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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ADMIRATION Matches Found: 113 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE WHITE ROSE, SENT BY A YORKISH GENTLEMAN TO LANCASTRIAN MISTRESS", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If this fair rose offend thy sight / placed in thy bosom fair Last Line: "with envy pale 'twill lose its dye, / and yorkish turn again" Variant Title(s): "the White Rose Sent By A Yorkish Gentleman To His Lancastrian Mistress;the White Rose, Sent By A Yorkish Lover; Subject(s): Admiration;flowers;roses A BUDGET OF PARADOXES, by JOHN MARTLEY Poem Text First Line: Child in thy beauty; empress in thy pride Last Line: Nymph, with one welcome, thee and these we greet. Subject(s): Admiration A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 4. HER TRIUMPH, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the chariot at hand here of love Last Line: Oh, so white! Oh, so soft! Oh, so sweet is she. Variant Title(s): The Triumph Of Charis;love's Chariot, Fr. The Devil Is An Ass Subject(s): Admiration A COUNTRY SONG; CANZONE, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lad philisides Last Line: More envied phoebus for his western flying. Subject(s): Flowers; Admiration A GAGE D'AMOUR, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charles, for it seems you wish to know Last Line: I pour libation. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Admiration A HEALTH, by EDWARD COATE PINKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I fill this cup to one made up of loveliness alone Last Line: And weariness a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Pinkney, Edward Coote Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Mccausland, Georgiana A PRAISE OF HIS LADY, by JOHN HEYWOOD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Give place, you ladies, and begone! Last Line: Within the mouth of man. Variant Title(s): A Description Of A Most Noble Lady;the Portrait;on The Princess Mary Subject(s): Admiration A PRAISE OF HIS LOVE, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give place, ye lovers, here before Last Line: To match the candle with the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Variant Title(s): His Incomparable Lady;in His Lady's Praise Subject(s): Admiration; Love A REGULAR GIRL, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, what do you mean by a regular girl? Last Line: And a regular mother as well. Subject(s): Admiration; Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism A SEQUENCE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You make me think of lavender Last Line: Ah, heart's desire, once more by the old fire stretch out thy hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Admiration; Farewell; Love; Parting A SONG, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her fair cheeks two pits do lie Last Line: For if thou let me live, I die. Subject(s): Admiration A SONG, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye swains cease to flatter, our hearts to obtain Last Line: The worthy man only can hold a place there. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Admiration; Worth, Patience A VIOLET IN HER HAIR, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A violet in her lovely hair Last Line: Beneath her feet! Subject(s): Admiration ADMIRATION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can human shape so taking be Last Line: Is thus admired like a deity! Subject(s): Admiration; Bodies ADORATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing beside mary at the sales convention Last Line: And poured a cup of purple punch for mary %then I took another one for me Subject(s): Admiration; Lust AESTHETICS, by CHARLES TRUEMAN LANHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your slender throat Last Line: In sudden slantings through the vale. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanham, C. T. Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty AN EPISTLE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hasten, o hasten, for my love's sake haste Last Line: W. B. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Admiration AN EXPERIENCE AND A MORAL, by FREDERICK SWARTWOUT COZZENS Poem Text First Line: I lent my love a book one day Last Line: Unless you read it afterward! Subject(s): Admiration; Books; Reading APOTHEOSIS OF MASTER SERGEANT DOE, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear master sergeant to the fold Last Line: A blood-red streamer %in monrovian skies, a lamppost and-theswinging %redeemer Subject(s): Admiration; Human Rights; Leadership; Military; Patriotism; Survival BALLADE OF THE FAN, by WILLIAM FREDERICK KIRK Poem Text First Line: Madly I long for the day Last Line: Ho for the crack of the bat! Subject(s): Admiration; Fans; Games; News; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements BESSIE, by W. WETHERBEE Poem Text First Line: Form so neat, tres petite Last Line: That is bessie. Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty BLACK AND BLUE EYES, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brilliant black eye Last Line: Dear fanny! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Admiration; Eyes CHERRY RIPE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There is a garden in her face Last Line: "these sacred cherries to come nigh, / till cherry-ripe themselves do cry" Subject(s): Admiration;cherries;fruit CONSTANCY, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Out upon it, I have loved Last Line: A dozen in her place. Variant Title(s): The Constant Lover;a Poem With An Answer;moods;a Poem Subject(s): Admiration; Fidelity; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy DISDAIN RETURNED, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that loves a rosy cheek Last Line: That love to her I cast away. Variant Title(s): The True Beauty;a Proper Woman;the Unfading Beauty Subject(s): Admiration; Love ELEANOR, by JOHN HENRY BOYNTON Poem Text First Line: I do not think she loves me yet Last Line: And still have loved her every day. Subject(s): Admiration EROS IS MISSING, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eros is missing. In the early morn Last Line: I see him, bow and all, in chloe's eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Admiration FANNY: 114, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had been noticed at some public places Last Line: A lustre in her eye, that oft would seem Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Admiration; Ambition FANNY: 115, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little like effortery; and yet Last Line: Others have done the same - 'twas not of her invention Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Admiration; Ambition; Fame GALATEA, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: Through the night you showed me all Last Line: Beauty, are you woman too? Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty GIFT OF THE BOOK, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lights go off Last Line: Stunned %by the hunger Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Admiration; Bodies; Desire; Night HER GUITAR, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the fire that loves to tint her Last Line: This guitar. Subject(s): Admiration; Guitars HER LIKENESS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A girl, who has so many wilful ways Last Line: On every hand of that which she doth sow. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Admiration HER NAME IS AS A WORD OF OLD ROMANCE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Her name is like a word of old romance Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Women; Admiration I LOVE YOUR CRAZY BONE, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Even your odds and ends Last Line: Rising and setting inside your shoes %wherever you go Subject(s): Admiration; Bodies; Love IKKYU WAS AWAKENED BY A CROW'S CAW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O master, why count flowers that re gone? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Admiration; Loss; Nature IN CAP AND GOWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In cap and gown I saw her go Last Line: "with the new maid ye cannot know,- / in cap and gown" Subject(s): Admiration;commencement; Graduation IN THE SPRING, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bright crocus flames, and now Last Line: And sweeter than the violets! Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Variant Title(s): Spring Subject(s): Admiration; Holidays; Trees INCONSISTENT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say I'm a darling, and joy-of-the-house Last Line: Why can't I have sugar in my bread and milk? Subject(s): Admiration; Children; Contrariness; Childhood JEWEL, by SALLY ALLEN MCNALL Poem Source First Line: Someone was explaining at length the process Last Line: The stripped soul blazes but I mean you to wear %this love in the hollow of your throat Subject(s): Admiration; Love KEEPING THINGS NEAT, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You plant a rosebush by your door, and Last Line: Hide. Subject(s): Admiration; Cleanliness; Gardens & Gardening; Housekeeping; Neighbors; Tools LINES TO A LADY, by BERNICE SWANSON Poem Text First Line: If greater art should meet his gaze Last Line: More sweet than his can ever be. Subject(s): Admiration; Women LOVE ABOVE BEAUTY, by HENRY REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Lovely chloris, though thine eyes Last Line: To my fidelity. Subject(s): Admiration; Fidelity; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy LOVE DISSEMBLED, FR. AS YOU LIKE IT, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think not I love him, though I ask for him Last Line: But that's all one; omittance is no quittance. Subject(s): Admiration MARY DONNELLY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lovely mary donnelly, it's you I love the best Last Line: May go! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Variant Title(s): Lovely Mary Donnelly Subject(s): Admiration MEN AND MAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men the angels eyed Last Line: Bear radiant in the stain. Subject(s): Admiration; Angels; Mankind; Human Race MY LADY, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So gentle and so gracious doth appear Last Line: Who to the soul, in going, sayeth: sigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Admiration MY LADY OF DAWN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady rises with the day Last Line: Because they 're hers I love them. Subject(s): Admiration; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Morning; Women MY LADY'S MORNING SONG, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The morning breaks; the golden light disperses dimming Last Line: My tribute to her art. Subject(s): Admiration; Love; Women MY PRAIRIE GIRL, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: My prairie girl, though tanned of face Last Line: My prairie girl. Subject(s): Admiration; Girls; Prairies; Plains MY SWEETHEART'S FACE, by JOHN ALLEN WYETH Poem Text First Line: My kingdom is my sweetheart's face Last Line: And I have fallen in! Subject(s): Admiration; Love NIHIL EST IN INTELLECTU, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Here's how I know god Last Line: Si, que te veo como un dios, hombre ed their heads Subject(s): Admiration O, SAW YE THE LASS?, by RICHARD RYAN (1796-1849) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, saw ye the lass wi' the bonny blue een? Last Line: To my dear one, the lass wi' the bonny blue een. Subject(s): Admiration OLIVIA, FR. TWELFTH NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Last Line: And leave the world no copy. Subject(s): Admiration ON A GIRDLE, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That which her slender waist confined Last Line: Take all the rest the sun goes round! Subject(s): Admiration; Clothing & Dress; Girdles; Love ON HIS MISTRESS, THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You meaner beauties of the night Last Line: The eclipse and glory of her kind? Variant Title(s): To His Mistress, The Queen Of Bohemia;elizabeth Of Bohemia;queen Worship Subject(s): Admiration; Elizabeth, Queen Of Bohemia ON SOME