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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOUSES Matches Found: 562 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 328 SIXTEENTH AVENUE, by ROBERT GIBB Poem Source First Line: April 1948, backyard and alley, the buckled brickweave Last Line: Or why, in each, my eyes are so pale and wary and wide Subject(s): Houses 6825, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: A young black man came Last Line: Like last time he %did a good job Subject(s): Houses; Numbers 87 CASA GRANDE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: On the gila's sun-burnt plain Last Line: On la casa grande's brow. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Legends A CABIN IN THE CLEARING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't believe the sleepers in this house Last Line: The kindred spirit of an inner haze Subject(s): Houses; Pilgrim Fathers A DESERTED HOUSE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The road, that singing gypsy Last Line: Whisper at the door! Subject(s): Houses, Deserted A DULL SPIRIT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I see the houses, but I swear Last Line: And houses, look the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Houses A FALLEN HOUSE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end has come, which never seems the end Last Line: On ruin of what was they may not build. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Houses A FENCE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the stone house on the lake front is finished Last Line: Except death and the rain and to-morrow. Subject(s): Fences; Houses A FRAGMENT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a sandy level wherein stood Last Line: As morning falls from heaven -- so bright! So bright. Subject(s): Houses; Love A GREAT MAN'S HOUSE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was written in marble in golden letters: Subject(s): Houses A HEART-HAUNTED HOME, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At lisnamaine, since thither he comes no more Last Line: Let so his eyes be dark, his heart be cold. Subject(s): Absence; Haunted Houses; Mothers & Sons; Shadows; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness A HOUSE, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now very quietly, and rather mournfully Last Line: May hide and wait for it in time and space. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Houses A HOUSE THAT'S A HOME, by IRMA JEFFERS NELSON Poem Text First Line: A house that's a home has a soul Last Line: With experience of bygone days. Subject(s): Home; Houses A HUNDRED COLLARS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The doctor slid a little down the pillow. Subject(s): Hotels; Relationships; Fear; Money; Collars; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses A MOUNTAIN LODGE, by DOROTHY A. KROGMANN Poem Text First Line: Nestling amid the verdant steep Last Line: You know protection's care. Subject(s): Houses; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A PARABLE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High-brow house was furnished well Last Line: And there you'll find it still. Subject(s): Grail; Housekeeping; Houses; Story-telling; Holy Grail; Graal A POEM FROM BOULDER RIDGE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skeleton of a teepee stood on boulder ridge Subject(s): Houses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A SERIOUS CASE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we happen to choke ujp on history, none too soon Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums A SIMPLE SERMON FOR COUNTRY COTTAGERS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A workman worth your weight in gold Last Line: Who works for him his wage is sure! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Country Life; Houses A STORY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone loves a story. Let's begin with a house Subject(s): Houses; Story-telling A SUGGESTION, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Let us go and live in a perfectly new / house Last Line: Where we may live and lovewith nothing more to learn! Subject(s): Hearts; Houses; Love; Romance A TRUE STORY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One afternoon in my room Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses ABANDONED FARMHOUSE, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: He was a big man, says the size of his shoes Subject(s): Houses, Deserted ABANDONED HOTHOUSE, by JIRINA FUCHSOVA Poem Source First Line: Rows of roses Last Line: Death tired %hands Subject(s): Flowers; Houses, Deserted; Roses ABANDONED HOUSE IN LATE LIGHT, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sparrow lights Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Animals ABSENCE OF A HOUSE, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: I see wild-grown grass on a color photograph Last Line: And in the absence %of a house Subject(s): Absence; Houses, Deserted; Solitude ACCEPTANCE, by ETHEL ARNOLD TILDEN Poem Text First Line: This house is ugly - but it is the house I live in Last Line: I'll sit long in the purple dark -- nor light the candles. Subject(s): Houses; Ugliness AD INTERIM, by HELEN C. LAIRD Poem Text First Line: I think when I look across the street Last Line: And I fail to see it grieve. Subject(s): Absence; Houses; Separation; Isolation ADD THIS TO THE HOUSE, by PETER GIZZI Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Not a still life into which artifice may enter Subject(s): Houses; Truth ADULTERY, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have all been in rooms Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Marital; Marriage; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER READING IN A LETTER PROPOSALS FOR BUILDING A COTTAGE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a runnel build my shed Last Line: And then I'll thank ye for the gift, %as something worth the giving Variant Title(s): Proposals For Building A Cottag Subject(s): Houses AFTER THE PAPAGO, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've done it now Last Line: On the homeward road Subject(s): Desire; Fish & Fishing; Houses; Trout; Anglers AMORIS EXSUL: 13. THE VILLA EMILIA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gates that I never entered, under the shadow of the trees Last Line: The shadowy love that I lay at your portals, villa of dreams! Subject(s): Houses AN EMPTY PLACE, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing for death Subject(s): Houses, Deserted AN OLD HOUSE, by MARTHA E. CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: An old house broods beneath the trees Last Line: With her, among the flowers. Subject(s): Houses AN OLD HOUSE BURNS, by ALYS TOWNES Poem Text First Line: He said once, 'I will build a viking ship Last Line: And like a blackened mast fall, shattered, down. Subject(s): Fire; Houses AN OLD HOUSE IN LONDON, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: In fancy I can see thee stand Last Line: Birds sing, and saw the sweet wild flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Houses AN OLD INN BY THE SEA, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long we had heard the voice of the sea Last Line: He sent this last dark cohort crashing in? Subject(s): Hotels; Sea; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Ocean ANALOGY AT A DESERTED HOUSE, by BYRON HERBERT REECE Poem Source First Line: Beautiful at nightfall about the empty house Subject(s): Houses, Deserted APERTURE IN THE HOUSE, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: Tell them this who talk among themselves Last Line: As the aperture in the house opens its eye Subject(s): Houses ARCH OF GOLD IN THE FOREST, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: When I left yeddo the great sun was flaming Last Line: Mingling with their ceaseless whisper Subject(s): Forests; Houses; Japan ARCHITECT, by LOUISE TOWNSEND NICHOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Houses I dreamed and drew alive come now,' he said, Subject(s): Houses ARCHITECTURAL MASKS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a house with ivied walls Last Line: You vulgar people there.' Subject(s): Houses AS A REAL HOUSE, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said darkling and you said sparkling Subject(s): Houses; Imagination; Fancy ASYLUM, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A house ringed round with trees and in the / trees Last Line: Asylum from the thought and fear of death. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Houses; Dead, The AT A HOTEL IN ANOTHER STAR, by JEAN VALENTINE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: At a hotel in another star. The rooms were cold and Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses AT CRAIG-Y-PISTYLL, by JOHN BARNIE Poem Source First Line: At craig-y-pistyll there's a deserted house Last Line: He took himself again to be the person that he was Subject(s): Houses, Deserted AT MRS. APPLEBY'S, by ELIZABETH UPHAM MCWEBB Poem Source First Line: When frost is shining on the trees Last Line: It's spring at mrs. Appleby's Subject(s): Houses AT THE DAYS END MOTEL, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I turned on the waterworks and said Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses AT THE ROADHOUSE: IN MEMORY OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You hearken, fellows? Turned aside Last Line: The velvet jacket at the door. Subject(s): Hotels; Poetry & Poets; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses ATMOSPHERE, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: The house stood out-lined harsh against the sky Last Line: A loveliness we scarce suspect is there. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Desolation; Houses, Deserted; Love BALLADE, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Couldst thou look into mine heart Last Line: Banish spectre forms away. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Imagination; Fancy BANKSIDE; HOME OF EDMUND QUINCY, DEDHAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I christened you in happier days, before Last Line: Nor public office a tramps' boosing-ken. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Houses; Quincy, Edmund (1808-1877); Dead, The BEAUTIFUL ABERFOYLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains and glens of aberfoyle are beautiful to sight Last Line: When the face of nature's green in the spring of the year. Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Mountains; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL NAIRN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye tourists who wish to be away Last Line: Therefore I would recommend nairn for balmy pure air. Subject(s): Hotels; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Vacation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips BENDING TIME, by JULIA VAN GORDER Poem Source First Line: Near your old homestead, grandfather Last Line: And watch you harvest oil Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Memory BERKLEY COMMON, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Summer broods o'er berkley common, o'er the fields of everlasting Last Line: For the empty houses fill them with a feeling like to fear. Subject(s): Ghost Towns; Houses, Deserted BESIDE MILL RIVER, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my key sticks in the neighbor's Last Line: High-rise of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Houses; Identity; Neighbors BETWEEN THE GARAGE AND THE HOUSE, by LINDA LEE HARPER Poem Source First Line: I have barely enough room Last Line: Of your face returning %as blank and unfamiliar Subject(s): Houses; Walking BEYOND THE HUNTING WOODS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I speak of that great house Last Line: Ever, ever come? Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Memory; Houses BEYOND THE HUNTING WOODS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I speak of that great house Last Line: Nor home from the hunting woods %ever, ever come? Subject(s): Houses BIG, SPOOKY HOUSE, by DONNA WASHINGTON Poem Source First Line: Once there was a man Last Line: He was a gone man! Subject(s): Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural BLACK BULL OF ALDGATE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black bull of aldgate, may thy horns rot from the sockets Last Line: Than ever hasty clement's did with bloated harry! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hate; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BLACK MARE, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It snakes behind me, this invisible chain gang Last Line: Terminal hotel, the world shuddering with trains Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Complaints; Disappointmenr; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BLUE FARM HOUSE, CA. 1846, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: At least six cats called; dogs barked by every tree Last Line: Now he smells his own rude smell Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Relationships BLUE SUNDAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness BLUE SUNDAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Last Line: And papers blow down the street Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude BOARDING HOUSE, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blind man draws his curtains for the night Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BORROWED HOUSE, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: This isn't our table, that wasn't our bed Last Line: And be heard from: peaches, pears, and apricots %vendettas, charms, and prayers Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted; Prairies; Rooms BOX ELDER BUG, by LAURENCE W. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: In this house where even in the cupboards you find a flat green jade Last Line: Looking out the living room window, ceramic south american bells %on the back of the stove Subject(s): Houses; Museums BRANCH: 2. DWELLING, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This winter air could crack, this winter night is like a black shell Last Line: Passing a kiln. Not its kiln, maybe. But, still: a kiln, %a family dwelling Subject(s): Houses CALIFORNIA CITY LANDSCAPE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a mountain-side the real estate agents Last Line: How long it might last, how young it might be. Subject(s): California; Houses CAPRICCIOS, by JAIME SABINES GUTIERREZ Poem Source First Line: The girl plays the piano Last Line: Not to have a home Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Solitude CAUTION AND ECONOMY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plan reduced from small to less to make his house compacter Last Line: The builder, his own architect, became his own contractor. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Houses CEILING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose the ceiling went outside Subject(s): Houses CHANEL NO. 5, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life had become a sort of gorgeous elegy Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses CHATEAU PAPINEAU, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The red-tiled towers of the old chateau Last Line: The shaded walks -- the shadowy hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan Subject(s): Houses; Middle Ages; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature CHILDREN OF THE WORKING CLASS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt, ugly deformed Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Psychiatric Hospitals; Childhood; Work; Workers; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums CHINESE SPACE, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Beijing. China; Ancestors & Ancestry; Relatives; Heritage; Heredity CHOOSING A DWELLING PLACE IN LUO-YANG, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back from three years in charge of a province Last Line: I'm not watching out for myself alone - %my rocks and crane must have a haven Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Houses CITY ELEGIES: 3. HOUSE HOUR, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the pale honey of a kitchen light Subject(s): City & Town Life; Houses COLD DAY IN MAY, by KIMBALL MACKAY-BROOK Poem Source First Line: It's one of those spring days winter Last Line: And when I hung up, the last %crow lifted off, clean as a sun Subject(s): Cold; Houses; May (month) COMEDY, by JEUNE COUNTRYMAN Poem Text First Line: Look, little house, I am laughing at you Last Line: At the comical trick you played on me.) Subject(s): Houses COUNTRY HOUSES, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Country houses crack their knuckles, click their teeth Last Line: The first shot ricochets off the closet door Subject(s): Country Life; Houses CRAYON HOUSE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two or three lines across; the black ones, down Last Line: And the beginning was real. The drawing of a child Subject(s): Crayons; Houses CREDO, by CORAL MORGAN Poem Text First Line: I know my people. Looking from afar Last Line: And I shall bid my kinsmen enter in. Subject(s): Houses; Religion; Theology DAFFY WILL, by LADD FRISBY MORSE Poem Text First Line: Little he was / little an' bent Last Line: Like he's poorin' a cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Faces; Houses DANCING AT THE CHELSEA, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is no longer a question of balance and yet Last Line: Made in the aisle of an abandoned pullman. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hotels; New York City; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple DARK HOUSE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a dark house, very big. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Houses DARK HOUSES, by JOHN B. LEE Poem Source First Line: One winter afternoon Last Line: With a stone in her hand Subject(s): Houses DAWN ON THE HILLS (FROM A HOTEL WINDOW), by LILLIAN ATCHERSON Poem Text First Line: My home is a suite on the third floor up Last Line: May I walk with my fellowmen. Subject(s): Dawn; Hotels; Sunrise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY; AT THE RETREAT FOR THE INSANE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth glows upon her blossom'd cheek Last Line: Weep not as others weep. Subject(s): Death; Psychiatric Hospitals; Sleep; Youth; Dead, The; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums DESERTED HOUSE, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The avenue %defined %by the footsteps of the dead. How the echo Last Line: Earth of beauty fatherland Subject(s): Houses, Deserted DESERTED HOUSE, by PHOEBE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Old, neglected cedar trees press close Last Line: Where only memory lingers, only echo calls. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Memory DESERTED HOUSE, COUNTY GALWAY, by JOHN DREXEL Poem Source First Line: These, that have fallen into wildness Subject(s): Galway, Ireland; Houses, Deserted DESIRE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a small wrought-iron balcony Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses DIRECTIVE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back out of all this now too much for us Last Line: Drink and be whole again beyond confusion Subject(s): Country Life; Houses; Memory DIRECTIVE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back out of all this now too much for us Last Line: Drink and be whole again beyond confusion Subject(s): Country Life; Houses; Memory DOLL HOUSE, by FRANCESCA ABBATE Poem Source First Line: I thought growing up meant I could live there Last Line: Static. Little waves of leaf-echo, moth Subject(s): Dollhouses; Houses; Memory; Toys DOWN ON WRIGGLE CRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly, folks is law-abidin' Last Line: Down on wriggle crick! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Crime & Criminals; Hotels; Streams; Creeks; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses DR. DELANY'S VILLA, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you that delville I describe? Last Line: There's nothing but yourself that's great. Variant Title(s): A Description Of Doctor Delany's Villa Subject(s): Delany, Patrick (1685-1768); Houses DRAB HABITATION OF WHOM?, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or some elf's catacomb? Subject(s): Houses EARLY SHOW, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here even the darkness Subject(s): Flop-houses; Sex EBENEZER-GRAMS: 2. UNKEL EB IS SPEEDIN', by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Unkel eb is now a speedin' Last Line: Wher weery peeple pass. Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips EMERALD ICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were a jeweler Subject(s): Beauty; Emeralds; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums EMINENT DOMAIN, by ROY MARTIN SCHEELE Poem Source First Line: The house torn down now, a hole in the earth, with a snow fence thrown Last Line: The day. It was like a glimpse of a face at a window Subject(s): Houses; Roads; Travel EMPTY HOUSE, by RUSSELL HOBAN Poem Source First Line: Where the lone wind on the hilltop Last Line: In the dark of the moon %when the clock sings no-time night Subject(s): Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural EMPTY HOUSE, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then, when the child was gone Last Line: And everything he'd touched, an exposed nerve Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Houses ENEMIES OF A HOUSE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dry rot intruding where the wood is wet Last Line: Carpenter ants; adultery; drink; death Subject(s): Houses ENEMIES OF A HOUSE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dry rot intruding where the wood is wet Last Line: Carpenter ants; adultery; drink; death Subject(s): Houses ENTER THIS DESERTED HOUSE, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But please walk softly as you do Last Line: And my child, I thought you knew %I dwell here...And so do you Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Houses, Deserted EPITAPH FOR REBECCA ROGERS, FOLKSTONE, 1688, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A house she hath, it's made of such good fashion Last Line: From chimney money, too, this cell is free; %to such an house who would not tenant be? Subject(s): Houses ESCAPE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After so many hours spent in the room, Subject(s): Houses; Escapes; Fugitives FANNY: 137, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He woke, in strength, like samson from his slumber Last Line: Gave, in the slang phrase, pearl street the go-by, %and cut,for several months, st. Tammany Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Houses; Mortgages; Theater And Theaters FANNY: 138, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bond, mortgage, title-deed, and all completed Last Line: Then filled his rooms with servants, and whatever %is necessary for a 'genteel liver' Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Business; Debt; Houses; Mortgages FARM TABLEAU, by BETSY WINTER Poem Text First Line: Upon a farm, with soil of rust-red clay Last Line: Then turns and plods, with patient steps, toward home. Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Labor & Laborers; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers FARMHOUSE IN THE LANDSCAPE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Seems like all rooms return to the kitchen, Last Line: I have to listen for my life %very carefully. Subject(s): Houses; Noises; Winter FINALE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have torn the house Subject(s): Houses; Demolition FLOPHOUSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: You haven't lived Last Line: And cold / out / here Subject(s): Flop-houses FLOPHOUSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You haven't lived Last Line: It's dark %and cold %out %here Subject(s): Flop-houses FOR SALE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Four hundred years this little house has stood Last Line: Four hundred years in sixty feet of earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted FOR THE REBUILDING OF A HOUSE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To know the inhabiting reasons Last Line: That the dark may come clean Subject(s): Houses FOR THE REBUILDING OF A HOUSE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To know the inhabiting reasons Last Line: I build the place of my dream. %I build the place of my leaving %that the dark may come clean Subject(s): Houses FOR THE SAKE OF AMELIA, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tending a cliff-hanging grand hotel Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses 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 FOUR FOUR SQUARE HOUSES: 1815 ALABAMA AVENUE, by MICHAEL MARTONE Poem Source First Line: There is a proch across the full front of the house. The door is to the right Last Line: Pers drying, frozen in the winter, sheets of white chocolate Subject(s): Family Life; Houses FOUR FOUR SQUARE HOUSES: 348 FELLOWS, by MICHAEL MARTONE Poem Source First Line: There is a porch across the full front of the house. The door is to the right Last Line: Room, another bedroom where I fall asleep counting all the rooms in which %I have fallen asleep Subject(s): Houses; Sleep FOUR FOUR SQUARE HOUSES: 519 NORTHWESTERN, by MICHAEL MARTONE Poem Source First Line: There is a porch across the full front of the house. The door is to the left Last Line: From the ceiling above when the upstairs neighbors make love Subject(s): Houses; Neighbors FOUR-ROOM SHACK ASPIRING HIGH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hope you’re satisfied to last Subject(s): Houses FROM AN ARTIST'S HOUSE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bundle of twigs Last Line: On twenty sheets of paper. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Houses; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FRONT PORCH WITH SCREENS, by JR. SIDNEY HALL Poem Source First Line: There was a cozy grove of young pine trees Last Line: And watch you don't knock over that good dish Subject(s): Houses; Life FUIT ILIUM, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one they died Last Line: Down the old house goes! Subject(s): Houses FURTHER WORK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Think of the brain Last Line: To the living room, %kitchen, bedroom, bath Subject(s): Bodies; Houses; Reason GALLANT CHATEAU, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it bad to have come here Subject(s): Houses; Solitude; Loneliness GAYHEART, A STORY OF DEFEAT, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gayheart came in june, I saw his heels Last Line: But I behold him in the city's eyes. Subject(s): Boarding Houses; Poetry & Poets; Success; City & Town Life GHOST HOUSE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell in a lonely house I know Last Line: As sweet companions as might be had. Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Supernatural GHOST HOUSE [OR, SUDANESE GHOST HOUSE], by TERESE SVOBODA Poem Source First Line: The ghost house holds up Last Line: That rises [or, we see rising] over us Subject(s): Haunted Houses GHOST-HOUSE, by EMILY RANDLE Poem Text First Line: Shadows of coolness haunt this hilltop home Last Line: How shall this silentness be comforted? Subject(s): Haunted Houses GHOSTS OF A LUNATIC ASYLUM, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright Last Line: The silence of the eight men who were god! Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums GLACIER PARK, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: At last we've reached the famous place Last Line: When the tenderfeet intrude. Subject(s): Animals; Hotels; Parks; Tourists; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips GLENWOOD SPRINGS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under doc holliday's / weary eyes Last Line: As mountains Subject(s): Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips GODMERSHAM, THE TEMPLE OF DELIGHT, by HENRY THOMAS AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Gentle pilgrim, rest thy feet Last Line: Make the temple of delight Subject(s): Houses GOLDEN LOTUSES, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disheveled gardens Subject(s): Houses GRANDMA'S BYWORDS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Grandma rocks on the porch Last Line: And we have bucket music Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Language GREAT HOUSE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However it came, this great house has gone down Subject(s): Houses HANGING HOUSE, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: By a subterranean stairway I descend Last Line: Monkeys perched below me on the furthest branches Subject(s): Houses HARD EVIDENCE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A room walled-in by books where the hours withdraw Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HAUNTED, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: My little child, how can you stand Last Line: And held these fingers all night long. Subject(s): Children; Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural; Childhood HAUNTED CHAMBERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the old and ruined mansion Last Line: Are forever more at rest Subject(s): Haunted Houses;memory HAUNTED HOUSE, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: Deserted, it stands in a cup Last Line: By some lost loveliness? Subject(s): Haunted Houses HAUNTED HOUSE, by EDYTHE HOPE GENEE Poem Text First Line: I don't know why I came; it haunts me so! Last Line: The things about this place that haunt me so! Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Mystery HAUNTED HOUSE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here was a place where none would ever come Subject(s): Haunted Houses HAUNTED HOUSE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here was a place where none would ever come Last Line: Between us and the chimney, long before %our time. So townsmen said who found her there Subject(s): Haunted Houses HAUNTED HOUSE, by VALERIE TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: There's a ghost at my door Last Line: Before the ghosts tear me apart %with their hungry teeth Subject(s): Haunted Houses HAUNTED HOUSE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The rail fence is falling down Last Line: Honey runs down the side of the house Subject(s): Haunted Houses HAUNTED HOUSE, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Its echoes Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Supernatural HAUNTED VILLAGE, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little wistful shades, when dusk was nearing Last Line: Sunk in dreams, and smiling in their sleep. Subject(s): Haunted Houses HE HAS LIVED IN MANY HOUSES, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Furnished room, flats, a hayloft Last Line: Toward his sanctuary, harborage, saltbox, / home Subject(s): Houses; Boats HER DREAM HOUSE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Birds cannot fly over it Subject(s): Houses HER HOUSE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She looks below on paved earth - hears the stir Last Line: It will be long before her house is done. Subject(s): Houses HERE STOOD A HOUSE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Here stood a house; we now can only guess Last Line: Enlightening death, to me. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted HIDE-AWAY HOUSE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Simon threatens with a wagon whip Last Line: In the right latitude for love Subject(s): Houses HISTORY OF VANBRUGH'S HOUSE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When mother clud had rose from play Last Line: A mousetrap-man chief engineer Subject(s): Houses; Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726) HOTEL, by GAYLE GIBLIN Poem Text First Line: A thousand rooms in a beautiful home Last Line: This home is a grotesque fantasy. Subject(s): Home; Hotels; Rooms; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL, by SHERARD VINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great bestial bulk of it looms into the night Last Line: Till one night lady death fingers the cups ere dawn? Subject(s): Hotels; Oxford University; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL INSOMNIA, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I liked my little hole Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL LENOX, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And she loved loving Last Line: And the lemon light flew over the river Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL NIGHTS WITH MY MOTHER, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The hometown flophouse Subject(s): Education; Flop-houses; Schools; Students HOTEL NIGHTS WITH MY MOTHER, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hometown flophouse Last Line: I made of myself each day a chink %a few might pass through unscathed Subject(s): Education; Flop-houses; Schools HOTEL SIERRA, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The november air Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL ST. LOUIS, NEW YORK CITY, FALL 1969, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I went inside, the manager said, `you don't want to live Last Line: Sunday mornings, a bright orange football helmet that glowed like the sun. Subject(s): Hotels; New York City; Survival; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HOTEL WINDOW, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aura of absence, vertigo of non-being Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOUSE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in a bedroom of a house Subject(s): Houses HOUSE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: He who loves an old house Last Line: Can it sing old songs. Subject(s): Houses; Wellesley College HOUSE, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Bit by bit, I take leave of september, that song. Behold the Last Line: Breathing by the side of the road Subject(s): Home; Houses HOUSE, by BEATRICE HAWLEY Poem Source First Line: There is a house Last Line: Their bread is stone %their meat is dust Subject(s): Houses HOUSE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My house has grown smaller Subject(s): Houses HOUSE AND HOME, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I own my house, but have no home,' said Last Line: "start." Subject(s): Home; Houses HOUSE AND MAN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One hour: as dim he and his house now look Last Line: A magpie like a weathercock in doubt Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Houses HOUSE BETWEEN WATER, by DZVINIA ORLOWSKY Poem Source First Line: For someone else, this thirst Last Line: And pinwheels, %birdhouses and gods Subject(s): Houses; Water HOUSE BY THE SEA, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The journey ends here Last Line: Already, perhaps, weighs anchor for the eternal Subject(s): Houses; Sea; Travel HOUSE DIVIDED, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: It was mama's house Last Line: Mama was against al smith %because we're presbyterians Subject(s): Houses HOUSE FIRE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Parents talked Last Line: The bright cloth %crawled out of my hands Subject(s): Fire; Houses HOUSE HOLDING, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They came to american to seek their 'fortune' Last Line: Why then, returning home at night, do we %find women cursing and our children weeping? Subject(s): Houses HOUSE IN WINTER, by ERIC ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: Winter sweetens my house with its fragrance Last Line: Treasure your moment in this winter-gentled house! Subject(s): Houses; Smells; Winter HOUSE OF HOPE, by GEORGIA MACSENTRE STAMPER Poem Text First Line: Still keep my eyes fast-blinded to the end Last Line: And I shall live in love and sweet content. Subject(s): Hope; Houses; Optimism HOUSE ON 15TH S.W., by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cruelty and rain could be expected Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay; Houses HOUSE ON 19TH STREET, by MARK SANDERS Poem Source First Line: On summer nights, before sleep, the sweet smell Last Line: And the night dissolved, like a boyhood, into morning Subject(s): Children; Houses; Memory; Summer HOUSE ON THE CORNER, by JR. JOEL B. PECKHAM Poem Source First Line: Of 21st and b needs more Last Line: Moving, always moving away Subject(s): Houses HOUSE ON THE MOUNTAIN, by JULIO HERRERA Y REISSIG Poem Source First Line: In strident yellows laughs the vale; the sky laughs, free Last Line: And laughs in such a fashion you would think it was a %maiden! Subject(s): Houses, Deserted HOUSE SONG TO THE EAST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Far in the east, far below Last Line: All, may it be delightful Subject(s): Houses HOUSE VERSUS HOME, by LAURA LEE Poem Text First Line: A house and a home are different, you see Last Line: For you are just as welcome as the flowers in may. Subject(s): Home; Houses HOUSE WILL TURN ITSELF, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On a bedpost Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Houses; Moon; Nature HOUSE WITH THE MARBLE STEPS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He built the house to show his neighbors Last Line: Above a flight of marble steps where grass is growing. Subject(s): Death; Houses; Dead, The HOUSE-FREE, by EDITH LOMBARD SQUIRES Poem Text First Line: Now the days shorten, the autumn is gone Last Line: I will go house-free and countrywide! Subject(s): Houses; Winter HOUSEFIRE, by MIRANDA FIELD Poem Source First Line: The spark struck in secret, beneath the stairs in the dust Last Line: With its somoke, our sleeping faces. To take us dreaming Subject(s): Fire; Houses HOUSEPAINTER BEFORE ME, by CAROL POTTER Poem Source First Line: A month painting the house and the cat getting thinner as we painted Last Line: Of the ladder we should never have climbed in the first place; %nothing we did that day was safe Subject(s): Houses; Paintings And Painters HOUSES, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time and the weather wear away Subject(s): Houses HOUSES, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time and the weather wear away Last Line: And what miraculous escapes! Subject(s): Houses HOUSES, by EALSA L. ROWE Poem Text First Line: Houses are interesting! Last Line: Houses are interesting! Subject(s): Home; Hospitality; Houses HOUSES LIKE ANGELS, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where san juan and chacabuco intersect Last Line: And the present joy will grow quiet in that passed Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Houses; Women HOUSES, PAST AND PRESENT, by ELI BACHAR Poem Source First Line: To my parents I am %a thick layer of innovation Last Line: She fixes seven meat balls %I eat two %and am full from th e five Subject(s): Houses HOUSING STARTS, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Most animals have no houses, only holes Subject(s): Houses HUMBLE HOUSE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the lawn is cramped with hydrangeas Last Line: Worm and mole, creeper and clod, humus, loam Subject(s): Houses HUMBLE HOUSE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the lawn is cramped with hydrangeas Last Line: Worm and mole, creeper and clod, humus, loam Subject(s): Houses I BUILT MYSELF A HOUSE OF GLASS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or palace of glass, alone Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Glass And Glassblowers; Houses I COULDN'T GET THE REPAIRMAN, by LILACE MELLIN Poem Source First Line: Out of my basement. At first I felt rude Last Line: It was my house. I chose to burn it down Subject(s): Guests; Houses I REMEMBER THE HOUSE THAT WAS DOWN FROM PORTLAND ROAD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Was at the party in the house that was Subject(s): Houses IMPORTANT VOICE, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN Poem Text First Line: Quiet held the house, and all Last Line: Until the important cock had spoken? Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Silence; Sleep; Voices IMPROMPTU ON AN INNKEEPER NAMED BACON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At brownhill we always get dainty good cheer Last Line: But why always bacon-come, tell me a reason? Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN A GARRET, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This realm is sacred to the silent past Last Line: And close again the long unopened door. Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted IN A HOTEL WRITING-ROOM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We artists have strange nerves! Last Line: We had met before this scene. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Friendship; Hate; Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN A LODGING HOUSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Get to thy room, a voice told me Last Line: And less thy hope than older men. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN A RENTED ROOM, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a good dream, even if the falling is Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN A ROOMING HOUSE, by NELL H. ROYSE Poem Text First Line: She was kneeling by her bedside Last Line: May the good lord strike me dead. Subject(s): Houses IN AN EMPTY HOUSE, by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the walls the paper's blue is vanished Last Line: Leaving their yet unforgotten trace. Subject(s): Emptiness; Houses, Deserted; Memory IN AN OLD HOUSE, by SPENCER BROWN Poem Source First Line: In any old house with many fireplaces Last Line: Who cerpt between the scrubbing and the mending %and had a story left out of our lives Subject(s): Houses IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C., by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not where the rich and famous pursue their lifestyles Last Line: "melodiously at the door: ""are you all right, sir? Are you all right in there?" Subject(s): Americans; Corruption In Politics & Government; Hotels; Politics; Social Protest; United States; Washington, D.c.; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Politicians; Political Poetry; America IN MY HOUSE THERE IS A CAVE, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I have the dharmakaya for my very own Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Houses; Zen Buddhism IN THE CARLYLE HOUSE, CHELSEA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Up the steep stair they clatter to each room Last Line: Place for her golden bulbs within the ground. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Chelsea, Massachusetts; Haunted Houses; Houses IN THE HOTEL, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whir. The invisible sponsored again by white Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN THE LITTLE HOUSE AT SUNSET, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: Thinner than a human hair Last Line: To the edge of the sky, %I will dance the road of their songs Subject(s): Evening; Houses IN THE OLD HOUSE, by JOAN (DELANO) AIKEN Poem Source First Line: House silent grandchildren put to bed Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Supernatural IN THE WILDERNESS MOTEL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red star hovering Last Line: The comfort, the company of ruin. Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay; Hotels; Nature; Desertion; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN THIS DARK HOUSE, by EDWARD DAVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shall come back to die Last Line: To this dark house to die. Subject(s): Houses INSCRIPTION FOR A COTTAGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Give me, heaven, whatever my lot Last Line: To all her frowns resigned. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Houses INSCRIPTION FOR AN ICE-HOUSE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, approach! Within this iron door Last Line: To rush in whirlwinds forth, and rule the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Ice Houses INSCRIPTIONS FOR A HOUSE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cornerstone in truth is laid Last Line: I shall live. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): For The Friends At Hurstmont Subject(s): Faith; Houses; Time; Truth; Belief; Creed INSIDE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the field is a house Subject(s): Houses INSIDE THAT RUINED HOUSE, by JOHN JOSEPH MCKERNAN Poem Source First Line: Twin slices Last Line: Whispering -- it was only death -- my friends Subject(s): Aging; Houses INTRUSION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I built myself a pleasant house Last Line: Leaving no house at all, just you. Subject(s): Home; Houses; Love JACKSON HOTEL, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes after hours of wine I can almost see Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses JANUARY FIRE: THIRD AVENUE FLOPHOUSE, by CORRINNE CLEGG HALES Poem Source First Line: We are neighbors, so we tell them Subject(s): Fire; Flop-houses JERONIMO'S HOUSE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My house, my fairy / palace, is Last Line: Glued with spit Subject(s): Houses JERONIMO'S HOUSE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My house, my fairy %palace, is Last Line: My shelter from %the hurricane Subject(s): Houses JUST BEFORE DAWN THE THIN SILENCE, by FIAMA HASSE PAIS BRANDAO Poem Source Last Line: In my poem - its great wings beating onwards toward the east Subject(s): Houses; Morning KEEP OFF THE GRASS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thoughtless fellows blithely pass, and Last Line: And it will take him nineteen hours to tell just how he views such dubs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Houses; Lawns; Towns KEY, by EMILY BLANCHE MANN GROBY Poem Text First Line: They who have old houses should save the keys Last Line: Going in and out; -- as it was long before. Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Keys; Relatives KITCHEN CHIMNEY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Builder, in building the little house Last Line: A chimney that only would serve to remind me %of castles I used to build in air Subject(s): Houses KONUR, by DANIELLE PAPAGEORGIOU Poem Source First Line: Lay near the house Last Line: Near the shelter from the frost, %my house Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Houses LANDOWNERS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my rented attic with no earth Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Houses LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF A FIELD, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: What was it that you wanted to say? Last Line: Of the house. I will go in. Subject(s): Houses; Solitude LATE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your street was named for berries Last Line: Today I would answer for all those other things. Subject(s): Aunts; Childlessness; Family Life; Houses; Memory; Regret; Relatives LAURIE'S HOUSE, by JAMEY DUNHAM Poem Source First Line: The sea otter strokes its beard and flies in through Last Line: The seven years that followed were the happiest of her life Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Sea LETTER FROM AN INSTITUTION, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ward beds float like ghost ships Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Dreams; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums; Nightmares LIGHTHOUSE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house / in north platte, nebraska Last Line: They're not expecting him back / anytime soon Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); Houses; Absence; LIKE A SCARF, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The directions to the lunatic asylum were confusing, Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums LINES (ON VIEWING, ONE SUMMER EVENING THE HOUSE OF MY BIRTH), by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crescent moon with pallid light Last Line: And draw the tear-drop from my eye. Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted LIVING IN THE EARTHQUAKE ZONE, by ANTONY CHRISTIE Poem Source First Line: The house is stone and mortar Last Line: Your face blurred and bloody %through the ice window Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Houses; Winter LIVING WHERE WE DO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to think of the man under the house Last Line: Its root lodged deep in the ground. Subject(s): Houses; Moving & Movers; Secrets LONE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE DESERT, by BLANCHE POWELL MILLER Poem Text First Line: Oh lone little house on the desert Last Line: Tell us your secret so sad. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Houses; Solitude; Loneliness LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There should be nothing here I don't remember Last Line: And pretend for a moment, nothing lost is lost Subject(s): Travel; Hotels; Marco Island, Florida; Journeys; Trips; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses LOST, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women of dark houses Last Line: Dim fiery pain Subject(s): Women; Houses; Grief LOVE IN A LIFE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Room after room / I hunt the house through Last Line: Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune! Subject(s): Houses; Mirrors; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE IN THE ASYLUM, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger has come Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Love; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums LOVE'S EMPTY HOUSE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou long-silent, solitary house Last Line: And fill thy halls with music as before. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Houses; Love LOVE'S HOUSE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not how these men or those may take Last Line: Leans down to me and tells me everything. Subject(s): Houses; Love - Nature Of LUCK IS A THAWED AFTERNOON, by MARK TAKSA Poem Source First Line: The renter smiles at my eviction notice Last Line: Your worry will be a fold in the blanket %of your new friend's voice Subject(s): Houses MAKING FODDER, by LINDA BROCKMAN Poem Source First Line: Near the house at the top of the hill I stopped Last Line: To mark the place I'm going this time, if I'm right Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Travel MANSION, by RANA M. JALEEL Poem Source First Line: The horse had died and your grandfather, too. One body Last Line: Bore forever the walls. This house will outlive you Subject(s): Death; Houses; Life MARMION: CANTO 3. THE HOSTEL, OR INN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The livelong day lord marmion rode Last Line: The first notes of the morning lark. Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MARRY AT A HOTEL, ANNUL ?ÇÖEM, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Hotels; Words; Vocabulary; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is yonder poor maniac, whose wildly fixed eyes Last Line: Of poor mary the maid of the inn. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hotels; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Male-female Relations MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE BEST ROOM, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All they that spent their days in grace Last Line: Lest ye offend these placid walls. Subject(s): Houses MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE CHAMBER, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How intimate and yet how strange! Last Line: It shall not seem more sad to die. Subject(s): Death; Houses; Dead, The MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE DUST, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the clinging world I guess Last Line: Ancestral eyes peer forth at me. Subject(s): Dust; Houses MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE EAVES, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If underneath the quiet eaves Last Line: How sweet the forests were in spring. Subject(s): Houses MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE HALL, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou, the youngest of this race Last Line: For such as this thy line beseems. Subject(s): Houses MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE HEARTH, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God rest you all that linger here Last Line: Reflect, and give your souls to cheer. Subject(s): Houses MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE KEEPING-ROOM, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thorn that by the wayside grows Last Line: "a hundred years have I been dead." Subject(s): Houses MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE PLASTER ON THE CHIMNEY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These words in time shall pass away Last Line: May know the blessedness of wings. Subject(s): Houses MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE PORCH, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I reach abroad my wistful palms Last Line: That these old rooms may better be. Subject(s): Houses MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE STAIR, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was so young, so light, so fair! Last Line: Like thou -- like thou -- must pass from me. Subject(s): Houses MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE THRESHOLD, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who have come to such an age Last Line: In those new mansions of the blest. Subject(s): Houses MELANCHOLY'S DESCRIPTION OF HER DWELLING, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell in groves that gilt are with the sun Last Line: Maintain your credit and your dignity. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Houses; Melancholy; Dejection MENDING THE ADOBE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun dazzle and black shadow / crow caw and magpie rattle Last Line: I remember my mother Subject(s): Houses; Poetry & Poets MENDING THE ADOBE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun dazzle and black shadow %crow caw and magpie rattle Last Line: Young no more. Well, but mostly %I fix it, I feel better %when I fix it - you know? %I remember my m Subject(s): Houses; Poetry And Poets MIDSUMMER: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the queen's park hotel, with its white, high-ceilinged rooms Last Line: A breeze strolls down to the docks, and the sea begins Subject(s): Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MIDSUMMER: 36, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines Subject(s): Environment; Hotels; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mirror hung on the broken Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing And Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents MOTEL SEEDY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The artisans of this room, who designed the lamp base Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MOTHER AND CHILD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She feared the baby would fall Last Line: Hands resting upon her Subject(s): Mothers; Death – Children; Death - Babies; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums MOVING IN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May roses bloom beside the bloomberg windows Subject(s): Houses; Furniture MY DREAM HOUSE, by M. PEARL GILLESPIE Poem Source First Line: The little cottage %I see in my dream Subject(s): Houses MY DREAM HOUSE, by HELEN G. STEPHENSON Poem Text First Line: Last night I built a dream house Last Line: By the light the moonbeams made. Subject(s): Houses; Solitude; Loneliness MY FATHER'S HOUSE, 1908-1970, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live quietly and go nowhere Last Line: Its secret life as if a fortune were yours Subject(s): Fathers; Houses MY HOUSE, by JEANETTE MILLER Poem Source First Line: This house %where some day bones will rest without remorse Last Line: Where monsters have developed and reached fullness, %from where I will not move but for death Subject(s): Houses MY HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is