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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GROWTH Matches Found: 149 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILD TASTES THE LOVELINESS OF LIFE AND FASHIONS A NEW DREAM, by GRACE STONE COATES Poem Text First Line: When I am grown I shall eat citron Last Line: Appraising a pale chartreuse!) Subject(s): Dreams; Growth; Life; Nightmares A GENTLE ART, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been learning how to light a fire Subject(s): Growth; Maturity A PRAYER FOR BILL, by M. REES Poem Text First Line: When me and bill wuz ridin Last Line: Wouldn't do to foller me. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Growth; Pine Trees; Trees A WOMAN-GROWN, by VIRGINIA STAIT Poem Text First Line: In grief I would have cried out yesterday Last Line: A woman -- grown. Perhaps a woman old! Subject(s): Aging; Growth; Old Age; Women ADOLESCENCE, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD Poem Text First Line: White morning, like a frosted window-pane Last Line: Was dark with secrets as the depths below. Subject(s): Adolescence; Growth; Maturity; Time; Youth; Teen Agers AKHMATOVA, by DEBORAH LEA DIGGES Poem Source First Line: So it had to be Last Line: She cannot find the child's face in the man Subject(s): Children; Growth AN OLD ELM TO A SAPLING, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: Hold fast to earth and have no shame Last Line: And stand a cynosure to god! Subject(s): Advice; Growth; Trees AS THE CHILD PRODIGY GROWS UP, by GEMMA COOPER-NOVAK Poem Source First Line: He wonders about his children Last Line: At the moment of climax %instead of her name? Subject(s): Children; Growth; High School Students; Teenagers AT THIRTY-FIVE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three score and ten, the psalmist saith Last Line: Old age! Thy name is thirty-five! Subject(s): Growth; Old Age ATTAR OF VIOLET & LONELINESS, by RICHARD LYONS Poem Source First Line: Things are growing, but not collective yet Last Line: This grievous joy, away from us who give it away %with every little whispering mouth Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Solitude AUTUMN LEAVES, by PEARL B. BLOSS Poem Text First Line: Nature turned their somber green Last Line: In other things which grow. Subject(s): Autumn; Growth; Leaves; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN PLOUGHING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than the beauty of summer Last Line: Though his ploughshare lay me low. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Growth; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers AWAKENING, by F. C. OLDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: A nation yawns and stretches Last Line: Gleams upon the brow of canada! Subject(s): Canada; Growth; Canadians BEAUTY CRUCIFIED, by ANNA SHAW BUCK Poem Text First Line: My neighbor's tree, in sunny field Last Line: Revealed by beauty crucified! Subject(s): Growth; Neighbors; Trees BEGINNING TO GROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A fairy wakes and starts to sing Last Line: "I guess I'll have to grow!" Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Plantation Life; Seeds; Spring BREAST FOR ALL SEASONS, by KEELYN T. HEALY Poem Source First Line: They were 'jugs' in fifth grade Last Line: A pair of pants I've grown into, %a bike I'm ready to ride Subject(s): Breasts; Growth BUILDING TODAY, by LILLIAN VIGGERS Poem Text First Line: I wish that as you walk along life's way Last Line: Oh, don't forget! You are building it today. Subject(s): Growth; Life CEASE, FOOLISH ROSEBUD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, foolish rosebud, cease unfolding Last Line: By thy yet lovelier self to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Roses; Youth CHILDHOOD, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man in the booth is talking Last Line: The day ouyside the window. / boom, agua Subject(s): Children; Growth; Self; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man in the booth is talking Last Line: As he watches the rain now dissolve %the day outside the window Subject(s): Children; Growth; Self CRINOLINE, by MICHAEL LAUGHTER Poem Source First Line: Jimmy jack grew up in san angelo Last Line: Asking how far we each would have to go Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Growth; Homosexuality DANCING MACHINE, by TRACIE HALL Poem Source First Line: Michael was always my favorite jackson Last Line: Michael was always my favorite jackson Subject(s): Children; Growth; Music And Musicians DAYS OF APPLE JUICE AND CHEERIOS, by JAMIE LYNN KNORN Poem Source First Line: The days of apple juice and cheerios are very special days Last Line: Give me one last kiss - %good night Subject(s): Children; Growth; Memory DISPROVED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People