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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 35, by JOEL BETTRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Light seen as fall
Last Line: From folds of the plow %never did find her
Subject(s): Earth; Light


36, by JOEL BETTRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Never did find her
Last Line: Scales entwine arms %dropped in the furrow
Subject(s): Earth


37, by JOEL BETTRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dropped in the furrow
Last Line: Aint much of a gig
Subject(s): Earth; Sun


A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, ADDRESSED TO TWO LADIES, SELECTION, by JOHN DALTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Agape the sooty collier stands
Last Line: Creative commerce, these are thine!
Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines & Miners; Earth; Rivers; Stones; Caverns; World; Granite; Rocks


A DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was a curious dream; I thought the three
Last Line: That I awoke and joined too in their mirth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Planets; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; World; Ocean


A DREAM AT ARDEA (MAREMMA), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where ardea, the cliff-girt
Last Line: The star of eve.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Sea; Venus (goddess); Nightmares; World; Ocean


A DROP OF ANY SEA ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd like to try the deeper waters, spread
Last Line: And gave himself till dark pools held him dead.
Subject(s): Earth; Love; Sea; World; Ocean


A FAITH ON TRAIL, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the morning of may
Last Line: Him through handmaiden me.'
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Forests; World; Belief; Creed; Woods


A KNOCK ON THE DOOR, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They ask me if I've ever thought
Subject(s): Earth; Judgment Day; World; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


A LEGEND OF THE MOON, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nightlong I yearned so madly toward the moon
Last Line: Of moons and mortals and of olden days.
Subject(s): Cities; Death; Earth; Legends; Life; Mankind; Moon; Urban Life; Dead, The; World; Human Race


A MARCH SNOW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the old snow be covered with the new
Last Line: Even as the new snow covers up the old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; March (month); Snow; World


A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery
Last Line: For marian, our clear may, so long laid in earth.
Subject(s): Earth; Fools; Grief; Hope; Moon; Seasons; Time; World; Idiots; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


A NEW WORLD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I who had sought afar from earth
Last Line: And bright with burning gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; Fantasy; World


A NOON INTERVAL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A deep, delicious hush in earth and sky
Last Line: The wand waves, and the dozer sinks away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Earth; Noon; Sleep; Summer; World


A PARAPHRASE ON THE 65TH PSALM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To thee, jehovah, grateful sion sings
Last Line: And the full valleys laugh and sing and shout around.
Subject(s): Bible; Earth; God; Nature; Praise; Prayer; World


A RAINBOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A rainbow is god's pledge of peace
Last Line: Or clinging to a rose.
Subject(s): Colors; Earth; Rain; Rainbows; World


A REVERIE ON HATHERLEY CHURCHYARD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nay, mock me not with shifting human smiles
Last Line: For thou art righteousness, and love, and christ, and god!
Subject(s): Beauty; Churchyards; Earth; Love; Nature; Truth; World


A SONG, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is any one sad in the world, I wonder?
Last Line: And what heart sorrows? O no, not mine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Light; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; World


A SONNET FOR THE EARTH, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am weary for delight and spent
Last Line: A song for thee amid the farthest sky.
Subject(s): Earth; World


A SPECK ON THE DOT, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe this world is the tiniest dot
Last Line: I've got all eternity.
Subject(s): Earth; Life Change Events; World


A SUMMER SUNRISE; AFTER LEE O. HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The master-hand whose pencils trace
Last Line: Go up to bless the new-born day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Mountains; Summer; Sunrise; World; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A TWILIGHT MUSING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye who in this vain life
Last Line: Lighten and cheer?
Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; World; Sunset; Twilight


A VAIN SHADOW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world, - what a world, ah me
Last Line: As what is and passes away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Vanity


A WALTZ THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When a man's prime passion, for years on years
Last Line: Subtly shaping his witching waltz!
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Graves; Life; Love; Music & Musicians; Nature; Straw; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones


A WHITE WORLD, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never knew the world in white
Last Line: On this fair world of thine!
Subject(s): Earth; World


A WORLD FOR LOVE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the world is all too rude for thee, with much ado and care
Last Line: Herself grow eden once again, possest of love and thee.
Subject(s): Earth; Love; Nature; World


A YAWN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I grow so weary; is it death?
Last Line: They live and die and so pass by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Arks; Death; Earth; Sea; Dead, The; World; Ocean


ABOVE THE RIO GRANDE, PILAR, NEW MEXICO, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fallen on the edge of a dirt road
Last Line: Is rock and water %wind and dust
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


ABOVE THE RIO GRANDE, WHITE ROCK, NEW MEXICO, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Faint river sounds
Last Line: Shines like a beacon %in the afternoon light
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


ABOVE THE SNOW, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above the snow the milky way
Last Line: To burn beyond recognition %beyond self
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


ABYSS, by PIERRE REVERDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was expecting anything t hat can happen
Last Line: The world ready for sleep was turning over
Subject(s): Earth; Future


AD ASTRA: 127, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grant that in man may dwell empyreal power
Last Line: Allot each world its orbit and its place!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Earth; Soul; World


AD ASTRA: 128, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Faith born of reverence ever lives and glows
Last Line: If here the soul its last bright web is weaving?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Earth; Mankind; World; Human Race


AD ASTRA: 143, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: For, if there be no heaven nor hell-but here
Last Line: —man true to man, and earth were heaven indeed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Life; World; Paradise


AERIAL GEOGRAPHIES, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: An aerial broad view of landscape, high
Last Line: African genes. Ethnic dna...Aboriginal cave glyphs may point a way
Subject(s): Barbados; Earth; Farm Life; Flowers; Geography; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Plants; Sugar


AFTER ANY BATTLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Voice of earth: these are my children's voices! Born
Last Line: And butchery to sacrifice!
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Tears; Voices; Dead, The; World


AGNOSTIC TO MYSTIC, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why does it matter to you whether heaven or god
Last Line: Sometimes, oh, sometimes it seems—!
Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Mysticism; Nature; Weather; World


ALCHEMY, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stars die in the milky way
Last Line: Atmosphere %whose body?
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


ALMA MATER, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mother earth, by the bright-sky above thee
Last Line: I love thee, o, I love thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Earth; World


ALREADY THERE, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my dream, a branch
Last Line: As if they were not %already there
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


AMOR MUNDI, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh where are you going with your love-locks flowing
Last Line: "this downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back."
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; World


AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When that rich soule which to her heaven is gone
Last Line: The grave keepes bodies, verse the fame enroules.
Variant Title(s): To The Praise Of The Dead
Subject(s): Drury, Elizabeth; Earth; Science; World; Scientists


AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing could make me sooner to confesse
Last Line: The trumpet, at whose voyce the people came.
Subject(s): Drury, Elizabeth; Earth; World


AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF MRS. BEHN; THE INCOMPARABLE APHRA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "summon the earth (the fair astrea's gone,)"
Last Line: Nor would endure the world when he had lost his throne
Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);death;earth;heaven;tears;" "dead, The;world;paradise;


AN ENIGMA, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chloe, I boast celestial date
Last Line: What thousands I deny.
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World


AN EPICUREAN ODE, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since that this thing we call the world
Last Line: To tell what others were, came down?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John
Subject(s): Earth; World


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


ANCESTORS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: These mountains are my parents
Last Line: To the sky, offering %all they have
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


AND THERE THE ANGELS OF GOD WERE ASCENDING, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In heaven, the children are harming one another
Last Line: As afterimage, starlight, the air above [or, about] a shortened grave
Subject(s): Angels; Earth; Future Life; Heaven


ANGLE OF ASCENT, by JR. WILLIAM HENRY GREENWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How the earth keeps cleansing itself
Last Line: Window, tossing layers of old laundry, %the slow rinse cycle of rock
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Earth


ANGRY EARTH, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Angry earth, give me thy fury
Last Line: Angry earth, to outface death.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Dead, The; World


ANOTHER CAPTIVE STAR...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Must blood of murders and of wars regale
Last Line: Which drowns in blood each age's history!
Subject(s): Blood; Death; Earth; War; Dead, The; World


ANTARCTICA, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: On this continent time is a whiteout
Last Line: And then the disconnect
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


ANTARES, by BIMSLEY PEABODY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The earth has whirled its little men around the sun
Last Line: Hot and blood red is the heart of him!
Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Life; World


ANTS AT NIGHT, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day they vanished %down the dark funnel
Last Line: Which they carry back %to nourish the community
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


ANY MINOR WORLD, by PAULA MCLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mud-dauber's nest is ugly and efficient
Last Line: The window's edge with web, I'm almost still %and still there
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


APOCALYPTIC, 1915, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Our world beyond a year of dread
Last Line: Sculptor of immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Chaos; Earth; Pain; War; World; Suffering; Misery


APOLOGIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These bitter stammered rhymes
Last Line: To belong to the infinite stream.
Subject(s): Children; Earth; Life; Rhyme; Childhood; World


APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 9, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The true sphynx's form's the same as
Last Line: Earth would fall from its foundation.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Egypt; Riddles; Sphinx; Dead, The; World


APPRECIATION, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth was not earth before her sons appeared
Last Line: That change in thee, if not thyself, I claim.
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World


APRIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lyric tremor and lift
Last Line: Is deep with love and wise with ancient good.
Subject(s): April; Earth; Love; Spring; World


APRIL IN THE HILLS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today the world is wide and fair
Last Line: Till earth and I are one.
Subject(s): April; Earth; Nature; Spring; World


ARISTARCHUS (THE NAME OF THE MOUNTAIN IN THE MOON), by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was long and long ago our love began
Last Line: And I followed till I traced it to its source.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Love; World


ARRANGEMENTS WITH EARTH FOR THREE DEAD FRIENDS, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet earth, he ran and changed his shoes to go
Last Line: The change of tone, the human hope gone gray
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Dead, The; World


ARRANGEMENTS WITH EARTH FOR THREE DEAD FRIENDS, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet earth, he ran and changed his shoes to go
Last Line: The change of tone, the human hope gone gray
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Death; Earth


ART, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Art has her altars and her avatars
Last Line: A poe sleeps, folded in that perfect dream.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Soul; Nightmares; World


ATHEISM: ANNIHILATION, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Doubt, cypress crowned, upon a ruined arch
Last Line: And silence claims again her region cold and drear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; World


ATLANTIC DOLPHINS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dolphins leap in the dawn
Last Line: From the distant currents %of the sky
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


AUTUMN IMPRESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A frost came overnight. Then all the day
Last Line: A haunt for spirits and a home for stars.
Subject(s): Autumn; Earth; Eyes; Frost; Leaves; Seasons; Stars; Fall; World


AUTUMNAL, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night the tumult of the autumn wind
Last Line: A little while, o leaves, and we shall know!
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Earth; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Dead, The; World


AVE MARIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hollow spaces, large and deep
Last Line: That would be the heart of the mother of god!
Subject(s): Beds; Earth; Future Life; God; Mary And Martha (bible); Moon; Night; Sleep; Women In The Bible; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime


BATS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sleeping through the desert heat
Last Line: Still calls me deeper %into the sky
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


BENEDICTION, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Secrets sleep in the flesh
Last Line: In silent benediction
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


BLASPHEMY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O fairy form, o flower-like face
Last Line: The dead, the dead must be.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Ocean


BLESS YOU, by S. P. HEALEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I say this as the continents continue to drift
Last Line: Although she can't hear me. %bless you
Subject(s): Earth; Evolution; Trees


BOOK OF THE WORLD, by PHILIP TERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: April afternoon silence
Last Line: And the wings beat furiously silent above us
Subject(s): April; Earth; Nature


BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look - wool / in which: gold stars we got
Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights.
Subject(s): Cosmology; Earth; Geography; Maps; Travel; Universe; World; Journeys; Trips


BOUND TO THE MAST, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mildly falls the deluge of the grass
Last Line: Bound to the mast of song.
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; World; Paradise


BREAGHY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When twilight flutters the mountains over
Last Line: Come from this heart that was touched by the flame.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Nightmares; World


CAMADEVA, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun, the moon, the mystic planets seven
Last Line: When camadeva came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Happiness; Life; Dead, The; World; Joy; Delight


