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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DECEMBER Matches Found: 69 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 22-DEC, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Morning Last Line: Filled with moonlight %and dark shifting furniture Subject(s): December; Morning A NOCTURNAL UPON ST. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's Last Line: Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight is. Variant Title(s): A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, Being The Shortest Day Subject(s): December; Holidays; Light; Mourning; New Year; Winter; Bereavement A WINTER TWILIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The year has reached december days Last Line: And so he dreams himself to rest. Subject(s): Animals; December; Dogs; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Winter; Male-female Relations A YEAR'S CAROLS: DECEMBER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: December, thou whose hallowing hands Last Line: Makes glad all grief on land or sea. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Seasons; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS MUSINGS; ADDRESSED TO INATHE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time flies apace - another year hath perished Last Line: Sweet as thy smile, and radiant as thine eyes! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Christmas; December; Holidays; Love; Winter; Nativity, The COMING SOON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I placed one toe Last Line: It said it did not need me. Subject(s): Cold; December; Restaurants; Time; Waiters & Waitresses; Cafes; Diners DAS KRIST KINDEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had fed the fire and stirred it, till the sparkles in delight Last Line: "who brings the world good tidings, -- ""it is christmas -- all is well!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Night; Santa Claus; Vision; Nativity, The; Bedtime; Nicholas, Saint DECEMBER, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the sea intoning Last Line: Over the lonely house. Subject(s): December DECEMBER, by ELIZABETH V. AUVACHE Poem Text First Line: December days are dark and gray Last Line: Round the bright and cheery blaze. Subject(s): Christmas; Cold; December; Nativity, The DECEMBER, by JOEL BENTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the feud of hot and cold Last Line: Which weaves this spotless shroud of snow! Subject(s): December; Nature DECEMBER, by LUMAN R. BOWDISH Poem Text First Line: Keen is the clear deep vault of night Last Line: Boreas molds the sullen storm. Subject(s): December; Frost; Nature; Storms DECEMBER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Sweeping the country and the leafy valley Last Line: Like the earth she tastes her sabbath Subject(s): December; Nature DECEMBER, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year dwindles and glows Subject(s): December; Transiecnce DECEMBER, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain over the tall oleanders %and over the whorls of cycads, rain Last Line: Ask of the leaves, ask of the ginger-embers, %ask of the dark, slow, tender heart of the rain! Subject(s): December DECEMBER, by WILLIAM CAULFIELD IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is bleak december noon Last Line: Of the dumb cold evening air. Subject(s): Abandonment; Cold; December; Snow; Winter; Desertion DECEMBER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a drear-nighted december Last Line: Was never said in rhyme. Variant Title(s): Happy Insensibility;stanzas Subject(s): December; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DECEMBER, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will sleep Last Line: In my little cup Subject(s): December DECEMBER, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunsets burn and die, / the moon comes up the sky Last Line: My spirit seeks the heaven of thy face! Subject(s): December DECEMBER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter now has fully come Last Line: Merriest day of all the year. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Nativity, The DECEMBER, by VIVA I. STARK Poem Text First Line: How beautiful are god's great trees in spring Last Line: That our december shall not be in vain. Subject(s): December; Spring DECEMBER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dull sky above, dead leaves below Last Line: Of one beloved that comes not back. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): December DECEMBER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Before the old, old year can go Last Line: What if december's last—it's best of all! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; December; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint DECEMBER DAY, by ROBERT FULLER MURRAY Poem Text First Line: Blue, blue is the sea today Subject(s): December DECEMBER EVENING, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the frozen street the music drifts Last Line: The wind is rising and the year is old Subject(s): December DECEMBER IN ITALY, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY Poem Source First Line: All those nights looking up at the sky, wanting to be there Last Line: I keep playing with light and losing Subject(s): December; Italy; Night DECEMBER IN MOSCOW, by MIRIAM VAN HEE Poem Source First Line: If it rains in the city Last Line: Who would make you and me %into someone else Subject(s): December; Moscow; Rain DECEMBER JOURNAL, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God is not offered to the senses Last Line: The other world is here, just under our fingertips Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): December; Religion DECEMBER LAKE, by EDYTHE BARRETT GOELTZ Poem Text First Line: Each wave whispered of a departed summer Last Line: And meet it as one. Subject(s): Cold; December; Farewell; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness DECEMBER MOON, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Before going to bed Last Line: Sleeping away the cold white night %after a fall of snow Subject(s): Christmas; December; Solitude DECEMBER NEWS, by JOHN+(1) CLARKE Poem Source First Line: It is late Last Line: And it is snow, first snow, %tapping its small canes Subject(s): December; Snow; Winter DECEMBER SNOW, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The falling snow a stainless veil doth cast Last Line: To beauty passing all that life has known. Subject(s): Death; December; Memory; Snow; Dead, The DECEMBER SONNET, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round the december heights the clouds are gray Last Line: Fair as an angel clad in silver mail! Subject(s): December DECEMBER VISIT TO NORTH COAST, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: There's a spectacular 180 Last Line: Open to sun light above its %triangular green spires Subject(s): December FAIRBANKS UNDER THE SOLSTICE, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly, without sun, the day sinks Last Line: Word of the resurrection of silence. Subject(s): Death, Return From; December; Frost; Winter FIRST SNOW, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Fresh snow, first snow Last Line: Let the snow come down hard Subject(s): Cold; December; Seasons; Snow; Winter FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE BEE'S MAGIC, by BARBARA SCHMITT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: Summer slipped to us in the chill december Last Line: Winter had vanished! Subject(s): December; Summer; Winter FORGOTTEN IS DECEMBER, by MARY HELEN PAGE Poem Text First Line: I still remember april Last Line: And stiffen up in cold. Subject(s): April; December; Likes And Dislikes GIANT NIGHT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Awake in a giant night Last Line: Just like what is here one minute and not the next. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Family Life; Holidays; New York City; Nativity, The; Relatives; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GLOOMY DECEMBER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ance mair I hail thee, thou gloomy december Last Line: Parting wi' nancy, oh, ne'er to meet mair. Subject(s): December; Farewell; Parting GOING TO THE POOR, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A little maid tripped down the / street Last Line: And wondered if the poor were I! Subject(s): Charity; Children; Christmas; December; Kindness; Poverty; Philanthropy; Childhood; Nativity, The IN A TREE, by DIANE AVERILL Poem Source First Line: In late december, what used to be Last Line: My bright granddaughter, rippling in the limbs of her mother Subject(s): December; Family Life; Trees IN BALTIMORE'S ART DISTRICT, by JOHN LUNDBERG Poem Source First Line: Past the eyes and voices of the city cafe Last Line: By the warmth of a tongue in december Subject(s): Art And Artists; December; Love; Relationships IN PRAISE OF DECEMBER EVENINGS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow on the waning landscape creeps the night Last Line: Are all, are only, thine! Subject(s): December; Evening; Sunset; Twilight LATE AFTERNOON IN DECEMBER, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The temperate air is filled with a gray mist Last Line: And feel the same weird power to which they bow. Subject(s): December ON THE 16TH DECEMBER, BEING AS FINE AS MAY-DAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unlike december's frown this gladsome day Last Line: For gayer views, and happy could I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): December; Weather ON THE ICE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O the joy to ride on the sharpened Last Line: But it cannot go as I go—so high, so high! Subject(s): Children; December; Happiness; Skating & Skaters; Childhood; Joy; Delight OUR CHRISTMAS TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Do you know Last Line: And our tree is here at last! Subject(s): Christmas Trees; December SNOW IN SCHOOLTIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All saturday the sky was clear Last Line: To see how much stays on the ground. Subject(s): Children; December; Schools; Snow; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students SONG OF THE SNOW FLAKES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We're very small, we're very small Last Line: What a white, white world the world can be! Subject(s): December; Snow; Winter SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: DECEMBER, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: Last, for december, houses on the plain Last Line: Misers; don't let them have a chance with you Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): December; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SUDDENLY. IN DECEMBER, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Suddenly. In december. I stand knee-deep in snow Last Line: Dearest, you who are sleeping. Eurydice. %--under the snow. Under the wreath of cedar Subject(s): Absence; Death; December; Love - Loss Of; Nostalgia; Winter THE AFTERGLOW, by MARIANNE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Enchanting vision stirred a weary heart Last Line: Our yuletide gift in home-world every year. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Peace; Nativity, The THE FIR TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I heard a mother fir tree say Last Line: Our shining christmas tree. Subject(s): Christmas Trees; December THE LETTER MAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My santa claus goes every day Last Line: The wishes in his pack. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; December; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint THE POET'S CALENDAR: DECEMBER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding upon the goat, with snow-white hair Last Line: "proclaiming ""peace on earth, good will to men." Subject(s): December THE POET'S JOURNAL: DECEMBER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beech is bare, and bare the ash Last Line: But thou and I are true! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; December; Love; Winter; Dead, The THE REIGN OF DECEMBER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In winter awful, lovely in the spring Last Line: To mirth and hospitality. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): December; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: DECEMBER, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gentle shepheard satte beside a springe Last Line: Tell rosalind her colin bids her adieu.' Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Aging; December; Seasons; Winter THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: DECEMBER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glad christmas comes, and every hearth Last Line: "to drink the christmas eve's ""good bye." Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; December; Toys; Nativity, The THE WINTER WILD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sudden hath the snow come down! Last Line: The early lost, and long deplored! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Cold; December; Memory; Snow; Winter THIS DECEMBER, by MOLLY INGER Poem Text First Line: December - and a few dead leaves on trees Last Line: Just yearning -- ever yearning. Subject(s): December; Longing TO A DECEMBER GROUSE (HEARD FROM THE SMOKING ROOM), by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Nay, is it now you'd have me take the hill Last Line: Of pipes and papers and the persian kitten! Subject(s): December; Grouse TO EILISH OF THE FAIR HAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd make my heart a harp to play for you Last Line: Sunlight on other hearts -- ah! How it kills it. Subject(s): December ULTIMATE DECEMBER, by MYRA PERRINGS Poem Text First Line: The year has come so soon Last Line: Of ultimate december. Subject(s): December; Holidays; New Year WE MIGHT CHANGE, by JAMES DENBOER Poem Source First Line: The geese feel the low pressure Last Line: Choose-live until spring Subject(s): Cold; December; Feathers; Geese; Winter WHAT HOLDS YOU, by KELLY RITTER Poem Source First Line: Late december Last Line: And spilling over, %like the last and the last Subject(s): Beauty; December; Sleep WINTER CHURNING IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's joy to churn on juney morns Last Line: "a piece of custard pie." Subject(s): December; Vermont; Winter WORK WANTED, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I'd like to work for santa claus Last Line: Jim. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; December; Santa Claus; Toys; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint YARD IN DECEMBER, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pale, transparent autumn mists Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): December |
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