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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FACES Matches Found: 220 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "HEAD BUMPER, / EYEBROW BRANKY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "gully, gully, gully" Subject(s): Faces A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (1), by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dull as I was, to think that a court fly Last Line: But the sweet little bees large monument. Subject(s): Bees; Faces; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (2), by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I beheld a winter's evening air Last Line: Only a cloud or two hangs here and there. Subject(s): Faces A CHARM INVESTS A FACE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That image — satisfies Subject(s): Faces A DESCRIPTION OF SUCH A ONE AS HE WOULD LOVE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A face that should content me wondrous well Last Line: And knit again the knot that should not slide. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Epigram;epigram: 29 Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Language; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary A FACE DEVOID OF LOVE OR GRACE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: First time together thrown Subject(s): Faces A MEMORY, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the barren, lonely hill Last Line: I walked with angels on the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Past; Faces A MORTUL PRAYER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Thou that veileth from all eyes Last Line: And me the most fer him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; God; Love; Prayer A PROPER ROUNDELAY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See thou, my joy, my care Last Line: Through beauty beyond compare. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Faces; Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight A ROUGH SKETCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I caught, for a second, across the crowd Last Line: And nose like the beak of a bird of prey! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Moon; Nature A SELF-SERVER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such was his greed of life and dread of the voidness of the tomb Last Line: And has taken with him only the pale posthumous tick of time. Subject(s): Coffins; Faces; Life; Soul A SOUL'S REFLECTION, by MRS. GALE SPINK Poem Text First Line: They judged her common in her early youth Last Line: Dame nature's gift revealed a face divine. Subject(s): Faces; Simplicity; Ugliness A VARIATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of this! Last Line: Reverently and adore. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Hate; Love - Complaints A WOMAN OF SIXTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shock came when I went up to her coffin Last Line: That might have been immortal given place. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Funerals; Life; Women; Dead, The; Burials ABE MARTIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abe martin! - dad-burn his old Last Line: Abe martin, the joker on facts. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Portraits ABOUT FACE, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because life's too short to blush, Last Line: Almost admire it. I almost wrote despise. Subject(s): Faces ACCUSATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If this is what you meant Last Line: If this is what you meant? Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Moon; Rain; Shadows; Sky AESTHETIC, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a garb that was guiltless of colors Last Line: "I was thinking of nothing in space." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Praise; Women AGAIN I SEE HER FACE, by ETTA MAY VAN TASSEL Poem Text First Line: Again I see her face among the crowd Last Line: In sudden sweetness on a stranger's face! Subject(s): Faces; Women ALL CIRCUMSTANCES ARE THE FRAME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A force illegible Subject(s): Faces AN AFTERNOON, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am stirred by the dream of an afternoon Last Line: And you -- and live it over. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Afternoon; Dreams; Faces; Lips; Love; Nightmares AN EMPTY GLOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An empty glove - long withering Last Line: The poor husk of the hand I loved -- and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Gloves; Love; Time; Mittens; Muffs AN IDEALIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I left him very ill Last Line: He fares farther on. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Idealism; Life; Soul; Dead, The AN IRISH FACE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Not her own sorrow only that place Last Line: Grow what we dream upon. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Faces; Ireland; Irish AN OLD-TIMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the wayward stream Last Line: I -- breathless -- wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Faces; Streams; Creeks AN OPEN BOAT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what is that whimpering there in the darkness? Last Line: To fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Faces; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three women sit at the crossway lonely Last Line: Turmoil of life's distresses for ever! Subject(s): Faces; Fates (mythology); Life ART AND LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He faced his canvas Last Line: "that sighing said, ""I'm dead there; love me here!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Love AT DUSK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A something quiet and subdued Last Line: Would it were dusk alway! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Dusk; Faces; Nightmares AT LAST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dark, tempestuous night; the stars shut in Last Line: "eureka is his name -- I've found ""a boy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birth; Faces; Night; Child Birth; Midwifery; Bedtime BAGATELLES: 4, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: To you who have no thought of god Last Line: Strikes life into my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Faces; God; Love; Soul BLANCHE, by A. BERNARD MIALL Poem Text First Line: God did not make her very wise Last Line: All good — yet she is scarcely fair. Subject(s): Faces; Mouths; Scars; Tragedy; Ugliness BO PEPPER / NOSE DREEPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And little gap Subject(s): Faces CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doe not repyine fayre sun to see these eyne Last Line: An eden both indeede and name Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Faces; Scotland; Arthur, King; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens 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 CHERRY RIPE (WITH MUSIC), by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a garden in her face Last Line: Those sacred cherries to come nigh %till 'cherry-ripe' themselves do cry Subject(s): Faces CHILDE HAROLD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow and weary, moves a dreary Last Line: Gainst the bark the waves dash high. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The COMING TO A HEAD, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: The head is a finale of flesh and muscle, surge to the finish Last Line: But I can't find myself Subject(s): Bodies; Faces; Heads CRYSTAL, by FAYE KICKNOSWAY Poem Source First Line: My face is black. See the moon? My eyes Last Line: Your bones with explosives, with the dark, strange water of the moon Subject(s): Faces DAFFY WILL, by LADD FRISBY MORSE Poem Text First Line: Little he was / little an' bent Last Line: Like he's poorin' a cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Faces; Houses DEATH'S DIGNITY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a common man. His horny hands Last Line: The strange and sudden dignity of death. Variant Title(s): Mortis Dignitas Subject(s): Death; Faces; Life; Tears; Dead, The DEFINITION, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS Poem Text First Line: A sudden closing of the eyes Last Line: It's called by someone, passing, by another, death. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faces; Silence; Dead, The DEFORMED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crouched at the corner of the Last Line: Leaves crimson trails of bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birth Defects; Faces; Streets; Vision; Avenues DOMESDAY BOOK: ANTON SOSNOWSKI, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anton sosnowski, from the shakespeare school Last Line: And what makes poverty and waste in lives: Subject(s): Anger; Faces; Hate; War EQUIVOCAL, by BEN JOHNSON (B. 187?) Poem Text First Line: On the wealthy larica's worn features I wrote Last Line: "for I called them ""some lines on her face." Subject(s): Faces ERASURE, by JESSICA HENRICKSEN Poem Source First Line: Your eyes, violet apples in a silent orchard Last Line: Match you up to the sky's %high blankness Subject(s): Faces; Memory ETERNAL CONTOUR, by FLORIAA WATTS SMYTH Poem Source First Line: It's hair and dress, framing old portrait faces Subject(s): Faces EYE WINKER / TOM TINKER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Guzzlewopper Subject(s): Faces FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE GOOSE AND THE SWANS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the face, however fair Last Line: You only her defects reveal. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Fables; Faces; Geese; Nature; Swans; Women; Allegories FACE, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hair -- / silver-gray Subject(s): Faces FACE, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hair -- %silver-gray Last Line: Purple in the evening sun %nearly ripe for worms Subject(s): Faces FACE JUGS: HOMAGE TO LANIER MEADERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the tailgate of a pickup on the shoulder of georgia 52 Last Line: The yellow, rock-toothed mouth grinning back in deep relief. Subject(s): Faces; Meaders, Lanier (d. 1998); Pottery And Potters FACE OF GOD, by R. WATSON Poem Source First Line: A boy struggles Last Line: Of a widow's hair %spread out on water Subject(s): Faces; God FACE TO FACE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long weeks I walked the city's crowded ways Last Line: I meet you, face to face! Subject(s): Cities; Faces; God; Urban Life FACE YOU LOOK OUT OF, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Your lover looks into Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Faces; Identity; Love - Nature Of; Nature FACES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in canandaigua, hitchhiking from ann arbor Last Line: You know as much about that face as I do Subject(s): Faces FACES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whose are these faces I keep seeing Last Line: So much with us though free of time and space Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bodies; Childhood Memories; Faces FACES, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: The faces viewed along a teeming street Last Line: Scampering shades in a hell-driven crowd! Subject(s): Faces FACES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: In the life of a crowded city Last Line: In the life of the crowded street. Subject(s): Faces; Humanity; Life FACES, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: There is no more pathetic sort Last Line: Its pathos grieves an unknown lord. Subject(s): Emotions; Faces FACES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look into the faces of the people passing by Last Line: Stamped forever in the future on the faces that I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Faces FACES, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People that I meet and pass Last Line: That you know as much of me? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Faces FACES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sauntering the pavement or riding the country by-road Last Line: The justified mother of men. Subject(s): Faces FACES IN THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM A. BYRNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see them through the night Last Line: Look rather with the eyes that once ye had! Alternate Author Name(s): Dara, William Subject(s): Faces FEBRUARY, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mist appalls the windshield. Subject(s): Faces; Winter FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. CHERRY RIPE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a garden in her face Last Line: Till cherry-ripe themselves do cry! Subject(s): Beauty; Conceit; Faces; Love; Youth FRAGMENT OF A CHARACTER OF JACOB TONSON (HIS PUBLISHER), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With leering looks, bull-fac'd, and freckl'd fair Last Line: And frowzy pores that taint the ambient air. Subject(s): Faces; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.) FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: COUNTENANCE FOREBODING EVIL, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy gloomy features, like a midnight dial Last Line: Scowl the dark index of a fearful hour. Subject(s): Evil; Faces GABAEL, by ADRIEN MITHOUARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone gabael of sichem, blind from birth Last Line: Silent, the sunset tinged with blood the skies. Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Faces; God; Jesus Christ; Visually Handicapped 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 GOD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is that face at the window? Last Line: I refuse to believe in god! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Faces; Fire; God; Jesus Christ; Lies; Love; Wine HALE-BOPP, by MICHAEL O'SIADHAIL Poem Source First Line: I watch your face: still an amazed and desolate Last Line: Nothing so lovely, so lonely as a human face Subject(s): Faces HEAVENLY FACES, by CORA YOUNG GANNER Poem Text First Line: Thy faces before me now I see Last Line: The ones gone before. Subject(s): Faces; Faith; Belief; Creed HELEN KELLER, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is the strength of ages in her face Last Line: Yet walking always in her maker's sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life HELEN'S BEAUTY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lady, chiefest slave of love her lord Last Line: When april's gone, october bringeth tears. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Goddesses & Gods; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Tears; Youth HELEN'S FACE A BOOK, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Helen's face is like a book Last Line: Underneath her lashes? Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Books; Faces; Women; Reading HER EYES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, long ago, a little one of mine Last Line: The christ-like candor of those early eyes! Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Faith; Life; Summer; Belief; Creed HER FACE, by III HOKE S. GLOVER Poem Source First Line: She makes the men wonder Last Line: If you could be %in them Subject(s): Faces HER PLEASURE, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Across the pattern of her face Last Line: Wait upon the seasons of her mind. Subject(s): Faces; Pleasure HER VOICE WAS SWEET AND LOW; HER FACE, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Faces HER WAITING FACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In some strange place Last Line: Set moonwise in the midnight of her hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hair HISTORY OF MY FACE, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lips came with a caravan of slaves Subject(s): Libya; Faces; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity I FIRST SAW MY FACE IN A DREAM, by YAGI JUKICHI Poem Source Last Line: But in my heart was a strange calm Subject(s): Faces IN A HOTEL WRITING-ROOM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We artists have strange nerves! Last Line: We had met before this scene. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Friendship; Hate; Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN THE NIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cry like a child's cry lost in the rain Last Line: Laughed and kissed in ecstasy! Subject(s): Children; Faces; Flowers; Kisses; Night; Rain; Tears; Childhood; Bedtime IN THE SHADOWS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the shadows filled the room with peace Last Line: Missed some beloved face. Subject(s): Faces; Hearts; Peace; Shadows IN THE SOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a princess in the south Last Line: Would blossom as a lily might. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Music & Musicians; Night; Southern States; Bedtime; South (u.s.) IT IS NOT NICE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not nice to see Last Line: An absolute nihilist! Subject(s): Children; Education; Faces; Nothingness; Childhood; Nihilism; Voids JIM CAREW, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born of a thoroughbred english race Last Line: I am, or -- no, I was -- jim carew.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Faces; Grief; Dead, The; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness JUDITH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O her eyes are amber-fine-- Last Line: Sweet as heated honey is. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Kisses LINES TO MISS F., by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "forbear, sweet girl; your scheme forego" Last Line: But keep their sister angel there Subject(s): Air Travel;angels;balloons;beauty;faces;women LIPS AND EYES, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In celia's face a question did arise Last Line: Weeping or smiling pearls, to celia's face. Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Lips LISTEN, AND I WILL TELL YOU OF A FACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And dream on, not at rest, and yet believing Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faces LITERACY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Your face is a story, she said Last Line: I'm illiterate Subject(s): Books; Faces; Relationships LITTLE BLUE HOOD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning and every night Last Line: Are you glad we love you, or don't you care? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faces; Kisses; Love LOOKING AT AGING FACES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some faces get older and remain who they are. Oh Last Line: Who we are Subject(s): Aging; Faces LOOKING AT AGING FACES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some faces get older and remain who they are. Oh Last Line: By glimpsing us just after we wake, %who we are Subject(s): Aging; Faces LOVE'S COMPARINGS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carnations and lilies are hueless Last Line: Wherever her feet may fare. Subject(s): Carnations; Faces; Flowers; Hair; Laughter; Lilies; Love; Spring LOVE'S MAP, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face more than others' faces Last Line: And the dark interior Subject(s): Faces LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lotos flower is troubled Last Line: With love and the sorrows of love. Subject(s): Faces; Flowers; Love; Moon LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy face, so lovely and serene Last Line: That from thine eyes is wont to pour. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faces; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars in yonder heavens Last Line: My own dear mistress's face. Subject(s): Faces; Stars MADE SHINE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This face had no use for light, took none of it, Subject(s): Faces MAKING FACES, by MARY LYDIA CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: How little we think, as we go our way Last Line: We need fear no tales that our faces tell. Subject(s): Bones; Faces METEMPSYCHOSIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two months old, already Last Line: Pass faces long past and dead Subject(s): Babies; Death; Faces; Infants; Dead, The METEMPSYCHOSIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two months old, already Last Line: Pass faces long past and dead Subject(s): Babies; Death; Faces MIRROR, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: That my face was not handsom Last Line: Where they know how to mar looks Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim Subject(s): Faces MORTMAIN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey and ghostly cypresses Last Line: She had a lovely face. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Lips; Sin; Trees; Dead, The MY BACHELOR CHUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A corpulent man is my bachelor Last Line: On the tears of my bachelor chum. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Friendship; Single People; Tears; Bachelors; Unmarried People MY BORES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I take their hands with placid smile Last Line: With but the few I love and me. Subject(s): Faces; Life; Love; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness MY BRIDE THAT IS TO BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O soul of mine, look out and see Last Line: My bride -- my bride that is to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love - Marital; Marriage; Soul; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY FIRST SPECTACLES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first I laughed - for it was quite Last Line: "the first he has to wear?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Sight MYRTILLA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the difference, neither, more or less Last Line: The latter with its grace. Subject(s): Faces; Beauty; Ugliness NO MAN SAW AWE, NOR TO HIS HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That very physiognomy %I am convinced was this Variant Title(s): Poem: 1733; Poem: 134 Subject(s): Faces NONPAREIL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let others from the town retire Last Line: Though I were sure 'twould end in pain. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Flowers; Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight NOTHING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will my love come to me? Last Line: Alas! I have no love. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Jesus Christ; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Nothingness; Soul; Dead, The; Nihilism; Voids ODE TO PROSERPINE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter of demeter, yet once more Last Line: And grants the key to her mysterious ways. Subject(s): Death; Demeter; Faces; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Dead, The; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina OH, HER BEAUTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, her beauty was such that it Last Line: Till I had thanked god for so rescuing me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces OLD JOHN HENRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old john's jes' made o' the commonest stuff Last Line: Old john henry! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Faces; Religion; Nightmares; Theology OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There broods the pathos of a time long past Last Line: That lit the players in the long-ago. Subject(s): Faces; Life; Love; Past; Schools; Time; Students ON A YOUTHFUL PORTRAIT OF STEVENSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A face of youth mature; a mouth Last Line: And all your lovely poems calling to you? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Portraits; Youth ON AN ODDLY BEAUTIFUL FACE, by J. T. BARBARESE Poem Source First Line: Looking at you Last Line: To get to the end Subject(s): Beauty; Faces ON RECORD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not bring a baby face Last Line: Life's scars, for god himself to see! Subject(s): Death; Faces; God; Life; Scars; Dead, The ON THE SIGHT OF A GENTLEWOMAN'S FACE IN THE WATER, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand still, you floods! Do not deface Last Line: A second venus rise. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces ORIGINAL FACE, by KELLY PARSONS Poem Source First Line: There is a clear %and simple glory Last Line: Opening %vulnerable %as a drifting boat Subject(s): Birth; Faces OUT OF THE RANKS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the bitter fight I have made my way Last Line: And hope for the dawn of a better day. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Fights; Tears; Dead, The OVER THE BANISTERS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the banisters bends a face Last Line: That shall brighten the world for him alway. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faces; Light; Smiles PARSING YOUR FACE, by ELLA CAVIS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the past participle in your eyes Last Line: Of your chin's cleft leads the way Subject(s): Faces PEACE IN A PALACE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were weeping in the night,' said the emperor Last Line: "the little eyeless faces of the drowned." Subject(s): Faces; Kisses; Life; Peace; Tears PHAON IN HADES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To-day the very dead would love his face Last Line: Of blame, were I to love his beauty less! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Hades; Persephone; Tears; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina POEM ABOUT YOUR FACE, by NATHAN ALTERMAN Poem Source First Line: If no one sees you, friend Last Line: You were lit to terror by god's image %reflected in his worlds of pallid stone Subject(s): Faces POEM FOR A YOUNG POET, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Most people search all Last Line: Who talks to me Subject(s): Faces PORTRAIT, by AVERY L. GILES Poem Text First Line: Your sunny smile, so bright and gay Last Line: Reposing on your empty head! Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Portraits 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 PROVENCE, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hers is a fine and buoyant face Last Line: And of tall grass made tenderer. Subject(s): Faces; Lips; Pain; Smiles; Suffering; Misery REJECTED ADDRESSES: GEORGE BARNWELL, BY MOMUS MEDLAR, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: George barnwell stood at the shop-door Last Line: Rum ti, &c. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love RIFFS AND RECIPROCITIES REDUX: FACES, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: High school reunions are the proving grounds. Say, one's twenty Last Line: Oh, I still wouldn't approach her, still wouldn't dial whatever her num- %ber had become Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Faces; Reunions ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: KNAVE OF BERGEN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusseldorf castle on the rhine Last Line: Though now they all underground are! Subject(s): Faces; Masks; Night; Rhine (river), Europe; Bedtime ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE NUNS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who at night the convent walls Last Line: O'er the keys are wildly straying. Subject(s): Churches; Faces; Love; Nuns; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology RUGGED FACES, by MARY R. HARTMAN Poem Text First Line: I love the hills and mountains Last Line: A friend to all mankind. Subject(s): Character; Faces; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States SANG TO FANNY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature! Thy fair and smiling face Last Line: And all the world to me is fanny. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Faces; Nature; Singing & Singers SEEING THE DUKE OF ORMOND'S PICTURE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the injured canvas, kneller, strike Last Line: Nor homer's colours last so long as thine. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Paintings And Painters SELF-PORTRAIT, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was given at birth this odd triangular Last Line: Do they find me beautiful: and call me human Subject(s): Faces SELF-PORTRAIT, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've been given this triangular face to wear Last Line: Then I'm allowed %to be accepted as human - and even beautiful Subject(s): Faces SERENADE, by JEAN FRANCOIS VICTOR AICARD Poem Text First Line: My marguerite, I play Last Line: In this wise sang miette. Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs SLOWLY THE MOON RISES', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Forms in my mind Subject(s): Faces; Love; Moon SLOWLY THE MOON RISES', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Forms in my mind Subject(s): Faces; Love; Moon SONG: 24, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you will needs that I shall sing Last Line: Within my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs SONGS TO A.H.R.: 2. THE HEART'S QUESTION, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it such a little thing Last Line: I think it is god. Subject(s): Faces; God; Hearts; Moon SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 27, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some kind angel, gently flying Last Line: E'er shall shake my constant mind. Subject(s): Angels; Faces; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 15, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some fowls there be that have so perfect sight Last Line: Yet do I know I run into the glede. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 24 Subject(s): Eyes; Faces SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 5, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cast these lyric offerings at your feet Last Line: Before the wonder of your form and face. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Faces; Singing & Singers SONNY'S FACE, SONNY'S HANDS (1) SONNY'S FACE, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Most people see his teeth Last Line: Which smiles and asks the rest of us, %'why should I be ashamed?' Subject(s): Children; Faces SOUND IN SILENCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walking when all the ways seemed wondrous still Last Line: With many musics, for my solacement. Subject(s): Animals; Faces; Music & Musicians; Silence; Sound SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 45, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A face like your little face Last Line: Can show so much beauty Subject(s): Beauty; Faces STANZAS TO PUNCHINELLO, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lignum-vitae roscius, who Last Line: First of head-breaking and side-splitting actors! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Faces; Youth; Dead, The SUNLIGHT AND SEA, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the sunlight and the sea Last Line: And who shall take my heaven from me? Subject(s): Breath; Death; Eyes; Faces; Heaven; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Sun; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean THE BLIND GIRL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might see his face to-day! Last Line: Of blindness -- both for him and her. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Blindness; Faces; Love; Separation; Isolation; Visually Handicapped THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPS OF CHELTENHAM, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When hawthorn buds are creaming white Last Line: "I am looking for my children. Awake, and come away." Subject(s): Children; Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Dancing & Dancers; England; Faces; Singing & Singers; Childhood; English THE CLOWN'S COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A comical lass I went to woo Last Line: Who came in and politely kicked me out Subject(s): Clowns;courtship;faces;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE DEAD WIFE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always I see her in a saintly guise Last Line: I need so much -- so much! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FACE, by EBENEZER JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These dreary hours of hopeless gloom Last Line: God still must find alone my prayer. Subject(s): Despair; Faces THE FACE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow spaces I see a face Last Line: If you should move! Subject(s): Faces; Fear; Lips; Love; Moon; Night; Bedtime THE FACE, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The man with the acid face Last Line: Who wills to act. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Card Games; Faces; Playing Cards THE FACE OF THE NIGHT; A PASTORAL, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the night with her hair gemm'd with stars Last Line: It continues through the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Faces; Legends; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Bedtime; Dramatists THE FADED FACE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How was this I did not see Last Line: Sorrow-wrung! Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE FAREWELL OF THE OLD GUARD AT FONTAINEBLEAU, 1814, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately court of fontainebleau Last Line: Falls no more on fontainebleau. Subject(s): Faces; Farewell; Silence; Tears; Parting THE GUDEWIFE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My gudewife - she that is tae be Last Line: Luve's tapmaist-bubblin' ecstasy. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HOUSE OF DUST: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light Last Line: And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Faces; Rain; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight THE HUMAN FACE, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A film of green, unfocused plush, of fantasy Last Line: This is a being. The one nobody dares portray Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Hauser, Kaspar (1812-1833); Faces; Movies; Cinema THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN ON THE WAY THROUGH GOD'S WOODS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me / have you ever seen Last Line: Old freight car the word for god's / woods Subject(s): Faces THE LISTENERS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face of day is haggard Last Line: On the moor and the mere. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Fables; Faces; Fear; Thunder; Allegories THE LITTLE LADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the little lady's dainty Last Line: Lady. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Hands; Praise THE LOVER, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Come let us now to each discover Last Line: "my loves begun, it will not end" Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): Beauty;faces;flowers;love THE MASK, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am as some frail harlot whose pale face Last Line: The leprous growth of my immense despair. Subject(s): Despair; Faces; Masks; Secrets THE MIRROR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: At grace's house -- I often call Last Line: To powder nose and fix her face. Subject(s): Faces; Mirrors 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 ONE FACE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair faces come again Last Line: In the world are enough now! Subject(s): Faces 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 QUARREL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They faced each other: topaz Last Line: Like drowning gems were turned on him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hate; Quarrels; Sea; Storms; Arguments; Disagreements; Ocean THE QUIET LODGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man that rooms next door to Last Line: This man that rooms next door to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE ROSICRUCIAN, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tripod flared with a purple spark Last Line: Were one; and he saw that this was she. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Love; Soul; Dead, The THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 2, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My face lives always in the quenchless light Last Line: I watch the last-born laughing in mine eyes! Subject(s): Death; Faces; Sin; Youth; Dead, The THE TRAITOR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Judas am I, or peter Last Line: And my love looking at me! Subject(s): Betrayal; Faces; Fate; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Love; Night; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Silver; Destiny; Bedtime THE TWINS: 1, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One's the pictur' of his pa Last Line: A-ridin' and a-rompin' in the breeze! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Love; Twins THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a starved bank of moss Last Line: Grows his singing. (there, enough!) Variant Title(s): Apparitions;the Bard And The Cricket;an Awakening Subject(s): God; Smiles; Faces THE UNSEEN FACE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do beseech thee, god, show me thy face.' Last Line: Thou hadst beheld god's face, and straightway died! Subject(s): Christianity; Faces; God; Moses THE WEREWIFE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to me in a dazzling guise Last Line: And the kiss of her stung like the fang of a snake. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE-BLESSED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youth he wrought, with eyes ablur Last Line: As mother mary wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blessings; Faces; Paintings And Painters; Tears; Youth THEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can not understand, dear little one Last Line: "then?"" in the dream-like years when I am dead." Subject(s): Faces; Memory; Tears THERE IS A PLACE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: Where much water fell Subject(s): Faces; Grandparents; Native Americans; Riddles THEY DID NOT SEE THY FACE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some on the pleasant hillside have thought they saw thee pass Last Line: Till others seek again, kathleen, to see thy hidden face. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Faces; Love THIS I REGRET, by CURRY FEWELL Poem Text First Line: This I am sorry for Last Line: His knowing my face. Subject(s): Faces THIS MAN JONES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man jones was what you'd Last Line: Nothin' o' that fer a week or so. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Dead, The THREE FACES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In half profile, one behind the other Last Line: And to their partial spectrum the white light Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Faces; Family Life; Trinity, The TO A SKULL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn your face this way Last Line: You do grin so satisfied! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Skulls; Dead, The TO A SUCCESSFUL MAN; (WHAT THE GHOSTS SAID), by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And after all the labour and the pains Last Line: In your last dreams they may come back to you. Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Faces; Fame; Labor & Laborers; Love; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares; Reputation; Work; Workers TO DELIA: 23, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look in my griefs, and blame me not to mourn Last Line: Her for disdain, and me for loving thus. Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness TO F. H., by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little the world will heed Last Line: Some image of my face. Subject(s): Faces; Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs TO HELEN KELLER, by FRANCES BEEBE Poem Text First Line: Whose eyes may handle beauty? Last Line: Of beauty neither seen nor heard! Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968) TO HELEN KELLER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breaking over your silence Last Line: To bear all and be still. Subject(s): Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Smiles TO HER FACE, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fatal aspect! That hast an influence Last Line: Sure adam sinn'd not in that spotless face. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Faces TO MADAME GARSCHINE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the face, the fairest face, till care Last Line: Or constancy, and love, and makes it grand? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Caregivers; Faces; Love TO MARY, by MAURETTE CHRISTOPHER Poem Text First Line: Upon my knees my little baby lies Last Line: How dear his hands and tiny wrinkled feet! Subject(s): Babies; Faces; Jesus Christ; Infants TO THE HANDDSOME MISTRESSE GRACE POTTER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As is your name, so is your comely face Last Line: Keepes line for line with beauties parallels. Subject(s): Faces TOUT PASSE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I watch the crystal stream Last Line: The faces that are gone. Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Faces; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Ocean TWO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One leaned on velvet cushions like a queen Last Line: In basking in the death-light of his smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Heroism; Smiles; Heroes; Heroines UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 19. KATHARINE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We see you as we see a face Last Line: And backed by the reflected blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Faces; Mirrors UNDINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She did not answer him again Last Line: The hope of life was o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faces; Hearts; Love; Memory VISION, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the somnambulant dawn, in which your face Last Line: Revengeful silence masks, but cannot quell. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision VOICE AND VISION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had never known your face at all Last Line: And the blind cry of all the seas that roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Miranda: 8 Subject(s): Faces; Pain; Soul; Voices; Suffering; Misery WAR NOTES: 1. 'EXTRAS', by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crocuses in the square Last Line: With heaven's own patience are calm and sweet. Subject(s): Faces; May (month); Nations; Sea; War; Ocean WASHING MY FACE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night's dreams disappear Last Line: A transparent rose swallowed by its stem. Subject(s): Dreams; Faces; Introspection; Past; Nightmares WHAT MAKES THIS STATUE NOBLE SEEMING, by KENNETH KOCH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I want your mouth, your breath Subject(s): Faces; Desire WHEN WE LOOK UP, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had not looked Subject(s): Faces WITH HER FACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With her face between his hands! Last Line: With her face between his hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hands; Love WITHDRAWALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look on his face, so aged, so set, so white Last Line: Death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Faces; Hope; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism WOMAN IN FRONT OF POSTER OF HERSELF, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said I shouldn't. Subject(s): Women; Self; Faces; Love YESTERDAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, he spoke of a woman's face Last Line: That yesterday is the long ago. Subject(s): Faces; Flowers; Past; Time YLLADMAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her hair was, oh, so dense a blur Last Line: I'd waken up to die again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love |
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