CANTILENA MUNDI, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the rainbows rise through sunset rains
Last Line: "to-morrow all the world is not."
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Presence; Rainbows; Voices; Separation; Isolation; World


CANYON GORGE ARROYO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many other codices
Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition; Dead, The; World; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


CANYON GORGE ARROYO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many other codices
Last Line: And I studied %I could read him like an open book
Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition


CANYON WINDS, NEW MEXICO, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roaring through the cottonwoods
Last Line: As I would do tonight
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


CENSORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The twisted hearts, the crumpled brains
Last Line: At the moon or the sun!
Subject(s): Censorship; Earth; Heaven; Life; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 3, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Turne the agayne o phebus fayre
Last Line: Earths sole delight and heauens care.
Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Faces; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sun; World; Sorrow; Sadness


CHANGE ASSURED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This world it is a pleasant place
Last Line: When it will be too warm
Subject(s): Earth;nature;pleasure;seasons; World


CHIPS, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wild eyed with the light of april in his eyes
Last Line: (chips . . . Chips . . . Chips . . .)
Subject(s): April; Earth; World


CHRYSALIDS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her gaze meets his as he looks down
Last Line: Are chrysalids of winged dreams
Subject(s): Earth;reality;socialism;streets;towns; World;avenues


CLOSE TO SLEEP, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am close to sleep
Last Line: To help pass the time %until I get home
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


COLOSSIANS: 3, 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do we cling to earth? Its sweetest pleasures
Last Line: No longer cling to earth, but soar to yon bright heaven!
Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Praise; Singing & Singers; World; Songs


CONCERT FOR EARTH, by HELEN FERGUSON CAUKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sky-strutting tempest wields a windy lash
Last Line: In dying, lovely, quivering, misty notes.
Subject(s): Earth; World


CONDITION OF THE WORLD, AUGUST 1997, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Channel 4 says latex kills slowly
Last Line: Lub dubbed like a fetal kitten in a red silk sack. %how clean the body was, split open
Subject(s): Earth; News; Sex


CONFESSION, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love came to earth with faith and trust
Last Line: "and god serenely answered -- ""it is mine."
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Faith; Love; Peace; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed


CONFLICT BEFORE VICTORY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stand at gaze upon an autumn knoll
Last Line: The mellow magic of october's moon.
Subject(s): Earth; Evil; God; Love; Mankind; Victory; War; World; Human Race


CONQUEST, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh conqueror, what is left to win?
Last Line: "our earthly heavens are—just outside."
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; World; Paradise


CORMORANT BOATS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: One night in japan
Last Line: While my fingers fumble %at the leash
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


CRISIS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth upon earth %between the confines of the day
Last Line: The head in the hands, %the urn upon the knee
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sky; Stars


CROCUS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When trees have lost remembrance of the leaves
Last Line: And then lead on again the universe?
Subject(s): Crocuses; Earth; Plants; Universe; World; Planting; Planters


CROWS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth is raw with this one note
Last Line: Starts for a moment from its dust.
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Earth; World


DE CONTEMPTU MUNDI, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wrote bernard of cluny (al
Last Line: Bad as bernard said it was
Subject(s): Bernard Of Cluny (12th Century); Earth


DE PROFUNDIS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whence hast thou gone
Last Line: Alma victrix!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Rome, Italy; Soul; Vision; World


DE RERUM NATURA: THE DISSOLUTION OF THE WORLD, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And (memmius) least you thinke I false grounds lay
Last Line: Soe is herselfe diminsht and renewd
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Subject(s): Earth


DEDICATION TO POEMS AND BALLADS, 1ST SERIES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea gives her shells to the shingle
Last Line: Night sinks on the sea.
Variant Title(s): Dedication: 1865
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sea; Seasons; Wind; World; Ocean


DEPTHS, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm on a parapet looking down
Last Line: And still be reeling on another roof
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K.
Subject(s): Earth


DER AUGENAPFEL, by JEANNE WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world
Last Line: With its hunger %and awakened into flight
Subject(s): Earth


DESCRIPTION WITHOUT PLACE, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it possible that to seem – itis to be
Last Line: And very much more gaily
Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Earth; Imagination


DESERT HYMN TO THE SUN, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the arches of the morning sky
Last Line: But one who keeps, and shall reclaim his own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Deserts; Earth; Food & Eating; Sun; World


DETAILS OF THE SOIL, by GARY FINCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not yet, I haven't taken a bite
Last Line: Of pleasure from the pliable dirt
Subject(s): Earth


DIDEROT, by STEVEN HENRY MADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The earth is whole, unwounded, it hears itself
Last Line: Inmost heart, without tears flowing, here, from my eyes
Subject(s): Earth


DIFFERENT TIME, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In what way do the cows
Last Line: Over the strong warm backs %of cattle?
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace


DIRT, by MAXIMILIAN S. WERNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snails leak down
Last Line: I know even then %this dirt walks with me
Subject(s): Earth


DISILLUSIONED, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We slumber in youth
Last Line: Of glory divine?
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Youth; World


DIVINE PORTRAITURE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: An artist painted a fair scene
Last Line: Till beauty overpowers each taint.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Grief; Love; Soul; World; Sorrow; Sadness


DOMINION, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Patrician overthrown
Last Line: Except the lyric seers.
Subject(s): Earth; Government; Injustice; Order; World


DOWN-HILL ON A BICYCLE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rolling earth stops
Last Line: God, that were life!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Climbing; Earth; Life; World


DRIVING THROUGH A WORLD NOT SEEN, by MARGARET LLOYD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The narrow road winds between sea and mountain
Last Line: Bloom, a color close to blood
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Earth


DRIVING WEST TEXAS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cotton tufts cling to withered plants
Last Line: Sucking up the black death %of their ancestors
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


DUALITIES, by M. H. THATCHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two laws of motion rule our ancient earth
Last Line: To live by law, the task of sighted man!
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World


DUMB IN JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, the thought hurts at my heart
Last Line: Dumb in june!
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Hearts; June; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; World; Songs


DUST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard them in their sadness say
Last Line: And haunted by all mystery.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Dust; Earth; God; Humanity; Mankind; Dead, The; World; Human Race


DUST DEVIL, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born in the high desert
Last Line: Want to dance with their dust
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


DUST TO DUST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth wedded, life atwain
Last Line: To dust will come again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Earth; World


EARLY NIGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day was dead, with requiems of the wind
Last Line: That shines for lovers, wheresoe'er they are.
Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Moon; Night; Stars; Winter; World; Bedtime


EARTH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A midnight black with clouds is in the sky
Last Line: By which thou shalt be judged, are written down.
Subject(s): Earth; World


EARTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is where it was dry
Last Line: Was a nice place %once
Subject(s): Earth; Wilderness


EARTH, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth, let me speak to you
Last Line: Finds the faint evening star.
Subject(s): Earth; World


EARTH, by EVELYN OSLUND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Earth turns no beaten wanderer from her breast
Last Line: All the strength and all the love the earth bestows.
Subject(s): Earth; World


EARTH, by ANDRES RODRIGUEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: She scooped a handful of shiny pebbles
Last Line: A dance taking ages to perform
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


EARTH, by WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad is my lot; among the shining spheres
Last Line: Roll on from morn to night, and on from night to morning.
Subject(s): Earth; World


EARTH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Koper defines darkness. Mothballs of circumcision
Last Line: A fugue, and a cantilena are the same: utter bliss
Subject(s): Earth; Planets; Travel


EARTH AND A WEDDED WOMAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherd, with his eye on hazy south
Last Line: Thrice beauteous is our sunshine after rain!
Subject(s): Earth; Rain; Summer; World


EARTH AND AIR, by FRANK ERNEST HILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth is the tower of granite, the floor of loam
Last Line: That open a door.
Subject(s): Earth; World


EARTH AND HEAVEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Water calmly flowing
Last Line: In heaven is love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Soul; World; Paradise


EARTH AND HER PRAISERS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth is old
Last Line: And hail upon the vine!'
Subject(s): Earth; World


EARTH AND MAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On her great venture, man
Last Line: Or dated leaf.
Subject(s): Earth; God; Mankind; Nature; World; Human Race


EARTH CHILD, by LOIS LORING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love you, earth
Last Line: I am, indeed, your child!
Subject(s): Earth; World


EARTH DEFACED, by HENRY SEPTIMUS SUTTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How wonderful, how beautiful, the world
Last Line: With our mean uses the majestic place
Subject(s): Earth


EARTH DOES ITS BEST FOR HIM, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The paintings are under glass
Last Line: It is incense, the seasonally %renewed offering of the live earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Earth


EARTH ELEGY, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain on the shingles, on the maples
Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World


EARTH IS FEMININE IN MOST LANGUAGES: A PSALM, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: From food comes all, all that lives upon the earth
Last Line: Worlds, and in works, immortality
Subject(s): Earth; Food And Eating


EARTH LIKE A MOTHER, by ETHEL JOHNSTON MCNAUGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Earth turns no beaten wanderer from her
Subject(s): Earth; Farm Life


EARTH LISTENS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At last our dull earth listens
Subject(s): Christmas; Earth


EARTH LOVE, by BEATRICE REDPATH    Poem Source                    
First Line: God, in they heaven hast thou ever known
Subject(s): Earth


EARTH LOVER, by HAROLD VINAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old loveliness has such a way
Last Line: What sudden wonder brought me close to tears.
Subject(s): Earth; Love; World


EARTH TEDIUM, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If part of earth, I am a sullen part
Last Line: And in all fruitfulness there lurks a pain.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; World


EARTH TO EARTH, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the region grows without a lord
Last Line: With the red earth burning in your heart.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Earth; Nature; World


EARTH TOUCHED MOON, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Blushed. Everyone saw it
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Earth; Moon; Nature


EARTH VIEWED FROM THE SEA, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Arriving from the horizon, our ship
Last Line: Shown only by our signal lights
Subject(s): Earth; Sailors And Sailing; Sea


EARTH WISDOM, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the earth: / I love you, flower
Last Line: Said the earth.
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; World


EARTH'S ANSWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth rais'd up her head / from the darkness dread and drear
Last Line: "that free love with bondage bound."
Subject(s): Bible; Earth; Mythology; Religion; World; Theology


EARTH'S BREAST, by ELIZABETH BARBARA CANADAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear earth, it almost seems a sacrilege
Last Line: Of earth. It breathes so near the heart of god.
Subject(s): Earth; Walking; World


EARTH'S CHILDREN CLEAVE TO EARTH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Nature; Earth; World


EARTH'S PAIN, by CATHERINE TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Vast clouds of vapor rise up through the gloom
Last Line: And on her shield of truth rose earth's new day.
Subject(s): Earth; World


EARTH'S PREFERENCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth loves her young: a preference manifest
Last Line: Wry in the shape she wastes her milk to rear.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; World


EARTH'S SECRET, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not solitarily in fields we find
Last Line: For earth, that gives the milk, the spirit gives.
Subject(s): Earth; Secrets; World


EARTH'S STORY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: With primal void and cosmic night
Last Line: As conscious nature crowned its king.
Subject(s): Earth; World


EARTH'S TRIBUTE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First the grain, and then the blade
Last Line: To render god the things of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Earth; Religion; World; Theology


EARTH-LOVE, by IRENE NILES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shall not mind when time comes to me here
Last Line: And watch you where you go, old lovely earth!
Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


EARTH-TILLER, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: So where does he turn
Last Line: & nose through hard shale %into the secrets of coffins
Subject(s): Earth; Farm Life


EARTH-WORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the grass I fain would grow
Last Line: New leaves to hymn thy praise!
Subject(s): Earth; Grass; Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Praise; Worship; World


EARTH: THE PASSING OF A DANCER, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She is made of mist and silver, and her
Last Line: And the floor of heaven darkens, and the sound of feet is stilled.
Variant Title(s): Earth: The Passing Of A Danger
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Earth; Dead, The; World


ECHO CANYON, NEW MEXICO, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A raven croaks %atop an ancient juniper
Last Line: A raven swoops down to %totem soda cans
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


EDEN, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind borne, the dust
Last Line: Dust gathers %like original sin
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


ELECTRONS, by ROBERTA BALFOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swirl and toss their lives away
Last Line: Somewhere, some time?
Subject(s): Atoms; Earth; Science; Space & Space Travel; World; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


