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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COMFORT Matches Found: 131 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FAIR WORLD THOUGH A FALLEN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tell me that the world is fair, in spite Last Line: Thy cross cruciferous Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Longing; Comfort A LULLABY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Croon me a lullaby, / soothe me to rest Last Line: Soothe me to rest. Subject(s): Comfort; Rest; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs A MILLION COTTON BLOSSOMS, by GRACE STILLMAN MINCK Poem Text Last Line: Please god, if he would come to comfort me. Subject(s): Comfort A MOTHER, by PAT SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: She listens to your joys and cares Last Line: They call -- and wish her here again. Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort A VOICE TO THE DYING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Unknown and uncounted the years thou hadst / lain in my bosom Last Line: But never to be parted from her that bids thee come! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Future Life; Mothers; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A WEARY HEART, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye winds, that talk among the pines Last Line: To kiss the humblest flower ye love! Subject(s): Nature; Comfort AD ASTRA: 58, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tis with the evening that I feel thy want Last Line: Have no sweet love to comfort my despair!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Comfort; Love AFTER GREAT DROUGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The rain gropes with delicate pushing fingers Last Line: The world's as sweet as a rose: a rain-wet rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Drought; Flowers; God; Hope; Rain; Roses; Optimism AFTERPARTY, by COLLEEN MCGORMAN Poem Source First Line: It happened on the porch Last Line: And everyone else %was asleep Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Comfort; Love; Smoking ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The door of heaven is on the latch Last Line: This night again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Comfort; Love; Reunions; All Hallows Night AN ABIDING CITY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My city walls are builded sure Last Line: Pass in a dream of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; God; Walls; Urban Life ANY WIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows but you and I, my dear Last Line: Love by its pangs, love that endures for love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; God; Grief; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANY WOMAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the pillars of the house Last Line: Take me not till the children grow! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Love; Mothers; Strength; Women; Childhood ASYLUM, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A house ringed round with trees and in the / trees Last Line: Asylum from the thought and fear of death. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Houses; Dead, The AUTUMN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay william, nay, not so; the changeful year Last Line: God, always, everywhere, and all in all. Subject(s): Autumn; Comfort; Death; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Presence; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The BEFORE THE TIME OF MOWING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in long seedling grass the meadows lie Last Line: Such is her descant. Nay, but thou art pale! Subject(s): Beauty; Comfort; Death; Love; Nature; Dead, The BIRTHMARK, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: It has seventy-two hours since he last slept I have been Last Line: The wideness of my hips Subject(s): Birth; Comfort; Man-woman Relationships CHANGELING, by IRENE HALDERSON Poem Text First Line: It's nice to see it snow,' she said Last Line: "unparalleled security." Subject(s): Comfort; Rest; Snow; Winter CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1916, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cheer oh, comrades, we can bide the blast Last Line: If duty done makes all the others brighter. Subject(s): Christmas; Comfort; Duty; War; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War COMFORT, by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: I cannot bring you comfort - ask me not Last Line: My heart will not grow dingy on your sleeve? Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Snow COMFORT, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Who would care to pass his life away Last Line: Malgré alfred tennyson. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Variant Title(s): Lotus Eating Subject(s): Comfort; Happiness; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Joy; Delight; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron COMFORT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: From my own kind I only learn Last Line: Beneath his own soft wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Comfort COMFORT, by KATHERN A. O'CONNOR Poem Source First Line: Bare, black silhouettes Last Line: And release the first white flake Subject(s): Comfort COMFORT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou o'er the clear heaven of thy soul Last Line: Eternal rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Comfort; Fate; Hope; Life; Soul; Destiny; Optimism COMFORT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark head by the fireside brooding Last Line: Waits the throne for you. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness COMFORT FROM A STAR, by MELANIE LILLIAN VAN DER TOORN Poem Text First Line: A gray vista confronts my view Last Line: Placed there by god for me tonight. Subject(s): Comfort COMFORT IN AFFLICTION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore starts my bosom's lord? Last Line: "to wrap around my head!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Comfort; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery COMFORT IN THE NIGHT, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thought by heaven's high wall that she did stray Last Line: Then the gate closed and she awoke content. Subject(s): Comfort; Contentment; Kisses; Light; Night; Bedtime COMFORT ONE ANOTHER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Comfort one another; / for the way is growing dreary Last Line: But the presence of the lord, and for all his people room. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Love; Sympathy; Empathy COURAGE TO LIVE, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Text First Line: To those who have tried and seemingly have failed Last Line: With courage to live, courage to try again. Subject(s): Comfort; Courage; Valor; Bravery DAS EWIG-WEIBLICHE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Last night I saw thee gliding to my bed Last Line: "mother, and wife, and sister,—one in three!" Subject(s): Comfort; Death - Mothers; Sleep; Women; Dead, The EARLY CANDLE-LIGHT, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The low sweet melody of ancient song Last Line: Kisses asleep the heavy eyes of grief. Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs EASE, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lined coat, warm cap and easy felt slippers Last Line: I wonder if the courtiers at the western capital know of these things, or not? Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Comfort; Retirement EVENING, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He told us, with the years, you will come Last Line: And comforted them Subject(s): Comfort; Sympathy FAITH, by E. DEVILLIERS-HERTZLER Poem Text First Line: If I could lay my head upon your heart Last Line: If I could lay my head upon your heart! Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Strength; Weariness; Fatigue FAITH, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: Faith is a blessed candle light Last Line: And quiet peace. Subject(s): Comfort; Faith; Self; Belief; Creed FOR MY SON, by ELIZABETH GREY STEWART Poem Text First Line: These years have been so very short Last Line: It is so hard to let you go. Subject(s): Comfort GRANDMOTHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A spider floats from the apple tree Last Line: Had proved to be there at all. Subject(s): Comfort; Ghosts; Grandparents; Insects; Spiders; Supernatural; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs HOLLOW, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: When its heart breaks Last Line: It teaches that %nothing comforts Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Comfort; Hearts; Mothers HUSHING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eilidh, eilidh / my bonny wee lass Last Line: Here on my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs HYMN TO THE PENATES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet one song more! One high and solemn strain Last Line: Lives the pure song of liberty and truth. Subject(s): Comfort; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Teaching & Teachers; Inspiration; Creativity I MUST HAVE LEARNED THIS SOMEWHERE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved an old doll made of bleached Subject(s): Comfort; Dolls; Mothers 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 INFELIX, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who, gazing on thy cradle sleep Last Line: And thine own mother comfort thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Comfort; Mothers; Infants INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET ON THE BANKS OF A STREAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Awhile upon this mossy bank Last Line: Of innocence, and thou shalt find her there. Subject(s): Comfort; Graves; Happiness; Innocence; Rivers; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight INVOCATION; WRITTEN IN THE GULF OF LYONS DURING A STORM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Play me a lulling tune, o flute-player of sleep Last Line: Beyond the last, low, long, oblivious sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Lyons, France; Prayer; Sea; Sleep; Storms; Wind; Ocean LANDRUM'S DINER, RENO, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We slouch, half-asleep on christmas day Last Line: What more we could want? Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Nevada; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners LIGHT IN DARKNESS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did we think of the light and sunshine Last Line: Will sit in the heart and sing. Subject(s): Comfort LIGHTS THROUGH THE MIST, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some for the sadness and sweetness of far evening bells Last Line: Lights through the mist! Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; God; Grief; Hope; Light; Mist; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism LULLABY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: This hammock, slung between two trees, exists Last Line: A little longer, voices raised against the air Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Hammocks LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lennavan-mo Last Line: Lennavan-mo. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; Children; Comfort; Immortality; Mortality; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Songs MOMENTARY (1), by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest song was ever sung Last Line: One light of everlasting joy. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Comfort; Happiness; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery MOTHER-COMFORT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, upon whose golden tresses Last Line: Such sweet blessing from the throne? Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Mothers NEEDS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want something suited to my special needs Last Line: I want to mow while riding Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Comfort; Mowing And Mowers OF ONE AFFLICTED WITH DEAFNESS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She moves about the house with meek content Last Line: And hear a constant singing in her heart. Subject(s): Comfort; Deafness; Friendship; Love; Tears ON A LANDSCAPE OF GASPAR POUSSIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poussin! How pleasantly thy pictured scenes Last Line: Beats hard and heavy through his dungeon bars. Subject(s): Comfort; Imagination; Paintings And Painters; Poussin, Gaspar (1613-1675); Fancy PANEM ET CIRCENSES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crumbs of bitter comfort fall Last Line: "we were revenged before we died!" Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Life; Pleasure; Sun; Dead, The POSSESSION, by BARBARA FROST Poem Text First Line: They say I own the cottage on the hill Last Line: So little and so stubborn and so still. Subject(s): Comfort; Idleness; Property; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Possessions RADIO SKY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blue house at mills cross Last Line: Drifting under the familiar worn sheet. Subject(s): Comfort; Cruelty; Family Life; Infertility; Relatives REQUIEM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand leaves slant down across the rain Last Line: Then lends itself singly to the loam Subject(s): Comfort; Home; Leaves SAFE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dream-fruit tree a palace bore / in stone's reality Last Line: Warm for eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Comfort; Home SANCTUARIES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou givest me greenest sanctuaries Last Line: With me and talk. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Forests; Gardens & Gardening; God; Hearts; Sanctuaries; Woods SECOND TIME AROUND, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're entangled with someone more famous than you Last Line: Comes tiptoeing into your study with a nice cup of coffee. Subject(s): Comfort; Marriage; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism SOLACE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It little takes to heal the aches of people who Last Line: Money. Subject(s): Comfort SOMETHING FOR YOUR ARMS: 1, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes silence settles and stays so strong Last Line: Beneath our silence, stretched thinly out Subject(s): Comfort; Love SONG OF THE EVENING CLOUD, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Mother, o mother, moon my mother Last Line: Brighten us, lighten us, brother and brother! Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; Moon; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight SONG: 108, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comfort at hand! Pluck up thy heart Last Line: Pluck up thy heart.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Comfort; Hearts SONNET TO ARISTE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ariste! Soon to sojourn with the crowd Last Line: Who only names to praise, who only speaks to please. Subject(s): Comfort; Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Parting; Male-female Relations SONNET TO JULIET: WHO WOULD COMFORT HIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not ask your pity, dear. Your zeal Subject(s): Pity; Grief; Comfort; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 144, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Two loves I have of comfort and despair Last Line: Till my bad angel fire my good one out. Variant Title(s): "two Loves I Have, Of Comfort And Despair""; Subject(s): Comfort; Despair; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SORROW WITHOUT CONSOLATION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, wherefore shouldst thou try Last Line: Thou'dst rather bid them weep, and seek their comfort so. Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness SWEETIE AT LEICESTER COURT, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Up woodward on leicester court Last Line: She tells me: 'you were never crazy, just %too much alone.' Subject(s): Comfort; Insanity; Relationships; Solitude THANKSGIVING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thank god when I kneel to pray Last Line: The safe, untroubled path I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Comfort; God; Holidays; Pleasure; Prayer; Thanksgiving; Middle Class THE CHILDREN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dumb child and the blind child Last Line: From their head to their feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blindness; Children; Comfort; Deafness; God; Orphans; Visually Handicapped; Childhood; Foundlings THE COMFORT OF THE HILLS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here have I wandered oft these many years Last Line: God's angelus, is sighing in the trees. Subject(s): Comfort; God; Mountains; Nature - Religious Aspects; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE COMFORTERS, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To night the sleeper Last Line: "o sorrow the sleeper!" Subject(s): Comfort; Dreams; Night; Peace; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime THE COMFORTING, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: I would not have you back on earth Last Line: The words you cannot say. Subject(s): Comfort THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: HUMPHREY AND WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See'st thou not, william, that the scorching sun Last Line: And humphrey gets more good from guilt than glory. Subject(s): Comfort; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Pleasure; Prisons & Prisoners; Story-telling; English THE DADDY STRAIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two friends over a chinese lunch Last Line: Can hatch any bird but flightless bromides. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Comfort; Death; Fear; Dead, The THE DEATH-DIRGE FOR CATHAL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the wild hills I am hearing a voice, o cathal! Last Line: O where is cathal mac art, that has tears to water my stillness? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Longing; Swords; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE FOUNDLING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's the glimmer of dew on the bending grass Last Line: But love has found him at morning's light. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Comfort; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE GAIETY OF FORM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet to weight the line with all these vowels Subject(s): Comfort; Creative Ability; Play; Pleasure; Vowels; Inspiration; Creativity THE GREY COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a dream on november night Last Line: Hiding them warm in her blue cloak. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Purgatory; Women - Bible; Nightmares; Virgin Mary THE IMMORTAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where I went in and out Last Line: My birds and I shall be together. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Comfort; Immortality; Loss THE LAST DESIRE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: From dreamless nights to wake to mocking morrows Last Line: How blest a thing to die, if this be dying! Subject(s): Comfort; Insomnia; Sleep; Sleeplessness THE LAST LULLABY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The shepherd moon mothers her shining sheep Last Line: Wait what it saith! Subject(s): Comfort; Moon; Nature - Religious Aspects; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Silence; Sleep THE LAST SONG, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come from a long journey and a sore Last Line: (only within your arms is my content.) Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LITTLE HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will have a little house Last Line: For the children lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Houses; Loss; Mothers; Old Age; Childhood THE LORDS OF SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the water whispers 'mid the shadowy rowan-trees Last Line: And sealed my eyes with dew beneath the shadowy rowan-trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Shadows; Vision; Dead, The; Elves THE MAD WOMAN'S SONG, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My downy head, dream head, sleep my son Last Line: I sing him safe, my pale chestnut bloom. Subject(s): Comfort; Mothers & Sons THE MESSAGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the house of the widow Last Line: God touches his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Death; God; Grief; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE MOTHER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Hark, hark! / did you not hear a sound from out the dark Last Line: Save me alone? The people there are dead! Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Fear; Mothers; Childhood THE OLD MAN'S COMFORTS AND HOW HE GAINED THEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are old, father william,' the young man cried Last Line: And he hath not forgotten my age. Variant Title(s): Father William Subject(s): Clergy; Comfort; Faith; God; Men; Old Age; Prayer; Youth; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Belief; Creed THE PERFECT COMRADE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The perfect comrade says nothing, nothing Last Line: With twin stars, shining serenely. Subject(s): Comfort; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PLACE OF REST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the deep the deep heart goes Last Line: The mother takes her child again. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Comfort; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 114, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poor donkey is short by a bushel Last Line: It just makes me depressed Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Comfort; Poverty THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 26, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I came to cold mountain Last Line: Heaven and earth can crumble and change Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Comfort; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE RETURN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rested in your easy chair Last Line: I was quite sure I felt your smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Daughters; Death; Fathers; Legacies; Love; Dead, The THE RUNE OF AGE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou that on the hills and wastes of night art shepherd Last Line: Give me now thy darkness and thy silence! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Comfort; Future Life; Gifts & Giving; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SAINT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is someone smiling at me from behind Last Line: In the illusion that it sets them free. Subject(s): Comfort; Despair THE SECRET DEWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor little songs, children of sorrow, go Last Line: The secret dews fall under the evening-star. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Grief; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE SLEEP, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God thought of sleep, so that he might Last Line: A youngling thing in his arms asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; God; Sleep THE SONG OF FIONULA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep, brothers dear, sleep and dream Last Line: To sleep and dream, ah, that is well indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brothers; Comfort; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Nightmares THE STEP THAT WE KNOW, by MARY E. MODRICKER Poem Text First Line: When the day is done Last Line: For the step that we know. Subject(s): Comfort; Love - Nature Of THE THOUGHT OF DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since when her faithful eyes, to which I yield Last Line: Whose thought brings comfort to my heart again. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Eyes; Flowers; Hearts; Dead, The THE VEILED AVENGER; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am he Last Line: His own bitter infinite cry we hear him cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Despair; Dreams; Pity; Redemption; Spiritual Life; Nightmares THE VICTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How the church-bells' thundering harmony Last Line: Who art the widow's friend, her comforter! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; England; Sacrifices; War; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; English THE VIERZIDE CHAIRS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though days do gain upon the night Last Line: A-look'd on as I look'd on you. Subject(s): Chairs; Comfort; Fireplaces; Marriage; Nostalgia; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE YOUNG MOTHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dreadful times of death and war Last Line: With frankincense and myrrh. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Mothers; War; World War I; First World War THERE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There shall be no more partings there for ever Last Line: They will come home to her, come home to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Future Life; Heaven; Home; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THESE GREEN-GOING-TO-YELLOW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year / I'm raising the emotional ante Subject(s): Comfort; Gingko Trees; Leaves TO A FRIEND, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Through drenching deeps a ship is sailing Last Line: Beckons and governs me! Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wouldst thou seek the low abode Last Line: Of hermit happiness. Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Life; Peace; Self-reliance; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND EXPRESSING A WISH TO TRAVEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou, then, listening to the traveller's tale Last Line: Remember with a sigh the joys of home? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Comfort; Happiness; Home; Pain; Solitude; Travel; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND SETTLED IN THE COUNTRY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, the lot which fate to thee has given Last Line: Sweet solace to the wearied soul can yield. Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; Country Life; Fate; Soldiers; Urban Life; Destiny TO A YOUNG WOMAN DYING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She hears a hermit laughing Last Line: That she loves something she has not found. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fear; Hermits; Love; Women; Dead, The TO DELIA: 43 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, whither (poor forsaken) wilt thou go Last Line: Bearing the wound, I needs must feel the pain. Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: CODA, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: O, thou interpreter of love and truth Last Line: And reflects sunshine in each troubled heart. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Comfort; Happiness; Joy; Delight TO NIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Cooling, quieting night Last Line: And be at one with the silent three that brood and move in the shadow of god! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; God; Night; Parents; Dead, The; Bedtime; Parenthood TO ONE THREATENED WITH BLINDNESS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lawrence, what though the world be growing dark Last Line: He needs no eyes who is a shining light! Subject(s): Blindness; Comfort; God; Prayer; Visually Handicapped VIOLIN SONGS: A SONG PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, / oh, ease us Last Line: To sing true. Subject(s): Comfort; Doubt; Faith; God; Hope; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Solitude; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness VIOLIN SONGS: OH THOU OF LITTLE FAITH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad-hearted, be at peace; the snowdrop lies Last Line: And in his heart thy prayer is resting now. Subject(s): Comfort; Doubt; Faith; God; Skepticism; Belief; Creed VISION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The first time she saw him, he was a nail Last Line: He's a comforting murmur. Subject(s): Comfort; Relationships WELCOME, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We will not banish them as they were lost Last Line: Like a sad ghost dreaming that he is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement WELL BEFORE DAWN I WOKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On the cabin roof Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Comfort; Nature; Rain WHEN GRANDMA COMES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's never any noise or fuss Last Line: All snuggled up against her breast. Subject(s): Babies; Comfort; Grandparents; Infants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WHEN I LOOK UP, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Instead of feeling very small Last Line: Is keeping watch of me. Subject(s): Comfort; Faith; God; Belief; Creed WHITE MAGIC, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the things that call a man to the road's delight Last Line: By the long white road. Subject(s): Comfort; Silence WINGS IN THE NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the soft spring midnight Last Line: Over the wild grey water. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Comfort; Mothers; Soul; War; World War I; First World War YOU TOLD ME YOU COULDN'T SEE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So I gave you my eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Comfort; Hope; Nature; Perception ZION SAID', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O slain for love of me, canst thou be cold Last Line: Oh take me to thyself and comfort me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Comfort; Erotic Love; Weariness; God |
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