tell me I must do Last Line: Keeps on growing through his hair. Subject(s): Baldness; Boys; Fathers; Growth DOVECOTT MILL: 7. YOUTH AND MAIDEN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A half score years have sped away Last Line: And the gardener and bethy live alone. Subject(s): Growth EPITHALAMION, by CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: I feel the surge of expertise Last Line: Made solemnly but with %open hearts - our lives Subject(s): Change; Growth EXPERIENCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no need for you to cheer or nerve Last Line: That where I stand all beauty is the same. Subject(s): Experience; Growth FALSE START, by MABEL DODGE LUHAN Poem Text First Line: Ask me no more of the full flower's speech Last Line: I sicken from sunlight but give me the rain, for I am but seed. Subject(s): Growth; Nature; Plants; Rain; Sun; Planting; Planters FERN, COAL, DIAMOND, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The intense pressure of the earth Last Line: Clear molten light. Subject(s): Diamonds; Growth FIRE, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: You love a fire; you love to sit and watch Last Line: As I write this; you are ten (just); you are %seven Subject(s): Fire; Growth FOUR FOUR SQUARE HOUSES: 1730 SPRING STREET, by MICHAEL MARTONE Poem Source First Line: There is aporch across the full front of the house. The door is in the cen- Last Line: A linoleum floor I watch my parents install, square by square, the same %summer I learn to read ther Subject(s): Growth; Houses FREE GROWTHS, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: At the bottom of the blood there is rank vegetation Last Line: The azure in their eyes Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Growth; Heaven; Soldiers FROM THE WOMEN'S WRITING, by JOYCE ODAM Poem Source First Line: Mother I went down to the well this morning Last Line: I am glad you are free in your own dimension %and I no longer need to frighten you Subject(s): Fear; Growth; Mothers And Daughters; Sisters FULFILLMENT, by FRANCES MOORE GEIGER Poem Text First Line: Happy is he who in life's field shall gain Last Line: Close round thy roots, enriching thine own heart. Subject(s): Growth; Trees GARDEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing at the window at night Last Line: A lord of shadows. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Shadows; Strength GENTLE ART, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been learning how to light a fire Last Line: Like a child grown up, growing strange Subject(s): Growth; Maturity 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 GIVING THE FERN A SECOND CHANCE, by EVE E.M. WOOD Poem Source First Line: Symied in its soil the maidenhair fern refused to grow Last Line: That was it %that was all it would take to keep me Subject(s): Growth; Guilt; Lies; Plants GRATITUDE TO OLD TEACHERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake Last Line: Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Education; Faith; Growth; Maturity; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Belief; Creed; Students; Educators; Professors GRAVITY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Carrying my daughter to bed Last Line: Once carried the weight of my life Subject(s): Growth; Life; Mothers And Daughters GREEN THINGS GROWING, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the green things growing, the green things growing Last Line: If I may change into green things growing. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Growth; Plants; Planting; Planters GROUN-UP, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last year he wanted building blocks Last Line: A pair of rubber boots. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Growth GROWNUP, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All this stood on her and was the world Last Line: In thee, thou once a child, in thee Subject(s): Change; Children; Growth; Women GROWTH, by MARION LOUISE BLISS Poem Text First Line: Below the troubled soil the rose lies Last Line: Can annul nor tidal pain avert. Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Roses GROWTH, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the glory of her childhood change Last Line: But kinder than before. Subject(s): Growth GROWTH, by GRACE ROREM ROBBINS Poem Text First Line: Some times there are when forces crush and pull Last Line: Through love, through willing sacrifice, or both. Subject(s): Growth HOME FIRES, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know how big I'll be tomorrow, you Last Line: I %care to %visit Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Growth; Home; Time HOW I'D HAVE TURNED OUT, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO Poem Source First Line: Mother pours %mathematically precise Last Line: Petals, a river cresting %in our living room Subject(s): Family Life; Growth; Self HUGE WINGS FOR A FRAIL BODY, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: When day approached evening the dusk gathered round a pink doll's Last Line: What did it resemble? Huge wings for a frail body Subject(s): Growth; Maturity; Wings I HAD A DAILY BLISS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I learned to estimate Subject(s): Growth I WAS BORN A BABY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What has been %added? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Growth; Nature IN PROGRESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years ago it seemed impossible Last Line: And her eyes lightnings and her shoulders wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Growth; Progress IN THE DUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year, she announces to us all at dinner Last Line: Is going willingly. I send her willingly Subject(s): Daughters; Dust; Growth IN THE DUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year, she announces to us all at dinner Last Line: Is going willingly. I send her willingly Subject(s): Daughters; Dust; Growth L'EAU DORMANTE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curled up and sitting on her feet Last Line: For lydia will be seventeen. Subject(s): Growth; Teenagers LEAFING, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn twilights Last Line: As a jack-o'-lantern Subject(s): Autumn; Growth; Life; Seasons; Fall LEAFING, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn twilights Last Line: Listen, you tell me, listen, %we are making a shelter inside you Subject(s): Autumn; Growth; Life; Seasons LIFE, FR. THE ABBOT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth! Thou wear'st to manhood now Last Line: But as senseless, false and hollow. Subject(s): Growth; Life LONG AFTER YOU ARE ASHES, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the yard the tree is changing from what it was Last Line: And slowly change and change Subject(s): Brothers; Growth LONG PANTS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never think about it much Last Line: But, mother, now the son is here. Subject(s): Growth MARIGOLDS, by BETH HOUSTON Poem Source First Line: On the fourth day the nausea can't keep down Last Line: Into itself like a sprout groping towards to sun Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Marigolds METAMORPHOSES, by DEBORAH NARIN-WELLS Poem Source First Line: My son recites the names of birds Last Line: Upward, contemplating %the hard blue sky Subject(s): Birds; Change; Children; Fathers And Sons; Growth MOLES, by IBN HAIYUN Poem Text First Line: My white, my shining girl Last Line: My cheeks with ink was sprinkling!' Subject(s): Mole (skin Growth) MOTHER/CHILD: CODA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear teaches nothing Last Line: Consciousness is a blessing Subject(s): Change; Growth MOTHER/CHILD: CODA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear teaches nothing Last Line: This is what we mean when we say %consciousness is a blessing Subject(s): Change; Growth MR. P, by GLEN DOWNIE Poem Source First Line: His silence is absolute %oracular Last Line: & becomes all eyes %a small down-cellar god Subject(s): Aging; Growth; Men MY HOME, by ALMA TATUM GARNER Poem Text First Line: This is my home in the grove Last Line: And here found sanctuary. Subject(s): Growth MY WOUND, by NINA E. CROWLEY Poem Source First Line: Teen age is a fleeting open wound Last Line: To pick off the scab, %accepting all germs Subject(s): Growth; Teenagers MY YEAR AS A HORSE, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK Poem Source First Line: One morning just before I turned twelve, a horse's long face Last Line: You can't do this. I'm a horse. I'm a wild horse Subject(s): Animals; Growth; Horses; Imagination NARCISSUS, by NELL BARNES KNORR Poem Text First Line: Little brown bulb in a little brown bowl Last Line: Little brown bulb how you've brightened our place! Subject(s): Bulbs; Growth; Plants; Planting; Planters NEW YEAR'S GREETING, by ELEANOR B. CLAUSEN Poem Text First Line: Across the frozen spaces Last Line: Each day. Subject(s): Growth; Holidays; New Year NIGHT BLOOMING CACTUS, by MARK MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: She is my prisoner. The cell Last Line: The color of passenger pigeons %if you could see them Subject(s): Growth; Plants NOT A CHILD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a child: I call myself a boy Last Line: Child or boy. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Roundels; Childhood OLD GROWTH, by JACQUELINE HOEKSTRA Poem Source First Line: In the smoking years Last Line: I run through the timber Subject(s): Growth; Trees OMNISCIENCE, by ALEXANDER J. CODY Poem Text First Line: The seeds of time / ah, who may know Last Line: And the burgeoning trees. Subject(s): Growth; Seeds ON CHANGE OF OPINIONS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As you advance in years you long Last Line: To rake into his bag of nought. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Death; Growth; Longing; Maturity; Childhood; Dead, The ON THE GROWTH OF HAIR IN MIDDLE AGE, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: No poem has yet been written Last Line: These wretched scenes of everyday life Subject(s): Aging; Growth; Hair; Science ONLY A DAY AGO, by IRENE SHIRLEY MORAN Poem Text First Line: My son is growing tall Last Line: He was a little thing. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Sons; Childhood OVER EVERYTHING: UP THROUGH THE WRECKAGE OF THE BODY, IN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Had been dropped. On the eighth day Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Growth PAPYRUS, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acorn-brown, the girl's new nipples Subject(s): Growth; Women PAPYRUS, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acorn-brown, the girl's new nipples Last Line: Shrouded in the daylight he keeps breaking Subject(s): Growth; Women PATTERNS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you lay a pattern on life and say, thus shall ye live? Last Line: For the only sin is death, and the only virtue to be altogether alive and your own authentic self. Subject(s): Death; Growth; Life; Order; Self; Sin; Dead, The PEGGY MITCHELL, by ANTHONY RAFTERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As lily grows up easily Last Line: -- and endlessly! Alternate Author Name(s): Blind Raftery; Raifteiri, Antoine; O Reachtabhra, Antaine Subject(s): Growth; Women 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 PLUM HINT, by YEN CHEN Poem Source First Line: Plums have bloomed, comrades. Last Line: Are like the ten thousand hearts of our commune members Subject(s): Growth; Plums; Spring POLIO, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those humid hours taht lingered on for days Subject(s): Children; Growth; Childhood POLIO, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those humid hours taht lingered on for days Last Line: Another year of colds and growing pains for days Subject(s): Children; Growth PRENUPTIAL, by KATHLEEN LYNCH Poem Source First Line: My daughter calls to urge me Last Line: And there will be fruit, mom. %edible fruit Subject(s): Growth; Marriage; Mothers And Daughters; Plants PROBLEM IN A MATH BOOK, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a problem in a math book Last Line: And know what I did well and what I did not fo. Amen Subject(s): Growth; Man-woman Relationships; Maturity; Religion; Male-female Relations; Theology PROBLEM IN A MATH BOOK, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a problem in a math book Last Line: And what I did well and what I didn't amen Subject(s): Growth; Man-woman Relationships; Maturity; Religion PROGRESSION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The resonance of wind and wave Last Line: The heart's experience only knows. Subject(s): Experience; Growth PUMPKINS, by GARY J. WHITEHEAD Poem Source First Line: Up out of old dark Last Line: Sagging toward earth again to be born Subject(s): Growth; Pumpkins PURPLE BLOSSOMS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A babe sleeps under the lilac-tree Last Line: "the whirling leaf swift eddies round, / and rests upon a new-made mound" Subject(s): Flowers;growth REMEMBERING THE THIRTIES, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hearing one saga, we enact the next Last Line: That beards the slag-heap with his hectoring, %whose green adventures is to run to seed Subject(s): Growth RIDE TO THE WEDDING, by PHEBUS ETIENNE Poem Source First Line: I said goodbye to another piece of childhood Last Line: I hid myself, as if defending what I am Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Growth; Tolerance SAMANTHA QUITS GROWING, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Text First Line: From ultrasound to ultrasound Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Grandchildren; Growth; Sickness; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Illness SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 3. BIRTHDAY GREETING, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone to hunt; and my brothers Last Line: Today I am fourteen years old Subject(s): Birthdays; Growth; Teenagers SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 3. BIRTHDAY GREETING, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone to hunt; and my brothers Last Line: Today I am fourteen years old Subject(s): Birthdays; Growth SECOND GROWTH, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: Men know that the birch-tree always Last Line: And of dancing in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Growth SESQUICENTENNIAL ODE; FOR JULY 24, 1926, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is your promise Last Line: In glory above! Subject(s): Flags; Growth; United States; America SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: ODE TO GROWTH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an awl-tip breaking ice Last Line: Within us of less dimension than a freckle Subject(s): Growth SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: ODE TO GROWTH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an awl-tip breaking ice Last Line: Within us of less dimension than a freckle Subject(s): Growth SKIN, by ANN SPIERS Poem Source First Line: Through a plastic tube Last Line: Only then are we sorry we came Subject(s): Animals; Growth; Skin; Snakes SKY AND TREE AND HILL AND ALL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Sky and tree and hill and all Subject(s): Growth; Nature SMELT, by LEE COOPER Poem Source First Line: You can eat smelt fried up crisp Last Line: Crumbs falling from our greasy fingers Subject(s): Children; Food And Eating; Growth; Parents SONG TO PROMOTE GROWTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Truly in the east Last Line: The voice of the bluebird is heard Subject(s): Growth SPEED, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The liquid pearl in springs Last Line: These were the offspring of the deity. Subject(s): Growth SPRING, by BARBARA M. SIMON Poem Source First Line: His hand to the cheek of the ground Last Line: To the harvest, the growing %process in between Subject(s): Growth; Spring SPRING PROMISE, by IRENE ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: Though winter's wrinkled hand Last Line: And pussy willows bloom with birds %seranading budding debutantes Subject(s): Growth; Spring SPRINKLING THE BABY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother says I'm much too small Last Line: Unless they're watered every day. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Childhood STILL LIFE, by GEORGE+(2) YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Six pears on a kitchen window-sill Last Line: My other life is nothing Subject(s): Growth; Pear Trees; Trees SUMMER GLORY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Is it true Last Line: Small helper in such glorious ministry! Subject(s): Growth; Summer SUMMER I SPENT SCREWING IN THE BACK SEATS OF STATION WAGONS, by BARRY NATHAN GOLDENSOHN Poem Source First Line: Was the last summer that lasted all summer Last Line: We wondered, how could he tell? Subject(s): Growth; Memory; Summer SUMMER I WAS SIXTEEN, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud of turquoise pool rose up Last Line: Through chain link to the improbable world Subject(s): Children; Growth; Summer; Swimming SWIFTS, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why this much fascination with you, little loves, why this what feels like Last Line: Then your after-hush which pulses in the sky of memory one last beat more %as full dark falls Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Children; Growth TAKING TIME TO GROW, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mamma! Mamma!' two eaglets cried Last Line: An eaglet can afford to wait Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Growth; Patience TEXAS WISTERIA, by DAVID WATTS Poem Source First Line: It's almost here now, %spring's achievement Last Line: Simply to break forth in passion? Subject(s): Growth; Spring; Wisteria THE CHANGELING, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Squatting, serious Last Line: These little boys can never, never return Subject(s): Change; Children; Growth; Play; Childhood THE CONDITION, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness within me is growing Last Line: Like a thing seen. Subject(s): Growth; Self THE EVENING PRIMROSE, by TIMOTHY OTIS PAINE Poem Text First Line: The primrose blooms at eventide Last Line: But made one so by growing there. Subject(s): Growth; Leaves; Primroses THE GIRL, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That house in which you lived was not you home Last Line: A child no longer. Subject(s): Child Care; Children; Growth; Baby Sitters; Governesses; Childhood THE LIGHTED WINDOW, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said: / 'in the winter dusk' Last Line: "I left my boyhood." Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Growth THE LITTLE SEED SPEAKS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I wonder if the people know Last Line: The fifth or sixth or seventh day! Subject(s): April; Growth; Maturity THE RIVER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awed I behold once more Last Line: And soon may give my dust their funeral shade. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Nature; Rivers; Trees; Childhood THE SUMMER I WAS SIXTEEN, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, Subject(s): Teenagers; Children; Growth; Summer; Swimming & Swimmers; Childhood; Swimmers THE TREE GOD PLANTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The wind that blows can never kill Last Line: Forever grows Subject(s): Growth;plants;trees; Planting;planters THEN, by NINA NYHART Poem Source First Line: I've been a woman and I've been a man. Best of all I liked being a child of Last Line: World behind the world. Time took me by the hand, led me to what I %needed to know. And then let go Subject(s): Children; Growth THESE MOVES WERE NOT ACQUIRED OVERNIGHT. STOP: EXTENDED PALM. ..., by DOUGLAS POWELL Poem Source Last Line: And partly the wings insist. I am not of this world. I know others like me. Oh birdsong Subject(s): Growth THEY SHUT ME UP IN PROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And laugh — no more have I Subject(s): Children; Growth THOUGHTS AND FLOWERS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thoughts grow like flowers overnight Last Line: They will always want to grow. Subject(s): April; Children; Growth; Plantation Life; Childhood TO A DAUGHTER LEAVING HOME, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I taught you / at eight to ride Subject(s): Growth; Home; Mothers; Women TO A DAUGHTER LEAVING HOME, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I taught you %at eight to ride Last Line: Handkerchief waving %goodbye Subject(s): Growth; Home; Mothers; Women TO A YOUTH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, with strong heart, o youth, the change Last Line: Companionably down. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Growth; Soul; Youth TO PAM AND A MARSHMALLOW, by IRENE M. MORSE Poem Text First Line: This, my own, is the season for growing Last Line: You cannot afford to miss even one. Subject(s): Growth; Summer; Sun UPON A MOLE IN CELIA'S BOSOM, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That lovely spot which thou dost see Last Line: Of the bee's honey and her sting. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mole (skin Growth); Beekeeping; Bugs VISIONARY'S COMPANY (FELPHAM, 1831), by RICK HILLES Poem Source First Line: Fact is I was illiterate & sign'd Last Line: His engravings only seldom do we revel in eternity Subject(s): Growth; Relationships WALKING AWAY, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day Last Line: And love is proved in the letting go Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Growth; Parting WALKING AWAY, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day Last Line: And love is proved in the letting go Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Growth WELL BABY, by RAFEL DWAINE RIEVES Poem Source First Line: On most visits you cuddled Last Line: Closely, see what it hides Subject(s): Babies; Change; Growth; Progress WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were small Last Line: Ancient eyes. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WHEN I WAS TWENTY-SIX, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why god allowed montserrat to fall Last Line: I was unfaithful even to infidelity Subject(s): Change; Growth WHEN I WAS TWENTY-SIX, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why god allowed montserrat to fall Last Line: I was unfaithful even to infidelity Subject(s): Change; Growth WHERE I USED TO LIVE, by ELIZABETH ANTALEK Poem Source First Line: Again the morning glories have died Last Line: Inside me, to teach me %that I'm older Subject(s): Children; Growth WHY I CHOOSE BLACK MEN FOR MY LOVERS, by LA LOCA Poem Source First Line: Acid today is trendy entertainment Last Line: No wonder malcolm called them devils Subject(s): African Americans; Communism; Growth; Guevara, Ernesto (che) (1928-1967); Youth WILLY'S BIRTHDAY, by PHILIP C. KOLIN Poem Source First Line: Dress willy up in voices Last Line: Firing up the yard %late at night Subject(s): Birthdays; Change; Growth; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915) WISTERIA, by STEPHEN CRAIG KNAUTH Poem Source First Line: Over time wisteria wraps itself around the heart Last Line: Delicate petals of asking blue Subject(s): Growth; Wisteria YOU CAN DO IT ALL, by SARAT MUKHOPADHYAYA Poem Source First Line: See, you've done it Last Line: There's the endless struggle in the crow-way Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Growth YOUTH'S PROGRESS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was born, my mother taped my ears Last Line: At twenty-one, I was elected zeus Subject(s): Growth; Youth YOUTH'S PROGRESS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was born, my mother taped my ears Last Line: At twenty-one, I was elected zeus Subject(s): Growth; Youth |
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