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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: CLOUDS Matches Found: 187 A CLOUD CREATES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud creates the face of a man who, happening to Last Line: Is of the weather Subject(s): Clouds A CLOUD FANCY, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three lines of breakers, swift and high Last Line: Is the beach they break upon. Subject(s): Clouds A DRIFTING CLOUD, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born of the shadows that it passes through Last Line: O cloud, thou hast a human destiny! Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Clouds A FABLE OF CLOUD-LAND, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two clouds in the early morning Last Line: As the cloud did in the sea. Subject(s): Clouds A FAREWELL SONG OF WHITE CLOUDS, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The white clouds float over the mountains of chu Last Line: Go swiftly home, o my friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): China; Clouds A LAMENT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lady cloud, why are you weeping?' I said Last Line: "because,"" she made answer, ""my rain-beau is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clouds A LEGACY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember, little cloud Last Line: To leave their tints to you? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clouds A NIGHT: LATER, by ELSIE GLENN Poem Text First Line: The night with its queer, dark noises Last Line: And the clouds roll by, ever new. Subject(s): Clouds; Night; Bedtime A PORTRAIT OF MY ROOF, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My steel roof mirrors clouds Last Line: Unlike anything one finds in reflection Subject(s): Animals; Clouds; Grass; Snakes; Steel; Serpents; Vipers A TURKEY HUNT IN TEXAS (AS TOLD AT DINNER), by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, sir; no turkey for me, sir Last Line: And then nailed our scalps to that turkey pen. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Clouds ABOVE AND WITHIN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the distance a phalanx of black clouds Last Line: Above and within. Subject(s): Clouds; Night; Bedtime ABOVE THE CLOUDS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And can this be my own world? Last Line: Hath many worlds more Subject(s): Clouds ABSOLVED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far floating o'er its native fen Last Line: Of radiant rest, appears. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clouds; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene ALL DAY RAIN, by LARRY GOULD Poem Text First Line: I had forgotten it could rain like this Last Line: Primeval exultation in a roof. Subject(s): Clouds ALLEGORY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that pass so swiftly o'er the downs Last Line: Must in the end be borne beyond the shore. Subject(s): Clouds; Fables; Fate; Sea; Allegories; Destiny; Ocean AN AIR CLOUD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I watched a little cloud one day Last Line: But I was lying there. Subject(s): Clouds; Sky; White (color) AN EVENING CLOUD, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yon cloud, 'tis bright and beautiful - it floats Last Line: The clear, blue, tranquil, fixed, and glorious sky. Subject(s): Clouds ANOTHER CHOICE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: See that whitest cloud Last Line: Through the gadabout city. Subject(s): Clouds; Death; Ignorance; Sky ARAB LOVE SONG, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hunched camels of the night Last Line: Who hast the red pavilion of my heart? Subject(s): Clouds; Desire; Love ARIZONA POEMS: 4. THE WINDMILLS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The windmills, like great sunflowers of steel Last Line: And the choking gurgle of tepid water. Subject(s): Clouds; Windmills ASPIRATION (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me, o cloud, thy comrade! Let me be Last Line: A shade of earth in light celestial shrined. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clouds BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY DINO CAMPANA, by JOHN ALEX LATTA Poem Source First Line: Like a cloud coming to a dead stop Last Line: What good are pennies to a cloud? Subject(s): Clouds BELVEDERE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: So this is the gulf of positano Last Line: Crack among the clouds: %giddap, giddap. Move it! Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Clouds; Sky BOEING CROSSING, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My head is in the clouds Last Line: Lose our heads in the clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Clouds; Disasters; Sky BRIGHT LIGHT AND CLOUD SHADOWS, by CHU TA Poem Source First Line: Spring mountains have no near or far. Last Line: How did a worldly thought come to mind Subject(s): Clouds; Light BUB SAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon in the sky is a custard Last Line: An' talk about suddently droppin' off. