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Last Line: And without a groan expired
Subject(s): "seville, Spain;spanish Literature;


"TE DEUM LAUDAMUS (WE PRAISE THEE, GOD)", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "thee, sovereign god, our grateful accents praise"
Last Line: "as we have hoped, do thou reward our pain; / we've hoped in thee, let not our hope be vain"
Subject(s): God;latin Literature; Roman Literature


"THE TWA BRETHREN [OR, TWIN BROTHERS] (1)", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There were twa brethren in the north
Last Line: And that will never be
Subject(s): Brothers;murder;villains In Literature; Half-brothers


A FIG FOR THEE, OH! DEATH, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou king of terrors with thy ghastly eyes
Last Line: I still am where I was, a fig for thee.
Subject(s): Death; Puritans In Literature; Dead, The


A FUNERAL POEM UPON THE DEATH OF MY EVER ENDEARED AND TENDER WIFE, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My gracious lord, I licence of thee crave
Last Line: Much in her thoughts, and yet she fear'd not death.
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Marriage; Mourning; Puritans In Literature; Dead, The; Burials; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement


A GRACE BEFORE READING, by HELEN COALE CREW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Myriad-leaved as an elm
Last Line: Thy labor, leaving man and time to make the book!
Subject(s): Literature


A LITERARY MISS, by OLIVER MARBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There once was a lit'rary miss
Last Line: Thirty days to describe half a kiss.
Subject(s): Literature; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers


A RHYMED REVIEW; 'LAUGHING MUSE' (BY ARTHUR GUITERMAN), by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An obvious thing for one to do
Last Line: "I hope to god a lion bit her."
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Books; Guiterman, Arthur (1871-1943); Literature; Poetry & Poets; Reading


A SMUGGLER'S SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet
Last Line: Gentlemen go by!
Subject(s): Smuggling & Smugglers; Villains In Literature


ADDRESS TO THE SOCIAL LITERARY SOCIETY, JULY 1820, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature, like man, her summer coat puts on
Last Line: "than now -- when doom'd to finish with ""farewell!"
Subject(s): Literature


ADVISER TO THE COURT: WORKING ALL NIGHT IN SPRINGTIME, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When day begins to darken
Last Line: Of all night, in my mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Courts And Courtiers


AMUSING OUR DAUGHTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: We don't lack people here on the northern coast
Last Line: Sending our messages over the mountains and waters.
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Daughters; Death; Guests; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Visiting; Feminism


AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF ... MR. SAMUEL HOOKER, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grief sometimes a is duty yet when great
Last Line: Then shall arise and quite outshine the sun.
Subject(s): Hooker, Samuel (1635-1697); Puritans In Literature


AND IT PASSED BY THE SEA-SHORE; POEZA MIGNONETTE, by IGOR SEVERIANIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And it passed by the sea-shore, where the foam-laces flower
Last Line: Where sonatas are singing and where foam frets the wave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Literature; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


ANNETTE MYERS, OR, A MURDER IN ST. JAMES PARK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another dreadful tale of woe as I will here unfold
Last Line: What dreadful tidings to convey unto his family
Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature


ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW GRAND ACCELERATION COMPANY ..., by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Loud complaints being made, in this quick-reading times
Last Line: Of the muse's velocipede, fleet street, where all %who wish well to the scheme are invited to call
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Literature


ANOTHER UPON THE SAME [HUSWIFERY], by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make me thy spinning wheele of use for thee
Last Line: With this gold-web of glory to thy praise.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


AUTO DA FE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can a dog write poetry? Yehuda asked
Last Line: Yes, if he is a jewish dog
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Poetry And Poets


AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERATA, by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like coffee, %there were tricks I used
Last Line: Want to sleep, early %and I have to write this down
Subject(s): Biography; Literature


BAG-SNATCHING IN DUBLIN, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sisley %walked so nicely
Last Line: Murderer her for 6/6
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature


BALLAD OF THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER, by BLAKE MORRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Voice said 'lad, get crackin
Last Line: Ah were putty in its ands
Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature


BALLADE D'UNE GRANDE DAME, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven shall forgive you bridge at dawn
Last Line: It shall not be forgiven you
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Villains In Literature


BASE DETAILS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath
Last Line: I'd toddle safely home and die -- in bed.
Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Soldiers' Writings; Villains In Literature; World War I; First World War


BIBLIOMANCY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walk down any row-past science and gardening
Last Line: In which the words that wake you are written
Subject(s): Bible; Books; Librarians And Libraries; Literature


BITS OF REMINISCENCE, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A toppled wine-cup
Last Line: A dream, half-illumined, half-obscure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Memory


BLOOD AND SAND, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If there ever was a spoiled darling
Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Spanish Literature


BLOOD AND SAND, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If there ever was a spoiled darling
Last Line: Noticed you again, federico
Subject(s): Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Spanish Literature


BOOKS AND THE MAN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the years gather round us like stern foes
Last Line: But only old because they proved the best.
Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Literature; Osler, William, Sir (1849-1919); Reading


BROTHER, I AM HERE, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Coolness, like the evening tide
Last Line: Brother, I am here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): Brothers; Chinese Literature; Half-brothers


BUILDING BOOM, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The avenue of willows leads nowhere
Last Line: Surely the tide comes in twice a day
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature


CAN. LIT., by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since we'd always sky about
Last Line: It's only by our lack of ghosts %we're haunted
Subject(s): Literature


CANADIAN PRAIRIES VIEW OF LITERATURE, by DAVID DONNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: First of all it has to be anecdotal; ideas don't exist
Last Line: The corn under my shirt awkward a little rough light brown dry %and makesz me itch at times
Subject(s): Canada; Literature; Prairies; Writing And Writers


CANON'S ASSISTANT'S TALE, SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amongst us there's a canon regular
Last Line: Without a notion of his fraudulence
Subject(s): Con Artists; Villains In Literature


CHANGING GENRES, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,
Subject(s): Books; Literature; Reading


CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON, by GAVIN EWART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady eva brackwell, the most lovely debutante of last
Last Line: To the illegal?
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Debutantes; Sherlock Holmes; Villains In Literature


CHATEAU PAPINEAU, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The red-tiled towers of the old chateau
Last Line: The shaded walks -- the shadowy hall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan
Subject(s): Houses; Middle Ages; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature


CID: PART 1, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a low state
Last Line: Expressions, but
Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Romance; Spain - History; Spanish Literature


CLARISSA HARLOWE POEM, by GAVIN EWART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down then, thou rogue thou, red three-cornered varlet
Subject(s): Villains In Literature


CLASSIC WAITS FOR ME, IT CONTAINS ALL, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: By the love of the classics, %by the manly love of the classics
Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B.
Subject(s): Book Clubs; Literature; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: APOLOGY TO CLEO, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Renowne of nymphes, that sits on verdant throne
Last Line: Colliden
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Wenman, Sir Richard (1573-1640)


DEJEUNER SUR L'HERBE, by TU FU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's pleasant to board the ferry in the sunscape
Last Line: It will be cold, going back.
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ferry Boats; Rain


DON GIOVANNI, SELS., by LORENZO DA PONTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little lady, you are not going to like this
Last Line: You'll be certain what he wants
Subject(s): Seduction; Villains In Literature


EPITAPH FOR J(OHN). B(ERRYMAN)., by JIM BARNES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He did his bit
Last Line: He wrote in fits, %then called it quits
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Literature


EPITAPH ON A TYRANT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; Dictators


EPITAPH ON A TYRANT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after
Last Line: When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter %and when he cried the little children die
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Tyranny And Tyrants; Villains In Literature


EVA SITTING ON THE CURB WITH PEN AND PAPER BEFORE THE TORTURES CAME TO, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The phone call came on a night of a bruising
Last Line: The battered skies of all illiteracies
Subject(s): Literature; Poetry And Poets


FANNY: 118, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And though by no means a bas bleu, she had
Last Line: And dr. Chalmers' sermons of a sunday; %and woodworth's cabinet, and the new salmagundi
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Education; Literature


FANNY: 120, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Words, to the witches in macbeth unknown
Last Line: Also, why frogs, for want of air, expire; %and how to set the tappan sea on fire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Language; Learning; Literature; Plays And Playwrights; Polish Language


FANNY: 46, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We owe the ancients something. You have read
Last Line: They were an ignorant set of men at best
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Knowledge; Literature


FANNY: 57, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I beg great britain's pardon; 'tis not meant
Last Line: Of learning's envoy from the british nation
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Literature; Poetry And Poets; Scholarship And Scholars


FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye wavering shapes, again ye do me enfold
Last Line: Ground.)
Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology


FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun his ancient music makes
Last Line: Curtain.
Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology


FAUST BOOK: LUCIFER BROODS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: It was quite simple
Last Line: God knows! Yelled meretrix
Subject(s): Devil; Villains In Literature


FAUST, SELECTION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy the man who yet may hope to rise
Last Line: The crane unresting fares in homeward flight.
Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches


FAUST, SELS., by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!
Last Line: To manage witches, this is just the way
Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft And Witches


FOR JAN, IN BAR MARIA, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though it's true we were young girls when we met
Last Line: They call us janna and carolina, those two mad straniere.
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Friendship; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 3, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hope that the vicar will pardon the haste
Last Line: How to clear up the matter.—what can a man say?
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Hebrew Literature; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology


FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 4, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have with attention, dear vicar, repass'd
Last Line: And, speaking or silent, am yours to command,
Subject(s): Bible; Hebrew Literature; Language Poetry; Religion; Theology


FRENCH LISETTE; A BALLAD OF MAIDA VALE, by WILLIAM PLOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who strolls so late, for mugs a bait
Last Line: Tis folly abounding in a strange surrounding %to be divorced from one's pants
Subject(s): Prostitution; Villains In Literature


