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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: squire, john Matches Found: 52 Squire, John Collings Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. 52 poems available by this author A DOG'S DEATH Poem Text First Line: The loose earth falls in the grave like a peaceful regular breathing Last Line: Nor trouble what we do when we do it; nor would have it otherwise. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs A HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Now very quietly, and rather mournfully Last Line: May hide and wait for it in time and space. Subject(s): Houses ANARCHY First Line: In the dark, in bed, the brows of lovers will touch ANOTHER GENERATION First Line: There is a woman like a seed BALLADE OF ANY FATHER TO ANY SON First Line: I'ad no education, and my pile BALLADE OF DIMINISHING CONTROL First Line: Yes, I admit that proust is rather good BALLADE OF SOPORIFIC ABSORPTION First Line: Ho! Ho! Yes! Yes! It's very all well BALLADE OF THE POETIC LIFE First Line: The fat men go about the streets BEHIND THE LINES First Line: The wind of evening cried along the darkening trees BIRDS First Line: Within mankind's duration, so they say Subject(s): Birds BROWN ROBYN First Line: It fell upon a wednesday Last Line: You've made upon the sea CHRISTMAS HYMN FOR LAMBETH First Line: Hark! The lambeth guardians sing Last Line: You will talk about the war %and eat and eat until you snore Subject(s): Christmas; Eggs DILEMMA First Line: God heard the embattled nations sing and shout Last Line: Good god!' said god, 'I've got my work cut out' Subject(s): World War I ELEGY First Line: I vaguely wondered what you were about EPITAPH First Line: Shiftless and shy, gentle and kind and frail EPITAPH IN OLD MODE First Line: The leaves fall gently on the grass GOLDEN VANITY First Line: There was a gallant ship, and a gallant ship was she Last Line: And sink off the lowlands low HAPPY NIGHT First Line: I have loved tonight; from love's last bordering HOW THEY DO IT, SELS. I SHALL MAKE BEAUTY OUT OF MANY THINGS Subject(s): Love IF GRAY HAD HAD TO WRITE HIS ELEGY IN CEMETERY OF SPOON RIVER ... Poem Text First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day Last Line: There is an end to even the worst career!' Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950) IF MR. MASEFIELD HAD WRITTEN CASAIANCA First Line: You dirty hog,' 'you snouty snipe' IN A CHAIR First Line: The room is full of the peace IN THE WOODS IN NOVEMBER First Line: Men, guns and dogs: the temperate sun INTERIOR First Line: I and myself swore enmity. Alack Last Line: I was accomplice to the stratagem JOURNEY First Line: I took the train a whole day long Subject(s): Love LAKE First Line: I am a lake LATE SNOW First Line: The heavy train through the dim country went rolling LINES First Line: Mine ears have heard your distant moan MEDITATION IN LAMPLIGHT First Line: What deaths men have died, not fighting but impotent MR. W.H. DAVIES First Line: A poor old man ON OCULISTS First Line: The oculist prescribes me spectacles' ONE FRIDAY MORN First Line: One friday morn when we set sail Last Line: And the land-lubbers lying down below PARADISE LOST First Line: What hues the sunlight had, how rich the shadows were PASSION OF MAN: 1918-1938 First Line: In the night, in the night, as I turned upon my bed Subject(s): Religion RIVERS, SELS. First Line: Those rivers in that lost country Subject(s): England SIR HENRY NEWBOLT First Line: It was eight bells in the forenoon and hammocks running sleek Subject(s): Newbolt, Henry, Sir (1862-1938) STOCKYARD (TO ROBERT FROST) First Line: Did you go at all to chicago? Last Line: Till it closed and again I resumed my life THE DISCOVERY; SONNET Poem Text First Line: There was an indian, who had known no change Last Line: Or silks or gold. Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE LILY OF MALUD Poem Text First Line: The lily of malud is born in secret mud Last Line: But she knows not what it was. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies THE MARCH Poem Text First Line: I heard a voice that cried, 'make way for those who died!' Last Line: In steady silent march, our hundred thousand dead. THE SHIP Poem Text First Line: There was no song nor shout of joy Last Line: Or silks or gold. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THREE HILLS First Line: There were three hills that stood alone Last Line: And earth shall eat the stones, and we %shall be alone again Subject(s): Mountains TO A BULL-DOG Poem Text First Line: We shan't see willie [or, willy] any more, mamie Last Line: And he won't be coming here any more. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; World War I; First World War TO A ROMAN First Line: You died two thousand years ago, catullus TREE-TOPS First Line: There beyond my window ledge UNDER First Line: In this house, she said, in this high second storey UNVISITED First Line: What was there there beyond that farthest train VISION OF TRUTH First Line: As it fell upon a day %I made another garden, yea Last Line: Twas roses, roses all the way %nor any drop to drink WHEN I LEAPT OVER TOWER BRIDGE WINTER GONE First Line: Desolate winter has fled from the woods WINTER NIGHTFALL First Line: The old yellow stucco Last Line: In this desolate country's %cadaverous clay |
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