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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BETTER RESURRECTION, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have no wit, I have no words, no tears
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Loneliness


A CAPPELLA, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Five days of driving with no voices
Last Line: Earth to the contour of its eloquence.
Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


A CHILD OF LONELINESS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pith of faith is gone. And as there lie
Last Line: God's love, god's wisdom, child of loneliness.
Subject(s): Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness


A COWBOY ALONE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I ride into the mountains on my little broncho
Last Line: When thar ain't nobody near him, 'ceptin' god.
Subject(s): Conscience; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States


A CYCLE, by MILICENT WASHBURN SHINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spring-time -- is it spring-time?
Last Line: Thou my life, my best beloved, all my spring-time comes with thee.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Solitude; Spring; Fall; Loneliness


A DATE WITH ROBBE-GRILLET, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What I remember didn't happen
Last Line: Where I alone could tell the story.
Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Loneliness


A DREAM, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: And at night we'd find a town
Last Line: Coming, if she's sweet and solemn with grey eyes and hair of jet!
Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness


A DREAM, by MARY ENOLA RUDOLPH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night I dreamed of mystic isles
Last Line: Of a loneliness for something lost.
Subject(s): Dreams; Ships - Abandoning Of; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness


A FRAGMENT, by HUMPHRY DAVY    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is alone in solitude we feel
Last Line: Imagination wild, -- interminable!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


A HEART-HAUNTED HOME, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At lisnamaine, since thither he comes no more
Last Line: Let so his eyes be dark, his heart be cold.
Subject(s): Absence; Haunted Houses; Mothers & Sons; Shadows; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


A LAST COUNSEL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could you not in silence borrow
Last Line: To the mother-bosom creeping.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Advice; Farewell; Grief; Solitude; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


A LITTLE BIT OF HOME, by KATHERINE J. BALL PUTNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When last to home I took some flowers
Last Line: We're a little bit of home.
Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Solitude; Loneliness


A LITTLE SONG, by ADELINE M. JENNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is midnight, I am alone
Last Line: For this sacred grace, I thank thee!
Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness


A LONELY HOUSE, by A. HARDY HETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed last night there were no / broken hearts
Last Line: I'd dream forever that there were no broken hearts.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness


A LONELY MAN, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's lonely in lodgings above the street
Last Line: If you come into a house or go out of it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


A LOVER'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "my little breath, under the willows by the water-side we"
Last Line: "oh, my little breath, now I go there alone in sorrow"
Subject(s): Lament;love;memory;solitude; Loneliness


A MONTH IN SUMMER, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Several years ago, I wrote haiku in this way
Last Line: "is that what is meant by dwelling in unreality? And here too I end my words."
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Family Life; Japan; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Summer; Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Japanese; Loneliness; Feminism


A MOOD, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The balmy air and cheerful mood
Last Line: The happy soul of happy lover.
Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness


A MORAL EMBLEM OF MATURITY, by ROBERT NATHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Man grows up
Last Line: About myself.
Subject(s): Maturity; Solitude; Loneliness


A MORNING, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have carried it with me each day: that morning I took
Subject(s): Boats; Solitude; Loneliness


A MOUNTAIN VIEW, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No loneliness can come in wood or fell
Last Line: Stilly moves the wilding heart in passion there.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow on a line of flat rooftops beneath a sky of driven clouds
Subject(s): Fields; France; Solitude; Southern Hemisphere; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Loneliness


A NEVADA COWPUNCHER TO HIS BELOVED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "lonesome? Well, I guess so!"
Subject(s): Cowboys;nevada;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Loneliness;southwest;pacific States


A NOCTURNE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon has gone to her rest
Last Line: Then shall ye sleep.
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Loneliness


A PEOPLED SOLITUDE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: They think I sit alone
Last Line: Ah, pray that the end be good!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


A POET THINKS, by LUI CHI    Poem Text                    
First Line: The rain is due to fall
Last Line: Old songs.
Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness


A POINT OF VIEW, by LETITIA A. BRACE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What shall I do / when you are gone?
Last Line: And the scent of rain.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


A SOLILOQUY ON THE COURSE AND CONSQUENCE OF A DOUBTING MIND, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I muse, I doubt, I reason, and debate
Last Line: A blessed christian, or a cursed fool.
Subject(s): Doubt; Reason; Selflessness; Solitude; Thought; Skepticism; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Thinking


A SONG, by ADDIE I. LOCKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: She sat alone by the gray stone wall
Last Line: That love passed by that day.
Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness


A SONG OF LONESOMENESS, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you are out in the westland and grow lonesome
Last Line: You will find the sage-brush in my hair and the cactus through my heart.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


A STANFORD HYMN, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against the night, the skies disclose
Last Line: In time's advancing truth!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Solitude; Stanford University; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


A SUPPLICATION, by EFFIE TRUEX COOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I could not be
Last Line: And tree.
Subject(s): Nature; Solitude; Togetherness; Loneliness


A TRUCKER BREAKS DOWN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remembering himself pulling onto a highway
Last Line: Flowing down through absolute darkness into a pool of rising vapor.
Subject(s): Georgia (state); Solitude; Southern States; Trucks & Trucking; Loneliness; South (u.s.); Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


A WINTER NIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a chilly winter's night
Last Line: Were left in loneliness behind.
Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Winter; Bedtime; Loneliness


ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been one acquainted with the night
Last Line: I have been one acquainted with the night
Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness


ACTUM EST!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: As one returning to native mountains
Last Line: So am I now, alone, undone.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


AD ASTRA: 44, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How have I sigh'd, to think of my return!
Last Line: Deepens my grief amid the enshrouding gloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness


AD ASTRA: 53, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou star! That shone upon me from a height
Last Line: Which else had founder'd in the midnight bare!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness


ADVENTURE, by FERN WEEMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw her strolling down the lane
Last Line: Her hand scratched by a thorn.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


AFTER PARTING, by E. B. CROSSWHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Although the house which once felt your caress
Last Line: And loneliness, filling every room...
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


AFTER READING AUSTIN DOBSON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a crowded room I seemed to stand
Last Line: "to find it closed, and ended the song / whose gay, glad cadence lived on in my heart"
Subject(s): "books;dobson, Austin (1840-1921);parties;solitude;" Reading;loneliness


AFTER TWELVE DAYS OF RAIN, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I couldn't name it, the sweet
Last Line: And smiled back.
Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Self-reliance; Solitude; Loneliness


AFTER WRITING A POEM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not want to be seen or heard or spoken to
Last Line: For one hour to eternity.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness


AGED NINETY YEARS, by WILBERT SNOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The loneliness of her old age flashed clear
Last Line: Would sink, like her, in chilly arms of earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber
Subject(s): Graves; Old Age; Solitude; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness


ALASTOR; OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood!
Last Line: Birth and the grave, that are not as they were.
Variant Title(s): Invocation To Nature
Subject(s): Immortality; Solitude; Loneliness


ALL ALONE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And shall we ever seek in vain
Last Line: All alone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALL ALONE, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Wherefore by the church-yard side
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALL THE WAY HOME, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lamps hung like a lynching
Last Line: All the way home.
Subject(s): Home; Slavery; Solitude; Serfs; Loneliness


ALONE, by A. F. EHRENBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Again I stood alone upon that bridge
Last Line: Of moon, and waves, and brooding april night.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE, by ELIZABETH FREAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the trackless sea, from dawn to dawn
Last Line: Fearlessly toward the sunset we shall sail away -- alone.
Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange thoughts come to the man alone
Last Line: Strange thoughts come when a man's alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE, by MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There lies a deep and sealed well
Last Line: Flow forth, rejoicing, unto thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mary Elizabeth
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE, by IYDA REBECCA HIRSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: A man from youth to age has grown
Last Line: Have made a prisoner of his heart.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE, by DOROTHY LEONARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the thirtieth of september I heard a meadow lark
Last Line: Reap; for the weed is my weed and the stone is my stone.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love and I sailed out to sea
Last Line: For the wave that will bring me to her again.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall it profit a man
Last Line: Than the bloom of lower pleasures, or the fleeting spell of love.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone, o love, I seek the blossoming glades
Last Line: Shall I attain the sanctuary of thy face?
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He grows used to the sound of the floor
Last Line: That he didn't do. He would like to meet them.
Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Solitude; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness


ALONE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From childhood's hour I have not been
Last Line: Of a demon in my view --
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am alone, in spite of love
Last Line: Who are not lonely, having died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE, by IRENE H. WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone, alone in the wide, wide world
Last Line: Shall belong to the ages, the ages shall bind.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A very old woman
Last Line: In the hollow wall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The abode of the nightingale is bare
Last Line: It is winter.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


ALONE (3), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No sound over the deep, only the desolate foam
Last Line: Cry low, sad, keen, in so deep a peace, your dear name, once, in the height.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ALONE AND TOGETHER, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had a lovely lonely day
Last Line: It is such fun to be together!
Subject(s): Children; Play; September; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness


ALONE FOR THE FIFTH DAY, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I look at the ocean for a long time, the blue
Subject(s): Sea; Loneliness; Ocean


ALONE IN SPRING, by CAROLINE GILTINAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never met the spring alone before
Last Line: One should be dead -- or suddenly grown old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs.
Subject(s): Solitude; Spring; Loneliness


ALONE ON EARTH, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: He turned up at the baseball park--
Last Line: And all alone on earth!
Subject(s): Baseball; Friendship; Solitude; Sports; Loneliness


ALONE WITH GOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the bier I watched his rest divine
Last Line: Each, in the stillness, was alone with god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness


ALONE! STARK ALONE!, by HARRIET HAMILTON COWELL    Poem Text                    
Last Line: As thou dost love me still.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


AN 'OLD MAID', by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a spinster of thirty-some years whose abode
Last Line: And she didn't seem just to — well, you understand!
Subject(s): Household Employees; Single People; Solitude; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Loneliness


AN IZBA SONG, by NIKOLAY KLUYEV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stove is orphaned now; the old housewife has died
Last Line: The lonely window stares out at the thaw and darkness.
Variant Title(s): A Cottage Song
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness


AN OLD OLD STORY, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pierre was lonely
Last Line: And the moon came up: a great white lily.
Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Soldiers; Solitude; World War I; Parting; Loneliness; First World War


AN OLD PRIMA DONNA SPEAKS, by HELEN WIEAND COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I made my choice: / 'twas children or my voice
Last Line: With their remembered praise.
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Regret; Solitude; Loneliness


AN OLD WOMAN WALKING ON THE ROAD, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grey the day! And grey her life!
Last Line: Trudging, lonely, on her way.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Solitude; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Loneliness


AN OLD, OLD MAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here by the borderland
Last Line: And heavy thoughts that tire.
Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Wales; Loneliness; Welshmen; Welshwomen


AN UPPER CHAMBER, by FRANCES BANNERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I came into the city and none knew me
Last Line: Shall I find that little chamber as of old!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ANDREE REXROTH, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Purple and green, blue and white
Subject(s): Love; Past; Solitude; Youth; Loneliness


ANDREE REXROTH: KING RIVER CANYON, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My sorrow is so wide
Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Grief; Love; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


ANNIVERSARY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were so many to pray for, o dear grey head
Last Line: All night long you grieved with me until the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Death; Dreams; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


ARRIVAL IN ROME, by JENNIFER GROTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: My head aches, and the stale air burns
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Railroads; Rome, Italy; Solitude; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


ARTHURIAN SONGS: 1. AVALON, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: King arthur lies alone
Last Line: Is loyal quite?
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Solitude; Loneliness


