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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HUMAN RACE Matches Found: 223 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAY AT CASTROGIOVANNI: 3. DEMETER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here stood thy temple, on the mountain's horn Last Line: Great mother, vanished from the mountain's horn. Subject(s): Demeter; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Religion; Ceres; Human Race; Theology A FRIENDLY EXPOSTULATION, CONCERNING THE REDEMPTION OF MANKIND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a good sermon; but a close review Last Line: As that a line, if straight, can be but one. Subject(s): Humanity; Mankind; Redemption; Human Race A LEGEND OF THE MOON, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightlong I yearned so madly toward the moon Last Line: Of moons and mortals and of olden days. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Earth; Legends; Life; Mankind; Moon; Urban Life; Dead, The; World; Human Race A SATIRE [OR, SATYR] AGAINST MANKIND, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were I (who to my cost already am) Last Line: Man differs more from man, than man from beast. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): Homo Sapiens Subject(s): Ingelo, Nathaniel (1621-1683); Mankind; Meres, Sir Thomas (1635-1715); Patrick, Simon (1626-1707); Reason; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals AD ASTRA: 116, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Twin angels, pity and pain, redeem mankind Last Line: The pity of the thing he fain would do? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Mankind; Redemption; Human Race AD ASTRA: 118, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How may we reconcile our faith in man Last Line: Immunity from toil and foreign foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race AD ASTRA: 125, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Man's conquests over matter-do they move Last Line: To heights beyond the heights he did emprise? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Mankind; Human Race AD ASTRA: 128, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Faith born of reverence ever lives and glows Last Line: If here the soul its last bright web is weaving? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Earth; Mankind; World; Human Race AD ASTRA: 132, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Grant this mute sense stirs in the brute creation Last Line: It differentiates the brute from man! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Mankind; Nature - Religious Aspects; Human Race AD ASTRA: 133, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: To man pertains a glory that doth force Last Line: That glance to which the might of godhead cleaves! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology AD ASTRA: 138, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Bereft of god, is aught worth man's desire? Last Line: Repay the gold of his ungarner'd youth Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Mankind; Human Race AN ANTHEM FOR MAN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the beast that is not beast: the unhorned Subject(s): Mankind; God; Singing & Singers; Human Race; Songs AN EPIGRAM ON JOHN MARSTON, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ask't phisitions what their counsell was Last Line: Whether thou be a mad dog, or a mankind asse. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Dogs; Mankind; Mules; Human Race AN ESSAY ON MAN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, my st. John! Leave all meaner things Last Line: And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Mankind; Nature; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Human Race APOSTROPHE TO MAN, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out Last Line: Homo called sapiens Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Mankind; War; Human Race AS CONCERNING MAN, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To what intent or purpose was man made Last Line: Than thus to be perplex'd: god save the queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race AS CREATED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a space for good to bloom Last Line: After all. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Good; Hearts; Mankind; Human Race AT SEVENTY-THREE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, let us face things as they are Last Line: For I am over seventy-three! Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Life; Mankind; Tears; Youth; Relatives; Human Race ATALANTA IN CALYDON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars Last Line: For the hands of their kingdom are strong. Subject(s): Atalanta; Fates (mythology); Mankind; Mythology; Plays & Playwrights; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Human Race; Theology BIRTH, by SULAMITH ISH-KISHOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god who built this body round my heart Last Line: And shook me forth, a grain of mortal sand! Subject(s): Birth; Bodies; Creation; Mankind; Child Birth; Midwifery; Human Race BISCLAVERET, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In either mood, to bless or curse Last Line: The masses for our soul's full grace. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Mankind; Nature; Human Race BROTHERS: 3. AS FOR MYSELF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Less snake than angel Last Line: And to be unafraid. Subject(s): Angels; Brothers; Creation; Mankind; Half-brothers; Human Race CANTICLE OF THE RACE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful are the bodies of men Last Line: The flesh made the word! Subject(s): Mankind; Women; Human Race CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day, the poet, bloodily inclined Last Line: I'll cost you but your half-a-crown a day. Subject(s): Love; Mankind; Poetry & Poets; Human Race COLD-BLOODED CREATURES, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, the egregious egoist Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers COMMON DUST, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: And who shall separate the dust Last Line: The same as from the start? Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; Mankind; Negroes; American Blacks; Human Race COMPLAINT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Creator-so we call him and believe Last Line: And we have had forever to repeat. Subject(s): Creation; Mankind; Human Race CONFLICT BEFORE VICTORY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand at gaze upon an autumn knoll Last Line: The mellow magic of october's moon. Subject(s): Earth; Evil; God; Love; Mankind; Victory; War; World; Human Race DARTMOOR: SUNSET AT CHAGFORD: HOMO LOQVITUR, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ironical, a fool enigma Last Line: Nor even dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Mankind; Surgery; Sunset; Twilight; Human Race DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 1, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Delight of humane kind, and gods above Last Line: And quiet to the weary world restore. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Mankind; Nature; Translating & Interpreting; Human Race DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: THE SLIGHT AND DEGENERATE NATURE OF MAN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful post-diluvians! From whose hearts Last Line: Grow o'er the secrets cut into their core. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race DISCOURAGEMENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forward, comrades, ever forward! Last Line: We are nothing but the spray. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Mankind; Mercy; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race DISCRIMINATION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't mind the human race Subject(s): Mankind; Race Awareness; Racism; Human Race; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry DUST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard them in their sadness say Last Line: And haunted by all mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Earth; God; Humanity; Mankind; Dead, The; World; Human Race EACH FLEETING DAY, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: These to rejoice in: a smile Last Line: Enrich our lives each fleeting day. Subject(s): Babies; Mankind; Infants; Human Race EARTH AND MAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On her great venture, man Last Line: Or dated leaf. Subject(s): Earth; God; Mankind; Nature; World; Human Race EPISTLE TO JAMES MOMTAGUE, LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although you have out of your proper store Last Line: Than when they are esteemed and loved best? Subject(s): Hearts; Mankind; Montague, James (1568-1618); Religion; Sickness; Human Race; Theology; Illness ESSAY: AN AMATEUR OF HUMAN ICHTHYOLOGY: HAIRSHIRT WOVEN IN #S, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear person from a practicable point of view Last Line: At the human-to-be-made: an alphabet collar of hairs, woven in white Subject(s): Bodies; Creation; Mankind; Human Race ESSAY: THE EARLIEST WORLD, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the tired drones of tv sit Last Line: The snakes? These are all worlds, gone. Subject(s): Danger; Mankind; Human Race FABLE: THE SNAIL AND THE GARDENER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When sons of fortune ride on high Last Line: Is suited to the bearer's back.' Subject(s): Fables; Happiness; Mankind; Allegories; Joy; Delight; Human Race FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange discourse, in all impartial views Last Line: A god-like love embracing ev'ry man. Subject(s): Advice; Friends, Religious Society Of; Mankind; Reason; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Quakers; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors FOLLIES OF THE DAY, A SATIRE, SELECTION, by F. O. SAYLES Poem Text First Line: Whoe'er surveys the conduct of mankind Last Line: Let satire paint them for the public scorn. Subject(s): American Civil War; Mankind; Nations; Truth; U.s. - History; Human Race FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT; SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there, for honest poverty Last Line: Shall brothers be for a' that! Variant Title(s): A Man's A Man For A' That;honest Poverty Subject(s): Brotherhood; Class Struggle; Equality; Freedom; Mankind; Poverty; Liberty; Human Race FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Any man's death diminishes me Last Line: It tolls for thee. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race FRATERNITY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, I saw an unknown woman stand Last Line: You think me pity ... Justice is my name. Subject(s): Angels; Justice; Mankind; Women & Religion; Worship; Human Race FULL-CIRCLE, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Now that the gods are gone Last Line: And a fool -- and alone. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race GOD AND MAN AND FLOWER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But, my dear lord, now that it's in your hand Last Line: O find yourself in the hands of the living god Subject(s): Flowers; God; Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology GOD MADE A WORLD, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: God made a little world in time's beginning Last Line: And, looking on his world, still finds it good. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; World; Human Race GOD'S WORLD AND MAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Beneath god's ever present sky Last Line: Marks life's beginning and its end. Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Life; Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology HELEN KELLER, by WAYNE AREY Poem Text First Line: The lowly of the earth lament -- she hears! Last Line: Though error blinds the human race, she sees! Subject(s): Errors; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Lament; Mankind; Mistakes; Fallacies; Human Race HENRY IRVING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis art reclaims him! By those Last Line: Great likewise was the man. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Genius; Mankind; Human Race HERTHA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am that which began Last Line: Man, equal and one with me, man that is made of me, man that is I. Subject(s): God; Mankind; Soul; Time; Human Race HISTORIES: BIRTH, WITHOUT THE THEME OF BURNING: US, BORN OF A THICKET, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then all the forests divided & them oceans & Last Line: Lobsters? Sweetmeats? Subject(s): Birth; History; Mankind; Child Birth; Midwifery; Historians; Human Race HISTORIES: THE FLESH, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living in the lap / of lux- / ury Last Line: Animate the factory, the flush Subject(s): History; Mankind; Historians; Human Race HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Bring burnished vessels and broidered vail Last Line: Mankind is the cup of the lord. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race HOW MUCH EARTH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Torn into light, you woke wriggling Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race HUMAN FRAILITY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weak and irresolute is man Last Line: Or all the toil is lost. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race HUMAN LOT, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Human Race HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN!, by ANDRE SPIRE Poem Text First Line: My father understood latin Last Line: Do you see? Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race HYMN EXULTANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of mankind, sing over Last Line: Our king returns to us, forever ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Mankind; Singing & Singers; Soul; The Resurrection; Human Race HYMN OF MAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began Last Line: Glory to man in the highest! For man is master of things. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; Soul; Universe; World; Human Race I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE BRIGHTER FLESH, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the center of human Last Line: Between dark between cities Subject(s): Bodies; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Shadows; Work; Workers; Human Race IDENTITY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: But the eye of god Last Line: That is his own bad eyesight. Subject(s): Identity; Mankind; Men; Self; Human Race IF I WERE PAUL, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider how you were made. Last Line: Having read it, you will know that it contains my blessing Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race IMAGE OF THE ENGINE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Likely as not a ruined head gasket Subject(s): Mankind; Mortality; Human Race IN NEW YORK, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood with men upon the crowded curb Subject(s): New York City; Grief; Mankind; Crowds; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race JUST LIKE ME, by DOROTHY LEWIS MADDOX Poem Text First Line: If every person saw like me Last Line: What kind of world would this world be? Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race KNOW THYSELF, by WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT Poem Text First Line: What am I? How produc'd? And for what end? Last Line: Repair by meekness what you lost by pride. Subject(s): Mankind; Physicians; Self; Human Race; Doctors KOSMOS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of dust the primal adam came Last Line: Lifting the heart of man with love. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Art & Artists; Bible; Love; Mankind; Soul; Eve; Human Race LANDING, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a pure white cloud that hung there Last Line: Direction to their endless drift. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Clouds; Mankind; Mirages; Sky; White (color); Human Race LIFE-THOUGHTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas morn, - the heavens were glowing with the light Last Line: Through studying god's works to study god! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Life; Love; Mankind; Religious Education; Human Race; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools LONDON BRIDGE, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Proud and lowly, beggar and lord Last Line: Until the river no more shall run. Subject(s): Life; London; Mankind; Human Race LOOKING AT YOUR HAND, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This shadow passing over your hand Last Line: For a moment it can shape itself into a cup of water. Subject(s): Hands; Mankind; Shadows; Human Race MAKING THE WOOD, by LOIS CANFIL Poem Text First Line: The blade of grass lifts clod beyond its weight Last Line: To make the fibered wood which builders use. Subject(s): Forests; Grass; Mankind; Nature; Woods; Human Race MAN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In what a kingly fashion man doth dwell Last Line: And dieth in the hope to live again. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race MAN, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, I heard this day Last Line: And both thy servants be. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race MAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Affliction one day, as she harked to the roar Last Line: "and his spirit to jove who bestowed it." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mankind; Mythology; Dead, The; World; Human Race MAN, by HENRY SEPTIMUS SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man doth usurp all space Last Line: All that interests man is man. Subject(s): Mankind; Selfishness; Human Race MAN AND NATURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sad man on a summer day Last Line: Who can be bright without the sun.' Subject(s): Earth; Clouds; Mankind; Birds; Sea; World; Human Race; Ocean MAN EXALTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Nowel! Nowel! Nowel! Last Line: "that we mow there singe, 'nowel,' / nowel!" Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race MAN THE MONARCH, by MARY LEAPOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Amazed we read of nature's early throes Last Line: A long succession of domestic kings. Subject(s): Eden; Mankind; Human Race MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chill november's surly blast Last Line: "that weary-laden mourn!" Subject(s): Mankind; Mourning; Religion; Human Race; Bereavement; Theology MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN, by ALBERT LINDLEY BEANE Poem Text First Line: The most appalling thing on history's page Last Line: And staged ten thousand reddened calvarys! Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race MAN, THE IMAGE OF GOD, by PENINA MOISE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exult, my soul, in consciousness proud Last Line: Like these, by singing e'er his praise. Subject(s): God; Jews; Justice; Mankind; Praise; Judaism; Human Race MAN-TEST, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the dim beginning of the years Last Line: "with all in life to win or all to lose." Variant Title(s): The Testing Subject(s): Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology MEN AND MAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men the angels eyed Last Line: Bear radiant in the stain. Subject(s): Admiration; Angels; Mankind; Human Race MEN, WOMEN, AND EARTH, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early in the morning the hermit wakes Last Line: Earth nourishes what no one can see. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mankind; Montague, John (b. 1929); Male-female Relations; Human Race METAMORPHOSES: 5. DAPHNE (VIOLETTA VALERY), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All three are men Subject(s): Mankind; Murder; Human Race METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of bodies changed to various forms I sing Last Line: And saw the palace by the purple light. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Creation; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting; Human Race MIND OF MAN, by FRANK PIERCE GALLAGHER Poem Text First Line: Feed our eyes, oh light, with sights about us Last Line: God and she have earned a garland flock. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Work; Workers; Human Race MIRACLE IN BOSTON, by CHARLES ABRAHAM WAGNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On boston common their heart ash blows Last Line: O man's deliverance out of night! Subject(s): Boston; Mankind; Miracles; Spring; War; Human Race MONOCHROME, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut fast again in beauty's sheath Last Line: And self begin to be. Subject(s): Beauty; Mankind; Sea; Human Race; Ocean MORTAL COMBAT, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is because you were my friend Last Line: And be a man like other men. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Discontent; Friendship; Mankind; Dissatisfaction; Human Race MY ALTER EGO, by JEANNETTE EUGENIE CUSHING Poem Text First Line: I took my soul, and walked the wide world thru Last Line: Forlorn, I wander, for my other self is dead. Subject(s): Mankind; Solitude; Soul; Human Race; Loneliness NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 1. LIFE, DEATH & IMMORTALITY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! Last Line: How had it blest mankind, and rescued me! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grief; Immortality; Life; Mankind; Night; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 3. NARCISSA, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From dreams, where thought in fancy's maze runs mad Last Line: When shall I die? -- when shall I live for ever? Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Funerals; Life; Love; Mankind; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Human Race; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, a long day past Last Line: And midnight, universal midnight! Reigns. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Graves; Life; Mankind; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NIGHT; AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense Last Line: Alone, than err with millions on thy side. Subject(s): Duty; Facades; Lloyd, Robert (1733-1764); Mankind; Morality; Night; Appearances; Human Race; Ethics; Bedtime NOT A MAN, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not a man who generally Subject(s): Love; Mankind; Human Race ODE TO A PIG WHILE HIS NOSE WAS BEING ROASTED, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! That pig - that pig! The hideous note Last Line: To think that for your master's good you die? Variant Title(s): Ode To A Pig, Who Nose Was Being Bored Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mankind; Nature; Pain; Pigs; Sacrifices; Selflessness; Dead, The; Paradise; Human Race; Suffering; Misery; Boars; Hogs OF THE UNIVERSAL LOVE OF PLEASURE; TO A FRIEND, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All human race, from china to peru Last Line: Enjoy unlimited benevolence! Subject(s): Business; Greed; History; Mankind; Pleasure; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Avarice; Cupidity; Historians; Human Race; Journeys; Trips ON A FLY-LEAF, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Singers there are of courtly Last Line: With the rights and the wrongs of all mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Mankind; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Human Race ON ATTENTION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sacred attention! True effectual pray'r! Last Line: Pure, unconsum'd, the faithful victim flames. Subject(s): Mankind; Prayer; Human Race ON EXODUS III. 14. I AM THAT I AM; AN ODE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man! Foolish man! Last Line: Which faith had dictated, and angels trod. Subject(s): Faith; Fools; Mankind; Belief; Creed; Idiots; Human Race ON FAITH, REASON, AND SIGHT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a threefold correspondent light Last Line: The things of god without a light divine? Subject(s): Faith; Mankind; Mediums; Reason; Sight; Belief; Creed; Human Race; Spiritualists; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ON THE FALL OF MAN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of man's obedience, while in eden blest Last Line: Right reason, scripture, and the love divine. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Mankind; Obedience; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Human Race ON THE MEETING OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION IN GLASGOW, 1860, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of the west! We hail thee from afar! Last Line: To lead to heaven, and train for life on earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Conventions; Glasgow, Scotland; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Social Problems; Assemblies; Meetings; Human Race ON THE UNION AND THREE-FOLD DISTINCTION OF GOD, NATURE AND CREATURE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that comes under our imagination Last Line: And, god's own image lord of it, a man. Subject(s): Mankind; Mediums; Religious Education; Human Race; Spiritualists; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ON THOUGHTS, by MARGARET E. HENDRICKSON Poem Text First Line: Busy with thoughts Last Line: That go ever astray. Subject(s): Language; Mankind; Thought; Words; Vocabulary; Human Race; Thinking ONE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One blood are we Last Line: Of the one creative love. Subject(s): Creation; Mankind; Human Race ONE BOY TOLD ME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Music lives inside my legs Last Line: Isn't that happiness? Subject(s): Boys; Mankind; Youth; Human Race ORIGINAL SIN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man-brained and man-handed ground-ape, physically Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race PASCAL'S CHARACTER OF HIMSELF, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love and honour a poor humble state Last Line: I'm nothing else but misery and woe. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Salvation; Self-pity; Sin; Human Race PATRIOTS OF MANKIND, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are we not all of race divine Last Line: And let's be patriots of mankind. Subject(s): Freedom; Mankind; Liberty; Human Race PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 14. AL-MUZAWWIR, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lord would fashion men Last Line: "come thou!"" at man's hour of death." Variant Title(s): Making Of Man Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Islam; Jews; Mankind; Eve; Judaism; Human Race PELAGIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shall praise him and the shores bear part Last Line: In every likeness of a little child. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Religion; Sea; Soul; Human Race; Theology; Ocean PEOPLE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was painting dolphins on a silver sea Last Line: "whoo-oop!"" I bellowed. ""who will? Who will? When?" Subject(s): Humanity; Mankind; Paintings & Painters; Human Race PEOPLE LIKE US, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are more like us. All over the world Last Line: And greatness has a defender, and even in death you're safe Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race PHILOMELA: PHILOMELA'S ODE [THAT SHE SANG IN HER ARBOR], by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting by a river's side Last Line: No sweet love but honesty. Subject(s): Deception; Honesty; Introspection; Love; Mankind; Human Race POESY, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When men were rude, and rough, and wild Last Line: And clothed them in her seemliest dress. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Mankind; Wisdom; Human Race POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO 'THE UNHAPPY FAVORITE,' BY JOHN BANKS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first the ark was landed on the shore Last Line: Still to havesuch a king, and this king long. Variant Title(s): Prologue And Epilogue To The Unhappy Favorite: Prologue Spoken To The Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); England; Mankind; Peace; English; Human Race POPULATION, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flat sea Subject(s): Mankind; Mortality; Human Race PORTRAIT OF A VERY OLD MAN, by SARA CARSLEY Poem Text First Line: The thrusting glance grows dim Last Line: Needs only earth. Subject(s): Aging; Mankind; Human Race PROVIDENCE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was far from the sea's voice and vastness Last Line: Is not without a meaning for mankind. Subject(s): God; Mankind; Memory; Sea; Human Race; Ocean PSALM 8, SELECTION, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers Last Line: And hast crowned him with glory and honour. Subject(s): God; Mankind; Human Race REMARKS ABOUT KINGS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God said, 'I am tired of kings' Last Line: Smiled in the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Government; Mankind; Social Protest; War; Human Race REPRISALS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our words were spoken, and our hate found tongue Last Line: But with the hissing of a thousand snakes! Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Hate; Malice; Mankind; Poisons & Poisoning; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers REVELATION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the choric peal shall end Last Line: God may emerge at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Faith; God; Mankind; Belief; Creed; Human Race SATIRE: 10, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: Look round the habitable world, how few Last Line: But, set aloft by fools, usurps the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Desire; Mankind; Wishes; Human Race SCULPTURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I took a piece of plastic clay Last Line: "he still that early impress bore, / and I could change it, nevermore" Subject(s): Clay;mankind;religion; Human Race;theology SEVEN AGES OF MAN, FR. AS YOU LIKE IT, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the world's a stage Last Line: Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Variant Title(s): Life's Theatre Subject(s): Mankind; Nature; Human Race SHRINE AND SPIRIT, by HARRIET OLDS HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: A bridge of centuries in walls Last Line: That mortal men betray. Subject(s): Mankind; Shrines; Soul; Human Race SIC VITA, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a silkworm of one year Last Line: And man as these as quickly gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race SIC VITA, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the falling of a star Last Line: The flight is past, -- and man forgot! Variant Title(s): Life;of Human Life;such Is Life Subject(s): Death; Life; Mankind; Mortality; Transience; Dead, The; Human Race; Impermanence SLIMEHEAD (HOPLASTETHUS ATLANTICUS), by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humans eat first with their ears so Last Line: The shy, prolific squid Subject(s): Food & Eating; Mankind; Human Race SO IT IS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So it is that men Last Line: Lies grief—asleep. Subject(s): Humanity; Mankind; Human Race SOIL AND SOUL, by JOSEPH GLADDEN HUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth a bit of star-dust is Last Line: "to plunder or create." Subject(s): Creation; God; Mankind; Human Race SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 3. POWER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come then, my soul, I call thee by that name Last Line: And in my act may thy great will be done! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Life; Mankind; Pain; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Dead, The; Human Race; Suffering; Misery SONG, by ROBERT DODSLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man's a poor deluded bubble Last Line: "lost in error lives and dies." Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race SONG OF THE SUPERMAN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I am the one whose blood has run through all the / races' veins Last Line: From senseless clod I rise to god, I am the races' soul. Subject(s): Freedom; Heroism; Mankind; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Human Race SPEED, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Think, man of flesh, and be not proud Last Line: Catch up with you at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race STRONG I STAND, THOUGH I HAVE BORNE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Mankind; Pride; Human Race; Self-esteem; Self-respect STRUGGLE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: The role of ease is not the salient quest Last Line: Who would know life, attends a rugged school. Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Problems; Human Race SYMPATHY, by THOMAS ASHE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is nature all so beautiful? Subject(s): Nature; Mankind; Human Race SYNOPSIS, by MARGARET MELLISH Poem Text First Line: A planet revolving around the sun Last Line: Tomorrow is eternity. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Mankind; Politics & Government; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: THE OX AND THE MAN BOTH GONE OUT OF SIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is not ox Last Line: All things are ox Subject(s): Animals; Life; Mankind; Oxen; Human Race THE AGES OF MAN, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Childhood alone is glad. With it time flees Last Line: We grow not merry though the dotard laughed. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Life; Mankind; Childhood; Human Race THE ANGELS MARVEL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are stars up in the heavens Last Line: Is his one creature—man. Subject(s): Angels; Creation; Heaven; Mankind; Stars; Paradise; Human Race THE ASCENT OF MAN, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood upon the earth, and turned Last Line: Lord of two worlds, and child of god! Subject(s): Mankind; Time; Human Race THE AURA, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we are and why we;re here Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race THE BIRD-MAN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Man is a bird Last Line: Him down from heaven to earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race THE BOUNDARIES OF HUMANITY, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the primeval father Last Line: Of human existence. Subject(s): Humanity; Mankind; Mortality; Human Race THE BRAVEST MAN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: God! But it takes a man to stand Last Line: Then is the time when manhood's born! Subject(s): Courage; Mankind; Valor; Bravery; Human Race THE BROKEN PROMISE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the crisp of fall Last Line: And a broken promise is their doom. Subject(s): Autumn; Mountains; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares; Human Race; Bedtime THE BURDEN BEARER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bearing the sky on his back Last Line: On him as doubt of his fate. Subject(s): Fate; God; Mankind; Rest; Destiny; Human Race THE CARPERS (AN ASPECT), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always the worm in the bud, the fly in the amber Last Line: "carpers"" at odds with our age!" Subject(s): Courage; Desire; Dreams; Mankind; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares; Human Race THE CITY AND THE SEA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To none the city bends a servile knee Last Line: But her sweet soul is god's. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Cities; God; Mankind; Sea; Urban Life; Human Race; Ocean THE CONQUERORS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems vainglorious and proud Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Mankind; War; Human Race THE CROWDED STREET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me move slowly through the street Last Line: That rolls to its appointed end. Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Human Race THE DEED: 2, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No sight earth yields our eyes is lovelier than Last Line: That all he is approves what he doth do. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Beauty; Mankind; Human Race THE DIALOGUE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou tell me that the fields are mine Last Line: Mean thee alone (my friend) in every deed. Subject(s): Mankind; Nature; Sun; Human Race THE EARTH AND MAN, by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little sun, a little rain Last Line: Have left it younger than a boy. Subject(s): Mankind; Earth; Human Race; World THE FEMALE PHAETON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thus kitty, beautiful and young Last Line: And set the world on fire. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Mankind; Dead, The; Human Race THE FLIGHT, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wild heart, track the land's perfume Last Line: "one with the wild heart yearning." Subject(s): History; Mankind; Religion; Historians; Human Race; Theology THE FURNITURE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To things we are ghosts, soft things Subject(s): Furniture; Mankind; Human Race THE GLORY AND SHAME OF GOD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: God created man. He breathed into the mould Last Line: Man is the shame of god! Subject(s): Creation; God; Mankind; Shame; Human Race THE GREAT BLUE HERON; A WARNING, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great blue heron stood all alone Last Line: "betwixt you and the being called man." Subject(s): Herons; Hunting; Mankind; Hunters; Human Race THE HEART OF THE PEOPLE IS RIGHT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though grafters may steal at the top of their bent Last Line: For the heart of the people is right. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race THE HERETIC: 2. IRONY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why are the things that have no death Last Line: And so he dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Irony; Mankind; Human Race THE IMAGE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I be like my god, my king Last Line: Like me to lie. Subject(s): Creation; Mankind; Human Race THE IMPROVEMENT, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis more to recollect, than make. The one Last Line: But, by their efficacy, all mine own. Subject(s): God; Mankind; Human Race THE KIND WORD, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A friendly word that's kindly spoken is Last Line: Men may be from gloom emerging, to take their places in the sun. Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness; Mankind; Human Race THE LIFE OF MAN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: All from his cradle to his grave Last Line: Poor devil, man's a frightened thing. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race THE LUST OF THE WORLD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since man first lifted up his eyes to hers Last Line: And twixt the two maintain an equal course. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Lust; Mankind; Time; Human Race THE MAKER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made the country Last Line: Of great renown? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Creation; God; Mankind; Towns; Human Race THE MAKING OF MAN, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the insect from the rock Last Line: Friendlier than the smiling days. Subject(s): Mankind; Time; Human Race THE MAKING OF MAN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is one that, born of woman, altogether can escape Last Line: Hallelujah to the maker 'it is finish'd. Man is made.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race THE MAKING OF THE SOUL OF MAN, by UPTON BEALL SINCLAIR Poem Text First Line: I am grown haggard and forlorn, from dreams Last Line: Unto the making of the soul of man. Subject(s): Mankind; Soul; Human Race THE MAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All our light mockeries / have ever paled before thy white desire Last Line: A power man knows not, that doth rend and shake him! Subject(s): Courage; Mankind; Men; Valor; Bravery; Human Race THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race THE MAN WITH THE HOE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Last Line: After the silence of the centuries? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology THE MARCH OF MAN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man that is born of a woman the pride and the shame of creation Last Line: Be thou filled with the glory of god, as the waters cover the deep! Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race THE MARMOZET, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The species man and marmozet Last Line: But men are all extinct. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Mankind; Monkeys; Human Race THE MARTYRS OF THE MIND, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour to the sacred past! Last Line: From the martyrs of the mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Mankind; Thought; Human Race; Thinking THE OAK AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oak said to the forest trees Last Line: Said: in my woods the wind stirreth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ignorance; Life; Mankind; Oak Trees; Pride; Dullness; Stupdity; Human Race; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For love we all go Subject(s): Women; Mankind; Human Race THE PILGRIM SOUL, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the winding mazes of windy streets Last Line: That all who beheld him were born once again. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mankind; Human Behavior; Human Race; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PULLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god at first made man Last Line: May toss him to my breast. Variant Title(s): The Gifts Of God;rest Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Mankind; Melancholy; Redemption; Religion; Human Race; Dejection; Theology THE RISE OF MAN, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou for whose birth the whole creation yearned Last Line: Of those perfections which are yet to be. Subject(s): Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology THE SECULAR MASQUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hundred times the rowling sun Last Line: Dance of huntsmen, nymphs, warriours, and lovers. Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Plays & Playwrights ; War; World; Human Race; Dramatists THE SHEEP IN THE RUINS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, my friends, and you strangers, all of you, Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Mankind; Sheep; Human Race THE SONG OF THE SPIRIT OVER THE WATERS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul of man Last Line: How like the wind! Subject(s): Mankind; Soul; Human Race THE THEME AND THE PUPPET, by LETA GRACE BORLAND Poem Text First Line: What if, at length came light through primal gloom Last Line: The theme lives on, the puppet only lives awhile. Variant Title(s): We Live Awhile Subject(s): Evolution; Mankind; Human Race THE THRUSH AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time to get up! Time to get up! Says the thrush Last Line: Time to get up! O thrush, I rise—I hear! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Advice; Birds; Calm; Mankind; Noises; Thrushes; Waking; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Human Race THE TRUMPET OF LIBERTY, by JOHN TAYLOR (1750-1826) Poem Text First Line: The trumpet of liberty sounds through the world Last Line: Fall, tyrants, fall! Etc. Subject(s): Freedom; Mankind; Trumpets; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Human Race THE UNION, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that have gathered together the sons of all races Last Line: One singing star of the world. Subject(s): Dreams; Flags; Freedom; Mankind; Nations; Tears; Nightmares; Liberty; Human Race THE UNVEILING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that spring week of sacred memories Last Line: Unveils the crucified. Subject(s): God; Grief; Mankind; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race; Theology THE WORLD (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw eternity the other night Last Line: But for his bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): A Vision Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Earth; Freedom; Future Life; Mankind; Religion; World; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race; Theology THE YOUTH OF MAN, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We, o nature, depart Last Line: Rally the good in the depths of thyself! Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race THOUGHTS ON IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imputed righteousness! - beloved friend Last Line: That 'twas by faith attracted into her. Subject(s): Faith; Mankind; Thought; Belief; Creed; Human Race; Thinking THOUGHTS UPON HUMAN REASON, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I have read them - but I cannot find Last Line: "have prov'd the point, by their complete rotation." Subject(s): Human Rights; Mankind; Reason; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals TO A ROSE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou new-born rose, emerging from the dew Last Line: Love to mankind, and confidence in god. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Aphrodite; Flowers; Love; Mankind; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Human Race TO R.K., by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will there never come a season Last Line: And the haggards ride no more? Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Variant Title(s): Lapsus Calami;the Millennium Subject(s): Haggard, Rider (1856-1925); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Mankind; Millenium; Human Race TO THE HONOURABLE CHARLES MONTAGUE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Howe'er, 'tis well, that while mankind Last Line: I, phillis, but a perjured whore. Subject(s): Death; Experience; Fame; Fate; Mankind; Dead, The; Reputation; Destiny; Human Race TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. IN THE DEEP CAVE OF THE HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep cave of the heart, far down Last Line: Words float, and fragrance of time ascends, and life ever circling. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mankind; Human Race TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A DREAM OF HUMAN LIFE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I saw a wild and lonely promontory Last Line: Went past it to all parts of the world. Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Human Race TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A VILLAGE CHURCH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stump of oak - a huge old ruin of a tree, shored up with props Last Line: The peacock flew from its tree overhead to the east and into the night. Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Clergy; History; Mankind; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Historians; Human Race TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AT MENTONE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why speak ye not, ye beautiful lands and seas Last Line: Why utterest not the voice we long to hear? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Earth; History; Mankind; Peasantry; Graveyards; Dead, The; World; Historians; Human Race TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN AN OLD QUARRY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in an old quarry Last Line: One sentence of thy great world-wisdom out Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mankind; Male-female Relations; Human Race TRAGOS, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: The heart of man is cleft by two desires Last Line: Then vanishes and leaves all dark behind. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Life; Mankind; Human Race TWO SONNETS: 1, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since all is vanity - o shrewdest preacher! Last Line: Surely the wiser part would be to end it! Subject(s): Despair; Mankind; Human Race UNFOLDED OUT OF THE FOLDS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfolded out of the folds of the woman man comes unfolded Last Line: In himself. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race UNIVERSAL MEDICINE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man discovered the universal medicine Subject(s): Mankind; Medicine; Human Race; Drugs, Prescription UNWED SOLDIER, by ETHEL A. FRAME Poem Text First Line: Posterity for him is unsought naught Last Line: Within him dead his unborn children lie. Subject(s): Death; Mankind; War; Dead, The; Human Race VALUES, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The soul is years in making Last Line: God only knows the soul. Subject(s): Mankind; Soul; Human Race VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who doubts? The lawes fel down from heauens height Last Line: So robs the sheepe, in fauours faire pretence. Subject(s): God; Law & Lawyers; Mankind; Worship; Attorneys; Human Race WHAT LIGHT?, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I know my body well Last Line: What light shall smile my spirit forth? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Bodies; Mankind; Human Race WHAT THE WIND SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I muse to-day, in a listless way Last Line: The winter storm-king sigh.' Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Nature; Wind; Human Race WHEN TIME WAS YOUNG, by SARITA HOLT BROWNLEE Poem Text First Line: When time was young, man had his birth Last Line: His spirit dwelling with his god. Subject(s): Birth; Mankind; Soul; Time; Child Birth; Midwifery; Human Race WILDERNESS MAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whiskers a wren could nest in Subject(s): Mankind; Wilderness; Human Race WINGS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ascend, oh my soul, with the wings of the lark ascend! Last Line: Moan and murmur through man's finite soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race YOUNG MAN WITH A HAM, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm watching him from my window. He's clutching Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race ZENO'S LEMUR, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't he the man with crimson socks Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Human Race |
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