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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HUNGER Matches Found: 172 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF AN ARTIST'S WIFE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet wife, this heavy-hearted age Last Line: "and in her peace forever dwell." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hunger; Marriage; Tragedy; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A HUNGER SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some are fed on kingly fare Last Line: Feed me not, love, on crumbs. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Love; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The A LONG DAY, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking all this day she may be dead Last Line: Because I took away her bit of bread. Subject(s): Bread; Death; Farewell; Food & Eating; Hunger; Dead, The; Parting A SEA OF WHEAT, by ALICE BAKER Poem Text First Line: I look at waves on a golden sea Last Line: So rich as a field of wheat. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Wheat A TALE OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold Last Line: Will think of the hardships of poor mariners while at sea. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Hunger; Sea; Survival; Ocean AKJARTOQ'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I take a deep breath Last Line: Between the first and last hours %of the sun Subject(s): Eskimos; Hunger; Hunting; Native Americans ALREADY A LONG WAY OFF THEY KNEW IT WAS HIM, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: The empty plate one had tried to induce him with Subject(s): Hunger; Snow; Winter AN AUTUMN REVERIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Beautiful summer now hath fled Last Line: In general they make a sudden retreat. Subject(s): Hunger; Money; Poverty AN EPITAPH, by BEN JACOB Poem Text First Line: Here lies nachshon, man of great renown Last Line: Now he is gone, he gets a stone instead. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Jews; Dead, The; Judaism AN ETON ELEGY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye distant spires, ye antique towers Last Line: "by our own alma mater." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Hunger; Poverty ANOTHER INSANE DEVOTION, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Lost; Cats; Food & Eating; Hunger APPETITE, by ALISON SEEVAK Poem Source First Line: You try not to stare at the firemen in the check-out lines of grocery Last Line: Of his tangled sheets Subject(s): Appetite; Food And Eating; Hunger ARTS POETICA, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anguish exists Last Line: For whom shall the voice of the poet speak? Subject(s): Hunger; Poetry & Poets; Vengeance ARTS POETICA, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anguish exists Last Line: For whom shall the voice of the poet speak? Subject(s): Hunger; Poetry And Poets; Vengeance AUNT AGNES HATCHER TELLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the war when rationing was over Last Line: Slide out babies like payday from that %billion dollar behind Subject(s): African Americans - History; Death; Family Life; Hunger; Slavery; War BEGGAR'S SONG, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a seed. Food Last Line: Screaming for more. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Hunger BEING AS I WAS, HOW COULD I HELP, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the noise that drew me first Last Line: I would give it again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Forgiveness; Hunger; Tigers; Wolves; Clemency BEYOND, by ALLAN MUNIER Poem Text First Line: Beyond the prison cell Last Line: In peace without you? Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hunger; Prisons & Prisoners; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness BIOLUMINESCENCE: 1. CANDELA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eggs burn softly / in the earth, and when glow-worms Subject(s): Fireflies; Hunger; Light; Glowworms BLACK MESSENGERS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some blows in life so hard...I don't know! Last Line: There are some blows in life so hard...I don't know Subject(s): Curses; Fate; Hunger; Poverty BREAD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hunger was loneliness, betrayed Last Line: The live bread for the starved folk Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Hunger BREAD LINES, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good god! What keeps men up so late / upon this dripping night Last Line: "some day they'll have to answer us, whether they will or no!" Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Hunger; Poverty; Recessions CASIDA OF THE CLUSTERS, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Through the groves of the tamarit Last Line: Waiting for them to break on their own Subject(s): Hunger; Patience CASUALTIES: 17. THE RAT IN A HOLE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A couchant leopard in its cage Last Line: Calling all to thunder Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Cages; Fear; Hunger; Prisons And Prisoners CHILD CRYING FOR FOOD, by YANG WAN-LI Poem Source First Line: Warm and well fed, could I fail to know Last Line: Is exactly the time when the millet %is almost fully cooked Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Hunger CHILDREN DANCE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: The mothers sit on their thresholds Last Line: Will keep on still, on high Subject(s): Child Labor; Children; Hunger CITIES: 5. MOSCOW, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High cheek-boned and bloody Last Line: Of the very christ she curses. Subject(s): Hate; Hunger; Moscow; Nations COME BY CHANCE, by HARRIET PLIMPTON Poem Text First Line: Joshua was 'the child at old man allen's,' Last Line: He'd always wait half-crying a long while after. Subject(s): Hunger COMPASSION, by RALPH ERNEST WEBBER Poem Text First Line: I cannot reap a profit's gain Last Line: And end the night in shame, afraid. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Compassion; Homeless; Hunger CRUMBS AND GUINEAS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: How many plates of crumbs, my little friend Last Line: And make a song of it, to charge a guinea!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hunger DAVID, MUSING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was I who faced the lion and the bear Last Line: For later -- for her -- for israel -- for my sons Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Faith; Hunger; Introspection; Passion; Regret DELIVERED, by A. ANDERS GRAFSTROM Poem Text First Line: The night was chilly -- home gunnar sped Last Line: The deliverer came—it was death! Subject(s): Death; Family Life; God; Hunger; Poverty; Salvation; Dead, The; Relatives ECLOGUE: TWO FARMS IN WOONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You'll lose your measter soon, then, I do vind Last Line: Why then we sartainly must starve. Good night! Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunger; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers EDEN, THEN AND NOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In '29 before the dust storms Last Line: In fact, the same eden. Subject(s): Corporate Downsizing; Depressions, Economic; Hunger; Recessions EPIGRAM: 27. THE FRUIT, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fruit of all the service that I serve Last Line: Amids my help, and helpless doth remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fruit; Hunger; Pain; Tantalus (greek Mythology); Thirst; Suffering; Misery EPISTLE TO MR. FOX, FROM HAMPTON COURT: NATURE QUERIES, by JOHN HERVEY (1696-1743) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will the wise elephant desert the wood Last Line: And eat when hungry, and when am'rous love? Alternate Author Name(s): Hervey Of Ickworth, Baron Subject(s): Animals; Elephants; Hunger; Nature; Taste (sense) EUROPE IS HUNGRY, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis easier to be just than generous Last Line: And thank the gods for these grim lessons learned. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Hunger; World War I; First World War FAMISH, by LISA FURMANSKI Poem Source First Line: Despite bounty, despite the unyielding Last Line: And vanish into angles of the forest Subject(s): Death; Hunger FIVE POINTS, 1838, by LAUGHTON OSBORN Poem Text First Line: Fast by the dike, where frown the granite eaves Last Line: In laurens street, the southern side of broom. Subject(s): Five Points, New York City; Homeless; Hunger; New York City - 19th Century FOR LORE; I.M. ELONORE REED-WYMAR, 1932-1986, by DESMOND GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Maybe she was part of hanover [or, frankfurt] destroyed Last Line: And let everyone she ever cared for %use her as a bridge to cross Subject(s): Germany; Hunger FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who / can blame her for hunkering Last Line: Not feeding, not being fed? Subject(s): Foxes; Hunger; Winter FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who %can blame her for hunkering Last Line: Not feeding, not being fed? Subject(s): Foxes; Hunger; Winter FREEDOM, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: A few months after Last Line: Take care Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Freedom; Hunger; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FROM THIS SHORE, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: You speak of hatred Last Line: Pregnant with arrogance %nailed to an I myself %that brings you so close %to this other shore Subject(s): Emotions; Hate; Hunger; Poverty GIRLS IN TIJUANA, by LINDA K. SIENKIEWICZ Poem Source First Line: Along revolucion street, she braids Last Line: From the ocean into another world Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Hunger; Mexico; Poverty GO GET SOME BREAD, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source Last Line: It's no good at all! Subject(s): Hunger GOING OUT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hold your hands up to the light Last Line: We stand in it like a room. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Hunger; Longing GREAT PRAYER, by ALFONSO CORTES Poem Source First Line: Time is hunger, space is cold Subject(s): Dreams; Hunger; Prayer GRIM FAIRY TALE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Helen and robby, his next-door neighbors Last Line: Under his door of skunk cabbage and whiskey Subject(s): Food And Eating; Hunger HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hunger comes on morning Last Line: Wide is the river Subject(s): Hunger HARVEST SONG, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats are cradled Subject(s): African Americans; Harvest; Hunger; Negroes; American Blacks HARVEST SONG, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats are cradled Last Line: It will not bring me knowledge of my hunger Subject(s): African Americans; Harvest; Hunger HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU: 10, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stone upon stone, and man, where was he? Last Line: Of your bitter gut, like an eagle, hunger? Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): History; Hunger; Mountain Climbing; South America; Stones HERALD SQUARE, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who have felt the pressure and made good Last Line: God's sheet moves on. You would not change your places. Subject(s): Herald Square, New York City; Hunger; Winter HIGHWAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems too enormous just for a man to be Last Line: Than to places you can reach by going on Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hunger; Memory; Roads; Travel Directions HOUSE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: The table, son, is laid Last Line: To sleep with body and soul Subject(s): Family Life; Food And Eating; Hunger; Poverty HUNGER, by JARED ANGIRA Poem Source First Line: The maize will grow Last Line: For a rusty funeral feast Subject(s): Hunger HUNGER, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come among the peoples like a shadow Last Line: I am first and last to be felt of the living. %I am hunger Subject(s): Hunger HUNGER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had been hungry all the years; / my noon had come, to dine Last Line: The entering takes away. Subject(s): Hunger HUNGER, by JEFF GUNDY Poem Source First Line: And who could argue from this broad front porch in camp hill Last Line: Yes, I'm hungry. I eat and eat and never does it last Subject(s): Food And Eating; Hunger HUNGER, by WALT HARPER Poem Text First Line: We crossed the threshold Last Line: In a world of greed. Subject(s): Hunger HUNGER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aske me what hunger is, and ile reply Last Line: Tis but a fierce desire of hot and drie. Subject(s): Hunger HUNGER, by PEARL COUNCIL HIATT Poem Text First Line: This is his lot - to labor and grow old Last Line: Craving white hyacinths in place of bread. Subject(s): Hunger HUNGER, by ELEANORE MERLE IRELAND Poem Text First Line: We are but Last Line: Cry for more. Subject(s): Hunger HUNGER, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Ah, my belly's empty Last Line: I could eat money Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunger HUNGER, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hunger is the heart's robe Last Line: Wet with tears. Subject(s): Hunger; Love HUNGER, by HERMAN FORD MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I have known hunger Last Line: But he is crucified. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hunger; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HUNGER, by LORI POWELL Poem Source First Line: Again the creeping hunger comes Last Line: To keep from lingering on your face Subject(s): Hunger HUNGER AND MOBILITY', by DAVID HELLMAN Poem Source Last Line: And roll it away in chrome Subject(s): Hunger; Moving And Movers HUNGER AND THIRST, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Source First Line: Of all the fruits I ever pluck Subject(s): Hunger; Thirst HUNGER OF THE LEMUR, by MATT ROHRER Poem Source First Line: On a hill he had climbed all winter Last Line: These are only the slimy bones of trees, %not trees Subject(s): Animals; Hunger; Winter HUNGERS, by JOHN MILLETT Poem Source First Line: In the beginning, where I Last Line: And the hungers, where I was young Subject(s): Hunger HUNGRY, by SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY Poem Source First Line: Rebecca lived above the pawn shop on cedar street Last Line: Say heartache, as if she was saying hunger Subject(s): Hunger HUNGRY, by MANJARI MURTHY Poem Source First Line: The children sat under the roof of the old straw hut Last Line: As they went to work some more Subject(s): Child Labor; Hunger; Poverty I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOPE', by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not feel this suffering as cesar vallejo. I am not Last Line: Today I am in pain, no matter what happens. Today I am simply in pain Subject(s): Hope; Hunger; Poetry & Poets; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917); Optimism I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOPE', by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not feel this suffering as cesar vallejo. I am not Last Line: Today I am simply in pain Subject(s): Hope; Hunger; Poetry And Poets; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917) I DID NOT ASK OF LIFE, by ALICE BAKER Poem Text First Line: I did not ask of life all that I wished of its rich store Last Line: No boon is worth the name, if not worth the asking. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Life I DON'T BUY MY TACOS FROM TRUCKS PARKED TOO CLOSE TO CLINICS, by JR. HARRY GAMBOA Poem Source First Line: Someone thought it clever to peddle tacos from a million trucks Last Line: That you won't go away %hungry Subject(s): Food And Eating; Hunger; Tortillas IF WE DIDN'T HAVE TO EAT, by NIXON WATERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life would be an easy matter Last Line: We could get there if we didn't have to eat. Alternate Author Name(s): Martin, Peter Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Life IN A FOREST, by SHERKO BEKAS Poem Source First Line: Darkness came %and in its lair, a lion thought Last Line: How could she, she wondered Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Human Rights; Hunger; Hunting; Survival IN ABUNDANCE THE VANDALS, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: We huff, as the last line arrives %a bear! A real live bear! Subject(s): Hunger; Poetry And Poets; Vandalism IN DARMSTADT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey hungry men are loading Last Line: Need it there to learn to eat Variant Title(s): At Abroad And At Hom Subject(s): Darmstadt, Germany; Hunger IN DAYS GONE BY, by LILLA CABOT PERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days gone by when you were here Last Line: In days gone by! Subject(s): Hunger; Memory; Past; Time IN THE HILLS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow crawls up canyon walls; the Last Line: Somewhere the loud streets thunder, and one time there was a war. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Canyons; Cowboys; Disasters; Hunger; Smoke; Soldiers; War IN THE OLD STONE AGE: A DREADED VISITOR, by JACK MELONE Poem Text First Line: At times, returning from the chase Last Line: To stretch content upon the floor! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Hunger; Hunting; Tigers; Hunters INFERNO,SELS: PART 2-THE MOUNTAIN, by GREGOR STRNISA Poem Source First Line: Its two peaks are never obscured by mists Last Line: The minotaur impales the others on its horns Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food And Eating; Hunger; Mountains INFLUENCE, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Like one who beats against the wind Last Line: For thy dear sake this I would do! Subject(s): Despair; Hunger; Solitude; Loneliness LEANNA'S POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One %is never enough for me Last Line: More than one %more than one Subject(s): Hunger; Poetry And Poets LEON, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: I used to live in a big house by the church of st. Francis Last Line: And crying %bread Subject(s): Central America; Churchyards; Hunger LET'S SEE SMALL THINGS, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: The crocodile is a predator Last Line: The beautiful harmony of nature Subject(s): Crocodiles; Hunger; Hunting LETTER, by CH'ON SANGBYONG Poem Source First Line: Now my belly is full, treated to a lunch Last Line: Lest I forget %I am full now Subject(s): Hunger LISTENING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You told it softly, not looking at my face Last Line: Listen with my body to the real world %the simple hunger of the child Subject(s): Arabs; Hunger; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine LITTLE HANDS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: O little hands of children Last Line: The world restore! Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Hunger LITTLE JAMIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ither laddies may ha'e finer claes, and may be better fed Last Line: My ain curly fair-hair'd laddie, little jamie. Subject(s): Children; Hunger; Childhood LOSS OF APPETITE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When julia rang the dinner bell, I used to Last Line: Cabbage and a tart. Subject(s): Appetite; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Hunger; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners MANNA, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the night the manna fell Last Line: Enough. Dear lord, what want we more? Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Blessings; Food & Eating; God; Hunger MARGERY'S SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a jill-whisper Last Line: With hawthorn in my hair Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Bones; Hunger; Poverty MEAL, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: From the white plate %somewhat chipped Last Line: And with no fear of the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunger; Pets MIRACLE, by WEN YI-TUO Poem Source First Line: I never wanted the red of fire, the black at midnight Last Line: You are crowned with a circle of light Subject(s): Hunger; Miracles MISERABLE SUPPER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long will we wait for what Last Line: Has even less idea how long this supper will last! Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Hunger MY FIRST PIECE OF BEAR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In the fall of '95, / while the boys were on the drive Last Line: And not struggle with your first piece of bear. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Hunger; Hunting; Hunters NO ROOM, by WINNIFRED ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: Across a wintry windswept plain Last Line: No room in men's hearts is a sadder thing! Subject(s): Children; Homeless; Hunger; Childhood NOTHING TO SPARE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hungry children cry for bread, and I Last Line: And gas. Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Depressions, Economic; Hunger; Money; Poverty; Recessions O HADA CIBERNETICA: 16, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: If this nourishing capsule Last Line: Will raze my ship Subject(s): Hunger O. HENRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O henry, afrite-chef of all Last Line: But fer the sosh of milk that goes with it. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hunger; O. Henry (1862-1910); Porter, William Sydney ON A COLD DAY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My sacrament of wine and broken bread Last Line: Shall I not drink and bless them one and all? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Bread; Food & Eating; Hunger OUR BREAD, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You drink breakfast. The cemetery's damp earth Subject(s): Food & Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty; Clemency OUR BREAD, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You drink breakfast. The cemetery's damp earth Last Line: Here, in the oven of my heart Subject(s): Food And Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty OUR DAILY BREAD, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breakfast is drunk down...Damp earth Last Line: Here, in the oven of my heart...! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty OUR DAILY BREAD, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breakfast is drunk down...Damp earth Last Line: Here, in the oven of my heart...! Subject(s): Bread; Food And Eating; Hunger; Poverty OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An eager youthful voice I hear Last Line: We ask, we hope we will receive. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Humanity; Hunger; Salvation OUTSIDE THE TOYSHOP, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the door they stand, anear the pane Last Line: Shall manhood's craving miss even these poor crumbs? Subject(s): Bread; Food & Eating; Homeless; Hunger; Poverty OUTSIDER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A disinterested act, stumbled on Last Line: I teeter between rage and scorn Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Homeless; Hunger; Weariness PASSOVER, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI Poem Source First Line: This is the burden of the solitary prisoner, eating alone like a Last Line: Triumph? Is it possible for a dog to cease longing to be a man? Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Hunger; Passover PICA: HOW THE LEAVES TURN GOLD, by HADARA BAR-NADAV Poem Source First Line: Resist the metaphor Last Line: Its leaves turn bright gold Subject(s): Courtship; Hunger; Love PLAYED OUT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a bullock falls in the crooked ruts, he fell when / the day was over Last Line: From no particular where. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Labor & Laborers; Mortality; Poverty; Dead, The; Work; Workers PROBLEM 2, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: #name? Last Line: Just move the hunger two flights higher, %now it rests in the heart Subject(s): Hunger; Problems RASPBERRY PICKINGJ, by DANIEL BACHHUBER Poem Source First Line: My son and I found them halfway up the abandoned road, dangerously Last Line: Hung with red lobes larger than coins Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Hunger; Raspberries REMINISCENCE, by LYLE BARTSCHER Poem Text First Line: I'm hungry, man, hungry / my clothes are ...' Last Line: Night -- day -- night. . . . Subject(s): Hunger RIME OF THE PALMERS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, and in the morning Last Line: Thus, lest the land repent Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Hunger SELF-PORTRAIT: NOVEMBER, by SANDY LONGHORN Poem Source First Line: Walking home in the first hard freeze Last Line: To the metallic bite of birch bark and rust in my throat Subject(s): Homeless; Hunger; Portraits; Solitude; Winter SENSELESS ONES, by RAMON PINYOL Poem Source First Line: Senseless ones, workers lame and ignorant Last Line: Bosses to work, no more lords: our cry! Subject(s): Fights; Hunger; Labor And Laborers; Tyranny And Tyrants SEVERAL MEASURES FOR THE LITTLE LOST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lesson begins in a heated room Last Line: After all of the lamb has left the bone it warned. Subject(s): History; Hunger; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Teaching & Teachers; Historians; Educators; Professors SONG OF THE NEW FOOL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the sea and all her women Last Line: And my hands are