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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DESIRE Matches Found: 684 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "COME, SHEPHERDS, COME", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: If you crave it Subject(s): Desire "JULIA, YOUNG WANTON, FLUNG THE GATHER'D SNOW", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "with water which thou kindlest, quench with fire" Subject(s): Desire A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 17, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your fair looks inflame my desire Last Line: O farewell, my life's treasure! Subject(s): Beauty; Desire A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 32, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I come, if I swim? Wide are the waves, you see: Last Line: So through the streams leander did enjoy her sight. Subject(s): Desire A CAMEO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a graven image of desire Last Line: Upon whose lock was written peradventure. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Idols; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A CRY FOR CONQUEST, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, let me out into the starlight night Last Line: Stand steadfast in the consciousness of power! Subject(s): Desire; Life; Stars A DESIRE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, to have dwelt in bethlehem Last Line: And worship and believe. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Christmas; Desire; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A FIFTEENTH CENTURY ZEN MASTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A blind girl steps over the red staves Last Line: Master, where is the difference? Subject(s): Buddhism; Creation; Desire; Buddha; Buddhists A LINE-STORM SONG, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift Last Line: And be my love in the rain. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Storms A LOVE-LETTER TO FOLLY, by GEORGE S. CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Folly, my dear, the more I see of you Last Line: And take up folly, in a serious way. Subject(s): Desire; Love - Beginnings A LOVER'S ANGER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As cloe came into the room the other day Last Line: And forgot every word I designed to have said. Subject(s): Breasts; Desire; Lateness; Love A LOVER'S ENVY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I envy every flower that blows Last Line: All that her heart desires. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Lust; Sex A MIRACLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Let women long for dainty things Last Line: But how the earth has danced, in mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Desire A PORTRAIT IN DELIA'S PARLOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were that portly gentleman Last Line: With gold-laced hat and golden-headed cane. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4. .. Feelings Respecting A Portrait... Subject(s): Desire; Envy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Male-female Relations A PRAYER TO LIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pray you, my master, let me keep my dream Last Line: Pray you, my master, let me keep my dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Slavery; Serfs A PRAYER TO THE WIND, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, thou gentle whispering wind Last Line: Or else quite extinguish mine. Variant Title(s): Love's Errand Subject(s): Desire; Wind A PRESENTATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Here's a clove carnation, dear Last Line: Of my heart's consuming flame! Subject(s): Carnations; Desire; Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A QUESTION, by MAX EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Dark voiced and deeply passioned Last Line: To float with you in your still breast forever. Subject(s): Desire A SEASON IN HELL: ILL WILL; MAUVAIS SANG, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I await god greedily. Now that I am accursed, I detest my country Last Line: Hunger, thirst, shouts, dance, dance, dance, dance! Subject(s): Desire A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sits on the bed Last Line: Unlike any other. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Love - Erotic; Self-doubt; Sex A SONG OF PRAISE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have not heard my love's dark throat Last Line: Discovers one as fair Subject(s): African Americans; Desire; Love; Negroes; American Blacks A SONG TO CELIA, by CHARLES SEDLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, celia, that I juster am Last Line: Tis casy to be true. Variant Title(s): To Celia Subject(s): Desire; Love A SONNET TO YOU!, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Adown the sapphire race-course of the skies Last Line: That thy great heart must ever be my home. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love A STREET MOTHER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes were staring high Last Line: Swooned at her feet! Subject(s): Courage; Desire; Mothers; Valor; Bravery A TRANSPOSITION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oyster had an illness. Doom Last Line: His suffering hung on the neck of a girl! Subject(s): Desire; Pain; Suffering; Misery A TRILOGY: FLAME, by L. J. STANTON Poem Text First Line: Your negligee. The curtained room Last Line: But a bedroom of satiety. Subject(s): Brides; Desire; Kisses; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A TRILOGY: SPARKS, by L. J. STANTON Poem Text First Line: The spring, the lilac-scented night Last Line: To flame the embers of desire. Subject(s): Desire A WHITE ROSE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The red rose whispers of passion Last Line: Has a kiss of desire on the lips. Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Roses A WILDFLOWER BY THE WAY, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun-rays burned like brands a-fire Last Line: "the wildflowers by the way!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Desire; Drovers; Women A WOMAN'S LAST WORD, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's contend no more, love Last Line: Loved by thee. Subject(s): Desire; Love A YOUNG MAN, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: I was a mite when she was tall and fair Last Line: "what treasure wasted! O too happy mite!" Subject(s): Children; Desire; Childhood ABLUTION, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus drowsy atthis, laughing at my door Last Line: "shall wreathe thy hair while thirsting for thy song." Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Flirtation; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women ABSOLUTION, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes by angels of the mind Last Line: Forgiveness, too terrible to be born! Subject(s): Absolution; Desire; Life AD ASTRA: 141, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And when we reap the aftermath of sin Last Line: To rob thy soul of one sweet draught of life! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Desire; Love ADAM AND HIS FATHER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adam's father, always a good provider Last Line: "perhaps what I have always wanted is to want." Subject(s): Desire; Fathers & Sons; Thailand; Travel; Journeys; Trips AERIAL DODDS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ingratitude--the damned ingratitude! Last Line: Curl round those knees, and see the young mouth tremble Subject(s): Absense; Desire AFFECTION AND DESIRE, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Conceit begotten by the eyes Last Line: To like, to love, to choose alike. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): A Poesy To Prove Affection Is Not Love Subject(s): Desire; Transience; Impermanence AFTER THE PAPAGO, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've done it now Last Line: On the homeward road Subject(s): Desire; Fish & Fishing; Houses; Trout; Anglers AGAINST INDIFFERENCE, by CHARLES WEBBE Poem Text First Line: More love or more disdain I crave Last Line: More love or more disdain I crave. Subject(s): Desire; Indifference; Love ALL NIGHT LONG, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were in bed by nine, but she did not hear the clock Last Line: I took her into arms. We sas the morning rise Subject(s): Desire; Love ALL NIGHT LONG, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were in bed by nine, but she did not hear the clock Last Line: I took her into my arms. We saw the morning arise! Subject(s): Desire; Love ALMOST MOTHER-OF-PEARL, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Like man in the heart of the word, animals sparkle in the Last Line: And the moist lips of children's sex, almost mother-of-pearl Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love ALONG THE RIVERBANK, by JOSE ANTONIO MAZZOTTI Poem Source First Line: Does not overweening pride end up Last Line: Pleasure in the corpses of deer Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion AMBITIOUS RAINS OF MOIST SEPTEMBER, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source Last Line: The flowered illusion %pano-ramas Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Desire; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Singing And Singers AMERICAN GIRL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a new poem for helen Last Line: A green flower from a green stem. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Exorcism; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Songs AMERICAN WEDDING, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In america / I place my ring Last Line: To free this dream Variant Title(s): Conditions: 24 Subject(s): Desire; Relationships AMOR SEMPITERNUS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: When first I found thee, ruth, I thought: 'how rare!' Last Line: Remembering a chaos of caresses. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Luck; Marriage; Passion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN ASPHODEL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dear sweet rosy Subject(s): Desire AN IMMORTAL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of no mortal birth, that yet doth live Last Line: Twin torches flashing into fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Desire; Immortality; Love; Mortality; Childhood AN INDIAN LOVE SONG (WRITTEN TO AN INDIAN TUNE), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up the veils that darken the delicate moon of thy Last Line: Redeem with his tears the memoried sorrow that sullied a bygone age. Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Roses AN OBSCENE POEM, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl in the bikini, my Subject(s): Desire AN OLD DESIRE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I searched thro' memory's lumber-room Last Line: And there are ruins in my fire. Subject(s): Desire; Earth; Memory; Ruins; World AN OPEN ROSE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we say that the rose is open? It opens as the Last Line: Water, far inside the rose's petals. Where you go, I go.... Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Roses; Travel; Journeys; Trips AND SO, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Someone gets an idea, or does something, or desire Last Line: Printed with soft explosions of cloud Subject(s): Desire; Memory ANTICIPATION, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been temperate always Subject(s): Waiting; Desire APACHE PLUME; 5. HOURGLASS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pere lachaise: breaking bread on a green bench Last Line: As white sand begins to touch the bottom of an hourglass. Subject(s): Desire; Memory APACHE PLUME; 7. APACHE PLUME, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing out of an arroyo, I reach my hand Last Line: I know this instant moment which is ours. Subject(s): Desire; Nature APACHE PLUME; 8. ANAMNESIS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind erases our footprints on a transverse dune Last Line: One by one they flare off into indigo air. Subject(s): Desire; Knowledge; Nature APHRODITE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Not unremembering we pass our exile Last Line: One fiery visitation of the love the gods desire in thee! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical APPEAL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who are so mighty Last Line: This is my song. Subject(s): Desire APPLES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was the clumsy child Last Line: To a continent dark with apples Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Desire; Fruit; Kindness; Trees APPULDURCOMBE PARK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman, sick for passion Subject(s): Passion; Desire; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Disappointment; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Male-female Relations ARAB LOVE SONG, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hunched camels of the night Last Line: Who hast the red pavilion of my heart? Subject(s): Clouds; Desire; Love ARCADIA: THE BARGAIN, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My true love hath my heart and I have his Last Line: My true love hath my heart, and I have his. Variant Title(s): "song;phlox - Agreement;heart Exchange;ditty;friendship;arcadian Dialogue;sonnet;true Love;""my True Love Hath My Hart, And I Have His""; Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Life Change Events; Love ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This chair I trusted, lass, and I looted the leaves Last Line: What should have been a season of calm weather Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Women; Desire; Sex AS PHILLIS THE GAY, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As phillis the gay, at the break of the day Last Line: And what they did more there's no guessing. Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ASPIRATION, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As longs the star for night Last Line: O holy one. Subject(s): Ambition; Desire ASPIRATION, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can strike the minor chord and sing Last Line: In heaven's eternal rose. Subject(s): Desire; Success; Wishes ASPIRATION, by CHARLES EDWARD DAVIS PHELPS Poem Text First Line: Thousands upon their eager tiptoes stand Last Line: To clasp and hold it for a single hour. Subject(s): Desire; Muses ASPIRATION, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roots of a dead universe are shrunken in my brain Last Line: And enaureole a glory round an unawaken'd theme. Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Nightmares ASPIRATION, by MARGUERITE WARREN WATSON Poem Text First Line: You are my much beloved, gentle son Last Line: One so fit to journey up toward thee! Subject(s): Desire; Humility ASPIRATIONS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh to be nearer thee, my saviour Last Line: Bidding the silenced heart rejoice! Subject(s): Desire ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 109, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou blind man's mark, thou fool's self-chosen snare Last Line: Desiring naught but how to kill desire. Variant Title(s): Desire Subject(s): Desire ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 47, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, have I thus betrayed my liberty? Last Line: Doth make my heart give to my tongue the lie! Variant Title(s): "what, Have I Thus Betrayed My Libertie?""; Subject(s): Desire; Freedom; Liberty ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 71, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who will in fairest book of nature know Last Line: "but ah,"" desire still cries, ""give me some food." Variant Title(s): "yes, But;""who Will In Fairest Booke Of Nature Know""; Subject(s): Desire; Virtue AT EASTERTIDE, by S. H. ADAMS Poem Text First Line: At eastertide, in gown of blue, / and dainty bonnet, neat and new Last Line: At eastertide? Subject(s): Desire; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection AT FIFTY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There it is again Last Line: But there it is again Subject(s): Middle Age; Desire AT PEGASUS, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They are like those crazy women Last Line: Wet & holy in its mouth Subject(s): Youth; Love - Beginnings; Desire ATALANTA, by ELLINOR L. NORCROSS Poem Text First Line: She danced like a swirl of petals down Last Line: Of dreams buried deep in her heart. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Girls AUTUMN SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A keen west wind from the hills away Last Line: Hopes and dreamings and dead desires. Subject(s): Autumn; Desire; Hope; Memory; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Wind; Fall; Optimism; Songs AVILA, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again my feet are on the fragrant moor Last Line: The light of all his loves and all his days. Subject(s): Castile, Spain; Desire AWAY ABOVE A HARBORFUL, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Beauty; Desire AYE WAUKIN' O!