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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ADVICE Matches Found: 114 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LAST COUNSEL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could you not in silence borrow Last Line: To the mother-bosom creeping. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Advice; Farewell; Grief; Solitude; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness A LESSON FOR MAMMA, by SYDNEY DAYRE Poem Text First Line: Dear mamma, if you just could be Last Line: Now, mamma, couldn't you? Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Daughters A MESSAGE TO BOYS, by C. E. WALKER Poem Text First Line: Keep upon your tongue pure speech Last Line: Make your life a power to bless. Subject(s): Advice; Messengers A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on the loftiest mountain-tops, unfurl Last Line: And harp, where eccho'd once thy feastful halls. Subject(s): Advice; Bible; Desolation; God; Vengeance; War A RECIPE FOR SANITY, by HENRY RUTHERFORD ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: Are you worsted in a fight? Last Line: Laugh it off. Subject(s): Advice; Laughter A SERMON FOR YOUNG FOLKS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't ever go hunting for pleasures Last Line: Why, then you may trust for the rest. Subject(s): Advice A SHORT SERMON, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children, who read my lay Last Line: Though the sky should fall. Subject(s): Children; Advice ADMONITION, by FREDERIKA BLACKNER Poem Text First Line: We cherish the things that pass Last Line: Never knowledge. Subject(s): Advice; Beauty ADVICE, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Let us guard the memory Last Line: To follow . . . Subject(s): Advice; Love Affairs; Memory ADVICE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: All you have to do,' the editor said Last Line: Or in %the sun Subject(s): Advice; Writing And Writers ADVICE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never try to tell people anything Last Line: It is well to refrain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Advice ADVICE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must do as you do? Your way I own Last Line: But I trust we shall meet -- in town. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Advice; Flowers; Friendship; Life; Roses ADVICE FOR A JOURNEY, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The drums mutter for war, and soon we must begin Last Line: You'll find, maybe, the dream under the hill - %but never canaan, nor any golden mountain Subject(s): Advice; Soldiers; World War Ii ADVICE OF GRACE, by JUANA GOERGEN Poem Source First Line: 9 needles %threaded Last Line: To frighten off indigestion Subject(s): Advice; Love - Marital ADVICE OF THE DREAM, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: The dream that escaped the dream Last Line: Able to be everywhere in the world. Subject(s): Advice; Dreams; Escapes; Freedom ADVICE THE BEST ACTOR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still take advice; though counsels when they flye Last Line: At randome, sometimes hit most happily. Subject(s): Advice ADVICE TO A YOUNG LADY LATELY MARRIED, by ESTHER LEWIS Poem Text First Line: Dear peggy, since the single state Last Line: And blushing throw the pen aside. Alternate Author Name(s): Sylvia; Clark, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Advice; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE, by MARY BARBER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you gain her affection, take care to preserve it Subject(s): Marriage; Sons; Advice; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADVICE TO MY BEST BROTHER, COLONEL FRANCIS LOVELACE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frank, wilt live handsomely? Trust not too far Last Line: A cloudy tempest, and a too fair day. Subject(s): Advice; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ADVICE TO MY YOUNG WIFE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have shattered your hands Last Line: It often clatters to the floor. Subject(s): Advice; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADVICE TO THE REVERENDS ON THEIR PREACHING SLOWLY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brethren, this comes to let you know Last Line: Will soon fill up their proper places. Subject(s): Advice; Preaching & Preachers ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Day after day I sit and write Last Line: Be ever our desires. Subject(s): Advice; African Americans - Women; Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology ADVISING AN ADULT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No wish to leave unseen Subject(s): Advice; Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Life; Poetry & Poets ADVISING AN ADULT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No wish to leave unseen Last Line: Ice black on the green shoots %the taut chain Subject(s): Advice; Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Life; Poetry And Poets ADVISING MYSELF, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world comes to you muffled as through a glass Last Line: Burning with joy or despair, you've known she was right Subject(s): Advice; Youth; Love – Nature Of AFTER GIVING QUESTIONABLE ADVICE TO A FRIEND I'M ATTRACTED TO, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: I pull the frayed rope Last Line: And lush heads of lettuce into place, %mine for the taking Subject(s): Advice; Friendship ALIVE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Dear abby, said someone from oregon Subject(s): Advice AN OLD ELM TO A SAPLING, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: Hold fast to earth and have no shame Last Line: And stand a cynosure to god! Subject(s): Advice; Growth; Trees ANOTHER MAN'S POISON, by CONSTANCE MILTON Poem Text First Line: I squander dollars while you save the pence Last Line: For horn of plenty filled with iodine! Subject(s): Advice ANY MAN'S ADVICE TO HIS SON, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you have lost the radio beam, then guide yourself by the sun or the stars Last Line: And because there