AS TO BEING ALONE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did you hate to be by yourself
Last Line: Have the life-surging heavens no business but this?
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ASH WEDNESDAY (AFTER HEARING A LECTURE ON THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION), by JOHN ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here in the lonely chapel I will wait
Last Line: Strong with new love where thou dost kneel, the cross whereon christ died.
Subject(s): Ash Wednesday; Christianity; Faith; Prayer; Solitude; Belief; Creed; Loneliness


AT EIGHTY-THREE SHE LIVES ALONE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enclosure, steam-heated; a trial casket
Last Line: Oh, paper bird with folded wings.
Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness


AT LAKE MAHOLE; DEDICATED TO LOUIS J. PAPINEAU OF MONTEBELLO, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stretched on a hillside's wooded height
Last Line: Awaking, onward we will roam.
Subject(s): Lakes; Solitude; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness


AT SUNSET, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight the west o'er-brims with warmest dyes
Last Line: Near to a heart that loves and leans to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Evening; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness


ATGET'S GARDENS, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it always a dream then?
Last Line: Water, in the eyes of the poet
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Emptiness; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


AUTUMN (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dwell alone -- I dwell alone, alone
Last Line: And lonesome, very lonesome, is my strand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


BAFFLED, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whenever I am fain to bless
Last Line: I see her shadow, loneliness.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


BALLAD OF A GRAY CLOAK, by ELIZABETH BUELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The gray cloak of her motherhood
Last Line: Is heavy -- sweet to bear.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Sacrifices; Solitude; Loneliness


BALLAD OF JOHN CABLE AND THREE GENTLEMEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He that had come that morning
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


BALLAD OF THE FOLLOWERS, by FRANZ WERFEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I go, slowly vanishing, off through the snow
Last Line: Alone, but forever thing-ridden, brute-haunted.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


BEHIND PERFUME, ONLY SOLITUDE, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ink will come. Lamp lung
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


BEREFT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where had I heard this wind before
Last Line: Word I had no one left but god.
Subject(s): God; Solitude; Loneliness


BEYOND, by ALLAN MUNIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond the prison cell
Last Line: In peace without you?
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hunger; Prisons & Prisoners; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


BITTER-SWEET, by J. ROY ZEISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like the rustle of old silk thru barren halls
Last Line: In fantastic transient moods.
Subject(s): Solitude; Trees; Wind; Loneliness


BLAKE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saw them glittering in the trees
Last Line: Dreaming one poem
Subject(s): Hope; Solitude; Blake, William (1757-1827); Optimism; Loneliness


BLINDNESS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our true hearts are forever lonely
Last Line: Meet only when pain touches pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Longing; Love; Pain; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness


BLUE SUNDAY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling
Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness


BRAUGHAN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blue-bells grew thick in braughan
Last Line: Ay, who be the grey-beard men?
Subject(s): Children; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness


BRIGHT INTERVALS, by JESSIE HAEFNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dreary and forsaken / the weatherbeaten
Last Line: The old house lived anew.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


BUILD ME A LODGE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Build me a lodge in the mountain tops
Last Line: Through spirit powers.
Subject(s): Calm; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Loneliness


CABIN AT TARLETON, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cabin drowsed in calm content
Last Line: But undisturbed, we drowsed in turn.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


CABIN POEM, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blond girl / with a polka heart
Last Line: In ceaseless flow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


CANADIANS AND POTTAWATOMIES, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen a loneliness sit
Subject(s): Loneliness; Canada; Native Americans; Canadians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CARRICK-A-REDE, IRELAND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He dwelt amid the gloomy rocks
Last Line: A solitary man.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Ireland; Solitude; Irish; Loneliness


CARRYING THE BANNER, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: (which is tramp-argot for walking the street / all night)
Last Line: And I said 'thank god' with all my heart, for it was day again!
Subject(s): Cities; Night; Solitude; Walking; Urban Life; Bedtime; Loneliness


CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues
Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit.
Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness


CHIMONANTHUS FRAGRANS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These blossoms of empurpled hue
Last Line: Its worth, when all the rest are flown!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Flowers; Solitude; Loneliness


CHRISTMAS, MADISON SQUARE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In dismal darkness stands the christmas pine
Last Line: Ascends.
Subject(s): Christianity; Poverty; Solitude; Loneliness


CINDERELLA, by OLGA BROUMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apart from my sisters, estranged
Last Line: For her joyful heart.
Subject(s): Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Mythology - Classical; Oppression; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974); Solitude; Women's Rights; Loneliness; Feminism


CLARIMONDE, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: With elbow buried in the downy pillow
Last Line: Thou owest to me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness


CLOISTERED, by ALICE BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seal thou the window! Yea, shut out the light
Last Line: Shall beat on in the dark.
Subject(s): Solitude; Worship; Loneliness


COMMENCEMENT POEM: 9. SOLITUDE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All alone - alone
Last Line: God shall speak to thee out of the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Variant Title(s): Solitude
Subject(s): Commencement; Solitude; Loneliness


COMPANIONSHIP, by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is not good for man to be alone
Last Line: And elves of trouble hie them to the shelves.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


COMPENSATION, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should be glad of loneliness
Last Line: On a winter night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


CONJURE, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was sitting what that afternoon I thought to be
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


CONSUMMATION, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a garden, soul to soul we met and loved
Last Line: On a moonlit-glow: 'twere better death would wed.
Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


CORNEY'S HUT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old corney built in deadman's gap
Last Line: Upon the dog that mourned his master
Subject(s): Animals;death;dogs;funerals;solitude; "dead, The;burials;loneliness;


COSMOS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tiny thing of painted gauze that
Last Line: And cold, dead moons whose ghostly fires haunt unremembered years.
Subject(s): Solitude; Soul; Loneliness


CROSSING THE DESERT, by MYLES A. J. RHYNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silently the desert spreads beneath the
Last Line: The spanish suns setting, the evening shadows bow.
Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Solitude; Loneliness


DANSE RUSSE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If when my wife is sleeping
Last Line: The happy genius of my household?
Subject(s): Family Life; Men; Solitude; Relatives; Loneliness


DAVID, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: There on the hills
Last Line: And commune with god.
Subject(s): Exiles; Solitude; Loneliness


DEATH, by ALAN MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I have made light of death
Last Line: None may be there to see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan
Subject(s): Death; Humility; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Dead, The; Loneliness


DECEMBER LAKE, by EDYTHE BARRETT GOELTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each wave whispered of a departed summer
Last Line: And meet it as one.
Subject(s): Cold; December; Farewell; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness


DEFINITIONS, by LOLLY WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dreams are sticks of dynamite
Last Line: I shall be warm.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness


DEPRIVATION, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dull knife cuts our hand
Last Line: For a long time
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Solitude; Thirst; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Loneliness


DESERT PICTURE, by ELIDA MERRIAM GREEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The slowly moving centuries of time
Last Line: Across the desert, folding it in sleep.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


DESERT PLACES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
Last Line: To scare myself with my own desert places
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


DESERTED CHURCHYARD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There lay an ancient churchyard
Last Line: The shadowy days of old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Calm; Churchyards; Desolation; Silence; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Loneliness


DESOLATION, by HELEN MARGUERITE PERRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bleak, barren waste of desert land
Last Line: Trod on—benumbed—alone.
Subject(s): Desolation; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


DON'T LET ME BE LONELY (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a time I could say no one I knew well had died
Subject(s): Children; Loneliness; Childhood


DRAWING FROM LIFE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look: I am building absence
Subject(s): Loneliness


DRIFTERS: BELLA COOLA TO WILLIAMS LAKE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Used to being his own listener
Last Line: He travels this road.
Subject(s): Conversation; Hitchhikers; Solitude; Loneliness


DRUNK, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too far away, o love, I know
Last Line: Keep with you the troth I trowed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


EIN FICHTENBAUM STEHT EINSAM, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pine-tree standeth lonely
Last Line: On its ridge of burning stone.
Subject(s): Mourning; Pine Trees; Solitude; Trees; Bereavement; Loneliness


EIN TRAUMBILD, by C. W. YEOMANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A student sat in his room alone
Last Line: Longs for the fragrance of that sweet flower.
Subject(s): Longing; Love; Solitude; Loneliness


ELEGIAC SONNET: 22. BY THE SAME. TO SOLITUDE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O solitude! To thy sequester'd vale
Last Line: And bear awhile -- what death alone can cure!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


EPITAPH: 26, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All's done
Last Line: A butterfly.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Solitude; Loneliness


EPITAPH: 7, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lonely I lived and died: - let no footfall
Last Line: Disturb me now—for that were worse than all!
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness


ESTELLE, by MARGARET DELANEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You told me, dear, that you were oftimes lonely
Last Line: Was often forced to walk his way alone.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


EVE, ON A MORNING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eve, on a morning, paused before the / gate
Last Line: "and adam plans to break new ground to-day."
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Peace; Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness


EVENING, by DONALD R. STEELE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see the sun
Last Line: Alone, without you.
Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


EVENING, by JON STEFANSSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: At twilight, when I am alone with my thoughts
Last Line: The sun over darkness prevail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gjallandi, Thorgils
Subject(s): Evening; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness


EVENING SOLACE, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The human heart has hidden treasures
Last Line: Seeking a life and world to come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer
Subject(s): Evening; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness


EVENTIME, by JESSIE M. GILMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They gather around me at eventime
Last Line: That I see by the ember's glow.
Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Solitude; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness; Thinking


EVERYTHING THAT I MADE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything that I made I used to bring to you
Last Line: And turn to you still with my tale, and there's no one to hear me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Grief; Love; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


EXAMPLE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine the hotel lucide, the set for the third act
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


EXCLUSION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The soul selects her own society
Last Line: Like stone.
Subject(s): Solitude; Soul; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Loneliness


EXILE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A common folk I walk among
Last Line: When this sad pilgrimage is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Secrets; Solitude; Loneliness


FACADE: 22. ALONE, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The vast grey trees
Last Line: In the long avenue!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


FALL, by JOSEPH UPPER HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two buzzards float solemnly over the lonely water
Last Line: And far off the voice of winter, hungry, ominous.
Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph
Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


FALLOW, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone, alone, let me wander alone
Last Line: Fallow, fallow, and reposing!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness


FEBRUARY SWANS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the hundred swans in west bay
Last Line: Has glazed the window with frost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Birds; February; Love; Solitude; Swans; Loneliness


FIRE, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clear smoke
Last Line: To go on
Subject(s): Fire; Solitude; Loneliness


FOR REMEMBERING HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your loneliness and mine
Subject(s): Absence; Change; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


FORSAKEN SOLITUDES, by DUKE COLE MEREDITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hand of modern age employs a prod
Last Line: Forsaking joys in solitude we need.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


FRAGMENT: THE QUANTOCKS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These populous slopes
Last Line: Of peopled solitude.
Subject(s): Quantock, England; Solitude; Loneliness


FRAGMENTS, by JAMES BLANDING SLOAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: And when the dark without
Last Line: Drinking up the light like a thousand-mouthed sponge.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sloan, J. Blanding
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness


FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY, COLLECTED IN HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, SELECTION, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I sit by the mossy fountain; on top of the hill of winds
Last Line: Passest, when mid-day is silent around.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


FREEDOM, by SYLVIA LEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take them away - the props, the stays
Last Line: All naked and complete!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


GALLANT CHATEAU, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it bad to have come here
Subject(s): Houses; Solitude; Loneliness


GIC TO HAR, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late at night, cold and damp
Last Line: Ten years in an unfriendly city
Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Introspection; Solitude; Loneliness


GOD'S MOOD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These daughters are bone
Last Line: Adam's whining ways
Subject(s): Death - Children; Old Age; Solitude; Death - Babies; Loneliness


