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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FOOLS Matches Found: 91 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "FOOLED THOU MUST BE, THOUGH WISEST OF THE WISE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "then be the fool of virtue, not of vice" Subject(s): Fools;virtue; Idiots A FOOL THERE WAS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A fool there was, and he made his prayer, Last Line: (even as you and I!) Subject(s): Baseball; Fools; Gambling; Sports; Idiots; Wagering; Betting A FOOTBALL TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she clung to him, the game was o'er" Last Line: For I am only half-back Subject(s): Boredom;fools;football;nonsense; Ennui;idiots A LUNATIC HAS AN IDEA, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Text First Line: I'll gather all my dreams Last Line: To do the same to me! Subject(s): Fools; Idiots A MERRY HEART: A SONG FOR APRIL FIRST, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: With imagined hoofs I spurn the earth Last Line: For spring is in my spine, o! Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Comedy; Mermaids & Mermen; Spring; All Fools' Day A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery Last Line: For marian, our clear may, so long laid in earth. Subject(s): Earth; Fools; Grief; Hope; Moon; Seasons; Time; World; Idiots; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A PSALM OF FOOLISH WISDOM, by LOUISE LEIGHTON Poem Text First Line: Lo, we are a nation of wise fools! Last Line: Before our foolishness destroys the universe. Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Susan Louise Subject(s): Fools; United States; Idiots; America A WILD GOOSE CHASE IN THE WHIPSTICK SCRUB, by H. HEAD Poem Text First Line: Old jack gave us a wild goose chase Last Line: That ever formed a team. Subject(s): Fools; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Hunting; Idiots; Hunters AMANTES, AMENTES, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Lovers, lunatics. There must be truth Last Line: A thing I realize I ought not to! Subject(s): Fools; Love - Nature Of; Youth; Idiots AMBITION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: As a boy, he wished to be a comedian Last Line: Dublin would have lost a genuine clown Subject(s): Ambition; Dublin, Ireland; Fools; Political Campaigns ANOTHER SONG OF A FOOL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great purple butterfly Last Line: To take the roses for his meat. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Wisdom; Learning; Fools BLANKET NED, by G. A. H. Poem Text First Line: We were shearing on the bidgee Last Line: The lamb in the water-pot. Subject(s): Fools; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Idiots; Work; Workers CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think, or hope at least, the coast is clear Last Line: But to make wits of fools is past your pow'r. Subject(s): Fools; Ireland; Sparta, Greece; Idiots; Irish CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met the bishop on the road Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Love; Men; Old Age; Women; Idiots CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met the bishop on the road Last Line: For nothing can be sole or whole %that has not been rent Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Love; Men; Old Age; Women DAFFODILS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A battered english actor, hired to act Last Line: She stands -- the poor fool is no more forlorn. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Daffodils; Flowers; Fools; Marigolds; Plays & Playwrights; Soul; Idiots DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: ISBRAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The idiot merriment of thoughtless men Last Line: Leans on his anchor, grinning like their hope. Subject(s): Fools; Idiots EPIGRAM ON THE FIRST OF APRIL, by JOHN WINSTANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature is rising from the dead Last Line: Ah! Chloe, when, my charming fair? Subject(s): April Fool's Day; All Fools' Day ETERNITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternity is a wind-blown husk Last Line: And give me her little hand! Subject(s): Beauty; Fools; Future Life; Life; Love; Sleep; Idiots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOLLIES OF THE WISE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A man is a fool in his youth, my son Last Line: Is happy indeed, and wiseso wise! Subject(s): Fools; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Wisdom; Women; Idiots; Male-female Relations FOOL, by C. HATAKEYAMA Poem Source First Line: Describe the fool who knows Last Line: All the lips' whispers are cool summer showers Subject(s): Fools FOOL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The day I knew my world is one of the glimpses Last Line: Then I asked myself if anyone has ever %seen anybody whole. Subject(s): Fools; Self-criticism; Truth; Writing And Writers FOOL, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first days of march Last Line: Then filled his mouth, gargled, swallowed, and grinned Subject(s): Fools; March (month); Religion FOOL'S BURIAL, by HILDEGARDE FILLMORE Poem Text First Line: If you had waited, foolish love, to die Last Line: To lie all naked in a beggar's grave? Subject(s): Death; Fools; Love; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Idiots FOOL'S GOLD, by MARGARET CLYDE ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Men have lived and men have died Last Line: Sand beneath a microscope. Subject(s): Fools; Men; Idiots FOOL'S SONG, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When swallows lay their eggs in snow Last Line: Till when let your wisdom be dumb, etc. Subject(s): Fools; Singing & Singers; Wisdom; Idiots; Songs FOOL: A LETTER TO PAUL HANSEN, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: When bodhidharma %came from the west, for nine years Last Line: People who are just like you Subject(s): Fools; Poetry And Poets FOOLISHNESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In's tusc'lanes, tullie doth confesse Last Line: No plague ther's like to foolishnesse. Subject(s): Fools; Idiots FOOLS INCORIGIBLE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the old sages, however indeed Last Line: That, only that, is the use of fools! Subject(s): Fools; Idiots FOOLS OF DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You will find them in lone hidings Last Line: To the deathless fools of dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Fools; Laughter; Time; Wind; Nightmares; Idiots HERO, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fool, / put your