is no other person, anywhere on earth, who remembers these things as clearly as I Subject(s): Advice; Sons ANY MAN'S ADVICE TO HIS SON, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you have lost the radio beam, then guide yourself by the sun or the stars Last Line: And because there is no other person, anywhere on earth, who remembers these things as clearly as I Subject(s): Advice; Sons AUNT DOROTHY'S LECTURE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, go and practise - get your work Last Line: If he'll come in to tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Advice BODY ADVICE, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: Bathe often, not always with water. Learn Last Line: Hum or swallow, smells that will not wash off Subject(s): Advice; Baths And Bathing; Bodies CAUTION IN COUNCELL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know when to speake; for many times it brings Last Line: Danger to give the best advice to kings. Subject(s): Advice; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CHARTED COURSE, by CLARA HYDE Poem Text First Line: Always there will be waiting women, son Last Line: Penelope will thread the patient loom. Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Sons; Women COUNCELL (2), by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What advice can I receive? Last Line: Of cutting through a flame. Subject(s): Advice COUNSEL, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No harvest shall they store Last Line: God love you, boy, god love you! Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Advice; Harvest COUNSEL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am hardly afraid Last Line: They have grown. Subject(s): Advice; Sympathy; Empathy DANGER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With what a childish and short sighted sense Last Line: Lies hid the pebble for the fatal sling. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Advice; Death; Wind; Dead, The DIRE WARNINGS: AUNT ALICE: APPLIED ENGINEER, by ELAINE HATFIELD Poem Source First Line: Don't shake coke bottles. They'll explode Last Line: Unplug all the electrical appliances during a storm so %the house won't burn down Subject(s): Advice; Aunts DIRE WARNINGS: FROM UNCLE BOB: THEOLOGIAN, by ELAINE HATFIELD Poem Source First Line: Don't get pregnant or we'll kill you Last Line: Don't tell family secrets Subject(s): Advice; Uncles DIRE WARNINGS: FROM UNCLE RODNEY: URBAN WARRIOR, by ELAINE HATFIELD Poem Source First Line: Never get a tattoo. It makes it easier for the police Last Line: To identify you Subject(s): Advice; Uncles EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lang hae thought, my youthfu' friend Last Line: Then ever did th' adviser! Subject(s): Advice EPISTLE TO DR. YOUNG UPON HIS POEM ON THE LAST DAY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the atheist tremble, thou alone Last Line: And practise o'er the angel in the man. Subject(s): Advice; Atheism; Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange discourse, in all impartial views Last Line: A god-like love embracing ev'ry man. Subject(s): Advice; Friends, Religious Society Of; Mankind; Reason; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Quakers; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No office seems more sacred and august Last Line: And from the sermon vindicate the text. Subject(s): Advice; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Sermons; Speech; Talk; Teaching & Teachers; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Oratory; Orators; Educators; Professors FOR A GIRL I KNOW ABOUT TO BECOME A WOMAN, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Advice; Girls; Coming Of Age; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAD AND CHEERFUL SONGS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me no more such ditties: they are well Last Line: Sing such a one. Subject(s): Advice; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs GOOD ADVICE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cease thy blushes and thy sorrow Last Line: And on earth to peace attain. Subject(s): Advice; Grief; Marriage; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GOOD ADVICE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is not exactly here Subject(s): Advice GOOD ADVICE, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is not exactly here Last Line: Here', says the devil, %'eat. It's paradise.' Subject(s): Advice GOOD COUNSEL TO A YOUNG MAID, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you the sunburnt pilgrim see Last Line: When no streams shall be left but in thine eye. Subject(s): Advice; Love – Nature Of HANDY GUIDE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Avoid adjectives of scale. Subject(s): Advice; Conduct Of Life HAPPINESS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! You do seem to think the ground Last Line: Tis where the heart is holy. Subject(s): Advice; Happiness; Hearts; Joy; Delight HIS KNOWLEDGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one will love you if you're naughty,' said Last Line: "he answered, ""mother will." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Advice; Children; Knowledge; Love; Mothers; Sons; Childhood I ASKED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: What turns parnassus into a mountain of hate? Last Line: Open minds know when to keep their mouths shut. Subject(s): Advice; Hate; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Poetry And Poets I CAN TELL YOU, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: I can tell you about airplanes Last Line: To walk away alive Subject(s): Advice; Air Travel IN THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O she will have the deep dark heart, for all her face is fair Last Line: A heaven of peace it is beside this mockery of a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Advice; Despair; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Shadows; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy INEVITABLE, by RUFINO BLANCO-FOMBONA Poem Source First Line: Will you be brave?' the old man asks the young Last Line: Go, lad!' the old man says. 