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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GRATITUDE Matches Found: 93 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHARMED LIFE, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here breathes a solitary pilgrim sustained by dew Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Gratitude A CONCLUSORIE HUMNE TO THE SAME WEEK; & FOR MY FRIEND, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Thus, thus my soule perceiveth now Last Line: Thy sweetnes fir'st, that it must love, or dy. Subject(s): Gratitude; Worship A PARTING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without one bitter feeling let us part Last Line: Remember that I thank you from my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Farewell; Gratitude; Life; Love; Parting A SOLACE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Think not of all the loved ones you have lost Last Line: And thank god for his goodness and his grace. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Gratitude; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A THANKSGIVING FEAST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two are the last my daughter! Last Line: Will be here thanksgiving day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Feasts; Food & Eating; Gratitude; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey AFTER A NOISY NIGHT, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The man I love enters the kitchen Last Line: And kiss him, kiss him. Subject(s): Coffee; Gratitude; Habits; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Morning; Prayer; Sleep; Male-female Relations ALL DAY LONG, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Dear god, it pisseth all day long Last Line: In sweet fierce rattle - the - rafters song Subject(s): Gratitude; Prayer ANSWERING A FRIEND'S GIFT OF CHARCOAL, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: In a plain cottage among green hills Last Line: Warmed a body bent and twisted %into a straight body Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Gratitude AROUND US, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need some pines to assuage the darkness Last Line: Of whatever good we did Subject(s): Gratitude; Pleasure; Thought; Thinking AROUND US, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need some pines to assuage the darkness Last Line: Of whatever good we did Subject(s): Gratitude; Pleasure; Thought ASYMPTOTE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: And so, it was not so much that goldin had been cured-if we Last Line: Asymptotes-goldin should be grateful-but to whom? Subject(s): Gratitude; Healing AUTUMN DAYS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the cup of our life to-day Last Line: Thank him from strand to strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; God; Gratitude; Harvest; Seasons; Fall CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 2. OF GRATITUDE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesper, how comes to pass you now alate Last Line: Vertue to know, and use, is vertue twice. Subject(s): Gratitude DEO GRATIAS, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Thanks be to god for golden afterglory Last Line: Thanks be to god for life's bright afterglow. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): God; Gratitude; Nature - Religious Aspects ENCOUNTER IN A READING ROOM, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Good luck has entered, silky and black, padding Last Line: I drop self-pity gently on the floor Subject(s): Gratitude; Love EPILOGUE; IN MEMORIAM, CHARLES TOPPIN, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Four decades back, obedient to the best Last Line: In love, as added lustre to your fair renown. Subject(s): Boys; Gratitude; Youth EPITHALAMION FOR BILL AND KRIS, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Poised at the threshold of a dream Last Line: Nine bows! Salutations! Praise Subject(s): Gratitude; Love - Marital; Wedding Song ESCAPING, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: He was the only one who succeeded in escaping Last Line: And his name. It was moses Subject(s): Gratitude; Moses; Survival FOUNTAIN IN AVIGNON, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, lovely retching moss-capped cherub: this penny's for you Last Line: Throw them back, throw them out. Subject(s): Angels; Avignon, France; Disdain; Faith; Fountains; Gratitude; Prayer; Wishes; Scorn; Belief; Creed FRED PERRY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, dear fred, our task is done Last Line: Whose name was alfred perry. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Gratitude; Honor; Memory; Monuments; Dead, The GRATITUDE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If gratitude a poor man's virtue is Last Line: Which sent me forth, a broken man, but free. Subject(s): Gratitude GRATITUDE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hound will fawn on any one Last Line: Will ask more praise than thou can'st yield. Subject(s): Gratitude GRATITUDE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The arc of your eyebrows-so new!