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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ADAM & EVE Matches Found: 105 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ADAM LAY I-BOWNDYN [OR, I-BOUNDEN, OR, Y-BOUNDEN]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "adam lay I-bowndyn, bowndyn in a bond" Last Line: Therefore we may singen / deo gracias Variant Title(s): O Felix Culpa;bless The Time The Apple Was Taken Subject(s): Adam & Eve;bible;eden;love;religion;sin; Theology A COTTAGE IN A CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We reached the place by night Last Line: For the cottage by the water. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Flowers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Eve; Seamen; Sails A LAY OF OLD TIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morning of the first sad fall Last Line: New adams and new eves! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible A REFLECTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When eve upon the first of men Last Line: That adam was not adamant! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Pity; Sin; Women; Eve AD. AN' EVE, by WILL SEEDY Poem Text First Line: When adam lived in eden park Last Line: "de lord said, ""you be damned!" Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible ADAM, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God made man upright at the first Last Line: The earth being in the middle found. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible ADAM AND EVE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When adam fell asleep in paradise Last Line: Towards lilith by the brooks of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible ADAM POSED, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could our first father, at his toilsome plough Last Line: T' have hit the wavering form, or given this thing a name! Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology ADAM THE FIRST, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gendarmes of heaven with flaming swords Last Line: To hell and desolation. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Heaven; Eve; Paradise ADAM'S CURSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together at one summer's end Last Line: As weary-hearted as that hollow moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve ADAM'S DREAM, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the first dream adam our father had Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve ADAM'S TASK, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Language; Mythology; Eve; Words; Vocabulary ADAM, LILITH, AND EVE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, it thundered and lightened Last Line: They re-seated themselves beside. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve ADAM; A HUNGARIAN LEGEND, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in asia, saith the legend Last Line: Death his troubled face shall brighten. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Asia; Bible; Creation; God; Legends, Hungarian; Far East; East Asia; Orient ADOLESCENT, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: Half-man, half child, his whole limp body nods Last Line: The gods themselves as adam leapt to eve! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Adolescence; Bible; Puberty; Teen Agers AN AFTERTHOUGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lost garden paradise Last Line: And the blessed door made fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Heaven; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise ANCIENT HISTORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain Last Line: The gaunt wild man whose lovely sons were dead. Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; Religion; Soldiers; Theology AVE EVA, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild strawberries, gooseberries, trampled Last Line: And trampling the gooseberries and the strawberries. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible BALLAD OF HOW ADAM SAW IT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proverbially, old adam Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Eve BEFORE EVE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a strangeness Last Line: And the earth and adam knew! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible CANDIED, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In eden it was never winter, the ground Last Line: Its sticky, sticky rivers. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden CHASTITY MATTERS LESS THAN YOU THINK, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot retrieve Last Line: Through her millennia of little deaths. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Chastity; Nature DEATH, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Look not so fierce; thy hands are ty'd, I know Last Line: Borne in a surer birth of immortalitie. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Devil; Immortality; Spiritual Life; Eve; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub EDEN, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The garden; the first year and the first june Last Line: Adam gave us cain. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain EDEN RETOLD: 1. THE SICKNESS OF ADAM, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, at every step, he turned Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Longing; Anger; God; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 3. THE KISS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first kiss was with stumbling fingertips Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Kisses; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 4. THE TREE OF GUILT, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, on her way to the oracle of love Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Trees; Guilt; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 5. THE CONFESSION, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As on the first day her first word was thou Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Sin; Trees; Food & Eating; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 6. SHAME, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hard blood falls back in the manly fount Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Shame; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 7. EXILE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The one who gave the warning with his wings Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Exiles; Eve EVE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A scarlet bird upon her shoulder's snow Last Line: Leapt adamdoubling paradiseand found her. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Eve EVE, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, with her basket, was Last Line: "eva!"" again." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I sit at the door, / sick to gaze within Last Line: His tongue out with its fork. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology EVE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the first time a lovely scene Last Line: In god's own image made. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; God; Jews; Judaism EVE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago, in ages grey Last Line: To the work we have to do. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible EVE AND ADAM, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Tis said a clever woman can Last Line: And make a man out of a fool. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations EVE TO HER DAUGHTERS, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was not I who began it Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Women's Rights; Eve; Feminism EVE'S BLOOD, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love hides many treasures in its deeps Last Line: The blood of that eve of the early woods. Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Brides; Nature; Nudity; Nakedness EVE'S CRADLE-SONG, by WALTER SATTERLEE Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep, little cain Last Line: Little cain! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain EVE'S SONG, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They may not ever know Last Line: O heart's desire! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve EVE, ON A MORNING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, on a morning, paused before the / gate Last Line: "and adam plans to break new ground to-day." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Peace; Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness FOR EVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And I have felt a pity surge for eve Last Line: Who kept with adam that first lover's tryst! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Hearts; Love FRAGMENTS OF THE MYSTERY OF THE FALL, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam: since that last evening we have fallen indeed! Last Line: Oh cain! Behold your father's words are said! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve FRUIT OF THE TREE, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: In the dark ocean which rolls a molten world Last Line: God wept, for heaven seemed hollow ... Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Women GIVE ALL, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The maiden-cheeked, fine smelling peach has come Last Line: "give all you have to give." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Love GRATITUDE, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I upon the first creation / clapped my wings with loud applause Last Line: Weaned from earth, and led to god. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Religion; Theology HYMN TO CONTENT, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! The nymph with placid eye Last Line: Low whispering in the shade. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Nymphs; Adam & Eve; Contentment; Eve I HAVE BEEN A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND', by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't bliss. What was bliss Last Line: Warming her outstretched palm Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Desire; Eden; Life; Temptation; Eve IDYLL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Each time that eve and adam meet, he builds Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Smoking; Soul; Spring; Eve; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes IMPERIAL ADAM, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial adam, naked in the dew / felt his brown flanks & found the rib was gone Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology IN ADAMS FALL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We shall all reach the skies Subject(s): Adam & Eve IN MY NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the bound of mine own enclosure Last Line: Might seem the best to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Beauty; Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I heard him calling! Did you hear Last Line: Adam, where art thou? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible JUST TO FEEL HUMAN, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A single apple grew on our tree, which Subject(s): Apples; Adam & Eve; Eve KOSMOS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of dust the primal adam came Last Line: Lifting the heart of man with love. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Art & Artists; Bible; Love; Mankind; Soul; Eve; Human Race LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 14, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When adam and when eve left paradise Last Line: Thee and thy realm of change and death and pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve LEGEND, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: First thunders spoke at half-past one Last Line: A beautiful thing she could not touch. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Eve LILITH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fiercest demon-shape in hell / was lilith fell Last Line: To save a world once more! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Fables; Lilith; Eve; Allegories LISTENING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She listened like a cushat dove Last Line: To hear him speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Doves; Love MARIAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She can be as wise as we Last Line: And give the peace of eden. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Love; Women MEDITATIONS OF MAN'S MORTALITIE: ADAM AND EVE, by ALICE SUTCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: Of all the trees that in the garden grew Last Line: And both must dye and turned be to dust. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Eden; Religion; Snakes; Theology; Serpents; Vipers MEN ARE HEAVEN'S PIERS; THEY EVERMORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How far a little virtue goes Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Male-female Relationships; Virtue METAMORPHOSES: 1. ADAM, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two boys exchange dna and blood, the usual Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Brothers; Eve; Half-brothers NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS' SONG BE THE SAME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would declare and could himself believe Last Line: To any watch they keep? Variant Title(s): Never Gain Would Birds' Song Be The Same Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Birds; Eve NEVERNESS, OR THE ONE SHIP BEACHED ON ONE FAR DISTANT SHORE, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old adam, with his fist-full of plump earth Last Line: And none be left to witness the blank mist? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; History; Humanity; Time; Eve; Historians NOTHING BUT STONES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I never passed so sad an hour Last Line: In blaze of gorgeous light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Churches; Grief; Stones; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness; Granite; Rocks OF THE APPLE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The apples in the garden bed Last Line: "wherewith the world abounds,"" she said." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; God; Praise ON 'EVE TEMPTED BY THE SERPENT' BY DEFENDENTE FERRARI, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rare spirit remembered now with a pang Last Line: Or easy but possible and we fall. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Jordan, Barbara (1936-1995); Temptation ON THE SEPARATION OF ADAM AND EVE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Goltzius, Hendrik (1558-1617); Paintings & Painters; Adam & Eve; Eve OUT FROM PARADISE, by MARY JANE CARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though I would not quarrel with justice Last Line: Adam and eve. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve OVER AND OVER, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: Arguing day by day, over and over and over Last Line: Two brothers palsied and grey, arguing over and over. Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; God PANEGYRIC ON THE LADIES; READ ALTERNATE LINES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: That man must lead a happy life Last Line: Is sure of earthly blessedness Subject(s): Adam & Eve;bible;women PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 14. AL-MUZAWWIR, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lord would fashion men Last Line: "come thou!"" at man's hour of death." Variant Title(s): Making Of Man Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Islam; Jews; Mankind; Eve; Judaism; Human Race RANDOM CONJECTURE, by BILL NOBLE Poem Text First Line: Would the world have been a better place Last Line: And died a celibate? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible REMONSTRANCE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughters of eve! Your mother did not well Last Line: Find the lost eden in their love to you. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Love; Women; Eve SALVE DEUX REX JUDAEORUM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sith cynthia is ascended to that rest Last Line: All what I am, I rest at your command. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Man-woman Relationships; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Eve; Male-female Relations; Virgin Mary SHARING EVE'S APPLE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O blush not so! O blush not so Last Line: O cut the sweet apple and share it! Variant Title(s): Eve's Sweet Pipin Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Religion; Eve; Theology SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 3. POWER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come then, my soul, I call thee by that name Last Line: And in my act may thy great will be done! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Life; Mankind; Pain; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Dead, The; Human Race; Suffering; Misery SON AND MOTHER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know what you are fighting against, fatuous mother Last Line: Go -- and wait. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Mothers; Passion; Sons SONS OF ADAM, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER Poem Text First Line: Adam, wrestler with storms Last Line: But the sons of adam crawl. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Sons SURFEIT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I am betrayed by multiplicity Last Line: Had for horizon his own straining knees. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Religion; Self; Eve; Theology THAT EDEN OF EARTH'S SUNRISE CANNOT VIE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And call you blessed, in their glad surmise / of paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Eden; Heaven; Adam & Eve THE APPLE, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, smiling, plucked the apple, then Last Line: As to let adam taste of it! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit THE BIRTH OF THE INVISIBLE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O scene of enchantment! O vision of bliss! Last Line: As in accents sepulchral it groaned -- I am death! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Birth; Death; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The THE CONTINUOUS IS BROKEN, AND RESUMES, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam made the world Last Line: Anyone is out there, listening. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Earth; Sin; World THE EYE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not true that eyes Last Line: Hill pastures and reluming the green-caved wood. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eyes; Light; Eve THE GOLDEN APPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She saw on the far bank a golden apple Last Line: With gloss of gold on his ruddy hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Evil; Fruit; Good; Temptation THE GRACE OF GOD, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: The lord's cross, so runs the old norse tale Last Line: From lips an hungered for its succulence? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Heaven; Religion; Eve; Paradise; Theology THE HUNTING OF DIAN, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of a midnight lost, lost forevermore Last Line: As far away I heard the cry her dim sea-lover gave. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Diana (goddess); Eden; Hunting; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women; Hunters; Male-female Relations THE IMMORTAL MARRIAGE, by JAMES DUVAL PHELAN Poem Text First Line: Eve speaks a language none can fail to hear Last Line: But only nature answers as he falls. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible THE OLD GENTRY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: That all from adam first began Last Line: Himself can fix or change his fate. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Fate; Labor & Laborers; Destiny; Work; Workers THE ORIGIN OF EVIL; AN ELEGY, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ranting topers, midnight rovers Last Line: Milton. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible THE ORIGIN OF TEARS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When eve, the twilight heavens to view Last Line: Bestowed his blessing ere he knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Tears THE POET'S VOW, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eve is a twofold mystery Last Line: Still, like them we must weep.' Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Marriage; Eve; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE RECOGNITION OF EVE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it was she had so fiercely fought Last Line: She was already turning beautiful Subject(s): Adam & Eve THE RECOMPENSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made a garden first for man Last Line: My adam praise me night and morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Children; God; Home; Mothers; Parents; Trade; Women; Childhood; Parenthood THE ROYAL CROWN, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I stand before thee, lord, and I am Last Line: Before thy might in awe I stand, bowed low unto the ground! Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; God; Jews; Sin; Eve; Judaism THE SICKNESS OF ADAM, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He entered with the authority of politeness Last Line: On earth. Sadly the angel watched them go Subject(s): Adam & Eve THE SONG OF EVE TO CAIN, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Rest, my baby, rest Last Line: Oh! Rest, my darling, rest! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain THE STORY AS I UNDERSTAND IT, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that eve first told the callow tree of apples Last Line: Through a divine monotony of spring on spring. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible THE TREE OF LIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that man was cast away Last Line: "what I lost by eden bower." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Life; Trees THE VISION OF EVE, by LEON DIERX Poem Text First Line: Three years their leaves on eden's smirch had shed Last Line: Two streams of gold o'er thee their radiance threw. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Love; Women; Eve TO THE LADY DURSLEY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here reading how fond adam was betrayed Last Line: Nor had frail adam fallen, nor milton wrote. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Heaven; Milton, John (1608-1674); Paradise TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. O CHILD OF URANUS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O child of uranus, wanderer down all times Last Line: Thy form in glory clad shall reappear. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Eve; Male-female Relations UNDER THE PINES, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All is still / under the pines Last Line: All is still. 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