so old, the date is dim Last Line: To my next house not made with hands Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Houses MY HUT; AFTER TRAN QUANG KHAI, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Built long ago, old Last Line: And on these shoulders / and hands Subject(s): Houses MY LITTLE HOUSE, by MAY (MARY) CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My house is little, but warm enough Last Line: And sing, and keep house together. Subject(s): Contentment; Houses MY NEIGHBOR COMPARES HER HOUSE WITH MINE, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My house is kempt and tidy Last Line: Only a passing hour! Subject(s): Envy; Houses; Jealousy MY NEIGHBOR'S TREASURE, by ANNA O. SMITH Poem Text First Line: My neighbor has a precious thing Last Line: Deep envy to his house I bring. Subject(s): Envy; Houses; Neighbors NARROW HOUSES OF AMSTERDAM, by MEGAN SEXTON Poem Source First Line: To get to them, think in circles Last Line: Look through each window, each wind's eye Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Houses NEW HOUSE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now first, as I shut the door Last Line: After these things should be Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Houses NEW TENANTS, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: The coffee cup's broken handle lies Last Line: Of making it; the new tenants taking over Subject(s): Houses; Landlords And Tenants NEW THATCHED HALL, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Below incense burner peak I built a new mountain dwelling Last Line: Next spring I'll thatch the side room to the east, %fit it with paper panels and reed blinds for my Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Houses NO WONDER OUR FATHERS DIED, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does anybody mind if I don't live in a house that's quaint? Last Line: But I still feel that their decadent descendants build more comfortable houses Subject(s): Houses NOBLEMAN'S HOUSE, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: After the palaces Last Line: Before he will give out %information Subject(s): Houses NORTH OF ALLIANCE, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is an empty house; not a stick Subject(s): Houses, Deserted NOTE SLIPPED UNDER A DOOR, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a high window struck blind Subject(s): Houses NOVEMBER, by JOZE UDOVIC Poem Source First Line: The house shrank into itself Last Line: Turned up to the rotten ceiling Subject(s): Ghosts; Houses, Deserted; Shadows; Supernatural O BIRDS OF THE AIR, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: We build no house but the grave! Subject(s): Houses; Birds; Graves OLD BRUCKER PLACE, by SHERYL LYNNE NELMS Poem Source First Line: Softly %like an archaelogist Last Line: Across an orange %sun %down Variant Title(s): The Old Finney Far Subject(s): Houses OLD HOUSE, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: It listens, huddled in a clump of trees Last Line: That prowl the rooms and silence-drifted stairs. . . . Subject(s): Houses, Deserted OLD HOUSE BLUES, by WILLIAM KULIK Poem Source First Line: Everyone's here, and because I love old things, I've rented a grand victorian Last Line: Just the old odors - floor polish, cedar, sachet - and a single rose Subject(s): Aging; Houses OLD HOUSES, by HOMER D'LETTUSO Poem Text First Line: There is comfort in old houses Last Line: An old house knew my mother's lovely face.) Subject(s): Houses OLD HOUSES, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: The gray old houses are hooded women peering Last Line: Voices of the vanished in the years gone by! Subject(s): Houses OLD HOUSES, by ZULA LEACH Poem Text First Line: Somehow old houses have a heart-appeal Last Line: May tender memories linger around them still. Subject(s): Houses OLD HOUSES, by JENNIE ROMANO Poem Text First Line: I like old houses, with steps that sag Last Line: Knowing so many things they never have told. Subject(s): Houses OLD LOG HOUSE, by JAMES STERLING TIPPETT Poem Source First Line: On a little green knoll Last Line: Live in a house %at the edge of a wood Subject(s): Houses OLD MANSION (AFTER HENRY JAMES), by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As an intruded I trudged with careful innocence Last Line: To dip, alas, into some unseemlier world Variant Title(s): Southern Mansion Subject(s): Houses OLD MANSION (AFTER HENRY JAMES), by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As an intruded I trudged with careful innocence Last Line: To dip, alas, into some unseemlier world Variant Title(s): Southern Mansio Subject(s): Houses OLD STREET, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think these houses are the ghosts Last Line: Close in upon my heels Subject(s): Houses; Imagination OLD TENANTS, by LYDIA KINGSWAY Poem Text First Line: Oh, you must live a long time with a house Last Line: Lest lightly you obtrude upon some grief. Subject(s): Houses ON AN EMPTY HOUSE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stately house I passed to-day Last Line: "this noble mansion to be sold." Subject(s): Houses; Time ON NAMING A HOUSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I a householder became Last Line: The house where brown eyes are. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Houses; Names ON THE MAD-HOUSE AT VENICE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour aright the philosophic thought Last Line: Frees her sad-centred thoughts, and gives them pleasant range. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Venice, Italy; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums OUR HOUSE, by MARCO MARTOS Poem Source First Line: In galleons, on war-horses, with their lances Last Line: Starving beggars, all claim us as their own Subject(s): Fights; Houses; Revolutions; War OUR HOUSE (1), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to see a lovely lawn Last Line: Oh, little girl, oh, healthy boy, %be mine the house which you enjoy! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Houses OUT OF SEASON, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I stayed at the grand hotel Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses OUT OF THE OLD HOUSE, NANCY, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the old house, nancy - moved up into the new Last Line: Not made with hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Home; Houses OUTSIDE IT IS BLOWING AND RAINING, by ALEXEY (ALEKSEY) KONSTANTINOVICH TOLSTOY Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: While it blows and rains in the night Alternate Author Name(s): Prutkov, Koz'ma Petrovich Subject(s): Storms; Houses, Deserted; Death; Transience OUTSIDE ROOM SIX, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down on my knees again, on the linoleum outside room six Last Line: Black square, white square goes the linoleum Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses OZARK ODES: RENT HOUSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O the hours I lay on the bed Last Line: Where we slept together Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Houses; Past; Relationships PARADISE MOTEL, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Millions were dead; everybody was innocent Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses PEN-Y-GWYRDD; TO TOM HUGHES, ESQ., by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no inn in snowdon which is not awful dear Last Line: And so, goes to my children's school and 'umbly makes my bow. Subject(s): Hotels; Wales; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Welshmen; Welshwomen PERMANENT HOME, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seek a permanent home, but this structure has an appearance of indifferent Subject(s): Houses PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: DESERTED, by ELIZABETH KING COWGILL Poem Text First Line: Nothing so forlorn Last Line: Sockets of a bleaching skull. Subject(s): Houses; Ruins; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States PROTECTOR OF THE HOUSE, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: There are simply other rules now, he said, and you are Last Line: Prow behind his back Subject(s): Houses PROUD SHANTIES, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: Shanties, silvering themselves along the beaches Last Line: It's plain that they feel capable of pearl. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Houses; Simplicity PROVIDER, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's say he's at the company christmas party Last Line: No place to call home Subject(s): Fathers; Houses; Men; Paranoia; Professions; Worry Q: WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?, by GRACE BUTCHER Poem Source First Line: A: my house. Oh, not always Last Line: Ominous, muttered into the dark or dawn, %and not addressed to me Subject(s): Houses QUIET HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis very quiet in the house Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Houses QUILCA HOUSE TO THE DEAN, by HENRY BROOKE Poem Text First Line: I plainly see, good mr. Dean Last Line: What yours cannot -- eternity. Subject(s): Houses; Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) R.S.V.P., by ESTHER BERGMAN NAREY Poem Text First Line: I wish I had a house and a bit of ground Last Line: So you could visit me? Subject(s): Houses RAINS THAT NEVER FALL FELL IN MY HOUSE, by NEIL ROLLINSON Poem Source First Line: I turned on the tap, the drain belches Last Line: The whole of africa's rainfell fell in my house tonight Subject(s): Houses; Rain; Water READING LATE IN THE COTTAGE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There aren't that many pages left Last Line: Insect trapped in the lightbulb. Subject(s): Books; Houses; Reading REAL ESTATE, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No stream ran through the twenty-seven acres Last Line: From the life that's my estate to a rotting house of spare remains Subject(s): Houses REAL ESTATE, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: The orchard's gorgeous Last Line: This metal crown of thorns Subject(s): Houses; Property REAL WONDER, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the stunned little interval Last Line: Preceding real wonder . Subject(s): Fences; Houses; Spring; Winter RED COTTAGE, by RICHARD TILLINGHAST Poem Source First Line: What we've called the red cottage Last Line: Dead on the river that pours and pours downstream Subject(s): Houses; Memory REETIKA ARRANGES MY CLOSET, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her apartment is a lesson in schematics Subject(s): Girls; Houses; Rooms; Women REETIKA ARRANGES MY CLOSET, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her apartment is a lesson in schematics Last Line: I'm going to give her everything I own Subject(s): Girls; Houses; Rooms; Women REMEMBERING, by ANNA PRIESTLEY Poem Text First Line: I remember a little inn Last Line: Only beauty's ghost? Subject(s): Hotels; Memory; Moon; Spring; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses REMEMBRANCE HAS A REAR AND FRONT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ourselves be not pursued Subject(s): Houses; Memor REMOVED AT THE MOMENT OF PERFECTION, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth has moved forward, in a sense, or does it merely turn Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses RENTED HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY, by JAMES REISS Poem Source First Line: Nail a bushel basket without a bottom Last Line: To the boy who lives there. Say that boy is you Subject(s): Family Life; Houses RESIDENCIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many others have lived in me Last Line: The moonlight and jasmine Subject(s): Houses RETURNED, by ROSE MOSS SCOTT Poem Text First Line: This is the path I traveled when a child Last Line: Shorn of old love, unburdened of my hope. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Houses ROOF, by RICHARD FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You go up there with your wife, with flashing cement and old reliable Last Line: Time, next time, in the good clean sun, you will get the whole thing right Subject(s): Houses; Roofing And Roofers ROOMING HOUSES ARE OLD WOMEN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rooming houses are old women Last Line: "unknown and desired / Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Rooming & Boarding Houses ROOMS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Patio 2b Last Line: Kitchen p Subject(s): Houses; Rooms ROOMS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know the heaviness of official rooms Last Line: (outside an organ's singing in the road!) Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Houses, Deserted; Memory; Rooms; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The ROSES, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: The phones ring in the empty house, both upstairs and down Last Line: And the roses are left without a recipient Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Nothingness ROYALTY, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In purple and fine linen Last Line: Frederic lawrence knowles. Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Flowers; Houses; Lilacs; Linen RUBBING THE FACES OF ANGELS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the balcony of the golden eagle motor inn Last Line: Me the reclining skeleton of thomas pool. Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Death; Hotels; Southern States; Dead, The; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; South (u.s.) RUINS UNDER THE STARS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day under acrobat Last Line: And up there the old stars rustling and whispering Subject(s): Houses, Deserted RURAL ROUTES, by ALLEN BRADEN Poem Source First Line: We ride the roads our fathers rode Last Line: Along the houses that huddle before us Subject(s): Houses; Roads SAFEHOUSE, by MARY ELLEN CSAMER Poem Source First Line: I come downstairs Last Line: You leave, my love, no evidence to follow Subject(s): Houses SAINTS AND LODGERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Ye saints, that sing in rooms above Last Line: Some pensions take -- such are our lodgers. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SEEING THE ELEPHANT, by JACKIE BARTLEY Poem Source First Line: Imagine loving an elephant Last Line: Beyond the margins of proof Subject(s): Elephants; Houses; Summer SELLING MAGRITTE'S HOUSE, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train in the fireplace Last Line: The owner? A very regular man Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); Houses; Investments; Landlords & Tenants; Soldiers; Stocks; Bonds SELLING MAGRITTE'S HOUSE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train in the fireplace Last Line: Granite wings %a joke played on the air Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); Houses; Investments; Landlords And Tenants; Soldiers SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 3, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the tree bares, the music of it changes Last Line: "your lights and music. It will be good to talk." Variant Title(s): The House Subject(s): Houses; Music & Musicians; Old Age SHE ASKS FOR A HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joseph, send me a house Last Line: Who gave me a house from the cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Houses; Jesus Christ; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Prayer SHE ASKS FOR NEW EARTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when I find at last thy paradise Last Line: For thy new heaven, lord, give me new earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Future Life; God; Heaven; Houses; Prayer; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise SHELTERED FROM HARM, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: With what word should I begin, with what disorder? The Last Line: The boy, accomplice to the wind, moves on, sheltered from harm Subject(s): Danger; Houses; Storms; Wind SIGNATURE OF LOVE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In missoula, someone has punched Last Line: Beneath the signature of love on the ceiling. Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Sex; Vandalism; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SIR WILLIAM PEPPERRELL'S WELL; ISLE OF SHOALS, 1790-1892, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little maid margaret and I, Last Line: Sir william pepperrell's well. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Man-woman Relationships; Wells; Male-female Relations SISTERS, SELS., by ANDREW STEINMETZ Poem Source First Line: The sisters lived outside town in a house Last Line: She is looking out the window Subject(s): Houses; Sisters SLOW TO COME, QUICK A-GONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! There's a house that I do know Last Line: Wi' aïr-birds to ha' vled. Subject(s): Houses; Memory SOMEWHERE IN A HOUSE WHERE YOU ARE NOT, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: There is sunlight coming through windows Last Line: Revolve slowly around and around %without you Subject(s): Guests; Houses; Old Age SONG AGAINST STREET NUMBERS, by GLADYS MCKEE Poem Text First Line: We live in a house Last Line: "they're wrong and I'm right." Alternate Author Name(s): Iker, Eugene E., Mrs. Subject(s): Houses SONG FOR A LITTLE HOUSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm glad our house is a little house Last Line: Are paying duty calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Houses SONG OF THE HOUSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rising sun! When you shall shine Last Line: Make this house happy Subject(s): Houses SONNET: HIGHLAND HUT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See what gay wild flowers deck this earth-built cot Last Line: Belike less happy. -- stand no more aloof! Subject(s): Houses SONNET: PALAZZO PAGANI, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the house where, twenty years ago Subject(s): Memory; Love; Houses, Deserted SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: 3, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this reft house is that, the which he built Last Line: Peeps in fair fragments forth the full-orb'd harvest-moon! Variant Title(s): On A Refund House In A Romantic Country;sonnet: 3. On A Ruined House In A Romantic Country;the House That Jack Built Subject(s): Houses SONNETS IN A LODGING HOUSE: 1, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morn she crackles upward, tread by tread Last Line: Please leave the tub as you would wish to find it! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SONNETS IN A LODGING HOUSE: 2, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men lodgers are the best, the mrs. Said Last Line: Take my advice and let your rooms to gents! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SOUTHERN GOTHIC, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something of how the homing bee at dusk Last Line: Red roses within roses within roses Subject(s): Transience; Houses, Deserted; Impermanence SOUTHERN MANSION, by ARNA BONTEMPS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poplars are standing there still as death Subject(s): African Americans; Haunted Houses; Southern States; Supernatural; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.) SOUTHERN MANSION, by ARNA BONTEMPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poplars are standing there still as death Last Line: They have broken roses down %and poplars stand there still as death Subject(s): African Americans; Haunted Houses; Southern States; Supernatural SPATTER'S RAMBLES: COFFEE-HOUSES, by HUGH KELLY Poem Text First Line: Last night at the coffee-house happening to sit Last Line: "take the word of your humblejack spatter." Alternate Author Name(s): Spatter, Jack Subject(s): Coffee Houses SPEECH NEVER GIVEN ON THE 11 A.M. HOUSE TOUR, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK Poem Source First Line: I'll grant you, we need their five-dollar bills Last Line: Like a moth, until someone came Subject(s): Houses; Tourists STATELY HOMES OF ENGLAND, by NOEL COWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord elderley, lord borrowmere, lord sickert and lord camp Last Line: In a hand-embroidered shroud, %we're proud of the stately homes of england Subject(s): England; Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835); Houses; Social Classes STILL-HILDRETH SANATORIUM, 1936, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she wasn't on rounds she was counting Last Line: Lift like a good child my face to be kissed Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums SUBURBS, by ENID DERHAM Poem Source First Line: Miles and miles of quiet houses Subject(s): Houses SUMMER DAY AT THE DESERTED HOUSE, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose petals fall Last Line: Before the night comes on!) Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted SURFACE AND STRUCTURE: BONAVENTURE HOTEL, LOS ANGELES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four black glass silos Last Line: Broken from a necklace. Subject(s): Decay; Hotels; Los Angeles; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SWEET SAFE HOUSES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Interrupt to die Variant Title(s): Poem: 457; Poem: 68 Subject(s): Houses TARANTELLA, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember an inn, / miranda? Last Line: Of the far waterfall like doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TEARING DOWN THE HOTEL, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are tearing down the oldest hotel Subject(s): Demolition; Past; Hotels; Nostalgia; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TENANTRY, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight in the black house / I am counting houses Subject(s): Houses TH INN BY THE WOOD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rank raw mist clung close like a hood Last Line: And I supped like a king at the inn by the wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Forests; Hotels; Woods; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THAT BOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Is the house turned topsy-turvy? Last Line: But I know you've got -- that boy Subject(s): Houses THE AGEING HOUSE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the walls were red Last Line: While fiercely girds the wind at the long-limbed sycamore tree! Subject(s): Houses THE ANCESTRAL DWELLINGS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of america Last Line: The glory and strength of america come from her ancestral dwellings. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Houses; United States; America THE ARTEMUS OF MICHIGAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grand haven is in michigan Last Line: Potts! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hotels; Michigan; Towns; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE ASYLUM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my asylum Last Line: We're afraid of going -- sane! Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums THE BALLAD OF A LOST HOUSE, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hungry heart, hungry heart, where have you been? Last Line: Over a clear and quickening sea. Subject(s): Hearts; Houses; Hunger; Passion THE BLUE HOUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is night with glaring sunshine. I stand in the woods and look towards my hous Subject(s): Houses; Time THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES: THE LOST PINES INN, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lost pines inn would be a good name for a motel, or no sheep in the meadow Last Line: P.T. Cruiser that got me home by bedtime Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE BOROUGH: LETTER 11. INNS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the comforts of life in a tavern are known Last Line: Took the green-man, and is a master now. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE BOROUGH: LETTER 18. THE POOR AND THEIR DWELLINGS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! We've our borough-vices, and I know Last Line: Doubling each look of care, each token of distress. Subject(s): Houses; Poverty THE CEILING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose the ceiling went outside Subject(s): Houses THE CHOP-HOUSE IN THE ALLEY, by HENRY M. HYDE Poem Text First Line: Talk about old roman banquets Last Line: When the paper's gone to press. Subject(s): Houses; Memory THE CLOSED ROOM, by MARY PEASLEE ROOT Poem Text First Line: Here, time that was dim years away Last Line: Nor closed the rusty door. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted THE COLLAPSE OF THE TWO-RIVERS HOTEL, by SAADI YOUSSEF Poem Text First Line: The desert is not far from it Alternate Author Name(s): Youssef, Saddi; Yusuf, Sa'di Subject(s): Hotels; Nostalgia; Ruins; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE CROWN INN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round all its nooks and corners goes Last Line: While empires shudder into night. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Hotels; Landscape; English; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE CRY OF THE OLD HOUSE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back! Last Line: And fall upon my heart! Subject(s): Homecoming; Houses THE CUSTOM HOUSE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The custom house in billingsgate Last Line: For half-an-hour of hot july. Subject(s): Houses THE DESERTED HOUSE, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's no smoke in the chimney Last Line: Nor any bird of the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Houses, Deserted THE DESERTED HOUSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gloom is upon thy lonely hearth Last Line: And reach my father's house on high! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Heaven; Houses, Deserted; Mourning; Paradise; Bereavement THE DESERTED HOUSE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old house stands deserted, gray Last Line: About the old house clings its peace. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Houses, Deserted; Peace THE DESERTED HOUSE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life and thought have gone away Last Line: Would they could have stayed with us! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Houses, Deserted THE DESERTED HOUSE, by OLIVE WATKINS Poem Text First Line: Shadows interlaced the walk Last Line: Stand aloof? Subject(s): Houses, Deserted THE DESERTED MANSION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Damp and drear the lonely halls Last Line: On the teachings of the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Mansions; Murder; Past THE DESOLATE HOUSE, by ANNETTE ELISABETH VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF Poem Text First Line: Deep in a dell a woodsman's house Last Line: And echoes of the dead man's flute. Alternate Author Name(s): Droste-hulshoff, Annette Von Subject(s): Houses, Deserted THE EMPRESS HOTEL POEMS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just get up / and sit down again. Then Last Line: In the other poem. Subject(s): Hotels; Housekeeping; Language; Rooms; Tourists; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Words; Vocabulary THE EMPTY HOUSE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old house stands in a pasture lot Last Line: An empty house? Well, empty of what? Subject(s): Children; Houses, Deserted; Childhood THE ENORMOUS AQUARIUM, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All morning long from inside the lobby Subject(s): Aquariums; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH'S HOUSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye good people, afar and near Last Line: And well versed in history, be it understood. Subject(s): Guests; Houses; Visiting THE FINISHED HOUSE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The finished house. The realized dream of those Last Line: O god of hosts! Amen. Subject(s): Blessings; Dreams; Houses; Prayer; Nightmares THE FLOOR AND THE CEILING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter and summer, whatever the weather, Subject(s): Houses; Loss THE GLASS HOUSE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I enter at dusk Last Line: Not that, she says, anything but that. Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Modern Man; Relatives THE GREAT HOUSE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However it came, this great house has gone down Last Line: Who built in chaos our bastion and our home Subject(s): Houses THE GREEK QUARTER, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cryptic letters of the golden tongue Last Line: The blue Ægean sparkling in the day. Subject(s): Coffee Houses; Greek Language; Immigrants; New York City; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE GROTTO; WRITTEN UNDER THE NAME OF PETER DRAKE, A FISHERMAN, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu awhile, forsaken flood Last Line: A woman wise men canonize. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Houses; Richmond Park, England; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a little rise it stands alone Last Line: A fragrance as of roses fills the air. Subject(s): Haunted Houses THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows sit and stand about its door Last Line: O'er the haunted house. Subject(s): Haunted Houses THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See'st thou yon gray, gleaming hall Last Line: Haunted still her place must be! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Haunted Houses THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by RUBIN KANE Poem Text First Line: Twas many years ago, but still Last Line: The mighty lord -- his name is dear. Subject(s): Haunted Houses THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put a coin on the doorstep. Gears begin Last Line: Fades back into the house. Subject(s): Haunted Houses THE HAUNTED HOUSE; A ROMANCE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams Last Line: The place is haunted! Subject(s): Haunted Houses THE HAUNTED PALACE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In the greenest of our valleys / by good angels tenanted Last Line: And laugh -- but smile no more. Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Grief; Haunted Houses; Insanity; Mysticism; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness THE HAUNTED RUIN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The place, untouched by vice or crime Last Line: And joins the phantoms there. Subject(s): Desolation; Haunted Houses THE HOMES OF ENGLAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stately homes of england Last Line: Its country and its god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): England; Home; Houses; Women; English THE HOTEL DU NORD, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the lawn of the old hotel at twilight Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE HOUSE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Mud put/upon mud Subject(s): Houses THE HOUSE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no architect Last Line: Outlive the newest stars. Subject(s): Houses THE HOUSE, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land outside, and the night is gthe enemy's Last Line: The black of water and of night Subject(s): Houses; Night THE HOUSE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, on waking, she would close her eyes Subject(s): Houses; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares THE HOUSE AT EVENING, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the school-ground it would start Last Line: Dim worlds aflame. Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Relatives THE HOUSE BESIDE THE STREAM, by LAUREL LAUER Poem Text First Line: Reserved, it stands beside the quiet stream Last Line: As though to linger...Loath to go away. Subject(s): Houses; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE HOUSE IN THE MEADOW, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It stands in a sunny meadow Last Line: In the father's house in the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Houses THE HOUSE OF LIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The life of the body's a cage Last Line: That she be not alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Houses; Life; Solitude; Soul; Dead, The; Loneliness THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would choose to be a door-keeper Last Line: In the house of the lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; God; Houses; Humility THE HOUSE OF THE SILENT YEARS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silent house it standeth wide Last Line: A thousand years one day. Subject(s): Houses THE HOUSE OF YESTERDAY, by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER Poem Text First Line: There's an old vacant house on the great highway Last Line: I stop just a moment, to show that I care. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Memory; Ruins THE HOUSE WITH NOBODY IN IT, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I walk to suffern along the erie track Last Line: With a broken heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Sorrow; Sadness THE HOUSE'S SETTING, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is no hedge of yewe to hold in griefe Last Line: And three tall pines for sorrowe. Subject(s): Houses THE ICE HOUSE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house was really a cellar deep beneath the tower of the old Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Ice Houses THE ICEHOUSE, POINTE AU BARIL, ONTARIO, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each vast block in its batter Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Ice Houses THE INN AT LOCH RANZA, by WILLIAM MCQUEEN (1841-) Poem Text First Line: There's a neat little inn cuddled close by the hills Last Line: Not far from the inn at loch ranza. Subject(s): Hospitality; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INN OF THE FIVE CHIMNEYS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It had five chimneys, had that inn Last Line: And rumor said it was soiled with sin! Subject(s): Hotels; Sin; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INN THAT MISSED ITS CHANCE (THE LANDLORD SPEAKS, AD. 28), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What could be done? The inn was full of folks! Last Line: The birthplace of messiah, -- had I known! Subject(s): Christmas; Hotels; Nativity, The; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INN: AN OLD EPITAPH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Post-haste we ride the road of men Last Line: Who soonest goes hath least to pay. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hotels; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INVERSNAID INN, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The season is ended, the cold days begin Last Line: We are left in the storm, like the inversnaid inn! Subject(s): Hotels; Scotland; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE JADE HOUSE, by EDWIN W. TOMLINSON Poem Text First Line: This old house views the world with faded eye Last Line: Can hear a furtive tapping on a pane. Subject(s): Houses THE JUDGE AND THE BIRD, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The house was dutch Subject(s): Houses; Canaries THE KEEPER OF THE DEAD HOTEL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In one room upstairs Last Line: The moon splashed everywhdre Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE KEY, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is my key to happiness Last Line: My sugar and my cream. Subject(s): Algeria; Hotels; Keys; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips THE KEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold a key in my hand Last Line: Guiltless turn to that mouth Subject(s): Keys; Houses THE KITCHEN CHIMNEY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Builder, in building the little house Last Line: Of castles I used to build in air Subject(s): Houses THE LANDLADY IN BANGKOK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because, separated from us by a language Last Line: From samsara to nirvana. Subject(s): Hotels; Landlords & Tenants; Thailand; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE LATEST HOTEL GUEST WALKS OVER PARTICLES THAT REVOLVE, by RUTH STONE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an old established hotel Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE LINCOLN CABIN, by KALFUS KURTZ GUSLING Poem Text First Line: Behold! The timbers rough, the lintel low Last Line: He, from this dark beginning, found the way. Subject(s): Houses; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THE LION HOUSE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Always the heavy air Last Line: For the delight of whom? Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Lions THE LITTLE HOUSE, by EDITH DALEY Poem Text First Line: I want a humble little house Last Line: "a friend of mine lives here!" Subject(s): Houses THE LITTLE HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will have a little house Last Line: For the children lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Houses; Loss; Mothers; Old Age; Childhood THE LODGING HOUSE FIRE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My birthday - yesterday Last Line: Poison the score. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fire; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE MAN ON THE HOTEL ROOM BED, by GALWAY KINNELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He shifts on the bed carefully, so as Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE MARSH-HOUSE, by JAMES E. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Far out upon the great green sedge it stands Last Line: Instance of things full merciful as these. Subject(s): Houses; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mirror hung on the broken Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents; Parenthood THE NARROW HOUSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a narrow home, but very still it seemeth" Last Line: Trust him who calls unto his rest our dead Subject(s): Houses;jesus Christ THE NEW HOUSE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will buy or build a brand-new house,' / she said Last Line: Save the fantastic worm's perpetual boring. Subject(s): Houses; Property; Possessions THE NEW HOUSE, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little house is very young Last Line: And not be dark, some day! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Houses THE NEW HOUSE, by ERICH S. KLOSSNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This house is new Last Line: I am a stranger here. Subject(s): Houses THE NEW HOUSE, by LUCIA CLARK MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: No ancient sorrows haunt these shining walls Last Line: "and smile and say: ""how blest she must have been!" Subject(s): Houses THE NEW HOUSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the house not homely yet? Last Line: Legendwise inscribed above. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Friendship; Houses THE NEW HOUSE, by CAROLINE SALOME WOODRUFF Poem Text First Line: The house was new Last Line: Strange paradox of life! Subject(s): Houses THE OLD CASA, by TORREY CONNOR Poem Text First Line: The moon and I a-tiptoe peer within Last Line: And I am here to see the last rose fall! Subject(s): Houses THE OLD CASTLE ON THE HILL, by BORGHILD BREKKE ZANINI Poem Text First Line: Surrounded by poplars, it stands there still Last Line: The night is gone, not a ghost remains. Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural THE OLD HOUSE, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the old house, only a few crumbled Last Line: Older than many a generation of men. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted THE OLD HOUSE, by GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN Poem Text First Line: Cold and cheerless, bare and bleak Last Line: For us and all the children. Subject(s): Children; Houses; Muses; Poverty; Childhood THE OLD HOUSE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O kindly house, where time my soul endows Last Line: Now falls the evening light. God give thee peace! Subject(s): Houses; Memory THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old house, crumbling half away, all barnacled and lichen grown Last Line: The thin hands folded on her breast, in peace at last, and perfect rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Houses; Mortgages THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 181, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pitiful hundred-year house Last Line: To rebuild would never work Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Houses; Rot; Decadence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 247, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this village is a house Last Line: A pearl concealed in rags Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Houses; Rot; Decadence THE POET'S ESTATE, by ANNIE C. BURTON Poem Text First Line: The poet roams at will where heartsease grows Last Line: On them has been bestowed apollo's kiss. Subject(s): Houses; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE PROPS ASSIST THE HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Affirming it a soul Subject(s): Houses; Building & Builders; Soul THE QUAKER MEETING-HOUSE, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the corn-rows from our barracks stood Last Line: With windows burning like the fires of home. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Houses; Religion; War; World War I; Quakers; Theology; First World War THE QUIET LODGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man that rooms next door to Last Line: This man that rooms next door to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE REBUILDING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My house is builded, lord: build it anew! Last Line: A better house erect. Subject(s): Houses; Worship THE SECOND CONCESSION OF DEER, by WILLIAM WYE SMITH Poem Text First Line: John tompkins lived in a house of logs Last Line: Of his own domain in deer. Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Houses; Old Age; Relatives THE SILENCE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walk through a yellow-ocher adobe house Last Line: Water is, taking the shape of the container. Subject(s): Decay; Houses; Silence; Rot; Decadence THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 7, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think these squalid houses are the ghosts Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Houses THE TOKEN, by MURIEL NEWTON Poem Text First Line: I passed along a tragic street Last Line: Whispering that beauty does endure. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted THE TOWER OF ERCILDOUNE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a stillness on the night Last Line: Except to lead us nearer heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Desolation; Haunted Houses; Scotland; Walls THE TREES WILL UNDERSTAND, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER Poem Text First Line: How still a house can be on such a night! Last Line: For they and I have lost our all, my dear! Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Houses; Seasons; Soul; Trees; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness THE WAYSIDE INN; SUDBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set by the meadows, with great oaks to guard Last Line: Songs that will echo sweet the ages down! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Massachusetts; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE WITCH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her hair was gold and warm it lay Last Line: Between the twilight and the sea. Subject(s): Evil; Haunted Houses; Spells; Witchcraft & Witches THEIR HOUSES THERE WITHOUT THEIR BODIES, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one is there but someone will be there Last Line: And breathing without their bodies they are home Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 7, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think these squalid houses are the ghosts Last Line: Close in upon our heels Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Houses THREE HOUSES, by BEATRICE HAWLEY Poem Source First Line: The three houses in my dream Last Line: Too narrow, I dive down and hear %the musical clocks, the cat's purr Subject(s): Houses THREE HOUSES, by JOHN VOIKLIS Poem Source First Line: My friend, I too possess a house by the sea Last Line: Dear house, your folded safe inside my pocket.' Subject(s): Houses; Sea THREE MEN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a house born of the brown earth Last Line: And wondered where it was calling. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Variant Title(s): An Adobe House Subject(s): Earth; Houses; Men; Poetry & Poets; World TO A COUNTRY HOTEL TOWEL, by ELMER CLEVELAND ADAMS Poem Text First Line: I'll touch you not, you much abus-ed rag Last Line: Trying to don you for an undershirt. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TO A WATCH LEFT IN A HOTEL ROOM, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Text First Line: Not long ago the sun was shining Subject(s): Hotels; Loss; Watches; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TO JANE, by JOHN COULTER Poem Text First Line: Against a sloping wood it stands Last Line: Is this the house our dead love built? Subject(s): Forests; Houses; Wind; Woods TO MAKE A HOUSE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: They cut a piece of the world outside Last Line: And spread the ground with floors. Subject(s): Houses; November TO MR. GAY, WHO WROTE HIM A CONGRATULATORY LETTER ON FINISHING HOUSE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, friend! 'tis true - this truth you lovers know Last Line: Bleeds drop by drop, and pants his life away. Subject(s): Gay, John (1685-1732); Houses; Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762) TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE CHAMBER, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Entering your door, I started back; sure this Last Line: That all things mask their better qualities? Subject(s): Houses; Mourning; Bereavement TO MY LADY ROGERS, THE AUTHORS WIVES MOTHER ... HER HOUSE IN BATH, by JOHN HARRINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I newly had your little house erected Last Line: For euery roome is either there, or here Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John Subject(s): Houses TO MY OLD ADDRESSES, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Help! Get out of here! Go walking! Subject(s): Home; Houses TO MY OLD ADDRESSES, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Help! Get out of here! Go walking! Last Line: Forty-eight, neneteen, twenty-three, o worlds in which I was alive! Subject(s): Home; Houses TO PENSHURST, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not, penshurst, built to envious show Last Line: May say their lords have built, but thy lord dwells. Subject(s): Animals; Buildings & Builders; Houses; Penshurst, England; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) TO QUILCA; A COUNTRY HOUSE IN NO GOOD REPAIR, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me thy properties explain Last Line: Sloth, dirt, and theft, around her wait. Subject(s): Houses; Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738) TO SAXHAM, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though frost, and snow, lock'd from mine eyes Last Line: They cannot steal, thou giv'st so much. Subject(s): Houses; Saxham, England TO THE GENIUS OF HIS HOUSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Command the roofe great genius, and from thence Last Line: Grow old with time, but yet keep weather-proofe. Subject(s): Houses TO THE NEW OWNER, by LUCILE HARGROVE REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Here is the house, in readiness for you Last Line: Hoping to find a mislaid dream somewhere! Subject(s): Houses TO THE ROCK THAT WILL BE A CORNERSTONE OF THE HOUSE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old garden of grayish and ochre lichen Last Line: How dear you will be to me when I too grow old, old comrade. Subject(s): Houses; Time TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. I SAW A FAIR HOUSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a fair house standing in a garden, but no one moved about it Last Line: Others a sound of weeping. Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Selfishness; Solitude; Women - Secluding; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness TREE HOUSE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last spring a neighbor boy / nailed up a house in a tree Subject(s): Houses; Play; Trees; Youth TROUBLE, FLEET AND LIGHT OF WING, by KIMBERLY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Because I've hung moth-nets, the patio Last Line: Contagious in passion, star. The star is wormwood Subject(s): Houses; Moths TRUTH, by MONICA OCHTRUP Poem Source First Line: There were two ways to get to my grandmother's house. One was to cross Last Line: The diffusion of countless spores %flying thick in the air like fine dust swelling your nostrils. Br Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Roads TWO BEGINNINGS, by PATRICIA FAREWELL Poem Source First Line: With this hammer build your house Last Line: When you swim there, shorebirds follow Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Creation; Houses; Sea TWO HOUSES, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twill overtask a thousand men Last Line: Shut up the door till doom! Subject(s): Holidays; Houses; New Year TWO HOUSES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between a sunny bank and the sun Last Line: And out they creep and back again for ever Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Houses TWO LIVES. PART 2: 10, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen the poets' houses: sirmio Last Line: Were none more fit than that white house of ours -- Subject(s): Houses TWO-RIVER LEDGER, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joke used to be: / if you don't like it Subject(s): Rivers; Pollution; Houses; Family Life; Relatives UNION OF WOMEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At a literary gathering in santa monica Last Line: So here's to solidarity, cinquains, brave bearded ladies -- hooray! Subject(s): Beards; Hotels; Labor Unions; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Feminism UNTITLED, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: Huge purple flowers spring from black corollas Last Line: That I'd have buried you Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Houses; Parents UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Uphill Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips VAGABOND HOUSE, by DON BLANDING Poem Source First Line: When I have a house -- as I sometime may -- Last Line: Well -- it's just a dream house, anyway Subject(s): Houses VANBRUGH'S HOUSE; BUILT FROM THE RUINS OF WHITEHALL, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In times of old, when time was young Last Line: They from its ruins build their own.' Subject(s): Houses; Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726) VENGEANCE OF THE DAMNED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snoring in the flophouse was very loud, as usual Last Line: It was muscated Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flop-houses; Wine VENGEANCE OF THE DAMNED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snoring in the flophouse was very loud, as usual Last Line: Tom passed the bottle. Max took the hit, passed it back %'thanks' %tom slipped the bottle under his Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Flop-houses VISITATION, by AUDREY NAFFZIGER Poem Source First Line: A deserted house is often appealing. No Subject(s): Houses, Deserted VISITING MY OWN HOUSE IN IOWA CITY, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The three large dogs in my house Subject(s): Houses; Iowa VISITING MY OWN HOUSE IN IOWA CITY, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The three large dogs in my house Last Line: I came to transform and to love Subject(s): Houses; Iowa WAIKIKI HOUSE, by J. F. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: It's very small, my little house Last Line: By three hawaiian boys. Subject(s): Houses; Waikiki, Hawaii WALKING IN A NEWLY BUILT HOUSE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The window, a wide pane in the bare Last Line: Lack of even potential meanings Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Houses WARM DAYS IN JANUARY, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has never been so easy to cry Subject(s): City & Town Life; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Ancestors & Ancestry; Hotels; Male-female Relations; Heritage; Heredity; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WE LIVE IN A RICKETY HOUSE, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And thieves and drunkards meet Subject(s): Houses WEATHER REPORT FROM THE STATE ASYLUM, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad old women, bolted from april's weather Last Line: Gray secret face raised quietly, between Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums WHAT HOUSE TO LIKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some love the glow of outward show Last Line: If I but like the people in it Subject(s): Beauty;houses WHAT THE MAGDALENE SAW, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This fat cum pig more than eager to drop Subject(s): Hotels; Sex; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT LOVE: 2., by STEVEN SHERRILL Poem Source First Line: I've lived in a red house Last Line: The round earth and all its bones %beneath Subject(s): Houses; Life WHEN BUILDINGS LOSE THEIR PURPOSE, by JOHN B. LEE Poem Source First Line: My grandfather's house Last Line: Behind the weather at the windows %with no one looking out Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses WHEN LIGHT COMES UP, by JULIE ILES O'LEARY Poem Source First Line: There's a moment each morning Last Line: Against a blue-morning sky Subject(s): Houses; Memory; Neighbors WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE, by WILLIAM WOTY Poem Text First Line: Wished sunday's come: mirth brightens every face Last Line: So long, white conduit house, shall be thy fame.' Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Food & Eating; Houses; Restaurants; Waiters And Waitresses; Mobs; Crowds; Cafes; Diners WHO'S IN?, by ELIZABETH+(1) FLEMING Poem Source First Line: The door is shut fast %and everyone's out Last Line: Why, everyone's in! Subject(s): Houses WILLOW-WATTLED HOUSE, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired on lonesome sagebrush Subject(s): Houses WIND AND MIST, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They met inside the gateway that gives the view Last Line: As I should like to try being young again Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Houses WINTER MORNING, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: The morning's in a frivolous mood! Last Line: The morning's in a frivolous mood! Subject(s): Death; Haunted Houses; Skeletons; Dead, The WITHOUT A SIMILAR CONDITION INCLUDING THIS CONDITION, by DARA WIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The father away from the center of power Last Line: Never more than a few feet away %from its friend Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Houses WOMEN'S WARD, by GENOA MORRIS Poem Text First Line: In ordered groups they sit Last Line: "lost!" Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Women; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums WORLDLINESS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I close my eyes Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WRITTEN AT AN INN, by GEORGE HORNE Poem Text First Line: From much-loved friends whene'er I part Last Line: "arise, my soul, and let us go." Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, fair freedom! I retire / from flattery, cards, and dice, and din Last Line: The warmest welcome at an inn. Subject(s): Freedom; Hotels; Liberty; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses |
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