GOOD-BYE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home
Last Line: When man in the bush with god may meet?
Variant Title(s): Goodbye
Subject(s): God; Home; Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness


GREEN THUMB, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shake out my pockets! Harken to the call
Subject(s): Relationships; Farewell; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness


HAIKU, by HATTORI RANSETSU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A leaf whirls down, alackaday!
Last Line: A leaf whirls down upon the breeze.
Subject(s): Leaves; Past; Solitude; Loneliness


HARBORS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Full many a noonday nook I know
Last Line: This side the continent of night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Loneliness


HATCHING; FOR DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On university avenue in rangoon
Last Line: To crack its walls with wings.
Subject(s): Burma; Revolutions; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


HELEN KELLER, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind her triple prison-bars shut in
Last Line: Which wraps thee, as its fragrance wraps a rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan
Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness


HENRY THE HERMIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a little island where he dwelt
Last Line: The lamp that stream'd a long unsteady light.
Subject(s): Aging; Bells; Death; Hermits; Islands; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness


HERE IS MUSIC: 14. RONDEAU, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Were you but here, this wan, unhappy west
Last Line: Were you but here.
Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Lament; Memory; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


HERE IS MUSIC: VILLANELLE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would not be a boy again
Last Line: For castle situate in spain.
Subject(s): Aging; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Youth; Loneliness


HERMES OF THE LONELY HILL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "not of my choosing, traveller, this desert eminence"
Last Line: "my solitude, wayfarer, does not reflect his own"
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


HIGH NOON AT LOS ALAMOS, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To turn a stone / with its white squirming
Last Line: For the silence
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Fire; Heat; Noon; Solitude; Sun; Loneliness


HIGHWAY 2, ILLINOIS, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at this country
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Illinois; Roads; Solitude; Paths; Trails; Loneliness


HIS SECRET, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The field wraps around him
Last Line: Of three days.
Subject(s): Secrets; Solitude; Loneliness


HOLDING ON, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green fingers / holding the hillside,
Subject(s): Solitude; Conduct Of Life; Loneliness


HOW CAN I?, by IRENE H. WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot spend my loneliness upon idle things
Last Line: And tomorrow is forever.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


HOW SHOULD THEY KNOW ME, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are those who deem they know me
Last Line: The gift of self-knowledge were last!
Subject(s): Selflessness; Solitude; Loneliness


HYMN ON SOLITUDE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, mildly [or ever-pleasing] pleasing solitude!
Last Line: Then shield me in the woods again.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


HYMN TO THE MOON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How lovely is this silent scene!
Last Line: And ruling o'er the pathless waters.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Love; Moon; Night; Silence; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness


I AM BORNE ONWARD, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am borne onward from the faith of my fathers
Last Line: They leant upon them -- I am alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


I DIDN'T LIKE HIM, by HARRY BACHE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps you may a-noticed I been shot o' solemn lately
Last Line: I didn't like him.
Subject(s): Loss; Solitude; Women; Loneliness


I GO SINGING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I go singing a song under my breath
Last Line: And this is mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


I REMEMBER, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Almost I loved you
Last Line: Dancing in the midnight sky.
Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Loneliness


I SENT MY TRUE LOVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sent my true love on his way
Last Line: Through long and empty years.
Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


I SHALL GO BACK, by JULIA DAINGERFIELD GLASS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cities are lonely, prison-like places to
Last Line: I shall never be lonely again.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


I WAIT, by HAROLD CRAWFORD STEARNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Day-long, night-long
Last Line: A sob in the lonely trees.
Subject(s): Solitude; Waiting; Loneliness


I WANT MY TIME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm night guard all alone tonight
Last Line: "say, gimme some tobacco, bill"
Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;night;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Bedtime;loneliness;southwest;pacific States


IN A STRANGE CITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusk-and a hunger for your face
Last Line: And I am lonelier than ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Cities; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness


IN A VACANT HOUSE, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone was calling someone
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


IN ABEYANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No skilled hands
Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Solitude; Loneliness


IN BACHELOR'S HALL, by CLARENCE WEBSTER PEABODY    Poem Text                    
First Line: To sit in front of the open grate
Last Line: And the fire burns brighter in bachelor's hall.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


IN GOD, TOO, LONELY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When god scooped up a handful of dust
Subject(s): God; Creation; Loneliness


IN SOLITUDE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have pity thou, who all my heart hast known!
Last Line: And think how I was glad, yet knew it not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


IN SOLITUDE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like as a brook that all night long
Last Line: The lullaby to hear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness


IN THE BEAUTIFUL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be still. Be still. Do not speak
Last Line: Or stay—and be still!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness


IN THE PAST, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There lies a somnolent lake
Last Line: That boatman am I.
Subject(s): Lakes; Past; Solitude; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness


INFLUENCE, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like one who beats against the wind
Last Line: For thy dear sake this I would do!
Subject(s): Despair; Hunger; Solitude; Loneliness


INHIBITION, by EUGENE JOLAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wandered along the beach
Last Line: While watching cosmic interludes.
Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness


INSCRIPTION FOR A CAVERN THAT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter this cavern, stranger! The ascent
Last Line: That man creates the evil he endures.
Subject(s): Caves; Evil; Humanity; Introspection; Solitude; Strangers; Caverns; Loneliness


INSCRIPTION: IN A FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger! Whose steps have reached this solitude
Last Line: The weeds and mosses from this letter'd stone.
Subject(s): Advice; Forests; Holidays; Solitude; Strangers; Trees; Woods; Loneliness


INSTRUCTION, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a place in a little garden
Last Line: And the leaping of a word.
Subject(s): Laurels; Rest; Solitude; Loneliness


INTERSPECIES, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was teaching a residency in cincinnati
Subject(s): Loneliness; Alienation (social Psychology); Friendship; Zoos; Estrangement; Outcasts


INVERSELY, AS THE SQUARE OF THEIR DISTANCES APART, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is impossible to see anything
Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness


ISOLATION, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone! Yes, evermore alone -- isolated each his way'
Last Line: We tread in solitude remote, the trail of destiny!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ISOLATIONIST, by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the many move, the man
Last Line: While he sits with gloved hands in a buttoned confusion.
Alternate Author Name(s): Page, P. K.
Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


IT IS NIGHT, IN MY STUDY, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


IT JUST SO HAPPENS, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You fingered the white top
Last Line: That knocks the wind out of the ground
Subject(s): Anxiety; Conversation; Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


JAMIE'S PUZZLE, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was grief within our household
Last Line: Their meaning will all be plain.
Subject(s): Mothers; Solitude; Loneliness


JOE, by LEWIS W. BRITTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A keerless, lanky sort was joe
Last Line: "don't understand ""that wuthless scamp!"
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


JOSEF ISRAELS, by ELIAS LIEBERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the fisher-folk of the netherland coast
Last Line: Who count the leaden years.
Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jews; Solitude; Dead, The; Anglers; Judaism; Loneliness


JUDGMENT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When they removed the bandages
Last Line: On them -- for what they couldn't say -- they wept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Blindness; Cold; Eyes; Judgments; Solitude; Visually Handicapped; Loneliness


KIN, by ADELINE M. JENNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know the names of all great stars
Last Line: To go and join you trooping by!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


L'ENVOI, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are the loves that we have loved before
Last Line: When once I am alone, and shut the door.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LAMENT FOR GLASGERION, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lovely body of the dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Soul; Solitude; Aging; Dead, The; Loneliness


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 4. BALLYTULLAGH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hamlet ballytullagh, small and old
Last Line: Loy, a half-spade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Despair; Mountains; Poverty; Solitude; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


LE TOUR DE FRANCS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Loneliness? When I think of loneliness
Last Line: Left isolated in a harsh inimical land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LEDA 3: A PERSONAL NOTE (RE: VISITATIONS), by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always pyrotechnics; / stars spinning into phalluses
Last Line: Or don't come.
Subject(s): Leda; Mythology - Classical; Solitude; Spiritual Life; Loneliness


LEFT IN LIFE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a dream. What then? Are dreams untrue?
Last Line: Pleased with the folly of thy straining hands.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Passion; Solitude; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


LES CAMARADES EN VOYAGE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The vessel is restlessly rushing over the waters
Last Line: And as they step upon the pier, lo the whiteness there!
Subject(s): Boats; Moon; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


LIFE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Solitude - life is inviolate solitude
Last Line: But for the life that is better than life.
Subject(s): Life; Solitude; Loneliness


LIFE ON THE LAKES: DERELICT, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Driving back thro' the night on the lonely last ride
Last Line: Hushed and wistfully.
Subject(s): Roads; Solitude; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


LINES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O bear it, bear it, lonely heart
Last Line: And then alone as I?
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LINES, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Voice, perhaps you are the universe
Last Line: In a spasm of loneliness.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 5. SOLITUDE AND RETIREMENT, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Honour and wealth, the joys we seek, deny
Last Line: A type of paradise, the rural scene!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, OKLAHOMA, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have never lived on the reservation
Last Line: Lifts his pony, flings it at the moon.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Solitude; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Loneliness


LISTENING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I listen and I listen
Last Line: Will linger at my door?
Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking


LITTLE AIR: 1, by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Somehow a solitude / with neither swan nor quay
Last Line: Your naked jubilation.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the little children of the wind
Last Line: The little tremulous leaves of the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Leaves; Solitude; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Loneliness


LIVING, by DAISY COVIN WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heart-strings are delicately strung
Last Line: In solitude's caress.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONE CHILDER, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the wind was soft sobbin' the night
Last Line: For to hush where lone childer had died!
Subject(s): Death - Children; Solitude; Death - Babies; Loneliness


LONE FREEDOM, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How lonely is vast freedom! I may go
Last Line: "how lone is freedom!"" at her gate he cried."
Subject(s): Freedom; Solitude; Liberty; Loneliness


LONE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE DESERT, by BLANCHE POWELL MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh lone little house on the desert
Last Line: Tell us your secret so sad.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Houses; Solitude; Loneliness


LONELINESS, by VIRGINIA LEWIS CARPENTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The slight chill sharpens
Last Line: The slow chill sharpens.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONELINESS, by SUSIE WHITMARSH FRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Was e'er a pen so fine and strong
Last Line: To pen its depths in verse refined.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONELINESS, by MARGUERITE GODE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long after sundown
Last Line: She burned her lonely light.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONELINESS, by NIKOLAI (NIKOLAY) STEPANOVICH GUMILEV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I slumbered, and the white waves washed me thus
Last Line: Of oracles told long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gumilyov, Nikolay
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONELINESS, by HAZEL HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when I am long alone
Last Line: Then I am lonely now.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONELINESS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my breast a lonely heart
Last Line: All of god's creations are.
Subject(s): God; Solitude; Loneliness


LONELINESS, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All stupor of surpise hath passed away
Last Line: She dreams not they may ever cease nor wane.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONELINESS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have known loneliness; - the mountain peak
Last Line: (oh, blinding tears!) whereto she comes no more.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


LONELINESS, by NAOMI S. SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: My sky is bound to earth
Last Line: And make his noise of swiftness.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONELINESS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He who had all else heaven and earth
Last Line: For loneliness, for loneliness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Fathers; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Solitude; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Loneliness


LONELINESS (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk beside a lonely lake
Last Line: Thou comest now no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness


LONELINESS (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead in the desert! With the great white moon
Last Line: Escaped the struggles of a nerveless hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONELINESS IN JERSEY CITY, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The deer and the dachshund are one
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONELY, by ANDRE SPIRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They pity me
Last Line: And the proud sweat glued to my skin.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONELY BROTHER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Art thou lonely, o my brother?
Last Line: Shall come two's great happiness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness


