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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GOLF Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAREER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too long I've been dubbing away at the game Last Line: I'm taking up golf in a serious way! Subject(s): Golf; Sports A LESSON FROM GOLF, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He couldn't use his driver any better on the tee Last Line: For the man who keeps his temper is the man that's sure to win. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Golf; Sports ARMCHAIR GOLFER, OR WHIMPERS OF A SHORTCHANGED VIEWER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's thirty-five miles from chesapeake bay Last Line: Just be grateful you're there for the final four, %and the hell with the first fourteen Subject(s): Golf; Sports BALLADE OF THE GOLFER IN LOVE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the 'foursome' some would fain Last Line: "haste and play a quiet ""twosome""!" Subject(s): Golf; Love; Sports COMPANY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in a fair way to go mad Last Line: Just putter there! Subject(s): Golf; Sports DAVID CLEEK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot think that death will press his claim Last Line: To everlasting golf consigns your soul. Subject(s): Golf; Soldiers' Writings; Sports GOLF, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: On uncle ebenezer's farm Last Line: That gives me weariness. Subject(s): Golf; Play; Sports GOLF, by LAURA LINNEA JENSEN Poem Source First Line: It seems always two years ago Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLF, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: Though they seem carefree and childlike, golfers are Last Line: Vast apparatus of golf has been developed to accomplish a single purpose: assasination Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLF, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You find the links and make a 'tee' Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLF AFTER MANY YEARS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For nine and twenty years they've said Last Line: Shall celebrate, beside some cup, %our thirty years of looking up! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLF AND LIFE, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Life's but a game of golf Last Line: "to ""hole down"" at the end." Subject(s): Golf; Life; Sports GOLF FIEND, by R. F. B. Poem Source First Line: Now who shall tackle the golfer mad Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLF LUCK, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a golfer I'm not one who cops the money Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLFER'S RUBAIYAT, by HENRY WALCOTT BOYNTON Poem Source First Line: Wake! For the sun has driven in equal flight Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLFERS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One-gloved beasts in cleats, they come clattering Last Line: Mere men, old boys, lost, the last hole a horror Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLFERS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One-gloved beasts in cleats, they come clattering Last Line: Mere men, old boys, lost, the last hole a horror Subject(s): Golf; Sports GULF, by LINNEA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Looking at it Subject(s): Golf; Sports INLAND GOLF, by R. K. RISK Poem Source First Line: I hate the dreadful hollow, in the shade of the little wood Subject(s): Golf; Sports; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892) LINES TO A GOLF WIDOW, by JAMES J. MONTAGUE Poem Text First Line: If you had said eight months ago Last Line: To know! Subject(s): Golf; Sports LINKS, by MATT ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Dead turtle why? Last Line: Birdie %putts Subject(s): Golf; Religion; Sports MEMORY, by RALPH BURNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Didn't I think of the clasp Last Line: Out of the wild time unseen, sweet flower of improvisation Subject(s): Golf; Aging QUESTION AND ANSWER (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what is that, mother?" Last Line: That he is swell enough to play at golf? Subject(s): Games;golf;mothers;sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements SEASIDE GOLF, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How straight it flew, how long it flew Subject(s): Golf; Sports SERVANTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I dream, ophelia, how I'd love Last Line: I'll be your caddy Subject(s): Golf; Relationships; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Sports SMALL MIRACLES, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: Knitting lessons on the terrace. The old neighborhood Last Line: And your highest goal is the perfectly struck golf ball Subject(s): Golf; Miracles; Perfection; Sports SONG OF CONSOLATION FOR POOR GOLFERS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Golf is an art, a timely knack Last Line: So when you err with game at stake %part wity your pelf %then tell yourself %few great men ninety ev Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Golf; Sports STRANGE CASE OF THE AMBITIOUS CADDY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time there was a boy named robin bideawee Last Line: Tomorrow you shall caddy for odgen nash Subject(s): Golf; Sports THE CHICKEN; OR, MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO THE ANCIENT GAME OF GOLF, by S. F. OUTWOOD Poem Text First Line: Once upon a day most dreary, I was wandering weak and weary Last Line: And would play it never more! Subject(s): Games; Golf; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE GOFF; AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM: CANTO 3. VICTORY ON THE LAST GREEN, by THOMAS MATHISON Poem Text First Line: To free the ball the chief now turns his mind Last Line: The echoing shore resounds castalio's name. Subject(s): Balls; Golf; Sports; Victory THE GOLF LINKS, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golf links lie so near the mill Last Line: And see the men at play. Variant Title(s): Quatrain Subject(s): Child Labor; Golf; Social Protest; Sports TO A MAYFLY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Hampshire woods are in summer's keeping Last Line: Wait till saturday, then you'll see! Subject(s): Golf; Sports WHO TAUGHT CADDIES HOW TO COUNT?, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have never beheld you, o pawky scot Last Line: In such an humble, contemptful gamie %how anyone plays together Subject(s): Golf; Sports |
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