tender Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Child Care; Food And Eating; Homeless; Hunger; Poverty SORROW AND NO SORROW, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We eat through tubes of time Last Line: On its indifferent tongue. Subject(s): Grief; Hunger; Sorrow; Sadness SOUTH, by LEON LEIVA GALLARDO Poem Source First Line: I come from a place Last Line: No one calls on them Subject(s): Despair; Hunger; Poverty SPARROW IS NOT BUSY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But hungry Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hunger; Nature; Sparrows ST. KEVIN AND THE WOMAN OF DERRYBAWN, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night her soul is alive Last Line: In the world, she lets them fall. Subject(s): Hunger; Prostitution; Survival; Women - Abused; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Wife Beating STARVELINGS, by FLORINE KITTS Poem Text First Line: A pair of starvelings, hunger - mad, we two Last Line: A pinioned dream you fondle in your hand. Subject(s): Desire; Hunger STOCK AND VERMONT PUNKINS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you what 'twas fun to do Last Line: The same as hide and hair. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Fruit; Hunger; Migrant Labor; Pumpkins; Vermont; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers STOKLEWATH; OR, THE CUMBRIAN VILLAGE, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From where dark clouds of curling smoke arise Last Line: Let stoklewath be not the last that's nam'd! Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Household Employees; Hunger; Poverty; Servants; Domestics; Maids STRAWBERRY FETE, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the hospital grounds that night Last Line: And the perfect strawberries. Subject(s): Fruit; Hunger; Strawberries SUGGESTIONS BY STEAM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When woman is in rags, and poor Last Line: "to that small voice that crieth—""stop her!" Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Hunger; Poverty; Women; Sorrow; Sadness TELEVISED, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Televised news turns Last Line: And one more morning? Subject(s): Blacks; Children; Hunger; Childhood TELEVISED, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Televised news turns Last Line: Them peas and lamb chops %and one more morning? Subject(s): Blacks; Children; Hunger TEMPLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: On the catwalk stickthin Last Line: Plate of chips Subject(s): Fantasy; Hunger; Prostitution THANKSGIBBIN' IN OLE VIRGINNY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ter-day's thanksgibbin' Last Line: De short straw done draw de little guinea hen. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Holidays; Hunger; Poverty; Thanksgiving Day 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 BALLAD OF MACINDOE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Macindoe was a scotchman-had other failings, too Last Line: But I never believed the tale. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE COAL STRIKE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Red are the rails with rust to-day Last Line: Who went to heaven—starved. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Heaven; Hunger; Poverty; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Paradise THE CORNUCOPIA OF RED AND GREEN COMFITS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Currants and honey! Last Line: In new ribbons sent from potsdam. Subject(s): Hunger; World War I; First World War THE DESERT LAND, by MARGARET DELANEY Poem Text First Line: Good god, can it be you made this place Last Line: Alone in the desert at night! Subject(s): Deserts; Desolation; Food & Eating; Hunger; Solitude; South Dakota; Loneliness THE ETHERIAL HUNGER, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been hungry all my days Last Line: O tables of the skies! Subject(s): Hunger; Love; Praise; Soul THE FREEBORN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: God made the man and bid him multiply Last Line: When this free man comes forth, what must he do? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Family Life; Fathers; Hunger; Poverty; Relatives THE GOOD PROVIDER'S WIFE, by JULIA CLAY BARRON WEBB Poem Text First Line: With all my worldly goods I thee endow' Last Line: A wistful beggar, waiting for a crumb. Subject(s): Hunger THE HUNGRY ONE, by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The peasant stands Last Line: "I will not share." Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A. Subject(s): Hunger THE LITTLE CHILDREN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hunger points a bony finger Last Line: With gladness, youth and may. Subject(s): Children; Hunger; May (month); Childhood THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was biting cold, and the falling snow Last Line: A bright reward for all the hardships she suffered here. Subject(s): Child Molesting; Homeless; Hunger; Pain; Poverty; Child Abuse; Suffering; Misery THE NEEDY, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: I have more food than I can eat Last Line: Cries of the needy rise again. Subject(s): Hunger; Poverty THE SALT SONG, by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: How salt the tear! Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A. Subject(s): Hunger; Pain; Peasantry; Russia; Suffering; Misery; Soviet Union; Russians THE STARVED, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My little lamb, what is amiss? Last Line: For death would own a sleep like this. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hunger THE STARVELING, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hunger is a stone in her belly Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Hunger THE VOLUNTEER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When fivepence a solid meal cannot supply Last Line: "some merciful volley then shatters a leg, / and his crutches procure him permission to beg" Subject(s): Betrayal;heroism;hunger;patriotism; Heroes;heroines THE WOLF CALL, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The cry of the wolf in the forest brings me comfort Last Line: And cry out my own loneliness. Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Hunger; Solitude; Wilderness; Wolves; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF EL HUMS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the roads and the lanes of el hums Subject(s): Homeless; Hunger; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN ON THE HUMBER, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You amazing old man on the humber! Subject(s): Hunger TO THELMA WHO WORRIED BECAUSE I COULDN'T COOK, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because no man would taste you Last Line: I am a woman and %I know what to do Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Food And Eating; Hunger; Women TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, by LOLA AOLA SEERY Poem Text First Line: How big is your heart? Last Line: How big is your heart! Subject(s): Hunger TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ETERNAL HUNGER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal hunger! O through the black night Last Line: Gaze long in silence, friend; gaze long for all are thine Subject(s): Children; Homeless; Hunger; Pain; Poverty; Childhood; Suffering; Misery TREAD THE DARK: 12. AN ACCOUNT IN THE PRESENT TENSE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am about to close the refigerator after removing a package of meat Last Line: We look at each other, beginning to understand Subject(s): Emptiness; Food And Eating; Hunger; Hunting; Landlords And Tenants TROPICA; A FRAGMENT, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis night in a far-off clime Last Line: Rouse her from her dreamy rest! Subject(s): Animals; Hunger; Hunting; Jungles; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TRUE CHARITY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave a beggar from my little store Last Line: And now he begs no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Hunger; Philanthropy TWENTY BLOCKS, by EGMONT HEGEL ARENS Poem Text First Line: The daughters of the rich Last Line: For my soul's quickening. ... Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Restaurants; Upper Classes; Cafes; Diners UGOLINO, FR. INFERNO: CANTO 33, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I awake before the dawn, my head Last Line: Bit into the skull and again took hold Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Variant Title(s): The Flight Path: Subject(s): Death - Children; Hunger; Skulls VAN GOGH, by ARTUR LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: Your rugged, bony face. Your green eyes Last Line: Finally in your brain a sun: blazing, consuming, exploding Subject(s): Explorers; Hunger WAIL OF THE ARAB BEGGARS OF THE CASBAH, by ISMAEL AIT DJAFER Poem Source First Line: People %individuals %listeners %audience %gawkers %readers: %I raise Last Line: Deux macchabees, c'est bien plus triste encore Subject(s): Hunger; Poverty WHITE HUNGER, by KATHRYN WORTH Poem Text First Line: Softly the silly flocks of snow Last Line: Leaving no golden crumbs behind. Subject(s): Birds; Hunger; White (color) WINTER, by MARY BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: The wind blows high, the wind blows low Last Line: All silent, white. Subject(s): Frost; Hunger; Snow; Wind; Winter WINTER SUN, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: The small winter sun Last Line: But also a breathing in Subject(s): Hunger; Music And Musicians; Winter WORMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Silkworms have dressed the fairest women Last Line: To fill a bowl with fish for some man's table.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hunger WRECK OF THE SCHOONER 'SAMUEL CRAWFORD.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of november Last Line: And to take the last look of their schooner in a blaze. Subject(s): Cold; Disasters; Hunger; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Snow; Survival; Wind YEAR OF THE MAN, by MARY A. KONCEL Poem Source First Line: My friends aren't hungry anymore. When they walk down streets, they Last Line: Back three days later, 'the sweet still scent of thigh.' Subject(s): Drought; Hunger |
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