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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: LIGHT Matches Found: 285 34, by JOEL BETTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Hope the rain stops soon Last Line: Canal curves toward sky %light seen as fall Subject(s): Light; Sky 35, by JOEL BETTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Light seen as fall Last Line: From folds of the plow %never did find her Subject(s): Earth; Light A DEATH ON EASTER DAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The strong spring sun rejoicingly may rise Last Line: Out of the likeness of the shadow of death. Subject(s): Death; Easter; Holidays; Light; Dead, The; The Resurrection A LITANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the bright lights of heaven Last Line: O lord our god. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Light; Love; Night; Paradise; Bedtime A MORNING HYMN, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Christ, whose glory fills the skies Last Line: Shining to the perfect day. Subject(s): Day; Hymns (as Literary Form); Light; Morning; Sun A MOTTO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brightest star's the modestest Last Line: Accordin' to his lights. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Light; Stars A NOCTURNAL UPON ST. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's Last Line: Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight is. Variant Title(s): A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, Being The Shortest Day Subject(s): December; Holidays; Light; Mourning; New Year; Winter; Bereavement A NYMPHOLEPT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, and noon, and a splendour of silence, felt Last Line: And nought is all, as am I, but a dream of thee. Subject(s): Light; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Sky; Summer A PRAYER FOR LIGHT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I kneel before thee, lord, oh hear my cry Last Line: Sun of all worlds, upon my darkness shine! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Light A PRAYER FOR LIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the country light, o lord Last Line: And make my blindman's holidays. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blindness; Country Life; God; Light; Prayer; Visually Handicapped A SONG, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is any one sad in the world, I wonder? Last Line: And what heart sorrows? O no, not mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Light; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; World ADVENTURE, by ANNE MATHILDE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Open it slowly Last Line: In memory's eyes! Subject(s): Dawn; Light; Memory; Morning; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime AIR AN' LIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Look an' zee how widely free Last Line: Do miss a zight he cannot show. Subject(s): Air; Life; Light; Morning ALIEN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark glowed the vales of amethyst Last Line: Rolled on above our tears. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Light; Sorrow; Sadness AN ASPECT OF THE AIR, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through my hemlocks and the spruce beyond Last Line: The sourceless light. An aspect of the air Subject(s): Light AN ATOM, by CLAUDE DU BEAU Poem Text First Line: A white shaft falls athwart the universe Last Line: Falls. It is night. Subject(s): Atoms; Light; Universe ARCTURUS LENDS HIS LIGHT, by MARIE D'AUTREMONT GERRY Poem Text First Line: Arcturus! Shepherd of the crimson beams Last Line: To light an exposition with a star. Subject(s): Light ARRANGEMENT IN DARK AND LIGHT, by STEPHANIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: You can ramble around the house without turning the light on Last Line: A medicine you craved for the time of darkening of the light Subject(s): Light; Night ART OF MEASURING LIGHT (FROM THE PONT-NEUF, PARIS), by ELLEN HINSEY Poem Source First Line: The light here has begin to pass and as it passes Last Line: Lanterns -- swinging slowly in narrow arcs Subject(s): Light; Paris, France AS IN A GLASS: 1. TIME, by CLARA PLATT MEADOWCROFT Poem Text First Line: Through this dark cavern I carry a torch to light me Last Line: Time is the torch I carry in my hand. Subject(s): Caves; Light; Caverns AVOWAL, by MINNIE MARKHAM KERR Poem Text First Line: Love is a shield to hold against the dark Last Line: If I may have your love I shall have all. Subject(s): Light BALDER DEAD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So on the floor lay balder dead; and round Last Line: At last he sigh'd, and set forth back to heaven. Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Mythology - Norse BALLAD OF DEPICTING THE LIGHT, by ROBERT GERNHARDT Poem Source First Line: Put some things into light and watch Last Line: What happens to things in the light Subject(s): Light; Paintings And Painters BEACON FOR THE DARKNESS, by CHARLES MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: On a warm night in autumn Last Line: That made the coming darkness more than dark Subject(s): Light; Night BEETLE LIGHT; FOR DANIEL HILLEN, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hornets collect on the side of the sun Last Line: The exterminator. Very soon they will die. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Extermination & Exterminators; Insects; Light; Poetry & Poets; Bugs BENHAM'S DISK: 2. ABOUT LIGHT, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: To make a purple dye, crush purpura Last Line: Her father said, only niggers wear red Subject(s): Birth; Light BIOLUMINESCENCE: 1. CANDELA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eggs burn softly / in the earth, and when glow-worms Subject(s): Fireflies; Hunger; Light; Glowworms BIOLUMINESCENCE: 4. LUCIFERIN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are a dusky / angel drawn to the gleaming Subject(s): Fireflies; Light; Smoking; Glowworms; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes BLIND MAN CARVES A STAR, by MARCIA SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: I wish you would tell me Last Line: The nourishment of light Subject(s): Light; Stars BRIEF LIFE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brief as the creaming waves that break and run Last Line: And we are gone; yet the least life holds all. Subject(s): Life; Light BRIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sunlight on the cathedral Last Line: Looking at this? Subject(s): Churches; Insanity; Light; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) BRIGHT LIGHT AND CLOUD SHADOWS, by CHU TA Poem Source First Line: Spring mountains have no near or far. Last Line: How did a worldly thought come to mind Subject(s): Clouds; Light BRIGHTEN, by JOHN DONLAN Poem Source First Line: After a twinge of feeling lost and irrevocably wrong Last Line: Tadpole-like across your vision, all right, I'm here Subject(s): Light BRIGHTER, by SUSAN HUTTON Poem Source First Line: Walking into an empty house Last Line: The snowfall brightens everything, %regardless Subject(s): Emptiness; Light; Snow BY THE WAYSIDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer's face was rosiest, skies and woods were mellow Last Line: Fair as heaven and kind as earth? Subject(s): Heaven; Light; Love; Summer; Paradise CAMILLE SUR SON LIT DE MORT, by NEIL AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: Claude, be still, light Last Line: Like a citizen. But in the dark, %a black leaf, I speak Subject(s): Light CANDLE LIGHTING, by LISA ROSENBERG Poem Source First Line: These candles waste fast Last Line: In the room by %our breath above them Subject(s): Candles; Light CHANUKAH, by MARGARET FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Little candles shed your light Last Line: Would we need a maccabee? Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Israel; Jews; Light; Judaism CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by M. M. Poem Text First Line: A single light is kindled and it glows Last Line: And breathes new hope into his soul. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Jews; Light; Judaism CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I kindled my eight little candles Last Line: A heavenly-glorious light. Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Courage; Fasts & Feasts; Freedom; Hanukkah; Jews; Light; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Judaism CHARADE, by CHARLES JOHN AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Without me divided, fair ladies I ween Last Line: Whatever your carriage you'd never get there Subject(s): Light CHRIST LIGHT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Far out through the night there shines a star Last Line: Deflected by you, christ's light divine. Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Light; Stars; Paradise CLARITY, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: One knows by the involuntary gleam Last Line: Although without, worlds spin Subject(s): Light CLARITY, by R. D. PATRICK Poem Source First Line: On this open road the gravel is hard under me Last Line: Tumbling in the white light Subject(s): Fields; Light; Roads COMFORT IN THE NIGHT, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She thought by heaven's high wall that she did stray Last Line: Then the gate closed and she awoke content. Subject(s): Comfort; Contentment; Kisses; Light; Night; Bedtime COMMUNION: 6. ADSUM, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song of the sylphin breezes Last Line: And I in the world. Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Nightmares CONNECTIONS, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: We are all connected, one unto anotherr Last Line: Henry! Come quick! The lights seem to be going on and off for no reason Subject(s): Light; Togetherness CONSIDERATIONS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy, o lord, on me thy judgments lie Last Line: Thou that art the god of love. Subject(s): Death; God; Light; Love; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime CONTAINING THE LIGHT, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Disappearance is the fear Last Line: The light paler, even as beauty %things, pared to essentials Subject(s): Light DAYBREAK, by EDYTHE BARRETT GOELTZ Poem Text First Line: The morning air, yet clean and pure Last Line: A new day is born. Subject(s): Light; Morning DELIVERANCE OF AMATERASU, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: No mortal man can, without incongruity Last Line: Little round mirror of polished metal Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Light; Mythology; Nature EDVARD GRIEG, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light across the fjord is very cool Last Line: The very scene I look on here tonight. Subject(s): Light; Love; Norway; Sea; Summer; Ocean EPITAPH: JAMES CHRISTOPHER WILSON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou our beloved and light of earth hast crossed Last Line: Through love to kindle in our souls the more. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Light; Dead, The ESSAY: ON THE FIRST LINES OF THE INVOCATION TO LIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: (now we will speak of) Last Line: What good is a brain Subject(s): Light; Science; Scientists EVENING CONVERSATION, by ALLAN JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Reckless and white as a flashlight beam cast Last Line: We can only walk while there is light Subject(s): Conversation; Light; Night EVENSONG, by JOSEPHINE NORFOLK CARR Poem Text First Line: Tis evensong, and in the tree-tops high Last Line: We wait, to sing the evensong above. Subject(s): Day; Light EXPECTATION, by GLADYS BRIERLY ASHOUR Poem Text First Line: Starlight, moonglow / hoofbeats in the snow Last Line: In your arms once more. Subject(s): Light FAITH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In thought's black caves the wanderer cries Last Line: "grope with thy hands and thou shalt know!" Subject(s): Faith; God; Light; Belief; Creed FAITH - HOPE - LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The lamp of faith will give thee light Last Line: Whose beacon light is love. Subject(s): God; Holy Ghost; Light; Love; Holy Spirit FALL FIELDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sober-golden fields lie soaked in light Last Line: Turns paler blue above such tapestry. Subject(s): Autumn; Fields; Light; Rugs; Seasons; Fall; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Carpets FEATHER LIGHTS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Macabre and golden the moon opened a slant of light Subject(s): Light FINGERS OF THE LIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: Held up his cup for light Variant Title(s): Poem: 1000; Poem: 101 Subject(s): Light FIRST LIGHT, by MARISA DE LOS SANTOS Poem Source First Line: I shake the night rains loose from sapling oaks Last Line: My careful movements rip his breath to rags Subject(s): Light; Morning FIRST LIGHT POEM: FOR IRIS - 10 JUNE 1962, by JACKSON MACLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light of a student-lamp Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson Subject(s): Mysticism – Judaism; Light FOLLOW THE LIGHT, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To moping owl, and loathsome bat Last Line: The glory of the opening day. Subject(s): Light; Morning; Sun FOR THE FEAST OF GIORDANO BRUNO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the lightning and the light that glows Last Line: And mix with yours a third incorporate name. Subject(s): Bruno, Giordano (1548-1600); Freedom; Light; Soul; Liberty FOREGROUND, by BARBARA CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: A voice speaks, repeating numbers in sequence Last Line: The boy's face sweet apple of light Subject(s): Boys; Light; Nature GENESIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the outer world that was before this earth Last Line: So shall a man be after among the dead. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Life; Light; Universe; World GOLDEN LIGHTS FOR CHANUKAH, by JANIE JACOBSON Poem Text First Line: O golden lights, shine out anew Last Line: "lord among the gods, who is like thee?" Subject(s): Faith; Fasts & Feasts; God; Hanukkah; Jews; Light; Belief; Creed; Judaism GUARDIAN, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: In a brush of fine plumes Last Line: O bright filament %about to completely vanish Subject(s): Light HAMRA NIGHT, by SAADI YOUSSEF Poem Source First Line: A candle in a long street Last Line: A candle in my hands Alternate Author Name(s): Youssef, Saddi; Yusuf, Sa'di Subject(s): Candles; Light HEIRLOOM LACE, by LOLA GREENFIELD LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: The dusky handwork of the night Last Line: To fold the lovely night away! Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Light; Sunrise HERE WE ARE ON THE PLACE ST. SULPICE AGAIN LOOKING ONTO THE, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Cumference would not be the animals’ shadow but real: real Subject(s): Light HOUSE OF LIGHT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Has been designed by the master Last Line: Anyone build the house of light? Subject(s): Light HUSH OF TWILIGHT, by G. KENYON ASHENDEN Poem Text First Line: After the sun goes down Last Line: All destiny is cast. Subject(s): Day; Evening; Light; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime HYMN TO LIGHT, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First-born of chaos, who so fair didst come Last Line: From thence took first their rise, thither at last must flow. Subject(s): Light HYMN TO THE SUN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light of the world, and ruler of the year Last Line: And touch thy lyre, and shoot thy beams no more. Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Light; New Year; Sun; Time; War; Heroes; Heroines I NEVER TOLD THE BURIED GOLD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: "atropos"" decide" Subject(s): Sun; Light; Trith IF LIGHTS DIM, by SANDRA BERRIS Poem Source First Line: When you're asked where Last Line: What makes you remember Subject(s): Light; Memory ILLUMINATION, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ground lapis for the sky, and scrolls of gold Last Line: That will find their way to the light through drifts of snow Subject(s): Christmas; Light; Snow; Nativity, The ILLUMINATION, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ground lapis for the sky, and scrolls of gold Last Line: That will find their way to the light through drifts of snow Subject(s): Christmas; Light; Snow IMAGE OF LIGHT, ADIEU, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: Impart - depart Variant Title(s): Poem: 1556; Poem: 158 Subject(s): Light IMAGES VARYING MY OWN, by CAROLYN KOO Poem Source First Line: Discussion begins on the body; a moon-curved mole Last Line: The spiralling light's momentary radiance almost makes up for the dark Subject(s): Imagism; Light; Night IN COUNTRIES WHERE THE LIGHT HAS ANOTHER COLOR, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source Last Line: Fiery diadems reflect here, and whose hands %have scattered them across these dark waters? Subject(s): Light IN LIFE'S TUNNEL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Borne by a power resistless and unseen Last Line: When lo, the light! Subject(s): Life; Light IN SAN LORENZO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is thine hour come to wake, o slumbering night? Last Line: But will not yet thine angel bid thee wake? Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Italy; Light; Sunrise; Paradise; Italians IN TENEBRIS, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All within is warm Last Line: Let the light fall on my face. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Light; Longing; Waiting IN THE BRIGHTNESS THAT MAKES THOUGHT, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source Last Line: Shading their eyes, touching hands, laughing - %they disappear into the glare Subject(s): Light; Thought INCANDESCENCE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We are %the light Subject(s): Light INDIRECT LIGHTING, by ALICE CONE PERRY Poem Text First Line: We carry each a trembling flame Last Line: I might mistake it for the sun. Subject(s): Candles; Light; Sun JACK-O'-LANTERN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack-o'-lantern, jack-o'lantern Last Line: "lends a jack-o'-lantern light." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Light KNOW-NOTHING LIGHT, by DIETER WESLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Kisses our eyelids Last Line: The white-sanded %hour Subject(s): Light L IS FOR LIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: What lovely meadows have I seen in the sun Last Line: And love may bleed to death, till it has gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Light L'HEURE DU TIGRE (EXTRACT 2), by MATHIAS TSCHABOLD Poem Source First Line: You are ascendant signs in a staircase of light Last Line: At night even the stars withdraw behind a huge glass roof Subject(s): Light L'HEURE DU TIGRE (EXTRACT 3), by MATHIAS TSCHABOLD Poem Source First Line: The sun's flakes fan themselves under the arches Last Line: When the lamp of my days passes over into night Subject(s): Light; Night LAMP BY MY WINDOW, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have a lamp Last Line: Bearing me to sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Lamps; Light LAST ACT, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: A hundred times you wanted to think about the eye Last Line: The sect of creation as creator %existing through sight Subject(s): Creation; Eyes; Life; Light LAST LIGHT, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Pack up your gear, head for the quinney quencher Last Line: You, that in that darkness below, your dream is waiting Variant Title(s): Last Nigh Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Future; Light LEGENDARY LIGHTS, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, the legendary light Last Line: The omnipotence of right. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Holocaust, Jewish - Liberation; Jews; Light; Judaism LIFE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the infinite sea of eternity Last Line: Through one short hour of fretfulness. Subject(s): Birth; Light; Waking; Child Birth; Midwifery LIGHT, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: We live in a prison, mirenka Last Line: Than the light we live by Subject(s): Light; Prisons And Prisoners LIGHT, by MARY ELIZABETH B. CROUSE Poem Text First Line: Thou one all perfect light Last Line: We go, to prove they shine. Subject(s): Lamps; Light LIGHT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Light is the life of all my thoughts Last Line: At twilight, in the woods, I gather marguerites. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Light; Rest; Sunset; Twilight 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 LIGHT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art the joy of age Last Line: Are dead till touched by thee. Subject(s): Light; Nature LIGHT, by XAVIER DE MAGALLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistress of my days, light, o light Last Line: Is it thus you shine on the elysian fields? Subject(s): Light; Love; Passion LIGHT, by KATHERINE MCCORD Poem Source First Line: The sky is veined with trees Last Line: Please help me take my hands %from my face Subject(s): Light; Sight LIGHT, by BRIDGET MEEDS Poem Source First Line: At the big house new year's eve karaoke Last Line: And the rush begins once again. %belfast, winter 1994 Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Holidays; Light; New Year; Women LIGHT, by MARTINUS NIJHOFF Poem Source First Line: The light, god's white light breaks out and must bedizen Last Line: These are the deeds of the man I once was Subject(s): Light LIGHT, by AIMEE PAUL THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Give us light Last Line: Belittling its inherent beauty. Subject(s): Light LIGHT AND DARKNESS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness, blind darkness every way Last Line: We sin and suffer to the end. Subject(s): Light; Darkness; Hope; Fear LIGHT AND LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If light should strike through every darkened place Last Line: If perfect love might reign but one short day! Subject(s): Light;love LIGHT AND MOONBELLS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The could bend low Subject(s): Light LIGHT AND SHADE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light! Emblem of all good and joy Last Line: The lord our everlasting light. Subject(s): Eyes; Lamps; Light; Sun; Vision LIGHT BETWEEN THE TREES, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long, long the trail Last Line: Light between the trees! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Light; Trees LIGHT BREAKS WHERE NO SUN SHINES, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And blood jumps in the sun; %above the waste allotments the dawn halts Subject(s): Light LIGHT COMES THROUGH AND IS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights. Subject(s): Light LIGHT IN DARKNESS (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee once in waking light Last Line: That I may gaze on thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Light LIGHT LINGERS LONG, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light lingers long as winter wears to spring Last Line: Light lingers long. Subject(s): Light; Seasons LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: This is a breed of light I don't know at all Last Line: Bleached self, I have no retreat or private darkness Subject(s): Light LIGHT SWITCHES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, but one wearies of flipping them Subject(s): Light Switches LIGHT SWITCHES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, but one wearies of flipping them Last Line: With the morning shave and the midnight douche Subject(s): Light Switches LIGHT TRAVELS, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Common time I follow you un- Subject(s): Light; Poetry & Poets LIGHT-HORSE HARRY AT PAULUS HOOK, by CHARLES DAVIS PLATT Poem Text First Line: O harry lee it was who did Last Line: God speed that victory! Subject(s): Lee, Henry (light-horse Harry) LIGHT: AN EPICEDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love will not weep because the seal is broken Last Line: Yet light like thine is ours, if love be light. Subject(s): Grief; Light; Love; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness LIGHT: CLARENCE H. WHITE'S PHOTOGRAPHS, by DEBORAH ELLIOTT DEUTSCHMAN Poem Source First Line: But hs real subject is light Last Line: Here, where we are so briefly, in the light Subject(s): Light; Paintings And Painters LIGHTED PATH, by GABRIELE HOOKS Poem Source First Line: The moon kissed my womb and settled Last Line: I tell myself this matters Subject(s): Light; Roads LIGHTS, by MABEL CLELAND LUDLUM Poem Text First Line: There are happy lights and lonely lights Last Line: Makes shadows on the floor. Subject(s): Light LIGHTS, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: We know that the fires will all meet up Last Line: And everything that remains of this world %after the storm Subject(s): Fire; Light LIGHTS AND SHADOWS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how the shifting lights and shadows fall Last Line: Whether with shine or shade the hours we fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Life; Light; Shadows LIGHTS THROUGH THE MIST, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some for the sadness and sweetness of far evening bells Last Line: Lights through the mist! Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; God; Grief; Hope; Light; Mist; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism LIKE MIGHTY FOOTLIGHTS BURNED THE RED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Myself distinguished god Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Forests; Light LINES FOR A SUN-DIAL, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With shadowy pen I write Last Line: Some far off sun. Subject(s): Light; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers LJUS AV LJUS, LIGHT FROM LIGHT, by PETER HUGGINS Poem Source First Line: See the face! See how everything is transformed! Last Line: Before this gaze I exist Subject(s): Light; Nature LOOK AT IT! LOOK AT THE BLUE LIGHT, by PHYLLIS STOWELL Poem Source First Line: Like a girl, legs tucked up on the sofa, she remained Last Line: Looking out toward nowhere with a child's blue-eyed stare %and sagging, apricot dugs Subject(s): Girls; Light LOVE AND LIGHT, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light, Last Line: But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Light; Love; Wisdom LUCIA, by M. RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Poem Source First Line: In the church of st mikulash Last Line: Lucia, my double, penetrated with light Subject(s): Churches; Light LUMINARIA, by JEANNE FOSTER Poem Source First Line: The bougainvillaea lets go a few Last Line: Fragile paper lanterns, luminaria %turn brown and melt Subject(s): Light; Memory; Night MASSACHUSETTS, by FLORENCE VAN FLEET LYMAN Poem Text First Line: I now recall how very dear Last Line: No other light -- however far. Subject(s): Evening; Light; Sky; Stars; Sunset; Twilight MORNING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The star of hope doth light the way Last Line: To those whose crowns are won. Subject(s): Hope; Light; Morning; Victory; Optimism MORNING, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: On the edge of night Last Line: Of immensity Subject(s): Light; Morning MOTHER, I AM MAD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Someone of it is answering to %your name Subject(s): Light; Mothers And Daughters MY ANTIQUE LAMP, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: My antique lamp from old japan Last Line: And take myself to bed. Subject(s): Antiques; Lamps; Light; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Bedtime MY DESIRE, by MARY JESSIE PEARCE Poem Text First Line: I'd like to have a little house Last Line: And hope 'twould guide you there. Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Light; Roses NAILSWORTH HILL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The moon, that peeped as she came up Last Line: Where no such trees have ever been? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Light; Moon; White (color) NAMING THE LIGHT, by KENNETH LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: Saffron - one word, no more, to alchemize Last Line: That glitters: within each eye the light burns Subject(s): Language; Light NATIVE STONE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light is laying waste the heavens Subject(s): Insomnia; Light; Sleeplessness NATIVE STONE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light is laying waste the heavens Last Line: Whatever is not stone is light Subject(s): Insomnia; Light NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School NIGHT AND SHADOWS, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: But yesterday I watched the shadows play Last Line: If I remember morning speeds the night. Subject(s): Light; Moon; Night; Shadows; Bedtime NIGHT TRIPTYCH WITH MISSING LIGHT SWITCH, by JEANNE WELLS Poem Source First Line: In the night you walk and walking wake Last Line: Because there is no switch there is no story -- wakes Subject(s): Light; Night NORMAL LIGHT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Normal light never killed anything Subject(s): Light; Superman; Vision OBLIQUE MUSCLE (MEDITATION ON A FAMOUS BLINDNESS), by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: When I consider how my light is spent... Last Line: Think of how your light is spent. Blink. It's enough Subject(s): Blindness; Life; Light OCTOBER'S SUN, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O liberal sun in fair october's sky Last Line: Redeems the soul least worth to one most fair. Subject(s): Light; October; Sun ODE ON PROCLAMATION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With songs and crying and sound of acclamations Last Line: The cry thou gavest at heart was only of delight. Subject(s): France; Hope; Lament; Light; Nations; War; Optimism OF A SUN SHE CAN REMEMBER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After they had been in the woods Last Line: The golden net of meaning in the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Light; Sun OF HARTFORD IN A PURPLE LIGHT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A long time you have been making the trip Subject(s): Sun; Light; Colors; Hartford, Connecticut OF LIGHT, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn you leave. The river wears its skin of light Last Line: From every tomb I'll learn all we imagine of light Subject(s): Light ON LAMB'S SPECIMENS OF DRAMATIC POETS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If all the flowers of all the fields on earth Last Line: Took subtler sweetness from the lips of lamb. Subject(s): Flowers; Light; Poetry & Poets ON LIGHT, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I do not think -- I entirely reject the idea Last Line: Differing with different subjects Subject(s): Colors; Light ON THE CAPTURE OF GENERAL LEE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The deed perfidious, and the hero's fate Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Lee, Henry (light-horse Harry); Love - Loss Of; Mortality 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 ONE OF TWAIN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One of twain, twin-born with flowers that waken Last Line: Night and light? Subject(s): Flowers; Light; Love; Roundels ONLY ONE RAY, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Only one ray of light pierced you Last Line: Smelt from afar your corpse Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Light ORDER, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The gods are mortal Last Line: The end without end Subject(s): Eyes; Immortality; Life; Light ORGAN SONGS: LIGHT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First-born of the creating voice! Last Line: For god is light. Subject(s): Christianity; God; Light; Nature; Truth OUR JUNIORS, by ANNA M. ALLEN Poem Text First Line: They set a light upon the hill Last Line: Upon the hill a beacon light. Subject(s): Courage; Light; Youth; Valor; Bravery OVER THE BANISTERS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the banisters bends a face Last Line: That shall brighten the world for him alway. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faces; Light; Smiles PALLACE OF MEMORIA GARNISHED WITH PERPETUALL SHININGE GLORIOUS, by MICHAEL DONAGHY Poem Source First Line: It's shut. And after such a climb Last Line: As is the custom of your country Subject(s): Light PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 2. TOO BRIGHT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One step beyond Last Line: It lives, or dies? Subject(s): Heaven; Light; Paradise PARTICIPATION, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be light, god said, and spaced Last Line: His tiny lamp agleam. Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y. Subject(s): Light PERFECT TIME, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: The bulb in my bedside Last Line: My woman & send new %poems out to wormie Subject(s): Lamps; Light PERSEID SHOWER, by BERT ALMON Poem Source First Line: The whole family reclines in wicker chairs on the patio, eyes up for the Last Line: Bright lights are still streaking the sky's black negative Subject(s): Eyes; Light; Vision PERSEPHONE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stepped upon sicilian grass Last Line: "the daffodil, the daffodil!" Subject(s): Daffodils; Daughters; Demeter; Light; Mythology; Persephone; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina PHOENIX, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: The fire has faded as I knew it must Last Line: Of all the souls who grieve and lose and yearn. Subject(s): Fire; Light; Memory POEM IN THE WAVE, by MATTHEW JOY Poem Source First Line: Beams of sunlight %penetrate clouds Last Line: Kaleidoscope of fascinations %from the sea Subject(s): High School Students; Light; Sea; Teenagers; Waves POET AND SCIENTIST, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Sunlit day and starlit night Last Line: But never care to measure it. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Light; Poetry & Poets; Science; Sun; Scientists POINT, by APRIL OSSMANN Poem Source First Line: The point being how when a star dies Last Line: Lives on. The point being %that the light disappears Subject(s): Light; Stars POWER PLANT, by RON BLOCK Poem Source First Line: Along the riverbanks, cottonwoods bloom Last Line: The dismal waters as the moon keeps pace, bursting open on a cottonwood Subject(s): Electricity; Light PRESENTIMENT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yonder, where the stars glow nightly Last Line: Night's dark gloom at dawn of day. Subject(s): Light PUT OUT THE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put out the light; - and then Last Line: To earth or sea or sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Light; Pain; Wind; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery QUITE HIGH ENOUGH OR LOW...