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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: SANTAYANA, GEORGE Matches Found: 223 Santayana, George Poet's Biography 223 poems available by this author A CALM Poem Text First Line: When the towering heights of the middle heavens Last Line: Sky, mountains, and landscape remove. Subject(s): Landscape A DEDICATION WRITTEN ONCE FOR THESE SONNETS BUT NEVER SENT Poem Text First Line: When shakespeare sent his sonnets to his friend Last Line: Remembering you shall say, he loved me well. Subject(s): Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) A MINUET ON REACHING THE AGE OF FIFTY Poem Text First Line: Old age, on tiptoe, lays her jewelled hand Last Line: And close our eyes, still smiling, on the dance. Subject(s): Aging; Middle Age A PREMONITION; CAMBRIDGE, OCTOBER 1913 Poem Text First Line: Grey walls, broad fields, fresh voices, rippling weir Last Line: And knowledge is a pang, like love of yore. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Worry A PSALM OF TRAVEL Poem Text First Line: I like to leave my house and home Last Line: We'll dream our little dream together. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A TOAST Poem Text First Line: See this bowl of purple wine Last Line: For a night and for a day. Subject(s): Toasts A VISION Poem Text First Line: I dreamt: in my forlorn disordered chamber Last Line: Had stamped the scar of everlasting pain. Subject(s): Dreams AFTER FLIRTING WITH KNOWLEDGE Last Line: As I see no cause for growing %indiscriminately glum Subject(s): Travel APHRODITE'S TEMPLE Poem Text First Line: The murmured awe Last Line: Whom I called father once. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Temples ASPIRATIONS OF A COUNTRY LAD Poem Text First Line: Oh, were I but a city boy Last Line: It is not life to live. Subject(s): Country Life AT ARLES Poem Text First Line: I see thy likeness in all beauteous things Last Line: That made us wretched all, and thee divine. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion AT LAST, DEAR WARD, I TAKE A RHYMING QUILL Poem Text Last Line: On thine own regal cornerstone: I will! Subject(s): Oxford, England; Creative Ability; Imagination AT THE CHURCH DOOR Poem Text First Line: Why is it sweet to hear the church-bells ringing Last Line: And seal the poem with a noble rhyme! Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ATHLETIC ODE Poem Text First Line: I hear a rumour and a shout Last Line: Youth has her perfect crown, and age her old desire. Subject(s): Athletes; Youth AVILA Poem Text First Line: Again my feet are on the fragrant moor Last Line: The light of all his loves and all his days. Subject(s): Castile, Spain; Desire AWAKING Poem Text First Line: I have lived as in a slumber Last Line: And I lived what I had dreamed. Subject(s): Dreams; Consciousness BALLAD OF THE BENDS First Line: Behind the wall there is a hall Last Line: For it's too late for any mate %to unbend either bent Subject(s): Sisters BEFORE A STATUE OF ACHILLES Poem Text First Line: Behold pelides with his yellow hair Last Line: The perfect body is itself the soul. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Statues BERLIN JOURNAL Poem Text First Line: Dear herbert, / while you sail across the ocean Subject(s): Berlin, Germany BERLIN JOURNAL First Line: Dear herbert, %while you sail across the ocean Last Line: And seal the poem with a noble rhyme! Subject(s): Berlin, Germany CAPE COD Poem Text First Line: The low sandy beach and the thin scrub pine Last Line: What will become of man? Subject(s): Cape Cod CATHEDRALS BY THE SEA Poem Text First Line: For aeons had the self-responsive tide Last Line: The sullen diapason of the sea. Subject(s): Churches; Sea CHORUS Poem Text First Line: Immortal love, / whose essence is this pregnant warmth of air Last Line: Hope of the things to be, or wake a vanished form. CLASS SONG (WHICH WILL BE SUNG ON THE 22ND OF FEBRUARY) Poem Text First Line: We're sober men and true Last Line: Will go home with us as before. Subject(s): Schools; Students COLLEGE DRINKING SONG Poem Text First Line: As we say good-bye at the parting ways Last Line: Drink, boys, drink! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics DAY AND NIGHT First Line: My soul, why art thou sad, what seekest thou? Last Line: Bespeak an endless life and an eternal love DECIMA Poem Text First Line: Silent daisies out of reach Last Line: Sweetly manifest the god. Subject(s): Patience; Daisies DECIMA: 1 Poem Text First Line: There's no love like hopeless love Last Line: Carried me from earth to heaven. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of DECIMA: 2 Poem Text First Line: What frail sympathy long past Last Line: Know to pluck his starry crown. Subject(s): Farewell DEDICATION FOR THE LIFE OF REASON Poem Text First Line: Dear friends, my solace in your gentle youth Last Line: I suffered much, but something understood. Subject(s): Life Choices; Reason DEDICATION OF THE FIRST SONNETS TO A FRIEND ... Poem Text First Line: I could wish my numbers fell Last Line: And outlive the last farewell. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DEDICATION TO THE LATER SONNETS TO URANIA Poem Text First Line: How shall I give thee what was never mine? Last Line: This book of verses, writ in love of thee. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets DESCENDE CAELO Poem Text First Line: All the world gives little scope Last Line: When you strew them on my bier! Subject(s): Doubt; Life DIOSCURI First Line: When to the kness of zeus Last Line: Star following star, deep gazing into deep EASTER HYMN Poem Text First Line: I love the pious candle-light Last Line: For christ arisen, and hope dead. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection ECHO Poem Text First Line: Alas, to be / mortal, and know our sad mortality! Last Line: But feigns a voice. Subject(s): Mortality ECLOGUE (VIGNETTE) Poem Text First Line: Chloe, the business done, begins to coil her hair Last Line: And strephon strides away, whistling an idle air. Subject(s): Mythology EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Three sorrows, three invisible swords are nailed Last Line: That vanquished spain and friendship and the gods. Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: O youth, o beauty, ye who fed the flame Last Line: To deck your glory, not his false renown. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Youth EROS Poem Text First Line: Who wast thou, standing by that humble door Last Line: The god they prattle of, and not perceive. Subject(s): Deception FAIR HARVARD Poem Text First Line: Fair harvard, the winter of puritan snows Last Line: And our light was a spark of thy flame. Subject(s): Harvard University FAITH Poem Text First Line: O world, thou choosest not the better part Last Line: Unto the thinking of the thought divine. Variant Title(s): The Light Of Faith;sonnet: 3 Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Soldiers; Belief; Creed; Theology FLIGHT OF HELEN; A FRAGMENT First Line: Such sudden leaving Last Line: Your thought-begotten ills Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT First Line: And was prematurely vented Last Line: As from wintry earth her gathered springs FRAGMENT First Line: I fain would build upon the shore of time Last Line: The steady flash of each revolving rhyme FRAGMENT First Line: Cast off in heaven's sight thy fell disdain Last Line: Another day will bring another joy FRAGMENT First Line: But now enough: give o'er the strain, o lute Last Line: Life has left her perfect crown and man his full desire FUTILITY Poem Text First Line: Fair nature, has thy wisdom naught to say? Last Line: If the heart pine, the very stars will pale. GABRIEL Poem Text First Line: I know thou art a man, thou hast his mould Last Line: Thine ave, she conceived her holy child. Subject(s): Gabriel GOOD FRIDAY HYMN Poem Text First Line: When the lord christ paid life with death Last Line: And in the living see the dead. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week HAD I THE CHOICE (AFTER WALT WHITMAN) Poem Text First Line: Had I the choice to emulate the verse Last Line: And leave its odor there. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HAIL, LIFE THAT NEVER DIEST Subject(s): God; Peace HERMIT OF CARMEL First Line: Thou who wast tempted in the wilderness Last Line: God of the hills, accept my sacrifice I THOUGHT, BEFORE I LEARNED TO THINK Subject(s): Truth; Youth IM KASTANIENWALDE First Line: Upon the past I have to-day reflected Last Line: Don't tell me that you play the solitaire IN GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS; ON HEARING A SKYLARK SING Poem Text First Line: Too late, thou tender songster of the sky Last Line: Or any true unhappy human thing. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks INVOCATION Poem Text First Line: Ye whose lost voices, echoing in this rhyme Last Line: Nor hold the pilgrim of your night in scorn. Subject(s): Prayer JUDGMENT OF PARIS First Line: Where far-off hastings rises from the street Last Line: Will paris grieve he chose the delta phi Subject(s): Clubs (associations) KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL Poem Text First Line: The buttress frowns, the gorgeous windows blaze Last Line: And the same hand that finished overthrew. Subject(s): Churches; Cambridge University KNIGHT'S RETURN; A SEQUEL TO A HERMIT OF CARMEL First Line: The dews will soon be falling, flerida Last Line: Open, heaven's gates! Eternal sun, arise! %sir palmerin returns LENTEN GREETING; TO A LADY Poem Text First Line: They must find it sweet to pray Last Line: Will have joy as of a psalm. Subject(s): Lent LET MINE EYES FEED FOR EVER ON THINE EYES Subject(s): Infatuation; Loyalty; Sky LETTER TO M. R. First Line: Dear kindly host Last Line: Farewell, and may all %blessings follow you LINES ON LEAVING THE BEDFORD STR. SCHOOL HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Forth from the seed by its first founders sown Last Line: But let them seek some other road to fame. Subject(s): Schools; Students LINES READ AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE NEW CLUB HOUSE First Line: A rose without a name can smell as sweet Last Line: And half remains where a youth and friendship live Subject(s): Clubs (associations) LUCIFER, A PRELUDE First Line: What star art thou, and by what god beguiled Last Line: Of life is on me - or the hand of death LUNA First Line: As the chaste moon, behind a veil of cloud Last Line: Love! Perilous as ocean's muffled roll MARIAN; A FRAGMENT First Line: Clothes and a girl I sing, the first who Last Line: Get their campaigns and characters dissected Subject(s): Harvard University; Women MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The dank earth reeks with three days' rain Last Line: O love's unutterable stings! Subject(s): Youth; Longing; Grief MODERN PARAPHRASE OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET 29 Poem Text First Line: When times are hard and old friends fall away Last Line: To own the world or be a millionaire? Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) MONT BREVENT Poem Text First Line: O dweller in the valley, lift thine eyes Last Line: Only a little way above thy pain. Subject(s): Mountains; Hope MOTHER EARTH Poem Text First Line: Beyond the star-dust and the ether-flaw Last Line: To ease thine agony. Subject(s): Earth; World O WRETCHED MIND OF MAN, O BLINDED HEART Subject(s): Mind, The; Nature O.K., JUNE 5, 1892 First Line: Last sunday after chapel, near memorial Last Line: Immortal mother, that we drink to thee Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Harvard University O.K., MAY 21, 1890 First Line: O you latest generation %of the very dear old o.K. Last Line: Tell me brother, tell me true Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Harvard University ODE: 1 Poem Text First Line: What god will choose me from this labouring nation Last Line: Sacred to beauty. ODE: 2 Poem Text First Line: My heart rebels against my generation Last Line: What is eternal. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ODE: 3 Poem Text First Line: Gathering the echoes of forgotten wisdom Last Line: Bright constellation. ODE: 4 Poem Text First Line: Slowly the black earth gains upon the yellow Last Line: Singing to heaven. ODE: THE MEDITERRANEAN Poem Text First Line: Of thee the northman by his beached galley Last Line: Solace of mortals. Variant Title(s): Ode: 5 Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea ODI ET AMO Poem Text First Line: A wreathed altar was this pagan heart Last Line: Art thou a poison or a sacrament? Subject(s): Worship ON A DRAWING First Line: I took a pencil in my trembling hand Last Line: And of my love 'tis all that's left to me Subject(s): Drawing ON A PIECE OF TAPESTRY Poem Text First Line: Hold high the woof, dear friends, that we may see Last Line: All the long labor of some captive queen. Subject(s): Tapestries ON A VOLUME OF SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY Poem Text First Line: What chilly cloister or what lattice dim Last Line: The garnered husks of his disused words. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers ON AN UNFINISHED STATUE BY MICHAEL ANGELO Poem Text First Line: What beauteous form beneath a marble veil Last Line: With barren husks and harvesting of dreams. Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Statues ON FORMS First Line: Like the orders of greek architecture, the sonnet or the couplet or the Last Line: Forms does not abolish the freedom of all men to adopt the old ones ON THE DEATH OF A METAPHYSICIAN Poem Text First Line: Unhappy dreamer, who outwinged in flight Last Line: Bubble from depths of the icarian sea. Subject(s): Metaphysics ON THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL POETS Poem Text First Line: Falling untempered from the ethereal blue Last Line: And streams a mansion for the soul prepare. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets ON ZION I WAS BORN AND BRED Subject(s): Religion PAGANISM INEVITABLE First Line: Brainsick men %need brainsick gods. Some spirits crave our forms Last Line: Chokes my faint voice, and snaps the pulsing lyre PARADISE Poem Text First Line: Where the luminous deep skies Last Line: She wrote only: rest in peace. Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise PARENT OF ROMANS, MEN' AND GODS' DELIGHT Subject(s): Civilization; Rome, Italy PLAINT OF THE DISGUSTED BRITON IN THE STATES Poem Text First Line: Don't try america; I've tried it Last Line: To england I return to live. Subject(s): Homesickness; United States; America PLATO PLATER'S DIALGUE ON PLEASURE Poem Text First Line: By jove, dear percy, this world cannot boast Subject(s): Pleasure PLATO PLATER'S DIALGUE ON PLEASURE First Line: By jove, dear percy, this world cannot boast Last Line: The only pleasure that is sweet is mirth Subject(s): Pleasure PRAYER OF A CHRISTIAN First Line: O god, I know that thou art good Last Line: Thy love is strong for aye Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Prayer PRAYER TO THE OCEAN Poem Text First Line: What wilt thou yield, great ocean, to thy lover Last Line: Wilt thou yield up to me? Subject(s): God; Sea; Ocean PREMONITION Poem Text First Line: The muffled syllables that nature speaks Last Line: And swelling into rapture from this sigh. Subject(s): Nature; Worry PRESIDENT GARFIELD Poem Text First Line: A child of fortune, taught in freedom's school Last Line: A withered hope, a sorrow, and a name. Subject(s): Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) PRISON WALLS First Line: My sweet love calls, o prison walls Last Line: Keep love away from me Subject(s): Love - Complaints PROSIT NEUJAHR Poem Text First Line: Be the new year sweet and short Last Line: Prosit neujahr! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Toasts REPORTS, BY THE SECRETARY OF THE O.K. First Line: O clio, sacred muse of story Last Line: As these concocted by your present scratch Subject(s): Clubs (associations) RESIGNATION First Line: I set my heart on being good Last Line: I set my heart on nothing now RESURRECTION; THE SOUL OF A BURIED BODY Poem Text First Line: Methought that I was dead Last Line: To see the starlight shining on the snows. Subject(s): Rebirth; Immortality RHYMES OF THE DAY Poem Text First Line: A latin school young man Last Line: To stand by the edge of the blue-green sea. Subject(s): Schools; Students ROSE DARNLEY Poem Text First Line: She stood above the flooded stream Last Line: She folds her hands, and he departs. Subject(s): Rejection; Reunions SIGNET Poem Text First Line: So old, so new, so white, so olive-green Last Line: May reap the harvest -- for the harvest waits. Subject(s): Fools; Harvard University; Writing & Writers SIX WISE FOOLS Poem Text First Line: Twelve had struck. Our talk subsided Last Line: "I drink to that which makes us one." Subject(s): Fools; Drinks & Drinking SOLIPSISM Poem Text First Line: I could believe that I am here alone