FRIAR'S TALE, SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That thief, the summoner (the friar went on)
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Villains In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JUSTICE AND MERCY, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Offended justice comes in fiery rage
Last Line: If thou in mercies mercy put thy trust.
Subject(s): Justice; Mercy; Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: CHRIST'S REPLY, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a captain to your will
Last Line: Not faint, but think on former dayes.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: DIFFICULTIES - UNCHARITABLE CARRIAGES CHRISTIANS, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When these assaults prove vain, the enemy
Last Line: When one is backward though a bidden guest.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: DOUBTS FROM SATAN'S TEMPTATIONS ANSWERED, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But oh the tempter harries me so fast
Last Line: Not as a saint though once with god in th'mount.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: DOUBTS FROM THE WANT OF GRACE ANSWERED, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such as are gracious grow in grace therefore
Last Line: Not drown you in't, nor cast a drop away.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: EFFECT OF THIS DISCOURSE ON 2D AND 3D RANKS, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whence come these spicy gales? Shall we abuse
Last Line: Above the stars, and stand at heavens doore.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: EFFECT OF THIS REPLY .. FRESH ASSAULT FROM SATAN, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like as the shining sun, we do behold
Last Line: As wheate is winnow'd with the sieve, and fan.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: EXTASY OF JOY ..., by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My sweet deare lord, for thee I'le live, dy, fight
Last Line: In ravishing tunes most sweet.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: FIRST SATAN'S ASSAULT ..., by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon ripe, soon rot. Young saint, old divell. Loe
Last Line: Believe your very eyes, believe not mee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: FORWARDNESS OF THE ELECT ... WORK OF CONVERSION, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those upon whom almighty doth intend
Last Line: And now, poor souls, they know not what to do.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: GOD'S SELECTING LOVE IN THE THE DECREE, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man in this lapst estate at very best
Last Line: For to be treated on, and coacht along.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: MAN'S PERPLEXITY CALLED TO AN ACCOUNT, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Justice, and mercy ending their contest
Last Line: Till's house be rais'd against the reckoning day.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: OUR INSUFFICIENCY TO PRAISE GOD ..., by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should all the world so wide to atoms fall
Last Line: Accept thereof. We have no better pay.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: SATAN'S RAGE AT THEM IN CONVERSION, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grace by the aid of justice wins the day
Last Line: Between such monstrous gyants jaws as wee?
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: SOME OF SATAN'S SOPHESTRY, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tempter greatly seeks, though secretly
Last Line: Bright diamonds? What then in man is sin?
Subject(s): Devil; Puritans In Literature; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: SOUL'S ADDRESS TO CHRIST AGAINST THESE ASSAULTS, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou gracious lord, our honour'd generall
Last Line: Set ope the back doore to thy cursed foe.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE ACCUSATION OF THE INWARD MAN, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You want cleare spectacles: your eyes are dim
Last Line: If so, how do yee: you and I embrace.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE EFFECTS OF MAN'S APOSTACY, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While man unmarr'd abode his spirits all
Last Line: Th' ensuing dialogues hint their contest.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE GLORY OF AND GRACE IN THE CHURCH SET OUT, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come now behold
Last Line: Sing all ore heaven for aye. And that's but all.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE JOY OF CHURCH FELLOWSHIP RIGHTLY ATTENDED, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In heaven soaring up, I dropt an eare
Last Line: As they to glory ride therein.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE OUTWARD MAN ACCUSED, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Turn o're thy outward man, and judge aright
Last Line: Thou saidst thy heart was dresst from sin also.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE PREFACE, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long lookt for sir! Happy, right happy saint
Last Line: My want of grace. Temptations too within.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE SECOND RANK ACCUSED, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You that are branded for rebellion
Last Line: You are not saints, or I no sinner am.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE SOUL ACCUSED IN ITS SERVING GOD, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When thou dost go to serve thy god, behold
Last Line: Against thee drawn, who makes my heart his throne.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE SOUL ADMIRING THE GRACE OF THE CHURCH ..., by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How is this city, lord, of thine bespangled
Last Line: Be shakt out of this coach, or dy in th'way.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE SOUL BEMOANING SORROW ..., by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! My soule, product of breath divine
Last Line: If not, I'st not be worser than I bee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE SOUL'S ADMIRATION HEREUPON, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What I such praises sing? How can it bee?
Last Line: With angels bright to sing thy praise.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE SOUL'S GROAN TO CHRIST FOR SUCCOUR, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good lord, behold this dreadfull enemy
Last Line: Then halter up this cur that is so curst.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE SOULE SEEKING CHURCH-FELLOWSHIP, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The soul refreshed with gracious steams, behold
Last Line: To grow herein and so rejoyce.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE SOULS DOUBTS TOUCHING ITS SINS ANSWERED, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this thy case, poor soul, come then begin
Last Line: He seeks by helping thee thy overthrow.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE THIRD RANK ACCUSED, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What thou art too for christ, it seems? Yet fain
Last Line: I am a saint, if thou no sinner art.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THEIR CALL IN THIS SAD STATE FOR MERCY, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We humbly beg, oh lord, to know our crime
Last Line: So we be thine, deale with us as thou wilt.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THRENODIALL DIALOGUE BETWEEN SECOND & THIRD RANK, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh you! How do you do? Alas! How do things go?
Last Line: The good lord help us both, thus fare you well.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


GOLDEN VANITY (13), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A ship I have got in the north country
Last Line: And left him without more ado to drift with the tide, %and to sink by the lowlands low
Subject(s): Treason And Traitors; Villains In Literature


HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: SCRIBBLER, by ANN STRUTHERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: New yorkers were amazed at this portrait
Last Line: Maybe that's why the corners of her mouth %turn up so slightly
Subject(s): Literature; Museums; Portraits; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); Theater And Theaters


HEBREW MELODY, by MRS. JAMES GORDEN BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the hall of our fathers in anguish we fled
Last Line: Will welcome the exile to siloa's fountain?
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jeremiah (bible); Jews; Judaism


HEBREWS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lest there be any fornicator or profaner'
Last Line: Like esau, and refused to sell his birthright
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews


HIDING OUR LOVE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never believe I leave you
Last Line: Hiding our aromatic, vulnerable love.
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Love; Secrets; Women; Women's Rights; Wu, Emperor (140-87 B.c.); Feminism


HONOURS, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Few chairs of dignity in england now
Last Line: If a man held, he should be proud thereof.
Subject(s): Literature; Poetry & Poets


HORATIANS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into what fictive realms [or, worlds] can imagination translate you
Last Line: This world with a happy eye, %but from this a sober perspective
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Latin Literature


HUSWIFERY, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheele compleate
Last Line: That I am cloathd in holy robes for glory.
Variant Title(s): Housewifery
Subject(s): Housekeeping; Labor & Laborers; Prayer; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Sewing; Work; Workers; Theology


HYMN FOR ST. JOHN'S EVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sylvan prophet! Whose eternal fame
Last Line: Whilst each glad parent told and blessed / the secrets of each other's breast
Variant Title(s): Hymn For The Nativity Of St. John Baptist
Subject(s): Christmas;latin Literature;prophecy & Prophets; "nativity, The;roman Literature;


I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER, by SHAO YANXIANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thirty-three tribunals of public censure
Last Line: Let's cast a contemptuous look %on those who stratagems all l came to naught
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Human Rights; Women - Abused


IZAAC WALTON, COTTON, AND WILLIAM OLDWAYS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Son cotton! These light idle brooks
Last Line: Just like these idle waves, son cotton!
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Literature; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Writing & Writers; Reading


JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who had more literary pseudonyms
Last Line: Famed lecturer in the united states.
Subject(s): Bangs, John Kendrick (1862-1922); Literature; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers


LE MORTE D'ARTHUR, SELS., by THOMAS MALORY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sir mordred, traitor false and vile
Last Line: For england's sorrow sore
Subject(s): Treason And Traitors; Villains In Literature


LECTURE, by GABRIEL PREIL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A mass of leaves shot through with green and red
Subject(s): Literature


LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Leda
Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus; Fancy


LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still
Last Line: Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Led
Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus


LEGEND OF STUMPIE'S BRAE, SELS., by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They shorten'd the corp, and they pack'd him tight
Last Line: And the ghaist came clattering in
Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs.
Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature


LINES IN A LETTER TO HIS LADY COUSIN, HONOR DRIDEN, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For since 'twas mine, the white hath lost its hiew
Last Line: Whom you so farre shall bless to make your seale.
Subject(s): Latin Literature; Letters; Virginity; Roman Literature; Vestals


LIT, by PETER READING    Poem Source                    
First Line: You know that it's time to pack up
Last Line: By vladimir hogsnot-smoke
Subject(s): Literature


LITERARY SQUABBLES, by CHARLES OSBORNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes, perfect stillness has its use
Last Line: Such words to me? Out spills the bile; %the squabble's now afull-blown fight
Subject(s): Literature; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)


LITERATURE, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most people who have things to sell now
Last Line: Sweat, must take whatever they can get.
Subject(s): Literature; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


LITERATURE AND POETRY, by MAX JACOB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was near lorient, the sun shone brightly
Last Line: The meandering paths left dry by the sea had made him think of the streets of naples
Subject(s): Literature; Naples, Italy


LORD BARRENSTOCK, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord barrenstock and epicene
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Con Artists; Villains In Literature


LORD BARRENSTOCK, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord barrenstock and epicene
Last Line: Be good, my lord, since you can not be pretty
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Con Artists; Villains In Literature


MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature


MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw
Last Line: Are nothing more than agents for the cat who all the time %just controls their operations: the napol
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime And Criminals; Villains In Literature


METRICAL HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: GRACES BRIGHT SHINE, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Glorious day of glorious light!
Last Line: Whereof are store.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


METRICAL HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: SPARKLING SHINE OF GOD'S JUSTICE, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Patience thus exercisd, gods providence
Last Line: While patience doth gods providence enline.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


METRICAL HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: THE MARTYRDOM OF DEACON LAURENCE, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Laurence another deacon of choice fame
Last Line: And by a glorious martyredom did end.
Subject(s): Clergy; Puritans In Literature; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


MIDAREGAMI, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reading yosano akiko's tangled hair
Last Line: In every poem, you
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry And Poets


MILLER'S TALE, SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shoes upon her legs were laced up high
Last Line: That when she saw a chance, she would be his
Subject(s): Seduction; Villains In Literature


MISSING YOU, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A multicolored chart without a boundary
Last Line: Only this.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): Absence; China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


MONOLOGUE FROM A MATTRESS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can that be you, la mouche? Wait till I lift
Last Line: Mouche -- mathilde! . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Death; Love; Regret; Religion; Revolutions; Sickness; Poetry & Poets; German Literature; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Dead, The; Theology; Illness


MOSES, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will sing high-hearted moses
Last Line: Stooped to borrow from the jew.
Subject(s): Egypt; Hebrew Literature; Jews; Moses; Nile (river); Judaism


MURDER OF MARIA MARTEN, by UNKNOWN+303    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come all you thoughtless young men, a warning take by me
Last Line: For murdering maria marten, I was hang'd upon the tree
Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature


MURDER ON THE DOWNS, by WILLIAM PLOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Past a cow and past a cottage
Last Line: And in the bracken like a bed %the murderee
Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature


MY LAST DUCHESS; FERRRA, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That's my last duchess painted on the wall
Last Line: Which claus of innsbruck cast in bronze for me!
Subject(s): Este, Alfonso Ii D'. Duke Of Ferrara; Jealousy; Love - Marital; Marriage; Murder; Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Villains In Literature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


NARRATING OF A NARRATION, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red, he said, red and hard as chalk
Last Line: With the person I was at ten, he said, I have nothing more in common
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Literature; Poetry And Poets


NEXT TO LAST DRAFT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: More years pass and the book does not leave the drawer
Last Line: Been meaning to write you for a long long time. I've been %feeling so blue john lee
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Literature; Writing And Writers


NIGHT SOUNDS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moonlight on my bed keeps me awake
Last Line: A child with the moon on his face, a dog's hollow cadence.
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Love - Complaints; Night; Solitude; Women; Women's Rights; Bedtime; Loneliness; Feminism


NOCTURNE, by LEON PAUL FARGUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A long arm embossed with gold slides from the tree tops
Last Line: God will hold out the happiness he promised us once
Subject(s): Literature; Naples, Italy


NOT LONG AGO I MET A CLERK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Now my maidenhead is taken!
Subject(s): Seduction; Villains In Literature


NOTHING TO FEAR, by KINGSLEY AMIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: All fixed: early arrival at the flat
Last Line: As cold as ice, but just as set on me
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Villains In Literature


NOVEMBER 4TH, 1937, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As ogden nash might say, I hate intenchly
Last Line: May they be merry then as we are now.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Century Association (new York City); Literature; Writing & Writers


ODE, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: People in the middle ages didn't think they were living
Subject(s): Middle Ages; Conduct Of Life; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature


ON HAYLEY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To forgive enemies h-- does pretend
Last Line: Do be my enemy -- for friendship's sake
Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Hypocrisy; Mythology; Villains In Literature


ON LADY POLTAGRUE: A PUBLIC PERIL, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The devil, having nothing else to do
Last Line: To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature


ON MEETING SHAKESPEARE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw shakespeare
Last Line: But his chief wish was to be earning more money.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Literature; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


ON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can there be anything more mean
Last Line: When he praises michael angelo
Subject(s): Bible; Hypocrisy; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Villains In Literature


ON THE PICTURE OF THE FINDING OF MOSES BY PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, by CHARLES LAMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This picture does the story express
Last Line: Because I from the waters drew him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Elia
Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; Hebrew Literature; Jews; Moses; Judaism


ON THE ROAD TO LARRY ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are many monsters -- the ashes of the members
Last Line: 100 poets reading for robin's
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Booksellers; Language; Literature; Pornography; Bookstores; Words; Vocabulary


ONCE UPON A TIME, by W. L. WERNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am in love with a foreign word, / jadis
Last Line: Loudly I'm singing to banish reason, jadis!
Alternate Author Name(s): Jacob
Subject(s): Middle Ages; Past; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature


ORTHODOXIES 11, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She used to flog her girls, a madam, in a half-assed way. It
Last Line: Out of the embrace of a girl and a customer bear
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Turkish Literature; Women


ORTHODOXIES 21, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Davut sports a mane. He is a dark-skinned child like my
Last Line: Fucktual bullets of truth first know the schools of the land an ottoman. Hey
Subject(s): Turkish Literature


ORTHODOXIES 23, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was he now? Was he a levantine, the nephew of that
Last Line: Will stoke out an engraved figure out of the ashes. Poems will lead him by the hand
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Turkish Literature


OTELLO, SELS., by ARRIGO BOITO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Iago. Yes, I believe in god who has created
Last Line: And heaven's a foolish tale
Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature


OUR NEIGHBOR IN CHARGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rub out %with my bare feet
Subject(s): Arabs; Hebrew Literature; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Neighbors; Palestine


PERHAPS ...; FOR THE LONELINESS OF AN AUTHOR, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps these thoughts of ours / will never find an audience
Last Line: We have no choice
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): Anxiety; Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


PHARISEES ARE SCOLDED FOR READING SCRIPTURE LITERALLY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It fell into my tea, its black thumbs thrashing
Last Line: Like a little noose
Subject(s): Books; Literature


PICKING AND CHOOSING, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Literature is a phase of life: if
Last Line: Skin between the ears, are all we ask.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Literature


POEM FOR NEIL POSTMAN, by ERIK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's happened neil, this
Last Line: Over and over %by kato kaelin
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Literature; Poetry And Poets


POETIC EXPRESSION ON LITERATURE, by LU JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: He stands in the very center and scans the darkness
Last Line: When it covers metal and stone, virtue is spread: %through strings and flutes flowing, it is daily m
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Literature


POETRY SWIMSUIT ISSUE, by CHARLES GREENLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sounds like an unsexy idea at first
Last Line: For the same reason most everything else does
Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Literature; Poetry And Poets


POETRY, PROSE, AND WORSE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O turkey! How mild are thy manners
Last Line: We want a poetical tone!
Subject(s): Turkish Literature


POOR BUT HONEST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "she was poor, but she was honest"
Last Line: It's the rich as gets the pleasure - / ain't it all a bleeding shame!
Subject(s): Dishonor;seduction;villains In Literature;wealth; Riches;fortunes


PORPHYRIA'S LOVER, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain set early in to-night
Last Line: And yet god has not said a word!
Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 11, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A deity of love incorporate
Last Line: And o're this feast continually say grace.
Subject(s): Feasts; Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 12, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This quest rapt at my eares broad golden doores
Last Line: Whose loveliness excells what love can bee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 13, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou glory darkning glory, with thy flame
Last Line: Thy magazeen of wisdom, and thy store.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 14, 15, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Raptures of love, surprizing loveliness
Last Line: With angells, hallelujahs to my king.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 17, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A king, a king, a king indeed, a king
Last Line: Thou art my king of kings, and lord of lords.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 18, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Astonisht stand, my soule; why dost not start
Last Line: Altaschath michtam, in seraphick tune.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 19, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look till thy looks wane, my soul; here's ground
Last Line: Grave, where's thy victory? Death, where's thy sting?
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 20, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: View all ye eyes above, this sight which flings
Last Line: With my strong wings whose feathers are thine own.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 24, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was there a palace of pure gold, all ston'de
Last Line: I'le be the golden trumpet of thy praise.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 25, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should my bells, which chime thy praise, when thou
Last Line: To send thee th'cabbinet, and pearle together.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 26, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My noble lord, thy nothing servant I
Last Line: Its michtam-david: with sweet joy within.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Puritans In Literature; Clemency


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 27, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Wealthy theam! Oh! Feeble phancy I
Last Line: In whom all fulness dwells, doth dwell in mee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 28, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I lord, send some bits of glory home
Last Line: My vessell now's a vessell of thy grace.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 3, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet a lord is mine?
Last Line: I'le be thy love, thou my sweet lord shalt bee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 30, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The daintiest draught thy pencil ever drew
Last Line: New glory then shall to thyselfe arise.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 31, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Begraced with glory, gloried with grace
Last Line: Out hallelujah for thy grace therein.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 33, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord my life, can envy ever be
Last Line: My love on thee my life, and it shall grow.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 34, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord I fain would praise thee well but finde
Last Line: This triumph o're the grave! Death where's thy sting?
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 35, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! That I ever felt what I profess
Last Line: Thy love bed in my heart, bed mine in thine.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 36, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What rocky heart is mine? My pincky eyes
Last Line: And present things with things to come are mine.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 37, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My soule, lord, quailes to thinke that I should bee
Last Line: Then I shall in a better temper bee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 4, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My silver chest a sparke of love up locks
Last Line: And sharons rose shall be my rose, and crown.
Subject(s): Flowers; Puritans In Literature; Roses


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 41, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A clew of wonders! Clusterd miracles!
Last Line: That I may pay in glory what I owe.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 43, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fain I would sing thy praise, but feare I feign
Last Line: Accept this lisp till I am glorifide.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 44, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A crown, lord, yea, a crown of righteousness
Last Line: Thy glory bring I tuckt up in my songe.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 45, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A crown of glory! Oh! I'm base, its true
Last Line: And make thy praise on my heroicks ring.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 46, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, may I, lord, believe it? Shall my skeg
Last Line: My tune perfume thy praise shall with the best.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 47, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strang, strang indeed. It rowell doth my heart
Last Line: And when I'm in't ile tune an higher pin.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 48, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I, lord, eye thy joy, and my love, small
Last Line: For joy thy praise while teather'd to my clay.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 49, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, do away my motes: and mountains great
Last Line: My harp with songs my masters joyes distill.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 5, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My blessed lord, art thou a lilly flower?
Last Line: Thou lilly of the vallys, being mine.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 7, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy human frame, my glorious lord, I spy
Last Line: Thy bottle make my soule, lord, it to hold.
Subject(s): Bible; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Theology


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 9, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did ever lord such noble house mentain
Last Line: With living bread to thy eternall prayse.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: THE REFLEXION, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, art thou at the table head above
Last Line: Enthrone thy rosy-selfe within mine eyes.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 1, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What love is this of thine, that cannot bee
Last Line: Lord, blow the coal: thy love enflame in mee.
Variant Title(s): Sacramental Mediations: 1
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 10, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stupendious love! All saints astonishment!
Last Line: For thy rich blood, which is my drink-indeed.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 16, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leafe gold, lord of thy golden wedge o'relaid
Last Line: I'le sacrifice in flames of love to thee.
Variant Title(s): Meditation 16
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 2, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear, deare, lord I do thee saviour call
Last Line: I have enough. Enough in having thee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 21, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What glory's this, my lord? Should one small point
Last Line: Fills heaven with glory, else there's none at all.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 22, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When thy bright beams, my lord, do strike mine eye
Last Line: Wouldst thou but guild my soule with thy bright ray.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 23, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would god I in that golden city were
Last Line: And thou my bridesgroom deare espousde shalt bee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 29, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My shattred phancy stole away from mee
Last Line: Thy glory then I'le make my fruits and crop.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 32, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy grace, dear lord's my golden wrack, I finde
Last Line: My bells shall then thy praises bravely chime.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 38, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! What a thing is man? Lord, who am I?
Last Line: I'le waggon loads of love, and glory bring.
Variant Title(s): An Advocate With The Father
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 39, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My sin! My sin, my god, these cursed dregs
Last Line: And my rough feet shall thy smooth praises sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 40, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still I complain; I am complaining still
Last Line: Thy wrath, slay sin and in thy love mee bench.
Variant Title(s): Sacramental Meditations: 40
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 42, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apples of gold, in silver pictures shrined
Last Line: Thy throne, to thee the rent in happiness.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 6, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I thy gold? Or purse, lord, for thy wealth
Last Line: Let me thy angell bee, bee thou my lord.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 8, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I kenning through astronomy divine
Last Line: Eate, eate me, soul, and thou shalt never dy.
Variant Title(s): I Am The Living Bread;sacramental Meditations: 8
Subject(s): Bible; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Theology


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: PROLOGUE, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, can a crumb of dust the earth outweigh
Last Line: Or as in jewellary shops, do jems.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: THE EXPERIENCE, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! That I alwayes breath'd in such an aire
Last Line: If what I had, my heart might ever hold.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: THE RETURN, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inamoring rayes, thy sparkles, pearle of price
Last Line: Till I sing praise in heaven above with thee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 1, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh leaden heeld. Lord, give, forgive I pray
Last Line: My tunes upon thy excellency good.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 10, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moses farewell. I with a mournfull teare
Last Line: Attend thy sweetest praise, in evry part.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 100, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory, what art thou? Tell us: dost thou know?
Last Line: Thyselfe with zions songs in musick sweet.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 101, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory, thou shine of shining things made fine
Last Line: Thy glory's grace I'le on shoshannims harp.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 102, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What grace is here? Looke ery way and see
Last Line: Thy glory then shall be my song I'l sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 103, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The deity did call a parliament
Last Line: Then as I eate, my lips with grace shall flow.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 104, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What? Bread, and wine, my lord! Art thou thus made?
Last Line: That so my life may be a gracious story.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 105, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I was all well melted down, refinde
Last Line: To glory, then I'l sing a brighter song.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 106, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I fain would prize, and praise thee, lord, but finde
Last Line: That makes thy praises leape up from my heart.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 107, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! What a lord is mine? There's none like him
Last Line: Thy praise, with angells and my grace shall shine.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 108, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What royall feast magnificent is this
Last Line: Here after shall thy praise be my good cheere.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 109, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A feast is said to be for laughter made
Last Line: My heart shall end thy supper with an hymn.
Subject(s): Feasts; Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 11, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eternal love burnish in glory thick
Last Line: Of grace in me thy praise perfum'd out poure.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 110, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The angells sung a carole at thy birth
Last Line: Burr'ing thy grave in thy sepulcher's reech.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 111, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Gracious grace! Whither soarst thou? How high
Last Line: Will make my soul grow brisk, thy praise to chime.
Subject(s): Eucharist; Puritans In Literature; Communion


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 112, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Good, good, good, my lord. What more love yet
Last Line: Thy praise I will over deaths death, and sin.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 113, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Help, oh! My lord, anoint mine eyes to see
Last Line: My sweetest musick shall thy praise display.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 114, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A star, bright morning star, the shining sun
Last Line: Where our tunde breath shall ne're be choakt by th'night.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 115, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What art thou mine? Am I espoused to thee?
Last Line: Loaded with praise that to thyselfe belong.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 116, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When thou, my lord, mee mad'st, thou madst my heart
Last Line: My purest love shall sing thy beauty sweet.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 117, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A king thou art, my lord, yea king of kings
Last Line: Where I thy standards glory ere may sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 118, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Hide bound heart. Harder than mountain rocks
Last Line: My harp shall play: thy golden head excell.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 119, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord, (my love,) what loveliness doth ly
Last Line: Shall tune the glances of thy eyes sweet deare.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 12, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dull, dull indeed! What shall it e're be thus?
Last Line: Shall then attend thyselfe, and thy command.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 120, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My deare-deare lord! What shall my speech be dry?
Last Line: Orecoming notes that fill my harpe with tunes.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 121, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peart pidgeon eyes, sweet rosie cheeke of thine
Last Line: Perfum'de with this sweet incense up arise.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 122, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My deare! Deare lord! While mine affections act
Last Line: I'le sing the golden glory of thy hand.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 123 (A), by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The costli'st gem kept in christs ivory box
Last Line: My countenance thy bowells love shall chime.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 123 (B), by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My search, my lord, now having passed o'er
Last Line: The glory of thy legs and golden feet.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 125, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lead me, my lord upon mount lebanon
Last Line: All smelling of thy lebanons rich wine.
Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Lebanon; Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 126, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord, my love, my sov'reign, and supreme
Last Line: And make my winde pipe thy sweet praises sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 127, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord, when thou didst form mankinde the hand
Last Line: That all of thee is lovely, in thy glory.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 128, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My deare-deare lord, my heart is lodgd in thee
Last Line: And sing thy glories praise in glories glee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 129, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My glorious lord. What shall thy spouse, descry
Last Line: Filld with this precious aire, thy praises pipe.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 13, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I fain would praise thee, lord, but when I would
Last Line: My growing grace will glorify thyselfe.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 130, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My sweet-sweet lord who is it, that e're can
Last Line: In tunes perfumed, thus in ery string.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 131, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dull, dull, my lord, my fancy dull I finde
Last Line: I'le thee on my shoshannim spic'de songs sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 132, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pardon my lord, I humbly beg the same
Last Line: My breath shall lilly tunes sweet sing to thee.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 132, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pardon, my lord, I humbly beg the same
Last Line: My breath shall lilly tunes sweet sing to thee
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 133, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye daughters of jerusalem I pray
Last Line: In ravishing notes throughout eternity.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 134, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou fairest of the fairest kinde alive
Last Line: And he will cover thee with's white and red.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 135, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou far the fairest of all female dress
Last Line: Appearest like an armed troop in banners.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 136, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! What a word is this thy lips let fall
Last Line: Will by its musick raise thy joy the higher.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 137, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How precious are thy thoughts my lord, to mee
Last Line: As I like one of gilliads flock do grow.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 138, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My blessed blessing lord I fain would try
Last Line: Faith doth and meditation ever trace.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 139, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My deare, deare lord, oh that my heart was made
Last Line: Sin to destroy. God's ordinances raise.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 14, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Halfe-dead: and rotten at the coare: my lord
Last Line: And I will tune thy praise with holy breath.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 140, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My all deare lord, I fain would thee adore
Last Line: Shall humbly sing forth graces notes to thee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 141, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My only dear, dear lord, I search to finde
Last Line: Unto thy lovely selfe, under loves wing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 142, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonders amazed! Am I espoused to thee?
Last Line: Will honour thee singing that wedden song.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 144, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eternal majesty, my blessed lord
Last Line: Trumpet thy glory and with gracious skill.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 145, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! My lord, how should my lumpish heart
Last Line: My heart shall tune thy praise in sweetest fume.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 146, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My deare deare lord, I know not what to say
Last Line: Saying return, return my shulamite.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 147, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I angelick skill and on their wheele
Last Line: Brightst in mine eyes to sing her praise and thine.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 148, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My blessed lord, should I arrive unto
Last Line: And fill the aire with songs while thee I chase.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 149, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My blessed-glorious lord, thy spouse I spie
Last Line: And feed me with, I'le then thy praises sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 15, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A nazarite indeed. Not such another
Last Line: In glory bright with songs of thy renown.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 150, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My blessed lord, how doth thy beautious spouse
Last Line: And shall sing forth thy praise over this meate.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 151, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My glorious lord, how doth the worlds bright glory
Last Line: And sing the bridall melodies out best.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 152, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My deare deare lord! My soul is damp untun'd
Last Line: And golden tunes I'l ever singing praise.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 153, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My glorious lord thy work upon my hand
Last Line: I'le pay thee more when rise on heavens morrow.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 154, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faith! Faith! My lord! There is none other grace
Last Line: All grace with't to the soul gods praise to sing.
Subject(s): Faith; Puritans In Literature; Belief; Creed


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 155, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My blessed lord, I fain would thee advance
Last Line: On'ts virginall, thy holy praise, within.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 156, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Callst thou me friend? What rhetorick is this?
Last Line: Runs over with thy prais in sweetest songs.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 157 (A), by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How blest am I having such blest a lord
Last Line: Is richer spirits far than cana's wine.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 157 (B), by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How blest am I having so blesst a lord
Last Line: All heaven ore sweet praise on ery string.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 158, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My deare deare lord what shall I render thee?
Last Line: And tune thy praise in beams of glorious light.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 159, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pardon my lord, this is my great request
Last Line: Then thou will give mee hid'n mannah t'eate.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 16, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art, my lord, the king of glory bright
Last Line: The house of jacob, tun'de to thee, my king.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 160, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord my love I want words fit for thee
Last Line: To sacrifice to thee on my harps sweet string.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 161 (A), by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My double dear lord, and doubl't ore and ore
Last Line: And I will sing thy praise in songs most rife.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 161 (B), by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My double dear lord, yea doubled ore and ore
Last Line: And I will sing thy grace with gracious strife.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 162, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A shadow, lord, not such as types show here
Last Line: Thy praise sweet to my tast my harp shall sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 163, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet lord, all sweet from top to bottom all
Last Line: Was and to mee is now sweet to my tast.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 164, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Words are dear lord, notes insignificant
Last Line: Thy sweetest praise my muse shall melodiously out sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 165, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart sick my lord heart sick of love to thee!
Last Line: Thy it accepting makes my sick love sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 17, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou great supreme, thou infinite first one
Last Line: Unto thy praise upon my harp within.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 18, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bran, a chaff, a very barly yawn
Last Line: That equalls davids michtam which is in't.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 19, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord dub my tongue with a new tier of words
Last Line: Shall scale thine eares in spicknardisick tune.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 2, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Golden rose! Oh, glittering lilly white
Last Line: New psalms on davids harpe to thee and him.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 20, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Didst thou, lord, cast me in a worship-mould
Last Line: Thy glory thee in temple musick bring.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 21, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rich temple fair! Rich festivalls my lord
Last Line: Will, as I reape't, sing thee my harvest joy.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 22, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I from the new moon of the first month high
Last Line: Will as I reap sing thee my harvest joy.
Subject(s): Feasts; Passover; Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 23, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Greate lord, yea greatest lord of lords thou art
Last Line: Altaschat michtam tune in angells quires.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 24, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My soul would gazing all amazed stand
Last Line: On my shoshannims blossoming thy praise.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 25, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Guilty, my lord, what can I more declare?
Last Line: And then ile sing thy praise in better strain.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 26, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unclean, unclean: my lord, undone, all vile
Last Line: Shall make sweet musick blossom'd with thy praise.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 27, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mentall eye, spying thy sparkling fold
Last Line: If thus besprinkled, and encamp thy wayes.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 28, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That bowre, my lord, which thou at first didst build
Last Line: And I thy praise will on muth labben sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 29, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I say, my lord? With what begin?
Last Line: To toss my songs of praise rung on them, higher.
Subject(s): Noah (bible); Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 3, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like to the marigold, I blushing close
Last Line: Shall be the psalms sung forth in gracious layes.
Subject(s): Bible; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Theology


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 30, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prest down with sorrow, lord, not for my sin
Last Line: Upon my jonath elem rechokim.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 31, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Its said h ************* doth enjoy
Last Line: With praise * * * * * * * * * tun'de on my bell.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 32, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! That I could, my lord, but chide away
Last Line: In a seraphick tune and full of glee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 33, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking, my lord, within thy paradise
Last Line: My love to thee, an offering to thy love.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 34, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose this earthy globe a coconut
Last Line: Will stud thy praise with thankfull melody.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 35, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My blessed lord, that golden linck that joyns
Last Line: Thy work attended with my hand, and minde.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 36, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An head, my lord, an honourable piece
Last Line: And then my heart thy headships praise shall sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 37, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It grieves mee, lord, to thinke thy famous name
Last Line: Its tittle-tattle may thee glorify.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 38, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If that my power was answerable to
Last Line: My tune's to thee al-tashcheth mictam sweet.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 39, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor wither'd crickling, my lord, am I
Last Line: In death upon the resurrection doore.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 4, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My gracious lord, I would thee glory doe
Last Line: To make them something, and I'l give thee all.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 40, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under thy rod, my god, thy smarting rod
Last Line: My musick shall thy praises sweetly bring.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Puritans In Literature; Death - Babies


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 41, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That wisdom bright, whose vastness for extent
Last Line: Among thy palace songs thy praise to sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 42, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I fain would prize thee, lord, but finde the price
Last Line: If thou wilt tune it to thy praise in mee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 43, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, lord, I seek to show thy praises, then
Last Line: When thou with grace my soule hast sweetly tun'de.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 44, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The orator from rhetorick gardens picks
Last Line: The sweetest piped praises shall be thine.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 45, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My head, my lord, that ivory cabinet
Last Line: Will have my glory all conferrd on thee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 46, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I drown, my lord. What though the streame I'm in
Last Line: Thy praises sweetly, spite of feares sad sting.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 47, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No mervaile if my mite amazed thee
Last Line: And orient blush shall on my actions blaze.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 48, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O! What a thing is might right mannag'd? 'twill
Last Line: Of pearls to grace the tune my mite doth sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 49, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold in its ore, must melted be, to bring
Last Line: Thy glory then shall rise its melody.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 5, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou, lord, abraham's seed, and isaac too?
Last Line: Twine round thy praise, plants sprung in true love's mines.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 50, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The artists hand more gloriously bright
Last Line: And I'st by faith embox thee in my heart.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 51, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart, my lord, 's a naughty thing all o're
Last Line: Compleated in a sense, and sung by mee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 52, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What power is this? What all authoritie
Last Line: Tunes in thine eares, pipd through my sorry quill.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 53, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were not my fancy stagnate, and the lake
Last Line: Thy praise shall be my glory sung in state.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 54, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Untun'de, my lord. My cankard brassy wire
Last Line: Bee fined gold, to tune thee praise with all.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 56, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should I with silver tooles delve through the hill
Last Line: Up from thy words, while to thy praise I sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 58, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When in italian flourisht hand I would
Last Line: Thy praise with zions virgins company.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 59, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wilt thou enoculate within mine eye
Last Line: I shall thy praise under this shadow sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 6, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I fain would praise thee, lord, but finde black sin
Last Line: When thy rich grace shall be my hearty phrase.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 60 (A), by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Count me not liquorish if my soule do pine
Last Line: Sing forth thy glory with bright angells all.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 60 (B), by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye angells bright, pluck from your wings a quill
Last Line: My heart thy hallelujahs pipe shall bee.
Variant Title(s): Sacramental Meditations: 60
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 61, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mights too mean, lend your angelick might
Last Line: Shall sing thy praises: and thy glory sound.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 63, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh that I was the bird of paradise!
Last Line: The glory of thy garden in its praise.
Variant Title(s): Meditation
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 64, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! That my chilly fancy, fluttering soe
Last Line: Shall sweetly sing thee o're thy garden gated.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 65, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The vines of lebanon that briskly grew
Last Line: And it shall beare thee fruits stew'd in sweet reech.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 66, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O! What a thing is love? Who can define
Last Line: The glory of thy love when entred in.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 67 (A), by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My china ware or amber casket bright
Last Line: With breast on sharpest thorn, thy praise shall sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 67 (B), by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doe fables say, the rising sun doth dance
Last Line: I'st weare the cure, thou th'glory of this shine.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 68 (A), by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks I spy almighty holding in
Last Line: Which can thy glorious praises sing out best.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 68 (B), by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My megre soule, when wilt thou fleshed bee
Last Line: Of praises whistling in angelick tunes.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 69, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dull! Dull! My lord, as if I eaten had
Last Line: On my shoshannim's sweetest well tun'de string.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 7, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All dull, my lord, my spirits flat, and dead
Last Line: While thy sweet praise, my tunes doth glorify.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 70, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I humbly crave this riddle to unfold
Last Line: To tune thy praise, run forth on golden feet.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 71, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! What a cookroom's here? All deity
Last Line: I in sweet tunes thy sweetest praise will twist.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 72, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enoculate into my mentall eye
Last Line: And on my bells thine honour chimed shall bee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 73, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory! Oh glory! Wonderfull, and more
Last Line: On my shoshanims tun'd on ev'ry string.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 74, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I fain would have a rich, fine phansy ripe
Last Line: Thy glory make the web, thy praise the twine.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 75, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Strange, my lord. Here's reason at a set
Last Line: I'll sing thy glorious praise in ery room.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 76, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will yee be neighbourly, ye angells bright?
Last Line: Unto thy praise. When glory lights my taper.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 77, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A state, a state, oh! Dungeon state indeed
Last Line: Whose strings toucht by this grace, will twang thy praise.
Subject(s): Bible; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Theology