BUTTERCUPS, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: A little way below her chin Last Line: To find a voice and tell! Subject(s): Admiration; Buttercups; Flowers ON THE ROAD TO CHORRERA, by ARLO BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three horsemen galloped the dusty way Last Line: For the sake of the rider who would not heed! Subject(s): Admiration; Horseback Riding REJECTED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a nawful pretty teacher at our school, an' Last Line: If I do what I've been plannin', an' I die in her front yard. Subject(s): Admiration; Boys; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors ROSANDER'S DESCRIPTION OF RASALYND, by THOMAS LODGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the clear in highest sphere Last Line: Mine! Variant Title(s): Fair Rosalynd;rosalynd;rosalind;rosaline;rosalind's Description Subject(s): Admiration SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes Last Line: Smell of saltwater swimming in the room Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach Last Line: Blue smoke snaking up the pink sky Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales SHAKESPEARE, by COLIN RAE-BROWN Poem Text First Line: What glorious victories are here enshrined Last Line: All coming time shall fail thy like to find! Subject(s): Admiration; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She walks in beauty, like the night Last Line: A heart whose love is innocent! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Love SONG, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shape alone let others prize Last Line: And read it perfect there. Subject(s): Admiration SONG, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is not fair to outward view Last Line: Than smiles of other maidens are! Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Admiration SONG, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, lovely rose Last Line: That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Variant Title(s): The Rose Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Flowers; Love; Modesty; Roses; Transience; Impermanence SONG, by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the lime-tree, on the daisied ground Last Line: She, I think, will tell no tale. Subject(s): Admiration SONG: TO CELIA, by PHILOSTRATUS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Drink to me only with thine eyes Last Line: Not of itself but thee! Subject(s): Admiration; Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Love; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse SONNET (WRITTEN IN ANSWER TO A SONNET ENDING THUS: -), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue! 'tis the life of heaven, - the domain Last Line: When in an eye thou art alive with fate! Variant Title(s): "blue Eyes (answer To A Sonnet Ending Thus: -);""blue! 'tis The Life Of Heaven, - The Domain""; Subject(s): Admiration; Eyes SONNET: 106, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When in the chronicle of wasted time Last Line: Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. Variant Title(s): "beauty Beyond Praise;to His Love;""when In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time""; Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Love SONNET: 18, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Last Line: So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Variant Title(s): "shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?"";to His Love; Subject(s): Admiration; Art & Artists; Beauty; Change; Flowers; Immortality; Love; Roses; Summer; Transience; Impermanence SONNET: 99, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The forward violet thus did I chide Last Line: But sweet or color it had stolen from thee. Subject(s): Admiration SONNETS FOR LOST DIVINITIES, by WILLIAM E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: You are supreme mistress of counterpoint Last Line: Memorial to a moment, and a rose . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Faust, Henri Subject(s): Admiration SPRING, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter's winds are banished from the sky Last Line: Sing, poet, thou—and sing thy best for may! Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Admiration STANDING THE GAFF, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you have made some costly break, don't Last Line: Station, and with it you will always hold the world's respect and admiration. Subject(s): Admiration; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) STREAK OF LIGHT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a party to celebrate the mid-term break Subject(s): Youth; Admiration THE ADMIRER, by CLAUDIA EMERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had before come courting--with pecans Subject(s): Admiration; Courtship; Food & Eating THE EYE IN THE ROCK, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A high rock face above flathead lake Last Line: Painted this eye that the rock might see. Subject(s): Admiration; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Stones; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Granite; Rocks THE FOREST MAID, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fairest of the rural maids! Last Line: Of those calm solitudes, is there. Variant Title(s): Oh Fairest Of The Rural Maids! Subject(s): Admiration THE GIRL OF CADIZ, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh never talk again to me Last Line: May match the dark-eyed girl of cadiz. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Admiration THE HEAVENS AT NIGHT, by CHRISTIAN ERNST SCHNEIDER Poem Text First Line: I love to lie at eventime Last Line: Of god's celestial truth. Subject(s): Admiration; Night; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Bedtime THE IRISH SPINNING-WHEEL, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Show me a sight Last Line: Aquals her sittin' and takin' a twirl at it. Subject(s): Admiration; Spinning THE LOW-BACKED CAR, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw sweet peggy Last Line: Though it beat in a low-backed car! Subject(s): Admiration THE MILKING-MAID, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year stood at its equinox Last Line: Good-bye, my wayside posy! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Farm Walk Subject(s): Admiration THE NEW INN: A VISION OF BEAUTY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a beauty that I saw Last Line: All beauty! -- and without a spot. Variant Title(s): "perfect Beauty;""it Was A Beauty That I Saw"" (from The New Inn); Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty THE TORRENT, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh torrent, roaring in thy giant fall Last Line: I will heroic deeds, prophetic words, proclaim. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Waterfalls; Admiration TO - (3), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden Last Line: With which I worship thine. Subject(s): Admiration TO A LADY ADMIRING HERSELF IN A LOOKING-GLASS, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair lady, when you see the grace Last Line: Yours, sweet, in me, and mine in you. Variant Title(s): To One Admiring Herself In A Looking-glass Subject(s): Admiration TO A LADY ON HER ART OF GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY, by JOHN JAMES PIATT Poem Source First Line: You ask a verse, to sing (ah, laughing face!) Last Line: O muse, begin, and let the truth - but hold! %first let me see that you are growing old Subject(s): Admiration; Aging TO CHARLOTTE HALDANE (WHO ASKED FOR A POEM ON HER BIRTHDAY), by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A task of terror, I must first dissent Last Line: And so assure you what he best can send? Subject(s): Admiration; Haldane, Charlotte (1895-1964) TO CHAUNCEY HARE TOWNSHEND, ON HIS LINES PRAISING THE TRANQUILITY OF A, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh townshend! Couldst thou linger where scarce a ripple play'd Last Line: For health and hope are in thy song, thou deep full-voiced sea! Subject(s): Admiration; Nature TO DIANEME (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes Last Line: When all your world of beauty's gone. Subject(s): Admiration; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO HELEN (1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Helen, thy beauty is to me Last Line: Are holy land! Variant Title(s): To Helen Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical TO STELLA, WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF HER BIRTH...WHEN I WAS SICK, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tormented with incessant pains Last Line: Admiring you, you pitying us. Variant Title(s): To Stella, March 13, Mdccxxiii-iv Subject(s): Absence; Admiration; Grief; Pain; Passion; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery TO THE PRINCESS LUCRETIA, by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy unripe youth seemed like the purple rose Last Line: The sun's meridian glories blaze and warm. Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty TO W.G.C., WITH A BOOK OF PLAYS, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, you have known great men, and your own mind Subject(s): Admiration TO WALT WHITMAN, by TOM MACINNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello there, walt! Last Line: Forever on their own! Subject(s): Admiration; Language; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had been a boy Last Line: Intolerably cold and sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Admiration; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Male-female Relations UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenas in silks my julia goes Last Line: O how that glittering taketh me! Variant Title(s): The Poetry Of Dress (2);whenas In Silks My Julia Goes Subject(s): Admiration; Clothing & Dress; Innocence; Love; Sex; Silk VANITY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Thank you for listening, for looking. I admire Last Line: Something true Subject(s): Admiration; Gratitude; Truth; Vanity VERSES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM OF A LADY'S COMMON-PLACE BOOK, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is one leaf reserved for me Last Line: To write my name forever there! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Written In The Blank Leap Subject(s): Admiration VILLON TO HIS MISTRESS: A.D. 1456, by F. B. W. Poem Text First Line: Sweetheart, in thee my hopes behold Last Line: Sweetheart, in thee. Subject(s): Admiration; Hope; Longing; Love; Optimism VISION OF A FAIR WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tell us some of the charms of the stars Last Line: And her eyes like the radiance the sunbeams bring Subject(s): Admiration WHEN I TOUCHED HER LONG FEET, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I quit eating Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Admiration; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Women WHEN I WATCHED HER HANDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I gave up everything I owned Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Admiration; Hands; Man-woman Relationships; Nature WHITE ROSE, SENT BY A YORKISH GENTLEMAN, by JAMES SOMERVILE Poem Source First Line: If this fair rose offend thy sight %placed in thy bosom fair Subject(s): Admiration; Flowers; Roses WHITE ROSE, SENT BY A YORKISH GENTLEMAN, by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this fair rose offend thy sight %placed in thy bosom fair Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Admiration; Flowers; Roses WHO KNOWS WHERE BEAUTY LIES?, by AGNES STEWART BECK Poem Text First Line: Does the harsh-toned voice of the crow Last Line: Think you? Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty WIFE POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And it's clear at last, she dropped Last Line: And hot clouds of the old days of summer. Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ZALINKA, by TOM MACINNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night in a land of triangles Last Line: Slept with her hands in my hair. Subject(s): Admiration; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Male-female Relations |
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