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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DESOLATION Matches Found: 63 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A CASTLE-BUILDER'S WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unripe harvest there hath none to reap it Last Line: Shades of bodies without souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Soul; Emptiness; Desolation A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on the loftiest mountain-tops, unfurl Last Line: And harp, where eccho'd once thy feastful halls. Subject(s): Advice; Bible; Desolation; God; Vengeance; War AT DAYBREAK, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the train window at daybreak Last Line: The train picking up speed Subject(s): Railroads; Cities; Desolation AT THE FIELD, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: What %crumbles around me? Last Line: The sound of something crumbling %little by little Subject(s): Desolation ATMOSPHERE, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: The house stood out-lined harsh against the sky Last Line: A loveliness we scarce suspect is there. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Desolation; Houses, Deserted; Love BACK FROM KINLOCHLEVEN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waterworks are finished and the boys have / jacked the shovel Last Line: But at any rate you'll know them by their curses when in town. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Death; Desolation; Drinks & Drinking; Labor & Laborers; Quarrels; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The; Wine; Work; Workers; Arguments; Disagreements BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lone 'bush' breaks: and the forest dips and clings Last Line: "^2^ australia has, however, her own ""song-thrush"" and ""song-lark." Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Brooks; Desolation; Forests; Trees; Streams; Creeks; Woods CALL OF THE OPEN, by LAURA E. BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: Away from the din of the city Last Line: Nature and peace and god. Subject(s): Desolation; Fields; Rivers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas COSTANZA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fell Last Line: His last faint breath just waved her floating hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Women; Dead, The DEAD, by JOSE MARIA EGUREN Poem Source First Line: The snow-covered dead Last Line: On the unending road Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Graves DEAD JOYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moan on with thy loud changeless wail Last Line: Or art thou pitiless as wind or sea? Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Disasters; Funerals - At Sea; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Seamen; Sails DESERTED CHURCHYARD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lay an ancient churchyard Last Line: The shadowy days of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Calm; Churchyards; Desolation; Silence; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Loneliness DESOLATE, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day goes down red darkling Last Line: I sit in my darkness and tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Desolation DESOLATION, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the forest bleak and lonely Last Line: Come and sing above my tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Birds; Death; Desolation; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DESOLATION, by KAO SHIH Poem Text First Line: There was a king of liang - a king of wondrous might Alternate Author Name(s): Ta-fu Subject(s): Desolation DESOLATION, by HELEN MARGUERITE PERRI Poem Text First Line: Bleak, barren waste of desert land Last Line: Trod on—benumbed—alone. Subject(s): Desolation; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness DESOLATION-A DREAM, by CORIE DAVIS HENTON Poem Text First Line: You need not pour two cups this morn Last Line: I am alone, alone. ... And growing old! Subject(s): Absence; Desolation; Separation; Isolation DESPERADO, by DAVID MOOLTEN Poem Source First Line: The son of migrants, according to the papers Last Line: To the desperate, no matter how harsh Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Desolation DOOMSDAY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I can raise one ghost, why I will raise Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Judgment Day; Longing; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EVENING STAR, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a twilight hour Last Line: Through the long, long hours of night, Subject(s): Desolation; Night; Silence; Bedtime FACING INTO IT; FOR LARRY LEVIS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it is here, then, after so long, and after all Last Line: And winter in straw. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Autumn; Desolation; Disasters; October; Seasons; Storms; Fall FAR COOKTOWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Things are quiet in far cooktown Last Line: Now own the blanky town Subject(s): Abandonment;desolation;towns; Desertion FLICKERS, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Abandoned town on the border, I wait Last Line: This prayer they will teach me Subject(s): Desolation; Love - Complaints; Prayer FROM BOURBAH TO BULLAGREEN, by JACK MOSES Poem Text First Line: You take my tip, for stick and slip Last Line: From bourbah to bullagreen. Subject(s): Desolation; Travel; Journeys; Trips FROM THE CELL I OUTLINE THE TRACE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Darkened I outline traces Last Line: In their gestures %I exist Subject(s): Desolation; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners GENERAL ROBERTS IN AFGHANISTAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1878, and the winter had set in Last Line: He spread death and desolation all along. Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Great Britain - Norman Conquest; Grief; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness GOD-FORGOTTEN, by PETER AIREY Poem Text First Line: Lies the town of god-forgotten duly west Last Line: And we'll wonder where the deuce it's gone and how on earth it rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Luftig, P.; Born, Furness; Flam, Philander Subject(s): Abandonment; Desolation; Towns; Desertion GONE, by MARIE TELLO PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: One little word pregnant with sorrow Last Line: "o I am desolate, desolate, desolate." Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Desolation; Separation; Isolation HIS LAST STAGE, by JOHN PHILIP BURKE Poem Text First Line: With steps that were limping and slow Last Line: The only ones there for his sake. Alternate Author Name(s): B., J. P. Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Dead, The I LOOK FOR THE LORD', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our wealth has wasted all away Last Line: And sweetness to the taste Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Desolation; Earth; God; Heaven IL PLEUT DOUCEMENT SUR LA VILLE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears fall within mine heart Last Line: Mine heart is desolate. Subject(s): Desolation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness INTIMATIONS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is hovering about me Last Line: Shall redeem us from the dust. Subject(s): Consolation; Desolation JARS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Now you find, along the river, red clay and black clay Last Line: It more than if were brimming with blood Subject(s): Desolation; Emptiness JUST DELICATE NEEDLES--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: It's so delicate, the light Last Line: So it will come again in the morning. %we hope Variant Title(s): Just Delicate Needles Subject(s): Desolation LAST VISIT, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Source First Line: The place we could never enter hides away still Last Line: And nothing has changed except what brought us here Subject(s): Desolation MARIANA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With blackest moss the flower-plots Last Line: O god, that I were dead!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Desolation; Despair; Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Solitude; Dramatists; Loneliness MEMORY, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Ah! Memory can haunt Last Line: To curse us or to bless. Subject(s): Desolation; Memory NEGLECTED, by MONICA SHIPP CLINE Poem Text First Line: Beside the weather-boarded shanty Last Line: Forgotten and neglected. Subject(s): Cruelty; Desolation; Poverty NEVER PLANNED IT THIS WAY, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: Dry ice in the wrong season Subject(s): Desolation; Snow; Winter NIGHT MANCEUVRES, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through january night we climbed Last Line: I was not desolate before. Subject(s): Desolation; Night; Silence; Winter; World War Ii; Bedtime; Second World War ON THE HEATH, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A desolate heath / over the sea Last Line: Is the place for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Desolation QUAND LE BON DIEU SOURIT, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: ...God, my god! Last Line: Dear lord! Subject(s): Desolation; Prayer REMEMBRANCE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee! Last Line: How could I seek the empty world again? Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): R. Alcona To J. Brenzaida Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Grief; Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SAN LUIS REY DE FRANCIA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Wide these margarita mountains open canons wild and / deep Last Line: " 'tis the spirits doomed to penance—look not on their curséd forms." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desolation; Missions & Missionaries SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 14, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what the mournful linnets say Last Line: Too late to build, too sad to sing.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Desolation; Linnets THE CRY OF THE CRANE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The woman had borne me a child Last Line: With my child in her arms? Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Death - Children; Desolation; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE DERELICT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Beyond the rim of waters vast Last Line: And break the fatal spell. Subject(s): Desolation; Despair; Heaven; Paradise THE DESERT LAND, by MARGARET DELANEY Poem Text First Line: Good god, can it be you made this place Last Line: Alone in the desert at night! Subject(s): Deserts; Desolation; Food & Eating; Hunger; Solitude; South Dakota; Loneliness THE DESOLATE CITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Dark to me is the earth. Dark to me are the heavens Last Line: "a heaven taken by storm, where none are left but the / slain!" Subject(s): Desolation THE ELM TREE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old giant from the days we call primeval Last Line: Through hope's bright portal in the happy west. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Desolation; Elm Trees; Spring THE GUNS IN SUSSEX, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light green of grass and richer green of bush Last Line: But still I hear the mutter of the guns. Subject(s): Desolation; England; Guns; Patriotism; Sussex, England; War; World War I; English; First World War THE HAUNTED RUIN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The place, untouched by vice or crime Last Line: And joins the phantoms there. Subject(s): Desolation; Haunted Houses THE HOUSE ON THE HILL, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: They are all gone away Last Line: There is nothing more to say. Subject(s): Decay; Desolation; Rot; Decadence THE NITHSDALE WIDOW AND HER SON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon Last Line: And as for killing the ruffian dragoon he never did repent. Subject(s): Cruelty; Desolation; Despair; Mourning; Widows & Widowers; Bereavement THE PLACE FOR NO STORY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The coast hills at sovranes creek Last Line: But dilute the lonely self-watchful passion Subject(s): Desolation; Nature; Landscape THE STAR OF GOD'S MALISON, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging leprous and white in the wide / universe Last Line: Along the dread hush of a desolate land. Subject(s): Desolation; Leprosy; Religion; Lepers; Theology THE TEAM BULLOCK, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunrays scorched like furnace fires Last Line: "for I have taken none on these!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Death; Desolation; Drought; Horses; Dead, The THE TOWER OF ERCILDOUNE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a stillness on the night Last Line: Except to lead us nearer heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Desolation; Haunted Houses; Scotland; Walls TO ZION, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou not hungry for thy children, zion Last Line: And thy first youth in glory is renewed. Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Desolation UNDER THE CLOUD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cloud we pass Last Line: And our sorrow is glorified. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Graves; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement WHERE SILENCE REIGNS, by W. A. WOODS Poem Text First Line: Out back, where silence reigneth, on the great grey western plains Last Line: While the ever-creaking saddle is the only sound we hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Drayman, John Subject(s): Animals; Death; Desolation; Horses; Prairies; Dead, The; Plains WINTER SCENERY, JANUARY, 1809, by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark sky lours: a crimson streak Last Line: The daemon desolation reigns! Subject(s): Desolation; Winter |
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