ENDING WITH A LINE BY A BAND CALLED X, by DAN MEMMOLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want death to find me lying in a hammock
Last Line: The world's a mess, it's in my kiss
Subject(s): Death; Earth


EPILOGUE TO FLEET STREET ECLOGUES, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Votary: what gloomy outland region have I won?
Last Line: A tabernacle even with these ghastly bones.
Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Earth; Humanity; Labor & Laborers; Prostitution; World; Work; Workers; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


ERYTHRONIUM AMERICANUM (LILIACEAE), by M. TRAVIS LANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is a small flower
Last Line: For earth, itself, its private needs, %not us
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers


ESSAY: OF SPACE, STAINLESS STEEL, OF GIFTS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Excellent earth, magnet jar, now
Last Line: Touch this axis
Subject(s): Earth; Essays; Geology; World


EVEN NOW, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once we grew antlers
Last Line: In tender bone %into the sky
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


EVENING, by CLARA MCKEE BEEDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are some white clouds floating by
Last Line: The weary souls akin.
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Soul; World


EVERYONE KNOWS THE WORLD IS ENDING, by ALICE FULTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The coherent starlight
Subject(s): Earth; Memory; Mothers; Judgment Day


EVOLUTION, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hubble telescope is sending back
Last Line: The atoms of the first stars %will still remember
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


EX LIBRIS, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the stream, where the ground is soft
Last Line: No title, no name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Seasons; Snow; Winter; World


EX-VOTO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When their last hour shall rise
Last Line: Me too, my mother.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; World; Ocean


FACE WITHOUT MAKEUP, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pictograph this
Last Line: Fashioned by salvador dali
Subject(s): Dali, Salvador (1904-1989); Earth


FACT THAT EARTH IS HEAVEN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To dwell in such a place
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1408; Poem: 143
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven


FAR FLIGHT, by JESSIE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My hand upon the wheel, I rode
Last Line: My hand still on the wheel! When comes the dawn?
Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Memory; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight


FEE SIMPLE, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have brought me a bed in earth
Last Line: That I who am sleeping am I.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones


FIGURE AND GROUND, by CHRISTINE GARREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the summer I walked a trail, trying to accept things as they
Last Line: Him, %to notice me
Subject(s): Earth


FIRST DIVINITIES, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first divinities %rested in the earth
Last Line: As they brush past us %on their way back in?
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


FLEDGLING, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The jointed clump of dark feathers
Last Line: Until it can fly away
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


FLOOD PLAIN, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The land lies flooded and fat. The sun
Last Line: Is fluent and flashing and vast
Subject(s): Earth; Floods; Prairies


FLORAL TEACHING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O ye red-blushing summer roses, ye
Last Line: But rest awhile waiting the morning beam.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Roses; World


FLOWER-PIECES: 1. LOVE LIES BLEEDING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover
Last Line: Love lies bleeding.
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Love; Roundels; World


FLYING THROUGH CLOUDS, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harder for me to understand than calculus
Last Line: About the ultimate purpose of life on earth
Subject(s): Clouds; Earth


FOR A HIGH MOUNTAIN JUNIPER, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sprung from a crevice in the rock
Last Line: Honoring the slowly burning center %of your years
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


FOR ADVENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet sweet sound of distant waters
Last Line: Rise at the last trumpet call.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Grief; Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness


FOR THE COAST PRICKLY PEAR, BAJA, CALIFORNIA, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night they grew cold
Last Line: Climb to distant mountains %soft with rising mist
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


FOREST FIRE, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day after day %smoke shrouds the mountains
Last Line: Oily ashes, flutter down
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


FORMAGGIO, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world
Last Line: That would be the self in the present
Subject(s): Earth; Rivers


FOUR ELEMENTS: AIR, by BENJAMIN PERET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Air, in its normal state, secretes a steady cloud of pepper that makes
Last Line: Moon gives the sea its salty taste
Subject(s): Air; Earth; Nature


FOUR ELEMENTS: EARTH, by BENJAMIN PERET    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world is made of water, earth, air and fire and the earth is not
Last Line: The mustache
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Planets


FOUR ELEMENTS: WATER, by BENJAMIN PERET    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the form of rain, water becomes an
Last Line: That will be discussed later
Subject(s): Earth; Water


FRAGMENTS (2), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Open horizons round
Last Line: The depths to sound.
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World


FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DAY OF SURPASSING BEAUTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth is bright, her forests all are golden
Last Line: A crown, or cross, for one is born to-day.
Subject(s): Beauty; Birth; Earth; Nature; Secrets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World


FREE RIDE, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Circling the sun %earth travels with it
Last Line: What difference does it make %where we get off?
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


FREQUENTLY THE WOODS ARE PINK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By but twelve performed!
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


FROG FINDS HIS HOME IN THE DAMP, DAMP WORLD, by TODD HELDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the bottom of the swamp out back
Last Line: Pinned to nowhere on a map %anyone will ever find
Subject(s): Animals; Earth; Frogs


FROM A BALLOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! We are loose. Hear how they shout
Last Line: That stares into eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Balloons; Earth; Future Life; Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


FULL CIRCLE, by ANN D'AGOSTINO CLUNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Readying the carrot bed
Last Line: The world makes sense, and I am whole
Subject(s): Earth; Gardens And Gardening


GABRIEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once let the angel blow!
Last Line: And take reproach from the fallen time!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Earth; Gabriel; Heaven; Trumpets; World; Paradise


GAIA, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep blue sea baby
Last Line: Ah.
Subject(s): Chuang-tzu (4th Century); Earth; World


GARDEN CLOSES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth buffets and harasses
Last Line: For solace and for sleep.
Subject(s): Earth; Faces; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Sleep; World


GASTROPODA, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Make a song for this fossil
Last Line: As the grasp of the sun
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


GENESIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the outer world that was before this earth
Last Line: So shall a man be after among the dead.
Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Life; Light; Universe; World


GEOMETAPHYSICS, by MARGARET AVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth was once a circle-stage
Subject(s): Earth; World


GEORGICS: 1. WORK AND THE EARTH, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Until jove let it be, no colonist
Last Line: By labor and by force of bitter need
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Earth; Labor And Laborers


GETHSEMANE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In golden youth when seems the earth
Last Line: The purpose in gethsemane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Despair; Earth; Gethsemane; Soul; Youth; World


GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no ghosts, you say
Last Line: Calls to the slumbering host.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Death; Dreams; Earth; Explorers; Ghosts; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


GIVE THANKS FOR WHAT?, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'let earth give thanks,' the deacon said"
Last Line: And thank god that it ain't no wuss!
Subject(s): Clergy;earth; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;world


GOD MADE A WORLD, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: God made a little world in time's beginning
Last Line: And, looking on his world, still finds it good.
Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; World; Human Race


GOD'S GIFTS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God gave a gift to earth: a child
Last Line: God will judge them and thee aright!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Children; Earth; Gifts & Giving; God; Love; Childhood; World


GOD'S GRANDEUR, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god
Last Line: World broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings.
Subject(s): Christianity; Earth; Environment; Faith; God; Labor & Laborers; Men; Nature; Redemption; Religion; War; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Work; Workers; Theology


GOD'S MEASURE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God measures souls by their capacity
Last Line: And clasps all earth and heaven in its embrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; God; Heaven; Love; Soul; World; Paradise


GOOD NIGHT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear earth, I am going away to-night
Last Line: And I rise from my slumber to put it on.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Dead, The; World


GRAND CANYON, by GRACE CONNER HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through the webby mist
Last Line: For the perfection of tomorrow.
Subject(s): Earth; World


GREAT WHITE WORLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great white world beyond the window-sill
Last Line: White fence, white tree, white cart, white hill
Subject(s): Earth; White ( Color)


GREENLAND ICY MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Greenland's icy mountains are fascinating and grand
Last Line: Let them think of the cold and hardships greenland sailors have to fight.
Subject(s): Continents; Earth; Greenland; Tourists; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips


HALLOWED EARTH, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: A carpet of gold's on the pathway
Last Line: Hearts are tuned to the father above.
Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Landscape; Nature; World


HAMATREYA, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Minott, lee, willard, hosmer, meriam, flint / possessed the land
Last Line: Like lust in the chill of the grave.
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World


HAPPINESS, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This world of ours appears to me
Last Line: To smile upon and love me!
Subject(s): Babies; Earth; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Infants; World; Joy; Delight


HAUNTED EARTH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven at last
Last Line: Remembering paradise!
Subject(s): Earth; World


HEAD SKY CONVOY PATTERN; I.M. FRANCO BELTRAMETTI, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit murmur echoes
Last Line: Leaf tip holds dawn's door
Subject(s): Astronauts; Beltrametti, Franco (1937-1995); Crockett, Davy (1786-1836); Earth; Planets; Sky; World


HEAVED FROM THE EARTH, by BESMILR BRIGHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the tornado, a dead moccasin
Last Line: Pushing the fire thorns in
Subject(s): Disasters; Earth; Hurricanes; Storms; Thunder


HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Speed not afar, thou wandering wraith
Last Line: "for evermore."
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Hell; Religion; World; Paradise; Theology


HISTORIES: THAT WOBBLE OF LIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hereby cluster all day loveliness with flick
Last Line: A fire of your house.
Subject(s): Earth; Planets; World


HOMERIC HYMN TO THE EARTH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o universal mother, who dost keep"
Last Line: "a happy life for this brief melody, / nor thou nor other songs shall unremembered be"
Variant Title(s): Homeric Hymn: Earth The Mother Of All
Subject(s): Earth; World


HOMEWARDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love builds a nest on earth and waits for rest
Last Line: "and testifies: ""god's will is alway best."
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; World; Paradise


HOPE'S YEARNINGS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet it is, when wearied with the jars
Last Line: To realise the aspirings of the soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Soul; World; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism


HOTEL BY THE HIGHWAY OF ALL SAINTS, by MICHAEL CADNUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: We agreed:
Last Line: His whole body plowed %into the yellow light
Subject(s): Earth


HOW STEP BY STEP WE HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the sixteenth century nicholas copernicus
Last Line: And that's hard. That's hard
Subject(s): Change; Copernicus. Nicolaus (1473-1543); Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Earth; Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Science


HOW STRANGE A THING, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How strange a thing to think upon
Last Line: Doth bear us and our sin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Curiosities & Wonders; Earth; Enigmas; Oddities; World


HUNT, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have begun to see them
Last Line: To wait for us, mouths open %with wet tongues
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


HUSKS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They will not stay
Last Line: The fruit ye leave!
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Faith; Past; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed


HYMN OF MAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began
Last Line: Glory to man in the highest! For man is master of things.
Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; Soul; Universe; World; Human Race


HYMN OF THE EARTH, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My highway is unfeatured air
Last Line: Are mirrored in its round abode.
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Subject(s): Earth; World


HYMN OF THE FORESTS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the harps which the winds play
Last Line: While round the circling seasons swing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Woods; Ocean


HYMN TO EARTH, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, incomparable element
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; World


HYMN TO EARTH, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, incomparable element
Last Line: The traveller dust, although the dust be vile, %sleeps as thy lover for a little while
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth


HYMN TO THE EARTH. HEXAMETERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth! Thou mother of numberless children, the nurse and the mother
Last Line: Wandered bleating in valleys, and warbled on blossoming branches.
Subject(s): Earth; World


I AM ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH NOW', by DAVID HELLMAN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Scraper canyons of a city that never sleeps %everyone is asleep
Subject(s): Earth; Sleep


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


I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR, by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This dream of water - what does it harbor?
Last Line: The waters darken. The continent vanishes
Subject(s): Earth; World


I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR, by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This dream of water - what does it harbor?
Last Line: The waters darken. The continent vanishes
Subject(s): Earth


I WANT THE HORIZON, by THEODORA BATES COGSWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: That brief hill slope uprears so close!
Last Line: Draw home my heart!
Subject(s): Country Life; Earth; Sea; World; Ocean


I'M GLAD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm glad the sky is painted blue
Last Line: All sandwiched in between
Subject(s): Air;earth;environment;nature;sky; World;environmental Protection;ecology;conservation


IF SO TOMORROW SAVES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven overarches earth and sea
Last Line: If so tomorrow saves?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Heaven; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Ocean


