I said,-and joy you had Last Line: O sweet, god give you rest! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Rest; Wishes; Dead, The; Paradise THE THREE WISHES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because he has been starving Last Line: A decent bottle of italian or even chilean red Subject(s): Story-telling; Wishes THE THREE WISHES, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: Well, now,' drawled the fairy, 'I'll grant you three wishes Last Line: "for self-washing dishes -- the thing's -- bolshe-vistic!" Subject(s): Fairies; Housekeeping; Wishes; Elves THE TWO WISHES; AB EGYPTIAN TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In babylon, some ages since Last Line: "this one request, -- I ask no more!'" Subject(s): Wishes THE WICKER CHAIR, by TRISTAN LECLERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a house on the ile-de-france Last Line: I'm the richest man alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Klingsor, Tristan Subject(s): Chairs; Poverty; Wishes THE WISH, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Niobe on phrygian sands Last Line: That thou might'st but tread on me. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Wishes THE WISH, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well then; I now do plainly see Last Line: And so make a city here. Subject(s): Happiness; Solitude; Wishes; Joy; Delight; Loneliness THE WISH, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That you might happier be than all the rest Last Line: Or wish you less than you. Subject(s): Wishes THE WISH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, when my soul Last Line: And my heart's voice replies -- eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Immortality; Wishes THE WISH, by JABEZ HUGHES Poem Text First Line: Ye powers who sway the skies above Last Line: A safe retreat from future woe! Subject(s): Melancholy; Wishes; Dejection THE WISH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A leprecaun-fairy was pegging some shoes Last Line: "'tis the one wish I wanted!"" said she." Subject(s): Wishes THE WISH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should some great angel say to me tomorrow Last Line: All, all were needed lessons for my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Wishes THE WISH; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the hills where cedars move Last Line: On earth -- 'tis thither, thither would I go. Subject(s): Wishes THE WISHBONE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another fowl had gone the way Last Line: "oh, never mind! I wished that, too!" Subject(s): Marriage; Wishes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WISHING-STONE, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the road is chosen Last Line: Ungranted every one! Subject(s): Wishes THIRD PERSON, by LOUISE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: He must have walked Last Line: "so too, are you!" Subject(s): Walking; Wishes THREE PERFECT DAYS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle seat of an airplane, Subject(s): Air Travel; Wishes THREE THROWS AND ONE, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still dusk shuts out the shimmering sea, / shuts in the shadowy shore Last Line: Con sees the white face of his doom through all the world grown dim. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Luck; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wishes; Anglers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THREE WISHES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because he has been starving Last Line: A decent bottle of italian or even chilean red Subject(s): Story-telling; Wishes THREE WISHES, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Would we welcome the immortal? %would we walk naked through the forests Last Line: I love winter mornings %snow falling out of the clear blue Subject(s): Wishes TO CHARMIAN, UNBORN, by LOIS SEYSTER MONTROSS Poem Text First Line: My body folded tawny wings Last Line: Be born for silk and song and wings. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Wishes TO KATHARINE, by WILLIAM CARY SANGER JR. Poem Text First Line: I often wonder, dear / if in the day Last Line: If you are also thinking then of me. Subject(s): Absence; Wishes; Separation; Isolation TO THE MISS WEBSTERS, WITH DR. AIKIN'S WISH, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not this the wish in life's first, gayest page Last Line: Your wish is transport, and your hopes are bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Youth; Wishes; Hope; Optimism TWELVE SONGS: 1, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O for doors to be open and an invite with gilded edges Last Line: The six beggared cripples Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): O For Doors To Be Open And An Invite With Gilded Edge Subject(s): Wishes TWO HERITAGES, by MARY BUIRGY Poem Text First Line: Someone left a willful wish to me Last Line: That willful wish is worth the pain. Subject(s): Wishes UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 1. ENVOY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little book, and wish to all Last Line: A nightingale in the sycamore! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Envoy;wishes Subject(s): Wishes UNHOLY MISSIONS, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to be buried in an anonymous crater inside the moon Last Line: I want to prove once and for all that I am not crazy Subject(s): Wishes UNSOPHISTICATED WISHES, BY MISS JEMINA INGOLDSBY, AGED 15, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! How I should like in a coach to ride Last Line: And I shouldn't much care if his name was brown. Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Wishes VAGARIES, by MARY WOOLSEY HOWLAND Poem Text First Line: When windows gleam against the coming night Last Line: I love the roads that wind beneath green trees. Subject(s): Wishes WAIKIKI WISH, by J. F. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: In all the days of your tomorrows Last Line: May you remember these. Subject(s): Waikiki, Hawaii; Wishes WATCHING AND WISHING, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, would I were the golden light Last Line: A watchful star above. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Wishes WHEN I AM DEAD, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: When once I die, I wish no one Last Line: Pure, spotless whiteness desecrate. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Wishes; Dead, The WINGED WISHES, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: May the joy you have given to countless Last Line: Of love through eternity. Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us spend an idle hour in wishing Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by CHARLES DENT BELL Poem Source First Line: Fain would I pass from all the pain Subject(s): Pain; Wishes WISH, by LISA BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: He drifts, he's never let himself float Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: I wanted to give you something for your pain Last Line: By my wish to please. And then you died Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Poetry And Poets; Wishes WISH, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The eastern cloud had morning at its core Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be my fairy, mother Variant Title(s): Give Me A Wis Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So much rain Last Line: Might, too, discover %ways of water Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by JOHN DANCER Poem Source First Line: No! My desires are limited; nor expand Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by HENRIETTA ROBINS (MACK) ELIOT Poem Source First Line: When thou, o death! Shalt wait Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember that time you made the wish Last Line: I wished for another poem Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wishes WISH, by THOMAS GODFREY Poem Source First Line: I only ask a mod'rate fate Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by ELIZABETH GOULD Poem Source First Line: I'd love to give a party Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by IDA AFFLECK GRAVES Poem Source First Line: She has spike teeth, hair yellow with a long sway Last Line: To bite her, and to lead myself away Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Not whether one is free Last Line: Calligraphy of songs Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by SIGURDUR JULIUS JOHANNESSON Poem Source First Line: Dear lass whose influence dale and height Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by HARIBHAKTA KATUVAL Poem Source First Line: Father, I will not go to school Last Line: There they teach the history of days long dead Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would I were a bird like the raven that flew Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by B. R. M. Poem Source First Line: I found a little tealeaf Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by OKI Poem Source First Line: On ises sea Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by GORONWY OWEN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Could I have what I begged for from heaven Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by RUTH PADEL Poem Source First Line: All night she waited naked in her room Last Line: Over the three thousand kilometre venture %to the sncf arrival platform, lourdes Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by WILLIAM PAGE Poem Source First Line: My fifty-fourth birthday is passing Last Line: And chew on it without regret %until it's sweet Subject(s): Middle Age; Wishes WISH, by ROBERT WILLIAMS PARRY Poem Source First Line: Strange to be seeing waves of the sea Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by MILAN RAKIC Poem Source First Line: When for me, too, comes the time to die Subject(s): Death; Wishes WISH, by HERBERT HOUGH REDEGAR Poem Source First Line: O, in this spot, all hallowed by the spring Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by SATO HARUO Poem Source First Line: Pointless, without meaning Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This night in brooklyn is as ancient Last Line: That I raise %in my empty room to starlight Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by WALTER CHALMERS SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just a path that is sure Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by SUSAN SNIVELY Poem Source First Line: There was the small soft belly Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by EDITH SODERGRAN Poem Source First Line: Of all our sunny world Last Line: That is what my dream looks like... Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nay seven tears in every week Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three fields, one Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wishes WISH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: May you live a thousand years Subject(s): Life; Wishes WISH, by JOHN WOODS Poem Source First Line: Somewhere, I think, a poem Last Line: Certain oaks and large white birds %stir in the mangroves Subject(s): Wishes WISH (1), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could have my wish it would not be for Last Line: I should like to say to my final day aglow with %the joy of life Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Wishes WISH (2), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If god should come and say to me Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Wishes WISH - WISHIN', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a lazy summer day Last Line: (wish -- wish -- wish!) Subject(s): Wishes WISH: 1, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: When I %unsheathe my sword Last Line: How broad is his heart! Subject(s): Buddhism; Death; Wishes WISH: 2, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: This is no place to stay Last Line: You who calls me %from afar Subject(s): Emptiness; Hearts; Love; Prisons And Prisoners; Wishes WISH: 3, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: With wings attached Last Line: And the wind wildly blows Subject(s): Freedom; Prisons And Prisoners; Wishes WISHES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I never tried to make the sublime ascent Last Line: Who out of boredom but never out of duty %would decide while waiting for the train %to read these ve Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Said the first little chicken Last Line: Just come here and scratch Variant Title(s): Five Little Chickens Subject(s): Chickens;wishes WISHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O that a lovely lyre were I Last Line: To shrive her soul to purify Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As spring ends today, this morning Last Line: As they run out the screen door to play Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As spring ends today, this morning Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by H. W. BANKS Poem Text First Line: A village cart and a pretty girl Last Line: The happiest man alive. Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Now I have mind & leisure Last Line: Thy will being grown almightie. Subject(s): Materialism; Temptation; Wishes; Worship WISHES, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wished to sing thy grace, but nought Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by GINA CALISA Poem Source First Line: If I had one wish Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by A. C. CHILD Poem Text First Line: Some may wish for city streets, jewels or silken gowns Last Line: God granting these, before I die, I'd ask no more of life. Subject(s): Simplicity; Wishes WISHES, by ANDREI CODRESCU Poem Source First Line: I wish I could appear at will in your thoughts Last Line: By the need for them perhaps or %by their light Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lunch with its divers Last Line: Less. Nothing forgot Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lunch with its divers Last Line: To be left out. No %memory, no thought, %less. Nothing forgot Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Som'times, w'en beezaness ees bad Last Line: But sleep teell spreeng! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by PARVIN E'TESAMI Poem Source First Line: O how wonderful 'twould be to depart the body Last Line: To be modest as an ant, yet own the kingdom of solomon Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I liked rice pudding Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by RITA GABIS Poem Source First Line: I've wanted gentler arms Last Line: With seeds and gold urine, %into the dark Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by KATE GREENAWAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, if you were a little boy Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by PATTY HARJO Poem Source First Line: Over the rainy day mountain Last Line: Forever in beauty %always Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired of pacing the petty round of the ring of the thing Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Wishes; Negroes; American Blacks WISHES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired of pacing the petty round of the ring of the thing Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Wishes WISHES, by SEMYON ISAAKOVICH KIRSANOV Poem Source First Line: High in the air Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If wishes were motors, the beggars would Last Line: Busy they'll likely come true. Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man's wishes are flying apart like spores Last Line: Liberty's song. Its triumph and lament Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man's wishes are flying apart like spores Last Line: Playing, touching his crushed guitar, %liberty's song, its triumph and lament Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by CARLOS PELLICER Poem Source First Line: Tropics, why did you give me Last Line: Tropics, why did you give me %these hands brimming with color! Subject(s): Summer; Sun; Wishes WISHES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the fluttering wishes Last Line: In a quiet heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by F. ROGERS Poem Source First Line: I wish I were an emperor Subject(s): Wishes WISHES, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish we could live as the flowers live Last Line: And to leave but an empty nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Wishes WISHES FOR A LITTLE GIRL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would I ask the kindly fates to give Last Line: To make the best of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Girls; Love; Soul; Wishes WISHES; SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Would that I were very far away Last Line: And heard thy gentle voice, my mother kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Wishes; Ocean WISHFUL THINKING, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Got my levis, cowboy Last Line: Me up on their stage Subject(s): Wishes WISHING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose Last Line: Than any other thing! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Mothers; Wishes WISHING, by BESS CROWDUS Poem Source First Line: If I could lay my head Last Line: Take my hand and lead me %from darkness into light Subject(s): Wishes WISHING, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I wish I could get over Last Line: With everyone %walking around you Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids); Wishes WISHING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I reflect how little I have done Last Line: When his new world rose from the charmed deep. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Soul; Wishes; Nightmares; Joy; Delight WISHING, by OMAR LARA Poem Source First Line: Some want to leave %others want to stay forever Last Line: Others think about wine an autumn afternoon %they all wish they were gods or birds Subject(s): Wishes WISHING, by JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wisht I was a hummin' bird Subject(s): Wishes WISHING, by CHARLES C. MYERS Poem Source First Line: If wishes were horses then beggars would ride Last Line: Dreaming is how we get our inventions, %so we must dream with the best of intentions Subject(s): Wishes WISHING, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all amusements for the mind Last Line: And wishing in possessing! Subject(s): Wishes WISHING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you wish the world were better? Last Line: Shelters armies from the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Better, Wiser And Happie Subject(s): Wishes |
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