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Subject: INSOMNIA
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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