LONELY DAYS (VERSIFIED FROM A DIARY), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lonely her fate was
Last Line: And she knew nought.
Subject(s): Diaries; Solitude; Loneliness


LONELY DUSKS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So much of beauty runs to waste
Last Line: To hear and know and care?
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONESOME, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two
Last Line: Sence mother 's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two.
Subject(s): Mothers; Solitude; Loneliness


LONESOME, by TOM G. MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you seen the dove
Last Line: They're lonesome!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


LONG DELAYED, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft have I search'd the weary world in vain
Last Line: With multitudes of leaflets green and soft.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Pain; Solitude; Time; Waiting; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness


LONGING, by CLAIRE CAVE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I long for the peace of the desert
Last Line: And the lull of a silent sea.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Longing; Solitude; Loneliness


LONGING, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Round the sadness of my days
Last Line: Reach the comfort of your breast?
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Sanctuaries; Solitude; Loneliness


LONGING, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O would I were the cool wind that's blowing from the sea
Last Line: The grey silence, the grey waves, the grey wastes of the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Longing; Love; Sea; Solitude; Wind; Ocean; Loneliness


LOST WHITE BROTHER, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are about / to move away from guys getting messy
Last Line: My love.
Subject(s): Absence; New Mexico; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


LOVE NURSED BY SOLITUDE, BY W. I. THOMSON, EDINBURGH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, surely it is here that love should come
Last Line: With thy sweet wings furl'd but in solitude?
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Love; Paintings & Painters; Solitude; Loneliness


LOVED, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: You were so fair to look upon
Last Line: But now I walk alone.
Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


LWONESOMENESS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I do zew, wi' nimble hand
Last Line: Up here a-while. Do come.
Subject(s): Autumn; Parents; Seasons; Solitude; Fall; Parenthood; Loneliness


LYNTON VERSES: 2, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At malmsmead, by the river side
Last Line: And we are left so lonely.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Solitude; Songs; Loneliness


MACHREE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ay, we laughed among the goolden gorse
Last Line: Machree—machree!
Subject(s): Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness


MADLY SINGING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no one among men that has not a special failing
Last Line: I choose a place that is unfrequented by men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


MAN BY HIMSELF, by ROBERT NATHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Because my grief is quiet and apart
Last Line: Certain and unbefriended and alone.
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


MAN IN A ROOM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, no woman, nor man besides
Last Line: Torn petals, dew-wet, yellowed my bare ankles.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


MARCH, by INDIA HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone upon the hilltop
Last Line: To the comrade heart of me!
Subject(s): Solitude; Weather; Wind; Loneliness


MARCH AFTERNOON, by LYDIA LITTELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon's a faint vignette of gray
Last Line: And would not come again.
Subject(s): March (month); Solitude; Loneliness


MARIANA, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With blackest moss the flower-plots
Last Line: O god, that I were dead!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Desolation; Despair; Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Solitude; Dramatists; Loneliness


MATER DOLOROSA, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He raised the latch in his father's door
Last Line: For mary, mother, hears an' sees.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Solitude; Women - Bible; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Loneliness


MEDITATION, by MRS. GALE SPINK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love solitude and god
Last Line: And lead to god.
Subject(s): God; Introspection; Nature; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking


MELCHIZEDEK, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice bless'd are they, who feel their loneliness
Last Line: Born through long woe his rare melchizedek.
Subject(s): Consolation; Solitude; Loneliness


MEMORIES, by HENRY BATAILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Memories are rooms without a lock
Last Line: And yet I feel dim eyelids close within me.
Subject(s): Memory; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


MEN WORSHIP ME, by VELONA PILCHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the stark and silent pine
Last Line: Men worship me.
Subject(s): Solitude; Strength; Worship; Loneliness


MENAPHON'S ECLOGUE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Too weak the wit, too slender is the brain
Last Line: My faith is firm, though homely be my lay.
Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness


MIDSUMMER MADNESS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a hearthrug
Subject(s): Rugs;solitude;summer; Carpets;loneliness


MONODY, by MAY MCKEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My soul is a small, black island washed by the sea
Last Line: When will its restless fingers reach my heart ...
Subject(s): Fear; Introspection; Self; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness


MOOD, by GERTRUDE WEBSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart is a gypsy
Last Line: Answer back.
Subject(s): Hearts; Moods; Solitude; Loneliness


MOONTAN, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bluish, pale
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


MORE THAN SWEET, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The noisy fire, / the drumming wind
Last Line: Of the heart's breaking seas.
Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


MORNING SONG, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A diamond of a morning
Last Line: Only the lonely are free.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Morning; Solitude; Loneliness


MOTIVE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The motive of all of it was loneliness
Subject(s): Loneliness; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924)


MOVING, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not those who have lived here and gone
Last Line: Of all that happened there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Longing; Memory; Moving & Movers; Property; Solitude; Possessions; Loneliness


MR. FLOOD'S PARTY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old eben flood, climbing alone one night
Last Line: That many friends had opened long ago.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Drinks & Drinking; Old Age; Solitude; Toasts; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts; Wine; Loneliness


MRS. MCHUGH, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: He wrought in the field through the length av the day
Last Line: An' him trimmin' the twist av a hedge!
Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Marriage; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness


MUSIC IN SOLITUDE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this valley far and lonely
Last Line: That comes -- ah, surely comes -- at music's solemn call.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Solitude; Loneliness


MY ALTER EGO, by JEANNETTE EUGENIE CUSHING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I took my soul, and walked the wide world thru
Last Line: Forlorn, I wander, for my other self is dead.
Subject(s): Mankind; Solitude; Soul; Human Race; Loneliness


MY BORES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I take their hands with placid smile
Last Line: With but the few I love and me.
Subject(s): Faces; Life; Love; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness


MY BROTHER THE ARTIST, AT SEVEN, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a boy he played alone in the fields
Subject(s): Brothers; Play; Solitude; Youth; Half-brothers; Loneliness


MY DREAM GIRL, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a flower in the mist of the moorland, spectral, / shadowy
Last Line: The flower in the mist of the moorland, lonesome and shadowy.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Imagination; Love; Solitude; Youth; Death - Babies; Fancy; Loneliness


MY DREAM HOUSE, by HELEN G. STEPHENSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night I built a dream house
Last Line: By the light the moonbeams made.
Subject(s): Houses; Solitude; Loneliness


MY EARTHLY LOVE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No dim and dreamy ghost I sing
Last Line: And only feed on bitter breath.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


MY LIBRARY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shrine of my mind, my library!
Last Line: Hence to the outer world good night!
Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Libraries & Librarians; Life; Love; Solitude; Reading; Loneliness


MY PIPE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fig for your flagons of sour old wine
Last Line: I'm content with this old pipe of mine.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Solitude; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Loneliness


MY PROMENADE SOLITAIRE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up and down in my garden fair
Last Line: As it follows its promenade solitaire?
Subject(s): Earth; Gardens & Gardening; Solitude; World; Loneliness


MY SADDLE, by E. A. L. GRIFFIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: My saddle hangs on yonder wall
Last Line: To say my ridin's done.
Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Solitude; Loneliness


MY SOLITUDE, by JAMES R. AGGELES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is he of god who terms the 'solitude distress'
Last Line: The gift of god, it offers light of day.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


MY SOUL AND I, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why don't I die and set you free?'
Last Line: You soon will cast a woman's vote.
Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness


NEAR MANSFIELD, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The enormous muscle-bound dobbins of autumn
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Death; Loneliness; Dead, The


NEARNESS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy hand my hand
Last Line: Remain thy spirit and mine, past touch and sight.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


NEW YEAR'S EVE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit here glad, glad of my comfort and so somber
Last Line: With the helplessness of the newborn.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Solitude; Wind; Loneliness


NIGHT, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun was far beyond horizon's bar
Last Line: The blue empyrean forever and forever.
Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Stars; Bedtime; Loneliness


NIGHT IN THE DESERT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With star-dust scintillant the vault is sown
Last Line: As of some unimaginable thing!
Subject(s): Calm; Deserts; Food & Eating; Night; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime; Loneliness


NIGHT SONG, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The road runs up against the stars
Last Line: For I am here alone.
Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness


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


NIGHT WORK, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's too much: this hard work
Last Line: Hardly changed at all
Subject(s): Morning; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness


NIGHTINGALE'S SERENADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A song in my heart pipes ever and ever
Last Line: My own! My own!
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nightingales; Solitude; Loneliness


NO SOLITUDE IN NATURE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature has no solitude
Last Line: It moves us thee to love.
Subject(s): Love; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness


NOBODY'S LOOKIN' BUT DE OWL AND DE MOON (A NEGRO SERENADE), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: De river is a-glistenin' in de moonlight
Last Line: An' cose you know we kin trus' de moon.
Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


NOSTALGIA, by MAUDE MILLER WHITLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: At sundown, when the first soft shadows lengthen
Last Line: My loneliness abides, and will not cease.
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Solitude; Loneliness


NOT ALWAYS: 1, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In surety and obscurity twice mailed
Subject(s): Neighbors; Solitude; Loneliness


NOT ALWAYS: 2, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were long days when there was nothing said
Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


NOVEMBER, by JOSEPH FENNER FRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: With a dull moan and hollow-sounding cry
Last Line: I find familiar places all so strange.
Subject(s): November; Solitude; Loneliness


NOW THAT I AM NEVER ALONE, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the bath I look up and see the brown moth
Last Line: Your watch-fire, your killing light
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


O FAIR!-O PUREST!; SAINT AUGUSTINE TO HIS SISTER, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O fair! O purest! Be thou the dove
Last Line: O fair! O purest! Be like the dove.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Religion; Saints; Solitude; Augustine Of Hippo; Theology; Loneliness


O WINDS!, by JEAN ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O winds of the compass points
Last Line: A lonely heart!
Subject(s): Solitude; Wind; Loneliness


OCEAN, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Goodbye again. Say there is a little song in my head
Subject(s): Sea; Loneliness; Death; Ocean; Dead, The


OCTAVES: 10, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With weeping, and be glad that he is gone.
Subject(s): Loneliness


ODE, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Power of these awful regions, hail
Last Line: The solitude of age.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To tinkling brooks, to twilight shades
Last Line: "virtue alone is bliss compleat."
Subject(s): Nature; Pleasure; Solitude; Virtue; Loneliness


ODE ON SOLITUDE (FINAL PRINTED VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy the man, whose wish and care
Last Line: Tell where I lie.
Variant Title(s): The Contented Man;the Quiet Life;ode To Solitude
Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness


OF LONELINESS, by NORMA R. WETHERED    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a well of loneliness in men
Last Line: The words never reach -- the thought to pen --
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


OF WOMEN: 1. STATION, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here stares like stones fall
Last Line: The posture of an ancient loneliness.
Subject(s): Solitude; Women; Loneliness


OH, GOD, by MAY MCKEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I am dead
Last Line: Locked in sacred solitude.
Subject(s): God; Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness


OLD TIMERS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When old men meet they ask for news of
Last Line: "and dead they still remain,"
Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Weariness; Loneliness; Fatigue


ON A MAINE COAST, by FLORA MARION LOUGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whirling, swirling, seething mist
Last Line: Till dreams and realities blur.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ON GREDOS, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone here on the mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De
Subject(s): Hearts; Solitude; Spain; Loneliness


ON MAY MORNING, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter no more the weeping fields deforms
Last Line: And in their bosoms feel another spring.
Subject(s): Forests; May (month); Morning; Nature; Nymphs; Praise; Solitude; Spring; Woods; Loneliness


