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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GIRLS Matches Found: 438 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "TO MY NIECE, A.M. WITH A NEW PAIR OF SHOES ON HER FIRST GOING ALONE", by A FEMALE HAND [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: When little girls begin to walk Last Line: And prove to all your friends around / your sex's province you have found Alternate Author Name(s): A Female Hand Subject(s): Girls;talk 3 STANCES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elaine / poised for the leap Subject(s): Babies; Girls; Infants A CHILD'S PROTRAIT, by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON Poem Text First Line: Her face is hushed in perfect calm Last Line: Were caught into the smile of god. Subject(s): Girls; Portraits A CHILD-SAVIOUR (A TRUE STORY), by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She stood beside the iron road Last Line: Date: november, 1882 Subject(s): Children; Girls; Heroism; Railroads; Childhood; Heroes; Heroines; Railways; Trains A GAME OF FIVES, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five little girls, of five, four, three, two, one Last Line: "the answer to that ancient problem ""how the money goes!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Aging; Girls; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GIRL, by ARCHILOCHUS Poem Text First Line: Holding a myrtle-rod she blithely moved Last Line: Shadowed her shoulders, falling to her girdle. Alternate Author Name(s): Archilochos Subject(s): Girls; Hair A GIRL, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A girl, / her soul a deep-wave pearl Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Love; Relationships; Girls A GIRL, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a child; so fair Last Line: Nor lands men long to see. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Girls; Love; Mythology - Classical A GIRL PLAYING IN A SANDBOX, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She drops the plastic soldiers, the trucks Subject(s): Girls; Toys A GIRL SINGS TO MORAVIA AT THE WORLD'S END, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN Poem Source First Line: Moravia appeared on inishmore Subject(s): Girls; Moravia & Moravians; Singing & Singers; Songs A GIRL'S A GIRL FOR A' THAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A girl's a girl for a' that Last Line: A girl's a girl for a' that Subject(s): Girls A GIRL'S COMPLAINT TO HER HEART, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I felt a breeze blowing upon my brow Last Line: How may it hope for morning? It must die. Subject(s): Girls; Hearts; Hope; Love; Sleep; Optimism A GIRL'S FAITH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the miles that stretch between Last Line: Whose smile shall wake my world to day. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Fate; Girls; God; Life; Belief; Creed; Destiny A LITTLE GIRL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where have they gone to - the little girls Last Line: "who knows not the meaning of ""flirt"" or ""style" Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Girls; Innocence; Maturity A LITTLE GIRL AND A PUSSY-CAT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a little girl to a pussy-cat Last Line: "o little maid!"" said the pussy-cat." Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Cats; Girls; Animal Abuse; Vivisection A LITTLE GIRL IN SCHOOL, by FRANCES VIOLA HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: A little girl in school Last Line: How merry were the days! Subject(s): Girls; Happiness; Life; Praise; Time; Joy; Delight A LITTLE KERRY SONG, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: There's grand big girls that walks the earth Last Line: O! Little girl from kerry! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Girls; Singing & Singers; Songs A MONUMENT ON OKINAWA, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One hundred twenty schoolgirls Subject(s): Girls; Suicide; Okinawa A MOTHER'S SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little ships of whitest pearl Last Line: Whales. Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Pearls; Sailing & Sailors; Whales; Seamen; Sails A PULL-BACK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little pull-back sought one day Last Line: Such naughty fashions here Subject(s): Girls A STORY OF A, B, C, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: When I'm going to town of a morning Last Line: Whomever her dreams desire! Subject(s): Beauty; Girls A SWEET-EYED CHILD, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sweet - eyed child Last Line: "was I your doll?" Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Girls; Mothers; Toys; Childhood A YOUNG GIRL SPEAKS, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fennel says: so mad his love Last Line: Dear god, have pity on my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Girls; Mercy; Soul ABOUT MAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night nurse sleep held out her hand Last Line: Better another night. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Girls; Sleep; Nightmares ALGAE IN MY EYES, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: Let's suppose there are still innocent doves Last Line: Of flowers suddenly explode, and she laughs Subject(s): Girls; Innocence AMELIA EARHART, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: While other girls wore skirts and pinafores Last Line: It's just like flying!' Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes AMY, by GEORGE EDWARD PENDRAY Poem Text First Line: The schoolhouse squatted close against a hill Last Line: Into the barley slop. Subject(s): Classmates; Girls; Schools; Schoolmates; Students AN IMPRESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The arching skies, the ancient wind Last Line: Deeper than mortal minstrelsy. Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Love; Soul; Trees AND IT WAS ALMOST A GIRL, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And it was almost a girl who stepping Last Line: Where has she vanished to? A girl almost Subject(s): Girls AND WAKE UP WHERE?, by DAVID LAZAR Poem Source First Line: A generation of mothers sings 'over the rainbow' in ruby bedroom slippers Last Line: Place like home, there was no place Subject(s): Family Life; Girls; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ANGELICA SAVED BY RUGGIERO, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: This girl I recognise her Last Line: Andromeda - this girl - I recognise her Subject(s): Freedom; Girls; Mermaids And Mermen; Paintings And Painters; Sea ANNIE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fragrance of her simple heart I still bathe my- / self Last Line: Annie, one of the sweetest. Subject(s): Girls; Love - Beginnings ANNIE: MY CHILD LOVER, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me gently climb the stair Last Line: And god speak not a word to chide. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children - Lost; Girls; Rest; Silence; Sleep ARS POETICA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is almost polio season. The girls Last Line: Considering how beautiful she was. Subject(s): Dreams; Girls; Massachusetts; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes AT THE WINDOW, by PRAXILLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look to the lattice above Last Line: But a woman, under. Alternate Author Name(s): Praxilla Of Sicyo Subject(s): Girls ATALANTA, by ELLINOR L. NORCROSS Poem Text First Line: She danced like a swirl of petals down Last Line: Of dreams buried deep in her heart. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Girls BACKSTAGE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: The girl standing at the door told me how to do it. She said: you must get Last Line: You whisper bend me backwards and inform me of your concept of god Subject(s): Deception; Girls; Love - Loss Of; Murder BALLADE OF THE GIRTON GIRL, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had just 'put her gown on' at girton Last Line: But—her forte's to evaluate π. Subject(s): Girls; Schools; Students BELFAST, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: You lick her diamond and kiss her pearl Last Line: This is how you throw her, %you think you know her Subject(s): Child Molesting; Girls BOYS AND GIRLS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: I'm awful glad I'm not a girl Last Line: "to be a girl." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Boys; Children; Girls; Quarrels; Childhood; Arguments; Disagreements BOYS, THE BROOM HANDLE, AND THE RETARDED GIRL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who was asking for it - Last Line: That flag they've hung there, though we'd all avoid %touching the girl Subject(s): Boys; Fights; Girls BREATH CONTROL, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Who wouldn't want a good girl, a soft hand? Last Line: It's just breath control Subject(s): Breath; Girls; Love; Man-woman Relationships BROKEN-DOWN GIRL, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine her quick Subject(s): Girls BROOKLYN, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: And you ask is this okay? Last Line: While I murmur and burn Subject(s): Girls; Memory; Thought CALIFORNIA, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: The girls ride through the nights on delicate bicycles Last Line: Into a gratuitous juice for the sun Subject(s): California; Girls CAROLINE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: The air is thin here %nothing moves Last Line: You always end up in the kitchen crying Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Self-pity CHILDREN: THE GIRL-CHILD, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Give her a flower to keep and hold Last Line: Sing for the girl-child — mother, sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Children; Girls; Mothers; Childhood CHORUS OF GREEK GIRLS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We maidens are older than most sheep Last Line: "each call ""me." Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Girls; Greece; Greeks COCOTTE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty Last Line: They're bringing my blind boy in at the gate. Subject(s): Death; Girls; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War COMMINATION, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking my walk the other day Last Line: And I too had a mind to let her. Subject(s): Anger; Girls; Kisses COMPLICATIONS AT BIRTH, by BARRY BALLARD Poem Source First Line: She was as timid as a blue heron's Last Line: Afraid to be there in the smear of open sky Subject(s): Children; Girls; Human Abnormalities CONGRATULATION, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: Today I saw an angel Last Line: I saw heaven in her eyes Subject(s): Angels; Children; Children's Rights; Girls CORALIE, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale water flowers Last Line: And my little girl and I cry softly together. Subject(s): Girls; Death; Flowers; Grief COUNTRY FAIR, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amost anyone, I guess, can rent booth space Subject(s): Country Fairs; Hawks; Man-women Relationships; Dancing & Dancers; Girls COUNTRY GIRL, by SAMUEL HAMILTON STUART Poem Text First Line: There's spring of thick-set sod in her ... Step Last Line: Attired in soft and fluffy mists of lawn. Subject(s): Girls COUSIN NANCY, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss nancy ellicott Last Line: The army of unalterable law. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Girls; Modern Life CRAUSHEEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay so, a wee house, / an' three acres av green Last Line: "from broadway—maureen!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Girls; Love; Thought; Death - Babies; Thinking CREATION, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: That march we were thirteen Last Line: The loud love-making petals %every plant humming for release Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Girls CYNTHIA JANE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear,' said her mother to cynthia jane Last Line: "come to school with a hole in her stocking!" Subject(s): Children; Girls; Childhood DARK LOVELY FRUIT, by HELEN BRYANT Poem Text First Line: Black girl, standing in your yellow dress Last Line: Heart of your storm? Subject(s): African Americans; Barns; Girls; Negroes; American Blacks DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl Last Line: And never let them know you remember Subject(s): Daughters; Girls; Strength; Survival DAUGHTER AT ARITHMETIC, by DOROTHY MCFARLANE Poem Text First Line: Difficult as it is, she sits Last Line: Most girls detest arithmetic. Subject(s): Girls DESDEMONA, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So the slim moon, a young girl, shines upon Last Line: And all that stays is grief for all that's gone. Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness DIALOGUE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence comes down the street to us in the shape Subject(s): Girls; Silence DOG-GOD, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To the railroad tracks at the bottom of summer Last Line: To master what is beautiful and guileless and mute Subject(s): Girls; Railroads; Summer DOLLS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Betty has dolls that can almost talk Last Line: And half of the sawdust out! Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Play; Toys DREAM, by KAREN WHITEHILL Poem Source First Line: Naked doll posed on a red velvet couch Last Line: The late blooming flowers, %full moon shining through Subject(s): Dreams; Girls EFFIE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was wearin' awa'! She was wearin' awa'! Last Line: The dear lassie dwells wi' the angels o' licht. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Girls; Life; Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ELAINE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elaine, the counter-girl from the hat department Last Line: Nor the toes of the silver slippers worn Subject(s): Girls; Salespersons; Selling ELAINE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elaine, the counter-girl from the hat department Last Line: Nor the toes of the silver slippers worn Subject(s): Girls; Salespersons ELEGY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are ye, dear companions of my youth? Last Line: That hope would gild life's fast-declining day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Youth ELEGY, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Picture a girl sliced, a clean break in the femur of her life, and interruption Last Line: Her life a rounded stone, the moon a whitefish, the shore a shining bone. %picture a girl Subject(s): Girls ELEGY FOR A LITTLE GIRL BURNED BENEATH OAK TREES, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If slender feet would care to go Last Line: Nor keep her feet still. Subject(s): Death; Girls; Oak Trees; Dead, The ELEGY TO THE PULLEY OF SUPERIOR OBLIQUE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The three girls in a donkey cart Last Line: Of death is instant, contrived. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Girls; Lament; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii - Atrocities; Dead, The ELIZABETH, by MURRAY C. KIRK Poem Text First Line: Down the silken rows of corn Last Line: "—from y. C. L. Journal and ""award" Subject(s): Children; Girls; Childhood ELIZABETH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little lady -- such a very stately dame! Last Line: Kaleidoscopic lassie! And elizabeth's her name. Subject(s): Girls; Names EMMY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Emmy's exquisite youth and her virginal air Last Line: Shall answer for yours in hell. Subject(s): Girls EPHIBOL ON MY DEAR LOVE ISABELLA, by MARJORIE FLEMING Poem Text First Line: Here lies sweet isabell in bed Last Line: But I do hug her feet in place. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Marjory Subject(s): Girls EROTIC ENERGY, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't tell me we're not like plants Subject(s): Plants; Coming Of Age; Girls; Planting; Planters EVENING PRAYER AT A GIRLS' SCHOOL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! 'tis a holy hour - the quiet room Last Line: The unbroken heart's first fragrance unto heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Girls; Prayer EVENING SLIPPERS, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: When down the marble steps girls ran tonight Last Line: Shoe butterflies by shining music chased. Subject(s): Evening; Girls; Shoes; Sunset; Twilight; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers EXAMINATION II, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: The door opens Last Line: A long way to the stabat mater and to death Subject(s): Girls; Women EXTREMES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little boy once played so loud Last Line: "she's the stillest child I ever heard." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Girls FACING AN HOUR-GLASS, by ELFRIDA DE RENNE BARROW Poem Text First Line: I see your outline Last Line: Your feet in the dust. Subject(s): Girls; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FALSE ALARMS, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day little mary most loudly did call Last Line: For giving mamma false alarms. Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide Subject(s): Children; Fire; Girls; Lies; Tragedy; Childhood FALSE ALARMS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: For giving mamma false alarms. Subject(s): False Alarms; Girls FEAR ON 11TH STREET AND AVENUE A, NEW YORK CITY, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the papers are saying pesticides will kill us Last Line: Please, little girl, grow up to be pope or president Subject(s): Fears; Girls FEMALE TRANSPORT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come all young girls, both far and near, and listen unto me" Last Line: For fear like us you spend your days upon dieman's shore Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;girls;judges;trials FERAL GIRL FOUND IN A SUBURBAN HOUSE, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know her by her two perfect Last Line: A hiss that gives nothing away Subject(s): Girls FETE, by SAMUEL FOSTER DAMON Poem Text First Line: Under a crystal moon the peacock shawls Last Line: Who hid it, as though the yellow fruit were gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Dalton, S. Foster Subject(s): Girls FIERCE GIRL PLAYING HOPSCOTCH, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sway like a crane to the tunes of tossed stones. Subject(s): Girls; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements FIFTEEN, SHE LEARNS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: That summer I grew two inches and stood Last Line: When I turned 15, I learned to fly, %and finally learned how not to die Subject(s): Girls; Prostitution; Teenagers FIVE SISTERS, by KATE GREENAWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five little sisters walking in a row Last Line: A bright yellow flower and a new red pot. Subject(s): Girls FLEURETTE (THE WOUNDED CANADIAN SPEAKS), by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My leg? It's off at the knee Last Line: God bless her, that little fleurette! Subject(s): Girls; World War I - Canada; World War I - Casualties FOOL'S ERRAND, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, like a feather in the air Subject(s): Beauty; Cactus; Clowns; Girls FOR A GIRL I KNOW ABOUT TO BECOME A WOMAN, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Advice; Girls; Coming Of Age; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FOR THE 500TH DEAD PALESTINIAN, IBTISAM BOZIEH, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little sister ibtisam Last Line: Will not forget your face. Subject(s): Children; Death; Girls; Palestine; Childhood; Dead, The FRANCES WARD, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: For months and months her wagon train Last Line: And went on walking...Walking Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes FRANKIE, by PAT NOLAN Poem Source First Line: The girls from the factory across the river came into my grandmother's Last Line: Made a joke or act the fool, they would do it in english. It just wasn't a serious %language to them Subject(s): English Language; Girls FRAU HERRMANN, by ELIZABETH STOESSL Poem Source First Line: Housebound and fevered among the pillows Last Line: It is true then: I am beyond saving - %even by the baptists, even by her Subject(s): Death; Girls; Sickness GARNAVILLA, by EDWARD LYSAGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you been at garnavilla? Last Line: On lovely kate of garnavilla. Variant Title(s): Kate Of Garnyvilla Subject(s): Girls; Love GETAWAY GIRL, by TERRY ANN THAXTON Poem Source First Line: Inside the house, peak-roofed Last Line: After dress %out of the branches Subject(s): Escapes; Girls GIRL, by DOM MORAES Poem Source First Line: They told me first she was a tree Subject(s): Girls GIRL, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The afternoon, its lazy ways Last Line: Was gazing where she'll never know Subject(s): Girls GIRL, by STAN PROPER Poem Source First Line: She stands Subject(s): Girls GIRL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How are you so smooth-faced Last Line: By two or three apples %four oranges Subject(s): Girls GIRL, by REINDER RIENK VAN DER LEEST Poem Source First Line: Bibeth was at our door to borrow a hockey stick Last Line: Where the ships of youth will never again call in %bibeth was at our door to borrow a hockey stick Subject(s): Girls GIRL BEFORE A SHRINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three lilies grew in a garden Last Line: The lily-blooms and me! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Girls; God; Lilies; Love; Sea; Sin; Ocean GIRL COUSIN, by SCOTT TRAVIS HUTCHISON Poem Source First Line: My mom's one of twelve kids, making me Last Line: Beside her, as the dust danced away behind us all Subject(s): Cousins; Family Life; Girls GIRL FRIEND POEM: 3, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was white and flown Last Line: The light. And the peaches fell down around us Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): Girl Friend Poem # Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Laughter; Play GIRL FRIEND POEM: 4, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Together they will marry the man Last Line: The public is in ecstasy Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): Girl Friend Poem # Subject(s): Friendship; Girls GIRL FRIEND POEM: 5, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The brunette is boarding a train Last Line: We tell what we've been reading Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): Girl Friend Poem # Subject(s): Friendship; Girls GIRL FRIEND POEM: 6, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I snap my fingers Last Line: Will be brushing these very tracks away Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Trances GIRL HELP, by JANET LEWIS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Mild and slow and young Last Line: Scented with days to come. Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Girls GIRL IN THE WELL, by AL GABOR Poem Source First Line: After the third day Last Line: Crying under the veils of water Subject(s): Girls; Wells GIRL ON ROLLER SKATES, by SALLY THOMAS Poem Source First Line: She sits on the boardinghouse steps Last Line: When she moves, the wet air parts Subject(s): Games; Girls GIRL ON THE AQUEDUCT, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: The turkist girl on the roman aqueduct Last Line: These words are for her. They make nothing happen Subject(s): Girls; Language GIRL PLAYING IN A SANDBOX, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She drops the plastic soldiers, the trucks Last Line: They are, for her alone, at her lightest touch Subject(s): Girls; Toys GIRL WITH BLUE SHORTS AND BROWN LEGS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Kicking her butt with her own heels Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Girls; Nature GIRLHOOD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rosy cheeks, and merry-dancing curls Last Line: And goodly to the sight! Subject(s): Girls GIRLISH REMINISCENCES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cradled in a nest of flowers Last Line: Where death nor sorrows come. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Friendship; Girls; Past GIRLS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: When he leaves, %he leaves a space Last Line: Trying to breathe %and waiting to be kissed Subject(s): Girls; Love - Loss Of; Single People GIRLS, by ROBERT LOUIS BURGESS Poem Text First Line: Girls are so massive and complete Last Line: The fact that girls are made to kiss. Subject(s): Girls GIRLS GOING TO CHURCH, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning is easter on the lawns Subject(s): Public Worship; Girls; Church Attendance GIRLS IN YUGOSLAVIA, by MARY KOLADA HARRIS Poem Source First Line: The girls in yugoslavia Last Line: How could I possibly compete? Subject(s): Girls; Women; Yugoslavia GIRLS LEARN TO LEVITATE, by ADRIENNE SU Poem Source First Line: At last, they are not girls Last Line: Of earthly burdens, they rise unsteadily to the orange sky Subject(s): Girls; Growth GIRLS OF CORK CITY, by GRAY JACOBIK Poem Source First Line: One saturday evening in late june Last Line: Chilled, bone-thin, preparing for %the long race each generation races Subject(s): Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 1, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great plane flew across the sun Last Line: Before they get back. And, quivering, I took the pen Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 1, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great plane flew across the sun Last Line: And they all ran, and got out, and that was that for that day Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 10, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often a strange desire Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 10, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often a strange desire Last Line: He counted good-humoredly. And these are our intuitions! Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 11, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First the cellos rebelled. Then a broader breaking-out erupted Last Line: From itself, and if more sleep hadn't built up on the other side Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 12, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Other dreams. Judy the petulant watered her flowers Last Line: If a cannonball was your uncle. Yipes, %the general said Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 13, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And some were vortices Last Line: But it was too late to use it Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 14, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heightened with a sense of mysterious confusion, or completion Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 14, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heightened with a sense of mysterious confusion, or completion Last Line: Until we are found at last behind the bathroom door, with the broom Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 15, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fred began to get chills: it sure was his mission, he averred Last Line: Another way, or brought our chairs back to where the laundry was spread out, effectively %drying Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 16, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dolores...You wisteria Last Line: She was begged. Bring us all to your birch tree Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 17, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a few rounds of this the leader fell silent Last Line: So the bad angels went away, and other creatures returned Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 18, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you read that book I was telling you about? Ach, it concerns puberty Last Line: And fat disappointment, tears in the rain. Somebody is coming over the %radio. %a lull Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 19, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He complicated everything by dying. He wouldn't hear Last Line: As pamela was at last captured Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 2, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hungeringly, tidbit approached the crone who held the bowl Last Line: If I had a handle, laure thought Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 2, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hungeringly, tidbit approached the crone who held the bowl Last Line: If I had a handle, laure thought Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 20, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A virtual rout ensued. Tell me, can you tell it any Last Line: It was like everywhere. It was just average Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 21, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When more and more people come to you, you know Last Line: The wide avenue smiles Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 3, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in michigan, or was it minnesota, though, time had stopped Last Line: Of wood, yet it can cause everything to take place and change for you Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 3, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in michigan, or was it minnesota, though, time had stopped Last Line: Of wood, yet it can cause everything to take place and change for you Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 4, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, we had waited for this star Last Line: Worse, it was traditional to feel this way Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 5, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as a good pianist will adjust the piano stool Last Line: Only I think we're...It's all coming nearer Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 6, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nov 7. Returned again to the exhibition. How strange it is that when we Last Line: So may it be until the end that is eternity Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 7, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thread ended up on the floor Last Line: And so they left home that day Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 7, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thread ended up on the floor Last Line: And so they left home that day Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 8, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All aboard! If there's one thing I hate it's a loner,' Last Line: Sinks and dies of its own weight. All the marbles have rolled inside the house Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 9, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now everyone must sleep Last Line: On the iniquity scale, and nobody wanted to get involved Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS ON THE RUN: 9, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now everyone must sleep Last Line: On the iniquity scale, and nobody wanted to get involved Subject(s): Darger, Henry (1892-1972); Girls GIRLS' HEADS (FRONT ROWS), by ARNOLD LESLIE LAZARUS Poem Source First Line: Bubble of maple, apple butter Last Line: Maraschino cherry, gooseberry %yellow pompom, marshmallow Variant Title(s): Girls' Heads Bent On Taking A Tes Subject(s): Girls; Schools GIRLS' HEADS (MIDDLE ROWS), by ARNOLD LESLIE LAZARUS Poem Source First Line: Tobacco boll, orange roll, charcoal Last Line: Cinnamon bark, meadowlark %mink mouton, pink cotton Subject(s): Girls; Schools GIRLS' HEADS (REAR ROWS), by ARNOLD LESLIE LAZARUS Poem Source First Line: Bird's nest, everest %meringue caffeine, tangerine Last Line: Cider rain, champagne %gingerale, pigtail Subject(s): Girls; Schools GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL ORCHESTRA, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Girls; Schools; Music & Musicians; Students GOD OF SLEEP, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Feel how skin goes sick in want of warmth Last Line: You were awake the whole time Subject(s): Girls; Guilt; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships GOLDA MABOVITCH, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: Her family left the town of pinsk Last Line: For every child to own a book Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes GRACIE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gracie rises with a light Last Line: Men have wooed and maidens loved! Subject(s): Teen-agers; Girls; Love – Beginnings HARRIET HANSON, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: At five a.M. Her work began Last Line: Of fellow workers follow her! Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes HATTIE HOUSE, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all kind friends, wherever you may be Last Line: And is sleeping in her tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Girls HER MONOLOGUE OF DARK CREPE WITH EDGES OF LIGHT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistress adrienne, I have been given a bed with a pink dresser Last Line: Don't hear from you I will try to understand. Chloe. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; American Revolution; Girls; Librarians & Libraries; Murder; Teaching & Teachers; Library; Librarians; Educators; Professors HIDING PLACE, by MIRA CHIEKO SHIMABUKURO Poem Source First Line: Was the procelain bowl the cradle Last Line: So far, far from herself Subject(s): Girls HILL WALKER, by IDRIS CAFFREY Poem Source First Line: A girl picks purple heather Last Line: Words to fall away, hardly spoken Subject(s): Girls; Rainbows; Walking HONEY HALF, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: You pass by those who would hold you up Last Line: You want no part of this world Subject(s): Girls; Love - Loss Of; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate HOP-SCOTCH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I play at hop-scotch Last Line: Hopping and hopping there! Subject(s): Children; Girls; Childhood HOW MUCH, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Math teachers try %to stump her Last Line: Her pale thin %arms can hold Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Girls HURDY-GURDY, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: Hurry, little laughing girls Last Line: Other hurdy-gurdies play. Subject(s): Girls HUSBANDRY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: And what does the farmer's daughter think Last Line: And thinks: 'when I marry, I'll marry a farmer.' Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Fathers And Daughters; Girls; Milk I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some little splinter Last Line: In the hollows of her eyes Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Night; Shadows; Bedtime I WANT TO SIT NEXT TO EMILY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a girl who for present purposes let us call by the name of Last Line: But can wander lonely as a cloud among my own beautiful thorts Subject(s): Conversation; Desire; Girls ICELAND, by DORIANNE LAUX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl's bathroom is titled in pink Subject(s): Berkeley, California; Girls; Women ICELAND, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl's bathroom is titled in pink Last Line: The withered scraps, like petals, into the sink Subject(s): Berkeley, California; Girls; Women IDA LEWIS, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: From the lighthouse %ida saw Last Line: To the lighthouse %ida rowed Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes IMMENSE VIRGIN GIRLS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Open the door where they knock sighing Last Line: Immense virgin girls! Subject(s): Girls; Virginity; Vestals IMPRESSIONS OF PARIS, by NORMA PAUL RUEDI Poem Text First Line: Apache dance! Last Line: On the run. Subject(s): Girls IMPROMPTU: TO FRANCES GARNET WOLSELEY, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little maiden just beginning Last Line: With a better bard to sing them. Subject(s): Girls IN A GIRLS' SCHOOL, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These walls will not forget, through later days Last Line: Of swaying girls and lifted, tossing heads. Subject(s): Girls; Schools; Students IN A MOMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The girl's body leaves all cold behind Last Line: In a moment, earth is paradise. Subject(s): Girls; Sex IN HAITI: 2. AT THE SPRING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the boy perched in the high Last Line: Thigh-deep in a limestone cliff. Variant Title(s): Haitian Suite Subject(s): Boys; Girls; Haiti; Spring; Youth IN PRAISE OF A GIRL, by HUW MORUS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Slip of loveliness, slim, seemly Subject(s): Girls IN THE LIBRARY, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: The silent girl, %the ugly one %waits out the spring above her books Last Line: She is the white crane %staring downward %conscious of her reed neck %that the smallest stone can br Subject(s): Girls; Poetry And Poets IN THE STREET, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: The two little girls were dressed in black Last Line: "held the little one's nose, and said: ""blow!" Subject(s): Girls; Mothers IRIS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Iris is writing a poem while I read the paper at her apartment Last Line: But she will. %they always do Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Poetry And Poets IRONING DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't see why the grown-ups care Last Line: To wash and iron every day. Subject(s): Children; Cleanliness; Dolls; Girls; Play; Toys; Childhood JANE AND ELIZA, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were two little girls, neither handsome nor plain Last Line: The affection that freely was given to jane. Subject(s): Girls JEANNE MARIE PLOUFFE, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small and dark behind your mother's full skirts Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Girls JEANNE MARIE PLOUFFE, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Small and dark behind your mother's full skirts Last Line: Headed north. Jeanne marie, if you read this %please write me Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Girls JEMIMA (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there was a little girl, who had a little curl" Last Line: "and spanked her, most emphatic" Subject(s): Girls;punishment JESSIE, THE FLOWER O' DUNBLANE, by ROBERT TANNAHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun has gane down o'er the lofty benlomond Last Line: If wanting sweet jessie, the flower o' dunblane. Variant Title(s): The Flower O' Dunblane Subject(s): Girls; Love KATE OF ABERDEEN, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver moon's enamoured beam Last Line: Tis kate of aberdeen. Subject(s): Girls KATE SHELLEY, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: Lightning ripped apart the sky. Thunder pounded loud Last Line: Dry and safe and warm Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes KIM, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Kim's getting off the heroin Last Line: Like a feather that cannot fight on its way down Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Friendship; Girls LAST NOTE TO MY GIRLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My girls / my girls Last Line: My girls my more than me Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Girls LAST NOTE TO MY GIRLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My girls %my girls Last Line: My girls %my more than me Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Girls LAST YEAR THE SNAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But not her flesh Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bodies; Girls; Nature; Snakes LEARNING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Tiny body, massive helmet, she comes each day Last Line: Child to the broad, blackleathered back. Subject(s): Girls; Learning; Swimming LEDDY MARY: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Mirk was the nicht, an' the hour it was late Last Line: My malison on him that wrocht thee sic harm! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Girls; Youth LEETLA GIUSEPPINA, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Joe baratta's giuseppina Last Line: "giuseppina!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Girls LESSON, by ROBIN COOPER-STONE Poem Source First Line: A little girl asks her mother Last Line: Who climbed the rope %to reach the living Subject(s): Bridges; Girls; Religion LIBERATION BARBIE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm visiting barbie again today Last Line: Pretty soon, you'll just buy boxes of barbie hair %with no barbie at all Subject(s): Beauty; Dolls; Girls; Toys LITTLE GIRL, by EDDY L. PINAS Poem Source First Line: I love you ten Last Line: What an immeasurable lot that was Subject(s): Games; Girls LITTLE GIRL AS EARTHQUAKE LIT BY STARS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: She is embarrassed by the steadiness Last Line: You go, no matter how high you climb Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Girls; Imagination; Stars LITTLE GIRLS (1), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God made the little boys for fun, for rough and Last Line: To guard a little girl and see that she is kept from pain and tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Girls LITTLE GIRLS (2), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little girls are mighty nice Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Girls LITTLE GIRLY-GIRL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little girly-girl, of you Last Line: "calling, ""little girly-girl!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Girls; Love; Memory; Nightmares LITTLE-GIRL-TWO-LITTLE-GIRLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm twins, I guess, 'cause my ma say Last Line: "an' good little girl's comed back to stay." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Girls; Mothers; Twins; Childhood LOOK AT IT! LOOK AT THE BLUE LIGHT, by PHYLLIS STOWELL Poem Source First Line: Like a girl, legs tucked up on the sofa, she remained Last Line: Looking out toward nowhere with a child's blue-eyed stare %and sagging, apricot dugs Subject(s): Girls; Light LOTUS-PICKING SONG, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves of water chestnuts curl in waves Last Line: And her hair-pick of dark green jade %falls right into the water Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Girls; Lotus LOVER OF CHILDREN, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my little girl plays beethoven sonatas Last Line: I hear a great, rumbling beautiful roar of laughter. Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Girls; Love; Childhood LUCILLE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course you've heard of the nancy lee, and how she sailed away Last Line: What she held to me was, ah yes! A flea, but . . . It wasn't my lucille. Subject(s): Girls; Paris, France LUCY AND HER GIRLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy is the ocean Last Line: Lucy / was going Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Girls LUCY AND HER GIRLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy is the ocean Last Line: Lucy %was going Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Girls LUPINE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Girlhood blue Last Line: Deep blue %almost violent Subject(s): Birth; Children; Girls LYRICS FOR THE GIRLS OF YUE, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A young wu girl from chang-an Last Line: Fresh make-up bobs in fresh waves, %two scenes of brightness, both marvels Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Girls; Lotus MAIDS IN MAY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three maids there were in meadow bright Last Line: To little children of the poor Subject(s): Children; Girls; May (month); Poppies MAIRE MY GIRL, by JOHN KEEGAN CASEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the dim blue hills Last Line: Maire my girl. Alternate Author Name(s): Leo Subject(s): Girls MANNERS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I sit down, all clean and bright Last Line: May ask me out to tea someday! Subject(s): Children; Etiquette; Girls; Childhood; Manners; Courtesy MARIA, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: This is a book %for little girls Last Line: And who will yet %pick me %is not certain Subject(s): Girls MARIA MITCHELL, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: With her father, each clear night Last Line: Because of her, back safe to shore Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes MARIA'S PURSE, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maria had an aunt at leeds Last Line: "admit the insects' greater skill!" Subject(s): Bees; Girls; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs MARY JANE MCLEOD, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: She went with mama to her work Last Line: She learned to read! Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes MASTER THIEF: CHAPTER 2: FAST & LOOSE, by CAMILLE GUTHRIE Poem Source First Line: So she said yes and put her hand in his hand - snippety-snap - fast & loose Last Line: Chains of evidence %and possibly chains of everything Subject(s): Girls; Love MATER DOLOROSA, by GRACE MADELON FRAME Poem Text First Line: A little maid at play Last Line: Through all eternity. Subject(s): Girls; Mothers MAUREEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, yonder the thrushes is pipin' now Last Line: Maureen—maureen! Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Flowers; Girls; Graves; Heaven; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise MEHITABLE ANN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love mehitable ann! Last Line: Just loves mehitable ann! Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Toys MEMORY SAYS YES, by MARGARET RANDALL Poem Source First Line: Morning unbends my body, opens my eyes, I hold you Last Line: Two hours earlier %your voice will speak the next line Subject(s): Girls METAL EYE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Secretly I'm dead inside Last Line: At 3,200 degrees platinum liquefies Subject(s): Desire; Girls; Indifference; Love - Loss Of; Obsessions MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 3, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Little girls / like starry whirls Last Line: Ta-ron-ton-ton! Subject(s): Girls MEXIE AND BRIDIE, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tiny tea-party Last Line: Tea-ing in the town Subject(s): Girls MISERICORD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out at the end of a high promontory Subject(s): Girls; Mountains; Pain; Silk; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery MONOLOGUE OF THE GIRL WHO NEVER, by JUANA GOERGEN Poem Source First Line: Expelled %perhaps %and perhaps Last Line: On the broken edge of sleep Subject(s): Girls MOUNTAIN NOCTURNE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Between the trailer and purple mountain Last Line: I held my breath but my heart kept running Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Girls MUSE, by TINA CHANG Poem Source First Line: When I was a girl, I had seven glasses Last Line: Of ink and watch a shadow fall %the length of a burning building Subject(s): Children; Girls; Memory MY DEATH AS A GIRL I KNEW, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was in a story Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Girls; Trees; Dead, The MY GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little corner with its crib Last Line: A little kiss -- my girl is gone Subject(s): Courage;death;girls;graves; "valor;bravery;dead, The;tombs;tombstones; MY LADY IS MY DREAM GIRL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My lady is my dream-girl Last Line: My lady's but a dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Girls; Nightmares MY PRAIRIE GIRL, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: My prairie girl, though tanned of face Last Line: My prairie girl. Subject(s): Admiration; Girls; Prairies; Plains MY WISTARIA GIRL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I walked a charming bit of country road Last Line: Somehow—she's near. Subject(s): Girls; Wisteria NARCISSA, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of the girls are playing jacks Last Line: As anyone ever sat! Subject(s): Girls NARCISSA, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of the girls are playing jacks Last Line: While sitting still, as still, as still %as anyone ever sat! Subject(s): Girls NEIGHBOR NELLY, by ROBERT BARNABAS BROUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in love with neighbor nelly Last Line: To be worthy such a pearl. Subject(s): Girls NICOLE, by KELLY NORMAN ELLIS Poem Source First Line: Just a white girl Last Line: I do not want %to know %nicole Subject(s): Death; Girls O BERNADETTE, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Show me, bernadette %I will believe you Last Line: Small, dark, and lovely %in my one clean dress Subject(s): Faith; Girls ODE TO A COUNTRY HOYDEN, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear dolly, stay thy scampering joints one minute Last Line: Clip thy wild tongue, and tie thee to the table. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Girls ON A PICTURE, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Among the faces of these girls Last Line: This garden in epitome. Subject(s): Beauty; Girls ONE GIRL, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: These were decent people Last Line: Even her name sounds far away Subject(s): Children; Girls ONE RADIANT MORNING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a smile breaking over teeth Last Line: A drop could change everything. Subject(s): Girls; Lust; Railroads; Youth; Railways; Trains ORATION: HALF-MOON IN VERMONT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A horse is shivering flies off its ribs, grazing Last Line: Doesn't poverty just fucking break your heart? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Girls; Politics & Government; Horses; Owls; Poverty; Vermont ORGAN SONGS: HYMN FOR A SICK GIRL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, in the dark I lay Last Line: Rise and live in thine. Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Future Life; Girls; God; Sickness; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Illness ORIGINAL SUMMER GIRL, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After much biologic research Last Line: Because she staid there till the fall Subject(s): Girls; Summer OUR EDUCATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we learn to write Last Line: To young ladies will grow! Subject(s): Girls OUR LITTLE COWGIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "thar she goes a-lopin,' stranger" Subject(s): Cowboys;girls;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States OUR LITTLE DAUGHTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our merry little daughter Last Line: To give my mother sorrow! Subject(s): Daughters;girls;grief;mothers & Daughters;parents; Sorrow;sadness;parenthood OUR LITTLE GIRL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her heart knew naught of sorrow Last Line: "our little girl again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Girls; Life; Dead, The OUR YANKEE GIRLS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest greener lands and bluer skies Last Line: God bless our yankee girls! Subject(s): Girls; New England PARK WORKER, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The harbor is as a baby's blue eye Last Line: And moves down the incline toward the water Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Child Labor; Girls PEGGY, FR. THE GENTLE SHEPHERD, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My peggy is a young thing Last Line: At wawking of the fauld. Variant Title(s): Patie's Song;song;the Waukin O' The Field;sang Subject(s): Girls; Innocence PHASES OF GIRLHOOD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fondest love and sweetest pleasure Last Line: He still preserves my virtuous girl. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Girls; Growth; Mothers & Daughters; Virtue; Infants PHOEBE, OR MY GRANDMOTHER WEST, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, phoebe! How slily, love's arrow to barb Last Line: A counterfeit true of her grandmamma west. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Girls; Grandparents; Love; Time; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers PICTURE OF A GIRL DRAWN IN BLACK AND WHITE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl sits in a black room Subject(s): Girls; Reality PICTURE OF A GIRL DRAWN IN BLACK AND WHITE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl sits in a black room Last Line: And complete combing my black unreal hair Subject(s): Girls; Reality PIPPA AND HER FLOWERS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Her flowers? The martagon flame-lily glowing Last Line: Shames into silence death's despairful creed. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Girls; Happiness; Heart's-ease (flower); Lilies; Dead, The; Joy; Delight PLAY IN WHICH DARKNESS FALLS, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two girls runaway from the home. They have a revolver Subject(s): Roussel, Raymond (1877-1933); Girls; Escapes; Death; Fugitives; Dead, The PLAYING WITH FIRE, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The friends of little mary green Last Line: Again, before she died! Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fire; Girls; Play; Death - Babies POCAHONTAS, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: Young daughter of a native chief Last Line: Young daughter of a native chief Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes POEM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mule kicked out in the trees. An early Last Line: And drove some more — unable to sleep in missouri. Subject(s): Dolls; Funerals; Girls; Grief; Missouri; Toys; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness POEM FOR A LITTLE GIRL, by HARRIET CHADWICK TURNER Poem Text First Line: She has a certain new england primness Last Line: Witches were hanged on salem hill. Subject(s): Daughters; Girls; Southern States; South (u.s.) POEM OF THE GIRL FROM VELAZQUEZ, by RICARDO MOLINARI Poem Source First Line: Ah, if only the village were so small Last Line: Some day, she comes to hear me Subject(s): Children; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Girls; Grief PRAISE OF A GIRL, by HUW MORUS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: My heart everyday Subject(s): Girls PRINCESS AND THE STAR, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Margarita, the sea lies fair Last Line: To tell you a tale one day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Girls; Poetry And Poets PROTEST, by EUNICE CREAGER Poem Text First Line: I saw a girl one summer day Last Line: "while over her a lash; ""three mouths to feed." Subject(s): Girls; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers PUMPKIN RIND DOLLS, by JANET KIMPSTON HERZ Poem Text First Line: Make me a doll from a pumpkin rind Last Line: The dolls you made from a pumpkin rind. Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Pumpkins; Toys RACHEL CARSON, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: When rachel was a child Last Line: And all things growing wild Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes REALITY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, it is nice to lie in bed Last Line: With straight, brown hair that will not curl! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Girls; Childhood REBECCA AT PLAY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lies in the grass and spreads her golden hair Subject(s): Girls; Play; Self REBECCA'S AFTER-THOUGHT, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday, rebecca mason Last Line: Lov'd her better, and forgave her. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Girls; Clemency RED LINE, by DAVID A. LANDMAN Poem Source First Line: She got on board at harvard square Last Line: She got out at park street under Subject(s): Girls; Railroads REETIKA ARRANGES MY CLOSET, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her apartment is a lesson in schematics Subject(s): Girls; Houses; Rooms; Women REETIKA ARRANGES MY CLOSET, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her apartment is a lesson in schematics Last Line: I'm going to give her everything I own Subject(s): Girls; Houses; Rooms; Women ROBERTA, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Roberta, girl cousin %the stalks are ready in their green rows Last Line: And not to worry %to just be girls Subject(s): Girls; Togetherness; Women SACAJAWEA, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: Long years ago a girl embarked Last Line: She walked into our history books Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes SEARCHING FOR MELINDA'S MAGIC MOMENT, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if I could find it Last Line: If it's like I remember. And then, %I'd like to burn it Subject(s): Children; Girls; Schools SEASHORE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over her great museum of lost nations Subject(s): Seashore; Girls; Sunbathing; Beach; Coast; Shore SEPTUAGENARIAN MURDERER KNITS NONSTOP, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The k-9 unit given her long white prom gloves, her pillowcase Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Girls; Youth SERRANILLA OF BARRANQUILLA, by INIGO LOPEZ DE MENDOZA Poem Source First Line: No barmaid so well-assayed Last Line: Near blanda of barranquilla Subject(s): Girls SHE CLIMBED THE GREEN-LEAFED APPLE TREE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Were white as the moon above brown legs Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Girls; Nature SHE IS SIX, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sleeps on a cot in the living room Subject(s): Girls SHE WILL GATHER ROSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This little girl / only born to Last Line: Only born to / gather wild roses Subject(s): Flowers;girls;roses SHE'S REAL QUIET, A LETTER FROM THE INDIAN SCHOOL 1, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Met this girl, mae jean from saint michaels. She's real quiet. Nobody gives Last Line: Jean knows all the dos and don'ts at the indian school. Watch her Subject(s): Girls; Native Americans - Children SKIN GIRL'S TATTOO, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: Wanting it dark, it deep, it blue Last Line: Burning in our sleep to the real %enfolding darkness Subject(s): Girls; Tattoos SMART GIRL, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Turning fourteen, the oldest, you learn Last Line: Then back to school, a sophomore Subject(s): Girls; Health; Mothers; Nome, Alaska SOAP BOX DERBY QUEEN, by LAURA SULLIVAN-HACKLEY Poem Source First Line: I was soap box derby queen 1971 in a silver pipe cleaner crown Last Line: The queen not for speed but for arriving, sash and tiara intact Subject(s): Girls; Racing SONG OF THE LITTLE WHITE GIRL, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cabbage-tree, cabbage-tree, what is the matter? Last Line: To make you the loveliest curls, cabbage tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Girls SOUNDS OF WINTER, by THEA SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: Girl in a private-school skirt Last Line: A whole house raging with silence Subject(s): Girls; Winter SPECULATION, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl we didn't actually know Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Girls; Sisters; Dead, The; Recessions SPECULATION, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl we didn't actually know Last Line: Always made her feel glamorous Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Girls; Sisters SPREAD, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: This blood is the same color as the jam I used to eat every morning made of Last Line: Handle that's a string you pull right down out of yourself Subject(s): Blood; Girls; Menstruation; Women STATUETTE: LATE MINOAN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Girl of the musing mouth Last Line: As I, unblest Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Statues; Girls; Time STOLEN SWEETS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Peking and heide, pekinese Last Line: Those two will never say. Subject(s): Children; Girls; Innocence; Childhood STORY WITH FOREST, GIRL & BOY, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: In the black forest a girl, of course, and a boy are kneeling at a crossroads. Last Line: Growing hot, trees gleaming in their eyes. Subject(s): Boys; Forests; Girls SUICIDES, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Part one -- morning %girls in the morning paper. Dead girls. Last Line: That way, summer dresses, ankle straps & heels. Subject(s): Girls; Suicide SUSIE, KIKI, ANNIE: 2, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The situation is an image of her gathering a toy horse from Last Line: The horse takes a small jump in the air, and her head and shoulders arch back Subject(s): Animals; Girls; Horses; Toys SUSIE, KIKI, ANNIE: 2, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The situation is an image of her gathering a toy horse from Last Line: The horse takes a small jump in the air, and her head and %shoulders arch back Subject(s): Animals; Girls; Horses; Toys SUSIE, KIKI, ANNIE: 3, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see minnie mouse, instead of a thin girl in a cotton smock Last Line: A sense of deferral has been added to this weave of naiveté, humor, fragility, but our relationship Subject(s): Girls SUSIE, KIKI, ANNIE: 3, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see minnie mouse, instead of a thin girl in a cotton smock Last Line: Humor, fragility, but our relation has in fact ended Subject(s): Girls SWEET MAY MORN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet may morn; wake, drowsy girls! Last Line: A happy home—a husband kind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courtship; Girls; Marriage; May (month); Morning; Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SWEET SIXTEEN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen a winsome girlie with eyes of limpid blue Last Line: Is graven everywhere. Subject(s): Adolescence; Girls; Teenagers; Teen Agers SWEET-TOOTH WITCH, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've an appetite for curls and dimples in a chin Last Line: All good little girls who do what they're told %are just my dish Subject(s): Dimples; Girls; Likes And Dislikes; Witchcraft And Witches SYDNEY, by MATTIE WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Wherever sydney may be / the girls exert Last Line: For sydney's only two. Subject(s): Girls SYMPHONY, by BORGHILD LEE Poem Text First Line: Brazilian palm-trees Last Line: Walking to the sea -- Subject(s): Beauty; Brazil; Girls; Brazilians TAKE YOUR CHOICE: ACCORDING TO FRANKLIN P. ADAMS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young chloris had ringlets clear down to her eyebrows Last Line: "and painting the appian way!" Subject(s): Adams, Franklin Pierce (1881-1960); Girls; Youth TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AND BLISS CARMAN, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a curl upon her forehead and the heart of her is good Last Line: Why she romps with mother april and behaves like anything! Subject(s): Carman, Bliss (1861-1929); Etiquette; Girls; Manners; Courtesy TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AND PERHAPS GELETT BURGESS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ann was a pleasant little girl Last Line: And act like any vulgar goop. Subject(s): Burgess, Gelett (1866-1951); Children; Girls; Childhood TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS LONGFELLOW WROTE IT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little girl Last Line: But when she was bad she was horrid. Subject(s): Girls; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) TAKE YOUR CHOICE: NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY WOULD SPEAK ... THIS MANNER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clang go the cymbals, bong goes the gong Last Line: And there's an end to my little girl song! Subject(s): Girls; Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931) TAKE YOUR CHOICE: OR HERE'S GRANTLAND RICE'S METHOD, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dim gray mist of the golden years Last Line: And then she was pretty bad. Subject(s): Girls; Rice, Grantland (1880-1954) TAKE YOUR CHOICE: THEN THERE'S T.A. DALY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was so sweet, dat leetle girl Last Line: Dat leetle girl ees vera bad! Subject(s): Children; Daly, Thomas Augustine (1871-1948); Girls; Childhood TARZANIA, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Run down the weeded hill Last Line: Tarzania, girl queen of the metro jungle Subject(s): Girls; Railroads TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES 1, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: Watching tess milk the cows turned angel on Last Line: Girl finishing last, dozing at stonehenge Subject(s): Cows; Death; Girls THAT GRAND DESIGN OF THINGS, by KEN MEISEL Poem Source First Line: Your daughter is on the floor raging Last Line: Sobbing little girl into your arms Subject(s): Children; Drawing; Girls; Perfection THE AMERICAN GIRL, by S. F. P. Poem Text First Line: German may sing of his rosy-cheeked lass Last Line: Oh, the laughing american girl! Subject(s): Americans; Girls THE BALLAD O' MARY MUIREN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pride o' the clachan, the rose o' the glen Last Line: "may she ne'er dree the dule o' the drucken man's wife!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Girls; Scotland; Youth THE BALLAD OF A DAFT GIRL, by DOROTHY ALDIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old lay's son Last Line: Eyes and died. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Girls; Pregnancy; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards THE BELLES OF MAUCHLINE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mauchline there dwells six proper young belles Last Line: But armour's the jewel for me o' them a'. Subject(s): Girls THE BLUE STAR, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember of the soul Last Line: The blue star see. Subject(s): Girls; Imagination; Memory; Fancy THE BONNIE LASS O' DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O' a' the toons that I've been in Last Line: And the flower o' dundee. Subject(s): Children; Girls; Innocence; Childhood THE BOYS, THE BROOM HANDLE, AND THE RETARDED GIRL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who was asking for it - Last Line: Touching the girl Subject(s): Boys; Fights; Girls THE CHILD NEXT DOOR, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child next door has a wreath on her hat Last Line: Has seen a fairy? Subject(s): Fairies; Girls; Imagination; Elves; Fancy THE CO-ED'S TRIAL BALANCE, by ANNA MANLEY GALT Poem Text First Line: This jaunty hat was topsy's Last Line: These shoes...They must be mine! Subject(s): Classmates; Girls; Schoolmates THE COTTAGE GIRL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child beside a hamlet's fount at play Last Line: A brightness, born and gone with infant mirth! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Girls THE COUNTRY GIRL'S FAREWELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Farewell ye hills and valleys Last Line: What lies to a beau? Subject(s): Country Life;farewell;girls; Parting THE CROSS ROADS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man breaking stones Last Line: And a stone is on her face. Subject(s): Funerals; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Lunch; Murder; Rest; Soldiers; Story-telling; Travel; Burials; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips THE CRUEL MAID, by A. BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: One summer night, in twilight dim Last Line: She put her hand upon his head. Subject(s): Girls THE CULTURED GIRL AGAIN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was so esthetic and culchud Last Line: "fried, lionized, baked, biled, or mashed?" Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Education; Girls THE DARK HAIR'D GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my dark hair'd girl, thy ringlets deck" Last Line: "the pride of being loved by my dark hair'd girl / and oh, etc" Subject(s): Beauty;girls;hair;love THE DESERT DEPORTATION OF 1915, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our dead fathers came down to us in the river Last Line: From the dead. Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918; Death; Funerals; Girls; Graves; Salvation; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE DIZZY GIRL, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As frances was playing and turning around Last Line: "or perhaps it had never been well." Subject(s): Girls; Play THE DUTCH-CUT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! If I could only have Last Line: Curls aren't stylish any more! Subject(s): Children; Girls; Mothers; Childhood THE FAIR QUAKERESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a fair young girl, yet on her brow Last Line: Like waters from the desert-rock of old. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Girls; Quakers THE FUNERAL OF A VILLAGE GIRL, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When fair louise, half child, half woman, died Last Line: And every bird was warbling in its nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Girls; Poverty; Dead, The; Burials THE GERTRUDE HOFFMAN GIRLS, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gertrude, dorothy, mary, claire, alberta Last Line: Marvels, you dance upon the springs of the sky! Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): Girls THE GIDDY GIRL, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss helen was always too giddy to heed Last Line: And giddy miss helen was drown'd. Subject(s): Drowning; Girls THE GIRL, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bridge said Subject(s): Girls; Suicide THE GIRL WITH EIGHTEEN NIGHTGOWNS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And each one to the advantage of her breasts Last Line: That only come out at night. Subject(s): Breasts; Clothing & Dress; Girls; Night; Bedtime THE GIRL WITH THE JERSEY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can sing of the maid Last Line: But the girl with the jersey is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Women THE GIRLS' LOT, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Text First Line: Young men have all the luck! They do not know Last Line: We're kept indoors and cut off from the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Girls THE GOOD GIRL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She's a good little girl -- 'good for what?' did you say? Last Line: She's as good as -- as good as -- as good as -- herself! Subject(s): Girls THE HIGHLAND LASSIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nae gentle dames, tho' e'er sae fair Last Line: To sing my highland lassie, o. Subject(s): Girls THE HINDOO GIRL'S SONG, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Float on - float on - my haunted bark Last Line: For it has gained the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Girls; India; Superstition THE HOYDEN, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss agnes had two or three dolls, and a box Last Line: That she never will play with rude boys any more Subject(s): Boys; Girls; Play THE IRISH PEASANT GIRL, by CHARLES JOSEPH KICKHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: She lived beside the anner Last Line: That withered far away. Subject(s): Girls THE LASS O' ARRANTEENIE, by ROBERT TANNAHILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far lone amang the highland hills Last Line: The lass o' arranteenie. Subject(s): Girls; Love THE LASS O' GOWRIE, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a simmer's afternoon Last Line: But now she's leddy gowrie. Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Girls THE LEPRECHAUN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was so beautiful and light Last Line: His whisper hoarse? Subject(s): Death; Girls; Youth; Dead, The THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the night in woe Last Line: Nor the lion's growl. Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Girls; Lions; Mythology THE LITTLE GIRL LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In futurity / I prophetic see Last Line: To caves the sleeping maid. Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Girls; Loss; Mythology THE LITTLE JUMPING GIRLS, by KATE GREENAWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jump - jump - jump Last Line: Some other day. Subject(s): Girls THE LITTLE MATCH-GIRL, by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little gretchen, little gretchen wanders up and down the street Last Line: How much of happiness there was after that misery. Variant Title(s): New Year's Eve Subject(s): Adversity; Girls THE LITTLE REBEL, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Princess of pretty pets Last Line: Truly tomboyful! Subject(s): Girls THE LOST CHILDREN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two little girls, one fair, one dark Last Line: But the child keeps on playing, so I play Subject(s): Death - Children; Girls; Death - Babies THE LOST PLEIAD, by ARTHUR REED ROPES Poem Text First Line: Twas a pretty little maiden Last Line: As merope or sterope -- I can't recall her name! Alternate Author Name(s): Roos, Adrian Subject(s): Girls; Pleiades (constellation); Stars; Women THE LOST PUDDING, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss kitty was rude at the table one day Last Line: Without giving kitty one taste. Subject(s): Etiquette; Food & Eating; Girls; Manners; Courtesy THE MAID OF LLANWELLYN; A SONG, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've no sheep on the mountain, nor boat on the lake Last Line: Is the maid of llanwellyn, who smiles upon me. Subject(s): Girls; Love THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: ALICE'S STORY. PART I, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The firelight softly glanced upon Last Line: And then her teacher smiled. Subject(s): Children; Girls; Story-telling; Childhood THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: ALICE'S STORY. PART II, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long has the school been left behind Last Line: The opening notes were heard. Subject(s): Girls; Music & Musicians THE NEW CLOAK, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After school I went to walk Last Line: Teachers make a girl so shy! Subject(s): Children; Girls; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE NEW KID ON THE BLOCK, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a new kid on the block, Subject(s): Bullies; Girls THE NIZAM'S DAUGHTER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is yet a child in years Last Line: Is a thrice-veiled shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Girls THE ODE OF CHILDHOOD: 2. GIRLHOOD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Or in another channel still more sweet Last Line: Of an enchanted clime. Subject(s): Girls THE ODE OF YOUTH: 2. MAIDENHOOD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But lo! Another form appears Last Line: Your mingled streams along. Subject(s): Girls; Youth THE ONLY DOLL IN THE VALLEY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up near the sources of po Last Line: For the girls in every valley. Subject(s): Girls; Italy; Italians THE PHILANDERER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, have you forgotten those afternoons Last Line: And she is the fairest girl of all. Subject(s): Girls; Paris, France THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 173, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Raise girls but not too many Last Line: You're big but no match for your mother Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Girls; Parents; Parenthood THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 39, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In april when silkworms are small Last Line: This place is better than mine Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Games; Girls; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 63, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In loyang so many girls Last Line: Or thinking of husbands at home Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Girls; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 65, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A group of girls play in fading light Last Line: White temples and a trembling heart Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Games; Girls; Longing; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 7, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moth-browed girl in town Last Line: The hibiscus can't bear cold Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Girls; Lutes; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SASH, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mamma had ordered ann, the maid Last Line: To whip her, there's no doubt. Subject(s): Girls; Punishment THE SAVING WAY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the little girl was told that the sun someday Last Line: To invent our lives from these rich hours of woe? Subject(s): Dramatists; Girls; Jews; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Judaism; Dramatists THE SCHOOL GIRL: AN IDYLL, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind that all the day had scarcely clashed Last Line: Still shook and jingled in my dream. Subject(s): Girls; Walking; Grief THE SOLITARY REAPER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Behold her, single in the field Last Line: Long after it was heard no more. Variant Title(s): The Reaper Subject(s): Girls; Harvest; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SORROWFUL MASQUERADE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even as to a music, stately and sad Last Line: She needs must cover up her face and weep. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Girls; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE SUMMER GIRL, by EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A half-reclining form Last Line: Of the annual summer girl! Subject(s): Girls THE SUMMER GIRL, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer girl doth now unfurl Last Line: "the cow with the crumpled horn" Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Seduction; Summer; Work; Workers THE TWO NESTS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wise thrush, the wise thrush, she choseth well her tree Last Line: Oh, pitiful her perished dreams to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Girls; Reason; Thrushes; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE UNATTAINABLE, by HARRY ROMAINE Poem Text First Line: Tom's album was filled with the pictures of belles Last Line: "for ""the girl we couldn't kiss." Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Hearts; Longing; Women; Sorrow; Sadness THE URGE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: A girl however hard she tries Last Line: Few can withstand the urge of style. Subject(s): Girls; Obesity THE VALIANT GIRLS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The valiant girls-of them I sing Last Line: Sweet juliet of the telephone. Subject(s): Girls; Women THE WEAVER OF SNOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In polar noons when the moonshine glimmers Last Line: The weaver of snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Fairies; Girls; Laughter; Snow; Weavers And Weaving; Nightmares; Elves THE WONDERS, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mamma, dear mamma,' cried, in haste, mary anne Last Line: "a silent rebuke to all—indolent hands." Subject(s): Girls THE WORM, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As sally sat upon the ground Last Line: To frighten her away. Subject(s): Girls; Worms THE ZEGRI MAID, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer leaves were sighing Last Line: Thus sang the zegri maid. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Girls; Moors (people); Spain THEN COMES THE GIRL WITH THE TAMPON IN HER, by DAISY FRIED Poem Source First Line: Lights out, shades down, boys out Last Line: Us, what we would always have to be Subject(s): Girls; Menstruation THERE IS A GIRL INSIDE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the woods will be wild %with the damn wonder of it Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Girls; Innocence THOSE BAYES GIRLS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Gleamed, like ultra brite choppers Last Line: Of pain and filled them %with ice blue stars Subject(s): Girls THOUGHTS OF A LITTLE GIRL, by MARIA ENRIQUETA Poem Source First Line: I think the flowers can see Last Line: Laugh, sway, and shiver in glee Subject(s): Girls THREE GIRLS, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three school girls pass this way each day Last Line: She dies as soon as her dream is done. Subject(s): Girls THREE WISE FOOLS, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met two men upon the road Last Line: Or worshipper of cheese. Subject(s): Cheese; Girls; Moon TO A BAVARIAN GIRL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, bavaria's brown-eyed daughter Last Line: Flower of isar's vale! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Danube (river); Dreams; Germany; Girls; Life; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Germans TO A LITTLE GIRL OF FIVE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: I wish your eyes might always look Last Line: Forever five! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Girls; Love TO A PICTURE OF MY MOTHER AS A GIRL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did ever a youth pass by the spot Last Line: Without that heart of gold! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Girls; Portraits; Youth TO A SCHOOLGIRL, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My schoolgirl scans with joy Last Line: In faith and love. Subject(s): Girls TO A YOUNG GIRL, by LUCIA CLARK MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: What will be left for you when romance goes Last Line: When youth and laughter vanish in the night? Subject(s): Girls TO A YOUNG LADY, WHOSE BIRD WAS NEARLY KILLED, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As tiney, in a wanton mood Last Line: And praise uncensur'd claim. Subject(s): Birds; Girls TO AMY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Once on a time there was a girl Last Line: Just like the monkeys in the zoo. Subject(s): African Americans; Children; Girls; Negroes; American Blacks; Childhood TO COLLEGE GIRLS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The college girls of a former day Last Line: Of today and the years before! Subject(s): Courtship; Girls; Love; Women's Rights; Feminism TO MISS CRUIKSHANK, A SCHOOLGIRL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauteous rose-bud, young and gay Last Line: The loveliest form she e'er gave birth. Subject(s): Beauty; Girls TO THE MINSTREL GIRL, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Th' critic's heel is on ye, sure Last Line: Sure, bless your heart! Ye didn't need, carolyn, my carolin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Girls; Minstrels; Musical Instruments; Wells, Carolyn (1862-1942) TO THE RETURNED GIRLS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you read my little pome Last Line: Lots of people do not care. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Vacations; Girls; Photography & Photographers; Poetry Readings TOYLAND, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Midnight exactly my momma snores Last Line: This is toyland. I'm belinda. I'm the babe Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Girls; Toys TWO GIRLS, by SUZANNE GARDINIER Poem Source First Line: Who come in the night whispering Last Line: You hungry you thirsty turn Subject(s): Girls UNDER THE ZANZARIERE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She put the comb in one hand and with the left waved. With that Last Line: Persistent voices, like whispers in another room. Subject(s): Girls; Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Daughters; Secrets US, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: There are so many of us in new york, you know Last Line: This one's all about you Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Voices VALENTINE TO A LITTLE GIRL, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little maiden, dost thou pine Last Line: Whom to serve, and whom to love. Subject(s): Girls; Holidays; Valentine's Day VIOLET SHEEHY, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: High heat met dry timber! Fire out of control! Last Line: Stumbled onto the train that churned through the blaze Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes VIRGO GIRL, by JOHN DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Those water-blue eyes Last Line: Will float a world anyone will love Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Girls VOCATION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To play among the words like one of them Subject(s): Girls WALL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The wall splitting the boys' and girls' schools Last Line: The wall, still standing, was a cause of laughter Subject(s): Boys; Girls; Schools WANDA GAG, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: When father died, the neighbors told her Last Line: Supported by her artist's pen Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes WEE CHRISTY CAREW, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: There wor ponies a sellin' 'way up in moysan Last Line: A mindin' I'm thinkin'—wee christy carew! Subject(s): Children; Girls; Ponies; Childhood WHAT ARE LITTLE BOYS MADE OF?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And that's what little girls are made of Subject(s): Boys;girls WHAT DID SHE KNOW, WHEN DID SHE KNOW IT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evenings / what it was the soft tap tap Last Line: When did she know it Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Sex WHAT DID SHE KNOW, WHEN DID SHE KNOW IT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evenings %what it was the soft tap tap Last Line: When did she know it Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Sex WHEN ONE IS A GIRL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a girl, in a pretty green hat Last Line: When I think of my strapping young man! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Girls WHITE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm your oxygen girl Last Line: Too pale to leave turning in the sun Subject(s): Girls; Obsessions WILD GOATS, by ANICE PAGE COOPER Poem Text First Line: The moon is full but it won't spill over Last Line: Hearts never do. Subject(s): Bees; Girls; Hearts; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs WILMA RUDOLPH, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: One leg was bent; her foot turned in Last Line: She ran %and ran %and ran Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes WISHES FOR A LITTLE GIRL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would I ask the kindly fates to give Last Line: To make the best of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Girls; Love; Soul; Wishes WIZARD'S WELL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trudchen! Trudchen!' teased the maids Last Line: Tell me -- did that wish come true? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Girls; Kisses; New York City - Dutch Period WOHELO, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo Last Line: In our hearts their fame will live. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Girls; Maine (state); Sports; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements YIN 87, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Dangarees and silk Last Line: In them braids, too healthy for me Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Girls YOUNG GIRL, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: More slightly your wisdom binds her blue-veined wrist Last Line: Wondering at the choked green death. Subject(s): Flowers; Girls; Love YOUNG GIRL FROM BUDAPEST, by HENRI MICHAUX Poem Source First Line: In the mild mist of a young girl's breath Last Line: You settle back in such a way that at this moment you are %no more Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Girls YOUNG GIRL SEEN IN CHURCH, by ELIZA MARY HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Was she an orphan? -- can another grief Last Line: Each brilliant petal of their heart's deep cup Subject(s): Girls; Public Worship |
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