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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 out—and 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 submission—holds 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 home—the 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 still—and still—and 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