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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LAUGHTER Matches Found: 159 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILD'S LAUGHTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the bells of heaven may ring Last Line: Laughs a child of seven. Subject(s): Children; Laughter; Childhood A FORETASTE OF SPRING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sweet and golden afternoon Last Line: Night is nigh! Subject(s): Afternoon; Birds; Flowers; Laughter; Spring A MEMORY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came into my life for one brief day Last Line: And dropped a flower there. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; Laughter; Memory; Supernatural A RECIPE FOR SANITY, by HENRY RUTHERFORD ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: Are you worsted in a fight? Last Line: Laugh it off. Subject(s): Advice; Laughter A SEA SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old albion sat on a crag of late Last Line: "that's as hereafter may be." Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs A TEST OF LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wooed her first in an atmosphere Last Line: And kissed him a hundred times. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hate; Kisses; Laughter; Love A WOMAN, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They loved each other, in joy or grief Last Line: A bumper of wine and still gaily laughed. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Laughter; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Male-female Relations ANIMAL MAGNETISM; THE PSEUDO-PHILOSOPHER BAFFLED, by LAURENCE HYNES HALLORAN Poem Text First Line: The invited guests in silent order sat Last Line: He from her presence sneaked, completely humbled! Subject(s): Comic Strips; Laughter; Philosophy & Philosophers ANN'S WAY, by ESTELLE E. WILSON Poem Text First Line: Ann has a way that's different, some way Last Line: And moves her lips like one in silent prayer. Subject(s): Laughter APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw them laughing, smiling gladly Last Line: The bitterness of this last hour. Subject(s): Corpses; Laughter; Tears; Cadavers ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 19, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, resembling beauty's trefoil Last Line: With such tenderness, herodias? Subject(s): Laughter; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BROOM, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tommorrow waits with a big broom Subject(s): Silence; Sleep; Laughter BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE FOX; FOR ANN PEARN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said old sir jason, the red-gold fox Last Line: Neath the wall of the tall nodding town of the shade. Subject(s): Clowns; Comedy; Laughter CARNIVAL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earthis the merry-go-round of the devil Last Line: And ride, friend, for none rides twice. Subject(s): Carnivals; Devil; Laughter; Love; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub CECILY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She had a laugh Last Line: Vile -- they're vile!' Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Laughter; Women; Sorrow; Sadness CHOPIN LAUGHING AT ME FROM DEEP INSIDE MAZURKA NO. 13, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: At first it's difficult to believe Last Line: Because I did not give up Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Laughter; Love CLARISSA LAUGHS, by RUTH PARSONS MILNE Poem Text First Line: Clarissa laughs. I plead in vain, Last Line: Clarissa laughs. Subject(s): Laughter; Love CLOAK OF LAUGHTER, by ABIGAIL CRESSON Poem Text First Line: I wear a cloak of laughter Last Line: And sees the grief within. Subject(s): Laughter CLOE HUNTING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind her neck her comely tresses tied Last Line: At human hearts we fling, nor ever miss the game. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Hunting; Laughter; Eros; Hunters CONSTANTINT THE GREAT: DEDICATION: TO VERNON RENDALL, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lover of greece, her laughter and her tears Last Line: The firm, the brave, the fair fidelities Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Greece; Laughter; Love; Tears CORNER-MAN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a dream at the midnight deep Last Line: When its corner-men are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Dreams; Laughter DECOMPOSITION WITH LAUGHTER, by HOMERO ARIDJIS Poem Source First Line: They pull off his ears Last Line: Laughs far away Subject(s): Laughter DIMENSIONS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad smiles that flash at sight of cash Last Line: Broad comedy—broadway! Subject(s): Comedy; Laughter; Smiles DORKIN'S NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "twas dorkin's night, and the house was a sight" Last Line: For an actor can be but a man Subject(s): Laughter;night;silence;tears; Bedtime EARLY ONE SUMMER NIGHT, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Creation winks %the nightjar minds his business Last Line: It lays an egg and laughs Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Summer EARLY SUPPER, by BARBARA HOWES Poem Source First Line: Laughter of children brings Last Line: They trail upstairs to bed %and night is a dark tower Subject(s): Laughter EDGAR WILSON NYE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saddest silence falls when Last Line: Calling your love back to us laughingly. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Silence; Winter; Dead, The FAMILY LAUGH, by MICHAEL ALAN MCFEE Poem Source First Line: On my way from the kitchen to the living room Last Line: It baffled the animals, but god saw that it was good Subject(s): Family Life; Laughter FINESSE, by RUBY E. BOLTON Poem Text First Line: He came in just at 5:15 Last Line: I've practiced at it twenty years!) Subject(s): Laughter FINIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the torch-lit city of finias that flames on Last Line: Here! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; Fire; Immortality; Laughter; Secrets; Urban Life FOOL-YOUNGENS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me an' bert' an' minnie-belle Last Line: An' ist choke a-laughin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Laughter; Trees; Wind FOOLS OF DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You will find them in lone hidings Last Line: To the deathless fools of dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Fools; Laughter; Time; Wind; Nightmares; Idiots FORTUNATE BEING, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Singing you go, and laughing through the water Last Line: Through the water singing and laughing Subject(s): Contentment; Happiness; Laughter FRESCO-SONNETS TO CHRISTIAN S.: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I laugh at all the fools who at me gape Last Line: A fine shrill laugh we still have power to save. Subject(s): Laughter GIRL FRIEND POEM: 3, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was white and flown Last Line: The light. And the peaches fell down around us Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): Girl Friend Poem # Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Laughter; Play GNOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Comic, odd, unlikely, slow Last Line: Two, into a handsome man opening a chest, %pulling out heart, soul, every wish Subject(s): Ghosts; Laughter; Nome, Alaska; Supernatural HER MERRIMENT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had met my love the twentieth time Last Line: Sent ripples down her body to her knees. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Laughter; Love I JOKES, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: In nome we say I jokes Last Line: In nome we say I jokes %at the end of a joke. I jokes Subject(s): Comedy; Eskimos; Jokes; Laughter; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska I'M TERRIBLY SORRY FOR YOU, BUT I CAN'T HELP LAUGHING, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everbody has a perfect right to do what they please Last Line: Than to have the other kind and be laughed to death Subject(s): Laughter IN CHARGE OF LAUGHTER, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: In the old television situation comedies Last Line: Agreed upon as having been devastating Subject(s): Comedy; Jokes; Laughter IN CONNEMARA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eyes all untroubled she laughs as she Last Line: As high as theirs her spirit, as high will be her doom. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Laughter; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery IN THE PARK, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the magnolia's ever Last Line: Your face with bits of straw Subject(s): Laughter; Love; Parks INSIDE OUTSIDE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late afternoon, who can tell? Last Line: By midnight, laughter like screams Subject(s): Laughter IRONY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You gave me my work to do, you brought and set it before me Last Line: Why did you seal my lips and crush the song in my throat? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Irony; Laughter; Paradise JOKER FAMILY, by GREG DELANTY Poem Source First Line: You took such care of your hair Last Line: How the winds blow Subject(s): Grandparents; Jokes; Laughter JULIET PROTESTS, by MOLLIE MARSH COSSAART Poem Text First Line: Because the thing was finished in a tomb Last Line: Yet it was filled with laughter. We were gay! Alternate Author Name(s): Marsh, Wendy Subject(s): Laughter; Love; Romeo & Juliet LAST LAUGH, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: Little willie strangled ed Last Line: Turned it into sourdough Subject(s): Bread; Laughter LAUGH, by DAVID GALLER Poem Source First Line: Perhaps the most stupid act of deception Last Line: Prolonged, savage laugh Subject(s): Laughter LAUGH AND LIE DOWN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Y'ave laugh enough (sweet) vary now your text Last Line: And laugh no more; or laugh, and lie down next. Subject(s): Laughter LAUGH IT OFF, by BOLTON HALL Poem Source First Line: Have the trusts devoured your pay? Subject(s): Laughter LAUGH IT OFF, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Are you worsted in a fight Subject(s): Laughter LAUGHING BACKWARDS, by JIM HALL Poem Source First Line: The first thing I ever knew was funny Subject(s): Laughter LAUGHING BONES, by ALICE CARTER COOK Poem Text First Line: I am so well - I am so well / that all my bones Last Line: Will my bones still be laughing? Subject(s): Laughter LAUGHING SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing us something full of laughter Last Line: Laugh, and we'll not miss the words. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight LAUGHING SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy Last Line: "to sing the sweet chorus of ""ha, ha, he!" Variant Title(s): Laughing Song Subject(s): Bible; Forests; Laughter; Mythology; Spring; Woods LAUGHTER, by ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: Laughter wears a lilied gown Subject(s): Laughter LAUGHTER, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Throughout his life men seldom spoke with him Last Line: And surge to his own lips and quench his thirst. Subject(s): Laughter LAUGHTER, by OLIVE ENOCH Poem Source First Line: No one in the garden Subject(s): Laughter LAUGHTER, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughter sort o' settles breakfast better than Last Line: Spillin' mash upon his keeper -- men are hungry for a laugh. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Laughter LAUGHTER, by CHARLES ELMER HUBER Poem Text First Line: From the heart Last Line: You came. Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Love; Joy; Delight LAUGHTER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I say yes Last Line: Yes, say I, and salute you. Subject(s): Laughter; Universe LAUGHTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the coziest corner of my Last Line: His hair a raveled nimbus of gray gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Laughter; Time; Nightmares LAUGHTER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I laugh at life: its antics make for me a giddy game Last Line: May win to worth in others' eyes, to wisdom in his own Subject(s): Laughter LAUGHTER AS THE HIGHEST FORM OF CONTEMPLATION, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abba jacob said: %do you know anything about zen? Last Line: Abba jacob asked, and laughed %there's your koan Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Laughter LAUGHTER HOLDING BOTHER HIS SIDES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, thou varlet! Laugh away! Last Line: Wheeze thee whiles, and whoop again! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Laughter LAUGHTER OF WOMEN, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When men go out for laughs, they give their all Last Line: The heads of women lean together, laughing Subject(s): Laughter; Women LELLOINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny queen / lelloine! Last Line: All your meaning, lelloine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Laughter; Smiles LIGHT, by PEMBERTON GINTHER Poem Text First Line: God made the merry morning Last Line: For madness that will match the crash of growing worlds! Subject(s): God; Laughter; Light; Morning LONELY? MAYBE, by CECIL PERKINS Poem Text First Line: Yet, I was alone in a thousand Last Line: And somehow -- I wasn't, alone. Subject(s): Laughter LOST LAUGHTER, by MINNIE HALLOWELL BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Her laughter bloomed along the air Last Line: And dances like a daffodil. Subject(s): Laughter LOVE'S CHARMING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maid of fifteen, in childlike beauty dight Last Line: These are the spells that charmed my wits away. Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Laughter; Life; Love; Voices LOVE'S COMPARINGS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carnations and lilies are hueless Last Line: Wherever her feet may fare. Subject(s): Carnations; Faces; Flowers; Hair; Laughter; Lilies; Love; Spring LUCASTA LAUGHING, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark how she laughs aloud Last Line: Is still the pleasant'st jest. Subject(s): Laughter LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 30, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth had long been avaricious Last Line: "they ""madam"" entitle, with chilling formality." Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Earth; Laughter; May (month); World MADRIGAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April eyes, april eyes / alight with laughter Last Line: Love is a rover. Subject(s): April; Eyes; Laughter; Love; Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery MAKING MAGIC ABOUT LAUGHTER, by URSULA KRECHEL Poem Source First Line: Always laughing Last Line: And takes my %laughter with him Subject(s): Laughter MANDRAKE'S SONG; FRAGMENT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folly hath now turned out of door Last Line: Heigho! Foolscap! Subject(s): Clowns; Fools; Laughter; Writing & Writers; Idiots MARKETS, ALLEYS & HOUNDS OF HELL, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: My brother, whom we called rano Last Line: Inflamed with laughter Subject(s): Brothers; Childhood Memories; Jokes; Laughter MOMUS, GOD OF LAUGHTER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though with gods the world is cumbered Last Line: Hail to momus, happy boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Laughter; Mythology MUSIC OF LAUGHTER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had that charming laugh which, like a song Last Line: The depth and truth of earnest tenderness. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Laughter MY CLOWN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The demon of my dreams Last Line: While you dance aimlessly Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Clowns; Laughter NAME US NO NAMES NO MORE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, oh, rarest of roundelays! Last Line: "taste salt tears in our ""tee-hee-hee""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Laughter; Names; Singing & Singers; Youth NATIVE, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: I catch your laughter Last Line: It will bring me home Subject(s): Laughter; Love NICARAGUAN TRIPTYCH, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember two dwarfs, back there in our country home Last Line: Under the impassivity of the firmament Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Central America; Clowns; Laughter; Memory; Nicaragua; Youth NOISE OF THE CITY, by ANDRE SPIRE Poem Text Last Line: And the beating of my heart. Subject(s): Cities; Human Behavior; Laughter; Men; Noises; Urban Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NONSENSE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A little nonsense, now and then Last Line: And call it nonsense, call it chaff? Subject(s): Laughter; Nonsense ODE TO SENTIMENT, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of dulness! Canting dame! Last Line: Usurp the play -- 'tis your's -- but spare the pantomime. Subject(s): Laughter; Love; Tears OLD CHUMS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I die first,' my old chum paused Last Line: And I laughed -- whisperingly -- and we were glad. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Laughter; Dead, The ON ANY ORDENARY MAN IN A HIGH STATE OF LAUGHTURE AND DELIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As it's give' me to perceive Last Line: God's pleased with him, same as you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Happiness; Laughter; Joy; Delight ONCE IN A WHILE, by W. FRANCIS CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: Once in a while the skies seem blue Last Line: Once in a while. Subject(s): Laughter; Light; Smiles; Sun ORIGIN OF LAUGHTER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hunched in the dark beneath his mother's heart Last Line: Will half-protective flesh, a laugh is born Subject(s): Laughter ORTHODOXIES 4, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: Pops out of a box, the beardless major-domo of harems Last Line: A silver hair pin. The play pay. Cheers a metamorphosis Subject(s): Comedy; Homosexuality; Laughter PARTY, by RITA M. DRAGONETTE Poem Text First Line: There was much zest Last Line: I was about to say. Subject(s): Laughter QUESTION AND ANSWER, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river is flowing Last Line: Not me why I laugh! Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Laughter; Nature REVIEW, by WILLIAM GREENOUGH SCHOFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now we find no room for sentiment Last Line: The pounding rumble of new england surf! Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime RICKSHA BOY, by IDA HOYT CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Running trotting in the shafts Last Line: Wanchee one good ricksha boy? Subject(s): Animals; Boys; Horses; Laughter ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: RHAMPSENITUS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the king rhampsenitus Last Line: In his reign was quite surprising. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Laughter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE GOLDEN CALF, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fiddle, flute, and horn uniting Last Line: Kettle drums and ringing laughter! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Idols; Laughter; Music & Musicians SANDY STAR: 2. LAUGHING IT OUT, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had a whim, and laughed it out Last Line: A faith in death which made life bolder. Subject(s): Laughter SHE LIVES WITH HER OWN GRANNY DEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Cries william when first come from sea Last Line: "grenadier! Did you say, etc" Subject(s): Grandparents;laughter;pain; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers;suffering;misery SHE WAS LAUGHING INTO HER MASHED POTATOES, by PAUL MURRAY Poem Source First Line: She had just told us about one of her friends Last Line: I see her now, tall, smooth, clear, on her way to new york %walking along Subject(s): Laughter SILVER LAUGHTER, by FLORENCE STEINBERG Poem Text First Line: Oft times I wonder Last Line: Arise. Subject(s): Laughter; Smiles; Sound SIS RAPALYE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When rainy-greener shoots the Last Line: With laughter, blossoms, singing birds and sweet sis rapalye. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Laughter; Spring; Childhood SMILING WOMAN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her personable countenance Last Line: That cuts a curved and cruel stroke. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Laughter; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Songs SOBERSIDES, by GERTRUDE EWING Poem Text First Line: The blackbird always makes me laugh Last Line: He's not just what I think. Subject(s): Laughter SONG OF THREE SMILES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me call a ghost Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Charity; Happiness; Laughter; Smiles; Philanthropy; Joy; Delight SONG OF THREE SMILES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me call a ghost Last Line: Cut me from ear to ear %and we all smile together Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Charity; Happiness; Laughter; Smiles SONG: GREEN JADE DESK, by XIN QIJI Poem Source First Line: At the lantern festival Last Line: At the furthest fringe of lantern-light Subject(s): Festivals; Happiness; Hearts; Laughter; Love; Presence SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE WINTER DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky has turned its heart away Last Line: Green lies the summer grass. Subject(s): Cold; Day; Happiness; Laughter; Winter; Joy; Delight SONNET: 1, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caesar, when that the traitor of egypt Last Line: To cloak my care, but under sport and play. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 3 Subject(s): Deception; Laughter SOUND OF THEIR LAUGHTER, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: People's laughter Last Line: Of bare, hardwood floors Subject(s): Laughter SPRING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and spilt blood and an appalling cry Last Line: Bursts, as of old, the blackbird's shameless song. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Graves; Laughter; Pain; Spring; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery SPRING LAUGHS, by KATIE F. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Trim little towns in waiting Last Line: The little breezes sing. Subject(s): Laughter; Spring; Towns; Weather STRIFE AND PEACE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow poplar leaves came down Last Line: Hath entered into peace. Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Poplar Trees; Sleep THE BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bound and bordered in leaf-green Last Line: The book of joyous children. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Children; Laughter; Reading; Childhood THE COMEDIAN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever the task and whatever the risk, wherever the flag's in air Last Line: And brightened their days with laughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Laughter THE COQUETTE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She laughs, the dimples come and go Last Line: She weds old moneybags at last! Subject(s): Flirtation; Happiness; Laughter; Love - Marital; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE DEAD JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long years ago, a funny man Last Line: Outright. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Comedy; Death; Laughter; Dead, The THE END OF LAUGHTER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O never laugh again! Last Line: Ours but to pray. Subject(s): Grief; Laughter; Sorrow; Sadness THE FARM AGAIN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreamy rain comes down Last Line: Gay phantom armies pass. Subject(s): Farm Life; Laughter; Rain; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers THE FUNNY LITTLE FELLOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a funny little fellow Last Line: "little angel he will make!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Laughter; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE GOLDEN HOUR, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must be golden for your eyes to find Last Line: Before our trust, and our averted eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Joy; Delight THE GREAT CAROUSAL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, do not think me dead when I Last Line: The rich eternity of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Happiness; Immortality; Laughter; Soul; Joy; Delight THE INCURABLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, you boast of perfect health in vain Last Line: I tell thee, 'tis incurable -- 'tis age. Subject(s): Aging; Disease; Laughter THE INTRUDER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sat, to sift my dreaming Last Line: "I am poetry,"" said she." Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Laughter; Poetry & Poets THE JOLLY MILLER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a jolly miller lived on the river dee Last Line: About four hunderd mile! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fleas; Laughter; Marriage; Mills And Millers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LAUGH, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An empty laugh, I heard it on the road Last Line: And we in thee with god are reconciled. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Laughter; God THE LAUGHERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Mary and maud have met at the door Last Line: Find a cause to make far merrier cries. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Laughter THE LAUGHING WILLOW, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To see the kaiser's epitaph Last Line: Would make a weeping willow laugh. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Laughter; Willow Trees THE LAUGHING WOMAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I heard a woman laughing Last Line: And life still crawls with maggots—that were men! Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Love; Smiles; Sound; Joy; Delight THE LAUGHTER OF THE RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My very soul smiles as I listen to Last Line: The universe to music dripping-wet! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Laughter; Rain; Soul THE LIFE AND DEATH; THE LIFE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hath momus descended -- the god of mirth Last Line: But mathews alone has such trophies won! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Life; Dead, The THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one in sorrow looks upon Last Line: As happy as the old! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Future; God; Holidays; Laughter; New Year THE ONE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The one / long hair in my beard Last Line: It's yours Subject(s): Laughter THE ORIGIN OF LAUGHTER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hunched in the dark beneath his mother's heart Last Line: Where the known rhythm holds its secret place Subject(s): Laughter THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 153, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pettiness really gets petty Last Line: Until they collapsed and both were ruined Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Laughter; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 281, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There exists one type of person Last Line: Discovering his inner mind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Laughter; Idiots THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 40, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old lady who lives to the east Last Line: From the east and from the west Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Laughter; Poverty; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 27, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Partial to pine cliffs and lonely trails Last Line: Trusting the current like an unmoored boat Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Boats; Chinese Literature; Laughter; Roads; Paths; Trails THE SISTER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the little quiet town Last Line: And ships upon the sea? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Laughter; Sisters; Childhood THE SUN LORD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low laughing, blithely scorning Last Line: Love hath thee now I' the morning! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Laughter; Love THE SWIMMER OF NEMI (THE LAKE OF NEMI: SEPTEMBER), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White through the azure Last Line: Curv'd like a flower o'er the waters of nemi. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Laughter; Nemi (lake), Italy; Rome, Italy; Swimming & Swimmers THE VOCABULARY OF JOY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm on the grass in front of the library, writing Subject(s): Laughter; Interracial Marriage THE WEAVER OF SNOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In polar noons when the moonshine glimmers Last Line: The weaver of snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Fairies; Girls; Laughter; Snow; Weavers And Weaving; Nightmares; Elves THIS IS THE END, by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE Poem Text First Line: Open the divine comedy Last Line: Still stick to his fingers. ... Subject(s): African Americans; Children; Comedy; Laughter; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Childhood; Serfs THOUGHTS AT THE TRYSTING STILE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, may, and hang a white flag on each thorn Last Line: Like wind-looped flowers. Subject(s): Laughter; May (month); Psyche (mythology) TO A JILTED SWAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get thee back neglected friends Last Line: Curst is she that marrieth. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Laughter; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO AN ELDERLY AMORIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even in passion, when grape-hung Last Line: Is in the very look of thee! Subject(s): Beauty; Laughter; Soul; Tears; Truth; Youth TO MY WIFE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who else, dear eyes of brown, could know or dream Last Line: To think how suddenly life's partings come. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives VILLANELLE OF THINGS AMUSING, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the things that make me laugh Last Line: And I've missed of too many jokes by half! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Jokes; Laughter; Life VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vvho say's these romish pageants bene too hy Last Line: When his new rage would aske no narrower rooms? Subject(s): Holidays; Honor; Laughter; Valentine's Day WAVES AND TIDES, by JOHN RENWICK TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: In sweep the waves to wash the sands Last Line: Of laughing ever after. Subject(s): Laughter; Sea; Seashore; Tides; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore WE ALL LAUGH, by GLADYS HOUTZ Poem Text First Line: Some with the strange, sheer joy of it all Last Line: I laugh to hide despair. Subject(s): Contentment; Happiness; Laughter; Pleasure; Smiles; Joy; Delight WELCOME TO MARK TWAIN, by LOUIS FRECHETTE Poem Text First Line: Come, sing, my muse, our honoured guest Last Line: With fine old english humour! Subject(s): Humorists; Laughter; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens) WHEN HE SHOULD LAUGH, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he should laugh the wise man knows full well Last Line: Or holds his laughter, when the foolish do Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Laughter WHEN MARGARET LAUGHS, by GEORGE B. KILBOURNE Poem Text First Line: When margaret laughs the world is gay Last Line: When margaret laughs. Subject(s): Laughter WHITE SWORD, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR Poem Text First Line: Oh, silence your levity Last Line: In drifting snows! Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Snow; Dead, The WITH A BARRIE BOOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old year dies, and a new is born Last Line: Lo, here's barrie! Subject(s): Books; Hate; Holidays; Laughter; Lies; Love; New Year; Reading WORST SIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He sings as he has always sung Last Line: Small though it be %it's the one for me. Subject(s): Laughter; Self; Sin; Singing And Singers |
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