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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LEGACIES Matches Found: 32 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MEDITATION, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rome has been dead these many hundred years Last Line: Rome still rules. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Government; Language; Latin; Law & Lawyers; Legacies; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy; Words; Vocabulary; Attorneys BEQUEST, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: From head to toe I know the bladed grass Last Line: Whatever I become to those who live. Subject(s): Legacies; Mortality EVERYTHING PASSES AND VANISHES, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Legacies FUEHRER BUNKER: 1 APRIL 1945. CHORUS (8), by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old lady barkeep had a hitler Last Line: His name live on, renowned Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Legacies; World War Ii GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: OVER THE MACKINAC, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She always wanted to be dorothy gayle Last Line: Sailboats like dropped handkerchiefs below me. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Journeys; Trips GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: THE ROAD TO BUFFALO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take all her belongings Last Line: And drove with her knuckles. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters HONORING THE SAND; IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: December's foolishness, embers fall, tempters Last Line: Forget the flower; learn to know the sand. Subject(s): Campbell, Joseph (1904-1987); Learning; Legacies; Soul; Time INSTRUCTIONS TO BE LEFT BEHIND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've included this letter in the group Last Line: All that you (and I too) wanted to be: you. Subject(s): Legacies; Letters; Love; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers LEGACY, by GLADYS PEARL ALLEN Poem Source First Line: A legacy of 'love' I leave Subject(s): Legacies; Love MOURNING PABLO NERUDA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water is practical / especially in august Last Line: Gone. Subject(s): Death; Legacies; Mourning; Nature; Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973); Usefullness; Water; Dead, The; Bereavement MY AMBITION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is to become a footnote Last Line: Turgid lines of footnote. Subject(s): Ambition; Dahlberg, Edward (1900-1977); Footnotes; Legacies; Poetry & Poets MY MOTHER LEFT ME, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 24 pairs of unmatched white gloves Last Line: She left me. Subject(s): Death; Gloves; Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Mittens; Muffs ON THE OREGON COAST; FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waves come -- the large fourth wave Last Line: And figure out what to say to our children. Subject(s): Courage; Legacies; Transience; Waves; Valor; Bravery; Impermanence POCKETS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The point of clothes was line Last Line: To find both hands and pockets empty. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Sewing PULSE OF MY HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these your eyes, isla Last Line: Pulse of my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Grief; Legacies; Loss; Love; Parents; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood SELLING HER ENGAGEMENT RING, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You'd have thought her diamond was set in my flesh Last Line: Wahpeton - mandan - medora - to vanishing point. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Legacies; Mothers & Daughters 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 TESTAMENT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So often it has been displayed to us, the hourglass Last Line: On the mountain of my love below. Subject(s): Hourglasses; Legacies; Love; Time THE ANCIENT SACRIFICE, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER Poem Text First Line: Ye dead and gone great armies of the world Last Line: About the blood-stained shrine of bygone wars! Subject(s): Death; History; Legacies; Military; Sacrifices; War; Dead, The; Historians THE DEATH OF MATTAHIAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of my age, attend Last Line: Hope lifts my soul to thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Death; Fathers & Sons; Legacies; Mysticism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE LEGEND OF JUBAL, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cain was driven from jehovah's land Last Line: The all-creating presence for his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Christianity; Death; Heroism; Legacies; Legends; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 69, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you're still and never speak Last Line: Will never see a harvest day Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Legacies; Poetry & Poets; Silence THE RACE OF BANQUO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly, son of banquo! Fleance, fly Last Line: Pour we now the dirge of death! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Death; Legacies; Prophecy & Prophets; Singing & Singers; Dead, The THE RETURN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rested in your easy chair Last Line: I was quite sure I felt your smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Daughters; Death; Fathers; Legacies; Love; Dead, The THE WORLD ISN'T A WEDDING OF THE ARTISTS OF YESTERDAY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full 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 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 VESTIGIA, by HENRY LONGAN STUART Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er his last cruse of oil-last measure of grain Last Line: Of earth and leaves on his unthrifty mouth. Subject(s): Legacies; Love VOICES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will never taste cantaloupe Last Line: Ocean shell, chinese button, against the sky. Subject(s): Grandparents; Legacies; Memory; Regret; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WAITING FOR THE STARS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full 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 WHAT WE CARRY; FOR DONALD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He tells me his mother carries his father's ashes Last Line: The relative comfort of silence. Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cremation; Forgiveness; Legacies; Child Abuse; Clemency WHAT WE MAY LEAVE BEHIND, by CHARLES L. ERICKSON Poem Text First Line: When I was just a little boy Last Line: It is just an apple tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Erickson, C. L. Subject(s): Legacies WUPATKI, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a people abandon their town Last Line: And the small bones of a family. Subject(s): Abandonment; Legacies; Moving & Movers; Desertion |
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