Last Line: Is but the sum of dreams. SONG First Line: When I was a lad I had to pass Last Line: And surely you'll be a colonel of the regiment SONG TO THE TUNE OF ROLALIE First Line: Je suis le jeune homme soph Last Line: For that's my philosophie SONNET (1) Poem Text First Line: You thought: 'the vaporous world on which I gaze' Last Line: What higher heaven should his dwelling be? SONNET (10) Poem Text First Line: I saw thee, and the night turned not to day Last Line: Now thou art twice as far and thrice as dear? SONNET (11) Poem Text First Line: As when beside the lake of galilee Last Line: I who so love thee, weeping bitterly? SONNET (12) Poem Text First Line: But why should I my love with loves compare Last Line: Looked up at the broad sky and cried: I thirst. SONNET (13) Poem Text First Line: My loves are over, other loves I sing Last Line: As once achilles by the stygian shore. SONNET (14) Poem Text First Line: I reverence thy godhead and obey Last Line: Whom I would follow now to tabor's peak. SONNET (2) First Line: A wall, a wall around my garden rear SONNET (3) Poem Text First Line: My soul is driven from the good I seek Last Line: Death, wouldst thou help, if I should call on thee? SONNET (4) Poem Text First Line: I did not seek to live, when I was born Last Line: Forbidding my dumb heart to question more. SONNET (5) Poem Text First Line: What worth hath man? Upon some craggy hill Last Line: Till, seeing nothing, he beholds himself. SONNET (6) Poem Text First Line: If jealousy be proof of love indeed Last Line: That made me love ere I was cast away. Subject(s): Jealousy SONNET (7) Poem Text First Line: Unhappy me, who am not one of them Last Line: My spirit with the lost good my dreams adore. SONNET (8) Poem Text First Line: Ere this divinest draught of love I drank Last Line: Wings to his soul and patience to his breast. SONNET (9) Poem Text First Line: With contrite heart and sacrifice of tears Last Line: Hath made us whom life had parted, one in death. SONNET: 1 Poem Text First Line: I sought on earth a garden of delight Last Line: Heal me, and keep me in thy dwelling-place. SONNET: 10 Poem Text First Line: Have I the heart to wander on the earth Last Line: The covenant god gave us is a task. SONNET: 11 Poem Text First Line: Deem not, because you see me in the press Last Line: From so much sorrow -- of whom I am one. SONNET: 12 Poem Text First Line: Mightier storms than this are brewed on earth Last Line: The mirror of thy placid heart disdain. SONNET: 13 Poem Text First Line: Sweet are the days we wander with no hope Last Line: With gentle wonder and with laughter sweet. SONNET: 14 Poem Text First Line: There may be chaos still around the world Last Line: A happy snow-flake dancing in the flaw. SONNET: 15 Poem Text First Line: A wall, a wall to hem the azure sphere Last Line: And ancient quiet broods from pole to pole. SONNET: 16 Poem Text First Line: A thousand beauties that have never been Last Line: Embalm the purple stretches of the air. SONNET: 17 Poem Text First Line: There was a time when in the teeth of fate Last Line: To chase thine image through the haunted earth. SONNET: 18 Poem Text First Line: Blaspheme not love, ye lovers, nor dispraise Last Line: At the exceeding answer to my prayer. SONNET: 19 Poem Text First Line: Above the battlements of heaven rise Last Line: And have our being in their truth alone. SONNET: 2 Poem Text First Line: Slow and reluctant was the long descent Last Line: And with these holy echoes charmed my sleep. SONNET: 20 Poem Text First Line: These strewn thoughts, by the mountain pathway sprung Last Line: And her long sleep a draught of primal night. SONNET: 21 Poem Text First Line: Among the myriad voices of the spring Last Line: How great a lover have you lost in me! SONNET: 22 Poem Text First Line: Tis love that moveth the celestial spheres Last Line: In love's eternal orbit keeps the soul. SONNET: 23 Poem Text First Line: But is this love, that in my hollow breast Last Line: To where the seraphs covet not, and burn. SONNET: 24 Poem Text First Line: Although I decked a chamber for my bride Last Line: Or feel a pang to look upon the sky? SONNET: 25 Poem Text First Line: As in the midst of battle there is room Last Line: Despair before us, vanity