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| Searching... Subject: HERMITS Matches Found: 51 A HERMIT ON AN ISLAND, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A hermit on an island must have lots of things to do Last Line: But after that, I'd think a man would need some company Subject(s): Hermits BALLAD OF TWO SEAS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore, thy woe these many years Last Line: "I trust to know her grace." Subject(s): Death; Hermits; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pirates; Regret; Sea; Sin; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean CHOMEI AT TOYAMA, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! Last Line: Clacked a few prayers Subject(s): Hermits; Japan; Kamo Chomei (1155-1216); Japanese CHOMEI AT TOYAMA, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! Last Line: My tongue %clacked a few prayers Subject(s): Hermits; Japan; Kamo Chomei (1155-1216) DESIRE FOR HERMITAGE, by SEAN O'FAOLAIN Poem Source First Line: Ah! To be all alone in a little cell Subject(s): Hermits EREMITES, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here 'solitaries,' two-a-penny Last Line: If many, -- 'solitaries' why? Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Hermits FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 3. SOLDANELLA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hermit: / what wilt thou with me, maiden? Little wins Last Line: That snow environed blossom, woman's love. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Hermits; Plays & Playwrights ; Soul; Spring; Dead, The; Woods; Dramatists HENRY THE HERMIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a little island where he dwelt Last Line: The lamp that stream'd a long unsteady light. Subject(s): Aging; Bells; Death; Hermits; Islands; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness HERMIT SUMMER, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The roofless summer nights are peaceful Last Line: You think of rocks in the sun. Of warm wind Subject(s): Hermits; Peace HERMITS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The more I see of people, the more I like my dog Last Line: Hermits never know they’re dead till the roof falls in Subject(s): Absence; Hermits; Misanthropy; Separation; Isolation HILLSIDE COT, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And here the hermit sat, and told his beads Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery Subject(s): Hermits HYMNS OF A HERMIT: 1, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet morn! From countless cups of gold Last Line: Our light returns. Subject(s): Hermits HYMNS OF A HERMIT: 2, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who strength and wisdom sheddest Last Line: The timeless one proclaim'd of old! Subject(s): Hermits HYMNS OF A HERMIT: 3, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time more than earthly o'er this hour prevail Last Line: And he who dooms the flesh, redeems the soul. Subject(s): Hermits; Time HYMNS OF A HERMIT: 4, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stream of life from fountains flow Last Line: And make thy calm of being mine! Subject(s): Hermits HYMNS OF A HERMIT: 5, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal mind! Creation's light and lord Last Line: Unveil'd we see, and hail thy wisdom's call. Subject(s): Hermits HYMNS OF A HERMIT: 6, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can man, o god! The tale of man repeat Last Line: Goes forth to toils heroic manifold! Subject(s): Hermits IMAGE, AS IN A HEXAGRAM, by LEW WELCH Poem Source Last Line: Except for that, you'd never guess %anyone lived there Subject(s): Hermits IN THE MANNER OF LI BO'S 'POEMS IN ANCIENT STYLE', by LU QINGZI Poem Source First Line: Heavy gloom blocks the daytime sun Last Line: Took to the road, bound for a hidden valley Subject(s): Hermits INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT IN THE VALE OF EWIAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here was it, stranger, that the patron saint Last Line: Of david and the deeds of other days. Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Hermits; Saints; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen KING AND HERMIT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now, marvan, hermit of the grot" Last Line: So I might live my life with thee Subject(s): Hermits;nature KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp Last Line: Upon his dying day. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness LITTLE HUT, by TS'AN LIAO TZU Poem Source First Line: One hut holds it all Last Line: An empty vault without a speck of dust Subject(s): Hermits; Solitude; Zen Buddhism MARBAN, A HERMIT, SPEAKS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For I inhabit a wood Last Line: Envy here, my %gentle christ Subject(s): Hermits ON THE HERMIT WILLIAM OF LINDHOLME; HATFIELD, YORKSHIRE, by ABRAHAM DE PRYME Poem Source First Line: Within an humble, lonesome cell Last Line: In short, a garden and a spring %do all life's necessaries bring Subject(s): Hermits REFUTING THE 'INVITATION TO HIDING', by WANG K'ANG-CHU Poem Source First Line: Little hiders hide in the hills and groves Last Line: Come back! And what is there to hope for? %to live and die the same as other things! Subject(s): Hermits TANGENTIAL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes of more than tilbury town Last Line: In which another star had risen. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Hermits THE CHAPEL OF THE HERMITS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do believe, and yet, in grief Last Line: "are now and here and everywhere." Subject(s): Hermits THE HERMIT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mark the hermit's den Last Line: The burden of christ dead. Subject(s): Hermits THE HERMIT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: What moves that lonely man is not the boom Last Line: Comes like a tiger crunching through the stones. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hermits THE HERMIT, by MARION GOBLE Poem Text First Line: He cuts life to his pattern, and wraps it as a cloak about him Last Line: And dreams again a denial: of love returned unto love. Subject(s): Hermits THE HERMIT, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old hunx is a hermit and mystic, his Last Line: "and live in a cave or a ditch!" Subject(s): Hermits THE HERMIT, by THOMAS PARNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in a wild, unknown to public view Last Line: And pass'd a life of piety and peace. Subject(s): Hermits THE HERMIT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the quietude of earth Last Line: Smiles, and waves, and beckons me. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Calm; Hermits; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility THE HERMIT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on the hoary mountain-top he dwelt Last Line: In one majestic utterance of praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Hermits THE HERMIT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who, counting human joys as vain Last Line: And sees in heaven the smile of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Angels; God; Hermits; Rewards THE HERMIT AT OUTERMOST HOUSE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sky and sea, horizon-hinged Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Hermits THE HERMIT'S PRAYER, by GEORGE H. SOULE JR. Poem Text First Line: A hermit knelt before his woodland shrine Last Line: Then spattered many a drop without a prayer. Subject(s): Hermits; Yale University THE HERMIT'S SACRIFICE, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From rome's palaces and villas Last Line: Gladiators came no more. Subject(s): Hermits; Rome, Italy THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 265, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When hermits hide from society Last Line: Aren't stained by the muddy world Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Happiness; Hermits; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 276, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're not really hermits Last Line: Aping those who shun the dust and wind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Hermits THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 287, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain is nothing but clouds Last Line: He remains a man beyond form Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hermits; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 70, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hermit's heart is heavy Last Line: The cinnamon trees detain him Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Duty; Grief; Hermits; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 71, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone lives in a mountain gorge Last Line: He stands alone steadfast Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hermits; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE RECLUSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you live in shadows and sighs Last Line: "will hide me forever from your eyes!" Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; God; Hearts; Hermits; Life; Night; Roses; Supernatural; Bedtime THE THREE HERMITS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three old hermits took the air Last Line: Sang unnoticed like a bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hermits; Imagination; Mortality; Old Age; Vision; Fancy TO A HERMIT THRUSH, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Here in the shelter of tall, towering trees Last Line: To form your hymn of praise, o hermit thrush! Subject(s): Hermits; Music & Musicians; Quiet Life; Solitude; Loneliness TO A YOUNG WOMAN DYING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She hears a hermit laughing Last Line: That she loves something she has not found. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fear; Hermits; Love; Women; Dead, The TO GET A CLOSER LOOK, by DEBORAH CUMMINS Poem Source First Line: Saturdays, after funeral mass, I scavenged pews Last Line: Got out, wore veils and long dresses, %were married, at least, to god Subject(s): Hermits VESPERS WITH THE HERMIT, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: He was dumbfounded at my visit Last Line: And hot water cornbread %steamed to a conclusion Subject(s): Hermits WHISTLING PAVILION, by WU XIAO Poem Source First Line: Already the dynasties wei and jin are as a dream Last Line: Why go as far as peach blossom spring? Subject(s): Hermits |
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