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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LIPS Matches Found: 54 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOY'S WHISTLE, by JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS Poem Text First Line: If I could whistle like I used to when I was just a boy Last Line: No use in tryin' when we're old, we've been away too long! Subject(s): Lips; Memory; Music & Musicians; Sound; Whistles & Whistling A DREAM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed / a dream of you Last Line: "always a dream." Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Lips; Love; Nightmares A FULL EDITION, by JOSEPH LILIENTHAL Poem Text First Line: May I print a kiss on your lips?' I said Last Line: "we printed a full edition." Subject(s): Kisses; Lips; Love A LEAVE-TAKING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She will not smile; Last Line: Thus, some day! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Lips; Smiles; Tears; Dead, The ALMANSOR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In fair cordova's cathedral Last Line: And the christian gods wail loudly. Subject(s): Churches; Kisses; Lips; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology AN AFTERNOON, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am stirred by the dream of an afternoon Last Line: And you -- and live it over. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Afternoon; Dreams; Faces; Lips; Love; Nightmares ANGUS DEI, by VICTOR KINON Poem Text First Line: O lamb of god, o little infant lying Last Line: Drop from thy lips thy syllables of quiet! Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Lips; Sin AT PARTING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so we part! Last Line: And I have heart to rhyme. Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Lips; Smiles; Separation; Isolation CARPE DIEM, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a time for all things, sweet! Last Line: And mourn lost blisses. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Roses; Worship; Cathedrals; Dead, The DEAD MAN'S MORRICE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came a crowder to the mermaid inn Last Line: And look in vain. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Forests; Ghosts; Lips; May (month); Night; Supernatural; Dead, The; Woods; Bedtime ELEGY AT NOON, by PAUL SOUCHON Poem Text First Line: When in the street at noon the human tide Last Line: Through all his blood roll the resplendent light. Subject(s): Dreams; Lips; Nightmares EPIGRAM: 19, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature that gave the bee so feat a grace Last Line: In change whereof I leave my heart behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 68 Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Nature EULOGY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Better than all the tombstones' glosses sleek Last Line: Give me warm mention on the lips of men. Subject(s): Grief; Lips; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness EVENING LINES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, dreamy world and liquid-sounding leaves Last Line: Mysterious harmony, perhaps heard elsewhere. Subject(s): Faith; Hearts; Lips; Silence; Belief; Creed EYES AND LIPS, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our silent eyes alone interpreted Last Line: Her lips, which breathed a word of tenderness! Subject(s): Eyes; Lips; Love GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 1. IN AN ITALIAN HILL TOWN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I missed the uses of my mother tongue Last Line: The universal language of a smile! Subject(s): Beauty; Italy; Lips; Smiles; Italians GLINT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother mentioned only once how the piano teacher she had as Last Line: They're drifting just outside the tune. Subject(s): Grandparents; Kisses; Lips; Music Teachers; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers I WATCH SWIFT PICTURES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch swift pictures flash and fade Last Line: Into to-morrow? Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Love I WONDER, LOVE, by PEDRO SALINAS Poem Source First Line: I wonder, love, are you Last Line: And that the most certain thing is goodbye Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Kisses; Lips INSCRIPTION FOR A CITY'S GATE OF WARRIORS, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fear not the shadow! Open, lofty gate Last Line: Stains of clear blood from sandals steeped in red. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Kisses; Lips; War; Urban Life; Dead, The JUBILATE MUSTACHE, by GAIL HANLON Poem Source First Line: Snow white, less bold than frida's Last Line: In the wild, a glistening %manger for my lips Subject(s): Lips KISSES AND DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mistress, kiss me, clasp me, hold me close! Last Line: Life's day -- so brief, alas! -- excels the night. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Lips; Love; Dead, The LIPS AND EYES, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In celia's face a question did arise Last Line: Weeping or smiling pearls, to celia's face. Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Lips LIPSTICK, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who can hurry past the five-and-dime Last Line: From behind his eyelids, feverish and weak? Subject(s): Cosmetics; Lips; Mothers; Poetry And Poets; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Vanity; Women LUBBERLU, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green were her eyes, - yellow were her eyes Last Line: Over the hills and away. Subject(s): Bible; Candles; Churches; Eyes; Jesus Christ; Lips; Cathedrals LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 12, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lov'st me not, thou tellest me Last Line: I'm comforted, my darling. Subject(s): Lips; Love - Complaints MA DEESSE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her brow, - no language can express Last Line: Aught of angel-perfectness! Subject(s): Angels; Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Love MOMENT, by TOONI GORDI Poem Text First Line: Full-cupped a thousand beats Last Line: Kissing her throat. Subject(s): Kisses; Lips MORE BEST JOKES OF THE DELPHIC ORACLE, by BILL KNOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I vow to live always at trash point: to Last Line: To the inchworm's socialization progress. Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Dictionaries; Language; Lips; Progress; Words; Vocabulary MORTMAIN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey and ghostly cypresses Last Line: She had a lovely face. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Lips; Sin; Trees; Dead, The ON JULIA'S LIPS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are my julia's lips and cleane Last Line: As if or'e washt in hippocrene. Subject(s): Lips ORIGIN, by NAOMI DUCKMAN FURTH Poem Text First Line: I cannot believe that he is dead Last Line: And my lips still taste of his. Subject(s): Breasts; Death; Lips; Dead, The PROVENCE, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hers is a fine and buoyant face Last Line: And of tall grass made tenderer. Subject(s): Faces; Lips; Pain; Smiles; Suffering; Misery ROMNEY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, romney, nay -- I will not hear you say Last Line: You know not what love is -- now go away! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Lips; Love - Loss Of; Thirst; Wine RUBIES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I have heard it said Last Line: Not if kist by other men. Variant Title(s): Her Lips Subject(s): Kisses; Lips SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 18, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nanny blushes when I woo her Last Line: The other, take me in her arms. Subject(s): Breasts; Kisses; Lips; Love SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 28, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst others proclaim Last Line: And there is no living without her. Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love; Nymphs; Roses; Eros STANZAS, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say not: life is one joyous festival Last Line: By a young flower's loveliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Life; Lips; Soul; Nightmares; Optimism SWEET MOUTH, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet mouth that is inviting to taste Last Line: And all that remains of love is venom Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love - Nature Of; Roses THE EXILE OF BEAUTY, by REMY DE GOURMONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go seeking in the human forest old Last Line: Be ugliness to them, though beauty's self thou art. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Exiles; Lips; Love; Dead, The THE FACE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow spaces I see a face Last Line: If you should move! Subject(s): Faces; Fear; Lips; Love; Moon; Night; Bedtime THE GUILD OF HER BEAUTY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: What cunning craftsman coin'd the thread Last Line: I'm all consumed with desire? Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Hair; Lips THE SAME SUBJECT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that your sail bent to the ocean-swell Last Line: And left us only longing and regret. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Fortune; Lips; Muses; Nature; Sailing & Sailors THE SNOWDROP MONUMENT (IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marvels of sleep, grown cold! Last Line: For when we wake -- with thee -- we shall be satisfied.' Subject(s): Churches; Lips; Love; Monuments; Silence; Sleep; Cathedrals THE SOUL OF A KISS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Just the breath of a kiss that passed and vanished Last Line: But my soul shall know its own. Subject(s): Kisses; Lips; Love TO A CERTAIN GOOD GENI, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Of these, my fancies argosies Last Line: A kiss upon the lips. Subject(s): Kisses; Lips; Love TO AN AIR ON THE SAMISEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little princess of the small slipper Last Line: Is the one word, -- love? Subject(s): Air; Death; Life; Lips; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails TO THE BEES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh whither, honey-bees Last Line: My life that nourish Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Kisses; Life; Lips; Spring; Beekeeping; Bugs TORMENTUM, by CHARLES ADOLPHE CANTUCUZENE Poem Text First Line: My fear beyond the door has sped Last Line: Nay, for it may be thou art dead! Subject(s): Death; Fear; Happiness; Lips; Love; May (month); Dead, The; Joy; Delight TRAGEDIES: 6, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: At top of the thinnest steeple-spire Last Line: And whispers and waves in the drafty air. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Lips; Night; Paradise; Bedtime TRAGEDIES: 7, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: A rose-set cloud had kiss'd her cheek Last Line: And the bar of heaven closes at night. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Kisses; Lips; Night; Sun; Paradise; Bedtime TRE FILA D'ORO, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yonder o'er the sea like a swallow hasting over Last Line: Than rend you asunder golden threads that she hath sewn! Subject(s): Lips; Love; Smiles TUBES, by TERRY WOLVERTON Poem Source First Line: There's one called wild Last Line: By night a siren, %and essence %bows to %mutability Subject(s): Colors; Lips UPON SAPHO, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look upon sapho's lip, and you will swear Last Line: There is a love-like-leven rising there. Subject(s): Lips |
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