'you now know tears!' Subject(s): Advice; Old Age INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT SILBURY-HILL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mound in some remote and dateless day Last Line: Lives in the eternal register of heaven. Subject(s): Advice; Future Life; God; Graves; Morality; Strangers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Ethics; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION: IN A FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Whose steps have reached this solitude Last Line: The weeds and mosses from this letter'd stone. Subject(s): Advice; Forests; Holidays; Solitude; Strangers; Trees; Woods; Loneliness KINDLY ADVICE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Be kind to the panther! For when thou wert young Subject(s): Advice;animals;kindness LISTEN TO ME, by KISHWAR NAHEED Poem Source First Line: If you want to speak %your punishment is death Last Line: Than pause and think: %of the word you first learnt Subject(s): Advice; Human Rights LOOK UP!, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: Look up, not down Last Line: Look up, not down! Subject(s): Advice; Happiness; Smiles; Joy; Delight LORD NEVIL'S ADVICE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend,' quoth lord nevil, 'thou art young' Last Line: "and count thyself a happy man." Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Advice; Conduct Of Life; Marriage LOUISE SCHELPER; SERVANT AND FRIEND OF OBERLIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fearless journeyer o'er the mountain-snow Last Line: When the glad human soul lifts a thanksgiving voice! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Advice; Children; Household Employees; Oberlin, Johann Friedrich (1740-1826); Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids MENTOR, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Text First Line: Be strange, be strong, incontinent, be glum Last Line: Of dying and loud crying comes, be not. Subject(s): Advice; Friendship MILKING SIAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give up thy milk to her who calls Last Line: Give up thy milk to her who calls! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Advice; Gifts & Giving; Heaven; Milk; Voices; Paradise; Milkmen; Milkmaids MONITIONS OF THE UNSEEN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are who give themselves to work for men Last Line: Look to it: let us mend our ways. Farewell Subject(s): Advice MY SECRET PSYCHIC ADVISOR, by CAROL E. MILLER Poem Source First Line: Give me your hand, she says Last Line: Give me your hand, she says: let's dance Subject(s): Advice; Dancing And Dancers NEVER TOO LATE: THE HERMIT'S VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here look, my son, for no vain-glorious shows Last Line: To overthrow the strength of satan's jar. Subject(s): Advice; Devil; Life; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub OLD CHRISTOVAL'S ADVICE; AND THE REASON HE GAVE IT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thy debtor be poor, old christoval cried Last Line: And remember'd what I might have been. Subject(s): Advice; Christianity; Debt; Humility; Morality; Ethics OLD MAXIMS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think there are some maxims Last Line: Who hoes his own row. Subject(s): Advice; Work OLD TOM TUSSER'S ADVICE, by ERNEST L. VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Back 'mid the baltic's sleet and snow Last Line: "for christmas comes but once a year!" Subject(s): Advice; Christmas; Knowledge; Wisdom; Nativity, The PAP'S OLD SAYIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pap had one old-fashioned sayin' Last Line: "shet up, and eat yer vittels!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Advice; Fathers REPLY TO ADVICE TO YOUTH, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: And what of old age without memories Last Line: And time stand still, and the last frail hope go blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Advice; Aging; Youth SEAFARER, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And learn o voyager to walk Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Advice; Earth; World SEAFARER, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And learn o voyager to walk Last Line: Of sound the rushing planet makes: %and learn to sleep against this ground Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Advice; Earth SOLITUDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Laugh and the world laughs with you Last Line: Through the narrow aisles of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The World As It Is;laughter;companionship;the Way Of The World;life's Magnet Subject(s): Advice; Aging; Pain; Solitude; Time; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness SONNET: 12. THE SPEEDY FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beware a speedy friend, the arabian said Last Line: Is swept, still lingering on the boughs the last. Subject(s): Advice; Arabs; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 7, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To the cross of the oak Last Line: You'll find no more Subject(s): Advice SUPERFLUOUS ADVICE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should they whisper false of you, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Advice SUPPOSE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose, my little lady Last Line: To do the best you can? Subject(s): Children; Advice; Conduct Of Life SYMON'S LESSON OF WISDOM FOR ALL MANNER OF CHILDREN, by CHARLES SYMON Poem Text First Line: Child, I warn thee in all wise Last Line: Wouldst thou be bishop when he is past. Subject(s): Advice TAKE CARE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little children, you must seek Last Line: You will show for what you are. Subject(s): Children; Advice; Conduct Of Life THE ADVICE OF A JUDGE, by EVERETT C. RICHMOND Poem Text First Line: As you sow, so shall you reap Last Line: So my advice is be careful what you do. Subject(s): Advice THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. ADVICE TO THE STOUT, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: The languid stomach curses even the pure Last Line: Too fast the gummy nutriment imbibes. Subject(s): Advice; Food & Eating; Health THE CHECK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Troubled againe? Why surely thou Last Line: Which gave them cause to fight, & strength to win. Subject(s): Advice; God THE CROSSROADS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I stood at the crossroads one day Last Line: When life on earth is done. Subject(s): Advice; Life; Roads; Paths; Trails THE DIZZY DAUGHTER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary jane, you dizzy daisy, what a mess Last Line: She's with us you should aid her, not make work for her to do. Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Daughters THE GULISTAN: INSCRIPTION OVER THE ARCHED ALCOVE OF FERIDOON'S HALL, by MOSHARREF OD-DIN IBN MOSLEH OD-DIN SADI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother! Know the world deceiveth! Last Line: Alike may serve to die upon! Alternate Author Name(s): Saadi Subject(s): Advice THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wraps his scarf around my neck Last Line: That howling will chew up your soul! Subject(s): Advice; Animals; Bells; Children; Churches; Paranoia; Rabbits; Relationships; Childhood; Cathedrals; Hares THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE SECOND FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The minstrel ceased; the music's wings Last Line: Caught his wild story from the blast. Subject(s): Advice; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Rites & Ceremonies; Singing & Singers; Songs THE LORD SPOKE, by CHARLES VAN LERBERGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord said to his child Last Line: Be it all your truth. Subject(s): Advice; Knowledge; Truth; Voices THE OUTCAST, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul, be your own Last Line: Affront the world. Subject(s): Advice; Alienation (social Psychology); Cruelty; Estrangement; Outcasts THE SLUGGARD, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the sluggard say, when he was Last Line: Broth. Subject(s): Advice; Old Age THE THRUSH AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time to get up! Time to get up! Says the thrush Last Line: Time to get up! O thrush, I rise—I hear! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Advice; Birds; Calm; Mankind; Noises; Thrushes; Waking; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Human Race THREE ON LUCK: SENIOR POET, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does anybody listen to advice? Last Line: Given a meal together, and time to talk Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Advice TO A ROMANTIC, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hold your eager head Last Line: The dead are those who lies %were doors to a narrow house Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Variant Title(s): Advice To A Young Romanticis Subject(s): Advice TO E.N. (1), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: From out of the snare that the fool men set Last Line: The fool of you all ... But at least your fool! Subject(s): Advice; Friendship; Kindness TO MY AUNTY, by JANET LITTLE Poem Text First Line: My ever dear an' worthy aunty Last Line: Your sage advice in this to follow. Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie Subject(s): Advice; Aunts; Critics & Criticism TO MY STUDENTS; LAST CLASS, LAST WORDS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are dancing the rain dance in bali Last Line: Go out and make a dollar, and god will love you Subject(s): Schools; Advice; Students TO RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORD VISCOUNT MONT-CASSEL, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A peacock nobly born and bred Last Line: With honor live, with honor die. Subject(s): Advice; Fables; Mountcashel, Edward. Viscount (1711-36); Allegories TO THE DUKE DE NOAILLES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vain the concern which you express Last Line: But to secure our rest? Variant Title(s): An Epigram Subject(s): Advice; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology UNDER THE TREES, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the trees!' who but agrees Last Line: For the cold his niece caught, sitting under the trees. Subject(s): Advice UP AND DOWN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun of a sweet summer morning Last Line: The benefit still of the doubt! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Love; Advice VAIN COUNSEL, by MARIAN STORM Poem Text First Line: She is very foolish if she loves a sailor Last Line: But she says she never meant to; it happened unbeknown. Subject(s): Advice; Love - Complaints; Sailing & Sailors VERSES ON PREACHING EXTEMPORE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hint I gave some time ago Last Line: But ex Æternitate too. Subject(s): Advice; Poetry & Poets; Preaching & Preachers; Speech; Talk; Oratory; Orators VERSES, RESPECTFULLY & AFFECTIONALLY INSCRIBED TO PROFESSIONAL FRIEND, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not one of those, who, by retreating Last Line: A wreath more deathless far than I have woven thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Advice; Professions VIRGIN, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The things that make a virgin please Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Advice; Love WARNING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worthy friend, 'twill be perdition Last Line: Have long ears, or I'm mistaken! Subject(s): Advice; Books; Reading WILD WORLD, by CAT STEVENS Poem Source First Line: You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do %and it's breaking... Last Line: Oh baby, baby, it's a wild world, %and I'll always remember you like a child, girl Subject(s): Advice; Rushdie, Salman (b. 1947); Youth WISDOM UNAPPLIED, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were thou, o butterfly Last Line: Are wise (for all thy scorn) as thou.' Subject(s): Butterflies; Wisdom; Advice WORLD TREE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: If you are lost in this world, bewildered Last Line: On wings that open like a hinge Subject(s): Advice; Language; Wisdom |
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