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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AMUSEMENTS Matches Found: 84 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF THE CHAMPIONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Dear little willie takes the ball Last Line: The boys are laying bogie low! Subject(s): Boys;games; Recreation;pastimes;amusements A BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some gain a universal fame Last Line: I like the game of tennis best. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Games; Sports; Tennis; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements A BALLADE OF THE GAME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "tier upon tier, through the stands are strown" Last Line: "'yale, old yale, and a victory!" Subject(s): Games;victory; Recreation;pastimes;amusements A DUPLICATE GAME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A game of whist? Who could resist Last Line: A game of whist? Subject(s): Chance; Deception; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements A GAME OF BOWLS (WRITTEN DURING AN AIR RAID), by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: My body's crouched beneath a table shelter Last Line: Reaches me still and keeps me unafraid. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Games; Soldiers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements A REAL BOY, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a joy that is a joy Last Line: In a boy that is a boy! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight A SUMMER SERMON FOR MEN, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: I have fought a good fight,' the parson said, his weekly text declaring Last Line: Felt of his muscle on the sly — and felt like god's anointed! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Play; Sermons; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements AFTER THE GAME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They played at cards on the yellow sand Last Line: She finds that he played the knave Subject(s): Games; Recreation;pastimes;amusements 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 BASEBALL BY THE OLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this is the time of the year, my boys" Last Line: The gray - head who would play baseball! Subject(s): Baseball;games;play;spectator (periodical);sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shuttlecock soars upward Last Line: With a weight at the end. Subject(s): Badminton; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements BLIND MAN'S BUFF, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When silver snow decks susan's cloaths Last Line: Then laws were made to keep fair play. Variant Title(s): Song Third By An Old Shepherd Subject(s): Bible; Games; Mythology; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements CARD HOUSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My little niece and I - I read Last Line: "yes, lizzie, build it up again." Subject(s): Children;games;play; Childhood;recreation;pastimes;amusements CARNIVAL, by FRANCIS CARCO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gilded mask and domino Last Line: Spare, o lord, thy last bohemian! Subject(s): Carnivals; Games; Play; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements CHECKERS, by FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER Poem Text First Line: A checkerboard of ebony and ivory Last Line: Let's begin! Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D. Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements CROQUET BY MOONLIGHT, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a moonlight evening, in the month of may Last Line: Chorus: this play, etc. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements DANGEROUS GAMES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fly a black kite on a long string Last Line: Trembling on an aphid-riddled leaf. Subject(s): Games; Kites; Women; Women's Rights; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Feminism DICING, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Text First Line: It's sport for gentlemen, but rage and pain Last Line: But learn to give each hour what fits it best. Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Dice; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements DRAW GLOVES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At draw-gloves we'l play Last Line: Shall have for his winning a kisse. Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements ECLOGUE ON NOBLE ASSEMBLIES REVIVED ON COTWSOLD HILLS BY ROBERT DOVER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What clodpates, thenot, are our british swains! Last Line: To saint him in the shepherd's calendar. Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England; Country Life; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 10. BLIND LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is that childish play call'd blind-man's bluff Last Line: When's little brains are dashed against a post. Subject(s): Games; Love - Nature Of; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements FIERCE GIRL PLAYING HOPSCOTCH, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sway like a crane to the tunes of tossed stones. Subject(s): Girls; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements FILLING IN THE BLANKS; FOR CONSTANCE MERRITT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blank verse, as good as marlowe's mighty line Last Line: Overhead, the circling, screaming birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Crossword Puzzles; Games; Messengers; Writing & Writers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements FROLIC, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children were shouting together Last Line: The lovely lawns of the light. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Stars; Sun; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight GAME, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On thursday nights in spring Last Line: And the unmowed field is foaming at the mouth with flowers Subject(s): Games; Spring; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements GAME AFTER SUPPER, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is before electricity Last Line: If we are lucky Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said / once Last Line: That it could be a temple & tempestuous & strange of body because of marriage Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HANDICAPPED, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a game of whist Last Line: Leading the mating instinct. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Games; Life; Nature; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HIDE AND GO SEEK, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was an old, old, old, old lady Last Line: And the boy who was half-past three. Variant Title(s): One, Two, Three!' Subject(s): Children; Games; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HIDE AND SEEK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child we played sometimes in the dark Last Line: When the game is over and we are put to bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Games; Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HIDE AND SEEK, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still, Last Line: "coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Games; Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HOW THE WINNING FOUR WEST HOME, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Superb in pride we strained upon the golden chariot-pole Last Line: Though slumber takes us—still they talk low-whispering in the ilex walk! Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Collective Behavior; Competition; Driving & Drivers; Games; Victory; Mobs; Crowds; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements KIND SIR: THESE WOODS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind sir: this is an old game Subject(s): Children; Games; Self; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements KNIFE ON A PLATE, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Children; Games; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements MEDIEVAL MOTIF, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath our spell-binding play of faces there waits Subject(s): Games; Poetry & Poets; Time; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements MELE UHIUHI, by CHARLES W. KENN Poem Text First Line: Let us play a game Last Line: All the night. Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements MEXICAN NURSERY SONG: 14, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "little pony, little pony" Last Line: Long live antonio! Subject(s): Games;ponies; Recreation;pastimes;amusements MUSICAL CHAIRS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chairs were set up on the hillside Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Chairs; Games; Insects; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Bugs OBSESSIVE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It could be a clip, it could be a comb Last Line: The father of a friend just sickened and sickened. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Games; Obsessions; Childhood; Relatives; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements OLD MAN THROWING A BALL, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is tight at first, stiff, stands there atilt Subject(s): Old Age; Dogs; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements PEEK-A-BOO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cunningest thing that a baby can do Last Line: How to hide, and play peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Games; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements PICTURE PUZZLES, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seated one day at a table Last Line: And I doubt if I do it then! Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements PLAYING BO-PEEP WITH THE STAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "who are you winking at, bright little star" Last Line: "ah! Laughed the child, we can both play bo-peep" Subject(s): Games;stars; Recreation;pastimes;amusements PLAYING DOMINOES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistress morning -- well she knows Last Line: Who will be the victor, pray? Subject(s): Dominoes; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements PLAYING JACKS IN BHAKTAPUR, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a cruciform cloth squared in black and white Last Line: She names. Subject(s): Games; Travel; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Journeys; Trips POKER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to draw, or not to draw, that is the question" Last Line: And lose the right to open Subject(s): Gambling;games; Wagering;betting;recreation;pastimes;amusements PRODIGY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I grew up bent over Subject(s): Children; Games; World War Ii; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Second World War QUESTION AND ANSWER (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what is that, mother?" Last Line: That he is swell enough to play at golf? Subject(s): Games;golf;mothers;sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements RECKONING, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard my love go laughing Last Line: Is, false or true, he was my man. Subject(s): Games; Love; Sermons; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements RINGS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A veairy ring so round's the zun Last Line: On elem boughs, on mossy limbs. Subject(s): Games; Play; Wheels; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SCROLL-SECTION, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: You who practise the four elegant occupations Last Line: The seal of your mind borrowed and not returned. Subject(s): Games; Nature; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SKIPPING SONG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skippety skip, skippety skip! Last Line: And isn't skipping easy? Subject(s): Children; Games; Play; Rope; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SKY-BOY, by EDWARD P. GILCHRIST Poem Text First Line: In the time before forever Last Line: Yes! He's you! Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SNAKE EYES, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the corner wall, boys huddle and squat, playing Subject(s): Boys; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SONNET: 6, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, many a time our memory slips aside Last Line: And crowned our nights with coronals of dreams. Subject(s): Family Life; Games; Memory; Relatives; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SPIT, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chipewyans play it Subject(s): Native Americans; Games; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements STOOL-BALL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At stool-ball, lucia, let us play Last Line: And have for all a kisse. Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements TAKIN' A CHANCE, by WAYNE B. WALTERS Poem Text First Line: The boys were all excited Last Line: In a game they call polo. Subject(s): Boys; Games; Victory; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE AMATEUR, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He doesn't play the game for glory Last Line: Won't even know what it is all about! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations THE BLOODY SIRE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is not bad. Let them play. Subject(s): Violence; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE BOROUGH: LETTER 9. AMUSEMENTS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of our amusements ask you? - we amuse Last Line: Think of their danger, and their god adore. Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE BOY SOLDIER, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each evening on my lap there climbs Last Line: Just as he captured me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CHESS-PLAYERS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The clock, unheeded, peals the midnight hour Last Line: And each automaton becomes a man. Subject(s): Chess; Competition; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CHICKEN; OR, MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO THE ANCIENT GAME OF GOLF, by S. F. OUTWOOD Poem Text First Line: Once upon a day most dreary, I was wandering weak and weary Last Line: And would play it never more! Subject(s): Games; Golf; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CHILDREN'S BOATS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little loop of water, with the green Last Line: In that far spring men call eternity? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Future Life; Games; Spring; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CIRCLE GAME, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children on the lawn Subject(s): Games; Children; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Childhood THE GAME, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis played with eyes; one uttered word Last Line: My own to play again. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Eyes; Games; Play; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE GAMES, by EDWIN FORD PIPER Poem Text First Line: Luck makes him head, he meets it pranksomely Last Line: Youth, and romance, and music of the moon! Subject(s): Children; Games; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE GLORY OF THE GAME, by WILLIAM HAMILTON CLINE Poem Text First Line: A song to the football players Last Line: And the honors and glories he bears! Subject(s): Football; Games; Play; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE GOOD AUTHOR, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contrary to the views Last Line: To any word you say. Subject(s): Games; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Feminism THE LIFTING OF THE MIST, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the long day the vapours played Last Line: That greets the lifting of the mist. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Fairies; Games; Elves; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE LOST CHILDREN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years ago, as dusk seeped from the blue Last Line: Eidolons, adrift on the night air. Subject(s): Children; Games; Loss; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE MERCHANTS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the frost Last Line: Happy the few who will buy of the rain. Subject(s): Children; Games; Merchants; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, by E. A. L. GRIFFIN Poem Text First Line: What blissful thrills of merriment are found Last Line: Till, lo! He calls a halt—and comes the end. Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Children; Games; Merry-go-grounds; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Carousels THE PLAYGROUND AT PAOWNYC, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There's a playground hid in the forest's depths Last Line: With tender care and love. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Leisure; Parks; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 39, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In april when silkworms are small Last Line: This place is better than mine Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Games; Girls; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 65, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A group of girls play in fading light Last Line: White temples and a trembling heart Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Games; Girls; Longing; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE SKI-RUNNER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Above you burns a molten - copper sun Last Line: Then out! Into a wilderness of light! Subject(s): Games;ice;skiing; Recreation;pastimes;amusements THE SLUGGER'S FAREWELL TO HIS WAR CLUB, by C. P. MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: Farewell, good old pal of the national pastime Last Line: And now we must travel our separate ways. Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Farewell; Games; Sports; Travel; Parting; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Journeys; Trips THESPIAN, by MARION F. LEWIS Poem Text First Line: Small phillip played a part sublime Last Line: The greatest art of all! Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements TOUCH, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We made our own laws. Last Line: For collision. We called it touch Subject(s): Games; Youth; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements VERSES FROM THE 'ANNALIA DUBRENSIA', by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You faire assemblies that renowne Last Line: Rarius eveniunt solatia—— Subject(s): Animals; Games; Horseback Riding; Hunting; Rabbits; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Hunters; Hares VIVE LE ROI!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One in a long dark pigtail cries Last Line: The noble game of basket ball Subject(s): Basketball;games;sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements WOHELO, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo Last Line: In our hearts their fame will live. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Girls; Maine (state); Sports; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements |
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