IMPERFECTION, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Earth vaunts no joy that lasts
Last Line: Bliss waits you yet!
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evil; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight


IN DEAR VENDOME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My des autels, whose true
Last Line: Your friend, ronsard.
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Justice; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Wind; World; Paradise


IN PRAISE OF THE HERCULES MOTH, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: If a giant moth %spinning from star to star
Last Line: I would sink to my knees %on the earth
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


IN PRAISE OF TREES, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the mountain
Last Line: Into atmosphere %into us
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


IN THE CROWD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How happy they are, in all seeming
Last Line: T is better than showing the heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Secrets; Smiles; Spring; World


IN THE LONG RUN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the long run fame finds the deserving man
Last Line: In the long run.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Love; Night; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


IN THE NIGHT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes at night, when I sit and write
Last Line: May hear, if he lists aright.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime


INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CALEDONIAN CANAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Athwart the island here, from sea to sea
Last Line: Opening a passage through the wilds subdued.
Subject(s): Canals; Earth; Islands; Sea; Travel; World; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


INSIDE DESERT ROCKS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside desrt rocks %in tiny pools that seep
Last Line: Will we, like the algae, go on?
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


INSIDE THE ANIMALS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have seen an animal
Last Line: This one has been making a path %for us to follow
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


INSIGHT, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heaven and hell, she thinks
Last Line: Hank we call this life %or sometimes earth
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


INTO SPACE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the sad old world should jump a cog
Last Line: While the stars looked on and wondered?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Stars; Sun; World


INVISIBILITY 0, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Planets of air
Last Line: Of the faithful pupils
Subject(s): Earth; Islands; Vacation


INVOCATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who will waken the wind for me?
Last Line: Who will waken the wind?
Subject(s): Earth; Leprosy; Night; Pain; Wind; World; Lepers; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery


INVOCATION TO MOTHER EARTH, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O earth! Thy face hath not the grace
Last Line: "room, mother, in thy breast!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): Earth; World


INVOCATION TO THE EARTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest, rest, perturbed earth!
Last Line: And the pure vision closed in darkness infinite.
Subject(s): Earth; World


IT IS COMMON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: So are the stars and the arching skies
Last Line: "blessed be god, it is common"
Subject(s): Earth;life; World


IT'S A SMALL SMALL WORLD; THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSITY ACCORDING TO ..., by SUSAN SONDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is everywhere at once
Last Line: The fairy tale our lives had come to be
Subject(s): Disneyland, California; Earth; Size And Shape


JUST AS OF OLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as of old! The world rolls on
Last Line: Just as of old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Rivers; Time; World


JUST NIGHTS, by RENE CHAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: With a wind more strong
Last Line: My downfall, my love, my ruin
Subject(s): Earth; Night


KIN, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When my hands turn harsh and dry
Last Line: While we are waiting %under the sky
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


KIND, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The close green hedge, as table set
Last Line: "but I was oak"" and ""I was beech."
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World


KING ARTHUR: SONG OF AEOLUS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies
Last Line: There swell your lungs, and vainly, vainly threat.
Variant Title(s): To Britannia
Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Singing & Singers; Spring; World; Songs


KISMET, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the rock the road is cut full deep
Last Line: Dear hearts, farewell, farewell!'
Subject(s): Children; Earth; Roads; Sea; Childhood; World; Paths; Trails; Ocean


KNOCK ON THE DOOR, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They ask me if I've ever thought
Last Line: And they see nothing without end
Subject(s): Earth; Judgment Day


LACHRYMOSE WRITERS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye human screech-owls, who delight
Last Line: To bless the exhaustless grace they now deny.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Soul; Writing & Writers; World


LANDS AND OCEANS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lands and oceans are all curled
Last Line: Houses, people, trees and all
Subject(s): Earth


LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 10, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground
Last Line: Contented and desirous to the nest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Vision; Eden


LE MONDE EST MECHANT, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is malevolent dear
Last Line: What feeling and wit you display!
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Earth; Man-woman Relationships; World; Male-female Relations


LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Khalifs and khans have we beheld, who trod
Last Line: Trumpet his name, and flood his deeds with day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Time; Dead, The; World


LIFE'S SALUTATIONS (FROM AN ALBUM), by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This earth resembles a highway vast
Last Line: Compelling our sad separation.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; World


LIMITATIONS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou cravest sympathy yet never think
Last Line: How much I dwarfed and wronged thy nature here below!
Subject(s): Earth; Hope; Sympathy; Truth; World; Optimism; Empathy


LIZARD LIGHT, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lizard on our sidewalk
Last Line: The light already shining %from its wound
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


LOOKING AWAY, by ERIN ERGENBRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world holds less danger for me now
Last Line: I can feel this green land moving beneath me, %turning in my hands
Subject(s): Change; Earth


LOVE ATTACKED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is more sweet than flowers
Last Line: Indifference.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Love; World


LOVE DEFENDED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who extols a wilderness
Last Line: Great is its relief.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


LOVE'S PERFECT POWER, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun of my earthly worship, I declare
Last Line: And love beats, burns, and freezes in its place.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Fate; Heaven; Love; Nature; World; Destiny; Paradise


LUNAR ECLIPSE, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have hiked on the mountain
Last Line: Travelled among stars?
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 30, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth had long been avaricious
Last Line: "they ""madam"" entitle, with chilling formality."
Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Earth; Laughter; May (month); World


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 33, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth is so fair, and the heavens so bright
Last Line: The corpse of my mistress dear caressing.
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Heaven; World; Paradise


MAN, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Affliction one day, as she harked to the roar
Last Line: "and his spirit to jove who bestowed it."
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mankind; Mythology; Dead, The; World; Human Race


MAN AND NATURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sad man on a summer day
Last Line: Who can be bright without the sun.'
Subject(s): Earth; Clouds; Mankind; Birds; Sea; World; Human Race; Ocean


MARCH DAYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world to-day is a nun in gray
Last Line: And april airs be here!
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Lakes; March (month); Spring; Nightmares; World; Pools; Ponds


MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND SPRING, by IVAR CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now wedded earth puts on her splendid dress
Subject(s): Earth; Soldiers; World War I


MAY MORNING, by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fancy, the rapture
Last Line: God.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Creation; Earth; God; Life; World


MEASUREMENTS, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our world is very little in the sky
Last Line: Earth's breadth, love's narrowness, must learn to see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Earth; Love; World


METAMORPHOSES: THE GOLDEN AGE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When faith and honesty with willing hand
Last Line: And blest content prolonged the golden reign.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Flowers; Honesty; World; Belief; Creed


MIGRATING EELS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: After years of feeding
Last Line: More than we do on our way
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


MIGRATION, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have always known
Last Line: Is a blessing, and they %are the sun
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


MIGRATIONS, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: You see everything, everything: the breath of flies, a teapot
Last Line: Now you know the bell tolls for you and for us
Subject(s): Earth; Life


MILKY WAY, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine the hair of a woman
Last Line: How they will die
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


MISTRESS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See how earth claims him as he passes by
Last Line: For flight and freedom, and suddenly sunder %dreamer from dream in a mute surrender?
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Earth


MORS LEONIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When o'er the aged lion steals
Last Line: Yet hast thou perished like a king!
Subject(s): Animals; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Earth; Lions; Sleep; Dead, The; World


MOTH, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometime while we slept
Last Line: Fearing the blameless %dark
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


MOTHER EARTH, by RAZEL LEBENSBOIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Moth earth, much trampled, sun-washed
Last Line: I seek the heavens through you
Subject(s): Earth


MOTHER EARTH, by HARRIET MONROE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, a grand old time has the earth
Subject(s): Earth


MOTHER EARTH, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the star-dust and the ether-flaw
Last Line: To ease thine agony.
Subject(s): Earth; World


MOTHER EARTH, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed,
Last Line: Holdest the poem of god, eternal thought and emotion.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; World


MURMURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why wilt thou make bright music
Last Line: That bids the world rejoice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Earth; Peace; Religion; Wind; World; Theology


MUSA MARINA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dancing waves! Still the moan
Last Line: Tossing this side of eternity's shore?
Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Grief; Love; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness


MY COUNTRY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My country is the world--the whole round world
Last Line: The world—my country.
Subject(s): Earth; Nations; World


MY LOST FRIENDS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One by one they have slipped from earth
Last Line: Whose shores I cannot trace.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Friendship; Graves; Love; Soul; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones


MY PROMENADE SOLITAIRE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up and down in my garden fair
Last Line: As it follows its promenade solitaire?
Subject(s): Earth; Gardens & Gardening; Solitude; World; Loneliness


NAMING AND ADAM GAVE NAMES TO ALL THE CATTEL AND TO THE FOWL OF, by MARTHA E. BOSWORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lust for knowledge: everything of earth
Last Line: We name our deities and barely nod %before our hunger craves a greater god
Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God


NAMING WEATHER: NOTES FOR JEAN: 2 TRANSITIONS:STRATUS, CUMULUS, NIMBUS, by MARY PINARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then, in that progressive ohio village
Last Line: And changed now, I'm beyond them
Subject(s): Clouds; Earth


NATURAL RESOURCES, by CHRIS ARTHUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our world, or so it sometimes seems
Last Line: We have only scraped the surface of this treasure-trove of wordy wealth
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


NATURE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A hand that tries to shake a hand
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World


NATURE, by ALICE R. FRIMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The earth has started her
Last Line: With this butcher block of a world?
Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Nature


NATURE'S DRINKING-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth drinks rain through every pore
Last Line: Come let us drink, drink, drink!
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Earth; Moon; Nature; Singing & Singers; Wine; World


NATURE'S WORD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In holy moments, when great nature seems
Last Line: Or where we know not, but we trust the word.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Nature; Nightmares; World


NIAGARA, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Driving westward near niagara, that transfiguring of the waters,
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Nature; Earth; Social Commentaries; World


NIGHT AND DAY, by JOYCE SUTPHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The music on the radio
Last Line: Is waiting sleeplessly %to take me home
Subject(s): Earth


NIGHT SKY, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When something taps your window
Last Line: To a shining that sings
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace


NO COUNTRIES BUT THE DISTANCE OF THE WORLD [AND THE SMOKE OF THE], by NICHOLAS SAMARAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My life has always been too large for me deep in the heart of the darkest
Last Line: Was the hand and that was the prayer and there is always a kind of %response
Subject(s): Earth; Time


NOCTILUCA, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In northern latitudes on clear nights
Last Line: By the constellations %of that light
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


NOON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the hills and far away
Last Line: And has joined us with a nod.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Kisses; Noon; Wisdom; Dead, The; World


NORTHERN EARTH MOOD, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR.    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Vision the sun and stars
Last Line: Shows the working of fingers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey
Subject(s): Earth; Sun; World


NOTHING NEW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the dawn of spring till the year grows hoary
Last Line: "murmurs -- ""rest."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Sea; Wind; World; Ocean


NOTICE TO TOURISTS, by LEONARDO [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: But most avoid italia's coast
Last Line: For british virtues left behind?
Alternate Author Name(s): Leonardo
Subject(s): Earth;tourists;travel; World;journeys;trips


NOVEMBER, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How has november won
Last Line: How close the tears!
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; November; Tears; World


NUN SNOW, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is she / thoughtless of life
Last Line: Dropping the curtain so soon!
Subject(s): Earth; Moon; World


OCTOBER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the world a-muse, and earth and sky
Last Line: Down unillumined aisles the requiem wind.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Nature; October; Pan (mythology); Sky; World


ODE TO A BLACKBIRD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Troll out thy passion from yon vantage spray
Last Line: Resounding thro' the echoing arbours of my brain!
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Earth; Evil; Heaven; World; Paradise


ODE TO SPRING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hark! Did ye hear them - the rumours afloat
Last Line: Bird-like to sing mid its own fragrant bower!
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Love; Spring; World


ODE TO THE EARTH, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O tireless earth! O earth of long desire!
Last Line: The purposes of pain!
Subject(s): Earth; World


OF MANY WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just like in a nest of boxes round
Last Line: A world of worlds, as pendents in each ear
Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret
Subject(s): Earth


