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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EDEN Matches Found: 70 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ADAM LAY I-BOWNDYN [OR, I-BOUNDEN, OR, Y-BOUNDEN]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "adam lay I-bowndyn, bowndyn in a bond" Last Line: Therefore we may singen / deo gracias Variant Title(s): O Felix Culpa;bless The Time The Apple Was Taken Subject(s): Adam & Eve;bible;eden;love;religion;sin; Theology A DRAMA OF EXILE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice in the clefts of gehenna Last Line: Falling tears of angel.] Subject(s): Eden; Gabriel; Heaven; Devil; Paradise; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub A SONG OF THE WESTERN EDEN, by HOPE S. BARBER Poem Text First Line: Delmarva, the western eden Last Line: To the land between the bays. Subject(s): Eden; Singing & Singers; West (u.s.); Songs; Southwest; Pacific States AD ASTRA: 47, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O love! That sitt'st upon thy deathless throne Last Line: —ah! Once like this did dawn in eden rise!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Eden; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Paradise ADAM THE FIRST, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gendarmes of heaven with flaming swords Last Line: To hell and desolation. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Heaven; Eve; Paradise AIR OF DIABELLI'S, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call it to mind, o my love Last Line: Love's own river ripples in the reeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Dreams; Eden; Love; Nightmares AN IDEAL FUTURE, by T. ARUNDEL HARCOURT Poem Text First Line: I seldom ponder the 'future life' Last Line: That maketh the slumber deep. Subject(s): Eden; Heaven; Paradise CANDIED, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In eden it was never winter, the ground Last Line: Its sticky, sticky rivers. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden CHILDREN OF EDEN, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I try to imagine Last Line: With such freedom, such illusions of power? Subject(s): Children; Eden CORRUPTION, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure, it was so. Man in those early days Last Line: "arise! Thrust in thy sickle''?" Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Eden; Sin DUST-SEALED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not wherefore, but mine eyes Last Line: Their eyes are blind, they cannot see. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Eden; Eyes; Hope; Vision; Optimism EDEN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weary and wandering, hand in hand Last Line: Eden must surely win. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Bible; Eden; God; Sin EVE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A scarlet bird upon her shoulder's snow Last Line: Leapt adam—doubling paradise—and found her. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Eve EVE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the first time a lovely scene Last Line: In god's own image made. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; God; Jews; Judaism EVE SPEAKS, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was in eden and walked, blithely, Subject(s): Eden EVE WAKES IN THE GARDEN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: One the first day she wakes under a shade Last Line: Is hot, the smell of blossoms thick about her Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apple Trees; Bible; Eden; Trees FOOT NOTE TO EDEN, by ANNETTE PATTON CORNELL Poem Text First Line: This I shall remember Last Line: Where we came out. Subject(s): Eden GARDEN-GLOW, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eden was a garden Last Line: Eden's still a garden. Subject(s): Eden GRATITUDE, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I upon the first creation / clapped my wings with loud applause Last Line: Weaned from earth, and led to god. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Religion; Theology HURRY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Mortals! Why this fierce haste Last Line: Enter its lord! Subject(s): Eden; Heaven; Religion; Sin; Paradise; Theology HYMN: SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY: 2, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Incarnate word, who, wont to dwel! Last Line: Shall leave a rankling sting behind. Subject(s): Eden; Epiphany; God; Twelfth Night HYMN: SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY: 3, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on her maker's bosom Last Line: Whom thou hast link'd in one! Subject(s): Eden; God I HAVE BEEN A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND', by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't bliss. What was bliss Last Line: Warming her outstretched palm Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Desire; Eden; Life; Temptation; Eve I WILL ASK, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will ask primrose and violet to spend for you Last Line: Had awaked from sleep. Subject(s): Eden; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Sleep; Paradise IN EDEN, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You lie in our bed as if an orchard were over us. Subject(s): Garden Of Eden IN SHADOW; (A GARDEN OVERLOOKING THE OLD MISSION, SANTA BARBARA), by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou a heritage, / grave olive tree? Last Line: In gethsemane. Subject(s): Catholics; Eden; Roman Catholics; Catholicism INCIDENT IN EDEN, by CHARLES W. PRATT Poem Source First Line: Where leafy branches twined together Last Line: Dear,' said he, 'you always follow.' Subject(s): Eden; Sin 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 LINES WRITTEN ON THE BANKS OF EDEN, NEAR KIRKBY STEPHEN, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From distant moor-land heights descending Last Line: Eden, to thy dark stream farewell! Subject(s): Calm; Eden (river), Great Britain; Rivers; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility LOMALAND, by GRACE CAREW Poem Text First Line: Here is the mood of eden, where the slow Last Line: Love's symphony of service: svasti! Thine! Subject(s): Eden LONELY GOD, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So eden has deserted, and at eve Subject(s): Eden LONG STORY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There must have been a moment after the expulsion Last Line: And tack our few brave sentence onto the end Subject(s): Garden Of Eden MAN THE MONARCH, by MARY LEAPOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Amazed we read of nature's early throes Last Line: A long succession of domestic kings. Subject(s): Eden; Mankind; Human Race MEDITATIONS OF MAN'S MORTALITIE: ADAM AND EVE, by ALICE SUTCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: Of all the trees that in the garden grew Last Line: And both must dye and turned be to dust. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Eden; Religion; Snakes; Theology; Serpents; Vipers MERRILL'S GARDEN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a garden where the seeded stems of thin Last Line: And sees what once she saw and music hears of her living sons and dead. Subject(s): Eden; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening MORE THEOLOGY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why these fig leaves hiding eden's riches? Last Line: Our parent got too big, see, for their britches Variant Title(s): Moon-landing Poetry, From Juvenal, I, 79 Subject(s): Eden; Clothing & Dress NAMING OF THE BEASTS, by FRANCIS SPARSHOTT Poem Source First Line: In that lost caucasian garden Last Line: The inarticulate brute %finds names for them all Subject(s): Eden OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 23. DUST OF EDEN, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some dust of eden eddies round us yet Last Line: "and pitying leaves looked down and sighed, ""forget." Subject(s): Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise ON A MOUNTAIN TOP, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this high altar, fringed with ferns Last Line: His glory fills the air. Subject(s): Angels; Eden; Evil; Eyes; Flowers; Mountains; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON LORD COBHAM'S GARDEN, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It puzzles much the sage's brains Last Line: That paradise is stow. Subject(s): Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise ONE FOOT IN EDEN, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One foot in eden still, I stand Last Line: Strange blessings never in paradise %fall from these beclouded skies Subject(s): Eden PARADISE IS OF THE OPTION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Adam and repeal Variant Title(s): Poem: 1069; Poem: 112 Subject(s): Eden PARADISE LOST: BOOK 1, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Last Line: And summons read, the great consult began. Subject(s): Eden; God PENSIVE MOODS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still watching near the swards of eden Last Line: And grasp all human interest and pain. Subject(s): Eden; Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness REMONSTRANCE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughters of eve! Your mother did not well Last Line: Find the lost eden in their love to you. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Love; Women; Eve RESTLESS, by MARY CROW Poem Source First Line: So this is eden - Last Line: On the wall of my cave, %and the bison charging Subject(s): Eden; Gardens And Gardening; Nature RETURN TO EDEN, by EDITH GRAHAM MIRICK Poem Text First Line: Remembering how, through all the valiant woe Last Line: Love, and her wisdom, only, have been ours. Subject(s): Autumn; Eden; Love; Seasons; Wisdom; Fall ROSE OF EDEN: AN ARABIC LEGEND, by SUSAN K. PHILIPS Poem Source First Line: Fair eve knelt close by the guarded gate, in the glow of the eastern Subject(s): Eden SNAKECHARMER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the gods began one world, and man another, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Eden; Snakes; Music & Musicians; Serpents; Vipers SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 4, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art the pride and passion Last Line: His secret in my heart. Subject(s): Eden SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 40, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy mouth is a snow apple Last Line: I ask no more. Subject(s): Eden SPRING, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is so beautiful as spring Last Line: Most, o maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning. Subject(s): Eden; Jesus Christ; Religion; Spring; Time; Theology THAT EDEN OF EARTH'S SUNRISE CANNOT VIE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And call you blessed, in their glad surmise / of paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Eden; Heaven; Adam & Eve THE BIRTH OF THE INVISIBLE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O scene of enchantment! O vision of bliss! Last Line: As in accents sepulchral it groaned -- I am death! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Birth; Death; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The THE DREAM, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: My ancestor, in early time Last Line: Silence of air, alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Dreams; Eden; Evolution; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Nightmares THE GARDEN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: O what a world of beauty lies within Last Line: With a most tremulous stillness. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Youth; Nightmares THE GRACE OF GOD, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: The lord's cross, so runs the old norse tale Last Line: From lips an hungered for its succulence? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Heaven; Religion; Eve; Paradise; Theology THE HUNTING OF DIAN, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of a midnight lost, lost forevermore Last Line: As far away I heard the cry her dim sea-lover gave. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Diana (goddess); Eden; Hunting; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women; Hunters; Male-female Relations THE LUMBERJACKS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They entered eden Subject(s): Eden; Deforestation THE QUARRY, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the rice swamps and the fields of tea Last Line: They settled to the slot and disappeared. Subject(s): Eden; Elephants; Love; Philippines; Religion; Theology THE RIVER EDEN, CUMBERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eden! Till now thy beauty had I viewed Last Line: Not sought, because too near, is never gained. Subject(s): Eden (river), Great Britain THE TREE OF LIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that man was cast away Last Line: "what I lost by eden bower." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Life; Trees THE VISION OF EVE, by LEON DIERX Poem Text First Line: Three years their leaves on eden's smirch had shed Last Line: Two streams of gold o'er thee their radiance threw. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Love; Women; Eve THEOLOGY, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, the serpent did not / seduce eve to the apple Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Eden THEOLOGY, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, the serpent did not %seduce eve to the apple Last Line: God's querulous calling Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Eden TREE 1947, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living now in myself the end of the world Last Line: To burst into the last flowering of the world. Subject(s): Death; Eden; Trees; Dead, The TWO TREES IN KATHMANDU, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember, in that garden eastward Last Line: East of wherever the gate closed on eden. Subject(s): Cows; Eden; Travel; Journeys; Trips WITH DAFFODILS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I send you daffodils, my dear Last Line: Are you the only firmament. Subject(s): Daffodils; Eden; God; Heaven; Paradise WOODLAND PEACE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet as eden is the air Last Line: And eden-sweet the ray. Subject(s): Eden; Forests; Nature; Woods YOUNG EDEN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flushed from a fairy flagon Last Line: The apple in her hand! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Apples; Eden; Fairies; Fruit; Love; Poison Ivy; Story-telling; Youth; Elves |
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