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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FORM Matches Found: 550 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CANTICLE FOR ABBA JACOB, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful you are, my love Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Literary Form A CONCEPTION, by DAISY MAUD BELLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And when we must descend or we must climb Last Line: Save through this painful plodding we have done. Subject(s): Science; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Scientists A DESERT DAY, by ALMA LACOCK Poem Text First Line: Heat waves above the desert gleam as bright Last Line: With worlds just cast from god's creative hand. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Sonnet (as Literary Form) A HYMN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How charming! To be thus confin'd Last Line: "he is the patience of my heart, / the comfort, and content" Subject(s): Contentment;hymns (as Literary Form) A HYMN IN PRAISE OF NEPTUNE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of neptune's empire let us sing Last Line: The praise of neptune's empery. Variant Title(s): A Hymn In Praise Of Neptune Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Praise; Sea; Ocean A HYMN OF FORM, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The holy virtue of living, the soul's delight Last Line: As if, after all, god is and is about to speak. Subject(s): Form A HYMN ON THE DIVINE OMNIPRESENCE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lord! Thou hast known me, and searched me out Last Line: And the darkness, to thee, is clear as the light. Subject(s): Bible; Hymns (as Literary Form); Singing & Singers; Songs A HYMN TO JESUS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, saviour jesus! From above Last Line: The giver only to adore. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Songs A MAN AGAINST TIME, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Names of vast cities off beyond your years Last Line: But for my faith in my abandoned peers. Subject(s): Cities; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Urban Life A MORNING HYMN, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Christ, whose glory fills the skies Last Line: Shining to the perfect day. Subject(s): Day; Hymns (as Literary Form); Light; Morning; Sun A MUSE OF WATER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who must act as handmaidens Last Line: Is water deep enough to drown. Subject(s): Literary Form; Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Sea; Water; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Ocean; Feminism A NOTE OF THANKS, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wallet stolen, so we must end our stay Subject(s): Literary Form A PERFECT SONNET, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for a perfect sonnet of all time! Last Line: Thrills the last phrase and bids all joy rejoice. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) A PLEA FOR PEACE, by WALTIE NORRIS-OWEN Poem Text First Line: Thou, god of war, strip off your armor. When Last Line: Of peace, repent; remove earth's mourning veil! Subject(s): Peace; Sonnet (as Literary Form) A PORTRAIT IN DELIA'S PARLOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were that portly gentleman Last Line: With gold-laced hat and golden-headed cane. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4. .. Feelings Respecting A Portrait... Subject(s): Desire; Envy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Male-female Relations A PRAYER, by VIRGINIA HAW Poem Text First Line: Please grant us wisdom, lord, to understand Last Line: That those who cause all wars are also thine! Subject(s): Prayer; Sonnet (as Literary Form) A REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest Variant Title(s): Coy Mistress Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism A SEEING HEART; TO 'FANNY CROSBY', by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet blind singer over the sea Last Line: When our hearts shall sing and our eyes shall see! Subject(s): Blindness; Crosby, Frances Jane (1820-1915); Hymns (as Literary Form); Visually Handicapped A SONG OF WELCOME (FOR THE ST. NICHOLAS SUNDAY SCHOOL), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god, with grateful hearts we come Last Line: That fadeth not away. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) A SONNET, by GLADYS F. GOODFELLOW Poem Text First Line: I sometimes wonder what my life would be Last Line: Whose heart has known one day of ecstasy? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) A SONNET, by POLLY HOPKINS Poem Text First Line: Speak not again of love - it is too late! Last Line: Love's ecstasy. A boon, my sweet? I do not dare. Subject(s): Brokers; Sonnet (as Literary Form) A SONNET, by MARY LOUISE MORGAN Poem Text First Line: Our jealous pride has robbed us all of love Last Line: And lift our souls into the infinite. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) A SONNET, by ORANGE WILLIS WINKFIELD Poem Text First Line: Swift-footed time, let me not weep for thee Last Line: And gain by defeat the laurels I may. Subject(s): Monasteries; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Abbeys A SONNET OF SPOUSAL, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Over the mountain hangs the hush of dawn Last Line: And worship in its holy evening hour! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Maturity; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Weddings; Husbands; Wives A TREE, by A. HARRISON Poem Text First Line: I should go walking often if I could Last Line: Where you may pierce me clear up to my heart! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) A VESPER SONG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds of the sunset, fold on fold Last Line: Perhaps to some one lost in the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Melodies; Praise; Singing & Singers A WRITER'S TALE, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent and small in your wet sleep Variant Title(s): A Winter's Tale Subject(s): Literary Form AFTER GREAT PAIN (LEARNING THE TANKA), by MASARAH VAN EYCK Poem Source First Line: It has opened up %petals sieve infinite light Last Line: I hold it, letting it go %petals sieve infinite light Subject(s): Tanka (as Literary Form) AFTER RAIN, by ANYA PETRUNKEVITCH Poem Text First Line: How good to see once thirsty soil replete Last Line: The hope of harvest plenty ... Work well done. Subject(s): Rain; Sonnet (as Literary Form) AFTER READING AN OLD COMEDY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I close the book, thee in it, gentle mime Last Line: And laughter ringing faintly from old years. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) ALL THAT'S TO OTHERS PLEASING, I DISLIKE, by CINO DA PISTOIA Poem Source Last Line: I do slaughter, there where I find death Alternate Author Name(s): Sinibaldi, Guittoncino Dei Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) AN ODE TO FANCY, by MARY JULIA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Tell me, blyth fancy, shall I chuse Last Line: A tragic theme for such a muse? Subject(s): Imagination; Odes (as Poetic Form); Fancy AN ODE TO THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail to the empress of india, great britain's queen! Last Line: God save the queen. Amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Prayer; Worship ANGER SWEETENED, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we don't forget is what we don't say Subject(s): Literary Form ANGER SWEETENED, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we don't forget is what we don't say Last Line: Will gag us now that we are so enraged Subject(s): Literary Form APOLOGY, by ELIZABETH SPIRES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Too many nights %the heart cries out Last Line: A song is narrow. %a life is narrow Subject(s): Literary Form APPLE, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Let's let this run, then Last Line: The only worm in the apple %is that it's only an apple Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Rhyme; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ARCHAEOLOGY OF DIVORCE, by PATRICIA STORACE Poem Source First Line: We examine today not sacked cities, but sacked lives Last Line: And this carcass of love, gnawed to the bone Subject(s): Literary Form ASKING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O heavenly father, thou hast told Last Line: For christ's sake, give it to me! Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) AWAKEN, SOUND!, by GRACE KIESS SWIGGETT Poem Text First Line: Awaken sound! And let your moorings sway Last Line: In holy unison that will astound. Subject(s): Science; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sound; Scientists BABY'S PANTOUM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in my crib midday this is Last Line: Mamma's sweeping or else boiling water for tea. Subject(s): Babies; Boys; Literary Form; Milk; Mothers; Infants; Milkmen; Milkmaids BALANCE, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He watch her like a coonhound watch a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Relatives BALANCE, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He watch her like a coonhound watch a tree. Last Line: That hoe diverne think she marse tyler's wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form BALLAD OF AUNT GENEVA, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Geneva was the wild one Last Line: And gave away her heart Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Racism BALLAD OF BIDDY EARLY, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've an empty stomach Last Line: Biddy early's shadow %was listening at the door Subject(s): Literary Form BALLAD OF THE MAGIC GLASSES, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: Here are your magic glasses Last Line: Until the day I die Subject(s): Literary Form BARNEY BIGARD, by SUZANNE NOGUERE Poem Source First Line: Solo or in the ride out gliding and Last Line: Back into the black wood with a creole cry Subject(s): Literary Form BELONGINGS, by CATHERINE DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Nothing about the first abandonment Last Line: What she belongs to, what belonged to her Subject(s): Literary Form BILINGUAL SESTINA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Some things I have to say aren't getting said Last Line: Heart beating, beating inside what I say en ingles Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Literary Form; Travel; Women BIRTH, by MARY CATHERINE BRENNAN Poem Text First Line: At last the dread-awaited hour has come Last Line: She'd gladly brave that scorching path again. Subject(s): Birth; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Child Birth; Midwifery BLOWN APART, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blown apart by loss, she let herself go Last Line: Serves her right, the old mare Subject(s): Literary Form; Grief BLOWN APART, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blown apart by loss, she let herself go Last Line: Serves her right, the old mare Subject(s): Literary Form BOOK OF RUTH, by CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW Poem Source First Line: I learn to live by guile, to do without love Last Line: To do without sleeping to avoid death, tired of sleep Subject(s): Literary Form; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BOY, by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day his world extends, far, knotted, hot Last Line: Is being too good, waiting, as in play, %then climbing up when she says that he may Subject(s): Literary Form BROKEN, by THOMAS RUSSELL SHELTON Poem Text First Line: So many things are broken everywhere Last Line: One, whose great heart was broken for us all. Subject(s): Despair; Sonnet (as Literary Form) BURIAL AT SEA, by JESSIE GODDARD BROMAN Poem Text First Line: In all the wide unrest that is the sea Last Line: Behind the soundless dark of final bars. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Burials; Ocean CAMEOS, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The graver by apollo's shrine Last Line: The statue in the cameo! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) CANICULA, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fireflies float noiseless Subject(s): Literary Form CANICULA, by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fireflies float noiseless Last Line: She is not part of the wheel... %her pretty breathing Subject(s): Literary Form CANTICLE FOR ABBA JACOB, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful you are, my love Last Line: Touch him for me, my lord. %my love! Thy kiss Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Literary Form CAT'S SECOND SONG, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old woman of clare Last Line: Down a tunnel of emerald air Subject(s): Literary Form CHINESE PROCESSION, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elaborate procession! Some one dead Last Line: With the deathless laughters, the forgotten gods. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) CHOOSING HYMNS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sat and sang our hymns. The sweet- / mouthed organ Last Line: The young naked moon couched on the hawthorn's breast. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Music & Musicians CHOPIN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's sunday evening. Pomp holds the receipts Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Relatives CHOPIN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's sunday evening. Pomp holds the receipts Last Line: And plays chopin. And blessed are the meek %who have to buy in white men's stores next week Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form CHOSEN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Diverne wanted to die, that august night Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Relatives CHOSEN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Diverne wanted to die, that august night Last Line: Share of the future. And it wasn't rape. %in spite of her raw terror. And his whip Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form CHRISEASTER, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke up to the bleating of a lamb Last Line: In the hall, and later watched as I lay sleeping %at home Subject(s): Literary Form CHRISTMAS HYMN, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How all the welkin rings Last Line: Formed in each believing heart! Variant Title(s): For Christmas Day;glory To The King Of Kings Subject(s): Christmas; Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Nativity, The CHURCH MISSIONARY JUBILEE HYMN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice with jesus christ today Last Line: He shall be satisfied at last. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) CICERONIS AMOR: THE SHEPHERD'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walking in a valley green Last Line: And go contented to their sheep. Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form); Shepherds & Shepherdesses CITIZENS & SKY, by PHILLIS LEVIN Poem Source First Line: The city branching blindly through the clouds Last Line: Without design, dissolving into sound Subject(s): Literary Form CITY SONNET, by FLORENCE DAVIDSON STROTHER Poem Text First Line: Watering plants from a wedgewood cup today Last Line: With a tear or two perhaps. Subject(s): Cities; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Urban Life CLUSTERED GRAPES, by HELEN BURWELL CHAPIN Poem Text First Line: Under the rays of late september's sun Last Line: Sink swiftly, strike and leave spilt juice to rot. Subject(s): Grapes; Sonnet (as Literary Form) COMB AND THE MIRROR, by ELIZABETH SPIRES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two-natured, loving my world Last Line: The weather of their lives Subject(s): Literary Form COMPLAYNT; AFTER EMILY DICKINSON, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm wanton - no I've stopped that Last Line: Continue! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form; Mothers CONFEDERACY, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Wear the heart like a home Last Line: He occupies, I say, %my home, my heart Subject(s): Literary Form; Women CONSECRATION HYMN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take my life, and let it be Last Line: Ever, only, all for thee. Variant Title(s): Self-consecration To Christ Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) CONSTANCY, by ANNE REILEY NESOM Poem Text First Line: Beneath these trees delight with wonder meets Last Line: Within their home and keep their dream of truth. Subject(s): Silence; Sonnet (as Literary Form) COURT, JANUARY, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Images on the desk, the place where I read Last Line: Only painted bread is still edible, %a thought as bitter as art Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Writing And Writers CRIMINAL SONNETS: 37, by PHYLLIS KOESTENBAUM Poem Source First Line: I'd decided I initiate most Last Line: Work I fault myself for: too many sonnets Subject(s): Literary Form DARK HORSE, by PHILLIS LEVIN Poem Source First Line: Like a child's cut-out, she holds her weight Last Line: Study this dark horse in a field %who bows her head to time Subject(s): Literary Form DAUGHTERS, 1900, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five daughters, in the slant light on the porch Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Relatives DAUGHTERS, 1900, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five daughters, in the slant light on the porch Last Line: The fourth concedes, 'well, maybe not in church...' %five daughters in the slant light on the porch Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form DEAR MARILYN, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Dear marilyn: %think of this as chapter two, a second Last Line: For this game of take nothing, winner Subject(s): Literary Form DEATH OF VIRGIL, by ANGELO DI COSTANZO Poem Source First Line: O you fortunate swans, who sentinel Last Line: To be by the cloaked sirens darkly snug Variant Title(s): Sonnet: The Death Of Virgi Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Sonnet (as Literary Form) DEDICATORY SONNET TO HIS WIFE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With way-worn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone Last Line: And I have twined the myrtle for thy brow. Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Journeys; Trips DEFINITION, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER Poem Text First Line: A sonnet, fourteen lines of measured rhyme Last Line: When poets strum a bold ecstatic lute! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) DELPHINIUMS, by ALICE JOUVEAU DU BREUIL Poem Text First Line: Blue spires of thought! You are, delphiniums blue Last Line: Enforces for the straight and narrow way. Subject(s): Delphiniums; Sonnet (as Literary Form) DEPARTURE, by MILDRED WESTON Poem Source First Line: Down the dim aisle of standing pullman coaches Last Line: That claim the earth Subject(s): Literary Form DESIGN FOR A SONNET, by BETTY CAROTHERS DILL Poem Text First Line: How may I build a sonnet? I am told Last Line: That, never being born, has never died? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) DESIRE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't speak and it isn't schooled Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form DESIRE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't speak and it isn't schooled Last Line: Deeper than the brain's detail; the drive to feel Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form DESPAIR, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a mildewed tent. Under the center pole Last Line: Yank up the pegs and come back! Come back in the house Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Literary Form DEVOLUTION, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the wafer dissolves on my tongue, wonder Subject(s): Literary Form DEVOLUTION, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the wafer dissolves on my tongue, wonder Last Line: I might at last become: simple Subject(s): Literary Form DICKINSON, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the lives I cannot live Last Line: Not over, but upon Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form DIRGE IN JAZZ TIME, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice forever match to dry wood Last Line: Where no one can warm her whose heart burned bright, %where red-hot mama is cold tonight Subject(s): Jazz; Literary Form; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Tucker, Sophie (1884-1966) DIVERNE'S WALTZ, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Diverne stands in the kitchen as they dance Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Relatives DIVERNE'S WALTZ, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Diverne stands in the kitchen as they dance Last Line: Who knows? Next week, next month, I could be dead Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form DREAM COME TRUE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little girl is shy Subject(s): Literary Form DREAM COME TRUE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little girl is shy Last Line: Will be her nightmare Subject(s): Literary Form DREAM OF DYING, by LESLIE MONSOUR Poem Source First Line: The hammock was a blue cocoon Last Line: No earth, no tree, no face Subject(s): Literary Form DUSK: JULY, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late afternoon rain of a postponed summer Subject(s): Literary Form; Love DUSK: JULY, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late afternoon rain of a postponed summer Last Line: But we're alive now Subject(s): Literary Form E.S.L. (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE), by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My frowning students carve Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Literary Form E.S.L. (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE), by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My frowning students carve Last Line: As all the rest of my class is %bound to discover Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Literary Form EASTER SUNDAY, 1985, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the palace of the president this morning, Subject(s): Literary Form EASTER SUNDAY, 1985, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the palace of the president this morning, Last Line: With his arms safely wired up behind him. Subject(s): Literary Form EDEN, by EMILY GROSHOLZ Poem Source First Line: In lurid cartoon colors, the big baby Last Line: Behind the gates of sunset Subject(s): Literary Form EIGHT DAYS IN APRIL, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I broke a glass, got bloodstains on the sheet Subject(s): Literary Form EIGHT DAYS IN APRIL, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I broke a glass, got bloodstains on the sheet Subject(s): Literary Form ELDERLY LADY CROSSING ON GREEN, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And give her no scouts doing their one good deed Subject(s): Literary Form ELDERLY LADY CROSSING ON GREEN, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And give her no scouts doing their one good deed Last Line: Of her own sustaining notion that she's doing well Subject(s): Literary Form EMILY'S WORDS, by LESLIE MONSOUR Poem Source First Line: Unsquandered, sure and quiet as a root Last Line: The coffin was astonishingly small Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form EMPRESSS RECEIVES THE HEAD OF A TAIPING REBEL, by SARAH GORHAM Poem Source First Line: This is the right gift for a poet Last Line: Whispering to her of longevity Subject(s): Literary Form EPIGRAM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through life the poor dolt who lies buried below Last Line: The inscription upon it will trouble his rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPIGRAM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of old, when the church-building coffer was full Last Line: Congregational chapels require a queen's pig! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPIGRAM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stone ox! If we were hungry you would satisfy but little us Last Line: You never were a calf; though carv'd, you were not carv'd to victual us. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPIGRAM, by DENIS SANGUIN DE SAINT PAVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tircis makes rhymes as fast as ticking Last Line: But mine will live when I'm in earth. Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Rhyme; Writing & Writers EPIGRAM, by KERSTIN THOREK Poem Source First Line: Still your impressions Last Line: We were both defeated Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form) EPIGRAM, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buildings of capital, the hives of the killer bees Last Line: And flew when no-one was looking. He had to live his life again Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Life ESSAY: ODE, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pythagorean belief in numbers satisfied the need for symbols thinking of Last Line: Poetry poetry & architecture & poetry Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form) EVEN AS WIDOWS WINK, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: Too often has the sonnet's lofty feat Last Line: To sway and skip and even dance a little. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) EVEN THE EAGLES MUST GATHER, by ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I lay with an acupuncture needle Last Line: The enemy is to love the self). Subject(s): Acupuncture; Literary Form EXILE, by NELS JENSEN HERBY Poem Text First Line: Give me the fruit of eden's knowledge-tree Last Line: In exile glad, despising paradise. Subject(s): Exiles; Knowledge; Sonnet (as Literary Form) FANNY: 144, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At eastburn's rooms he met, at two each day Last Line: Is traced among them still in language and thought Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Literary Form; Poetry And Poets; Theater And Theaters FATHER AND DAUGHTER, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We talk of light things you and I in this Last Line: Old man, we do not speak of crosses Subject(s): Literary Form FEAR, by FRANCIS GARDNER CLOUGH Poem Text First Line: Again, I see about me, men who fear Last Line: Have rhymed our fears with everything we do. Alternate Author Name(s): Clough, F. Gardner Subject(s): Fear; Sonnet (as Literary Form) FEAR OF SHOPLIFTING, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: I've two teenage daughters, a decent Last Line: Whatever society provides Subject(s): Literary Form FEAR OF SUBWAYS, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes in the dark I fear trampling Last Line: Mouth so close to mine I smelled his world Subject(s): Literary Form FERRIS WHEEL, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rounding steeps and jostles were one thing Last Line: That proved them free Subject(s): Literary Form FIRST TIME: 1950, by HONOR MOORE Poem Source First Line: In the back bedroom, laughing when you pull Last Line: Flash, sort belts, dresses, shirts, baby clothes Subject(s): Homosexuality; Literary Form FIVE GREAT ODES, SELECTION, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Text First Line: But what matter all things seen, to the eye that makes me behold them? Last Line: And here too is the new surging of the year. Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form) FIVE POEMS FROM CORA FRY: 1., by ROSELLEN BROWN Poem Source First Line: I want to understand light years Last Line: When, then, will the light get to me Subject(s): Literary Form FIVE POEMS FROM CORA FRY: 2., by ROSELLEN BROWN Poem Source First Line: Fry says a word Last Line: When he gets there Subject(s): Literary Form FIVE POEMS FROM CORA FRY: 3., by ROSELLEN BROWN Poem Source First Line: I have a neighbor Last Line: Dusting and the next Subject(s): Literary Form FIVE POEMS FROM CORA FRY: 4., by ROSELLEN BROWN Poem Source First Line: This is no baby skin Last Line: Get to the star of seeds, %right Subject(s): Literary Form FIVE POEMS FROM CORA FRY: 5., by ROSELLEN BROWN Poem Source First Line: Storm high. %power's off Last Line: Snaps off my head Subject(s): Literary Form FLEUR DE LIS, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: A myriad dawns are in these cups. They hold Last Line: When warming earth lifts up her fleur de lis. Subject(s): Flowers; Sonnet (as Literary Form) FOCUSED TO REALITY, by ZOE KERNICK Poem Text First Line: Within the hidden realm of change and flow Last Line: For every well they dipped into was dry. Subject(s): Beauty; Sonnet (as Literary Form) FOR GRIZZEL MCNAUGHT, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bound in the women who chain by Last Line: You knew in your low-ceilinged room Subject(s): Literary Form FOR QUEEN MARY'S BIRTHDAY 1691, by THOMAS SHADWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, welcome, glorious morn Last Line: And long preserve the blessings thou hast giv'n. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Hymns (as Literary Form); Mary Ii, Queen Of England (1662-1694); British Empire; England - Empire FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1715, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise harmonious pow'rs Last Line: Only know to prize the blessing. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Happiness; Odes (as Poetic Form); Joy; Delight FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1721, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When the great julius on britannia's strand Last Line: Hush'd was the world when the messiah came. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Odes (as Poetic Form); Olympus (mountain), Greece; Peace; Roman Empire; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR THE NEW YEAR 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, glorious rising year Last Line: For thee thy people all, for thee the year is blest.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Wars With France; Holidays; New Year; Odes (as Poetic Form) FORGIVEN - EVEN UNTIL NOW, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast forgiven - even until now Last Line: We see our pardoning lord; forgiven until then! Subject(s): Holidays; Hymns (as Literary Form); New Year FROM MOUNTAIN-SLOPES, by NELLIE I. CRABB Poem Text First Line: I climb through terraced gardens, see below Last Line: Demand that love prepare their day of peace. Subject(s): Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Hills; Downs (great Britain) FRUSTRATION, by HAZEL L. KOPPENHOEFER Poem Text First Line: He follows women with his eyes afire Last Line: His mother bids him put his rubbers on! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women GARMENT MAKERS, by LIDA MARIE ERWIN Poem Text First Line: Would mortal eyes had less of skill to see Last Line: Appreciating all the care we took. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Work; Workers GAYETY OF FLAME: BEYOND ANGER, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why seize on words like boulders and then throw them Last Line: Splendid above the glory or the shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sun GAYETY OF FLAME: WAY OF THE SUNS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me forever give as the sun gives Last Line: Though nothing ever thanks a sun for shining. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sun GETHSEMANE, A.D., by DOLORES KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: The garden did not bloom Last Line: Release the terrible energy of his grace Subject(s): Literary Form GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS FOR MY SON, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Sunday, leaving grand central station, at 125th street Last Line: Your pain is white, is blinding as light [or, your pain is as blinding as white light] off chrome bu Subject(s): Children; Language; Literary Form; New York City GOD RULES, by E. SERENA BOOTH Poem Text First Line: A wild destruction struck out in the west Last Line: Is calmed by him and can no longer reign. Subject(s): God; Sonnet (as Literary Form) GOLDEN SANDALS, by A. HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Women of beauty, golden-sandal shod Last Line: Dances through life on golden-sandalled feet! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) GOOD FRIDAY, by CATHERINE F. MANNING Poem Text First Line: Today he dies, and dies once more in vain Last Line: "unechoed, while their lips say, ""we believe""." Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Sonnet (as Literary Form) GOOD GIRL, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hold up the universe, good girl. Hold up Subject(s): Literary Form GOOD GIRL, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hold up the universe, good girl. Hold up Last Line: The universe about its pole. God's not far Subject(s): Literary Form GOOSEBERRY-PIE; A PINDARIC ODE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gooseberry-pie is best Last Line: Praise my pindaric ode? Subject(s): Food & Eating; Odes (as Poetic Form); Pies; Pindar (522-440 B.c.) GRANDMOTHER'S SONG, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: Grandmothers sing their song Subject(s): Literary Form GRANTCHESTER, by CAROLINE PARKER SMITH Poem Text First Line: Like breaking surf, white clouds unfolding lie Last Line: His sowing, for man's infinite delight. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) GRAVEL PIT, by ANNE SOUTHERNE TARDY Poem Text First Line: This conclave of innumerable stones Last Line: In battlements that tower toward the sun. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Stones; Granite; Rocks GREEK SONNET, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A great greek sculptor, was praxiteles Last Line: And beauty dwells upon it evermore. Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Sculpture & Sculptors; Sonnet (as Literary Form) GREEN HYMNAL, by JOSHUA KRYAH Poem Source First Line: To eulogize elegy to mean Last Line: It can be read as it is Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Prayer; Singing And Singers GREEN PLACE, by HONOR MOORE Poem Source First Line: What's beyond making love?' a true question Last Line: Love's beyond love, it's green. We share the question Subject(s): Literary Form HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your voice unwrapping Last Line: Contagious as shrines Subject(s): Literary Form HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it yesterday Last Line: Made it blossom black Subject(s): Literary Form HAIKUS AND TANKAS, by ANIBAL BECA Poem Source First Line: On a rainy morning %the drenched ants %advance slowly Last Line: Among the ripples %for the crystal of the waterfall Subject(s): Haiku (as Literary Form); Tanka (as Literary Form) HARVEST ODE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When erst, by eden's guarded gate Last Line: Our father's manly toil. Subject(s): Harvest; Nature - Religious Aspects; Odes (as Poetic Form) HAVE YOU EVER FAKED AN ORGASM? (2), by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I get nervous, it's so hard not to Last Line: That should crack a world, but doesnt slip's, free Subject(s): Erotic Love; Literary Form; Sex HE HATH DONE IT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, o heavens! The lord hath done it Last Line: Evermore and evermore. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) HEIGHT OF THE SEASON, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a time is how the baby asks for a story Last Line: The tired baby will have it all Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Literary Form HELL TO PAY, by SUZANNE J. DOYLE Poem Source First Line: When the children are asleep and our old bed Last Line: I know in time there will be hell to pay Subject(s): Literary Form HER GERMAN POLICE DOG, by RUTH DURHAM CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: So faithfully, for fifteen years or more Last Line: And watched you as your faithful spirit flew. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Sonnet (as Literary Form) HISTORY, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is what, to tell the truth, you sometimes feel Last Line: The decline and fall of almost everything Subject(s): Literary Form HISTORY, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything's a metaphor, some wise Last Line: Will find its symbol , the woman thinks Subject(s): Literary Form HISTORY, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything's a metaphor, some wise Last Line: Will find its symbol, the woman thinks Subject(s): Literary Form HOMEWORK, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the fair cheeks begin their shrivelling Last Line: I cupboarded these pickled peaches in time's despite Subject(s): Literary Form; Peaches; Time HOMEWORK, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the fair cheeks begin their shrivelling Last Line: I cupboard these pickled peaches in time's despite Subject(s): Literary Form HORACE TO CHLOE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Dear chloe, this rose Last Line: Give heed to my wooing! Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love; Odes (as Poetic Form) HOUSE BESIDE THE SEA, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a fine white shirt I put it on Last Line: Rags of the robe unravelling in salt air Subject(s): Literary Form HOW FAR?, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How far is it to you by foot? Last Line: For so to seek and find you prove %one selfsame motion Subject(s): Literary Form HOW I COME TO YOU, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even a rock / has insides Subject(s): Literary Form HOW I COME TO YOU, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even a rock %has insides Last Line: This is how I come to you: %broken, %not what I knew Subject(s): Literary Form HOW I HAD TO ACT, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day I went and bought a fake fur coat Subject(s): Literary Form HOW I HAD TO ACT, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day I went and bought a fake fur coat Last Line: You have to act this way Subject(s): Literary Form HOW I LEARNED TO SWEEP, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My mother never taught me sweeping Last Line: She hadn't found a speck of death Subject(s): Literary Form HYMN FOR IRELAND, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, we would plead thy promise Last Line: Thine the kingdom, thine the power, thine the glory evermore. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) HYMN OF THE STAR-FOLK TO GOD, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no need for thy mercy, for mercy / is ours, not thine Last Line: With thy more-than-love above us, about us, we never need fear! Subject(s): God; Hymns (as Literary Form); Religion; Theology HYMN OF UNIVERSAL DUTY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I proclaim the brotherhood of natural, powerful, saintly people Last Line: All colors are united in our hearts is much difference between footprints Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) HYMN TO HESPERUS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright lonely beam, fair heavenly speck Last Line: And usher in day's orient splendour. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) HYMN TRANSLATED FROM THE ROMAN BREVIARY, by JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great god at whose divine word of command Last Line: Reign on and never cease. Subject(s): God; Hymns (as Literary Form) HYMN WRITTEN AMONG THE ALPS, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Creation's god! With thought elate Last Line: Thee, thee, my god, I trace! Subject(s): Alps; Hymns (as Literary Form); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) I GREW UP, by LENORE KEESHIG-TOBIAS Poem Source First Line: I grew up on the reserve Last Line: Beautiful place of the world Subject(s): Literary Form IMMORTAL DREAM, by JESSIE MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Despite world chaos, certain men will dream Last Line: And depth of one man's dream that lives and sings. Subject(s): Immortality; Sonnet (as Literary Form) IMPULSE, by DOROTHY MOORE GARRISON Poem Text First Line: I know that deep beneath the weary gray Last Line: Seeking lost eldorados on the slopes. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Spring IN THE BEST LIGHT, by BLYTHE GWYN SEARS Poem Text First Line: There is a lively portrait on my wall Last Line: Condemn her act? Real love should sense no slight. Subject(s): Portraits; Sonnet (as Literary Form) INCANTATION, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: To light the dark Last Line: To learn to say %no more to you Variant Title(s): Litan Subject(s): Literary Form; Women INPATIENT, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young attendants wrapped him in a red Subject(s): Literary Form INPATIENT, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young attendants wrapped him in a red Last Line: The suitcase with his streetclothes in the car Subject(s): Literary Form INSOMNIA, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Count the number of times boards crack Subject(s): Literary Form INSOMNIA, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Count the number of times boards crack Last Line: Without forcing it, works patiently Subject(s): Literary Form INTERROGATIONS OF THE SPARROW, by ELIZABETH SPIRES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All night, all night %I lie on my pallet of straw Last Line: Like no one. No one thing Subject(s): Literary Form IRONING, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: Papa drank and ate Last Line: I only ironed my family's clothes Subject(s): Literary Form ITS LENGTH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fourteen, a sonneteer thy praises sings Last Line: Fourteen good measur'd verses make a sonnet Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Upon Sonnet Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) ITS ORIGIN, by NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo, at his crowded altars, tired Last Line: While I no wreaths on rebel verse bestow Alternate Author Name(s): Boileau, Nicolas Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) JANE HOOPER, by MABEL RAYMOND Poem Text First Line: Jane hooper lived and died on hollow street Last Line: Still gently shone the love that shared her crust. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women - Heroes KEVIN OF THE N. E. CREW, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the bus I see graffiti Last Line: Weed - fence - pole - split %kevin Subject(s): Literary Form KING LEAR BEWILDERED, by PATRICIA STORACE Poem Source First Line: The leaves are storm-rattled jester's bells Last Line: Fertile daughters. Not one of them can bear me Subject(s): Literary Form KNOTTED OAKS, by CAROLINE PARKER SMITH Poem Text First Line: How bare the knotted oak against the sky Last Line: For souls, like knotted oaks, must fight their way. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) LA VIA NUOVA: 16, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady looks so gentle and so pure Last Line: "saying for ever to the spirit, ""sigh!