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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BOREDOM Matches Found: 60 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FOOTBALL TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she clung to him, the game was o'er" Last Line: For I am only half-back Subject(s): Boredom;fools;football;nonsense; Ennui;idiots ALL IN THE DOWNS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I had something to do - or to think Last Line: One can't always be stirring the fire. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui ALL RIGHT, YOU HAVE NO MONEY, YOU'VE GIVEN IT UP, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): United States; Working Class; Boredom; Social Commentaries ALL SORTS OF THINGS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would stoop, pick up something Last Line: The garden keeps me on my toes Subject(s): Hobbies; Boredom AN OLD MAN CONFESSES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no cause, and god has not confessed Last Line: Inside the fact had drained. And then he died Subject(s): Old Age; Boredom BANAL SOJOURN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps Subject(s): Summer; Boredom; Ennui BEST FRIEND, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sailed down Subject(s): Friendship; Sailors & Sailing; Boredom; Ennui BORED TO CHORESIS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inert and in the twilight ... Peace is not hers Last Line: Choreographic and polynesian. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Boredom; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Ennui CONSECRATED GROUND, by KATE L. DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: She does not sleep in consecrated ground Last Line: To sleep alone. Subject(s): Boredom; Death; Ignorance; Ennui; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity DREAM SONGS: 14, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so Last Line: Into mountains or sea or sky, leaving %behind: me, wag Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Boredom; Life ENNUI, by LULU BRUNT DAWSON Poem Text First Line: I tire of life as a human being Last Line: Too much of life as a human being. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui ENNUI, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Text First Line: I am so weary of expected places Last Line: Of sunken temple bells beneath the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui ENNUI, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He often expressed / a curious wish Last Line: In the sea. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui ENNUI, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Trapped me in ice. No, not one chink is gaping Last Line: Sometimes I almost wish I were alive Subject(s): Boredom; Longevity HANDICAPPED, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis in a measure easy not to plan Last Line: And gather what my body has not seen. Subject(s): Boredom; Pain; Ennui; Suffering; Misery HER LITTLE GLOVE, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her little glove, I dare aver, Last Line: Her little glove. Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui HER PRESENT, by F. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "he had hinted at diamonds, a fan by watteau" Last Line: And then at the end sent a passed lucile Alternate Author Name(s): F. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui HOTHOUSE OF BOREDOM, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blue tedium fills my heart Last Line: In glaucous, eternal tears, %monotonously, like a dream Subject(s): Boredom HOUSE WITH YELLOW SMOKE SONNET, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two daughters who seemed to be listening Last Line: Of her spine. Subject(s): Boredom; Daughters; Mothers & Daughters; Sleep; Ennui IDLENESS, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the stress Last Line: Of time untwisting ravelled threads. Subject(s): Boredom; Rest; Ennui ILICET, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think the gentle soul of him Last Line: "are his to-day." Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Boredom; God; Love; Ennui INFORMING THE DEMONS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Forsake me now Last Line: Will spittle cold and hard Subject(s): Abandonment; Boredom JACQUEMINOT, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you filled with wonder, jacqueminot Last Line: Jacqueminot! Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui JURY DUTY, CRIMINAL COURT, by MARTHA MODENA VERTREACE Poem Source First Line: In the holding pen, one hundred of us %wear paper badges, white letters on red Last Line: The congealed yolk hardly over-easy. %one dozen minus one, and counting Subject(s): Boredom; Justice LIFE OF -, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So there we were stuck %in alassio all that rotten winter Last Line: Previewed there, just as it was forging %forth - eye to eye with the moon Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Books; Boredom LIKE DAYS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: God in heaven, is there anything boring as a meeting Last Line: Yapping shit? Subject(s): Boredom; Office Work LOGIC (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "say, does fact or reason err" Last Line: Is sure to be the greatest bore Subject(s): "boredom;logue, Christopher (b. 1926);" Ennui LOVERS TO LOVERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our love forsworn Last Line: The sum, yet was it signed as yours, and signed indelibly. Subject(s): Boredom; Ignorance; Love; Ennui; Dullness; Stupdity LOVEY-LOVES, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, love! Let us love with a love that loves Last Line: Make the public most mightily tired. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Boredom; Love; Ennui MARRIED, by POLLY CHASE Poem Text First Line: Dining with him at home, she looked between Last Line: Now empty, ineffectual, and blurred. Subject(s): Boredom; Emptiness; Marriage; Nothingness; Ennui; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nihilism; Voids NERVOUS PROSTRATION, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I married a man of the croydon class Last Line: To force a man of croydon class %to live, or love, or to speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Boredom; Hate; Women NOTHING TO DO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This is heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boredom; Nature PALLAS, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say there's a sameness in my style Last Line: Love is excluded from the song. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui PITY 'TIS, 'TIS TRUE, by HERBERT WELCH Poem Text First Line: I sat me down at leisure Last Line: "and left, -- 'twas ""oysters two!" Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui PRISCILLA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Priscilla in the garret loft Last Line: "ah, sir! Because they will not bear / another dyeing." Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui PROLOGUE, by EDITH CAROLYN NEWLIN Poem Text First Line: Midnight, december thirty-first Last Line: The curtain rises! The play is on! Subject(s): Boredom; Ignorance; Ennui; Dullness; Stupdity PYTHONIC, by LESTER LYNN RUDOLPH RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: The man who flew back to yesterday Last Line: The monotony was such a bore. Subject(s): Boredom; Men; Youth; Ennui REVERIE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the unfrequented noon Last Line: Our brief and variable state. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Boredom; Government; Ennui ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: THE EX-LIVING ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, brutus, where can thy cassius be Last Line: "may die of ennui any minute." Subject(s): Boredom; Poetry & Poets; Ennui SAME OLD STORY, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: History, and nature, too, repeat themselves, they say Last Line: Same old baby -- nothing new! Subject(s): Boredom; Cynicism; History; Life; Nature; Ennui; Historians SARAH DRAKE, by MARY J. ELMENDORF Poem Text First Line: An open primer all her days and yet a puzzle to her neighbors Last Line: Tintype when a boy. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui SEALED, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doves call down the long arcades of Last Line: I shall be striving towards you till the end. Subject(s): Birds; Boredom; Doves; Love; Ennui SENRYU: DURING ONE OF MAHLER’S ENDLESS ADAGIOS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: During one of mahler’s endless adagios Last Line: Followed by a yawn Subject(s): Symphonies; Boredom SUFFOCATION, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In chekhov's three sisters, everyone Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui SUFFOCATION, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In chekhov's three sisters, everyone Last Line: Hidden in a coat, in steerage, and at great risk Subject(s): Boredom THE BLOOMINGDALE PAPERS, SELECTION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The diagnosis is / anxiety psychoneurosis Subject(s): Boredom; Prisons & Prisoners; Ennui; Convicts THE DAY IS COME, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is come that I knew must be Last Line: Nothing may trouble me any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Boredom; Nothingness; Ennui; Nihilism; Voids THE DREAM SONGS: 14, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Boredom; Life; Ennui THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit looking out of a window of the building Last Line: Rights reserved. Subject(s): Boredom; Dreams; Guadalajara; Imagination; Ennui; Nightmares; Fancy THE LORD OF THOULOUSE; A LEGEND OF LANGUEDOC, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Count raymond rules in languedoc Last Line: A sleek, meek, weak gent -- who subsists on cold water! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Nostradamus, Michel De (1503-1566); Boredom; Magic; Ennui THE PROFESSOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "seven pupils, in the class" Last Line: "three are benches, four are walls." Subject(s): Boredom;greece;schools; Ennui;greeks;students THE VASE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boredom and terror, and the older Last Line: And green, exotic birds in flight. Subject(s): Boredom; Introspection; Life; Terror; Vases; Ennui THOSE DOUBTFUL DON'T, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My parents told me not to smoke; / I don't Last Line: You wouldn't think I have much fun; / I don't Subject(s): Boredom;virtue; Ennui TO TWO UNKNOWN LADIES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, I do not know you, and I think Last Line: I only write to exorcise a ghost. Subject(s): Boredom; Contentment; Ennui TODAY IS VERY BORING, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui TWO OF A KIND, by WALTER TALLMADGE ARNDT Poem Text First Line: Down in the glen Last Line: But he might have treated me some day the same. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui UNTITLED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Nothing to do, I'll sew a bag to hold heaven Last Line: I'll measure someone between eighteen and twenty, %a preety one, a cute one Subject(s): Boredom URSA'S WAY, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: The night lurches past my trailer, an alcoholic dancing bear Last Line: Carry me off on your rolling shoulders %show me a new way to live with myself Subject(s): Boredom WILL YOU HAVE YOUR TEDIUM RARE OR MEDIUM?, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two things I have never understood: first, the difference between czar & tsar Last Line: And I certainly would entertain my friends if they always didn't have to leave just when I arrive Subject(s): Boredom YESTERDAY DOWN AT THE CANAL, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say that everything is very simple and interesting Last Line: (but I hate all that crap) Subject(s): Boredom |
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