ON SOLITUDE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good!
Last Line: A solitude almost.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ON SOLITUDE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet solitude! I love thy silent shade
Last Line: And hope to find that calm the world denied.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ON THE DEATH OF IDA, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis midnight deep; the full, round moon
Last Line: The bliss that once was ours!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Farewell; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness


ON THE WILLOW BRANCH, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the pond is still and the softest paddle stroke eases
Last Line: To the spine.
Subject(s): Boats; Solitude; Loneliness


ONE TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone spot on the chanter who is writer
Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing & Writers; Paradise; Male-female Relations; Loneliness


ONE WOMAN'S TEARS, by RUTH MALONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tears that well through selfish sand
Last Line: Are hidden tears of loneliness.
Subject(s): Solitude; Tears; Loneliness


OPEN LETTER FROM A CONSTANT READER, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To all who carve their love on a picnic table
Subject(s): Loneliness; Consolation; Letters


OTHER LITTLE SHIPS, by EDNA BINTLIFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh you little, wand'ring little
Last Line: Leaving you, alone.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Solitude; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness


OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 13, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: O love, my love, thou'rt in the passing crowd
Last Line: Thy blood-warm spirit to hearts bitter cold.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Solitude; Loneliness


OVERLOOKED, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, with her tender balm, her touch so kind
Last Line: But thou, and sleep, and peace, come not to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Peace; Sleep; Solitude; Loneliness


PALACE OF THE BABIES, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The disbeliever walked the moonlit place
Subject(s): Night; Loneliness; Babies; Bedtime; Infants


PAPER ROUTE, NORTHWEST MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Halfway home to the warm trailer, I stopped on a ledge
Last Line: A stunned, white wolf.
Subject(s): Montana; Solitude; Wolves; Loneliness


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 5. ALMOST A LONELINESS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One and by one
Last Line: Bows them down.
Subject(s): Heaven; Solitude; Paradise; Loneliness


PAX BEATA, by MARY RACHEL NORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've closed my door and I am all alone
Last Line: I've closed my door and I am all alone.
Subject(s): Rooms; Solitude; Loneliness


PENSEROSO, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soulless is all humanity to me
Last Line: For god's grey earth has no cheap counterfeit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Nature; Solitude; Loneliness


PENT, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take me to some waste of being
Last Line: For I must -- one life-pent prayer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


PERPETUAL MOTION, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One, one
Last Line: Live all alone
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


PERSEPHONE, SELECTION, by CHARLES DERENNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: My eternal desire, my child, my friend
Last Line: Each is alone is time's immensity!
Subject(s): Memory; Persephone; Solitude; Proserpine; Proserpina; Loneliness


PINK DAISIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A couple av childer played out in a field
Last Line: Ay, an' trudged the lone boreen!—
Subject(s): Children; Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


PIONEERS, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: As mountain peaks that tower above the plain
Last Line: The pioneers, who run not with the herd.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Solitude; Loneliness


PLORATA VERIS LACHRYMIS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O now, my true and dearest bride
Last Line: My life may now be waning.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness


POEM IN PRAISE OF SOLITUDE, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the deep fall, the body awakes
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


POET AND PERSON, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I send my messages ahead of me
Last Line: Alone, as I came.
Subject(s): Guests; Love; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Visiting; Loneliness


POPLARS, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poplar is a lonely tree
Last Line: Close to each other in a row.
Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness


PORTRAIT SONNETS: 1, by HENRY BELLAMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was more like a tree upon a hill
Last Line: By which we climbed to know a hill-top dream.
Subject(s): Solitude; Trees; Loneliness


PORTRAIT SONNETS: 2, by HENRY BELLAMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She must have lived so long with only trees
Last Line: Nor can she tell us what it was she found.
Subject(s): Solitude; Trees; Loneliness


POT ROAST, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I gaze upon a roast
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Solitude; Childhood Memories; Loneliness


PRAYER FOR A DAY'S WALK, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: God let me find the lonely ones
Last Line: In silent sympathy.
Subject(s): Solitude; Sympathy; Loneliness; Empathy


PRELUDE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid the broken waters of our ever-restless thought
Last Line: God's glory be its ocean home, the end it seeketh ever.
Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


PRESAGING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am like a flag unfurled in space
Last Line: And thrust myself forth and am alone in the great storm.
Subject(s): Selflessness; Solitude; Loneliness


PUPPET-MAKER, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In his fear of solitude, he made us.
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Solitude; Night; Loneliness; Bedtime


QUEEN OF HER HEART, by ELLIOTT FLOWER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The little rag doll is queen
Last Line: It stands in her heart alone.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dolls; Household Employees; Solitude; Toys; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness


QUIET, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A log-hut in the solitude
Last Line: Fantastic with the towns of sleep.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


QUIET, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come not the earliest petal here, but only
Last Line: With their bloom, passes.
Subject(s): Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Time; Loneliness


QUO ABEO?, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flood flows down, the sails are spreading
Last Line: Alone, alone!
Subject(s): Faith; God; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Travel; Belief; Creed; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


RAIN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
Last Line: Cannot, the tempest tells me, disappoint.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Rain; Solitude; World War I; Loneliness; First World War


RATIONAL MAN, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His restless glance abruptly drew
Last Line: Took comfort from the poplar trees.
Subject(s): Men; Poplar Trees; Reason; Solitude; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness


RE-VOYAGE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What of the days when we two dreamed together?
Last Line: My lone canoe and I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Summer; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness


RECKLESS SONNET #7, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe only your closest confidante
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


RECLUSE, by EVELYN HUDSON ROWLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I can walk faster if I walk alone
Last Line: My solitude shall be my home!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


RECOLLECTIONS OF SOLITUDE; AN ELEGY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ended are many days, and now but few
Last Line: Of beauty shalt create for evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


RECOMPENSE, by HAZEL CANNON BRINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though we are many miles apart
Last Line: And more I cannot say.
Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


RED JACK, by MARY DURACK    Poem Text                    
First Line: She rises clear to memory's eye
Last Line: Went all their ways alone.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Solitude; Women; Loneliness


REFLECTIONS ON MY OWN SITUATION, WRITTEN IN T-TT-NGST-NE HOUSE, by ANN CANDLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many years are past and gone
Last Line: But guide me with thy care.
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


REFUGE, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR.    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I shall go down from the stark, gray-stone towers
Last Line: Which widen with a motion that is still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


REMAIN?, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fancy, you are mad: remain
Last Line: I'm tired of having been.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


REPROACH, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With eyes still wide from visions
Last Line: My eyes upon a star?
Subject(s): Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness


RESPECT FOR A PAL, by JOHN PARKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your letters are a blessing that I know I
Last Line: For I'm lonesome and your letters always, always cheer me on anew.
Subject(s): Letters; Solitude; Loneliness


RESPONSES, by OTAKAR BREZINA    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are curse-laden: even amid our yearnings
Last Line: "they have revealed."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


RETIREMENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit of solitude, silence, and rest
Last Line: Freedom for solitude, silence, and rest.
Subject(s): Life; Nature; Rest; Retirement; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


RETIREMENT DAYS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In my mountain retreat 'mid forest and lakes
Last Line: That gives solace and joy to these last.
Subject(s): Memory; Retirement; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


REVERBERATION, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night in the old house of life I lie alone
Last Line: Of my heart's forest a far horn sounds drowsily . . .
Subject(s): Dust; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness


ROMANCE, by REBECCA WOLFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes even now I get this feeling
Subject(s): Hitchhikers; Loneliness; Language; Words; Vocabulary


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WOOD SOLITUDE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In former days, in my life's young morning
Last Line: As if she some fearful spectre had seen.
Subject(s): Beauty; Fairies; Forests; Life; Solitude; Elves; Woods; Loneliness


ROOMS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is nothing on earth more lonely than a room
Last Line: And knows that room is life, will pass unmoved through death.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Solitude; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness


RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was so certain yesterday
Last Line: I'll hurry home to mother now.
Subject(s): Children; Escapes; Fear; Solitude; Childhood; Fugitives; Loneliness


RUTH, by H. HYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Leave thee alone in sorrow! Ask me not
Last Line: And whither thou goest will I also go.
Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Love - Loss Of; Ruth (bible); Solitude; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism; Loneliness


SAFE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I but set my casement high
Last Line: To read the heart of me.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SAILORWIFE, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Orchid and green and the may winds blowing
Last Line: And the lonely years for allan and me.
Subject(s): Marriage; Solitude; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness


SANCTUARY, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Fear; Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness


SATURDAY NIGHT, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We come home from the movie, and you head for the t.V.
Last Line: "I am so lonely,"" I say. ""so lonely."
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Solitude; Loneliness


SAY NOT ALONE, by RUTH KNOWLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Say not alone that I was sitting
Last Line: Not to be there alone.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are my friends? I am alone
Last Line: Just eton boys grown heavy.
Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Life; Memory; Solitude; Schoolmates; Loneliness


SECLUSION, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shut out the world, shut in the home!
Last Line: Live thine own life, and win the day!
Subject(s): Life; Love; Solitude; Tears; Loneliness


SECOND WIFE, by EMILY DAWSON CRAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know that what you say is true, and yet
Last Line: (I wouldn't have had things different if I could.)
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SEEKING WATERS, by DORIS R. BECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: E'en as all waters seek the sea
Last Line: I am the waters -- thou, the sea.
Subject(s): Solitude; Tears; Loneliness


SEER, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Even in crowded mart
Last Line: And solacing his heart.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness


SERENADE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the close-shut windows gleams no spark
Last Line: Alone, alone, ah woe! Alone!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SEX, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the earth finally touches the sun
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Loneliness


SILENCE, by LUCIUS MATLACK FALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silence is magic / I hear her voice from
Last Line: That reigns supreme -- alone with god.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SILENCE LIKE COOL SAND, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First lie in it
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SILENCED, by MATTHEW KAMM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone / I find myself
Last Line: Of heedless youth.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SKID ROW, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the depths have I cried, o lord,
Last Line: The bruised reed breaks and the sparrow falls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One night, wasted, I went back and climbed the fence
Last Line: Of a newborn daughter.
Subject(s): Divorce; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness


SNOW, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone
Last Line: Lone.
Subject(s): Snow; Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITARY, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through childhood's years he struggled bitterly
Last Line: And now, they brag they went to school with him!
Subject(s): Children; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness


SOLITARY, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ties that bind two human lives
Last Line: To rarer air enclosing him and god.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITARY CONFINEMENT; HAYNEVILLE, ALABAMA, 1965, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as the last bars clang
Last Line: In the magnolia across the moonlit road.
Subject(s): Alabama; Prisons & Prisoners; Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by EDWIN E. DEAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: How rare the solitude-hour!
Last Line: My whisperings sweet and true -- sweet you!
Subject(s): Consolation; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I searched a mountain top for solitude
Last Line: Is where I found my utter solitude.
Subject(s): Self; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twere sweet to lie on desert land
Last Line: More dreadful than the pains of hell.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by E. CAMPBELL KING    Poem Text                    
First Line: One white cloud up in the sky
Last Line: Just solitude --
Subject(s): Clouds; Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How still it is here in the woods. The trees
Last Line: His five pure notes succeeding pensively.
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Woods; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by HARLEY MATTHEWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When solitude stalks over the world
Last Line: Reminding one of things that might have been.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell that kings now dead once walked this path
Last Line: And the everlasting moment of prayer, our kiss.
Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by HAROLD MONRO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you have tidied all things for the night
Last Line: Solitude walks one heavy step more near.
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us rise, o my heart, let us go where the twilight / is calling
Last Line: In petals of splendour to worship the lord of the world.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by FREDERICK PETERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is the bittern's solemn cry
Last Line: Of age on age of loneliness.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by MARY M. RANDLEMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A shadowy pool in frame of fern
Last Line: A peace divine.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep solitude I sought. There was a dell
Last Line: His maker there, to teach his listening heart.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I but lived when music-loving pan
Last Line: And seek through thee acquaintanceship with god.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Solitude; Soul; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou wast to me what to the changing year
Last Line: Stands charnelling a soul's funereal sighs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How desolate
Last Line: Shall I thee find to ease my mind! O where!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Right here I was nearly killed one night in february
Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, mountain, wearing diadem of stars
Last Line: Dark mountain, where pale dogwood waits for spring.
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Mountains; Solitude; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by GRACE SHUSTER VALLANCOURT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let me live in god's great out-of-doors
Last Line: I shall leave behind the haunts of men.
Subject(s): Blessings; Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Laugh and the world laughs with you
Last Line: Through the narrow aisles of pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): The World As It Is;laughter;companionship;the Way Of The World;life's Magnet
Subject(s): Advice; Aging; Pain; Solitude; Time; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness


SOLITUDE (1), by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone spirit of the silent shade
Last Line: And peace, and joy, and heav'n be mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE (2), by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy the man who lives retired
Last Line: In brightest day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE AND THE LILY, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bend above the moving stream
Last Line: And, if illusion, feel it true.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE FOR TWO, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis sweet to rove upon the hills
Last Line: In solitude for two.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE IN THE HILLS, by KEN HUGHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I live on a windy hill
Last Line: Than man has known.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLITUDE; IN YOUTH AND AGE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In youth we shrink from solitude!
Last Line: But seek his fellow-sinner -- man!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOLO, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing to watch but the snow
Subject(s): Snow; Solitude; Loneliness


SONG, by WILLIAM HAYLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: From glaring shew, and giddy noise
Last Line: A perfect world to me!
Subject(s): Solitude; Togetherness; Loneliness


SONG: EIN FICHTENBAUM, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fir tree standeth lonely
Last Line: In burning wastes of sand.
Subject(s): Longing; Love; Solitude; Loneliness


SONG: SHE WAITS FOR ME, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wait for thee! I said it in the splendor
Last Line: She waits for me.
Subject(s): Solitude; Waiting; Loneliness


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dreary wind of night is out
Last Line: With stars that shine and see.
Subject(s): Boats; Death; Night; Rivers; Solitude; Summer; Dead, The; Bedtime; Loneliness


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 97, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How unutterably lonely
Last Line: Where your lover still must go!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SONNET, by FLORINE KITTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like a strange, unsheltered tree upon a hill
Last Line: Leafed me, bloomed me, and stretched me up to god.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SONNET IN ASSONANCE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand bluebells blossom in the wood
Subject(s): Nature; Beauty; Solitude; Loneliness


SONNET: 29, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fair picture of my life's estate
Last Line: To wreck, — and then rebuild it, stone by stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Labor & Laborers; Loss; Memory; Solitude; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Work; Workers; Loneliness


SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 10. LONELY, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone! - and yet the poet hath the sun
Last Line: Waiting the gold-winged word no woman speaks?
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SORROW, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Living alone the feet turn voluptuous
Last Line: But the other foot.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SOUL-SHADOWS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grass, with drops like diamonds bright
Last Line: To none dare I make moan.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness


SOULS LAKE, by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The evergreen shadow and the pale magnolia
Last Line: And infinite still the discourse of the night.
Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness


SOUNDING HARVEY CREEK, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the narrow, splintering, slatted floor of the dock
Last Line: Their bones showing like veins in a tiny leaf?
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Fish & Fishing; Solitude; Swamps; Anglers; Loneliness; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


SPINSTER SONGS, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I mind me it was this very room
Last Line: Where is my lover? Where is my lover?
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SPRING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When a song is in the wind
Last Line: When a song is in the wind.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Spring; Loneliness


SPRING SONG, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went up the avenue
Last Line: "and keep spring away."
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Solitude; Spring; Loneliness


SPRINGTIDE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All deep there stirs the throb of spring
Last Line: And breaks—unanswered, and alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Solitude; Spring; Loneliness


SPRITE'S SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On lonely heights, / which a faint moon lights
Last Line: You must just let me go again!
Subject(s): Homeless; Solitude; Loneliness


STILL ON THE WATER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Solitude closes down around us
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Solitude; Loneliness


STINGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Though bees have stings, I doubt if any bee
Last Line: When I with all the world was still at war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose woods these are I think I know
Last Line: And miles to go before I sleep.
Subject(s): Duty; Evening; Forests; Religion; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Theology; Loneliness


SUBMERGENCE, by HAZEL HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The only loneliness is the wind's
Last Line: And the sea must hush an eternal cry.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SUBWAY, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Brother!
Last Line: Are nothing—less than nothing—to each other!
Subject(s): Envy; Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness


SUNDAY ALONE IN A FIFTH FLOOR APARTMENT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The globe at the door, a jaunt
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


SWIMMER, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He who goes rich and weighted with his lovers
Last Line: Of a giant fin, a green shadow far under.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE ALIEN BOY, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on a mountain, near the western main
Last Line: By the wide world forgotten!
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Solitude; Loneliness


THE ARK, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A flood of dark / sweeps on with night
Last Line: Alone—alone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Arks; Solitude; Loneliness


THE BAD WORKMAN, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Master laurent coster, with poetry in his heart
Last Line: Through looking in your dark eyes overlong.
Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Solitude; Work; Workers; Loneliness


THE BASTARD, SELECTION, by RICHARD SAVAGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In gayer hours, when high my fancy ran
Last Line: The raptures languish, and the numbers groan.
Subject(s): Grief; Muses; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


THE BEGGAR, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A beggar through the world so wide
Last Line: Shall rise a welcome guest.
Subject(s): Longing; Marriage; Solitude; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness


THE BELLS OF SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not only when the sea is dark and chill and desolate
Last Line: From lonely heights within my heart tolling their lonely sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bells; Drowning; Goddesses & Gods; Lament; Mythology; Solitude; Loneliness


THE BEND OF THE ROAD, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, that bend of the road, how it baffles, yet
Last Line: I must go to the end—I must know what comes after.
Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Solitude; Loneliness


THE BEST REWARD, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The best reward in going to the woods
Last Line: Or answered by a certain one, or two
Subject(s): Nature; Solitude; Loneliness


THE BLUE SYMPHONY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The darkness rolls upward
Last Line: I shall creep out into darkness.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE BROOK, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bright mountain brook that flowest at my feet
Last Line: To do each day the work appointed me.
Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Loneliness


THE BROOK: WINTER, by LAURA ABELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tawny grasses climb the fields
Last Line: That spring will come, ere many moons.
Subject(s): Cold; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Loneliness


THE BROWNIE'S CELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To barren heath, bleak moor, and quaking fen
Last Line: A foil to his celestial cheek!
Subject(s): Loch Lomond, Scotland; Solitude; Loneliness


THE CAGED BIRD, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And like myself lone, wholly lone
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE CALL OF THE STREAM, by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am sitting to - day at the desk alone
Last Line: I'm catching the train for trout.
Subject(s): Brooks; Fame; Rest; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Reputation; Loneliness


THE CAMPER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night 'neath the northern skies, lone, black, and grim
Last Line: Watch o'er his hemlock bed—his sinless sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Night; Solitude; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime; Loneliness


THE CELL, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When from the hush of this cool wood
Last Line: And praise thee all day long.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George
Subject(s): God; Prayer; Solitude; Loneliness


THE CHARCOAL-BURNER, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He lives within the hollow wood
Last Line: Be all that's left to love him.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE CHILD ALONE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a pleasant thing to be free
Last Line: A pirate that they put to bed?
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Children; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness


THE CHRISTIAN, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was free. But now in a net I am caught
Last Line: I can not evade immortality.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Sermons; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness


THE CITY: 2. THE CITY, by STIRLING BOWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: And now I roam the wide and thronging square
Last Line: One listening, for what no one can say.
Subject(s): Cities; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness


THE CLOISTER OF THE FALLING SNOW, by SYLVIA HORTENSE BLISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am alone in the cloister of the falling snow
Last Line: I am alone in the cloister of the falling snow.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE COMING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mansion of my heart, my love
Last Line: The happy, happy years!
Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


THE COMMON LIFE, by LIZ ROSENBERG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the midst of life, why loneliness?
Subject(s): Loneliness


THE CONSECRATION OF BRAILLE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a barren tree before
Last Line: In the darkness of the blind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Blindness; Night; Solitude; Trees; Visually Handicapped; Bedtime; Loneliness


THE DARK MEMORY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was our love's gethsemane, and you wept
Last Line: Shed for my sake, and how you wept alone.
Subject(s): Farewell; Solitude; Tears; Parting; Loneliness


THE DEAF GIRL, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: When childhood's laughing tones reveal
Last Line: But god, god only, held the key!
Subject(s): Deafness; Solitude; Loneliness


THE DEATH OF COLMAN, by THOMAS FROST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas juet spoke - the half moon's mate
Last Line: One choking thought -- the loneliness!
Subject(s): Hudson, Henry (1550-1611); Native Americans; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness


THE DEEPER DESIRE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From noon and afternoon rich blue has bled
Last Line: Ocean and solitude had lured them there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Solitude; Swimming & Swimmers; Loneliness; Swimmers


THE DESERT, by ALICE HANSCHE SORENSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see no flowers growing as I pass
Last Line: Your deep dark eyes.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Solitude; Loneliness


THE DESERT LAND, by MARGARET DELANEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good god, can it be you made this place
Last Line: Alone in the desert at night!
Subject(s): Deserts; Desolation; Food & Eating; Hunger; Solitude; South Dakota; Loneliness


THE ENTRANCE TO UNDERWORLD, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A common enough mistake
Last Line: At her first touch?
Variant Title(s): The Entrance To The Underworld
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Solitude; Loneliness


THE FIGURE IN THE DOORWAY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grade surmounted, we were riding high
Last Line: And if so moved uncurl a hand in greeting
Subject(s): Railways; Solitude; Loneliness


THE FUGITIVE, by PRINGLE BARRET    Poem Text                    
First Line: I said, I will escape
Last Line: But peace still tarries, and I wait alone.
Subject(s): Solitude; Wellesley College; Loneliness


THE GARDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How vainly men themselves amaze
Last Line: Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers?
Subject(s): Contentment; Gardens & Gardening; Retirement; Solitude; Loneliness


THE GOAT PATHS, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The crooked paths / go every way
Last Line: Of my mind.
Subject(s): Goats; Solitude; Loneliness


THE GREAT BLASKET, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone, lone / on tossing seas
Last Line: Storm everlasting.
Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Loneliness


THE HEART'S JOURNEY: 3, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I'm alone' - the words tripped off his tongue
Last Line: And all but inmost faith is overthrown.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE HEART'S WINTER, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell! We part as ne'er before
Last Line: Its joyous, happy hours!
Subject(s): Cold; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness


THE HILL WIFE: LONELINESS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One ought not to have to care / so much as you and I
Last Line: And their built or driven nests.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Solitude; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Loneliness


THE HONEY BEAR, by EILEEN MYLES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Billie holiday was on the radio
Subject(s): Honey; Solitude; Conduct Of Life; Loneliness


THE HOUNDS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far off a lonely hound
Last Line: The unneighboured and uncomforted cold sea.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE HOUR OF THOUGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The orb of day is sinking
Last Line: Grave oblivious, thou shalt hear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Solitude; Thought; Declaration Day; Loneliness; Thinking


