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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INSPIRATION Matches Found: 77 A DREAM OF INSPIRATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To loll back, in a misty hammock, swung Last Line: Save fancy's hinted chime of unknown seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Hammocks; Wind; Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares A DREAM OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dead, but how sleek and darkly calm you were! Last Line: Lying, saying I cared nothing about form.... Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Irony; Play; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares A MUSE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was wakened from her afternoon nap today by a fierce Last Line: I wrote the poems for her. I still do. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Discontent; Mothers & Daughters; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Dissatisfaction; Feminism A NIGHT ON THE SAINT LAWRENCE (RIMOUSKI), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: If the world were itself alone, - mere mountains and seas and cities Last Line: Thou brooding, loving artist, whose holiest name is beauty. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Creative Ability; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Rivers; Inspiration; Creativity; Bedtime A PARIS BLACKBIRD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the seine's left bank, near the pont-neuf, on the mansard roof Last Line: The scruffy blackbird -- and listen for the cry caught in her bronze throat. Subject(s): Bird-watching; Blackbirds; Creative Ability; Knowledge; Louvre, Paris; Museums; Paris, France; Seine (river), France; Inspiration; Creativity; Art Gallerys A PENNY'S WORTH OF POESY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, when you noted a deflection Last Line: What to write. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Thinking A ROSE, by HELEN RAMSEY Poem Text First Line: A flake of dawn's new splendor Last Line: You voiceless living melody! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Gifts & Giving; Love; Roses; Inspiration; Creativity A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near no name, colorado Last Line: I knew I'd lost it. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes ACROSS THE INTERVALE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along life's lowlands, petty men Last Line: Like peaks across an intervale. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Life; Sky; Soul; Inspiration; Creativity AMORETTI: 8, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than most fair, full of the living fire Last Line: Well is he borne that may behold you ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "love In Absence;""more Then Most Faire, Full Of The Living Fire,""; Subject(s): Beauty; Inspiration AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT, by MARIA ABDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does the press wait for copy? I shrink from the task Last Line: With that capital prizean original thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Thought; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Thinking ANXIETY'S PROSODY, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anxiety clears meat chunks out of the stew Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Anxiety; Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wast a maiden fair, so good and kindly Last Line: A little glacier seem'd to be thy heart. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Hearts; Life; Inspiration; Creativity ART, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In placid hours well-pleased we dream Last Line: To wrestle with the angel -- art. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity AT A WINDOW SILL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To write a sonnet needs a quiet mind Last Line: From high apartment windows, in the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity BEL CANTO, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp, Subject(s): Inspiration; Books; Wisdom; Reading DEUS INENARRABILIS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Did ever author pen a book Last Line: That men might make a book of it. Subject(s): Books; Creative Ability; God; Writing & Writers; Reading; Inspiration; Creativity DO IT NOW, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing Last Line: For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead. Subject(s): Inspiration ENTHUSIASM, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly from enthusiasm - it is the pest Last Line: Tis a true christian wish, to live and die. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Desire; Wishes; Inspiration; Creativity FACES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: There are two pictures hanging on my wall Last Line: And mary maiden gray the mother of me! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women; Women In The Bible; Inspiration; Creativity; Virgin Mary; Theology FALLEN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A friend had a minnesota catalogue company Last Line: In a glass jar, and place it under the word fallen. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dahlias; Poetry & Poets; Privacy; Redemption; Inspiration; Creativity FOR RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the dead are eating little yellow peas Last Line: Into this world or some other. And between. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Death; Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965); Wisdom; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The GENTLY BENT TO EASE US'; FOR BILL KNOTT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rainmakers are these second growths Last Line: Like the emerald gear of a long-dead martyred king. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Creative Ability; Mexico; Heritage; Heredity; Inspiration; Creativity HERE'S TO HER WHO WORE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The twine of bay that crowned me Subject(s): Inspiration HOW IT PASSES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tomorrow I'll begin to cook like mother Last Line: It won't go away. Subject(s): Aging; Creative Ability; Parents; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Parenthood; Feminism HYMN TO THE PENATES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet one song more! One high and solemn strain Last Line: Lives the pure song of liberty and truth. Subject(s): Comfort; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Teaching & Teachers; Inspiration; Creativity INSPIRATION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lightest of dancers, with no thought Last Line: High upon heaven-uplifted wings. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Happiness; Inspiration; Creativity; Joy; Delight INSPIRATION, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you, jon! Your card Last Line: We can get on with art. It's long Subject(s): Inspiration; Poetry & Poets INSPIRATION, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The common paths by which we walk and wind Last Line: Of a star-filled winter's night. Subject(s): Inspiration; Seasons; Walking INSPIRATION (4), by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wilt but stand by my ear Last Line: But the same power will abet my tongue. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus to the martyrs in their country's cause Last Line: Give to the arms of freedom such success. Variant Title(s): The Crowning Of The King Subject(s): Coronations; Creative Ability; England; Faith; France; Freedom; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Inspiration; Creativity; English; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines KANSAS (2), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the land where miles of wheat Last Line: Let me live and let me die. Variant Title(s): Kansas Subject(s): Creative Ability; Kansas; Nature; Wheat; Inspiration; Creativity LIMERICK, by JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER Poem Text First Line: There is a creator named god Last Line: That he does no great credit to god. Subject(s): Creative Ability; God; Paintings And Painters; Inspiration; Creativity LINES TO A BEAUTIFUL AND BUS-RIDING LADY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who wert seated ahead of Last Line: Thy veil as it blew. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Inspiration; Creativity LOVE'S INSPIRATION, by TRISTAN LECLERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit at the rosewood table Last Line: And swiftly from my pen the pages darken. Alternate Author Name(s): Klingsor, Tristan Subject(s): Creative Ability; Paper; Pens & Pencils; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Songs LOVE'S SIMILITUDES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In vernal grove a poplar slim Last Line: Perfection's perfected in thee! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Love; Metaphor; Nature; Trees; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes MAKING BEASTS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was about ten Last Line: On the feet I never gave it. Subject(s): Children; Creative Ability; Thought; Childhood; Inspiration; Creativity; Thinking MUSE, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was young when you came to me. Last Line: This is pure transport Subject(s): Language; Inspiration MY INSPIRATION?, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely woman, like the eglantine Last Line: To form a perfect whole of spotless white. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity NOT EVERY DAY FIT FOR VERSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not ev'ry day, that I Last Line: That brave spirit comes agen. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity O PRECIOUS MUSE, by DELLA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: Had I, when I was younger Last Line: A modest hour with you. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Life; Love; Muses; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity POEM FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I read your lines Last Line: Is still beautiful. Subject(s): Beauty; Creative Ability; Loss; Salvation; War; Wright, James (1927-1980); Inspiration; Creativity PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO A BIRD MASQUE: PROLOGUE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentles, just now I met an elf Last Line: Be showered by my players' glad applause. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Robins; Inspiration; Creativity QUICKENING, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such little, puny things are words in rhyme Last Line: The stirring of a sonnet still unborn. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity RECIPE FOR A POEM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Take for your hero some thoroughbred scamp Last Line: "ere I swallow the brood of that ""heathen chinee." Subject(s): Creative Ability;poetry & Poets; Inspiration;creativity ROMANCE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wildly-beauteous form Last Line: Although by all unheard the melodies expire. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Knowledge; Love; Pain; Travel; War; Inspiration; Creativity; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips SAME OLD SONNET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I would a moment of my time engage Last Line: That one can't fathom it with fourteen lines. Subject(s): Beauty; Creative Ability; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations SONNET TO ARISTE: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let ancient stories sound the painter's art Last Line: The charms that blossom on ariste's cheek! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Inspiration; Creativity SONNET TO ARISTE: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I praise thee not, ariste, that thine eye Last Line: The fading orbit smiles serenely bright. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Praise; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Inspiration; Creativity SONNET TO THE FIRE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friendly fire, thou blazest clear and bright Last Line: And o'er my ashes muse, as I will muse o'er thine. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Fire; Legacies; Muses; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity SONNET: 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is the rising morn when o'er the sky Last Line: Pour out the feelings of my burthened heart. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dawn; Happiness; Morning; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Sunrise; Joy; Delight SONNET: FOR INSPIRATION, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed Last Line: And sound thy praises everlastingly. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Variant Title(s): Psalm 51;to The Supreme Being;a Supplication Subject(s): Creative Ability; Prayer; Inspiration; Creativity STANZAS: IN THE MANNER OF SPENSER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So long estranged from every muse's lyre Last Line: Or where midst rustling corn the nodding poppies bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Muses; Inspiration THE CHINESE PEAKS; FOR DONALD HALL, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the mountain peak Last Line: Buried in mist. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Soul; Inspiration; Creativity THE CHOIR INVISIBLE, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, may I join the choir invisible Last Line: Whose music is the gladness of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Ambition; Creative Ability; Life Change Events; Music & Musicians; Religion; Worship; Inspiration; Creativity; Theology THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN), by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I once dreamt that cezanne lectured on the circumnavigation of a pear Last Line: And peace. Subject(s): Creative Ability; God; Knowledge; Metaphor; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Truth; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes THE GAIETY OF FORM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet to weight the line with all these vowels Subject(s): Comfort; Creative Ability; Play; Pleasure; Vowels; Inspiration; Creativity THE GIFT, by CORA MCWHINNEY HAND Poem Text First Line: O come! - you of the winged feet, silver - shod Last Line: And bloom in pure perfection at the dawn of morn! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 61. THE SONG-THROE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By thine own tears thy song must tears beget Last Line: The inspir'd recoil shall pierce thy brother's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity THE LOVE POEM, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cranky child curled in my lap Last Line: Who says he'll stay. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Inspiration; Creativity THE POET'S INSPIRATION, by CRATINUS Poem Text First Line: If with water you fill up your glasses Last Line: Which hurries a bard to the skies. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Drinks & Drinking; Inspiration; Creativity; Wine THE SOURCE OF SONG, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nymph syrinx sped across the meads Subject(s): Inspiration THE TRUIMPH OF ART, by JOSEPHINE TURCK BAKER Poem Text First Line: Create! Create! Last Line: Create! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity THE WORLD ISN'T A WEDDING OF THE ARTISTS OF YESTERDAY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stub of red pencil in your hand Last Line: Is a mystery rising behind you on the wind. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Legacies; Inspiration; Creativity THOUGH VALENTINE BRINGS LOVE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And very much more gaily Subject(s): Valentine's Day; Spring; Inspiration TO HER MAJESTY CAROLINE ON HER ACCESSION TO THE THRONE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An english muse shall close the solemn scene Last Line: And rocks, and clouds, and trees, in little landskips rise. Subject(s): Colonialism; Courts & Courtiers; Creative Ability; Great Britain; Love; Praise; Inspiration; Creativity TO HYMEN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God of the torch, whose soul-illuming flame Last Line: Nor knows the dread of death. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Faith; Friendship; God; Humanity; Life; Love; Maturity; Inspiration; Creativity; Belief; Creed TO JOHN HODDESDON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast inspired me with thy soul, and I Last Line: Will onely serve to be a foil to his. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Inspiration; Creativity TO MASTER HENRY FIELDING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I' faith, good hal, you have a saucy wit Last Line: From storks to weeds and willows! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Fielding, Henry (1707-1754); Honor; Passion; Inspiration; Creativity TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 15. THE MISSION OF ART, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: O, ugliness is but skin deep, young man Last Line: So art should paint the inner beauty's ways. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity TO SHAKESPEARE'S MOTHER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Did he, madonna, on thy bosom turning Last Line: Girlish ophelia's love, and juliet's grave. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dramatists; Legacies; Mothers & Sons; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Inspiration; Creativity; Dramatists TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE DODINGTON, ESQ., by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As late I rov'd by lodon's whispering stream Last Line: "when on that theme my young and thomson fail?'" Subject(s): Apollo; Bubb Dodington, George. Baron Melcombe; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Praise; Inspiration; Creativity TO VIOLET (WITH A BUNCH OF NAMESAKES), by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a maid - I am afraid Last Line: My rhymes are filled with u. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Violets; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations TRIALS OF A SPRING POET, by JULIAN FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text First Line: I sat me down beneath a tree Last Line: In safety in the city. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Creative Ability; Urban Life; Inspiration; Creativity WAITING FOR THE STARS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much I long for the night to come Last Line: The thirst for the dark heavens. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Desire; Legacies; Night; Inspiration; Creativity; Bedtime WILD HEART; FOR TRISHA, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where would I be if not for your wild heart? Last Line: How could I live? How could I make my art? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations YES, THOU ART FAIR, YET BE NOT MOVED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In sky, air, earth, and ocean. Subject(s): Beauty; Inspiration |
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