-draws a splendid dome Last Line: I'm grateful to you for guiding me safely through the throes of birth Subject(s): Birth; Children; Fathers; Gratitude; Parents GRATITUDE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take hold, my bird, of the cherry bough Last Line: For this beautiful ballad's sake! Subject(s): Birds; Gratitude GRATITUDE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Knees and back affirm it was a frosty night Last Line: For the neat, fresh gift of pigeon shit Subject(s): Gratitude; Night; Pigeons GRATITUDE, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I upon the first creation / clapped my wings with loud applause Last Line: Weaned from earth, and led to god. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Religion; Theology GRATITUDE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is on the mountain crest Last Line: Thank god, another night! Subject(s): Gratitude; Nature; Peace; Robins GRATITUDE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you give thanks for this? --or that? No, god be thanked Last Line: Our very heart-beats praise the love that leads us. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Gratitude; Life; Love; Praise GRATITUDE (1), by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all, I thank thee, I, the meek remitter Last Line: But heed thou, that I need not thank thee long. Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Gratitude GRATITUDE IS NOT THE MENTION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Proves it there's no sea, or rather %a remoter bed? Variant Title(s): Poem: 989; Poem: 112 Subject(s): Gratitude GRATITUDE IS THE MEMORY OF THE HEART, by JOHN LEE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Our education began %with your answer to a question Last Line: To the memory of our hearts Subject(s): Gratitude; Hearts; Love GUEST, by JIM PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Thanks for stopping by Last Line: And two glasses for the wine you bought %but forgot to bring Subject(s): Gratitude; Guests; Surprise HE CAUGHT A PTARMIGAN, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source Last Line: But even today miracles can occur Subject(s): Food And Eating; Gratitude; Miracles; Survival HERE'S TO LIFE, by VIOLETA PARRA Poem Source First Line: Thanks to life that has given me so much Last Line: Thanks to life that has given me so much! Subject(s): Gratitude; Hearts; Life; Love HITHERTO, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To bluest skies that arch the way Last Line: Have helped and cheered me hitherto. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): God; Gratitude; Prayer HYMN OF GRATITUDE, by MAGDA HERZBERGER Poem Source First Line: Wake up my friend, %be thankful Last Line: Bow with humility %to the inevitable fate %of man-- Subject(s): Gratitude I AM GRATEFUL, by THERESE AMRHEIN TAPPOUNI Poem Source First Line: I am grateful for the apricot cheek of my youngest daughter Last Line: Years later, and then, only when I know why it must be so Subject(s): Gratitude I THANK THEE, LORD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: For humble souls who bravely bear Last Line: I thank thee, lord! Subject(s): God; Gratitude I WENT TO THANK HER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But turning back 't was slow Subject(s): Gratitude INEXPLICABLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: To look suddenly at eyes Last Line: Shifting havoc through my head. Subject(s): Eyes; Gratitude; Insanity INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration LEAVING CERT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Thanks be to christ it's over,' he said Last Line: I'm goin' to get locked outa me head Subject(s): Gratitude LINES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Portentous sound! Mysteriously Last Line: Tis very kine in you to sing for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving; Gratitude LINES IN MEMORIAM REGARDING THE ENTERTAINMENT I GAVE ON THE 31ST MARCH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 31st of march, and in the year of 1893 Last Line: I'll remember during my stay in dundee. Subject(s): Conventions; Gratitude; Lectures; Assemblies; Meetings; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking LINES IN REPLY TO THE BEAUTIFUL POET, WHO WELCOMED NEWS OF MCGONAGALLS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear johnny, I return my thanks to you Last Line: Or else you'll get the famous weekly news a bad name. Subject(s): Gratitude; News; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Journalism; Journalists; Publishers LIVES OF A POET: FOUR LETTERS TO HAYDEN CARRUTH, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: A friend has sent me Last Line: To teach me to live, to love Subject(s): Friendship; Gratitude; Love; Poetry And Poets LIVES OF A POET: FROM RYOKAN: 1. FROM THE