THE HOUSE OF LIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The life of the body's a cage
Last Line: That she be not alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Houses; Life; Solitude; Soul; Dead, The; Loneliness


THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I just heard a loon call on a t.V. Ad
Last Line: Within their breasts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Solitude; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness


THE ISLAND, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Eastward lies the island
Last Line: When the grey seals come up from the sea?
Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Seals (animals); Solitude; Ocean; Loneliness


THE KING, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the king of a wide domain, and you deem it a wonderful thing
Last Line: But the kingly height is a terrible height -- god pity the lonely king!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Solitude; Loneliness


THE LAKE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When in our drifting boat
Last Line: Wishing that you were there!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree
Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness


THE LAKE OF THE LOST PLEIAD, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Enchanted lakelet! Crystal mountain well!
Last Line: Her peace protected by these guardian hills.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Sympathy; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness; Empathy


THE LAST QUARREL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I lay sleeping on my bed
Last Line: Wherewith I sped my love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Love; Quarrels; Regret; Solitude; Dead, The; Arguments; Disagreements; Loneliness


THE LESSING TABLE, by ADA LIMON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dinner table was too small
Last Line: Do something, do something
Subject(s): Life; Solitude; Loneliness


THE LITTLE MAN IN GREEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a little man in green
Last Line: "counting, ""three""."
Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness


THE LONE BUTTE, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: It towers above the sleekly rounded hills
Last Line: A relic of the childhood of the world.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE LONE THORN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A young, white-thorn - a young, white-thorn
Last Line: Jist rockin' them soft on the wind!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE LONELIEST MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The loneliest mountain, with no house or tree
Last Line: Can find no equal till I meet a child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE LONELINESS OF THE 100-METER DASH MAN, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crouching, he puts the stiffened tips of his fingers
Subject(s): Loneliness; Track Athletics; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles


THE LONELY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone and forgotten
Last Line: A child lay weeping.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE LONELY, by RENEE VIVIEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lonely who are lapped in winding sheets of moan
Last Line: Know that ecstatic joy of sorrow lived alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tarn, Mary Pauline
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


THE LONELY DEATH, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the cold I will rise, I will bathe
Last Line: And draw the sheet under my chin.
Subject(s): Cold; Dawn; Death; Solitude; Sunrise; Dead, The; Loneliness


THE LONELY DREAMER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: He lives his lonely life, and when he dies
Last Line: And let his death bring tears in no one's eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE LONELY ISLE, by CLAUDIAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in a distant bay, deeply hidden
Last Line: Where those curved arms shut in a tranquil sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Claudius Claudianus
Subject(s): Calm; Death; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Dead, The; Loneliness


THE LONELY LION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lion was lonely
Last Line: "and must I then live forever alone?"
Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Solitude; Loneliness


THE LONELY PEAKS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The summit is deserted, is gloomy, inclement
Last Line: And brought to the summit and left here alone.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE LONESOME CHILD, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The baby in the looking glass
Last Line: To eat your crusts at tea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE LONESOME HILL, by LILLIAS C. NEVIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Low I hear the night wind
Last Line: Past the lonesome hill.
Subject(s): Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE LOOM OF DREAMS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I broider the world upon a loom
Last Line: Sits weaving worlds out of loneliness?
Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude; Weavers And Weaving; Nightmares; Loneliness


THE LOST SPIRIT, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now in the solitude of night
Last Line: "and look in mary's eyes."
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Solitude; Soul; Loneliness


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 52, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I shone afar like a
Last Line: Alone like the unicorn
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 57, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night without end. Loneliness
Last Line: Did it matter? They were only for me
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness


THE LOVELINESS OF LOVE, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not beauty I demand
Last Line: Hers could not stay, for sympathy.
Variant Title(s): True Loveliness
Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness


THE MAID OF THE MOOR, OR THE WATER-FIENDS, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cold blows the blast - the night's obscure
Last Line: Lies in the bottom of a well.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Drowning; Grief; Household Employees; Solitude; Wells; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness


THE MAN WITHOUT THE HOE, by J. GORDON COOGLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a dingy little hovel
Last Line: Without the hoe.
Subject(s): Markham, Edwin (1852-1940); Men; Selfishness; Solitude; Loneliness


THE MAY MORNING AND THE OLD MAN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The morn is very clear, the young morn
Last Line: Listen, listen and follow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness


THE MINE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With a pickaxe strong and rude
Last Line: From new york to mandalay!
Subject(s): Mines And Miners; Solitude; Loneliness


THE MOUNTAIN FLOWER, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If, the rude mountain turf adorning
Last Line: And had bloom'd and died unseen.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE MUSIC OF A FRIEND, by LOUIS V. LEDOUX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a garden where for sunless days
Last Line: Full-throated, came the music of a friend.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Solitude; Loneliness


THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A grove of deep sycamores drifts into the hudson
Last Line: Stepping out of a mountain into winter daylight.
Subject(s): Fathers; Holidays; Moths; Solitude; Thanksgiving; Loneliness


THE NIGHT BIRD, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down where the cedars are bending
Last Line: "and sorrow is not eternal."
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


THE OLD WORLDLING, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He shambles by each sunny afternoon
Last Line: Bitter forever!
Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness


THE PAGAN SAINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From this rock-girdled hight / these twenty barren years
Last Line: And, ah, it may not be! ...
Subject(s): Dawn; Memory; Mountains; Prayer; Solitude; Sunrise; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE PALM, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreams on the lonely height
Last Line: Mid wastes of burning sand.
Subject(s): Palm Trees; Solitude; Loneliness


THE PARROT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whiles, when I sit alone, I hear my soul
Last Line: ... Then I cover it up, lest the dream should drive me mad.
Subject(s): Birds; Parrots; Solitude; Loneliness


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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 POET'S WISH, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O would that in some wild and winding glen
Last Line: I'd wed thee, solitude, dear nature's first-born daughter!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE PRAIRIE IMMIGRANT, by RACHEL COLE KATTERJOHN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind wailed over a granite stone
Last Line: Alone— forever alone!
Subject(s): Immigrants; Prairies; Solitude; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Plains; Loneliness


THE PRAYER OF A LONELY HEART, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am alone - oh be thou near to me
Last Line: And fit me for such fellowship with thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny
Subject(s): Prayer; Solitude; Loneliness


THE PRICE, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fear of loneliness, the wish
Subject(s): Loneliness; Love


THE PURE LONELINESS, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Loneliness; Jesus Christ


THE RAT WHO WITHDREW FROM THE WORLD, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Among levantine legends you maye find
Last Line: For I take it a monk is all loving charity.
Subject(s): Fables; Rats; Solitude; Allegories; Loneliness


THE RECLUSE, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am too much in love with loneliness
Last Line: Life! Stab me! Make me fight before I die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE RETURN, by PIERRE BENOIT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have come back to the lonely house tonight
Last Line: Of the ripe grapes of the arbor over my head.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE RIDE ROUND THE PARAPET, by FRIEDRICH RUECKERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She said, 'I was not born to mope at home in loneliness'
Last Line: Wooden lady eleanora von alleyne!
Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints; Pain; Selfishness; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness


THE RIDER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A boy told me / if he roller-skated fast enough
Last Line: No matter how slowly they fell.
Subject(s): Bicycles; Solitude; Victory; Cycling; Loneliness


THE ROAD TO CURRASHEEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a lonesome, rugged road
Last Line: Like what led to currasheen!
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Solitude; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness


THE RUINED NUNNERY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a tempestuous eve; the rains
Last Line: Are swept from off the stage!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness


THE SEARCH, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh!Where are you going to, my fine darling
Last Line: And you may call a thousand years he'll never hear you call!
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness


THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode
Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


THE SHEEP-HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day across the sagebrush flat
Last Line: Thank god! Here comes a man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States


THE SHEPHERD BOY (1), by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pleased in his loneliness, he often lies
Last Line: Where he a prisoner from a shower hath been.
Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Solitude; Loneliness


THE SHRINE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone, with hardened eyes which shed no tears
Last Line: And lo! My lips burst forth in praise to god.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Solitude; Loneliness


THE SILENCE, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down the gray crags in the vale below
Last Line: We shall hear till our life be spent.
Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


THE SILENT MULTITUDE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mighty and a mingled throng
Last Line: Thousands -- but each apart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 71, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: His heart sings louder than the shrilling gale
Last Line: His full sail swells before the straining mast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 78, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now came to mind, as he rode sorrowing home
Last Line: The silent fane seem'd stiller than of yore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 90, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: But soon astonishment their senses bound
Last Line: And bore back with a red flower in its teeth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE SOLITAIRES (ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH OF JOHN HAMPDEN, JUNE 24, 1643), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hampden, when charge on charge o'er chalgrove field
Last Line: Through reason and old ever-beckoning death.
Subject(s): Death; Hampden, John (1594-1643); Reason; Solitude; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness


THE SOLITARY, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart has grown rich with the passing of years
Last Line: Who am self-complete as a flower or a stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE SOLITARY, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone! Alone! How drear it is
Last Line: My spirit thirsts to hear?
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE SOLITUDE OF LIFE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When fancy's exhalations rise
Last Line: Already in the grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Life; Solitude; Loneliness


THE SOLITUDE OF SPACE, by FLORA CECILE ALLISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, for the solitude of space!
Last Line: Will say, right here, just smell how sweet!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE SONG OF THE DRAINER (ON TOWARD MOUNTAIN), by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is the drainer- / out on the moorland bleak and grey, using his
Last Line: Such is the drainer.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Solitude; Work; Workers; Loneliness


THE SONG OF THE MERMAIDS, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Troop home to silent grots and caves
Last Line: But we have none! But we have none!
Variant Title(s): Chorus Of Sirens;siren Chorus;the Mermaidens' Versper-hymn
Subject(s): Mourning; Seals (animals); Silence; Solitude; Bereavement; Loneliness


THE SONG OF THE SLATTERN, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing me a song of the sloven
Last Line: As she erred, so will many another fool err.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Self-pity; Solitude; Women; Loneliness


THE SOUND OF ONE FORK, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the window screen I can see an angle of grey roof
Subject(s): Aging; Loneliness; Women; Neigbors; Longing


THE SOWER, by ELIZABETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath the mild sun vanish the vapor's last wet traces
Last Line: With steady hand he paces afield without a mutter.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis
Subject(s): Plants; Solitude; Planting; Planters; Loneliness


THE SUMMER HOUSE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She took his hand
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Books; Solitude; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading; Loneliness


THE TENT ASTRONOMER, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a barrier against mosquitoes
Last Line: Let lens and mirror lift me up toward light.
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Camping; Solitude; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps; Loneliness


THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 9, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After an hour the mild
Subject(s): Footprints; Snow; Solitude; Loneliness


THE THORN OF PRESTON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reviving with the genial airs
Last Line: Sad relics of the fight!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Blood; Mourning; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Bereavement; Loneliness


THE TOWN BETWEEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wall impregnable surrounds
Last Line: The town that lies between?
Subject(s): Solitude; Towns; Loneliness


THE TRYSTING-PLACE, by M. E. H. EVERETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The winds blow up through the blooming vale
Last Line: Forgotten and left alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Everett, M. E. H.
Subject(s): Longing; Love - Nature Of; Solitude; Loneliness


THE TURN OF THE ROAD, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where this narrow lane slips by
Last Line: At the turn of the road.'
Subject(s): Footprints; Roads; Solitude; Time; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