OF MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The miner delves in caverns of the earth
Last Line: Life thrills, grows luminous-large, smells sweet with balm and myrrh.
Subject(s): Caves; Earth; Life; Mines & Miners; Music & Musicians; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; Caverns; World; Seamen; Sails


OF THOSE WHO WALK ALONE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Women there are on earth, of courage and high
Last Line: Earth's wrongs are ended.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Earth; Faith; Loss; Love; Soul; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed


OH, EARTH!, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, earth! That liest still to-night
Last Line: But gazing on the sky.
Subject(s): Earth; World


OLD HYMN-TUNES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, old-time tunes of prayer and praise
Last Line: Till silence settles over all!
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Time; World


ON HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY HOPE, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reflected on the lake, I love
Last Line: As false and fleeting as 'tis fair.
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Hope; World; Paradise; Optimism


ON LEAPING OVER THE MOON, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw new worlds beneath the water lie
Last Line: As o'er our heads, a place of bliss.
Subject(s): Earth; Icarus; Moon; Mythology - Classical; World


ON THE DEATH OF A MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little maiden, her doll to her
Last Line: Mother to mother means dear to dear.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fear; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; World


ON THE OUTERMOST EDGE, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the outmost edge of the ocean
Last Line: Toward the star, which alone shimmers %in black air
Subject(s): Creation; Earth


ON THE WESTERN FRONT, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found a dreadful acre of the dead
Last Line: If you fail now, we shall not see or hear.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Peace; Silence; War; Dead, The; World


ONE DEGREE, by BEN RENZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: He stands alone
Last Line: One degree.
Subject(s): Earth; World


ORGAN SONGS: BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A quiet heart, submissive, meek
Last Line: Than if broad lands were mine.
Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Humility; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


OUR BIG HOME, by LINDA GLASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We all live here
Last Line: One precious living home
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


OUR HOLD ON THE PLANET, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We asked for rain. It didn't flash and roar
Last Line: Our hold on the planet wouldn't have so increased
Subject(s): Earth; Rain; World


OUR HOLD ON THE PLANET, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We asked for rain. It didn't flash and roar
Last Line: Or our number living wouldn't be steadily more, %our hold of the planet wouldn't have so increased
Subject(s): Earth; Rain


OUR NATIVE LAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The halo round the seraph's head
Last Line: With sides of snow, and throat of fires!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Earth; Home; Memory; Nations; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips


OUR QUEER OLD WORLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a purty hard world you find, my
Last Line: It's a purty good world, old man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Cruelty; Earth; Experience; Wisdom; World


OUT OF ANY DEARTH, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Transmuting rocks to flowers
Last Line: I will sieve my songs.
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Stones; World; Granite; Rocks


OUT OF EARTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pattern the clouds for a moment
Last Line: A thorn in the heel of death.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Heaven; Hell; Nature; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Paradise


OUT OF THE DARK AND THE DEARTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! But the darkness was densely
Last Line: And that was the dawn -- the dawn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Night; Sunrise; World; Bedtime


OUT WITH THE WORLD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm out with all the world to-day
Last Line: Ah me! The bonny world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Earth; World


OUTWARD, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always the thrust is outward
Last Line: Fertilized by its own %unfolding light
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


PAINTING, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let some one fasten this piece of silk
Last Line: Three quarters of a slightly yellow moon
Subject(s): Earth; Paintings And Painters


PERCH, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perch on their water perch hung in the clear bann river
Last Line: In the everything flows and steady go of the world
Subject(s): Earth; Rivers; Water


PERFECTION, by CLARE PERCY WESTPHAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: This earth / beautifully
Last Line: Harmonize ...
Subject(s): Earth; God; World


PETROGLYPHS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It begins in sandstone
Last Line: Of tufted grass, waiting %for us to enter
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


PHYSICS OF THE NEW WORLD, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here on the third planet, bulging vaguely like an egg
Last Line: In the thermal energy and simple particles of the cosmic brine
Subject(s): Earth; Evolution; Physics; Planets; Universe


POETRY OF EARTH, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is always room for beauty: memory
Subject(s): Earth


POINT OF VIEW, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a night tree
Last Line: Who can see us %as we are?
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


PRAETERITA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soft airs that fan the face
Last Line: O'er brightness fled?
Subject(s): Earth; Faces; Hearts; Past; World


PRAISE OF CREATED THINGS, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Be thou praised, my lord, with all thy creatures
Last Line: And produces divers fruits with colored flowers, and herbs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San
Subject(s): Animals; Earth; Moon; Plants; Sun; World; Planting; Planters


PRAISE OF EARTH, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O earth %I count the praises thou art worth
Subject(s): Earth


PRAYER FOR A WORLD HURT SORE, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord god, we lift to thee
Last Line: Made whole again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Pain; Salvation; War; World; Suffering; Misery


PROEM DEDICATORY: EPISTLE FROM MOUNT TMOLOUS; TO RICHARD H. STODDARY, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O friend, were you but couched on tmolous'
Last Line: Of the world's tardy praise, shall make them dear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean


QUESTION, by EDWIN GLADDING BURROWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night and a loose line
Last Line: A rope reaching out to retrieve %a banner blown away by the wind
Subject(s): Earth; Flags; Patriotism


QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "what is earth, sexton? - a place to dig graves"
Subject(s): Earth;wisdom; World


RAIN MOOD, by W. FRANCIS POTTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rain is beating upon my face
Last Line: O come, and bring impassioned solitude!
Subject(s): Earth; Rain; World


RAINBARREL, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My friend's family kept a rainbarrel
Last Line: Lifting our little acorn cups %to taste old rain
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


RAINFOREST SLASH AND BURN, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fallen across one another
Last Line: We will never meet
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


RAINPATTER, by DIANA KEARNY POWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fall lightly, rain, the earth will be
Last Line: For hearts are bound with cords of rain.
Subject(s): April; Earth; Rain; World


RAVEN'S LEGS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the raven approaches the cottonwood
Last Line: That have just begun to yellow
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


READING ABOUT ROCKS, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This book, solid and heavy as rock
Last Line: Surfaces of both solids-your hand and the rock
Subject(s): Books; Earth; Geology; Stones


READING THE PINE, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are galaxies in the grain
Last Line: They leave you behind
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


REALITY DEMANDS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reality demands / that we also mention this
Subject(s): Earth; War; World


REALITY DEMANDS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reality demands %that we also mention this
Last Line: And we can't help %laughing at that
Subject(s): Earth; War


RELATIVITY, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As you sleep, the moon
Last Line: Neither your slow breaths %nor its own
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace


RELIC, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We keep the finger-bones of saints
Last Line: Courses through our bones
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


RELIGION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To learn the secret of the silent grass
Last Line: The life that lasts, tho' I and all men die.
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Love; Religion; Secrets; World; Theology


REMEMBERED MUSIC, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, lonely heart! Why do thy pulses beat
Last Line: Shall with glad seraphs sing, in god's great light.
Subject(s): Earth; God; Grief; Hearts; Voices; World; Sorrow; Sadness


RESTLESS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is but my restless self: the sun
Last Line: And reaches up his arms to have the moon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Asia; Autumn; Earth; Ethiopia; Ganges River, India; Mississippi; Seasons; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Fall; World


RESURRECTION UPDATE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And then it happened
Last Line: An aspirin in a glass of water
Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; World


RETURNED - 'MISSING', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, I was sad and anxious
Last Line: Might be brought back at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Time; World


RETURNING, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We migrate toward the spine
Last Line: Returning to the sea
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


RIDDLE: AS THE WORLD TURNS, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm up and down and round about
Last Line: Can move an inch except I will
Variant Title(s): As The World Turns; On A Circle (riddle
Subject(s): Earth; Riddles


RIDE NOT TOO FAST WITH BEAUTY, by ELSIE TWINING ABBOTT    Poem Text                    
Last Line: From its chain.
Subject(s): Earth; Pain; World; Suffering; Misery


RIVER, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slowly grinding sandstone
Last Line: That all of life is simply %letting go
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


RIVERS, by CHALLIS SILVAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sleeping earth! What ruthless lover
Last Line: The need of mirrors for the stars?
Subject(s): Earth; Rivers; Stars; World


ROADSIDE POEMS: THIS WORLD, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy world is made to fit thine own
Last Line: Because thou, god, art all in all!
Subject(s): Children; Earth; Fathers; God; Childhood; World


ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tough day on the mesa
Last Line: Since a beginning, and we survive %doubts of an ending
Subject(s): Earth; Stones; Tourists; Travel


RODIN'S TEMPEST CALLS, by HELEN MINTUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Face thrust forward
Last Line: Save our planet from extinction, %there is only one day left.'
Subject(s): Earth


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 2. RETROSPECT, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've snuff'd at every smell that has birth
Last Line: Once more we may hope to meet with each other.
Subject(s): Earth; Farewell; Fortune; Graves; World; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones


RUINS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are always trying to enter the earth
Last Line: In its frozen fire
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


RUNNING SOIL, by RAYMOND QUENEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: All I ask is to put a bit of earth in the hollow of my hand
Last Line: I expect nothing from my friends but a bit of earth in my hands - %and from others death
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


SAINT DOROTHEA, MARTYR, by BROTHER CLEMENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Account it most strange if I should fear
Last Line: You will run, you will run to welcome death!
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Love; Roses; Dead, The; World


SALUT AU MONDE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O take my hand walt whitman
Last Line: For all the haunts and homes of men.
Subject(s): Earth; World


SALVATION, by PHILIP HAMMIAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man sets out to shave the world. It's logical to start with himself
Last Line: Wrists & ankles he gets a punch in the nose. Tough luck for the %world; it won't be shaved today
Subject(s): Earth; Shaving


SAND, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am not the subject %I am god's strongbox
Last Line: I made no decision to look %either down or up
Subject(s): Deserts; Earth; Food And Eating; Rain


SATURDAY NIGHT, by MARY COLBURNE VEEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Saturday night in the crowded town
Last Line: Walking in arcady, land of love.
Subject(s): Earth; Neighbors; Night; Streets; Towns; World; Bedtime; Avenues


SEA RHAPSODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By day, the tremble of the boat
Last Line: Restless, that yet bring rest.
Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Earth; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares; World; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


SEA-VOICES, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear mother earth, farewell! / from this sequestered spot
Last Line: Dear mother earth, farewell!
Subject(s): Earth; Farewell; World; Parting


SEAFARER, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And learn o voyager to walk
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Advice; Earth; World


SEAFARER, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And learn o voyager to walk
Last Line: Of sound the rushing planet makes: %and learn to sleep against this ground
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Advice; Earth


SEASONS (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh the cheerful budding-time
Last Line: And all hope of life seems lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World


SEEDS, by CHARD POWERS SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The world is barren now
Last Line: Where I have always been.
Subject(s): Earth; Seeds; World


SELF RELIANCE, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a picture of earth on my wall.
Last Line: On our own
Subject(s): Earth; World


SERENADE IN GREY, by SAMUEL GREENBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The soft eyelid of the dew doth set
Last Line: When color mixes to choice -- behold a lover!
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; World; Songs


SERENGETI PLAINS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death does not feed these plains
Last Line: On its journey through the dark
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace


SETTING THE WORLD RIGHT, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meeting in truckee with the
Last Line: Later, my wife would call our %get-together male bonding
Subject(s): Earth; Life


SHADOWS, by MAUDE S. REA    Poem Text                    
First Line: White-capped waves and shimmering sands
Last Line: But shadows -- shadows -- come -- and go.
Subject(s): Earth; World


SHAPES AND SHADOWS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are but shapes and shadows
Last Line: But the screen remains unchanged!
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Life; Shadows; Time; Dead, The; World


SHORE ROCK, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dragged here by some glacier
Last Line: As I kneel to greet it
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


SHOREHAM: TWILIGHT TIME, by SAMUEL PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: And now the trembling light
Last Line: And mark'st when sparrows fall.
Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; God; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight


SILENCE, by LUCY KENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out into the afternoon
Last Line: Whom silence made forever one.
Subject(s): Afternoon; Earth; Life; Silence; World


SINGLE FIRE, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our lungs breathe for the earth
Last Line: Feed a single fire
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


SLIPPING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slipping away -- slipping away!
Last Line: We are slipping away to the shores of peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Happiness; Peace; Seasons; World; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight


SNAKES, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Guardians of the sacred
Last Line: Because it is the only music %I have
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace


SNOWED UNDER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of a thousand things that the year snowed under
Last Line: Your mantle of ermine, tell me, pray!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hope; Snow; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Optimism


SNOWFLAKES, by FREDA EFTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whirling breathless through the air
Last Line: Of the earth and sky!
Subject(s): Earth; Sky; Snow; Trees; World


SOLID, IRONICAL, ROLLING ORB, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And of me, as lover and hero
Subject(s): Earth


SOLIDITY, by PAUL F. KEEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Calmly the earth survives the storm
Last Line: Its pulsing bosom soft and warm.
Subject(s): Earth; World


SOME CITIES, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dogs know %each night they lift dark noses
Last Line: Observe their populace %alive with sacrifice
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


SOME PART OF THE LYRIC, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some part of the lyric wants to exclude
Last Line: Reflects the world it meant to exclude.
Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Poetry & Poets; World; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG (8), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stream moaneth as it floweth
Last Line: Lulling us from many woes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Brooks; Earth; Rain; Seasons; Streams; Creeks; World


SONG OF THE ARTESIAN WATER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the stock have started dying, for the lord has sent a / drought
Last Line: It is flowing, ever flowing, further down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Earth; Hope; Singing & Singers; Water; World; Optimism


SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weapon shapely, naked, wan
Last Line: Shapes bracing the earth and braced with the whole earth.
Subject(s): Axes; Earth; Hatchets; World


SONG OF THE CORNFIELDS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For miles along the sunlit lands
Last Line: Again we grow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Life; Sea; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean


SONG OF THE EARTHLINGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the earth we came
Last Line: Old time has laid them low.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; Time; Trees; Nightmares; World; Songs


SONG OF THE SEA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The song of the sea was an ancient song
Last Line: Such is the song of the sea.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean; Songs


SONGS OF CREATION: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stuff out of which a poem is wrought
Last Line: From being artist'cally treated.
Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Women; World


SONGS OF CREATION: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The chiefest reason why I made
Last Line: Creation made me once more sound.
Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Soul; World


SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE MIDDLE WATCH, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke in the night, and the darkness was heavy and deep
Last Line: I swear by myself, they are mine.'
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime; Songs


SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; SEA-MEWS IN WINTER TIME, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked beside a dark grey sea
Last Line: I walked in joy, and was not cold.
Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Sea; Snow; Winter; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean


SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wouldst thou give me a heavy jewelled crown
Last Line: Where shall be then the beauty of the globe?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evening; World; Sunset; Twilight


SONNETS: 1. BEETHOVEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As from the nebulous elemental sea
Last Line: Ere lapped in slumber with immortal love.
Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Sea; World; Ocean


SONNETS; MORNING, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful earth! O how can I refrain
Last Line: And praise, through thee, the god that gave thee birth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Earth; Morning; Nature; Sun; World


SONNETS; TO THE SETTING SUN, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou central eye of god, whose lidless ball
Last Line: Still bid my memory survive and bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Earth; Memory; Night; Sun; World; Bedtime


SOPHISTICATION, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This man, I thought, had come too far
Last Line: And then, had no more love for earth.
Subject(s): Earth; World


SOUND OF THE WORLD, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Words, shameful
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Earth; Sound


SPRING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pain and spilt blood and an appalling cry
Last Line: Bursts, as of old, the blackbird's shameless song.
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Graves; Laughter; Pain; Spring; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery


SPRING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! The hours are softly calling
Last Line: Bidding thee arise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Earth; Seasons; Spring; World


SPRING COMES TO LANESBORO, by JOHN MINCZESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hardwoods fade into night
Last Line: Just stay here. The rest is easy
Subject(s): Earth; Spring


SPRING LOVE-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the beauteous spring I see
Last Line: Making all our passion vain.
Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery; World


SPRING SONG ON TOAST, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Apple blossoms drifting
Last Line: May sweetly woos the earth.
Subject(s): Apples; Earth; Flowers; Fruit; May (month); World


SPRING'S ADVENT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit of spring is in the air
Last Line: Mocking, she dares the circling shadow of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Spring; Time; World


STANZAS, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this vain, busy world, where the good and the gay
Last Line: Since the world, the base world has no pleasure for me.
Subject(s): Despair; Earth; World


STAR FACTORIES, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great monoliths of hydrogen and dust
Last Line: Who will inherit the dust?
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace


STOP TO THINK, by UNKNOWN+12    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stop to think-the earth
Last Line: The earth has not been %till then
Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Future Life; Planets; Universe


STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING    Poem Text                    
First Line: A solar system drifting god knows where
Last Line: The race, which speeds a toy balloon, at dawn.
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Earth; Mars (planet); Planets; Stars; Universe; World


SUBJECTED EARTH, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking in the flat oxfordshire fields
Last Line: And all its music to make, beats on the grave-mound
Subject(s): Earth; Graves; England; World; Tombs; Tombstones; English


SUCH FUNNY THINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They teach such funny things in school!
Last Line: Or see the things I see!
Subject(s): Children; Earth; Geography; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; World; Students


SUDDEN BEAUTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go look around the house corner
Last Line: Or, maybe, immortality.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Immortality; Stars; World


SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS ON CERTAIN MELODIES: 4. CAPRICCIOSO, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, nay! The longings tender
Last Line: So caught, is held to my impatient heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Life; World


SUNRISE, SUNSET, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lie down in a field of tall grass
Last Line: A green flash arcs from your spine
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


SYCAMORES IN BLOOM, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like flame-wing'd harps the seed blooms lie
Last Line: The red harps of the sycamores.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Plane Trees; Singing & Singers; World; Sycamores


SYMBIOSIS, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hawaiian bobtail squid
Last Line: To do for the earth %that means so much?
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


SYNOPSIS, by MARGARET MELLISH    Poem Text                    
First Line: A planet revolving around the sun
Last Line: Tomorrow is eternity.
Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Mankind; Politics & Government; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race


TAKE THE WORLD AS IT IS, by CHARLES SWAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take the world as it is! - there are good and bad in it
Last Line: And the wisest and best take the world as it is.
Subject(s): Earth; Friendship; World


TASTING THE EARTH, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a dark hour, tasting the earth
Last Line: In a dark hour, tasting the earth.
Subject(s): Earth; World


TEARS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tears born of wild emotion
Last Line: And all is stainless gold!
Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Memory; Tears; World; Sorrow; Sadness


TERRA DOMUS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the deep-set valley
Last Line: Our home is here!
Subject(s): Earth; Home; World


TETE-A-TETE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a bit of ground, a smell of earth"
Last Line: "they sleep, and know nor pain nor joy"
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE BAD LANDS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No fresh green things in the bad lands bide
Last Line: The song of a million years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Earth; Landmark Preservation; Prairies; World; Plains


THE BAD LANDS, by ROY B. HERRICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: They call them bad lands, these
Last Line: The awesome building of a world.
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE BATH, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Off, fetters of the falser life
Last Line: Between the land and sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Earth; God; Life; Sea; World; Ocean


THE BEELAH VIADUCT, by JOHN CLOSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O wondrous age! A wondrous age we live in
Last Line: When we have bid farewell to earthly things.
Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close
Subject(s): Angels; Earth; Faith; Religion; World; Belief; Creed; Theology


THE BEGINNING, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell strange things of the primeval earth
Last Line: On certain days I dream about her still.'
Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Hearts; Life; World


THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice three moons had waxed in heaven
Last Line: "god is god; there is none other; I his chosen prophet am!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Heaven; Prophecy & Prophets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World; Paradise


THE BIRTHDAY OF SPRING, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cry holiday! Holiday! Let us be gay
Last Line: If my joy be suppressed, I shall burst into tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Echo (mythology); Nature; Spring; Tears; World


THE BOOK [OF THE WORLD], by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of this fair volume which we world do name
Last Line: It is some picture on the margin wrought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Variant Title(s): The Book Of Nature;the Lessons Of Nature;the World
Subject(s): Bible; Books; Earth; Religion; Reading; World; Theology


THE BREATH OF LIGHT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: From the cool and dark-lipped furrows
Last Line: Hail, forever, hail!
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Variant Title(s): The Earth Breath
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE BROKEN BALANCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the archways,
Last Line: The arteries and walk in triumph on the faces
Subject(s): Earth; Human Behavior; Progress; World; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE BURDEN OF A SIGH, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When we on earth have run our race
Last Line: Be felt beyond the grave!
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Graves; Life; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones


THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I watched to-day a butterfly
Last Line: Have raised my thoughts from earth to god.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Earth; Insects; Life; Time; Dead, The; World; Bugs


THE CALL OF THE SIDHE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Tarry thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's
Last Line: Unto the light of lights in burning adoration
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World


THE CHANGING SEASON, by ALINE NEFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Golden sunlight floods the earth
Last Line: Interpreting god's moods.
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Seasons; Weather; World


THE CHILD-WORLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A child-world, yet a wondrous world no less
Last Line: Of any tool he might not chance to own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Earth; Fantasy; World


THE CITY-BOUND IN A PARK, by MARY C. SLEVIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This! This is earth! Beneath my heel
Last Line: Riding with fierce abandon past his shining face!
Subject(s): Earth; Parks; Time; World


THE COMFORT OF THE STARS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am overmatched by petty cares
Last Line: My trouble merged in wonder and in love.
Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Life; Love; Planets; Stars; World


THE COMING OF THE SNOW, by MARION L. BERTRAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: At yestere'en the world was dull and bare
Last Line: We had not been such fretful, restless men.
Subject(s): Earth; Silence; World


THE CONTINUOUS IS BROKEN, AND RESUMES, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adam made the world
Last Line: Anyone is out there, listening.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Earth; Sin; World


THE CRISIS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth upon earth / between the confines of the day
Last Line: Felt that he wished to sit and sharpen an arrow
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sky; Stars; World


THE DAWN OF DARKNESS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Come earth's little children pit-pat from their
Last Line: Hope departed with the twilight, leaving only dumb despair.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; Night; World; Bedtime


THE DEATH OF RICHARD WAGNER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend
Last Line: From the depths of the sea
Subject(s): Composers; Death; Earth; Grief; Roundels; Sea; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883); Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


THE DREAM, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed last night, that I myself did lay
Last Line: And we bow down in dread, o'ershadowed by death's wing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DREAM-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, like a sleeping child
Last Line: Breathes low in the gardens of sleep in the west.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Sleep; Wind; World


THE DYING POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the motionless and silent grass
Last Line: Falls, and I shall not see another morn.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Kisses; Life; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; World


THE DYING POETS FAREWELL, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou wondrous arch of azure
Last Line: To that high and laurelled quire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Farewell; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Dead, The; World; Parting


THE EARTH, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our eyeless bark sails free
Last Line: Strikes never moon or star.
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me that the earth is still the same
Last Line: Careless if on his face were smile or frown?
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; World


THE EARTH, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Which seems so barren once gave birth
Last Line: Who plowed her seas and reaped her grains
Subject(s): Earth; Heroism; World; Heroes; Heroines


THE EARTH AND MAN, by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little sun, a little rain
Last Line: Have left it younger than a boy.
Subject(s): Mankind; Earth; Human Race; World


THE EARTH CRY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How blue the sky is and how sweet the air!
Last Line: That god is good and you have quite forgot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Spiritual Life; World


THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is a black shambling bear
Last Line: Feel her brushing it clean
Subject(s): Earth; Life; World


THE EARTH MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wise old mother lets man play a while
Last Line: "welcome to love, and sleep, and holiday."
Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Seasons; Soul; World


THE EARTH-CHILD, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the veins of the world comes the blood of men
Last Line: For my dreams are one with my body, yea, one with the world.
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE EARTHQUAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An hour ago the lulling twilight
Last Line: And still shall weep, a world above its loss.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Disasters; Earth; Earthquakes; Evening; Loss; World; Sunset; Twilight


THE FEMINEAD: FEMALES, SACRED AND PROFANE, by JOHN DUNCOMBE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The modest muse a veil with pity throws
Last Line: Your empty sneers, and shock the sex no more.
Subject(s): Earth; Sacrifices; Women's Rights; World; Feminism


