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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHANGE Matches Found: 675 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1914: 4. THE DEAD, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These hearts were woven of human joys and cares Last Line: A width, a shining peace, under the night. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties 1998, by TONY SANDERS Poem Source First Line: The halo of gadflies permeated the noontime Last Line: While in the rearview mirrors, history blazed Subject(s): Change; Time 95 POEMS: 42, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From spiralling ecstatically this Last Line: #name? Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Life Change Events 95 POEMS: 92, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I carry your heart with me (I carry it in Last Line: I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): I Carry Your Heart With Me(i Carry It I Subject(s): Life Change Events A BLOCKHEAD, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before me lies a mass of shapeless days Subject(s): Life Change Events A CHOICE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flood of utter change is loosed. A space Last Line: Twill come -- and you shall have no chance but wreck! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Change; Socialism A GLASS PANE TOWARD THE SPECTRAL, MYSTERIOUS GARDEN', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When all the forests you have burned are green Subject(s): Change; Relationships A LAY OF THE LOCH AND THE MUIRLAN', by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lanely loch, a muirlan' broon Last Line: An' there's the railway station. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Change; Life A MAN MAY CHANGE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As simply as a self-effacing bar of soap Subject(s): Change A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: What does the new year hold in store for me Last Line: And take what comes, conformable to plan. Subject(s): Future; Holidays; Life Change Events; New Year; Time A PLOUGHMAN AT ELTHAM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cross-legged, and brown as his field in hue Last Line: Whither its poor go down. Subject(s): Change; Labor & Laborers; Plowing & Plowmen; Work; Workers A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood A QUESTION: TO FAUSTA, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Subject(s): Transience; Change; Impermanence A SPECK ON THE DOT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe this world is the tiniest dot Last Line: I've got all eternity. Subject(s): Earth; Life Change Events; World A STORY AT DUSK, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An evening all aglow with summer light Last Line: And wept away his passion by himself. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Time; Change; Dogs; Death A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 3. SIMMERLEE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noo, neebors, ance mair, wi' my stick I' my haun' Last Line: An' his titties lang mourn't the fate o' their brither. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Change; Past A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 4. GARTSHERRIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noo I'll dauner awa' up by carlincraft burn Last Line: May gude gi'e them gumption their wages tae spen'. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Change; Memory; Past A WRAITH OF SUMMER-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In its color, shade and shine Last Line: And the rocking lily never even rustles as it rings! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Change; Flowers; Roses; Summer A YEAR'S BURDEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear Last Line: Cry wellaway, but well befall the right. Subject(s): Change; Death; Hope; Politics & Government; Dead, The; Optimism ABSENCE, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: I visited the place where we last met Last Line: Were shaken by my thinking of your name Subject(s): Life Change Events ACCEPTANCE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud Last Line: Into the future. Let what will be, be Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Dead, The ACCEPTANCE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud Last Line: Let the night be too dark for me to see %into the future. Let what will be be Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events ACROSS, by JAMES WAGNER Poem Source First Line: Big space broke its alliance with time Last Line: Through smooth, doctorless dust Subject(s): Change; Hallucinations And Illusions ADJUNCT, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: Today I'm observed Last Line: Of us alone is a looking %down called to learn Subject(s): Change; Relationships AFTER, by WILLIAM AIKEN Poem Source First Line: In 50 years no one will be thinking of you Last Line: And we find that the stream of caring %has not mattered Subject(s): Change; Time AFTER READING TAKAHASHI, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is the same to anyone Last Line: That is my life. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Books; Change; Reading AFTER THE FALL, by DANIELA CRASNARU Poem Source First Line: As if after the fall of the great empires, an endless exhaustion of the fiber Last Line: With my eyes shut, with my fingers sliced off, with wings of ice Subject(s): Change; Freedom AFTER THE LAST BREATH (J.H. 1813-1904), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no more to be done, or feared, or hoped Last Line: Outshapes but small. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Dead, The AFTER THE LONG ILLNESS, by TODD HELDT Poem Source First Line: More interesting than pneumonia Last Line: Coiled into that ball of fever, or buried in his chest Subject(s): Change; Fathers; Pneumonia; Sickness AFTER THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRASSAI, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A whore moves a basin of green antiseptic water Last Line: It falls stiff like a drunk, like a drunk falling onto a whore. Subject(s): Brassai [gyula Halsz] (1899-1984); Life Change Events; Photography & Photographers; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels AFTERWARDS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay Last Line: "he hears it not now, but used to notice such things""?" Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Memory; Time; Dead, The AGE, by K. H. BARRON Poem Source First Line: There is a remembering Last Line: And they sang %to us Subject(s): Change; Time AIRY NOTHINGS. FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our revels are now ended. These our actors Last Line: Is rounded with sleep. Variant Title(s): Such Stuff As Dreams;the Pageant;finale;human Life;end Of All Earthly Glory;life's Pageant;after Seeing A Masque [the Grand Style];prospero's Farewell To His Magic Subject(s): Fairies; Life Change Events; Time; Elves ALIKE AND YET UNLIKE: GENERAL RICHARD TAYLOR WRITES TO HENRY ADAMS, by HELEN A. PINKERTON Poem Source First Line: Washington, d.C., january 1879 %we spoke last evening of your work and mine Last Line: Could wish for you, I should wish such a death Variant Title(s): Alike And Yet Unlik Subject(s): Change; History; War ALL MEN DREAM: BUT NOT EQUALLY, by THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE Poem Source Last Line: May act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible Subject(s): Life Change Events ALL THINGS TO NOTHINGNESS DESCEND, by WACE Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: In some clerk's book; it is the pen %gives immortality to men Subject(s): Life Change Events ALL THIS IS MODIFIED, by JR. JAMES ROSCOE GRABILL Poem Source First Line: All this is modified by the trains Last Line: And the kiss on the infant's belly %returns to him many years later Subject(s): Change ALMOST AN ELEGY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have always lived in the shadows cast Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Change; Aging ALMOST, NEVER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says one thing -- she says everything else Last Line: Knotted with cries Subject(s): Birds; Change; Discontent; Life; Dissatisfaction ALTERATION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You thought growing older Last Line: Of last night, even in sleep. Subject(s): Aging; Change; Life; Life Change Events AMERICA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: And this was once the realm of nature, where Last Line: And charm the ear with numbers half divine. Subject(s): Change; Freedom; Nature; United States; Liberty; America AN AFTERNOON IN JEOPARDY, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Piece of tapestry with birds sewn on Subject(s): Change AN ELEGY FOR THE PAST, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will be darker soon, colder. You see Last Line: To do was wait, and everything was time Subject(s): Change; Evolution; Fate; Universe; Destiny AN END PIECE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close the book and say good-bye to everything Last Line: As over the hill comes the morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Change; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails AND AFTERWARDS (A SAVAGE SORT OF SONG ON THE ROAD), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was a gallant and bold I Last Line: "but I'll never again,"" etc." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Change; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Break in the sun till the sun breaks down %and death shall have no dominion Subject(s): Bible; Death; Life Change Events; Religion; Time AND IT CAME TO PASS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This june 3rd Last Line: And I want to hear it Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Change; Future; Poetry And Poets AND SKIRTS LONGER THIS YEAR, by OLIVER RICE Poem Source First Line: Itself at its pastime Last Line: And the cat too old to mouse Subject(s): Change ANGELA ASKS FOR MORE STORIES, by CLAUDIA MONPERE MCISAAC Poem Source First Line: It was the year of the babysitter. Mother had slid Last Line: She is a child, his voice a vine rustle as he holds her hand in his, %strokes the wet wool Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Time ANGELUS, by CYNTHIA ZARIN Poem Source First Line: One opens the book at random, opens the day Last Line: Everything changed, everything different Subject(s): Change; Sabbath APPRECIATION SALE, by SUSAN M. SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: Unmask the planetarium's hollow Last Line: Rests through the ordinary deluge Subject(s): Change APPROXIMATELY FOREVER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But she wasn't holding that snake Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Change; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships ARCADIA: THE BARGAIN, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My true love hath my heart and I have his Last Line: My true love hath my heart, and I have his. Variant Title(s): "song;phlox - Agreement;heart Exchange;ditty;friendship;arcadian Dialogue;sonnet;true Love;""my True Love Hath My Hart, And I Have His""; Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Life Change Events; Love ARMED FOR WAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Is life on earth a viler thing Last Line: To rub a sleepy eye? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Life Change Events ARMISTICE, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER Poem Text First Line: We face the nations with one hand outstretched Last Line: In open comradeship to all the world? Subject(s): Change; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War ARMISTICE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry war is over, and he stands Last Line: Leafless in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Change; Trees; Veterans; Veterans Day; War ARTEMON AND THE FATES, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't all that long ago he skulked about Last Line: Himself with a dowager's ivory parasol? Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Life Change Events AS IN A GLASS: 4. CHANGE, by CLARA PLATT MEADOWCROFT Poem Text First Line: I looked for you in the place where you had been Last Line: As through water -- as in a glass -- Subject(s): Change; Glass And Glassblowers AT FIRST I WAS GIVEN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first I was given centuries Last Line: Before you run out into the street and they shoot Subject(s): War; Life Change Events; Memor AT TIMES LIKE THIS, by DAVID G. LOTT Poem Source Last Line: And know that that bird in the mist %is returning to the sun Subject(s): Life Change Events AUTUMN OF LIFE, by MRS. S. W. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: As leaves fall from trees Last Line: To seek for the infinite. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Life; Life Change Events; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN SONG, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn has emptied heaven of its birds Last Line: And crows talk hoarsely in the frozen wood Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Migration; Nature; Seasons; Fall BATTEN XXV, by JOSHUA MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: An unpronounceable name went and came Last Line: Out to be nothing this language of earth %that burned Subject(s): Change; Names; Silence BEANSTALK, by KEVIN STEIN Poem Source First Line: How mundane those things that change us Last Line: And immaculate black-eyed susan, a plenum of delphinium %blowing its gold-throated trumpet now. Thi Subject(s): Change BEAUTY IS CHANGE, by MAY LEWIS Poem Text First Line: All joy is not encased in the green bud Last Line: Nor warmth in snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette Anthony Subject(s): Beauty; Change; Flowers; Roses; Seasons BEGINNING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You stand alone in the empty street Last Line: You will make each journey many times. Subject(s): Life Change Events BIOLOGICAL WALTZ, by DURS GRUNBEIN Poem Source First Line: Between cape town and greenland there is this forest Last Line: We're difficult creatures because nothing's still true Subject(s): Change; Evolution BIRTH, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fields of wonder Last Line: To make %some word %to tell Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Life Change Events BLAME, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now my mother has a new man Last Line: Blaming each tire with his foot Subject(s): Change; Marriage; Mothers; Parents BLIND LEADING THE BLIND AFTER BREUGHEL, by RON DE MARIS Poem Source First Line: Here they are dressed in the panoply Last Line: Changed even today except for flickering %televisions and a smokeless sky Subject(s): Change; Paintings And Painters; Time BLUE SUNDAY, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Today I'm confused Last Line: Baby cedars at our %place in pollock pines Subject(s): Change; Time BLUE THREAD: AN ELEGY, by LYNNE KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: Two girls playing at death Last Line: Be part of the world %that goes on without us Subject(s): Blue (color); Change; Death BLUFF CITY, by CLAUDIA KEELAN Poem Source First Line: But it still doesn't explain why %it took the passive Last Line: If there is no struggle there is no %progress am I not a sister Subject(s): Change; History BONWIT TELLER, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who says the light doesn't breathe Last Line: Will the change come? %into a speechless mannequin Subject(s): Change; Cities; Imagination BORN YESTERDAY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tightly-folded bud, / I have wished you something Subject(s): Birth; Life Change Events; Child Birth; Midwifery BORN YESTERDAY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tightly-folded bud, %I have wished you something Last Line: If that is what a skilled, %vigilant, flexible, %unemphasised, enthralled %catching of happiness is Subject(s): Birth; Life Change Events BRAIDS, by MARGO TAFT STEVER Poem Source First Line: Puttering, pouring wine, rummaging Last Line: She is reading her own mind Subject(s): Change; Hair; Memory BRAVURA LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would tell you the grass this spring was a pale Subject(s): Change; Lament; Nature; Time BRAVURA LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would tell you the grass this spring was a pale Last Line: Drowning while showered by the fluid blow of keen insight Subject(s): Change; Lament; Nature; Time BRIEF LIFE, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are not long, the weeping and the laughter Last Line: Within a dream. Variant Title(s): Envoi;vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Subject(s): Life; Life Change Events; Mortality BRONISLAW AND THE DEVIL, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: What can he know, never straying Last Line: Or take the first step and start bargaining Subject(s): Change; Devil; Mankind BRONZE TRUMPETS AND SEA WATER; ON TURNING LATIN VERSE INTO ENGLISH, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alembics turn to stranger things Last Line: Who smooths the ripples out of it. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Change; English Language; Latin Language; Translating & Interpreting BUT NOW THE JOURNEY IS OVER, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Gallantry and grace. %so farewell, farewell Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Life Change Events BUT OF THIS I STILL FEEL CERTAIN, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Tears that we see them pass from our individual experience Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Life Change Events BUT PLEASURES ARE LIKE POPPIES SPREAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or, like the rainbow's lovely form %evanishing amid the storm Subject(s): Life Change Events BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED, by ROBERT HILL LONG Poem Source First Line: The minor devil wears a leather bomber Last Line: He says. Cleveland, he says, and opens the door Subject(s): Change; Cleveland, Ohio BY LOCH ETIVE, by BRYAN GUINNESS Poem Source First Line: The flowers of the flags Last Line: The lake of my delight Subject(s): Life Change Events CALIFORNIA; FOR ADRIENNE RICH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come again into the place of revolutionary Last Line: Which were themselves. Subject(s): California; Change; Poetry & Poets CANTIGA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Let him whose time hath come to go Last Line: Are penalties the absent know. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Absence; Change; Forgetfulness; Spain; Separation; Isolation CARIBBEAN BREAST LULLABYE, by KATE SONTAG Poem Source First Line: Take it, now, while the sun is still Last Line: Sapphirine wings, vanish before I change my mind Subject(s): Bodies; Change; Women CASE FOR STAYING WHERE YOU ARE, by LINDA HEALEY Poem Source First Line: Listen, I don't want Last Line: You get in telling me Subject(s): Change; Faith CATS, by ARTHUR SEYMOUR JOHN TESSIMOND Poem Source First Line: Cats, no less liquid than their shadows Last Line: Offer no angles to the wind Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Life Change Events CELESTIAL DESOLATIONS; FOR MARJORIE SARGENT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now god wants even Last Line: Thread by thread. Subject(s): God; Life Change Events; Self-consciousness; Soul CHANGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If I don't change I'll die, she said Last Line: Genesis in bed Subject(s): Change; Love; Sex CHANGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The change from yesterday! Last Line: Jesus, the sea is fillin' the kitchen!' Subject(s): Change; Conversation; Ireland CHANGE, by RAYMOND KNISTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not wonder more, then Last Line: But I shall know. Subject(s): Change; Nature CHANGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much of change lies in a little space! Last Line: Grows dark and actual. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Change CHANGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happening now! It is happening Last Line: Can you sense, under the ground, the great melting Subject(s): Change; Daughters CHANGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now life's face beholden Last Line: But now! Subject(s): Change; Life; Love; Roundels CHANGE, by GLENN C. TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: No more the lonesome prairie Last Line: In days when this was the lonesome prairie. Subject(s): Change; Prairies; Plains CHANGE (1), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me as I was then Last Line: What other years have done to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Aging; Change CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE, by PATRICK FRIESEN Poem Source First Line: The windows are all broken Last Line: The dead are so evangelical Subject(s): Change CHANGE NOT LOSS; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I deem to love and lose by love's decay Last Line: By royal right divine his very own! Subject(s): Change CHANGE OF LIFE ... STYLE, by DOROTHY BRUMMEL Poem Source First Line: That my hands were cold and my manners colder Last Line: I'm nw the nouveau poor Subject(s): Change; Life CHANGE SHOULD BREED CHANGE, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New doth the sun appear Last Line: Deck thee with flowers which fear not rage of days! Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Change CHANGE SWEEPETH OVER ALL, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Clay claspeth clay! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Change CHANGE UPON CHANGE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five months ago the stream did flow Last Line: Should I change less than thou? Subject(s): Transience; Change; Impermanence CHANGE; A FRAGMENT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this is what is left of youth Last Line: .... And this, this is life! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Change CHANGED, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said something mean about me Subject(s): Change CHANGEFULNESS, by ABU ISHAQ Poem Text First Line: My friends, reproach not me Last Line: Alike the bow and lute. Subject(s): Change CHANGES, by SHERRY ASBURY Poem Source First Line: To find the shack, just follow along Last Line: But I'm weeping all the same Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Life Change Events CHANGES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed Last Line: These thoughts and me. In heaven we shall know all! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Change; Life; Time; Women CHANGES, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You see that tall house opposite? Last Line: The black lines slowly disappear. Subject(s): Change CHANGES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, o rejoicing heart! Last Line: The hours fly fast! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Change; Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness CHANGES IN LONDON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The presence of perpetual change Last Line: Will yet have passed away. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Change; London CHANGING WOMAN, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we change as she is changing, Subject(s): Women; Change CHILDHOOD UNDER THE TREES, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say we are trapped in a life Last Line: And with every intention %of getting it all kissed off later Subject(s): Change; Children; Memory CHOOSING A DOG, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's love,' they say. You touch Last Line: They see time going on and someone alone, %but they don't say anything Subject(s): Animals; Change; Dogs CITIES AND THRONES AND POWERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Shadow to shadow, well persuaded, saith, %'see how our works endure!' Subject(s): Life Change Events CLICK-ROSE 2: 18, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: The world spun round where I wasn't prepared Last Line: Change of object and this light you are the only one who %knew how not to project it hello sponge Subject(s): Change; Flowers; Roses CLOUDS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the blue night the unending columns press Last Line: The pacific, october 1913 Subject(s): Life Change Events; Soldiers' Writings CLOUDS, by LAURIE J. LAMON Poem Source First Line: On the news, a man named mark explains Last Line: Without hunger, without grieving, without body Subject(s): Change; Clouds; Family Life; Weather CODE POEM FOR THE FRENCH RESISTANCE, by LEO MARKS Poem Source First Line: The life that I have is all that I have Last Line: Will be yours and yours and yours Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love COMEDY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They parted, with clasps of hands Last Line: And once he had known her tears! Subject(s): Time; Change COMFORT OF HAVING A FRIEND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: To match the grief that s/he is taken away. Shall one bury the friendship with the friend? Subject(s): Life Change Events COMMISERATION, by PHILIP R. ST. CLAIR Poem Source First Line: What must it be like for the other guy? That's a question you're Last Line: Most likely a gift, most likely from her Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Change; Mankind COMPULSORIES, by BART BAXTER Poem Source First Line: When after a short absence, in the time Last Line: Each wondering if it was worth the bother Subject(s): Change; Relationships CONDIMENTS, by DONELLE R. RUWE Poem Source First Line: When my sister was miss idaho Last Line: And smiled and waved and waved Subject(s): Change; Children; Fathers; Life CONFIRMATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face Last Line: But like yourself, as they were meant to be Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love CONSTANT CHANGE FIGURES, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Passing on its effect / is experience Subject(s): Time; Change CONVENTIONS, by KATE CULKIN Poem Source First Line: Andy and I once drove five hours Last Line: Not waste a breath on how we die %hold on, hold up, hold tight Subject(s): Change; Death; Reason COTTON IN THE PILL BOTTLE, by DEAN YOUNG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the fog Subject(s): Change; Fog; Haze COTTON IN THE PILL BOTTLE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the fog Last Line: How it goes only so far from the sea Subject(s): Change; Fog CROSSING, by JENNIFER MICHAEL HECHT Poem Source First Line: More importantly, to what body part Last Line: A hell of a rooster. Every time it rains, it rains. %watch me now Subject(s): Change CUBES, by VLADIMIR NABOKOV Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Let us fold the wings of our visions Last Line: Our wings, my lofty angel Subject(s): Change; Vision CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON A HER CHANGING, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear cynthia, though thou bear'st the name Last Line: The apricots were got. Subject(s): Change; Love DEAR LOVELY DEATH, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dear lovely death, %change is thy other name Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events DEATH, by HERMANN HESSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grief and lamentation are our first natural response to the Last Line: This, the dead live on by our side, their image is saved and %helps to make our grief fruitful Subject(s): Life Change Events DEATH IS NOT THE END, by PETER TATCHELL Poem Source Last Line: And released from the prison of the cocoon %it flies free Subject(s): Life Change Events DEATH'S A DEBT THAT EVERYBODY OWES, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With fortune our pilot, weather fair or foul, %all alike drop anchor in the grave Subject(s): Life Change Events DIFFERENT HOURS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the small place descended through Last Line: In a different hour he'll put it back Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Change; Time DIFFERENT NOT LESS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All of it changes at evening Last Line: We see another world alive and our wholeness finishing Subject(s): Change DIRECTIONS, by MICHAEL HOFMANN Poem Source First Line: The new south east cemetery Last Line: Long long tables and slabs of cake Subject(s): Change DIRGE WITHOUT MUSIC, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Love; Social Protest; Dead, The DIRGE WITHOUT MUSIC, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground Last Line: I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Love; Social Protest DISCORDANTS: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music I heard with you was more than music Last Line: They knew you once, o beautiful and wise. Variant Title(s): Bread And Music Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of DISJUNCTION, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: On my knees in my office Last Line: In the same office where I scheme to procure permanent tenure Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Change; Office Employees DO NOT STAND AT MY GRAVE AND WEEP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I am not there - I do not sleep Subject(s): Life Change Events DOOMED TO KNOW NOT WINTER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Undecaying gladness, undeparted dream Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life Change Events DOUBLE AUTUMN, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: Better to close the book and say good-night Last Line: Than practise dumbly staring at your plight Subject(s): Life Change Events DOWNTOWN IN A BREEZE, by CHRIS STROFFOLINO Poem Source First Line: There is, I think, a writhing volition in every Last Line: And letting them flirt with you Subject(s): Change; Wall Street, New York City DUTY SURVIVING SELF-LOVE; THE ONLY SURE FRIEND OF DECLINING LIFE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unchanged within to see all changed without Last Line: Because to thee they are not what they were. Subject(s): Change; Tolerance DYING SPEECH OF AN OLD PHILOSOPHER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strove with none, for none was worth my strife Last Line: It sinks, and I am ready to depart. Variant Title(s): Fire Of Life;the Dying Fire;the End;epigram;finis;introduction To The Last Fruit Off Old Tree;envoi;on His Seventy-fifth Birthday;farewell;on Himself Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Old Age; Dead, The EACH ONE OF US CAN HELP IN THE GLORIOUS TASK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Will pass from age to age in fruitfulness and blessing Subject(s): Life Change Events EACH TIME I GO OUTSIDE THE WORLD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is different. This has happened %all my life Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Life; Nature EARLY SNOW, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the forest line Last Line: Divined the law of change. Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Seasons; Winter; Fall ECHOES: 4. INVICTUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night that covers me Last Line: I am the captain of my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): R. T. Hamilton Bruce;to R. T. H. B. ...;unconquered;urbs Fortitudinis;invictus;in Memoriam: R.t. Hamilton Bruce Subject(s): Bruce, R. T. Hamilton (1846-1899); Consolation; Courage; Hope; Independence; Life Change Events; Pain; Self-control; Self-reliance; Soldiers; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Suffering; Misery EIGHTH AND THIRTEENTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eighth of shostakovich Last Line: Again and again %- that music Subject(s): Change EPITAPH ON MY FATHER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye, whose cheek the tear of pity stains Last Line: For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fathers; Life Change Events; Religion; Theology EPITHALAMION, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Singing, today I married my white girl Last Line: Flower and bird and wind and world, %and all the living and all the dead Subject(s): Life Change Events EPITHALAMION, by CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: I feel the surge of expertise Last Line: Made solemnly but with %open hearts - our lives Subject(s): Change; Growth EROSION, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are slowly / underminded. Grain Subject(s): Environment; Change; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ETERNAL LOVE, by JOHN LA CORTE Poem Source First Line: We both knew it was time for you to go Last Line: Close to my heart again Subject(s): Life Change Events EVEN AS NIGHT DARKENS THE GREEN EARTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: That you may wake past day, past death Subject(s): Life Change Events EVER STRANGE IS THE WORLD, by CHARLES L. HUDSON Poem Text First Line: Though I travel the same road twice Last Line: With all I know. Subject(s): Change EVERYONE SANG, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone suddenly burst out singing Last Line: Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War EVIL TONGUE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: A worm inhabits the ear of eden Last Line: And we must not look down, or we will fall Subject(s): Change; Evil; Language EVOLUTION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dusk a shadow Last Line: Life again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life; Life Change Events EXCHANGE, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY Poem Source First Line: After the burning of the lilac after travels Last Line: After you are gone when the strangers take your shirts off hangers %and wear them Subject(s): Change; Mourning EXERCISE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear this touch: grass parts Last Line: Fire selects new wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Activity; Change; Nature; Relationships; Exercise FARE WELL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I lie where shades of darkness Last Line: In other days. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Dead, The FAREWELL, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to thee! But not farewell Last Line: Nothing destroyed that thou hast done Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Life Change Events FAREWELL, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell dear friends %I loved you so much Last Line: Farewell all fair universes %in far places Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Life Change Events FIRST TRIMESTER, by THOM WARD Poem Source First Line: Who knows where they begin Last Line: The fast hooves of a boy's heart %over the ocean floor Subject(s): Change; Pregnancy; Water FIRST-TIMES, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: When your father answers %and then halts and says Last Line: Lingering after yesterday's wind, %the oranges like glints in your eyes Subject(s): Change FISH PEDDLER AND COBBLER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always for thirty years now Last Line: Savage eyed whores paraded the streets Subject(s): Change; Past; Progress; Social Protest; United States; America FISH PEDDLER AND COBBLER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always for thirty years now Last Line: Savage eyed whores paraded the street Subject(s): Change; Past; Progress; Social Protest; United States FOR A CHILD BORN DEAD, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What ceremony can we fit Last Line: That grief can be as pure as this Subject(s): Life Change Events; Women FOR A GENTLE FRIEND, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I have come to where the deep words are Last Line: And marvel at the quiet good he's done Subject(s): Life Change Events FOR A GOOD DOG, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little dog ten years ago Last Line: And lie in dust with hector's pup; %so, presently, must I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life Change Events FOR AN UNBORN BABY, by JANET SHEPPERSON Poem Source First Line: If she's a girl, %I hope she'll stretch her wings Last Line: - and may he achieve no less %if he's a boy Subject(s): Life Change Events FOR ANDREW WOOD, by JAMES FENTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What would the dead want from us Last Line: What our dead friends would want from us %would be such living friends Subject(s): Life Change Events FOR REMEMBERING HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your loneliness and mine Subject(s): Absence; Change; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness FOR THE GIFT OF CHILDHOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Common heritage that endures from generation to generation Subject(s): Life Change Events FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY, PHILIP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A superabundance, an excess, a plethora of greetings Last Line: And those far off peaks shining pure and rare Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Colorado (state); Grief; Leaves; Loss; Mountains; Seasons FORFEIT, by FAITH BARRETT Poem Source First Line: The clock face had been painted to resemble nothing so much as a clock Last Line: Seizing on any feeling which pursues itself, which resists Subject(s): Change FOUNDATIONS FOR FIRE, by SANDRA MEEK-HENSON Poem Source First Line: Will we talk of it, of what filled Last Line: Circling with these words, rubbing these too %green sticks against air Subject(s): Change; Fire FRAGMENT: AMOR AETERNUS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wealth and dominion fade into the mass Last Line: All that frail stuff which will be -- or which was. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love FROM A PLACE I CAME, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Shall I come at last %to the lost beginning? Subject(s): Life Change Events FROM EMMA'S SCRAPBOOK, by NATON LESLIE Poem Source First Line: The article is titled Last Line: Turns, full of the missing Subject(s): Change; Memory FROM IDEA'S MIRROR, by STEPHEN RATCLIFFE Poem Source First Line: Window closing, reflection of rose Last Line: The other man, second syllable %repeating itself, her name Subject(s): Change FROM METASTASIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, last, and dearest Last Line: So love I thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Change; Erotic Love FROM SEASON TO SEASON, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: But yesterday / I walked with fay Last Line: For fay has gone and married! Subject(s): Change; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Seasons; Male-female Relations FROM THE KINGDOM, by RICHARD MEIER Poem Source First Line: News of the death Last Line: And then is someone else. %no questions asked Subject(s): Change; Death FROM: FIRE BREAK, by GEORGE ALBON Poem Source First Line: I hear a song - Last Line: Unstable, %sounded night Subject(s): Change; Night GATE A-FALLEN TO, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the sunshine of our summers Last Line: To hear behind this last farewell %the gate a-fallen to Subject(s): Life Change Events GATHERING, by WILLIAM H. MATCHETT Poem Source First Line: Here, in our best bib and tucker we flock Last Line: Love, the core of it all Subject(s): Life Change Events GENERATIONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People who are going to be Last Line: By their invisibility / denounce us Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Change; Social Problems GENERATIONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People who are going to be Last Line: By their invisibility %denounce us Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Change; Social Problems GEO-BESTIARY: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked the same circular path today Last Line: From a ship mortally far out in the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change GHAZALS: 25, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy day! Said overpowered, had by it all and transfixed Last Line: Crying out for ice, release from time, for a cool spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Time; Nightmares GHAZALS: 27, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a sign, a heraldic bird, or even an angel at midnight Last Line: A parade, a suite at the plaza, a new silver-plated revolver. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Desire; Despair GHAZALS: 34, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she walked on her hands and knees in the arab Last Line: I see myself upside down clawing the floor. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Nightmares GHAZALS: 40, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you were less of a vowel or had a full stop in your Last Line: And the giant squid who scars the whale with sucker marks. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Imaginary Conversations GIFT, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to give you something, my child Last Line: Follows her with his love Subject(s): Life Change Events GLASS PANE TOWARD THE SPECTRAL, MYSTERIOUS GARDEN', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Overturn %this body Subject(s): Change; Relationships GLORY OF THE GARDEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our england is a garden that is full of stately views Last Line: And the glory of the garden it shall never pass away! Subject(s): Life Change Events; Religion GOING BACK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long, stone, did it take Last Line: Sink again, you might cover bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Change; Time GRAY AFTERMATH, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Seasons are very much like men Last Line: A sky of april stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Change; Seasons GREEDY TIME FEEDS ON ALL, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All; dying is nature's law, not nature's penalty Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Life Change Events GROWNUP, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All this stood on her and was the world Last Line: In thee, thou once a child, in thee Subject(s): Change; Children; Growth; Women GYPSY MOTHS, by SUSAN RONEY-O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: You tell me the females can't fly Last Line: And drop them into oil. %nothing is simple Subject(s): Change; Moths; Nature; Relationships H-- LAUGHTER WAS BETTER THAN BIRDS IN THE MORNING, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For s/he lives in the earth around us, laughs from the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Life Change Events HALF-FINISHED HEAVEN, by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in his glittering seven-story labyrinth Last Line: Of a plasterer I have this good chrome fender Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Heaven HALFWAY TO THE FOREIGN LEGION, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Instead of you trimming hedges below an aragon chateau, a stream Last Line: Of things exhausts them. You sent me one letter. Enough to change the future Subject(s): Change; West (u.s.) HANDS, by BARBARA CASTLE Poem Source First Line: High love and flaming passion will fall prey to time Last Line: But oh! I shall remember the kindness of your hands Subject(s): Life Change Events HAVE WE SAILED AND HAVE WE WANDERED, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: There where our far childhood grew Subject(s): Change; Sea HAVES' AND THE 'HAVE NOTS', by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: The 'have nots' have what the 'haves' have not Last Line: For deep in their stomachs they 'haves' have knots Subject(s): Change; Property HE HAS COMPLETED HIS VOYAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: With their senses at peace, and their minds full of joy, they %make the forests holy Subject(s): Life Change Events HE KNOWS NO CHANGE WHO KNOWS THE TRUE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Forever lives the knowledge of the wise Subject(s): Wisdom; Change HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He marched away with a blithe young score of him Last Line: Borne with the hell called war! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Loss; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths Last Line: Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love HEAVEN-HAVEN; A NUN TAKES THE VEIL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have desired to go / where springs not fail Last Line: And out of the swing of the sea. Variant Title(s): Surcease;heaven-haven Subject(s): Christianity; Heaven; Life Change Events; Nuns; Sea; Paradise; Ocean HERACLITUS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me, heraclitus, they told me you were dead Last Line: For death he taketh all away, but these he can not take. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Friendship; Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HERACLITUS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One told me, heraclitus, you were dead Last Line: Death's hand, that plunders all, shall never close Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Life Change Events HERE IS THE STRONG ONE, THE OTHER ONE', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Here is the strong one, the other after Subject(s): Change; Strength HERE IS THE STRONG ONE, THE OTHER ONE', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Here is the strong one, the other after Subject(s): Change; Strength HEREDITY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the family face Last Line: That heeds no call to die. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Life Change Events; Heritage; Heredity HIJO QUERIO, by ROSA ALCALA Poem Source First Line: Only my heart's weaving Last Line: Of my body, your sisters who may never learn %to tell time Subject(s): Change; Family Life HOMECOMING, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: A crust of thin ice cracks, and signposts change. Summer snow Last Line: As a celtic vase drowns in the murmuring water that might fill the dry well Subject(s): Change; Despair; Nations; Nature; Yugoslavia HONOUR, RICHES, MARRIAGE-BLESSINGS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ceres' blessing so is on you Subject(s): Life Change Events HOW I'M READY, by DAVID AVIDAN Poem Source First Line: Now I'd be willing to change Last Line: Now I'd be willing to exert myself %so I wouldn't be cold now Subject(s): Change HOW STEP BY STEP WE HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the sixteenth century nicholas copernicus Last Line: And that's hard. That's hard Subject(s): Change; Copernicus. Nicolaus (1473-1543); Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Earth; Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Science HOW TO LIVE IN A TRAP, by ELEANOR ROSS TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: First, drag yourself and Last Line: In this somewhere: %interior, woman singing Subject(s): Change; Life HOWEVER FAR BACK YOU GO IN YOUR MEMORY, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Your 'memory'? This will be you - the you that enters the %future and becomes a part of it Subject(s): Life Change Events HUMAN OUTLOOK, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These things shall be! A loftier race Last Line: For man shall be at one with god %in bonds of firm necessity Variant Title(s): The Coming Day; A Loftier Rac Subject(s): Freedom; Future; Life Change Events; Religion HUMANIST CREDO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where shall the human spirit turn Last Line: And bring world peace to birth Subject(s): Life Change Events I AM GERMAN: SOMETHING DIFFERENT, by GARY DUEHR Poem Source First Line: Still, still gray keeps waiting for the future Last Line: Years, maybe, times three-six-five looks at the river Subject(s): Change; Future I BELIEVE THAT ORDER IS BETTER THAN CHAOS, by KENNETH S. CLARK Poem Source Last Line: Tence of individual genius possible Subject(s): Life Change Events I CAME UNKNOWING WHAT THE LIGHT WOULD SHOW, by HARRY BELL Poem Source Last Line: Back to the real, indifferent dark again Subject(s): Life Change Events I COME THE WAY THAT', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Want to see it, I want to Subject(s): Activity; Change I FALL ASLEEP IN THE FULL AND CERTAIN HOPE, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds %of those I loved Subject(s): Life Change Events I HAVE GOT MY LEAVE, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A summons has come and I am ready for my journey Subject(s): Life Change Events I HAVE SEEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I have seen and felt all these things - so I know what life is Subject(s): Life Change Events I LOVE YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: In the love that makes us one Subject(s): Life Change Events I SING OF CHANGE, by NIYI OSUNDARE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing / of the beauty of athens Subject(s): Change; Hope; Human Rights; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs I SING OF CHANGE, by NIYI OSUNDARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sing %of the beauty of athens Last Line: I sing of a world reshaped Subject(s): Change; Hope; Human Rights; Singing And Singers I WAS NOT AND WAS CONCEIVED, by WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD Poem Source Last Line: I am not and grieve not Subject(s): Life Change Events IF ALL I DO TODAY IS CHANGE, by DOREEN GILDROY Poem Source First Line: Sitting, up here, in the loft Last Line: I never had to %think about it Subject(s): Change IF I CAN CHOOSE, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Choose the death by which I leave life Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Life Change Events IF I SHOULD GO BEFORE THE REST OF YOU, by JOYCE GRENFELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But life goes on, %so sing as well Subject(s): Life Change Events IF IT MUST BE, by MARTIN WYLDE CARTER Poem Source Last Line: Sun brightens stone %and all the river burns Subject(s): Life Change Events IF ONLY THE DREAMS ABIDE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the things of earth must pass Last Line: If only the dreams abide. Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Grief; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness IF THE ROOM IS SMOKY, by EPICTETUS Poem Source Last Line: Mind, the door is always open Subject(s): Life Change Events IF THE WORLD IS NOT TO LAST FOR EVER, by FREYA MADELINE STARK Poem Source Last Line: Of such a revelation, one may hope to be free for ever Subject(s): Life Change Events IF YOU CAN AWAKEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You need never leave home Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Life; Nature ILL-READ, by ESTHER MAZAKIAN Poem Source First Line: Years lapse like nothing and she thought it was two Last Line: People, words, %that made her ill Subject(s): Change; Time IMAGE OF A MAN, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into a tiny bay at loch roe, a tall yacht Last Line: Fumbled down and were furled for the last time Subject(s): Life Change Events IMAGINATION, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds titanic, masters of the hills Last Line: And titan shadows move along the wind! Subject(s): Change; Clouds IN ESCROW, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: We sold our truckee cabin Last Line: South, a little lower down Subject(s): Change; Life; Travel IN HARDWOOD GROVES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same leaves over and over again! Last Line: I know that this is the way in ours. Subject(s): Leaves; Life Change Events IN MEMORY OF A GROVE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town about my house upon the hill Last Line: Who fells a london grove? Subject(s): Change; Comfort; Forests; London; Nature; Woods IN MY VIEW DEATH IS SIMPLY ONE OF THE MANY KINDS OF TRAGEDY THAT, by CORLISS LAMONT Poem Source Last Line: Resources to come to terms with this fact Subject(s): Life Change Events IN THE HELLGATE WIND, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: January ice drifts downriver Last Line: As the river I cross over. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Change; West (u.s.); Winter; Women; Southwest; Pacific States IN THE OLD DAYS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I lose track of my happiness Subject(s): Change; Past IN THE OLD DAYS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I lose track of my happiness Last Line: Of happiness later, far from that dump we call governance Subject(s): Change; Past IN THE WAKE OF MY MINT MOONS, by FRANCOISE MATTHEY Poem Source First Line: How Last Line: For other rites %eyes wide open Subject(s): Change; Nature; Sky IN TIMES OF DAFFODILS, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: (when time from time shall set us free) %forgetting me, remember me Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Life Change Events INDEED, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I married a girl in the summer who slept on the beach Last Line: To silence, to you. It is a good one. Subject(s): Change; Marriage; Slavery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs INDEPENDENCE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I never did like 'what are young people coming to?' Last Line: "I like to be ""modern."" it's fun." Subject(s): Change; Independence; Youth INDIVIDUAL HUMAN EXISTENCE SHOULD BE LIKE A RIVER, by BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Source Last Line: In this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the %things they care for will continue Subject(s): Life Change Events INERTIA, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There he was with galileo, measuring the speed Last Line: He could let %such a wild, such a cruel thing happen Subject(s): Change INFIDELS, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All that stands between us and the happiness Last Line: Lies they're far too cunning to utter openly Subject(s): Change; Government INISHMAAN, by RENNIE MCQUILKIN Poem Source First Line: Considering millennia of tooth and bone and carapace Last Line: Nobbled things will translate well, bloom white as brides Subject(s): Change; Sea; Time INSTANT KARMA, by BRAD DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Like a wool-capped and baggy cadre Last Line: Of forces logic deems prudent to elude Subject(s): Change; Children; Memory; Spiritual Life INTENTIONS FOR MY EPITAPH, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: The challenge is to be able to put your life Last Line: A writer of silence, I paid attention to the world Subject(s): Life Change Events INVISIBLE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The parents are fucking. The parents are discussing Last Line: On which we walk through their cities Subject(s): Change; Relationships INVOCATION BY A SMALL BED, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The water bubbles in the radiator. And the ebb and flow of the sea Last Line: I'm untouchable. And thrilled to learn there is no other way Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Life Change Events; Self-satisfaction INVOCATION OF THE DAWN, by KALIDASA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look to this day! Last Line: Look well, therefore, to this day! Variant Title(s): Salutation To The Dawn Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life Change Events; Sunrise; Dead, The IRRELEVANT VIOLET, by CATHRYN HANKLA Poem Source First Line: Velvet purple petals like the darkened room where he is tug- Last Line: You. I want to know that the you I know will always be there Subject(s): Change; Metaphor; Sickness IS IT A SMALL THING, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To have loved, to have thought, to have done...? Subject(s): Life Change Events IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO LOVE PASSIONATELY; YOU MUST ALSO LOVE WELL, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To forbear, to forgive, to console - that alone is the science of love Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole Subject(s): Life Change Events IVORY, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more mularkey, / no baloney. No more cuffuffle Last Line: From the peanut gallery Subject(s): Life Change Events IVORY, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more mularkey, %no baloney. No more cuffuffle Last Line: And no remarks %from the peanut gallery Subject(s): Life Change Events J. PAUL GETTY III: TWO SONNETS, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Italian flair of one dark moment Last Line: The fading sightless heir might hear %underneath the music with his remaining ear Subject(s): Life Change Events; Murder JOURNAL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: November 2nd monday evening-took my place Last Line: Myself-yours most obliged Subject(s): Diaries; Life Change Events; Memory; Time JOURNEY OF LIFE, by WINSTON CHURCHILL Poem Source First Line: Let us be contented with what has happened and be thankful Last Line: Accepted together. The journey has been enjoyable and well %worth making - once Subject(s): Life Change Events JUDGMENT: BHAGAVAD GITA PREFACE TRANSCENDENTAL, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In 1855 walt whitman rhapsodized that the great poet Last Line: Does it, as aftersoul envelops all helpless things Subject(s): Change; Transcendentalism KEEPING WATCH, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: Between the old friends I hadn't Last Line: Headed for home. It's about time Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Change; Friendship; Past; Talk KNOWLEDGE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men say they know many things Last Line: Is all that anybody knows. Subject(s): Life Change Events L'INNOMBRABLE (EXTRACT 2), by PHILIPPE LEIGNEL Poem Source First Line: Then Last Line: Much loved place. Where I should never have been... %I recover my name Subject(s): Change; Nature; Self LAPSE OF THE YEAR, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring am I, too soft of heart Last Line: All is gained when all is lost Subject(s): Life Change Events LEAPING TO LARGER CONCLUSIONS, by ALLAN PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Everyone needs someone, they repeat Last Line: Sewing heart-felt water to the air Subject(s): Change LEARNING TO TALK, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See this small one, tiptoe on Last Line: When we go down, they will be tall ones Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Life Change Events LEARNING TO TALK, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See this small one, tiptoe on Last Line: When we go down, they will be tall ones Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Life Change Events LEAVE THIS WORLD, NATURE SAYS, AS YOU ENTERED HERE, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The order of things: it belongs to the life of the world Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Life Change Events LEAVING THE ASYLUM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The metal harps of the high gates Last Line: I love its glint among the dust and stones. Subject(s): Change; Hospitals; Insanity; Introspection; Self-reliance; Madness; Mental Illness LEGENDARY PROGRESS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, in the darkness of his dream Last Line: The beast is raging in its time Subject(s): Change; Explorers; Progress; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers LET ME DIE A YOUNG MAN'S DEATH, by ROGER MCGOUGH Poem Source Last Line: Not a curtains drawn by angels borne %'what a nice way to go' death Subject(s): Life Change Events LETHAL TRAUMAS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the lethal traumas Last Line: The bedpan, the prescription, years of bad advice... Subject(s): Change; Children LEWIS', by KIM TAPHIN Poem Source Last Line: Giving the thing a caledonian twist Subject(s): Change; Relationships LIFE, by ELKANAH EAST TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just as the plum - tree lifts its ivory flower Last Line: Somehow, somewhere to seek the spring again! Subject(s): Aging; Change; Life LIFE IN ITSELF IS NEITHER GOOD OR BAD, by MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE Poem Source Last Line: In it, it lies in your will not in the number of years whether you %have had sufficient life Subject(s): Life Change Events LIFE'S AUTUMN, by MRS. S. W. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: In spring the trees were fresh-a dainty green Last Line: To seek the infinite the while we live. Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Life Change Events; Longing; Nature; Seasons; Fall LIFE'S PATTERNS, by MARGARET ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: Life is a loom, and we are the weavers Last Line: And gold threads of love be woven through all. Subject(s): Life Change Events LIGHTS OUT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the borders of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Sleep; World War I; First World War LIGHTS OUT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the borders of sleep Last Line: That I may lose my way %and myself Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Sleep; World War I LIKE ANY OTHER MAN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born with a knife Last Line: Unlocked my body. Subject(s): Change; Happiness; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Salvation; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations LIKE NEARLY ALL THE INTELLECTUALS OF THIS GENERATION, WE ARE, by JULIAN BELL Poem Source Last Line: Of the real contradictions of the real world than possible dis- %coveries in some other world Subject(s): Life Change Events LILY OF A DAY, by BEN JONSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It was the plant and flower of light Subject(s): Life Change Events LITTLE LITANY FOR MOVING DAY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: The woman who packs up the kitchen Last Line: Will have to go %bye-bye Subject(s): Change; Home; Materialism; Property LITTLE PEOPLE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dreary place would this earth be Last Line: Were there no little people in it Subject(s): Life Change Events LOOK TO THIS DAY, by KALIDASA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Such is the salutation of the dawn Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life Change Events LOOKING AWAY, by ERIN ERGENBRIGHT Poem Source First Line: The world holds less danger for me now Last Line: I can feel this green land moving beneath me, %turning in my hands Subject(s): Change; Earth LOST LINES FOR A MATERIALIST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Give me no grave, who loved the summer sky Last Line: You would believe, but I must understand.'' Subject(s): Life Change Events LOVE COMES QUIETLY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Alone all the way Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING, by MARCUS CAFAGNA Poem Source First Line: I want to confess. And return under this slant light to search Last Line: Out these double doors into a world she can't return to Subject(s): Change; Love LOVE LETTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not easy to state the change you made Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Letters; Habits; Change LOVE POEM, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There is a shyness that we have Last Line: For love is quiet, and love is kind Subject(s): Life Change Events LOVE WILL NOT BE CONSTRAINED BY MASTERY, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To which the law of love will answer 'yes' Subject(s): Life Change Events MAJOR SURGERY, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: My dreams rise, a twist of smoke Last Line: Cars buzz in the walls Subject(s): Life Change Events; Self-reliance; Surgery MAKING LOVE TO AN ORPHAN, by REBECCA MCCLANAHAN Poem Source First Line: I've heard of men who suddenly Last Line: No coin to spend, no language %for this difficult crossing Subject(s): Change; Marriage MAN MAY CHANGE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As simply as a self-effacing bar of soap Last Line: And lives and dies before anyone can find out Subject(s): Change MARIE AT TEA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You remember the extremes Last Line: Love, of marriage, the / extreme Subject(s): Change; Food & Eating; Relationships; Tea MARIE AT TEA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You remember the extremes Last Line: Love, of marriage, the %extreme Subject(s): Change; Food And Eating; Relationships; Tea MARRIAGE: A WORD TO HUSBANDS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To keep your marriage brimming Variant Title(s): Advice Subject(s): Life Change Events; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE: A WORD TO HUSBANDS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To keep your marriage brimming Last Line: Whenever you're right, shut up Variant Title(s): Advic Subject(s): Life Change Events; Marriage MECHANIZATION, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The photographic plate makes clear Last Line: And it is they that feel. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Photography & Photographers MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: PAST AND PRESENT, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Change is a sweet and lovely sprite who brushes with a velvet pall Last Line: Beauty of decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Change; Melbourne, Australia; Time MESSAGE, by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They've raised the speed limit I didn't want them to Last Line: Maybe a million miles between each note Subject(s): Change; Time METABOAH, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fashions change,for change is dear to men Last Line: O'er sunken ararat. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Change METAMORPHOSES, by DEBORAH NARIN-WELLS Poem Source First Line: My son recites the names of birds Last Line: Upward, contemplating %the hard blue sky Subject(s): Birds; Change; Children; Fathers And Sons; Growth METHODS, by FERENC RAKOCZY Poem Source First Line: Our lives vanish in words while the grammarian Last Line: The lying truths a loquacious master dispenses to them Subject(s): Change; Teaching And Teachers MOMA POEMS IN TIME OF THE PLAGUE: 5. RENDEZVOUS OF FRIENDS, by THOMAS AVENA Poem Source First Line: Flowers? Dogs! %dogs growling Last Line: How long %until I join you %--lover-- %zum erde Subject(s): Change; Friendship; Nature MOMENT PASSING, by HENRY GILFOND Poem Source First Line: Suddenly spring, and the snows and the cold winds gone Last Line: Wish, fancy, dream - %it was good Subject(s): Change; Love; Nature MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could remember that first day Last Line: First touch of hand in hand -- did one but know! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The First Meeting;the First Day Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MOODS ON THE MOSELLE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! Sings the bird upon the bough Last Line: That our songs sing now. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Change; Mourning; Bereavement MOTHER/CHILD: CODA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear teaches nothing Last Line: Consciousness is a blessing Subject(s): Change; Growth MOTHER/CHILD: CODA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear teaches nothing Last Line: This is what we mean when we say %consciousness is a blessing Subject(s): Change; Growth MUSINGS ON THE WIG OF A SCARE-CROW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas for this world's changes and the lot Last Line: And muse on fortune's mutability. Subject(s): Change; Fate; History; Life Change Events; Morality; Scarecrows; Wigs; Destiny; Historians; Ethics; Toupees; Hairpieces MUTATION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They talk of short-lived pleasure - be it so Last Line: A stable changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep. Subject(s): Change; Transience; Impermanence MY DEAR AFFLUENT READER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome to the pecanland mall. Sadly, the pecan grove had to be dozed to Last Line: Ready or not. 0 exceptions. %don't ask Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Change; Nature; Progress; Retail Trade MY IMPLEMENTS, by STANDARD SCHAEFER Poem Source First Line: The lure of sodium Last Line: Steam and ink in all directions Subject(s): Change MY STINT AMONG THE BELOVED, by PRISCILLA BECKER Poem Source First Line: Even I can see the flowers are up. I take Last Line: Regret for being denied the chance to say %goodbye. Brothers, goodbye Subject(s): Change; Love NAKED HIDES, by RICHARD J. FEIN Poem Source First Line: They emerged from tree and bush and forest Last Line: Stucco on the house planted alongside the lot Variant Title(s): Untitle Subject(s): Animals; Change; Evolution; Modern Man NEAR YOU ARE HEAVENLY BODIES, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I adapt the rhythms of my actions to the affairs of the earth Last Line: Natch! I'm just going out for a moment Subject(s): Change; Child Molesting; Child Abuse NEGLECT A RUBRIC, by DAVID BROMIGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this course of lectures Last Line: The letters say each other's names Subject(s): Change NEW JERSEY: OCTOBER 1997, by HERBERT R. COURSEN Poem Source First Line: Map is a concept azimuths of hope Last Line: Them words are similar but strangers talk %them only the cartography of dreams knows when Subject(s): Change; Home; New Jersey NEWBORN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mannikin who just now Last Line: As though mankind's begun %again in you Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Life Change Events NIGHTMARE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the blinds Last Line: Mercurous in the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Fear; Nightmares NO ARGUMENT, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: The time for villanelles, you say, is past Last Line: No one today makes anything to last Subject(s): Change; Poetry And Poets; Quarrels NO ESCAPE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A form of aggression towards yourself %--pema chodron Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Change; Escapes; Grief; Loss; Self NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, ENTIRE OF ITSELF, by JOHN DONNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee Subject(s): Life Change Events NO MORE THAN THE SLOW STREAM, by FLORIS CLARK MCLAREN Poem Text First Line: No more the slow stream spreading clear in sunlight Last Line: Spun in the current, swept toward no visible ocean. Subject(s): Change; Nature NO MOURNING, BY REQUEST, by WINIFRED HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Come not to mourn for me with solemn tread Last Line: And be most merry - after I am dead Subject(s): Life Change Events NO SINGLE THING ABIDES; BUT ALL THINGS FLOW, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It is the lives, the lives, the lives, that die Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Life Change Events NOT FOR THAT CITY, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for that city of the level sun Last Line: Too sound for waking and for dreams too deep Subject(s): Life Change Events NOTES ON LOVE AND COURAGE, by HUGH PRATHER Poem Source First Line: The quiet thoughts %of two people a long time in love Last Line: Of wrapping themselves warmly %in each other's ease Subject(s): Life Change Events NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature's first green is gold Last Line: Nothing gold can stay. Subject(s): Gold; Life Change Events; Transience; Impermanence NOTHING IS STRANGE TO A CHILD FOR WHOM EVERYTHING IS NEW, by KENNETH L. PATTON Poem Source Last Line: In the child's country there are no foreigners Subject(s): Life Change Events NOW THIS IS THE DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: May you help us all to finish our roads Subject(s): Life Change Events NOW YOU WILL FEEL NO RAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And may your days be good and long upon the earth Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love - Marital NUDES FOR THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, by ROSA ALCALA Poem Source First Line: This is my shop where the black wheel turns with greasy knob and heavy glove Last Line: Lying face to face, irrepressible and shameless along these great fall of %patterson Subject(s): Change; Love; Nudity; Revolutions O'KEEFFE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New york: you are staring safely down from steiglitz's apartment Last Line: One magnolia opens her taffeta skirt Subject(s): Change; Magnolias; O'keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) O'KEEFFE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New york: you are staring safely down from steiglitz's apartment Last Line: One magnolia opens her taffeta skirt Subject(s): Change; Magnolias; O'keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) OBSERVING CHANGE, by XU YUAN Poem Source First Line: Autumn cicadas die in the withered mulberry trees Last Line: And because of this, my pensive heart holds sobs choked with grief Subject(s): Change ODE X, 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you, my friend, true bliss obtain Last Line: Be humble, and contract your sails. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Life Change Events; Joy; Delight OF SOCIETY AND CIVILISATION, by THOMAS PAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the Last Line: This love for society ceases to act. It begins and ends with our being Subject(s): Life Change Events OH, THE WEATHER, THE WEATHER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And calm drastic winds of change Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Change; Grief; Loss; Weather ON FRIENDSHIP, by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: And a youth said, speak to us of friendship Last Line: Its morning and is refreshed Subject(s): Life Change Events ON LEAVING A PLACE WHERE ONE HAD DWELT MANY YEARS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some moments in each life Last Line: Of aught can never be the last. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Change; Home; Moving & Movers ON MIDDLETON EDGE, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If this life-saving rock should fail Last Line: Further than any wandering star has gone Subject(s): Life Change Events ON MY OWN MINIATURE PICTURE, TAKEN AT TWO YEARS OF AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was once like this! That glowing cheek Last Line: Spirit of spenser! Was the wanderer wrong? Subject(s): Life Change Events; Maturity; Nations; Portraits; Self; Youth ON SELF-IMPROVEMENT, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: I looked at what I was Last Line: And it didn't seem to matter Subject(s): Change; Self ON SUICIDE, by ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Poem Source First Line: It is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which Last Line: Every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person Subject(s): Life Change Events; Suicide ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The greatest griefs shall find themselves Last Line: Round small bodies. Taking up improper room, %where so much withering is, and so much bloom Subject(s): Life Change Events ON THE FARTHER SIDE, by W. F. BOLTON Poem Source First Line: There is a place of innocence Last Line: Garment as you strode before it, %trailing something torn Subject(s): Change; Innocence; Nature ON THE SEASHORE, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the seashore of endless worlds children meet Last Line: The sea-beach...On the seashore of endless worlds is the %great meeting of children Subject(s): Life Change Events ON THE WAPSIPINICON, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hawk rides a thermal Last Line: Away from a source and toward an end Subject(s): Change ONE AND THE OTHER, by JUAN MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Is there a centre and which is it Last Line: Welcomes the sleep of the other Subject(s): Change ONE IS INSIDE', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Vanish but reappear %that is beautiful Subject(s): Change ONE NIGHT, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Text First Line: The ancient spiders with a flutter spread Last Line: With silver crowned me there remote and lone. Subject(s): Babies; Change; Infants ONE WHO'S LEARNED, by ALICE MOSER Poem Text First Line: Though some, prophetic, guessed that I would walk Last Line: And change, however slow, is permanent. Subject(s): Change OPTIONS, by MAY RICHSTONE Poem Source First Line: If you're not liking what you see Last Line: Of changing the way you see it Subject(s): Change; Hope OR ELSE, by EDITH ANISFIELD WOLF Poem Text First Line: Catch the thought on the wing Last Line: Alas, as it had never been. Subject(s): Change ORANGE, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At lunchtime I bought a huge orange Last Line: I love you. I'm glad I exist Subject(s): Life Change Events ORIGIN OF MUSIC, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When I was a medical student Last Line: And play them like castanets Subject(s): Life Change Events; Medicine; Physicians PACKING THE WEIGHT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: It's easy when you breeze along Last Line: Can you still pack weight and win? Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Life; Life Change Events; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight PAPER DOLL, by JOCELYN HUSSEY Poem Source First Line: Though you made me Last Line: Suggesting a movie I know %you would enjoy Subject(s): Change; Relationships PARALLAX, by MELANIE REHAK Poem Source First Line: There is a kind Last Line: Over land by unseen hands Subject(s): Change PARTA QUIES, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night; ensured release Last Line: It is not your concern: %sleep on, sleep sound Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Alta Quie Subject(s): Life Change Events PARTICULARS, by MARTHA ZWEIG Poem Source First Line: A shell drops as in water Last Line: They mate in secret. %anything can be born Subject(s): Change PASSING, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To spring, to bloom, to fade Last Line: New sorrows, alien hopes, strange pleasures, other fears. Subject(s): Change; Time PASSING AWAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing away, saith the world, passing away Last Line: Then I answered: yea. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Change; Time; Transience; Impermanence PASSING STRANGE, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the earth to rest or range Last Line: Our joy, a rampart to the mind Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events PASSING THE SHOP AFTER SCHOOL, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing the shop after school, he would look up at the sign Subject(s): Jobs; Money; Life Change Events; Food & Eating PEACE OF THE RUNNING WATER TO YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And the love and the care of us all to you Subject(s): Life Change Events PEOPLE, by CHARLOTTE SHAPIRO ZOLOTOW Poem Source First Line: Some people talk and talk Last Line: And music fills the sky Subject(s): Life Change Events PETROGLYPHS, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Greasewood, four-wing saltbush Last Line: Something in the world has changed. %what will it mean? Subject(s): Change; Nature; West (u.s.) PICKING HIS WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: James joyce walks down a laneway Last Line: Blind stylish man Subject(s): Aging; Change; Cities; Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Walking POEM, by EDNA O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: When the blinds are down Last Line: While remembering the %sweet sips %of life Subject(s): Life Change Events POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY FITZGERALD/HEMINGWAY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The very rich are different from us, they Last Line: Can know before the very day arrives Subject(s): Change; Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940) POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY FITZGERALD/HEMINGWAY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The very rich are different from us, they Last Line: Our life, to save doomed lives, and none of us %can know before the very day arrives Subject(s): Change PORTENTS, by WILLIAM SHELDON Poem Source First Line: Newly moved to the edge of town Last Line: Slow to learn that all these %mean the same way Subject(s): Change; Nature; Towns POSTMODERN, by FRED MURATORI Poem Source First Line: By which we mean Last Line: Attempting art, attempting to attempt, %assembling the required distance Subject(s): Change PREPARING FOR A VISIT, by CLAUDIA GARY ANNIS Poem Source First Line: I know you're not too fond of books, mother, so I've arranged Last Line: Reflection, grap the doorknob, swallow hard, and open wide Subject(s): Change; Mothers PRESENT AGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of all the ages ever known Last Line: I fear you'll see the right on't Subject(s): American Revolution; Friends, Religious Society Of; Independence; Life Change Events PROGRESS, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the shadowy god who asks you to be content Last Line: Tomorrow's for losers, better grab today Subject(s): Change; Progress; Survival PROGRESSION, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Progression, he said, the kite's got no wind Last Line: In order, he said, to be able to grow gradually into the %back of time Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Progress PROOF, by MICHAEL DONAGHY Poem Source First Line: Proposed: that the electrode lies Last Line: Hush, until one world rings truer than the other Subject(s): Change PROPHECY, by FRANCIS ALEXANDER DEWSON Poem Text First Line: There is coming, my friend, as surely as water drops Last Line: So will they change the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Dewson, F. A. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Change; Future; God; Love; Peace; War PYRAMID, by LAURENCE W. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Look at a group of people, any age Last Line: Evidently elevated, fundamentally defeated Subject(s): Change; Pyramids; Relationships QUATRAINS, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Sad that I should lose my crown Last Line: —quests into the blue Subject(s): Change; Longing; Love - Loss Of RAMSES THE SECOND, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The week that tonya's marriage fell apart Last Line: The air three feet away waves like medusa's friggin' scalp.' Subject(s): Change; Pain READINESS IS ALL, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence Last Line: To come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the %readiness is all Subject(s): Life Change Events REARRANGING THE FURNITURE, by LEE SHARKEY Poem Source First Line: First he measured the distance Last Line: A door blew open. A great ear listened Subject(s): Change; Home REASON, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You're free of the bias toward the familiar Last Line: That you tried to teach them but not to learn Subject(s): Change; Reason RELIGIOUSNESS OF SCIENCE, by ALBERT EINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scient Last Line: Religious geniuses of all ages Subject(s): Life Change Events REMEMBER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am gone away Last Line: Than that you should remember and be sad. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement REMEMBER ME, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am dead Variant Title(s): Simplify Me When I'm Dead Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement REMEMBER ME, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am dead Last Line: And simplify me when I'm dead Variant Title(s): Simplify Me When I'm Dea Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Mourning REMEMBERING THE GOLDEN AGE, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN Poem Source First Line: When every comma was a pause for meaning Last Line: A clearly inflected language, a 'universal' comprehension Subject(s): Change; Language RENAISSANCE, by GRACE MADELON FRAME Poem Text First Line: Burst the chrysalis! Last Line: Of a new and liberated world. Subject(s): Change RENDEZVOUS, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have a rendezvous with death Last Line: I shall not fail that rendezvous. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Patriotism; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War RESOLUTION, by MYRONN HARDY Poem Source First Line: Into an empty plastic lard bucket Last Line: New year's day my love. %new year's day Subject(s): Change; Holidays; New Year RETREAT, by SARAH GORHAM Poem Source First Line: Monk says they were moved here from france Last Line: Who isn't dreaming of someplace else Subject(s): Change REVISITING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If one clear road you cannot find Last Line: The rising turmoil in your breast. Subject(s): Change; Childhood Memories; Past REWIND, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange how he had written, when he was thinking about music Subject(s): Change REWIND, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange how he had written, when he was thinking about music Last Line: So for god's sake don't jump Subject(s): Change RIDERS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The surest thing there is is we are riders Last Line: We have ideas yet that we haven’t tried Subject(s): Life Change Events RIDERS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The surest thing there is is we are riders Last Line: We have ideas yet that we haven't tried Subject(s): Life Change Events ROAD TO DAMASCUS, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Why not take some time off work, go for a spin, recall the bumper to Last Line: Suddenly radiant as never before Subject(s): Change; Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers; Roads RUMINATION, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: Life is like a bonbon plate Last Line: You've lost your appetite Subject(s): Change; Life RUN THEN THROUGH THIS LITTLE SPACE OF TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: It is ripe, blessing nature who produced it and thanking the tree on which it grew Subject(s): Life Change Events RUTH, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby girl not two years old Last Line: "safe in the arms of love divine." Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Life Change Events; Love; Mothers; Infants SAYING GOODBYE TO MY FATHER, by GILLIAN WOODWARD Poem Source First Line: Today, I am made of tears for you Last Line: The moments will stay %glistening Subject(s): Life Change Events SAYING GOODBYE TO VERY YOUNG CHILDREN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They will not be the same next time. The sayings Last Line: This world brave with hellos turns all goodbye Subject(s): Change; Children; Childhood SEA CHANGE, by W. F. BOLTON Poem Source First Line: And now, and now, Last Line: And all sense finally ends Subject(s): Change; Sea SEARCHING, NO ONE STOPS UNTIL, by RICHARD D. HOUFF Poem Source First Line: As a child, my friends were Last Line: And nothing could harm or take them away Subject(s): Change; Children; Friendship SECOND CHANCES, by WENDY BISHOP Poem Source First Line: A dark morning. The year creaks round its axis Last Line: And hear: her breating. Surely, %the year moves on Subject(s): Change; Time SHELBURNE FARMS COACHYARD, SWALLOWS, SCHUBERT, by ROBERT HAHN Poem Source First Line: That you long for someone else, for a figure more intense Last Line: The world for the pleasure of throwing it all away Subject(s): Change; Longing SHIFT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If you suddenly shift Last Line: In a way that may involve %your ending. Subject(s): Change; Sea; Suicide SHORT SHRIFT, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was at and about everything, nodding through the mall lot Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Change; Relationships SHORT SHRIFT, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was at and about everything, nodding through the mall lot Last Line: Thank you, I prefer to stand' Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Change; Relationships SILHOUETTE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky-line melts from the russet into blue Last Line: Out mutely that naught else to him remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Change; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SIMPLER TIMES, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The violent boys merely armed Last Line: Mobutu filled the secret, %underground jails Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Change; Simplicity SINK, by JOCELYN HUSSEY Poem Source First Line: I'd like to write love Last Line: The three day crumbs and bits %of soft cheese Subject(s): Change; Love SLEEPING WELL SIMI VALLEY, 1992, by MARK ANTONY ROSSI Poem Source First Line: The faces remain the same, %it's the uniforms that change Last Line: The faces remain the same, %it's the uniforms that change Subject(s): Change SMALL LEAVETAKING, by JENNIFER MACKENZIE Poem Source First Line: By late afternoon only small things remain - Last Line: Of purple minnows through the water Subject(s): Change; Venice, Italy SNUFFING ZONE, by ANTHONY BARNES Poem Source First Line: Somewhere there is a driver Last Line: And, dying, reveal another mystery Subject(s): Life Change Events SO CLOSE...', by JOSE-FLORE TAPPY Poem Source Last Line: In front of them %soliloquizes on the stones Subject(s): Change SO IT'S TODAY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And in the chokecherry this year Last Line: For a few more days of summer. Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Gifts & Giving; Leaves; Longevity; Seasons; Summer; Time; Fall SO MANY DIFFERENT LENGTHS OF TIME, by BRIAN PATTEN Poem Source First Line: How long does a man live, after all? Last Line: A man lives so many different lengths of time Subject(s): Life Change Events SO THE GREEKS HAD AMPHORAE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For farm equipment! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Nature SO WHAT IS LOVE?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: So what is love? If thou wouldst know Last Line: Love never dies at all Subject(s): Life Change Events SOME PEOPLE ARE BOUND TO DIE YOUNG, by ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Poem Source Last Line: If s/he burns brightly before s/he dies h-- light shines for all time Subject(s): Life Change Events SOME SLIPPERY AFTERNOON, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: A silver watch you've worn for years Last Line: A blank oval peers back at you %too mouthless to cry out Subject(s): Change; Grief SOME THINGS CHANGE AFTER DEATH, by CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: After three days, I come home Last Line: What it used to be Subject(s): Change; Death SOME WOULD GO DOWN BY THE SUNLIT SEA, by WILL LAWSON Poem Source Last Line: But I would go out with the winds that race away, away, away! Subject(s): Life Change Events SOMEBODY'LL HAV' TO SHOOT YA DOWN', by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Charlie parker running a tow-line / from a red barge Last Line: That is beyond the grave like a great granite keep. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Family Life; Life Change Events; Loss; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Peace; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Relatives SOMETIMES, FR. BEWARE FALLING TORTOISES, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes things don't go, after all Subject(s): Life Change Events SOMETIMES, FR. BEWARE FALLING TORTOISES, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes things don't go, after all Last Line: That seemed hard frozen: may it happen for you Subject(s): Life Change Events SONG (10), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, my dearest, / sing no sad songs for me Last Line: And haply may forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Requiem Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Life Change Events; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement SONG FOR THE ROYAL PALMS OF MIAMI, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere they stand, slightly bent Subject(s): Change; Memory; Trees; Wind SONG: 19, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prove whether I do change, my dear Last Line: And if ye find . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 96 Subject(s): Change SONG: 64, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the change from that that was Last Line: I see the change. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Psalm Subject(s): Change; Faith; Patience; Belief; Creed SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flush of green that dyed the day Last Line: I pass into thy spring. Subject(s): Aging; Change; God; Nature; Night; Spring; Stars; Youth; Bedtime SONNET: 116, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments Last Line: I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Variant Title(s): "love;love's Not Time's Fool;true Love;love Unalterable;the Marriage Of True Minds;""let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Faithfulness; Constancy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology 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: 30, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You mean, my friend, you do not greatly care Last Line: Of days when I shall please your taste, my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Change; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 98. FATAL INTERVIEW: 30, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "love Is Not All; It Is Not Meant Nor Drink""; Subject(s): Life Change Events SONNET: 98. FATAL INTERVIEW: 30, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Last Line: Or trade the memory of this night for food. %it well may be.I do not think I would Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Love Is Not All; It Is Not Meant Nor Drin Subject(s): Life Change Events SONNET: THE HUMAN SEASONS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four seasons fill the measure of the year Last Line: Or else he would forego his mortal nature. Variant Title(s): The Seasons Of Man Subject(s): Life Change Events; Seasons SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 1, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought once how theocritus had sung Last Line: The silver answer rang, -- 'not death, but love.' Variant Title(s): "i Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung""; Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 43, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Last Line: I shall but love thee better after death. Variant Title(s): Sonnets From The Portguese: 42;the Ways Of Love;perfect Love Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 7, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face of all the world is changed, I think Last Line: Because thy name moves right in what they say. Subject(s): Life Change Events SOTTO VOCE, by JOHN BREHM Poem Source First Line: To strip away this incessant chatter Last Line: Vanishes almost before she finishes Subject(s): Change; Voices SOUTH UIST, by KIM TAPHIN Poem Source First Line: A midgy lunch by loch druidibeg Last Line: But they'll no come oot with humans aboot' Subject(s): Change; Relationships SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say that this is a street therefore people walk down it Last Line: No, something to lug up behind the office at noon Subject(s): Change SPIRITS OF CHILDREN ARE REMOTE AND WISE, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The shore where they can lightly come again Subject(s): Life Change Events SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK, by TROY JOLLIMORE Poem Source First Line: In november the hours are slower Last Line: Before the river freezes altogether Subject(s): Change; Time SPRING PUDDLES GIVE WAY', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Change to singing birds Subject(s): Change; Nature; Rain; Spring SPRING PUDDLES GIVE WAY', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Change to singing birds Subject(s): Change; Nature; Rain; Spring STARS MAY FALL IN ONE'S HAND, by ARTHUR SEYMOUR JOHN TESSIMOND Poem Source First Line: When you are with me, I, who am all too sane, am a little mad Last Line: And stars, like snow, may fall in one's hand Subject(s): Life Change Events STRANGE BEWILDERMENT, by HARVEY W. FLINK Poem Text First Line: All through the day I heard the north wind blow Last Line: By love, I sought old paths, but sought in vain. Subject(s): Change; Chaos STRAWBERRIES, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There were never strawberries Last Line: Let the storm wash the plates Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Strawberries STRAWBERRIES IN WOODEN BOWLS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You carry flowers in a jug of green wine Last Line: Are half-covered with curdled milk. Subject(s): Change; Nature STRUNG OUT, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Get jumpy when phone Last Line: I'm too tightly %strung to let go Subject(s): Change SUMMARY, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: We live by not being...By being we die Last Line: We will always be posthumous Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events SUMMER IS WANING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is waning, the roses are dead Last Line: Sweet memories, never to fail! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Future; Life Change Events; Summer; Time; Youth SUN HAS BURST THE SKY, by JENNIFER JOSEPH Poem Source Last Line: Crazy with joy because I love you Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny Subject(s): Life Change Events SUNBEAM AND SHADOW, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunbeam was a lovely child Last Line: Like two fair flowers together, and so the story ends. Subject(s): Change; Children; Cousins; Forgiveness; Good; Rudeness; Childhood; Clemency; Bad Manners SURELY INCENSE AND MERCY WILL FOLLOW US ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES, by SUSAN GRIMM Poem Source First Line: Everything is contained in this one hour - the long Last Line: Her triumph? Their skins blossom with love Subject(s): Change; Love; Marriage TAKE ME TO SOME HIGH PLACE OF HEATHER, by FRANCIS XAVIER MATHEWS Poem Source Last Line: Reminding you how we shared in the joy of living Subject(s): Life Change Events TAM CARI CAPITIS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That the world will never be quite - what a cliche - the same again Last Line: On full at a threat to the queen or double top Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Life Change Events TAP, by MICHAEL SLORY Poem Source First Line: Where the tap no longer works Last Line: The hard necessity of must, it must, %and no, no other way! Subject(s): Change TASK (17), by SPENCER SELBY Poem Source First Line: Monster born of meaning Last Line: That I leave beside a camera %with no flash Subject(s): Change; Life THAT IS A FLAG RISING, by OLIVER RICE Poem Source First Line: These are stairs to the lodge hall Last Line: Where great ideas go to die Subject(s): Change; Home THAT SUCH HAVE DIED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That such have died enables us Last Line: For immortality. Subject(s): Immortality; Life Change Events THE ANSWER, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: You will not change?' my dear, for this Last Line: His falsehood false, his change decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Change; Love THE ATTIC AND ITS NAILS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard up there. You dig in a box for whatever the moment Last Line: Too occupied to remember what sent you up into the dark. Subject(s): Attics; Change; Memory; Past THE BALLAD OF CHRISTOPHER STREET, by FLOYD DELL Poem Text First Line: Is it still there, I wonder, down in christopher street Last Line: Eleven christopher street. Subject(s): Change; Christopher Street, New York City; Greenwich Village, New York City; Time; Youth THE BEAUTIFUL CHANGES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One wading a fall meadow finds on all sides Subject(s): Nature; Change THE CHANGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With brunettes I now have finish'd Last Line: Klopstock wrote some time ago? Subject(s): Change; Faith; Hair; Soul; Belief; Creed THE CHANGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happening now! It is happening Last Line: Can you sense, under the ground, the great melting? Subject(s): Change; Daughters THE CHANGED WOMAN, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light flower leaves its little core Last Line: That never thought to be forgiven. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Change THE CHANGELING, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Squatting, serious Last Line: These little boys can never, never return Subject(s): Change; Children; Growth; Play; Childhood THE CHOIR INVISIBLE, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, may I join the choir invisible Last Line: Whose music is the gladness of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Ambition; Creative Ability; Life Change Events; Music & Musicians; Religion; Worship; Inspiration; Creativity; Theology THE CITY IN WHICH I WAS BORN WAS DESTROYED BY CANNON, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How long / will my memories survive? Subject(s): War; Life Change Events; Memor THE COCK PHEASANT, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Gold is the stubble Last Line: Where once it was gold. Subject(s): Life; Life Change Events; Pheasants THE CONFIRMATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love THE DREARY CHANGE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun upon the weirdlaw hill Last Line: Were barren as this moorland hill. Subject(s): Change THE EIGHTH AND THIRTEENTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eighth of shostakovich Subject(s): Change THE END OF THE LINE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The iron horse is rusting Last Line: Baby, I tell you, the big train don't go there no more Subject(s): Change; History; Railroads; Historians; Railways; Trains THE FALL OF THE LEAVES, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In warlike pomp, with banners flowing Last Line: Among the rustling memories of the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Change; Seasons THE GOING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you give no hint that night Last Line: Not even I - would undo me so! Subject(s): Death; Gifford, Emma Lavinia; Life Change Events; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOOD-MORROW, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder by my troth, what thou and I Last Line: Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; New Year; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a massy cloud of dismal hue Last Line: Up to the hillock found him dead and cold. Subject(s): Change; Death; Decay; Deception; Despair; Evil; Insanity; Love; Lust; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Madness; Mental Illness; Songs THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LETHAL TRAUMAS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the lethal traumas Subject(s): Change; Children; Childhood THE LIFE WE LIVE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This life, my friends, is just the thing; one Last Line: Mirth, rear up and bless your native earth. Subject(s): Life Change Events THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in the stilly night Last Line: Of other days around me. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Scotch Air Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Life Change Events; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness THE NEW BLOOMER COSTUME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "listen, females all, no matter what your trade is" Last Line: "oh dear, what shall we do, when women wear the breeches" Subject(s): Change;clothing & Dress;women THE NEWBORN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mannikin who just now Last Line: Again in you Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Life Change Events THE ODE OF CHANGE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the time of the failing of breath Last Line: "I have been; thou hast done all things well; I am glad; I give thanks; I rejoice!" Subject(s): Change THE OPEN HAPPENS IN THE MIDST OF BEINGS; MARTIN HEIDEGGER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The coroner said a white picket fence Last Line: On the riverbed in a cold white spout... Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Life Change Events; Pleasure; Palmistry THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl and the pussy cat went to sea Last Line: They danced by the light of the moon. Variant Title(s): The Owl And The Pussy-cat Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Children; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Nonsense; Owls; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE PASSING OF THE YEAR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My glass is filled, my pipe is lit Last Line: There! Bless you now! Old year, good-bye! Subject(s): Change; Holidays; New Year THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 112, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no limit to changes Last Line: This time through a poor clerk Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 45, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you were too dumb the life before Last Line: But one day you'll cross the vast divide Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 80, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you would increase increase your essence Last Line: You won't survive the trauma of death Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Death; Immortality; Self; Dead, The THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 26, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since monkeys can be taught Last Line: Became a bodhisattva Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Change; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 3, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see someone short on sense Last Line: And be a fool no more Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Fools; Repentance; Idiots; Penitence THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 8, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buddhas leave behind sutras Last Line: The deceits they harbor night and day Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Change; Chinese Literature; Deception; Buddha; Buddhists THE PORTRAIT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each has his angel-guardian. Mine, I know Last Line: His very self; but from himself how changed! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Change; Portraits THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood Last Line: And that has made all the difference. Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Life Change Events; Roads; Time; Destiny; Liberty; Paths; Trails THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 21, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, my beloved, fill the cup that clears Last Line: Myself with yesterday's seven thousand years. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 22, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For some we loved, the loveliest and the best Last Line: And one by one crept silently to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 23, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And we, that now make merry in the room Last Line: Descend -- ourselves to make a couch -- for whom? Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 24, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend Last Line: Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and -- sans end! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time THE RUINED COTTAGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye Last Line: I trust in god they will not pass away. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Home; Life Change Events; Memory; Men; Nostalgia; Widows & Widowers; Childhood THE SECOND CONCESSION OF DEER, by WILLIAM WYE SMITH Poem Text First Line: John tompkins lived in a house of logs Last Line: Of his own domain in deer. Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Houses; Old Age; Relatives THE SONG OF A TRAVELLER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Last Line: Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Romance;my Valentine;a Fine Song For Singing;songs Of Travel: 11 Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say that this is a street therefore people walk down it Last Line: No, something to lug up behind the office at noon Subject(s): Change THE THREE GRACES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have the picture of you in mind Last Line: So as I write this mary has died Subject(s): Beauty; Change; Death; Dead, The THE TIME OF LOVE, by FLORENCE E. BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: The little time of love is all too short Last Line: Creeps over the horizon of her dreams. Subject(s): Change; Love THE TRULY GREAT, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think continually of those who were truly great Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Freedom; Greatness; Heroism; Life Change Events; Men; War; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines THE VALLEY OF FERN: PART 2, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art chang'd. Lovely spot! And no more thou displayest Last Line: And eternity hallows some visions of time! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Valleys; Change THE WOODS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally the woods / are stripped down Last Line: Glades for the deer. Subject(s): Change; Forests; Nature; Simplicity; Woods THE WORLD'S A STAGE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a stage. The trifling entrance fee Last Line: The very worst of modernistic rot Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Life Change Events THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle -- Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence THE ZULU GIRL (TO F.C. SLATER), by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the sun the hot red acres smoulder Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Life Change Events; Women; Zulus THEN A WOMAN SAID, 'SPEAK TO US OF JOY AND SORROW', by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: For that which has been your delight Subject(s): Life Change Events THERE'S A LIMIT, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: I've pushed alcohol out Last Line: The language. All my %insecurities surface Subject(s): Change THESE DAYS, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Text First Line: In the mausoleum lies the corpse of a man who rode Subject(s): Change; Death; Russia; Time; Dead, The; Soviet Union; Russians THINGS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think about things that might have been and never were Last Line: The fabled irish bird that alights in two places at once. %the child I never had Subject(s): Change; Future; Life; Past THIS IS THE TRUE JOY OF LIFE, by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Poem Source Last Line: Grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to %making you happy Subject(s): Life Change Events THIS IS TO LET YOU KNOW, by NOEL COWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With all my heart. This is to let you know Subject(s): Life Change Events THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL DO, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Every motion and joint of your body Subject(s): Life Change Events THIS TIME, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was his picnic table and those were his two Subject(s): Change; Time THIS TIME, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was his picnic table and those were his two Last Line: And three or four poor staccatos, hard time this time Subject(s): Change; Time THIS WINTER THINGS HAVE CHANGED, by PESHA GERTLER Poem Source First Line: Remember the days Last Line: You have a wife Subject(s): Change; Relationships; Winter THOSE WHO LIVE NOBLY, by BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Source Last Line: Breadth of vision, with courage, and with endurance, can do a great deal Subject(s): Life Change Events THOUGHTS OF A MODERN MAIDEN, by EDITH M. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Throb of my heart, throb of my heart Last Line: Where did you come from, where are you going? Subject(s): Life Change Events THOUGHTS OF THE SEA, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The boat makes her way between the Last Line: The exile that follows it Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Life Change Events; Sea; Travel THREE GRACES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have the picture of you in mind Last Line: And as I write this mary has died Subject(s): Beauty; Change; Death THREE SONGS, by CLAUDE KOCH Poem Source First Line: Now equal night unsettles sleep Last Line: In feckless latitudes of march Subject(s): Change; Nature THREE TRUE ACCOUNTS: HUSBAND, by SHERYL NOETHE Poem Source First Line: Has a bumblebee in the middle Last Line: All changed now back into the husband Subject(s): Change; Marriage TIME, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is time, o glorious giver Last Line: Sabbaths and new moons of love. Subject(s): Change; Time TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Time is the root of all this earth Last Line: Bow each in turn, - why tears for birth or death? Subject(s): Life Change Events TIME SUITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just seven weeks ago in paris Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Time TIME'S CHANGES, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her once - so freshly fair Last Line: Whose wrecks in darkness swam before me! Subject(s): Aging; Change TIN WEDDING WHISTLE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you know it anyhow Last Line: Such valid reason for a marriage Subject(s): Life Change Events TO - (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One word is too often profaned Last Line: From the sphere of our sorrow? Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love TO A DESCENDANT, by LORNA WOOD Poem Source First Line: I shall not be an importunate, nagging ghost Last Line: In your face or your walk or the glance of your laughing eyes Subject(s): Life Change Events TO DAFFODILS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair daffodils, we weep to see / you haste away so soon Last Line: Ne'er to be found againe. Variant Title(s): To Daffadills Subject(s): Daffodils; Flowers; Life Change Events; Transience; Impermanence TO FUNGO THE TORN ONES, by CRAIG PAULENICH Poem Source First Line: My father would fungo the torn ones into orbit Last Line: Barking somewhere above us Subject(s): Change; Children; Memory TO ME THE MUSES TRULY GAVE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: So let me now get used to life and death %I cannot, shall not be forgot Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Life Change Events; Love; Mythology - Classical TO MY OLD FRIEND, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who through every change remain Last Line: The days of eighteen-ninety-five! Subject(s): Change; Competition; Nostalgia; Poetry & Poets; Time; Writing & Writers TO MY SON, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, and be happy Last Line: Possess your soul; that you alone can save Subject(s): Life Change Events TO ONE WHO COMES NOW AND THEN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you come in, it seems a brighter fire Last Line: Above you smile or frown. Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Change; June TO PLUNGE UPWARDS IS THE WAY OF THE SPARK, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With our gold death - and that is my reply! Subject(s): Life Change Events TO THE QUEEN OF THE WAX DOLLS, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the old church yard I told you all Last Line: A skeptic might believe it! Subject(s): Change; Indifference; Love - Complaints TO THE TUNE OF SAILING AT NIGHT (2), by MA CHIH-YUAN Poem Source First Line: Think of the ch'in palace Last Line: Dragon from snake on the stones Subject(s): Change; China TO VICTOR HUGO (1), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair days when god Last Line: Earth's loftiest head, found upright to the end. Variant Title(s): To Victor Hugo Subject(s): Change; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) TO W.P.: 2, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With you a part of me hath passed away Last Line: What I keep of you, or you rob from me. Variant Title(s): For Those Once Mine Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Potter, Warwick (1872-1893); Dead, The TODAY A PINK ROSE IN A VASE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tomorrow, petals Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Flowers; Nature TODAY AND TO-MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the world is out in leaf Last Line: Fast asleep and weary -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Spring Fancies: 2 Subject(s): Change; Earth; Life; Spring; World TODAY'S NOT OPPOSITE DAY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't say can't not Last Line: It's not time to sleep but it feels like night Subject(s): Change; Conversation; Poetry & Poets TODAY'S NOT OPPOSITE DAY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't say can't not Last Line: I'm just a nobody making my way Subject(s): Change; Conversation; Poetry And Poets TOMORROW, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow I will start to be happy Last Line: Your last chance to salvage something of its style Subject(s): Change; Future; Past TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER CIVILISATION (2), by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the first soft winds of spring, while snow yet lay on the ground Last Line: Looking out over the earth, on which he was once a mortal. Subject(s): Democracy; Life Change Events; Modern Man TRANSFIGURATION, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: I face the field in the window backward Last Line: Out of view of the audience Subject(s): Change TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Her scream of love ripping his head Last Line: Of a bumpy bed Subject(s): Blood; Change; Relationships; Sex TRANSFORMATION, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In many homes / one sees old shrapnel cases Last Line: Let me work. Subject(s): Change; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TRANSFORMATION, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a little shrivelled seed Last Line: Over the flower's heart of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Change; Happiness; Joy; Delight TRANSFORMATIONS, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Each morning I get reborn as jack Last Line: My stash of coin. Here is the harp that sings Subject(s): Change; Morning TRANSFORMATIONS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What miracle was it that made this grey Last Line: O'er the dark churches where the blind mislead the blind. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Change; Mythology - Classical TRANSITION, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: You who brought my heart defeat Last Line: All your childhood thro' so fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Change TRANSITION, by VIRGINIA SPARKES Poem Text First Line: What though a dream reached reality & paused Last Line: Will also pass, and longing, too, is brief. Subject(s): Change TREE OF LIFE, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My own attitude towards death has never been one of fear Last Line: Me; the tree itself grows and endures Subject(s): Life Change Events TREES UNLEASH SOMETHING, by CLAUDIA MONPERE MCISAAC Poem Source First Line: Only late july Last Line: Were only plums, sticky and warm %from sitting on the porch Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Change TRUE LOVE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no, fair heretic, it needs must be Last Line: And would love more, could I but love thee less. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Life Change Events TRUE WAYS OF KNOWING, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not an ounce excessive, not an inch too little Last Line: If it had our way of knowing Subject(s): Life Change Events TRULY GREAT, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think continually of those who were truly great Last Line: And left the vivid air signed with their honour Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Freedom; Greatness; Heroism; Life Change Events; Men; War TRUTH, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man with his burning soul %has but an hour of breath Last Line: The ship my striving made %may see night fade Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Religion TUMORS, by DAVID SWERDLOW Poem Source First Line: The stairs fall from her Last Line: Predication's straight line is the moon's %difficult white, neurological dark Subject(s): Change; Vision TURBOPROP, by RUSTIN LARSON Poem Source First Line: Before the world got so freaking ambitious Last Line: Their bodies leaving the ground, %uncertain and liberated Subject(s): Change; Earth TURN AGAIN TO LIFE, by MARY LEE HALL Poem Source First Line: If I should die and leave you here awhile Last Line: And I perchance may therein comfort you! Subject(s): Life Change Events; Religion TURN OF EVENTS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Nothing is what it seems to be. Even when reading Last Line: We watch as flat entities come to life and take flight, %our eyes widening in surprise Subject(s): Change; Life TURNING POINT, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Moments wash %one into another, like Last Line: I am just knowing Subject(s): Change; Dreams TWELVE SONGS: 12, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say that love's a little boy Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; War TWELVE SONGS: 12, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say that love's a little boy Last Line: O tell me the truth about love Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; War TWO WOMEN: OR A CCONVERSATION WITH SAHARA NILE, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Change; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations UNDERNEATH (9), by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring / up, up you go, you must be introduced Subject(s): Change; Seasons UNDERNEATH (9), by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring %up, up you go, you must be introduced Last Line: Organized around a radiant absence. %in his dance the people do not move Subject(s): Change; Seasons UNDOING THE DOZENS: STEP TWO, by EVERETT HOAGLAND Poem Source First Line: Yes, as we have sung Last Line: We do to and with our- %selves and one another Subject(s): Change; Progress UNEXPECTED, by MARIANNE BOTOS Poem Source First Line: When I'm forty I'll let my hair grow Last Line: Between the dark silhouette of legs Subject(s): Change UNION OF YOU AND ME, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is for the union of you and me Last Line: To choose the beloved Subject(s): Life Change Events UNREST IN AUTUMN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my window sighs the last lone rose Last Line: Ah, god! Ah, god! And I am growing old. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Seasons; Winter; Fall UNTIL WE DROOL AND PISS OURSELVES, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Car honk, donkey bray, seal bark - it's only since Last Line: This tumult, undefined, forms the footpath to the final death: his own Subject(s): Change; Death; Social Protest UNTITLED, by MORRIE WARSHAWSKI Poem Source First Line: So here's the thing Last Line: Of a dark night and its dreams Subject(s): Change; Past; Time UNTITLED (1), by LI SHANG-YIN Poem Source First Line: The chance to meet is difficult, Last Line: O green bird, seek, seek her out Subject(s): Change UP FROM EARTH'S CENTRE THROUGH THE SEVENTH GATE, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Drink! - for once dead you never shall return.' Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events VALENTINE, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a red rose or a satin heart Last Line: Cling to your life Subject(s): Life Change Events VALENTINE, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a red rose or a satin heart Last Line: Its scent will cling to your fingers, %cling to your knife Subject(s): Life Change Events VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY WOODY ALLEN, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The heart gets what it gets. Notwithstanding Last Line: The heart's a mouth, and fuck its reasons Subject(s): Allen, Woody (b. 1935); Change VICISSITUDE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things around us preach of death; yet mirth Last Line: Earth is our pilgrimage, our home is heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Change; Death; Time; Dead, The VICTORY OVER DEATH, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't think that victory over death is anything so superficial Last Line: The fact that s/he lived, and was the kind of person s/he was Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Life Change Events VIGIL, by CAROL S. WESTBERG Poem Source First Line: I'll find no other life. This friday is no rehearsal Last Line: At this meal - so sweet and sharp, so fleeting Subject(s): Accidents; Change; Children; Family Life VILLANELLE OF CHANGE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since persia fell at marathon Last Line: Long centuries have come and gone. Subject(s): Change; Greece; Greeks VISION OF COLUMBUS, SELS., by JOEL BARLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youthful minds to wake the ardent flame Last Line: Repay thy labours and remove thy pain Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Life Change Events; Nations; Peace WANDER A LOT', by EUGENE WARREN DOTY Poem Source Last Line: Among those %crisp stars Subject(s): Change; Travel WAS IT STELLA, OR WAS IT STELLA?, by CAL BEDIENT Poem Source First Line: You're safe, you think, as a train Last Line: I praise you. I praise you Subject(s): Change; Relationships WATERLILY FIRE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Girl grown woman ... Fire... Mother of fire Subject(s): New York City; Fire; Life; Change; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple WE ARE EACH A SECRET TO THE OTHER, by ALBERT SCHWEITZER Poem Source Last Line: Precious what comes back to you from them Subject(s): Life Change Events WE DID NOT FEAR THE FATHER, by CHARLES FORT Poem Source First Line: We did not fear the father as the barber who stood Last Line: We did not fear our father until he stooped in the dark Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Fathers WEDNESDAY, by CLAIRE J. BAKER Poem Source First Line: I wander about your library Last Line: Some things not even your death %can change Subject(s): Change; Death WELL BABY, by RAFEL DWAINE RIEVES Poem Source First Line: On most visits you cuddled Last Line: Closely, see what it hides Subject(s): Babies; Change; Growth; Progress WHAT HAVE I GOT EXACTLY?, by LAURIE LEE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And to show enthusiasm, and free at times to invade my silences Subject(s): Life Change Events WHAT IS SUCCESS?, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To laugh often and love much, to win Last Line: This is to have succeeded Subject(s): Life Change Events WHEN AUTUMN IS A-COMIN' IN, by IRENE ZIMMERMAN Poem Source Last Line: Give long-range forecasts of the weather %through thicknesses of fur or feather Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Seasons WHEN I HEAR YOUR NAME, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Last Line: I will be sentenced to repeating it forever Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Life Change Events WHEN I KNEW EVERYTHING, by ALEXANDER LEHRMAN Poem Source First Line: When I was twenty and knew everything Last Line: I felt the ease of coming softly down Subject(s): Aging; Change; Knowledge WHEN I WAS TWENTY-SIX, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why god allowed montserrat to fall Last Line: I was unfaithful even to infidelity Subject(s): Change; Growth WHEN I WAS TWENTY-SIX, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why god allowed montserrat to fall Last Line: I was unfaithful even to infidelity Subject(s): Change; Growth WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES TO WARM, THE BOYS DRIVE SHIRTLESS, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their cigarettes wasting to nought Last Line: And trembling, death and the endless expanse Subject(s): Change; Driving & Drivers; Weather WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES TO WARM, THE BOYS DRIVE SHIRTLESS, by MARY JO BANG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their cigarettes wasting to nought Last Line: That is not an event Subject(s): Change; Driving And Drivers; Weather WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE, by ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Poem Source Last Line: Winged life, of the ebb and flow, of intermittency Subject(s): Life Change Events WHEN YOU START ON YOUR JOURNEY TO ITHACA, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You must surely have understood by then what ithacas mean Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Life Change Events WHERE AND WHAT YOU ARE, by ROBERT MCDOWELL Poem Source First Line: I see you in a hundred places. Now Last Line: You own me now that you are everywhere Subject(s): Change WHERE ONCE WAS FEAR AND HOSTILITY, by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: You now have time and energy to view Last Line: Far from this contagion of public cheerfulness Subject(s): Change WHY DO I, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sweet death, kind death, %of all the gods you are best Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Life Change Events WHY WE DON'T REMEMBER THE FUTURE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: January and no shadows so the ghosts come out Last Line: Where we aren't. Send me a postcard, I say. %something short and jazzy Subject(s): Change; Future; Memory WILLY'S BIRTHDAY, by PHILIP C. KOLIN Poem Source First Line: Dress willy up in voices Last Line: Firing up the yard %late at night Subject(s): Birthdays; Change; Growth; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915) WINTER, by ROSE CAROLYN KATTERHENRY Poem Text First Line: Limbs abare, icy stare Last Line: A fleecy white blanket to cover its nudity. Subject(s): Change; Winter WISH FOR A YOUNG WIFE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lizard, my lively writher Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love WISH FOR A YOUNG WIFE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lizard, my lively writher Last Line: When I am no one Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love WISH FOR MY CHILDREN, by EVANGELINE PATERSON Poem Source First Line: On this doorstep I stand Last Line: All webs of my weaving Subject(s): Life Change Events WITH A BOTTLE OF BLUE NUN TO ALL MY FRIENDS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters, / the blue nun has eloped with one Last Line: It's that simple. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Change; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Nuns; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin WITHERING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fade tender lily Last Line: Back to pleasant spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Autumn Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Flowers; Seasons; Fall WOMAN RESTING ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON, by MARTHA MODENA VERTREACE Poem Source First Line: At first, the simple astonishment of engines Last Line: I realize that I have known you forever Subject(s): Change; Man-woman Relationships WOMAN TO CHILD, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who were darkness warmed my flesh Subject(s): Life Change Events; Mothers & Daughters; Pregnancy; Women WOMAN TO CHILD, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You who were darkness warmed my flesh Last Line: I am the stem that fed the fruit, %the link that joins you to the night Subject(s): Life Change Events; Mothers And Daughters; Pregnancy; Women WOMAN WITH THE BABY TO THE PHILOSOPHER, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I dread you, o portentous wise Last Line: Renowned - who put your toes inside your mouth Subject(s): Life Change Events WON'T LET GO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon I'm obliged to attend a birthday party Last Line: And somewhere there was a tree with one black leaf for everybody Subject(s): Change; Parties WORLD'S A STAGE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a stage. The trifling entrance fee Last Line: On with my coat and out into the night Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Life Change Events YELLOW COIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the only changes are Last Line: The only wall that holds my history. Subject(s): Change; Cities; Memory; Urban Life YES, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always to see the world made whole Subject(s): Change YES, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always to see the world made whole Last Line: Say yes to the candle stain's watery light Subject(s): Change YOU ARE PART OF ME, by FRANK YERBY Poem Source First Line: You are part of me. I do not know Last Line: That part of you that is a part of me Subject(s): Life Change Events YOUNG FANNY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A change hath come over young fanny Last Line: "the reason we mortals may know." Subject(s): Change; Character YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR CHILDREN, by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: As living arrows are sent forth Subject(s): Life Change Events ZENO'S PARADOX, by ROSE NAJIA Poem Source First Line: The relation of the discrete to the continuous Last Line: She wants is wanting has wanted speaks Subject(s): Change; Contrariness ZULU GIRL (TO F.C. SLATER), by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When in the sun the hot red acres smoulder Last Line: Or the first cloud so terrible and still %that bears the coming harvest in its breast Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Life Change Events; Women; Zulus |
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