JAPANESE, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Was it all a dream Last Line: And offered nothing more Subject(s): Gifts And Giving; Gratitude MISS LUCINDA'S OPINION, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But why do I keep thanksgiving? Last Line: And I'd not change place with a queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Gratitude; Holidays; Home; Thanksgiving MOTHER, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: Your love was daffodils in spring Last Line: I have my joy of him. Subject(s): Children; Death; Gratitude; Love; Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The MR. W. H. TO THE POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My thanks, dear friend, as always! But, I fear Last Line: And friendship is love's canonized name. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Friendship; Gratitude; Love NEW SPRING: 4, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I'm thankful %that I'm still alive Last Line: I hear the budding sound of life %and a bird's song Subject(s): Gratitude; Life; Prisons And Prisoners NEW YEAR'S 1990, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Joanne's husband was on pan am flight 103 Last Line: And at the turn of the decade write new poems %while you lie breathing Subject(s): Fireworks; Gratitude; Holidays; New Year; Psychoanalysis; Relationships OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 23. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE SIXTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drue gives thee money, yet thou thank'st not him Last Line: And he saith 'god help!' who's the godly man? Subject(s): Gratitude OF BENEVOLENCE: AN EPISTLE TO EUMENES, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Kind to my frailties still, eumenes, hear Last Line: Smooth as the tweed, and as the severn strong. Subject(s): Gratitude OUR PRAYER, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that hast given so much to me Last Line: Thy praise. Variant Title(s): Gratefulness;a Heart To Praise Thee Subject(s): Gratitude; Prayer; Religion; Theology PENSEES DE NOEL, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the landlord wants the rent Last Line: Christmas comes but once a year. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Christmas; Cynicism; Gratitude; Nativity, The PLEIADES AND....CHEESE, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: My friend is robbing honey-bees Last Line: Just bread and cheese! Subject(s): Friendship; Gratitude POLYHYMNIA: L'ENVOY, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, sweet polymnia, thanks for all your cost Last Line: I have taught you to be a christian muse. Subject(s): Gratitude; Love POPULAR BALLAD: NEVER FORGET YOUR PARENTS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young man once was sitting Last Line: You would not have been born. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Gratitude; Grief; Parents; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood RESPICIT ARTIFEX, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Ambitious, young / ardent, inhibited, shy Last Line: No true heart could forget. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Gratitude; Dead, The RETURNING THANKS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take me up, to put me down Last Line: Thank you, thank you, memory! Subject(s): Gratitude; Memory; Youth SATISFACTION, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hired a man to hoe my squashes; he came Last Line: "action, endeavors to give satisfaction, deserves a high renown." Subject(s): Gratitude; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SHIAWASE (II), by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Like hitomaro %watching the lovely woman Last Line: Many moons and simple songs Subject(s): Courtship; Gratitude; Wedding Song SIR AMADACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Then the good knight and his steward true Last Line: And keep us safe in his hand! Subject(s): Friendship;gratitude SONG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: God give you pardon from gratitude Subject(s): Gratitude SONG AT DUSK, by JEAN KAMPSCHROEDER Poem Text First Line: There are no flashing tongues of fire Last Line: God has been so good. Subject(s): Gratitude; Love THANK YOU, by MICAH ICHEGBEH Poem Source First Line: Father of children, I welcome you Last Line: This is our common home Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Gratitude; Igede (african People) THANK YOU FOR SAYING THANK YOU, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This is a totally Subject(s): Self; Poetry & Poets; Gratitude THANKFULNESS, by EVA HAHN Poem Source First Line: Our hearts are full of gratitude Subject(s): Gratitude THANKS WHILST UNHARNESSING, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: West'ring the last silver light doth gleam Last Line: (he closes the stable door and enters the cottage.) Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Gratitude; Horseback Riding THANKSGIVING DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Brave and high-souled pilgrims, you who knew no fears Last Line: And with hearts of thankfulness keep thanksgiving day. Subject(s): Gratitude; Holidays; November; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Thanksgiving; Turkey THE DAYS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the days when nothing happens Last Line: Praises this thanksgiving day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Gratitude; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey THE FAIRY BOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The laird of co has left his hall Last Line: "farewell, farewell, good laird of co!" Subject(s): Gratitude THE LION OF LUCERNE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With equal courage soldier and commander fell Last Line: If rank and title, crowned with glory, live. Subject(s): Gratitude; Honor; Memory; Soldiers THE MISSUS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be kind to the missus, who spends the long Last Line: She's expecting is love. Subject(s): Gratitude; Love; Old Age THE PLACE I WANT TO GET BACK TO, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is where / in the pinewoods Subject(s): Forests; Deer; Gratitude; Woods THE SENTINEL; TO MY FRIEND, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Thanks sweetest friend, who deckest me Last Line: Be thou my second, though my self thou art. Subject(s): Friendship; Gratitude THE SUN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Long before the postman comes Last Line: We thank thee for the sun's good light. Subject(s): Children; God; Gratitude; Prayer; Religion; Summer; Childhood; Theology THE TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE (FOR EDWARD J. WHEELER), by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the jersey city shed Last Line: God bless the train that brought me here. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Gratitude; Home; Love; New Jersey; New York City; Railroads; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THEY COME ASHORE (1), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: In my dream, in the dark, the people Last Line: In the dark that answers their dark clothes Subject(s): Dreams; Gratitude; Saint Kilda (scotland) THIS FUN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Two rats play with each other Last Line: Played in his blood Subject(s): Details; Gratitude; Memory; Rats TO A PANHANDLER WHO, FOR A QUARTER, SAID 'GOD BLESS YOU', by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You held out your hand, expecting (on the average) nothing Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Gratitude; God TO ERON ON HER THIRTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: When the last shadow Last Line: What outlasts us is our love Subject(s): Birthdays; Gratitude TO MY MOTHER, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: I prize this life, dear mother Last Line: Accept it as my gift this mother's day. Subject(s): Faith; Gratitude; Mother's Day; Prayer; Belief; Creed TO THE HONOURABLE AND VIRTUOUS LADY, THE LADY TASBURGH, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That when encrease of age and learning sets Last Line: William bas. Subject(s): Basse, William (1583-1653); Gratitude; Honor; Mothers TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, by RICHARD LEHNERT Poem Source First Line: Two windowless weeks of heaving Last Line: A thousand thank yous %and then the light Subject(s): Gratitude; Old Age; Poetry And Poets; Widows And Widowers TWO COUNTRIES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skin remembers how long the years grow Subject(s): Gratitude; Skin UNIVERSAL GOOD, THE OBJECT OF THE DIVINE WILL; AND EVIL, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The god of love, delighting to bestow Last Line: May both be found self-evidently true. Subject(s): Good; Gratitude; Love VANITY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Thank you for listening, for looking. I admire Last Line: Something true Subject(s): Admiration; Gratitude; Truth; Vanity VERSES TO HER WHO IS JUSTLY ENTITLED TO THEM, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In childhood thy kindness has often caress'd me Last Line: Will preserve thy remembrance when sunset is past. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Gratitude WAKE, MASSACHUSETTS, by MARION PERHAM GALE Poem Text First Line: This place has known a sturdy growth of men Last Line: Set the glance backward! To our grandsires, hail! Subject(s): Army - United States; Freedom; Gratitude; Statesmen; Liberty WORLD STANDS SOLEMNER TO ME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or posture to redeem? Variant Title(s): Poem: 280; Poem: 49 Subject(s): Gratitude; Love - Marital; Marriage YOU ARE ALL LOVELY THINGS, by LORENE BYRNES BURNS Poem Text First Line: You are all lovely things I know in my quiet world Last Line: You are the prayer on my lips. Subject(s): Gratitude; Hearts; Love; Relationships |
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