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 78, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine eyes, that at the beautious sight of fruite
Last Line: If waft with gailes breath'd by the holy ghost.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 79, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I promethius' filching ferula
Last Line: My well belov'de is mine: I'm his become.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Religion; Sherlock, William (1641-1707); Theology


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 8, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou pry'st thou screw'st my sincking soul up to
Last Line: My mictams shall thy hallelujahs tune.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 80, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This curious pearle, one syllable, call'd life
Last Line: The babe of life swath'de up in grace shall sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 81, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I fain would praise thee, lord, but often finde
Last Line: Say grace to thee with songs of holy skill.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 82, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My tatter'd fancy; and my ragged rhymes
Last Line: Upon her virginalls, praise for this thing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 83, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A garden, yea a paradise indeed
Last Line: And blossom aromatick praise the while.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 84, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast made me, lord, one of thy garden beds?
Last Line: Thy glory tun'de on my perfumed string.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 85, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Angells, stand agastard at my song
Last Line: Shall disht with praise, thy entertainment bee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 86, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, my lord, while that my soule enwarms
Last Line: Then o're this feast, I will say grace for joy.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 87, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life! Life! What's that? It is a taske too hard
Last Line: Will give my life and selfe to thee with joy.
Subject(s): Life; Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 89, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What birth of wonders from thy fingers ends
Last Line: This life. And I shall glory beare for thee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 9, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, let thy dazzling shine refracted fan'de
Last Line: That shall thy praise deck't in sweet tunes out warp.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 90, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eternal life! What life is this, I pray?
Last Line: Thy sweetest tunes shall ring eternall joy.
Subject(s): Future Life; Puritans In Literature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 91, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What once again, my lord, allowst thou mee
Last Line: Thy praise, on my shoshannims, lord, shall ring.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 92, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It grieves mee, lord, my fancy's rusty
Last Line: In glories dress to meet thee in the skies.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 93, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could but a glance of that bright city fair
Last Line: To play a michtam on her golden wyer.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 94, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Celestiall mansions! Wonder, oh my soul!
Last Line: My present tunes shall sing thy praise when there.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 95, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall a mote up to a monarch rise?
Last Line: By thy good spirits melody to thee.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 96, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What placed in the sun: and yet my ware
Last Line: In that thy love did tende me all my dayes.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 97, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My only lord, when with no muddy sight
Last Line: Tune forth on thee, its harp, that heaven shall greet.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 98, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A vine, my lord, a noble vine indeed
Last Line: Then I will sing thy love better than wine.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Vines And Vineyards


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 99, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory! What art? O! Sparkling spark all bright
Last Line: I'le sing thee songs of grace in glories spheare.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


RESCUE OF MOSES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In judah's halls the harp is hushed
Last Line: The babe that slept by nile's broad tide
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature;jews;judah (bible); Judaism


ROCHESTER'S CONFERENCE WITH A POST BOY, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Son of a whore, god damn you! Can you tell
Last Line: The readiest way, my lord's by rochester.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Accidents; Villains In Literature


RODEF SHALOM, by W. G. SKILLMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When ancient nations bowed the knee
Last Line: The one jehovah, sovereign lord.
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Temples; Worship; Judaism; Mosques


SARAH BYNG, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some years ago you heard me sing
Last Line: That literature breeds distress.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Literature


SENT TO ACADEMICIAN CH'EN AT INSTIT. ILLUMINATION LITERATURE, by WEI FENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deep autumn %beyond the wilds
Last Line: In the south palace, your letter %brilliant as a brocade
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Writing Schools; Zen Buddhism


SHAKESPEARE, by ERIC ACHORN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes, when in disgust at petty men
Last Line: No more than he their strength to spread his wings.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Literature; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What word to him hadst thou to tell
Last Line: O stolen novice of saint clare?
Subject(s): Dramatists; Literature; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SINGING ALOUD, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We all have our faults. Mine is trying to write poems
Last Line: Or they'll lock us up like the apes, and control us forever.
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gr-r-r - there go, my heart's abhorrence!
Last Line: Ave, virgo! Gr-r-r -- you swine!
Subject(s): Hate; Hypocrisy; Villains In Literature


SONNET: 94, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: They that have power to hurt, and will do none
Last Line: Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
Variant Title(s): "the Life Without Passion;""they That Have Pow'r To Hut And Will Do None"";
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Hypocrisy; Sin; Villains In Literature; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


SOUVENIR DE MONSIEUR POOP, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the self-appointed guardian of english literature
Last Line: And I do not deem it advisable, in the interests of the editor %to whom I am spatially contracted, %
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Literature


STRANGLEHOLD OF ENGLIST LIT., by FELIX MNTHALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those questions, sister
Last Line: How could they be answered?
Subject(s): Austen, Jane (1775-1817); English Language; Literature; Novels And Novelists


SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, shaping nations, the creative hand
Last Line: Is filled with humour, irony, and song.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; England; Literature; Poetry & Poets; English


SUBURBAN SQUARE, by SALVADOR ESPRIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: This january evening
Last Line: Beneath captured bananas
Subject(s): Cervantes, Miguel De (1547-1616); Spanish Literature


SUMMER NEAR THE RIVER, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have carried my pillow to the windowsill
Last Line: It seems, for a moment, the river ceases flowing.
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fidelity; Love - Complaints; Women; Women's Rights; Faithfulness; Constancy; Feminism


SURVEY OF LITERATURE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In all the good greek of plato
Subject(s): Literature


SURVEY OF LITERATURE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In all the good greek of plato
Last Line: No belly and no bowels, %only consonants and vowels
Subject(s): Literature


TAO IN THE YANKEE STADIUM BLEACHERS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Distance brings proportion. From here
Last Line: Hold motionless while berra flies to left
Subject(s): Baseball; Chinese Literature; Sports


TAO IN THE YANKEE STADIUM BLEACHERS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Distance brings proportion. From here
Last Line: And, distant as a paradise, experts, passionate and deft, %wait while berra flies to left
Subject(s): Baseball; Chinese Literature; Sports


TEACHING GERMAN LITERATURE, by VINCENT BUCKLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I teach german literature, and this is how it goes
Last Line: And goethe married clara kronk and clara married wagner
Subject(s): German Literature


TESTAMENT FOR MY STUDENTS, 1968 - 1969, by KAY BOYLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each year you came jogging or loping down that hall
Last Line: Their young arms cradling your bones.
Subject(s): Literature; Oppression; Revolutions; Schools; Social Problems; Students


THE BOOK, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Red-gold and rough morocco are its covers
Last Line: With truth at rhythmic heel of song, its lord.
Subject(s): Books; Literature; Poetry & Poets; Reading


THE CLOCK IN THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How patient man is in his time
Subject(s): Middle Ages; Millenium; Second Advent; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature; Second Coming Of Christ


THE EBB AND FLOW, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first thou on me, lord, wrought'st thy sweet print
Last Line: Away mine ashes, then thy fire doth glow.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


THE EPITAPH IN FORM OF A BALLAD, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Men, brother men, that after us yet live
Last Line: But pray to god that he forgive us all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Variant Title(s): Ballade Of The Gibbet
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


THE FUTURE OF THE CLASSICS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "no longer, o scholars, shall plautus"
Subject(s): Future;literature;poetry & Poets;writing & Writers


THE INTRUDER, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once in my secluded chamber
Last Line: "stay""—and I awoke. ..."
Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M.
Variant Title(s): ...whom You Are To Blame'
Subject(s): Exiles; Hebrew Literature; Israel; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Oppression


THE MAGIC WORDS, by MELVIN G. WINSTOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The scene of conflict was a level plain
Last Line: And wept. The soldier now, alas! Was dead.
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Right To Asylum; Judaism


THE MAIMED DEBAUCHEE, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As some brave admiral, in former war
Last Line: And being good for nothing else, be wise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Variant Title(s): The Disabled Debauchee
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seduction; Villains In Literature; Seamen; Sails


THE NEW CHINESE FICTION, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although the depiction of living forms
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Motion Pictures; Wit & Humor; Movies; Cinema


THE PARADISE OF LECTURERS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you might be a name for the world to acclaim, and when opulence dawns on
Last Line: All the gold of klondike isn't anything like to the sums that are made in the states!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Literature; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors


THE PAST IS THE PRESENT, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If external action is effete
Last Line: "the occasion and expediency determines the form'."
Variant Title(s): So Far As The Future Is Concerned
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature


THE PERSIAN PROSECUTION, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For isdegerdes dead, gorones reigns
Last Line: Sustain and overcome all hellish jawes.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict


THE POEMS OF BIG STICK: 1, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been to tientai
Last Line: Only brings men pain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Buddha; Buddhists; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF BIG STICK: 2, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sinking like a rock in the sea
Last Line: Life and death are dust in space
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Lightning; Buddha; Buddhists; Lightning Rods


THE POEMS OF BIG STICK: 3, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever cold mountain stops to visit
Last Line: So anything real includes it all
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Reality


THE POEMS OF BIG STICK: 4, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Actually there isn't a thing
Last Line: Doesn't need to sit there stiff
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 1, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Towering cliffs were the home I chose
Last Line: What good are empty names
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 10, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the cliffs I sat alone
Last Line: The moon is the hub of the mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Caverns; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 100, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For an image of life and death
Last Line: Both life and death are fine
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Ice; Life; Reincarnation; Water; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 101, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I recall the days of my youth
Last Line: Who'll show an old man pity
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Memory; Youth


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 102, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I retired to the edge of a forest
Last Line: Of bobbing ducks on the waves
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Farm Life; Simplicity; Agriculture; Farmers


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 103, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No need to attack the faults of others
Last Line: Children must see for themselves
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Virtue


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 104, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rich men met in an elegant hall
Last Line: Strange to begrudge leftover rays
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 105, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a brilliant man somewhere
Last Line: He chases all sorts of distinctions
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Scholarship & Scholars; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 106, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The layered bloom of hills and streams
Last Line: What more could I want in that land of dreams
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 107, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My scrolls are filled with the poems of immortals
Last Line: And hum a verse or two
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Quiet Life


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 108, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mister shih had two sons
Last Line: Like buckteeth that never meet
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fathers & Sons; Success


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 109, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mandarin ducks roost for the night
Last Line: They don't usurp the phoenix's lake
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ducks; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Mallards; Drakes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 11, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me a hidden eddy
Last Line: Nowadays lasts how many years
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 110, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some people flaunt their practice
Last Line: A pity to be so dumb
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Confucius & Confucianism; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 111, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I carried books and a hoe in my youth
Last Line: To save a poor fish in a rut
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Abandonment; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Youth; Desertion


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 112, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no limit to changes
Last Line: This time through a poor clerk
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 113, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My writing and judgment aren't that bad
Last Line: Just might score a hit
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Judgments; Writing & Writers


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 114, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A poor donkey is short by a bushel
Last Line: It just makes me depressed
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Comfort; Poverty


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 115, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bridegroom liu is eighty-two
Last Line: Then killed by the girls from the blue
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Marriage; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 116, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose wine shop is this aglow
Last Line: They growl and off he runs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Wine


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 117, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I deplore this vulgar place
Last Line: We soon see if it's gold or base
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Taoism


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 118, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The month when farmers escape the heat
Last Line: Sumeru is just a pea
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Farm Life; Heat; Wine; Agriculture; Farmers


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 119, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is this poor dreamer
Last Line: He doesn't dare to look
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Failure; Job Hunting


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 12, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zither and books are up to you
Last Line: At home on a single branch
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 120, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A frequent guest of hunger and cold
Last Line: Along with five pints of chaff
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poverty


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 121, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Building sky-high pavilions is useless
Last Line: At least don't be crooked as a hook
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Vanity; Virtue


