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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DOVES Matches Found: 81 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BESTIARY: THE DOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: With the dove we good customs find Last Line: In christ's mercy our hope should rest Subject(s): Doves A CHILD SCREENING A DOVE FROM A HAWK, BY STEWARDSON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, screen thy favourite dove, fair child Last Line: A hawk for every dove! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Doves; Paintings & Painters ALAS, ALL FOR A SPARROWHAWK I SIGH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: When once you were contented at my side Subject(s): Doves; Sparrows; Wings ANACREON'S DOVE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely courier of the sky Last Line: "I have chatter'd like a pye." Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Doves AS THE DOVE, WHICH FOUND NO REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In a grave Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Noah (bible); Doves; Heaven BEAK OF THE DOVE, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE Poem Source First Line: In the next century Last Line: Left upon the tables Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Peace BELOVED, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Beloved, let us love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Eagles; Doves COME ON YOUR SKY-BLUE WINGS, YE PAPHIAN DOVES, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And scornful bound away Subject(s): Dawn; Doves DAMNATION OF DOVES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where did doves perch before there were telephone wires Last Line: Or whatever does for ritual in a.D. Subject(s): Doves DISTANT DOVE, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A distant dove flutters Last Line: And not stay silent Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Doves; Love DOVE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How often, these hours, have I heard the monotonous crool %of a dove Last Line: So dark with disquietude seem? And what is it sorowing of? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds; Doves DOVE, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI Poem Source First Line: It troubles the boy that, if you want to draw a white bird, you Last Line: Will never be able to escape again Subject(s): Animals; Children; Doves; Drawing; Feathers; Wings DOVE AND THE WREN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Coo, coo, coo Subject(s): Doves DOVE IN SPRING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brooder, brooder, deep beneath its walls Last Line: This howling at one's ear, too far %for daylight and too near for sleep Subject(s): Doves DOVE NOTES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soft, strange note of the doves, to what Last Line: Like melody heard under water, or music dimmed by a dream. Subject(s): Doves; Memory; Music & Musicians DOVE'S NECK, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dove's neck is so thin Last Line: My bitter personal heavens Subject(s): Doves DOVE'S WEATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is a dove: she is preening an ashgrey feather Last Line: Under her wings and her eyes, the colour of doves. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Day; Doves DOVE-LOVE', by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dove purrs - over and over the dove Subject(s): Doves; Love DOVE-LOVE', by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dove purrs - over and over the dove Last Line: I could eat you Subject(s): Doves; Love DOVES, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roaming the little path 'neath dotterel trees Last Line: Then they in bolder crowds will sweep and fly %and brave the desert of a winter sky Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Doves DOVES, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, if man's boast and man's advance be vain Last Line: "god keeps,"" I said, ""our little flock of years." Subject(s): Doves; London EIGHT DOVES, by JANE DRANSFIELD Poem Source First Line: Above the housetops eight dives fly Subject(s): Doves FLOCKS OF DOVES, by CARLOS PELLICER Poem Source First Line: The flocks of doves Last Line: And for 20 cents-small change-they sing themselves %the songs Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Photography And Photographers; Wings GABRIELLE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: A griffin crouches on an oriel plinth Last Line: The lady couch'd thereby. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Kisses; Love; Sorrow; Sadness IF I HAD WINGS, MY LADY, LIKE A DOVE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: If I could die, my lady, with my love Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love; Doves JESUS AND THE DOVE, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, the mother good and mild Last Line: And kneel'd before her child. Subject(s): Doves; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth LETTING THE DOVES OUT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The imaginary lover, form in the mind Last Line: And draws more iridescent scarves from his sleeve Subject(s): Doves; Freedom; Liberty LETTING THE DOVES OUT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The imaginary lover, form in the mind Last Line: Lets his doves out, murmurs them home again %and draws more iridescent scarves from his sleeve Subject(s): Doves; Freedom LISTENING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She listened like a cushat dove Last Line: To hear him speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Doves; Love MARTYRDOM OF SAINT SEBASTIAN, by EUGENIO FLORIT Poem Source First Line: Yes, come to my arms, little doves of iron Last Line: Lodged within the contents of my heart Subject(s): Angels; Death; Doves; Love - Loss Of MINNIE AND HER DOVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two days she miss'd her dove, and then alas Last Line: Eclipse thy memory of the kite and dove. Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MOURNING DOVE, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: Sweet is the hermit's evening bell Subject(s): Birds; Doves MY DOVES, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little doves have left a nest Last Line: My seaward hill, my boundless sea. Subject(s): Doves NEAR ANIO'S STREAM I SPIED A GENTLE DOVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In what alone is ours, the living now Subject(s): Hope; Doves NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: 14. RING-DOVE SONG, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly I sing you, sweet Last Line: Sweet. Subject(s): Doves NOW THEY DESIRE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sleep we have not slept Last Line: In sevenfold day of days Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem; Doves; Sleep; Dreams; Love ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, why, my sweetest dove Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Doves; Drinks & Drinking; Wine OF MOIRA UP THE GLEN, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's little that I'd care for the glories of ireland Last Line: The lovely unfolding of dream-purged desire. Subject(s): Doves; Ireland; Irish ON A FERRY BOAT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river widens to a pathless sea Last Line: From all that fondles life and feeds the heart. Subject(s): Doves; Ferry Boats; Rain; Rivers; Sea; Ocean ROCK DOVES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Three years I commuted across the tappan zee, Last Line: The answer rang out sharp and shrapnel-sudden Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Relationships SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE HOLY DOVE SITTING NEAR CHRIST'S HEAD, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over whom does the sacred bird hover on starry wing? Last Line: This bird alone is not unworthy to sleep in this nest: %thisnest alone is quite worthy of this bird Subject(s): Doves SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE HOLY DOVE SITTING NEAR CHRIST'S HEAD, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over whom does the sacred bird hover on starry wing? Last Line: This bird alone is not unworthy to sleep in this nest: %thisnest alone is quite worthy of this bird Subject(s): Doves SEALED, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doves call down the long arcades of Last Line: I shall be striving towards you till the end. Subject(s): Birds; Boredom; Doves; Love; Ennui SONG (1), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dove and the sweet dove died Last Line: Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees? Variant Title(s): The Dove;song: I Had A Dove And The Sweet Dove Died Subject(s): Doves SONG (9), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two doves upon the selfsame branch Last Line: And never give a thought to night. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Doves; Happiness; Joy; Delight SONG OF FIXED ACCORD, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rou-cou spoke the dove Subject(s): Doves SONG OF THE WILD DOVE, by CASSIANO RICARDO Poem Source First Line: Deep within the backlands I walked along the road Last Line: The weeping of all that weeps because it is far away... %very far away Subject(s): Doves; Nature SONNET: 15. UPON THE DEVICE OF A SEELED DOVE, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the dove, which seeled up doth fly Last Line: More happy I, might I in bondage bide. Subject(s): Doves SONNETS: 8. BELOVED EYES, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, beneath your lashes' shadow bides Last Line: With wings of pity once more wash them clean. Subject(s): Beauty; Doves; Eyes; Love SURELY SOMEONE WILL HELP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But who, but who? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Doves; Mourning; Nature THE CAPTIVE DOVE, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor restless dove, I pity thee Last Line: Must pine, neglected, and alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Doves THE CHILD AND DOVE; SUGGESTED BY CHANTREY'S STATUE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art a thing on our dreams to rise Last Line: One vision away of the cloudless morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt (1781-1841); Doves; Sculpture & Sculptors THE DOVE, by ABUL HASAN OF SEVILLE Poem Text First Line: Naught disturbed my tranquil mood Last Line: Whither? Ah, I do not know. Alternate Author Name(s): Abu L-hasan Ali Ibn Hisn Subject(s): Doves THE DOVE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the sunshine and out of the heat Last Line: Since the dove fluttered down to its home in my breast! Subject(s): Doves THE DOVE, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If haply thou, o desdemona morn Last Line: Chadd's ford, pennsylvania, 1877. Subject(s): Doves THE DOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In virgil's sacred verse we find Last Line: Says he; for sure I touch his feather. Subject(s): Cupid; Doves; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Eros; Vergil THE DOVE (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bird that seem'st in solitude Last Line: And ne'er to come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Doves THE DOVE (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tuneful mist above a silent sea Last Line: Melt into twilight tenderness divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Doves THE DOVE (3), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lone horizon listening seems to thee Last Line: Forever far removed. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Doves THE DOVE IN SPRING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brooder, brooder, deep beneath its walls Subject(s): Doves THE DOVE'S NECK, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dove's neck is so thin Subject(s): Doves THE DOVES, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reasoning at every step he treads Last Line: A lesson for mankind. Subject(s): Doves; Love THE DOVES, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On yonder hillside, white with tombs Last Line: But vanish at the break of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Doves; Dreams; Palm Trees; Nightmares THE DOVES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The house where I was born Last Line: But two keep house together. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Doves; Home THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shade of caractacus, if spirits love Last Line: From heaven, gigantic force to beardless boys. Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Eagles THE MESSAGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you not feel the white glow in your breast, my bird? Last Line: With no death after, no arrow with stinging pains. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dover, England; Doves; Love; Messengers THE MILK-WHITE DOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pew, pew" Last Line: And away I flew Subject(s): Doves THE MOURNING DOVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou saying, doing, pensive dove Last Line: "to die or live unchanging lovers true." Subject(s): Absence; Death; Doves; Life; Love; Nature; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the bird of loudest lay Last Line: For these dead birds, sigh a prayer. Subject(s): Doves; Legends; Love; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Wedding Song; Epithalamium THE SPARROW AND THE DOVE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was, as learn'd traditions say Last Line: And, sighing to himself, withdrew. Subject(s): Doves; Fables; Sparrows; Women; Allegories THE TURTLE DOVES, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye happy pair of turtle doves Subject(s): Doves; Love; Turtledoves THE TWO VOICES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night darkens fast and the shadows darken Last Line: Lest they should wake to weep, should wake to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Morning; Night; Tears; Voices; Bedtime THE VOICE OF THE DOVE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen, o love, to the voice of the dove Last Line: "there is only one to-day." Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Doves THE VOICE OF THE DOVE, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear I the mourning-dove Last Line: So seas remember, tho our souls forget. Subject(s): Doves THE WILD DOVES, by GEORGES BOUTELLEAU Poem Text First Line: Over gray skies or shining Last Line: Our haven of desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Cognac Merchant; Novelist Subject(s): Doves THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For thy wings, thou dove! Last Line: Would draw me earthwards -- homewards -- yet once more. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Doves; Flight; Flying TO A WOOD-PIGEON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have I scared thee from thy bough Last Line: Murmurs night and day! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Forests; Hunting; Wings; Woods; Hunters VIOLIN AND VIOLA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At times, when, with an anguish all too keen Last Line: The grave viola plaining of old loves. Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Violins; Sorrow; Sadness VIOLIN SONGS: TWO IN ONE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were thou and I the white pinions Last Line: Two thoughts in the heart of one lord. Subject(s): Doves; God; Love; Music & Musicians; Sky WHAT THE DOVE SINGS, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mourning dove Subject(s): Doves WINGS OF A DOVE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At sunset, when the rosy light was dying Last Line: Come home and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Doves |
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