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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FANCY Matches Found: 219 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "DECEITFUL FANCY, WHY DELUD'ST THOU ME", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Only to lose the shadow of thy joy Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy A BALLADE OF GREEN FIELDS; FOR F.W.M., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Beyond the compass of our sight Last Line: For distant fields are always green. Subject(s): Fields; Imagination; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Fancy A CHILD'S FANCY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: His chin went up and down, and chewed at nothing Last Line: The wonderful strange sight he might have been. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy A COAT, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made my song a coat Last Line: In walking naked. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy A DAY DREAM, by NELLY MILLER SEELY Poem Text First Line: A birch tree stands in graceful beauty Last Line: Yes -- and for the robins to come each year. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy A DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I summon to the winding ancient stair Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy A DREAMER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a little boy who made believe Last Line: The world believe his make-believes were true. Subject(s): Imagination; New York City; Fancy; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A HYMN OF IMAGINATION, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Imagination's towers appear Last Line: To be resumed in god we ripen here? Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy A MERRY HEART: THE GHOSTLING, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: I had a little ghostling Last Line: Whate'er results might be! Subject(s): Conscience; Imagination; Thought; Fancy; Thinking A SICK CHILD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Postman comes when I am still in bed, the Last Line: All that I've never thought of - think of me! Subject(s): Sickness; Imagination; Children; Illness; Fancy; Childhood A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Fancy; Supermarkets ABORTION CHILD, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought: / you live somewhere Subject(s): Abortion; Imagination; Fancy ADDRESS TO A CHILD DURING A BOISTEROUS WINTER EVENING, by DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What way does the wind come? What way does he go Last Line: Here's a 'cozie' warm house for edward and me. Variant Title(s): The Wind;an Address To A Child In A High Wind Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy ADDRESS TO FANCY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, queen of dreams! 'tis now the hour Last Line: To view the wonders of thy fairy clime! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy ADVENTURES OF ISABEL, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Isabel met an enormous bear Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy AFTER A MOVIE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last small credits fade Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Imagination; Movies; Cinema; Fancy AGAIN I FIND YOU, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A compulsive flasher, / the limp kelp rises up Last Line: Only the bird. Subject(s): Drowning; Imagination; Memory; Thought; Fancy; Thinking ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PART 2. PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They who write ill, and they who ne'r durst write Last Line: Will prove a dowdy, with a face to fright you. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 5 Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights ; Fancy; Dramatists AMBUSHED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace and safety seem to dwell Last Line: You'll be spanked and sent to bed. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy AMERICA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: America I've given you all and now I'm nothing Subject(s): Americans; Imagination; United States; Vision; Fancy; America AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I walk through the long schoolroom questioning Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Schools; Vision; Childhood; Fancy; Students AN HOUR WITH FANCY, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Loved one, up! For the sun's rosy beam Last Line: I stray thus in fancy, with you by my side! Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy AN IMAGINING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two sisters that I never saw Last Line: Two little baby girls with wings. Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Graves; Imagination; Mothers; Childhood; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Fancy AN ODE TO FANCY, by MARY JULIA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Tell me, blyth fancy, shall I chuse Last Line: A tragic theme for such a muse? Subject(s): Imagination; Odes (as Poetic Form); Fancy ART INSTITUTE MEMORIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: It seems so long since she and I Last Line: Was but a picture in a frame. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fantasy; Imagination; Love; Memory; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Fancy ARTIFICE, by RUTH E. DAY Poem Text First Line: Generous weaver of dreams Last Line: With unraveling skill. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy AS A REAL HOUSE, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said darkling and you said sparkling Subject(s): Houses; Imagination; Fancy AT NIGHT, by MARY BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Mamma, at night, puts out my light Last Line: My own mamma — and light. Subject(s): Beds; Children; Imagination; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Fancy; Bedtime AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see a world in a grain of sand Last Line: To those who dwell in realms of day Variant Title(s): Blake's Testament;what A Wonderful World Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Freedom; Imagination; Innocence; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights; Fancy; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Feminism BALLADE, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Couldst thou look into mine heart Last Line: Banish spectre forms away. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Imagination; Fancy BEDTIME STORY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve, a horse appeared Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Horses; Imagination; Fancy BELIEF, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: In six gold weeks of summer Last Line: Believing that flowers are eternal. Subject(s): Death; Imagination; Dead, The; Fancy BELLEVUE EXCHANGE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A large man rowing in a white tub Last Line: To the floor. The water climbing for him. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Fantasy; Fog; Imagination; Water; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Haze; Fancy BLOWFLY, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half awake, I was imagining Last Line: As we made tense, pensive love. Blowfly, blowfly Subject(s): Desire; Imagination; Fancy CHRISTENDOM, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first mine infant-ear Last Line: Make up the king of glory's diadem. Subject(s): Christianity; Imagination; Fancy COLLOQUY WITH A POLISH AUNT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elle savait toutes les legendes du paradis et tous les contes Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy CUPS OF ILLUSION, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From this tower room above the wall Last Line: As bird shadows on the grass. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy DARK ONE, by MIRABAI Poet's Biography First Line: Dark one, / all I request is a portion of love Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Variant Title(s): Meera Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision; Fancy DON'T LET ME BE LONELY (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the bus two women argue about whether rudy giuliani Subject(s): Giuliani, Rudy; Imagination; Fancy DREAM VARIATIONS [OR, VARIATION], by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fling my arms wide Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Dream Variations Subject(s): African Americans; Imagination; Nature; Negroes; American Blacks; Fancy EASTER 1916, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have met them at close of day Last Line: A terrible beauty is born. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Imagination; Ireland - Rebellions; Vision; Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Goone, Maud (1866-1953); Socialism; The Resurrection; Fancy ELEGY, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am writing now in preconceptions Last Line: It must be beautiful and it can't be free Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Of many things adulterate Last Line: He lived while waiting but to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Epitaphs; Imagination; Prisons & Prisoners; Fancy; Convicts ETERNITY, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poem written three thousand years ago Subject(s): Poetry & Poems; Imagination; Time; Fancy EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the tawny light Subject(s): Autumn; Imagination; Relationships; Truth; Fall; Fancy FANCY, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fancy's the wealth of wealth Last Line: Nor loses one sweet taste of the sweet world. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FANCY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The more I've viewed this world, the more I've found Last Line: Colors as gay as those on angels' wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FANCY AND IMAGINATION, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a pleasure, now and then, in giving Last Line: Woo your sublime delights, and bless you on my waking. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Nightmares; Fancy FANCY AND IMAGINATION, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fancy scarce wings above the mountain height Last Line: That in the empyrean seeks the star! Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FANCY, FR. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me where is fancy bred Last Line: Ding, dong, bell. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FANCY-LAND, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: There is soft, purple charm to the night Last Line: Of the world and eternity. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FINAL SOLILOQUY OF THE INTERIOR PARAMOUR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light the first light of evening, as in a room Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FIREFLY; A SONG, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little light is going by Last Line: And made to go on wings. Subject(s): Fireflies; Imagination; Glowworms; Fancy FIVE CHANTS: 1, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I climb a tree Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FOR A CHILD: 1. WALKING SONG, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here we go a-walking, so softly, so softly Last Line: His wings. Subject(s): Imagination; Walking; Fancy FOR RODDY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am imagining this of you Last Line: Toward me, wherever, whose ever I am. Subject(s): Imagination; Jesus Christ; Life; Resurrection, The; Fancy FOR THE MARRIAGE OF FAUSTUS AND HELEN, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind has shown itself at times Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy FOREIGN LANDS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up into the cherry tree Last Line: And all the playthings come alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 8 Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy GHAZALS: 59, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the fourteenth sunday after pentecost I rose early Last Line: Poetry on a workbench and mom glazes the steamed froth for lunch. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy GIRL RIDING BAREBACK, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These late summer afternoons are so like childhood's Subject(s): Horses; Imagination; Summer; Fancy GOOD HUNTING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Table-leg jungle is dark and still Last Line: And I'll make him into a teddy-stew. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy GREAT LOCALITIES. AN ASPIRATION (3), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor - could I bring within my visual scope Last Line: Of god and man conspiring to the sound! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Iliad; Odyssey; Fancy GUBBINAL, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That strange flower, the sun, Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy HALLO [OR HALLOW] MY FANCY, by WILLIAM CLELAND Poem Text First Line: In melancholic fancy Last Line: Thou'rt welcome home, my fancy, welcome home to me. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy HOWL; FOR CARL SOLOMON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Imagination; Vision; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Fancy I HAD BEEN A POLAR EXPLORER, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had been a polar explorer in my youth Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Imagination; Fancy IDEA: 33. TO IMAGINATION, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst yet mine eyes do surfeit with delight Last Line: That eyes could think, or that my heart could see. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IDEALITY, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vale of tempe had in vain been fair Last Line: The mounting soul must heavenward prune her wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IMAGINARY PRISONS, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A piranesian interior. Operatic space Subject(s): Piranesi, Giambattista (1720-1778); Buildings & Builders; Imagination; Fancy IMAGINARY TROUBLE, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the tolls that I have paid Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Imagination; Worry; Fancy IMAGINATION, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich raptures, you say, our dreams assume Last Line: "and fondly believes that his thoughts are ""vast""!" Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Reason; Thought; Nightmares; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking IMAGINATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here fancy far outdoes the deed Last Line: To fill the boundaries of thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IMAGINATION, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Last Line: A local habitation and a name. Subject(s): Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Fancy IMAGINED ROOM, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Do not forget the sky has other zones Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IMAGINING BEAR; FOR ALONZO MOORE SR., by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine him too tall and too wide Last Line: Remembering him in poems Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IMAGINING STARRY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The place of language is the place between me Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy JOSIE MORRIS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the petroglyph, / a child's greasy handprint on rock Last Line: In the sun. Subject(s): Graves; Imagination; Women; Tombs; Tombstones; Fancy LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision; Historians; Fancy; Theology LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Leda Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus; Fancy LETTER TO A PURIST, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That grandiose colossus who Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Imagination; Idealism; Fancy LINEAR ILLUSIONS, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some days seem significant Last Line: Relentlessly horizontal. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy MEMORY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One had a lovely face Last Line: Where the mountain hare has lain. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Imagination; Love; Vision; Fancy METAMORPHOSES: 6. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to be afraid of horses - and then I rode Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Imagination; Fancy MORNING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will there really be a morning Last Line: Where the place called morning lies. Subject(s): Imagination; Morning; Night; Time; Fancy; Bedtime MY DREAM GIRL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flower in the mist of the moorland, spectral, / shadowy Last Line: The flower in the mist of the moorland, lonesome and shadowy. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Imagination; Love; Solitude; Youth; Death - Babies; Fancy; Loneliness MY SHADOW, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me Last Line: Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 18 Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Shadows; Childhood; Fancy MY WORLD, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A warm thatched roof, 'neath which peer windows / small Last Line: For naught then would I change this world of mine! Subject(s): Home; Imagination; Fancy NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 8. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And has all nature, then, espoused my part? Last Line: Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Imagination; Immortality; Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); Night; Pleasure; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fancy; Bedtime NOVEMBER GRAVEYARD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene stands stubborn: skinflint trees Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Imagination;graves; Fancy; Tombs; Tombstones O CARIB ISLE!, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tarantula rattling at the lily's foot Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy OBSERVED, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reality is the other person Last Line: In the other. Variant Title(s): "reality Is The Other Person""; Subject(s): Imagination; Reality; Fancy ODE TO FANCY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Fancy, sweet and truant sprite Last Line: But 't is for fancy's ear alone. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy OF ASPHODEL: CODA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inseparable from the fire Subject(s): Time; Love; Imagination; Fancy ON A LANDSCAPE OF GASPAR POUSSIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poussin! How pleasantly thy pictured scenes Last Line: Beats hard and heavy through his dungeon bars. Subject(s): Comfort; Imagination; Paintings And Painters; Poussin, Gaspar (1613-1675); Fancy ON THE DIFFICULTY OF CONJURING UP A DRYAD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Imagination; Writing & Writers; Dryads; Fancy ON THE MEETING OF GARCIA LORCA AND HART CRANE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Imagination; Fancy ONE OF THE SMALLEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Made of the first grey light Subject(s): Imagination; Night; Fancy; Bedtime PASSAGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the cedar leaf divides the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy PIAZZAS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the golden air, the risky autumn, Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy PIRATE'S CAVE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the table when dinner's through Last Line: And mother she gets the crew! Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Pirates; Play; Childhood; Fancy; Piracy; Buccaneers PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA: EINSTEIN'S EXILE IN AN OLD DUTCH WINTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My theory withstood the light of the hyades Last Line: The rose of all roses! Subject(s): Descartes, Rene (1596-1650); Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Imagination; Mathematics; Order; Fancy RANT, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology Last Line: Anything else Subject(s): Imagination; War; Fancy RECITATIVE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Regard the capture here, o janus-faced Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy REPOSE OF RIVERS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The willows carried a slow sound Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Rivers; Vision; Fancy SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy SATISFACTION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While now upon the bank my engineers Last Line: My futile works,—lo there on the other side. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy SHADOWS IN THE WATER, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In unexperienced infancy Last Line: Is broken, be admitted in. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Mirrors; Childhood; Fancy SHAKESPEARE, by EDWARD L. PONTZ Poem Text First Line: Thou livest still: some modicum of time Last Line: None but thyself thyself could valuate. Subject(s): Dramatists; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Fancy SKYSCRAPERS, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do skyscrapers ever grow tired Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Skyscrapers; Urban Life; Fancy SOAP BUBBLES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I knew magic, and could do Last Line: The place where vanished bubbles play. Subject(s): Bubbles; Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy SOLITAIRE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When night drifts along the streets of the city Subject(s): Night; City & Town Life; Imagination; Bedtime; Fancy SOMEWHERE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could you tell me the way to somewhere? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Imagination; Travel; Fancy; Journeys; Trips SONGS OF INNOCENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Piping down the valleys wild Last Line: Every child may joy to hear. Variant Title(s): Child And The Piper;the Happy Piper;pipe A Song;reeds Of Innocence;a Song Of Singing;the Piper Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Innocence; Music & Musicians; Mythology; Pipers; Vision; Fancy SOUND LAG, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His glazed lips / moved slower Last Line: Into the living world. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy ST. JOHN AND THE FAUN, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O blest imagination! Last Line: Which is immortal art. Subject(s): Amalfi, Italy; Imagination; St. John, Henry (1678-1751); Fancy; Viscount Bolingbroke STAG AT BAY, by BIMSLEY PEABODY Poem Text First Line: Oh, how I long for the things Last Line: A drab world at bay. Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Urban Life; Fancy SUBJECTS FOR PICTURES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seek I here to gather into words? Last Line: And grows distinct with poetry. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Imagination; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Fancy SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this season of 'sweet / silent thought' on sunday afternoon Subject(s): Imagination; Madrid, Spain; Thought; Fancy; Thinking SUNFLOWER SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the Subject(s): Imagination; Railroads; Sunflowers; Vision; Fancy; Railways; Trains TALE OF A TUB, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The photographic chamber of the eye Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Imagination; Showers & Showering; Fancy TEA-PARTIES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I should enjoy, if I was let Last Line: As those of other girls I know!) Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Imagination; Play; Tea; Childhood; Fancy THE BLUE STAR, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember of the soul Last Line: The blue star see. Subject(s): Girls; Imagination; Memory; Fancy THE BOGEYMAN, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the desolate depths of a perilous place Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE BOY SHEPHERD'S SMILE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind rose cold under our robes, and straw blew loose Last Line: For this we shivered in adoration. We bore the cold. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Dolls; Imagination; Toys; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fancy THE BRIDGE: 1. AVE MARIA, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be with me, luis de san angel, now Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Imagination; Vision; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Fancy THE BRIDGE: 7. THE TUNNEL, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Performances, assortments, resumes Last Line: Gatherest -- Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Class Struggle; Imagination; New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Subways; Vision; Fancy; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE BRIDGE: 8. ATLANTIS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the bound cable strands, the arching path Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Atlantis; Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Vision; Fancy THE BRIDGE: PROEM. TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest Last Line: And of the curveship lend a myth to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Americans; Bible; Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; Freedom; Imagination; Religion; United States; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology; America THE BROKEN TOWER, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bell-rope that gathers god at dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE CAGED COCKATOO, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps,' the little maiden said Last Line: "where gold was hid and men were slain!" Subject(s): Animals; Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy THE CHILD NEXT DOOR, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child next door has a wreath on her hat Last Line: Has seen a fairy? Subject(s): Fairies; Girls; Imagination; Elves; Fancy THE CIRCULATION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As fair ideas from the sky Last Line: And all it doth receive returns again. Subject(s): Imagination; Soul; Fancy THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you make so fair and bright? Last Line: "sudden and light." Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Se;f; Travel; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Imagination; Journeys; Trips; Fancy THE COMPLAINT OF FANCY, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As, musing, late I sat reclined Last Line: And quickly bore them from my view. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE COWBOY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone had spread an elaborate rumor about me, that I was Subject(s): Practical Jokes; Imagination; Motion Pictures; Pranks; Fancy; Movies; Cinema THE CURATOR, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We thought it would come, we thought the germans would come, Subject(s): Leningrad, Siege Of (1941); Paintings & Painters; Imagination; Museums; Blindness; Fancy; Art Gallerys; Visually Handicapped THE DRAGON, by FEODOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Evil dragon in the zenith fiercely glowing Last Line: Thou shalt fade, thou evil dragon, thou shalt perish. Alternate Author Name(s): Sologub, Fedor (fyodor) Subject(s): Dragons; Evil; Imagination; Fancy THE DUINO ELEGIES: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE FIFTH NIGHT: WHEN SHE MASTURBATES, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN Poem Text First Line: First of all she eats jellybeans Last Line: Until it melts. Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl Subject(s): Imagination; Longing; Sex; Story-telling; Survival; Waiting; Fancy THE FLOWER GIRL (REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chimney-pot to chimney-pot who is it creeps Last Line: Nicolo night-cap, say, is it you? Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIFTH AND SIXTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infected mad he danced on his mountains high & dark as heaven Last Line: In their progressions & preparing urizens path before him Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIRST AND SECOND, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: Vala Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE NINTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And los & enitharmon builded jerusalem weeping Last Line: The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then urizen arose the spectre fled & tharmas fled Last Line: Babylon again in infancy calld natural religion Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE THIRD AND FOURTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now sat the king of light on high upon his starry throne Last Line: Into unusual forms dancing & howling stamping the abyss Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE GOLDEN DAYS OF MAKE-BELIEVE, by LOREN H. PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: In the golden days of make - believe Last Line: One golden day of make-believe! Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE GREY MONK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I die, I die!' the mother said Last Line: And became a tyrant in his stead Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Fancy THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: LAMILIA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fie, fie on blind fancy! Last Line: To count love a toy. Variant Title(s): Fancy Subject(s): Imagination; Love; Youth; Fancy THE IMAGINED COPPERHEAD, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without intending to hide, Last Line: And his priesthood. Subject(s): Snakes; Childhood Memories; Imagination; Serpents; Vipers; Fancy THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit looking out of a window of the building Last Line: Rights reserved. Subject(s): Boredom; Dreams; Guadalajara; Imagination; Ennui; Nightmares; Fancy THE LADY UNKNOWN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of evenings hangs above the restaurant Last Line: I also know: truth lies in wine. Variant Title(s): The Stranger Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Friendship; Imagination; Shadows; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Fancy THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LAST WORD OF A BLUEBIRD; AS TOLD TO A CHILD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went out a crow Last Line: "he would come back and sing." Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Imagination; Fancy THE LEOPARD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lands where only jackals call Last Line: The jackal's call! Subject(s): Desert Animals; Deserts; Food & Eating; Imagination; Fancy THE LITTLE ELF-MAN, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a little elf-man once Last Line: "as you are big for you." Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Variant Title(s): The Little Elf Subject(s): Fairies; Imagination; Elves; Fancy THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air Last Line: For every thing that lives is holy Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Judgment Day; Mythology; Vision; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MENTAL TRAVELLER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I travel'd thro' a land of men Last Line: And all is done as I have told. Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Fancy; Theology THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the old, old men say Last Line: Like the waters.' Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Time; Vision; Fancy THE PLAIN SENSE OF THINGS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the leaves have fallen, we return Subject(s): Imagination; Reality; Fancy THE PLEASURES OF HOPE: 2, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In joyous youth, what soul hath never known Last Line: And light thy torch at nature's funeral pile. Subject(s): Hope; Imagination; Optimism; Fancy THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 1, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what attractive charms this goodly frame Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre. Subject(s): Imagination; Perception; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 2, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When shall the laurel and the vocal string Last Line: Nor so effaced the image of its sire. Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Imagination; Philosophy & Philosophers; Vision; Fancy THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 3, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder therefore, since the endearing ties Last Line: And form to his, the relish of their souls. Subject(s): Imagination; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 1, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what enchantment nature's goodly scene Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre. Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 2, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus far of beauty and the pleasing forms Last Line: Nor so effaced the image of her sire. Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Truth; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 3, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What tongue then may explain the various fate Last Line: "I flung me, sad, faint, overworn with toil." Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 4, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One effort more, one cheerful sally more Last Line: The palm of spotless beauty doth resign. Subject(s): Imagination; Prophecy & Prophets; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLUMPUPPETS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When little heads weary have gone to their bed Last Line: The little plumpuppets plump-up it! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE RADIO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another morning I rose before work Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Radio; Imagination; Fancy THE REALM OF FANCY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever let the fancy roam! Last Line: Pleasure never is at home. Variant Title(s): Fancy Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE ROOM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With crayons and pieces of paper Last Line: The white room swallowing what was passed. Subject(s): Imagination; Rooms; Fancy THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SIDEWALK RACER, OR ON THE SKATEBOARD, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Full Text First Line: Skimming / an asphalt sea Subject(s): Imagination; Skating & Skaters; Sports; Fancy THE SONG OF THE JELLICLES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jellicle cats come out tonight Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Imagination; Fancy THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went out to the hazel wood Last Line: The golden apples of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fairies; Imagination; Men; Supernatural; Vision; Witchcraft & Witches; Elves; Fancy THE STATE OF WYOMING, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps a childhood magic-writing tablet Last Line: To the shadow of an antelope stare. Subject(s): History; Imagination; Wyoming; Historians; Fancy THE SUN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I told the sun that I was glad Last Line: "I'm happy"" to the sun." Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE SUNSET, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There late was one within whose subtle being Last Line: This was the only moan she ever made. Subject(s): Imagination; Memory; Fancy THE THREE HERMITS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three old hermits took the air Last Line: Sang unnoticed like a bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hermits; Imagination; Mortality; Old Age; Vision; Fancy THE TOWER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do with this absurdity Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE UNKNOWN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you exist Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Fancy THE VALLEY OF UNREST (1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away - far away Last Line: "over the hills and far away." Variant Title(s): The Valley Nis Subject(s): Imagination; Landscape; Fancy THE VALLEY OF UNREST (2), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once it smiled a silent dell Last Line: Perennial tears descend in gems. Subject(s): Imagination; Landscape; Fancy THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The trees are in their autumn beauty Last Line: To find they have flown away? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Coole, Ireland; Imagination; Swans; Vision; Fancy THE WIND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you toss the kites on high Last Line: O wind, that sings so loud a song! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 25 Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy THE YOUNG MAN FROM PALL MALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a young man from pall mall Last Line: And he was eat by a dog in the hall Subject(s): Animals;dogs;errors;imagination;rabbits; Mistakes;fallacies;fancy;hares THOUGHTS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think I'd like to live on mars Last Line: And see the wrong side of the stars. Subject(s): Children; Cosmology; Imagination; May (month); Planets; Sky; Stars; Childhood; Fancy TO A CHILD OF FANCY (2), by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nests are in the hedgerows Last Line: The same dear winsome lass. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TO CASTARA, OF TRUE DELIGHT, by WILLIAM HABINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why doth the ear so tempt the voice Last Line: Chaste virtue's only true and fair. Subject(s): Duplicity; Imagination; Deceit; Fancy TO ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have not met thee in this outward world Last Line: Sends love and blessings unto thee and thine. Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Imagination; Love; Women; Fancy TO FANCY, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of ethereal birth! Last Line: Neath thine iris wings I'll roam! Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TO FANCY, by MARTHA HANSON Poem Text First Line: Fancy! To thee, I pour a votive strain Last Line: Its genial warmth revives my grief-chilled heart. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TO FANCY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most delicate ariel! Submissive thing Last Line: Making this dull world an enchanted isle. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TO IMAGINATION, by DOROTHEA LAWRANCE MANN Poem Text First Line: O beauteous boy a-dream, what visions sought Last Line: Weaving us evermore thy shining pageantry. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TO IMAGINATION (2), by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When weary with the long day's care Last Line: And sweeter hope, when hope despairs! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TO MY IMAGINARY SIBLINGS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brother and sister Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Imagination; Fancy TO THE EVENING STAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou fair-haired angel of the evening Last Line: Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influence. Subject(s): Bible; Evening; Evening Star; Imagination; Mythology; Stars; Vision; Sunset; Twilight; Fancy TO THE MUSES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether on ida's shady brow / or in the chambers of the east Last Line: The sound is forced, the notes are few! Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy TO THE VISIONS OF FANCY, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, wild illusions of creative mind! Last Line: Still chase my real cares with your illusive powers! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TRANSFORMATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a garden far in fancy Last Line: In the certainty of dreams. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Imagination; Fancy TRAVEL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The railroad track is miles away Last Line: No matter where it's going. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TRUST, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I would be walking down the road Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy UNDER BEN BULBEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Swear by what the sages spoke Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved theotormon Last Line: The daughters of albion hear her woes, & eccho back her sighs. Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Love; Mythology; Vision; Fancy VOYAGE A L'INFINI, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swan existing / is like a song with an accompaniment Last Line: Without imagination. Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Swans; Fancy VOYAGES: 1, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the fresh ruffles of the surf Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Variant Title(s): The Sea Subject(s): Imagination; Sea; Vision; Fancy; Ocean VOYAGES: 2, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And yet this great wink of eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Men; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 3, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infinite consanguinity it bears Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 4, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose counted smile of hours and days, suppose Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 5, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 6, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where icy and bright dungeons lift Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy WALES VISITATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Wales; Fancy; Welshmen; Welshwomen WHEN I WAS THE SUBJECT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How we or anything exists Last Line: Points sticking out Subject(s): Chaos; Imagination; Fancy WHEN I WAS THE SUBJECT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How we or anything exists Subject(s): Chaos; Imagination; Fancy WHERE GO THE BOATS?, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark brown is the river Last Line: Shall bring my boats ashore. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 14 Subject(s): Boats; Imagination; Rivers; Fancy WHY MIRA CAN'T GO BACK TO HER OLD HOUSE, by MIRABAI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The colors of the dark one have penetrated mira's body Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Variant Title(s): Meera Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision; Fancy WOULDN'T YOU?, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I / could go Last Line: I'd go! Subject(s): Imagination; Wind; Farewell; Fancy |
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