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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COLORS Matches Found: 144 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ***, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: What's your favorite color Last Line: He soon died and then he had no influence Subject(s): Colors; Relationships 7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive through utah. They're silent Last Line: The sun pulls back toward noon. Subject(s): Absence; Bodies; Colors; Deserts; Food & Eating; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Silence; Travel; Utah; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips A PORTRAIT IN GREYS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will it never be possible Last Line: Where it is level and undisturbed by colors. Subject(s): Colors A RAINBOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A rainbow is god's pledge of peace Last Line: Or clinging to a rose. Subject(s): Colors; Earth; Rain; Rainbows; World A SLASH OF BLUE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This just makes out the morning sky Subject(s): Sky; Colors A SONG OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One came to me in the night Last Line: On her starry towers. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Colors; Dreams; Moon; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips A SYMPHONY IN COLORS, by J. W. HAND Poem Text First Line: I never knew the seasons held Last Line: In bridal garments dressed. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Paintings & Painters ABOVE THE HOUSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: You call it yellow, I call it gold Last Line: The prisoner's dreams touch the angel's wings. Subject(s): Angels; Colors ABSORPTION, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Stare at a color till you become the color Last Line: Paintings absorb you, and their life grows fuller Subject(s): Art And Artists; Colors; Paintings And Painters ARS POETICA, by NIKIA LEOPOLD Poem Source First Line: Lots of colors first,' Last Line: To scratch the black above Subject(s): Art And Artists; Colors ART'S MARTYR, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said, the china on the shelf Last Line: Are not æsthetic blacks! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Tattoos AUTUMN, by JESSIE ALBERT BARNEY Poem Text First Line: A dash of color, an azure sky Last Line: May it be to joy, and never to weep. Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Harvest; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN COLORS (2), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How tedious it seems, and strange Last Line: From chlorophyll to xanthophyll. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Fall BEWITCHED BY AUTUMN, by NED PASTOR Poem Source First Line: Autumn's enchanting - %a riot of color Last Line: I'm not an all-season %but just a fall guy! Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Seasons BLACK, by JUDY HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: Black of licorice, black of print Last Line: With a scarlet comb, in the snow Subject(s): Colors BLUE, by JUDY HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: Blue of distance, blue of sloes Last Line: Looking back from the moon Subject(s): Colors BLUE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: See my colors fall apart? Green Subject(s): Colors; Landscape; Absence; Separation; Isolation BLUE ANNUNCIATION, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: In the silent light of the sun Last Line: Fully, into our hollows, become in itself such pleasure? Subject(s): Colors BLUE OF RAINFOREST..., by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Blue concerto, island Subject(s): Nature; Colors BROWN, by JUDY HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: Umber, %amber, %ocher, tan Last Line: Chestnut, sorrel, roan, and bay; %toffee, coffee, butterscotch Subject(s): Colors BUTTERFLIES, by SAINT-PAUL ROUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun Last Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierre; Roux, P0l Subject(s): Angels; Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Spring; Bugs BY THE OCEAN: ADELE CALABRO, by JENNIFER FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: I cannot sit still for these photographs Last Line: Between fear and delight about what I might do Subject(s): Colors; Life; Photography And Photographers CALIFORNIA, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue, blue, april blue Last Line: Gold, gold, gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Blue (color); California; Colors; Gold CARDINAL'S VIRTUE, by CAROL ANN MORROW Poem Source First Line: I bring you bold color Last Line: Life is far from black and white Subject(s): Colors; Life CHAMELEON, by NEIL SHEPARD Poem Source First Line: Green fading yellow fading grey Last Line: His color changed, green %fading yellow fading gray Subject(s): Chameleons; Colors COLOR, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: What part of life is hiding Last Line: Touched with diamonds of the sun. Subject(s): Colors; Paintings & Painters COLOR, by JANE BLAKESLEE RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: Blue, purple and scarlet and fine - twined linen Last Line: The beauty that god and the angels love. Subject(s): Colors; God COLOR, by ESTHER YARNELL Poem Text First Line: The sun is a golden bowl Last Line: Waves of color bathe the earth. Subject(s): California; Colors COLOR OF