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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DEAFNESS Matches Found: 48 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHALLENGE, by THEODOCIA PEARCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I list with the ears of my soul to the world Last Line: And they say I am blind. Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Eyes; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Visually Handicapped A CRY ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity the great with love, they are deaf, they are blind Last Line: Since oisin's mother fled to the hill a spellbound hind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Greatness; Love; Mothers & Sons; Mythology - Celtic; Pity; Visually Handicapped ALICE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters! There's music here Last Line: To welcome thee I wait -- blest mother! Come to me. Subject(s): Deafness; Fathers & Daughters; Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness AMENDS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were blind, / nor never knew the sweet green glory of the spring Last Line: Than this — your love and sleep? Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Death; God; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The AN APPEAL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Deaf! Not a murmur or a loving word Last Line: Making the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear. Subject(s): Deafness; Eyes; Sight; Touch (sense) DEAF, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As to a bird's song she were listening Last Line: Where dwells her spirit, innocently wise. Subject(s): Deafness DEAF HOUSE AGENT, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That deaf old man Last Line: Replaced it in the aforementioned organ. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Deafness DEAF MARTHA, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor martha is old, and her hair is turn'd grey Last Line: "that ""what a man soweth, the same shall he reap. " Subject(s): Deafness; Old Age; Women DEAF SCHOOL, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deaf children were monkey-nimble, fish-tremulous and sudden Last Line: A face that was simply the front skin of the self-concealed and separate Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Deafness; Schools DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND GIRL, AT A FESTIVAL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her, where the summer flowers Last Line: And glow with rapture's deathless ray. Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Festivals; Visually Handicapped; Fairs; Pageants DEAFNESS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wall-mountain rimmed around the sky Last Line: "he heard! He spoke!"" she said." Subject(s): Deafness; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DEATH OF A DISTANT IN-LAW, by PATRICIA TRAXLER Poem Source First Line: We watched the deaf-mute buried Last Line: Beneath the lids that unnamed knowledge %stored and locked away Subject(s): Deafness DIVERSE SHADES: QUINTA DEL SORDO, by C. B. COX Poem Source First Line: Goya bought a mansion Last Line: Sometimes it hurts so much to see Subject(s): Deafness DOXOLOGY (FOR THE DEAF), by RUTH FORTNEY MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: I'll never, never hear again Last Line: Those sounds that once I knew. Subject(s): Deafness EMPTY WORDS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He describes eagle feathers with his hands Last Line: Empty hands, and words, empty words. Subject(s): Conversation; Deafness; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America EPITAPH FOR THOMAS OLDFIED ( OLD DUMMY ), D. 1872, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Bereft alike of hearing and of speech Last Line: Reader! Whoe'er thou art, as faithful be %in using better gifts vouchsafed to thee Subject(s): Deafness FAIRY TALE, by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: Beyond the seven gates Last Line: Bubble volcanos Subject(s): Deafness; Fairy Tales; Silence FIND THE FAVORITE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our three cats is maltese cats Last Line: In where katy's at! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Deafness FOR A DEAF ANGORA CAT, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jungle lies about you, and the ground Subject(s): Cats; Deafness FRIBBLE, by SHERYL NOETHE Poem Source First Line: Last year at deaf school Last Line: Venu, our predicament is older than stone Subject(s): Deafness; Friendship; Love; Old Age HEARING IMPAIRMENT, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hearing loss? Yes, loss is what we hear Last Line: I'm sorry, sir, it's a red alert! Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Deafness HELEN KELLER, by JAMES THOMAS COTTON NOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She never sees the sun transmute to gold Last Line: With symphonies beethoven never heard. Alternate Author Name(s): Noe, Cotton Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Visually Handicapped HIS LORDSHIP'S INVITATION, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your client had better a compromise make' Last Line: "say, a glass of warm ale, if his lordship's inclin'd." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Deafness; Jokes; Law & Lawyers; Attorneys JIM'S WHISTLE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, the railway wasn't a fitting place Last Line: Were with me, and I were talking to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Deafness; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains MARRIAGE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No word! No sound! But yet a solemn rite Last Line: Is the free breath of every happy soul. Subject(s): Deafness; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MUTES, by EDITH L. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Vivacious, nutant poppies Last Line: Still can understand. Subject(s): Deafness MUTTERINGS OVER THE CRIB OF A DEAF CHILD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How will he hear the bell at school Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Babies; Deafness; Labor & Laborers; Physical Disabilities; Infants; Work; Workers; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples MUTTERINGS OVER THE CRIB OF A DEAF CHILD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How will he hear the bell at school Last Line: Whether he hears my song or not Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Babies; Deafness; Labor And Laborers; Physical Disabilities OF HELEN KELLER, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She, without eyes, sees more than I who know Last Line: Your visions fade before her high, pure heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision; Visually Handicapped OF ONE AFFLICTED WITH DEAFNESS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She moves about the house with meek content Last Line: And hear a constant singing in her heart. Subject(s): Comfort; Deafness; Friendship; Love; Tears ON A DEAF HOUSEKEEPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of all life's plagues I recommend to no man Subject(s): Deafness;housekeeping;life ON BEING DEAF, by NAN FITZ-PATRICK Poem Text First Line: I live within a towered silence where Last Line: Across the anthems hallowing your face. Subject(s): Deafness ON GOING DEAF, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I've lost a sense. Why should I care? Subject(s): Deafness; Hearing Aids ON HIS OWN DEAFNESS (1), by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone %to all my friends a burthen grown Last Line: No more could reach me than her silence Subject(s): Deafness ON HIS OWN DEAFNESS (2), by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deaf, giddy, odious to my friends %now all my consolation ends Subject(s): Deafness RHAPSODY OF THE DEAF MUTE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: The expert said: 'all right. You needn't come any more' Last Line: And nothing can disturb the conversation. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Deafness; Physical Disabilities; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; Doctors; Stuttering; Muteness SOUNDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The words broke away from the sound Last Line: So I could repeat a name Subject(s): Deafness; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence SPEECHLESS; UPON THE MARRIAGE OF TWO DEAF AND DUMB PERSONS, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their lips upon each other's lips are laid Last Line: In passion-lighted silence, 'tranced and sweet. Subject(s): Deafness; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ANCIENT PRINTERMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O printerman of sallow face Last Line: With a smile upon his face. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Deafness; Printing And Printers THE CHILDREN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dumb child and the blind child Last Line: From their head to their feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blindness; Children; Comfort; Deafness; God; Orphans; Visually Handicapped; Childhood; Foundlings THE COMPOSER'S WINTER DREAM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vivid and heavy, he strolls through dark brick kitchens Last Line: In a struggle with the loud, combatant horns. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Cooking & Cooks; Deafness; Death; Music & Musicians; Winter; Cookery; Dead, The THE DEAF GIRL, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: When childhood's laughing tones reveal Last Line: But god, god only, held the key! Subject(s): Deafness; Solitude; Loneliness THE DEAF-MUTE SERMON, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In silence which no weighted sound could plumb Last Line: While the irish bells of limerick loudly rang. Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Deafness; Sermons THE DEEF OLE MAN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I onct was peert an' activ' Last Line: Be stone deef in my year. Subject(s): Aging; Deafness; Old Age THERE'S A MAN I KNOW WHO FEIGNS DEAFNESS, by NGUYEN KHUYEN Poem Source Last Line: Ask him how, and he will just say eh? Subject(s): Deafness TO A DEAF AND DUMB LITTLE GIRL, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a loose island on the wide expanse Last Line: God must be with her in her solitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Deafness WAKING THE DEAF DOG, by MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK Poem Source First Line: It used to be the light would wake him, just Last Line: Does one move a deaf dog who bites Subject(s): Animals; Deafness; Dogs WASTED ENERGY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The new-come pitcher, tall and strong Last Line: That he was deaf and dumb! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Deafness; Sports |
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