THE UNQUIET, by DAVID O'NEIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: He thought to solve
Last Line: For its silence.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE UNTHRIFT, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the shade of the tree
Last Line: Is gone.
Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness


THE VISION, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, friend, and thine are one
Last Line: Friend, I am solitude.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE WET WOODS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This path leads to the laurel
Last Line: I will be alone with sorrow.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THE WISH, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well then; I now do plainly see
Last Line: And so make a city here.
Subject(s): Happiness; Solitude; Wishes; Joy; Delight; Loneliness


THE WISH; WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF POPE'S 'ODE ON SOLITUDE', by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "grant me, ye powers, some blest retreat"
Last Line: Bring sylvia there!
Subject(s): Contentment;country Life;solitude; Loneliness


THE WOLF CALL, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cry of the wolf in the forest brings me comfort
Last Line: And cry out my own loneliness.
Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Hunger; Solitude; Wilderness; Wolves; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


THERE IS SO MUCH OF LONELINESS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Yet we deny the brotherhood / the human heart demands
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


THEY DO NOT KNOW, by ALBERT MOCKEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far in the meadow, through the fountainrain
Last Line: I had known my own kisses again.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Solitude; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Loneliness


THEY SAY IT MIGHT RAIN, by MARTHA RONK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Commentary is underdone
Subject(s): Loneliness


THEY THAT DIE IN THE LORD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little boy is bringing some sticks of wood up the stairs
Last Line: The beauty of expectancy and love.
Subject(s): Children; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness


THIS MORNING, GOD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four a.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab
Last Line: The incessant beating in my chest for two now.
Subject(s): Coffee; Dawn; Habits; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Memory; Morning; Past; Prayer; Silence; Solitude; Sunrise; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness


THIS STRANGENESS IN MY LIFE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is so hard to see where it is
Last Line: As someone else, not ever remembered.
Subject(s): Emptiness; Solitude; Loneliness


THROUGH THE WOOD (BY DARTMOOR, SEPT. 1893), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day long upon her throne
Last Line: Now the heart must beat alone!
Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Reason; Solitude; Travel; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


TO A BLUEBELL, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is that a drop of the ethereal blue
Last Line: I know that that is well.
Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness


TO A BRETON BEGGAR (DOL CATHEDRAL), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the brown shadow of the transept door
Last Line: The glamour of the celt!
Subject(s): Celts; Old Age; Poverty; Prayer; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking


TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And wouldst thou seek the low abode
Last Line: Of hermit happiness.
Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Life; Peace; Self-reliance; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


TO A FRIEND EXPRESSING A WISH TO TRAVEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost thou, then, listening to the traveller's tale
Last Line: Remember with a sigh the joys of home?
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Comfort; Happiness; Home; Pain; Solitude; Travel; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


TO A GREEK MARBLE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pótuia, pótuia / white grave goddess
Last Line: Thou hearest me not
Subject(s): Statues; Solitude; Loneliness


TO A HERMIT THRUSH, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here in the shelter of tall, towering trees
Last Line: To form your hymn of praise, o hermit thrush!
Subject(s): Hermits; Music & Musicians; Quiet Life; Solitude; Loneliness


TO A NEST OF YOUNG THRUSHES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear little birds, you're ready now to fly
Last Line: From day to day.
Subject(s): Birds; Explorers; Nature; Solitude; Youth; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness


TO A WHITETHROAT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou but pipe I will a pilgrim be
Last Line: The gentle exclamation of the dove.
Subject(s): Birds; Solitude; Walking; Loneliness


TO AN UNSEEN BIRD, by KATHLEEN REA BRAID    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sharpened to a cutting edge on the whetstone
Last Line: "nor cavil with loathed months in rack-ridden years."
Subject(s): Birds; Solitude; Loneliness


TO LYDIA, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Midnight has stol'n upon me! Sound is none
Last Line: The hours of stillness and of solitude!
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


TO MELANCHOLY, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit of love and sorrow -- hail
Last Line: O'er foaming seas and distant sail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Melancholy; Solitude; Dejection; Loneliness


TO PLAY ALONE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A tom tit clinging upside down
Last Line: Will teach me how to play alone?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


TO SAPPHO, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh lonely lyric sappho
Last Line: The glory of a dream.
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Solitude; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Loneliness


TO SOLITUDE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am weary of the working
Last Line: Wind about a thousand hills.
Subject(s): Hope; Love; Solitude; Trust; Optimism; Loneliness


TO SOLITUDE, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O solitude! If I must with thee dwell
Last Line: When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: Solitude
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


TO THE BELOVED, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You were a part of the green country
Last Line: And wake, alas! To the lonely places.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness


TO THE BOY BRIAN, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poppy has spread out her petticoat red
Last Line: Come quickly to me.
Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


TO THE DEPARTED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know thou hast gone to the place of thy rest
Last Line: "is born, like the rainbow, in tears"
Subject(s): Death;mourning;regret;rest;solitude; "dead, The;bereavement;loneliness;


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. CHILD OF THE LONELY HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of the lonely heart
Last Line: Through the great mother-heart eternally ascending!
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Hearts; Solitude; Loneliness


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. I SAW A FAIR HOUSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a fair house standing in a garden, but no one moved about it
Last Line: Others a sound of weeping.
Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Selfishness; Solitude; Women - Secluding; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. SISTER HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little sister heart, without thy big brother the rude brain
Last Line: Gazest again on the cameo in thy chamber.
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Love; Solitude; Loneliness


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. SPENDING THE NIGHT ALONE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To lie all night beside the loved on - how lovely
Last Line: Spending the night alone.
Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness


TREES BE COMPANY, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When zummer's burnen het's a-shed
Last Line: The trees would still be company.
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Pleasure; Seasons; Solitude; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness


TROPIC NIGHTFALL, by ROBERT AVRETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sunlight dies
Last Line: And one youth sings.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 1, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother bore me 'neath the streaming moon
Last Line: The roses I behold are wan as they!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Solitude; Tuscany, Italy; Loneliness


TWELVE SONNETS: 4. LONELY SEASONS, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: But there are lonely times when all the seas
Last Line: Wherethrough once love's embroidered sandal strolled.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


TWILIGHT, by FOREST M. KELP    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jes' a-smokin'
Last Line: Prayin' you're a-lovin' too!
Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


TWILIGHT, by MOISHE NADIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Opposite my house is a church
Last Line: "I may be sure I have not become dumb."
Subject(s): Self; Solitude; Loneliness


TWILIGHT, by ALINE NEFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dusk comes creeping from horizon
Last Line: Lets the dusk not linger long.
Subject(s): Evening; Melancholy; Mourning; Silence; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Dejection; Bereavement; Loneliness


TWILIGHT APRIL RAIN, by MADELEINE MOSCHENROSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Comes a sudden rush of music in a melting minor strain
Last Line: And the sting that every spring brings when there's twilight april rain!
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


TWO NOCTURNS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat
Subject(s): Sea; Prairies; Loneliness; Ocean; Plains


UNDER PRESSURE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


UP ON THE MOUNTAIN, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up on the mountain, where nobody comes
Last Line: "and the wild bee hums --"
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


UPDATE ON JEKYLL AND HYDE, by DARA WIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you live alone with no one else
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am monarch of all I survey
Last Line: And reconciles man to his lot.
Variant Title(s): Verses By Alexander Selkirk;alexander Selkirk;the Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk
Subject(s): Explorers; Memory; Selkirk, Alexander (1676-1721); Solitude; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness


VINEGAR AND OIL, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wrong solitude vinegars the soul
Last Line: Of a fallen donkey, above a church door in finland
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


VIOLIN SONGS: A SONG PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord jesus, / oh, ease us
Last Line: To sing true.
Subject(s): Comfort; Doubt; Faith; God; Hope; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Solitude; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness


VIOLIN SONGS: AT MY WINDOW AFTER SUNSET, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven and the sea attend the dying day
Last Line: Eternal love is my eternal prayer.
Subject(s): Death; Evening; God; Life; Love; Prayer; Solitude; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness


VIOLIN SONGS: HARD TIMES, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am weary, and very lonely
Last Line: Awake thy life in me.
Subject(s): God; Grief; Solitude; Thirst; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


WALKING THOUGHTS, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sidewalk is growing soft. I am growing soft
Subject(s): Conformity; Homecoming; Solitude; Loneliness


WALTER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The changing moon will circle through the skies
Last Line: And I am left alone.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness


WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At that time, after being robbed of everything, I was a wanderer
Last Line: Theirs were fixed positions, no upward mobility
Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WE MUST GO ALONE, by PHILIP DIAMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mostly I go alone
Last Line: Our day is done.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


WE WERE THREE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was winter
Last Line: And there are too many to bury
Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness


WEARYIN' FOR YOU, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jes' a - wearyin' for you
Last Line: Jes' a-wearyin' for you!
Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


WEDNESDAY, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray rainwater lay on the grass in the late afternoon
Last Line: Might drop his arms, that he had held up all day since the dew.
Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness


WHAT OF THAT?, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "tired! Well, what of that?"
Last Line: "and he will guide thee, light thee, help thee home."
Variant Title(s): A Sermon In Verse
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


WHOM WE WORSHIP, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not have the love of lips and eyes
Last Line: In its lone ecstasy.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Solitude; Loneliness


WHY IS THE COLOR OF SNOW?, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's ask a poet with no way of knowing.
Subject(s): Snow; Loneliness; Immortality


WIFE IS AWAY, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh welcome, lone cricket, thy song
Last Line: The wife who is far, far away.
Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness


WIND-CLOUDS AND STAR-DRIFTS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another clouded night: the stars are hid
Last Line: We know not his whose love embraces all.
Subject(s): Ambition; Faith; Idols; Love; Regret; Solitude; Sympathy; Truth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Loneliness; Empathy


WINDOWS RIDING AMTRAK; FOR ABE OPINCAR, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurtle through night tunnels
Last Line: The last remaining link.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Railroads; Solitude; Widows & Widowers; Railways; Trains; Loneliness


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


WINTER: TEXAS PLAINS, by HOLLIS WILLIAM SCHREIBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: This night
Last Line: And the great loneliness seems strangely like a friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schreiber, H. W.
Subject(s): Solitude; Winter; Loneliness


WITHIN THIS FRAME, by MATTHEW KAMM    Poem Text                    
First Line: A shadow rages in the walls of you, building fires and
Last Line: Wandering, seeking, lonely, in a bleak, enormous room.
Subject(s): Insomnia; Solitude; Sleeplessness; Loneliness


WOODLAND GREETINGS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pale and weird the landscape
Last Line: Answer to the sky.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


WRITTEN IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ASYLUM, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am: yet what I am none cares or knows
Last Line: The grass below -- above the vaulted sky.
Variant Title(s): His Last Verses
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Religion; Solitude; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology; Loneliness


WRITTEN IN ZIMMERMAN'S SOLITUDE, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, melancholy sage! Whose thoughtful eye
Last Line: Serenely joyful, there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


WRITTEN TO A NEAR NEIGBOUR IN A TEMPESTUOUS NIGHT, 1748, by HENRIETTA (ST. JOHN) KNIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: You bid my muse not cease to sing
Last Line: Th' intoxicated poet's bane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Luxborough, Lady
Subject(s): Solitude; Storms; Loneliness


WUTHERIN HEIGHTS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The horizons ring me like faggots,
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Solitude; Nature; Loneliness


YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: THE BUILDER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This loveliness is builded of despair
Last Line: To keep their beauty hidden in the heart.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 6. BRIDAL OF HELEN, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet is the evening twilight; but, alas!
Last Line: Come, and I will gaze on thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A.
Subject(s): Evening; Love; Solitude; Soul; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness