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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CONDUCT OF LIFE Matches Found: 610 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "CONDUCT, FR. THE MAHABHARATA", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Heed how thou livest. Do no act by day Last Line: Another and a happier life for thee Subject(s): Human Behavior;worship; Conduct Of Life;human Nature 1930'S, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus / hides the Subject(s): Conduct Of Life 30TH BIRTHDAY, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I never be afraid Subject(s): Birthdays; Self; Conduct Of Life A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lighten, heavy heart, thy sprite Last Line: To view a stream that brightly flows. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 26, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hearts content can he find Last Line: His steadfast heart that is ... Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 41, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether men do laugh or weep Last Line: And that happy men disdain. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 8, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tune thy music to thy heart Last Line: Love alone to him is ever pleasing. Subject(s): God; Conduct Of Life A BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight A CEDARY FRAGRANCE, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Even now / decades after Last Line: To make the unwanted wanted Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A CERTAIN MAN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The man over there Last Line: . . . Like his prayer Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A COLOR OF THE SKY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Windy today and I feel less than brilliant, Last Line: And making more Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Conduct Of Life A COMMENT ON THE SCRIPTURE: 'IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD', JOHN, I,1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning was the word - saith john Last Line: That was in the beginning—is the end. Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Life; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A CONSIDERABLE SPECK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A speck that would have been beneath my sight Last Line: On any sheet the least display of mind Subject(s): Kindness; Conduct Of Life A FATHER TELLS HIS SON, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A father tells his son the thing he regrets most about his life is the amount of time he has spent w Subject(s): Worry; Conduct Of Life; Anxiety A GOOD RULE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A farmer, who owned a fine orchard, one day Last Line: So, what you're ashamed to do, don't do at all. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Cures; Sin; Conduct Of Life A HOT DAY IN AGRIGENTO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Temples look like discarded alphabets. Subject(s): Thirst; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A KIND OF MUSIC, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Irrelevance charactizes the behavior of our puppy Subject(s): Dogs; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A LENTEN CALL, by HILDA JOHNSON WISE Poem Text First Line: Twas the second of march, in the present year Last Line: To the world, the flesh and the devil. Subject(s): Devil; Human Behavior; Lent; Lust; Religion; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A LIFE OF CRIME, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail friends, I love you all! Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A LITTLE BEFORE ME, AND HARK, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To move and to suffer divine Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A LITTLE ROAD NOT MADE OF MAN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Evangelists record, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A MAN IN HIS LIFE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man in his life has no time to have Last Line: To the place where there is time for everything Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Transience A NEW BIRTH, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fate, my portion in the strife Last Line: Submissive to thy will! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A NEW CONSTELLATION, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We go intertwined, him and you Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A NEW LIFESTYLE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People in this town drink too much Subject(s): Coffee; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A NEW TEMPERANCE POEM, IN MEMORY OF MY DEPARTED PARENTS, WHO WERE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My parents were sober living, and often did pray Last Line: And the people would have more peace in it to dwell Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Violence; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A NUT HARD TO CRACK, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Says john to his mother, 'look here! Look here Last Line: "your nut will be hard to crack." Subject(s): Nuts & Nutting; Conduct Of Life A PARABLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: With limbs at rest on the earth's green breast Last Line: The liberty they love. Subject(s): Freedom; Human Behavior; Nature; Liberty; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A PLAQUE FOR FOREST PARK, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The terrapin at times must surely tire Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A PRAYER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask not wealth, but power to take Last Line: Fresh and unfailing to the last! Subject(s): Prayer; Conduct Of Life A PRAYER FOR EVERY DAY, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me too brave to lie or be unkind Last Line: Let me be joy, be hope! Let my life sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A QUERY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should a good angel and a bad between Last Line: Which would the good one go to, which the bad? Subject(s): Angels; Conduct Of Life A QUICK ONE BEFORE I GO, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There comes a time in every man's life Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Poetry & Poets A RHAPSODY OF LIFE'S PROGRESS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are born into life - it is sweet, it is strange Last Line: Thou art sweet, thou art strange! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A RULE OF LIFE, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Use up thy store, for thou must die Last Line: Expense and thrift in balance fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A SHEAF OF PLEASANT VOICES, by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are rooftops Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mind, The A SMALL ROOM IN ASPEN, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stains on the casements Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A SON WITH A FUTURE, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he was four years old, he stood at the window during a Subject(s): Sons; Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The A SONG OF CONTRDICTIONS, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The passions, in festival meeting Last Line: And light in the desolate soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A THIRST AGAINST, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a hunger for order / but a thirst against. What if Last Line: In these chicago avenues Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A THOUGHT, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If all the harm that women have done Last Line: To keep a small girl for the tenth of a year. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A TIME PAST, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old wooden steps to the front door Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Relationships; Past; Human Behavior; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A' - 18, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An unearthing / my valentine Subject(s): Death; Absence; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The; Separation; Isolation A.W.O.L., by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When justice, not sweet charity, confers on all Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ABSENCE PROVES NOTHING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Fear; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations ACANTHUS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you shut your eyes, you find a string Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ACCEPTING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half-blind, it is al;ways twilight Last Line: Given or what to make of them Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ACCIDENTS OF BIRTH, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spared by a car or airplane crash or Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Birth; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery ACCOUNTABILITY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Folks ain't got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits Last Line: Viney, go put on de kittle, I got one o' mastah's chickens. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ACTUARIAL FILE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orange peels, burned letters, the car lights shining on the grass, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ADEQUACY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by the verdure on thy thousand hills Last Line: Only to make me worthier of the least. Subject(s): England' Conduct Of Life ADJUNCT, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tomato plant is like a seven-story city hewn from the rock of the desert Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ADVICE TO MY BEST BROTHER, COLONEL FRANCIS LOVELACE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frank, wilt live handsomely? Trust not too far Last Line: A cloudy tempest, and a too fair day. Subject(s): Advice; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Day after day I sit and write Last Line: Be ever our desires. Subject(s): Advice; African Americans - Women; Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology AFTER HAYDN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speeding around in a little car Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ALBANY, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If the function of writing is to 'express the world.' my father withheld child Subject(s): Family Life; Conduct Of Life; Social Commentaries; Language Poetry; Relatives ALL LIFE IN A LIFE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father had a large family Subject(s): Family Life; City & Town Life; Wealth; Social Protest; Capital Punishment; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ALL THINGS STAND OUT AGAINST THE SKY, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Between queen tiy (consort of amenophis iii, who reigned 1417-1379 b.C.) Last Line: That's wasted on the young Subject(s): Winter; Conduct Of Life ALMOST AN ELEGY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have always lived in the shadows cast Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Change; Aging ALWAYS UNSUITABLE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wore little teeth of pearls around her neck. Subject(s): Sex; Conduct Of Life AMONG THE PITFALLS IN OUR WAY, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life AN APPEARANCE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smile of iceboxes annihilates me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life AN ESSAY ON MAN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, my st. John! Leave all meaner things Last Line: And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Mankind; Nature; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Human Race ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy doolin, first day on the job, stroked his goatee Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Rats; Murder; Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Memory; Youth; Relationships ANGER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger which breaks a man into children Subject(s): Human Behavior; Psychoanalysis; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy ANIMAL CAUTION, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I touch the cairn Subject(s): Human Behavior; Children; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Childhood ANOTHER DAY, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fleeting high that lifts you Last Line: Ball of twine, fractal of lost feathers Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of Life ANTILAMENTATION, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Regret ANY WIFE, by ALBERTINE H. MILLER Poem Text First Line: It is the small familiar things that hurt Last Line: So faulty and so human, but so dear. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature APATHY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking, you sag. Fatigue is different: the body, like steps Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature APOLOGY, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, I have taken your boots Subject(s): Mothers; Conduct Of Life ARCHEOLOGIES, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder about all the thoughts Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ARRANGEMENTS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like a manuever that doesn't start in silence Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature AS IS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pay attention, talk to no one unless Last Line: Flying. All of it meaning the same thing Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ASLEEP AND AWAKE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asleep and awake, I awake Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ASPECTS OF ROBINSON, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robinson at cards at the algonquin Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ASPIRATIONS: 1, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee in the streets, so wan and pale Last Line: For, through the racking fire, she winged her upward flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 10, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like jove's great eagle, who on giant wings Last Line: Swallowed and lost my life in vast whirlpools of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 11, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blossoms rain upon the lea Last Line: And thou standest in thy height. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 12, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Creature of moods and changes manifold Last Line: Soul, like a star, wilt thou pursue thy way? Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 2, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each word that falleth from thy lips Last Line: And buds and blossoms forth in song. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 3, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weeping, weary, did I wander Last Line: See the vaulting skies appear. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 4, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I, indeed, th' aeolian harp Last Line: And flaming grandly on and on. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Harps; Musical Instruments; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres ASPIRATIONS: 5, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I move amid a golden cloud Last Line: In hushed and reverential prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 6, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is like a fragile flower Last Line: And overbrims in tears of joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight ASPIRATIONS: 7, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the echoes, clear and light Last Line: To steep their being in the infinite skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 8, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is hushed and holy Last Line: That twilight soul of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 9, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, in the summer night Last Line: O'er me dazzling doth it roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness AT LONG LAST, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Late, late, the prize is drawn, the goal attained Last Line: Is never paid in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature AT THE SALVATION ARMY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My life. My life. Subject(s): Salvation Army; Conduct Of Life AT THE THRESHOLD, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be pleased if the wind that enters the orchard Subject(s): Conduct Of Life AUNT DOROTHY'S LECTURE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, go and practise - get your work Last Line: If he'll come in to tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Advice AUTUMN LANDSCAPE, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves Last Line: Whoever sees this landscape is stunned. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Nature; Rivers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Vietnam; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature AWAY WITH FUNERAL MUSIC - SET, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And not for him that sips Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BACK TO COUNTRY WITH PULITZER, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left here at eight Subject(s): Aging; Illness; Conduct Of Life; Success; Failure; Retirement; Love - Loss Of; Literary Prizes BALLAD OF THE LADY QUID PRO QUO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the coasts of consternation Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Likes & Dislikes; Conduct Of Life BALLADE OF WENCHES, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Peddle indulgences, as you may Last Line: Taverns and wenches, every whit. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature BALLS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throw the blue balls above the twigs of the tree-tops Subject(s): Balls; Conduct Of Life BARDO, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've spent my life Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BE NOBODY'S DARLING / BE AN OUTCAST, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Among your dead Subject(s): Self-reliance; Conduct Of Life BEDTIME READING FOR THE UNBORN CHILD, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long after the sun falls into the sea Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Coming Of Age; Mythology BEFORE I KNOCKED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I knocked and flesh let enter Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BEING BUT MEN, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being but men, we walked into the trees Subject(s): Men; Conduct Of Life BERG, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Channels of happening as theyrun deep and deeper Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BIRTHDAY, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BLEAK HOUSE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drunks in the courtyard, dung and driftwood Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature BLOOD RHYTHMS - BLOOD CURRENTS - BLACK N' BLUE STYLIN, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fragrant breezes in the south Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; Conduct Of Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty BLUES, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lazy, the laziest Last Line: Or open arms saying, I forgive you, all Subject(s): Indolence; Sleep; Conduct Of Life BRAIN CHILDREN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother brain, through tidal ebb and flow Last Line: Immutable as deity itself! Subject(s): Children; Human Behavior; Childhood; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature BRIC-A-BRAC, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say that sin is a seed that mildewed Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BURNED, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to go back into the forge room Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Jews; World War Ii; Farewell; Fathers; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Work; Workers; Judaism; Second World War; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness BUTTERANDEGGS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a posture for two multiplied Last Line: Something else. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BY FIRE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I pass an abandoned, half-wrecked building Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The BY HALVES, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are always half way there Last Line: On our way to such a communion Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CALMNESS OF THE SUBLIME, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Last Line: Which cannot be controll'd, whose end is good. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CANT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What cant, oh, what hypocrisy Last Line: Get everlasting bliss! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Hypocrisy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CARRYING A LADDER, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We are always / really carrying Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Ladders CHANGE THE FORMS IN DREAMS, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moved here for no reason. Don't seem to be anywhere Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CHAPTER HEADING, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For we have thought the longer thoughts Last Line: Another in the day Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CHARLES AUGUSTUS FORTESCUE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nicest child I ever knew Last Line: Simply doing right. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: TO IANTHE, AND CANTO 1, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in those climes where I have late been staying Last Line: Ere greece and grecian arts by barbarous hands were quell'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Farewell; Portugal; Conduct Of Life; Travel CHINESE NEW YEAR, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dragon is in the street dancing beneath windows Last Line: He brings me ghost money Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): New Year; Conduct Of Life CHOKE, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the ways of forgetting Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CHOOSE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The single clenched fist lifted and ready Last Line: For we meet by one or the other. Subject(s): Anger; Friendship; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CIRCLE OF LORCA, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you take the lost road Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Relationships CLASSIC BALLROOM DANCES, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmothers who wring the necks Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CODA, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it was jet lag, maybe not, Subject(s): Divorce; Conduct Of Life COMMANDS FOR THE END OF SUMMER, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deepen,/leaves, not with what Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CONFESSION, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: T is friday night, a lone bird hollers Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CONSEQUENCES, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despair is big with friends I love Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Conduct Of Life; Relationships CONSIDERING COLDLY, IMPARTIALLY, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So what! Moved . . . Moved . . . Subject(s): Grief; Conduct Of Life CONTRAST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world has many seas, mediterranean, atlantic, but Last Line: Mind to stand with the trees, one life with / the mountains Subject(s): Human Behavior; Nature; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CONVERSATION WITH THREE WOMEN OF NEW ENGLAND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mode of the person becomes the mode of the world Subject(s): Human Behavior; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature COULD I BUT RIDE INDEFINITE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who tight in dungeons are Subject(s): Freedom; Conduct Of Life CRAWLING OUT AT PARTIES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My old reptile loves the scotch Last Line: The stagnant, sobering water. Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Parties; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DAILY LIFE, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A parrot of irritation sits Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DAYS, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: How can I tell which days have yielded fruit? Last Line: Shall on the last day bring me blame or praise? Subject(s): Day; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DAYS OF PIE AND COFFEE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A motorist once said to me Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Conduct Of Life; Salespersons; Selling DEAR FRIEND, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will be served for our reception Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DICKHEAD, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Alienation (social); Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DIFFERENT MINDS, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some murmur when their sky is clear Last Line: Such rich provision made. Variant Title(s): Content [and Discord] Subject(s): Human Behavior; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DILEMMA, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever we do, whether we light Last Line: By being planted too close to our parents Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Transience; Impermanence DILEMMA, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever we do, whether we light Last Line: By being planted too close to our parents Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DING REPAIR, by PETER GIZZI Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There are too many skateboards here, too many waves Subject(s): California; Conduct Of Life; Surfing DIRGE, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: 1-2-3 was the number he played but today the number came 3-2-1; Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man; Dead, The; Dead, The; Recessions; Wagering; Betting DISCONTENT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light human nature is too lightly tost Last Line: God's chartered judgments walk for evermore. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; God DO NOT LOOK FOR WRONG AND EVIL, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DOLPHIN, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dolphin, you only guide me by surprise Subject(s): Racine, Jean (1639-1699); Conduct Of Life DOORS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Doors; Conduct Of Life DOSSIER OF IRRETRIEVABLES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at bar 6 Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DOUBLE LIFE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a fundamentalist minister. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Conduct Of Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DREAM ON, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some people go their whole lives Subject(s): Dreams; Human Behavior; Nightmares; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DRINKING IN THE DAYTIME, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Anything is better than this Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love - Erotic; War; Conduct Of Life; Wine DRUNK, by GEORGE JAMES MICHALOPOULOS Poem Text First Line: The churl swings his caloused hands against the city's Last Line: The churl smiles and staggers. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DU MUSST DEIN LEBEN ANDERN - RILKE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was once is still Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DUTCH, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much of life / is dutch Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DWARF AND GIANT, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on through life's journey we go,day by day Last Line: "and dare for the right to say always, ""I can!" Subject(s): Human Behavior; Idleness; Life; Perseverance; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence EGGS, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morning broke like an egg Subject(s): Eggs; Conduct Of Life EL VUELO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close your eyes, now -- we go Last Line: To a silvery hand ahead, / the feminine dome Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ELEGY WITH A CHIMNEYSWEEP FALLING INSIDE IT, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those twenty-six letters filling the blackboard Subject(s): Transience; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Impermanence; Sorrow; Sadness END OF THE WORLD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young in school in switzerland, about the time of the boer Last Line: And the earth flourish long after mankind is out Subject(s): Doomsday; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ENEMIES OF ENORMITY, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thanks to a polymer the chemists jimmied-up in bern Subject(s): Prostheses; Legs; Cosmetics; Conduct Of Life ENERGY IN ADVERSITY, by LUELLA J. CASE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Onward! Hath earth's ceaseless change Last Line: Strength and healing on their wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Bartlett, Luella Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ENVY; A FRAGMENT, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye pleasing dreams of heavenly poesy Last Line: But transient still and vain are envy's wretched joys. Subject(s): Envy; False Accusations; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature EPISTLE TO HER FRIENDS AT GARTMORE, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My gartmore friends a blessing on ye Last Line: And just does nothing all the day!' Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature EPITAPH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were no hidden motives to his life Last Line: As I have forgiven you / my sins Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Sin; Forgiveness EXPECT NOTHING, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Expect nothing. Live frugally Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FABLE: THE BEAU AND THE VIPER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All wise philosophers maintain Last Line: Be still, be humble, and adore!' Subject(s): Animals; Creation; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FAILURES IN INFINITIVES, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I doing this? Failure Subject(s): Failure; Language; Conduct Of Life; Words; Vocabulary FAINT YET PURSUING', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond this shadow and this turbulent sea Last Line: My heart fails, yet I follow on to know Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Sea; Persistence; Conduct Of Life FAIR PRIME OF LIFE! WERE IT ENOUGH TO GILD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of grateful memory, bid that joy depart Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FATHER AND SON, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On these occasions, the feelings surprise, Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The FEAR, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH Poem Text First Line: Afraid / of dark? That putting out the light Last Line: But glad for every day, when in god's keeping. Subject(s): Fear; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FEAR NOT, DEAR FRIEND, BUT FREELY LIVE YOUR DAYS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: See you well anchored in some port of rest Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FEARE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man must do well out of a good intent Last Line: Not for the servile feare of punishment. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FEBRUARY 3, 1899, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just sixty years ago to-day Last Line: And that is all I know Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Old Age FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the stores close, a winter light Subject(s): New York City; Evening; Winter; Aging; Conduct Of Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Sunset; Twilight FECKLESS WITH DISGUST, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All erasure of pain Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FICTION, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of the innocent lives Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Novels & Novelists FIRST THINGS TO HAND, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the skull kept on the desk. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FOR A GIRL I KNOW ABOUT TO BECOME A WOMAN, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Advice; Girls; Coming Of Age; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FOR YAEDI, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking out the window at the trees Last Line: Now I know myself from a stone / or a sledgehammer Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FOUR FOR THEODORE ROETHKE: 4. THE BURDEN, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The burden, flowering, at heavy cost Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FROM A LOST DIARY, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had not begun the great journey I was to undertake. I did not Last Line: Though the sun continues to stand at my door Subject(s): Diaries; Conduct Of Life FROM ORIENT POINT, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The art of living isn't hard to muster Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FUCHSIA, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apprentice morning come easily now, Subject(s): Nature; Conduct Of Life; Landscape FURTHER TOYS, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The janitor washing the blackboard Last Line: Ripples across the sky overhead / brilliant afternoon Variant Title(s): Toys Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature GAUDEAMUS IGITUR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, no more of grief and dying! Last Line: We arise to be your masters. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Grief; Human Behavior; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature GLUT, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole point was getting rid of glut Subject(s): Conduct Of Life GOD MADDENS HIM WHOM 'TIS HIS WILL TO LOSE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Conduct Of Life GREEN-STRIPED MELONS, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They lie / under the stars in a field Last Line: The sign of their ripeness Subject(s): Melons; Conduct Of Life GROWING UP WITH A SEARS CATALOG IN BENGHAZI, LIBYA, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Omar pointed to a pink man Subject(s): Lust; Conduct Of Life; New Orleans GYPSY KINGS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another late afternoon and I am sitting in Last Line: One mentioned her own son Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Conduct Of Life H-- LAUGHTER WAS BETTER THAN BIRDS IN THE MORNING, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For s/he lives in the earth around us, laughs from the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Morning; Conduct Of Life HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I turn westward in Last Line: Will cross yours in passing Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fast is the wind Last Line: To become slow? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HAIL! CHILDISH SLAVES OF SOCIAL RULES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The stronger swimmers coming after Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Customs, Social; Conduct Of Life HANDY GUIDE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Avoid adjectives of scale. Subject(s): Advice; Conduct Of Life HANNAH, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on hooked rugs; my beds are covered with Subject(s): Homecoming; Family Life; Conduct Of Life; Relatives HANS READING, HANS SMOKING, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, poised around behavior, would say Subject(s): Reading; Smoking; Human Behavior; Family Life; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Relatives HARD WEATHER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bursts from a rending east in flaws Last Line: The station for the flight of soul. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Nature; Weather; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HAVE I NOT STRIVEN, MY GOD, AND WATCHED AND PRAYED?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Confessing me to angels and to men? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HE TOUCHED ME, SO I LIVE TO KNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To her imperial sun Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HE WAS A VISITOR, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cast flesh / as the song into the room is cast Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Books; Reading HERE AND NOW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in the heart of the world Last Line: Here, should we labor and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HIS LIFE WAS THE PRACTICE OF FORMING A SINGLE SENTENCE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Evolution and release: a full life Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HOLDING ON, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green fingers / holding the hillside, Subject(s): Solitude; Conduct Of Life; Loneliness HOSPITAL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Benign big blond machine beyond all price, Subject(s): Hospitals; Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The HOW AUNT MAUD TOOK TO BEING A WOMAN, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women; Conduct Of Life HOW IT ADDS UP, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was the day we swam in a river, a lake, and an ocean. Last Line: Of a crazy song Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Disappointment HOW THEY CONJUGATE 'TO HAVE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a man of aspect wise Last Line: "that men may have me,"" answers he." Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HOW THEY GOT HER TO QUIET DOWN, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations HOW TO LIVE. WHAT TO DO, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last evening the moon rose above this rock Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HUGH THORNDYKE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Egalton's hills are sunny Last Line: Are all we need below. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Work; Honesty HUMAN LIFE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mortal, when he saw Last Line: The homes that were not destined to be ours. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HYMN TO LIFE, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The wind rests its cheek upon the ground and feels the cool damp Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I AM LEARNING TO ABANDON THE WORLD, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I AM LIKE A SCRAP OF PAPER STUCK, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the tire keeps crushing / me to myself Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I AM NOT A NATIVE OF THIS PLACE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I AM WALKING TO YOU NOW, by MICHAEL TEIG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning for years Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I BELIEVE THERE IS A SONG, by KAREN VOLKMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe there is a song that is stranger than wind, that sips the scald Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mind, The I BREATHED ENOUGH TO LEARN [OR, TAKE] THE TRICK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How numb, the bellows feels! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I DO REPENT ME OF DEPARTED DAYS, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: My hopes that in no other temple dwell Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Repentance I EXCEED MY LIMITS, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have tried an altenstil Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I HAVE LIVED THIS WAY FOR YEARS AND DO NOT WISH TO CHANGE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope you'll forgive the black paint Last Line: The chocolate-covered cotton balls Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Conduct Of Life I HAVE WALKED A LONG TIME, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You, man, will you remember and cry? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mortality; Mourning I MADE MY BED, by ALICE LEE EDDY Poem Text First Line: Yes, I have made my bed; now I will lie Last Line: Perhaps you're wrong, -- perhaps, I like my bed. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature I WILL NOT SAVE THE WORLD, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to cross Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The I WISH I HAD MORE SISTERS, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sisters; Conduct Of Life I'M THANKFUL THAT MY LIFE DOTH NOT DECEIVE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They’ll lay another by tomorrow’s sun Subject(s): Transience; Conduct Of Life IF, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you Last Line: And -- which is more -- you'll be a man, my son! Subject(s): Fortitude; Human Behavior; Leadership; Maturity; Self-control; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IF I COULD ARISE AND TRAVEL AWAY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But he's done with the ten commandments Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Ten Commandments IF MY HAND, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If my hand believes Last Line: Each death affirmative Subject(s): Human Behavior; Death; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Dead, The IF WE HAD BUT A DAY, by MARY LOWE DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: We should fill the hours with the sweetest things Last Line: If we had but a day. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IF YOU MADE GENTLER THE CHURLISH WORLD, by MAX EHRMANN Poem Text First Line: If you have spoken something beautiful Last Line: If you have made gentler the churlish world. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IN A MOOD, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Less stupid than I seem, less Last Line: Then what, and then again what, unfolded Subject(s): Conduct Of Life IN EVERYTHING I SEEK TO GRASP, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: A stubborn bow bent Subject(s): Conduct Of Life IN NOVEMBER, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the house the wind is howling Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Conduct Of Life IN PATHS UNTRODDEN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To celebrate the need of comrades Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Soul IN PRAISE OF DIVERSITY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the ingenious earth began Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IN STRANGE EVENTS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the moon set, and all the stars, and still no meaning came, or Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Human Behavior; Enemies; Hate; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IN THE FORTY-FIFTH YEAR OF MARRIAGE IT GOES ON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would never say I feel like a million dollars, but I whistle Subject(s): Marriage; Time; Conduct Of Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE NEW SUN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Filaments of light / slant like windswept rain. Subject(s): Industry; Conduct Of Life IN THE SLEEP OF REASON, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so I closed that book, Subject(s): Books & Reading; Conduct Of Life INHERITING MY GRANDMOTHER'S NIGHTMARE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Consider the adhesiveness of things Subject(s): Grandparents; Conduct Of Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers INSCRIPTION FOR THE CEILING OF A BEDROOM, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daily dawns another day; Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Beds; Conduct Of Life INSOMNIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But it's really fear you want to talk about Subject(s): Insomnia; Conduct Of Life; Fear; Failure; Sleeplessness INSTEAD OF AN ANIMAL, by LESLIE SCALAPINO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing as I was willng to give up my seat for the person who said Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Love - Erotic; Human Behavior; Nursing (infants); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the time being Last Line: Feel something catch Subject(s): Conduct Of Life IRONY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Irony; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IT DEEPLY WOUNDS THE TRUSTING HEART, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By him who rules above Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; God IT DON'T TAKE MUCH, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It don't take much to make men glad Last Line: That's all they need -- it don't take much. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IT TAKES ALL SORTS OF IN AND OUTDOOR SCHOOLING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To get adapted to my kind of fooling Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IT WASN'T ME, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I recall a miser's Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IT?ÇÖS RANK IT CRANKS YOU UP, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Relationships JUST UNDER SKIN OF LEFT LEG, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dark woman, camelia luna Subject(s): Conduct Of Life KICKING MANHATTAN TO PIECES EVERY NIGHT, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: A bottle of the red medicine to her blue lips Subject(s): Conduct Of Life L'AMITIE EST L'AMOUR SANS AILES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should my anxious breast repine Last Line: Friendship is love without his wings!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of Life LETTER TO A YOUNG POET, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the biographies of rilke, you get the feeling Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Poetry & Poets; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LETTER TO IBRAHIM, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You remember the joke, right? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LETTERS FOR THE DEAD, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air darkened toward morning Subject(s): Family Life; Travel; Death; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The LIE STILL, SLEEP BECALMED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound Subject(s): Sea; Death; Conduct Of Life; Ocean; Dead, The LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh life, I breathe thee in the breeze Last Line: My love for thee, and thine for me? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LIFE IS A SUMMER'S DAY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And it is gone Subject(s): Summer; Conduct Of Life LIFE'S MIRROR, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave Last Line: And the best will come back to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Human Behavior; Virtue; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LIGHT HEARTED AUTHOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birches are mad with green points Subject(s): Brothers; Conduct Of Life; Relationships; Birch Trees; Half-brothers LIKE THE SMALL HOLE BY THE PATH-SIDE SOMETHING LIVES IN, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Small holes that something unweighed by the self-scale lives in Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LIKE TWO NEGATIVE NUMBERS MULTIPLIED BY RAIN, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie down, you are horizontal. Last Line: Into oranges and olives Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LINES ADDRESSED TO THE REV. J.T. BECHER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear becher, you tell me to mix with mankind Last Line: Why waste upon folly the days of my youth? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LINOLEUM, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are the few we hear of Last Line: "and begin where I stand, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Religion; Theology LISTENING, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My whole life I was swimming listening Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LITTLE BLACK TANGRAMS, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one felt in the dark for his hat. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Nature; Relationships LIVE BLINDLY; SONNET, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Live blindly and upon the hour. The lord Last Line: And all his island shivered into flowers. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LIVE TO DO GOOD, by GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Live to do good; but with thought to win Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LIVES OF THE DEEP SEA DIVERS, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep missing my stop so Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LIVES OF THE SURGE PROTECTORS, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she said what she said I Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Robots & Robotics LIVING AMONG THE DEAD, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: First there were those who died Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The LONG I THOUGHT THAT KNOWLEDGE ALONE WOULD SUFFICE ME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It is to be enough for each of us that we are together—we never separate again Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Conduct Of Life LOOK TO THE FUTURE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you born into violence Subject(s): War; Future; Conduct Of Life LORD NEVIL'S ADVICE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend,' quoth lord nevil, 'thou art young' Last Line: "and count thyself a happy man." Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Advice; Conduct Of Life; Marriage LOVE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why live? I never really thought Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Falure; Dead, The LOVE AND HOW IT BECOMES IMPORTANT IN OUR DAY TO DAY LIFE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who tells you which is the whiter wash Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LOVE IN THE CITY OF LIGHT BENT BACK, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being deceives, they believe: their existence Subject(s): City & Town Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LOVE POEM, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Attempted suicide was your tour de force Subject(s): Suicide; Conduct Of Life LOVE, TO BE LOVE, MUST WALK THY WAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But all is good? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Conduct Of Life; Religion LYING MY HEAD OFF, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's my head, in a dank corner of the yard Subject(s): Lies; Truth; Conduct Of Life; Relationships MAN, by JAMES GORDON BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: His heart beat joyously in spring Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Hope; Optimism MAN IS SO AFRAID, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is so afraid, he look down at cock, long ago many Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MAN'S LIFE IS BUT A WORKING DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And all things lovely on the morrow Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MAN'S MISSION, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Human lives are silent teaching Last Line: So to love, and work, and die! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MARGARET GILL'S QUIET LIFE, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a woman, dead at eighty-seven, who's left Last Line: Down at the bottom, called social studies Subject(s): World War Ii – Casualties; Women; Love – Loss Of; Conduct Of Life MCGONAGALL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou demon drink, thou fell destroyer Last Line: That the abolition of strong drink is the only home rule. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Sickness; Social Problems; Violence; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Illness MIGRATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year marie drives back and forth Last Line: Like the holy ghost that it is Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Adoption; Dead, The MISERY AND FRUSTRATION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say one part of wisdom Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Conduct Of Life; Wine MOMMA SAID, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slice I ate I want it back Subject(s): Cakes; Conduct Of Life MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 2. TO A LADY: OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing so true as what you once let fall Last Line: To you gave sense, good humour, and a poet. Variant Title(s): An Epistle To A Lady: Of The Characters Of Women;epistle To A Lady Subject(s): Beauty; Blount, Martha (patty) (1690-1763); Character; Human Behavior; Inconsistency; Poetry & Poets; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MR. WAKEFIELD ON INTERSTATE 90, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now I will abandon the route of my life Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MUCKRAKER, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That greasy letter into which my legs entered, Subject(s): Disappointment; Conduct Of Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MUTE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's gotten so I can't say what's in my heart Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MY BRAIN SWIMS EMPTY AND LIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tumbling and showing their legs and crying out to me loosely Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Likes & Dislikes MY FATHER'S FINGERNAILS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hardware store a young clerk Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MY LIFE: YET WE INSIST THAT LIFE IS FULL OF HAPPY CHANCE, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windows were open and the morning air was, by the smell of lilac Last Line: Luck was rid of its clover Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MY MEADOW, MY TWILIGHT, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MY NEW WORLD, by IRVING BROWNE Poem Text First Line: My prow is tending toward the west Last Line: In my new world. Subject(s): Progress; Conduct Of Life MYSELF, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to live with myself, and so Last Line: Self-respecting and conscience free. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Self; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology MYSELF AND MINE GYMNASTIC EVER, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I perceive I have no time to lose Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MYSTERY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sow the glebe, we reap the corn Last Line: Soon large enough for death. Variant Title(s): Human Life's Mystery Subject(s): God; Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NEARING DAWN, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sunbreak. The sky opens its magazine. If you look hard Subject(s): Conduct Of Life NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 27TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take thou no care how to defer thy death Last Line: I say he only was, he did not live. Subject(s): Health; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NEVER MND, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never mind the pins Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Relationships NEVER TO DREAM OF SPIDERS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time collapses between the lips of strangers Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Transience; Conduct Of Life; Impermanence NEW RULE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new year's white morning of hard new ice Last Line: So / clear Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Squirrels NEXT DAY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the cycles of wash and rinse, a song Subject(s): Conduct Of Life NIGHT-MUSIC, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When those who can never again forgive themselves Subject(s): Night; Music & Musicians; Human Behavior; Bedtime; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NIGHT-PIECE, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw within the shadows of the yard the shed Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Transience; Impermanence NIRVANA, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Divest thyself, o soul, of vain desire Last Line: In rapture lost be lapped within the all. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Conduct Of Life NOBIS NATUS IN PRETIUM: NOBIS DATUS IN PRAETIUM, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great god! I had been nothing but for thee Last Line: Save what th' hast bought at such a rate! Subject(s): God; Conduct Of Life NOISE OF THE CITY, by ANDRE SPIRE Poem Text Last Line: And the beating of my heart. Subject(s): Cities; Human Behavior; Laughter; Men; Noises; Urban Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NOT KNOWING WHEN THE DAWN WILL COME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or billows, like a shore Subject(s): Conduct Of Life NOW, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I see it: a few years Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time NOW AND THEN, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the valley Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Social Commentaries; Human Behavior; Social Classes; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caste OBSERVATION, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I don't drive around the park, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Conduct Of Life OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 21. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE FOURTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wise man wary lives, yet most secure Last Line: Th' earth his sober inn, but still heav'n his home Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Heaven OCTOBER-MIDST, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mornings careless, sun-sprawled, radical with light Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know that heaven ordains me here Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People in the middle ages didn't think they were living Subject(s): Middle Ages; Conduct Of Life; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature ODE TO THE MIDWEST, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to be doused Subject(s): Middle West; Conduct Of Life; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States OF ONE FLESH, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man he was who loved the good Last Line: He was thy brother, and was mine! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Conduct Of Life; Forgiveness OKLAHOMA CITY: THE AFTERMATH, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I'm so lachrymose I forget I was there Subject(s): Oklahoma City Tragedy (1995); Conduct Of Life; Oklahoma City Bombings (1995) OLD JOKES APPRECIATE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the long stairs I run Subject(s): Jokes; Conduct Of Life ON A TRAILWAYS BUS A MAN WHO HOLDS HIS HEAD STRAGELY SPEAKS TO THE SEAT NEXT TO HIM, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought a book to make the time pass Subject(s): Buses; Human Behavior; Books; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading ON AND ON, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By long leagues of wood and meadow Last Line: And behind me like regret. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Regret ON THE FALL OF MAN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of man's obedience, while in eden blest Last Line: Right reason, scripture, and the love divine. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Mankind; Obedience; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Human Race ON, ON THE SAME, YE JOCUND TWAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On, on, ye jocund twain! Continue on the same! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ONE OF MANY (2), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a man - I know him still Last Line: There be more like him in the world. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life OPERATION MEMORY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Subject(s): Soldiers; Memory; Conduct Of Life OTHERWISE ELSEWHERE, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere over there the lawyer with a yellowish leaf in his hair; Subject(s): Human Behavior; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature OUR UNWISE PURPOSES ARE WISELY CROSSED, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life OUTREMER, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some people wish to leave this earth Last Line: I know, because he walked at my side for a short time Subject(s): Conduct Of Life OVER AND OVER TUNE, by IOANNA CARLSEN Poem Text First Line: You could grow into it, / that sense of living like a dog Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PAEONIA 'SOUVENIR DE MAXIME CORNU', INCIDENTALLY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ground wants rain. Crouched here Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gardens & Gardening; Hands; Rain; Freedom; Liberty PAGE 72, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mister arty martyr Subject(s): Conduct Of Life PAPER FISHES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The paper carp Subject(s): Fish; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PARADISE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is random as a rolled pair of dice Last Line: Love life's randomness: the rolled pair of dice. Subject(s): Chance; Heaven; Human Behavior; Life; Paradise; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PEANUT BUTTER, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am always hungry Subject(s): Peanut Butter; Sex; Appetite; Conduct Of Life PEOPLE WHO EAT IN COFFEE SHOPS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Human Behavior; Food Habits; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PERSONAL, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don’t take it personal, they said Last Line: To take it personal too Subject(s): Conduct Of Life PHANERON, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever roams the air is traveling Subject(s): Conduct Of Life PITS, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We go on and we tremble. Subject(s): God; Relationships; Conduct Of Life PLEDGES, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the softness of the embracing sky Last Line: The last night's petulance unpacified! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Contentment PLUSH, by HOWARD BUCK Poem Text First Line: How placidly the window goddesses Last Line: Of silks and furs and rugs and plush. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POEM, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ants came Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Conduct Of Life POEM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived in the first century of world wars. Subject(s): World War I; World War Ii; Conduct Of Life; War - Home Front; First World War; Second World War POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY PINDAR, by DAVID BROMIGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mattress factory explodes Last Line: Worth enduring the establishing Subject(s): Conduct Of Life POEM FOR MY SONS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were born, all the poets I knew Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Women; Conduct Of Life POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry : Subject(s): Children; Youth; Comng Of Age; Human Behavior; Childhood; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POEMS FROM LEFT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something wrong that can't be salved Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Human Behavior; Words; Vocabulary; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POEMS FROM RIGHT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right as rain yoju are, rain that shrivels Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PRACTICING, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son is practicing the piano. Subject(s): Family Life; Conduct Of Life; Relatives PRAYER, OR NOSTALGIA FOR HEAVEN, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please, just give me a map, and I'll follow it. Last Line: On all of us, on each earth-bound beauty's sleeping cheek Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man PRIVATE AND PROFANE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From loss of the old and lack of the new Subject(s): Religion; Philosophy & Philosophers; Art & Artists; Writing & Writers; Conduct Of Life; Theology PROLOGUE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine was the life planned to go wrong Last Line: With whispers, your legs trembling Subject(s): Conduct Of Life PROLOGUE, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In winter’s spider-eyed light strung through steam grates, the Last Line: Lover boy & philly boy. Wanna-be’s and gonna-be’s Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PROMISCUOUS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mixes easily, dictionaries Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Human Behavior; Words; Vocabulary; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PROVERBS IN RHYME, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time makes us eagle-eyed Last Line: Once only while we live. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life PUNK HALF PANTHER, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sliding’, always: for black journeys, always in holiness Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Social Commentary; Relationships REAL TIME, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: .. Where hiroshima was, someone said, there's a little star, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Divorce RECAPITULATIONS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War RECIPE FOR LIVING, by ALFRED GRANT WALTON Poem Text First Line: Some things a man must surely know Last Line: A faith in man, a trust in god. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature RED BRICKS AND CAMPHOR TREES, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mandolin from the madhouse Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature RED DUST, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This harpie with dry red curls Subject(s): Self-pity; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness REDEMPTION, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning this / july, so far Subject(s): Christianity; Conduct Of Life REEL ESTATE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep - sleep - then the kitchen trap Subject(s): Conduct Of Life REST FROM LOVING AND BE LIVING, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Cease denying, begin knowing Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Conduct Of Life REVERIE IN OPEN AIR, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I acknowledge my status as a stranger Last Line: But news of a breeze Subject(s): Air; Calm; Human Behavior; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ROUND, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody's alone in his head, somebody's a kid, Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature SAD LITTLE BREATHING MACHINE, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under its glass lid, the square Last Line: The present is in there somewhere Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SAME AS YOUJ, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I put my pants on one day at a time. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature SAND FLESH AND SKY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our ropes are the roots Subject(s): Nature; Conduct Of Life SATURDAY – MARCH 6, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morning you step out, still in pajamas Last Line: It's on the table and that's what day it is Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SENTENCINGS, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thing too perfect to be remembered Last Line: Think assailable thoughts, or be lonely Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when we were eight, or nine, Last Line: Down into the belly of the world Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Disappointment SEVEN STREAMS OF NEVIS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack the blindman, whose violin Last Line: In the heart's hell you have it; call it love Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Human Behavior; Sin; Love; Suicide SHYLOCK, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from the court he locked the door and sat Subject(s): Hate; Despair; Conduct Of Life SINCE THEN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am in search of revival Last Line: What I am left to do Subject(s): Past; Conduct Of Life SINCE THOU HAST GIVEN ME THIS GOOD HOPE, O GOD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And her kind eyes shall lead me to the end Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Love; God SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES THE SCIENCE CLASS: FOSSILS, PHYSICS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fossil bones, splintered bits of pelvis Last Line: By rubbing it across the heart. Subject(s): Christianity; Fossils; Human Behavior; Schools; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Students SLEEPLESS GRAFFITI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Insomnia; Sleeplessness SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I frequently slowly wish for more of the sudden experience Last Line: We get music which is time moving loudly Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time SO I BEGAN MY WALK OF LIFE; NO STOP, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of spirits reach me: is it so with you? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SOJOURNS IN THE PARALLEL WORLD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We live our lives of human passions, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SOME DAYS RETIRED FROM THE REST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or was obliged to die Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SOME SCIENCE FICTION, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chance is the remotest Last Line: But isn’t because of an isthmus Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SOMETIMES IN WINTER, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look into Subject(s): Envy; Conduct Of Life SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Hope; Luck; Optimism SONG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we'll go no more a-roving Last Line: By the light of the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Aging; Ennui; Maturity; Conduct Of Life SONG OF THE BUILDERS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a summer morning Subject(s): Crickets; Conduct Of Life SONG THAT ONLY COULD BE SUNG ONCE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Variable, changeable, yes, there are days when Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONGS OUT OF SORROW: LESSONS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unless I learn to ask no help Last Line: Why was I ever given birth? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Self; Knowledge; Conduct Of Life SONNET, by KAREN VOLKMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping sister of a farther sky Subject(s): Space & Space Travel;conduct Of Life; Body, Human; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension SONNET ON MOOR PARK - WRITTEN AT LEE PRIORY, AUGUST 10, 1826, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise of the wise and good! It is a meed Last Line: And hope, e'en till the lamp of life goes out. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SONNET: 2, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white Last Line: No matter by what hand or trick. Variant Title(s): Truth In Love Subject(s): Human Behavior; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature SONNET: CLEAVE THOU THE WAVES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cleave thou the waves that weltering to and fro Last Line: The elements sustain: cleave thou the waves. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Sea; Conduct Of Life; Ocean SONNET: HE WOULD LEAD A BETTER LIFE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of folly, tired of my own ways Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SONNET: ON A LOST OPPORTUNITY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We might, if you had willed, have conquered heaven Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SONNET: THE MOCKERY OF LIFE: 1, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God! What a mockery is this life of ours! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SPEED THE PARTING -, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not sprinkle with dust Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Transcience; Death; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SPENDRIFT, by BLOSSOM BENNETT Poem Text First Line: The golden hours that april brought are spent Last Line: Should learn to choose more wisely when I buy. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature STANZAS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often rebuked, yet always back returning Last Line: Can centre both the worlds of heaven and hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Travel; Books; Journeys; Trips; Reading STAR TEACHERS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Even as a bird sprays many-coloured fires Last Line: Are stars and deeps within. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Light; Stars; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature STONY WATER, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here many suns and many a sky, deep-overcast and dark Subject(s): Conduct Of Life STOP ME!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop me, good people! Don't you see Last Line: Help, shame, caution, love, wisdom, and all! Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature STOWAWAYS, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Immigrants; Conduct Of Life; Heritage; Heredity; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SUPPOSE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose, my little lady Last Line: To do the best you can? Subject(s): Children; Advice; Conduct Of Life SYLVIA, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sylvia is always gay Last Line: Oh, the journey would be dark. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SYMPTOM RECITAL, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not like my state of mind; Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Likes & Dislikes; Love - Beginnings TAKE CARE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little children, you must seek Last Line: You will show for what you are. Subject(s): Children; Advice; Conduct Of Life TANGLED RELIQUARY, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tangled reliquary under all surfaces Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TEACH ME TO NUMBER MY DAYS', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And courage and worship and love Subject(s): Time; Transience; Conduct Of Life TEAR IT DOWN, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We find out the heart only by dismantling what Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE 'OTHER MAN', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If every man would do the things the 'other man' should do Last Line: "if every man would think himself to be the ""other man." Subject(s): Brotherhood; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE AFTERGLOW, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE ANSWER, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then what is the answer?- not to be deluded by dreams. Last Line: Or drown in despair when his days darken Subject(s): Integrity; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE ART OF DISAPPEARING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they say don't I know you? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE AUTHOR'S MANNER OF LIVING, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On rainy days I dine alone Last Line: I pay my club, and so god b' y' -- Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BALUSTRADE, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ultimate boundary: arms Subject(s): Amnesia; Conduct Of Life; Fear THE BAPTISTRY, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One winter eve, at twilight, when the sound Last Line: But only light -- the full light -- at the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Conduct Of Life THE BATTURE, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Rivers; Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The THE BEST OF IT, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However carved up Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE BLAME, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You blame yourself Last Line: Is it the sun's fault that we cannot bear his rays? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BLIND GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind christians, pray list to me Last Line: From drinking either whisky, rum, or gin. Subject(s): Blindness; Child Molesting; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Human Behavior; Visually Handicapped; Child Abuse; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BOATHOUSE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the last lessons of fatigue Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE BOOK OF LIFE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some puzzle out with finger cramped and slow Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE BROKEN BALANCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the archways, Last Line: The arteries and walk in triumph on the faces Subject(s): Earth; Human Behavior; Progress; World; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BURIED LIFE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet Last Line: And the sea where it goes. Subject(s): Introspection; Conduct Of Life THE CALL, by THOMAS OSBERT MORDAUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Last Line: Is worth an age without a name. Variant Title(s): The Reply Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CARRIERS, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The father was a carrier Last Line: Little brothers, I miss you. so. heavy-laden Subject(s): Men; Conduct Of Life; Absence; Separation; Isolation THE CASE FOR MEMORY, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Http://www.Poets.Org/viewmedia.Php/prmmid/16429 Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE CASING, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years I sat in bars lying about everything Subject(s): Lies; Conduct Of Life THE CENOTAPH, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to leave this place Last Line: My pillow is my friend Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE CHAIN OF EVENTS, by CLYDE G. SPEAR Poem Text First Line: Down, down into that pit they slip Last Line: Prevent our reaching for the moon! Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CHANGES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: People don't act Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CHOICE, by JOHN POMFRET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If heaven the grateful liberty would give Last Line: All men would wish to live and die like me Subject(s): Contentment; Human Behavior; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CITY (1925), by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under this luxemburg of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): New York City; Conduct Of Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CLOUD ON THE WAY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, before us, in our journey, broods a mist upon the ground Last Line: Peace and light. Subject(s): Nature; Conduct Of Life THE CONFESSION, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't always acted good Last Line: "and I'm your god, and you're my man." Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY: BOOK 3, by ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, whose all-creating hands sustain Last Line: Our utmost bound, and out eternal stay! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE COSSACKS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For jews, the cossacks are always coming. Subject(s): Paranoia; Jews; Conduct Of Life; Judaism THE COURAGE TO BE NEW, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the world reciting Last Line: And their courage to be new Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE COWARD, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to lie on the earth now, with eyes to the ground Last Line: But the light of a changeless star. ... Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE DANCE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, reason, hate, did once bespeak Last Line: So love and folly were in hell. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE DECISION, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a moment before a shape Last Line: It cannot be after turned back from Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE DOOR, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is hard going to the door Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE END OF AN ETHNIC DREAM, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cigarettes in my mouth Last Line: My brain blistered. Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Conduct Of Life; Nightmares THE END OF LIFE, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Heaven; Paradise THE EXPLORER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across such distance the bellowing of the elks sag like a dowser's Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE EYES ARE ALWAYS BROWN, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I spent an hour watchjing the yellow parrots Last Line: Did I stop to listen to that music, poor love? Subject(s): Travel; Conduct Of Life; Irish; Judaism THE FIGURE IN THE FACE, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six-twenty seven, and I'm at my best Last Line: I know my grasp of things exceeds my reach Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of Life THE FURY OF SUNDAYS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moist, moist, / the heat leaking through the hinges, Subject(s): Sabbath; Conduct Of Life; Sunday THE FUTURE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wanderer is a man from his birth Last Line: Murmurs and scents of the infinite sea. Subject(s): Future; Conduct Of Life THE FUTURE VERDICT, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How will our unborn children scoff at us Last Line: "cry ""o what fools were we!" Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE GHOST OF A HUNTER, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He reads: what soul suffers in secret, the flesh shows openly Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Coming Of Age THE GOLDEN SCHLEMIEL, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Honesty; Poverty; Conduct Of Life THE GOLDEN TEXT, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask for fame or power? Last Line: And not the next nor next! Subject(s): Opportunity; Conduct Of Life THE HAPPY WARRIOR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the happy warrior? Who is he Last Line: That every man in arms should wish to be. Variant Title(s): Character Of The Happy Warrior Subject(s): Human Behavior; Soldiers; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE HEART UPON THE SLEEVE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear heart, behold you bound Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE HERITAGE FOREGONE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child's small height doth see Last Line: "cry, ""he is changed indeed. Why, he has grown a man!" Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE HIVE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: To do something with it: to make something of it Subject(s): Family Life; Human Behavior; Relatives; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE HONEY BEAR, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Billie holiday was on the radio Subject(s): Honey; Solitude; Conduct Of Life; Loneliness THE HUMAN LINCOLN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: God sometimes sends Last Line: Beneath the sod. Subject(s): God; Human Behavior; Humanity; Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Male-female Relations THE INN ALBUM: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Occupied by the elm; and, as its shade Last Line: No: let the curtain fall! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE INNOCENTS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The watcher guarded the innocent one Subject(s): Self; Human Behavior; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE INTERVIEW, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I represent the morning shout. We hear you are dying Last Line: "finally: are you dead and, if so, can you describe it for us, for your Subject(s): Journalists; Death; Conduct Of Life THE JOURNEY OF LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the waning moon I walk at night Last Line: With warmth, and certainty, and boundless light. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS NEAR YOU', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All power is near. The sun flings everywhere Last Line: The reaching cross of calvary is near Subject(s): Heaven; Conduct Of Life THE LADIES OF LEWISTON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Pour syrup over their husbands' silence Subject(s): Women; Conduct Of Life THE LAST MOVIE, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Death; Conduct Of Life; Movies; Cinema; Dead, The THE LIGATURE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some days are zigzags through a mine field; Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE LION AND THE DOG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let who think of what they will Subject(s): Lions; Dogs; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE LITTLE MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little man dwelt in a little town Last Line: A little worm is working on him now Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life;human Nature THE LIVING PRESENT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, let us slight no pleasant spring Last Line: As if himself and god were all. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE LOCATION OF THINGS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Why from this window am I watching leaves? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE LONG DAY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning I ate a banana Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE MAGIC OF NUMBERS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How strange it was to hear the furniture moved around in the apartment upstairs Subject(s): Relationships; Ooetry And Poets; Love - Erotic; Time; Numbers; Conduct Of Life THE MARCHING MORROWS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now gird thee well for courage Last Line: To lead them round the sun. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Freedom; Future THE MARGINS WHERE WE LIVE BY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overnight, the air froze Last Line: "the margins will always be the space Subject(s): Native Americans; Conduct Of Life THE MATRIX, by AMY LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goaded and harassed in the factory Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Transience; Impermanence THE MEASURE OF A MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Not - 'how did he die?' but - 'how did he live?' Last Line: "but -- ""how many were sorry when he passed away?" Subject(s): Human Behavior;truth;virtue; Conduct Of Life;human Nature THE METAMORPHOSIS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bumping agsinst rock in the dark Last Line: From rock to rock Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE MISSION, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Back there then I lived Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life; Fathers THE MYTH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She renamed me after a bridge in the hopes Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE OAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live thy life / young and old Last Line: Naked strength. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Human Behavior; Oak Trees; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice you have been around the world Last Line: Woman, that is Subject(s): Human Behavior; Travel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Journeys; Trips THE ORDEAL, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acknowledged on our side town, Subject(s): Schools; Friendship; Relationships; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Students THE PATH OF LIFE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first to youth's enchanted eyes Last Line: And bid thy heart be gay. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PEOPLE OF THE OTHER VILLAGE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Hate the people of this village Subject(s): Villages; Hate; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PERFECT LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Who knows the perfect life on earth? Last Line: And not inflict it on another? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PILGRIM SOUL, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the winding mazes of windy streets Last Line: That all who beheld him were born once again. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mankind; Human Behavior; Human Race; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE QUIET LIFE, by WILLIAM BYRD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What pleasure have great princes Last Line: Yet merry it is, and quiet. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE QUOTIDIAN, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we live Last Line: Here in the skin of . . . Otherwise) shoveling / out, dryly Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Self THE REPORT, by DICK ALLEN Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is blowing on the prison walls Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Conduct Of Life; Convicts THE ROVER, by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT Poem Text First Line: The day is full of busy-ness Last Line: And make me sleep till day? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE RUNNERS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Limbs that falter and fail to guide us Last Line: "I am goal and laure! The prize is -- peace!" Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Peace; God THE SEASON, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And must I wear a silken life Last Line: Would never do for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE SECRET FLAME: WHO SHALL ESCAPE THE LORD?, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he be agile and alert Last Line: The ineradicable flame Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this world's friends might see but once Last Line: Till the white-winged reapers come! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology THE SLEEPING CITY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A princess in the eastern tale Last Line: Its latest life beyond recall. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Sin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology THE SONG-BIRD FALLS ASLEEP, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: On it, drifts my love: a precious argosy! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE STORY OF MY LIFE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enthused I went to yale, enthused Subject(s): Human Behavior; Wit & Humor; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE STORY OF OUR LIVES, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are reading the story of our lives Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE STORY WE KNOW, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Last Line: Good-bye is the only story. We know, we know Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE SUMMER HOUSE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took his hand Subject(s): Human Behavior; Books; Solitude; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading; Loneliness THE SUMMONS, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now all who love the best Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE TIMELY MEMENTO, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shipwrack'd bark cannot more sure convey Last Line: Since dying is the only way to live? Subject(s): Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S BELOVEDS REMAIN TRUE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chaos overshadows us Last Line: We have been instructed to call this his love Subject(s): God; Conduct Of Life THE TWO CHILDREN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy hangs the raindrop Last Line: For the unblessed of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): A.e. And R.c.;a.e. [and R.c] Subject(s): Transience; Conduct Of Life; Impermanence THE TWO MASKS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave my heart its freedom to be gay Last Line: With more of laughter in my scrip than tears. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE TWO WALLETS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why humankind should ever be Last Line: The hinder pocket with our own. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE UNCHANGEABLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I within these last two years of grace Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; Human Behavior; First World War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE UNCONCERNED; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the world is all in a maze Last Line: And keep himself safe from the noise of gun. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forever am I conscious, moving here Last Line: That all beyond is not oblivion. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A great crime: she has Subject(s): Matricide; Conduct Of Life THE UTMOST, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some clerks aver that as the tree doth Last Line: Lest fickle life me of my love deprive. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The THE VAIN QUESTION, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should we court the storms that rave and rend Last Line: Is not a task for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE VIEW AT GUNDERSON'S, by JOSEPH WARREN BEACH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in his rocker waiting for your tea Subject(s): Immigrants; Conduct Of Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE VISIONARY PICNIC, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These memories of what Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE WAY IT IS, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in bed Subject(s): Modern Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sneer and we laugh with the lip Last Line: Very well! There is somewhere a nemesis waiting for you. Subject(s): Desire; Human Behavior; Self-righteousness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WAY TO KEEP GOING IN ANTARCTICA, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be strong bernadette Subject(s): Antarctica; Conduct Of Life THE WAY TO LIVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A man and a woman got married one day Last Line: And if we can't get on we may think it strange Subject(s): Human Behavior;marriage; Conduct Of Life;human Nature;weddings;husbands;wives THE WILD HORSE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad are the palms, whose boughs Last Line: Of human tyranny is on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Horses; Human Behavior; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WILL TO LIVE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since faith is a veil that has nothing behind it Last Line: Still one can go and pick daisies with molly! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WIND BLOWETH WHERE IT LISTETH, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live like the wind, he said, 'unfettered' Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WIND BLOWS SOFT, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows soft, and cool, and sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Conduct Of Life THE WIND IN THE HEMLOCK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steely stars and moon of brass, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Hemlocks; Conduct Of Life THE WINDOW, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Streak of world blurred charcoal & scarlet, the el slows, Last Line: That thing which shines & doth so much torment us Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Identity; Conduct Of Life THE WORLD, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some are the brothers of all humankind, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE WORLD RUMBLES BY ME - CAN I HEED?, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: If I stretch my hand, I may clasp a star Subject(s): Transience; Conduct Of Life THE WORLD'S A BUBBLE, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a bubble, and the life of man Last Line: Not to be borne, or being borne to dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Marriage; Mortality; Peace; War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WRONG MAN, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where wild-heaped rubble o'erpeers the pit-mouth black Last Line: A be t'roight mon for yo' an' no mistake.' Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Habits; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THERE ARE THOSE WHO LOVE TO GET DIRTY, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Human Behavior; Tea; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THINK OF THE SOUL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: See, hear, and am silent Subject(s): Men; Women; Soul; Racism; Past; Death; Social Commentaries; Grief; Conduct Of Life THIS IS GOD'S DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: This is god's day that he lent to me Last Line: That I may use for good or ill Subject(s): God; Conduct Of Life THIS IS LIVING, by LUCILLE IREDALE CARLESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said: / I shall write poignant bitter words Last Line: But then -- this is living! Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THIS IS REMEMBERED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is remembered when the hairs fall out Subject(s): Memory; Conduct Of Life THIS IS THE SOLUTION TO BE HAPPY WITH SLAUGHTER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: To lie down in the blood of our innocence Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THOSE BOYS THAT RAN TOGETHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Don't it make you want to cry Subject(s): African Americans – Children; Boys; Conduct Of Life THOUGHTS ON THE CONSTITUTION OF HUMAN NATURE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong passions draw, like horses that are strong Last Line: As god's unerring spirit shall inspire. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THREE STEPS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three steps there are our human life must climb Last Line: As touches the white rose and mystic dove. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THROUGH; A VISION OF VICTORY, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! One whose back was sunward, caught the eye Last Line: In the great daytime of love's stainless truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Devil; Soul; Conduct Of Life; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THROWING HIS LIFE AWAY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THROWN AS IF FIERCE & WILD, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Transience; Impermanence TIERRA DEL FUEGO, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who see our homes at night Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TILL THE MIST PASSES, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till the mist passes, and ye can descry Last Line: Also the utmost man that lives in you. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TIME OF DISTURBANCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive Last Line: To strike dead than strike often. It is better not to strike Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TIS DARING WINS THE DAY, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you cold, or are you lukewarm Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Truth; Conduct Of Life TO AN ENEMY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee once. I shall know thee ever Last Line: Thou high and blessed creature! Subject(s): Enemies; Beauty; God; Conduct Of Life TO BE ALIVE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: To be alive: not just the carcass Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Poetry & Poets TO DESTINY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could be a rock Last Line: Still, thanks for whatever I have. “not my doing – I'm the shall-have man” Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TO PASOLINI: 8. LOVE FOR THE DRAGON, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For pasolini, the question was, each day: Last Line: As pasolini wished to, the child of this letter Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975); Conduct Of Life TO PHYLLIS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou must wander in these woods Last Line: The shift of multiplicity Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TO S-----D (2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You all your youth observed the golden rule Last Line: Mine is the flesh the bones may be your share Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TO VENERATE THE SIMPLE DAYS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Termed mortality! Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life TOAD DREAMS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dream of toads: we rarely Subject(s): Dreams; Animals; Conduct Of Life; Nightmares TOO HUMAN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many are strong enough to reject riches? Last Line: And the scourge of need. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TOTING IT UP, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He bought one pair of boots, then another Last Line: In the distance, that brightly disappearing speck Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TRANSPOSITION, by AGNES MOORE FRYBERGER Poem Text First Line: I forget his name; but, oh, his smile Last Line: And put the cobbler in the music store? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Retail Trade; Shoes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers TRIED AND TRUE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our life is like a march, where some Last Line: White raiment on the hills of peace. Subject(s): Friendship; Conduct Of Life TRUE GREATNESS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sad that all great things are sad Last Line: With baby flowers at his feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TRYING TO FEEL SOMETHING, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone is always trying to feel something Last Line: Although I drink it anyway for something to do? Subject(s): Judges; Youth; Conduct Of Life; Judgments TWELVE ARTICLES, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest it may more quarrels breed Last Line: And continue special friends. Subject(s): Friendship; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TWELVE MONTHS IN A ROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Take them, love them, let them go Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time TWENTY QUESTIONS, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did the moth fly into the flame? Was it for the same reason Subject(s): Middle Age; Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations TWENTY-THREE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he was 23 and beautiful Subject(s): Youth; Human Bedhavior; Conduct Of Life UNCONSCIOUS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds, the stars, and the skies though Last Line: Nor heeds the fire in his hearth and home. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): God; Human Behavior; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature UNDER A SOPRANO SKY, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I lived on pillars in a green house Subject(s): Women; Conduct Of Life UNHOLY SONNET, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a law outside the daily racket, Last Line: The law inside the law inside the law Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Conduct Of Life UNINTENTIONAL COUNTER-CONTEMPLATIVE OPAQUE DISUNITIES, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I popped you up side the head with the harp of a piano Subject(s): Conduct Of Life UNTIL DEATH, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me no vows of constancy, dear friend Last Line: But while I live, be true! Subject(s): Fidelity; Human Behavior; Faithfulness; Constancy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature URBAN GALLERY, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the wind invades the treetops Subject(s): Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature VERSES: THE THIRD BOY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crime in a poet, sirs, to steal a thought?' Last Line: Sluggishly saunt'ring forth, makes none of them his own. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Human Behavior; Plagiarism; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature VILNIUS, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For a long time Last Line: I doubted if I should ever come back Subject(s): Conduct Of Life VIRTUE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now? Why -- / whirlpools of / orange and purple flame Last Line: Gold watch chains. Come! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life VISIONS IN VERSE: 1. SLANDER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lovely girl, I write for you Last Line: And skulk'd away to shun the light. Subject(s): Defamation; Human Behavior; Slander; Libel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature VISIONS IN VERSE: 8. LIFE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let not the young my precepts shun Last Line: The genius suddenly withdrew. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature WALKING ON TIPTOE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago we quit lifting our heels Subject(s): Animals; Conduct Of Life WATCH, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Watching it closely, respecting its mystery, Subject(s): Bees; Sycamore Trees; Conduct Of Life; Beekeeping WE MANAGE MOST WHEN WE MANAGE SMALL, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What things are steadfast? Not the birds Last Line: This fishing in the air Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHAT I HAVE LEARNED SO FAR, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHAT I LIVE FOR, by GEORGE LINNAEUS BANKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I live for those who love me, / whose hearts are kind and true Last Line: And the good that I can do. Variant Title(s): Why Do I Live;my Aim Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology WHAT I WANT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, that's what I want right now Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHAT IF I SAY I SHALL NOT WAIT?, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or who died—yesterday! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death WHAT IS GOOD, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the water call Subject(s): Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Mothers WHAT LOVES, TAKES AWAY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the nose of the pig in the market of firenze Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature WHAT SHE SAID ON A LEWD LUTE NIGHT, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I go to ashenda Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHAT YOU HAVE TO GET OVER, by DICK ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stumps. Railroad tracks. Early sicknesses, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHAT'S SUPPRESSED, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream I'm a detective a man Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHEN YOU'VE BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You breathe yellow smoke, you breathe lead Last Line: As the doors open and no one comes on Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHERE I'LL BE GOOD, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanting leads to worse than oddity. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Middle Age WHERE IS THE BABYLONIAN METER WITH ITS LOVELY CAESURA?, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Biggest problem in the world now is unity Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHERE NEVER TEMPEST HEAVETH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor harvest faileth, / reap Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHITE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of poverty Subject(s): White (color); Conduct Of Life WILD GEESE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You do not have to be good Subject(s): Geese; Despair; Conduct Of Life WILLINGLY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I get up he has been long at work, Last Line: What has been done with your life, willingly Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WINNERS AND LOSERS, by BOYCE HOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men born in little towns Last Line: You get the same total? Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Human Behavior; Prudence; Success; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caution WORK, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I believed in days like today Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Happiness; Joy; Delight WORLDLY PLACE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in a palace, life may be led well! Last Line: "the aids to noble life are all within." Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature WRITTEN TO GAALDINE PRISON CAVES TO A.G.A., by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy sun is near meridian height Last Line: This hell shall wring thy spirit too! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The YOU: PART 1, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard dreams. The moment at which you recognize that your own death lies Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Social Commentaries; Language Poetry; Dead, The ZEAL AND MEEKNESS, by JOHN BYROM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zeal without meekness, like a ship at sea Subject(s): Conduct Of Life |
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