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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ABANDONMENT Matches Found: 126 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MINUTE OF SILENCE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Text First Line: I abandon this too powerful repose Last Line: The clouds kiss in a swoop. Subject(s): Abandonment; Dadaism; Night; Silence; Sleep; Desertion; Bedtime ABANDON, by LORENE BYRNES BURNS Poem Text First Line: I am wicked-wicked-wicked Last Line: In the spring! Subject(s): Abandonment; Hearts; Love; Spring; Desertion ABANDON TO SLEEP...', by PHILIPPE MORAND Poem Source Last Line: Clock in for real %the threat of awakening Subject(s): Abandonment; Sleep ABANDONED, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: God, when you came to our house Subject(s): Abandonment ABANDONED, by NATHAN ALTERMAN Poem Source First Line: My mother left me at the foot of the fence Last Line: Over us, like a candle, was the moon Subject(s): Abandonment; Guilt ABANDONED CHURCH, by LAURENCE HUTCHMAN Poem Source First Line: I was in it once Last Line: Through the broken panes %of the framed sky Subject(s): Abandonment; Churches ABANDONED CHURCH OF CHRIST, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: No song for the unseen Last Line: In the february morning, disburdening %no song Subject(s): Abandonment; Churches; Women's Rights ABANDONED SELECTIONS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the crimson breast of the sunset Last Line: Is watching you break your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Abandonment; Grief; Nostalgia; Property; Desertion; Sorrow; Sadness; Possessions AFTER ALL, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, what's the use of striving on? Last Line: And all the rest's just waste—just waste of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Forgetfulness; Desertion; Dead, The AIRLY BEACON, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Airly beacon, airly beacon; / oh the pleasant sight to see Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion ANGEL ISLAND POETRY, by EMMA GEE Poem Source First Line: Across from alcatraz island was another kind of prison Last Line: And avenge %past wrongs Subject(s): Abandonment; Farewell; Immigrants; Sacrifices ANGELS OF DESPERATION AND ABANDONMENT, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The blind man's angel is touch Last Line: The dead man's angel weeps desolately and, like a young widow seeks out a new man Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Angels; Widows And Widowers ASHFALL FOSSIL BEDS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Once, long ago, in what is now idaho Last Line: Needed only to die down for it to fall Subject(s): Abandonment; Bones; Fossils; Skulls CALL OF THE DESIROUS, by JOSE LEZAMA LIMA Poem Source First Line: Desirous is one who gets away from his mother Last Line: Who never want to rebegin the same card, the same night with its same monstrous flank? Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Death CAPRICE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You held a wild-flower in your finger-tips Last Line: Alas! It was my soul. Subject(s): Abandonment; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Male-female Relations CHILDREN AND I SHALL MEET AGAIN, by PIA SEAGRAVE Poem Source First Line: This son grows tall and he grows Last Line: The walls on knotted sheets Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Love - Marital; Memory COMING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are driving to the airport Last Line: To your curving lips and your %ivory thighs Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love; Reunions CUMNOR HALL, by WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dews of summer night did fall Last Line: The haunted towers of cumnor hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Meikle, William Subject(s): Abandonment; Disappointment; Grief; Love; Desertion; Sorrow; Sadness CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they go, down to the fatal ship Last Line: Look lovlier still compared to the angry children Subject(s): Abandonment; Art & Artists; Children; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Desertion; Childhood CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they go, down to the fatal ship Last Line: Look lovelier still compared to the angry children Subject(s): Abandonment; Art And Artists; Children; Paintings And Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) DAY MY SISTER LEFT US, by DI BRANDT Poem Source Last Line: The family gibberish Subject(s): Abandonment; Grief; Sisters DEATH OF THE KAPOWSIN TAVERN, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can't ridge it back again from char Subject(s): Abandonment; Bars & Bartenders; Decay; Kapowsin, Washington; Desertion; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Rot; Decadence DEATH OF THE KAPOWSIN TAVERN, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can't ridge it back again from char Last Line: Although, I know in time the lake will send %wind black enough to blow it all away Subject(s): Abandonment; Bars And Bartenders; Decay; Kapowsin, Washington DECEMBER, by WILLIAM CAULFIELD IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is bleak december noon Last Line: Of the dumb cold evening air. Subject(s): Abandonment; Cold; December; Snow; Winter; Desertion DESTINY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced on the noon of an april day Last Line: Who cares if a woman's heart be broken? Subject(s): Abandonment; Disillusion; Fate; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Destiny; Male-female