THE FIRST OF MARCH, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bud is in the bough, and the leaf is in the bud
Last Line: O thou sunny first of march! Be it dedicate to thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; March (month); Peace; World


THE FLAG OF PEACE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men long have fought for their flying flags
Last Line: The rainbow flag of peace!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Nations; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; World


THE GODS' TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair may has come with her bright golden radiance
Last Line: Headlong together, and old night is lord.
Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Grief; May (month); Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GOLDEN AGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When the morning breaks above us
Last Line: Nourished by eternal truth.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Day; Earth; Youth; World


THE GREATEST WONDER, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To spread the azure canopy of heaven
Last Line: That angels stand amazed to think on it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Subject(s): Christmas; Earth; Heaven; Nativity, The; World; Paradise


THE GYRE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world was a globe that sat on a table
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Earth; God; World


THE HOLY EARTH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the immense cathedral of the holy earth
Last Line: Upon her myriad altars flames the one sacred fire.
Subject(s): Churches; Earth; God; Cathedrals; World


THE HOOSIER IN EXILE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hoosier in exile - a toast
Last Line: "the hoosier in exile!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Exiles; Nightmares; World


THE HUMAN NOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the harmonies of heaven stole a note of throbbing pain
Last Line: Yea, the wistful human groping, and the doubt that makes it dear.
Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Heaven; Life; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


THE INDIAN QUEEN: SONG OF AERIAL SPIRITS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor mortals that are clog'd with earth below
Last Line: They slide to us and air.
Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; World; Songs


THE JOY OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the sudden wings arising from the
Last Line: Though our hearts and footsteps wander far from home.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World


THE KINGDOM OF GOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through storm and sun the age draws on
Last Line: As the waters fill the sea.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Earth; God; Heaven; World; Paradise


THE LAST HERO, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We laid him to rest with tenderness
Last Line: How all the story of earth was told.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; Heroism; World War I - Casualties; World; Heroes; Heroines


THE LAST MAN: INSIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why what's the world and time? A fleeting thought
Last Line: A brief parenthesis in chaos.
Subject(s): Earth; Time; Transience; World; Impermanence


THE LUTE OF LIFE, by ARVIA MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ash and flame, sand and dew
Last Line: Upon the cross the spirit sings.
Subject(s): Earth; Fire; Lutes; World


THE MAMMOTH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon as the deluge ceased to pour
Last Line: A second mammoth dies.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Europe; Life; Dead, The; World


THE MAP OF THE WORLD CONFUSED WITH ITS TERRITORY, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a drawer I found a map of the world
Subject(s): Maps; Earth; World


THE MATIN-SONG OF FRIAR TUCK, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If souls could sing to heaven's high king
Last Line: Te deum! Te deum laudamus!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Earth; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; World


THE MEASURE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now frail the flower and strong the weed
Last Line: Measures the long step of the sun.
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Nature; Planets; World


THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The meek shall inherit the earth, -- yes
Last Line: Six feet of earth -- at the last -- and worms for a fellowship nigh.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Humility; Inheritance & Succession; Pain; Dead, The; World; Heirs; Suffering; Misery


THE MEMORY OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the wet dusk silver sweet
Last Line: "so to close her tragic story."
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Memory; Tragedy; Dead, The; World


THE MESSIAH, by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: He came unto a world that was not ready
Last Line: To welcome as its king the baby boy.
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE MODERN SAINT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No monkish garb he wears, no beads he tells
Last Line: And ministers to men with all his might.
Subject(s): Earth; Eyes; Faces; Hearts; Saints; World


THE MOON, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Their footprints on her face
Last Line: For women are, after all, only space.
Subject(s): Earth; Snow; Women; World


THE MOUNTAIN RAPTURE, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Contentment have I known in lowlands green
Last Line: Of fiery heavings, throbbed into repose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Earth; Passion; Singing & Singers; World


THE NEW CHRISTMAS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the good old days, in the spacious days, when the christmas
Last Line: As the snow a man shakes from his shoulders as he comes to his own front gate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Christmas; Earth; Snow; Socialism; Nativity, The; World


THE NORSEMAN'S RIDE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The frosty fires of northern starlight
Last Line: "gleam surtur's hoofs of gold!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Earth; Mythology; Silence; Singing & Singers; World


THE OLD AND THE NEW EARTH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the first bright dawn of sabbath-day
Last Line: And entering, dwell there eternally.
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE OPEN DOOR, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O mystery of life
Last Line: And crown his plan.
Subject(s): Earth; God; Hearts; Hope; Life; Soul; World; Optimism


THE PAIN OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the earth grow grey with grief
Last Line: In our hearts the tears are shed.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; Grief; World; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PELICANS AT WHITE HORSE KEY, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you follow the spiral
Last Line: Set out to float on the sea of repentance
Subject(s): Pelicans; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Repentance


THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 3. THE CHILD, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad son of earth, if ever to thy care
Last Line: "I come!"" I cried; and with the cry awoke."
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Children; Earth; Fate; Life; Saints; Childhood; World; Destiny


THE POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! He traffics with the sun
Last Line: And uncaring give us death.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fate; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; World; Destiny; Ocean


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 POWER OF SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Columns uplifted high
Last Line: Throughout the earth.
Subject(s): Earth; Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Virtue; World; Reputation


THE PRAYERS OF SAINTS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No fragrance of the early months, when earth
Last Line: Perfumed and perfect for that heavenly place.
Subject(s): Earth; Faces; God; Prayer; Saints; World


THE PROMISE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alas! For stifled love, as tho' dull earth
Last Line: Then let thy world within flame to love's glowing kiss!
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Love; Night; World; Bedtime


THE REWARD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heights and caverns of the hills
Last Line: Forgetfulness of misery.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Mothers; Nature; Pain; Rewards; World; Suffering; Misery


THE ROSE ENTHRONED, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It melts and seethes, the chaos that shall grow
Last Line: A fair and fragile weed.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Flowers; Life; Nature; Roses; World


THE SEARCHLIGHT, by DOROTHEA LAMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the dark a yellow light
Last Line: Earth has all secrets you want to know?
Subject(s): Earth; Light; Night; Sky; World; Bedtime


THE SECULAR MASQUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An hundred times the rowling sun
Last Line: Dance of huntsmen, nymphs, warriours, and lovers.
Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Plays & Playwrights ; War; World; Human Race; Dramatists


THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode
Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


THE SHARING OF THE EARTH, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take the world,' cried god from his heaven
Last Line: "we'll admit you whenever you call!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; Thought; World; Thinking


THE SICK-ROOM, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A spirit is treading the earth
Last Line: And a heap of ashes gray.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Spring; World


THE SOMNAMBULIST, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Celestials must have piloted
Last Line: Find heaven's rapture earth unveiled.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Night; Truth; World; Bedtime


THE SONG OF THE ELEMENTS, by MARY ANN BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit amidst the universe
Last Line: Of its own unvanquished power.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne
Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Universe; Water; World


THE STORM-KING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand back! Stand back / from my giant track!
Last Line: I am monarch, and earth must obey!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Earth; Storms; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; World


THE SUN'S ECLIPSE -- JULY 8TH, 1842, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis cloudless morning, but a frown misplaced
Last Line: The thrilling joy, whose tears were on my cheek!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Eclipses; Sun; Dead, The; World


THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and
Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.]
Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology


THE THAW, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the civil sun drying earth's tears
Last Line: So shall my silence with their music chime.
Subject(s): Earth; Sun; Time; World


THE THREAT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How tame has earth become
Last Line: The thirst of emptiness.
Subject(s): Earth; Emptiness; World


THE THUNDER STORM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Above the heavens are flaming
Last Line: I would know that thou art near.
Subject(s): Earth; Lightning; Storms; Weather; World; Lightning Rods


THE TRANSIT, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was as if the ring had gone from the horizon
Last Line: But for the space of a thought it was as if it seemed.
Subject(s): Earth; Music & Musicians; World


THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: O'er hampshire's snow-heaped hills the sun
Last Line: Remorse is punishment enough!
Subject(s): Earth; Homecoming; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips


THE TRUE WITNESS, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear friend, I heard thee say to me
Last Line: I know he is!
Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Life; Love; Religion; World; Theology


THE TURQUOISE BOWL, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bowl in the hand is the earth
Last Line: The winged sun sting its side like a bee.
Subject(s): Bowls; Earth; World


THE TWILIGHT OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The wonder of the world is o'er
Last Line: Dominion and ancestral sway.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; Mythology - Celtic; Past; World


THE UNKNOWN EARTH, by PAUL SANDOZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the cold rain the scents of spring will hurt
Last Line: And every worm is cool and green and proud.
Subject(s): Earth; Spring; World


THE VOYAGE, by EUGENE JOLAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have buried the city
Last Line: The train is thundering toward eternity.
Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Railroads; Travel; Urban Life; World; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE WAVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Children are we
Last Line: Sorrows and hopes of earth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Heaven; Sea; Waves; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Ocean


THE WEARY WEDDING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O daughter, why do ye laugh and weep, one with another?
Last Line: Mother, my mother.
Subject(s): Daughters; Earth; Grief; Marriage; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WEEPING EARTH, by PEARL LENORE POLLARD CURRAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: What! Is earth sodden of anguish?
Last Line: With thy wisdom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Worth, Patience
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE WIDE WORLD IS DREAR, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh say not the wide world is lonely and drear
Last Line: And rewarded with smiles for the fall of a tear.
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE WINTER SLEEP, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A maiden o'erwearied
Last Line: Thy lover is here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Sleep; Spring; Winter; World


THE WORLD, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fie! What a wretched world is this!
Last Line: With death, that hourly waits for me.
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE WORLD, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is wise, for the world is old
Last Line: But the love of god would do all for thee.
Subject(s): Earth; God; Religion; World; Theology


THE WORLD, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love built a stately house; where fortune came
Last Line: And built a braver palace then before.
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Jesus Christ; Redemption; World; Belief; Creed


THE WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By day she wooes me, soft, exceeding fair
Last Line: Till my feet, cloven too, take hold on hell?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE WORLD, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When adam first did from his dust arise
Last Line: And ever will the same.
Subject(s): Earth; God; World


THE WORLD (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw eternity the other night
Last Line: But for his bride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Variant Title(s): A Vision
Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Earth; Freedom; Future Life; Mankind; Religion; World; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race; Theology


THE WORLD IS A BUNDLE OF HAY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Earth; England


THE WORLD IS SO SMALL, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world's a very little place
Last Line: To suit me so.
Subject(s): Babies; Earth; Infants; World


THE WORLD PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The entrance-price you willy-nilly pay
Last Line: Are shaken by its moods, -- mirth, anguish, mystery.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Comedy; Earth; Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; World; Dramatists


THE WORLD WAS SURELY MADE FOR ME, by MAUD MORRISON HUEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The world was surely made for me
Last Line: It suits me so completely.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Nature; World


THE WORLD WE MAKE, by ALFRED GRANT WALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We make the world in which we live
Last Line: We make our world -- and there we live.
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE WORLD'S ADVANCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Judge mildly the tasked world; and disincline
Last Line: Ere reason ripens for the vacant place.
Subject(s): Earth; Progress; World


THE WORLD'S AGE, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who will say the world is dying?
Last Line: That the world is young.
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE WORLD'S ALL RIGHT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be honest, kindly, simple, true
Last Line: What ho! The world's all right, I say.
Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight


THE WORLD'S HARMONIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh listen, listen, for the earth
Last Line: Who turneth from his sin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; World


THE WORLD: A CHILD'S SONG, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world
Last Line: "you can love and think, and the earth cannot!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Variant Title(s): The Wonderful World;the Child's World;the World;the Child In The Midst
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE WORLD; QUATRAINS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is older than our earliest dates
Last Line: Phantasmal, pale, her awful death-morn gleams!
Subject(s): Earth; World


THE WRECK OF THE 'STELLA', by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Easter comes like the gleam of a dawn that delivers the slave
Last Line: For great is the empire of earth, more great the command of the soul.
Subject(s): Earth; Easter; Holidays; Love; Tears; Time; World; The Resurrection


THE YELLOW LEAF, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The year is on the wane - the blue
Last Line: Visions, whose resting-place is heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Autumn; Earth; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall; World


