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| Searching... Subject: HEAT Matches Found: 82 4TH OF JULY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ship moves Subject(s): Shi-ps & Shipping; Heat A DESERT DAY, by ALMA LACOCK Poem Text First Line: Heat waves above the desert gleam as bright Last Line: With worlds just cast from god's creative hand. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Sonnet (as Literary Form) A SUNSET BREEZE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All of the livelong day there was scarcely a rustle of leaves Last Line: And lo, as the mother knelt, the baby smiled in its sleep! Subject(s): Evening; Heat; Sunset; Twilight A WATCHED POT, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not / to mark the first Last Line: Bottom can give rise to Subject(s): Heat AMORETTI: 32, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The painful smith with force of fervent heat Last Line: And she to stones at length all frosen turne? Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Heat; Cold; Despair AN AUTUMN CAROL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Oh, our hearts are aglow with contentment Last Line: For there 's heat in the steam-pipes to-day! Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Heat; Landlords & Tenants; Seasons; Fall ANOTHER SUMMER DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A dewdrop sparkled in the sun Last Line: Another summer day. Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Seasons; Summer; Sun; Joy; Delight AT NINETY IN THE SHADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hot weather? Yes; but really not Last Line: Compared with weather twice as hot! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Heat; Summer; Weather BENT TONES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a dance at the black school Last Line: She could see floyd little %changing his shirt for the umpteenth time Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): African Americans; Heat; Poverty COOL WEB, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Children are dumb to say how hot the day is Last Line: Facing the rose, the dark sky and the drums, %we shall go mad no doubt and die that way Subject(s): Heat; Language DESERT PARABLE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miles above them, miles below Last Line: Than night Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Canyons; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat DESERT SCULPTURES, by HENRY J. MORRO Poem Source First Line: We go back to the desert Last Line: Our sweat %carving the earth Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Heat; Sun DROUGHT, by SALLY LOGAN Poem Source First Line: My first summer of marriage Last Line: Until my husband trapped it, then let it go Subject(s): Drought; Heat; Marriage; Summer FIRE, by DUANE ACKERSON Poem Source First Line: Once, fire was used to put out water. When a house was drowning Last Line: Lightning bolt that breaks for enough fire to water our gardens Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Fire; Heat; Lightning FIRESIDE, by JAMES BINNEY Poem Text First Line: A fire is such a thing as might be known Last Line: Content with warmth and safety from the years. Subject(s): Contentment; Fireplaces; Heat FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: However lonely we were before / becomes unclear Last Line: By setting-free the soil Subject(s): Farm Life; Heat; Middle West; Oklahoma; Summer; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States GARDEN: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, rend open the heat Last Line: Of your path. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Heat Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening; Heat HAIKU, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: August heat Last Line: Sits by the fan Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It clings to us, Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Heat; Heat HEAT, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It clings to us Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by J. REDWOOD ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: The heat was like a solid thing Last Line: And not a burning ball of steel %that weighed the whole world down Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the sun for days Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by LAUREL ANN BOGEN Poem Source First Line: I pace in the shadows Last Line: In this heat %in this night %where I cannot smell the jasmine Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by OLGA CABRAL Poem Source First Line: The sun fires my bones Last Line: I am not empty %I am filled with time Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Today is more arduous than the inferno Last Line: No blindness from the torture of the light Subject(s): Heat; Sun HEAT, by GILBERTO GONZALEZ Y CONTRERAS Poem Source First Line: Tropical mid-day. Indolence Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Heat breaks the night Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: Soon the dazed glory heat will be replaced by leaves - Last Line: Touch how it burns into my sight %for when you are not Subject(s): Heat; Seasons; Summer HEAT, by MICHAEL HETTICH Poem Source First Line: I sit in shade Last Line: And he laughs Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From plains that reel to southward, dim Last Line: My thoughts grow keen and clear. Subject(s): Heat; Summer HEAT, by VALERIE LINET Poem Source First Line: The sun rises in my mouth Last Line: Behind the horizon of my tongue Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by KENNETH MACKENZIE Poem Source First Line: Well, this is where I go down to the river Last Line: That heat would be arrested on its shore Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by MARGARET MCGARVEY Poem Text First Line: Heat holds the lowlands now Last Line: Still as under glass. Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a heat Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by KAY RYAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a heat Last Line: For when the warming %starts Subject(s): Heat HEAT, by DEBORAH STEIN Poem Source First Line: Hot boys, she says, are sweet in the summertime Last Line: Sweat gleaming just beneath their skin Subject(s): Heat; High School Students; Passion; Teenagers HEAT, by PAMELA STEWART Poem Source First Line: When I was little and summer dredged my skin Last Line: Drink. But something I can't say is missing Subject(s): Heat HEAT (2), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cloudless sky and pitiless sun Last Line: How little we know of the pain that's borne %for the bread we eat and our yellow corn Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Heat HEAT WAVE, by KATHLEEN SUTTON Poem Text First Line: Dawn lifts a brazen head above the hill Last Line: Summer is old; it will not sing again. Subject(s): Heat HEAT, 1994, by CHRISTINE E. MONTROSS Poem Source First Line: In sarajevo they are burning books Last Line: Offering herself instead, wishing she could burn Subject(s): Books; Heat; Sarajevo, Bosnia HEATWAVE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By ten we know the day is out of order Last Line: All given to being, a gentler way to die Subject(s): Heat HIGH NOON AT LOS ALAMOS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To turn a stone / with its white squirming Last Line: For the silence Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Fire; Heat; Noon; Solitude; Sun; Loneliness HOT STAGNANT EVENING, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One's feet are baking, one can feel the arteries throbbing in one's ankles Last Line: Or a flower in the chintz of the bare prim parlor of an old maid in quimper - or a heron Subject(s): Dreams; Heat HOT WEATHER IMAGININGS, by T. R. Poem Text First Line: I feigned a fountain, mossy-lipped Last Line: There never came a breeze!) Subject(s): Dreams; Heat; Mirages; Nightmares HOW PALESTINIANS KEEP WARM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Choose one word and say it over Last Line: And when your shawl is as thin as mine is, you tell stories. Subject(s): Heat; Language; Palestine; Story-telling; Words; Vocabulary IN HEAT, by KEVIN BOYLE Poem Source First Line: The summer heats past luxuriance, the day lilies Last Line: Those little black eyes don't flinch. Just fire Subject(s): Heat; Summer IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY, SELECTION, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: We may not fail in zeal, nor effort shirk, Last Line: We hear the rustle of a started thrush. Subject(s): Heat IN THE MONTH OF GREAT HEAT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It is time to leave' Subject(s): Crickets; Heat INVOCATION; WRITTEN ON A VERY HOT DAY IN AUGUST, by HANNAH COWLEY Poem Text First Line: Cooling zephyrs haste away Last Line: But dart, with vigour, to my arms! Alternate Author Name(s): Matilda, Anna; Parkhouse, Hannah Subject(s): Heat; Travel; Wind; Journeys; Trips IT IS TOO HOT, by PETER PAYACK Poem Source Last Line: It is too hot', she said Subject(s): Heat JANUARY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After days of putting down my poem Subject(s): Heat JANUARY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After days of putting down my poem Last Line: Since I am the one who keeps the fire Subject(s): Heat LIMERICK, by TUDOR JENKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a very warm day,' observed billy Last Line: "if one were a coolie in chile!" Subject(s): Heat MEMORIAL IN FLAME, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: If I might write of you in flame Last Line: From lost days, in an old gray sack. Subject(s): Heat MUSIC ON THE DESERT, by KATHERINE NICHOLS OWSLEY Poem Text First Line: The tumble-weeds whirl happily and spin Last Line: To the sudden drumming of the rain. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat; Sun NINETY-NINE IN THE SHADE, by ROSSITER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! Last Line: And deepens the chill of its dark-running wave. Subject(s): Cold; Heat; Weather NOON QUATRAINS, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day grows hot, and darts his rays Last Line: We may again enjoy the day. Subject(s): Heat; Noon ON FIRE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It begins as combustion, this making of heat and light Last Line: The remnants of a life rise up, sunlight %descending into trees Subject(s): Fire; Hallucinations And Illusions; Heat PARIS BY DAY, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: See the great circle of copper shine above Last Line: Our special sustenance is our flask of gall. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Day; Heat; Paris, France; Poetry & Poets - French; Sun PHILOSOPHY IN WARM WEATHER, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now all the doors and windows Last Line: Pulling up the corn Subject(s): Heat PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: HEAT, by ELIZABETH KING COWGILL Poem Text First Line: Naked heat devils Last Line: Like demons paroled from hell. Subject(s): Heat; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States PURA VIDA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such heat! It brings the brain back to its basic blank Subject(s): Heat; Mnd, The SANARY, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her little hot room looked over the bay Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Heat SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ON THE HISTORY OF HEAT, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old ones felt it as part Last Line: Flesh and bone conduct all too well Subject(s): Heat SONIC RELATIONS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the space of an ear Last Line: He gathered round her %her warmth her terrible warmth Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Heat; Talk STILL HEAT, by GRACE CONNER HARRIS Poem Text First Line: The hot night lowers a heavy blotter Last Line: On a tin roof. Subject(s): Heat SUMMER AFTERNOON, by MAY HOWARD MCEACHERN Poem Text First Line: The day, quite overcome with heat Last Line: To sprinkle them, she laughed aloud! Subject(s): Heat SUMMER HEAT, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give over to the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Heat; Summer SUN AND DUST, by RICARDO PALMA Poem Source First Line: In a swift whirlwind rises to the sky Last Line: Immortal is its light Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Immortality; Light; Sun SUN SPOTS, by LAURA D. NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: A yellow snake senses heat %and sheds skin in a rock crevice Last Line: Passing through close coral %in and out of sun spots Subject(s): Heat; Seashore; Sun; Waves THE AMERICAN FIREMAN, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: A clamor and clatter of galloping hoofs Last Line: Had half such a guerdon won. Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Heat; Smoke; Water THE BEAUTIFUL SUN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful sun! With thy golden rays Last Line: In our prayers every morning and night! Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Praise; Sun; Joy; Delight THE COOL WEB, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children are dumb to say how hot the day is Subject(s): Heat; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE FIRE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near the house flowed, or paused, the black / canal Last Line: Men that defeated ruinous angels and shall still defeat. Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Heat; Smoke THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 118, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The month when farmers escape the heat Last Line: Sumeru is just a pea Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Farm Life; Heat; Wine; Agriculture; Farmers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 182, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No matter how lofty your spirit Last Line: You'll be no warmer than ice Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Heat; Money THE PRAYER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slender leaves of the acacia trees Last Line: And laid his unvoiced grief on allah's heart. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Mercy; Prayer THE SIMPLE LIFE - ON SIDEWALKS; APRIL 1906, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A lady, dainty, young, and fair Last Line: Was worth the burdens it disguised. Subject(s): Firefighters; Heat; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke THE SPIRIT OF THE DESERT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: An indian rides across the plain Last Line: They fade into the desert-dearth. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat TO THE COLORADO DESERT, by MADGE MORRIS WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Thou brown, bare-breasted, voiceless mystery Last Line: God must have made thee in his anger and forgot. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Desert Animals; Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat TO THE SUMMER SUN (CORONADO), by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great sun, why are you pitiless? Last Line: That I may miss you for a day! Subject(s): Heat; Summer; Sun VERY HOT DAY, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know what's going to happen Subject(s): Ice; Heat |
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