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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LONELINESS Matches Found: 676 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 onbenumbedalone. 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 nowfor 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 stayand 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: Machreemachree! 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 breaksunanswered, 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 nothingless than nothingto 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: Alonealone! 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 endI 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 bedhis 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 |
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