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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: IDLENESS Matches Found: 86 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LOAFER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hang about the streets all day Last Line: A phantom voice that cries by rote. Subject(s): Discretion; Idleness; Pride; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Self-esteem; Self-respect A LOUNGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He leaned against a lamp-post, lost Last Line: No happiness has ever been. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence A WOOD SONG, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now one and all, you roses Last Line: No less than labouring seas. Subject(s): Idleness; Morning; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG MAN OF FORTUNE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence that fantastic wantonness of woe Last Line: A prey to tyrants, murderers of mankind. Subject(s): Idleness; Melancholy; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Dejection AGAINST WHATEVER IT IS THAT'S ENCROACHING, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Best of all is to be idle Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence AGAINST WHATEVER IT IS THAT'S ENCROACHING, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Best of all is to be idle Subject(s): Idleness AND THE HAMMOCK SWUNG ON, by HAMILTON GREY Poem Text First Line: A is the maid of winning charm Last Line: "it's not quite clear; please demonstrate." Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence AT UTTER LOAF, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An afternoon as ripe with heat Last Line: Smiling at all things drowsily. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Afternoon; Hammocks; Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence BUMS, by JOE-ANNE MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: Bums that's what they see Last Line: Still, no bums themselves. They come. And just as %quick Subject(s): Idleness CABEZON, by AMY BEEDER Poem Source First Line: I see you shuffle up washington street Last Line: Hippity, a hitch in your zombie walk, bighead? Subject(s): Idleness CHARMS OF INDOLENCE, SELS., by JOSEPH+(1) MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Thy charms, o sacred indolence, I sing Last Line: Lose their long toil, and make a hell of life Subject(s): Idleness CLIFF DWELLER LYRICS: THE HALL BOYS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They never bring the mail up in the morning Last Line: I s'pose we'll have to tip 'em just the same. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence DISSWASIONS FROM IDLENESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cynthius pluck ye by the eare Last Line: The lazie man the most doth love. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence DOLCE FAR NIENTE, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, my chum, my trusty crony! Last Line: Two loafers couched in perfect bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Friendship; Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence DUMPSTER DIVING, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The safeway checker's lost count Last Line: With lice-how little he owes any of us Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Idleness; Poverty; Ragpickers DWARF AND GIANT, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on through life's journey we go,day by day Last Line: "and dare for the right to say always, ""I can!" Subject(s): Human Behavior; Idleness; Life; Perseverance; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence ESSAY ON IDLENESS, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear sky, / but somewhere a shrug of thunder Last Line: Delays as it waits for a fig to open Subject(s): Idleness GREEN SHOES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those green shoes on the curb Last Line: Fortune in the unblinking sunlight Subject(s): Homeless; Idleness; Poverty HERE'S A LAZY PUSSY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Here's a lazy pussy with his coat still on Last Line: For warm spring is here to-day Subject(s): Cats; Idleness HIS REFRIGERATOR WAS DISAPPOINTING, by ANNE-MARIE CASTLEBERG Poem Source First Line: Not neat %not even clean Last Line: Our future % absolut and double delight Subject(s): Disappointment; Idleness IDLE HANDS, by NEVA DUMONT Poem Text First Line: Idle hands, all day with patience folded! Last Line: Of idle hands, all day with patience folded! Subject(s): Idleness; Rest; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence IDLE LIFE I LEAD, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That I have known no day %in all my life like this Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Idleness IDLENESS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O tedious idleness / how irksome is Last Line: As when down to the fishes depth he slides. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence IDLENESS, by GABRIEL FERRATER Poem Source First Line: She sleeps. The time when men Last Line: To do anything to help it Subject(s): Idleness IDLENESS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no dearer lover of lost hours Last Line: All magic gifts of joy's simplicity. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence IDLENESS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O idleness, too fond of me. / begone, I know and hate thee! Last Line: From idleness deliver! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Variant Title(s): To Idleness Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence IDLENESS, by GABRIEL SOULAGES Poem Text First Line: My head, my weary head, is like a timid bird that Last Line: It hangs, a pendant 'twixt your breasts. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence IDLENESS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune Last Line: And this, 'tis true, were only idleness! Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence IDLER, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: An idler holds that rose as always rose Subject(s): Idleness IN A SLEEPER, 10 A.M., by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Lazy lady, languid loiterer Last Line: Half the queen I fancy you! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Idleness; Sleep; Women; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence LAZED ON THE FLOOR LIKE AN OLD BABY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And brown boat Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Idleness; Nature; Rowing LAZINESS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let laureates sing with a rapturous swing Last Line: Work like hell -- doing nothing at all Subject(s): Idleness LAZY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some men enjoy the constant strife Last Line: I'll spend my life in living. Subject(s): Idleness; Labor & Laborers; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Work; Workers LAZY DAY: CANNED BEAN SALAD AND COFFEE, by JENNIFER MOSS Poem Source First Line: You don't bother to phone Last Line: I have an excuse to lie down Subject(s): Food And Eating; Idleness LAZY MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the cock crows Last Line: Rich men will help him to marry them Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage LIFE HAS ALWAYS YELLED AT ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That's what I think she says Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Idleness; Labor And Laborers; Life; Nature LIFE STORY, by JOE CISLO Poem Source First Line: Join the army,' my grampa said Last Line: Finding a clean, quiet place to do my thing Subject(s): Biography; Idleness; Life; Youth LOST: AMBITION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An old %loose shoes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ambition; Idleness; Nature MARGITES, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I neither plough the field, nor sow Last Line: And think a life well lost is mine. Subject(s): Walking; Idleness; Decay MARTHA, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I would loiter, could I have my way Last Line: —catholic daily tribune Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Beauty; Idleness; Nature; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence MINDFUL LOITERING, by MICHAEL ATTIE Poem Source First Line: Park benches make the best zendo Last Line: Either way, %the pain seems inescapable Subject(s): Idleness; Nature; Parks; Poetry And Poets NIKOS AT 42, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today's like yesterday Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NIKOS AT 42, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today's like yesterday Last Line: And all those who are sore at me, we'll take the quick %embrace by the door Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage NONSENSE VERSES, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lazy-bones, lazy-bones, wake up and peep! Last Line: Remember the loss is her own if she lose it. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Idleness; Nonsense; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence ODE ON INDOLENCE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morn before me were three figures seen Last Line: Into the clouds, and never more return! Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence ODE TO LAZINESS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I felt this ode Last Line: And soon I began to fall %asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Idleness; Rest; Sleep ON MY LAZINESS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have a post but Last Line: Scarcely counts as lazy at all Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Idleness ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: River slopes, already into the midmonth of spring Last Line: These days I've gotten to know the old man of o-mei; %he understands this idleness that is my true n Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Idleness ONE KIND OF LONG LIFE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the busy worker Last Line: Live a lazy one! Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN BED, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's my things Last Line: I'm tired. Subject(s): Idleness; Women POSSESSION, by BARBARA FROST Poem Text First Line: They say I own the cottage on the hill Last Line: So little and so stubborn and so still. Subject(s): Comfort; Idleness; Property; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Possessions QUATRAIN: SAFETY FIRST, by CHARLES A. GALT Poem Text First Line: Many a man Last Line: By the sweat of his frau. Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives QUATRAINS OF IDLENESS, by EDWIN LEFEVRE Poem Text First Line: When angels walk across the sky Last Line: To use in case he has to drink. Subject(s): Angels; Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence ROUND THE BEND, by WILL LAWSON Poem Text First Line: Round the bend where the pungas grow Last Line: And his was an easy mind. Subject(s): Banjos; Idleness; Musical Instruments; Trucks & Trucking; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight SITTING UP AT NIGHT, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spinners' lights from house to house brighten the deep night Last Line: Sitting close by the stove, I hear the sound of the wind Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Idleness SONG FOR IDLERS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: A nap in the woods on a soft june day Last Line: Of a nap in a green june wood! Subject(s): Idleness; Music & Musicians; Peace; Singing & Singers; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence SONG ON BEING TOO LAZY TO GET UP, by SHAO YUNG Poem Source First Line: Half remembering, yet not remembering, just waked up from a dream Last Line: Beyond the blinds, falling petals fly by in tangled flurries Subject(s): Idleness SYMPTOMS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not a-workin' now! Last Line: I'm not a-workin' now! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Idleness; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Work; Workers THE BALLAD OF MARY ANN, by E. M. WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Mary ann came by one sunday Last Line: "I just stopped by to get me pay." Subject(s): Idleness; Labor & Laborers; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Work; Workers THE BOHEMIAN DREAMS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because my overcoat's in pawn Last Line: I doze and doze and doze. Subject(s): Bohemians; Idleness; Paris, France; Sleep; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN SINS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call in the dancers Last Line: Heaven too shall vanish in pale smoke. Subject(s): Anger; Dancing & Dancers; Gluttony; Idleness; Lies; Lust; Pride; Sin; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE GENTLE CHECK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: One half of me was up and drest Last Line: Before the lark to be at heaven tomorrow. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE IDLE WORD, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: We did not spare to speak him ill Last Line: Look up and find another star. Subject(s): Angels; God; Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE IDLER, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I idle stand, that I may find employ Last Line: Hang idly down still waiting thy commands. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE IDLERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's red pulses beat Last Line: More than the homeward blowing wind that died an hour ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Idleness; Love; Peace; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE LAZY PUSSY, by PALMER COX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lives a good-for-nothing cat Last Line: As all the world may see. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE OLD CONSERVATIVE, by E. S. EMERSON Poem Text First Line: The old bush-whacker bowed his head Last Line: "orstralier is comin' to." Alternate Author Name(s): White, Milky Subject(s): Grief; Idleness; Nostalgia; Sorrow; Sadness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE PAUPER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sad and seedy pauper has no one for a Last Line: The kettle boil; for visions all are bootless which are not backed by toil. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Homeless; Idleness; Poverty; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 193, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many falls have I spent on cold mountain Last Line: Smoothing the mind-ground leaning against rocks Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Time; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 21, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My parents stayed busy enough Last Line: Woodcutters often stop by Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Family Life; Idleness; Relatives; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 244, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All my life too lazy to work Last Line: Wherever you are it's alert Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Virtue; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 279, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid a thousand clouds and streams Last Line: Silent like a river in fall Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Ascesticism; Chinese Literature; Idleness; Quiet Life; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 75, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wife got tired of weaving Last Line: Crying in pain to the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Marriage; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 5, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I live in a place without limits Last Line: It wouldn't mean much to me Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Quiet Life; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE REASON WHY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said lazy sammy, 'don't you know' Last Line: "I'd tarry half the day in bed!" Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE SLUGGARD, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The world awoke, & op'd his flaming eye Last Line: To rise indeed, fairer then did this day. Subject(s): Idleness; Morning; Prayer; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE SLUGGARD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A jar of cider and my pipe Last Line: Will think myself the king of men. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE SLUGGARD, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain Last Line: Who taught me betimes to love working and reading. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE WEDDING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you, wherefore are the village bells Last Line: To give sad meaning to the village bells! Subject(s): Bells; Idleness; Marriage; Poverty; Strangers; Travel; Villages; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE WHITE STAG, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the woods three huntsmen came Last Line: Hush, hush! Piff, bang! Tir-ril-la-loo! Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THEIR WORK, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the ones who don't Last Line: For there is no work more difficult %than theirs, sitting and waiting Subject(s): Idleness; Unemployment; Waiting TO AN AMERICAN BOY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be manly, lad-your folks have made Last Line: Is the home of dwarfs and pigmies! Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE IDLER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am he that beholds and praises the universe Last Line: But dwell in the midst of them, singing. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence UNRELIABLE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On james p. Jinks you can't depend-he Last Line: They made. Subject(s): Idleness; Youth; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence VAIN EXCUSE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be patient, life, when love is at the gate Last Line: Be patient now with death, for love has passed. Variant Title(s): Dialogue Subject(s): Death; Idleness; Life; Love; Patience; Waiting; Dead, The; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence WASTED DAYS (FROM A PICTURE PAINTED BY MISS VIOLET TROUBRIDGE), by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fair slim boy not made for this world's pain Last Line: And in the night-time no man gathers fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Idleness; Paintings And Painters; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence |
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