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 122, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where clouds and mountains are piled to the sky
Last Line: Are mindless like the rivers flowing east
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 123, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wealth and position attract distant kin
Last Line: Even leather shoes wear thin
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Family Life; Poverty; Wealth; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 124, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I once knew a foolish man
Last Line: A donkey knows pain is close behind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 125, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This year's grain being still unripe
Last Line: And wealth just makes them dumber
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Marriage; Dullness; Stupdity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 126, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of very funny affairs
Last Line: Nobody knows white snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Gossip


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 127, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When an old man takes a young wife
Last Line: Both show the other affection
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Marriage; Old Age; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 128, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A courteous handsome young man
Last Line: This is how books fool us
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Poverty; Scholarship & Scholars


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 129, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Funny this den of five shades
Last Line: And peace will be as clear as ghee
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 13, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brothers share five districts
Last Line: Swim with fish in a stream
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Government; Nature; Politics & Government


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 130, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Painted beams aren't for me
Last Line: You'll never see a bud
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forests; Home; Nature; Woods


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 131, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Born thirty years ago
Last Line: To lie in a stream and wash out my ears
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Retirement; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 132, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is full of busy people
Last Line: Revealing a buddha's view
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 133, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I can't bear to watch birds play
Last Line: And heading south for cold mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 134, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday was so long ago
Last Line: We looked but couldn't speak
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Silence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 135, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't stay poor my friend
Last Line: You're just as rich as him
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poverty; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 136, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This person is so uncertain
Last Line: Eat the mulberries in my yard
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 137, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I dreamt I went home
Last Line: And my temples weren't their old color
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Dreams; Homecoming; Marriage; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 138, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man lives less than a hundred years
Last Line: He still won't stop till they hit bottom
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 139, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There exists one kind of person
Last Line: A vast expanse of woe
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Taoism; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 14, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A master of the brush and the sword
Last Line: What's left isn't worth saying
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Calligraphy; Chinese Literature; Swords


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 140, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When master tung was young
Last Line: Who on earth was that
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Wealth; Youth; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 141, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who on earth is that
Last Line: Otherwise he's helpless
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 142, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People think the body's their root
Last Line: You'll make bodhisattvas sick
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Bodies; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Reason; Buddha; Buddhists; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 143, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old chung north of town
Last Line: But had such cold insides
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Wealth; Dead, The; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 144, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When stupid people read my poems
Last Line: One look and he knew mystery
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 145, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There may be punctilious people
Last Line: You'll regret that day
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 146, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My path led through an old cemetery
Last Line: Dust and ashes swirled in the air
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Chinese Literature; Graveyards


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 147, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At sunset I went down the western slope
Last Line: Didn't I tremble in fright
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Evening; Fear; Nature; Sunset; Twilight


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 148, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once we're born we're confused
Last Line: This is why I grieve
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Birth; Chaos; Chinese Literature; Grief; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 149, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If pleasures come be happy
Last Line: Lays out the end in detail
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mortality; Pleasure


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 15, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chuang-tzu said for his funeral
Last Line: For those who live honest death is fine too
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Chuang-tzu (4th Century); Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 150, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sitting alone I keep slipping away
Last Line: Yearend finds me old with regrets
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 151, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man with a good head and belly
Last Line: A descendant of poverty his name is broke
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poverty


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 152, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If others are worthy accept them
Last Line: And ignore pu-shang's advice
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Virtue


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: 154, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those days when I had money
Last Line: I hope you weigh this well
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poverty; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 155, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For the hundred years of human life
Last Line: Listen to the lion's roar
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Anger; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Compassion; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 156, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll tell you a thing or two
Last Line: I've put them on the sunlit side
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Wisdom


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 157, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain has so many wonders
Last Line: Unless it's clear you can't get through
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 158, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree grew here before the grove
Last Line: What remains is real
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Trees


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 159, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On cold mountain there's a naked bug
Last Line: Ready to strike troublesome foes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Insects; Swords; Wisdom; Buddha; Buddhists; Bugs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 16, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People ask the way to cold mountain
Last Line: You would be here
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 160, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some people fear a white head
Last Line: But it's not meant for him
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Fear


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 161, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A trifle poor in the past
Last Line: My pot is surrounded by rats
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poverty


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 162, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This rare and heavenly creature
Last Line: You'll meet but never know
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Wisdom


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 163, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a single cave
Last Line: I have the primordial buddha
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Ascesticism; Buddhism; Caves; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists; Caverns


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 164, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Boys and grown-up men
Last Line: Realize the mind is king
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 165, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Idle I called on an eminent monk
Last Line: The moon held up its lone lantern
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Monks


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 166, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing to do I climbed flower peak
Last Line: White clouds flew with cranes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Nature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 167, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain owns a house
Last Line: Think and discover the key
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 168, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day I left the mountains
Last Line: Men don't ever get free
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Chinese Literature; Men; Women


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 169, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I escaped to cold mountain
Last Line: I'm happy here in the cliffs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Mountains; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 17, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hundred-foot trees produced by heaven
Last Line: It still could prop up a stable
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Lumber & Lumbering; Trees; Woodsmen


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 170, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The people I see in this world
Last Line: I'd rather be poor in the woods
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Humanity; Poverty; Solitude; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 171, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ago during liang times
Last Line: And where are they today
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 172, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm poor alas and I'm sick
Last Line: All these cares wear a man down
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Poverty; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 173, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Raise girls but not too many
Last Line: You're big but no match for your mother
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Girls; Parents; Parenthood


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 174, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A resolute will can't be rolled up
Last Line: What a waste of time
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 175, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The place where I've retired
Last Line: When I first feel the sun's heat
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Retirement; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 176, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I recall the places I've been
Last Line: I would hug my knees in a frigid wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 177, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey you followers of the way
Last Line: Keep it free of scars
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 178, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When birds sang this spring
Last Line: Recalling the capital hurts
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 179, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many tientai people
Last Line: They call it useless advice
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Wisdom; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 18, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I spur my horse past ruins
Last Line: Unnamed in the records of immortals
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Animals; Chinese Literature; Decay; Horses; Lament; Mortality; Ruins; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 180, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I reached cold mountain and all cares stopped
Last Line: And trust the current like an unmoored boat
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Quiet Life


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 181, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pitiful hundred-year house
Last Line: To rebuild would never work
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Houses; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 182, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No matter how lofty your spirit
Last Line: You'll be no warmer than ice
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Heat; Money


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 183, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They laugh at me hey farm boy
Last Line: And stick a stupa on my head
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fashion; Poverty; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 184, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buy meat with blood still dripping
Last Line: And both of you finally part
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Food & Eating; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 185, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When will the treadmill of life and death stop
Last Line: We're like blind mules following our feet
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 186, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Exhaust your mind for profit and fame
Last Line: Buried in a grave does it still exist
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Greed; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 187, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the saddest thing in the world
Last Line: With moonlight and wind for his home
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Sin; Virtue; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 188, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone sighed cold mountain air
Last Line: With money your concern
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 189, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Live without making visits
Last Line: They whittle it into splinters
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Virtue


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 19, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Parrots live in western lands
Last Line: Flying up in the clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Parrots; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 190, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One bottle is cast in gold
Last Line: Cultivation begins today
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Virtue; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 191, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cinnabar hills rise up to the clouds
Last Line: Vine linked to vine stream joined to stream
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 192, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seng-yao I hear was a talented man
Last Line: He couldn't paint master pao-chih
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Paintings & Painters


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 193, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many falls have I spent on cold mountain
Last Line: Smoothing the mind-ground leaning against rocks
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Time; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


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 POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 195, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old and sick final years over a hundred
Last Line: Why would I envy the clever ways of others
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Old Age; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 196, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire and smoke raged within
Last Line: They were fools indeed
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fire; Ignorance; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 197, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is there a self or not
Last Line: Leave offerings by my bier
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Self


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 198, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw some trees by the river
Last Line: Why blame heaven and earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Trees


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 199, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On ancient rocks are ancient tracks
Last Line: No need to ask if it's east or west
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 2, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All you who read my poems
Last Line: Do it as fast as an order
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Virtue; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 20, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside jade hall is a curtain of pearls
Last Line: She'll look like chewed sugarcane
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Chinese Literature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 200, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The unfortunate human disorder
Last Line: As long as their own are sweet
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 201, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reading won't save us from death
Last Line: And you'll forget the bitterness
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Books; Chinese Literature; Reading


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 202, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see someone deceiving others
Last Line: Still retaining its natural life
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 203, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above cold mountain the moon shines alone
Last Line: Buried in the skandhas submerged in the body
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Moon; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 204, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down to the stream to watch the jade flow
Last Line: What do I need in the faraway world
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Quiet Life


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 205, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My true home is on cold mountain
Last Line: I can go anywhere everywhere is perfect
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 206, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it about people that makes me sigh
Last Line: They're sent chasing will-o'-the-wisps and lies
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Life


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 207, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tientai mountains are my home
Last Line: The joys of roaming free are wonderful indeed
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Freedom; Happiness; Mountains; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 208, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We don't see the dew from this morning
Last Line: Let there be nothing left at all
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 209, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When water is so clear it sparkles
Last Line: From such awareness nothing hides
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Quiet Life


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 21, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My parents stayed busy enough
Last Line: Woodcutters often stop by
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Family Life; Idleness; Relatives; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 210, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Talking about food won't make you full
Last Line: Don't look around outside
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Talk; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 211, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The suffering of the wheel is relentless
Last Line: Don't let your mind grow dim
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 212, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The three-spoked wheel is relentless
Last Line: Once there you're there forever
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 213, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hiked yesterday to the summit
Last Line: Is now a pile of ashes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hiking; Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 214, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many ancient sages
Last Line: Is the mark of the king of things
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 215, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard on mount tientai
Last Line: All I saw were wisps of white
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 216, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A child who doesn't have a teacher
Last Line: Don't become a laughingstock
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Education; Teaching & Teachers; Virtue; Educators; Professors


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 217, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I close my overgrown door in vain
Last Line: The ancient graves are plowed into fields
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Contentment; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 218, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People who meet cold mountain
Last Line: Visit cold mountain sometime
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Guests; Visiting


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 219, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People who wander among clouds
Last Line: In spring the birds kuan-kuan
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 22, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My home is below green cliffs
Last Line: I chant beneath the trees
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Nature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 220, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As long as I stay in the village
Last Line: And sparrows will dance like lords
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cities; Villages; Urban Life


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 221, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Birth and death are decreed
Last Line: And brilliant scholars are broke
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Birth; Chinese Literature; Death; Fame; Wealth; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Reputation; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 222, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A state relies on people
Last Line: Gains only a short-term profit
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Government; Nature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 223, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People can't explain / the reason they're so crazy
Last Line: Homage to the buddha
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Insanity; Buddha; Buddhists; Madness; Mental Illness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 224, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I enjoy the simple path
Last Line: Until the moon comes up cold mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 225, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great sea has no limit
Last Line: In the open it shines without limit
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Sea; Ocean


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 226, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see tientai summit
Last Line: I've always loved friends of the way
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Buddha; Buddhists; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 227, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four or five dumb upstarts
Last Line: And eat through others' bindings
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 228, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His mind is like a great peak
Last Line: To sit and not speak and have no cares
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Silence; Wisdom


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 229, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All of you are priceless gems
Last Line: Don't just sit there stiff
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ships & Shipping


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 23, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The seasonal round never stops
Last Line: Depart and don't return
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Seasons; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 230, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All I see are fools
Last Line: Read this over once or twice
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 231, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Children of the triple world
Last Line: Don't drink the water of darkness
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Children; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists; Childhood


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 232, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The three worlds swarm with people
Last Line: They mock the ox that works the mill
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 233, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our lives are circumscribed by dust
Last Line: Suddenly we're old men
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Life; Mortality