adventures Last Line: Roses for your button-hole. Subject(s): Heroism; Fools LIZZY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The queen who taught us to read and write Last Line: Thank god for the brindled cat.' Subject(s): Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Fools; Independence; Protest, Social LOVE POSTPONED, by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: I was a fool to put your love away Last Line: Until I beckoned with a tardy finger. Subject(s): Fools; Love; Idiots LUCIFER: PART SIX, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But not unscathed did those gay revellers pass Last Line: In pride yet haughtier, marched the milky way. Subject(s): Devil; Fate; Fools; Revolutions; Stars; Time; War; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Destiny; Idiots MAN MAY TEAR A JEWEL, by BHARTRIHARI Poem Source Last Line: The thoughts of an obstinate fool Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari Subject(s): Fools MAN WHO KEPT CIGARS IN HIS CAP, by JIM HEYNEN Poem Source First Line: One man kept cigars in his cap. When the boys sneaked up behind him Last Line: Cigars in his cap Subject(s): Fools; Vengeance MANDRAKE'S SONG; FRAGMENT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folly hath now turned out of door Last Line: Heigho! Foolscap! Subject(s): Clowns; Fools; Laughter; Writing & Writers; Idiots MERRY ANDREW, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sly merry andrew, the last southwark fair Last Line: Drive on (he cried); this fellow is no fool. Subject(s): Fools; Learning; Sleep; Idiots MINA DE ORO, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old fools, you know, can't tell where they are Last Line: Off, just lit out, don't you know: that's %what he said anyhow Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Fools MUMBLIN' MOTT, by VIRGINIA MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Delightedly devoid of useless brain Last Line: Who had the sense to be an idiot! Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs. Subject(s): Fools; Speech Disorders; Idiots; Stuttering; Muteness ON A FOOL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies the earl of suffolk's fool Last Line: "dickys enough are still behind, / to laugh at by-and-by" Subject(s): Epitaphs;fools; Idiots ON A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF BEAU MARSH; BETWEEN BUSTS NEWTON AND POPE, by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal newton never spoke Last Line: "but folly at full length." Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of Variant Title(s): On Mr. Nash's Present Of His Own Picture Subject(s): Fools; Statues; Idiots ON A SCOTCH COXCOMB, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light lay the earth on billy's breast Last Line: His scull will prop it under. Variant Title(s): Epigram On A Noted Coxcomb Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fools; Vanity; Idiots ON A SWEARING COXCOMB, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here cursing, swearing burton lies Last Line: "and his last words were ""dem my blood!" Subject(s): Fools; Idiots ON EXODUS III. 14. I AM THAT I AM; AN ODE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man! Foolish man! Last Line: Which faith had dictated, and angels trod. Subject(s): Faith; Fools; Mankind; Belief; Creed; Idiots; Human Race ON SEEING A BUTTERFLY IN THE STREET, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daft gowk, in macaroni dress, / are ye come here to shew your face Last Line: That dip their spoons in ither's kail. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fools; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Idiots PROXIMITY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He's the biggest fool in the place,' she said Last Line: He's nearest to god Subject(s): Clergy; Fools; God RASH JUDGMENT, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I saw a mountain-wall upthrown Last Line: Said one: dost thou call fools philosophers? Subject(s): Fools; Philosophy & Philosophers; Idiots REASON AND THE FOOL, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright reason mocked me from her silver / mask Last Line: "happy in loss, serene in strife." Subject(s): Fools; Reason; Idiots; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals REMINDER, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Cages are made for wise men who Last Line: With eyes upon the stars. Subject(s): Cages; Fools; Freedom; Wisdom; Idiots; Liberty RETROSPECTION, by ROBERT CLAY Poem Text First Line: I stand with time upon the planet's brink Last Line: Sang adonais through the kilbourne meadows! Subject(s): Adonis; April Fool's Day; Mythology - Classical; Youth; All Fools' Day SARCASTIC, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud sir, I am Last Line: When jackasses are a-braying. Subject(s): Fools; Jokes; Talk; Idiots SHIP OF FOOLS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The traveler par excellence Last Line: It rises and falls to the scent of the sea Subject(s): Fools; Ships And Shipping SHIP OF FOOLS, SELS., by ALEXANDER BARCLAY Poet Analysis Subject(s): Fools; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SIGNET, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So old, so new, so white, so olive-green Last Line: May reap the harvest -- for the harvest waits. Subject(s): Fools; Harvard University; Writing & Writers SIX WISE FOOLS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve had struck. Our talk subsided Last Line: "I drink to that which makes us one." Subject(s): Fools; Drinks & Drinking SONG: 21, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take heed betime lest ye be spied Last Line: Therefore take heed! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Eyes; Fools; Love; Idiots SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 7, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, this pious talk give o'er Last Line: And with another damn. Subject(s): Duplicity; Fools; Hearts; Deceit; Idiots THE CASE OF ALBERT IRVING WILLIAMSON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, albert irving williamson was innocent / and young Last Line: Our hero did not win a single solitary pot. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Fools; Gambling; Innocence; Youth; Idiots; Wagering; Betting THE DELIGHTS OF POSSUM HUNTING, by F. O'B. Poem Text First Line: A lovely night, and the mon brightly shining Last Line: "it was an old ants' nest, built round a dead stick!" Subject(s): Boys; Fools; Hunting; Opossums; Idiots; Hunters; Possums THE FAMILY FOOL, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon Last Line: They don't blame youso long as you're funny! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Family Life; Fools; Humor; Relatives; Idiots THE FOOL'S ADVENTURE, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know, between all kinds of the world there are Last Line: Within. I am thy self. Subject(s): Fools; Adventure & Adventurers; Idiots THE HILL OF STONES; A LEGEND OF FOUNTAINBLEU, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two, my guide and I, through dusty ways Last Line: About the statue of their stony queen. Subject(s): Chivalry; Courtship; Fools; Love - Unrequited; Idiots THE IDIOT, by DAVID OSBORNE HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When earth was madly green he lay Last Line: And hanged himself upon a star. Subject(s): Fools; Idiots THE IDIOT AND THE CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There was a house where an old dame Last Line: It is no worse!' she said. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fools; Idiots THE MAN OF MODE, OR SIR FOPLING FLUTTER: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most modern wits such monstrous fools have shown Last Line: For no one fool is hunted from the herd. Subject(s): Etherege, Sir George (1635-1692); Fools; Idiots THE OLD FOOL IN THE WOOD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could whisper you all I know Last Line: "that's what you'd say." Subject(s): Eyes; Fools; Forests; Grief; Hearts; Idiots; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 230, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All I see are fools Last Line: Read this over once or twice Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 246, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I recently hiked to a temple in the clouds Last Line: Persisting in idiocy holding onto doubts Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Taoism; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 271, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I recall twenty years ago Last Line: I came out ahead Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Idiots THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 281, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There exists one type of person Last Line: Discovering his inner mind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Laughter; Idiots THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 20, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There exists one type of person Last Line: And all his wrongs return Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Punishment; Reason; Idiots; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 3, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see someone short on sense Last Line: And be a fool no more Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Fools; Repentance; Idiots; Penitence THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 41, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those who leave home nowadays Last Line: Flunkies in the end Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Fools; Monks; Idiots THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 43, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By and large the monks I meet Last Line: Are more perceptive than them Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Monks; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 47, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world has its know-it-alls Last Line: And see the sun no more Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Hell; Punishment; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 6, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The black dragon pearl in his left hand Last Line: Before sensing there's danger ahead Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots THE TAVERN OF THE FOOLS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew of an honest cleanly inn where men much profit had Last Line: To hear that cryptic laughter in the tavern of the fools. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Fools; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Idiots THE TRIPLE FOOL, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am two fools, I know Last Line: Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee. Subject(s): Fools; Idiots THE TWA HERDS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O a' ye pious godly flocks Last Line: May a' pack aff. Subject(s): Fools; Religion; Sheep; Idiots; Theology THE VILLAGE IDIOT, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one remembers him anymore, a boy Last Line: Fogging up in the bathroom, from the wet mirror Subject(s): Fools; Past; Idiots TO A FOOL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: If, when thy body's end has come Last Line: "and missed them with my snapping hand." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fools; Idiots TO A MATHEMATICIAN, by JAN KOCHANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: He discovered the age of the sun and he knows Last Line: But he doesn't see that his wife is a whore Subject(s): Fools; Mathematics TWO PARABLES FROM 'THE OCEAN OF STORY': 2, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A traveller bought eight cakes for a pana Last Line: The villagers laughed at him for his ignorance Variant Title(s): Story Of The Fool And The Cake Subject(s): Fools TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 1, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A speckled cat and a tame hare Last Line: My great responsibilities? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Pets; Idiots TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 2, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept on my three-legged stool by the fire Last Line: The horn's sweet note and the tooth of the hound. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Pets; Idiots VERDANT GREEN AND THE CROW, by ROBERT BRUCE Poem Text First Line: Young verdant saddled his horse at the rail Last Line: "a woebegone, gizzard-wrung, ""r-r-r." Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Deserts; Food & Eating; Fools; Idiots VILLAGE IDIOT, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one remembers him anymore, a boy Last Line: Fogging up in the bathroom, from the wet mirror Subject(s): Fools; Past WAR, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fools, fools, fools Last Line: Which was your enemy. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Fools; War; Idiots WEIGHTS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother said I was a fool Last Line: I said of my brother. Subject(s): Fools; Idiots WHEN FOOLS DISPUTE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A trickle of dawn insinuated itself Subject(s): Fools; Idiots |
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