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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FORGETFULNESS Matches Found: 74 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER ALL, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, what's the use of striving on? Last Line: And all the rest's just waste—just waste of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Forgetfulness; Desertion; Dead, The AN ERASURE, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Charmed to most crystal stillness by a wand Last Line: To brood on—or such deft forgetfulness. Subject(s): Aging; Forgetfulness; Memory AN OLD PRIMA DONNA SPEAKS, by HELEN WIEAND COLE Poem Text First Line: I made my choice: / 'twas children or my voice Last Line: With their remembered praise. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Regret; Solitude; Loneliness AND HE DIED, by P. J. CAZELLO Poem Text First Line: And he died, each record ends Last Line: The record will show in the end. Subject(s): Forgetfulness BEFORE WHEN YOU LEFT YOU WOULD ALWAYS FORGET, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farewell; Forgetfulness BORDERLAND, by HERMAN KNICKERBOCKER VIELE Poem Text First Line: And have you been to borderland? Last Line: Across the river I-forget. Subject(s): Courtship; Forgetfulness; Rivers CANTIGA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Let him whose time hath come to go Last Line: Are penalties the absent know. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Absence; Change; Forgetfulness; Spain; Separation; Isolation COMPLAINT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Song, I am unused to you Last Line: I would not betray you. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Betrayal; Forgetfulness; Singing & Singers; Songs COMPLAINT OF FORGETTING THE DEAD, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gentlemen / whose mothers are dead Last Line: They go. ... Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ELEGIAC SONNET: 88. NEPENTHE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For imperial polydanna's art Last Line: There's no nepenthe, now, in earth for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Forgetfulness EXCEPT - SOMETIMES, by VICTORIA ADELAIDE HARVEY Poem Text First Line: I get along without you very well Last Line: ... Except ... Sometimes. Subject(s): Forgetfulness FORGET ME NOT, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me, when morn with trembling light Last Line: Forget me not! Subject(s): Farewell; Forgetfulness; Love - Loss Of; Parting FORGETFULNESS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was so recent. She had not yet learned Last Line: And through the barren days remembered her. Subject(s): Forgetfulness FORGETFULNESS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgetfulness is like a song Last Line: I can remember much forgetfulness. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Metaphor; Similes FORGETFULNESS, by JEANNETTE DERBY Poem Text First Line: I shut the rooms where we had been together Last Line: All I held most dear! Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Memory FORGETFULNESS, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: I swear I don't even remember he name Last Line: As all things in life Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Poetry And Poets; Relationships FORGETTING GAME, by VALERIE FOX Poem Source First Line: The last time we drove here the road was all torn Last Line: Finish it off. Marry early, and often Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Games FORGOTTEN, by CORA L. BUTTERFIELD Poem Text First Line: Her pathway was strewn with rose petals Last Line: And gone the love he bestowed. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FRANCISCA MADRE; NEW YEAR, 1907, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: What cheer, francisco madre, what of cheer Last Line: There's a cheer, francisca madre, there is cheer. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Happiness; Holidays; Memory; New Year; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Joy; Delight FUNCTIONAL FORGETTING, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the world, here the world's forgetting Last Line: With opportunity. Ah, death, unloose your thighs Subject(s): Forgetfulness FUNCTIONAL FORGETTING, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the world, here the world's forgetting Last Line: With opportunity, ah, death, unloose your thighs Subject(s): Forgetfulness HAPPY HOUR, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always forget the name, Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Flowers; Forgetfulness HOUSES OFF FRANCIS STREET, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: I have been four years away %from an irish autumn Last Line: And the quiet smoke begins %to hide them from the stars Subject(s): Absence; Forgetfulness; Ireland HOW CAN THE HEART FORGET HER?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At her fair hands how have I grace entreated Last Line: "fix'd in the heart, how can the heart forget her?" Subject(s): Forgetfulness;hearts;love - Unrequited I DIDN'T COME TO FORGET, by BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA Poem Source Last Line: Like bells of strange doors Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Sea; Self I PAY THE PRICE, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory slipping more and more Last Line: I pay the price Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Time I WOULD HAVE TO, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: I would have to take each and every Last Line: I have a longing that will not spare him Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Thought IF I FORGET THEE, O JERUSALEM, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the melancholy that is made Last Line: And something more. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Forgetfulness; Jerusalem; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ILLICIT, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of what she said to me that night - no matter Last Line: She played this tune? - or what, then, was intended? Subject(s): Music Y& Musicians; Forgetfulness; Memory IT'S NOT COLD HERE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere the flags are frozen Last Line: For the pure abandoned joy of sliding down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Home; Refugees; Rest JUST HOLMES AND ME, AND MNEMOSYNE MAKES THREE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am told that my character has as many layers as an onyx Last Line: Great minds forget alike Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Holmes, Sherlock LA SAISIAZ: PROLOGUE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good, to forgive / best, to forget Last Line: Yours be the care! Subject(s): Forgetfulness LEFT BEHIND, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou forget me in that other sphere Last Line: And turn thy face toward me, even from her. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Forgetfulness LETHE, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a scent of roses and spilt wine Last Line: Is part of life and of the soul's desire. Subject(s): Forgetfulness LETHE, by LEDA SCHIAVO Poem Source First Line: I built myself a tall, tall house Last Line: And who to ask for help in this absence surrounded by the river %of forgetting Subject(s): Forgetfulness LOVE DIVINE, by ISABELLE NOYES Poem Text First Line: God of our fathers, see the strife Last Line: So shall his dream of love be mine! Subject(s): Forgetfulness; God; Injustice LOVE'S LAST LESSON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teach it me, if you can, - forgetfulness! Last Line: Have lain there long before. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love LOVE, PRIDE, AND FORGETFULNESS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet my heart was sweet love's tomb Last Line: What marvel that she died? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect LUCID INTERVAL, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What were you saying while we sat Last Line: The fault was wholly mine. Subject(s): Forgetfulness MANTRA, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am sad / I sing, remembering Last Line: When I forget. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MUDDY KID COMES HOME, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And mama complains Last Line: Remember her name Subject(s): Literary Form; Mothers; Forgetfulness ODE TO SALINAS, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Calm grows the air around Last Line: To holy thoughts incline %the senses, to all else dull and supine Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Memory ODE TO SLEEP, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O gentle, feather-footed sleep Last Line: Confounds pale, trembling catiline. Subject(s): Calm; Dreams; Forgetfulness; Rest; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares PINDAR AND CORINNA; FOR CHARLES L. O'DONNELL, C.S.C., by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Corinna, hail the victress! Evoae!' Last Line: Ethereal touched his soul awake with smiles. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Greece; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Greeks; Male-female Relations REMEMBER OR FORGET, by C. HAMILTON AIDE Poem Text First Line: I sat beside the streamlet Last Line: Or courage to forget. Subject(s): Forgetfulness REMEMBRANCE, by EDITH H. SHANK Poem Text First Line: She tried to forget all the past with its Last Line: That age builds itself on the ashes of youth. Subject(s): Forgetfulness REMEMBRANCE IS MOVING, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source Last Line: Without turning your head Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Memory SEVENTEENTH NIGHT OF THE EIGHTH MONTH, WRITTEN IN A DREAM, by TS'AN LIAO TZU Poem Source First Line: Midnight %fall river Last Line: My life %my spirit Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Zen Buddhism SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Yiddish SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Last Line: Anything for a minute. So that's what I said. They asked me %my name and I said I've forgotten Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Yiddish SINGING BACK THE WORLD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember how it began Last Line: The trouble I've seen. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Forgetfulness; Music & Musicians SOBAKA IN THE UNDERWORLD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: My cigar smells like a wet dog Last Line: Wondering where we might go next? Subject(s): Forgetfulness SONG OF THE TREE, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: During the final approach before landing Last Line: Return to an existence that had long ago passed into oblivion Subject(s): Forests; Forgetfulness; Leaves; Trees SONNET TO MANON: ON HER LIGHTHEARTEDNESS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I had thy courage, dear, to face Subject(s): Courage; Forgetfulness; Valor; Bravery SURCEASE, by ALICE GARDNER ADAMS Poem Text First Line: When rain is raining wet and gray Last Line: Into eternal yonder. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Memory THE BITTER HERB, by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bitter herb, forgetfulness Last Line: Far as the vales of death? Subject(s): Forgetfulness THE GIFT TO SING, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the mist overhangs my path Last Line: And I can sing. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs THE LAST QUARREL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay sleeping on my bed Last Line: Wherewith I sped my love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Love; Quarrels; Regret; Solitude; Dead, The; Arguments; Disagreements; Loneliness THE MAN WHO FORGOT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At a lonely cross where bye-roads met Last Line: To meet her in that bower. Subject(s): Forgetfulness THE MUSIC BOX, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Music Box; Forgetfulness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 27, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man who lives on rose-colored clouds Last Line: He forgets a whole lifetime of sorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forgetfulness; Grief; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness THE VISITOR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget? I had forgotten Last Line: If she's to come no more. Subject(s): Candles; Death; Forgetfulness; Hearts; Dead, The THE WATERS OF LETHE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I will of the waters of that stream Last Line: And calm forever my deep distress. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love TO AN ARROW-HEAD, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: I find thee here upon this field Last Line: Perhaps in this selfsame spot! Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Past; Dead, The TO BE FORGOT BY THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Worthy to be forgot %is my renown Variant Title(s): Poem: 1560; Poem: 160 Subject(s): Forgetfulness TO HER WHO WISHED ME TO FORGET HER, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Forget thee! No, that wish is vain Last Line: To think it has not poisoned thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Memory TWO SONNETS: 1, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hardly there, and then it vanishes Subject(s): Books; Forgetfulness; Reading UNION, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: When she combs her hair morning and evening Last Line: The dark walk back Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Mothers; Women WARNING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days will come when you will cease to know Last Line: He will forget, he will forget. Subject(s): Forgetfulness WHETHER THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hardened with what I know Variant Title(s): Poem: 1329; Poem: 133 Subject(s): Forgetfulness WHITE POPPIES AND THE DUSK, by FLORENCE COPLEY WHITE Poem Text First Line: White poppies and the dusk and long, long sleep Last Line: What were the troubles of the passing day. Subject(s): Forgetfulness WIFE, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: When we were leaving the city Last Line: Was my lot, for which I was unnamed Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Travel WORD, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are so many things I have forgot Last Line: Over and over again, a pure thrush word Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Names YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a hurt in the heart of the night Last Line: Though yours has forgotten me! Subject(s): Forgetfulness |
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