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 234, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain speaks these words
Last Line: And karma holds the reins
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Insanity; Wisdom; Madness; Mental Illness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 235, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a message for the faithful
Last Line: All you get is stupid
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 236, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There exists one type of person
Last Line: He acts like a hired man
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Guests; Ignorance; Visiting; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 237, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say when shakyamuni
Last Line: The mind is a tathagata's realm
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 238, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We hear about the ministers of state
Last Line: And all because of ignorance
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Government; Ignorance; Punishment; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 239, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The superior man's mind is terribly sharp
Last Line: When will creation end
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 24, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The new year ends a year of sorrow
Last Line: Who can sleep past dawn
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Holidays; New Year; Spring


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 240, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have six brothers
Last Line: Everybody praises
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Brothers; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Punishment; Shame; Half-brothers; Relatives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 241, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see people everywhere
Last Line: End your attachment to form
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Parents; Buddha; Buddhists; Relatives; Parenthood


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 242, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a bird of five colors
Last Line: It dances and enjoys the day
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Birds; Chinese Literature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 243, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was so poor in the past
Last Line: These jewels aren't for sale
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poverty; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 244, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All my life too lazy to work
Last Line: Wherever you are it's alert
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Virtue; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 245, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The homeless people I know
Last Line: They wander forever content
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Contentment; Homeless; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 246, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I recently hiked to a temple in the clouds
Last Line: Persisting in idiocy holding onto doubts
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Taoism; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 247, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this village is a house
Last Line: A pearl concealed in rags
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Houses; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 248, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a poem for you young lords
Last Line: He was a fool for azure pearl
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Wealth; Dead, The; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 249, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why am I so troubled
Last Line: Entrust myself to the hills for good
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 25, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Calligraphy unrestrained / physique robust enough
Last Line: I'll teach you magic mushroom songs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Calligraphy; Chinese Literature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 250, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your rags are due to your past deeds
Last Line: Why do you look so pale
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poverty


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 251, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the yellow river
Last Line: Because we keep ourselves blind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Yellow River, China; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 252, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His two aspects are open and shut
Last Line: Everything comes from the lord of heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 253, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Children I implore you
Last Line: Are free to go where they want
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Children; Chinese Literature; Fire; Buddha; Buddhists; Childhood


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 254, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad creatures of a transient existence
Last Line: Back and forth on the three hateful paths
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Life; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 255, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People search for cloud roads
Last Line: Cloud roads are in space
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Clouds; Roads; Taoism; Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 256, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where cold mountain dwells in peace
Last Line: Resting on a perilous ledge
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 257, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The five peaks turn to dust
Last Line: Be sure not to tie the ten knots
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Nature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 258, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Get your own clothes if you're cold
Last Line: There's never enough food and clothes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Clothing & Dress; Food & Eating; Self-reliance


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 259, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the joys of the mountains
Last Line: Looks like a lone-flying crane
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Freedom; Mountains; Quiet Life; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 26, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I came to cold mountain
Last Line: Heaven and earth can crumble and change
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Comfort; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 260, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine a king-of-the-wheel
Last Line: You'll waste these human years
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Reincarnation; Wealth; Buddha; Buddhists; Transmigration; Pretas; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 261, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The floodplain river is wide
Last Line: Everywhere spreads its fame
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 262, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the people I see
Last Line: Blooming at dawn gone by dusk
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Life; Mortality; Dead, The


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 263, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rising beyond the sky
Last Line: Tientai stands unrivaled
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 264, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit on top of a boulder
Last Line: And a lotus comes out of the mud
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Quiet Life


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 265, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When hermits hide from society
Last Line: Aren't stained by the muddy world
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Happiness; Hermits; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 266, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's some advice for meat-eating people
Last Line: But can't get out when he's full
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 267, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever since I left home
Last Line: I'm hoping to meet a buddha
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Yoga; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 268, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My five-word poems number five hundred
Last Line: Is truly the mother of buddhas
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 269, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Daily concerns are endless
Last Line: Ride the white ox outside
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Life; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 27, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man who lives on rose-colored clouds
Last Line: He forgets a whole lifetime of sorrow
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forgetfulness; Grief; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 270, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Emperor wu of the han they say
Last Line: Today are nothing but weeds
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Past; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 271, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I recall twenty years ago
Last Line: I came out ahead
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Idiots


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 272, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey you people who leave home
Last Line: Great suffering buddha
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Monks; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 273, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again I see those who leave home
Last Line: They seek maitreya somewhere else
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Monks; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 274, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold cliff's remoteness is what I like
Last Line: But the pearl of my mind stays safe
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Old Age; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 275, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've always loved friends of the way
Last Line: And we finally see who we are
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Zen Buddhism


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 276, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You're not really hermits
Last Line: Aping those who shun the dust and wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Hermits


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 277, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the sages of the past
Last Line: None escaped the wheel of birth and death
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Death; Buddha; Buddhists; Dead, The


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 278, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I sat before the cliffs
Last Line: A mind without a care
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 279, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid a thousand clouds and streams
Last Line: Silent like a river in fall
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Ascesticism; Chinese Literature; Idleness; Quiet Life; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 28, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This maid is from hantan
Last Line: Her embroidered quilt fills a silver bed
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 280, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stop right now I implore you
Last Line: Find the jewel inside your clothes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Hell; Buddha; Buddhists


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: 282, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From a lofty mountain peak
Last Line: A song in which there is no zen
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Zen Buddhism; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 283, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mister wang the graduate
Last Line: A blind man's songs about the sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 284, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I live in the countryside
Last Line: It's hard as any diamond
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Poverty


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 285, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain speaks these words
Last Line: Performing another tragedy
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Wisdom


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 286, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see people chanting sutras
Last Line: Knows there's no inside or out
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 287, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is nothing but clouds
Last Line: He remains a man beyond form
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hermits; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 288, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deer live deep in the forest
Last Line: And soon their loveliness fades
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Deer; Mortality; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 289, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An oriole on a flowering branch
Last Line: And tears fall in the wind of spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Orioles


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 29, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pole your three winged galleons
Last Line: I have nothing to convey
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 290, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Relaxing below cold cliff
Last Line: Reading the poems of the ancients
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 291, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here where I once stayed
Last Line: Why not read some old lines
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Decay; Past; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 292, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The quick-thinking people I meet
Last Line: All work is finished inside and out
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 293, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dressed in sky-flower clothes
Last Line: They hunt the ghosts of delusion
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 294, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at the flower among the leaves
Last Line: Red cheeks don't last long
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Flowers; Mortality


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 295, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go ahead stockpile rhino horn
Last Line: Trying to live forever is vain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Mortality; Vanity; Dead, The


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 296, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As humans we have needs
Last Line: The heartbreak never ends
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 297, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is a leakproof cliff
Last Line: I'm content to laugh and sing
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Retirement; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 298, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buddhist monks don't keep their precepts
Last Line: All are at the foot of hills
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Taoism; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 299, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People laugh about my poems
Last Line: Then my poems will plague the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 3, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cold mountain road is strange
Last Line: Form asks shadow where to
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 30, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wise ones you ignore me
Last Line: And sit up straight with all this hair
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Solitude; Dullness; Stupdity; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 300, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On cold mountain road
Last Line: What are my signs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 301, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is so cold
Last Line: An old man survives
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cold; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 302, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain I live on
Last Line: It's always deserted
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 303, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain's remoteness
Last Line: He would know the tune
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 304, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among high cliffs / there's plenty of breeze
Last Line: A white-haired old man
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Old Age; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 305, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sage of cold mountain
Last Line: Neither dead nor alive
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Solitude; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 306, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the people I see
Last Line: I'll carve your name in stone
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Dead, The


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 307, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever has cold mountain's poems
Last Line: And read them from time to time
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 31, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain man lives under thatch
Last Line: A shelf full of nothing but books
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Books; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Mountains; Reading; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 32, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who takes the cold mountain road
Last Line: And sit with me in the clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 33, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As long as we're bound by the six extremes
Last Line: And none of them owns any pants
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Ascesticism; Chinese Literature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 34, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where white clouds form high rugged crags
Last Line: How else could they pierce my walls
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fish & Fishing; Grief; Singing & Singers; Anglers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 35, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trail to cold mountain is faint
Last Line: Year after year no spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 36, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What makes a young man grieve
Last Line: These words pain an old man
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Duty; Grief; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 37, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People say cares never depart
Last Line: Is someone plagued by old cares
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 38, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two turtles aboard an ox cart
Last Line: Acting kindly they got stung
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hospitality; Punishment; Turtles; Tortoises


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 39, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In april when silkworms are small
Last Line: This place is better than mine
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Games; Girls; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 4, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking for a refuge
Last Line: He forgot the way he came
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Taoism; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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 COLD MOUNTAIN: 41, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rich have so many cares
Last Line: The mourners will all be flies
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Wealth; Dead, The; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 42, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a brilliant scholar once
Last Line: What can you say about broken tiles or melted ice
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Scholarship & Scholars; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 43, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A white crane carries a bitter flower
Last Line: His wife and children don't know him
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cranes (birds); Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 44, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I usually live in seclusion
Last Line: The spring is dry but not the stream
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 45, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you were too dumb the life before
Last Line: But one day you'll cross the vast divide
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 46, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The beautiful lady lu
Last Line: She couldn't avoid ending up in the hills
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Mortality; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 47, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mistress tsou of tiyen
Last Line: They had to eat leftover cake
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hospitality; Poverty


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 48, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath high cliffs I live alone
Last Line: My dipper on a branch click clack
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Calm; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 49, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Things all have their uses
Last Line: Will never match a crippled cat
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Usefullness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 5, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind is like the autumn moon
Last Line: What more can I say
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Calm; Chinese Literature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 50, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Show me the person who doesn't die
Last Line: The pine wind slays with grief
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Equality; Dead, The


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 51, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A black-maned roan and coral whip
Last Line: There's your isle of penglai
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Youth


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 52, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They act like drunks all day
Last Line: Can't chant sutras then
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Chinese Literature; Death; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 53, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I reached cold mountain
Last Line: Suddenly both eyes filled with tears
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 54, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gathering lotuses we called to each other
Last Line: Letting our thoughts surge on
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Boats; Chinese Literature; Quiet Life


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 55, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The willows grow dark like mist
Last Line: No swallow nests allowed
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Absence; Chinese Literature; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 56, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Call friends over when you have wine
Last Line: Haven't sent back any news
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hospitality; Mortality


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 57, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A likable excellent fellow
Last Line: He doesn't pass on the eternal lamp
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Men; Mortality


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 58, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The peach would bloom through summer
Last Line: Long ago was an endless sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Fruit; Past; Peaches; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 59, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a girl to the east
Last Line: They'll reap their judgment in tears
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Marriage; Punishment; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 6, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains are so cold
Last Line: Looks in vain for the sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cold; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 60, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A farmer with acres of mulberry groves
Last Line: Dying of hunger and cold in the end
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Farm Life; Pain; Agriculture; Farmers; Suffering; Misery


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 61, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see hundreds of dogs
Last Line: A pack of dogs can't share
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Animals; Chinese Literature; Dogs; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 62, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straining its eyes it scans the horizon
Last Line: A tailorbird on the waves
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Heaven; Paradise


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 63, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In loyang so many girls
Last Line: Or thinking of husbands at home
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Girls; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 64, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In spring women flaunt their looks
Last Line: Their husbands know why
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Flirtation; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 65, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A group of girls play in fading light
Last Line: White temples and a trembling heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Games; Girls; Longing; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 66, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever runs into a ghost or spirit
Last Line: Finds nowhere to sink its beak
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ghosts; Supernatural; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 67, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow river is boundless
Last Line: You make an effort moving or still
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Yellow River, China


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 68, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aboard this boat of rotten wood
Last Line: Alas it's due to bitterness
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Boats; Chinese Literature


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 POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 7, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A moth-browed girl in town
Last Line: The hibiscus can't bear cold
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Girls; Lutes; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 70, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hermit's heart is heavy
Last Line: The cinnamon trees detain him
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Duty; Grief; Hermits; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 71, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone lives in a mountain gorge
Last Line: He stands alone steadfast
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hermits; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 72, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pigs devour dead human flesh
Last Line: Lotuses will bloom in boiling soup
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Humanity; Pigs; Boars; Hogs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 73, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chaos was happy / it neither ate not peed
Last Line: The crowd yells run for your life
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chaos; Chinese Literature; Life