behind. SONNET: 26 Poem Text First Line: Oh, if the heavy last unuttered groan Last Line: Joy lies behind me. Be the journey brief. SONNET: 27 Poem Text First Line: Sleep hath composed the anguish of my brain Last Line: Wait for the spring, brave heart; there is no knowing. SONNET: 28 Poem Text First Line: Out of the dust the queen of roses springs Last Line: "wherefore I walk already proud in hope." Subject(s): Hope SONNET: 29 Poem Text First Line: What riches have you that you deem me poor Last Line: I walk contented to the peopled grave. Subject(s): Contentment SONNET: 30 Poem Text First Line: Let my lips touch thy lips, and my desire Last Line: Told this late world the love that I have learned. Subject(s): Desire SONNET: 31 Poem Text First Line: A brother's love, but that I chose thee out Last Line: Of brother, lover, friend, and eremite. Subject(s): Love SONNET: 32 Poem Text First Line: Let not thy bosom, to my foes allied Last Line: Divides us, and the wagging tongue of men. SONNET: 33 Poem Text First Line: A perfect love is nourished by despair Last Line: Would to my sense thy loveliness restore. Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Despair SONNET: 34 Poem Text First Line: Though destiny half broke her cruel bars Last Line: How far the single strength of love can go? Subject(s): Love – Unrequited SONNET: 35 Poem Text First Line: We needs must be divided in the tomb Last Line: And nothing of our heart ot earth returned. Subject(s): Mortality SONNET: 36 Poem Text First Line: We were together, and I longed to tell Last Line: On your white bosom too had left a stain. Subject(s): Love – Unrequited SONNET: 37 Poem Text First Line: And I was silent. Now you do not know Last Line: Eternal echoes haunt us of this pain. Subject(s): Silence SONNET: 38 Poem Text First Line: Oh, not for me, for thee, dear god, her head Last Line: Whispers within me: hail, thou full of grace. SONNET: 39 Poem Text First Line: The world will say, 'what mystic love is this?' Last Line: In which the buried soul of jesus lies. SONNET: 4 Poem Text First Line: I would I had been born in nature's day Last Line: And hush the importunity of pain. SONNET: 40 Poem Text First Line: If, when the story of my love is old Last Line: And let the whole world see her as I saw. Subject(s): Love SONNET: 41 Poem Text First Line: Yet why, of one who loved thee not, command Last Line: And cry: such eyes a better poet need. Subject(s): Beauty SONNET: 42 Poem Text First Line: As when the sceptre dangles from the hand Last Line: When love his clarion sounded in my soul. Subject(s): Love SONNET: 43 Poem Text First Line: The candour of the gods is in thy gaze Last Line: And a lost music I remember well. Subject(s): Beauty SONNET: 44 Poem Text First Line: For thee the sun doth daily rise, and set Last Line: And thy perfection is my proof of heaven. Subject(s): Perfection SONNET: 45 Poem Text First Line: Flower of the world, bright angel, single friend! Last Line: Before thine image, saying: god is good. Subject(s): Love SONNET: 46 Poem Text First Line: When I survey the harvest of the year Last Line: How beauty can be true and virtue fair. Subject(s): Beauty; Virtue SONNET: 47 Poem Text First Line: Thou hast no name, or, if a name thou bearest Last Line: In all my loves I worshipped thee alone. Subject(s): Courtship SONNET: 48 Poem Text First Line: Of helen's brothers, one was born to die Last Line: I go to burn beside thee in the skies. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical SONNET: 49 Poem Text First Line: After grey vigils, sunshine in the heart Last Line: Engulf the planets. I have seen the best. Subject(s): Peace; Joy SONNET: 5 Poem Text First Line: Dreamt I to-day the dream of yesternight Last Line: Truth is a dream, unless my dream is true. Subject(s): Dreams; Truth; Nightmares SONNET: 50 Poem Text First Line: Though utter death should swallow up my hope Last Line: One love sufficeth an eternity. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET: 6 Poem Text First Line: Love not as do the flesh-imprisoned men Last Line: For wisdom brightens as they fade away. SONNET: 7 Poem Text First Line: I would I might forget that I am I Last Line: And doomed to know his aching heart alone. SONNET: 8 Poem Text First Line: O martyred spirit of this helpless whole Last Line: The burning of thine altar for my hymn. SONNET: 9 Poem Text First Line: Have patience; it is fit that in this wise Last Line: Ay, and thy second slumber will be deep. Variant Title(s): Sorrow Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed SONNET: WARD'S Poem Text First Line: Pale friends you wish us ever to remain Last Line: A wind blew, and dim worship flamed to love. Subject(s): Infatuation; Friendship SONNET; OXFORD, 1916 Poem Text First Line: Darkling and groping, thin of blood, we wage Last Line: The old that erred and the young that died? Subject(s): World War I; First World War SPAIN IN AMERICA Poem Text First Line: When scarce the echoes of manila bay Last Line: "thou who wouldst teach us hope, with her who taught us prayer." Subject(s): Imperialism; Pelayo. First Christian King (d. 737); Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Spanish-american War (1898) SPIRIT Poem Text First Line: To live unseen and yet behold the earth Last Line: I shed the flesh awhile, becoming mind. Subject(s): Spirituality SYBARIS Poem Text First Line: Lap, ripple, lap, icarian wave, the sand Last Line: Silvered the nymphs' feet, tripping o'er the green. Subject(s): Mythology – Greek TEACHERS' DIALOGUE First Line: O this is shocking! Libellous! Mean! Vile! Last Line: When power and meekness sit upon the throne Subject(s): Teaching And Teachers THE AENEID Poem Text First Line: I sing of arms and of the man and boy Last Line: Thus did my virtue prove its own reward. THE BOTTLES AND THE WINE Poem Text First Line: Would you have an illustration Last Line: To the bottles and the wine. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics THE DARKEST HOUR; OXFORD, 1917 Poem Text First Line: Smother thy flickering light, the vigil is o'er Last Line: A cold moon gilds the waves of acheron. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE FLIGHT OF HELEN; A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Such sudden leaving Last Line: Yes, and thyself, whom all these baubles please Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical THE FOURTH OF JUNE AT EON Poem Text First Line: Little silent rills of joy Last Line: This green page with any tear. THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS First Line: Where far-off hastings rises from the street Subject(s): Clubs (associations) THE LITTLE PLEASURES THAT BENEATH THE SUN Subject(s): Pleasure THE LIVING STARS Poem Text First Line: Methinks the stars are throbbing as they shine Last Line: Be glad, and shine. Subject(s): Stars THE POET'S TESTAMENT Poem Text First Line: I give back to the earth what the earth gave Last Line: Fulfil in beauty my imperfect prayer. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POETIC MEDIUM Poem Text First Line: In chelsea dwells a sibyl known to fame Last Line: But it makes sense. Long, masters, may you live. Subject(s): Sibyls THE POWER OF ART Poem Text First Line: Not human art, but living gods alone Last Line: The sacred past that should not pass away. Subject(s): Art & Artists THE RUSTIC AT THE PLAY Poem Text First Line: Our youth is like a rustic at the play Last Line: That prompts the passions of this strutting world. Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Poetry & Poets THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Poem Text First Line: Serve god - by the eternal heaven's chart Last Line: Since peace is thine for ever. Subject(s): Ten Commandments; Worship THE UNDERGRADUATE KILLED IN BATTLE; OXFORD, 1915 Poem Text First Line: Sweet as the lawn beneanth his sandalled tread Last Line: And in unwitting lordship saw the blue. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE VISION Poem Text First Line: My father, friend, and thine are one Last Line: Friend, I am solitude. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THERE MAY BE CHAOS STILL AROUND THE WORLD Poem Text THUS DID THE LORD MY GRIEFS APPROVE TO A FRIEND IMPRISONED IN GERMANY Poem Text First Line: The young man's heart labours with many a birth Last Line: Is sweet, and sweet the friendship of the dead. Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; Friendship; Youth TO A LADY WHO HAD OFFERED HIM A WREATH OF LAUREL Poem Text First Line: Laurel is a sacred leaf Last Line: And my crown is not a wrong. Subject(s): Laurels TO A PACIFIST FRIEND Poem Text First Line: To close the eyes upon a frenzied scene Last Line: I see with horror as it dares to live. Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace Movements TO GUY MURCHIE Poem Text First Line: No flower I bring you Last Line: The heart will speak without the pomp of rhyme. Subject(s): Time; Poetry & Poets TO W.P.: 1 Poem Text First Line: Calm was the sea to which your course you kept Last Line: Dead you will make it easier to die. Subject(s): Drowning; Potter, Warwick (1872-1893) TO W.P.: 2 Poem Text First Line: With you a part of me hath passed away Last Line: What I keep of you, or you rob from me. Variant Title(s): For Those Once Mine Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Potter, Warwick (1872-1893); Dead, The TO W.P.: 3 Poem Text First Line: Your ship lies anchored in the peaceful bight Last Line: Nor revolution of the moon and sun. Subject(s): Potter, Warwick (1872-1893) TO W.P.: 4 Poem Text First Line: In my deep heart these chimes would still have rung Last Line: In our weak virtues monuments to you. Subject(s): Potter, Warwick (1872-1893) TWO MORALITIES Poem Text First Line: Happy who saith: enough Last Line: Himself he robbeth of. TWO VOICES Poem Text First Line: The life that was is dead and lost Last Line: My fate is mine, and scorns the lie of time. Subject(s): Mortality; Time VALE ET AVE Poem Text First Line: The pagan, when he felt his days were done Last Line: Hail, living fire, kind light of heaven, hail! Subject(s): Paganism & Pagans; Christianity; Faith VERSES READ AT A PHI BETA KAPPA DINNER First Line: Lampy can hardly say much for himself Subject(s): Harvard Lampoon, The (periodical) VERSES READ AT A PHI BETA KAPPA DINNER First Line: Lampy can hardly say much for himself Last Line: Take one look back and drink the jester's health Subject(s): Harvard Lampoon, The (periodical) VERSES READ AT DINNER OF CLASS OF '82 OF BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL First Line: I fear that you would think me too affected Subject(s): Commencement; Graduation VERSES READ AT DINNER OF CLASS OF '82 OF BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL First Line: I fear that you would think me too affected Last Line: Godspeed your steps - and once again, godspeed Subject(s): Commencement VERSES READ AT THE TRIENNIAL DINNER OF THE CLASS OF 1886 First Line: Can it be three years are gone Last Line: And an even vaster choir %shall make music in her praise Subject(s): Time VERSES, INTRODUCED INTO AN ANSWER ... SOPHMORE CLASS DINNER First Line: The day shall come when little's shall reveal Last Line: One the head and one the heart Subject(s): Women VERSES, READ AT MY INITIATION INTO THE O.K. Poem Text First Line: O.K. What's that?' the freshman cries Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars VERSES, READ AT MY INITIATION INTO THE O.K. First Line: O.K. What's that?' the freshman cries Last Line: All correct Subject(s): Clubs (associations) VERSES, READ AT THE O.K. DINNER First Line: The patient earth has made another lap Last Line: So let's drink to the o.K. Dinners, %in a cup of o.K. Wine Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Harvard University VERSES, SUNG AT MY INITIATION INTO THE PUDDING Poem Text First Line: I am a grind and cannot find Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars VERSES, SUNG AT MY INITIATION INTO THE PUDDING First Line: I am a grind and cannot find Last Line: He goes with them to hades Subject(s): Scholarship And Scholars WE CATCH A BROKEN PRELUDE AND SUGGESTION Subject(s): Mystery; Poetry & Poets YOU TIDES WITH CEASELESS SWELL (AFTER WALT WHITMAN) Poem Text First Line: You tides with ceaseless swell, what moves you thus? Last Line: That holds us all, as sailing in a ship? YOUNG SAMMY'S FIRST WILD OATS Poem Text First Line: Mid uncle sam's expanded acres Last Line: "on ""young sammy's first wild oats." Subject(s): Elections; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America YOUTH'S IMMORTALITY Poem Text First Line: What, when hearts have met, shall sever Last Line: Living in the things we love. Subject(s): Immortality |
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