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Sonnet (as Literary Form) LADDERS, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Filene's department store Last Line: Monkey, girl? Answer me Subject(s): Literary Form LAIR, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Excess of lemon, whether on the phone Last Line: Visions curl together out of light Subject(s): Literary Form LAMPS OF LABOR, by MARIE TELLO PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: Tall chimneys walk in grim parade, they throng Last Line: As orisons from towering chimneys rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs. Subject(s): Lamps; Sonnet (as Literary Form) LAST OF THE COURTYARD, by EMILY GROSHOLZ Poem Source First Line: Who will believe me later, when I say Last Line: The mice danced on the roof, and ran away Subject(s): Literary Form LATE ARRIVALS, by SYBIL KOLLAR Poem Source First Line: At forty-six I am still the baby Last Line: And for a moment they are watching me %as if wondering what I've come to see Subject(s): Literary Form LEGACIES, by EMILY GROSHOLZ Poem Source First Line: Aunt annie said, when I turned seventeen Last Line: And in its empty sleeves, the wrong perfume Subject(s): Literary Form LEOPARD IN EDEN, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Those two are gone who walked upright on two legs Last Line: But a base instinct to cheat and deceive Subject(s): Literary Form LIGHT READING, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spies whisper through my air condition units Last Line: So, ringed with ghouls and corpses, I am safe Subject(s): Literary Form; Spies LIGHT THEY MAKE': SONNET 2, by DEBRA BRUCE Poem Source First Line: Deep in her seventh month, my sister dozes Last Line: It blooms. My sister's son is born in june Subject(s): Literary Form LIGHT THEY MAKE': SONNET 4, by DEBRA BRUCE Poem Source First Line: Wet streets, black trees, a gold leaf smacked Last Line: Come one good gust, the light they make will shatter Subject(s): Literary Form LIMBO DANCER, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No limbo this week. Or next. Now it turns out Last Line: The guests say, see, alas, he does not move. %but gravity lies beneath the dust of his feet Subject(s): Literary Form LIMPING SONNET, by MILAN DEKLEVA Poem Source First Line: A cypress wanted to be a sonnet Last Line: Of heaven, to carry on with the making of poems Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) LIVING APART, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: I leave our house, our town, familiar fields Last Line: To watch the angels fall from fiery mountains Subject(s): Flight; Literary Form LOST WORLD, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN Poem Text First Line: Throughout the thicket there are half-seen ruts Last Line: God grant worn souls your rediscovering! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) LOVE FOR LOVE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing that the god on high Last Line: Love this loving spirit too? Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Love LOVE'S PATIENCE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I learn to lag behind my life's desire Last Line: For one brief hour to strain you to my heart! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) LOYALISTS, by MELVILLE KRESS Poem Text First Line: Out of the dismal unprogressive night Last Line: To strike you back the inquisition's way! Subject(s): Freedom; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Liberty LUCIA TRENT, by RAPHAELITA LOPEZ Poem Text First Line: You are a poet centuries to come Last Line: Your selfless life, your shared-with-many crumb! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) MCGONAGALL'S ODE TO THE KING, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! God, I thank thee for restoring king edward the seventh's health again Last Line: As emperor of india and king edward the vii.—amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Prayer MESSAGE OF AN ANCIENT POET, by LEONORA CLAWSON STRYKER Poem Text First Line: I watched men digging in egyptian sands Last Line: "my love, your face is like a lotus bud." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) METAPHOR OF GRASS IN CALIFORNIA, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seeds of certain grasses that once grew Last Line: As such men fall, these fell, but silently Subject(s): Literary Form; California; Grass METAPHOR OF GRASS IN CALIFORNIA, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seeds of certain grasses that once grew Last Line: As such men fall, these fell, but silently Subject(s): Literary Form METRICS, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: I like the clattering of hoof on street Last Line: But keep small laws Subject(s): Literary Form MOSAIC, by IDA M. FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: Since dreams must die, as fragile as the lace Last Line: That life's mosaic be my soul's reprieve. Subject(s): Life; Sonnet (as Literary Form) MOTHER & CHILD; AFTER CAREW, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the destination of the sunlight's particles? Last Line: Under your innocent lashes Subject(s): Babies; Literary Form; Mothers; Infants MOTHER WITH CHILD, by LENORE KEESHIG-TOBIAS Poem Source First Line: Oh mother, so many times Last Line: While combing my hair Subject(s): Literary Form MUDDY KID COMES HOME, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And mama complains Last Line: Remember her name Subject(s): Literary Form; Mothers; Forgetfulness MUDDY KID COMES HOME, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And mama complains Last Line: Remember her name Subject(s): Literary Form MY HANDS HAVE TOUCHED THE SKIES, by IDA ELAINE JAMES Poem Text First Line: Within this wood, grown crystal-white and clear Last Line: At one with peace man has not dared lay waste. Subject(s): Sky; Sonnet (as Literary Form) NAMING THE FABRICS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, unroll the bolts and name Subject(s): Literary Form NAMING THE FABRICS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, unroll the bolts and name Last Line: Jersey, chambray, satin, voile Subject(s): Literary Form NATIONAL HYMN; WRITTEN BY REQUEST TO MUSIC BY ROSSINI, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord most high Last Line: God save our queen! Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) NERVES: TERRORIST FOR LANGUAGE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nerves, blind / attraction to Subject(s): Language; Literary Form; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary NERVES: TERRORIST FOR LANGUAGE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nerves, blind %attraction to Last Line: Act like you're dead & %remember you're dead Subject(s): Language; Literary Form; Poetry And Poets NEW ORLEANS HARLOT, by FRANCES LYKSETT Poem Text First Line: Envy and avarice spoke from her greedy face Last Line: Of all her coquetries, and tawdry wiles. Subject(s): New Orleans; Prostitution; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Harlots; Whores; Brothels NEW YEAR HYMN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, blessed saviour Last Line: Crown our bright new-year! Subject(s): Holidays; Hymns (as Literary Form); New Year NIGHT BLOSSOMING, by JANICE BLANCHARD Poem Text First Line: A fragrance sweeter than a young man's dreams Last Line: Surpassing any known to brides of june. Subject(s): Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime NO NEED OF THINGS, by ALICE TROXWELL MCCOUN Poem Text First Line: Why cling to things? When everywhere a vast Last Line: That we may soar aloft, exalting him. Subject(s): Love; Materialism; Sonnet (as Literary Form) NOCTURNAL QUESTION, by GEORGE RICHARD KAYTON Poem Text First Line: Now breaks the moon through clouds of purple haze Last Line: Wracked as they are with want and social pain . . . Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime NOTE OF THANKS, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wallet stolen, so we must end our stay Last Line: I thought I ought to jot a note of thanks.' Subject(s): Literary Form NOTE TO THE OPTHALMOLOGIST, by DOLORES KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: The apparatus is right Last Line: Is the window of my soul Subject(s): Literary Form NOTES FROM A CHINESE LOVE MANUAL': THE WHITE TIGER LEAPS, by SARAH GORHAM Poem Source First Line: He jumps from behind, flying like a shard Last Line: Light. Quickly he devours it all Subject(s): Literary Form NOTHING TO PAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing to pay! Ah, nothing to pay! Last Line: "now I ask thee, lovest thou me?" Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) NUNC ET CAMPUS, ET AREAEUM ..., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By campus and by areae, my friends Last Line: What further use have all the odes that horace writ? Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 1., by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, your harridan nuns Last Line: Enthroned as a symbol with upturned palms Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Education; Literary Form; Schools NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 2., by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, my darling nuns Last Line: Who rustles drily inside my gown Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Education; Literary Form; Schools O WICKED TYRANT, SEND ME BACK MY HEART, by GASPARA STAMPA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All vigor and all strength, to shelter me Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) OATS FOR PEGASUS, by W. C. A. WALLAR Poem Text First Line: Why mute your music, critic-frightened soul? Last Line: On strength-of-heart and blood-of-life he soars. Subject(s): Mythical Animals; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Fictious Animals ODE, by LOUIS HENRI JEAN FARIGOULE Poem Text First Line: I go forth from my dwelling Last Line: I do not understand. Alternate Author Name(s): Romains, Jules Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form) ODE ON A PENIS, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: I can't write an ode Last Line: I've doubled mine Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form); Writing And Writers ODE TO HER BULLFINCH, by MARY HAYS Poem Text First Line: Little wanton flutt'rer, say Last Line: The pangs which do my bosom wound. Subject(s): Bullfinches; Odes (as Poetic Form) ODE TO PROFESSOR DIMITRY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the man! What matchless godlike grace Last Line: How glorious yet, thou mecca of the soul! Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form); Praise; Teaching & Teachers ODE TO THE GERMAN DRAMA, by S. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "daughter of night, chaotic queen!" Last Line: "established order spurn, and call each outcast friend" Alternate Author Name(s): S. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;odes (as Poetic Form) ODE, SUNG AT CAMBRIDGE, 1832, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath these shades, whose hallowed fame Last Line: And nations own a soul! Subject(s): Cambridge University; Odes (as Poetic Form) ODE: ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: An old thorn tree in a stony place Last Line: Of the sky his cold and passionate song. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Death; Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The ODE: THE MEDUSA FACE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When did I pass the pole where I deprived Last Line: Were the shape of her fall Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form) OLD WHARVES, by BURT FRANKLIN JENNESS Poem Text First Line: A certain sadness marks old wharves which sway Last Line: Cry out remonstrance to intrusion there. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON A HYMN-BOOK, by WILLIAM J. HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Old hymn-book, sure I thought I'd lost you Last Line: Mrs. Samuel jones. Subject(s): Courtship; Hymns (as Literary Form); Irony; Public Worship; Church Attendance ON A LINE FROM VALERY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole green sky is dying. The last tree flares Last Line: The gulf war Variant Title(s): Gulf War Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Literary Form; Valery, Paul (1871-1945); War; Women; Women's Rights; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Feminism ON A MAGAZINE SONNET, by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES Poem Text First Line: Scorn not the sonnet,' though its strength be sapped Last Line: Had otherwise been covered with a hundred. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON DOROTHEA LANGE'S PHOTOGRAPH 'MIGRANT MOTHER' (1936), by HELEN A. PINKERTON Poem Source First Line: Remembering your face, I see it here Last Line: Endured, keeping your small space fresh and kind Subject(s): Literary Form ON HIS 'SONNETS OF THE WINGLESS HOURS', by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrought them like a targe of hammered gold Last Line: Into the sun, and glitter through its dust. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Thought; Thinking ON LUST FOR GOLD, by AVERY L. GILES Poem Text First Line: Steam shovel, crane your neck and stuff your craw! Last Line: Then back they run for more, scorning rebirth. Subject(s): Gold; Lust; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON THE LOWER RHINE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By dusseldorf the singing rhine-stream bends Last Line: And passionately soughtest thy mother-sea! Subject(s): Dusseldorf, Germany; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Poetry & Poets; Rhine (river), Europe; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON THE SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If by dull rhymes our english must be chain'd Last Line: She will be bound with garlands of her own. Variant Title(s): Sonnet (on The Sonnet) Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON THE SONNETS OF MRS. CHARLOTTE SMITH, by JANE WEST Poem Text First Line: The widow'd turtle, mourning for her love Last Line: The theme prolonging through eternal years. Alternate Author Name(s): Iliffe, Jane Subject(s): Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806); Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON TRACK, by KATHLEENE K. WEST Poem Source First Line: Say happiness is possible, or more than possible Last Line: Gracing us briefly, you beautiful young men on the train Subject(s): Literary Form ON VERMEER'S YOUNG WOMAN WITH A WATER JUG IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM, by HELEN A. PINKERTON Poem Source First Line: Not martha nor diana - only a woman Last Line: Alone, as he is too, and also not alone.' Variant Title(s): On Vermeer's 'young Woman With A Water Jug' (1658) In The Metropolita Subject(s): Literary Form ON YOUR TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY, by JOAN AUSTIN GEIER Poem Source First Line: My son, you are a sweet bitter shadow Last Line: I blow the candles and rise to clear the dishes Subject(s): Literary Form ONCE WITH DEATH NEAR, by REBA MAXWELL AVERY Poem Text First Line: Once, with death near, I thought: what will it mean Last Line: Will live beyond the sleep that men call death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The ONLY ALICE, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Entered that brilliant intimate Subject(s): Literary Form ONLY ALICE, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Entered that brilliant intimate Last Line: That what you may not enter, you can shatter Subject(s): Literary Form ORDER FOR A SONG, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Out of the fullness of your warm heart Last Line: And softly melt into heaven's hymn. Subject(s): Hope; Hymns (as Literary Form); Melodies; Music & Musicians; Optimism OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 1, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: The starlight crowns thee when thou standest there Last Line: Tender thy smile and tender be thy heart. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 2, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Had I but known when first I saw thee there Last Line: Thou dark-eyed child unto a woman grown? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 3, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: What of the old love?' cries my heart to me Last Line: Found in love's bounty of the good and true? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) OUT OF WORK, OUT OF TOUCH, OUT OF SORTS, by CATHERINE DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Already past mid-june Last Line: The present's gift of giving Subject(s): Literary Form PAGEANT, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: The night is domed with diamonds. Moire Last Line: That healed the hearts of job and heloise. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Festivals; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Fairs; Pageants PEACE #3, by ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is this peace? Kayaking through Last Line: Of it, that ceases to desire what I do not possess Subject(s): Literary Form PERSEPHONE UNDERGROUND, by RITA DOVE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could touch your ankle, he whispers, there Variant Title(s): Hades' Pitch Subject(s): Literary Form; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina PERSEPHONE UNDERGROUND, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could touch your ankle, he whispers, there Last Line: While the great man drives home his desire Variant Title(s): Hades' Pitc Subject(s): Literary Form; Persephone PILGRIMAGE, by HARRIET MILLS MCKAY Poem Text First Line: On lost atlantis did you call my name Last Line: That we shall meet beyond eternity. Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form) PINES WITHOUT PEER, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the one wild sound Subject(s): Literary Form PINK DOG, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is blazing and the sky is blue Last Line: While you go begging, living by your wits Subject(s): Literary Form PLANTING ROSES, by PHILLIS LEVIN Poem Source First Line: Digging deep in the garden Last Line: O father, do not save me Subject(s): Literary Form POEM FOR THE CHILDREN, by CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW Poem Source First Line: Take your first steps in a walker Last Line: And I'll crown you like a king Subject(s): Literary Form POET PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF A SOUL FROM HIS LOVE FOR DELIA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some have denied a soul! They never loved Last Line: But sure with delia I exist a soul! Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Male-female Relations POET REFLECTS ON HER SOLITARY FATE, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lives alone now Last Line: She must write poems Subject(s): Literary Form POETA FUI, by JULIA BUDENZ Poem Source First Line: Kisses upon the doors! The houses fall Last Line: That gate? He leads us up this hill of yearning Subject(s): Literary Form POETRY, by PETER TUCCI Poem Text First Line: Poetry, said the sage of long ago Last Line: That rises from the heart and must be heard. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) POLITICAL, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man spent seven years in hell's circles Last Line: Of its own accord, is mistaken for song Subject(s): Literary Form POLITICAL, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man spent seven years in hell's circles Last Line: Of its own accord, is mistaken for song Subject(s): Literary Form POSTMORTEM, by CLARE ROSSINI Poem Source First Line: Having stood at the edge of a hole dug Last Line: And on fake metal, the thud of living rose Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Prayer; Waxworks PRAYER BEFORE CHURCH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I am in thy house of prayer Last Line: And teach me thee to love and fear. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) PRIMITIVE PLACE, by MILDRED WESTON Poem Source First Line: Somewhere under sand Last Line: In rock and waste and salt Subject(s): Literary Form PRINCESS PARADE, by SARAH GORHAM Poem Source First Line: Tea for the emperor arrives on a tray Last Line: Her face a frieze of falling snow Subject(s): Literary Form PRO FEMINA: THREE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will speak about women of letters, for I'm in the racket Last Line: And the luck of our husbands and lovers, who keep free women. Subject(s): Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Progress; Women; Women Writers; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations; Feminism PRO FEMINA: TWO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take as my theme 'the independent women' Last Line: Springing, full-grown, from your own head, athena? Subject(s): Independence; Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism PULLMAN PORTRAITS, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the green plush lane, at the forward end of the car Last Line: "are we late? How late? Do you think we can make it up?" Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) QUATRAINS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The message / the north wind came and to the maples said Last Line: "but risen!"" and let the rose-mouths lisp of spring!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Literary Form; Nature QUESTING, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER Poem Text First Line: I live again that night when from our hill Last Line: We had been born to love on such a night! Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) QUESTING, by SARAH DELLA ULMER Poem Text First Line: The desert shares its loneliness with stars Last Line: In mystery -- slip noiselessly away. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sonnet (as Literary Form) QUINTESSENCE OF ALL THE DACTYLICS, by WILLIAM GIFFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Wearisome sonneteer, feeble and querulous Last Line: "dactylics, call;st thou 'em? -- ""god help thee, silly one!" Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Southey, Robert (1774-1843) RAIMENT WE PUT ON, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember? We were in a room Last Line: What has been raveled and what has been rent Subject(s): Literary Form READING BEFORE WE READ, HOROSCOPE AND WEATHER, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father laughing over the morning paper Subject(s): Literary Form READING BEFORE WE READ, HOROSCOPE AND WEATHER, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father laughing over the morning paper Last Line: But as the weather comes, fresh and ignorant of change Subject(s): Literary Form READING, DREAMING, HIDING, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were reading. I was dreaming Subject(s): Books; Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Milosz, Czeslaw (1911-2004)); Religion; Women's Rights; Reading; Male-female Relations; Theology; Feminism READING, DREAMING, HIDING, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were reading. I was dreaming Last Line: The color blue was full of darkness, dreaming %in the wind and trees. I was reading you Subject(s): Books; Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Milosz, Czeslaw (b. 1911); Religion; Women's Rights REBIRTH OF VENUS, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's knelt to fish her face up from the sidewalk Last Line: Envisioning faces where the streets have parted Subject(s): Cities; Literary Form RED HYMNAL, by JOSHUA KRYAH Poem Source First Line: What breaks so fervently loose Last Line: Announcing the horn in your side Subject(s): Churches; Hymns (as Literary Form); Prayer; Saints; Singing And Singers REINCARNATION, by JOSEPHINE HERMANSON Poem Text First Line: Within the room where death has taken toll Last Line: Of death. Triumphant life takes hold anew. Subject(s): Reincarnation; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Transmigration; Pretas REMEMBERED LOVE, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: Within the flitting song-life of a leaf Last Line: O love that bubbled like a rain-kissed rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest Variant Title(s): Coy Mistres Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights RETICENT SONNET, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A pronoun is a kind of withdrawal from sonnet (as literary Last Line: Brushing, brushing, brushing wild grapes onto truth Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Language RETURN, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I open my legs to let you seek Last Line: Of the cave must tell you, 'yes, you can go back.' Subject(s): Literary Form RINGING WORDS, by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have closed the prison where they had you teach Last Line: Feeding its stripes into the sea Subject(s): Literary Form RIVERS HAVE TURNED TO GLASS, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rivers have turned to glass, and brooks, because Last Line: Weeping, I cannot obtain a single drop Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) ROCKIN' A MAN, STONE BLIND, by CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW Poem Source First Line: Cake in the oven, clothes out on the line Last Line: Two-eyed woman rockin' a man stone blind Subject(s): Literary Form ROMAE, PRINCIPIS URBIUM ..., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is one ode, and much the best of two Last Line: The nicer taste of liquid verse, who not. Subject(s): Children; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets; Childhood RONDEAU, by CHERYL CLARKE Poem Source First Line: They are bodies left unburied Last Line: But they are bodies Subject(s): Literary Form SABINE STORY, by A. HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Morning unwound the sunlight's saffron spool Last Line: They struggled in a union wild and sweet. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SAME OLD SONNET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I would a moment of my time engage Last Line: That one can't fathom it with fourteen lines. Subject(s): Beauty; Creative Ability; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations SAPPHICS FOR PATIENCE, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But there - something rests on your hand and even Last Line: Only for patience Subject(s): Literary Form SAPPHICS FOR PATIENCE, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But there - something rests on your hand and even Last Line: Something like patience Subject(s): Literary Form SCORN NOW THE SONNET, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Scorn now the sonnet -- that enchanted reed Last Line: The ringing splendor of the sonneteer? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SCRIBES, by SUZANNE NOGUERE Poem Source First Line: Thescribespackedcapitalsacrossthepage Last Line: The end, the poem itself comes to a clearing Subject(s): Literary Form SECOND ODE TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest be thy song, sweet nightingale Last Line: Shall mock despair, and blunt the shaft of pain. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Odes (as Poetic Form) SECRET, by SUZANNE NOGUERE Poem Source First Line: Nathaniel, born hathorne, you who set Last Line: Take to yourself that last emphatic e Subject(s): Literary Form SHAKESPEARE'S FLOWER GARDEN, by JANE RAWLINS SHEEAN Poem Text First Line: The flowers that grew in shakespeare's garden lift Last Line: That live within his tender magic song! Subject(s): Dramatists; Gardens & Gardening; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Sonnet (as Literary Form) SILVER WINGS, by PHYLLIS A. LORING Poem Text First Line: O swift and graceful wings that boldly fly Last Line: Will raise courageous wings and fly today. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Wings SINGLE SONNET, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, you get great stanza, you heroic mould Last Line: To prove how stronger you are than my strength Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SINGLE SONNET, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, you get great stanza, you heroic mould Last Line: To prove how stronger you are than my strength Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SISTERS, by MELISSA CANNON Poem Source First Line: Hot anger stirs the soup; grief moves the dust Last Line: The woodwork glosses like a tear-washed eye Subject(s): Literary Form SIXTH SYMPHONY, by LIDA MARIE ERWIN Poem Text First Line: Till now I've spent my days exploring books Last Line: Into the night, breathed deeply of the air. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Symphonies; Concerts SMALL JOYS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What memory ;keeps fresh, frames unspoken Last Line: I give you these for love - and for hope's sake Subject(s): Literary Form SOCIAL JUSTICE, by ERNEST BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: There is a voice within each citizen Last Line: A world with more of love and less of gold. Subject(s): Justice; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SOLO: THE GOOD BLUES, by DOLORES KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Long way from the whorehouse Last Line: And give her to the world Subject(s): Literary Form SOMA, by SUZANNE NOGUERE Poem Source First Line: This body deemed machine - not daemon flesh Last Line: It will not witness halley's comet twice Subject(s): Literary Form SOME GIRLS, by SUZANNE J. DOYLE Poem Source First Line: The risk is moral death each time we act Last Line: Our epic violence in bleak bars, in bed, in art Subject(s): Literary Form SONG NO. 2, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say. All you young girls waiting to live Subject(s): Literary Form SONG NO. 2, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say. All you young girls waiting to live Last Line: I say. Step back world. Can't let it go unsaid Subject(s): Literary Form SONG NO. 3, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cain't nobody tell me any different Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Literary Form; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SONG NO. 3, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cain't nobody tell me any different Last Line: Looka here, a pretty little black girl lookin' just like me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Literary Form; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SONG POWER, by JACK GREENBERG Poem Text First Line: Come, join us comrades, let us sing tonight Last Line: So let us sing that night and storm may fail. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Songs SONNET, by WELLINGTON BREZEE Poem Text First Line: I plucked thee in life's morning, ribboned Last Line: Then shall my own keep endless tryst with me. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: A month - the first from many - now hath past Last Line: We sink indeed and never rise again. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Death; Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The SONNET, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now with the black grape's blood the barrels flow Last Line: Above the drowsy avenues and drear. Subject(s): Flowers; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, all the dust has turned to flower Last Line: That eros fondles with a breath like fire. Subject(s): Flowers; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh friend, whose genial spirit, by the gift Last Line: The steadfast lustre of a sober joy. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The dream: to have %more time Last Line: Pulls back, shades his eyes Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Poetry And Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When she walks by here Last Line: The stones themselves are burning in my shadow Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I have seen again the marvellous child - it seemed Subject(s): Prayer; Sin; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET (SUGGESTED BY THE 'PHOEBUS WITH ADMETUS' BY GEORGE MEREDITH), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After apollo left admetus' gate Last Line: Had quickened their dead world? And, ah, his lute... Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET 2: 'LOVE LETTERS TO HER WHO LIVES (ALAS!) AWAY), by NELL ALTIZER Poem Source First Line: My own heart let me have. More pity on Last Line: The residence of mr. And mrs. Forever Subject(s): Literary Form SONNET 5: 'LOVE LETTERS TO HER WHO LIVES (ALAS!) AWAY), by NELL ALTIZER Poem Source First Line: No, I'll not, carrion, comfort you. Comfort Last Line: Show you factories, milltowns, whorehouses, when you're older Subject(s): Literary Form SONNET DEDICATORY, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like royal galleys be my verse here written Last Line: It bears thy dear name on, o royal-hearted! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNET FOR MINIMALISTS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a new peony Last Line: But it could be worse Subject(s): Literary Form SONNET FOR MINIMALISTS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a new peony Last Line: The world's perverse, %but it could be worse Subject(s): Literary Form SONNET FOR NEWSPAPERMEN, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: These lies are not my life, which is ill-met Last Line: Few men have suffered thus, or died just so. Subject(s): Newspapers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Journalism; Journalists SONNET HE WILL PRAISE HIS LADY, by GUIDO GUINIZELLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, let me praise my lady whom I love Last Line: No man could think base thoughts who looked on her Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET I AM IN LOVE, BUT AM NOT SO IN LOVE, by CECCO ANGIOLIERI Poem Source Last Line: And blights the heart, and twists the face in shame Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET ISOLATE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A sonnet is a rectangle upon the page Last Line: While using only two pronouns, “I” and “not-I Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Language SONNET OF ALL HE WOULD DO, by CECCO ANGIOLIERI Poem Source First Line: If I were fire, I'd burn the world away Last Line: And other folk should get the ugly ones Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET OF HIS LADY'S FACE, by JACOPO DA LENTINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her face has made my life most proud and glad Last Line: So that I count me blest a certain while Alternate Author Name(s): Notary Of Lentino; Jacopo Da Lentini Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET OF WHY HE IS UNHANGED, by CECCO ANGIOLIERI Poem Source First Line: Whoever without money is in love Last Line: Meanwhile god keeps him whole and me I' the ditch Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET OF WHY HE WOULD BE A SCULLION, by CECCO ANGIOLIERI Poem Source First Line: I am so out of love through poverty Last Line: It were a thing to which one might aspire Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET REVERSED, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lights Last Line: And henry, a stock-broker, doing well. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET RIGHT OFF THE BAT, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Write me a sonnet on the spot,' said she Last Line: Here's fourteen. Care to count them? And that's that Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET SEQUENCE: FOR CHARMION, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so again an evil darkness falls Last Line: Blind milton waited for another age. Subject(s): Evil; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET SEQUENCE: FOR GESSNER, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether, like shelley, he is glorious youth Last Line: Speaks truth until his hair grows winter-white. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET SEQUENCE: FOR GRETA, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our age has caesars, though they wear silk hats Last Line: Differ only in name and class and year. Subject(s): Leadership; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET TO A PAINTER ATTEMPTING DELIA'S PORTRAIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rash painter! Canst thou give the orb of day Last Line: Fairer than venus, daughter of the sea. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2 Subject(s): Beauty; Disdain; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Women; Scorn SONNET TO ARISTE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ariste! Soon to sojourn with the crowd Last Line: Who only names to praise, who only speaks to please. Subject(s): Comfort; Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Parting; Male-female Relations SONNET TO ARISTE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be his to court the muse, whose humble breast Last Line: The warbling lute to sound the soul of love? Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Muses; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul SONNET TO ARISTE: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let ancient stories sound the painter's art Last Line: The charms that blossom on ariste's cheek! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Inspiration; Creativity SONNET TO ARISTE: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I praise thee not, ariste, that thine eye Last Line: The fading orbit smiles serenely bright. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Praise; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Inspiration; Creativity SONNET TO DUNNINGTON CASTLE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ruin'd relique of the ancient pile Last Line: As fancy paints the pomp that once adorn'd thy wall. Subject(s): Bards; Castles; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Honor; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET TO DUNNINGTON CASTLE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As slow and solemn yonder deepening knell Last Line: Heeds how the faithless bauble melts away. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Mortality; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Youth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed SONNET TO MARC IN MODERN SPAIN, by LORA BETH PENNINGTON Poem Text First Line: Relate to me the tale of more than war Last Line: Of soul-hewn ships, expanding, take to sea. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Spain SONNET TO MONADNOCK, by ELEANOR BECKMAN MARTIN Poem Text First Line: O sentinel of peterboro hills Last Line: Sweetened by the seasoning of years. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET TO MUSIC, by CHARLES B. NOBLE Poem Text First Line: Fatigued, on palsied hands we drop our head Last Line: What should we have were music left behind? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET TO REFLECTION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, busy torturer, wherefore should mine eye Last Line: In darkness glimmering to disclose a tomb. Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Regret; Self-pity; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism SONNET TO THE FIRE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friendly fire, thou blazest clear and bright Last Line: And o'er my ashes muse, as I will muse o'er thine. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Fire; Legacies; Muses; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity SONNET TO WINTER, by STELLA MUSE WHITEHEAD Poem Text First Line: For every sorrow, every faded thing Last Line: I scent the honeysuckle in the lane. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Winter SONNET: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, valentine, and tell that lovely maid Last Line: And heave the sigh of memory and of love. Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Longing; Love; Memory; Messengers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns Last Line: Sigh for the crimes and miseries of mankind! Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONNET: 11. OUTWARD BOUND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stately yon vessel sails adown the tide Last Line: Go gallant ship, and be thy fortune fair! Subject(s): Blessings; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 12. THE SPEEDY FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beware a speedy friend, the arabian said Last Line: Is swept, still lingering on the boughs the last. Subject(s): Advice; Arabs; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 126, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To that fair kingdom, o my gentle lord Last Line: Her who first kindled love within my heart Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 13, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee Last Line: Or taste the old october brown and bright. Variant Title(s): Winter Subject(s): Christmas; Old Age; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Winter; Nativity, The SONNET: 18, by GUIDO CAVALCANTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty of ladies of compassionate heart Last Line: To such a one good luck will never tarry Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Scottish Translations; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 2, by MATTEO MARIA BOIARDO Poem Source First Line: Poor drooping flowers and pallid violets Last Line: The loss that leads you with us to our end Alternate Author Name(s): Scandiano, Count Of Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think, valentine, as speeding on thy way Last Line: Who loathes the lingering road, yet has no home of rest! Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Love; Memory; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips SONNET: 29, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair picture of my life's estate Last Line: To wreck, — and then rebuild it, stone by stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Labor & Laborers; Loss; Memory; Solitude; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Work; Workers; Loneliness SONNET: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to thee, bedford! Mournful is the tale Last Line: With rarely-sprinkled leaves, casting a trembling shade. Subject(s): Aging; Blessings; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 30, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You mean, my friend, you do not greatly care Last Line: Of days when I shall please your taste, my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Change; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 37, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through vales of thrace, peneus' stream is flowing Last Line: Stars, dawn, shall find us here together lying. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Knowledge; Mythology - Classical; Night; Silence; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime SONNET: 4, by GUIDO CAVALCANTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I should pray this lady pitiless Last Line: Hither to keep death-watch upon that heart Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though no sculptured monument proclaim Last Line: Sad sounding as the cold breeze rustles by. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Graves; Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the road, where on that little mound Last Line: Whilst the proud levite scowls and passes by. Subject(s): Children; Death; Graves; Pain; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails SONNET: 6. TO A BROOK NEAR THE VILLAGE OF CORSTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream Last Line: As thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze. Subject(s): Aging; Brooks; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Time; Streams; Creeks SONNET: 7. TO THE EVENING RAINBOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mild arch of promise! On the evening sky Last Line: Anticipates the realm where sorrows cease. Subject(s): Hope; Rainbows; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism SONNET: 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With many a weary step, at length I gain Last Line: And pleasant is the way that lies before. Subject(s): Climbing; Home; Life; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Weariness; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips; Fatigue SONNET: 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is the rising morn when o'er the sky Last Line: Pour out the feelings of my burthened heart. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dawn; Happiness; Morning; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Sunrise; Joy; Delight SONNET: OF THE MAKING OF MASTER MESSERIN, by RUSTICO DI FILIPPO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When god had finished master messerin Last Line: He cannot make, if that's a thing he can. Alternate Author Name(s): Rustico Barbato Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By a clear well, within a little field Last Line: "a girl would be a fool to run away." Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS FOR ELLEN, by DALE ETTER Poem Text First Line: Forgotten in a sleepy western town Last Line: For ellen has no part in sorrowing. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM: 1. DELIA AT PLAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She held a cup and ball of ivory white Last Line: Who on that dart impales my bosom's gem? Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Play; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women; Male-female Relations SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 18. A PORTRAIT, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Full of child-thoughts, and glad at simple things Last Line: Light that transfigures many a mortal hour. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 32. 'LO! ONE CALLS', by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Oh, though the wife be close by day, by night Last Line: "passion's sweet god be with them both!"" I say." Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: BOSTON, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady somewhat dowdy as to dress Last Line: Glows sweetly through her often raised lorgnette. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: NEW ORLEANS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, languorous, with heavy lidded eyes Last Line: Her brain is building towers, ports and ships! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: APRIL, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: I give you meadow-lands in april, fair Last Line: The babylonian kaiser, prester john Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): April; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: DECEMBER, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: Last, for december, houses on the plain Last Line: Misers; don't let them have a chance with you Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): December; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: JANUARY, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: For january I give you vests of skins Last Line: And the free fellowship continue so Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): January; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: OCTOBER, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: Next, for october, to some sheltered coign Last Line: Inheriting the cream of christian life Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): October; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SOUND WAVES: 1. (AT FOURTEEN WEEKS), by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the first negative, a shape presages Last Line: Tethered to darkness by one spectral knee, %rib and feature faint in quality Subject(s): Literary Form SOUND WAVES: 2. (AT SIXTEEN WEEKS), by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fortnight later, hurtling through its stages Last Line: Creature has spied our mediocrity, %rib and feature white with gravity Subject(s): Literary Form SOUND WAVES: 3. (AT TWENTY-ONE WEEKS), by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeming to speak, a fresh image assuages Last Line: Yet close to home, just as her self would be, %and ribbed and featured with humanity Subject(s): Literary Form SOUND WAVES: ENVOI, by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A second view looks from the fontanelle Last Line: And ribbed and featured with humanity Subject(s): Literary Form SOUVENANCE DE LIEGE (NOVEMBER), by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey city by the silver meuse, I fling Last Line: Of blue-and-grey behind her upturned head. Subject(s): Liege, Belgium; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SPECKLED HEN'S MORNING SONG TO BIDDY EARLY, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let the speckled hens praise her Last Line: For whom the gold loaf in the sky rises Subject(s): Literary Form SPELL, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The job in certain lives has been to find a Last Line: Not to destroy it, but to make it haz Subject(s): Literary Form SPESSE FIATE VEGNONMI A LA MENTE, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Comes often to my memory Last Line: That from the bloodstream drives my soul Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) STARKEST TRAGEDY, by VAN CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: A boy seems idle while at childish play Last Line: If men are prone to lose the boyhood call. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood STATE OF PRESERVATION, by CELESTE TURNER WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: When cromwell 'slighted' kenilworth Last Line: The silken skeins that mary wound Subject(s): Literary Form STORYLINES: SYNCHRONICITY, by LEONARD KRESS Poem Source First Line: Tell me, please, if you believe in synchronicity Last Line: The words mostly smeared: gods float in the azure air Subject(s): Literary Form; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) SUN AND MOON, by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Complements. Like figures in statuary Last Line: Crank about the sky manifesting signs of %knowledge and justice Subject(s): Literary Form SUNDAY MATINEE, by SYBIL KOLLAR Poem Source First Line: At the movies I always love the look Last Line: We exchange seats while outlaws camp in the wild Subject(s): Literary Form SUNSHINE IN THE CUP, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER Poem Text First Line: She poured a cup of tea I still can hold Last Line: And lure the birds to venture down and sup! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Tea SWEEPING, by LESLIE MONSOUR Poem Source First Line: I whisk the litter from my mother's tomb Last Line: I hear the bristles breathing when I sweep Subject(s): Literary Form TENET, by GORDON LECLAIRE Poem Text First Line: We know not whence we come nor where we wend Last Line: To fugue of faith transpose the mourners' dirge! Subject(s): Death; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The THE BALLAD OF AUNT GENEVA, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Geneva was the wild one Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Racism; Relatives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE BIRTHDAY ODE, 1743, SELECTION, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of fields, of forts, and floods, unknown to fame Last Line: Sing, britons, tho' uncouth the sound. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE BUD, by A. HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Out from the sodden, soft, and springtime mud Last Line: Of love come up and fumble in your throat? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE COVENANTERS' NIGHT-HYMN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Plaided watcher of the hill Last Line: To an eternal calm with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) THE CRYSTAL CUP, by MARY ELIZABETH PEARCE Poem Text First Line: I had a crystal cup both old and rare Last Line: An earthen cup will serve, though once it mattered. Subject(s): Cups; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE FERRIS WHEEL, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rounding steeps and jostles were one thing Subject(s): Literary Form THE GLEANERS, by GERTRUDE HAHN Poem Text First Line: They come at nightfall with a furtive air Last Line: But stoop and pick, and stoop and pick again. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE HOUR BEFORE THE HURRICANE, by EDNA WORTHLEY UNDERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Sad, shaken, this - the field of proserpine Last Line: And storm -- and night -- blot out the carib sea. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE HOUSE BESIDE THE SEA, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a fine white shirt I put it on Subject(s): Literary Form THE HOUSE BESIDE THE STREAM, by LAUREL LAUER Poem Text First Line: Reserved, it stands beside the quiet stream Last Line: As though to linger...Loath to go away. Subject(s): Houses; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE HOUSE OF LIFE: THE SONNET (INTRODUCTION), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sonnet is a moment's monument Last Line: In charon's palm it pay the toll to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE INCURABLES, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long up and down I paced the house of pain Last Line: Where young and old and fair and foul are one. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE LIMBO DANCER, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No limbo this week. Or next. Now it turns out Subject(s): Literary Form THE LITERAL = THE ABSTRACT: A DEMONSTRATION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After all those swerving arcs in air Last Line: Of what is absolutely there. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Hunting; Literary Form; Wings; Hunters THE MARINER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god! Have mercy in this dreadful hour Last Line: O god! Have mercy on the mariner! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 14. During A Tempest Subject(s): God; Mercy; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Ocean THE MOURNING-GARMENT: PHILADOR'S ODE, HE LEFT WITH DESPAIRING LOVER, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When merry autumn in her prime Last Line: And counted love but venus' mocks. Subject(s): Despair; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Odes (as Poetic Form) THE ORPHARION: CUPID'S INGRATITUDE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid abroad was 'lated in the night Last Line: That sore I griev'd I welcom'd such a guest. Variant Title(s): A Night Visitor;love's Treachery Subject(s): Cupid; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Eros THE POET, by HENRY JAMES (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: When whistling winds sweep down the village street Last Line: As long as he pursues the leaves as moo cows. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE POET, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: He is all utterance. His every vein Last Line: The passionate embodiment of the word. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE POET REFLECTS ON HER SOLITARY FATE, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lives alone now Last Line: She must write poems Subject(s): Literary Form; Solitude; Poetry & Poets THE POET'S ESTATE, by ANNIE C. BURTON Poem Text First Line: The poet roams at will where heartsease grows Last Line: On them has been bestowed apollo's kiss. Subject(s): Houses; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE POETASTER ACCEPTS HIS VOCATION, by EDMUND KELLY JANES Poem Text First Line: If I must turn my insides all clean out Last Line: What moron worries whether words have meaning? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE ROADS OF MEN, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Text First Line: The roads that men have made wind everywhere Last Line: A shining lane to join all souls to god! Subject(s): Men; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Paths; Trails THE SHIP, by LAURENCE B. RIDGELY Poem Text First Line: Strong beams, wrought out from mighty trees laid low Last Line: Speed, speed away with joy, across the plain. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SOBBING WOMAN, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a woman sobbing in the night Last Line: That spins unseen her endless umber skein. Variant Title(s): And Women Must Weep' Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by CLIFFORD ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Love for love's sake, like art for art's, belies Last Line: Love wishes well, or it is no such thing. Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by ALICE MARY DOWD Poem Text First Line: A sonnet is a cameo, outwrought Last Line: And love gives life in beauty, to abide. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by LAVINIA MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: A sonnet is too crystal-clear and deep Last Line: Then reach its goal, like life, in strong declinal. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As some old, rare and mellowed instrument Last Line: I summon back the great to earth again. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the sonnet's glittering limit lies Last Line: A master's voice may shake the firmament! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sonnet is a fruit which long hath slept Last Line: In low melodious music of still hours. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pure form, that like some chalice of old Last Line: To pour them in a consecrated cup. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned Last Line: Soul-animating strains, -- alas! Too few. Variant Title(s): "scorn Not The Sonnet; Critic, You Have Frowned""; Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET LIVES, by DUKE COLE MEREDITH Poem Text First Line: It lives - the magic lamp some genius wrought Last Line: To find one molded with less artifice. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET'S VOICE (A METRICAL LESSON BY THE SEASHORE), by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yon silvery billows breaking on the beach Last Line: Back to the deeps of life's tumultuous sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Variant Title(s): Sonnet On The Sonnet Subject(s): Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Ocean THE SPELL, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The job in certain lives has been to find a Last Line: Not to destroy it, but make it haz Subject(s): Literary Form; Jobs THE SWEEPERS, by ADA GIDDINGS Poem Text First Line: The jaquaranda blued the walk and lawn Last Line: Before you blame another, try his yoke! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Labor & Laborers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Work; Workers THE VISION TEST, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My driver's license is lapsing and so I appear Last Line: For normal people who know where they want to go Subject(s): Literary Form; Examinations; Vision; Driving & Drivers THIS SHADE, by SUZANNE J. DOYLE Poem Source First Line: This is my mother's childhood home, my own Last Line: The skins will settle, sweeter for the dark Subject(s): Literary Form THOSE PAPERWEIGHTS WITH SNOW INSIDE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dad pushed my mother down the cellar stairs Last Line: The house I became as the glass ball stormed Subject(s): Literary Form THOUGHTS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou, the sun of righteousness Last Line: Oh, hear me in thy mercy great! Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) THY FATHER WAITS FOR THEE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wanderer from thy father's home Last Line: O wandering child, no longer roam! Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) TILL DAWN, by ANNIE C. SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: I walked through a waste with a deep pervading drear Last Line: And sweep of light with thrilling hope and day. Subject(s): Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips TIME AND MUSIC, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time, that gives to music life Last Line: Both snare and breath and motion is Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Literary Form TO A FAMOUS POET, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Text First Line: Why so defiant, gifted one, of death? Last Line: Than the warm hearthside, and the open door? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO A PAINTER IN THE DAYS OF SUNG, by ENID D. JONES Poem Text First Line: Across a thousand years you mutely gaze Last Line: Pure golden are the bells her temples ring! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO A RANGE HORSE, by PATRICE CLOUGH Poem Text First Line: They viewed the long parade of yesteryear Last Line: With me beside you through eternity. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO A RED-HEADED DO-GOOD WAITRESS, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning I went to her charity and learned Last Line: A policeman and a wrong sonnet in fifteen lines Subject(s): Restaurants; Sonnets (as Literary Form); Cafes; Diners TO A YOUNG GIRL WEEPING, by MURIEL DOE THURNEYSEN Poem Text First Line: Indeed there are not few of us who know Last Line: Hold healing for such bitterness of heart. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO BE SUNG ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We come to this country %by every roundabout Last Line: Because well-being needs a grief %to make the feeling last Subject(s): Literary Form; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TO BUCK, by VERA C. STALLKNECHT Poem Text First Line: Come, lay your velvet head across my knee Last Line: Our god will not resent your presence there. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO CHARLEY, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou the poet-gift? Thou hast Last Line: A sheridan—without his shames! Subject(s): Brothers; Canada; Epigram (as Literary Form); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Half-brothers; Canadians TO EDWIN MARKHAM, by RUTH LE PRADE Poem Text First Line: They would not let him pass, the gods of wrong Last Line: He goes the road where all life's martyrs glow! Subject(s): Markham, Edwin (1852-1940); Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ON HER LATER SONNETS, 1856, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know not if the cycle of strange years Last Line: That we without may say -- 'bless god -- and her!' Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO MEN ABOUT TO WAR (SYNCHRONIZED SONNET, INVENTED BY THE AUTHOR), by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: So dull at making heavens, smart at hells! Last Line: Which shall be burned away by common joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO R. H, by ELLA LEORA HOLDEMAN Poem Text First Line: With questing heart to drive my fainting soul Last Line: That you, its bread and wine, have never come. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TORTOISE AND BADGER, by CHERYL CLARKE Poem Source First Line: I'll still follow you, primordial Last Line: I'll still scurry right behind and bite your tail Subject(s): Literary Form TORTURED, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Cried innocence, 'mother, my thumbs, my thumbs Last Line: How you must live Subject(s): Literary Form TRANSFIGURATION, by MARGIE B. BOSWELL Poem Text First Line: The faint magenta flush of dawn had turned Last Line: Of silhouettes had never paused in flight. Subject(s): Dawn; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sunrise TRAVEL: AFTER A DEATH, by JANE KENYON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We drove past farms, the hills terraced with sheep Subject(s): Death; Literary Form; Dead, The TRAVEL: AFTER A DEATH, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We drove past farms, the hills terraced with sheep Last Line: Oh, when am I going to own my mind again Subject(s): Death; Literary Form TRIUMPHANT LIFE AGAIN, by CARMEN NELSON RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: Last week I sat in thoughtful mood, alone Last Line: And gay life reigns where late death's ruin lay. Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Joy; Delight TWO COUPLES, by DEBRA BRUCE Poem Source First Line: The mother throws her voice in loops Last Line: The other couple upside-down Subject(s): Literary Form UNTOUCHED AND UNDEFILED, by L. KATHLEEN KITTERMAN Poem Text First Line: I have not let the flight of days erase Last Line: The melody we wove in happier days. Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) UPON LOOKING INTO MY MIRROR, by MIRIAM S. LEWIS Poem Text First Line: The writing of fourteen-line sonnets Last Line: Too few are for half-quatrain! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Writing & Writers UPON SEEING NOTES MADE BY A POET, by MILDRED W. CLARK Poem Text First Line: I feel the gentle dimness of a light Last Line: And show them, stumbling, how to lift, to lift! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) VESPERS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I leave the city behind me Last Line: And the thrushes sing their hymn. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Cathedrals; Theology VICTORIA'S SECRET, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Victorian mothers instructed their daughters, ahem Subject(s): Literary Form VICTORIA'S SECRET, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Victorian mothers instructed their daughters, ahem Last Line: Even the hats that wait in the dark to be chosen Subject(s): Literary Form VILLANELLE VI, by JUDITH BARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: When I stand on the shore, I wonder where you are Last Line: And the waves like doors slowly swing ajar Subject(s): Literary Form VILLANELLE; TO MR. JOSEPH BOULMIER, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Villanelle, why art thou mute? Last Line: Hath the master lost his lute? Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Spring; Villanelle (as Poetic Form); Songs VISION TEST, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My driver's license is lapsing and so I appear Last Line: For normal people who know where they want to go Subject(s): Literary Form VOWEL SONNET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black, e white, I red, u green, o blue Last Line: O omega, violet ray of her eyes. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Vowels WALKING TO MY OFFICE ON EASTER SUNDAY MORNING, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: I move through the quiet morning, watching a cluster of blackbirds arc Last Line: Much work to be done Subject(s): Churches; Easter; Holidays; Hymns (as Literary Form) WAS THAT REALLY A SONNET?, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Human being' / has government Last Line: Compared to natural flutter Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) WE ARE THE WRITING ON THE WALL, by DOLORES KENDRICK Poem Source Last Line: The hieroglyphic home Subject(s): Literary Form WEDDING SONG, by PATRICIA STORACE Poem Source First Line: Earth in her mercy permits us to repeat Last Line: That human constellation, man and wife Subject(s): Literary Form WEIGHING ANCHOR, by MABEL F. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Reality, unloose that steady grip Last Line: Break round her bows, and it is time for going. Subject(s): Anchors; Sonnet (as Literary Form) WELCOME TO HIROSHIMA, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is what you first see, stepping off the train Last Line: Worked its filthy way out like a tongue. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Hiroshima, Japan; Literary Form; World War Ii; Nuclear Freeze; Second World War WHAT DO WOMEN WANT?, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look! It's a wedding!' at the ice cream shop's Last Line: She'd want, if we were given what we want Subject(s): Literary Form WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND OR THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING, by CHERYL CLARKE Poem Source First Line: A woman in my shower crying Last Line: Afraid of the void I filled with lying Subject(s): Literary Form WHAT THE SONNET IS, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fourteen small broidered berries on the hem Last Line: For his own soul, to wear for evermore. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) WHAT WILL YOU DO WITHOUT HIM, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could not do without him Last Line: And he wants -- even you. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form) WHEEL, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because of your nose, like a leaf blade Last Line: As the frozen wheel of fortune thaws Subject(s): Literary Form WHEN EVENING FLOWS, by IDA LITTLE HALE Poem Text First Line: The slowly pacing hours have reached once more Last Line: The long cool evening flows like healing balm. Subject(s): Evening; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sunset; Twilight WHEN FREEDOM FAILS, by NINA WILLIS WALTER Poem Text First Line: The wild wind raging in the pepper trees Last Line: And dies a thousand deaths when freedom fails. Subject(s): Freedom; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Liberty WHEN I WAS A REFUGEE, by BEATRICE JEAN K. BOROFF Poem Text First Line: She clasped my hand, this good samaritan Last Line: My strength is god. He is my staff, my power. Subject(s): Kindness; Refugees; Sonnet (as Literary Form) WHIRLING ROUND THE SUN, by SUZANNE NOGUERE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes it seems almost beyond belief Last Line: Of amber; and the effort is not mine Subject(s): Literary Form WHO I THINK YOU ARE, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Empty out your pockets nighttime, daddy Last Line: Cigar bands and glinting, dimestore lockets Subject(s): Literary Form WHY ARE WE HERE, by CAROLINE PARKER SMITH Poem Text First Line: Why are we here? None has come back to say Last Line: Why are we here? That souls bear fruit each spring. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) WILD GEESE WENT BY, by FRANCES STOCKWELL LOVELL Poem Text First Line: O you who leave all lands now grown forlorn Last Line: But march from silver waters to joys past compare! Subject(s): Geese; Sonnet (as Literary Form) WINGED WORDS, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to speak means flailing with Subject(s): Literary Form WINGED WORDS, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to speak means flailing with Last Line: Our words are bodies. We write on air Subject(s): Literary Form WINGS, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: In a highly classified report smuggled Last Line: Too silly or senseless to know not to die Subject(s): Literary Form WITH DEEP REPENTANCE FOR MY WASTED DAYS, by GASPARA STAMPA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Desert me not, lean down from your high cross Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) WITHIN A CRYSTAL SPHERE, by HARRIET A. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: On this slender bridge Last Line: Blue and white infinity. Subject(s): Tanka (as Literary Form) WITHIN A DREAMER'S HAND, by VIRGINIA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: The dreamer wandering down a lonely beach Last Line: Or treads the land that hardy viking found! Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott Subject(s): Dreams; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Nightmares WORDS, by LAURA M. BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: Oh, what are words? And what can words convey? Last Line: To catch our swift emotions on the wing. Subject(s): Language; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: We are taking the boat to sicily Last Line: Cresting waves, cresting pleasure, sizzling Subject(s): Literary Form WRITER'S TALE, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent and small in your wet sleep Last Line: My father dead and you returned Variant Title(s): A Winter's Tal Subject(s): Literary Form YEARS, by CATHERINE DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Then came the year of fires Last Line: And looking out, is this Subject(s): Literary Form YOUNG GIRL PEELING APPLES, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's all %an elaborate pun Last Line: Nor he has yet looked up, or spoken Subject(s): Literary Form YOUNG LOVE, by JOHN PROCTOR MILLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When love is young like early buds of spring Last Line: Theirs is the perfect song that life has sung. Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) YPRES 1919, by EDWIN BARLOW EVANS Poem Text First Line: These fields of bleak white crosses sear my eyes Last Line: And man, like gulliver, still eats the ground. Subject(s): Death; Sonnet (as Literary Form); War; Dead, The YUCCAS ON A JUNE NIGHT, by MARCUS Z. LYTLE Poem Text First Line: The parched, blue hush that cloaks a summer night Last Line: To aim his life on more sidereal slant. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Yucca Plants ZODIAC, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You kissed me once and now I wait for more Last Line: Again, I think. I want you to kiss me Subject(s): Literary Form |
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