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O singular perception of the light Last Line: Whose merest drop or two a dungeon fills! Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Love; Nightmares ROCKINCHA, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: All around the cone of light Last Line: Of physics. No one crashes %in a torrent of amber Subject(s): Light ROUGH LIGHT, by MARTIE MCCLEERY PALAR Poem Source First Line: At the farmstand, the pumpkins turned their blank faces Last Line: Everything I desire requires aloneness Subject(s): Light; Nature SEA MARSHES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marsh hummocks that were were a sabbath hill Last Line: Worlds as worlds will be seen - in what light there is Subject(s): Light SERAPH, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was here alone Last Line: But it was gone. Subject(s): Compassion; Light SHED LIGHT, by ALICE B. FOGEL Poem Source First Line: Snakeskin spiraling like flute music Last Line: Transparent now as what it housed Subject(s): Animals; Light; Snakes SINGLE RAY IN THE DAWN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With love which light up all the world Subject(s): Happiness; Light; Love SLANTING LIGHT, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slanting light casts onto a stucco wall Last Line: Death as the stark light sifts the branches of the plum. Subject(s): Death; Light; Dead, The SLEEP (A WOMAN SPEAKS), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep Last Line: Never to want, never to wish for thee! Subject(s): Grief; Light; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Bedtime SLEEPING IN THE LIGHT, by MARK GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: Summer nights in the street under the arc light Last Line: Milk-toast or drink whiskey anymore Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Light; Night SNOW LIGHT, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stop, winded. The air sifting down Last Line: Though that is the meaning we give them Subject(s): Light; Snow SONG FOR THE NIGHT OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the noon of night Last Line: Holding the new-won crown above his saintly head. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Light; Night; Resurrection, The; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs SONGS OF NEW YORK: THE LIGHTS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten thousand jewels flash out Last Line: Till the stars have faded away. Subject(s): Light; New York City; Tears; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE FIRST WATCH. TIRED, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, I would tell you more, but I am tired Last Line: O, I am tired! Subject(s): Life; Light; Love; Night; Sleep; Weariness; Bedtime; Fatigue SONNET: 1. THE BRIGHT MOON, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad on the sunburnt hill the bright moon comes Last Line: This god of myriad stars whom I thought lost. Subject(s): Light; Moon; Night; Bedtime SONNET: 5, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor judge me light, tho' light at times I seem Last Line: Whom easy taste, the golden pilot, steered. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Light; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips SONNET: THE MYSTERY OF LIGHT, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light glorious and eternal, that reveals Last Line: The notes recalled, the lovely words forgot. Subject(s): Light SOURCES OF LIGHT, by MARLON OHNESORGE-FICK Poem Source First Line: One morning before dawn I rose Last Line: Like a child pulling it loose to freedom Subject(s): Dawn; Light; Morning STAR TEACHERS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even as a bird sprays many-coloured fires Last Line: Are stars and deeps within. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Light; Stars; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature STARS FROM HORIZON TO HORIZON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Just to light the path Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Light; Nature; Stars STONE AND LIGHT, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: The stone doesn't repel the light Last Line: The light just now arrived on earth Subject(s): Light STREET LANTERNS, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Country roads are yellow and brown Last Line: Topaz, and the ruby stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Light; London; Roads; Paths; Trails STUDIES IN LIGHT, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun / caught in dew Last Line: We stand outside of Subject(s): Light STUDIES IN LIGHT, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sun %caught in dew Last Line: Of earth %thinnest %piercing rays Subject(s): Light SUBH-I-KAZIB, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See where the man wakes late from his dreaming Last Line: Warm with the whole. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Light; Transience; Impermanence SUCCESSORS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says the shadow to the sun Last Line: "shall it shine." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Light SUN AND DUST, by RICARDO PALMA Poem Source First Line: In a swift whirlwind rises to the sky Last Line: Immortal is its light Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Immortality; Light; Sun SUN OR SATELLITE?, by MARY H. HULL Poem Text First Line: Shall we walk by the stars instead of the sun? Last Line: Love-light, as the compass, is guide night and day. Subject(s): Light; Love; Stars; Sun SUNRISE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The broadening of the light is like a strain Last Line: To play hunt's up, and wake the drowsy morn. Subject(s): Dawn; Light; Sunrise SUNSHINE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The birds sing sweetly in the trees Last Line: Where grief and pain are found. Subject(s): Happiness; Light; Sun; Joy; Delight TATTOO, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light is like a spider Subject(s): Light THE ARC-LAMPS, by THEODOR DAUBLER Poem Text First Line: The arc-lamps crown the sunset with their glimmer Last Line: Why do you pale beneath the starry diadem? Subject(s): Light THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My name is light. I am seventy cubits high Last Line: In the deep trance of my colossal stare. Subject(s): Light; Rhodes (island) THE COURTIER'S RETURN, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morn, my heart, good morn, my life's one end Last Line: My goddess sweet, my true-love. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Light; Love THE CURTAIN, by TRISTAN LECLERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glorious weather / chantecler has called Last Line: And it is morning in my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Klingsor, Tristan Subject(s): Light; Morning; Sun; Window Treatments; Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes THE DEAD, by KATHERYN KOHBERGER Poem Text First Line: We rest in illimitable slumber Last Line: And is eternal night. Subject(s): April; Death; Graves; Light; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE EDGE OF THE WIND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye stars in ye skies seem twinkling Last Line: And ye crickets cease to sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Light; Stars; Wind THE EIGHT CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by ISIDORE MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fervor and joy we give thanks to the lord Last Line: To serve the one god and to walk in his light. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Hanukkah; Heaven; Heroism; Jews; Light; Paradise; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism THE ETERNAL FEMININE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ever shall she beckon. Men may prate Last Line: Yet ancient as the moaning of the sea! Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Sea; Time; Nightmares; Ocean THE EVE OF REVOLUTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpets of the four winds of the world Last Line: Hasten thine hour and halt not, till thy work be done. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Light; Revolutions; War; Liberty; Greeks THE EYE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not true that eyes Last Line: Hill pastures and reluming the green-caved wood. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eyes; Light; Eve THE FIREMAKER, by SUSIE KERIN Poem Text First Line: Chela chis-chela, your hands on your breast Last Line: Your smile, and your signal and welcome to me. Subject(s): Fire; Light THE GLEAM, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This corpuscle that from my heart Last Line: Eternal mind's activity. Subject(s): Light THE GREAT CARBUNCLE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We came over the moor-top Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Light THE HARP OF THE MINSTREL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The harp of the minstrel has never a tone Last Line: Can not waken the echoes that breathe it aright. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Harps; Light; Minstrels; Musical Instruments; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres THE HOLY FLAME, 'MENORAH', by GEORGE JAY HOLLAND Poem Text First Line: Thou sacred flame, so mellow and subdued Last Line: "and breathe with god: ""let there be light." Subject(s): God; Jews; Light; Spirituality; Synagogues; Judaism THE ILLUMINATED CITY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hills all glowed with a festive light Last Line: So must thy spirit be taught to feel! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Light; Women THE LAST SABBATH LIGHT, by HENRY ROSENBLATT Poem Text First Line: The last lone sabbath candle sheds Last Line: "and build a star in heaven." Subject(s): Jews; Light; Sabbath; Stars; Judaism; Sunday THE LIGHT OF INTERIORS, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Light THE LIGHT OF LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds have deepened o'er the Last Line: With love and laughter here? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Light; Love; Night; Wind; Bedtime THE LIGHTS OF LAWRENCE, by ERNEST WARBURTON SHURTLEFF Poem Text First Line: The night's dark curtain trails the east Last Line: Like lights of lawrence burning clear! Subject(s): Lawrence, Massachusetts; Light THE LONG WHITE SEAM, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I came round the harbor buoy Last Line: Sewing the long white seam. Subject(s): Harbors; Light; Love; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MENORAH, by HARRY AUSTRYN WOLFSOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ages imprisoned in shadow Last Line: The course of our future years! Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Light; Synagogues; Judaism THE MIRACULOUS OIL, by CAROLINE DEUTSCH Poem Text First Line: Little cruet in the temple Last Line: Through the centuries of darkest night! Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Light; Temples; Judaism; Mosques THE MOON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago the moon was dark Last Line: And walk in brightness. Subject(s): Light; Moon; White (color) THE MOON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful moon, with thy silvery light Last Line: To catch the rabbits and the hares. Subject(s): Light; Moon; Night; Bedtime THE MORNING MIST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look, william, how the morning mists Last Line: Shall beam eternal day. Subject(s): Immortality; Light; Mist; Morality; Morning; Vision; Ethics THE NEW MOON, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you shiver? Has the air grown chill? Last Line: There is no light could make your eyes more blue! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Light; Moon; Spring; Tides THE OCEAN OF SONG, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a land beyond sight or conceiving Last Line: And are gladder than gods are, with glee. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): God; Light; Sea; Soul; Ocean THE PICTURES, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His reflection in water said Last Line: To crumbling, then to part of night Subject(s): Death; Light; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 194, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The multitude of stars is the late night's light Last Line: Hanging in the sky is my mind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Light; Night; Bedtime THE RAINY MORNING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn of the day was dreary Last Line: Melted in mists of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Light; Morning; Rain; Wind THE ROAD THROUGH CHAOS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is one road, one only, to the light Last Line: Conquer your world, and find the eternal goal. Subject(s): Beauty; Chaos; Hearts; Light; Pilate, Pontius; Roads; Truth; Paths; Trails THE SACRAMENT OF LIGHT, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: In that far off dim dawn Last Line: And see thou use it right! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Light; Religion; Sacraments; Theology THE SEARCHLIGHT, by DOROTHEA LAMORE Poem Text First Line: Out of the dark a yellow light Last Line: Earth has all secrets you want to know? Subject(s): Earth; Light; Night; Sky; World; Bedtime THE SECRET OF LIGHT, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting contented and alone in a little park near the palazzo scaligere in Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Hair; Light THE SKY-LINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man builds his barriers, obscures the light Last Line: The sky-line changes, -- there is still the sky. Subject(s): Heaven; Light; Sky; Paradise THE SOUTH-FORELAND ELECTRIC LIGHT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From calais pier I saw a brilliant sight Last Line: Her shining honour and her moral might. Subject(s): Electricity; Light THE SUN OF DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With morning's sun ascending Last Line: As day yields to the night. Subject(s): Day; Light; Lightning; Sun; Weather; Lightning Rods THE SUNLIGHT, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight, the sunlight, / it cometh apace! Last Line: Of heavenly light. Subject(s): Day; Light; Sun; Waking THE TOUCH OF LOVING HANDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light falls the rain-drop on the Last Line: Far lightlier falls the touch of loving hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hands; Light; Love; Summer THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: LOKI'S INSULTING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bard in unforgotten verse has told Last Line: Their guileful trapper in a foaming pool. Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Loki (norse God); Mythology - Norse; Odin (norse God) THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RE-BIRTH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to a watcher on a pier at night Last Line: A deeper gloaming and I slept in night.' Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Goddesses & Gods; Hodur (norse God); Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Nature; Sea; Ocean THE UNEXTINGUISHED, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds glow like coals just fresh from fire, a flare Subject(s): Fire; Light THE WANDERING SUNBEAM, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It wandered far, that sunbeam bright Last Line: Is heaven's eternal shadeless light Subject(s): Heaven; Light; Paradise THE YOUTH WHO CARRIED A LIGHT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him pass as the new day dawned Last Line: And thence on infinitely? Subject(s): Light THERE COMES A MOMENT OF THE TWILIGHT, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: For which we came to be? Subject(s): Evening; Inventions & Inventors; Light THERE'S A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: On the look of death Subject(s): Winter; Light; Death THEY SAY - ., by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say I have a constant heart, who know Last Line: Service to all of beauty -- and her due. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Light THINKING OF HELEN IN HAVANA, by JULIAN H. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Oft in the darkness there shines a light Last Line: Where, and what, are the snows of tomorrow? Subject(s): Future Life; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Light; Silence; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THIS PLACE, by WAYNE DODD Poem Source First Line: Late afternoon light Last Line: Catching, for an instant, the leaves, %flashing, waving in the light wind Subject(s): Light; Memory THIS SIDE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is light. We neither see nor touch it Last Line: I hear light beat on the other side Subject(s): Light THREE AM, by RUTH STONE Poem Text 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 THREE PANELS: THE LIGHT, by MARK IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Starts, then the greening, and we Subject(s): Light TO FIFTH AVENUE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful, long, loved avenue! Last Line: Where thy gaslights leave off or the starlights begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Fifth Avenue, New York City; Light; Night; Bedtime TO THE GLOSSAMER-LIGHT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick gleam, that ridest on the gossaner Last Line: Like light, -- a golden drift through all the song! Subject(s): Light TO TINTORETTO IN VENICE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master, thy enterprise Last Line: And shadow us, o thou tower! For thou shalt stand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Light; Paintings And Painters; Tintoretto [jacobo Robusti] (1518-1594) TWO VASES, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was a darling with her roses and I Last Line: My eyes with the rough cloth, for I love her Subject(s): Candles; Light TWO VIEWS OF IT, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the daybreak, in the murky night Last Line: Within my lamp or heart, of dawning day. Subject(s): Dawn; Light; Roosters; Sunrise; Cocks VARIATIONS: 2, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green light, from the moon, Last Line: Before the coming of snow. Subject(s): Light VICTOR HUGO IN 1877, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the spring-tide sundawn of the year Last Line: Sees red the bare black ruins of a crime. Subject(s): Light; Stars VIOLIN SONGS: MY HEART, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, with her power to silence day Last Line: To clothe a death-born son. Subject(s): Happiness; Light; Love; Night; Joy; Delight; Bedtime VIOLIN SONGS: WAITING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I waited for the master Last Line: Lo, the master came! Subject(s): Light; Waiting VISIONS OF LIGHT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is rising in beauty Last Line: In their twilight cells of books! Subject(s): Light WAKENING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Looking up at the last from the first sleep Last Line: Than this light or than any remembered heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Light; Waking WALLPAPER, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: The birds play in the wallpaper Last Line: And the birds lift from the wallpaper Subject(s): Light; Morning; Waking WE WERE MET, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We were met by Last Line: Bringing us to light Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Freedom; Happiness; Human Rights - Argentina; Light WHAT THINKS RESISTS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Light -- precisely light. %it ideas ourself Last Line: We shimmer and fire, %a flaming bird Subject(s): Light WHEN THE LAMP IS QUENCHED, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your casement bright athwart the night Last Line: Some heart—some life—has ceased to beat! Subject(s): Doubt; Hope; Light; Skepticism; Optimism WHERE THE FOX GATHERS, by CONSTANCE ROWELL MASTORES Poem Source First Line: Purple darkness %hangs on these hills waiting Last Line: Would it be closeness, really, or %darkness permeable, light breaking in Subject(s): Foxes; Light WHITE CLOVER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Once when the moon was out about three-quarters Last Line: Over all their property. Subject(s): Clover; Light; Night; Bedtime WINDOW BLIND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You keep the blind of our north window drawn Last Line: From clarity there, unseen, unfaltering, and true. Subject(s): Light; Man-woman Relationships; Windows; Male-female Relations WOMAN WITH LIGHTS IN HER HEAD, by BETTY BEDELL Poem Source First Line: Did not learn to cook %as a young girl Last Line: To the lights in my head. %they let her go Subject(s): Light; Women YOU, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight passes through the window into the room Last Line: Still heavy with its desire to be the cloud. Subject(s): Desire; Light; Love; Sewing; Water |
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