DREAMS, by LENORA STEELE Poem Source First Line: My brother came home from Last Line: Pretty. How peaceful. City of cars the color %of dreams Subject(s): Automobiles; Colors; Dreams COLOR POEM, by DAN MACHLIN Poem Source First Line: I lie beside you on the bed %and you are clothed entirely in blue Last Line: My bonny lies over the ocean %the terrible consequences of pink Subject(s): Colors COLORS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little man with the vague beard and guise Last Line: "we're selling that lot there out cheap!"" said he." Subject(s): Colors COLORS, by KEN NORDINE Poem Source First Line: Green %as an intellectual vibration Last Line: There's something... %that you can tint... %turquoise Subject(s): Colors COLORS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Orange ss Last Line: Yellow p Subject(s): Colors; Paintings And Painters COLORS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, orange, green and crimson, and Subject(s): Colors COLORS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, orange, green and crimson, and Last Line: Faun-color, black and gold Subject(s): Colors COLORS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colors are more complicated than a state Last Line: Our red desire, green aspiration Subject(s): Colors; Paintings & Painters COLORS IN A SLUMBERING STATE (TO K.Y.), by HARRIS B. SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: These colors, red and blue Last Line: These sleeping colors, blue, or green, or red. Subject(s): Colors COLORS PASSING THROUGH US, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purple as tulips in may, mauve Subject(s): Colors COLOUR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Look at the grass Last Line: Look at the grass Subject(s): Colors; Drowning; Grass; Refugees COLOURS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She always picks the wrong man Last Line: If she chooses again, is it more of the same? Subject(s): Aging; Colors; Relationships COUNTRYSIDE: 12, by JOSE GOMES FERREIRA Poem Source First Line: So many flowers - blue, green, white, yellow, red and the lilies Last Line: Fragrant with the wonder of existence %and the dream of all natural things Subject(s): Colors; Country Life; Flowers; Nature DIGESTIVE FALLACY, by JEFFREY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: He wanted to eat san marco, stone Last Line: Not to become an artist Subject(s): Colors; Drawing; Paintings And Painters; Stones DUN-COLOUR, by RUTH PITTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Subtle almost beyond thought are these dim colours Subject(s): Animals; Colors DUN-COLOUR, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Subtle almost beyond thought are these dim colours Last Line: O that I too were attired in such dun-colours! Subject(s): Animals; Colors DYE JOBS, by JENNIFER SNYDER Poem Source First Line: At sixteen Last Line: Like black roots under a blond sun Subject(s): Colors; Hair ENDING WITH OPEN HANDS, by PATRICIA BARONE Poem Source First Line: Five bluebirds come to the feeder Last Line: Alighting. They stay Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Colors; Crayons; Paintings And Painters ESSAY: COLOR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a magenta inside the snail, a red Last Line: The round world Subject(s): Colors; Essays EVERY WILD FLOWER'S FACE, by JIM DEWITT Poem Source First Line: Craves attention Last Line: Almost too brightly virgin Subject(s): Colors; Flowers; Summer FENWAY PARK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the spring-thickened branches Subject(s): Colors FICTION, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going south, we watched spring Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Southern States; Colors; Nature, Travel; South (u.s.) FIVE-COLOR, by YANG CHI+(1) Poem Source First Line: A five-color robe of embroidered silk Last Line: Spring is here, and I'm afraid to put it on: %the butterflies might all land one me! Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Colors FLOWERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are / running with the weeds Last Line: Is love Subject(s): Colors; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love FLOWERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are %running with the weeds Last Line: And the name of the place %is love Subject(s): Colors; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love FREED COLOR, by BARBARA GUEST Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Colors FURNACE OF COLORS, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who half asleep, or waking, does not hear it Last Line: Yes, and the field flowers, these deceptive blossoms, %breakfrom the furnace Subject(s): Colors; Flowers GOLD AND ROSE THE COLORS HELD IN, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Heavens, and green-blue hills Subject(s): Colors; Nature GOLDEN HOUR, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Of all the year this is the most golden Last Line: Let me not die before the golden hour! Subject(s): Colors; Harvest; Seasons GRAY, by JUDY HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: Is it dim, or is it bright? Last Line: A knife, %a rainy dawn Subject(s): Colors GRAY STONES AND GRAY PIGEONS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The archbishop is away. The church is gray Subject(s): Clergy; Colors; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops GREEN, by JUDY HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: Apple green %and acid green Last Line: Lizard in a weedy pond Subject(s): Colors GREEN AND THE BLACK, by ANTHONY BAILEY Poem Source First Line: Colors,' she said, 'are never so fine' Last Line: All colors in a fountain changing Subject(s): Colors HEIR, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This gray board fence turns blue in the evening light Subject(s): Nature; Colors; Evening; Sunset; Twilight HELIUM, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are helium. You make everything rise Subject(s): Gas; Death; Colors; Dead, The HYMN TO COLOUR, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With life and death I walked when love appeared Last Line: And saw the dawn glow through. Subject(s): Colors; Death; Life; Love; Dead, The I HAVE BROUGHT FEW BELONGINGS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Alone here with my hunger and my presence Subject(s): Colors; Love; Paintings And Painters I WANTED TO SIDLE UP TO THE COLORS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: To reach the blurred gaze of god %in the abysses Subject(s): Colors; Love; Paintings And Painters IDEAL, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I did not know beforehand what would count for me as a new color. Its beauty is an analysis Subject(s): Colors IN DEFENSE OF GRAFFITI, by JASON LABBE Poem Source First Line: You don't see them glide cool nights across a sidewalk, along a Last Line: Kalamazoo, and paris, for true fame: a self-given name popping %out of the backdrop Subject(s): Colors; Graffiti; Paintings And Painters IN EARLY AUTUMN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a day when the trees are exchanging the cured gold of the sun Last Line: Under this hill of bones that calls my flesh its home Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Seasons; Trees; Fall IN MAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I praise god that he chose the green Last Line: To wrap our sweetheart-mother in. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Colors; God; Green (color); May (month); Praise IN SEVERAL COLORS, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning, cup of coffee Last Line: For a part in the opera Subject(s): Colors; Cats IN THE COUNTRY IN LOVE WITH COLOR', by ROSEANN LLOYD Poem Source Last Line: In the country in love with color Subject(s): Colors; Country Life INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 1, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flee from london, good my walter! Boundless jail of bricks and gas Last Line: Landscape-lords are left alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Colors; Exhibitions; Landscape; Paintings & Painters; World's Fairs; Expositions IRISES ON THE TABLE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Nothing more than irises Last Line: Diminished by all purple sweetness here I love Subject(s): Colors; Iris (flower); Love IT IS THE RIPE RED, by ALAN SHEFSKY Poem Source Last Line: Flesh and tender %and plum and heart Subject(s): Colors; Food And Eating; Plums LAST BLUE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want to get the color blue right Last Line: It always sounded like that--everything living Subject(s): Blue (color); Colors LAST BLUE, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want to get the color blue right Last Line: It always sounded like that - everything living Subject(s): Blue (color); Colors LETTUCE, by WILLIAM A. FAHEY Poem Source First Line: The lettuce, now that's a poser Last Line: Not for us this green plumosity Subject(s): Colors; Vegetables LIGHT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Returning to the south of france Last Line: I offer them all my belongings %which are my hands Subject(s): Colors; France; Happiness; Paintings And Painters LOVE BIT, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The colors we depend on are %red for raspberry jam, white Last Line: No, and sometimes in the afternoon Subject(s): Colors MAKING LOVE, III (2), by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: I planned to have a border of lavender Last Line: All my garden, banks and borders, up %into the gray rocks Subject(s): Colors; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Homosexuality MANY-COLORED, by JUDY HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: Many colors, any colors Last Line: That dance along a wall Subject(s): Colors MAROON, by PAM BRIDGEMAN Poem Source First Line: I bring coffee Last Line: You will blame the colour maroon Subject(s): Colors MIDDLE-AGED MAN WITH CRAYONS, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: All winter one lived the theme of simplicity Last Line: I tell her, go to sleep; and she does Subject(s): Colors; Crayons; Deception NAMING RED, by AVA LEAVELL HAYMON Poem Source First Line: Festival of lights, kathmandu Last Line: At last, a thread: true, vivid, namable Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Colors; Festivals NATURE RARER USES YELLOW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like a lover's words Subject(s): Nature; Colors NIGHT FALLS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Like the imaginary fields of lilacs %I walk, %I am Subject(s): Colors; Paintings And Painters NOISETONE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each artist embarks on a personal search. Subject(s): Barcelona, Spain; Colors OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 20, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even so our fancies' colours, keen of yore Last Line: Nor shining nimbus of transfigured saint Subject(s): Colors; Nature; Paintings And Painters OCTOBER, by MARGARETTA P. CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: The summer days were almost gone Last Line: "your work's well done, my child." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Paintings & Painters OF, by RENEE WEISS Poem Source First Line: What color do I think of Last Line: Every sound, declaring you - %so far survived Subject(s): Colors OF HARTFORD IN A PURPLE LIGHT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A long time you have been making the trip Subject(s): Sun; Light; Colors; Hartford, Connecticut ON LIGHT, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I do not think -- I entirely reject the idea Last Line: Differing with different subjects Subject(s): Colors; Light ORANGE, by JUDY HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: What a comical, cheerful thing it is Last Line: Awesome as tiger fur! Subject(s): Colors PAINT, by ROLAND FLINT Poem Source First Line: He's twenty-two and left everything to come here and paint and this Last Line: Waiting too, and he is ready for the sunrise, all his brushes and colors ready Subject(s): Colors; Paintings And Painters PINK, by JUDY HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: Pink that's shocking, %loud as a shout Last Line: Of a hippo's yawn Subject(s): Colors POINTS OF VISION, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In february the hills of niguel flush green Last Line: Shizu prepares her watercolors. Subject(s): Colors; Paintings And Painters PURPLE, by JUDY HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: The dark of shadows next to green Last Line: The hush of velvet robes Subject(s): Colors PURPLE VEINS, by MILDRED FOWLER FIELD Poem Text First Line: He dreamed - just once - of touching a white woman Last Line: Reeling trees and rippled purple silence! Subject(s): African Americans; Colors; Racism; White (color); Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry REALIST ( ), by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: I have seen the cruel blue threats of dawn, Last Line: (but still I say: distrust what you have seen.) Subject(s): Colors; Vision RED, by JUDY HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: Shimmering throat %of hummingbird Last Line: And princesses %and brides Subject(s): Colors REMARKS ON COLOR, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: 1. Highway patched with blacktop, service station at the crossroads Last Line: 40. Take me witcha man when you go Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): Remarks On Colou Subject(s): African Americans; Colors; Thought RETURN OF FUGITIVE RED, by KAREN DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: You brought a vertiginous tilt Last Line: No matter what we've said %about the heroic tradition Subject(s): Colors RIVALS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Green white purple blue Last Line: Over ballybrack Subject(s): Colors RIVER'S WATERS, by LEO YANKEVICH Poem Source First Line: The river's waters are grey, sometimes blue Last Line: And for the sun's merciful but meat-eating honey Subject(s): Colors; Rivers; Water ROWAN BERRIES, by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no colour in the world today Last Line: More vivid, since their background is so grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Page, P. K. Subject(s): Colors; Rowan Berries SEPTEMBER, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds that were gray in the green are black in the yellow Last Line: More than that -- do you know that the gray is showing? Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan Subject(s): Birds; Colors SHADES, by ALEDA SHIRLEY Poem Source First Line: It takes more than a door painted blue Last Line: I gathered it close to me, all of it, and went on Subject(s): Colors SIGHT AND SOUND, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a handful of white stars Last Line: "that blue-bird's ""lover, lover, lover!" Subject(s): Colors SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 48, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is pink? A rose is pink Last Line: Just an orange! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Color;what Is Pink? Subject(s): Colors SNOW-WHITE WALL, by LIANG XIAOBIN Poem Source First Line: Mother, %I saw a snow-white wall Last Line: Mother, %I saw a snow-white wall Subject(s): Colors; Human Rights; Walls; White (color) SOME MOTIONLESS CONFLICT IN THE SKY, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Colors; Angels; Sky STUDY IN WHITE, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: A friend, an artist, phoned me up and said Last Line: O flesh and blood - but the best white is lead Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Art And Artists; Colors SUGGESTIONS IN BLACK & WHITE, by PRISCILLA ATKINS Poem Source First Line: It has been raining, faces of angels Last Line: Cotton-gray smoke gathers in fists %at the tips of branches Subject(s): Colors; Rain THE BEACH, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Economically, not Subject(s): Waves; Colors THE CHAMELEON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the chameleon, who is known Last Line: And lies with those he never saw. Subject(s): Chameleons; Colors; Europe; Law & Lawyers; Wisdom THE FINEST DAY OF ONE'S LIFE, by JACQUES BARON Poem Text First Line: Today is as a festive day Last Line: One can have a good time Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Colors; Festivals; Holidays; Mobs; Crowds; Fairs; Pageants THE FLAG, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the glorious stars and stripes Last Line: With three rousing cheers. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Colors THE LOVE BIT, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The colors we depend on are / red for raspberry jam, white Subject(s): Colors THE RED GAZE, by BARBARA GUEST Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Leaves; Colors THE SPECTRUM, by COSMO MONKHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many colors here do we see set Last Line: Men born to see the rainbow and no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Monkhouse, William Cosmo Subject(s): Colors THE STONE OF HEAVEN, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where the rivers dredge up Last Line: And seeing, begin to assemble the plain stones of earth. Subject(s): Colors; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE SUNSET-IMAGES, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cloud-ships afire in the west Last Line: In the book of sunset-images for twilight dreams. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Paintings And Painters THROUGH THE FLOATING PERMANENCE, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The reality of our shaded gardens Subject(s): Colors; Paintings And Painters; Reality TO ---; WRITTEN AT VENICE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not only through the golden haze Last Line: Deserves a separate song. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Colors; Venice, Italy TO VENETIAN ARTISTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That god is colouring newton does shew Last Line: Those who taste colouring love it more & more Subject(s): Bible; Colors; Mythology; Paintings & Painters TOURISTS AT ENSENADA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight, like rouault, draws a line Last Line: With cries as real and shadowy as foreign fear Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clowns; Colors; Mexico; Prostitution; Resorts; Tourists; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TRISTAN & ISOLDE: THE 1981 SEATTLE OPERA POSTER, by JOHN E. GLOWNEY Poem Source First Line: He is the color of the sea Last Line: The last breath we take %not our own Subject(s): Colors; Posters TUBES, by TERRY WOLVERTON Poem Source First Line: There's one called wild Last Line: By night a siren, %and essence %bows to %mutability Subject(s): Colors; Lips TULIPS, by PHRONSIE IRENE MARSH Poem Text First Line: Flashes of color, living color Last Line: But drop beside the yellow bowl -- and die. Subject(s): Colors; Heaven; Tulips; Paradise TULIPS, by VESTA C. WESTFALL Poem Text First Line: I know a garden where gay tulips grow Last Line: That dawn may find them of herself, a part. Subject(s): Colors; Gardens & Gardening; Tulips UNIVERSE'S GENTLENESS PROVEN IN BUTTERFLY DESIGN, by TINA KELLY Poem Source First Line: Do not fret, fragilest one Last Line: Cakemix to the homeless, cans, no canopeners Subject(s): Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Universe VAGABOND ARTIST, by SARAH SPENCER ROE Poem Text First Line: If I were an artist, I would paint the scenes Last Line: To be again a wandering vagabond. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Paintings And Painters VARIATION ON A SENTENCE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of white and tawny, black as ink Last Line: Earth's bluish animals are few Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Colors VIEWING NIAGARA I WAS ASKED TO WRITE ABOUT COLOR, by JAY S. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I needed scissors to show how trees Last Line: And we both hold still in the sun Subject(s): Colors; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls VOTIVE TABLETS: LIGHT AND COLOR, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dwell, light, beside the changeless god - -god spoke and light began Last Line: Come, thou, the ever-changing one — come, color, down to man! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Colors WATERCOLORS AT YEAR'S END, by ANDRES ROJAS Poem Source First Line: Your trees were, rightly, secondary Last Line: Never the grace of a blank page Subject(s): Colors; Nature WHAT IS RED?, by MARY O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: Red is a sunset Last Line: But can you imagine %living without it? Subject(s): Colors; Imagination WHITE, by JUDY HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: White of paper, %milk, and snow Last Line: Of seashells, feathers, %pillows, %pearls Subject(s): Colors WHITE GIRL WHINE, by ALISON UMMINGER Poem Source First Line: I'm at a party, see, and someone mentions west side story Last Line: Like you could possibly take them seriously Subject(s): Colors; Race Awareness WILD ASTERS, by SARA V. PRUESER Poem Text First Line: They fly a silent retreat Last Line: With blossoms rare and select. Subject(s): Asters; Colors; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WINTERTIME, by ELEANOR MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: Spring is a monochrome Last Line: The white-gold sunbeam %lighting a crystal ballet Subject(s): Colors; Winter WONDER, by SARAH ARVIO Poem Source First Line: What makes the inside of a glacier blue? Last Line: -the obvious is easy to forget.' Subject(s): Blue (color); Colors; Glaciers; God; Nature YELLOW, by JUDY HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: Spice and starfish, %fire and bees Last Line: Spinning straw to gold Subject(s): Colors |
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