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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: IMAGINATION Matches Found: 556 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "DECEITFUL FANCY, WHY DELUD'ST THOU ME", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Only to lose the shadow of thy joy Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy &: SEVEN POEMS: 7, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows if the moon's Last Line: In love and flowers pick themselves Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Imagination A BALLADE OF GREEN FIELDS; FOR F.W.M., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Beyond the compass of our sight Last Line: For distant fields are always green. Subject(s): Fields; Imagination; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Fancy A CHILD'S FANCY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: His chin went up and down, and chewed at nothing Last Line: The wonderful strange sight he might have been. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy A COAT, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made my song a coat Last Line: In walking naked. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy A DAY DREAM, by NELLY MILLER SEELY Poem Text First Line: A birch tree stands in graceful beauty Last Line: Yes -- and for the robins to come each year. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy A DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I summon to the winding ancient stair Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy A DREAMER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a little boy who made believe Last Line: The world believe his make-believes were true. Subject(s): Imagination; New York City; Fancy; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A HYMN OF IMAGINATION, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Imagination's towers appear Last Line: To be resumed in god we ripen here? Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy A MERRY HEART: THE GHOSTLING, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: I had a little ghostling Last Line: Whate'er results might be! Subject(s): Conscience; Imagination; Thought; Fancy; Thinking A SICK CHILD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Postman comes when I am still in bed, the Last Line: All that I've never thought of - think of me! Subject(s): Sickness; Imagination; Children; Illness; Fancy; Childhood A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Fancy; Supermarkets A VISION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my mind's eye a temple, like a cloud Last Line: "hell-gates are powerless phantoms when 'we' build." Subject(s): God; Imagination ABORTION CHILD, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought: / you live somewhere Subject(s): Abortion; Imagination; Fancy ADDRESS TO A CHILD DURING A BOISTEROUS WINTER EVENING, by DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What way does the wind come? What way does he go Last Line: Here's a 'cozie' warm house for edward and me. Variant Title(s): The Wind;an Address To A Child In A High Wind Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy ADDRESS TO FANCY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, queen of dreams! 'tis now the hour Last Line: To view the wonders of thy fairy clime! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy ADVENTURES OF ISABEL, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Isabel met an enormous bear Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy ADVENTURES OF ISABEL, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isabel met an enormous bear Last Line: And isabel calmly cured the doctor Subject(s): Imagination AFTER A MOVIE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last small credits fade Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Imagination; Movies; Cinema; Fancy AFTER CAREFULLY LISTING MY 10,000 ILLUSIONS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the depths was lost int he shallows Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imagination; Nature; Self-consciousness AGAIN I FIND YOU, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A compulsive flasher, / the limp kelp rises up Last Line: Only the bird. Subject(s): Drowning; Imagination; Memory; Thought; Fancy; Thinking AGAIN, AGAIN!, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again, again, even if we know the countryside of love Last Line: Beneath the ancient trees, we lie down again, %again, among the flowers, and face the sky Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ALL I WAS DOING WAS BREATHING, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Something has reached out and taken in the beams of my eyes Last Line: Mira says: without the energy that lifts mountains, how am ito live? Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision ALL OF YOU UNDISTURBED CITIES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He is the one who breaks down the walls, %and when he works,he works in silence Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ALL SOULS' NIGHT; EPILOGUE TO 'A VISION', by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight has come, and the great christ church bell Last Line: Wound in mind's wandering %as mummies in the mummy-cloth are wound Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PART 2. PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They who write ill, and they who ne'r durst write Last Line: Will prove a dowdy, with a face to fright you. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 5 Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights ; Fancy; Dramatists ALMOST ALL ABOUT EYES, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Nanny & ger have green eyes Last Line: White patent leather shoes to go %out to play? Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: My friend has become like john lennon, only no one Last Line: Now fastened to the sun, has begun to drag his night light %across the vicious skies Subject(s): Family Life; Imagination AMBITION, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I were a rocket Last Line: And thinking me a baby star %she'd keep me in the skies Subject(s): Imagination AMBUSHED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace and safety seem to dwell Last Line: You'll be spanked and sent to bed. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy AMERICA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: America I've given you all and now I'm nothing Subject(s): Americans; Imagination; United States; Vision; Fancy; America AMERICA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America I've given you all and now I'm nothing Last Line: America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel Subject(s): Americans; Imagination; United States; Vision AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I walk through the long schoolroom questioning Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Schools; Vision; Childhood; Fancy; Students AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk through the long schoolroom questioning Last Line: How can we know the dancer from the dance? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Schools; Vision AN HOUR WITH FANCY, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Loved one, up! For the sun's rosy beam Last Line: I stray thus in fancy, with you by my side! Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy AN IMAGINING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two sisters that I never saw Last Line: Two little baby girls with wings. Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Graves; Imagination; Mothers; Childhood; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Fancy AN ODE TO FANCY, by MARY JULIA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Tell me, blyth fancy, shall I chuse Last Line: A tragic theme for such a muse? Subject(s): Imagination; Odes (as Poetic Form); Fancy ANABASIS: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the first night and bare morning passed Last Line: The uncertain continent of a name Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Night; Sleep AND THEN THAT GIRL THE ANGELS CAME TO VISIT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And she was like a slope with vines, heavily bearing Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ANGEL & THE BIRDS OF PARADOX, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Logic places barbed wire %around an angel Last Line: The closer she gets %the more I hear the birds of paradox Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination APPARITION, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: At noon helen appeared in a smart knit suit, a hermes scarf Last Line: The room across the hall Subject(s): Imagination ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot know his legendary head Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life Subject(s): Apollo; Imagination; Men; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Vision ART INSTITUTE MEMORIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: It seems so long since she and I Last Line: Was but a picture in a frame. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fantasy; Imagination; Love; Memory; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Fancy ARTIFICE, by RUTH E. DAY Poem Text First Line: Generous weaver of dreams Last Line: With unraveling skill. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy AS A REAL HOUSE, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said darkling and you said sparkling Subject(s): Houses; Imagination; Fancy ASCETICS WANDER SHRINE TO SHRINE, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A little ways off, and even more %green farther on. Stay here Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision AT LAST, DEAR WARD, I TAKE A RHYMING QUILL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On thine own regal cornerstone: I will! Subject(s): Oxford, England; Creative Ability; Imagination AT NIGHT, by MARY BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Mamma, at night, puts out my light Last Line: My own mamma — and light. Subject(s): Beds; Children; Imagination; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Fancy; Bedtime ATLANTIC CITY, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: They arrive by bus. %the retired couple from bethesda Last Line: Underneath the magnetic peanut shell Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see a world in a grain of sand Last Line: To those who dwell in realms of day Variant Title(s): Blake's Testament;what A Wonderful World Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Freedom; Imagination; Innocence; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights; Fancy; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Feminism AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen Last Line: Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights BALLADE, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Couldst thou look into mine heart Last Line: Banish spectre forms away. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Imagination; Fancy BALLING, by J. V. BETZ Poem Source First Line: A child can bounce a ball for Last Line: And here she under %stands Subject(s): Children; Imagination BEAST, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: When the beast wakes up %it'll know exactly where to go Last Line: Who lifted my dreaming muse %from its moonlit casket Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination BEAUTIFUL GHOST, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: I drive to the museum %just to see the vermeers Last Line: Feels just like being kissed %by a beautiful ghost! Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination BEDTIME STORY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve, a horse appeared Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Horses; Imagination; Fancy BEDTIME STORY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve, a horse appeared Last Line: Could her the clash of armor when I closed my eyes Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Horses; Imagination BEE! I'M EXPECTING YOU!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or better, be with me, %yours, fly Variant Title(s): Poem: 1035; Poem: 98 Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Imagination; Insects BELIEF, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: In six gold weeks of summer Last Line: Believing that flowers are eternal. Subject(s): Death; Imagination; Dead, The; Fancy BELLEVUE EXCHANGE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A large man rowing in a white tub Last Line: To the floor. The water climbing for him. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Fantasy; Fog; Imagination; Water; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Haze; Fancy BEND-A-FAMILY', by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arrives attached to their own living room Last Line: Hey, I say, loosen up Subject(s): Imagination; Life; Play BINDING MY ANKLES WITH SILVER, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mira's lord can lift mountains, %he is her refuge Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision BINKER, by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Binker - what I call him - is a secret of my own Last Line: But binker's always binker, and is certain to be there Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A. Subject(s): Imagination BIRD TALK, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: Think ... ' said the robin Last Line: Aren't people funny %to be that way? Subject(s): Imagination BIRDELLO, by LAUREN SMITH Poem Source First Line: There were ten birds, each of which hated us differently Last Line: And all the others accountrements of love Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dreams; Imagination BLACK HORSES, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Black horses clump together %near the faded oak fence Last Line: Their deep black manes %twitch in the wind's icy fingers Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination BLOWFLY, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half awake, I was imagining Last Line: As we made tense, pensive love. Blowfly, blowfly Subject(s): Desire; Imagination; Fancy BODIES OF LIGHTNING, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: When one stands in the Last Line: & the stirring of bodies %made of lightning Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination BOGY MAN, by FREDERICK MUNDLE Poem Source First Line: She knows I know Last Line: That's left of me in her is fear Subject(s): Fear; Imagination; Insanity BONWIT TELLER, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who says the light doesn't breathe Last Line: Will the change come? %into a speechless mannequin Subject(s): Change; Cities; Imagination BOOJUM TREE, by LIAM WEITZ Poem Source First Line: It looks like something carroll would create Last Line: And her son because the drapes were thin Subject(s): Imagination; Trees BOUSTROPHEDON, by GARY J. WHITEHEAD Poem Source First Line: A small storm of swallows follows where the tines Last Line: Turning - turning about it's - back your at full Subject(s): Imagination; Nature BOY IN A TREE, by EDWARD MCCRORIE Poem Source First Line: Leopard cub on his tee-shirt. Hyenas Last Line: The northwest wind. It won't be a long %wait for a good scare Subject(s): Boys; Imagination BOYHOOD WISH, by ALLEN BRADEN Poem Source First Line: Just once come down from the mountains Last Line: And comb stolen right from the hive Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Wishes BRIDGE: 1. AVE MARIA, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be with me, luis de san angel, now Last Line: Te deum laudamus %o thou hand of fire Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Imagination; Vision BRIDGE: 8. ATLANTIS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the bound cable strands, the arching path Last Line: Whispers antiphonal in azure swing Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Atlantis; Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Vision BROKEN TOWER, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bell-rope that gathers god at dawn Last Line: Unseals her earth, and lifts love in its shower Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision BUBBLE FAIRY, by MARJORIE BARROWS Poem Source First Line: I blew a bubble Last Line: And the bubble went - %bing! Subject(s): Imagination BUDDHA IN GLORY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Center of all centers, core of cores Last Line: Will be, when all the stars are dead Subject(s): Imagination; Religion; Vision BUNDLES, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bundle is a funny thing Last Line: Now wouldn't it be much more fun %if shoppers carried thingsundone? Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Imagination CALENDAR AND BOOK, by ROBERT MYLES HERSHON Poem Source First Line: In the darkness of the afternoon Last Line: In the daylight, one man on a bridge Subject(s): Imagination; Night CANDLE, WINE, FRIENDS, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Let shams cover %our shadows %like snow Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision CATARACT MOON, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: You have about as much chance as Last Line: A swollen ear...Lanced by the rays of a %cataract moon Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination CHANGE: KYOTO-TOKYO EXPRESS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black magicians %come home: the pink meat image Last Line: Making my body visible %thru my eyes! Subject(s): Imagination; Vision CHANGING, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: I know what I feel like Subject(s): Imagination CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time in school drags along with so much worry Last Line: On childhood, what was us going away, %going where? Where? Subject(s): Imagination; Vision CHILDHOOD HOME, A PANORAMA, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: A crow on the telephone pole, tinging daylight Last Line: No matter what, I will swear I didn't do it. %it's hot, it's hot, it's hot Subject(s): Children; Imagination CHRISTENDOM, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first mine infant-ear Last Line: Make up the king of glory's diadem. Subject(s): Christianity; Imagination; Fancy COLLOQUY WITH A POLISH AUNT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elle savait toutes les legendes du paradis et tous les contes Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy CREATION OF FISH, FOWL, AND CATTLE, by MADELEINE L'ENGLE CAMP FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: Be! %be, caterpillar and comet Last Line: Be with us %be! Subject(s): Imagination CROCODEAR, by GINA RUCK-PAUQUET Poem Source First Line: Why %can't I have a crocodile? Last Line: Don't you think that would be stylish? Subject(s): Imagination CROSSING THE WALT WHITMAN BRIDGE, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: They have named a bridge after walt Last Line: Between the shores of my solitude Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination CROWD OF MAPLE TREES, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source Last Line: That rinse their backbones %in the cold blue air Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination CUBAN DREAM, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: My shadow carries a sponge %down the beach Last Line: A humid wind washes us to our bones Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination CUPS OF ILLUSION, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From this tower room above the wall Last Line: As bird shadows on the grass. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy DANCE OF THE LEAVES, by ISLA PASCHAL RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: Come on, let's dance,' the gay wind cried Last Line: The brown leaves went to sleep Subject(s): Imagination DANGERS INHERENT IN THE IMAGINATION, by MICHAEL+(2) FOSTER Poem Source First Line: He opened a book and closed the day Last Line: Time had carelessly mangled him Subject(s): Imagination DARK ONE, by MIRABAI Poet's Biography First Line: Dark one, / all I request is a portion of love Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Variant Title(s): Meera Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision; Fancy DARK ONE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dark one, %all I request is a portion of love Last Line: You've taken %this girl past the limits Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision DARK ONE, / HOW CAN I SLEEP?, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mira waits for a single glance from your eye Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision DAYDREAM BELIEVER, by ALAN FRAME Poem Source First Line: Beyond aggressive hurricanes of hurt Last Line: As often as our fantasies occur Subject(s): Imagination DELIRIUM, SELS., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DEMOCRACY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flag goes with the foul landscape, and our jargon muffles the drum Last Line: That's the system. Let's get going Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DEPARTURE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen enough: the vision has been met with in every air Last Line: Departure in new affection and new noise Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DERVISH AT THE DOOR, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dervish knocked at a house Last Line: Who doesn't try to turn a profit %from every human exchange Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Dervishes; Imagination; Vision DESCRIPTION WITHOUT PLACE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it possible that to seem – itis to be Last Line: And very much more gaily Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Earth; Imagination DESERTS OF LOVE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time it is the woman whom I saw in the city Last Line: Then, o despair! The wall became dimly the shadow of trees, and I was plunged in the amorous sadness Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DESIRE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FAILING, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A window opens Last Line: It's spring, and finally %I have no will Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I summon to the winding ancient stair Last Line: We are blest by everything, %everything we look upon is blest Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DON'T GO, DON'T GO, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't go, don't go. I touch your soles. I'm sold to you Last Line: Mira says: you who lift the mountains, I have some light, I want to mingle it with yours Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision DON'T LET ME BE LONELY (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the bus two women argue about whether rudy giuliani Subject(s): Giuliani, Rudy; Imagination; Fancy DOWN BY THE RIVER A FLUTE!, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Lord, this stumbling body, %free it from torment Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision DREAM TYGER, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Today is a day for the dream tyger Last Line: & into the darkness of a wristwatch %the tyger descends Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination DREAM VARIATIONS [OR, VARIATION], by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fling my arms wide Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Dream Variations Subject(s): African Americans; Imagination; Nature; Negroes; American Blacks; Fancy DREAM VARIATIONS [OR, VARIATION], by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fling my arms wide Last Line: Night coming tenderly %black like me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Dream Variation Subject(s): African Americans; Imagination; Nature DRUNK, TURBULENT CLOUDS, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Infidelity spits like a snake Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I came down the impassable rivers Last Line: Nor cross the pride of pennants and of flags, %nor swim pass prison hulks' hateful eyes! Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' Last Line: That harmony which now enraptures and comforts and helps us Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 10, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someday, emerging at last from the violent insight Last Line: Whenever a happy thing falls Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every angel is terrifying. And yet, alas Last Line: Where, measured more greatly, it achieves a greater repose Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fig-tree, for such a long time I have found meaning Last Line: At the end of all smiles, %-- transfigured Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, if this interval of being can be spent serenely Last Line: Grows any smaller -- superabundant %being wells up in my heart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DYING AND GIVING BIRTH GO ON, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: How inside that, those %are one event Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision EARTH MUSIC, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: I constantly listen to music. Come to Last Line: Earth music. Do you hear it? Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination EASTER 1916, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have met them at close of day Last Line: A terrible beauty is born. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Imagination; Ireland - Rebellions; Vision; Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Goone, Maud (1866-1953); Socialism; The Resurrection; Fancy EAT! BREAD-BIRD, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Being hungry is better Last Line: You're a bread-bird. Eat! Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision EATING A STAR, by JOSIE KEARNS Poem Source First Line: The first point breaks in half Last Line: Wait to snap like bolts %of envy out of the blue Subject(s): Food And Eating; Imagination; Stars EEKA, NEEKA, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eeka, neeka, leeka, lee %here's a lock without a key Last Line: And live to knock another day! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Imagination ELABORATE IS THE COURTLINESS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Before beauty Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Imagination; Nature ELEGY, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am writing now in preconceptions Last Line: It must be beautiful and it can't be free Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy ELUSIVE ONES, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They're lovers again: sugar dissolving in milk Last Line: Shams, my body is a candle touched by fire Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ELVES, by GEORGE FREDERICK MORGAN Poem Source First Line: The notion of living entities in human shape, intelligent but not human Last Line: I go out by night and watch them occasionally, under a sky of indigo Subject(s): Imagination ELVES AND APPLE TREES, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Elves love best of all to run Last Line: When apples shine above your head %it was some elf who made them red! Subject(s): Imagination EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Of many things adulterate Last Line: He lived while waiting but to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Epitaphs; Imagination; Prisons & Prisoners; Fancy; Convicts ETERNITY, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poem written three thousand years ago Subject(s): Poetry & Poems; Imagination; Time; Fancy EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the tawny light Subject(s): Autumn; Imagination; Relationships; Truth; Fall; Fancy EXPOSED ON THE CLIFFS OF THE HEART. LOOK, HOW TINY ..., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Without a shelter, here on the cliffs of the heart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FAIRY AEROPLANES, by ANNE BLACKWELL PAYNE Poem Source First Line: The fairies, too, have aeroplanes Last Line: They're very beautiful and gay, %because they're butterflies Subject(s): Imagination FAIRY WENT A-MARKETING, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And then she kissed its silken ears, %thanked it, and let it go Subject(s): Imagination FAME IS WATER, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: These are accomplishments %that will make you famous Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FANCY, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fancy's the wealth of wealth Last Line: Nor loses one sweet taste of the sweet world. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FANCY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The more I've viewed this world, the more I've found Last Line: Colors as gay as those on angels' wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FANCY AND IMAGINATION, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a pleasure, now and then, in giving Last Line: Woo your sublime delights, and bless you on my waking. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Nightmares; Fancy FANCY AND IMAGINATION, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fancy scarce wings above the mountain height Last Line: That in the empyrean seeks the star! Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FANCY, FR. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me where is fancy bred Last Line: Ding, dong, bell. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FANCY-LAND, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: There is soft, purple charm to the night Last Line: Of the world and eternity. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FAREWELL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn already! - but why regret an eternal sun Last Line: And I shall be free to possess truth in one soul and one body Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FATHER, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The father's entire body %is heavy tonight. This father, like all other fathers Last Line: Don't remember getting lost Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination FERAL CHILDREN, by JAMES FINNEGAN Poem Source First Line: It is august and their bodies are tanned Last Line: Of those wild islands only they have seen Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Summer FEW MINUTES AGO I SPOKE TO THE MAN IN THE TALL GRASS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The man in the tall grass %said he didn't want to live Last Line: Of just one wasp %resembles the voice %of his lover Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination FINAL SOLILOQUY OF THE INTERIOR PARAMOUR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light the first light of evening, as in a room Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FIREFLY; A SONG, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little light is going by Last Line: And made to go on wings. Subject(s): Fireflies; Imagination; Glowworms; Fancy FISHING THE SKY, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Through the lens of time Last Line: Hear their motors hum Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Imagination; Night; Silence FIVE CHANTS: 1, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I climb a tree Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FIVE CHANTS: 1, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I climb a tree Last Line: But still it's pretty good for me %every time I climb a tree Subject(s): Imagination FLOATING MISTRESS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Far from philosophies, %I travel with my mistress, imagination Last Line: I am as far away %as a needle %leaving its first stitch Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination FOR A CHILD: 1. WALKING SONG, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here we go a-walking, so softly, so softly Last Line: His wings. Subject(s): Imagination; Walking; Fancy FOR RODDY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am imagining this of you Last Line: Toward me, wherever, whose ever I am. Subject(s): Imagination; Jesus Christ; Life; Resurrection, The; Fancy FOR THE LOVE OF GERALD FINZI: ON PAPER, by MARY LEADER Poem Source First Line: Paper, smooth, and cream, as %the longest oldest petals of the spider Last Line: Mum I glide along my lips...Not despairing till made-up 'julie' asks: %'does that count?' Subject(s): Imagination; Paper FOR THE LOVE OF GERALD FINZI: THESE FUSE, by MARY LEADER Poem Source First Line: Whether their quiet lamps darken or burn, fuse Last Line: Fusing forever his bellow, her scream... %if only on paper Subject(s): Imagination FOR THE MARRIAGE OF FAUSTUS AND HELEN, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind has shown itself at times Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy FOR THE MARRIAGE OF FAUSTUS AND HELEN, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind has shown itself at times Last Line: The imagination spans beyond despair, %outpacing bargain, vocable and prayer Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FOR THE SAKE OF A SINGLE POEM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life Last Line: Some very rare hour the first word of a poem arises in their midst and goes forth from them Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FOR YEARS, COPYING OTHER PEOPLE, I TRIED TO KNOW MYSELF, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Then I walked outside Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FOREIGN LANDS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up into the cherry tree Last Line: And all the playthings come alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 8 Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy FOREST OF DELIGHT, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: The imagination begins, trying to fold Last Line: Stare, you dumb bastard, why don't you stare?' Subject(s): Imagination; Old Age FORGET THE WORLD, AND SO, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A mouth is not for talking. %a mouth is for tasting this sweetness Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FOUR ZOAS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: The dark relisions are departed and sweet science reigns Variant Title(s): Vala, Or The Four Zoas, Sels Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter FRIEND, / THOUGH THE WORLD SLEEPS, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Strips her of pain [or, eases her pain] Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision FRIEND, I SEE / ONLY THE DARK ONE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She ambles the back %country roads Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision FROM THE THRESHOLD OF A DREAM I WAS CALLED, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the gentle throb of the friendly hand Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Imagination; Solitude GARDEN SLUG ON A YELLOW SQUASH, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: I reach through flat leaves %& prickly stalks to capture a pale yellow Last Line: Mound of grass behind my busy reisterstown garden! Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination GECKO AND FIREFLY, by JOSIE KEARNS Poem Source First Line: Somewhere a hit man is feeding his pet gecko Last Line: Capture wielding their flashlights across the field Subject(s): Fireflies; Imagination GENIE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is affection and the present since he has made the house open Last Line: To follow his views, his breaths, his body, his day Subject(s): Imagination; Vision GEPETTO IN THE BELLY OF THE DOGFISH, by SARAH GETTY Poem Source First Line: In my little house, a hearth fire burned day and night Last Line: End the tale? Splash and spalsh ... Let me hold up the candle ... Subject(s): Imagination GHAZALS: 59, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the fourteenth sunday after pentecost I rose early Last Line: Poetry on a workbench and mom glazes the steamed froth for lunch. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy GIRL RIDING BAREBACK, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These late summer afternoons are so like childhood's Subject(s): Horses; Imagination; Summer; Fancy GIVE ME BACK MY DRAGON BONES, by KIRSTEN WASSON Poem Source First Line: I say, pretending Last Line: I hadn't known %this was a prayer Subject(s): Imagination GOOD HUNTING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Table-leg jungle is dark and still Last Line: And I'll make him into a teddy-stew. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy GOOD OLD BOYS, THE FORTIFICATIONS., by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: Little play parlor under a v Last Line: But a bigger one's on the way Subject(s): Boys; Imagination; Play GRANDDAD, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Granddad pinches a stalk %off his tomato plant Last Line: Of indiana sun %from his forehead Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination GRASSHOPPER & THE MOWER, OR, THE MOWER'S SONG, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Wet cinnamon body... %dark banded thighs Last Line: From their open september windows Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination GREAT FLOOD OF '93, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: I woke up in platte city, missouri this Last Line: With stories of the really great flood, the one %that is yet to come Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination GREAT LOCALITIES. AN ASPIRATION (3), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor - could I bring within my visual scope Last Line: Of god and man conspiring to the sound! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Iliad; Odyssey; Fancy GRIEF, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Grief. I absorb it %like a sponge Last Line: A sound that almost resembles birth Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination GUBBINAL, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That strange flower, the sun, Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy GUIDE THIS LITTLE BOAT, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Put an end to coming %and going Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision H, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every monstrosity violates the atrocious gestures of hortense Last Line: O terrible shudder of novice loves on the bloody ground and in the transparent hydrogen! - find hort Subject(s): Imagination; Vision HALLO [OR HALLOW] MY FANCY, by WILLIAM CLELAND Poem Text First Line: In melancholic fancy Last Line: Thou'rt welcome home, my fancy, welcome home to me. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy HALLOWE'EN SONG, by MARJORIE BARROWS Poem Source First Line: Three little witches %pranced in the garden Last Line: They will be back again %next hallowe'en Subject(s): Imagination HAVING BREAKFAST WITH A MOCKINGBIRD NEAR KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: A few minutes ago, while having breakfast Last Line: Each other... Each holding breakfast as our eyes %glistened Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination HE HAS STAINED ME, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Birth after birth %she is his Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision HEAR MY PLEA, DARK ONE, I AM, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With me clasping your feet forever Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision HEAT OF MIDNIGHT TEARS, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, my friend, this road is the heart opening Last Line: Mirabai says, 'the heat of midnight tears will bring you to god' Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision HER ONLY PILOT THE SOFT BREEZE, THE BOAT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No fleeting spirit, but my own true love? Subject(s): Muses; Imagination; Memory; Writing & Writers HOPPOE'S TALENT, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever a pavilion was pitched in the countryside Last Line: Crow doesn't acknowledge that Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision HOW DOES A PART OF THE WORLD LEAVE THE WORLD?, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who am I, my friend? Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision HOWL; FOR CARL SOLOMON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Imagination; Vision; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Fancy HOWL; FOR CARL SOLOMON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness Last Line: Across america in tears to the door of my cottage in the western night Subject(s): Homosexuality; Imagination; Vision I AM YOUR SLAVE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: By the river %just for a glimpse Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision I AM, O ANXIOUS ONE. DON'T YOU HEAR MY VOICE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And turn myself into a star's vast silence %above the strange and distant city, time Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I CAME TO THIS BIRTH AND REBIRTH UNIVERSE, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It's good to die, %and good to live long Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I DON'T GET TIRED OF YOU. DON'T GROW WEARY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And I wonder why I ever thought %to use language Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To gather paradise Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Imagination; Freedom I HAD BEEN A POLAR EXPLORER, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had been a polar explorer in my youth Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Imagination; Fancy I HAVE BEEN TRICKED BY FLYING TOO CLOSE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And tailors who sew beautiful clothes %by tearing them to pieces Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I MEANT TO DO MY WORK TO-DAY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And a rainbow held out its shining hand - %so what could I do but laught and go? Variant Title(s): Called Awa Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Imagination I NEED A MOUTH AS WIDE AS THE SKY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Where something might be planted, %a seed, possibly, from the absolute Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I UNCOIL MYSELF AND LIE STRAIGHT OUT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To enjoy this body and mind Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Contentment I WAS DEAD, THEN ALIVE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of this game makes me %amazingly happy Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I WAS PASSIONATE, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I was at home Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I'D LIKE TO BE A LIGHTHOUSE, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With the ships all watching me Subject(s): Imagination; Lighthouses; Sea IDEA: 33. TO IMAGINATION, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst yet mine eyes do surfeit with delight Last Line: That eyes could think, or that my heart could see. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IDEALITY, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vale of tempe had in vain been fair Last Line: The mounting soul must heavenward prune her wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IF I MAY HAVE IT WHEN IT'S DEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Outvisions paradise! Subject(s): Longing; Imagination; Death; Love – Loss Of IF PIGS COULD FLY, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: If pigs could fly, I'd fly a pig Last Line: If only pigs could fly! Subject(s): Imagination IMAGINARY FRIENDS, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: In first grade I was positive there were Last Line: Pontius the pilot, and of course the flea Subject(s): Friendship; Imagination IMAGINARY PRISONS, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A piranesian interior. Operatic space Subject(s): Piranesi, Giambattista (1720-1778); Buildings & Builders; Imagination; Fancy IMAGINARY TROUBLE, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the tolls that I have paid Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Imagination; Worry; Fancy IMAGINATION, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich raptures, you say, our dreams assume Last Line: "and fondly believes that his thoughts are ""vast""!" Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Reason; Thought; Nightmares; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking IMAGINATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here fancy far outdoes the deed Last Line: To fill the boundaries of thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IMAGINATION'S KISSES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are a cloud of butterflies Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imagination; Nature IMAGINATION, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Last Line: A local habitation and a name. Subject(s): Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Fancy IMAGINATIVE MAN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Perhaps,' he told me, 'I imagine things because I don't dream' Last Line: He closed his eyes, and I knew he was already in full-dream-production mode Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Motion Pictures IMAGINE WHAT', by MICHELLE PAULSEN Poem Source Last Line: Jack will %collapse? Subject(s): Imagination IMAGINED ROOM, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Do not forget the sky has other zones Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IMAGINING BEAR; FOR ALONZO MOORE SR., by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine him too tall and too wide Last Line: Remembering him in poems Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IMAGINING STARRY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The place of language is the place between me Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IN MY DREAM, SISTER, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bears its [or, comes to] fruit Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision IN THE WAITING ROOM, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In worcester, massachusetts, %I went with aunt consuelo Last Line: And it was still the fifth %of february, 1918 Subject(s): Aunts; Children; Dentists; Imagination; Labor And Laborers; Pain; World War I IN THE WHITENESS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: In the whiteness of snow %death comes Last Line: Strolling arm in arm, %would soon become a couplet Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination INDIAN PARROT, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a merchant setting out for india Last Line: As you go on your new way. %I hope to follow you Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision IS IT ROBIN O'CLOCK?, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Do we still have to wait? Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Imagination IT'S TRUE I WENT TO THE MARKET, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, I went to the market and bought the dark one Last Line: Be with me when I lie down; you promised me this in an earlier life Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision JAR WITH THE DRY RIM, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mind is an ocean - and so many words Last Line: And never sees the horse that is beneath him Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision JOSIE MORRIS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the petroglyph, / a child's greasy handprint on rock Last Line: In the sun. Subject(s): Graves; Imagination; Women; Tombs; Tombstones; Fancy JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Into the infinite white Last Line: Snow. Spice-plants. Salt Subject(s): Ghosts; Imagination; Poetry And Poets; Snow; Supernatural JUST NORTH OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: A large, white breasted hawk %on a stubble fence post Last Line: Grasp at a sudden %dark movement %inside a poem Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination LACHRYMAE CHRISTI, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whitely, while benzine Last Line: Dionysus, thy %unmagled target smile Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision LALLA, YOU'VE WANDERED SO MANY PLACES, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of this body-house, in the heart-shrine, %you discover where he lives Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision; Historians; Fancy; Theology LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say Last Line: Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, %their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art And Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Leda Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus; Fancy LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Last Line: Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Led Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus LET THEM THROW THEIR CURSES, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If a few ashes fall on a mirror, %use them to polish it Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision LETTER TO A PURIST, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That grandiose colossus who Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Imagination; Idealism; Fancy LIFE ON THIS PLANET IS FRAGILE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But I'm the one %who crosses the limits [or, but it's me who crosses %the limits] Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision LINEAR ILLUSIONS, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some days seem significant Last Line: Relentlessly horizontal. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy LISBOA, by JEAN MCNEIL Poem Source First Line: In the white city by the rose-oyster river Last Line: Not so much an explosion %as a dream Subject(s): Imagination LITTLE GIRL AS EARTHQUAKE LIT BY STARS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: She is embarrassed by the steadiness Last Line: You go, no matter how high you climb Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Girls; Imagination; Stars LITTLE POEM ABOUT DARKNESS &A DRIVER, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Darkness everywhere, %in his voice, %in his eyes Last Line: For just a single moment %the road is infinite Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination LIVES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the enormous avenues of the holy land, the temple terraces! Last Line: That is not even to be thought of any longer. %I am relly from beyond the tomb, and no messages Subject(s): Imagination; Vision LOOSEN THE LOAD OF SWEETNESS I'M CARRYING, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You leave, so that we two %can do one dance Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision LOVE HAS STAINED MY BODY, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Day or night, she waits only on him Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision MAGIC, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: I have stood with friends at the woods' edge Last Line: I have looked in all the old sources Subject(s): Imagination; Magic; Spells MAGIC, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sandra's seen a leprechaun Last Line: But all the magic I have known %I've had to make myself Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Imagination MAKE ME A PICTURE OF THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let's play those -- never come! Variant Title(s): Poem: 188; Poem: 23 Subject(s): Imagination MAKING IT UP AS I GO ALONG, by LAURIE ANN BLAUNER Poem Source First Line: That's the wrong waist I tell her in dance class Last Line: Thinking that what is wrong has already happened Subject(s): Imagination MANIFESTO, by STEVEN SHERRILL Poem Source First Line: I've never kissed another man but sometimes Last Line: Can't you see %I'm talking Subject(s): Imagination MASKS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: It's our pure abandon you covet: to don the false Last Line: We are your disembodied selves Subject(s): Ghosts; Imagination; Masks; Secrets; Supernatural MEDITATE WITHIN ETERNITY, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And afraid, who with a little guidance, %can find the path of courage Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision MEMORIES, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: All that can be said %is that the memories fly Last Line: As though they were pages %turning below my skin Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination MEMORY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One had a lovely face Last Line: Where the mountain hare has lain. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Imagination; Love; Vision; Fancy MEN AND WOMEN NOW, EVEN THE BEST, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Hand in hand to find new strangers %to lie down with Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision METAMORPHOSES: 6. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to be afraid of horses - and then I rode Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Imagination; Fancy METAMORPHOSES: 6. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to be afraid of horses - and then I rode Last Line: The cottage was in carmel - on a bluff - nextdoor to bob hope Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Imagination METAPHYSICAL ANGELS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The metaphysical angels %rise from steam Last Line: I grow the fish-shaped hands %of an angel! Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination MORNING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will there really be a morning Last Line: Where the place called morning lies. Subject(s): Imagination; Morning; Night; Time; Fancy; Bedtime MORNING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I not once a lovely youth, heroic, fabulous, to be written Last Line: The song of the heavens, the marching of peoples! Slaves, let us not curse life Subject(s): Imagination; Vision MORNING OF DRUNKENESS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my good! O my beautiful! Atrocious fanfare where I never falter Last Line: The time of the assassins is here Subject(s): Imagination; Vision MOTHER & CHILD, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: In a far off room %I hear my mother reading stories Last Line: Imagination flickers %across the dark eyes %of three generations Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination MY BELOVED IS LOVELY TO LOOK AT, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To be human and not know the lord %is truly the womb of sorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision MY DARK ONE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To what cannot perish, %her dark one Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision MY DREAM GIRL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flower in the mist of the moorland, spectral, / shadowy Last Line: The flower in the mist of the moorland, lonesome and shadowy. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Imagination; Love; Solitude; Youth; Death - Babies; Fancy; Loneliness MY INSIDE-SELF, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My inside-self and my outside-self Last Line: You would not think she could belong %to staid and sober me Subject(s): Imagination; Wishes MY SHADOW, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me Last Line: Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 18 Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Shadows; Childhood; Fancy MY WORLD, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A warm thatched roof, 'neath which peer windows / small Last Line: For naught then would I change this world of mine! Subject(s): Home; Imagination; Fancy MY YEAR AS A HORSE, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK Poem Source First Line: One morning just before I turned twelve, a horse's long face Last Line: You can't do this. I'm a horse. I'm a wild horse Subject(s): Animals; Growth; Horses; Imagination NEW RULE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the old rule that drunks have to argue Last Line: Talking is pain. Lie down and rest, %now that you've found a friend to be with Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision NIGHT OF HELL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have swallowed a monstrous does of poison Last Line: It is the fire that flares up again with its damned Subject(s): Imagination; Vision NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 8. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And has all nature, then, espoused my part? Last Line: Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Imagination; Immortality; Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); Night; Pleasure; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fancy; Bedtime NIGHT WILL NEVER STAY, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The night will slip away %like a sorrow or a tune Subject(s): Imagination; Night; Time NOVEMBER GRAVEYARD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene stands stubborn: skinflint trees Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Imagination;graves; Fancy; Tombs; Tombstones O CARIB ISLE!, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tarantula rattling at the lily's foot Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy O CARIB ISLE!, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tarantula rattling at the lily's foot Last Line: You have give me the shell, satan - carbonic amulet %sere of the sun exploded in the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision O FRIENDS, I AM MAD, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mira calls her lord: o dark one, %only you can heal this pain Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision O MY FRIENDS, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She says, the single lotus will swallow you whole Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision OBSERVED, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reality is the other person Last Line: In the other. Variant Title(s): "reality Is The Other Person""; Subject(s): Imagination; Reality; Fancy OCELOT SONATA, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Large rain drops %spot the foggy windshield Last Line: Of several thousand %wet & lonely cars Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination ODE TO FANCY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Fancy, sweet and truant sprite Last Line: But 't is for fancy's ear alone. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy OF ASPHODEL: CODA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inseparable from the fire Subject(s): Time; Love; Imagination; Fancy OLD STREET, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think these houses are the ghosts Last Line: Close in upon my heels Subject(s): Houses; Imagination ON A FOGGY MORNING, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The two white bands %on the mockingbird's outstretched wings Last Line: With the magnesium light %of a new savior Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination ON A LANDSCAPE OF GASPAR POUSSIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poussin! How pleasantly thy pictured scenes Last Line: Beats hard and heavy through his dungeon bars. Subject(s): Comfort; Imagination; Paintings And Painters; Poussin, Gaspar (1613-1675); Fancy ON THE DAY I DIE, WHEN I'M BEING, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And immediately opens %with a shout of joy there Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ON THE DIFFICULTY OF CONJURING UP A DRYAD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Imagination; Writing & Writers; Dryads; Fancy ON THE MEETING OF GARCIA LORCA AND HART CRANE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Imagination; Fancy ONE OF THE SMALLEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Made of the first grey light Subject(s): Imagination; Night; Fancy; Bedtime ONE OF THE SMALLEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Made of the first grey light Last Line: A stone at first, I turned %garish for awhile and burned Subject(s): Imagination; Night ONE STEP BEYOND, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: You take me past common sense. Under Last Line: Know why & that's the fire Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination ORPHEUS. EURYDICE. HERMES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was the deep uncanny mine of souls Last Line: Her steps constricted by the trailing graveclothes, %uncertain, gentle, and without impatience Subject(s): Imagination; Vision OVERTURE OF AN HALLUCINATION, by PRISCILLA BECKER Poem Source First Line: Six years have gone since I have been loved Last Line: You can do that with words, use one %for the other Subject(s): Imagination; Vision PANTHER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His vision, from the constantly passing bars Last Line: Plunge into the heart and is gone Subject(s): Imagination; Panthers; Paris, France; Vision PAPER BOATS, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running stream Last Line: The fairies of sleep are sailing in then, and the lading is their baskets %full of dreams Subject(s): Imagination PAPER TOPICS: A POEM, by KIRSTEN WASSON Poem Source First Line: 1) write a paper in which you discuss the last three times you lied Last Line: Else's mouth. Wad the paper up, chew it hard and swallow Subject(s): Creative Ability; Imagination; Writing And Writers PARABLES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a child who dreamed Last Line: And we begin again! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Poetry And Poets; Reality PARROT TREES, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The road is chilly %an october breeze Last Line: Of at least %one thousand parrot trees Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination PARTY GAME, by MICHELE BOWMAN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I pretend there is no boy so that Last Line: Or a hat when there is not one Subject(s): Games; Imagination PASSAGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the cedar leaf divides the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy PASSAGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the cedar leaf divides the sky Last Line: Memory, committed to the page, had broke Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision PEGASUS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Solitude with infinite waist Last Line: & supple waist %of our unsuspecting infinite! Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination PHILADELPHIA, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Working one spring afternoon %in mid-town philadelphia Last Line: The open mouth %of my tired room Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination PIAZZAS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the golden air, the risky autumn, Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy PIRATE'S CAVE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the table when dinner's through Last Line: And mother she gets the crew! Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Pirates; Play; Childhood; Fancy; Piracy; Buccaneers PLAYFULLY, YOU HID FROM ME, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the celebration %of that began Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision PLUMS TASTED, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Was a cowherding girl %at gokul Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision POWER OF FANCY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wakeful, vagrant, restless thing Last Line: Come, o come - perceived by none, %you and I will walk alone Subject(s): Imagination PREGNANT TEAPOT, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Eek! She screamed from the kitchen one morning Last Line: And whatever wasn't pregnant was obviously horny Subject(s): Imagination; Pregnancy; Teapots PRESSURE BODY MAINTAINS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Silences the corners %of visual dissipation Subject(s): Imagination PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA: EINSTEIN'S EXILE IN AN OLD DUTCH WINTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My theory withstood the light of the hyades Last Line: The rose of all roses! Subject(s): Descartes, Rene (1596-1650); Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Imagination; Mathematics; Order; Fancy PTERODACTYLS, by GEORGE FREDERICK MORGAN Poem Source First Line: I have always regarded them as friends. Somewhat grotesque, but dutiful Last Line: Know he brings a message that had best be heeded Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Love QUESTION, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One dervish to another, 'what was your vision of god's presence?' Last Line: The fire and water themselves: %accidental, done with mirrors Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision QUESTION, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: People always say to me Last Line: Or maybe I will stay a child Subject(s): Imagination RADIATOR LIONS, by DOROTHY ALDIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: George lives in an apartment and Last Line: He hasn't dogs or polliwogs %like any other child Subject(s): Imagination RAGGEDY DOLL, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: The raggedy doll said, 'I don't mind' Last Line: My very own raggedy doll, you know Subject(s): Imagination RANT, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology Last Line: Anything else Subject(s): Imagination; War; Fancy RANT, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology Last Line: The polis is constellated around the sun %the fire is central Subject(s): Imagination; War RECITATIVE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Regard the capture here, o janus-faced Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy RECITATIVE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Regard the capture here, o janus-faced Last Line: Forgive me for an echo of these things, %and let us walk through time with equal pride Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision REFUGE IN YOU, DARK ONE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Spring her from this noose we call 'world' Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision REPOSE OF RIVERS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The willows carried a slow sound Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Rivers; Vision; Fancy REPOSE OF RIVERS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The willows carried a slow sound Last Line: I heard wind flaking sapphire, like this summer, %and willows could not hold more steady sound Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Rivers; Vision RILKE SKY, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: There are three layers of dusk Last Line: The angels are violins %for one hour Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination RITES OF PARTICIPATION, SELECTION, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drama of our time is the coming of all men into one fate Last Line: Either by the inner senses of the imaginative faculty or by the outer senses Subject(s): Reality; Imagination ROMAN POLANSKI'S 'ANNABEL LEE': LA-LA LAND, by RICHARD LAMB Poem Source First Line: Chrome hurtles from an asphalt cloverleaf Last Line: I believe in effort. The rich twist of wills Subject(s): Imagination; Survival SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Last Line: To lords and ladies of byzantium %of what is past, or passing, or to come Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art And Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry And Poets; Vision SALE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sale what the jews have not sold Last Line: No danger that travelers will be called to account in a hurry Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SARGASSO WEATHER, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: It's april %I'm reminded of eliot Last Line: As I sway in the infinite hammock Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination SATISFACTION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While now upon the bank my engineers Last Line: My futile works,—lo there on the other side. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy SEAL, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How must it feel Last Line: The %fun Subject(s): Imagination SEASON OF HELL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, I I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened Last Line: Few, hideous pages from my notebook of one of the damned Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SECRET CAVERN, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath the boardwalk, way, way back Last Line: None of all the other children know! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Caves; Imagination SEPTEMBER MORNING IN MOUNT AIRY, MARYLAND, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: With a gust %the strong web %shakes its red peach leaves Last Line: One thin radio tower %sparks above the pines Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination SHADOWS IN THE WATER, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In unexperienced infancy Last Line: Is broken, be admitted in. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Mirrors; Childhood; Fancy SHAKESPEARE, by EDWARD L. PONTZ Poem Text First Line: Thou livest still: some modicum of time Last Line: None but thyself thyself could valuate. Subject(s): Dramatists; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Fancy SHIPS, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From imagination to the blank page Last Line: The exquisite ships would go by on their way - who knows where Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Imagination SHIVA IS THE HORSE, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Which are one thing, alone, %and the rider who mounts to ride Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SIDEWALK RACER, OR ON THE SKATEBOARD, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: Skimming %an asphalt sea Last Line: Human auto %mobile Subject(s): Imagination; Skating And Skaters; Sports SIDEWINDER'S ADAGIO, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The distance %between %rhetoric & the bumble bee's heavy body Last Line: The distance %inside melancholy %is immeasurable Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination SIGNAL CORPS, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wants someone else to talk to, wants Last Line: But grateful for a face and tongue Subject(s): Imagination SISTER, THE DARK ONE WON'T SPEAK TO ME, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mira's whole life is a long %night of craving Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision SKYSCRAPERS, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do skyscrapers ever grow tired Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Skyscrapers; Urban Life; Fancy SKYSCRAPERS, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do skyscrapers ever grow tired Last Line: And never get up at all? Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Skyscrapers SNOW FAIRIES, by ISLA PASCHAL RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: I watched a little snowflake Last Line: Just out for fun and frolic %and asking me to play! Subject(s): Imagination SOAP BUBBLES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I knew magic, and could do Last Line: The place where vanished bubbles play. Subject(s): Bubbles; Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy SOLITAIRE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When night drifts along the streets of the city Subject(s): Night; City & Town Life; Imagination; Bedtime; Fancy SOME JANUARY THOUGHTS OF JUAN RAMON, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: I love the rain %washed clean Last Line: Like men %we sink %to our watery depths Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination SOME PEOPLE ABANDPN THEIR HOMES, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This rivering mixture feels, %by turns, warm and cool Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SOMEONE SAID, 'THERE IS NO DERVISH, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All qualities of doing-ness %disappear Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW THE TIGRIS RIVER EXISTS, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You shake your thought-wings, loosen your shoulders, %and open Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SOMETHING YOU HAD SEEN, by ILONA POPPER Poem Source First Line: Today I suddenly saw Last Line: To sand as you ran %when your mother called Subject(s): Imagination SOMEWHERE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could you tell me the way to somewhere? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Imagination; Travel; Fancy; Journeys; Trips SOMEWHERE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could you tell me the way to somewhere? Last Line: The somewhere meant for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Imagination; Travel SONG OF GREATNESS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When I hear the old men %telling of heroes Last Line: I too when my time comes %shall do mightily Subject(s): Imagination SONG OF THE JELLICLES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jellicle cats come out tonight Last Line: They are resting and saving themselves to be right %for the jellicle moon and the jellicle ball Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Imagination SONGS OF INNOCENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Piping down the valleys wild Last Line: Every child may joy to hear. Variant Title(s): Child And The Piper;the Happy Piper;pipe A Song;reeds Of Innocence;a Song Of Singing;the Piper Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Innocence; Music & Musicians; Mythology; Pipers; Vision; Fancy SONNET TO THE IMAGINATION, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In early march, I watch you sleep, your mouth Last Line: You will be after my imagination has ravished you Subject(s): Imagination SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tree ascended there. Oh pure transcendence Last Line: You built a temple deep inside their hearing Subject(s): Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Vision SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A god can do it. But will you tell me how Last Line: Nothing. A gust inside the god. A wind Subject(s): Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Vision SOUL, LIKE THE MOON, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I began to go naked, and dance Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SOUND LAG, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His glazed lips / moved slower Last Line: Into the living world. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy SOUTH MIAMI BEACH, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The green humidity %strolls down aia Last Line: Seated next to him %& casually offers her a blue drink Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination SPEAKING TO GHOSTS, by NICOLE DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: That winter in new york Last Line: Replaced by the elegy %I had long ago written Subject(s): Ghosts; Imagination; Supernatural SPRING, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: I'm shouting %I'm singing Last Line: I'm running on rooftops %and welcoming spring! Subject(s): Imagination; Spring ST. JOHN AND THE FAUN, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O blest imagination! Last Line: Which is immortal art. Subject(s): Amalfi, Italy; Imagination; St. John, Henry (1678-1751); Fancy; Viscount Bolingbroke STAG AT BAY, by BIMSLEY PEABODY Poem Text First Line: Oh, how I long for the things Last Line: A drab world at bay. Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Urban Life; Fancy STRANGER EYES, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: A stranger walks over to me Last Line: I wonder what she eats for breakfast Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination SUBJECTS FOR PICTURES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seek I here to gather into words? Last Line: And grows distinct with poetry. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Imagination; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Fancy SUN, THE LOWEST CHAKRA OF ACTION, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Are they hiding in the nothing %like friends on a walk? Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this season of 'sweet / silent thought' on sunday afternoon Subject(s): Imagination; Madrid, Spain; Thought; Fancy; Thinking SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this season of 'sweet %silent thought' on sunday afternoon Last Line: Will be erased by the brightness you find here Subject(s): Imagination; Madrid, Spain; Thought SUNFLOWER SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the Subject(s): Imagination; Railroads; Sunflowers; Vision; Fancy; Railways; Trains SUNFLOWER SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the Last Line: Motive riverbank sunset frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown %vision Subject(s): Imagination; Railroads; Sunflowers; Vision SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Last Line: Bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of lethe? Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry And Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) TALE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A prince was vexed at having devoted himself only to the perfection Last Line: Skilled music is lacking to our desire Subject(s): Imagination; Vision TALE OF A TUB, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The photographic chamber of the eye Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Imagination; Showers & Showering; Fancy TEA-PARTIES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I should enjoy, if I was let Last Line: As those of other girls I know!) Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Imagination; Play; Tea; Childhood; Fancy TEN THOUSAND THANKS, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Shyam, the ocean of pleasure %has come into me Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision THE BLUE STAR, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember of the soul Last Line: The blue star see. Subject(s): Girls; Imagination; Memory; Fancy THE BOGEYMAN, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the desolate depths of a perilous place Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE BOY SHEPHERD'S SMILE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind rose cold under our robes, and straw blew loose Last Line: For this we shivered in adoration. We bore the cold. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Dolls; Imagination; Toys; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fancy THE BRIDGE: 1. AVE MARIA, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be with me, luis de san angel, now Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Imagination; Vision; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Fancy THE BRIDGE: 7. THE TUNNEL, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Performances, assortments, resumes Last Line: Gatherest -- Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Class Struggle; Imagination; New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Subways; Vision; Fancy; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE BRIDGE: 8. ATLANTIS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the bound cable strands, the arching path Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Atlantis; Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Vision; Fancy THE BRIDGE: PROEM. TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest Last Line: And of the curveship lend a myth to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Americans; Bible; Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; Freedom; Imagination; Religion; United States; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology; America THE BROKEN TOWER, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bell-rope that gathers god at dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE CAGED COCKATOO, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps,' the little maiden said Last Line: "where gold was hid and men were slain!" Subject(s): Animals; Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy THE CHILD NEXT DOOR, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child next door has a wreath on her hat Last Line: Has seen a fairy? Subject(s): Fairies; Girls; Imagination; Elves; Fancy THE CIRCULATION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As fair ideas from the sky Last Line: And all it doth receive returns again. Subject(s): Imagination; Soul; Fancy THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you make so fair and bright? Last Line: "sudden and light." Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Se;f; Travel; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Imagination; Journeys; Trips; Fancy THE COMPLAINT OF FANCY, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As, musing, late I sat reclined Last Line: And quickly bore them from my view. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE COWBOY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone had spread an elaborate rumor about me, that I was Subject(s): Practical Jokes; Imagination; Motion Pictures; Pranks; Fancy; Movies; Cinema THE CURATOR, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We thought it would come, we thought the germans would come, Subject(s): Leningrad, Siege Of (1941); Paintings & Painters; Imagination; Museums; Blindness; Fancy; Art Gallerys; Visually Handicapped THE DRAGON, by FEODOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Evil dragon in the zenith fiercely glowing Last Line: Thou shalt fade, thou evil dragon, thou shalt perish. Alternate Author Name(s): Sologub, Fedor (fyodor) Subject(s): Dragons; Evil; Imagination; Fancy THE DUINO ELEGIES: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE FIFTH NIGHT: WHEN SHE MASTURBATES, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN Poem Text First Line: First of all she eats jellybeans Last Line: Until it melts. Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl Subject(s): Imagination; Longing; Sex; Story-telling; Survival; Waiting; Fancy THE FLOWER GIRL (REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chimney-pot to chimney-pot who is it creeps Last Line: Nicolo night-cap, say, is it you? Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIFTH AND SIXTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infected mad he danced on his mountains high & dark as heaven Last Line: In their progressions & preparing urizens path before him Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIRST AND SECOND, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: Vala Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE NINTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And los & enitharmon builded jerusalem weeping Last Line: The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then urizen arose the spectre fled & tharmas fled Last Line: Babylon again in infancy calld natural religion Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE THIRD AND FOURTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now sat the king of light on high upon his starry throne Last Line: Into unusual forms dancing & howling stamping the abyss Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE GLEAM OF AN HEROIC ACT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By the imagination Subject(s): Imagination THE GOLDEN DAYS OF MAKE-BELIEVE, by LOREN H. PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: In the golden days of make - believe Last Line: One golden day of make-believe! Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE GREY MONK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I die, I die!' the mother said Last Line: And became a tyrant in his stead Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Fancy THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: LAMILIA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fie, fie on blind fancy! Last Line: To count love a toy. Variant Title(s): Fancy Subject(s): Imagination; Love; Youth; Fancy THE IMAGINED COPPERHEAD, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without intending to hide, Last Line: And his priesthood. Subject(s): Snakes; Childhood Memories; Imagination; Serpents; Vipers; Fancy THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit looking out of a window of the building Last Line: Rights reserved. Subject(s): Boredom; Dreams; Guadalajara; Imagination; Ennui; Nightmares; Fancy THE INVISIBLE MAN, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is my manta ray. The degas Last Line: Blue unless red until green Subject(s): Imagination THE LADY UNKNOWN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of evenings hangs above the restaurant Last Line: I also know: truth lies in wine. Variant Title(s): The Stranger Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Friendship; Imagination; Shadows; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Fancy THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LAST WORD OF A BLUEBIRD; AS TOLD TO A CHILD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went out a crow Last Line: "he would come back and sing." Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Imagination; Fancy THE LEOPARD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lands where only jackals call Last Line: The jackal's call! Subject(s): Desert Animals; Deserts; Food & Eating; Imagination; Fancy THE LITTLE ELF-MAN, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a little elf-man once Last Line: "as you are big for you." Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Variant Title(s): The Little Elf Subject(s): Fairies; Imagination; Elves; Fancy THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air Last Line: For every thing that lives is holy Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Judgment Day; Mythology; Vision; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MENTAL TRAVELLER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I travel'd thro' a land of men Last Line: And all is done as I have told. Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Fancy; Theology THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the old, old men say Last Line: Like the waters.' Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Time; Vision; Fancy THE PLAIN SENSE OF THINGS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the leaves have fallen, we return Subject(s): Imagination; Reality; Fancy THE PLEASURES OF HOPE: 2, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In joyous youth, what soul hath never known Last Line: And light thy torch at nature's funeral pile. Subject(s): Hope; Imagination; Optimism; Fancy THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 1, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what attractive charms this goodly frame Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre. Subject(s): Imagination; Perception; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 2, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When shall the laurel and the vocal string Last Line: Nor so effaced the image of its sire. Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Imagination; Philosophy & Philosophers; Vision; Fancy THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 3, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder therefore, since the endearing ties Last Line: And form to his, the relish of their souls. Subject(s): Imagination; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 1, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what enchantment nature's goodly scene Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre. Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 2, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus far of beauty and the pleasing forms Last Line: Nor so effaced the image of her sire. Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Truth; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 3, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What tongue then may explain the various fate Last Line: "I flung me, sad, faint, overworn with toil." Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 4, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One effort more, one cheerful sally more Last Line: The palm of spotless beauty doth resign. Subject(s): Imagination; Prophecy & Prophets; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLUMPUPPETS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When little heads weary have gone to their bed Last Line: The little plumpuppets plump-up it! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE RADIO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another morning I rose before work Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Radio; Imagination; Fancy THE REALM OF FANCY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever let the fancy roam! Last Line: Pleasure never is at home. Variant Title(s): Fancy Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE ROOM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With crayons and pieces of paper Last Line: The white room swallowing what was passed. Subject(s): Imagination; Rooms; Fancy THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SIDEWALK RACER, OR ON THE SKATEBOARD, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Full Text First Line: Skimming / an asphalt sea Subject(s): Imagination; Skating & Skaters; Sports; Fancy THE SONG OF THE JELLICLES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jellicle cats come out tonight Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Imagination; Fancy THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went out to the hazel wood Last Line: The golden apples of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fairies; Imagination; Men; Supernatural; Vision; Witchcraft & Witches; Elves; Fancy THE STATE OF WYOMING, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps a childhood magic-writing tablet Last Line: To the shadow of an antelope stare. Subject(s): History; Imagination; Wyoming; Historians; Fancy THE SUN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I told the sun that I was glad Last Line: "I'm happy"" to the sun." Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE SUNSET, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There late was one within whose subtle being Last Line: This was the only moan she ever made. Subject(s): Imagination; Memory; Fancy THE THREE HERMITS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three old hermits took the air Last Line: Sang unnoticed like a bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hermits; Imagination; Mortality; Old Age; Vision; Fancy THE TOWER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do with this absurdity Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE UNKNOWN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you exist Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Fancy THE VALLEY OF UNREST (1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away - far away Last Line: "over the hills and far away." Variant Title(s): The Valley Nis Subject(s): Imagination; Landscape; Fancy THE VALLEY OF UNREST (2), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once it smiled a silent dell Last Line: Perennial tears descend in gems. Subject(s): Imagination; Landscape; Fancy THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The trees are in their autumn beauty Last Line: To find they have flown away? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Coole, Ireland; Imagination; Swans; Vision; Fancy THE WIND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you toss the kites on high Last Line: O wind, that sings so loud a song! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 25 Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy THE YOUNG MAN FROM PALL MALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a young man from pall mall Last Line: And he was eat by a dog in the hall Subject(s): Animals;dogs;errors;imagination;rabbits; Mistakes;fallacies;fancy;hares THERE ARE THOSE SLEEPING WHO ARE AWAKE, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Doing household chores %who are free of any action Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision THERE ONCE WAS A SNEERING WIFE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of water and dirt cracks open the head, %and afterwards there are other marriages Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision THERE SHE IS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I go into the garden, there she is Last Line: It will have to include her Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Imagination; Women THEY ARRIVE AND OTHERS ARRIVE, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Does it mean anything? %nothing, nothing, nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision THEY SAY THAT PARADISE WILL BE PERFECT, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We hold on to times like this then, %since this is how it's going to be Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision THICK OVERHEAD / CLOUDS OF THE MONSOON, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It's time to take my songs %into the street Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision THINK THAT YOU'RE GLIDING OUT FROM THE FACE OF A CLIFF, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. %one is just a voice, the other just a color Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision THIS COULD HAVE HAPPENED, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: Some guy in red-and-white hooded jacket Last Line: Was taking him up on the offer Subject(s): Imagination THIS IS THE SEAL OF, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Life after life %she awaits his arrival Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision THOSE WITH A KNACK FOR WALKING IN AIR, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They're street jugglers, nothing more Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision THOUGHTS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think I'd like to live on mars Last Line: And see the wrong side of the stars. Subject(s): Children; Cosmology; Imagination; May (month); Planets; Sky; Stars; Childhood; Fancy THREE UNKNOWN SEA CREATURES, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: 1. Holothalma %each curled, glaucous wave Last Line: That swim in and out of view, %eating each other with joy Subject(s): Imagination; Sea Monsters THREE-LEGGED HORSE, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: All day long I've been going %in fits & starts Last Line: Where's my three-legged horse? Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination TO A CHILD OF FANCY (2), by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nests are in the hedgerows Last Line: The same dear winsome lass. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TO BE A DUCK, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: It must be fun to be a duck Last Line: And be an airplane if you wish Subject(s): Imagination TO BE BORN IN THIS HUMAN BODY IS RARE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Awaken and sleep no more - %brief are the days of life Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision TO CASTARA, OF TRUE DELIGHT, by WILLIAM HABINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why doth the ear so tempt the voice Last Line: Chaste virtue's only true and fair. Subject(s): Duplicity; Imagination; Deceit; Fancy TO CHELSEA: ON HER SECOND BIRTHDAY, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: My little lightning bug, %my ornery peaches &cream Last Line: Now that your tiny green flame burns every second %of every day Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination TO ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have not met thee in this outward world Last Line: Sends love and blessings unto thee and thine. Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Imagination; Love; Women; Fancy TO FANCY, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of ethereal birth! Last Line: Neath thine iris wings I'll roam! Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TO FANCY, by MARTHA HANSON Poem Text First Line: Fancy! To thee, I pour a votive strain Last Line: Its genial warmth revives my grief-chilled heart. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TO FANCY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most delicate ariel! Submissive thing Last Line: Making this dull world an enchanted isle. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TO IMAGINATION, by DOROTHEA LAWRANCE MANN Poem Text First Line: O beauteous boy a-dream, what visions sought Last Line: Weaving us evermore thy shining pageantry. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TO IMAGINATION (2), by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When weary with the long day's care Last Line: And sweeter hope, when hope despairs! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TO MY IMAGINARY SIBLINGS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brother and sister Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Imagination; Fancy TO THE EVENING STAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou fair-haired angel of the evening Last Line: Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influence. Subject(s): Bible; Evening; Evening Star; Imagination; Mythology; Stars; Vision; Sunset; Twilight; Fancy TO THE MUSES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether on ida's shady brow / or in the chambers of the east Last Line: The sound is forced, the notes are few! Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy TO THE VISIONS OF FANCY, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, wild illusions of creative mind! Last Line: Still chase my real cares with your illusive powers! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TOWER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do with this absurdity Last Line: Or a bird's sleepy cry %among the deepening shades Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision TRAGEDY, by ANNE COOPER Poem Source First Line: As I went out a-walking Last Line: When I passed that way next morning, %his hair had turned all white Subject(s): Imagination TRAIL OF TEARS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Who can imagine this prejudice with hands Last Line: Adolescent lips of the cherokee girl kneeling today %at mass Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination TRANSFORMATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a garden far in fancy Last Line: In the certainty of dreams. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Imagination; Fancy TRAVEL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The railroad track is miles away Last Line: No matter where it's going. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy TRAVELING TO WORK ONE MORNING IN NOVEMBER, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: A large owl %sits on the rough branch Last Line: His eyes are two saturns %in a new universe Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination TREASURE ISLAND, by KEITH ALTHAUS Poem Source First Line: Beside me %on the couch Last Line: He stirs at its cold scent, %a shiver runs through him, %then me. It's late. %I mark our place Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Imagination TROUBLE WITH IMAGINATIVE CHILDREN, by JOHN B. LEE Poem Source First Line: When I was a boy Last Line: Like a suitcase made for thieves Subject(s): Children; Imagination TRUST, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I would be walking down the road Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy UNBREAKABLE, O LORD, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: O my beloved - %return Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision UNDER BEN BULBEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Swear by what the sages spoke Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy UNDER BEN BULBEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swear by what the sages spoke Last Line: Horseman, pass by! Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Vision UNDER THE GREEN LEDGE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I huddle with that life I can steal Subject(s): Hate; Imagination UNDERSEA, by MARCHETTE CHUTE Poem Source First Line: Beneath the waters %green and cool Last Line: Can't seem to learn %the steps at all Variant Title(s): Mermaid/underse Subject(s): Imagination V. NEZVAL, by JIRINA FUCHSOVA Poem Source First Line: Through the park Last Line: And leads imagination by the string %like a dog Subject(s): Imagination; Nezval, Vitezslav (1900-1958); Poetry And Poets VAGABONDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful brother! What atrocious vigils I owe him! Last Line: We wandered, I impatient to find the place and the formula! Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VAN GOGH, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: In those paintings about taverns, with Last Line: Inspired moments, create van goghs Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination VARIETY OF INTELLIGENCE IN HUMAN BEINGS, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As many kinds as might be marked on a vertical Last Line: Joseph's brothers wept, but inside %they were tricky and jealous Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VERY EARLY, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: When I wake in the early mist Last Line: And I'm the one who woke the sun %and kissed the stars good night Subject(s): Imagination VIGILS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is repose in the light, neither fever nor languor, on a bed or on a meadow Last Line: In any case nothing of what it seems at present Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VISION OF POESY, SELS., by HENRY TIMROD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes - could it be fancy? I have felt Last Line: Fill the clear spirit's eyes with earthly %dust' Subject(s): Art And Artists; Imagination; Poetry And Poets VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved theotormon Last Line: The daughters of albion hear her woes, & eccho back her sighs. Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Love; Mythology; Vision; Fancy VOYAGE A L'INFINI, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swan existing / is like a song with an accompaniment Last Line: Without imagination. Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Swans; Fancy VOYAGES: 1, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the fresh ruffles of the surf Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Variant Title(s): The Sea Subject(s): Imagination; Sea; Vision; Fancy; Ocean VOYAGES: 1, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the fresh ruffles of the surf Last Line: The bottom of the sea is cruel Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Variant Title(s): The Se Subject(s): Imagination; Sea; Vision VOYAGES: 2, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And yet this great wink of eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Men; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 2, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And yet this great wink of eternity Last Line: The seal's wide spindrift gaze toward paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Men; Vision VOYAGES: 3, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infinite consanguinity it bears Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 3, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infinite consanguinity it bears Last Line: Permit me voyage, love, into your hands Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VOYAGES: 4, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose counted smile of hours and days, suppose Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 4, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose counted smile of hours and days, suppose Last Line: The secret oar and petals of all love Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VOYAGES: 5, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 5, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime Last Line: Draw in your head and sleep the long way home Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VOYAGES: 6, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where icy and bright dungeons lift Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 6, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where icy and bright dungeons lift Last Line: Whose accent no farewell can know Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WALES VISITATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Wales; Fancy; Welshmen; Welshwomen WALES VISITATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow Last Line: Upward in motion with wet wind Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Wales WALKING NEAR VIRGINIA BEACH, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Motionless in a pool of water %a yellow-billed crane Last Line: Inside the violin bones %of its dark legs! Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination WAY IN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever you are; some evening take a step Last Line: In the same moment that your will grasps it, %your eyes, feeling its subtlety, will leave it Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WE CAN'T HELP BEING THIRSTY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Almost in sight! The first word they call out %will be the last word of our last poem Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WEAK IS THE WILL OF MAN, HIS JUDGMENT BLIND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind Subject(s): Imagination WEAR JUST ENOUGH CLOTHES TO KEEP WARM, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This body will become food %for the forest crows Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WHAT IS A BUTTERFLY?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What is a butterfly? At best Last Line: He's but a caterpillar dressed! Subject(s): Imagination WHAT IS RED?, by MARY O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: Red is a sunset Last Line: But can you imagine %living without it? Subject(s): Colors; Imagination WHAT IS WORSHIP? WHO ARE THIS MAN, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Let that be your sacred pouring. %let your worship song be silence Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WHAT UNDERSTANDING COMES THROUGH READING?, by LALLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Subtle intellect is a fox %who knows what I need Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WHEN CAN I MEET / THE DARK LORD?, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fate never swerves from its course Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision WHEN I WAS THE SUBJECT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How we or anything exists Last Line: Points sticking out Subject(s): Chaos; Imagination; Fancy WHEN I WAS THE SUBJECT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How we or anything exists Subject(s): Chaos; Imagination; Fancy WHEN I WAS THE SUBJECT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How we or anything exists Last Line: Without the sharp %points sticking out Subject(s): Chaos; Imagination WHEN THINGS ARE HEARD, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages Last Line: But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WHERE GO THE BOATS?, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark brown is the river Last Line: Shall bring my boats ashore. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 14 Subject(s): Boats; Imagination; Rivers; Fancy WHILE BEAMS OF ORIENT LIGHT SHOOT WIDE AND HIGH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Gleams from a world in which the saints repose Subject(s): Beauty; Imagination; Dawn WHY LIFE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: O beloved, take this raft quickly %and lead it to shore Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision WHY MIRA CAN'T GO BACK TO HER OLD HOUSE, by MIRABAI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The colors of the dark one have penetrated mira's body Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Variant Title(s): Meera Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision; Fancy WHY MIRA CAN'T GO BACK TO HER OLD HOUSE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The colors of the dark one have penetrated mira's body Last Line: And now you want me to climb on a jackass? Try to be serious! Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision WHY THIS IMPULSE, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Singing from the deep in your throat Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision WIND, by MARION DOYLE Poem Source First Line: I love the blustering noisy wind Last Line: Until they look like small black notes %of music on the sky? Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Imagination WIPING THE STARS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The older korean gentleman %(barely 55!) Last Line: From his forehead %with his left hand Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination WOLF AND THE RABBIT, by ANNA CITRINO Poem Source First Line: Ohh,' Last Line: To be, %cast out, %set free Subject(s): Animals; Imagination; Rabbits; Wolves WOODEN MOON, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The wooden moon %is a drifter. %hangs his hat %on any tree Last Line: Takes up residence %in the long strands of our loneliness Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination WOODEN SWORD, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Some days I take my bokken Last Line: My best friends. %how I pray Subject(s): Imagination; Play WOULDN'T YOU?, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I / could go Last Line: I'd go! Subject(s): Imagination; Wind; Farewell; Fancy WOULDN'T YOU?, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I %could go Last Line: I'd go! Subject(s): Imagination; Wind YOGIN, I DID NOT TOUCH, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: What mira obtains %has been written by fate Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision YOU COULD BELIEVE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could believe the city is more than you Last Line: Everything in this place does what it can Subject(s): Cities; Imagination YOUTH: 1. SUNDAY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Problems put by, the inevitable descent of heaven Last Line: Let us resume our study to the noise of the devouring work that is assembling and rising in the mass Subject(s): Imagination; Vision YOUTH: 2. SONNET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man of ordinary constitution, was not the flesh a fruit hung in the orchard Last Line: Might and right reflect your dance and your voice, only appreciated at present Subject(s): Imagination; Vision YOUTH: 3. TWENTY YEARS OLD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Instructive voices exiled Last Line: Quickly, indeed, the nerves take up the chase Subject(s): Imagination; Vision YOUTH: 4. WAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a child, certain skies refined my vision Last Line: It is as simple as a musical phrase Subject(s): Imagination; Vision |
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