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 74, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What's this crying for
Last Line: The six paths don't excite me
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 75, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wife got tired of weaving
Last Line: Crying in pain to the sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Marriage; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 76, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They don't walk the noble path
Last Line: How will they deal with disaster
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Punishment; Virtue


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 77, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There exists one kind of fool
Last Line: Tell him don't stay here
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 78, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man descended from pride
Last Line: And never grows tired of meat
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Greed; Pride; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 79, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I chose a secluded place to live
Last Line: Picking ferms I pass the years left
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Solitude; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 8, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fine young man on horseback
Last Line: Mean nothing when you're dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Courage; Death; Mortality; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 80, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you would increase increase your essence
Last Line: You won't survive the trauma of death
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Death; Immortality; Self; Dead, The


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 81, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I labored in vain reciting the three histories
Last Line: Every year with a season of green
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Education


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 82, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring water is pure in an emerald stream
Last Line: Focus on emptiness and the world grows still
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Silence; Springs (water)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 83, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a coat
Last Line: Yearlong only this
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Clothing & Dress


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 84, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White whisk and sandalwood handle
Last Line: It's used to direct lost men
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Perfume; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 85, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some seek pleasure in love
Last Line: Show you the mind not used in vain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Pleasure; Truth; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 86, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So many kinds of people exist
Last Line: And behold the thoughtless mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Greed; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 87, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A greedy man who piles up wealth
Last Line: Flap your wings in the blue
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disasters; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 88, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten thousand miles from home
Last Line: The trick is don't be greedy
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Swords; War


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 89, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Anger is a fire in the mind
Last Line: Forbearance keeps anger away
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Anger; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 9, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I longed to visit the eastern cliff
Last Line: And slept with a cloud for a pillow
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 90, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All you senseless buried heads
Last Line: You discover a body's curse
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Wisdom; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 91, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hateful destinies cloud the eye
Last Line: Recognize the king of things
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fate; Destiny


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 92, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven is boundlessly high
Last Line: Blind men asking the color of milk
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Life


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 93, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All kinds of people exist under heaven
Last Line: I'd head east
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Humanity; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 94, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wise man isn't greedy
Last Line: At all the mounds below the pines
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Mortality; Wisdom; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 95, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Haggling over fish and meat
Last Line: You'll know it wasn't right
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 96, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone points to a cedar
Last Line: It's hard to make a ball
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Trees; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 97, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Steam some sand for your dinner
Last Line: Give up this useless struggle
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Equality; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 98, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They scrutinize worldly affairs
Last Line: Why should I trust the lips of slaves
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Politics & Government; Slavery; Serfs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 99, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Disappointed impoverished scholars
Last Line: Even mongrels won't touch them
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Scholarship & Scholars


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 1, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I came to tientai temple
Last Line: All I see are youngsters
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Temples; Time; Youth; Buddha; Buddhists; Mosques


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 10, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People who leave home want to be free
Last Line: I can't laugh at you
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Freedom; Home; Monks; Liberty


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 11, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A son demands a wife
Last Line: But not in your book of crimes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Family Life; Marriage; Wealth; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 12, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take these mortal incarnations
Last Line: Before they stop telling lies
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Hell; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 13, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buddhas care for mortal beings
Last Line: To wake up to your buddha mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 14, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The buddha forsook the joys of rank
Last Line: They sneak inside of temples
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 15, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sigh when I see worldly people
Last Line: Their trials are in vain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 16, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My poems are poems alright
Last Line: They'll make it much more fun
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Virtue


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 17, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have millions of gathas
Last Line: All you'll see is mountains
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 18, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world has billions of people
Last Line: And stop maligning others
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Humanity


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 19, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When men and women marry
Last Line: Bound for the hell of no relief
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hell; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 2, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Doesn't anyone see / the turmoil in the three worlds
Last Line: Nothing comes or goes neither birth nor death
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 20, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There exists one type of person
Last Line: And all his wrongs return
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Punishment; Reason; Idiots; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 21, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I advise the monks I meet
Last Line: Just let go and take what comes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Monks; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 22, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is a cold mountain
Last Line: It's the power of doing nothing
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 23, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was pickup from the first
Last Line: Count the times the yellow river has cleared
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Brothers; Chinese Literature; Yellow River, China; Half-brothers


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 24, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who knows how to catch rats
Last Line: Use your minds to no avail
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 25, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keeping your mind wide-open
Last Line: They expect wealth and fame
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Generosity; Kindness; Virtue


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 26, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since monkeys can be taught
Last Line: Became a bodhisattva
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Change; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


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 POEMS OF PICKUP: 28, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A flock of timid sheep
Last Line: Chomp chomp till nothing's left
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Sheep


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 29, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silver stars dot the beam
Last Line: Up your butt he'll stick a broom
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Markets; Salespersons; Buddha; Buddhists; Supermarkets; Selling


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 3, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see someone short on sense
Last Line: And be a fool no more
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Fools; Repentance; Idiots; Penitence


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 30, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Committing crimes behind closed doors
Last Line: You're the victim of your deeds
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Crime & Criminals; Punishment; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 31, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not waxing or waning essentially still
Last Line: Whose light shines through to gods and men
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 32, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The triple world is a turning wheel
Last Line: How long does it last
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 33, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We slip into tientai caves
Last Line: And going for a long long time
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Hell; Caverns


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 34, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old buddha road is deserted
Last Line: Need to see my teacher
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Roads; Teaching & Teachers; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity; Paths; Trails; Educators; Professors


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 35, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We all possess the buddha of buddhas
Last Line: A pitiful bunch indeed
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 36, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who leave home leave to be free
Last Line: Into the same abyss
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Monks; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 37, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drunk on delusion greed and anger
Last Line: You learn to turn to yourself
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Greed; Pain; Prisons & Prisoners; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Buddha; Buddhists; Avarice; Cupidity; Suffering; Misery; Convicts


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 38, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People crowd by in the dust
Last Line: I think of their pain in the dust
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Dust; Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 39, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A young man studied letters and arms
Last Line: And monkeys ride clay oxen
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Scholarship & Scholars


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 4, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the glow of the moon
Last Line: It shines both night and day
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Moon


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 40, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Past thousands of layers of mountains and clouds
Last Line: And bird talk suddenly agrees with my thoughts
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Birds; Brooks; Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Streams; Creeks


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 41, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who leave home nowadays
Last Line: Flunkies in the end
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Fools; Monks; Idiots


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 42, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you wonder who stays happy
Last Line: I wonder about mankind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Peace; Solitude; Joy; Delight; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 43, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By and large the monks I meet
Last Line: Are more perceptive than them
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Monks; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 44, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sigh when I see learned men
Last Line: And all their learning is dust
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Scholarship & Scholars


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 45, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up high the trail turns steep
Last Line: To wait for that lone crane once more
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 46, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pine moon looks so cold
Last Line: The seven jewels can't compare
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Moon


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 47, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world has its know-it-alls
Last Line: And see the sun no more
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Hell; Punishment; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 48, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For a mud ball dropped in water
Last Line: Then leave it all behind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Greed; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 49, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Woods and springs make me smile
Last Line: All I hear is noise
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forests; Happiness; Nature; Springs (water); Woods; Joy; Delight


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 5, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I live in a place without limits
Last Line: It wouldn't mean much to me
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Quiet Life; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 6, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The black dragon pearl in his left hand
Last Line: Before sensing there's danger ahead
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 7, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wine of wisdom is so cold
Last Line: Free of shame and glory
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Freedom; Wisdom; Wine; Liberty


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 8, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buddhas leave behind sutras
Last Line: The deceits they harbor night and day
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Change; Chinese Literature; Deception; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 9, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Worldly people make me sigh
Last Line: Wearing a new set of clothes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Buddha; Buddhists


THE PRESS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A worthy parson, once upon a time
Last Line: On freedom's shores a weak and venal press.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Freedom; History; Libraries & Librarians; Literature; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Liberty; Historians; Journalism; Journalists


THE SCHOOLROOM OF POETS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An autumn dusk darkened my window-panes
Last Line: Boy-dreamers by the fireside, arm on arm!
Subject(s): Literature; Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


THE SINGING FLOWER, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am already a singing flower
Last Line: Your singing flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Water; Nightmares; Ocean


THE WOLF'S POSTSCRIPT TO 'LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD', by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, grant me my sense of history
Last Line: Should have come to an end
Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Wolves; Children's Literature


THINGS WE DREAMT WE DIED FOR, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flags of all sorts
Last Line: By the many who have not one.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Literature; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Nightmares


THOUGHTS ON A NIGHT JOURNEY, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A slight wind stirs grasses along the bank
Last Line: But a solitary gull between earth and heaven?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Literature; Poetry And Poets; Thought


THREEPENNY OPERA, SELS., by BERTOLT BRECHT    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Villains In Literature


TO A POET GOING TO ROME: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then in your turn demand of them and ask
Last Line: Who knew high eros in his earthly seats.'
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Literature; Poetry & Poets


TO SIDMOUTH AND CASTLEREAGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As from an ancestral oak
Last Line: Two vipers tangled into one.
Variant Title(s): Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819
Subject(s): Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth; England; Politics & Government; Statesmen; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; English; Castlereagh, Viscount


TO THOMAS STANLEY, ON HIS TRANSLATION OF TWO SPANISH NOVELS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This transplantation of sicilian loves
Last Line: That spain for this hath travell'd unto thee.
Subject(s): Spanish Literature; Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678); Translating & Interpreting


UBI LITERAE IBI LUX (WHERE THERE IS LITERATURE THIS IS LIGHT), by EDNA DAVIS ROMIG    Poem Text                    
First Line: They think I sit alone beside my fire
Last Line: "thought too of these, and said, ""let there be light."
Subject(s): Literature


UPON A SPIDER CATCHING A FLY, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sorrow, venom elf
Last Line: For joy.
Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Puritans In Literature; Spiders; Bugs


UPON A WASP CHILLED WITH COLD, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bear that breaths the northern blast
Last Line: And heavenly musick, furr'd with praise.
Variant Title(s): Upon A Wasp Child With Cold
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Sickness; Wasps; Illness; Yellow Jackets


UPON READING A VOLUME OF ANCIENT CHINESE POETRY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: And here, in this old book, we find discussed
Last Line: And as they will who after us shall be.
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Literature


UPON THE SWEEPING FLOOD, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O! That I'd had a tear to've quenched that flame
Last Line: Their excrements upon our lofty heads.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


UPON WEDLOCK, AND DEATH OF CHILDREN, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A curious knot god made in paradise
Last Line: Whether thou get'st them green, or lets them seed.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Parents; Puritans In Literature; Death - Babies; Parenthood


VERSE AND PROSE, by JOHN OWEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why swifter far than prose do verses run?
Last Line: Verses have num'rous feet, and prose has none.
Subject(s): Literature; Poetry & Poets


VILLON'S STRAIGHT TIP TO ALL CROSS COVES, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose you screeve? Or go cheap-jack
Last Line: Booze and the blowens cop the lot
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature


VILLON'S STRAIGHT TIP TO ALL CROSS COVES, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose you screeve? Or go cheap-jack
Last Line: Booze and the blowens cop the lot
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Villains In Literature


WHEN LET BY RAIN, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye flippering soul, / why dost between the nippers dwell?
Last Line: Burns up the building: lord forbid the same.
Variant Title(s): Let By Rain;an Address To The Soul Occasioned By A Rain
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Rain


WINTER SONG, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So I go on, tediously on and on...
Last Line: Who made the days and years seem worth enduring.
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Loss; Love; Solitude; Women; Women's Rights; Loneliness; Feminism


WOMAN IN THE CHINESE ROOM: A PROSPECTIVE, by JOAN RETALLACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Intersperse entries & numerals from notebooks
Last Line: Quiet putt rusted civet beast or breast
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Language; Translating And Interpreting