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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WOOD Matches Found: 47 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1945, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When joe culhane eases the timber Last Line: And the green bus, packed with youth, %emigrates Subject(s): Details; Noises; Saws; Wood ANNE HATHAWAY'S COURTING BENCH, by SUSAN J. ALLSPAW Poem Source First Line: It's not for lack of waiting that the wood's worn Last Line: Take turns sinking into old varnish, %rub luck out of its corners Subject(s): Museums; Wood BATTLE OF BELLEAU WOOD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was thick with prussian troopers Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; World War I BELLEAU WOODS, 1918, by NATHANIEL JOHN HASENFUS Poem Text First Line: All alone in belleau woods Last Line: Gone to peaceful realms on high. Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; World War I; First World War BURN, by HENRY J. MORRO Poem Source First Line: I am cold so I add wood to the fire Last Line: Are piled up in ashes Subject(s): Fire; Wood CARPENTER, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: He scrutinizes the wood. The tough, tender look Last Line: The moths of twilight fill the shed Subject(s): Carpenters; Wood CARVE ME IN WOOD, by GAYLORD BREWER Poem Source First Line: The rib cage, freed from its fleshy constraint, should curve Last Line: Chopping more wood. For what difference to me then? Subject(s): Wood CUTTING FIREWOOD IN AUTUMN, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we cut firewood in the late autumn forest Last Line: In the middle of the autumn forest Subject(s): Forests; Lumber And Lumbering; Memory; Wood DOVETAILS, by TWYLA HANSEN Poem Source First Line: At the shaker exhibit my husband marvels Last Line: Material witness in its fine and delicate bones Subject(s): Beauty; Wood EPIGRAM ON WOOD'S BRASS MONEY, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Carteret was welcomed to the shore Last Line: Guns, trumpets, drums, and bells were drowned Subject(s): Money; Wood, William (1671-1730) EXCELLENT NEW SONG UPON HIS GRACE..LORD ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing not of the draper's praise, nor yet of william wood Last Line: As did methusalem of old, and so I end my song. Subject(s): Clergy; Wood, William (1671-1730); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops FIREWOOD, by RAYMOND HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: The glittering crescent of my blade Last Line: Of fox's foot or bird's wing? Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond Peckham Subject(s): Axes; Wood; Hatchets GATHERING WOOD FOR THE WINTER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The soft rasp of a bow saw Last Line: Like split loaves of fresh bread Subject(s): Cold; Fireplaces; Winter; Wood GHAZAL 4, by JOHN FALK Poem Source First Line: Newsprint grey in the sog of snow Last Line: The garden can now drift to rest Subject(s): Winter; Wood HOLIDAY BUNTING, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has handled the new piece like a stone Last Line: And all gone by morning, banner, noise, bird Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Wood; Work; Workers HOLIDAY BUNTING, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has handled the new piece like a stone Last Line: And all gone by morning, banner, noise, bird Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Wood NIGHT IN CAMP, by SARAH SPENCER ROE Poem Text First Line: Sparks ascending from the fire Last Line: Presently to die. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Fireplaces; Forests; Wood; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods OLD BOARDS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to see boards lying on the ground in early spring Last Line: As the rooster walks away springily over the dampened hay Subject(s): Wood; Landscape OLD BOARDS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to see boards lying on the ground in early spring Last Line: As the rooster walks away springily over the dampened hay Subject(s): Wood ON WOOD THE IRONMONGER, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Salmoneus, as the grecian tale is Last Line: Like real thunder knocked him down Subject(s): Wood, William (1671-1730) OSAGE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a wood Subject(s): Osage Wood PEER GYNT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat down at last on a fallen log - that had Last Line: I take for my petals the darkness of this hour Subject(s): Wood; Fathers PROMETHEUS; ON WOOD THE PATENTEE'S IRISH HALFPENCE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As, when the squire and tinker, wood Last Line: For want of vultures, we have crows Subject(s): Money; Wood, William (1671-1730) RED APPLES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He tries to sell red apples in the street Last Line: Cannot remember belleau wood. Subject(s): Apples; Belleau Wood, France; Fruit; Social Problems; Soldiers; Unemployment; War SERIOUS POEM UPON WILLIAM WOOD, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When foes are overcome, we preserve them from slaughter Last Line: I'll maintain with my life, is heraldry good Subject(s): Wood, William (1671-1730) SOUS LE FAIX DU FAGOT, by ANDREW SCHENKER Poem Source First Line: I threw a zeugma %in my poem, like la fontaine Last Line: Dead land or chopping down trees, living Subject(s): Forests; Paper; Wood SPICEWOOD, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spicewood burns along the gray, spent sky Last Line: And all familiar as a cup, a chair. Subject(s): Fireplaces; Wood SPLINTERS: 8. REDWOOD FENCE SPLINTER, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peony, aster, or withered carnation Last Line: Drive I dramatized to the dense %derelict nation Subject(s): Wood SPLITTING WOOD, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frost covered this ages ago Subject(s): Wood Cutting SPRING IN BELLEAU WOOD, by EVELYN NORCROSS SHERRILL Poem Text First Line: When spring returns to belleau wood Last Line: When spring returns to belleau wood. Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; Spring; World War I; First World War THE COUNTRY WALK, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning's fair, the lusty sun Last Line: And not alone and solitary stray! Variant Title(s): The Yellow Barn Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Wood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE OLD MAN WHITTLES, by JULIAN LEE RAYFORD Poem Text First Line: On some lumber by a yellow box car Last Line: On a peach-stone. Subject(s): Wood Carving; Whittling THE RICK OF THE GREEN WOOD, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the woodyard were green and dry Subject(s): Wood THE TWO-MAN SAW, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rocking, ringing steel sings to and fro Last Line: "the trunk is through. Sam grins. ""you said the truth!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Wood THE WAIT, by MILDRED D. SHACKLETT Poem Text First Line: Two old men, invariably together Last Line: Disowning that they wait! Subject(s): Old Age; Wood Carving; Whittling THE WHISPERING WOOD, by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON Poem Text First Line: I find within the whispering wood Last Line: Within himself god broods and talks. Subject(s): God; Wood THE WOOD-PILE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day Last Line: With the slow smokeless burning of decay. Subject(s): Decay; Wood; Rot; Decadence THE WORKBOX, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, here's the workbox, little wife Last Line: But known of what he died. Subject(s): Death; Wood; Dead, The THERE LET THY BLEEDING BRANCH ATONE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Youth; Memory; Trees; Wood Carving; Whittling TO A LOG OF WOOD UPON THE FIRE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When horace, as the snows descended Last Line: To realms celestial. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fire; Life; Wood; Dead, The; World WALKING THROUGH A NARROW STRIP OF WOODS, by TOM HENNEN Poem Source First Line: Pines, as always, pried at the sky with their tips, ignoring the wind mak Last Line: Are allowed to pity everything, except ourselves Subject(s): Grass; Nature; Pine Trees; Trees; Wood WOOD AND STONES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent trees above my head Last Line: May well give speech to stones and wood! Subject(s): Fate; Nature; Stones; Trees; Wood; Destiny; Granite; Rocks WOOD BLOCK, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: I often see loss in wooden things, walled rooms Last Line: The roots installed, screwed like mollies in the dirt Subject(s): Wood WOODSHED, by STEVEN REESE Poem Source First Line: Only a frame now, a sketch in thick Last Line: The creek running under the roof it's raised Subject(s): Wood WOODWORKERS' BALLAD, by HERBERT EDWARD PALMER Poem Source First Line: All that is moulded of iron Subject(s): Wood WORD ABOUT WOODPILES, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life isn't dreary, %nor altogether hard Subject(s): Home; Wood WROTE IN A VOLUME OF EVELYN ON COINS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: T-m w--d of ch-sw-c, deep divine Last Line: That churchman e'er gave coin to lay. Subject(s): Evelyn, John (1620-1706); Kent, William (1686-1748); Numismatics; Wood, Thomas. Vicar Of Chiswick; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical |
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