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Clouds; Grandparents; Moon; Sky; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers BUONARROTI, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No longer cold or dolorous, the gleaming mountains loom Last Line: Mad angelo still proves that marble lived -- and never dies! Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) CHAMBER THOUGHTS: 3, by XU GAN Poem Source First Line: Clouds go drifting in billowing floods Last Line: Like flowing waters I long for you - %there is never a time that they end Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Clouds; Longing; Mirrors CHINOISERIE, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text First Line: A cloud of shivering silver Last Line: The sky is a glowing poppy, all unfurled. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Clouds; Weather; Wind CITY OF DREADFUL THIRSTS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stranger came from narromine and made his little joke Last Line: That narrow-minded person on his road to narromine. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Rain; Thirst; Urban Life CITY RAIN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The skies are etched with traceries of grey Last Line: Dashing its living wonder in our eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Clouds; Rain; Water CLEAR AWAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Clear away, clear away Last Line: Where the little cloud hid away Subject(s): Wind; Clouds CLOUD, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Gray clouds across the blue that smiled Last Line: On blue of yours have leave to lie? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Clouds; Sky CLOUD, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A blue stain / creeps across Subject(s): Clouds CLOUD AND SKY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fleecy clouds float by Last Line: The dreamy ways of god and man. Subject(s): Clouds; Sky CLOUD BASKETS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds that hide the sun with showers Last Line: Just the flowers I love the best. Subject(s): Clouds; Flowers CLOUD GAME, by WILLIAM REICHARD Poem Source First Line: The clouds carry in another of june's remonstrances. Last week Last Line: The sternest of salvations sky spared them Subject(s): Clouds; Games CLOUD GROUPINGS, by WILLIAM RENTON Poem Source First Line: Those clouds at even are swollen, and pierced Last Line: Pure silver skiffs on immemorial sea Subject(s): Clouds CLOUD SHADOWS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That white coconut, the sun Subject(s): Clouds CLOUD SONG, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds and I, clouds and I Last Line: Through the year together. Subject(s): Clouds CLOUD UPON CLOUD, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source Last Line: While ash keeps falling falling Subject(s): Clouds; Sky CLOUD WITHDREW FROM THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: Is my intention now Variant Title(s): Poem: 895; Poem: 107 Subject(s): Clouds; Heaven CLOUD-LIFE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look with what titan majesty arise Last Line: Their single songs, and full-quired eloquence. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Clouds CLOUD-PICTURES, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in these mellow grasses, the whole morn Last Line: These transient visions vanish in the sun. Subject(s): Clouds CLOUDED SKY, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: The moon moves in a clouded sky Last Line: Slowly, carefully. I live Subject(s): Clouds; Death CLOUDLAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "over the hills, at the close of day" Last Line: But kiss her softly and let her sleep Subject(s): Clouds CLOUDS, by O. J. BOWLES Poem Text First Line: Clouds always seem such helpless things Last Line: With fragile hands of rain. Subject(s): Clouds CLOUDS, by MELVILLE CANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were no flowers in the sky Last Line: Fragrant and without a stain. Subject(s): Clouds; Flowers; July; Sky CLOUDS, by LINCOLN COLCORD Poem Text First Line: The clouds rise over the high mountains Last Line: I should not have looked away. Subject(s): Clouds; Nature; Weather CLOUDS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: My fancy loves to play with clouds Last Line: To make no motion there. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Clouds CLOUDS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds moved in another hundred feet Subject(s): Clouds CLOUDS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Someday I'm going to learn a trade I like, there are so few Last Line: Slow clouds, so very white, and moving away Subject(s): Clouds; Sky CLOUDS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He that ascended in a cloud, shall come Last Line: In clouds, descending to the publike doome. Subject(s): Clouds 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 CLOUDS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds as I see them, rising Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Death; Clouds; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations CLOUDS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn. First light tearing Subject(s): Clouds; Social Commentaries CLOUDS, by ROBERT PETERS Poem Source First Line: The sun behind a cloud Subject(s): Clouds CLOUDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White sheep, white sheep Last Line: Where do you go? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Clouds CLOUDS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Laughter and song for my cheer Last Line: Black night in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Clouds CLOUDS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born of the waters are we Last Line: Mothers of rain and snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clouds CLOUDS, by BEULAH WILL Poem Text First Line: Come with me to wonderland, and in the azure sky Last Line: And back of life's clouds the sun is still shining. Subject(s): Clouds CLOUDS, by UROS ZUPAN Poem Source First Line: They run high above like whales. Changing Last Line: Disappear forever in the distance, pasted over with the silence %of our unfulfilled desires Subject(s): Clouds CLOUDS (AGRO ROMANO), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though the dead cities Last Line: In the heights of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Heaven; Rome, Italy; Urban Life; Paradise CLOUDS OF GRAY, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: When we dug her narrow bed Subject(s): Clouds; Farm Life CLOUDSCAPE, by ROBERT B. SHAW Poem Text First Line: To a man sick or in prison I imagine Last Line: That I am almost never ill and always free to go. Subject(s): Clouds CONSTABLE CLOUDS, FOR KEAT'S, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They come in off the sea peaceable masters Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Clouds CURIOUS CLOUD SURPRISED THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: Had not the majesty Variant Title(s): Poem: 1710; Poem: 50 Subject(s): Clouds DAWNS OF MOGUER, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The silver poplars Last Line: The baffled moon Subject(s): Clouds; Storms; Weather DE CLOUDS AM GWINE TER PASS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De wedder's mighty waum Last Line: An' de darkies' clouds ob sorrer pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Bible; Blacks; Clouds DESCENT OF MR. ALDEZ, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That cloud - ambiguous, not Last Line: Smiles knowingly, and dissipates Subject(s): Clouds ERROR, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a light cloud floating in the sheen Last Line: Leading through paths obscure, from error down to crime Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine Subject(s): Clouds; Truth EVENING CLOUDS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The hour has made transparent mountains of ruddy cloud. Upon Last Line: Grain are bowed in slumber, and the broad moon awakes. Subject(s): Clouds; Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING CLOUDS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little flock of clouds go down to rest Last Line: And still on purley common gooseboys sing. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Clouds; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings EVERGREEN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though thieving centuries grip ageing trees Last Line: And clouds enough to thunder rain on death! Subject(s): Clouds; Cypress Trees; Rain FANCY IN NUBIBUS; OR, THE POET IN THE CLOUDS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease Last Line: Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Variant Title(s): The Poet In The Clouds Subject(s): Clouds; Nature FINIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On softly stepping feet Last Line: And she will no further seek. Subject(s): Clouds; Dawn; Death; Kisses; Worms; Sunrise; Dead, The FLOCKS AND HERDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey spring day / and a grey sky Last Line: The grey clouds lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Clouds; Gray (color); Lambs; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Grey (color) FLYING THROUGH CLOUDS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Harder for me to understand than calculus Last Line: About the ultimate purpose of life on earth Subject(s): Clouds; Earth FOG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You see, shore-hugging is neither surety Last Line: Or founder soon, we cannot be saved here Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Clouds; Fog; Weather FOUR CLOUDS LIKE THE IRISH IN MEMORY, by CAMPBELL MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: First memory of school: sitting in the grass beneath a dogwood tree Last Line: I had no idea there were such great forests left Subject(s): Clouds; Loss; Memory; Moving And Movers; Refugees; Schools; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FRIENDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I glimpse a black cloud Last Line: Whose heart refuses to break Subject(s): Clouds; Friendship; Strength HOW LUCKY IN ONE LIFE TO SEE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The sun lift a cloud from a pool! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clouds; Lakes; Nature; Sun IDYL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wine of the grey sky Last Line: And the sea! Subject(s): Clouds; Rain IF RAIN, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: If rain can come Last Line: Then shall we know coming and going Subject(s): Clouds; Love; Rain; Romance; Water 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 SWIMMING-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds above, as white as wool Last Line: Dropping, drifting through it all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Clouds; Swimming & Swimmers; Streams; Creeks; Childhood; Swimmers IN THE PLACE DE LA BASTILLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a clear day in paris, walking where Last Line: The tragic tumbrils, hark! Go rumbling by! Subject(s): Bastille (paris); Clouds; Paris, France; Prisons & Prisoners; Storms; Convicts LANDING, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a pure white cloud that hung there Last Line: Direction to their endless drift. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Clouds; Mankind; Mirages; Sky; White (color); Human Race LITTLE PATCH O' BLUE, by GAZELLE STEVENS SHARP Poem Text First Line: Twas one o' them 'ere blusterin' days Last Line: But I shan't soon forget. Subject(s): Clouds; Storms LONELY CLOUD, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've lived on this very mountain Last Line: So calm the whole day long Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Clouds; Serenity MAN, by CORDELIA SIPPER Poem Source First Line: Through the waves Last Line: We mustn't forget about that cloud Subject(s): Clouds; Death; Sea MAN AND NATURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad man on a summer day Last Line: Who can be bright without the sun.' Subject(s): Earth; Clouds; Mankind; Birds; Sea; World; Human Race; Ocean MEADOWSWEET, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Meadowsweet, those dizzying flowers Last Line: But in long processions %with lights swirling like clouds Subject(s): Clouds; Flowers MORNING MIST, by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: Vapor rises in the morning Last Line: When it has been once sun-kissed. Subject(s): Clouds; Fog; Haze MORPHINE, by TAMA BALDWIN Poem Source First Line: Body in the isolette Last Line: They are always %occupied Subject(s): Bodies; Clouds; White (color) MOST LOVELY SHADE; FOR ALICE BOUVERIE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most lovely dark, my aethiopia born Last Line: Shall pour such splendour as your heart to me. Subject(s): Clouds MOTETS: 10, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why are you waiting? The squirrel in the pine tree Last Line: The flash of lightning, leave the cloud Subject(s): Clouds; Evening; Thunder MOTETS: 12, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I run my hand across your forehead Last Line: Don't know that you are here Subject(s): Clouds; Cold; Cyclones MOTIONLESS CLOUDS, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy and dull, the motionless clouds Last Line: With longings unfulfilled, %brooding on my sorrow, what shall I do? Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Clouds MY DWELLING, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT Poem Text First Line: I'll build my cabin in the pass Last Line: To watch the clouds sail by. Subject(s): Clouds; Weather; Wind NAMING WEATHER: NOTES FOR JEAN: 2 TRANSITIONS:STRATUS, CUMULUS, NIMBUS, by MARY PINARD Poem Source First Line: Then, in that progressive ohio village Last Line: And changed now, I'm beyond them Subject(s): Clouds; Earth NEW YORK CLOUDS, by TONY TOWLE Poem Source First Line: In 1963 I wrote that new york was a cloud Last Line: And reflects it with minutes of clouds Subject(s): Clouds; New York City NIGHT CLOUDS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The white mares of the moon rush along the sky Subject(s): Clouds NIGHT CLOUDS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The white mares of the moon rush along the sky Subject(s): Clouds OBSESSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, take away those haunting eyes Last Line: And the rain cover the hill! Subject(s): Clouds; Moon; Rain; Sea; Water; Ocean OF THE MANNER OF ADDRESSING CLOUDS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns Last Line: Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon. Subject(s): Clouds ON THE DEATH OF SIR JAMES HUNTER BLAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamp of day, with ill-presaging glare Last Line: She said, and vanish'd with the sweeping blast. Subject(s): Clouds; Death; Graves; Grief; Patriotism; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ONE LITTLE CLOUD IS OUT TO-DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: The sun shone out and the cloud ran away Subject(s): Clouds OPPOSITES: 22, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of a cloud could be Last Line: Caused by a cloud's not being there Subject(s): Clouds; English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 22, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of a cloud could be Last Line: Caused by a cloud's not being there Subject(s): Clouds; English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms PALACE OF THE WORLD, by LOUIS HENRI JEAN FARIGOULE Poem Text First Line: The sky opened unresistingly Last Line: The storm that calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Romains, Jules Subject(s): Clouds; Sky; Storms POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stones in my heart Last Line: Looks like a simple stripe. Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Prairies; Stones; Texas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains; Granite; Rocks PROMISE OF THE CLOUD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When clouds appear like rocks and towers Variant Title(s): Proverbially Useful For Weather Forecast Subject(s): Clouds QUEEN MAYADEVI, MOTHER OF BUDDHA & MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS TALK ABOUT..., by JULIE MOULDS Poem Source First Line: The women agree. When mortals draw a cloud, most depict the cumulus Last Line: The open mouths of blasphemers, and baptizing the virgins without umbrellas Subject(s): Clouds; Mary (name); Mothers; Talk RADIANT CLOUDS AT SUNSET, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright clouds! Ye are gathering one by one Last Line: And the pageants of earth shall have melted away. Subject(s): Clouds RAIN CLOUDS, by ELIZABETH-ELLEN LONG Poem Source First Line: Along a road Last Line: With wild-flower frills Subject(s): Clouds; Rain RAINDROPS ON YOUR GLASSES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Reading the clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clouds; Nature; Rain RETURNING CLOUDS, by CHING AN Poem Source First Line: Misty trees hide in crinkled hills' blue green Last Line: To come on home again Subject(s): Clouds; Zen Buddhism SAILOR, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: That bird which is flying for the first time Last Line: I am the old sailor %who sews cut horizons Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Birds; Clouds; Sailors And Sailing; Sky SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 95, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boats sail on the rivers Last Line: Is prettier far than these. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Rainbow Subject(s): Clouds SKY BLUE, by F. J. BERGMANN Poem Source First Line: It's blue sky week. There are weeks for all sorts of things, but blue Last Line: Ball on their chest like a small brooch, to represent a cloud Subject(s): Clouds; Sky SLIPPED FROM THE CLOUD, by D. G. JONES Poem Source First Line: The moon, backlighting briefly Last Line: To mark the turn - and the salute Subject(s): Clouds; Moon; Night; Sun SMALL SKY, by DIANA SOLIS Poem Source First Line: Small roundness the cloud with the head Last Line: Center of the universe, three corners, outside my window Subject(s): Clouds; Sky SOLITUDE, by E. CAMPBELL KING Poem Text First Line: One white cloud up in the sky Last Line: Just solitude -- Subject(s): Clouds; Solitude; Loneliness SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: CONCLUDING SONG. A MORN OF MAY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the clouds about the sun lay up in golden creases Last Line: O! Sweetly she did carol all on that morn of may. Subject(s): Clouds; Dawn; Happiness; May (month); Night; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Joy; Delight; Bedtime; Songs SONNET TO THE CLOUDS, by SUSAN EVANCE Poem Text First Line: O ye who ride upon the wandering gale Last Line: Far I would fly, and leave my woes behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Clouds SONNET: CLOUD FANTASIES, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild, rapid, dark, like dreams of threatening doom Last Line: Uplifted toward some dread eternity. Subject(s): Clouds SOUTH BY WEST: GULF CLOUDS, by EDNA TARVER Poem Text First Line: With careless strokes Last Line: Of a texas sky. Subject(s): Clouds STUDENT OF CLOUDS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The emotion is to be found in the clouds Subject(s): Clouds SUMMER STORM, by JANE RICHTER Poem Text First Line: Swiftly rush the storm clouds Last Line: Silence, sunlight glinting on wet roof-tops. Subject(s): Clouds; Rain; Storms; Summer SUNRISE WITH SEA MONSTER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Well, we either do it or we don't, as the pigeon said to the loaf Last Line: But no diminishment, as in 'fancy' and 'open fifths' and environmental sweepstakes' Subject(s): Clouds; Environment; Sea Monsters; Storms; Weather SUNSET CLOUDS, by MAUD BROCKETT FINCH Poem Text First Line: The sunset clouds are gathering over yonder in the west Last Line: Oh! Sunset clouds, good-by. Subject(s): Clouds; Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE BIOGRAPHY OF A CLOUD, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It would have been easier to follow johnson Subject(s): Clouds THE BLACK CLOUD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Little flocks of peaceful clouds Last Line: Tear an oak tree's bowels out. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Clouds THE CHRIST OF VELAZQUEZ: CLOUD-MUSIC, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white cloud you are, white as the one Last Line: Through your body, harp of the universe Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Jesus Christ; Clouds THE CLOUD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A cloud came over a land of leaves Last Line: New life with the world's new birth Subject(s): Clouds THE CLOUD, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud the far horizon scales Last Line: Over her satin shoulder slim. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Aphrodite; Clouds; Mythology; Mythology - Classical THE CLOUD, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what your thoughts are, little cloud Last Line: Celeste: the cloud! Subject(s): Clouds; France; Plays & Playwrights ; Women; Dramatists THE CLOUD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seest thou that cloud that rides in state Last Line: Where venus sleeps (halfe smothered.) Subject(s): Clouds THE CLOUD, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The islands called me far away Last Line: -- forever, and a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Clouds THE CLOUD, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers Last Line: I rise and upbuild it again. Subject(s): Clouds; Nature; Spring THE CLOUD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far on the brink of day Last Line: "the veil of nothingness!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clouds THE CLOUD, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a cloud in the heaven's height Last Line: "whispering always, ""rest, rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Clouds THE CLOUDHERD'S SONG, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never having done anything ever but watch Last Line: I call you cloud and call myself yours Subject(s): Clouds THE CLOUDS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful clouds! I have watched ye long Last Line: To its god at the shrine of a passing cloud? Subject(s): Clouds THE CLOUDS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the clouds that float along the sky Last Line: I watch the clouds that float along the sky. Subject(s): Clouds; London THE CLOUDS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood and looked around, where, far and nigh Last Line: And ran away. Subject(s): Birds; Clouds THE CLOUDS ABOVE THE OCEAN, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds above the ocean of mexico – how palable they are Last Line: With his surrender a minor event already lost from memory Subject(s): Clouds; Storms THE CLOUDS: SONG [OR CHORUS] OF THE CLOUDS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds, ever drifting in air Last Line: Herald the spring with a battle of melody and music of clarinet droning. Subject(s): Clouds THE CLOUDS: THE CLOUD CHORUS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hither, come hither, ye clouds renowned, and unveil yourselves here Last Line: And the dancing feet of the maids that sing! Subject(s): Clouds THE CURLY WHITE CLOUD LOVES THE SKY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: I'll come again — so high, so high Subject(s): Clouds; Sky THE DESCENT OF MR. ALDEZ, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That cloud - ambiguous, not Last Line: Smiles knowingly, and dissipates Subject(s): Clouds THE DEWS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come and go as the breezes blow Last Line: In the eastern skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clouds THE EVENING CLOUD, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun Last Line: And tells to man his glorious destinies. Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Clouds; Nature THE EVENING CLOUDS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like long terraces the evening clouds Last Line: Crouch the colossal gods of night. Subject(s): Clouds THE HOUSE OF CLOUDS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would build a cloudy house Last Line: To which I looked with thee! Subject(s): Clouds THE IMPRESSMENT, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Days like today we are the clouds' men Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Clouds THE LIKENESS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: When I came forth this morn I saw Last Line: To such white wool, such sparkling grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Clouds; Sheep THE LITTLE CLOUD COMES DOWN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The little spot of earth below Last Line: But the earth was as glad as the curly cloud! Subject(s): April; Clouds; Weather; Wind THE MOON AND A CLOUD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I watch the moon at night Last Line: She turned it black instead of white. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Clouds; Moon THE MOST ALLURING CLOUDS THAT MOUNT THE SKY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Clouds THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 255, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People search for cloud roads Last Line: Cloud roads are in space Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Clouds; Roads; Taoism; Paths; Trails THE POET TO THE CLOUD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft white cloud in the sky Last Line: Such manner of life as thine. Subject(s): Clouds; God; Heaven; Life; Paradise THE PRESENCES, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here they are as common as pebbles Last Line: Grateful is roughly sufficient? Subject(s): Animals; Clouds THE QUEEN OF CLOUDS, by KIANG KANG-HU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen of clouds riding down from her jade city Last Line: O queen of clouds! Alternate Author Name(s): Jiang Kangh Subject(s): Clouds; Courts & Courtiers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SACHEM OF THE CLOUDS (A THANKSGIVING LEGEND), by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the sedge upon the meadows crosses, falls and interweaves Last Line: Hears a shrieking answer speeded from the winter's snowy mouth. Subject(s): Clouds; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THE SHOWER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the royal blue Last Line: With her maternal clay. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clouds THE SMALL CLOUDS NESTLED IN THE SKY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: That not a single speck was seen Subject(s): Clouds THE SONG OF THE WIND IN THE CLOUD, by ELLEN ROLFE VEBLEN Poem Text First Line: Rock, rock, my hollow boat! Last Line: Shiver by thy spell. Subject(s): Boats; Clouds; Cruise Ships; Motion; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean THE SOUTH-WESTER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day of the cloud in fleets! O day Last Line: A morning in the eyes of eve. Subject(s): Clouds; Storms THE THUD OF THE CLODS, by JULIA E. BRUMFIELD Poem Text First Line: It was a most solemn occasion Last Line: For, today, mother was put away. Subject(s): Clouds; Funerals; Graves; Mothers; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE CLOUD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With shape to shape, all day Last Line: Of still desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Clouds; Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THESE ARE, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: These are more beautiful than words Last Line: A woman's eyelids opening from rest. Subject(s): Beauty; Clouds; Women THESE ARE THE CLOUDS ABOUT THE FALLEN SUN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The majesty that shuts his burning eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Clouds THIS LIFE, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly I opened my napkin with a flair Subject(s): Clouds; Gifts & Giving; Life THIS LIFE, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly I opened my napkin with a flair Last Line: And if it was sweet and vernal, the cloud I gave you Subject(s): Clouds; Gifts And Giving; Life TO PREVENT LEAKAGE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A jubilant drift downward Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Clouds; Nature TO THE CLOUDS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Army of clouds! Ye winged hosts in troops Last Line: Lodged in the bosom of eternal things? Subject(s): Clouds TWO PRELUDES: 1. LOHENGRIN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, out of the depth of things Last Line: Love. Subject(s): Clouds; Love; Roundels; Soul UNTITLED, by JIM KACIAN Poem Source First Line: Stormcloudstor cloudstormcloudstormcloud Last Line: Storm loudstormc ourdstormclo dst rmcloud Subject(s): Clouds; Storms UNUSUAL CLOUD FORMATIONS, by JOANIE MACKOWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fish bones and bowlers hang over the mountains Last Line: And before the child looks, they turn, and they run Subject(s): Children; Clouds WATCHING CLOUDS, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched the clouds by day and night Last Line: I often wonder where they go Subject(s): Clouds WHAT WE REMINDED YOU OF YOU ARE ALREADY FORGETTING, by DAVID CONSTANTINE Poem Source Last Line: In your sleepless nights we will help you to let go Subject(s): Clouds; Riddles WHITE, by JANE HEAP Poem Source First Line: Sharp, empty air....Out of the black nouths of engines white smoke Last Line: Long white laugh at us like maniac Subject(s): Clouds; Pain; Rain; Thunder WINDS ARE THE WATCHMEN, by IVA PURDUM BRUTON Poem Text First Line: Winds are the watchmen of the broad sky - way Last Line: They are wise watchmen. Subject(s): Clouds; Sky; Wind WINTER'S SNOW, by MRS. R. A. MEDLAM Poem Text First Line: The snow lies soft upon the lea Last Line: And that good and bitter we all must take Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Blessings; Clouds; Snow WRITTEN AT WHITE CLOUD HALL BESIDE WEST LAKE, by SU MAN-SHU Poem Source First Line: Where white clouds are deep Last Line: Fallen from that far off bell Subject(s): Clouds; Rain; Thunder; Zen Buddhism |
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