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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EVE Matches Found: 177 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 COTTAGE IN A CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We reached the place by night Last Line: For the cottage by the water. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Flowers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Eve; Seamen; Sails A LAY OF OLD TIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morning of the first sad fall Last Line: New adams and new eves! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible A REFLECTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When eve upon the first of men Last Line: That adam was not adamant! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Pity; Sin; Women; Eve AD. AN' EVE, by WILL SEEDY Poem Text First Line: When adam lived in eden park Last Line: "de lord said, ""you be damned!" Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible ADAM, by CELIA DROPKIN Poem Source First Line: Spoiled, %stroked by many women's hands Last Line: You will not hide from me Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible ADAM, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God made man upright at the first Last Line: The earth being in the middle found. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible ADAM AND EVE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The names %of the things Last Line: My body opens %into brothers Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Religion ADAM AND EVE, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam and eve were reading about a monkey in a bath Last Line: And the hand of eve reached for the apple Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible ADAM AND EVE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When adam fell asleep in paradise Last Line: Towards lilith by the brooks of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible ADAM POSED, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could our first father, at his toilsome plough Last Line: T' have hit the wavering form, or given this thing a name! Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology 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 ADAM'S CURSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together at one summer's end Last Line: As weary-hearted as that hollow moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve ADAM'S DREAM, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the first dream adam our father had Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve ADAM'S DREAM, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the first dream adam our father had Last Line: Cried out and was at peace, and turned again %in love and grief in eve's encircling arms Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible ADAM'S TASK, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Language; Mythology; Eve; Words; Vocabulary ADAM'S TASK, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted Last Line: Thou, sproal; thou, zant; thou, lily-eater. %naming's over. Day is done Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Animals; Bible; Language; Mythology ADAM, LILITH, AND EVE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, it thundered and lightened Last Line: They re-seated themselves beside. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve ADAM; A HUNGARIAN LEGEND, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in asia, saith the legend Last Line: Death his troubled face shall brighten. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Asia; Bible; Creation; God; Legends, Hungarian; Far East; East Asia; Orient ADOLESCENT, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: Half-man, half child, his whole limp body nods Last Line: The gods themselves as adam leapt to eve! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Adolescence; Bible; Puberty; Teen Agers AN AFTERTHOUGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lost garden paradise Last Line: And the blessed door made fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Heaven; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise ANCIENT HISTORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain Last Line: The gaunt wild man whose lovely sons were dead. Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; Religion; Soldiers; Theology ANENT THE APPLE, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Sad eve, the crime all hers and mankind cursed Last Line: Wind-falling fruit, the storms lave at their love Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible AVE EVA, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild strawberries, gooseberries, trampled Last Line: And trampling the gooseberries and the strawberries. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible BALLAD OF HOW ADAM SAW IT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proverbially, old adam Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Eve BEFORE EVE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a strangeness Last Line: And the earth and adam knew! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible 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 CHAPTER AND VERSE, by GONZALO ROJAS Poem Source First Line: It was for this that man came into the world, to fight Last Line: Of old age into another butterfly, %a different one Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Creation; Poetry And Poets; Sin CHASTITY MATTERS LESS THAN YOU THINK, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot retrieve Last Line: Through her millennia of little deaths. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Chastity; Nature CIRCLE, by THEODORE SPENCER Poem Source First Line: Adam and eve, like us Last Line: Unanswered under the moon Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible DEATH, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Look not so fierce; thy hands are ty'd, I know Last Line: Borne in a surer birth of immortalitie. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Devil; Immortality; Spiritual Life; Eve; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub DEATH OF EVE, SELS., by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn they came to the stream hiddekel Last Line: Cain waited for the coming of the dawn Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible EDEN, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The garden; the first year and the first june Last Line: Adam gave us cain. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain EDEN RETOLD: 1. THE SICKNESS OF ADAM, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, at every step, he turned Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Longing; Anger; God; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 3. THE KISS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first kiss was with stumbling fingertips Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Kisses; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 4. THE TREE OF GUILT, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, on her way to the oracle of love Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Trees; Guilt; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 5. THE CONFESSION, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As on the first day her first word was thou Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Sin; Trees; Food & Eating; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 6. SHAME, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hard blood falls back in the manly fount Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Shame; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 7. EXILE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The one who gave the warning with his wings Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Exiles; Eve ENOCH TELLS THE SECRETS OF THE SIXTH DAY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The fifth day of course was busy, the sea Last Line: A miserable dominion over the earth Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Mankind; Religion EVE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: One book has it that eve Last Line: Before she goes to sleep [or, sleeps] Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Man-woman Relationships 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 ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Close to the gates of paradise I flee Last Line: Lord god, lord god, open the gates to me! Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible EVE, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, with her basket, was Last Line: "eva!"" again." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology EVE, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the highway Last Line: Hoarding this apple %in my hand Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Women EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I sit at the door, / sick to gaze within Last Line: His tongue out with its fork. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology 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, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago, in ages grey Last Line: To the work we have to do. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible EVE AND ADAM, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Tis said a clever woman can Last Line: And make a man out of a fool. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations EVE NAMES THE ANIMALS, by SUSAN DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: To me, lion was sun on a wing %over the garden. Dove Last Line: As garlands on my long walks %the next day %I'd find them withered %I liked change Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Animals; Bible; Names EVE OH EVE, by TASLIMA NASRIN Poem Source First Line: Why won't eve eat of the fruit? Last Line: Eve, if you get hold of the fruit %don't ever refrain from eating Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Women's Rights EVE TO HER DAUGHTERS, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was not I who began it Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Women's Rights; Eve; Feminism EVE TO HER DAUGHTERS, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was not I who began it Last Line: He has turned himself into god %who is faultless, and doesn 't exist Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Women's Rights 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 EVE'S BLOOD, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love hides many treasures in its deeps Last Line: The blood of that eve of the early woods. Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Brides; Nature; Nudity; Nakedness EVE'S CRADLE-SONG, by WALTER SATTERLEE Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep, little cain Last Line: Little cain! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain EVE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am eve, great adam's wife Last Line: There would be no hell, there would be no sorrow, %in the heavens, where our only stability stands Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible EVE'S SONG, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They may not ever know Last Line: O heart's desire! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve EVE, ON A MORNING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, on a morning, paused before the / gate Last Line: "and adam plans to break new ground to-day." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Peace; Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness FIRST SACRIFICE, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Adam, the hour is nigh! Last Line: Yet deeper -- and from that, strong comfort win! Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible FOR EVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And I have felt a pity surge for eve Last Line: Who kept with adam that first lover's tryst! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Hearts; Love FRAGMENTS OF THE MYSTERY OF THE FALL, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam: since that last evening we have fallen indeed! Last Line: Oh cain! Behold your father's words are said! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve FROM EVE, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Radiance tempts %from every tree Last Line: Buried deep in the apple's belly Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible FRUIT OF THE TREE, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: In the dark ocean which rolls a molten world Last Line: God wept, for heaven seemed hollow ... Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Women GIVE ALL, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The maiden-cheeked, fine smelling peach has come Last Line: "give all you have to give." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Love 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 HOW CRUEL IS THE STORY OF EVE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh dread nature, for your purpose, %to have made them love so Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible HYMN TO CONTENT, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! The nymph with placid eye Last Line: Low whispering in the shade. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Nymphs; Adam & Eve; Contentment; Eve I DREAM I AM EVE, by RACHEL BLUM Poem Source Last Line: Before the clutter %of body. %(after judy chicago) Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Dreams 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 IDYLL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Each time that eve and adam meet, he builds Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Smoking; Soul; Spring; Eve; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes IMPERIAL ADAM, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial adam, naked in the dew / felt his brown flanks & found the rib was gone Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology IMPERIAL ADAM, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial adam, naked in the dew %felt his brown flanks & found the rib was gone Last Line: Between her legs a pigmy face appear, %and the first murderer lay upon the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Religion IN ADAMS FALL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We shall all reach the skies Subject(s): Adam & Eve IN EVE'S WORDS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In the garden, eve was given little to know: the taste of her skimpy lips Last Line: Persisting in its own language, until it spoke the language of tongues Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Bible - Old Testament; Creation IN MY NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the bound of mine own enclosure Last Line: Might seem the best to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Beauty; Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I heard him calling! Did you hear Last Line: Adam, where art thou? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible ISHWARKE EVE (EVE SPEAKS TO GOD), by KABITA SINHA Poem Source First Line: I was first Last Line: I was first %to know Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion JUST TO FEEL HUMAN, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A single apple grew on our tree, which Subject(s): Apples; Adam & Eve; Eve KOSMOS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of dust the primal adam came Last Line: Lifting the heart of man with love. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Art & Artists; Bible; Love; Mankind; Soul; Eve; Human Race LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 14, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When adam and when eve left paradise Last Line: Thee and thy realm of change and death and pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve LEGEND, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: First thunders spoke at half-past one Last Line: A beautiful thing she could not touch. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Eve LEGEND OF THE DOVE, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soft from the linden's bough Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible LILITH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fiercest demon-shape in hell / was lilith fell Last Line: To save a world once more! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Fables; Lilith; Eve; Allegories LISTENING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She listened like a cushat dove Last Line: To hear him speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Doves; Love MARIAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She can be as wise as we Last Line: And give the peace of eden. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Love; Women 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 MEN ARE HEAVEN'S PIERS; THEY EVERMORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How far a little virtue goes Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Male-female Relationships; Virtue METAMORPHOSES: 1. ADAM, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two boys exchange dna and blood, the usual Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Brothers; Eve; Half-brothers METAMORPHOSES: 1. ADAM, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two boys exchange dna and blood, the usual Last Line: But what can I reap? What can I destroy? Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Brothers MILE FROM EDEN, by ANNE RIDLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With buds embalmed alive in ice Last Line: The bird's-eye glory to full sight %bring, and outcasts into delight Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible MY DAUGHTER, LIKE EVE, REALIZES NAKEDNESS, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: At graduation, every eighth-grade girl Last Line: Hidden in a row of perfect white bones Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Daughters; Mothers NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS' SONG BE THE SAME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would declare and could himself believe Last Line: To any watch they keep? Variant Title(s): Never Gain Would Birds' Song Be The Same Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Birds; Eve NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS' SONG BE THE SAME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would declare and could himself believe Last Line: And to do that to birds was why she came Variant Title(s): Never Gain Would Birds' Song Be The Sam Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Birds NEVERNESS, OR THE ONE SHIP BEACHED ON ONE FAR DISTANT SHORE, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old adam, with his fist-full of plump earth Last Line: And none be left to witness the blank mist? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; History; Humanity; Time; Eve; Historians NOTHING BUT STONES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I never passed so sad an hour Last Line: In blaze of gorgeous light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Churches; Grief; Stones; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness; Granite; Rocks OCCASIONAL POEM, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When adam day by day Last Line: The more I think of this %the more I beat my wife the apparently inexhaustible pianoforte Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible OF THE APPLE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The apples in the garden bed Last Line: "wherewith the world abounds,"" she said." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; God; Praise OLD ADAM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night rain fell Last Line: And so lay smiling, %his heart held breathless with beatitude Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Night ON 'EVE TEMPTED BY THE SERPENT' BY DEFENDENTE FERRARI, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rare spirit remembered now with a pang Last Line: Or easy but possible and we fall. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Jordan, Barbara (1936-1995); Temptation ON THE SEPARATION OF ADAM AND EVE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Goltzius, Hendrik (1558-1617); Paintings & Painters; Adam & Eve; Eve ON THE WALL NEXT TO MY WINDOW, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who %will make art of this Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Arabs; Bible; Home; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine OUT FROM PARADISE, by MARY JANE CARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though I would not quarrel with justice Last Line: Adam and eve. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve OVER AND OVER, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: Arguing day by day, over and over and over Last Line: Two brothers palsied and grey, arguing over and over. Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; God PANEGYRIC ON THE LADIES; READ ALTERNATE LINES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: That man must lead a happy life Last Line: Is sure of earthly blessedness Subject(s): Adam & Eve;bible;women PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 1, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Come!' spoke the almighty to adam Last Line: The rest are rubbish. You must try again tomorrow Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 10, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: All this fuss about an apple Last Line: But the snake had scarpered Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 11, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Eve chomped at the apple Last Line: She plucked a second for adam Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 12. A SEQUENCE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What about adam? %shall I keep it to myself Last Line: I'm a simple woman Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 13, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sighing through all her works Last Line: Eve observed. It loosens the tongue Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 14, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Must be that cox's orange pippin Last Line: I wish there were ten forbidden trees %snore Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 15, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Where are you, adam Last Line: The weather might change, lord %too right. It will Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 16, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I should have ceased at noon Last Line: I should have stopped at midday Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 17, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The woman Last Line: Ending this little tete-a-tete Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 18, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Son of my bosom Last Line: By now the quire was in full swing Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 19, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: So the archangel, out of pity Last Line: All -- or some, he murmured at the door Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 2, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What a dream! Said adam waking Last Line: Knowing what he knew Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 20, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There was the escort, in position Last Line: We don't want any trouble, do we Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 21, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I had no voice Last Line: He said, I'll learn to make you shoes Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 22, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Why didn't we think of clothes before Last Line: Asked eve %laundering adam's Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 23, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What was she like Last Line: So what are you Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 24, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I gave him a very nice name Last Line: Who named them Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 25, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Death, said adam in funereal tones Last Line: And there's a lamb to slaughter Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 26. A SEQUENCE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What's all this %about a sense of sin? Last Line: You see?' his parents said, %'we told you so Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 27, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I told him flat Last Line: Adam! You should see a psychiatrist Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 28, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Enoch died untimely, he was only 365 Last Line: I have a feeling too Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 29, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There were giants in the earth Last Line: I knew this would happen, said god Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 3, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Rich soil, remarked the landlord Last Line: Snapped the landlord. Yet Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 30, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Jabal had erected the tents Last Line: We are losing on the roundabouts Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 31, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Cities were all right when they were towns Last Line: It was just the thing for his allotment Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 32, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The days of adam were 930 years Last Line: People lived forever then Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 33, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Adam was old bones, lost in his clothes Last Line: At heart he'd always been a gardener Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 34, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The lord called adam man Last Line: She died soon after adam Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 4, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: If you wanted ice-cream Last Line: Adam told himself, but eve needs me Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 5. A SEQUENCE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: About them fisking played Last Line: He said: %'I think of words, therefore I am Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 6, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Can't you let her name something Last Line: They all sound womanish to me %said adam, nettled Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 7, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: To whom, indignantly, the angel thus Last Line: He murmured: can she cook? Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 8, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I thought I had no family ties Last Line: Those two will have to go Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 9, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Satan considered the creatures Last Line: In search of silly she Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 14. AL-MUZAWWIR, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lord would fashion men Last Line: "come thou!"" at man's hour of death." Variant Title(s): Making Of Man Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Islam; Jews; Mankind; Eve; Judaism; Human Race PLAINT OF EVE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man's mate was I in paradise Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible RANDOM CONJECTURE, by BILL NOBLE Poem Text First Line: Would the world have been a better place Last Line: And died a celibate? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible 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 SALVE DEUX REX JUDAEORUM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sith cynthia is ascended to that rest Last Line: All what I am, I rest at your command. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Man-woman Relationships; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Eve; Male-female Relations; Virgin Mary SHARING EVE'S APPLE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O blush not so! O blush not so Last Line: O cut the sweet apple and share it! Variant Title(s): Eve's Sweet Pipin Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Religion; Eve; Theology SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 3. POWER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come then, my soul, I call thee by that name Last Line: And in my act may thy great will be done! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Life; Mankind; Pain; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Dead, The; Human Race; Suffering; Misery SON AND MOTHER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know what you are fighting against, fatuous mother Last Line: Go -- and wait. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Mothers; Passion; Sons SONS OF ADAM, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER Poem Text First Line: Adam, wrestler with storms Last Line: But the sons of adam crawl. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Sons SURFEIT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I am betrayed by multiplicity Last Line: Had for horizon his own straining knees. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Religion; Self; Eve; 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 APPLE, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, smiling, plucked the apple, then Last Line: As to let adam taste of it! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit 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 CONTINUOUS IS BROKEN, AND RESUMES, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full 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 EYE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not true that eyes Last Line: Hill pastures and reluming the green-caved wood. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eyes; Light; Eve THE GOLDEN APPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She saw on the far bank a golden apple Last Line: With gloss of gold on his ruddy hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Evil; Fruit; Good; Temptation 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 IMMORTAL MARRIAGE, by JAMES DUVAL PHELAN Poem Text First Line: Eve speaks a language none can fail to hear Last Line: But only nature answers as he falls. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible THE OLD GENTRY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: That all from adam first began Last Line: Himself can fix or change his fate. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Fate; Labor & Laborers; Destiny; Work; Workers THE ORIGIN OF EVIL; AN ELEGY, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ranting topers, midnight rovers Last Line: Milton. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible THE ORIGIN OF TEARS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When eve, the twilight heavens to view Last Line: Bestowed his blessing ere he knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Tears THE POET'S VOW, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eve is a twofold mystery Last Line: Still, like them we must weep.' Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Marriage; Eve; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE RECOGNITION OF EVE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it was she had so fiercely fought Last Line: She was already turning beautiful Subject(s): Adam & Eve THE RECOMPENSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made a garden first for man Last Line: My adam praise me night and morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Children; God; Home; Mothers; Parents; Trade; Women; Childhood; Parenthood THE ROYAL CROWN, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I stand before thee, lord, and I am Last Line: Before thy might in awe I stand, bowed low unto the ground! Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; God; Jews; Sin; Eve; Judaism THE SICKNESS OF ADAM, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He entered with the authority of politeness Last Line: On earth. Sadly the angel watched them go Subject(s): Adam & Eve THE SONG OF EVE TO CAIN, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Rest, my baby, rest Last Line: Oh! Rest, my darling, rest! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain THE STORY AS I UNDERSTAND IT, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that eve first told the callow tree of apples Last Line: Through a divine monotony of spring on spring. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible 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 THERE'S HOPE FOR THE SEXUALLY INEXPERIENCED, by CHRISTOPHER SCRIBNER Poem Source First Line: Before pretty eve was nigh adam Last Line: Poor adam was pretty naive Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Sex TO THE LADY DURSLEY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here reading how fond adam was betrayed Last Line: Nor had frail adam fallen, nor milton wrote. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Heaven; Milton, John (1608-1674); Paradise TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. O CHILD OF URANUS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O child of uranus, wanderer down all times Last Line: Thy form in glory clad shall reappear. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Eve; Male-female Relations TRAGEDY OF MAN, SELS., by MADACH EMERICH Poem Source First Line: First citizen - behold, there comes another horde of heathen Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Devil TREES OF KNOWLEDGE, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: It's all about the trees, then Last Line: It's all about the trees now Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apple Trees; Bible; God; Knowledge; Religion; Trees UNDER THE PINES, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All is still / under the pines Last Line: All is still. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; God; Pine Trees; Eve WHEN ADAM WALKED IN EDEN YOUNG, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the soul fevers in my breast %and aches to be away Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Religion |
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