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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOUSES, DESERTED Matches Found: 53 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 ABANDONED FARMHOUSE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full 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 Full 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 AN EMPTY PLACE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing for death Subject(s): Houses, Deserted ANALOGY AT A DESERTED HOUSE, by BYRON HERBERT REECE Poem Source First Line: Beautiful at nightfall about the empty house Subject(s): Houses, Deserted 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 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 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 BEYOND THE HUNTING WOODS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full 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 BLUE SUNDAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 OUTSIDE IT IS BLOWING AND RAINING, by ALEXEY (ALEKSEY) KONSTANTINOVICH TOLSTOY Poem Full 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 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 RUINS UNDER THE STARS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full 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 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 SONNET: PALAZZO PAGANI, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the house where, twenty years ago Subject(s): Memory; Love; Houses, Deserted SOUTHERN GOTHIC, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full 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 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 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 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 VISITATION, by AUDREY NAFFZIGER Poem Source First Line: A deserted house is often appealing. No Subject(s): Houses, Deserted |
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