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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INNOCENCE Matches Found: 203 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return return, my hapless spouse Last Line: Let fancy paint the rest. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Parents; Trials; Childhood; Parenthood A GENTLE STORY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle story of two lovers young Last Line: From heaven, which none shall quench, to cheer the innocent? Subject(s): Innocence; Love A LITTLE GIRL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where have they gone to - the little girls Last Line: "who knows not the meaning of ""flirt"" or ""style" Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Girls; Innocence; Maturity A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 13, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was one-and-twenty Last Line: And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true; Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): The Cost Of Love Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Innocence; Love; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG ON YOUNG OLINDA, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: When innocence, and beauty meet Last Line: Will last, when all things else decay. Subject(s): Innocence A SPRING CALLED PARTHENIUS, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As unconcernedly it flows Last Line: As on her way a soft maid goes. Subject(s): Innocence A STROKE OF SKY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Innocence; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 A SUMMER NIGHT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her mist of primroses within her breast Last Line: Ah me; how innocent our childhood was! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Innocence A WOMAN'S HISTORY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When mary price was five years old Last Line: And beaten it to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Innocence; Women ABOVE AND BELOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Water from the well Last Line: Poison struts on top Subject(s): Innocence; Poisons And Poisoning; Water; Wells AD MANUS PUELLAE; FOR LEONARD SMITHERS, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was always a lover of ladies' hands Last Line: The hands of a girl, and most your hands. Subject(s): Innocence; Love ALGAE IN MY EYES, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: Let's suppose there are still innocent doves Last Line: Of flowers suddenly explode, and she laughs Subject(s): Girls; Innocence ALMIGHTY FIREBALL, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I won't go shopping. I won't visit friends Last Line: Will scatter them without care, perfumes, or rites Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials; Women - Captives AMORETTI: 37, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What guile is this, that those her golden tresses Last Line: To covet fetters, though they golden bee. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "what Guyle Is This, That Those Her Golden Tresses,""; Subject(s): Hair; Innocence; Love AMORETTI: 48, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Innocent paper! Whom too cruel hand Last Line: And speake her good, though she requite it ill. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Innocence; Writing & Writers AN ELEGY ON AN INFANT, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, shepherds, on this grave your flourets Last Line: In safety listens to the distant shrieks. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Innocence; Lament; Mourning; Nature; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement AN INFANT-EYE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A simple light from all contagion free Last Line: Inviting yet, and waiting thy command. Subject(s): Innocence; Vision AN OLD WHOREHOUSE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We climbed through a broken window Subject(s): Innocence; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels ANCIENT HISTORY, UNDYING LOVE, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a hidden treasure and loved to be known, beloved Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Innocence ANGEL OR WOMAN, by THOMAS PARNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thy beauty appears Last Line: But still be a woman to you! Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Beauty; Innocence; Love ANYBODY'S, by ALICE STETTINER Poem Text First Line: You dainty piece of bric - a - brac Last Line: You adorable babe—beginning to talk! Subject(s): Babies; Innocence; Infants ARSENIC EATER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I was the needlewoman bound to him Last Line: The white granules %in his stomach could not argue Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Justice; Law And Lawyers; Trials ASTROPHIL TO HIS SON, AGED SEVEN MONTHS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! With whom I fondly share Last Line: As idle—but less innocent. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Innocence; Pleasure; Infants; Childhood AT THE COURT-HOUSE DOOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: No! No! I don't defend him Last Line: He hadn't gone quite so wrong Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;guilt;innocence;judges;law & Lawyers 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 AWAKENING, by ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK Poem Source First Line: Lord %the cage has become a bird Last Line: What will I do with my fear Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Innocence; Old Age BALLAD: TIME OF ROSES, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not in the winter / our loving lot was cast! Last Line: We pluck'd them as we pass'd! Variant Title(s): It Was The Time Of Roses Subject(s): Flowers; Innocence; Love; Roses BIRD IN THE NEST, by SALOME URENA DE HENRIQUEZ Poem Source First Line: Why are you terrified, innocent bird? Why do you Last Line: And leaves from the plain! Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Children; Innocence; Solitude CANCION OF SPRING, by PABLO PIFERRER Y FABREGAS Poem Source First Line: Here the springtime come again Last Line: Lost are mine - and hope is o'er! Subject(s): Flowers; Innocence; Love; Seasons; Spring CATHERINE BRESHKOVSKY AT WELLESLEY (FEBRUARY 19, 1919), by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Childlike, promethean, immortal, one Last Line: From youthful face to face kindles white flame. Subject(s): Innocence; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College CHILD'S FAITH IS NEW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Instead of kings Variant Title(s): Poem: 637; Poem: 70 Subject(s): Innocence CHILDHOOD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I could see through and through you! Last Line: But a joy within guides you. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Childhood COME NOT NEAR MY SONGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Leaps my heart upon you! Subject(s): Hearts;innocence;love;love - Complaints;singing & Singers DAWN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the little room Last Line: With god who made, and man who found you, fair. Subject(s): Innocence DEAR DARK HEAD (CEAN DUBB DEELISH), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "put your head, darling, darling, darling" Last Line: "oh, mouth of honey, with the thyme for fragrance, / who, with heart in breast, could deny you love? Subject(s): Innocence;love DEATH OF CHILDHOOD BELIEFS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There the puddled lonely lane Last Line: Crying armageddon near. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Innocence DREAM WITH CLAM-DIGGERS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This dream budded bright with leaves round the edges Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Innocence; Nightmares DRY AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening, just before Last Line: Mountains to eat your tender heart Subject(s): Animal Rights; Autumn; Innocence; Seasons; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Fall DRY AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening, just before Last Line: Mountains to eat your tender heart Subject(s): Animal Rights; Autumn; Innocence; Seasons EIGHTY YEARS OLD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is left behind him quite Last Line: Else we had lost him utterly. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Innocence; Old Age; Spiritual Life; Dead, The EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To purify their wine some people bleed Last Line: Good cause why planters never try their own. Subject(s): Innocence EVENING SONG, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look off, dear love, across the sallow sands Variant Title(s): On The Shore Subject(s): Innocence; Love EXPERIENCE, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: One loved me once, I cannot tell you how Last Line: Insidious sin stole innocence away! Subject(s): Experience; Innocence FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Welshmen; Welshwomen FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Last Line: Time held me green and dying %though I sang in my chains like the sea Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth FOR, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: For the daffodil's horn that blazes spring for the hooting taxis Last Line: For the moment just before we understand what %the promised little talk is all about Subject(s): Innocence; Reality FOR LOVE'S SAKE, KISS ME ONCE AGAIN!, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let who will think us dead, or wish our death. Variant Title(s): He Teaches Her To Kiss;of Kissing Subject(s): Innocence; Kisses; Love FOR THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FALLEN, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little boy crying out Subject(s): Rector, Liam (1949-2007); Innocence; Suicide FREEDOM, by JOYCE ANSTRUTHER PLACZEK Poem Source First Line: Now heaven be thanked, I am out of love again! Last Line: So a free man, my dull proud path I plod, %who, tortured, blind, mad, caged, was once a god Subject(s): Innocence; Love FROST AND HIS ENEMIES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When robert frost set down a poetic whim, Last Line: Or a patch of snow or the steeple of a church. Subject(s): Fate; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Innocence; Irony; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Destiny GOSSAMER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The peerless boon of innocence Last Line: Frail cobwebs—of the dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Innocence GREEN BEHIND THE EARS, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was still slightly Subject(s): Innocence HOLY INNOCENTS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gold on gold, snow on snow Last Line: Should be two that are mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Mothers; Childhood HORATIAN VIRTUE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A blameless, upright life, an unblemished conscience Last Line: Measuring mabel Subject(s): Innocence HYMN: INNOCENTS' DAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh weep not o'er thy children's tomb! Last Line: The flower in heaven shall blow! Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Childhood I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "I know who I love, / but the dear knows who I'll marry" Subject(s): Innocence;love I SAW, I SAW THE LOVELY CHILD, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: A blossom of the earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Children; Innocence I WISH, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I had not come to man's estate Last Line: Whose champion long ago I might have been! Subject(s): Innocence I'M OWRE YOUNG TO MARRY YET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am my mammie's ae bairn Last Line: To tak me frae my mammie yet Subject(s): Innocence; Love IF I WERE TICKLED BY THE RUB OF LOVE, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: Man be my metaphor Subject(s): Sex; Innocence; Reality IN SCHOOL-DAYS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Still sits the school-house by the road Last Line: Like her, -- because they love him. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Schools; Childhood; Students IN THE FUGITIVE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard kemble kept insisting Last Line: Oddly resembles low german Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Innocence; Television; Tv IN THE FUGITIVE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard kemble kept insisting Last Line: Oddly resembles low german Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Innocence; Television IN THE SAME WEEK, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the third day Last Line: Too little and too late Subject(s): Innocence IN TIME OF STRIFE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal justice, who dost all things weigh Last Line: Exalted and perpetual innocence. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Love; Childhood INDOLENCE: 12, SELS., by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou didst delight my eyes Last Line: A sail that for a day %has cheered the castaway Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Innocence; Love INFANT INNOCENCE, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grizzly bear is huge and wild Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Babies; Innocence; Infants INFANT INNOCENCE, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grizzly bear is huge and wild Last Line: He has been eaten by the bear Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Babies; Innocence INNOCENCE, by GEORGE S. CHAPPELL Poem Source First Line: Once I was a tiny tad Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: Puny as a breath, a soul Last Line: The days a man must die. Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by KENNETH ZAMORA DAMACION Poem Source First Line: In the schoolyard, there were three of us Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by AMY GERSTLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maple trees' sugary Last Line: Seeds forests everywhere, %via ashlike airborne spores Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think perhaps we'll never know Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He ran the course and as he ran he grew Last Line: As melting quietly by his boots it fell Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Innocence; Jews INNOCENCE, by BONNIE JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: Once a woman cried Last Line: Has never told one decent story, %knows only its own %tough story Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They laughed at the one I loved Last Line: I cannot die %unless I walk outside these whitethorn hedges Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only peterson's shoe store had one Last Line: Smiling, each waiting %his turn, her turn Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What answer could she give Last Line: Moused in the dark for what she once had been Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by CHARLES MAIR Poem Source First Line: Oft I have met her Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fire on the mountain, fire under the lake Last Line: An image of fire and water. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Youth; Childhood INNOCENCE, by JAMES SCULLY Poem Source First Line: Like any brute, to have a soft heart %to be the last benevolent despot Last Line: It did what it had to do %you could not, could not tell %my heart from my hand Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White rose must die all in the youth and beauty of the year Last Line: White rose must die all in the youth and beauty of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Innocence; Roses; Dead, The INNOCENCE, by MARIN SORESCU Poem Source First Line: The same idea would come to him Last Line: And therein lay, in fact, %his abiding greatness Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She tripped and fell against a star Last Line: Twas a star-lance in her side! Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Innocence INNOCENCE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that which most I wonder at, which most Last Line: I must become a child again. Subject(s): Bible; Innocence; Religion; Theology INNOCENCE, by CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE Poem Source First Line: Ice cream Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: The nurses said no flowers Last Line: Opened and I walked out. It's ok %now. Cry. Cry all you've saved up Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE (1), by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be always one with earth Last Line: Earth, bid your lovers rise from me! Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE (2), by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the old stone bridge he met a van Last Line: That blew away so peacefully? Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Peace; Youth; Childhood INNOCENT, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cats' eyes could see a flub of blood Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENT CHILD AND SNOW-WHITE FLOWER!, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Innocence; Children; Flowers; Childhood INNOCENTS, by JOE BONOMO Poem Source First Line: And so, she said, before the dream Last Line: To despair when talk turns %to infinity Subject(s): Innocence INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT TAUNTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They perish'd here whom jefferies doom'd to death Last Line: La hogue, the purple ocean dash'd the dead! Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Innocence; Jeffries, Richard (1848-1887); Persecution; Revolutions; Dead, The INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT OPPOSITE BALLIOL GATEWAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here latimer and ridley in the flames Last Line: And let the future expiate the past. Subject(s): Innocence; Latimer, Hugh (1485-1555); Oxford University; Ridley, Nicholas (1503-1555); Truth INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET ON THE BANKS OF A STREAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Awhile upon this mossy bank Last Line: Of innocence, and thou shalt find her there. Subject(s): Comfort; Graves; Happiness; Innocence; Rivers; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight INVULNERABLE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Armorers met me at the marge of life Last Line: And e'en the terrors turn away their eyes! Subject(s): Innocence LAODICEA, by HENRY LONGAN STUART Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the fruit I never stole Last Line: Of the mad and unbaptised? Subject(s): Innocence LILY AND ROSE, by JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lily of white innocence, and sweet red rose Last Line: Thou needest thorns around thee. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Innocence; Lilies; Roses; Thorns LOOKING INTO THE WELL, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the maples the robins sung Last Line: And its innocent beauty is still the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Innocence; Wells LOST ILLUSIONS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for the veils of my far away youth Last Line: [or, shielding my heart from the blaze of truth!] Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Variant Title(s): Illusion Subject(s): Aging; Hallucinations & Illusions; Innocence LOVELY CHILD, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely child, make haste to play Last Line: You will labor for your bread. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Childhood MARTYRS TO THE MAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Innocent thought, romantic dream, and happy, unsuspicious love Last Line: Forth from their gate he strode where fate made straight the road. Subject(s): Innocence; Death; Dead, The MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The big sweet muscles of an athlete's dream Last Line: Full loaded with his contraceptive hate Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Human Rights; Innocence MEETING AT NIGHT, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray sea and the long black land Last Line: Than the two hearts, beating each to each. Variant Title(s): Meeting;night And Morning Subject(s): Innocence; Love; Night; Sea; Seashore; Bedtime; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore MERCILES BEAUTE; A TRIPLE ROUNDEL: 3. ESCAPE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin I fro love escaped am so fat Last Line: Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene. Subject(s): Innocence; Love MINE BY THE RIGHT OF THE WHITE ELECTION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Mine — long as ages steal! Subject(s): Innocence MONOLOGUE BEFORE AN INNOCENT BEING PRISONED IN A TREE, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To play with you fancifully is not Last Line: I found an ancient body, bark and plinth Subject(s): Innocence MOTTO, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You talk of gayety and innocence Last Line: His wealthy neighbor has become a bankrupt. Subject(s): Innocence; Malice MY SWEET SWEETING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah, my sweet sweeting" Last Line: For none I find so womanly / as my sweet sweeting Subject(s): Innocence;love NECTARINES IN FEBRUARY, by KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN Poem Source First Line: What do children know of life Last Line: There are seasons only fit for wanting %to follow summer's sweetness Subject(s): Fruit; Innocence; Seasons; Summer NEW SPRING: 18, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sweetly lookest on me Last Line: Over my heart the while. Subject(s): Blue (color); Innocence NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the voices of children are heard on the green / and laughing is heard Last Line: And all the hills ecchoed Variant Title(s): Play Time Subject(s): Bible; Children; Evening; Innocence; Mythology; Play; Time; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight O WORLD, BE NOBLER!, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O world, be nobler, for her sake! Last Line: O world, be nobler, for her sake! Subject(s): Innocence; Love ODYSSEUS ON HERMES; HIS AFTERTHOUGHT, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was seduced by innocence Last Line: Of the wily god to the wily man Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Innocence OF BEING NUMEROUS, 12, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In these explanations it is presumed that an experiencing - see more at: http://www.Poets.Org/viewme Subject(s): Innocence OLD WHOREHOUSE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We climbed through a broken window Last Line: It would be years before %we'd learn how effortlessly %sin blooms, then softens, %like any bed of fl Subject(s): Innocence; Prostitution ON NEWS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: News from a foreign country came Last Line: A small and little thing! Variant Title(s): News Subject(s): Innocence ON THE FARTHER SIDE, by W. F. BOLTON Poem Source First Line: There is a place of innocence Last Line: Garment as you strode before it, %trailing something torn Subject(s): Change; Innocence; Nature ORGAN SONGS: SONG OF THE INNOCENTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merry, merry we well may be Last Line: We have learned to walk, and must follow him home! Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Jesus Christ; Childhood ORGAN SONGS: THE CHILDREN'S HEAVEN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The infant lies in blessed ease Last Line: And bid them dream again. Subject(s): Children; Heaven; Hope; Innocence; Jesus Christ; Childhood; Paradise; Optimism ORTHODOXIES 3, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: What it is saying, I wonder, the purl and stitch scarf of Last Line: Face painting of a virgin bride melts away to the depths of a metamorphosis Subject(s): Brides; Innocence; Paintings And Painters; Virginity OUR FIRST-BORN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It died so young! And yet Last Line: We shall not find again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Innocence PEARL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "perle, plesaunte to prynces paye" Last Line: On that precios perle wythouten spot Subject(s): "consolation;dreams;innocence;redemption;richard Ii, King Of England (1367-1400);" Nightmares PEGGY, FR. THE GENTLE SHEPHERD, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My peggy is a young thing Last Line: At wawking of the fauld. Variant Title(s): Patie's Song;song;the Waukin O' The Field;sang Subject(s): Girls; Innocence QUIET EYES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The boys come home, come home from war Last Line: Unharmed, unflawed, unhurt. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Eyes; Innocence; Soldiers; Soul; War; World War I; First World War QUINCUNX, by KARL KIRCHWEY Poem Source First Line: The westering son now strikes a chain link fence Last Line: They were not for my watching self to make %saved by the quincunx the strong net of love Subject(s): Innocence; Love REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Last Line: After the first death, there is no other Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii ROADSIDE POEMS: LITTLE ELFIE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a puppet-jointed child Last Line: Sleep shining through the dark. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Innocence; Childhood; Relatives RONDEAU, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny kissed me when we met Last Line: Jenny kissed me! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Innocence; Kisses; Love; New Year; Time; Women SLEEPING INNOCENCE, by MARGARET MACKINNON Poem Source First Line: From the dust of these mango-littered streets Last Line: Her body, that cool white scar Subject(s): Innocence; Sleep SMALL DEFEATS: BATHING JESSICA, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Standing nude in warm water, distracted Last Line: Providing private myths for her own poems Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Daughters; Innocence SNOW-WHITE DOVE: HAPLESS, HELPLESS, AND FORLORN, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I prepared a tasty coffee for you Last Line: Darling, not in north carolina Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Justice; Murder; Poisons And Poisoning; Trials SO WE LOWERED OUR EYES, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On the enchanted way Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Innocence SONG, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay but you, who do not love her Last Line: But cannot praise, I love so much! Subject(s): Innocence; Love SONG (3), by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though misfortunes my footsteps may ever attend Last Line: And will never from virtue's dear boundaries swerve Subject(s): Innocence SONG [WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1732], by GEORGE LYTTELTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When delia on the plain appears Last Line: Tell me, my heart, if this be love. Alternate Author Name(s): Lyttleton Of Frankley, 1st Baron; George, First Lord Of Lyttleton Variant Title(s): Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love Subject(s): Innocence; Love; Love - Beginnings 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 SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: PRELUDE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the little songs Last Line: Turning her face to the sun. Subject(s): Songs; Children; Sea; Innocence; Spring; Happiness; Love SONNET: IN ANNIVERSATIO MORTIS. 4, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy ways were not my ways. Thy life was peace Subject(s): Death; Innocence; Dead, The SONNET: PALE DAUGHTER OF THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou most beautiful and meek-eyed virgin Last Line: For innocence and mercy are twin-born! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Innocence; Mercy STILL AT TIME I'M A DUMB LITTLE BOY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wanting to give the family a fish dinner Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boys; Ignorance; Innocence; Maturity; Nature STOLEN SWEETS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Peking and heide, pekinese Last Line: Those two will never say. Subject(s): Children; Girls; Innocence; Childhood SUNDAY PAPERS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The butchery of the innocent Subject(s): War; Sabbath; Religion; Innocence; Sunday; Theology THE APOSTASY, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One star / is better far Last Line: I lost: my joy turn'd to a blaze. Variant Title(s): The Apostacy Subject(s): Innocence THE BLIND MAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At nogent, on the river marne Last Line: "my little eleanor is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Death - Children; Democracy; Fathers; Innocence; Schools; Social Protest; War; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Students THE BONNIE LASS O' DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O' a' the toons that I've been in Last Line: And the flower o' dundee. Subject(s): Children; Girls; Innocence; Childhood THE CASE OF ALBERT IRVING WILLIAMSON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, albert irving williamson was innocent / and young Last Line: Our hero did not win a single solitary pot. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Fools; Gambling; Innocence; Youth; Idiots; Wagering; Betting THE CHARM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The voice of innocence I heard Last Line: I'll hear the voice of innocence. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Innocence THE CHILD PLAYING WITH A WATCH, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou playing with time in thy sweet baby-glee? Last Line: May time and my ellen be playmates together. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Babies; Innocence; Life; Time; Infants THE CHILD'S RETURN FROM THE WOODLANDS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou been in the woods with the honey-bee? Last Line: God in earth's garden -- and not to fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Innocence; Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830); Woods THE COUNTRY CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The country child has fragrances Last Line: And in his cheeks old roses blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Innocence; Memory; Mothers; Childhood THE COY LASS DRESS'D UP IN HER BEST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Do not rumple my top-knot Last Line: "I won't be put out of my rode, / you shall not rumple my commode" Subject(s): Innocence;love THE DAYS OF SUN, by ERNEST L. VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Childhood's days are days of sun Last Line: Wherethrough blithe footsteps skip and run! Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Innocence; Sun; Childhood THE DEAD CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little son was dead Last Line: The mother is in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Death; Innocence; Lambs; Mothers; Sons; Childhood; Dead, The THE DEER AND THE SNAKE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deer is humble, lovely as god made her Subject(s): Deer; Snakes; Innocence; Serpents; Vipers THE EROTIC PHILOSOPHERS, by KIZER. CAROLYN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It’s a spring morning; sun pours in the window Last Line: Let me enter my chamber and sing my songs of love Subject(s): Books & Reading; Women's Rights; Innocence; Love - Erotic; Feminism THE FAN DANCE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was seven and sally rand wasn't wearing Subject(s): Children; Burlesque; Dancing & Dancers; Innocence THE FLOWERING FAGGOTS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a field called floridus, east of small bethlehem town Last Line: Howbeit, the tale is handed down, and the field lies near bethlehem town. Subject(s): Flowers; Innocence; Legends; Roses THE GATE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat, two children, warm against the wall Subject(s): Children; Coming Of Age; Innocence; Childhood THE INSTRUCTION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spew out thy filth, thy flesh abjure Last Line: In which all men at once conspire. Subject(s): Innocence THE LANDLADY OF THE WHINTON INN TELLS A STORY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, indeed, sir Subject(s): Diamonds; Crime & Criminals; Guilt; Innocence; Misfortune THE LOST BOWER, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pleasant orchard closes Last Line: Lost ... And won!' Subject(s): Innocence; Loss; Children; Childhood THE NIGHT AT THE PALAIS, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just fifteen, we had to lie to get in there Last Line: Still and watched they fly like crazy angels Subject(s): Night Clubs; Manchester, England; Teenagers; Dancing & Dancers; Friendship; Innocence THE NURSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Such innocent companionship Last Line: Within is only innocence. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Innocence; Labor & Laborers; Nurses; Praise; Childhood; Work; Workers THE PILGRIM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, but a child, I wandered hence Last Line: Where we were wont to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Innocence; Self THE RETREAT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy those early days! When I / shined in my angel-infancy Last Line: In that state I came return. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Absence; Children; Christianity; Faith; Innocence; Nostalgia; Regret; Separation; Isolation; Childhood; Belief; Creed THE REVIEW, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did I grow, or did I stay Last Line: Shall still revive, and flourish in the dust. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Thought; Childhood; Thinking THE ROSE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, edith! Spare the rose; it lives, it lives Last Line: And fill with eden odours all the air. Subject(s): Fire; Flowers; God; Grace; Innocence; Prayer; Punishment; Roses; Salvation THE SCAPEGOAT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the only one she caught Last Line: It ain't only me that's caught. Subject(s): Boys; Innocence THE SHEPHERD, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot Last Line: For they know when their shepherd is nigh. Subject(s): Bible; Innocence; Mythology; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHREWMOUSE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The creatures with the shining eyes Last Line: God smiled when she was born. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Contentment; God; Happiness; Innocence; Mice; Joy; Delight THE SUBCULTURE OF THE WRONGLY ACCUSED, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ultimately improved by it: slant light Subject(s): Trials; Guilty; Innocence; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts THE VANISHERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest of all childlike dreams Last Line: Lost and found, in sunset land! Subject(s): Innocence THE VEIL OF ISIS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To lift her veil, whose broideries Last Line: To lift her veil? Subject(s): Chastity; Death; Flirtation; Innocence; Dead, The THE VESTAL'S DREAM, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, venus, white-limbed mother of delight Last Line: And lights with silver torch the fallen fire. Subject(s): Innocence; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) THERE CAME YOU WISHING ME, by JOSE GARCIA VILLA Poem Source Last Line: To hear that name, %and we caught him tremulously Subject(s): Innocence; Love THERE IS A GIRL INSIDE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the woods will be wild %with the damn wonder of it Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Girls; Innocence THINGS LOVELIER, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot dream Last Line: You cannot dream %things lovelier Subject(s): Innocence; Love THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: TO SIR THOMAS MOUNSON, KNIGHT AND BARONET, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since now these clouds, that lately over-cast Last Line: That innocence doth pity and defend. Subject(s): Innocence; Mounson, Sir Thomas (16th Century) THREE BABY VERSES: 3, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the summer roadside Last Line: As simply and sweetly as they? Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Childhood THRO' WHAT NEW WORLD, THIS HAPPY HOUR, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Walks in the eventide Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Innocence TITS & INNOCENCE, by SUZY FLORY Poem Source First Line: The first in our long line Last Line: Not understanding %jack shit %about men Subject(s): Innocence TO 'AN AMIABLE CHILD', by MABEL N. LAWSON Poem Text First Line: In the shadow of a tomb Last Line: By a smile upon his face. Subject(s): Innocence TO A CHILD OF FANCY (1), by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little dove, my little lamb Last Line: My little lamb, my little dove! Subject(s): Innocence TO A YOUNG AMERICAN THE DAY AFTER THE FALL OF BARCELONA, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boy with honor in your heart Last Line: And leave your world to be undone Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Innocence; Evil TO CELIA, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss me, sweet; the wary lover Last Line: What their number is, be pined. Subject(s): Innocence; Love TO MISS --, THEN TWO YEARS OLD, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet blossom, opening to the beams of day! Last Line: To endless peace, and purest bliss above. Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Gentility; Innocence; Youth; Infants TO MY ANTENOR, MARCH 16, 1661/2, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear antenor, now give o'er Last Line: Believe that providence will do so too. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Grief; Innocence; Love - Marital; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO THE BABE NIVA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Niva, child of innocence Last Line: Wentest snow to snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Innocence; Dead, The TRAMPLERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Why do they trample Last Line: Near the door of the irish %cancer society? Subject(s): Bicycles; Collective Behavior; Innocence TWO KISSES, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wear your kiss like a feather Last Line: The other kiss and my listening %life, waiting for all your life to speak Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Innocence; Love UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenas in silks my julia goes Last Line: O how that glittering taketh me! Variant Title(s): The Poetry Of Dress (2);whenas In Silks My Julia Goes Subject(s): Admiration; Clothing & Dress; Innocence; Love; Sex; Silk VIRGIN BOY AND A VIRGIN GIRL, by KIM NAMJU Poem Source First Line: A comely young girl Last Line: At a wedding ceremony. And so the story goes Subject(s): Innocence WHEN CHILDREN SLEEP, by LEON GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: When cradled by their mothers' side Last Line: Their angels visit them no more. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Sin; Sleep; Childhood WIDE, WIDE IN THE ROSE'S SIDE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Innocence WILDFLOWERS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There is a wildwood beauty spot Last Line: Where only god doth know. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Innocence; Leaves WITH THY STRONG TIDE OF BEAUTY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: With thy strong tide of beauty I must go Last Line: Surprise a bee before his blossom's found. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Innocence WOMEN AGE-MATES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The new pot asked the old Last Line: They are all age-mates, alas! Subject(s): Igede (african People); Innocence; Women WONDER, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How like an angel came I down Last Line: When I was born. Subject(s): Faith; Innocence; Belief; Creed WORDS WITH WALLACE STEVENS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were so rash. I'd play saying Last Line: Dress, lolling in the garden, longing.... Subject(s): Collaboration; Courage; Faith; God; Innocence; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed YOUNG LOVE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, little infant, love me now Last Line: And we both shall monarchs prove. Subject(s): Innocence; Love YOUTH, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the spacious east of life Last Line: And showering storms of glory o'er the beaten way. Subject(s): Innocence; Memory; Youth |
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