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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INSOMNIA Matches Found: 125 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 4 A.M., by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What blandishments the world offers Last Line: The breathing out, the breathing in Subject(s): Dawn; Insomnia; Sleep; Waking A SLEEPLESS NIGHT, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the hollow silence of the night Last Line: The awful wail of lone eternity. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness A WHITE NIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow moon across the clouds Last Line: A phantom day. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness ACCOUCHMENT, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Trailing a wall of mottled gray Last Line: Drips ... Ruddy wine. Subject(s): Insomnia; Memory; Sleeplessness AMORIS EXSUL: 10. SLEEPLESS NIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot sleep, the slow hours steal Last Line: The radiant malice of her eyes. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness AND SOMETIMES I APPROACH THE BORDERS OF INSOMNIA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Like a talisman of my sorrows Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Grief; Human Rights - Argentina; Insomnia; Photography And Photographers; Pictures ANOTHER NIGHT / SLEEPLESS, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The bright dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Insomnia; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism AS I TOSSED, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: As I tossed deeply into night, turned Last Line: The night-worn lines across my face Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain AT YONG, UNABLE TO SLEEP, I WAS SURPRISED BY RAIN, by WU XIAO Poem Source First Line: Black clouds blow up on all sides in the strong wind Last Line: Exhausting my brain with thoughts of poetry, I sit and wait for night to end Subject(s): Insomnia AWAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Limp with night fears: hellebore, wolfsbane Last Line: Sections for burning. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Fear; Insomnia; Sleeplessness BEING AWAKE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Night goes away, a black bull Last Line: With that bull who is running away Subject(s): Insomnia BESIDE A CHRYSANTHEMUM, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: To bring one chrysanthemum Last Line: And I could not sleep Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Insomnia CALIGULA'S DREAM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of gold the bread on which he banqueted Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); Insomnia; Sleeplessness CALIGULA'S DREAM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of gold the bread on which he banqueted Last Line: Caligula, his mouth a mass of fur, %awoke, and toppled toward assassination Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); Insomnia COMPANION PIECE TO XIE JING-CHU'S 'SPENDING THE NIGHT...', by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Blue burned the lamp flame, the man was asleep Last Line: That was really a childish idea Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insomnia DARK RAIN, by RANE ARROYO Poem Source First Line: One more sleepless night. The newest translation Last Line: Dark rain seeking refuge in eyes after eyes Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Rain DAWN, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: I have spent a restless and sleepless night Last Line: That I too have just come from the bath Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia DAYTIME NAPS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother thinks that little chaps Last Line: But thanks me just for tryin' to.) Subject(s): Children; Insomnia; Sleep; Childhood; Sleeplessness DISTRACTION, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that you ever wakened me from sleep! Last Line: Makes me pursue you in my discontent. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Insomnia; Love; Thought; Sleeplessness; Thinking FULL MOON, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The door is open Last Line: In the house Subject(s): Insomnia; Moon; Night GOD OF INATTENTION, by AVERILL CURDY Poem Source First Line: After the trumpets, after the incense Last Line: All the little foxes from the vineyard Subject(s): Faith; God; Insomnia GREAT DARKNESS, by JAN CONN Poem Source First Line: Two more nights of insomnia, two nights Last Line: It will cover me completely. It will start with my hands Subject(s): Insomnia; Night GROOM FALCONER; CIRCA 1903, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out walking along the river Last Line: One reserves for a ghost. Subject(s): Children; Insomnia; Self-mutilation; Childhood; Sleeplessness HAIKU, by KAWABATA BOSHA Poem Source First Line: Pillow hard as stone Last Line: That I scream so loud? Subject(s): Insomnia IN MY SON'S ROOM, NOT SLEEPING, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punishment? Banishment? The empty room Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Separation; Insomnia; Anxiety; Sleeplessness IN THE RAIN, SPENDING THE NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY ..., by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: The hard rain rang as it dashed on the window Last Line: My eye was irritated by a dust speck Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insomnia; Rain INNER LIFE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm jittery, sleepless, I hover over a chair Last Line: Silk crinolines, just when our eyes adjust to the darkness Subject(s): Insomnia; Life INSOMNIA, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: How I envy the sleepers Last Line: They swerve towards me Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep INSOMNIA, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The wide awake words are milling about Last Line: Spiraling toward the ecstasy %of night Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep INSOMNIA, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Insomnia, impalpable creature / is all your love in your head Last Line: We will sleep together a while. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wakened quivering on a golden rack Last Line: Implacably intent upon their task. Subject(s): Insomnia; Wealth; Sleeplessness; Riches; Fortunes INSOMNIA, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I turned off the lamp once again, I tried to grasp the threads Last Line: Asleep. With the sun in my mouth Subject(s): Insomnia INSOMNIA, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot sleep; the whole night through Last Line: And now at dawn I cannot weep. Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Sleeplessness; Bedtime INSOMNIA, by ABU AMIR IBN AL-HAMMARAH Poem Source First Line: When the bird of sleep Last Line: It saw the eyelashes %and flew away %for fear of nets Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Al-hammara; Abu 'amir Ibn Al-hammarah Subject(s): Insomnia; Night INSOMNIA, by ABU AMIR IBN AL-HAMMARAH Poem Source First Line: When the bird of sleep Last Line: For fear of nets Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Al-hammara; Abu 'amir Ibn Al-hammarah Subject(s): Insomnia; Night INSOMNIA, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: No more %than an arm's length Last Line: On the shores %of morning Subject(s): Insomnia INSOMNIA, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Gluttonous, solitry larva Last Line: Marks your growing place Subject(s): Insomnia INSOMNIA, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If one can go to bed and sleep, he has no cause Last Line: Money at the bank, because at night he seldom knows a solid hour of real repose. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But it's really fear you want to talk about Subject(s): Insomnia; Conduct Of Life; Fear; Failure; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thin are the night-skirts left behind Last Line: For ever nearer yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-ho! To sleep I vainly try Last Line: Surveying realms of lily light. Subject(s): Flowers; Insomnia; Lilies; Paris, France; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A house of sleepers - I, alone unblest Last Line: Oh, let me hot be last to fall asleep! Subject(s): Insomnia; Life; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is shipwrecked in the night Last Line: And watched the dawning of the day. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA (2), by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even though the house is deeply silent Last Line: The tiny hands that keep pointing this way and that Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA (2), by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even though the house is deeply silent Last Line: The tiny hands that keep pointing this way and that Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep INSOMNIAC, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some nights when Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIAC, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is only a sort of carbon paper Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIACS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mystic finishes in time Last Line: Yet find a ritual to embrace %raw towns of man, the pockmark ed sun Subject(s): Insomnia INVISIBLE DREAMS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness JOURNEY TOWARD EVENING, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty, not having expected to arrive here Last Line: But not to sleep. He finds it hard to sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Aging; Insomnia; Sleeplessness JOURNEY TOWARD EVENING, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty, not having expected to arrive here Last Line: Fifty writes letters, dines, yawns, goes up early %but not to sleep. He finds it hard to sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Aging; Insomnia LIE-AWAKE SONGS: 1, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Often when awake I lie Last Line: My brother sleeps so sound. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness LONG NIGHT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lies alone in his bed Last Line: Not understand the meaning %of the sound being made Subject(s): Insomnia; Maintenon, Madame De (1635-1719) LOVE'S SLEEPLESSNESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I can no more mine eyes to sleep compose Last Line: Would stop for aye if sever'd from its shrine! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Sleeplessness LULLABY FOR INSOMNIACS, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: The moon is a saucer of milk Last Line: And dreams about breakfast Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Insomnia MAGRITTE DANCING, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every night I have to go to bed twice Subject(s): Insomnia; Neighbors; Dancing & Dancers; Sleeplessness MAKE BARE THE LEG, UNCOVER THE THIGH' IS. 47:2, by ZOE REED Poem Source First Line: I am faded Last Line: 11 o'clock. %time runs out Subject(s): Animals; Insomnia; Rabbits MAN SLEEPING, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He lay awake. He tossed and turned. He could Last Line: And he, at last, was left with dark enough Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Insomnia; Mankind MARKET, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I have come to the south of france to return Last Line: Demented mists %that I am painting Subject(s): Forests; France; Insomnia; Markets MEMORY IS FILLED WITH FALLING, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The heart's bird in the window of us Subject(s): Insomnia; Memory MEMORY OF ANOTHER RIVER, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Sleepless nights are vast and almost always crossed by a river Last Line: That bodies can also be the flowing together of happy waters? Subject(s): Insomnia; Memory; Relationships MEN OF DAWN, by EFRAIN HUERTA Poem Source First Line: And then, here, in the dark breast of the darkest river Last Line: And armored hearts Subject(s): Insomnia; Men MY FOOLISH DEEDS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I, before the altars of repose Last Line: Denied me slumber all the livelong night. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness NATIVE STONE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light is laying waste the heavens Subject(s): Insomnia; Light; Sleeplessness NATIVE STONE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light is laying waste the heavens Last Line: Whatever is not stone is light Subject(s): Insomnia; Light NEVER TALK BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never talk back! Sich things is Last Line: With one good jolt of silence than a half a dozen kicks! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Insomnia; Quarrels; Sleeplessness; Arguments; Disagreements NEW YORK IN SUMMER: INSOMNIA, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath trees whose leaves Last Line: I must try to sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Insomnia; Nicaragua; Travel; Urban Life; Sleeplessness; Journeys; Trips NIGHT AT ST. MARY'S, by MAX GARLAND Poem Source First Line: Codeine shears the fat black sheep Last Line: And blow the needles out? Subject(s): Insomnia NIGHT THOUGHTS, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot sleep. The long, long Last Line: And I have never gone back Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Insomnia NIGHTS WITHOUT SLEEP, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights without sleep and days Last Line: In an hour of ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness NOCTAMBULE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zut! It's two o'clock Last Line: Mad old world, good morning. Subject(s): Insomnia; Paris, France; Sleepwalking; Sleeplessness NOCTURNE, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Silence of the night, a sad, nocturnal Last Line: The clock has rung three-if only it were she! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Sleep OLD FAIRINGDOWN, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft as a treader on mosses Last Line: There is that in the village that never will sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Boys; Dwarfs; Farewell; Insomnia; Knowledge; Pain; Sleep; Villages; Parting; Sleeplessness; Suffering; Misery SAVANNAH, SLEEPLESS, by RICHARD TILLINGHAST Poem Source First Line: A bell has rung twelve times Last Line: And the blue atlantic draws a breath Subject(s): Hotels; Insomnia SECOND SONG OF INSOMNIA, by MARY A. KONCEL Poem Source First Line: A stranger is humming outside my window. He looks like my dead Last Line: Something that brings night closer to day Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleepwalking; Waking SESTINA AT 3 A.M., by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the imperfect dark Subject(s): Night; Insomnia; Longing; Bedtime; Sleeplessness SLEEP, by CHARLES HUBERT SISSON Poem Source First Line: The nights are horrible: I lie awake Last Line: It is not night but this exultation %awaits me at the last but, oh, how long? Subject(s): Insomnia SLEEPLESS, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No use pushing against the dark Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness SLEEPLESS GRAFFITI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Insomnia; Sleeplessness SLEEPLESS IN SCARSDALE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prosperity has stolen stupor from me Last Line: I await the hours guiltily, %hoping for one with whom I can make a deal Subject(s): Insomnia SLEEPLESS NIGHT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One thing I know all men would buy Last Line: The harvest that you sowed unbidden. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness SLEEPLESSNESS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot rest when the cool is gone from june Last Line: The sleep that night denies. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness SLEEPLESSNESS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep quiets all but me Last Line: The draught wherewith all thirst is satisfied. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All are sleeping, my sad heart Last Line: All are sleeping, thou art not Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Passion SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green parrot, %royal lorikeet Last Line: I don't sleep so I won't dream Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Insomnia; Memory SONNET: TO SLEEP, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flock of sheep that leisurely pass on Last Line: Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health! Variant Title(s): Sleeplessness Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 140, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The stars run and run Last Line: There I will see the dawn Subject(s): Insomnia; Waking SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 157, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The water of rivers flows Last Line: Let the water of the river flow Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love STAFFORD'S WAY, by ROBERT FUNGE Poem Source First Line: Clean your glasses the night before. Blow off the lint Last Line: Let the cat in. %let the words out Subject(s): Insomnia; Night STARS THEIR PERFECTION, by DONALD REVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stars their perfection Last Line: I think it moves around %and no mistake Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep; Stars STAYING TOO LONG IN ONE PLACE, by JANE BAILEY Poem Source First Line: Take the stars, repeatedly returning to check out Last Line: Out of the house, drop and roll Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Sleep STILLY NIGHT: A SOPORIFIC REFLECTION, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one source of marital discord so delicate that I approach it on tiptoe Last Line: You would have to kiss me just when I had dropped off after tossing and turning for a hundred years Subject(s): Insomnia STRAIN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late Subject(s): Insomnia; Absence; Sleeplessness; Separation; Isolation STRANGE WORLD INDEED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To write about insomnia Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insomnia; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers SUNDAY NIGHT, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tossing throughout this tense and / nervous night Last Line: Groping, with restless anger, for a prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Sleeplessness; Bedtime TEDIUM, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: Even tonight will pass Last Line: In half-sleep %wavering Subject(s): Insomnia; Solitude THE DEATH OF THE RACE CAR DRIVER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have not slept for a week. / it is matchless-this feeling Last Line: Sack for eternity. Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Dreams; Insomnia; Memory; Sports; War; Race Car Driving; Nightmares; Sleeplessness THE ELDER WOMAN'S SONG: 3, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen has gone to bed Last Line: And nobody knows why. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness THE FIREFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: While on my bed I lay, watching the night Last Line: Compelling, and his radiant name is love. Subject(s): Fireflies; Insomnia; Love; Memory; Glowworms; Sleeplessness THE INGRATE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Night upon her darkling ways Last Line: Westward fled away to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Insomnia; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Sleeplessness; Bedtime THE INNER LIFE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm jittery, sleepless, I hover over a chair Subject(s): Insomnia; Life; Sleeplessness THE LAST DESIRE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: From dreamless nights to wake to mocking morrows Last Line: How blest a thing to die, if this be dying! Subject(s): Comfort; Insomnia; Sleep; Sleeplessness THE LOON, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not quite four a.M., when the rapture of being alive Subject(s): Insomnia; Books; Loons; Sleeplessness; Reading THE MYSTERY, by ELIZABETH S. SMITH Poem Text First Line: What go wid all de flies I kill? Last Line: Wid out a wink of sleep. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness THE NEW RIVER HEAD; A FRAGMENT, by E. DOWER Poem Text First Line: Tired with books and rolling on the bed Last Line: I leaned upon my staff and fell asleep. Subject(s): Books; Insomnia; Reading; Sleeplessness THE PLAINT OF THE WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "fain would I be sleeping, dreaming" Last Line: "driven out, thrown away, married too soon!" Subject(s): Insomnia;marriage; Sleeplessness;weddings;husbands;wives THE REMEDY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks can't sleep. 'insomnia' Last Line: "I do believe I've been asleep!" Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 37, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So toss'd upon her pillow fev'rously Last Line: Love's sleepless vigil her flush'd cheeks bespoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love; Sleeplessness THE STARS THEIR PERFECTION, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars their perfection Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep; Stars; Sleeplessness THE UNSLEEPNG GENIUS OF MISFORTUNE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever there was a story Subject(s): Insomnia; Man-woman Relationships; Sleeplessness; Male-female Relations THE WOOD THRUSH SINGS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of day, at the beginning of night Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness THEY AROSE ON TIPTOE, INTOXICATED IN THEIR DOOM, AND EACH FOOTSTEP, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: A feast of lights Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Insomnia; Solitude THREE AM, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wake in the night. I know you do Last Line: The drawn blinds; the surface of indifference. Subject(s): Eyes; Insomnia; Light; Sleeplessness TO HIS WATCH, WHEN HE COULD NOT SLEEP, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Uncessant minutes, whilst you move you tell Last Line: You die in time, time in eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Insomnia; Watches; Sleeplessness TO MISS --, ON HER ASKING THE AUTHOR WHY SHE HAD SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll ask the sylph who round thee flies Last Line: Perhaps, o sylph! Perhaps 'tis love! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Insomnia; Love; Sleeplessness TO THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO TORE 'INSOMNIA' FROM ELIZABETH BISHOP'S ..., by AMY S. WITHROW Poem Source First Line: Last night, I dreamed you couldn't sleep Last Line: Must still shudder at their unrestrained touch Subject(s): Dreams; Insomnia TOO EARLY, by ALFRED DORN Poem Source First Line: Still fragile from a recent heart attack Last Line: Careen from the axe's heartbeat, heard it drop Subject(s): Death; Insomnia TOSSING AND TURNING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit has infinite facets, but the body Last Line: We are turning Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness TOSSING AND TURNING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit has infinite facets, but the body Last Line: We are turning Subject(s): Insomnia TWO A.M., by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: What evil in the yeast of night Last Line: Or doctor magnus justifies his tonic. Subject(s): Evil; Insomnia; Malice; Sleeplessness TZU-TEG SONG: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All night I could not sleep Last Line: "I kept on hearing a voice calling: / out of nowhere, nothing answered 'yes'" Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.);insomnia;night; Sleeplessness;bedtime WHAT WE DON'T KNOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is wednesday. My day off Last Line: Of two soundless fighter jets. Subject(s): Books; Insomnia; Silence; Reading; Sleeplessness WHEN THE YEAR PASSES, IT'S EXCHANGED FOR A YEAR OF WORRIES, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I struggled all night but could not sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Insomnia; Zen Buddhism WHITE CEILING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Until that child, one flight below, stops crying Last Line: Since those below are helpless, I lie here %and look up at the white ceiling Subject(s): Insomnia; Neighbors WITHIN THIS FRAME, by MATTHEW KAMM Poem Text First Line: A shadow rages in the walls of you, building fires and Last Line: Wandering, seeking, lonely, in a bleak, enormous room. Subject(s): Insomnia; Solitude; Sleeplessness; Loneliness |
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