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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FAME Matches Found: 180 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE GOLDEN ISLAND OR THE DARIAN SONG, BY 'A LADY OF HONOUR'", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some slumbering thoughts possessed my brain Last Line: O' respond both land and sea Subject(s): England;fame;life;sea; English;reputation;ocean 19TH HOLE CONDOM POEM, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Failed poet completes '19th hole condom poem,' about a Last Line: Will be arriving in the fall in search of the author %of thenow-famous '19th hole condom poem.' Subject(s): Fame; Poetry And Poets; Sex A DIRGE CONCERNING THE LATE ... KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CROFFUT Poem Text First Line: And so our royal relative is dead? Last Line: To write of one who loved his fellow men! Alternate Author Name(s): Croffut, W. A. Subject(s): Cannibals; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fame; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Reputation A FRAGMENT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest on your battle-fields, ye brave Last Line: We cannot mourn you now. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): A Dirge Subject(s): Courage; Fame; Shame; Valor; Bravery; Reputation A FRIEND, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: I knew him well; we fenced at many a bout Last Line: Of shining fame . . . And I have lost a friend. Subject(s): Fame; Fencing; Friendship; Reputation A LETTER TO A FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The past is like a story Last Line: As when scattered o'er the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fame; Friendship; Letters; Past; Reputation A MAN TO A WOMAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you complain of me Last Line: In your identity. Subject(s): Fame; Man-woman Relationships; Reputation; Male-female Relations AENEID: FAME, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The queen whom sense of honor could not move Last Line: Dissolved in ease, abandoned to her lust Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Fame AFTER PUBLICATION OF 'UNDER THE VOLCANO', by MALCOLM LOWRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Success is like some horrible diaster Last Line: And had been left in darkness forever to founder and fail Subject(s): Fame; Novels And Novelists; Success AMPHITYRON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The laboring bee, when his sharp sting is gone Last Line: To make fine fools of you, and all your parts. Subject(s): Bees; Fame; Insects; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Beekeeping; Reputation; Bugs; Dramatists; Stage Life ANSWER TO STANZAS TO LADY HESKETH, BY CATHERINE FANSHAWE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be remembered thus is fame Last Line: But never lodged so well. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation APPLAUSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold it one of the sad certain laws Last Line: The plaudits of the world turn into sneers. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Applause; Fame; Fear; Reputation AS I WALK DOWN THE STREET SOME PEOPLE THINK ME BAD, by DAVID HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: On my way to the awards ceremony Last Line: Governor with a poetry award Subject(s): Fame; Poetry And Poets ASPHODEL (AFTER THE WORDS OF PENNY TURNER NYMPHAION GREECE), by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Our guide turned in her saddle broke the spell Last Line: Like honey-but with hints of rotting meet %an army of them bristled at my feet Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Fame; Life; Mythology - Classical ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 90, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame Last Line: And love doth hold my hand, and makes me write. Variant Title(s): "stella, Thinke Not That I By Verse Seeke Fame""; Subject(s): Fame; Reputation AT THE ALTAR OF FAME, by RACHEL K. WAISMAN Poem Text First Line: They knelt before the goddess known as fame Last Line: Beseeching fame. This knowing, I knelt too. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation BALLADE OF LITERARY FAME, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, where are the endless romances Last Line: They are all in the fourpenny box! Subject(s): Fame; Reputation BEGGAR AT THE DOOR FOR FAME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Disclosed to be denied Variant Title(s): Poem: 1240; Poem: 129 Subject(s): Fame BLACKBERRIES, SELS., by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, so much admired, so oft desired Last Line: His fame was rescued by a single plank Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Debates; Desire; Fame; Friendship; Revolutions BROKEN WINGS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gray-headed poets, whom the full years bless Last Line: Immortal lays. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Fate; Poetry & Poets; Youth; Dead, The; Reputation; Destiny CENTENARY POEM, RECITED AT BURNS' CENTENARY FESTIVAL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, bard beloved! As pilgrims to thy shrine Last Line: To fame's bright zenith nearer, higher rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Death; Fame; Honor; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Reputation CHANT FOR THE BRYANT FESTIVAL, NOVEMBER 5, 1864, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One hour be silent, sounds of war! Last Line: Fulfil her poet's prophecies! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Truth; War; Reputation COPING WITH FAME, by TOM HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: I have nothing literary to say Last Line: Almost skinned clean %and wonderfully bent Subject(s): Fame CORSICA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bordighera's groves of palm Last Line: Whose glory filled a million graves. Subject(s): England; Fame; Sea; Soul; English; Reputation; Ocean COUNSEL FOR KINGS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be, like a noble prince, in love with fame! Last Line: God's justice, higher than thou, should punish thee. . . . Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fame; Love; Punishment; Virtue; Reputation CRUSADER, FR. IVANHOE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High deeds achieved of knightly fame Last Line: And grant him bliss who brings thee fame Subject(s): Crusades; Fame DEAD IN SIGHT OF FAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! Dead! Dead! Last Line: Will see it and be reconciled. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Heaven; Tears; Dead, The; Reputation; Paradise DEATH AND FAME, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I die Subject(s): Death; Fame; Dead, The; Reputation DEATH AND FAME, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have planted a flower on the peak Last Line: And fame is where they are. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Dead, The; Reputation DOMESTIC FAME, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is the grave so silent? Why is the tomb so dead? Last Line: Of living hearts, to honour its memory as divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Fame; Reputation EARTH'S IMMORTALITIES: FAME, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, as the prettiest graves will do in time Last Line: Have softened down the crisp-cut name and date! Subject(s): Fame; Reputation EPISTLE TO HENRY WRIOTHESLEY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who hath never warred with misery Last Line: God sets to act the hard'st and constant'st parts. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Fortune; Wriothesley, Henry. Earl Of Southampton; Dead, The; Reputation EPISTLE TO MR. POPE: AUTHORS AND CRITICS, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With fame in just proportion envy grows Last Line: The fairest fruit, so these the fairest fame. Variant Title(s): Fame And Envy Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Envy; Fame; Reputation EPISTLE TO THE LADY LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though virtue be the same when low she stands Last Line: By which, when all consumes, your fame shall live. Subject(s): Bedford, Lucy, Countess Of (1581-1627); Fame; Nature; Virtue; Women; Russell, Lucy, Countess Of Bedford; Reputation EPITAPH: 22, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a name, a place, who now have none Last Line: On a grey slab is all I've had of fame! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Fame; Graves; Dead, The; Reputation; Tombs; Tombstones EVER FIND ME DIM REGARDS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hated mist if it came near Subject(s): Fame FABLES: 1ST SER. 45. THE POET AND THE ROSE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the man who builds his name Last Line: To wither, envy, pine and fade? Subject(s): Fame; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses; Reputation FAME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When a man becomes a hero all the world is standing round Last Line: We are the girls who've kissed him' Subject(s): Fame;genius; Reputation FAME, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is fame - a lasting fame for me Subject(s): Fame; Reputation FAME, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fame guards the wreath we call a crown Last Line: But the poor conceit of pride. Subject(s): Fame; Pride; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect FAME, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fate, cannot a man Last Line: And die to fame an honored martyr. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation FAME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis still observ'd, that fame ne're sings Last Line: The order, but the sum of things. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation FAME, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In his vast gardens, once an oriental lord Last Line: The holy allah his reward insures. Subject(s): Fame; Rewards; Reputation FAME, by IRENE MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: That I would become known Last Line: And none of this was me Subject(s): Fame FAME, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes in the over-heated house, but not for long Last Line: The moon's dropped child! Subject(s): Fame; Reputation FAME, by STELLA LAVINA OLSON Poem Text First Line: A forest tree was sore distressed Last Line: He had his one brief hour of fame! Subject(s): Fame; Trees; Reputation FAME, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have I played fellowship with night, to see Last Line: "he told me, ""fain to find his house and sleep." Subject(s): Fame; Reputation FAME, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: At length he laid his weary pen aside Last Line: And saves for us an else forgotten name. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation FAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in a dream, I saw a man Last Line: Who signs his nom de plume, the end Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Reputation; Paradise FAME, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their noonday never knows Last Line: How star surpasseth star. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Fame; Reputation FAME, by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The names that slow oblivion have defied Last Line: To life and joy and love unperishing. Alternate Author Name(s): Talfourd, Sergeant Subject(s): Fame; Reputation FAME, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great thoughts had swelled my breast since morning light Last Line: The light of souls who died without a name. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation FAME - FAME - FAME, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON LARNED Poem Text First Line: It's a fad of my own, that I'd like to be known Last Line: On the strength of his health and his mirth. Subject(s): Fame; Public Worship; Reputation; Church Attendance FAME AND LOVE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, dearest, thou dost speak of fame Last Line: My heart is at thy feet. Subject(s): Fame; Happiness; Love - Nature Of; Reputation; Joy; Delight FAME IS A BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ah, too, it has a wing Variant Title(s): Poem: 1763; Poem: 178 Subject(s): Fame FAME IS THE ONE THAT DOES NOT STAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But we demand the flame Variant Title(s): Poem: 1475; Poem: 150 Subject(s): Fame FAME IS THE TINT THAT SCHOLARS LEAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That disappears as comes Variant Title(s): Poem: 866; Poem: 96 Subject(s): Fame FAME MAKES US FORWARD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To print our poems, the propulsive cause Last Line: Is fame, (the breath of popular applause.) Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Reputation FAME THAT NEVER ENDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He was a friend Subject(s): Fame FAMOUS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river is famous to the fish Subject(s): Ambition; Fame; Reputation FANNY: 113, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And in anticipation of that hour Last Line: The thousand nameless graces that adorn %the daughters of the wealthy and high-born Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Fame; Wealth FANNY: 115, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little like effortery; and yet Last Line: Others have done the same - 'twas not of her invention Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Admiration; Ambition; Fame FINIS, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: He went out into the world Last Line: Though the play be ended . . . Subject(s): Fame; Indifference; Reputation FIRST WE KNEW OF HIM WAS DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The second had not been Variant Title(s): Poem: 100 Subject(s): Death; Fame FREE TO CHOOSE, by GERTRUDE SHISLER DUPPER Poem Text First Line: Depressions, wars - spring from greed Last Line: We blunder on. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation HER IMMORTALITY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady, had I but the heaven-sent grace Last Line: And outsoar death itself on wings of rhyme! Subject(s): Death; Fame; France; Immortality; Time; Dead, The; Reputation HOMAGE TO LESTER FLATT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five seasons without traveling to a festival, without walking Last Line: Rattling the bank echoes the tenor of our lives. Subject(s): Fame; Festivals; Flatt, Lester; Future Life; Music, Rock; Homage & Respect; Reputation; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Rock & Roll HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE, by DONALD F. DRUMMOND Poem Source First Line: Althought the words of men suffice Subject(s): Fame HUNGER INN, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waiter, waiter! Last Line: "just as you say, madam." Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs. Subject(s): Fame; Love; Reputation I WAS A PHOEBE [PHEBE] - NOTHING MORE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon the floors of fame Variant Title(s): Poem: 100 Subject(s): Fame IDYLL 13, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, leave me not unhonoured! Artists aim Last Line: And reach at excellence, provoked by fame. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation IN FULLER MEASURE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dying so young, how much he missed!' they said Last Line: "fame void of strife, and wisdom free from pain." Subject(s): Death; Fame; Grief; Dead, The; Reputation; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE EAST FAMES ARE WON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the west deeds are done Subject(s): Fame JOSEPH HAD DIED OF CANCER TWO YEARS BEFORE, by FRANCESC PARCERISAS Poem Source Last Line: The girl at the bar had started singing %a popular song Subject(s): Fame LET THEM ALONE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If god has been good enough to give you a poet Last Line: Before it was quite unsheathed from reality Subject(s): Fame; Writing & Writers; Reputation LIME LIGHT, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fame; Reputation LINES TO PERFESSER JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your neghbors in the country Last Line: Plum at the dashboard of the wholeendurin' alfabet! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fame; Letters; Universities & Colleges; Reputation LOST FLOWER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in a marsh by the water's brink Last Line: Was wisdom such as I wished unheard. Subject(s): Beauty; Fame; Flowers; Reputation LOVE AND FAME, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the may when I was born Last Line: In death may gain the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Fame; Life; Love; Reputation LOVE AND FAME, by HELEN W. IRVING Poem Text First Line: It had passed in all its grandeur, that sounding summer shower Last Line: And he sought her sadly sorrowing -- a tear-dimmed star of dew. Subject(s): Fame; Love; Reputation MAD SONNET: FAME, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: Oh how I want thee fame! Last Line: I am not hungry for death's attitudes. %bless night Subject(s): Fame ME! COME! MY DAZZLED FACE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That they—pronounce my name Subject(s): Fame; Immortality; Heaven METAMORPHOSES: THE FABLE OF IPHIS AND IANTHE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fame of this, perhaps, through crete had flown Last Line: And the warm youth enjoys the lovely maid. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Fables; Fame; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories; Reputation MISCELLANIES: PROLOGUE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do to be forever known Last Line: See us, and clouds below. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation MONTGOMERY'S RETURN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How black the barge of trailing pall Last Line: Montgomery came home. Subject(s): Fame; Homecoming; Hudson River; Love; Montgomery, Richard (1738-1775); New York City; Reputation; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NO TONGUE CAN FITTINGLY EXTOL HIS FAME, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Fame ODE; SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by W. T. ADAMS Poem Text First Line: No more the cannon peal Last Line: And deathless fame. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fame; Monuments; United States - History; Dead, The; Reputation ODES III, 30. TITLE TO FAME, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now have I reared a monument more durable than brass Last Line: Melpomene, with delphic bays adorn thy poet's brow Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Fame ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 9. TO CURIO, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice hath the spring beheld thy faded fame Last Line: And no sublimer lot will fate reserve for man. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation OH! BE SOMETHING!, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Be something! - oh! Be something! Last Line: Without a purpose there! Subject(s): Desire; Fame; Service; Usefullness; Reputation OLD POEM: 10, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Turning my chariot I yoke my horses and go Last Line: Fame is the only treasure that endures Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);fame; Reputation ON BEING YANKED FROM A FAVORITE ANTHOLOGY, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fame gave me a wrench and I cried ouch Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Reputation ON BOSWORTH FIELD, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, richard, didst thou fall, caparisoned Last Line: To tread eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Fame; Reputation ON CRITICS; IN IMITATION OF ANACREON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let 'em censure: what care I? Last Line: And lose the nymph, to gain the bays. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Fame; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Songs ON FAME, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fame we covet is a wand'ring air Last Line: And with a thousand tongues, a hydra live. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now six and thirty rapid years are fled Last Line: "but the fair guerdon is immortal fame." Subject(s): Birthdays; Fame; Happiness; Reason; Virtue; Reputation; Joy; Delight; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away. Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence PARTIAL FAME, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sturdy man, if he in love obtains Last Line: How partial is the voice of fame! Subject(s): Fame; Love; Shame; Reputation PATIENCE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: New come from church (a place where I Last Line: Patience is sure & ample victorie. Subject(s): Ambition; Fame; Patience; Prayer; Reputation PINDARIC ODE: LIFE AND FAME, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh life, thou nothing's younger brother! Last Line: For all old homer's life e'er since he dy'd 'till now. Subject(s): Fame; Life; Reputation PINDARUM QUISQUIS, by CORINNA (6TH CENTURY B.C.) Poem Text First Line: Sweet-voiced myrtis too I blame Last Line: Striving after pindar's fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Korinna Subject(s): Fame; Reputation PITT'S BON-MOT, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though william pitt (nick-named the tory Last Line: "except in case of an invasion!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): England; Fame; English; Reputation PLACES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roses and gold Subject(s): Waiting; Fame; Reputation POET AND MERCHANT, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: The poet goes ragged Last Line: "of the merchant, ""he is dead." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fame; Money; Reputation POPULAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Popular, popular, unpopular! %'you're no poet' - the critics cried! Last Line: You're no poet!' 'why?' - 'you are popular!' %pop-gun, popular and unpopular! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Fame PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: FOREWORD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us now praise famous men' Last Line: Walks with de la mare. Subject(s): Fame; Praise; Reputation PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW HOUSE, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A plain-built house, after so long a stay Last Line: Machines and tempests will destroy the new. Subject(s): Fame; Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Theatre Royal, London; Reputation; Dramatists; Stage Life PROVIDE, PROVIDE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The witch that came (the withered hag) Subject(s): Bible; Fame; Old Age; Religion; Transience; Reputation; Theology; Impermanence PROVIDE, PROVIDE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The witch that came (the withered hag) Last Line: With boughten friendship at your side %than none at all. Pr0vide, provide! Subject(s): Bible; Fame; Old Age; Religion; Transience QUATRAIN: FAME, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the thousand verses you have writ Last Line: Nor shame nor fame can scale a churchyard wall. Variant Title(s): To Any Poet Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Reputation REPUTATION, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good name was dear to all. Without it, none Last Line: On human face, he knew himself so vile. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Fame; Reputation SAH SIN, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I found the hummingbird Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Death; Fame; Dead, The; Reputation SECESSION, by T. A. R. NELSON Poem Text First Line: What pen can trace, with just impression Last Line: "be ""damned to everlasting fame!" Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Thomas A. R. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Fame; State Rights; U.s. - History; Confederacy; Reputation; Secession SING ON!, by LYDIA JANE PEIRSON Poem Text First Line: Tis not for fame: I know I may not win Last Line: The pure bright river of eternal life. Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Lydia Jane Subject(s): Fame; Reputation SOME - WORK FOR IMMORTALITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ones' - money - one's the mine Variant Title(s): Poem: 406; Poem: 53 Subject(s): Fame; Immortality; Time SOMEBODY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody being a nobody Last Line: Would you have called me a nobody? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): "somebody Being A Nobody""; Subject(s): Fame; Reputation SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 115, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not long for fame Last Line: "yvonne loved long ago!" Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Reputation SONNET ON FAME (2), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fevered is the man, who cannot look Last Line: Spoil his salvation for a fierce miscreed? Subject(s): Fame; Reputation SONNET. A STATESMAN, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Staunch at thy post, to meet life's common doom Last Line: Than thy plain life, high thoughts and matchless constancy. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Leadership; Dead, The; Reputation SONNET: 68. ON THE POSTHUMOUS FAME OF DOCTOR JOHNSON, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well it becomes thee, britain, to avow Last Line: But large the spots that darken'd on its sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Fame; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Reputation SONNET: ON FAME (1), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy Last Line: Then, if she likes it, she will follow you. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation SQUIRREL, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Here fame lasted a week, the running Last Line: The way gears mesh and lock, the way a zipper closes Subject(s): Fame; Squirrels; Women STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story Last Line: I knew it was love and I felt it was glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): All For Love Subject(s): Fame; Love; Youth; Reputation STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF MEN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The noble road to fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Mankind; God; Fame TENNYSON: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His brows were circled by a wreath of bays Last Line: In the rich music of his english lyre. Subject(s): Fame; Love; Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Reputation; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron THE BEST MEMORIAL, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Text First Line: Columns and graven monuments, these can give Last Line: Need in no vain tomb be pining. Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Fame; Reputation THE CALL OF THE STREAM, by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL Poem Text First Line: I am sitting to - day at the desk alone Last Line: I'm catching the train for trout. Subject(s): Brooks; Fame; Rest; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Reputation; Loneliness THE CRIMINALITY OF WAR, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One to destroy is murder by the law Last Line: War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fame; Injustice; Murder; Social Protest; War; Reputation THE FLOWER OF FAME, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sought it before the billow of spring on the meadow Last Line: Deep in whose broken blossom the dew lies like a tear. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation THE GOAT AND THE HORSE; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A goat who lent a ravished ear Last Line: Their works may win applauding breath! Subject(s): Fame; Writing & Writers; Reputation THE HALL OF FAME, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A noble fane of marble wall and moonlit ... Last Line: Entered new names on the roll of fame. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Halloween; Harlem River, New York; New York City; Dead, The; Reputation; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE HAMMER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen Subject(s): Fame; Transience; Reputation; Impermanence THE HAS-BEENS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read the papers every day, and oft encounter Last Line: At fame and wealthfor has-beens do come back. Subject(s): Fame; Fortune; Reputation THE LAND OF CONTENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I set out for the land of content Last Line: I came to the land of content. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Anxiety; Fame; God; Soul; Travel; Reputation; Journeys; Trips THE LASTING FAME, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to leave behind me some work that Last Line: Live on forever, or die in half a day. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation THE LOST LOVER: PROLOGUE, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first adventurer for her fame I stand Last Line: And therefore she resolved to coppy you. Subject(s): Fame; Plays & Playwrights; Women; Reputation THE LOST MASTER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when I come to die,' he said, Last Line: We'll play the game. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation THE MAYFLOWER, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet as the honored name Last Line: Their pilgrim fame shall be! Subject(s): Fame; God; Mayflower (ship); Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Reputation THE MERRY MEN OF ENGLAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh the men of merry, merry england" Last Line: "to the men of merry, merry england" Subject(s): England;fame; English;reputation THE NORMAN POET'S REWARD, by CHARLES THEOPHILE FERET Poem Text First Line: Look not for gold -- the sickly sons of ease Last Line: -- the skald's undying ecstasy! Subject(s): Fame; Love; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Poetry & Poets - French; Reputation THE PILLAR OF FAME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fames pillar here, at last, we set Last Line: Firme and well fixt foundation. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Dead, The; Reputation THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 221, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birth and death are decreed Last Line: And brilliant scholars are broke Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birth; Chinese Literature; Death; Fame; Wealth; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Reputation; Riches; Fortunes THE POET'S GARRET, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sportive fancy! Come with me, and trace Last Line: Bears thy sick fancy to immortal fame! Subject(s): Fame; Home; Poetry & Poets; Reputation THE POWER OF SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Columns uplifted high Last Line: Throughout the earth. Subject(s): Earth; Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Virtue; World; Reputation THE RECOLLECTION OF THE PEOPLE, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: Yes! They shall tell of his renown Last Line: God's blessing you have earned. Subject(s): Fame; God; Reputation THE REWARD OF SONG, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we make our music? Last Line: And love is its one reward. Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Love; Music & Musicians; Rewards; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Reputation THE SELF-BETRAYAL WHICH IS NOTHING NEW, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look now, miraculous, mirabillis, and true! Subject(s): Fame; United States; Reputation; America THE SINGER'S MUSE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought in these to make her kitchen sweet Last Line: "her bashful singer and her servant boy." Subject(s): Babylon; Dublin, Ireland; Fame; Flowers; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Sex; Spring; Troy; Reputation THE STAR'S MONUMENT; CONCLUDING PART OF A DISCOURSE ON FAME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there be memory in the world to come Last Line: That gaze up dying into alien skies. Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Life; Love; Memory; Monuments; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Reputation THE TEACHING OF THE BLOWS OF FORTUNE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye that nourish hopes of fame! Last Line: Which tames the noblest efforts of poor flesh. Subject(s): Fame; Fortune; History; Reputation; Historians THE TRITON OF THE MINNOWS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you strike out something new? Last Line: "the triton of the minnows." Subject(s): Fame; Goddesses & Gods; Hope; Mythology; Time; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Optimism THEM AND US, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something in their psyche insists on elvis Last Line: Death and elvis, but watching for marvin gaye. Subject(s): Death; Fame; History; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977); Dead, The; Reputation; Historians THY AIM, THY AIM?, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The belated funeral flower of fame Subject(s): Fame; Death TO A FRIEND, WHO DEPLORED BRIEF LIFE OF LITERARY PERSONALITY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is most true - and most untrue Last Line: Our thought is living -- and lives on! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Fame; Writing & Writers; Reputation TO A LADY WITH THE TEMPLE OF FAME, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's fame with men, by custom of the nation Last Line: Part you with one, and I'll renounce the other. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation 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 ALEX. SMITH, THE 'GLASGOW POET' ON HIS SONNET TO 'FAME', by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not vainly doth the earnest voice of man Last Line: The mighty warning of a poet's birth. Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Smith, Alexander (1830-1867); Reputation TO BE SHOWN TO MY SON JUN, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: Again it's the season of clear, mild weather Last Line: Only then was master sima deemed a worthy man Subject(s): Fame TO DELIA: 46 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As to the roman that would free his land Last Line: But happier yet, if thou wouldst change thy mind. Subject(s): Errors; Fame; Tyranny & Tyrants; Mistakes; Fallacies; Reputation; Dictators TO FAME, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Alas! For any latmian boy who durst Last Line: And snare me also with a single smile! Subject(s): Fame; Reputation TO FAME, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be self-deceived Last Line: Sets the dews shaking and the thorn-twig bends. Subject(s): Fame; Introspection; Self; Reputation TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUTCHESS OF YORK, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you whose dignity strikes us with awe Last Line: And falls by that a truer sacrifice. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Fame; Fear; Hyde, Anne. Duchess Of York (1637-1671); Muses; Reputation TO MARY ELLIOTT FLANERY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When looking down the vista Last Line: Wherever you may go. Subject(s): Fame; Fate; Memory; Reputation; Destiny TO MR HARLEY, WOUNDED BY GUISCARD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In one great now, superior to an age Last Line: Enough to thee of grief, and fame is given. Subject(s): Death; England; Fame; Grief; Nations; Dead, The; English; Reputation; Sorrow; Sadness TO THE HONOURABLE CHARLES MONTAGUE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Howe'er, 'tis well, that while mankind Last Line: I, phillis, but a perjured whore. Subject(s): Death; Experience; Fame; Fate; Mankind; Dead, The; Reputation; Destiny; Human Race TO THE TUNE OF SAILING AT NIGHT (1), by MA CHIH-YUAN Poem Source First Line: When all hope of Last Line: Bamboo fence and thatched cottage Subject(s): Fame; Wealth TO THE UNIVERSITY, by ALICIA D'ANVERS Poem Text First Line: Hail peaceful shade, whose sacred verdant side Last Line: And please my self, if pardon'd first by you. Subject(s): Fame; Tears; Reputation TOO LATE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sighed a poet when his fame Last Line: For I've lived just thirty years beyond the time! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Time; Reputation TRANSLATION OF AN INSCRIPTION RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN SAMOS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turinna, famed for every grace Last Line: Revive from such distress again. Subject(s): Daughters; Epitaphs; Fame; Parents; Reputation; Parenthood UPON HONOUR, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Honour, I say, or honest fame Last Line: And kings can neither take nor give. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fame; Honor; Reputation VICTORY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before those golden altar-lights we stood Last Line: There's but one way. God make us better men. Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Fame; France; Love; Victory; Dead, The; Reputation WHAT IS GLORY? WHAT IS FAME?, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ay, this is glory! — this is fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Fame WHERE FAME IS SURE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hollow-sounding trump of fame Last Line: The parent you would like to be! Subject(s): Fame; Parents; Reputation; Parenthood WHILE I, FROM THAT RED-THROATED WHISPERER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I, from that reed-throated whisperer Last Line: Are but a post the passing dogs defile. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fame WHO EQUALLEST THE COWARD'S HASTE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Though it assume the lowest part Subject(s): Fame WHO'S WHO IN THE EAST, by ROBERT MYLES HERSHON Poem Source First Line: Who am I, you ask. I used to wonder about that myself Last Line: But I looked him up in the book and it's official Subject(s): Fame; Who's Who (publication) WINNING HIS WAY, SELECTION, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is poetry. This. Is poetry Last Line: As they may. As. A. Treasure Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Fame WITH DREAMS OF WEALTH AND FAME, by GIUSEPPE PARINI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: After the day of death Subject(s): Wealth; Fame WOMAN AND FAME, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast a charmed cup, o fame Last Line: Not unto thee, oh! Not to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Fame; Women; Reputation WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF MEZERAY'S HISTORY OF FRANCE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er thy countrymen have done Last Line: Unwilling to retire, though weary. 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