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O spring's a pleasant time Last Line: "sleep can I get nane, / for thinkin' o' my dearie" Subject(s): Desire;spring BALLADE: 4, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For want I will in woe I plain Last Line: Which lacketh will to change his place. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Longing BALLADE: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lover: it burneth yet, alas, my heart's desire Last Line: Thus hearts be won by love, request, and moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Desire; Grief; Hearts; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BATHSHEBA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it was -- it was Last Line: Of the wife of uriah Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Bathsheba(bible); Male-female Relations BATHSHEBA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it was -- it was Last Line: Or the wife of uriah Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Passion BE STILL AS YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL, by PATRICK MACDONOGH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Be silent as the rose Subject(s): Desire; Erotic Love; Love BE STILL NOW, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be still now, for the wood is still, the light is Last Line: Be still and sleep as night sleeps now. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion BEAUTY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much bunk is sprung concerning beauty Last Line: "warts." Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Virtue; Women BECAUSE I CAN'T STOP, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Now goes around me three times Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Desire; Japan; Slenderness; Thought BEFORE SEXTET, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Use a new conductor every time-out Subject(s): Desire; Relationships; Writing & Writers BELLY DANCER, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can these movements which move themselves Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dancing & Dancers; Desire; Women BELLY DANCER, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can these movements which move themselves Last Line: Unawakened, sweet %women Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Dancing And Dancers; Desire; Women BEREFT, by MARILYNN NATALIE MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I want your kiss, your warmth, your love, your child Last Line: Circling my soul, reflected on my hand. Subject(s): Desire BETHINK THEE!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Ere thou begin to love, choose well the school Last Line: Or be thy psyche's immortality? Subject(s): Desire; Love BEYOND THE EAST GATE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: I listen to the voice of the cricket Last Line: Come down from the mountain Subject(s): Desire; Hope; Introspection; Self; Women BIOLUMINESCENCE: 3. LUMEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How vulnerable / we would all be if longing Subject(s): Desire; Fireflies; Longing; Glowworms BLACKBERRIES, SELS., by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, so much admired, so oft desired Last Line: His fame was rescued by a single plank Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Debates; Desire; Fame; Friendship; Revolutions BLOWFLY, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half awake, I was imagining Last Line: As we made tense, pensive love. Blowfly, blowfly Subject(s): Desire; Imagination; Fancy BLUEBERRY MAN, by DAVID BERGMAN Poem Source First Line: I was never the one to spot him walking Last Line: And the delicate flesh he had brought me Subject(s): Desire; Homosexuality BODY OF A WOMAN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs Last Line: And weariness follows, and the infinite ache Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Hearts; Love - Loss Of BOUQUET WITH FLYING LOVERS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Even doused in bouquets, they are buoyant, out-dazzled Last Line: Squabbles of color only they can imagine Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Hearts; Lilies; Love BREAK DOWN THESE BARRIERS, by FLOSSIE DEANE CRAIG Poem Text First Line: Long thoughts of you burn in my heart tonight Last Line: For more of love's sweet secrets would I learn. Subject(s): Desire BRIEF HISTORY OF DESIRE, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anise, wild raspberry, trout Last Line: Spontaneity, not purpose %I love Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion BROTHERS: 2. HOW GREAT THOU ART, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, you are beyond Last Line: Imperfection. Subject(s): Brothers; Creation; Desire; Self; Half-brothers BURNING STRAWPILES, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: On autumn nights when heaven is hung Last Line: Are roused by strawfires blazing near. Subject(s): Desire; Fire BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a woman Last Line: And wished I could be like that Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Desire; Envy BY THE IRISH SEA, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: On the sixth day of the heat-wave Last Line: So this is the future, this jubilance, %this embarrassment they've become Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion CAKEWALK, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby, you make Last Line: Bloodhound ground Subject(s): Fruit; Desire; Love CANTO 36, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lady asks me Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Social Commentaries; Language; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary CANTO 4, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Palace in smoky light, Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Desire; Relationships; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines CANZONET: TO HIS COY LOVE, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray thee leave, love me no more Last Line: I cannot live without thee. Subject(s): Desire; Love CARPE DIEM, by GEORGE ETHEREGE Poem Text First Line: It is not, celia, in our power / to say how long our love will last Last Line: But change a lover for a friend. Variant Title(s): To A Lady, Asking How Long He Would Love Her Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Desire; Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 18, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sweetheart, hear you Last Line: Shall have rest. Subject(s): Friendship; Disappointment; Consolation; Desire CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit. Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness CHANGELING, by HAROLD CALEB DALTON Poem Text First Line: I do not understand Last Line: Cannot hold the sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Dalton, Power Subject(s): Desire CHOICE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the souls that stand create Last Line: To all the lists of clay! Subject(s): Desire; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love CLASSIC OF POETRY: 30, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: First the wind, then the storm Last Line: I lie awake and cannot sleep, %my heart is filled with yearning Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Desire; Storms CLIMBING TO KASUGA MOOR, by YAMABE NO AKAHITO Poem Source First Line: High on the peak of mikasa Last Line: My love dies, then lies again Subject(s): Desire; Mountain Climbing COMING OF DESIRE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Satan was a mustard eye on a green field Last Line: In that animal's belly; hole up there forever Subject(s): Desire COMMUNION: 4. A CATHEDRAL, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sinewed shrine of man's desire Last Line: To face thee, and endure. Subject(s): Desire; Time; Universe; Wisdom COMPANY COMMANDER, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My mouth will flame the sulphurs of the pit Last Line: Over the top Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Desire; War CONSUMMATUM EST, by DIANA JAMES Poem Text First Line: Light is more beautiful for it is dying Last Line: They only knew the dust of their desires. Subject(s): Desire; Love CONTENT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are exiles? As for me Last Line: In the rapture of the fire. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Desire; Pain; Suffering; Misery CORYDON - A PASTORAL, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good sir, have you seen pass this way Last Line: No maid at all did this way pass! Subject(s): Beauty; Women; Desire COURTSHIP, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a girl you like so you tell her Subject(s): Desire COURTSHIP, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a girl you like so you tell her Last Line: Taken by storm, she is the girl you will marry Subject(s): Desire COWGIRL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boots were on the couch and had Last Line: I'll go back home where women are pliant as marshmallows. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Relationships; West (u.s.); Women; Southwest; Pacific States CREATE DESIRE, by KAREN VOLKMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone was searching for a form of fire. Subject(s): Desire; Mind, The CRIME, by JASON SHINDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look another way Subject(s): Desire; Truth CROCUSES, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desires Last Line: Of ivory, purple, and gold. Subject(s): Crocuses; Desire; May (month); Plants; Planting; Planters CROWNS OF FIRE: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: You beg me to cease painting Last Line: Lost like the amber of blind %sailors Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters CURIOUSLY EVANESCENT, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so perfect it requires Last Line: But it will vanish at a single kiss. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Kisses; Love DAY DAWN, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All yesterday the thought of you was resting in my soul Last Line: The night is always mine without the morning of your eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Desire; Longing DEADLY SINS DO YOU STILL DESIRE ME?, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: Can you still work in me? Subject(s): Desire; Sin DEAR GONGLYA, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world Subject(s): Names; Gays & Lesbians; Desire; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DEBT[S], by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My debt to you, beloved, / is one I cannot pay Last Line: When all the songs were mute? Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Love DEER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Awe-inspiring cliff, white desire Last Line: Breath, and your breath into the godhead of my garden, the deer Subject(s): Desire; Love DEFINITELY, by MARY JO BANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is desire Subject(s): Desire DESIRE, by ROBERT BROWN Poem Text First Line: If I could have one shining wish Last Line: Through love-lit human eyes! Subject(s): Desire DESIRE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright eyes, sweet lips, with many fevers fill Last Line: Nameless -- unknown -- my hunger is for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire DESIRE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where true love burns desire is love's pure flame Last Line: And but translates the language of the heart. Subject(s): Desire; Love DESIRE, by LENA MOORE FISHER Poem Text First Line: Clothed in your robes of brightest gold Last Line: We'll hate you then, desire! Subject(s): Desire DESIRE, by FRANCES S. LARKIN Poem Text First Line: To understand, to love and live all good Last Line: To do my father's will is my desire. Subject(s): Desire DESIRE, by EMMA HICKS MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: The antennae of a dream / reaching for honey Last Line: Unseen. Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Nightmares DESIRE, by OREON MARIE MCKEE Poem Text First Line: O desire! / born in me to do and dare Last Line: As sucklings to be nursed! Subject(s): Appetite; Desire DESIRE, by CHARLOTTE NEKOLA Poem Source First Line: The man steps off a lighted bus Last Line: Cicadas mourn, and he does not know why %he listens, now Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships DESIRE, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My phalaenopsis orchid trembles when I step into the room Last Line: And kiss the orchid flower, imagining open lips Subject(s): Desire; Flowers DESIRE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With thee a moment! Then what dreams have play! Last Line: Ah, with what longing once again I turn! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Desire; Longing DESIRE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The desire of love, joy Last Line: The desire of god . . . A flame-white secret for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists DESIRE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I call thee? Hear the darkness calling Last Line: It is I. Subject(s): Desire; Love DESIRE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For giving me desire Last Line: As light in flame, and heat in fire. Subject(s): Desire; Love DESIRE AND POSSESSION, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange, what different thoughts inspire Last Line: Regardless of his dying growns Subject(s): Desire DESIRE IN WINTER, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With your white %that is almost blue Last Line: That will one day seem familiar Subject(s): Desire; Nostalgia; Winter DESIRE IS A WITCH, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pandora's privacies Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Desire DESIRE IS A WITCH, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Needs no other proof %than its own fire Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Desire DESIRE LOOSENING, by ALCMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Or green-gold april sprout, or, %softly, a feather Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman Subject(s): Desire DESIRE TO MAKE LOVE IN A PAGODA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the second selves, sailor, observe Last Line: An innocence approaching toward its peak Subject(s): Desire DESIRE'S PERSISTENCE, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the region of rain and cloud, Subject(s): Love; Desire DESIRING DESIRE, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: Now in the early morning I lie awake Last Line: To watching, its wings taking it - where %else? - where it has to go Subject(s): Birds; Desire DESTINY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why each is striving, from of old Last Line: An aimless unallay'd desire. Subject(s): Desire; Life DIEBENKORN AND DESIRE, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: He's conceived a kitchen sink flat Last Line: Blown into the vast charity of the air Subject(s): Desire DIRGE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us keep him warm Last Line: Slumbers young desire. Subject(s): Desire; Transience; Impermanence DIVINELY SUPERFLUOUS BEAUTY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals, Last Line: Weave like a web in the air / divinely superfluous beauty Subject(s): Beauty; Desire DON QUIXOTE: SONG, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: Let the dreadful engines of eternal will Last Line: And so I fairly bid 'em and the world good night. Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Fire DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm to-night Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night. Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore DREAM DEBRIS, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when there's nothing left there's you Last Line: All flesh wants you because your mind Subject(s): Desire DREAM SONGS: 4, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Filling her compact & delicious body Last Line: Where did it all go wrong? There ought to be a law against henry. %- mr. Bones: there is Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Desire; Love DREAMING, by GEORGE MCCALLA SPEARS Poem Text First Line: Dreams are the mists of thoughts Last Line: If sometime, sweetheart, you could dream of me! Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares DRIVEN, by MARY K. WALL Poem Text First Line: A relentless use of a relentless whip Last Line: We do what the whip shall say. Subject(s): Desire DUSTY APPLES IN A DUSTY KITCHEN. FERNS BRUSHING THEIR, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Through the haulm. Swinging its plums freely. Awhistling Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Lust; Sex ECSTASY, by ERIC MACKAY Poem Text First Line: I cannot sing to thee as I would sing Last Line: And do thou teach me, love, to sing aright! Subject(s): Desire EGOMANIA, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She-she-who is this she but my creation Last Line: With hands stretched outand feet that stray and falter. Subject(s): Desire; Egoism & Egotism; Hope; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Optimism; Male-female Relations EIGHT VARIATIONS, by WELDON KEES Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Prurient tapirs gamboled on our lawns Last Line: At a small window, green with rain Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Ghosts; Disappointment; Desire ELEGY FOR MARIA BELEN CHACON, by EMILIO BALLAGAS Poem Source First Line: Maria belen, maria belen, maria belen Last Line: From santiago to camaguey Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Hearts; Heaven ELEGY: THE POET INVOKES THE SPIRITS OF THE ELEMENTS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sylphs, who banquet on my delia's blush Last Line: And burst my feeble body's frail control. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2 Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Obsessions; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women EMPEROR OJIN'S SONG, by OJIN Poem Source First Line: This crab, where is it from? Subject(s): Courtship; Desire ENTHUSIASM, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly from enthusiasm - it is the pest Last Line: Tis a true christian wish, to live and die. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Desire; Wishes; Inspiration; Creativity ENTRY APRIL 28, by WALTER BENTON Poem Source First Line: Because hate is legislated - written into %the primer and the testament Last Line: And your mouth is sweet - and god has made no other eyes like yours Subject(s): Desire; Love EPIGRAM: 17, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some time I fled the fire that me brent Last Line: Mashed in the breers that erst was all to torn. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 59 Subject(s): Desire; Fire EPIGRAM: 20, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desire, alas, my master and my foe Last Line: Even now by hate again I doubt the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 75 Subject(s): Desire; Enemies; Hate EPIGRAM: 26, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driven by desire I did this deed Last Line: Doth hurt himself and please his foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire EPODE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to know vice at all, and keep true state Last Line: Man may securely sinne, but safely never. Variant Title(s): The Forrest: 11. Epode Subject(s): Desire; Virtue ESSAY: OF CANNIBALS, OF THUMBS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What revolves in the thinking disk? What reflects of the eye is due Last Line: Burning to cover joy's shadow of joy beneath the thumb. Subject(s): Cannibals; Desire; Essays; Happiness; Joy; Delight EVEN NOW, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still I try to remember when you first caught Last Line: Resembling coals in a fire, a warmth I can feel, even now Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love EXACT MOMENT, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Our fingers apprised of the situation begin to flirt and flicker across the Last Line: Without sound, without insight Subject(s): Desire; Love; New England; Travel EXERCISES WITH VOWELS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: One could say much about the confrontation of hand with Last Line: The light blinds me, I crawl to the end on hands and knees Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion EXPLANATIONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anonymous water can slide under the ground Last Line: Or promise %or prophesy? Subject(s): Desire EXPLOSION, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: If life is love, blessed be it! Last Line: My whole life is a month in bloom! Subject(s): Desire; Happiness; Hearts; Life FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE POET AND HIS PATRON, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, caelia, is your spreading waist Last Line: The arts that taught them first to rise. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Desire; Poetry & Poets; Women FALIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the frost-grown city of falias lit by the falling stars Last Line: For the old impossible haven 'mid the old auroral fires? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cold; Desire; Grace; Ravens; Stars FAREWELL, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: I have placed you Last Line: Insanity of man's flesh! Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Passion; Male-female Relations FAREWELL TO A LOVER, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your body was my temple Last Line: Where ripen the bitter-sweet fruits in gethsemane's garden. Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Farewell; Love Affairs; Parting FIDELITY, by JACK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's absurd about the fountain Subject(s): Fountains; Desire FIRE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All begins in fire and ends in fire Last Line: Consumes the zeal of burning for the last day. Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Soul FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice Last Line: And would suffice. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FIRST LOVE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ne'er was struck befoe that hour / with love so sudden and so sweet Last Line: And can return no more. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Love - Beginnings FIRST SPRING; INDIAN CREEK, PENNSYLVANIA, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow violets know it up the rills Last Line: And though desirous, I have no desire. Subject(s): Desire; Spring FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you or I should die Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Snakes; Desire; Passion; Adultery; Children; Love; Middle Age; Absence; Relationships; Serpents; Vipers; Childhood; Separation; Isolation FLAME, by EDITH GRAHAM MIRICK Poem Text First Line: I am cold as milk-white stone Last Line: Turn, oh, turn me back to stone! Subject(s): Desire; Fire FLAME ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind without that moans and cries, o dark Last Line: Mid dirges of white shapes that plunge and sway. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Wind; Suffering; Misery FLIGHT, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: O moon of falling leaf Last Line: Men fly! Subject(s): Desire; Flight; Love; Stars; Flying FOR G., by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night under the moon Last Line: Rapturous voices of love in the hush of the night. Subject(s): Desire; Love FOR THE LAST SUMMER, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That summer with a thousand julys Subject(s): Music, Rock; Youth; Summer; War; Desire; Rock & Roll FORECAST, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patience, little heart Last Line: In after years, in memory, to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Epilogue Subject(s): Breasts; Desire FORGIVENESS, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: One day after my father died Last Line: In our eyes, make every day blaze alive Subject(s): Desire; Family Life; Forgiveness; Marriage; Parents FRIENDSHIP, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alter? When the hills do Last Line: I will of you! Subject(s): Daffodils; Desire; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FUCK THE ASTRONAUTS, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eventually we must combine nightmares Subject(s): Relationships; Desire; Love - Complaints FULL MOON, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: All over the city Last Line: At anything that moves Subject(s): Desire; Moon GACELA OF THE MORNING MARKET, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Under the elvira arch %let me see you pass Last Line: That I may suffer your thighs %and cry Subject(s): Desire GARDEN AFTER FROST, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: I enter it like a sickroom, breathing Last Line: Such meager parting tastes Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love GEO-BESTIARY: 7, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that girl, only young men Last Line: Puzzled that again beauty has found her home in threat. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Desire GHAZALS: 10, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise me at durkheim fair where I've never been, hurling Last Line: And vanessa redgrave in my calvinist fantasies. Don't go away. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fantasy; Memory; Rape; Dead, The GHAZALS: 27, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a sign, a heraldic bird, or even an angel at midnight Last Line: A parade, a suite at the plaza, a new silver-plated revolver. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Desire; Despair GHAZALS: 61, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wondering what this new light is, before he died he walked Last Line: And we hugged in a dark attic, not knowing how to continue. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Regret; Shame GIFT OF THE BOOK, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lights go off Last Line: Stunned %by the hunger Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Admiration; Bodies; Desire; Night GIVE, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Floating along the tops of the sangre de cristos Last Line: Tense of to have Subject(s): Desire GRANADILLA, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cut myself upon the thought of you Subject(s): Desire GREEN AWNINGS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leander walked over with a blanket of peonies Subject(s): Desire; Indifference; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GUERDON, by DARIEN WEST Poem Text First Line: Not from their own desire they find it good Last Line: I truly was a teacher, and a friend. Subject(s): Desire; Secrets; Teaching & Teachers HAPPINESS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Happiness as a seashell and desire Subject(s): Desire; Happiness; Love; Victory HE AND SHE, by EUGENE FITCH WARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead you'll find it hard Last Line: Like you? Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill Subject(s): Death; Desire; Women; Dead, The HEART TO HEART, by RITA DOVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's neither red / nor sweet Last Line: To take me, , too Subject(s): Desire; Emotions; Hearts HEART TO HEART, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's neither red %nor sweet Last Line: To take me, %too Subject(s): Desire; Emotions; Hearts HEART'S DESIRE, by ISABELLE A. L. KFOURY Poem Text First Line: Your heart is a well, cool and deep Last Line: Is all it need desire. Subject(s): Desire HEART'S DESIRE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know that I shall run away Last Line: And ask themselves to tea! Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love HEART'S DESIRE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the dream is vanished, and the night is fled Last Line: O give me back my doubt again, and let me dream! Subject(s): Desire HEART'S JOURNEY: 4, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you are I cannot say Last Line: Chime on chime from bell on bell %in the cloisters of my heart Subject(s): Desire; Love HEAT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My mare, when she was in heat Last Line: But desire, desire is long Subject(s): Desire; Animals; Horses HER VALENTINE, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, send her a valentine? Never! Last Line: She'll let me have mine in the end! Subject(s): Desire; Independence; Progress; Women HEREAFTER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In after years a twilight ghost shall fill Last Line: At passing from her threshold of thy feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Desire HERO AT SESTOS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will he not come tonight? Last Line: Doubting lips may kiss -- may kiss. Subject(s): Desire HISTORY OF DESIRE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you're seventeen, and drunk Last Line: In the name of doris, stop Subject(s): Desire HOLDING BACK THE SUN, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I step on the gas, my stomach riding Last Line: The known world, reading, reading, reading Subject(s): Desire; Mothers And Daughters HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: NIGHTHAWKS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to run away with you tonight Last Line: I wanted to run away with you tonight Subject(s): Desire HORATIANS: 38, by VICENT ANDRES ESTELLES Poem Source First Line: I spent the afternoon and the evening drinking Last Line: I can't imagine how you must have resolved it Subject(s): Desire; Drinks And Drinking HOUNDED LOVERS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall we go Last Line: The movement of benediction %does not turn back %the cold wind Subject(s): Desire; Love HUGELY, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world greens, opens, remembering.-what? That to keep Last Line: The billion legs of grass walking beneath a blue sky Subject(s): Desire; Memory HUNGER, by MARIE SKIPPER Poem Text First Line: This heavy wine I bid you take Last Line: Give me your hunger; take my bread. Subject(s): Desire HYMN TO DESIRE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O die not yet, divine desire, whose flight Last Line: Out of the drainéd cup! Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Desire; Love HYMN TO FIRE, by KONSTANTIN DMITRIYEVICH BALMONT Poem Text First Line: Oh, fire who purgeth us Last Line: Shed perpetual light! Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Passion; Prayer Meetings; Sabbath; Sunday I AND THOU, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Your lips have never kissed me, you've never Last Line: Gone rigid, too. I have gurgled with happiness only in you Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love I DO NOT LOVE THEE, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Because they see me gazing where thou art. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Desire; Love I FAIL AS A CELIBATE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despair leaves / a dry spot Subject(s): Desire I HAVE BEEN A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND', by RITA DOVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't bliss. What was bliss Last Line: Warming her outstretched palm Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Desire; Eden; Life; Temptation; Eve I HEAR MY SACRED HEART BEAT, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But, mark you, he who loses wins Subject(s): Desire I HESITATED, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before entering the body factory. I had heard Last Line: Everything the moments, the senses could fleece Subject(s): Bodies; Desire I KNEW A WOMAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a woman, lovely in her bones Subject(s): Desire; Love; Men; Women I KNEW A WOMAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a woman, lovely in her bones Last Line: These old bones live to learn her wanton ways %(I measure time by how a body sways) Subject(s): Desire; Love; Men; Women I LOVE A WOOD, by DOROTHY WHITTINGTON Poem Text First Line: I love a wood at eventide Last Line: To heaven's star-lit dome! Subject(s): Desire; Likes And Dislikes I WANT TO SIT NEXT TO EMILY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a girl who for present purposes let us call by the name of Last Line: But can wander lonely as a cloud among my own beautiful thorts Subject(s): Conversation; Desire; Girls I WANT YOU, by ELIZA W. DURBIN Poem Text First Line: The days are long and lonely Last Line: Since you have gone away. Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Separation; Isolation I'D WANT HER EYES TO FILL WITH WONDER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As she lay asleep in my arms Subject(s): Desire; Love ICARUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Those things I said about my steadfast peace Last Line: So long as I may kiss thee once again? Subject(s): Desire;icarus;love;mythology - Classical IDEAL PASSION, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady ne'er hath given herself to me Last Line: Of my sad verse, after I am dead! Subject(s): Desire; Immortality; Passion; Praise IDEM 1, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Desire; Writing & Writers IF EVER THERE WAS ONE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She could tell he loved her. He wanted her there Subject(s): Clergy; Marriage; Gentility; Sex; Desire; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IF YOU CAME TO MY SECRET GLADE, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And I will not show you my heart %by a look, by a word Subject(s): Desire; Love IN A WOMAN'S FACE, by RICHARD THOMAS CHURCH Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, in a woman's brow Last Line: Then, through the sensual sea, at length %two frightened hearts are reconciled Alternate Author Name(s): Eccles Subject(s): Desire; Love IN HAITI: 3. BOY ON THE REEF/INFINITY OF DESIRE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three feet below his belly, the reef's Last Line: Sea fans, past conchs pink as cunts. Subject(s): Coral; Desire; Haiti; Sea; Ocean IN MY BLOOD, DESIRE, by RACHEL ESHED Poem Source First Line: I'll enter the lions' den with you Last Line: To tattoo in my flesh %as a mark of addictive love Subject(s): Blood; Desire; Love IN THE DARK POOL, FINDING YOU, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No lights, no moon, no stars in the mountains Last Line: High in the pine, dining on imaginary mice Subject(s): Love; Desire IN THE MOVIE NOW, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: There is no glory in trying to make love to men Last Line: You'll have to scrub out later Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Rape INFIRM, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not go,' he said, 'for well' Last Line: And took his hat and went to see. Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Weariness; Fatigue INSPIRATION, by MINA MERRITT-SAEGER Poem Text First Line: Content and peace urge not to flights above Last Line: Born of the fever of a soul on fire. Subject(s): Desire; Longing INTERIM: 6, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, with my will I curb my importunate hands Last Line: Forces submissionholds their desire inert... Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Love ISLA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Isla, isla, heart of my heart, it is you alone I am loving Last Line: And I to my kingdom come, my king, my mouth to thy mouth! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Death; Desire; Kisses; Love; Reunions; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The IT IS, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now as the body begins to feel the light Last Line: Table. Love is not bodies but a smell of vanishing green Subject(s): Desire; Love; Memory IT IS A SMALL PLANT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Forty times over, forty times / over—namelessly Subject(s): Plants; Desire JOSEPHINE'S HAT, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: What a gay array of hats! Last Line: Such a flower! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Hats; Women KADDISH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk Subject(s): Desire; Mourning; Sex; Bereavement KADDISH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk Last Line: Last chance of mine and naomi - to god's perfect darkness - %death, stay thy phantoms! Subject(s): Desire; Mourning; Sex KISSING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are kissing, on a park bench Last Line: Onto each other. They are kissing. Subject(s): Desire; Kisses LADY LORGNETTE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady lorgnette, of the lifted lash Last Line: Little babette. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Desire LAMENT, by MARIE L. SIEBOLD Poem Text First Line: The thought of you like tom - toms Last Line: Its relentless, maddening sway! Subject(s): Desire LAST SONNET (REVISED VERSION), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art Last Line: And so live ever -- or else swoon to death. Variant Title(s): "sonnet Composed On Leaving England;sonnet Written On A Blank Page;sonnet On 'a Lover's Complaint';bright Star;keats's Last Sonnet;""bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art"";sonnet: Bright Star; Subject(s): Desire; Love; Stars LAURANA'S SONG, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who'll have the crumbled pieces of a heart? Last Line: And die, or kill. Subject(s): Desire LETTER, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A day was nothing until this; words went Last Line: There is a wine of choice, and we who drink %touch all our future to that emphasis Subject(s): Desire; Love LETTERS TO YESENIN: 14, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine being a dog and never knowing what you're doing. You're Last Line: Groin hopes. You pray not to see her again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Desire; Dogs; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 21, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To answer some of the questions you might ask were you alive and Last Line: Like it and should I put it off for a while? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 4, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am four years older than you but scarcely an unwobbling Last Line: I fed my dying dog a pound of beef and buried her happy in the barnyard. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Desire; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LIBIDO, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should I know? The enormous wheels of will Last Line: Quieter than a dead man on a bed. Subject(s): Desire; Soldiers' Writings LIKE SISTER AND BROTHER, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source Last Line: We go holding hands Subject(s): Desire; Love; Relationships; Romance LINES TO E. A. S., by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair in my sight as white lilies that shine in the sunrise Last Line: And flesh and spirit are one in the mystic union of love! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Love; Soul LITMUS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The balance fading in desire's straight line Last Line: On his side with a slightly more generous nose. Fine Subject(s): Desire; Love LITTLE DESIRES AND HOW THEY GREW, by NAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: If a girl was lucky not to have a brother Last Line: Far apart and alone, but thinking of the same longing Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Children; Desire LLEWELLYN, PRINCE OF CAMBRIA; A WELSH BALLAD, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Llewellyn stood as his palace door Last Line: "and I will yield to you." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Hearts; Love; Marriage - Forced; Marriage - Arranged LOCATIONS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the end you are tired of those places Last Line: Beyond, a green continent. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Desire; Love; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips LONG LINES: YOUTH AND AGE, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Like a hot stone your cock weighs on mine, young man Last Line: It's I who say %the words like 'I love you' or 'thank you' Subject(s): Desire; Homosexuality LONG-FELT DESIRES, by LOUISE LABE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long-felt desires, hopes as long as vain Last Line: For love. It covers me. I can pierce no more Alternate Author Name(s): La Belle Cordiere Subject(s): Desire LOOMING BEFORE MY EYES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Draining out %into the wild %gaze %of joy Subject(s): Desire; Happiness LORD MYTH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow through the room, a rising Last Line: A black feather plunges through the spiraling smoke. Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Ravens; Male-female Relations LOS ANGELES NOCTURNE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: It looks like the streets are flowing sweetly in the night Last Line: And when they sleep they will not dream of angels but of mortals Subject(s): Angels; Desire; Los Angeles; Love Affairs; Romance LOVE, by HENRY BAKER Poem Text First Line: Love's an headstrong wild desire / to possess what we admire Last Line: Or else worship and adore it. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion; Pleasure; Worship LOVE, by KATALIN LADIK Poem Source First Line: Since this desire is sweet and causes joyful pain Last Line: Saint theresa lolls on a wooden bench Subject(s): Desire; Love LOVE 20 CENTS THE FIRST QUARTER MILE, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All right. I may have lied to you and about you, and Subject(s): Desire; Forgiveness; Love; Clemency LOVE 20 CENTS THE FIRST QUARTER MILE, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All right. I may have lied to you and about you, and Last Line: And ask a few reporters, if anything should break Subject(s): Desire; Forgiveness; Love LOVE AFTER SORROW, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, this hour I love, as in the glory of morn Last Line: And her who is the soul of my desire. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love LOVE AND MUSIC, by HENRY LAWES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my sweet, whilst every strain Last Line: Scorning the forgetful lake. Subject(s): Contentment; Desire; Love LOVE IS MASTER STILL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since that it may not be Last Line: For love is master still, or be we bond or free. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love LOVE POEM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yours is the face that the earth turns to me Subject(s): Desire; Love LOVE POEM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yours is the face that the earth turns to me Last Line: Lost, in the heart's worship, and the body's sleep Subject(s): Desire; Love LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, as you come Last Line: Glowing through the night-bound forest Subject(s): Desire; Romance LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 18, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fires Last Line: No one knows Subject(s): Desire; Hearts LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 34, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning, I %wake alone, dreaming my Last Line: Arm is your sweet flesh %pressing my lips Subject(s): Desire; Kisses; Longing LOVE THE VAMPIRE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The level sands and grey Last Line: And still the shape evades the longing hands. Subject(s): Desire; Love LOVE WAS RISING BETWEEN US, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source Last Line: And finding each other distant Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Love - Complaints; Romance LOVE'S JUSTIFICATION, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! Hope may with my strong desire keep pace Last Line: That breathes on earth the air of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Variant Title(s): A Deathless Flower;sonnet: 8. To Vittoria Colonna Subject(s): Desire LOVE'S REASONS, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For her gait if she be walking Last Line: That for everything I love her. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Variant Title(s): Sonnet;song Subject(s): Desire; Love LOVE'S SECRET, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never seek to tell thy love Last Line: He took her with a sigh. Subject(s): Bible; Desire; Love; Mythology LOVE, HOPE, DESIRE AND FEAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And many there were hurt by that strong boy Last Line: Ever will be near. Subject(s): Desire; Fear; Hope; Love; Pleasure; Optimism LOVER THAT SHOWS, by MYONGOK Poem Source First Line: A lover that shows himself only Last Line: A dream, just show yourself to me Subject(s): Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships LOVERS, by EDWARD DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Willow and water! Would we were Last Line: But neither sun nor moon shall see %thy light in mine or mine in thee Subject(s): Desire; Love LOVERS, by JAIME SABINES GUTIERREZ Poem Source First Line: Lovers become quiet Last Line: The beautiful life Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love MAD WORDS, by YUAN MEI Poem Source First Line: To learn to be without desire, you must desire that Last Line: In all the vastness of the sea and sky, you'll never find it Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai Subject(s): Desire; Zen Buddhism MEN KNEEL, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Like the unconscious and like art, beyond volition Last Line: Indifferent sweetness when arousal takes us Subject(s): Desire; Saint Kilda (scotland) MENTRECHE IL VENTO, COME FA, SI TACE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you perhaps consent to be Subject(s): Desire; Love MENTRECHE IL VENTO, COME FA, SI TACE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you perhaps consent to be Last Line: My many-branched, small and dearest tree Subject(s): Desire; Love METAL EYE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Secretly I'm dead inside Last Line: At 3,200 degrees platinum liquefies Subject(s): Desire; Girls; Indifference; Love - Loss Of; Obsessions METEORA, by THERESA PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: Even this high up, in these dim Last Line: I'm still on earth Subject(s): Desire METRICAL LETTER; WRITTEN FROM LONDON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret! My cousin, -- nay you must not smile Last Line: To find in heaven the things I loved on earth. Subject(s): Courtship; Cousins; Desire; Freedom; Hope; Letters; Liberty; Optimism MILINA, MY LINE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I watched it filling and collecting. An eyewitness. I Last Line: With a terrible, searing fire, in order to serve you. So gentle scepter may break my neck Subject(s): Desire; Love MIS' SMITH, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day she hurried to get through Last Line: "I reckon." Subject(s): Desire; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MOMA POEMS IN TIME OF THE PLAGUE: 3. THREE MEN WALKING, by THOMAS AVENA Poem Source First Line: So close so %intent Last Line: Either this or nothing Subject(s): Desire; Mankind; Walking MONODY TO THE SOUND OF ZITHERS, by KAY BOYLE Poem Text First Line: I have wanted other things more than lovers Last Line: Friended thus, I have let nothing pass. Subject(s): Desire; Wishes MONOLOGUE OF TWO MOONS, NUDES WITH CRESTS: 1938, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once, lily and I fell from a ladder Last Line: Twigs, leaves, and an infinite black string. Subject(s): Accidents; Adolescence; Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Teen Agers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MORNING SHUTTERS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We extend arms Last Line: With the lost years. Subject(s): Desire MOTIONLESS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: He loved the statue with a reckless passion. It was a constant Last Line: I was becoming a statue, that I belonged' Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion MUNDI VICTIMA: 3, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze upon your portrait in my hand Last Line: Because desire dare not desire relief. Subject(s): Desire MY APRIL LADY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When down the stair at morning Last Line: I know her name is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Desire; Love; Spring MY DESIRE, by MARY JESSIE PEARCE Poem Text First Line: I'd like to have a little house Last Line: And hope 'twould guide you there. Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Light; Roses MY HEART, by BERNICE BAIRD Poem Text First Line: If you could see into my heart Last Line: With joy instilled . . . It wills to live! Subject(s): Desire; Love MY LOVE COULD WALK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love could walk in richer hues Last Line: A queen that's more than half a nun. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Desire; Love MY PAST, by DENNIS COOPER Poet's Biography First Line: Is a short string of beautiful Subject(s): Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY PAST, by DENNIS COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is a short string of beautiful Last Line: Man and that feeling are now Subject(s): Desire; Homosexuality NAME OF DESIRE, by JOE BOLTON Poem Source First Line: After the many-colored but mostly blue Last Line: The song two bodies sing to each other Subject(s): Desire NANCY WALSH (2), by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, without bite or sup Last Line: O ringleted one! Subject(s): Desire NATURE ELEMENT, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: You have no choice. This is as natural as breathing Last Line: But uses you as it moves through, like music, %as insubstantial, as absolutely real Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Saint Kilda (scotland) NEITHER SPIRIT NOR BIRD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Leaping under the willows Subject(s): Desire;flutes;hearts;love;native Americans;relationships; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America NETS, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Somewhere someone is untangling Last Line: Only that the sea makes him thirsty Subject(s): Desire NEVER TOO LATE: EURYMACHUS IN LAUDEM MIRIMIDAE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When flora, proud in pomp of all her flowers Last Line: The salamander, 'twas my whole desire. Variant Title(s): Eurymachus In Praise Of Mirimida Subject(s): Desire; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology NEVER TOO LATE: THE PALMER'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old menalcas, on a day Last Line: "the way to good is never late." Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations NIGHT AND DAY: 3, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then spake I to the tree Last Line: "desire will sing to you." Subject(s): Trees; Desire NIGHT IS THE LIGHT OF MY PLEASURE', by HENRY PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I sought my lady bright Last Line: Where passions were opposed in rest Subject(s): Desire; Passion; Disappointment NIGHT THOUGHTS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My sudden, unexpected wish for mashed potatoes Subject(s): Life Choices; Desire NINE DESIRES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The desire of the fairy women, dew Last Line: The desire of the soul, wisdom. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fairies; Men; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women; Elves NORTHAMPTON STYLE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Desire; Love; Nature; Music & Musicians NOSTALGIA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All through their lives men build or dream them homes Last Line: Deeming it, more than mortal homes are, blest. Subject(s): Desire; Heaven; Home; Nostalgia; Peace; Paradise NOT-SO-STILL-LIFE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: White cherry blossoms %float the quad Last Line: Her biting smell in his beak Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships NOTHING, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Out of desire, everything begins Last Line: Out of desire %everything is born Subject(s): Desire; Emptiness; Love; Prisons And Prisoners NOVEMBER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unable to sleep, I spend the predawn hours Last Line: Shapes in the frost like hopeful boats. Subject(s): Bible; Desire; God; November; Plato (428-348 B.c.) NUDE, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My luck has been so all but Last Line: Soft skin could be managed? Subject(s): Desire O FLAME OF LIVING LOVE, by JOHN CROSS Poem Source Last Line: How delicately thou teachest love to me! Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships O'TOOLE AND MCSHARRY, by THOMAS E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: In the valley of the lachlan, where the perfume from the pines Last Line: Always flying from the ghost of con mcsharry. Subject(s): Desire; Fights; Friendship; Regret OBJECTS OF DESIRE, by ANDREW TOWLE Poem Source First Line: Here is the land of lost hairbrushes Last Line: In the hallway of an empty home Subject(s): Desire; Memory OBJECTS OF DESIRE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: K, j, b, & a all characters, all stalwarts Subject(s): Desire OBJECTS OF DESIRE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: K, j, b, & a all characters, all stalwarts Last Line: Mouth again %mouth again again Subject(s): Desire OCTOBER EVERYWHERE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: October everywhere, %brassy sounds of rolling sky Last Line: To feed her this whole winter through Subject(s): Desire OCTOBER ROMANCE, by LAUREN MCMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: On you I have waited Last Line: Was to be wreathed, for a moment %in your smile Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Romance OF TEARS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who would have thought there could have bin Last Line: "yet this one tear, which now doth fall, / in true delight exceeds them all" Subject(s): Desire;love OF THE BIRTH AND BRINGING UP OF DESIRE, by EDWARD DE VERE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wert thou born, desire? Last Line: Ten thousand times a day Alternate Author Name(s): Bulbeck, Lord; Oxford, 17th Earl Of; Vere, Edward De Variant Title(s): The Earle Of Oxenforde To The Reader: 1 Subject(s): Desire OH! BE SOMETHING!, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Be something! - oh! Be something! Last Line: Without a purpose there! Subject(s): Desire; Fame; Service; Usefullness; Reputation OH, THE BURDEN, THE BURDEN OF LOVE UNGIVEN, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Deep in my bosom the unblown blossom - %my world-love that withers there Subject(s): Desire; Love OLDER MEN, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to prefer them and now I'm one of them Subject(s): Desire; Homosexuality ON DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Means death so much? Is it so great an ill Last Line: He that escapes desire, at last is free. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Desire; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The ON THE CAT-WALKS OF DESIRE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: All karl-heinz wants is a whippet Last Line: Least of all a poet. All they want to do is write this sort of thing Subject(s): Desire ON THE EDGE OF A CRATER, by ALICIA VOGL SAENZ Poem Source First Line: I first feel the blueprints Last Line: I feel the weight of moonlight %in my chest Subject(s): Desire ON THE STREET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady, muffled deep in furs Last Line: And feels the day is growing colder. Subject(s): Desire; Women ONCE IN A LONELY HOUR, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my breast Last Line: Upon a heart as troubled as its own. Subject(s): Desire; Love ONE MARCH ANIMAL'S DESIRE, by ANNE CORAY Poem Source First Line: Warm days, we punch the snow with our footsteps Last Line: As I make my way to the river Subject(s): Desire; Travel ONE PERSON: 10, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I perceive the sable of your hair Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Love ONE PERSON: 10, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I perceive the sable of your hair Last Line: So soft, precise, and scrupulous a word %you shall not take it for another sword? Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Love OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 5, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: There is no rest where weary mortals dwell Last Line: A fleeting moment from an hour of pain. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 8, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: When this gay earth whelmed with a mad desire Last Line: Clad in the glory that is one with thee. Subject(s): Desire PALMIST, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: She touches a stranger's hand, turns it into the light Last Line: That all of our lines will change Subject(s): Desire; Love; Strangers; Tourists; Travel PARTING AFTER A QUARREL, by EUNICE TIETJENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You looked at me with eyes grown bright with pain Last Line: And in my heart I heard the little click %of a door that closes - quietly, forever Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Love PASTORAL, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl lies down on the hill Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Love; Desire PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: SONNET (3), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is my love, for april is her face Last Line: The rock will wear washed with a winter's rain. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PERSEPHONE PAUSES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lengthened shadow of my hand Last Line: But cast it. Summertime, good-night! Subject(s): Desire; Hades; Persephone; Pomegranates; Women; Women's Rights; Proserpine; Proserpina; Feminism PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE INTERIORS OF DICTATORS' HOUSES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's as if every demon from hell with aspirations Subject(s): Desire PINK SHUTTERS, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pink shutters - pink shutters! Last Line: This giddy jacob's ladder of wild pinks, %wild pinks ascending! Subject(s): Desire; Seduction POEM, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who of us all has seen Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Nudity; Desire; Nakedness POEM, by JAVIER SOLOGUREN Poem Source First Line: At the edge of the window that limits space Last Line: By the symbol of open arms in every window Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Memory; Poetry And Poets POEM, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green is the false nettle Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Desire POEM FOR HARUKO, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never thought I’d keep a record of my pain Last Line: Now I do Subject(s): Desire PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a symphony of silent smokes Last Line: To be desired of all life's offerings Subject(s): Desire; Women PORTRAIT WITH NO SHORTAGE OF HISTORY, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: For a while, it seemed like you could pull the birds back to your arms, the Last Line: I am the road block that makes wounds open. Not a daughter at all, just a %voice, a drug, the breath Subject(s): Desire; Mothers And Daughters; Women POTENTIALITIES, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And if my hand should touch you: well, what then? Last Line: And so I will not reach to you my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love PRECIOSA AND THE WIND, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Preciosa comes along Last Line: The tiles on the roof Subject(s): Desire; Gypsies PRESS THE DARKNESS, by CHERYL A. TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Into my pores quietly Last Line: With hands as soft as a poem Subject(s): Desire; Night PRIMITIVE, by KATHARINE MURDOCH DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Oh we have worshipped water Last Line: And skyward leaps with flame. Subject(s): Desire PROMISED LANDSCAPE, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I sing for you Last Line: You are the most lovely %of possible landscapes? Subject(s): Desire; Love RAIN, by KATHERINE B. BUSHLEY Poem Text First Line: My heart beats faster Last Line: To my small porch to pause. Subject(s): Desire; Rain RE-FORMING THE CRYSTAL, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am trying to imagine Last Line: Scribes upon the ribs of the volcano the name of the one she has chosen Subject(s): Desire REALITY AND DESIRE, by OLGA OROZCO Poem Source First Line: Reality, yes, reality Last Line: The seal of cloister on all the gates of desire Subject(s): Desire; Love REASONS (FOR NAOMI), by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Come love me. Do not reason Last Line: Treason! Subject(s): Desire; Love RELATIVITY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only this at last I say Last Line: Distance is the breadth of the soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Dreams; Life; Nightmares RENEWAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lake notice, cupid! Far too long Last Line: Swam in a mist of melted sighs. Subject(s): Aging; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations RESCUE, RESCUE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need you like a sailor needs Last Line: The rescues succeed without regrets. Subject(s): Desire; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails REVELATION IN BAGHDAD, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I came here thinking of water Last Line: Flowing like water and memory Subject(s): Desire; Love; Memory RHYMES: 11, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am a passion; I am a flame Last Line: I cannot love you! Oh, come, come Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion RITUAL VII, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Subways; Desire RONDEL, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Oh, dark-brow'd witch, thy laughing eyes Last Line: Oh, dark-brow'd witch, thy laughing eyes! Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion RONDO, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did I love thee? I only did desire Last Line: I loved thee not. Subject(s): Desire; Love RUNAWAYS CAFE II, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For once, I hardly noticed what I ate Subject(s): Desire SACRED HATRED, by FLAVIA VIDAL Poem Source First Line: Oh, my hatred, my majestic hatred Last Line: From the seven towers of the mortal sins! Subject(s): Desire; Love; Sin SACRIFICE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: There are no heights we may not reach Last Line: It came and joined me on the height! Subject(s): Desire; Religion; Theology SADNESS OF DESIRE, by TERI GRIMM Poem Source First Line: There were times I would Last Line: They felt standing near stone, cold %and hard as coins pressed into a palm Subject(s): Desire SAFE SEX, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident Subject(s): Desire SAN FRANCISCO; APRIL 18, 1906, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In olden days, a child, I trod thy sands Last Line: Lost city of my love and my desire. Subject(s): Desire; Love; San Francisco SANOE, by LYDIA KAMAKAEHA Poem Source First Line: Listen, sanoe Last Line: So similiar, so alike Subject(s): Desire SAPPHIC, by ANNE DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: I have not known a love equal to yearning Last Line: Tearful is autumn. Subject(s): Desire SATIRE: 10, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: Look round the habitable world, how few Last Line: But, set aloft by fools, usurps the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Desire; Mankind; Wishes; Human Race SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 1. AT TEA, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kettle descants in a cosy drone Last Line: And he throws her a stray glance yearningly. Subject(s): Desire; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SCARCE TOLERABLE LIFE, WHICH ALL LIFE LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Song where the choirs of sunny heaven stand choired Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nature; Walking; Desire SEIZURE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To me that man equals a god Last Line: I must suffer everything, being poor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SEIZURE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To me he seems like a god Last Line: Yet I must suffer all things, %being poor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SELF-CONGRATULATION, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ellen, you were thoughtless once Last Line: The bitter burning woe! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Desire; Self-control SEVEN STONES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Today I picked up %seven stones Last Line: Of absences, %a mossy sound Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Love SHAPE OF MY HEART, by STING Poem Source First Line: He deals the cards as a meditation Last Line: But that's not the shape of my heart Subject(s): Desire; Love SHE HOLDS HIS HAND, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Desire SHEPHERD OF RESUMED DESIRE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One steps forward under a sifter of light Last Line: Of the sky snow orbiting all abide abide Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Desire SIX PERSIMMONS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carbon, rings in his ears as he walks down Last Line: Their fingertips glow in the skin of their days. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Nature; Dead, The SKIN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Beyond love %and the rooms of dark mist Last Line: Ascending me like words, fruits, shoulders Subject(s): Desire; Love; Paintings And Painters; Passion SNOW COME, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her tongue mimicked the color of her bikini Last Line: The sun-bleached, primeval hoops of teeth. Variant Title(s): Snow Cone Subject(s): Desire; Seashore; Story-telling; Beach; Coast; Shore SOEUR LOUISE DE LA MISERICORDE (1674), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have desired, and I have been desired Last Line: Oh vanity of vanities, desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Desire SOLID LIKE THE CRADLE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Song of the blessed sharp breaks in the breath and opening the oyster there's a moment of hush Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Flowers; Roses SOMETHING ABOUT DESIRE, by APRIL OSSMANN Poem Source First Line: Something I wanted %to say about desire Last Line: Of a day, which had nothing to do with %desire - and therefore, everything Subject(s): Desire SOMETHING FOR YOUR ARMS: 2, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: It is always going to be this way Last Line: Until my hands feel the skin on your face Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love SONG, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The butterflies that are the snow's own hue Last Line: O blossom of my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Butterflies; Desire; Flight; Insects; Love; Flying; Bugs SONG, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lovely lovely so lovely Last Line: I wanted you too so fresh %from a night of it lovely Subject(s): Desire SONG, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the soul of desire Last Line: And I am the soul of desire! Subject(s): Desire SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mirrors we lay wherein desire Last Line: Night's pleasure and the press of weather Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Desire; Fever; Fire SONG, by IAN CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy dark eyes to mine, eilidh Last Line: A falling star! Alternate Author Name(s): Mor, Ian Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Longing; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love in my heart: oh, heart of me, heart of me! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Longing; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONG, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was so chill, and overworn, and sad Last Line: Forgetting weariness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Love SONG (4), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While on those lovely looks I gaze Last Line: The vanquished die with pleasure. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Desire; Love SONG OF APPLE-TREES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song of apple-trees, honeysweet and murmurous Last Line: Avalon of the heart's desire, avalon of the hidden shores. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Apple Trees; Avalon (legend); Desire; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Trees; Nightmares SONG OF PRAISE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have not heard my love's dark throat Last Line: Then seal your lips until the sun %discovers one as fair Subject(s): African Americans; Desire; Love SONG OF PROPOSAL, by OJIN Poem Source First Line: This crab - where does it come from? Last Line: Sitting before my eyes, %sitting at my side Subject(s): Courtship; Desire SONG OF SMOKE, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To watch you walk Subject(s): Desire SONG TO HER AGAIN, SHE BURNING IN FEVER, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now she burns, as well as I Last Line: So shalt thou quench her fire, and mine. Subject(s): Desire SONG TO MY MISTRESS, I BURNING IN LOVE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I burn, and cruel you in vain Last Line: Till you burn, as well as I. Subject(s): Desire; Love - Unrequited SONG, FR. DIOCLESIAN, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do to show how much I love her? Last Line: Never had hero so glorious a death. Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Love SONG-IN-MY-HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song-in-my-heart, my heart's sorrow, my delight Last Line: In this noise of shaking storm in my heart and this blast sweeping my mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Longing; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean SONG: 100, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I might by no means surmise Last Line: Or else I am but slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; God; Hearts; Love SONG: 22, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, poor man, what hap have I Last Line: To love above my poor degree. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Fate; Hearts; Love; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery SONG: 23, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So unwarely was never no man caught Last Line: This restless life I may not lead. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Life; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 26, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who list his wealth and ease retain Last Line: For sure, circa regna tonat. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): "who List His Wealth And Ease Retain';innocentia; Veritas Viat Fides; Subject(s): Desire; God; Hearts; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes SONG: 46, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All heavy minds / do seek to ease their charge Last Line: Is clean in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 55, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the wind with raging blast Last Line: Of evil sown seed such is the fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Of Love Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Grief; Life; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 7, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the sun shone on the sand there Last Line: Because I want him so. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire SONG: 75, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desire to sorrow doth me constrain Last Line: By patience. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism SONG: 86, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driven by desire to set affection Last Line: And not covet that thing that will not be? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONGS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus I said to my heart in a pet t'other day Last Line: And vows I shall never possess him again. Subject(s): Deception; Desire; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations SONGS OF CREATION, by ZELLA MURIEL WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It is spring! Last Line: It has always seemed. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Spring; Male-female Relations SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 34, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is a golden calyx Last Line: The night will spill for thee. Subject(s): Desire SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 43, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Berrybrown, berrybrown, give me your hands! Last Line: God made desire before he made death. Subject(s): God; Desire SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 73, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the woods grow crimson Last Line: Your hand-touch -- and be sure. Subject(s): Time; Desire SONGS: 5. LEND ME THY WINGS, O DOVE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I shall return with love enough to last a year. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love SONNET (7), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beauty, passing beauty! Sweetest sweet! Last Line: Hath melted in the silence that it broke. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Desire SONNET-SEQUENCE: 1, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where have I known thee, dear, in what strange place Last Line: Our faces blanch, as mine; as thine that pales! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Desire; Life; Love; Dead, The SONNET: 1, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With heart and breast of brimstone, flesh of flax Last Line: Blame to nature for this doom of fire I assign Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Italian Renaissance SONNET: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, valentine, and tell that lovely maid Last Line: And heave the sigh of memory and of love. Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Longing; Love; Memory; Messengers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 13, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am in love with high far-seeing places Last Line: The marvel of your rapture-lighted face! Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Variant Title(s): View From Heights Subject(s): Desire; Love SONNET: 14, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart I gave thee, not to do it pain Last Line: Ploweth in water and soweth in the sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 14 Subject(s): Desire; Farewell; Hearts; Parting SONNET: 29, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes Last Line: That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Variant Title(s): "amor Omnia Vincit;a Consolation;fortune And Men's Eyes;""when, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes""; Subject(s): Desire; Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Jealousy; Love; Religion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Theology SONNET: 30, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let my lips touch thy lips, and my desire Last Line: Told this late world the love that I have learned. Subject(s): Desire SONNET: 42, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving to desire, adread also to dare Last Line: Though double in deeds, a inward perfect man. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Faith; Fear; Hope; Belief; Creed; Optimism SONNET: 57, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Last Line: Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill. Variant Title(s): "absence;""being Your Slave, What Should I Do Not Tend""; Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Separation; Isolation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: THE TOKEN, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Send me some token, that my hope may live Last Line: But swear thou thinkst I love thee, and no more. Variant Title(s): Sonnet, The Token Subject(s): Desire; Love SONNET: TO FANNY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cry your mercy, pity, love -- aye love! Last Line: Losing its gust, and my ambition blind! Variant Title(s): "i Cry Your Mercy-pity-love!-aye, Love""; Subject(s): Brawne, Fanny; Desire; Love SONNETS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM: 1. DELIA AT PLAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She held a cup and ball of ivory white Last Line: Who on that dart impales my bosom's gem? Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Play; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women; Male-female Relations SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 20. 'SONG IS NOT DEAD', by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Shelley is dead, and keats is dead, - and who Last Line: Song is not dead, till the last woman dies. Subject(s): Desire SONNETS: 1., by LOUISE ABNEY Poem Text First Line: I love you with a passion - holy, deep - Last Line: But paradise is ours if you would stay. Subject(s): Desire; Love SONNETS: 2, by LOUISE ABNEY Poem Text First Line: Hold fast, o heart, remembered loveliness! Last Line: O heart. Remembrance is your sure defense! Subject(s): Desire; Love; Memory SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 3. THE PALE WOMAN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I spoke to the pale and heavy-lidded woman Last Line: And I fear lest they see that I desire their desire. Subject(s): Desire; Soul SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 146, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I went towards desire Last Line: That she forced me to come back Subject(s): Desire; Love SPIRITUAL WEDDING, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: You are not with me in fleeting moments Last Line: And I love you as one loves a small and lifeless bird Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage SPRING SONG, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having died / one is at great advantage Last Line: Hand in hand in the dirt with you. Subject(s): Death; Desire STARVELINGS, by FLORINE KITTS Poem Text First Line: A pair of starvelings, hunger - mad, we two Last Line: A pinioned dream you fondle in your hand. Subject(s): Desire; Hunger STILLS AND RAPIDS OF YOUR NAKEDNESS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I start from wood to praise you and grow green Subject(s): Desire; Nudity STOP, SHADOW OF MY ELUSIVE BELOVED, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If I fashion a prison for you in my fantasy Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Hearts; Love - Complaints STORIES, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: January thaw in the berkshires, 4 a.M., and what I want Last Line: As if this cleaving, this consciousness, this barn, %had somewhere to go Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sea Voyages; Travel STREAMERS OF LIGHT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: If you came with me to the south of france Last Line: I would make your body into a field of lavender Subject(s): Desire; France; Love STUDENT ASKS THE POET BASHO: WHAT IS VICTORIA'S SECRET?, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Eight pairs of sexy panties Last Line: I try on %your blackberry brassiere Subject(s): Desire; Lingerie; Poetry And Poets; Women SUN ABOVE ROCK -- A DROP, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Was waste the horse Last Line: Between man and mass Subject(s): Desire; Nature SUNFLOWERS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: To fall asleep upon a profusion of sunflowers, thinking of the Last Line: Desire, only desire, prevents the perversion of joy. And of these syllables Subject(s): Desire; Happiness; Sunflowers SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 7. WHAT MAGIC DRUM?, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He holds him from desire, all but stops his breathing lest Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Desire SURREPTITIOUS KISSING, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to say that Last Line: Holding us up now Subject(s): Desire SWEET APPLE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the bough! Last Line: At the end of the bough! Subject(s): Apples; Desire; Fruit SWEET HANDSOME FRIEND, I CAN TELL YOU TRULY, by TIBORS Poem Source Last Line: That I felt joy until you had come back; %nor - Subject(s): Desire; Troubadours SWINGING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Higher, higher, farther away Last Line: Oh, swing me! Oh, swing me! Oh, swing me! Subject(s): Children; Desire; Swings; Childhood SYRINX, by CARRIE ETTER Poem Source First Line: I didn't think of myself as sexy Last Line: The reed, which is to say %I am nothing but desire Subject(s): Desire; Nature TALK IS A CANDLE IN THE DARK, by PIERSON UNDERWOOD Poem Source Last Line: Blind with the fog, they feel the swell %and seek one hidden, shoreward light Subject(s): Desire; Love TARGET, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What is, says the chorus, this human Subject(s): Desire; Children; Childhood THAMAR AND AMNON, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The moon turns in the sky Last Line: And cut the strings of his harp Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Rape THE ARROW, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of your beauty, and this arrow Last Line: I could weep that the old is out of season. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire THE AVENUE, by GEORGES BOUTELLEAU Poem Text First Line: Calm summer eves that once did hide Last Line: The kisses of their old desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Cognac Merchant; Novelist Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Maple Trees; Male-female Relations THE AVIATOR, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Leaving lesser men to feet of clay Last Line: Back to its homethe sun. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Desire; Hearts; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE BATHERS, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can there be women alone and no serpent near? Subject(s): Seashore; Women; Desire; Beach; Coast; Shore THE BLONDE SONATA, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green grizzle day, the soft erotic weather Subject(s): Waiters & Waitresses; Hair; Desire THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#43) , by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man itches, he thinks he has picked up a splinter Last Line: Stinger that cost something its life. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Touch (sense); Dead, The THE BULLOCKY'S LOVE EPISODE, by A. F. YORK Poem Text First Line: I sez to her - 'gee, boxer, gee' - behind the shed last night Last Line: Agree.' Subject(s): Animals; Desire; Horses THE BURIED LADY, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tenderly, humbly, upon the charming tomb / the unconscious monument Last Line: Death far dearer than life. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Dead, The THE BURNING GLASS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shaft of fire that falls like dew Last Line: Behind the glass, within the glow. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Desire; Fire THE CALL, by ANNYE LEWIS ALLISON Poem Text First Line: The river, dimpling in the sun Last Line: Though it bear me far from home. Subject(s): Desire; Rivers THE CARPERS (AN ASPECT), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always the worm in the bud, the fly in the amber Last Line: "carpers"" at odds with our age!" Subject(s): Courage; Desire; Dreams; Mankind; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares; Human Race THE CHANGES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What bird, if you could be a bird Last Line: For whiter-throated nancy! Subject(s): Birds; Desire; Women THE CHASE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The moon his mare, all silver-bright Last Line: What ghostly horse shall course the sky? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Courtship; Desire THE CORNET, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she came out, that white little russian dancer, Last Line: And the tired fingers on the stops of his cornet Subject(s): Desire; Dancing & Dancers THE CREED OF DESIRE, by BRUCE PORTER Poem Text First Line: Still to be sure of the dawn Last Line: And go down to the grave with a shout! Subject(s): Death; Desire; God; Dead, The THE DAYS: AIR, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The riddles I talked in Last Line: In words & air Subject(s): Desire THE DESIRE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me no mansions ivory white Last Line: Just four years old. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Desire; God; Prayer; Childhood THE DESIRE AND THE LAMENTATION OF COEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, 'tis a good house, and a palace fair, the dun of macha Last Line: And the eyes of fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Lament; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE DESIRE TO MAKE LOVE IN A PAGODA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the second selves, sailor, observe Subject(s): Desire THE DISAPPOINTMENT, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day the amorous lysander Last Line: Had damned him to the hell of impotence. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Desire; Impotence THE DOME OF STARS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the purple of the night Last Line: All the forest murmurs low. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime THE DREAM SONGS: 4, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Filling her compact & delicious body Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Desire; Love THE FEMALE PHAETON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thus kitty, beautiful and young Last Line: And set the world on fire. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Mankind; Dead, The; Human Race THE FIRE, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched her, watched the tremulous fire Last Line: And bade the fire be brave. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion; Relationships THE FLIRT, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Beautiful boy, lend me your youth to play with Last Line: Than what I am! Subject(s): Aging; Boys; Desire; Flirtation; Youth THE FLIRTATION, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of looking at you through this glass Subject(s): Desire THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 5. IF YOU CALL ME, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you call me I will come Last Line: Fearless what betide. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 7. THE DESIRE OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O could I brew my soul like wine Last Line: Into a god? Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love THE GIFT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, beloved, to have brought to you Last Line: My scorn of all its pains. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Desire; Gifts & Giving; Love THE GREAT WHITE SHARK, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For days he has dumped a trail of tuna blood Last Line: The seasons are not yet human forms of desire. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Dead, The THE GUILD OF HER BEAUTY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: What cunning craftsman coin'd the thread Last Line: I'm all consumed with desire? Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Hair; Lips THE HILL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill Last Line: -- and then you suddenly cried, and turned away. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Soldiers' Writings THE HOUNDED LOVERS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall we go Last Line: Does not turn back / the cold wind Subject(s): Desire; Love THE INDIAN SERENADE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I arise from dreams of thee Last Line: Where it will break at last! Variant Title(s): Lines To An Indian Air; Serenade;the Indian Girl's Song Subject(s): Desire; Love; Men THE JUDGEMENT OF DESIRE, FR. THE PARADYSE OF DAINTY DEVISES, by RICHARD EDWARDS (1523-1566) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lively larke did stretche her wyng Last Line: Laradon, tan, tan, tedriton teight. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwardes, Richard Subject(s): Desire THE KNIGHT ERRANT, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: He rode at dusk down woodlands strange Last Line: "but white her soul, say I!"";" Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Desire; Knights & Knighthood; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Temptation; Male-female Relations THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 2. THE KNIGHTS TO CHRYSOLA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We crazed for you, aspired and fell for you Last Line: Chrysola! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Desire; Knights & Knighthood; Love Affairs; Dead, The THE LADDER, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a sudden vision in the night Last Line: I kissed the foot that bruised me as it passed. Subject(s): Desire; Ladders THE LETTER, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper Last Line: Of the great moon. Subject(s): Desire; Letters THE LIVING GOD, by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thirst for god, to him my soul aspires Last Line: Thy hand to all that live. Subject(s): Desire; God; Jews; Judaism THE LOFT, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay on her bed Last Line: Opened my arms. Subject(s): Desire; Love - Unrequited THE LOOK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strephon kissed me in the spring Last Line: Haunts me night and day. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Eyes; Flirtation; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sight; Vision; Male-female Relations THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, as you come Last Line: Glowing through the night-bound forest Subject(s): Desire; Romance THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 18, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fires / burn in my heart Last Line: No one knows Subject(s): Desire; Hearts THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 34, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning, I / wake alone, dreaming my Last Line: Pressing my lips Subject(s): Desire; Kisses; Longing THE LOVE-CHANT OF CORMAC CONLINGAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the swan that is whiter, with breast Last Line: Eilidh, eilidh, o-rì, eilidh, eilidh! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations THE LOVER SPEAKS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear her bringing, while I pass Last Line: A paler sort of earth! Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE LUTE AND THE LYRE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep desire, that pierces heart and spirit to the root Last Line: Deep desire. Subject(s): Desire; Music & Musicians; Roundels THE MAGIC WIND, by RUTH GLASCOTT Poem Text First Line: In spring / there's a magic wind Last Line: The world. Subject(s): Desire THE MAID OF MURRAY HILL, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint valentine, saint valentine! Last Line: And stilland stilland still Subject(s): Desire; Murray Hill, New York; Women THE MAIDEN QUEEN: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feed a flame within which so torments me Last Line: Nor can I fall more low, mounting no higher. Variant Title(s): Hidden Flame;song From Secret Love Subject(s): Desire; Love THE MARQUIS DE SADE REGAINED THE INTERIOR OF ... VOLCANO, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The marquis de sade has gone back inside the corrupting volcano Last Line: Clinging to the virgin gossamer of desire Subject(s): Desire THE MARVIN GAYE VERSION, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marie wants to wake up where she can walk outside in her nightgown Last Line: I want to dance 'heard it through the grapevine' 56 times. / marie and donna do too Subject(s): Women; Desire THE MISSIONARY'S SON WRITES IN HIS DIARY, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am gnawn with desire for the daughters of lam kee chow Last Line: It is madness! I write no more. Subject(s): Asia; Desire; Diaries; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE MUSE'S WOOING, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Poet, take thy lute and kiss my mouth! Last Line: Quench my thirsty longing with thy wood! Subject(s): Desire; Kisses; Muses; Poetry & Poets THE MYSTIC'S PRAYER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay me to sleep in sheltering flame Last Line: My soul's desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Mysticism; Prayer; Religion; Sleep; Theology THE NARROW WAY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: At sunset the young monk leaned from the wall Last Line: "go pray, father -- go pray." Subject(s): Desire; Monks; Sin THE OBSCURE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the poor first light of morning Last Line: That her breasts filled the window like a mouth. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Pigs; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Boars; Hogs THE OLD GHOST, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the water an old ghost strode Last Line: At his yearning desire and agony. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Grief; Longing; Sea; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE ORANGE CAT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The orange cat on the porch Subject(s): Cats; Desire THE PATH OF TEARS: 1. THE SORROW OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you turn your face away? Last Line: Or the thrall of the old desire? Subject(s): Death; Desire; Hearts; Love; Memory; Old Age; Dead, The THE POET RELATES HOW HE OBTAINED DELIA'S POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis mine! What accents can my joy declare? Last Line: And I will kiss thee o'er and o'er again. Variant Title(s): Delia's Pocket-handkerchief;love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 1 Subject(s): Desire; Food & Eating; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Story-telling; Male-female Relations THE POET'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He craves not the boon of pleasure Last Line: And the voice before he dies. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Voices; World THE PRIZE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope wafts my bark, and round my way Last Line: In the waves of my dark despair! Subject(s): Beauty; Desire THE QUESTION, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I array my love? Last Line: With a clover in her hand. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire THE QUESTION ANSWER'D, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it men in women do require? Last Line: The lineaments of gratified desire. Variant Title(s): A Question Answered Subject(s): Bible; Desire; Love - Marital; Mythology; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE RAPTURE, by HENRY BAKER Poem Text First Line: You gods! To fold the charmer in my arms Last Line: On heav'n's eternal happiness, or you! Subject(s): Desire THE RECONCILEMENT, by JOHN SHEFFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us now resolve at last Last Line: Sure never is too late! Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of Subject(s): Desire; Love THE RED CREEK CONSULTATION, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS Poem Text First Line: Red creek rush was not a duffer Last Line: After all! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Deception; Desire THE REFORMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man once stood before a frowning wall Last Line: And deified his name to after-times. Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Heaven; Lies; Love; Paradise THE REHEARSAL, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Xylophone, triangle, marimba, soprano, violin Last Line: When what you want is no longer possible. Subject(s): Desire; Music & Musicians THE RIVER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt both pleasure and a shiver Last Line: We'd found by plunging into the wild river. Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Pleasure; Rivers; Swimming & Swimmers; Male-female Relations; Swimmers THE ROSE OF THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark rose of thy mouth Last Line: Kiss me, imperishable fire, dark rose, o rose of my desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Immortality; Mortality; Mouths; Reincarnation; Roses; Transmigration; Pretas THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: ACT 3, SCENE 1, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What to conceal desire, when every Last Line: Whose sight I have not courage to abide. Subject(s): Desire; Fate; Love; Passion; Plays & Playwrights; Destiny THE SADNESS OF SUMMER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful summer! Thou bringest again Last Line: We hear the sweet whisper, we 're fain to obey. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Desire; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Roses; Death - Babies; Paradise THE SANCTUARY: 1. THE FEAR OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O could my love devise Last Line: Of my own heart's desire! Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love THE SATURN PRINCESS AND THE LORD OF MARS, by PAULINE COURTNEY Poem Text First Line: Through space, attracted to each other, two bright atoms fell Last Line: And her cosmic mate the warrior son of the great war-lord of mars? Subject(s): Desire THE SECRET GATE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the dark of sleep, I rose, on the wings of desire Last Line: "ope not the gate." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fear; Fire; Sight; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE SELF-EXAMINATION, by A LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Why throbs my heart when he appears? Last Line: "o say, my heart, thus sweetly tried, / couldst thou thy joys conceal?" Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady Subject(s): Desire THE SHEARER'S SERENADE, by PIERRE CASSEE Poem Text First Line: Come out, o miss, of yonder 'omestead proud Last Line: Of really quite innumerable b's. Alternate Author Name(s): Bushy Bill Subject(s): Desire; Labor & Laborers; Love; Sheep; Work; Workers THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 43, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Now passion hath him in her silken snare Last Line: His leaping thoughts have set his heart afire. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 45, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All perils that love's stony path constrict Last Line: His last doubt fled before the full-orb'd day! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 49, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Life doth no richer joy to man accord Last Line: They put all faint resolves to headlong flight! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Desire; Love THE SONG OF THE ILL-BELOVED; TO PAUL LEAUTARD, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: And this is the ballad that I sang / in 1903 not knowing then Last Line: And such songs as the sirens sing Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Desire; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SPIDER AND THE BEE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nymph who walks the public streets Last Line: By folly your own schemes undo.' Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Charm; Desire; Insects; Spiders; Women; Beekeeping; Bugs THE STILLS AND RAPIDS OF YOUR NAKEDNESS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I start from wood to praise you and grow green Subject(s): Love; Desire THE SYMBOL SEDUCES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There in her old-world garden smiles Last Line: For love, I leave love's haunted bower. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Seduction; Truth THE THEFT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When celia, coming from the stream Last Line: And gave it back to love. Subject(s): Cupid; Desire; Virginity; Eros; Vestals THE THIEF IN THE PAINTING, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirsty all through lent, thirsty on feast days too Subject(s): Desire; Lent THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 14, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You alone, / a white robe over your naked body Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Dreams; Past; Nightmares THE TIGER OF DESIRE; VILLANELLE, by TOM MACINNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Starving, savage, I aspire Last Line: I am the tiger of desire! Subject(s): Desire THE TINDER, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of what mould did nature frame me? Last Line: Flint and steel I 'll ever name ye. Subject(s): Desire THE TRAVELLER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years I slept beneath a thorn Last Line: I am the world's ashes, and the kindling fire. Subject(s): Desire; Life; Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE UNATTAINED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A vision beauteous as the morn Last Line: "all shall pursue, but none shall claim me." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Desire; Dreams; Vision; Nightmares THE VEILS OF SILENCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three veils of silence, summer draws apace Last Line: And ache of inarticulate desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Sea; Silence; Summer; Ocean THE VINDICTIVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should we praise those lads of the old vindictive Last Line: In those red gates of hell? Subject(s): Death; Desire; England; Fear; Hearts; Ships & Shipping; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THE VIOLIN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing sweet, sing sweet, my violin, sing Last Line: Is gone for us. Good-night, good-night. Subject(s): Curses; Desire; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of THE VOICE IN THE GLOAMING, by WILLIAM ALLAN Poem Text First Line: I heard a voice in the gloaming-time Last Line: "hast heard the orphan's prayer." Subject(s): Desire; Prayer THE WANT BONE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue of the waves tolled in the earth's bell Subject(s): Desire; Love 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 WILLING MISTRESS, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amyntas led me to a grove Last Line: Ah who can guess the rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Variant Title(s): Song: The Willing Mistress Subject(s): Desire; Seduction THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain of too poignant beauty fills the heart Last Line: Desire for thee to end thy long seclusion! Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Pain; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is like a star Last Line: Melody, fragrance and fire! Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Sleep; Nightmares THE YOUTH, GIROLAMO SAVANAROLA, PROPHESIES, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put by the lute, girolamo, my son, Last Line: "I burn with sweetness till I burn in fire." Subject(s): Desire; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE YOUTHFUL QUEST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His lady queen of woods to meet Last Line: To ash at look of eyes. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Forests; Woods THE ZONE OF VENUS, by ANTIPHANES Poem Text First Line: When venus loosed the cestus of desire Last Line: But thou hast used-it against me alone! Subject(s): Desire; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) THEN SPEND AN AGE IN WHETTING THY DESIRE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thou needs't not hasten if thou dost stand fast Subject(s): Time; Desire THIEF IN THE PAINTING, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirsty all through lent, thirsty on feast days too Last Line: The hard, pure, furiously indifferent faces of thieves Subject(s): Desire; Lent THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 14, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You alone, %a white robe over your naked body Last Line: Through the dreams of twenty years Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Dreams; Past THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 17. A LOVER'S PLEA, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I come, sweet love, to thee Last Line: While these cold nights freeze me dead. Variant Title(s): Love's Request;a Lover's Plea Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Love THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be thou then my beauty named Last Line: Ile love thee, serve thee, and adore. Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Flattery; Love THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire, fire, fire, fire! Last Line: That else must burn, and with me fall. Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Pain; Rivers; Suffering; Misery THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, oh, come, my life's delight Last Line: As swift to me as heavenly light! Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Love; Seduction THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 25, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, angry beauty, sleep, and fear not me Last Line: That she in peace may wake and pity me. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Sleep TIRESOME SPRING, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: I have watched her at the window Last Line: Tiresome spring! You've come again! Subject(s): Desire; Spring TO CHLOE WHO FOR HIS SAKE WISHED HERSELF YOUNGER, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe, why wish you that your years Last Line: And whom he finds young keeps young still. Subject(s): Desire; Love TO CLARISSA, by ROBERT NUGENT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when the friendly shade of night Last Line: I wish her with her wedded mate. Alternate Author Name(s): Nugent, Earl Subject(s): Desire; Jealousy TO CLOE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst I am scorched with hot desire Last Line: The rest in mine shall ever last. Subject(s): Desire; Friendship; Hearts; Passion TO ELLEN; IMITATED FROM CATULLUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Might I kiss those eyes of fire Last Line: Could I desist? -- ah! Never -- never! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Imitated Fron Catullus Subject(s): Desire TO HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Had we but world enough, and time / this coyness, lady, were no crime Last Line: Stand still, yet we will make him run. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Desire; Holidays; Love; New Year; Time TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind Last Line: Loved I not honour more. Variant Title(s): Going To The Wars;song Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Duty; Heroism; Honor; Love; Soldiers; War; Separation; Isolation; Heroes; Heroines TO MARGOT HEINEMANN, by JOHN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of the heartless world Variant Title(s): Huesca Subject(s): Desire; Love; World War Ii; Second World War TO MARGOT HEINEMANN, by JOHN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of the heartless world Last Line: Don't forget my love Variant Title(s): Huesc Subject(s): Desire; Love; World War Ii TO MY SOUL'S DESIRE, by KAREN MULHALLEN Poem Source First Line: In the tapestries the lady consorts with her lover Last Line: The jewel of the soft pink velvet folded casket Subject(s): Desire; Soul TO THE FAIR CLARINDA, WHO MADE LOVE TO ME, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair lovely maid, or if that title be Last Line: The love to hermes, aphrodite the friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Desire TOM, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A key. The door. Open Subject(s): Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TOM, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A key. The door. Open Last Line: Is only and always beautiful Subject(s): Desire; Homosexuality TOUCHING, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to touch you in beautiful Last Line: Such beautiful hidden places Subject(s): Desire; Love TOUCHING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She kept touching me Last Line: It is the man burns Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Desire TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. DISENTANGLEMENT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be not torn by desire Last Line: True end of thy voyage. Subject(s): Desire; Love TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WHO SHALL COMMAND THE HEART (2), by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall command the heart, that wondrous thing Last Line: The universe over? Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Hearts; Love TRADER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I traded a girl Last Line: Now lie in it. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Fruit; Love TRAGOS, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: The heart of man is cleft by two desires Last Line: Then vanishes and leaves all dark behind. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Life; Mankind; Human Race TRIOLET: CLYTIE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Clytie, clytie, in the fire Last Line: Tried, and passed to glory golden! Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire TRISTAN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all sorts of weather tristan Subject(s): Sea; Children; Desire; Friendship; Family Life; Ocean; Childhood; Relatives TROILUS AND CRESSIDA [CRISEYDE]: BOOK 1. CANTUS TROILI, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If no love is, o god, what fele I so? Subject(s): Desire; Florence, Italy; Love TROILUS AND CRESSIDA [CRISEYDE]: BOOK 1. CANTUS TROILI, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If no love is, o god, what fele I so? Last Line: For hete of cold, for cold of hete, I deye Subject(s): Desire; Florence, Italy; Love TWO IN AUGUST, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two that could not have lived their single lives Subject(s): Desire; Love TWO IN AUGUST, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two that could not have lived their single lives Last Line: Under the hackberry trees where the birds talked %with words too sad and strange to syllable Subject(s): Desire; Love TWO SONGS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sex, as they harshly call it Subject(s): Desire; Love - Erotic; Metaphor; Similes TWO SONGS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sex, as they harshly call it Last Line: We murmur the first moonwords: %spasibo. Thanks. O.K Subject(s): Desire; Erotic Love; Metaphor TWO SUNSETS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair morning of his life Last Line: And strikes the holiest feelings dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Evening; Hearts; Life; Punishment; Sunset; Twilight UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, by DEANNE BAYER Poem Source First Line: It is those bits and pieces of life Last Line: That doesn't quite %cover the scar? Subject(s): Desire; Refuse And Refuse Disposal UPADESHA: CYCLE OF DESIRE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unheard / you do / stand me Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love UPADESHA: CYCLE OF DESIRE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unheard %you do %stand me Last Line: In flagrant periphrasis %heat's language Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love UPON DESIRE, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I will bring this splendor to a poem, I used to say, whenever Last Line: How slight, and to fall asleep within its shade Subject(s): Desire VENETIAN BLIND, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pull it down while glancing through Last Line: Here, light-sliced, with another man Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Desire; Homosexuality VIBRANT LONS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Minutes / selves / socks Last Line: In a cyclone of dizzy cares Subject(s): Desire VIRELAY, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou cruel fair, I go Last Line: For ever, though, farewell. Subject(s): Desire; Love VISITOR, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am dreaming of a house just like this one Subject(s): Hope; Desire; Optimism VOLCANOS, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Every volcano rears its outlined height Last Line: Baskets o' erturned, that pour abroad their flowers Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Passion; Volcanoes W (VIVA): 52, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere I have never travelled,gladly beyond Last Line: Nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Desire; Love WAGES OF SELF-INTEREST, by WALTER BARGEN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes there is only the sorting of dry Last Line: Of loss this law of desiring corrupting what he %desires these equal and opposite reactions Subject(s): Desire; Self; Sleep WAITING FOR THE STARS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much I long for the night to come Last Line: The thirst for the dark heavens. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Desire; Legacies; Night; Inspiration; Creativity; Bedtime WANT, by A. J. RATHBUN Poem Source First Line: In seattle, late june, it's light Last Line: To eat, saliva coming on with the tide to cover us Subject(s): Death; Desire; Poetry And Poets WANT BONE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue of the waves tolled in the earth's bell Last Line: My flower my fin my life my lightness my o Subject(s): Desire; Love WANTING, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanting and dissatisfaction / are the main ingredients Last Line: To procreate is the essence of decay. Subject(s): Desire; Happiness; Joy; Delight WANTS, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We women want too many things Last Line: And only ask for rest. Subject(s): Desire; Women WARMTH, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Sometimes want makes touch too much Last Line: And holds out his hands to the stove Subject(s): Desire; Touch (sense) WAY THE LIGHT WAS, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How completely useless beauty Last Line: A bird picks up a seed and carries a life away Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Supernatural WE MUST MAKE A KINGDOM OF IT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that a colony will breed here Last Line: The gravedigger's shoulder. Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WERE THERE TWO, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: Were there two lives for us Last Line: My life, to know all my pain Subject(s): Desire; Love; Pain WHALE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Gone astray, as in the dreams of love Last Line: Her alluring and robust anatomy Subject(s): Desire; Love; Marine Animals; Whales WHAT BLIGHT, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: What blight is this eating into my desire Last Line: To know what lies in my far sight Subject(s): Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Thought WHAT HE SAID, by ORERURAVANAR Poem Source First Line: Her arms have beauty Last Line: And ready for seed Subject(s): Desire WHAT MAKES THIS STATUE NOBLE SEEMING, by KENNETH KOCH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I want your mouth, your breath Subject(s): Faces; Desire WHAT MAKES THIS STATUE NOBLE SEEMING, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I want you! That or death! %I want your mouth, your breath! Subject(s): Desire WHEN DORIS DANCED UNDER THE OAK TREE, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They lit his face in such degree %doris lay down, all out of pity Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Desire WHEN IT HITS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: There is a craving Last Line: This is the calmest place on earth Subject(s): Calm; Desire; Morality; Slavery WHEN YOU ARE OLD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When you are old and grey and full of sleep Last Line: And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Helen: 1 Subject(s): Desire; Loss; Love; Memory; Old Age WHITE CITY, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shirtsleeved, walking out into the spring, occasionally Last Line: Forever vanishing between our bodies Subject(s): Desire; Weather; Winter WHY IS IT GREEK OMELET AND NOT PUERTO RICAN?, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning / I look for you Subject(s): Desire WHY SHE SAYS NO, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two friends at the close of summer Subject(s): Desire WIFE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: That's how it felt, that I was wind Last Line: No hope of going out. Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Grief; Marriage WISHES TO HIS SUPPOSED MISTRESS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er she be, / that not impossible she Last Line: Be ye my fictions: -- but her story. Variant Title(s): Wishes For The Supposed Mistress Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love WITH ASCENDANCY IN SCORPIO, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: And began to spell myself to a new meaning Subject(s): Desire; Love WITH STAIN OF THE GRAPE, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Wild thing the wind is Last Line: The heart knows best. Subject(s): Desire; Faith; Hearts; Love; Belief; Creed WOMAN WALKING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An oblique cloud of purple smoke Last Line: I might well see you oftener. Subject(s): Country Life; Women; Desire WONDROUS THE MERGE, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had my soul tottered off to sleep Subject(s): Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WONDROUS THE MERGE, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Had my soul tottered off to sleep Last Line: One day we shall not bother to return Subject(s): Desire; Homosexuality YOU, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight passes through the window into the room Last Line: Still heavy with its desire to be the cloud. Subject(s): Desire; Light; Love; Sewing; Water YOU MUST HAVE BEEN A SENSATIONAL BABY, by HAROLD NORSE Poem Source First Line: I love your eyebrows, said one Last Line: The whole place trembled with lust Subject(s): Desire; Homosexuality YOUNG WIFE, WAKING, by FLOYD DELL Poem Text First Line: Shadow-boy, shadow lover Last Line: Come not again! Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Nightmares YOUR PLATINUM EYES AND BRONZE, by JUDSON CREWS Poem Source First Line: Tits, you tongue more brightly colored Last Line: If I believed even half of it were true %I'd keep you with three locks %on every door Subject(s): Desire YSOLTE, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I am young and the world is wide Last Line: It is well! Subject(s): Desire; Love; Single People; Youth; Bachelors; Unmarried People [LYING IN BED I THINK ABOUT YOU], by BECKMAN. JOSHUA Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Desire |
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