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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FANTASY Matches Found: 352 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 2000 A.D, by BEVERLY CONNELLY Poem Source First Line: The lamps inside the house Subject(s): Fantasy 250 WILLOW LANE, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow heads turn toward the picket fence Subject(s): Fantasy A BALLAD OF DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kneel down, fair love, and fill thyself with tears Last Line: Death shall come in with thee. Subject(s): Death; Fantasy; Love; Dead, The A BALLAD OF LIFE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found in dreams a place of wind and flowers Last Line: Ballad, and on thy mouth. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Nightmares A CHILD-WORLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child world - long and long since lost to view Last Line: I should not be surprised. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Soul A FANTASY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fantasy that came to me Last Line: Her mystic fingers knew so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Flowers; Trees; Vision; Nightmares A FANTASY, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little house beside the sea Last Line: And nothing else is worth a pin! Subject(s): Fantasy A HOME-MADE FAIRY TALE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bud, come here to your uncle a spell Last Line: A kiss like the drip of a drop of dew! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Fantasy; Gardens & Gardening; Guitars A HOUSEKEEPING, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surprised by young desire, as by the dawn Last Line: How had he waked, and stretched his arms, and smiled! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Fantasy; Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods A NEW WORLD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who had sought afar from earth Last Line: And bright with burning gold. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Fantasy; World A SONG FOR ANNE, by JOAN CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: I will dance with the folks of the sidhe tonight Last Line: Brownie and leprechaun. Subject(s): Fantasy; Singing & Singers; Songs ADDICT, by MABEL MACDONALD CARVER Poem Source First Line: I shall just put away this hoarded bottle Subject(s): Fantasy ADJURATION, by FRANK BELKNAP LONG Poem Source First Line: It has been rumored that there are Subject(s): Fantasy ALAN, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source First Line: Autumn, my alan, is a spectre Subject(s): Fantasy ALL SOULS, by LIBORIA E. ROMANO Poem Source First Line: When gourds are mellow-yellow on the vine Subject(s): Fantasy ALTER EGO, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All the morn a spirit gay Last Line: I to lose myself in thee. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Love; Relationships; Self; Elves AMBUSHED BY ANGELS, by GUSTAV DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: Ambushed by angels and by demons bound Subject(s): Fantasy AMOR AETERNALIS, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O love, thou judas of the martyred soul! Subject(s): Fantasy AN OPIUM FANTASY, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft hangs the opiate in the brain Last Line: "ring into golden bowls." Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Fantasy; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin AND THE PEAR TREES SHIVER, by JOCELYN MACY SLOAN Poem Source First Line: Peacocks scream and the pear trees quiver Subject(s): Fantasy ARACHNIDA, FEMALE, by ALETHA HUMPHREYS Poem Source First Line: How silent lurks this perfect anarchist Subject(s): Fantasy 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 ATAVISM, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always was afraid of somes's pond Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy ATAVISM, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always was afraid of somes's pond Last Line: A sliding shape has stirred them like a breath; %tall plumes surmount a painted mask of death Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy ATLANTIS, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Legend has sunk it where the shoreless foam Subject(s): Atlantis; Fantasy; Mythology - Classical AUNT JANE, OF WHOM I DREAMED THE NIGHTS IT THUNDERED, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source Subject(s): Fantasy AUTUMN FANTASY, by JEAN PRITCHARD Poem Text First Line: Autumn has bestowed her accolade Last Line: Your whispered summons come. Subject(s): Autumn; Blue Ridge Mountains; Fantasy; Nature; Seasons; Fall AVERY ANAMEER, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: Instead of swinging from a beam Subject(s): Fantasy BABYLON, by LAURA BENET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long, hideously long the plodding was Subject(s): Fantasy BALLAD OF DESPAIR, by WADE WELLMAN Poem Source First Line: What is your tragedy, brother of mine? Subject(s): Fantasy BALLAD OF TWO KINGS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Source First Line: I saw the spectre of a king Subject(s): Fantasy BALLADE, by OSCAR VLADISLAS DE LUBICZ- MILOSZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The foolish fowls of the toad and the witch Last Line: My sister, does the horn not sound for you? Subject(s): Fantasy; Fear; Love BEDTIME TALES, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother and son Subject(s): Fantasy BELLEVUE EXCHANGE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem 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 BELLS ARE RINGING FOR ME AND CHAGALL, by TERENCE WINCH Poem Source First Line: If you are involved in a fantasy relationship with someone Last Line: Or not, is more than enough Subject(s): Chagall, Marc (1889-1885); Fantasy; Paintings And Painters; Relationships BERMUDAS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Where the remote bermudas ride Last Line: With falling oars they kept the time. Variant Title(s): The Emigrants In Bermudas;in Exile;song Of The Emigrants In Bermudas Subject(s): Bermuda; Exiles; Explorers; Fantasy; God; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology; Seamen; Sails; Ocean BLACK ARE THE STARS, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source First Line: Untiring shade, and ghost of dazzling gloom Subject(s): Fantasy BLACK SPIRIT, by TOM POOTS Poem Source First Line: I often in the evening meet with birds Subject(s): Fantasy BORDERLINE, by R. H. GRENVILLE Poem Source First Line: At every step he heard the devil's moan Alternate Author Name(s): Rowley, Frank Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy BRIEF BIOGRAPHY, by MARGARET GILMAN (GEORGE) DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: These tenants sleeping under ground Alternate Author Name(s): George, Marguerite+(2) Subject(s): Fantasy BROTHERS, by AMY GROSEBECK Poem Source First Line: Yep, that's me. Stranger, ain't yew? Wal, step in Subject(s): Fantasy BUILDING OF SAND, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Source First Line: I saw an old man with a long white beard Subject(s): Fantasy CARCOSA, by LIN CARTER Poem Source First Line: It was a place that I had known before Subject(s): Fantasy CASE HISTORY, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source First Line: When all his seas with serpents were aflame Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Fantasy CHALLENGER, by DONALD WANDREI Poem Source First Line: He passed beyond the utmost realm of stars Subject(s): Fantasy CHESTNUT ROASTERS, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: The wind has a tongue tonight,' he said Subject(s): Fantasy CHILD WIFE, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She got her way by shedding tears Subject(s): Fantasy CHRISTINE'S SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up in tentoleena land Last Line: Out of tentoleena land! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Flowers; Kisses; Elves CLEAN GENTLEMAN, by GEORGE ABBE Poem Source First Line: A gentleman with polished hair Subject(s): Fantasy COMPANIONS, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here alone in the night between wind and water Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Fantasy COUNTRY LANE, by MARGARET STANION DARLING Poem Source First Line: I heard the singing of a thrush Subject(s): Fantasy DANIEL WEBSTER'S HORSES, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If when the wind blows Last Line: "see their shoes fit." Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Fantasy; Horses; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) DANSE MACABRE, by ANTONIA Y. SCHWAB Poem Source First Line: I see her dancing in the square Subject(s): Fantasy DAPHNE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Do you not hear her song Last Line: Half tree? Subject(s): Fantasy; Trees; Women DARK HOTEL, by ALFRED DORN Poem Source First Line: Death, poker-faced and wearing livery Subject(s): Fantasy DARK HOUSE IN AUTUMN, by WALTER EVANS KIDD Poem Source First Line: With back to stars that patch Subject(s): Fantasy DARK YUGGOTH, by LIN CARTER Poem Source First Line: There is a world deep in the seas of night Subject(s): Fantasy DEATH IS A LITTLE THING, by GEORGE ABBE Poem Source Subject(s): Fantasy DEATH IS DEAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And did you know our old friend Last Line: The kind old sockets grew forever dim. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fantasy; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The DEATH OF SANTA CLAUS, by VINCENT STARRETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the night before the famous day Subject(s): Fantasy DEEPLY GONE, by JON SILKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And dragging their shining skins Subject(s): Fantasy DEVIL DOLL, by LISA GRENELLE Poem Source First Line: She had a beautiful, bitter face Subject(s): Fantasy DOWNGOING, by GUSTAV DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: This the downgoing, this Subject(s): Fantasy DREAM-DAEMON, by LIN CARTER Poem Source First Line: In dreams the daemon comes, upon the hour Subject(s): Fantasy DRUGGIST, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: He came to me last night, as if there had never Subject(s): Fantasy DUKE ELLINGTON DREAM, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of course zimmer was late for the gig Last Line: You have shat upon my charts, %but I love you madly Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Fantasy; Jazz; Music And Musicians EARTH-BORN, by ROBERT E. HOWARD Poem Source First Line: By rose and verdant valley Subject(s): Fantasy EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say the year is the year of the phoenix Last Line: Creates the image in which the world is Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Fables; Fantasy; Masks; Shadows EDGAR ALLAN POE, by ROBERT H. BARLOW Poem Source First Line: Endless the darkly-printed tombstones rise Subject(s): Fantasy ELSIE'S HOUSE, by STANLEY MCNAIL Poem Source First Line: By rocks and twigs and garter snakes Subject(s): Fantasy EMBROIDERY, by DARTHEA ENO YUILLE Poem Text First Line: The warp and woof of life Last Line: Into the mandarin. Subject(s): Fantasy EMPTY HOUSE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing what's possible, one knows Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy ENIGMA, by KATHERINE REEVES Poem Source First Line: I heard no sound of wild feet Subject(s): Fantasy ERDA, by VERA BISHOP KONRICK Poem Source First Line: Born of the union of chaos and time Subject(s): Fantasy EVOCATION, by HERMAN STOWELL KING Poem Source First Line: Wizard, from your misty censer, brew Subject(s): Fantasy EXCEEDING GREAT ARMY, by ETHAN AYER Poem Source First Line: The graves by the river must have melted in Subject(s): Fantasy EXTENDED INVITATION, by JESSE HILTON STUART Poem Source First Line: I know this master host would hold me in Subject(s): Fantasy FAIR YOUNG WIFE, by HELEN DOUGLAS ADAM Poem Source First Line: This is a tale for a night of snow Subject(s): Fantasy FAIRY CASTLES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Upon my window-pane at night Last Line: Somebody beckoning to me. Subject(s): Castles; Children; Fairies; Fantasy; Childhood; Elves FANCY FISHING, by JAMES L. WEIL Poem Source First Line: Empty of stars still Subject(s): Fantasy FANTASIA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: He lived in the glow of her smile Last Line: And blazing emerald the earth Subject(s): Absence; Fantasy; Love; Travel FANTASIST, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ronald firbank the decadent novelist liked Last Line: Pea, which he sent back because it was cold Subject(s): Fantasy; Firbank, Ronald (1866-1926); Pentastichs FANTASY, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Beauty in flight Last Line: Springs from a clod. . . . Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Elves FANTASY, by GEORGES DRUILHET Poem Text First Line: On the fairy boat aglow Last Line: Gliding swiftly, wound the water. Subject(s): Fantasy FANTASY, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There is an air for which I'd give all else Last Line: In that remembered other life I had. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Fantasy; Music & Musicians; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas FANTASY, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an air for which I'd gladly give Last Line: And whom I now remember with a sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Fantasy; Music & Musicians; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas FANTASY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over all the dream-built margin, flushed with Last Line: With the seraph of the darkness martyred in the fires of day. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Nightmares FANTASY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird ran up the onyx steps of night Last Line: The moon, her white laugh rippling from the stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Fantasy; Moon FANTASY BLOCK, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to have a sexual fantasy Subject(s): Fantasy; Sex FANTASY, FROM 'AN ADJUSTABLE LUNATIC', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood beneath a summer moon Last Line: Through life and all eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Life; Moon; Soul; Summer FAREWELL, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: I have placed you Last Line: Insanity of man's flesh! Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Passion; Male-female Relations FEMME FATALE, by VINCENT STARRETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At first I hoped she would accept a dime Subject(s): Fantasy FLIGHT (1), by HAROLD VINAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall know the way Last Line: That she never crossed Subject(s): Fantasy; Flight FLOGGED CHILD, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Curled in his fist, though nothing's there Subject(s): Fantasy FOR A POETRY READING TO WHICH NO ONE CAME, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: It was a falling castle, full of drafts Subject(s): Fantasy; Poetry Readings FOREBODING, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Source First Line: Here is this shabby house at dead of night Subject(s): Fantasy FORECAST, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Drop a stitch, drop a stitch Subject(s): Fantasy FOREST, by DOROTHY QUICK Poem Source First Line: If he had not taken her to the forest Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy FOREST SHAPES, by DONALD WANDREI Poem Source First Line: They are curious things that hide in the woods Subject(s): Fantasy FRAIL HANDS, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: I came to the well-loved house Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Fantasy FROM NOTHING STRANGE, FROM NOTHING DREAD OR RARE, by GUSTAV DAVIDSON Poem Source Subject(s): Fantasy FROST AT MIDNIGHT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The frost performs its secret ministry Last Line: Quietly shining to the quiet moon. Subject(s): Babies; Fantasy; Parents; Infants; Parenthood GATHER THESE BONES, SELS., by LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO Subject(s): Fantasy GENTLEMAN IN OILS, HE ALMOST SEEMED, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fantasy GHAZALS: 10, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise me at durkheim fair where I've never been, hurling Last Line: And vanessa redgrave in my calvinist fantasies. Don't go away. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fantasy; Memory; Rape; Dead, The GHAZALS: 36, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scenario: I'm the star, lauren, faye, ali, little stars Last Line: And he rolled over in the grass soaked with dew and said no. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Bulls; Fantasy GHOST, by R. H. GRENVILLE Poem Source First Line: You'd be better off dead!' they said Alternate Author Name(s): Rowley, Frank Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy GHOST, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot live nor die Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fantasy GHOST TO COME, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder the way ghosts come to be ... Do you think there will be a Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Fantasy GHOST TOWN SALOON: WINTER, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: The bar was black with blistered age Subject(s): Fantasy GHOSTLY REAPER, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now while the wind is up, I hear Subject(s): Fantasy GHOSTS, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR Poem Source First Line: Now night walks down the garden path Subject(s): Fantasy GHOSTS, by ALASTAIR REID Poem Source First Line: Never to see ghosts? Then to be Last Line: Last reach of the sense through layers of recognition - %ghost on my desk, speak, speak Subject(s): Fantasy; Ghosts; Supernatural GI, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source First Line: War is done mother Subject(s): Fantasy GODS OF THE DANA, by LEAH BODINE DRAKE Poem Source Subject(s): Fantasy GONE, by JESSE HILTON STUART Poem Source First Line: November rain's down-pouring all night long Subject(s): Fantasy GOOD NIGHT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In brilliant gas light Last Line: I am ready for bed. Subject(s): Fantasy; Night GOURD-HEADS, by WILLIAM D. BARNEY Poem Source First Line: Well, them, gourds Subject(s): Fantasy GRAND FINALE, by SARA KING CARLETON Poem Source First Line: Oh, what a ball it will be!' they said Subject(s): Fantasy GRANDFATHER'S GHOST, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: Under the elms, on our city street Subject(s): Fantasy GREEN WOODS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green are the woods where the lovers wander Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy HANDS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: For an instant he was consumed by his obsession for the sea Last Line: And he kept on walking Subject(s): Absence; Fantasy HANGED THING, by WALTER H. KERR Poem Source First Line: Gib and gibbet, these shall be my signs Subject(s): Fantasy HAWICK'S CROSSING, by JANE STUART Poem Source First Line: Upon a night like this, long years ago Subject(s): Fantasy HE ATE THE LAUREL AND IS MAD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a dream that the world is fair? Last Line: Found fair found fair found fair!' Subject(s): Fantasy; God; Laurels HEART-SUMMONED, by JESSE HILTON STUART Poem Source First Line: Sometimes in bonnet that she Subject(s): Fantasy HEIMDALL, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His mane was heimdall and it was a name Subject(s): Fantasy HERBS AND SIMPLES, by MARTHA KELLER Poem Source First Line: What are the simples the witches want? Subject(s): Fantasy HERE I LIE, by MARGARET GILMAN (GEORGE) DAVIDSON Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): George, Marguerite+(2) Subject(s): Fantasy HIGH PLACE AT MARIB, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Source First Line: They wrought a pillar from the rock of sacred stone Subject(s): Fantasy HIGHWAY TO NOWHERE, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Source First Line: Bare mud, slippery, wet and brown Subject(s): Fantasy HIPPOPOTAMUS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: It was through a stroke of luck that she found the hippopotamus Last Line: The woman sighing as she watched the massive beast sigh Subject(s): Fantasy; Monsters; Mythology HOROLOGE, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O clock, your long and solemn tones Subject(s): Fantasy HOUSE OF LIFE, by DOROTHY QUICK Poem Source First Line: The house was lonely, all dark and bare Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy HOUSE OF YESTERDAY, by WALTER SHEDLOFSKY Poem Source First Line: This house I know - though never seen before Subject(s): Fantasy HOUSE ON MAPLE HILL, by STANLEY MCNAIL Poem Source First Line: The old house waits for no one Subject(s): Fantasy HUMMING STAIR, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: And will tomorrow come? And if it comes Subject(s): Fantasy HUMORESQUE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the grey geese winging Last Line: Before he hopped away. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Elves IN MY DREAMS, by ANNIE ELIZABETH LOOMIS Poem Text First Line: In that far off, mysterious realm which we call dreamland Last Line: Oh, blessed night, when I can sleep -- and dream -- and see! Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Sleep; Nightmares IN THE BEGINNING, by WILLIAM D. BARNEY Poem Source First Line: In the beginninging nobody paid attention Subject(s): Fantasy IN TIME OF DARKNESS, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source First Line: At last you do not find - you have - the dark Subject(s): Fantasy INBOUND, by BURNHAM EATON Poem Source First Line: What nibbles at the window Subject(s): Fantasy INCUBUS OF TIME, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ill days and dolorous nights and years accurst Subject(s): Fantasy INTUITION, by R. H. GRENVILLE Poem Source First Line: From shadowy stratas of his mind Alternate Author Name(s): Rowley, Frank Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy INVADERS, by JOCELYN MACY SLOAN Poem Source First Line: Discouragement's mold, the first cobweb of despair Subject(s): Fantasy INVISIBLE PAINTER, by ALFRED DORN Poem Source First Line: Leaves would have been mere leaves Subject(s): Fantasy ISLANDER, by ALICE LAWRY GOULD Poem Text First Line: Many have felt the lure and fantasy Last Line: Who can know islands like the island-born? Subject(s): Fantasy; Islands; Secrets IT IS NOT ONLY THE DEAD, by FRANK BELKNAP LONG Poem Source Subject(s): Fantasy IT MAY BE LIKE THIS, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source First Line: It may be like this at the world's ending Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Fantasy JACK THE GIANT-KILLER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell you a story - an' it's a fac' Last Line: Wisht 'at I'd been jack! -- don't you? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Giants KEEP DARKNESS, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Source First Line: Outside the lilacs blurred Subject(s): Fantasy LAMENT FOR BETTER OR WORSE, by GENE BARO Poem Source First Line: The hour told by the owl and the moon Subject(s): Fantasy LAST PAGAN MOURNS FOR DARK ROSALEEN, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: Gold-headed finn has ridden away Subject(s): Fantasy LEGEND OF RAMAPO MOUNTAINS, by JENNIE M. PALEN Poem Source First Line: Threading the dance was one who trod Subject(s): Fantasy LEGEND OF THE HILLS, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source First Line: The preacher was a strange and lonely man Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Fantasy LELLOINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny queen / lelloine! Last Line: All your meaning, lelloine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Laughter; Smiles LINCOLNSHIRE TALE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kirkby with muckby-cum-sparrowby-cum-spinx Subject(s): Fantasy; Lincolnshire, England LITTLE FAIRY CHILD!, by HELEN C. WILLIS Poem Text First Line: She is sweet and very pensive, so Last Line: Land of fairy-lore! Subject(s): Children; Fantasy; Happiness; Childhood; Joy; Delight LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, by FELIX STEFANILE Poem Source First Line: The cricket in the garden is awake Subject(s): Fantasy LOST VOICE ON THIS HILL, by BURNHAM EATON Poem Source First Line: An echo of the song I heard you sing Subject(s): Fantasy LOTTIE MAE, by STANLEY MCNAIL Poem Source First Line: Lottie was a skinny child Subject(s): Fantasy LOVER'S GHOST, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear the headless man Subject(s): Fantasy LUNAE CUSTODIENS, by LIN CARTER Poem Source First Line: When once the sunset dyes the west with red Subject(s): Fantasy LYRIC OF DOUBT, by DONALD WANDREI Poem Source First Line: She walks with stately grace Subject(s): Fantasy LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 65, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dream-god brought me to a castle vast Last Line: Blended with sternness, I awoke from sleep. Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Fantasy; Grief; Love; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness MAGIC, by ROBERT NORWOOD Poem Text First Line: There is magic on the meadow Last Line: Glad with many blossomings! Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Magic; Supernatural; Witchcraft & Witches; Elves MAN I MET, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: I saw his searching eyes at the bars Subject(s): Fantasy MEDITATIONS ON THE SOUTH VALLEY, PART XXIII, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pancho, the barrio idiot Subject(s): Fantasy; Mental Retardation; Barrios MEMORIAL, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thy mouth, whereof the owrm was amorous Subject(s): Fantasy METAPHOR, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are the stately sunset Subject(s): Fantasy MOMENTS THAT COME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am dancing around the plaza with a policeman Last Line: Who passes through softly %on her journey Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Dreams; Fantasy; Grief; Loss; Sin MONSTER, by DOROTHY QUICK Poem Source First Line: Something slithers on the beach Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy MOON AND FOG, by AUGUST WILLIAM DERLETH Poem Source First Line: Moonlight is such places alters faces Subject(s): Fantasy MOON-FLOWERS, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The moon-flowers, the moon-flowers, to sleepy splash of fountains Last Line: You've first to face the twilight and watch the moon-flowers blow! Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Elves MOONLIGHT FANTASY, by FLORA MARION LOUGEE Poem Text First Line: Riding swiftly along in the moonlight Last Line: For a little flock of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion Subject(s): Fantasy MR. LERNER HAD HAD ENOUGH, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fantasy MR. RIPLEY PARODIES MR. NASH - OR VICE VERSA, by JULIAN BROWN Poem Source First Line: Now, except that he had two heads, mr. Dooley was in most ways a Subject(s): Fantasy MURDER HOUSE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Abandoned is the house Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy MUSINGS OF AN INSOMNIAC, by EDITH OGUTSCH Poem Source First Line: How many suns have blazed and died within Subject(s): Fantasy MY LADY IS MY DREAM GIRL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My lady is my dream-girl Last Line: My lady's but a dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Girls; Nightmares MYTHOLOGICAL EPISODE, by ROBERT H. BARLOW Poem Source First Line: O that frog or flower that stealthily Subject(s): Fantasy NATURAL MAGIC (2), by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are tired who follow after Last Line: Join with you the dance of day. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Fantasy; Happiness; Magic; Joy; Delight NEW ADAM, by FRANK BELKNAP LONG Poem Source First Line: On the lowlands where the angular shadows Subject(s): Fantasy NEWS OF MY FRIENDS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Source First Line: You believe in a live city Subject(s): Fantasy NIGHT PERIL, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: One came in Subject(s): Fantasy NIGHT REFUSES A DREAMER, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Source First Line: In spite of purple sky, moonless Subject(s): Fantasy NIGHTMARE, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the thickets of my self Subject(s): Fantasy NIGHTMARE, by R. H. GRENVILLE Poem Source First Line: He thought, in his great weariness, to mount Alternate Author Name(s): Rowley, Frank Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy NIGHTMARE, by ANNE MARX Poem Source First Line: In a summer cottage Subject(s): Fantasy NIGHTMARE IN MORGANZA, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was there, again Subject(s): Fantasy NIGHTMARE NUMBER FOUR, by ROBERT BLOCH Poem Source First Line: We thought it was a joke Subject(s): Fantasy NO ESCAPE, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source First Line: If it so happens Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Fantasy NURSERY RHYMES FOR SURREALISTS, SELS., by GRANT HYDE CODE Subject(s): Fantasy OLD HEC'S IDOLATRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-o! Our jolly tilts at new Last Line: Nor heard of him again, nor cared to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Knights & Knighthood; Singing & Singers OLD MEG OF KITRANN LET NO ONE, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fantasy OLDEST CEMETERY, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go downhill some days to a little room Subject(s): Fantasy ON A FLY-LEAF, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Singers there are of courtly Last Line: With the rights and the wrongs of all mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Mankind; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Human Race ON SOME GHOSTLY COMPANIONS AT A SPA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had an evil day when I Last Line: Find it, ye ogres, and be off! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Fantasy; Giants ON THE STAIRCASE, by WADE WELLMAN Poem Source First Line: He feared the dark, his parents knew Subject(s): Fantasy ONE DAY OF RAIN, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: One day of rain and railing winds Subject(s): Fantasy ONE OF THE SIDHE, by MARY KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: Let her rest Subject(s): Fantasy OPENING DOOR, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR Poem Source First Line: I know an old house, grey with years Subject(s): Fantasy OSSIAN, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: I am an old man now Subject(s): Fantasy OTHERWHERE, by FRANCES ANGEVINE GRAY Poem Source First Line: Oh that I could suavely pass Subject(s): Fantasy OVER THE WAY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Over the way of your dreams, my boy Last Line: And the marvelous land of the ought-to-be. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This pan is but an idle god, I guess Last Line: Whether to fan his wings or fly without. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Fantasy; Forests; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Streams; Creeks; Woods PAN AND THALASSIUS: A LYRICAL IDYL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pan! Last Line: Mine. Subject(s): Fantasy; Forests; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Woods PANELED IN PINE, by MARGARET GILMAN (GEORGE) DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: Hers was a small room Alternate Author Name(s): George, Marguerite+(2) Subject(s): Fantasy PANTHER POSSIBLE, by WILLIAM D. BARNEY Poem Source First Line: The old man's words (something has skittered the cattle) Subject(s): Fantasy PARKINSON AND THE OCTOPUS, by NORMA FARBER Poem Source First Line: Parkinson broached the octopus Subject(s): Fantasy PART-TIME TENANT, by EDNA MEUDT Poem Source First Line: The city of the dead is zoned Subject(s): Fantasy PARTY BID, by ALETHA HUMPHREYS Poem Source First Line: Witch in every closet Subject(s): Fantasy PARTY LINE, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As one of the curious gatherers Subject(s): Fantasy PAUSE, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The armor of mars Subject(s): Fantasy PERENNIAL MOURNER, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: I saw him at a funeral in town Subject(s): Fantasy PLACE-GHOST, by AUGUST WILLIAM DERLETH Poem Source First Line: This morning is haunted Subject(s): Fantasy PLAYGROUND OF THE PIXIE, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Source First Line: To plant corn here was a futile whim Subject(s): Fantasy POOL, by LEAH BODINE DRAKE Poem Source First Line: The child came to a pool in the heart of a thicket Subject(s): Fantasy PRAYING MANTIS, by FELIX STEFANILE Poem Source First Line: Pert paradox, whose green and summer claws Subject(s): Fantasy PREHISTORIC HUNTSMAN, by DONALD WANDREI Poem Source First Line: They found him deep within an ancient cave Subject(s): Fantasy PREMONITION, by EDITH OGUTSCH Poem Source First Line: The warden of the universe who flings Subject(s): Fantasy PRENATAL FANTASY, by WALTER H. KERR Poem Source First Line: A firedrake sejant on a field of sard Subject(s): Fantasy PROFESSOR NOCTURNAL, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source First Line: Dismissing bees and bookmen from Subject(s): Fantasy PROPHECY, by WALTER SHEDLOFSKY Poem Source First Line: She dreamed death came to her Subject(s): Fantasy PUCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O it was puck! I saw him yesternight Last Line: Of starshine sharpened on his batwing shoe. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Night; Elves; Bedtime QUEEN OF NIGHT, by ARTHUR E. JENNER Poem Text First Line: Full often have I stood at close of day Last Line: And she had gone. Subject(s): Fantasy; Night; Bedtime RATCLIFF, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dream-god brought me to a landscape fair Last Line: And through sheer terror I awoke from sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Flowers; Love; Tears; Nightmares REALITY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is strange how we travel the wide world over Last Line: While the thronging world a phantom is. Subject(s): Fantasy RECOGNITION OF DEATH, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: I see now, no far away, the savage pit Subject(s): Fantasy RECOMPENSE, by LORING WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Once, in the gathering twilight Subject(s): Fantasy REFLETS, by BENET ROSNY Poem Text First Line: Young green planets of jade Last Line: Teeth meet within it. Subject(s): Fantasy; Memory; Shadows REVERSIONS, by ALFRED DORN Poem Source First Line: The dead are born rom the dark again Subject(s): Fantasy ROC'S BROOD, by SAMUEL MCKEE BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Claw-free love, when I was Subject(s): Fantasy ROMANTIC EPISODE, by VINCENT STARRETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Zut!' cried the princess, with a breezy smile Subject(s): Fantasy ROOM IN DARKNESS HAS A FOURTH DIMENSION, by MARY ELIZABETH COUNSELMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Fantasy ROWERS, by LAURA BENET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Have you not fallen asleep to strong men's rowing Subject(s): Fantasy SABBAT, by LIN CARTER Poem Source First Line: This is the night,' the dark-faced stranger leered Subject(s): Fantasy SALEMS OF OPPRESSION, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lady took exception to assertions Subject(s): Fantasy SANDS OF TIME, by ROBERT E. HOWARD Poem Source First Line: Slow sift the sands of time; the yellowed leaves Subject(s): Fantasy SCISSORS GRINDER BELLED THE STREET, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source Subject(s): Fantasy SCYTHE OF DREAMS, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: Sleepes are mangled by the scythe of dreams Subject(s): Fantasy SEA AND SUMMER, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON Poem Source First Line: Violet bloom of summer's end Variant Title(s): Tropes Of One Seaso Subject(s): Fantasy SECOND SIGHT, by H. S. NEILL Poem Source First Line: Come in an' sit ye down,' old gruda said Subject(s): Fantasy SECRETS OF CISTERNS, by STANLEY MCNAIL Poem Source Subject(s): Fantasy SEER, by LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO Poem Source First Line: Once, long ago, an aged seer Subject(s): Fantasy SEMI-PRIVATE, by MABEL MACDONALD CARVER Poem Source First Line: Beyond antiseptic white Subject(s): Fantasy SERPENT WAITS, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: Beneath a withered bush the serpent waits Subject(s): Fantasy SHADOWED, by BURNHAM EATON Poem Source First Line: Leave to the street its glare and race Subject(s): Fantasy SHAPE OF FEAR, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: He never knew what made him feel so sure Subject(s): Fantasy SHUB-AD, by ROBERT H. BARLOW Poem Source First Line: Even as I wandered the tropic jungle of fever Subject(s): Fantasy SINCE WE ARE PROPERTY, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source First Line: Before we light the tribal fires again Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Fantasy SIX SILVER HANDLES, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: When winter closed upon the countryside Subject(s): Fantasy SKEPTIC, by LORING WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The burning eye Subject(s): Fantasy SLEEPING VILLAGE, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We came upon the village of the dead Subject(s): Fantasy SO SEPARATE AND STRANGE, by FELIX STEFANILE Poem Source First Line: So spearate and strange was she Subject(s): Fantasy SOFT SELL, by LORNA BEERS Poem Source First Line: Have you noit fallen asleep to strong men's rowing Subject(s): Fantasy SONG: 100, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I might by no means surmise Last Line: Or else I am but slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; God; Hearts; Love SONG: 77. THE ANSWER, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even when you lust, ye may refrain Last Line: I am not ruled by fantasy. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fantasy; Grief; Love; Lust; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 85, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spite of their spite which they in vain Last Line: My fancy is too hard to turn. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fantasy; Fear; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 86, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driven by desire to set affection Last Line: And not covet that thing that will not be? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SORCERESS, by GERTRUDE CLAYTOR Poem Source First Line: Against the moon now eldritch-thin Subject(s): Fantasy SPECTRE, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: I crept through the house like a ghost Subject(s): Fantasy SPRING FANTASIES: 1. MAY DAY IN MARCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March with her madcap winds, march with her weather Last Line: Twas ever anything on earth but may! Subject(s): Faith; Fantasy; March (month); May (month); Seasons; Soul; Spring; Belief; Creed SPRING VOICES, by JESSE HILTON STUART Poem Source First Line: This is not the wind in the weeping willow tree Subject(s): Fantasy STAIR, by GERTRUDE CLAYTOR Poem Source First Line: The stair is curved, the railing high Subject(s): Fantasy STEP MOTHER, by HELEN DOUGLAS ADAM Poem Source First Line: My lord's your daughter in the earth finds rest Subject(s): Fantasy STONE, by WALTER H. KERR Poem Source First Line: I was apprenticed as a callow lad Subject(s): Fantasy STOP, SHADOW OF MY ELUSIVE BELOVED, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If I fashion a prison for you in my fantasy Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Hearts; Love - Complaints STRANGER BRIDE, by JOCELYN MACY SLOAN Poem Source First Line: The creature was a changeling child Subject(s): Fantasy SUNDAY EDITION, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: War screams, so peace becomes a whisper Subject(s): Fantasy SYNCHRONIZED, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: The obituary columns of our paper Subject(s): Fantasy TAPERS, by FRANCES ANGEVINE GRAY Poem Source First Line: Flowers there are, partaking Subject(s): Fantasy TEMPLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: On the catwalk stickthin Last Line: Plate of chips Subject(s): Fantasy; Hunger; Prostitution TENANT, by FRANCES ANGEVINE GRAY Poem Source First Line: Something lives in this house Subject(s): Fantasy TESTIMONY, by BEVERLY CONNELLY Poem Source First Line: Why does he call Subject(s): Fantasy THAT FAMILIAR STRANGER, by FELIX STEFANILE Poem Source First Line: The morning's work went quickly done Subject(s): Fantasy THE ARTISTS, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Blue as a mile of pansies are the seas that circle the shores Last Line: And peacock's neck! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fantasy THE BEAUTIFUL CITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful city! Forever Last Line: And loosen the trump at the gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Fantasy; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean THE CHILD-WORLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child-world, yet a wondrous world no less Last Line: Of any tool he might not chance to own. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Earth; Fantasy; World THE DREAMS WE WAKE FROM, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are dams bursting oceans suddenly swallowed Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Reality; Nightmares THE FAIRY IN THE MEADOW, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came, stepping over the tall grasses Last Line: Why was he afraid of me? Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Fields; Humanity; Supernatural; Elves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who hath known her - like as I Last Line: Curtain Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Night; Plays & Playwrights; Bedtime THE GHOST, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot live nor die Last Line: I fade to a broken hope Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fantasy THE GREAT GOD PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O pan is the goodliest god, I wist, Last Line: To his rollicking wraith below. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Wind THE HIRED MAN'S DOG-STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs, I contend; its jes' about Last Line: "how the other gits its livin'!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fantasy THE LAND OF THUS-AND-SO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How would willie like to go Last Line: "to the land of thus-and-so!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Magic THE LAND OF USED-TO-BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And where's the land of used-to-be, does the little baby wonder? Last Line: Comes dancing down the dewy walks to welcome me and you! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Elves THE LITTLE DOG-WOGGY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little dog-woggy Last Line: The world. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fantasy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LORD OF THE DUNDERBERG, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goblin and kobold and elf and gnome Last Line: Strike flag to the lord of the dunderberg! Subject(s): Fantasy; Gnomes; New York City - Dutch Period; Ships & Shipping THE LOVER'S GHOST, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear the headless man Subject(s): Fantasy THE MAD, MAD MUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rhyme o' the raggedy man's 'at's best Last Line: Tickle me, love, in me lonesome ribs! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): The Lugubrious Whing-whang Subject(s): Fantasy; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) THE MAN WHO FELL NAKED FROM PARADISE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Silence, the hay is sweet, and 'tis the hour of grain Last Line: Breathed by the deity. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Paradise THE NINE LITTLE GOBLINS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They all climbed up on a high board-fence Last Line: "and you shan't wake up till you're clean plum dead!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Halloween THE PALACE OF PAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: September, all glorious with gold, as a king Last Line: Pine ridge: september, 1893. Subject(s): Fantasy; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); September; Temples; Mosques THE PARLIAMENT OF BEES, by JOHN DAY Poem Text First Line: Abroad, my pretty bees: I hope you'll find Last Line: From forth our wingèd commonwealth. Subject(s): Bees; Fantasy; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE PIPES OF PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pipes of pan! Not idler now Last Line: Whetting his hunger on an empty shell. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) THE ROMAUNT OF KING MORDAMEER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Did ye hear of mordameer Last Line: And met him face to face. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Fantasy; Sleep; Nightmares THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY, by THOMAS DEKKER Poem Text First Line: As wretches in a storm (expecting day) Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Business; Fantasy; Shoes; Success; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE SOUTH WIND AND THE SUN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the south wind and the sun! Last Line: They laugh and sail away. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Love; Nature; Sun; Wind THE SPEEDING OF THE KING'S SPITE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A king - estranged from his loving queen Last Line: "could have ended so happily!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Love; Separation; Isolation THE SUNKEN BELL, by GERHART HAUPTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou buzzing, golden wight -- whence com'st thou here? Last Line: [dawn breaks. He dies.] Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Elves THE TREMOLO, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I have seen her to-night in a vision Last Line: I doubt, in distress. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations THE USED-TO-BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the purple, hazy trees Last Line: The lips of used-to-be. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Loss; Summer; Trees; Nightmares THE VIGIL OF VENUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: To-morrow - what news of to-morrow? Last Line: "loved, love anew, / to-morrow! - to-morrow!" Subject(s): Fantasy;love;spring THEY KNOW, by RYAH TUMARKIN GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Ask the dead Subject(s): Fantasy THIS HERE IS HELL, by SAMUEL MCKEE BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: As I fell - from mind-perch precarious Subject(s): Fantasy THROUGH SLEEPY-LAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where do you go when you go Last Line: Through the blind-world 'way in there! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fairy Tales; Fantasy; Sleep; Childhood TO JEAN COCTEAU, by NILS CLAUSSON Poem Source First Line: At the musee grevin %(the wax museum %on boulevard montmartre) Last Line: And mastery, between art and %severance Variant Title(s): Two Fantasies: To Jean Coctea Subject(s): Art And Artists; Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963); Fantasy; Poetry And Poets TO THE DAEMON SUBLIM, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wane and weary: come, thou swifter one Subject(s): Fantasy TOP HAT AND TALES, by LORNA BEERS Poem Source First Line: My granny saw the devil walk at twilight Subject(s): Fantasy TOUR. IN RAIN, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source First Line: No weather can unbrother brothers Subject(s): Fantasy TOWARD AVERNUS, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He had no pact with time: his mind was ever Subject(s): Fantasy TRAP, by WALTER H. KERR Poem Source First Line: I built a snare on day and sought to capture Subject(s): Fantasy TURVEY TOP, by WILLIAM SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Twas after a supper of norfolk brawn Last Line: And would flourish in turvey top. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Nonsense; Nightmares TWO FANTASIES: TO BYRON, by NILS CLAUSSON Poem Source First Line: So, the toy murray sent you in italy Last Line: Oh, multiple teresa, %don juan calls Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Fantasy; Poetry And Poets TWO LEAVES, by JESSE HILTON STUART Poem Source First Line: The multi-colored hosts drift down the sky Subject(s): Fantasy UNDERTONE, by DOROTHY QUICK Poem Source First Line: Deep in the cool, dark wood Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy UNEXPLORED, by BURNHAM EATON Poem Source First Line: I tell you there is nothing there at all Subject(s): Fantasy UNICORNS AT HARVARD, by NORMA FARBER Poem Source First Line: Unicorns are astray Subject(s): Fantasy VALUTA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ever noticed how, the Last Line: Illimitable bounties of %deathlessness Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Immortality; Mortality VAMPIRE, by WALTER H. KERR Poem Source First Line: The almost-tropic night crept through my door Subject(s): Fantasy VAMPIRE BRIDE, by FELIX STEFANILE Poem Source First Line: A dream of dolorous women stole my sleep Subject(s): Fantasy VENDOR, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source First Line: On the new york central from chicago to south bend Subject(s): Fantasy VILLANELLE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: She stood pale and correct Last Line: As I well recollect. Subject(s): Fantasy; Love - Unrequited; Statues WALTZ, by RUTH FORBES SHERRY Poem Source First Line: He wooed me sweet and he wooed me strong Subject(s): Fantasy WARNING, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: This is the haunted wood, where no man goes Subject(s): Fantasy WARNING TO SKEPTICS, by LEAH BODINE DRAKE Poem Source First Line: Don't boast your unbelief in woods! Subject(s): Fantasy WARNING TO SNAKE-KILLERS, by ROBERT H. BARLOW Poem Source First Line: Queerly walking by a slow and pagan clock Subject(s): Fantasy WATCHER, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: A watcher stood on the brink of time Subject(s): Fantasy WATER SPRITE, by DONALD WANDREI Poem Source First Line: Laughing, she flashes down the shifting tides of green Subject(s): Fantasy WE, THE FEW WHO BELIEVE, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the gods! Tell me, where is aegir? Subject(s): Fantasy WELL-FINDER, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By what strange prescience he plucks the green Subject(s): Fantasy WHERE ROOTS TANGLE THE GROUND BEFORE THEIR PLUNGE, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source Subject(s): Fantasy WHERE-AWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the lands of where-away! Last Line: Find in lands of where-away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fantasy; Flowers; Kisses; Childhood WILDERNESS ROAD, by MARTHA KELLER Poem Source First Line: There's ghosts on the road here Subject(s): Fantasy WIND OF TIME, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: This night of frosty wind and stars Subject(s): Fantasy WIND SHRIEKED LOUD, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What I know Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Fantasy WINTER LEGEND, by GEOFFREY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Men say it was there where exmoor ends in air Subject(s): Fantasy WITCH, by STANLEY MCNAIL Poem Source First Line: Each day she woke with sullen eyes Subject(s): Fantasy WITCHES, by LEAH BODINE DRAKE Poem Source First Line: Across the tapestry-lands of the middle ages Subject(s): Fantasy WITCHING HOUR, by NORMA FARBER Poem Source First Line: Hear, d'you hear? One blast Last Line: Behold salvation without %the thunderous cope of shame Subject(s): Fantasy WOLF AND TIGER DINING, A.B, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Scotch over ice?' the wolf said to the tiger Subject(s): Fantasy WOMAN AT THE WINDOW, by DONALD WANDREI Poem Source First Line: Beyond the window's tracery Subject(s): Fantasy WOMAN TELEPHONING, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The angry threat of silence, ever present Subject(s): Fantasy WOOD FLOWER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a flower in the wood Last Line: And now, alas, what voice shall wake her! Subject(s): Fantasy; Flowers; Forests; Woods WOODS GROW DARKER, by LEAH BODINE DRAKE Poem Source First Line: We feared the incubus, the hex Subject(s): Fantasy WORD OF WILLOW, by LEAH BODINE DRAKE Poem Source First Line: Older than eden's planting, older than elves Subject(s): Fantasy WREATH FOR ONE LOST, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell the tragedy, announce the death Subject(s): Fantasy YELLOW CAT, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Source First Line: In towns like ours where fifty years are just Subject(s): Fantasy YOU GO BACK, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: You go back to where people know Last Line: Two women in the mist, disembodied %-girlish voices Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams; Fantasy; Saint Kilda (scotland) YOU QUITE MISTAKE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You quite mistake the sprite you chase Last Line: To my dear kitchen cats and wenches. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Elves YOU WERE AT THE DEAD RIVER, by GEORGE ABBE Poem Source Subject(s): Fantasy |
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