THEY MAY RAIL AT THIS LIFE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They may rail at this life-from the hour I began it
Last Line: And leave earth to such spirits as you, love, and me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; Love; Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight


THIS BEAUTIFUL EARTH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the beauty I have seen
Last Line: Where we go!
Subject(s): Earth; World


THIS COMPOST: 1., by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something startles me where I thought I was safest
Last Line: I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat.
Subject(s): Earth; World


THIS COMPOST: 2., by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold this compost! Behold it well!
Last Line: Leavings from them at last.
Subject(s): Earth; World


THIS SPACE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rushing past us
Last Line: Within the irresistible vector %of the ocean's pull
Subject(s): Earth; Sea; Waves


THIS SPINNING EARTH, by HAROLD VINAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This spinning earth we prattle of so much
Last Line: Rings like a terrible bugle down the sky.
Subject(s): Earth; World


THOUGHTS, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: City of merchants, lords of trade and gold
Last Line: Then build his temple on high, -- not, not till then.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Earth; Thought; World; Thinking


THREE MEN, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a house born of the brown earth
Last Line: And wondered where it was calling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Variant Title(s): An Adobe House
Subject(s): Earth; Houses; Men; Poetry & Poets; World


THROUGH THE STORM, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dogs bark through the storm tonight
Last Line: To distant barking in the rain
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


TICK-TICK, TICK-TICK, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky all dark, clear
Last Line: On all the planets, here too -- in the wolves, the swans, %in the giraffes grazing high in the trees
Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Earth; Planets; Shadows; Universe


TIRED LAND, by ELEANOR RHODES    Poem Source                    
First Line: In ill-won rest I lie stripped bare
Subject(s): Earth; Farm Life


TO A BOASTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea shall not cover you
Last Line: And be forgotten.
Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Pride; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean


TO A FAIR MAIDEN WHO BLADE ME SHUN WINE, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And must I wholly banish hence
Last Line: To grace the praise of water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Muses; World; Paradise


TO A LOG OF WOOD UPON THE FIRE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When horace, as the snows descended
Last Line: To realms celestial.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fire; Life; Wood; Dead, The; World


TO A PAIR OF LOVERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you only love each other
Last Line: Love each other best
Subject(s): Earth;hearts;love; World


TO DELIA: 28 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like as the spotless ermelin distressed
Last Line: Thus shades my life so long as wants endure.
Subject(s): Earth; Fortune; Life; Soul; World


TO EARTH, by CHARLES R. MURPHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, fortunate the waiting that shall end in wonder
Last Line: And men be the seeds of our wild planting.
Subject(s): Earth; World


TO EVERYTHING THAT ENDANGERS...', by CATHERINE FUCHS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Between the gold and the night %of a wounded love
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


TO KEEP THE PEACE, by DANIEL GARNETT BICKERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rejoicing, celebrant and wild with joy we were
Last Line: Of peace shall be impossible. For vision in this work we ask!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bickers, D. G.
Subject(s): Earth; Peace; War; World


TO MOTHER EARTH, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O earth, earth, earth! Where wilt thou hide thy slain?
Last Line: The wrath of man but works his will, earth's sovereign judge is he.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Earth; Social Protest; War; World


TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 24. THE WORLD'S NEED, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The whole round world is but a woman's child
Last Line: Enjoy and bless her for eternally.
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Earth; Mothers; Infants; Childhood; World


TO THE DEFILERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, thieves, and take your riches, creep
Last Line: And cast your spittle in god's face.
Subject(s): Earth; Environment; Prostitution; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIAH, by ELIZA [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "long since, it was by me desir'd"
Last Line: And with bright angels compasy round
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1
Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;earth;elizabeth, Queen Of Bohemia;freedom;heaven;" World;liberty;paradise


TO THE SPHINX, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sleepless sphinx!
Last Line: Eternal sphinx!
Subject(s): Earth; Egypt; Patience; Sphinx; Time; World


TO THE WORLD, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: False world, goodnight: since thou hast brought / that hour upon my morn of age
Last Line: Here in my bosom, and at home.
Subject(s): Earth; World


TODAY AND TO-MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the world is out in leaf
Last Line: Fast asleep and weary --
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Spring Fancies: 2
Subject(s): Change; Earth; Life; Spring; World


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AT MENTONE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why speak ye not, ye beautiful lands and seas
Last Line: Why utterest not the voice we long to hear?
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Earth; History; Mankind; Peasantry; Graveyards; Dead, The; World; Historians; Human Race


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. CONCLUSION, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! What a world I would create from my own, my lovers
Last Line: We shall need no other world, no other worlds.
Subject(s): Beauty; Creation; Earth; Friendship; Love; Socialism; World


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. STANDING BEYOND TIME, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing beyond time
Last Line: Standing beyond time.
Subject(s): Earth; History; World; Historians


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WHO SHALL COMMAND THE HEART (1), by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because the starry lightnings and the life
Last Line: Forsakes this world and seeks a fairer one.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Universe; World


TRANSFORMATION, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning, leaves and small birds
Last Line: In the rivers of this wind %that takes us all
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


TRANSLATION: WORDSWORTH WROTE THAT, by JOHN RUFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world is too much with us
Subject(s): Earth; Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TROUT STREAM, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great fish %hang in the swift waters
Last Line: You too may hear them singing %flesh to flesh
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


TURBOPROP, by RUSTIN LARSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before the world got so freaking ambitious
Last Line: Their bodies leaving the ground, %uncertain and liberated
Subject(s): Change; Earth


TURBULANCE, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now and then an airplane
Last Line: The pterodactyl sails on through the aether %unable to come home
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


TWIN PENDANTS, by BEN JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the ice-choked throat of the northern pole
Last Line: To rest in the caves of your ocean?
Subject(s): Earth; World


TWO MOUNTAINS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Monadnock looms against the pale blue dome
Last Line: Like emerson midst shifts of humankind.
Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Mountains; New England; Sky; World; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So I said underneath the dusky trees
Last Line: And whose day shall no more turn back to night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Love; Memory; Dead, The; World


TWO WORLDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God's world is bathed in beauty
Last Line: Back to thy holy land!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; God; Heaven; Love; World; Paradise


UNQUIET EARTH, by LOUISE DRISCOLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: When they call earth quiet
Last Line: Our feet once trod.
Subject(s): Earth; World


UPSTREAM, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fetal bear who floats
Last Line: They follow still, as they swim upstream?
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


VALE ATQUE AVE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall return to thee
Last Line: I shall return to thee earth, my mother.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Love; Mothers; World


VERSAILLES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The borders of the countries on the earth's crust
Last Line: At the williest hour. You are slovenian, therefore sad
Subject(s): Boundaries; Earth; Travel; Versailles, Frances


VIOLIN SONGS: FAITH, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth, if aught should check thy race
Last Line: "from the sun of liberty!"
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Space And Space Travel; World; Belief; Creed


VISIBLE SOUND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aye, have we not felt it and known
Last Line: In the soul of all beauty is one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Earth; God; World


VISIBLE STAR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my collection of gluons whose color adds up
Last Line: Out there / hissing
Subject(s): Earth


VITA BREVIS EST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gray thing, life, and the bright thing, love
Last Line: Then the woven boughs, and the long cool rest.
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Life; Love; World; Paradise


VIVISECTION, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild nature not by kindness won, because
Last Line: Nor shall it die within me till I die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Life; Time; World; Belief; Creed


VOYAGER, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It probes the solar system
Last Line: Among the stars
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


WAITING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flowerless weeds along the tangled hedge
Last Line: And from ourselves we hide our own hearts' mystery!
Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Night; Stars; Waiting; Weeds; World; Bedtime


WAITING IN WINTER (1), by STANLEY BURNSHAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: They were tired, tired, and outside
Last Line: And earth and heaven looked harsh. . . .
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Heaven; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Paradise


WAITING IN WINTER (2), by STANLEY BURNSHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: They were tired, tired and outside
Last Line: That overbloomed their hearts and now was dead
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Heaven; Sleep


WALKING, SELS., by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We hug the earth, - how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate
Last Line: With a sudden gush return to my senses
Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Nature


WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The water is moving again in the lakes of central america
Subject(s): Allergies; Disease; Earth; Nature; Pollution; Sickness; Water; World; Illness


WATCHING BOXES, by MATT GIULIANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish I could %watch this world
Last Line: Trust your mind's camera,' %and he drifts past my ear
Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Eyes


WAY THE WORLD ENDS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a saddled stallion
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Earth


WE'RE EXTREMELY FORTUNATE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're extremely fortunate / not to know precisely
Subject(s): Earth; World


WE'RE EXTREMELY FORTUNATE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're extremely fortunate %not to know precisely
Last Line: The sign 'no walking on the grass' %a symptom of lunacy
Subject(s): Earth


WHALE HEAT; FOR SCOTT MCVAY, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whales dive into frigid waters
Last Line: Seethes in their bones
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


WHAT AILS THE WORLD?, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What ails the world?' the poet cried
Last Line: Unanswered -- and the poet dies.
Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; World


WHAT COMES AFTER THIS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Water earth fire air
Last Line: After this -- whether it is air %or it is nothing
Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Future; Introspection; Water


WHEN HE COMES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A vision fair - of clouds and sky
Last Line: To do him honor there.
Subject(s): Earth; Holy Ghost; Lightning; Religion; Soul; World; Holy Spirit; Lightning Rods; Theology


WHICH?, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Birth-day or earth-day
Last Line: Which the well-worth day?
Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight


WHITE FRINGED-ORCHIS, by CAROLINE HAZARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low swampy ground, with spagnum moss
Last Line: The candles of the lord.
Subject(s): Earth; Love; Swamps; World; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


WHITE WATER, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fragments of the sun
Last Line: Echoes an ancient tongue
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


WING OF A MOTH, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: For days I have watched
Last Line: The warp and woof of something %that will last
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


WINTER MUSIC, by SARAH KIRSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A red fox I was
Last Line: I slike the snapping of the spine
Subject(s): Earth


WINTER STOLSICE, by     Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A cold night crosses
Last Line: (the dance unmoving)
Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs.
Subject(s): Winter; Cold; Moon; Earth


WITHIN THE WIND, by PENNY HARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We live within the wind
Last Line: Of those who bend over us %the wind
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


WOMAN OF AIR, WOMAN OF WATER, by GLORIA DIEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know that a seaweed wind
Last Line: Will be a woman of earth %a woman of fire
Subject(s): Earth; Fire; Human Rights; Water; Wind


WORK (2), by MARY OLIVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a woman sixty years old and of no special courage
Last Line: This is the world, and this is the work of the world
Subject(s): Earth; Labor And Laborers


WORK IN THE EARTH SO FAST, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ruffles of pungent radiance, gold, maroon
Last Line: Almost too promptly and too modestly to see
Subject(s): Earth; Labor And Laborers


WORLD (1), by GILLIAN CONOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was just a gas station. It was not spectacular carnage
Last Line: Let's see the world. Are you coming with me. What's for dinner
Subject(s): Earth; Life


WORLD (2), by GILLIAN CONOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some are born
Last Line: Some are born %--who can use this %--use this
Subject(s): Birth; Earth


WORLD MUSIC, by FRANCES LOUISA BUSHNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jubilant, the music through the fields a-ringing
Last Line: Pipe of pan was once its naming, now it hath a name diviner.
Subject(s): Earth; World


WORLD PEACE HYMN, by BENJAMIN D. DAVIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: On earth peace and goodwill toward men, the
Last Line: Singing melodies of peace.
Subject(s): Earth; Peace; United Nations; World


WORLD PUT BACK TOGETHER, by GEORGE BRADLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To climb a tree and shout up at the sun
Last Line: And what's this music whispers in my ear?
Subject(s): Earth; Peace


WORLD'S END, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the world's end
Last Line: Time goes so fast %in this empty country
Subject(s): Earth; Emptiness; Judgment Day


WORLDS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 1120's not the only year eirik gnupson
Subject(s): Vikings; Earth; World


WORLDS, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For alexander there was no far east
Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Earth; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); World


YOU, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have the mane
Last Line: Across the worlds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire
Subject(s): California; Colorado (state); Earth; Nature; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips