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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CAVERNS Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, ADDRESSED TO TWO LADIES, SELECTION, by JOHN DALTON Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Agape the sooty collier stands Last Line: Creative commerce, these are thine! Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines & Miners; Earth; Rivers; Stones; Caverns; World; Granite; Rocks AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Came in my full youth to the midnight cave Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Space to the mind, the painted cave of dream Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A procession of caresses alters the ancient sky Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A habit leading to murder, smoky laughter Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came to ajanta cave, the painted space of the breast Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AS IN A GLASS: 1. TIME, by CLARA PLATT MEADOWCROFT Poem Text First Line: Through this dark cavern I carry a torch to light me Last Line: Time is the torch I carry in my hand. Subject(s): Caves; Light; Caverns ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 23, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the witch's entertainment Last Line: Ah, he rush'd to meet his doom! Subject(s): Caves; Love; Witchcraft & Witches; Caverns BAT CAVE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The cave looked much like any other Last Line: Encrusted with shit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Variant Title(s): Return To Bali Subject(s): Caves; Caverns CAVE OF SOMNUS, FR. METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 11, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near the cimmerian land, deep-caverned, lies Last Line: And countless herbs, of night the drowsy store. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Caves; Caverns CAVE OF STAFFA (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd Last Line: Has deigned to work as if with human art! Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns CAVE OF STAFFA (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye shadowy beings, that have rights and claims Last Line: Yon light shapes forth a bard, that shade a chief. Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns CAVE OF STAFFA; AFTER THE CROWD HAD DEPARTED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks for the lessons of this spot - fit school Last Line: Of softest music some reponsive place. Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns CAVERNS; WRITTEN OF COLOSSAL CAVE, KENTUCKY, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aisles and abysses; leagues no man explores Last Line: An ancient causeway of forgotten hell. Subject(s): Caves; Caverns CLAY BISON IN A CAVE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clay-tan, eyeless Subject(s): Caves; Paintings & Painters; Paleontology; Caverns COUGNAC, 2007, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mutilated man shall mount the mammoth, Subject(s): Caves; Caverns ELEGIES FOR THE OCHER DEER ON THE WALLS AT LASCAUX, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are hearing a distant, almost familiar, french cradlesong Last Line: A white baton flew up! Subject(s): Caves; China; Clergy; Deer; France; Lament; Caverns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops FLOWERS ON THE TOP OF THE PILLARS AT ENTRANCE TO THE CAVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope smiled when your nativity was cast Last Line: As the supreme artificer ordained. Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns INSCRIPTION FOR A CAVERN THAT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter this cavern, stranger! The ascent Last Line: That man creates the evil he endures. Subject(s): Caves; Evil; Humanity; Introspection; Solitude; Strangers; Caverns; Loneliness INSCRIPTIONS: 1. FOR A GROTTO, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To me, whom in their lays the shepherds call Last Line: Wise pallas and the immortal muses own. Subject(s): Caves; Caverns LYDSTEP CAVERNS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in these fretted caverns whence the sea Last Line: Better the droughts, the steeps, the glare of life! Subject(s): Caves; Wales; Caverns; Welshmen; Welshwomen MAURINE: PART 5, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A visit to a cave some miles away Last Line: E'en to the dregs, this bitter cup of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Caves; Hope; Love; Pain; Caverns; Optimism; Suffering; Misery OF MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The miner delves in caverns of the earth Last Line: Life thrills, grows luminous-large, smells sweet with balm and myrrh. Subject(s): Caves; Earth; Life; Mines & Miners; Music & Musicians; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; Caverns; World; Seamen; Sails ON A CAVE, by ANYTE Poem Text First Line: Come, traveller, this hollow rock beneath Last Line: In these cool streams that from the cavern burst. Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes Subject(s): Caves; Rest; Travel; Caverns; Journeys; Trips SALVE!, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To live within a cave - it is most good Last Line: They have a cheerful warmth -- those ashes on the stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Caves; Caverns THE CAVE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Once, in that cave, I heard my breath Last Line: Back to the open light and home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Caves; Caverns THE GROTTO OF EGERIA, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gush of waters! - faint and sweet and wild Last Line: And commune with a spiritual bride! Subject(s): Caves; Egeria (nymph); Rome, Italy; Caverns THE MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember the name of the story Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents; Caverns; Child Abuse; Relatives; Heroes; Heroines; Parenthood THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 10, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the cliffs I sat alone Last Line: The moon is the hub of the mind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Caverns; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 163, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a single cave Last Line: I have the primordial buddha Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Ascesticism; Buddhism; Caves; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists; Caverns THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 33, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We slip into tientai caves Last Line: And going for a long long time Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Hell; Caverns THE SEA-SIDE CAVE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the dead of night by the side of the sea Last Line: Where some murdered man must be. Subject(s): Caves; Caverns THE SWEETWATER CAVERNS, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Curious to see caverns Subject(s): Lakes; Caves; Youth; Aging; Disappointment; Pools; Ponds; Caverns |
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