Relations DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: CEMETERY, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: This tiny village of dead people has stayed on Last Line: Life that is highst and deepest in the abandoned city Subject(s): Abandonment; Cemeteries; Death; Diaries DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: DEEP NIGHT, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: New york deserted -- without a person Last Line: Around the night in the sky, now toward the west Subject(s): Abandonment; Diaries; New York City; Solitude DIMANCHE BLEU, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Subject(s): City & Town Life; Abandonment; Desertion ESCAPE, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: How tenderly my antique grace Last Line: For troy's ten years my gracious truant. Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion EVEN FORSAKEN THEY'D FLOWER, by RAUL ZURITA Poem Source First Line: Forsaken they would not see the prairies but only a cry Last Line: Themselves with joy singing even forsaken they'd flower Subject(s): Abandonment; Chile; Fields; South America EYES OF THE INTERRED, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The eyes of the interred Last Line: And the absences %transfix me Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Funerals; Human Rights - Argentina FAR COOKTOWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Things are quiet in far cooktown Last Line: Now own the blanky town Subject(s): Abandonment;desolation;towns; Desertion FRAGMENT, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the poor schoolboy, when the slow-paced months Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): School; Abandonment; Desertion GERDA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the long curving walk you trudge to the street Last Line: Gerda, come back, to nurse your desolate child. Subject(s): Abandonment; Caregivers; Children; Household Employees; Women; Women's Rights; Desertion; Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism GIANTS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone's old parents in the desert on folding chairs Last Line: To each memory station -- pause, hold, mute, flash. Subject(s): Abandonment; Lies; Marriage; Quarrels; Secrets; Desertion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements GOD-FORGOTTEN, by PETER AIREY Poem Text First Line: Lies the town of god-forgotten duly west Last Line: And we'll wonder where the deuce it's gone and how on earth it rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Luftig, P.; Born, Furness; Flam, Philander Subject(s): Abandonment; Desolation; Towns; Desertion GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll see you in my dreams she said Last Line: Puckered mists trash the hill ecstatic as lozenges Subject(s): Abandonment; Dreams; Desertion; Nightmares GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll see you in my dreams she said Last Line: Puckered mists trash the hill ecstatic as lozenges Subject(s): Abandonment; Dreams GONE/AWAY, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT Poem Source First Line: Gone or away? Right now I prefer away Last Line: I can only think of you as gone away. With the emphasis on gone Subject(s): Abandonment HAIR CUT, by NIN ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: The day you left me, I chopped off my hair. The inkly black hair you Last Line: Make love again. They never will. This much I know, now that you %have left me Subject(s): Abandonment; Hair HELEN; THE LABORATORY OF FAUST AT WITTENBERG, by LAURENT TAILHEDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have ascended the river of the years Last Line: And my molten voice, rhythmic with prophecy. Subject(s): Abandonment; Love; Rivers; Desertion HICKORY DICKORY DANDY, by REGINA WEAVER Poem Source First Line: I was barely three Last Line: And I can not forgive you now %hickory dickory dandy Subject(s): Abandonment; Children HISTORY LESSONS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Our bedroom becomes his new room. And it becomes him, this boy Last Line: Cause and effect medication. Can the pharmacist help us with the %dosage? Are there any contraindica Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Child Psychology; Children; Experience; Orphans; Psychoanalysis HOME MAINTENANCE, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day she left for good he was pissed at the plumbing Last Line: He'd ruined a perfectly good coupling. More than one Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Abandonment; Home; Marriage; Plumbers HOUSE ON 15TH S.W., by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cruelty and rain could be expected Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay; Houses HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 2. CAMBODIA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the rats came Last Line: For a face to match her mirrors'. Subject(s): Abandonment; Cambodia; Children; Desertion; Childhood IF I DON'T RETURN, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: If I don't return it's because on the way I was drawn from my Last Line: And then kill me Subject(s): Abandonment IN PRINCIPIO, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source First Line: In the beginning Last Line: A common horizon Subject(s): Abandonment; Creation; Solitude IN THE WILDERNESS MOTEL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red star hovering Last Line: The comfort, the company of ruin. Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay; Hotels; Nature; Desertion; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses INFORMING THE DEMONS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Forsake me now Last Line: Will spittle cold and hard Subject(s): Abandonment; Boredom JOHN KINSELLA'S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A bloody and a sudden end Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Abandonment; Mourning; Desertion; Bereavement JOHN KINSELLA'S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bloody and a sudden end Last Line: What shall I do for pretty girls %now my old bawd is dead? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Abandonment; Mourning LABRADOR, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: White is the river's roar Last Line: And hills and seas, and on and on Subject(s): Abandonment; Solitude LADY OF MIRACLES, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since you walked out on me Last Line: My head like a bright rotting halo Subject(s): Abandonment; Women LIGHT THAT CAME TO LUCILLE CLIFTON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You might as well answer the door, my child, %the truth is furiously knocking.' Subject(s): Abandonment; Reality; Single Parents LIGHT-PATH OF ABANDONMENT, by PHYLLIS STOWELL Poem Source First Line: A grieving widow urged to undress Last Line: Her impulse to double up her fists and scream, %to curl up and die Subject(s): Abandonment; Widows And Widowers LITTLE DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 2. HER PAINTINGS, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Were kept in a metal storage box Last Line: Even the ones they'd thought about taking out and %showing to somebody Subject(s): Abandonment; Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Portraits LOOP, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Sitting one morning %as in a movie theater, watching Last Line: A day already begun %without me Subject(s): Abandonment; Solitude MARCEL WAVE, by S. X. ROSENSTOCK Poem Source First Line: And can it be - it must! - I am the character of all time, maman? Last Line: At any, every, touching parting; you do know you have my word Subject(s): Abandonment MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C MONTANA RANCH ABANDONED, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cracks in eight log buildings, counting sheds Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay MOON'S WALTZING ALONE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: In deserted kitchens Last Line: Only their love, like a thing never done, burns through %into morning Subject(s): Abandonment; Bones; Death; Love - Loss Of MY FATHER'S LEAVING, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I came back, he was gone. Subject(s): Fathers; Mothers; Abandonment; Family Life; Desertion; Relatives NOTES TO MY DAUGHTERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were the reason for staying Last Line: Washing it away. Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Family Life; Israel; Mortality; Mothers & Daughters; Parents; Desertion; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood OLD HOUSE, by DOROTHY W. JANS Poem Text First Line: How dry the grass is now Last Line: Old house, old heart. Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Desertion; Separation; Isolation ON THE THRESHOLD, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: You stand uncertain on the threshold Last Line: Will always fall where you want them to Subject(s): Abandonment; Children ONLY WHEN MY HEART FREEZES, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source Last Line: In a strange, wild country Subject(s): Abandonment; Men ORGAN SONGS: O DO NOT LEAVE ME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O do not leave me, mother, lest I weep Last Line: Leaving is left behind. Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; God; Mothers; Desertion; Dead, The PARTY, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: At a gesture from the host, the musicians stopped playing Last Line: And the party was never the same Subject(s): Abandonment; Ghosts; Guests; Parties; Supernatural POLISH AND BALM, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust develops / from inside Subject(s): Abandonment; Dust; Cleanliness; Desertion PRESENCES, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone, everyone went away today Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion PRESENCES, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone, everyone went away today Subject(s): Abandonment QUARRIED STONE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: He who lay on rock Last Line: The sun on quarried stone. Subject(s): Abandonment; Family Life; Sleep; Desertion; Relatives RENUNCIATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What man doth once with all his heart renounce Last Line: And one to him are joy and woe Subject(s): Abandonment;pride; Desertion;self-esteem;self-respect RHYTHM CITY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Winter salt stains white on the sidewalk Last Line: It is this, he admits, looking down %can't dance Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Cities; New York City; Orphans; Poetry And Poets; Winter ROCKO'S SUGAR, by PETER JACOBS Poem Source First Line: I'm going to see my baby - it's been Last Line: Mr. Undaunted, this waving maniac, %proud daddy in the beat-up pontiac Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Parents ROTHKO'S LAST MEDITATION, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the days leading to the miracle he did not Subject(s): Abandonment; Disappeared Persons; Meditation; Desertion; Missing Persons ROTHKO'S LAST MEDITATION, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the days leading to the miracle he did not Last Line: Nothing, a miraculous calm he'd soon lose and chase %into his chosen death Subject(s): Abandonment; Disappeared Persons; Meditation RUBAIYAT FOR SUE ELLA TUCKER, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sue ella tucker was barely in her teens Subject(s): Abandonment; Sex; Desertion RUBAIYAT FOR SUE ELLA TUCKER, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sue ella tucker was barely in her teens Last Line: Telling how it happened. She left out %a large part of the story but told it well Subject(s): Abandonment; Sex RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER AEGINA, GREECE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many the feet that filled Last Line: And you have perished! Subject(s): Abandonment; Greece; Mountains; Ruins SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 6. THE WANDERING ONE MAKES MUSIC, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS Poem Text First Line: The years sped onward. He who forever sought Last Line: In that great diapason of sweet sound. Subject(s): Abandonment; Love; Desertion SLAUGHTER STREET, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One time years ago a man tried to sell Subject(s): Children; Abandonment; City & Town Life; Childhood; Desertion SO WE'LL GO NO MORE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it's fare thee well, my own true love; Subject(s): Illness; Abandonment; Love - Loss Of; Desertion SPEAKING OF LOSS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I began with everything Last Line: Nothing to give you but poems Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion SPEAKING OF LOSS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I began with everything Last Line: I am left with plain hands and %nothing to give you but poems Subject(s): Abandonment SPOILS, by GEORGE WITTE Poem Source First Line: The fields near ours sprout crops of signs Last Line: He's abandoned, that scalds my pocket now Subject(s): Abandonment; Farm Life TABLETS, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: I dreamed I was in a desert and because I was sick of myself Last Line: There was nothing more I could do Subject(s): Abandonment THAT MOMENT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the pistol muzzle oozing blue vapour Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion THAT MOMENT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the pistol muzzle oozing blue vapour Last Line: Crow had to start searching for something to eat Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Abandonment THE ABANDONED, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sat by the wayside and wept, where roses, red roses and white Last Line: It seemed like the wail of the wind as they left her alone with the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion THE ABANDONED, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight touched the sombre waters white Last Line: All, save the drowning agony of breath. Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion THE ABANDONED NEWBORN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they found you, you were not breathing Subject(s): Babies; Abandonment; Infants; Desertion THE CARRY; NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue is the sky overhead Last Line: Brown to the distant horizon. Subject(s): Abandonment; Nature; Desertion THE COLOR OF MANY DEER RUNNING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The air fresh, as it has been for days Last Line: Not one deer, but when many of them run away Subject(s): Abandonment; Deer THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 3, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The steaming river loitered like old blood Last Line: And lion watched her pass among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Cruelty; Love; Pleasure; South America; Travel; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Journeys; Trips; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 4, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time passed, but still no letter came; she ceased Last Line: As colts in april feel there in the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; South America; Waiting; Desertion THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 5, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river brimming full was silvered over Last Line: Over the barren fields where march brings daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Fathers; Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Regret; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 7, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a light gust came a waft of bells Last Line: To this old tale of woe among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Love; Marriage; Murder; Regret; Shame; Tragedy; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DESERTED WIFE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes not. - I have watched the moon go down Last Line: How injured, and how faithful I had been. Subject(s): Abandonment; Marriage; Desertion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DESERTER FROM THE CAUSE, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is gone: better so. We should know Last Line: Than live like the coward, and die like the slave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Abandonment; Cowardice; Desertion THE DESERTER['S MEDITATION], by JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If sadly thinking, / with [or, and] spirits sinking Last Line: Before we go! Variant Title(s): Let Us Be Merry Before We Go Subject(s): Abandonment; Drinks & Drinking; Desertion; Wine THE FURY OF ABANDONMENT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone lives in a cave Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion THE GOING MAN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, vain world, he's going home Last Line: Throughout the land! Subject(s): Abandonment; Babies; Farewell; Longing; Mothers; Desertion; Infants; Parting THE LIMITS OF DESIRE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love came along and said, I know Last Line: In the warm wind Subject(s): Abandonment THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 111, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I carried books and a hoe in my youth Last Line: To save a poor fish in a rut Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Abandonment; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Youth; Desertion THE STREET LAMP, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homes stand in slumber. Sleep broods shadowingly Last Line: Sadly you wane. How sad, and oh, how wise! Subject(s): Abandonment; Cities; Grief; Homeless; Poverty; Desertion; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness THE SWISS DESERTER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In strasbourg's fortress old and strong Last Line: O lord, my god, remember me! Subject(s): Abandonment; Switzerland; Desertion; Swiss THEY ARE ALIVE ALTHOUGH CELADON, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The house is lightly lived in Last Line: But he lives here, he really lives here Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Abandonment; Emptiness; Grief; Loss THREE VALENTINES: COOKING EGGS, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Museless, miserable new man, how did I come down Last Line: When there's cleaning up and hunger again, %and waiting, and the long %afternoons with litst of what Subject(s): Abandonment THRESHOLDS, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: His house he's leaving now Last Line: With a somewhat stiff smile %he thus abandons the thresholds Subject(s): Abandonment TORRISMOND; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen torrismond, my son, to-night? Last Line: Torris. Then here's an end of life. Subject(s): Abandonment; Betrayal; Courts & Courtiers; Fathers & Sons; Longing; Love; Loyalty; Pleasure; Politics & Government; Desertion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ABANDON ALL HOPE ALL YE THAT ENTER HERE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To die - for this into the world you came Last Line: And open for ever. Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion TRANSLATION, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Enter the simple landscape Last Line: As if we are stories mere touch can translate Subject(s): Abandonment; Past TRANSPARENCIES, by JOE BONOMO Poem Source First Line: One approaches an abandoned building the way one might Last Line: There was one abandoned house I could nearly see through. %the next day, it was gone Subject(s): Abandonment; Buildings And Builders TWENTY WAYS TO TIE A SARONG, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: I'm fleeing the city - back to pine trees Last Line: We can always go to yuca, the [or, that] cuban upscale club for show-biz types Subject(s): Abandonment; Country Life; Nature UNALLOYED, by THOMAS PAIGE DALPORTO Poem Source First Line: Last night in a deserted field Last Line: And after %you went away Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Guitars; Love; Music And Musicians VERSE ABANDONED DURING 'FULL ON NIGHT', by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: The worst of kinds of lmy chameleon Last Line: Loathing loathing, loath to autoalter Subject(s): Abandonment WEDNESDAY'S CHILD, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Bill is visiting on spring break. As we talk on the drive home form the Last Line: Get home in time to watch ourselves on the six o'clock news Subject(s): Abandonment; Adoption; Boys; Child Custody; Children - Illegitimate; Orphans; Stepfathers; Stepmothers WHILE WATCHING 'YOUNG AND INNOCENT' I THINK OF MY MOTHER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pull down the shades. Those waifs Subject(s): Mothers; Fathers; Absence; Abandonment; Separation; Isolation; Desertion WHO WAVER IN THE WAKE OF WINDS, by RAYMOND ELLSWORTH F. LARSSON Poem Text First Line: Now / are the gods departed Last Line: Night Alternate Author Name(s): Larsson, R. E. F. Variant Title(s): Contemplation Of The Word Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Desertion; Separation; Isolation WILDERNESS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remoteness is its own secret. Not holiness Last Line: Unawares, as at the beaks of ravens Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Abandonment; Wilderness WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab WRECKAGE THAT'S HERE, by DAVID MOOLTEN Poem Source First Line: Near corrozal, another dry, white village Last Line: The wreckage that's here were more beautiful Subject(s): Abandonment WUPATKI, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a people abandon their town Last Line: And the small bones of a family. Subject(s): Abandonment; Legacies; Moving & Movers; Desertion YOU ARE NOT, by DANE ZAJC Poem Source First Line: You are not in the voice of the wind, not in the diffusion of the mountain Last Line: Would be to find a name for the end Subject(s): Abandonment; Memory |
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