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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LOSS Matches Found: 2100 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "SONG, FR. AURENGE-ZEBE (OPERA)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I see she flies me everywhere Last Line: "I might live longer, but not love her more" Subject(s): Disdain;love - Loss Of; Scorn (HUSHED TONE OF VOICE), by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This story tonight Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ***, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: You did not snow me in Last Line: Here too: loss is the only delight Subject(s): Loss; Love ...WHO WAS BORN DEAD, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: She is far away. Very far Last Line: Who did not speak, but I listen to you yet Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Sisters 13TH ARRONDISSEMENT BLUES, by BARBARA HAMBY Poem Source First Line: When we sit down for yet another sublime meal Last Line: And if only we could swim, we might be free Subject(s): Food And Eating; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration 18-AUG, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They said the moon wasn't going to rise no no Last Line: Burr-like he closes over us Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 1851: A MESSAGE TO DENMARK HILL, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dearest father, it is the year's first day Last Line: Gone now as all must go. Your loving son, / john Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Italy; Loss; Italians 19-NOV-82, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two crows in the pine are loud Last Line: Of brand new iris flowers Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 25-DEC, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bill brown has discussed his christmas day Last Line: The wine is still unblighted Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 26-JUN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Unexpected gifts %that liven the moments Last Line: Brings your card and our collaboration %almost a year old Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 35-MM CLIPS, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is my past. I'm able to remember none of it Last Line: In this silent film, your back to the camera Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration 4 A.M., by JOHN SAMUEL TIEMAN Poem Source First Line: Like a leaf which wishes to drop Last Line: Her skin amid all the dark Subject(s): Death; Li Po (701-762); Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Silence 4 TED, by SIMON PETTET Poem Text First Line: O wait a minute, there's something in my eye no Last Line: —and still love—him. Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Death; Loss; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Dead, The A BALLADE OF OLD SWEETHEARTS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it that weeps for the last year's flowers Last Line: Ah! Lost are the loves of the long ago. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A BIRD AT SUNSET, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild bird, that wingest wide the glimmering moors Last Line: At night upon her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Birds; Love - Loss Of A BREATH OF AIR, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked, when love was gone Last Line: And things were as they were Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of A BRIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O I am weary!' she sighed, as her billowy Last Line: To kneel in dumb agony down and weep near her! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brides; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness A COMPLAINT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a change -- and I am poor Last Line: Of my fond heart, hath made me poor. Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Pain; Absense A DAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: You, moving with women and men Last Line: When time was a toy of your own. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Past A DAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Well may I shrink to wake, and on me find Last Line: —as I attend! Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Past A DEAD WOMAN, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, she was beauteous; if the night Last Line: In which she never read! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The A DREAM OF FIFTY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among all the losses, this was immense Last Line: Wind pressing leaves against a grid of fence. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Dreams; Future; Life; Loss; Nightmares A DREAM-SONG, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A love-song died on my heart in a dream Last Line: Will return and restore my dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Melodies; Music & Musicians A FAREWEL TO LOVE, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: Well, since in spight of all that love can do Last Line: And think no more of hymen, or of love. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Muses A FAREWELL, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And if I did, what then? Last Line: "as they do now at me." Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love - Loss Of; Anglers A FAREWELL TO AMERICA, TO MRS. S. W., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, new-england's smiling meads Last Line: Of all its pow'r disarms! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Great Britain; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea Voyages; United States; America A FOREST RENDEZVOUS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They said someone was waiting Last Line: Being blind. Subject(s): Forests; Love - Loss Of; Woods A FUNERAL POEM ON THE DEATH OF C.E., AN INFANT OF 12 MONTHS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through airy roads he wings his instant flight Last Line: In pleasures without measure, without end. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): A Poem On The Death Of Charles Eliot, Aged 12 Months Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies A GIRL'S AUTUMN REVERIE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We plucked a red rose, you and I Last Line: We woke but to remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Summer A GIRL'S SONG, by H. THOMPSON RICH Poem Text First Line: The shadows fall and deepen Last Line: I lift my lips to thee. Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Paradise A GRAVE SONG, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've a pocketful of emptiness Last Line: Will you walk with me, will you follow the dead? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A LAMENT FOR HIS DEAD MISTRESS, by OTOMO NO YAKAMOCHI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my courtyard Last Line: And all effort is in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Chunagon Yakamochi; Otomo Yakamochi; Yakamochi Subject(s): Death; Love – Loss Of; Mourning A LANCASHIRE LOVER (AT THE UNDERTAKER'S), by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis so sudden and strange to me Last Line: May she have the ring now? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A LAST DAY, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Lower, lower burn thou fire Last Line: There, the last weak spark is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A LIFE'S LOSS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember the summer day Last Line: Though the stream moan on. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A LOST LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a summer ago when he left me here Last Line: Good-by, my lover; good-by! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Lost Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sea; Summer; Ocean A LYRIC, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I sing light-souled and fancy-free Last Line: When my loved lord no longer smiles on me? Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent Subject(s): Absence; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation A MIDNIGHT SERENADE FOR HER PERFUMED MAJESTY (AN ENCORE), by ANGELO DE LUCA Poem Text First Line: Oh, I died many deaths throughout that day Last Line: I blew my candle, and I went to bed. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Songs A NEW THEME, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I fain would leave the tender songs Last Line: Kindle the magic flame. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Future; Loss 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 NOTE ON MY SON'S FACE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, I look, thunderstruck / at the gold head of my grandchild Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; United States - Race Relations A PARTING SONG, by WILLIAM AITKEN Poem Text First Line: We met -'twas a meeting - our journeys must part Last Line: And oh! We may never behold him again. Subject(s): Loss A POOR FRENCH SAILOR'S SCOTTISH SWEETHEART, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot forget my joe [jo] Last Line: Is bible and charm for me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails A POOR TORN HEART, A TATTERED HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Lead the wandering sails Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A REVERIE, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a spreading elm, from whose high boughs Last Line: And broken hedge-flowers sweet, mark his impetuous way. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Agriculture; Farmers A REVERIE, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One thing I know not, - what, o little maiden Last Line: Leant on my heart and mixt its dream with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares A SCOTCH SONG, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gowan glitters on the sward Subject(s): Shepherds And Sheperdesses; Love - Loss Of A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've known her too long Last Line: Of the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Loss; Love; Memory; Midas; Mirrors; Sex; Women A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl who was once my mistress Last Line: Focus to this dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Loss; Midas; Poetry & Poets; Women; Dead, The A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 40, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into my heart an air that kills Last Line: And cannot come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Yon Far Country Subject(s): Loss; Mourning; Time; Bereavement A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fine cataracts of falling mountain water Last Line: While dressed in ice skates and the long green gown. Subject(s): Heaven; Loss; Moose; Skeletons; Paradise A SOLDIER'S FAREWELL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, farewell! 'tis an ancient tale this / call Last Line: To flower in immortality. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War; Parting A SPINSTER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Why have you come, o love, so near Last Line: Whenever did you come to stay? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Single People; Spinsters; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Old Maids A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near no name, colorado Last Line: I knew I'd lost it. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes A TALE OF THE BOGLAND, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis myself that hates the city, and the hurry, and / the din Last Line: For he is on the bogland yet, an' I am far apart. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise A TEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a test I designed, in a quiet Last Line: And no mist of distress in her glorious eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Soul; Separation; Isolation A TRUANT FROM EDEN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a mazy, sunlit garden Last Line: As sharp the clock rang out for noon! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting A TRUANT LOVER, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above a lily's chalice flashed Last Line: Her fickle love will ne'er return. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of A TRUE TALE TO MRS. J - S. WRITTEN AT HER REQUEST, by MARY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: Why madam, must I tell this idle tale? Last Line: We met as lovers, and we parted friends. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A VALENTINE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Cruel heart! Ere these posthumous papers Last Line: That one last word -- that fare -- fare -- fare thee well. Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Valentine's Day A WHISPER FROM THE GRAVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life points with a radiant hand Last Line: Among the willow trees down there. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A WINTER OF LOVE LETTERS AND A MORNING PRAYER: 7, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beeches are vibrant because there is black Last Line: Like lace. Jane with sunspots; with, almost, grace. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Trees; Dejection A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 10, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, ere I go, forgive me each least wrong Last Line: Too wholly gave a love disconsolate. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Love - Loss Of; Clemency A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 11, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild words I write, and lettered in deep pain Last Line: My tumults and my joys I may proclaim. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 12, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis ended truly, truly as was best Last Line: I love thee, bless thee, dear, where'er thou go. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 5, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er the cost to me, with this farewell Last Line: With the rude fight, think not I shall relent. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 6, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have I lost? The faith I had that right Last Line: To thee alone naught needs to be confessed. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 7, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have I gained? A little charity? Last Line: I had, like jesse's son, a soothing power. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 8, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sue thee not for pity on my case Last Line: With open eyes to love and death I went. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 9, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day draws nigh, methinks, when I could stay Last Line: The love-light in thine eyes, and not for me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ABSENCE (1), by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some people like broken glass Last Line: Out of touch %with the times Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AD ASTRA: 40, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Judge from thy heart, how much I long for thee! Last Line: Pillow'd upon the surge of thy soft breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The AD ASTRA: 47, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O love! That sitt'st upon thy deathless throne Last Line: —ah! Once like this did dawn in eden rise!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Eden; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Paradise 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 ADDRESS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Lacking the intimate tu, and with thou Last Line: How I want to say it, what I most fear losing Subject(s): Fear; Introspection; Loss ADDRESS TO THE ATHEIST, 1767, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muse! Where shall I begin the spacious field Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ADDRESS TO THE DIEST, 1767, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must ethiopians be imploy'd for you? Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ADONIS IS OLDER THAN JESUS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever heard of a place called byblus? Last Line: Tender life again. Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Loss; Mythology; Religion AFTER ACTIUM: LOSS FILLING THE EMPTINESS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers do not move in the windless pause Last Line: As you in me now, all the time, day after day Subject(s): Actium, Battle Of (31 B.c.); Emptiness; Loss AFTER GRIEF, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: At first when thou wert gone, thy memory Last Line: The more my hope and singing, am I free. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery AFTER LOVE, by MERLE PRICE Poem Text First Line: You used to laugh at me and say Last Line: A ghost in april rain. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AFTER LOVE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no magic anymore Last Line: For all its peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AFTER LOVE HAD ENDED, by ELEANOR A. FAY Poem Text First Line: See the silver streak as it gleams and flashes Last Line: Sorrow transcended. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AFTER SA'ADI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, 'I do not fear the Last Line: Strength failed me Subject(s): Affliction; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Strength; Parting AFTER SA'ADI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, 'I do not fear the Last Line: Strength failed me Subject(s): Affliction; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Strength AFTER THE ENGAGEMENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, mabel, 'tis over and ended Last Line: I think it will happen in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes AFTER-SIGHT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is vibrant with you -- but they say Last Line: This is the soul I loved, and never knew! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The AFTERMATH, by LOUISE BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, they are singing your praises Last Line: Hurl me past stars and moon! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The AFTERWARDS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not love you now Last Line: Threaded with stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AGAIN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life has a repetitious feel Last Line: Precious, rare and mundane, where we live Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Deja Vu; Grief; Loss AGAIN RECOGNIZING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We had to leave that beautiful place Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AGAINST LOST LOVE, by LAURA K. KASISCHKE Poem Source First Line: An old woman Last Line: Having expected to fly. Stay, I want to beg you, %we'll have another life Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AH IT'S SOCKED IN TODAY BOYS HEAVY METAL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And soft grasses Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AH PHOOEY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grafted apples for an entry. Empty Last Line: By merely listening, you add your sound Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AH, THAT YOU ESCAPE IN THE FLASH, by JOSE LEZAMA LIMA Poem Source Last Line: Stretches out like a cat to let itself be defined Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of ALEXANDRINE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the morning of palm sunday, in village adair Last Line: Alexandrine! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Palm Sunday; Sorrow; Sadness ALL THIS EVERYDAY, SELS., by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I used to focus on the worries Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ALLA BREVE LOVING, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three people drinking out of the bottle Last Line: Ancient terrapin %at the approach of the wheel Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE2, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How unhappy a lover am I Last Line: For the souls to meet closer above. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 7 Subject(s): Death; Fate; Hope; Love - Loss Of; Nymphs; Dead, The; Destiny; Optimism ALMOST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The one-legged pigeon wins the crust Last Line: I almost taste %love lost. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Victory ALMOST EVENLY DIVIDED, by EMMA SUAREZ-BAEZ Poem Source First Line: My life %almost evenly divided Last Line: But half lost Subject(s): Loss ALMOST LOVE POEM, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: There's a time when love wants to come again, but finally Last Line: And closed differently at dawn Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ALMOST WINTER, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Just now, when ice first cuts Last Line: Fresh snow on the river %frost on the lawn Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory 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 AMERICA, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New england first a wilderness was found Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality AMERICAN SUITE FOR A LOST DAUGHTER, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: I am the last greylag on the left side of the v Last Line: The nights we walked and tried %to see only the stars Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wander on the barren moors Last Line: And breathes the humid air of death! Subject(s): Mountains; Loss; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AMOR MYSTICUS, by MARCELA DE CARPIO DE SAN FELIX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let them say to my lover Last Line: Of death to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 4. VAIN MEMORY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god, your memory's voice grows fainter, her face pale Last Line: My heart is dead that was a heart of many sighs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 5. THE RETURN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little hand is knocking at my heart Last Line: And will not knock again. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS EXSUL: 2. LOSS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have I lost in losing you Last Line: And life itself, in losing you! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 1, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who has entered by this sorrow's door Last Line: All that I know of love I learnt of you. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 10, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white foam rushes back into the night Last Line: Across the wind and moonlight of the sea? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 11, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have endured a week's oblivion Last Line: The soft and sudden barrier of the sky. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 12, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is love's ghost that I have met today Last Line: And love is dead, for I have met love's ghost. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 14, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way of all transgressors is not hard Last Line: Moan on the grave of love that you have slain? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 3, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it this weary and most constant heart Last Line: That aches in me, to know that you are lost? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 4, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know that you are lost to me, and yet Last Line: For love's sake, to forget you for one hour! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 9, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot work: I dare not sit alone Last Line: Stand listening for your step upon the stair. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMOROUS ANTICIPATION, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the intimacy of your forehead clear as a celebration Last Line: The fiction of time destroyed, %without love, without me Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Silence AMOUR DE VOYAGE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was a man who could write you rhyme Last Line: And who in their senses would wish for more? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets AMYNTA, by GILBERT ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: My sheep I neglected, I broke my sheep-hook Last Line: The moments neglected return not again. Subject(s): Ambition; Love - Loss Of AN APOLOGY FOR AVOIDING ... A WOMAN ONCE LOVED, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See me no more on earth, I pray Last Line: The ashes still had warm'd the heart so cold to-day! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AN EAGLE FOLDS HIS WINGS, by SIEG HALBERG Poem Text First Line: Like a mighty eagle he soared Last Line: For at last the eagle was folding his wings. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The AN ELEGY (4), by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you must go, and I must bid farewell Last Line: Till I may see both it and you again. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AN ELEGY ON THE LADY PEN; SENT TO MY MISTRESS OUT OF FRANCE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let him who from his tyrant mistress did Last Line: In either eye a tear, each hand a verse. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Grief; Separation AN END, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go away from me -- do! I am tired Last Line: In the nest of the old, and a ghost on the wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; May (month); Spring AN EPISTLE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear soul, the time is come, and we must part Last Line: Yet dare not ask a hand to lessen it. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting AN ERRAND, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I slept, and where her lonely flower-knots gleam Last Line: "breathes memory of our love that shall not die." Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Death; Dead, The AN EVENING IN PRISON, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From intricate clustera of stars Last Line: Snuff out the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts AN HYMN TO HUMANITY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! For this dark terrestrail ball Last Line: With ev'ry heav'nly art. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Humanity; Love - Loss Of; Mortality AN HYMN TO THE EVENING, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main Last Line: Then cease, my song, till fair aurora rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Night; Bedtime AN HYMN TO THE MORNING, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Attend my lays, ye ever honour'd nine Last Line: And scarce begun, concludes th' abortive song. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality AN OCTOBER AFTERNOON, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never again / the world all gold Last Line: Never again! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness AN OLD BACHELOR, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O love is a jade of a wayward life Last Line: As for me, I will not have the creature about. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People AN UNWANTED BOY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Poor little lad! Last Line: A mother's true love. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Loss; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement AN UNWRITTEN TRAGEDY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, ye that thirst beside the running stream! Last Line: And pluck a feather out and write such things? Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy; Dead, The ANCIENT BALLAD: LOVE THAN DEATH MORE STRONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The conde nino all for love %has crossed the ocean wide Last Line: She a heron and he a hawk %flew upward through the skies Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of AND SOMETIMES I HEAR THIS SONG IN MY HEAD, by HARRIET JACOBS Poem Source First Line: We have always heard music Last Line: You can't %touch this Subject(s): Loss AND WAKE UP WHERE?, by DAVID LAZAR Poem Source First Line: A generation of mothers sings 'over the rainbow' in ruby bedroom slippers Last Line: Place like home, there was no place Subject(s): Family Life; Girls; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AND WITH MARCH A DECADE IN BOLINAS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just sitting around smoking, drinking and telling stories Last Line: Great breath, I give you, great breath! Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ANGEL IN FLORIDA, by RANDALL MANN Poem Source First Line: And I, wishing to be back in cuba Last Line: Purpling only the mountains of cuba Variant Title(s): Dust And Broughtoni Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ANGER, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: We were arguing Last Line: I am committed %fully %intentionally %to you Subject(s): Anger; Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of ANIMA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me in feeble health, the hectic on your cheek Last Line: I have not loved you for your face—I've loved you for your soul! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Illness ANN, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: That next morning, after she died Last Line: Do not be afraid Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of ANNA AND HARLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within these wilds was anna wont to rove Last Line: Like heaven's bright beauteous bow reflected in the stream. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Supernatural ANNA AND HENRY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the glade was anna wont's to rove Last Line: Like heaven's bright bow reflected on the stream. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Supernatural ANNE RUTLEDGE, by HESTER BARBOUR NEWEY Poem Text First Line: Long years ago my sweetheart said goodbye Last Line: "if memories of anne live in your fame." Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Time ANNIVERSARY, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That was a kindly storm, I know Last Line: They say you called the far ship's name, %they say that tristram did the same Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of ANOTHER LETTER OF THE ALPHABET, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is your name, a stone on the tongue, here is Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ANOTHER LINEAGE, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: Eros, blind father, let me show you the way Last Line: Of another breed sublimely insane! Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roses ANOTHER TOMORROW, by PAULINE LEWELLING DEVITT Poem Text First Line: Was it only last night in half darkness that I met him midway on Last Line: Pray grant me another tomorrow! Love stirs like new life at its start. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ANSWER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celestial muse! Sublimest of the nine Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ANSWER TO THE REBUS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet asks, and phillis can't refuse Last Line: And add new glory to her name. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ANTHRO INFO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The immortals are so old Last Line: When you first started remembering them Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Grief; Loss ANTIGONE, SELECTION, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eros invincible Last Line: Homeless among the living and the dead! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ANTS, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: To warm life passing singing with the grace Last Line: Them to me on the graveyard's critical threshold, %their bread and perfume, venom and cautery Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of ANTS ARE USING STICKS FOR WALLS, by SANDRA GAIL TEICHMANN Poem Source First Line: Ten-year-old girls want to be fourteen. When I was Last Line: Aligned with the constellations Subject(s): Loss ANY MORNING, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just lying on the couch and being happy Last Line: You can shake your head. You can frown Subject(s): Loss ANY TUNAY NA LALAKI STALKS THE STREETS OF NEW YORK, by NICK CARBO Poem Source First Line: Looking to harvest what makes him happy Last Line: For a preparation h commercial-al moranas, %american but with a filipino flair Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ANYTHING THAT IS CREATED, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And its own empty space Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss APOCRYPHA, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Everything will be forsaken then Last Line: Trickling, the empty ditch trickles down Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Exiles; Farewell; Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Orphans; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude APPLE, AN ORANGE, AND A FLASHLIGHT FULL MOON ECLIPSE WITH COMET, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Glowing full in eastern sky Last Line: A final ghostly marble in relief Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss APRIL LOVE, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have walked in love's land a little way Last Line: With a sigh, a smile? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AQUEDUCTS, by BRITTNEY CORRIGAN Poem Source First Line: I have carried water Last Line: In the dark, night after night Subject(s): Loss ARCHDUCHESS ANNE: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In middle age an evil thing Last Line: For captives he held fast. Subject(s): Hate; Love; Love - Loss Of; War ARCHDUCHESS ANNE: 3, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old kraken read a missive penned Last Line: Great heart, archduchess anne. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mercy ARE YOU NAPPING?, by IM JE Poem Source First Line: Are you napping or just hiding, lying Last Line: That I cannot raise to my sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude ARIADNE TO THESEUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight to the river Last Line: Be mine the sad alloy! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Theseus; Unfaithfulness; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy ARTHUR OKAMURA'S PIPUL TREE'S BODHI LEAF, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All these sentient questions Last Line: From every tree Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ARTURO, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: I told everyone Last Line: Do not call me marie Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations AS A FATHER SHOULD BE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: You came %rushing against the clock Last Line: I love you dad Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of AS EARTH BEGINS TO END, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I reach out my hand and it sinks through you like soft fruit Last Line: Or button the body's last, unbuttonable coat Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of AS I TOSSED, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: As I tossed deeply into night, turned Last Line: The night-worn lines across my face Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain AS I WALKED FORTH, by ROBERT JOHNSON (1555-1626) Poem Text First Line: As I walked forth one summer's day Last Line: Alas, alas! With love her heart did break. Subject(s): Grief; Household Employees; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids AS IF A PHANTOM CARESS'D ME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And those appear that are hateful to me and mock me Subject(s): Love – Loss Of AS ONE ACKNOWLEDGES DREAM AND EXILE, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: Night has now come and I acknowledge you Last Line: And not clothe your new novels, your novels of duress Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of AT A FUNERAL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her too, this woman who is dead Last Line: Who do not weep. Subject(s): Funerals; Graves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness AT A SEASIDE TOWN IN 1869, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went and stood outside myself Last Line: One beam! Yea, she is gone, is gone. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AT HOME, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Far is where I am near Subject(s): Greece; Loss; Greeks AT HOME, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far is where I am near Last Line: If I go out there they are Subject(s): Greece; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 1 WEDNESDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh rainbow %charges the channeling Last Line: A whole flock of meadow larks have arrived Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 15 WEDNESDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The phone is constantly busy Last Line: Lushness is returning water Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 16, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Post valentine - dee dee & diana Last Line: Dwell on it Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 16 THURSDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's like regular now the weather Last Line: Back to you later Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 17 FRIDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mist - on the orchids Last Line: Sun at the door - come in Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 6 MONDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's soo cold the garden hose if full Last Line: For the day which is sun Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 7 TUESDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The phoebe in the icy cold wind darts quickly Last Line: For long they are gone Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANAURY 3, 1989, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Strike the impending muse - phew Last Line: Blossoms of the winter new year Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANAURY 5, 1989, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ridge line silver mist Last Line: In the same sun's dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANAURY 6, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hot morning sun after frost Last Line: You just come here and take the cream off the top Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANUARY 16 MONDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's that curling over there Last Line: Words, they're very __. %evaluating Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANUARY 24 TUESDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Risky show-off shows internal bending. After the superbowl Last Line: Ruffles the light silk garment %of this lone sitter Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANUARY 26 THURSDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sheer impudence of just Last Line: Their presence was a guarantee of calm, an antibody to agitation Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White sheen on open bolinas ridge top Last Line: Gleaming, silver, white. Happy birthday Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT PT. REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Break water '85 %and still alive Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT THE BAR, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: German, who swam along the coast, %german, who reached guantanamo base Last Line: Dimelo. What do you get from those songs? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AT THE END, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was when love's dear ways I used to know Last Line: And left me for companion my despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AT THE PICTURE-SHOW, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits with eyes intent upon the screen Last Line: But all the heroes have some trick of his. . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema ATONEMENT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in a lonely garden on the hill Last Line: O let my death atone! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Shadows; Dead, The AUGER, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through cold salt wash %and the bilge stench Last Line: In the throes of dream at least %I listen and obey Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T. Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AULD ROBIN FORBES, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And auld robin forbes hes gien tem a dance Last Line: Is the turf that has covered my willy frae me! Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Beginnings AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Beneath the dripping udders %of tarpaper roofs Last Line: Like a saxophone %noodling through broken english Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AUTUMN LEAVES, by CHARLES DICKENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn leaves, autumn leaves Last Line: Forgotten, changed, or dead. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Bereavement AUTUMN QUINCE, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sad they are Subject(s): Loss AUTUMN QUINCE, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sad they are Subject(s): Loss AVA GARDNER AFTER CHRISTMAS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold air rushing under door Last Line: Browsing: a semi-contented mind Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Motion Pictures; Stars AVALANCHE, by DAVID B. PRATHER Poem Source First Line: This is the snow belt Last Line: And into our toes Subject(s): Loss AWAKE AT NIGHT, RUINED BY THE MOCKING, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: A cockroach crawled across my chest last night Last Line: And the large basin hummed like a bell Subject(s): Absence; Death; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Marriage AWAKENING, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: In those moments of my grief when I am Last Line: Doctors. I had been taking it all out on susan Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Love - Loss Of; Waking AWAY, YOUR TOUCH IS EVERYWHERE, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To lie alone in our double home %a salesman in a rented room Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of BACK FROM BISBEE: OR CLEAN UP TIME IN BOLINAS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For one thing the sun has appeared as bobbie louise Last Line: Steps. 'did you bring the beer?' she said Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BACK TO COUNTRY WITH PULITZER, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left here at eight Subject(s): Aging; Illness; Conduct Of Life; Success; Failure; Retirement; Love - Loss Of; Literary Prizes BACK TO SCHOOL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm off to work Last Line: This same old self become mindful again and well Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BACK TO THE LIFE OF NAROPA, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's ghastly. It's been %going on for some time Last Line: And goes back to his silent sitting Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BACKSTAGE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: The girl standing at the door told me how to do it. She said: you must get Last Line: You whisper bend me backwards and inform me of your concept of god Subject(s): Deception; Girls; Love - Loss Of; Murder BALEFUL RETURN, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: It is better not to go back to the village Last Line: And the intimate responsive sadness Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Love - Loss Of BALLAD OF CONSTANCY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My raiment is my weapons Last Line: All must be braved Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of BALLAD OF MY BEAUTIFUL LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My friend, my friend Last Line: The one I lost today.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Pain; Romance BALLAD OF TWO SEAS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore, thy woe these many years Last Line: "I trust to know her grace." Subject(s): Death; Hermits; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pirates; Regret; Sea; Sin; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean BALLADE: 18, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament my loss, my labor, and my pain Last Line: And keep them free from all such pain and care. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Loss; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 20, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To wet your eye withouten tear Last Line: If I have the mock, ye shall have the loss. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Loss; Tears BARBIE, MADAME ALEXANDER, BRONISLAWA WAJS, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: I told jerzy ficowski, if you print my songs in problemy Last Line: Have more than the sound of one lifetime, more than my own Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BARNS COLLAPSING, by JOHN VERNON Poem Source First Line: One leans into the wind Last Line: In the grey barnlight caving in slowly Subject(s): Loss BASIC BLACK, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For simplicity's sake I don't think about her Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BATTLEGROUND STATE PARK, by MARTHA CHRISTINA Poem Source First Line: My mother and father %sit on opposite sides Last Line: We could have been happy Variant Title(s): At Battleground State Par Subject(s): Loss BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dappled big leaf maple light Last Line: And enlightenment is creative' Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BEACH ROGUE, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: Unevenness and sand giving away Last Line: Will run up to him %crying out his eminent name Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BEAUTY, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: He looked inside to find beauty Last Line: To plant a small animal Subject(s): Emptiness; Love - Loss Of BEFORE COMPLETION, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze through a telescope at the orion nebula Last Line: Persimmons ripening on leafless trees. Subject(s): Loss; Metamorphosis BEGINNING WITH A PHRASE FROM SIMONE WEIL, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There is no better time than the present when wehave lost everything. It doesn't mean rain falling Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943); Time; Loss BEHIND TIME, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More coal, bill,' he said, and he held his watch to the / light of the glowing Last Line: Feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BEHOLD, LORD, THOU DIDST TEAR FROM ME WHAT I MOST DID LOVE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And now, lord, are we, my heart and the sea all alone Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude BENAVIDES, TEXAS, 1906, by MARISSA C. MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: No one lives in the town, except the grocer Last Line: One rancher includes his prize watermelons Subject(s): Loss BENEATH THE PINE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Beneath the shadows of this tree Last Line: The treasure is the heart is there. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise BEREAVED, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day as I came down by jarrow Last Line: "ah, soundly she'll sleep by their side!" Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of BERTHA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She seem'd so gentle, she seem'd so good Last Line: May pass through her confinement scatheless. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BESIDE THE BARS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmother's knitting has lost its charm Last Line: For the two who linger beside the bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; God; Grandparents; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Prayer; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers BETSY LEE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said I would? Well, I hardly know Last Line: "and-----"" ""watch below! Turn up!"" ""aye, aye, sir!" Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BETWEEN WIVES, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: I was trying to teach him a lesson Last Line: That is the killing thing about him Subject(s): Divorce; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Women BEYOND, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: Beyond life, my love, always farther beyond Last Line: You permit love beyond the life of a man Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of BILL BROWN IS TOO SHORT OF BREATH, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I'm bill brown and I'm looking at a final spot Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BIRD CRIES FROM THE NEST IN THE EAVES AT MORNING: SELF-PORTRAIT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: When the mother's gone the young sparrows cry Last Line: Calculating the progress of the cat's claw Subject(s): Absence; Birds; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Portraits BIRDS' LAMENT, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, says the linnet, if I sing Last Line: But after her I'll whoop and hollo. Subject(s): Birds; Love - Loss Of BITTER RUE, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their love that was so exigent Last Line: May wither all life's passion flowers. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Past BITTERSWEET, by LAVONNE J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: In the valley of each august Last Line: Of smooth young hands Subject(s): Loss BLACK AND THE DAZZLE, by TOM REA Poem Source First Line: Some winter mornings Last Line: Strung feeding along a line of hay Subject(s): Loss BLACK BOX, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: If the black box is the only thing that Last Line: Listen to you talk to me all night Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Boxes; Death; Love - Loss Of; Widows And Widowers BLACK SILK, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was cleaning — there is always clothing & dress; identity; Last Line: Other mind, and stood still Subject(s): Loss; Memory BLASTING, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She drilled a drill of loss within her heart Last Line: Engulfed the tinkling city's decorous hiss. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BLIND, by JOSEPH KARIUKI Poem Source First Line: When you left Last Line: Such an ingrate? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BLOOD ON THE WHEEL, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bless her dear little heart!' said my mate, and he pointed out to me Last Line: "the wheel!" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BLUE DAYS, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: Come dazzling blue days Last Line: What I alone should live and you die? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BOB, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I fell asleep for a brief moment Last Line: You let me know %thank you bob Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of BOB CREELEY HAS DIED AND HE IS TO HAVE A TIBETAN CEREMONY., by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I look at him emotionally, %sexually Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BOB GRENIER OLD FRIEND LOST HIM SOMEWHERE OUT THERE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At rca beach with his notebook and hand Last Line: Hard impudent and thrifty Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BOB GRENIER'S BLACKBERRY PIE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What else do you want Last Line: Of the pie down the road take me there Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BOB MARLEY NIGHT SATURDAY DOWNTOWN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dream like the lights have a dark smoky glow and the street Last Line: They told me there would be people like you here Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BODWIN'S MADMEN, by JOHN LUNDBERG Poem Source First Line: Rain slams the window, ripples the hills Last Line: That pelts his face, and looses omnipotent yells Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BODY OF A WOMAN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs Last Line: And weariness follows, and the infinite ache Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Hearts; Love - Loss Of BOLERO OF THE THIRD GOODBYE, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sing well Last Line: Sing well, mi cielo, sing well Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of BONNIE ANNIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Sailors And Sailing BONNY BEE HO'M, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: By arthur's dale as late I went Subject(s): Lament;love - Loss Of BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We all have a story to tell. Mine begins Last Line: Well-edged, sharp to the point, has been my fortune Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BOOK OF RUTH, by CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW Poem Source First Line: I learn to live by guile, to do without love Last Line: To do without sleeping to avoid death, tired of sleep Subject(s): Literary Form; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BOOK OF VISIONS: THE RETURN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Ivy has covered all the wall. How many hours, how many tears, since Last Line: Earth! Subject(s): Death; Ivy; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The BORROWED LOVE POEM: 2, by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can I do, all the years that we talked Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BOTHWELL BANK, by JOHN PINKERTON Poem Text First Line: On the blithe beltane, as I went Last Line: But ah! Thou mak'st my heart fu' sair.' Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Love - Loss Of BREACH OF PROMISE, by YI HYONGGI Poem Source First Line: Promise resounds when broken Last Line: Somehow we regret, %somehow it resounds Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BREAK, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: It will come on a cold street corner Last Line: The slush on the sidewalk will prevent you %from making a clean yesterday Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain BREAK, BREAK MY HEART, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hide my scars! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love – Loss Of BREAKFAST. HE ASSURED ME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In the blue california sun Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BREAKING AND ENTERING, by WILLIAM BAER Poem Source First Line: When he was done, he sat in their living room Last Line: Too bad. He liked it here; it felt like home Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BREATH, by DAVID WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The people I come from were thrown away Last Line: A clear %lens trembling with our breath Subject(s): Loss BREATHINGS OF SPRING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wak'st thou, spring? Sweet voices in the woods Last Line: Yes, gentle spring! No sorrow dims thine air, breathed by our loved ones there! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring; Women BRIGHT IN THE EAST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By tens and thousands the stars go out Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of BRING YOUR JUNGLE ALONG, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Full of sledge hammers and compassion Last Line: So we remember. And how were you to know Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BRISK WIND IS BLOWING THOUGHTS TO PHILIP ON THE PHONE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The new york times says I'm a language poet Last Line: Well if you don't, I won't keep trying Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BROKEN HEARTS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My dog creeps into my shadowed form Last Line: It never knew its master was a king. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The BROKEN LOVE, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look upon thy face, and reason says / it is the same Last Line: Eros has fled. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BUCOLICS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mayday : two came to field in such wise : Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Loss BURIED LOVE (2), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to bury love Last Line: When none will know Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BURNING THE DOLLS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That last night, unable to sleep Last Line: I burned and burned and burned. Subject(s): Dolls; Fire; Grief; Loss; Toys; Sorrow; Sadness BURNING THE OLD YEAR, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Letters swallow themselves in second Subject(s): Loss BY NATURE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it could be, it would be seven o'clock Last Line: Who will be there for you I promise, always. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Love - Loss Of; Agriculture; Farmers CALIFORNIA, by PAUL HOOVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the cool electric gaze of a hollywood enigma Last Line: Swallows borders. A wilderness shines Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CALM & COOL ECONOMICS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the world economy Last Line: And I don't want %to be stimulated Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss CAN YOU FORGET ME?, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can you forget me? - I who have so cherished Last Line: You have forgotten me. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of CAN'T WE REST ANOTHER DAY?, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keep the fire %banked Last Line: At the end of the year Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss CANNON BEACH, by SUSAN V. MEYERS Poem Source First Line: A gull overhead %like a comma. I pause Last Line: You were just waiting %to be found Subject(s): Loss CANTE HONDO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In remote meditation, I was fingering Last Line: Sweeping away dust and shooting up ash Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of CANTICA, by JORGE MANRIQUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let him whose time hath come to go Last Line: Are penalties the absent know Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of CANZONE: OF HIS DEAD LADY, by GIACOMINO PUGLIESI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death, why hast thou made life so hard to bear Last Line: Be thine. Even so Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise CANZONE; FOR TED BERRIGAN, 1934-1983, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I crisscross my feelings with a view Last Line: I was there & I was there by the window onto you. Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Heaven; Loss; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Paradise CAPRICE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You held a wild-flower in your finger-tips Last Line: Alas! It was my soul. Subject(s): Abandonment; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Male-female Relations CAPTION FOR A MINIATURE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Outside where the storm goes cracked Last Line: And get all crummy and muddy Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss CAPTIVE KNIGHT AND THE BLACKBIRD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tis now, they say, the month of may, - 'tis now the moons are bright Last Line: Nay, since he has no merle to hear, 'tis time his fetters fall Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Knights And Knighthood; Love - Loss Of CAROLINE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: The air is thin here %nothing moves Last Line: You always end up in the kitchen crying Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Self-pity CASUALTIES: 1. SONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can look the sun in the face Last Line: Though I can look the sun in the face Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Loss; Sickness; Soldiers CASUALTIES: 23. FRIENDS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The friends %that we have lost Last Line: Which is square upon love Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Loss CASUALTIES: 27. THE CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The casualties are not only those who are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Loss; War Injuries; Dead, The CASUALTIES: 27. THE CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The casualties are not only those who are dead Last Line: The unforeseen camp-follower of not just our war Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Loss; War Injuries CATASTROPHE THEORY III, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now we sit and play with a tiny toy Subject(s): Loss CAUSES, by MARION THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Because I was too carefully correct Last Line: Because I was too sure of you, my dear. Subject(s): Loss CELEBRATE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: You were there when I was sad and blue Last Line: We were on our way Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of CELESTE: 11. A PRAYER TO SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint anthony of padua, whom I bear Last Line: Bring back her heart: I lost it yesterday. Subject(s): Anthony Of Padua, Saint (1195-1231); Love - Loss Of; Prayer CENTRIPETAL, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This time if there is time if time Last Line: Remains. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Love - Loss Of; New Mexico; Separation; Isolation CHAMBER MUSIC: 28, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle lady, do not sing Last Line: Love is aweary now. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of; Singing & Singers; Songs CHAMBER MUSIC: 33, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, o now, in this brown land Last Line: The year, the year is gathering. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time CHANGE IN RECURRENCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood at the gate of the cot Last Line: And tap-tapped the shell hard on a stone. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The CHANGELING, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: One day you see it so clearly Last Line: That is meant to be yors Subject(s): Loss CHANGING THE NAME TO OCHESTER, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: When other grandpas came to ellis island %the immigration people asked 'name?' Last Line: It was good and lasted %a long, long time Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Loss; Moving And Movers; New York City; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHARM OF THE RAINS, by FRANCISCO CONTRERAS Poem Source First Line: It rains, and rains, and rains. The clouds hang low Last Line: Meanwhile it rains, rains, rains, and does not tire Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Tears CHERRY-BUDS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: When cherry-buds appear Last Line: Should not be sung or said. Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Love - Loss Of CHIAROSCURO, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Saskia, from where do shadows come? Last Line: Will darkness truly come for me Subject(s): Death; Drawing; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Paintings And Painters CHILD PROOF, by LISA BRANDENBURG Poem Source First Line: Watch a baby walk after a rain Last Line: Where everyone flies Subject(s): Loss CHIMNEYS, by ALICE FRASER Poem Text First Line: Empty chimneys stand like tombstones Last Line: So will I stand when you are gone. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation CHINA CAMP, CALIFORNIA, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Here's the long trough, covered by a screen Last Line: Tangling in the empty nets and sinking %to the coldest dark water Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHIPMUNK, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little chipmunk, do you know Last Line: That's all -- it was long ago. Subject(s): Chipmunks; Love - Loss Of CHIPPEWA MUSIC: MY LOVE HAS DEPARTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A loon Last Line: Can I see him Subject(s): Farewell;love - Loss Of; Parting CHRISTMAS, by LAN SE Poem Source First Line: I always feel that Last Line: Such heavy burdens %on his shoulders? Subject(s): Loss CINQUE TERRE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice sobs on colored sand Last Line: Silver olive trees Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of CINQUE TERRE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice sobs on colored sand Last Line: Silver olive trees Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of CITY OF ANGELS, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: Somewhere out there, lies the city Last Line: Thundering against the sides of this %city of angels %so far removed from heaven Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration 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 CLEAR, COOL STREAMS THAT SOFTLY FLOW, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Boldly thou could'st aspire! Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Love - Loss Of CLOSE BY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So near at hand (our eyes o'erlooked its nearness Last Line: Twas—once so near at hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Regret CLOSING DOORS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sands of my heart, what wind moans low Last Line: Lost, lost, for thee and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Loss; Mothers; Sea; Childhood; Ocean CLOUD OF UNKNOWING, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: Why did I not die at birth Last Line: And put the ash on my tongue Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CLOUDS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds as I see them, rising Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Death; Clouds; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations CLUB NIGHT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man had a broken hat Last Line: "and we'll dance all the village to its knees." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CLYTIE, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: My manes to clytie are crying, 'farewell, fair one! Last Line: "o! Weep, and with fond arms open, thy kisses give!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of COACHING MY FATHER ON HIS TEMPORARILY MOVING INTO MY OLD BEDROOM, by MILES G. WATSON Poem Source First Line: When you sleep, don't pick sides Last Line: Bats held high and their eyes still on you, %waiting for the next signal Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration COLD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: When does the transmission come Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Loss; Zen Buddhism COLLEEN AND I, by LEONARD WOOD Poem Text First Line: We often roamed the fields together, colleen and I Last Line: Colleen and I. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of COLORS OF A FREE LIFE, by MARIANNE POLOSKY Poem Source First Line: In the war, we were always %running out of things Last Line: I bask in the sunshine, %kissing the air with my song Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration COLORS OF ANOTHER HOME, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the charged moment when the scarecrow raised Last Line: The colors of another home Subject(s): Loss COME BACK!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Oh why did you heed, eugene Last Line: Come back for me, eugene, eugene! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones COME TO FIND OUT, by JACQUELINE DEE PARKER Poem Source First Line: Might can, they say in louisiana Last Line: This way, I might can %come to find out %more, for sure Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration COMFORT [TO A YOUTH THAT HAD LOST HIS LOVE], by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What needs complaints / when she a place Last Line: No more. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of COMING BACK, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went through the ancient town Last Line: Who knew me not and passed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Variant Title(s): The Meeting Subject(s): Homecoming; Longing; Loss; Towns; Youth COMPASSION IS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The endless dimensions of this moment.' Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss COMPENSATION, by HELEN RAMSEY Poem Text First Line: For every gain there seems to be a loss Last Line: The greater the loss the greater the gain has been. Subject(s): Loss CONFESSION, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: Forgive me, adonai, lord of the jews Last Line: What sort of job I have done on this earth Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CONSTANCY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's bereaved, I'm sorely grieved Last Line: The force of lethe's wave. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement CONSTANTLY OPENING UP THOSE DARK ARMS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Belonged to everyone who read his poems, listened Last Line: #name? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 CONTINUING ADVENTURES IN THE LIFE OF NAROPA, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So %he gets fired up and burnt up Last Line: No second helpings here Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Perseverance CONVERSATION OF OLD HUSBANDS, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She's gone, clemente, I know Last Line: When you look at her, clemente, %I see her too Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Marriage COR CORDIUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet heart, true heart, strong heart, star of my life, oh, never Last Line: And for thee the lowered banner, o sweet heart never! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Hearts; Loss; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Male-female Relations CORAL WAY, NEAR THE ROADS, by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES Poem Source First Line: Though this sunday afternoon is torrid Last Line: Idyllic memories are merely a jeweled noose Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration COULD I FORGET!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Ah! Could my wakening spirit but forget Last Line: My love now dead, but once so wholly mine! Subject(s): Death; Forget-me-nots; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise CREDO, by LILACE MELLIN Poem Source First Line: I believe in highways, %maps more healing than scripture Last Line: And the well-worn disappointments of home Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CRISE DE COEUR, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Help me Last Line: Half un-broken like / a heart Subject(s): Love -loss Of CRISTINA AND MONALDESCHI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, but how they loved each other, marquis! Last Line: Whence ... Let avon tell the rest! Subject(s): Christina, Queen Of Sweden (1626-1689); Love - Loss Of CROSS-CULTURAL GENRES, by WENDY BISHOP Poem Source First Line: Here is an eskimo abc book. Here is tununak graveyard, filled with snow Last Line: Graves fill, grass bows down, as bs cs tussle with sea wind. They leave, they %leave without saying Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CROWNED, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me bearing bright roses Last Line: A diadem woven with rue. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of CUPID SLAIN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come from a burial Last Line: Let me weep to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Funerals; Love - Loss Of; Burials CUPID'S BANISHMENTE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What recke I now of comely dame? Last Line: False love and I have sunge farewel! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Loss Of CUPIDS AND LOVES, AND MEN OF GENTLER MIEN, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Death; Love – Loss Of; Mourning CUSTODY, by JAN BAILEY Poem Source First Line: Now that the bargaining is finally over Last Line: Were she here Subject(s): Loss CYPRESS, by JOSE A. CALCANO Poem Source First Line: Should you pass by my grave Last Line: Of that sad cypress tree! Subject(s): Absence; Cypress Trees; Graves; Love - Loss Of DA CAPO, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Short and sweet, and we've come to the end of it Last Line: Begin it again. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DAILY MEDITATIONS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is going beyond behind the sunset upstairs Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DALLAS: HIS DIRGE, by DIANA JAMES Poem Text First Line: Dallas is dead Last Line: No loveliness while dallas is alive. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Love - Unrequited; Dead, The DARK DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am not of this family, I know now Last Line: Mother, I'm already gone Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Love - Loss Of; Mothers And Daughters; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate; Suicide DARK HOUSE, by GENE BOARDMAN HOOVER Poem Text First Line: Oh, the silence of a house when youth has fled Last Line: I shall quietly go out -- and turn the key. Subject(s): Loss; Time DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a handsome night %kindling with love in flame of yearning keen Last Line: Ceas'd, as I slumbere'd there %amid the lilies drowning all my care Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Soul DARK ROSALEEN, by TOMAS COSTELLO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O my dark rosaleen Last Line: My dark rosaleen! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; O'donnell, Hugh Roe (1572-1602); Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Irish; Red Hugh, Lord Of Tyrconnel DARK SONGS: SLAVE HOUSE AND SYNAGOGUE, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: A few museum florid paintings by unknown Last Line: Dug up by their roots, torn from the soil & hurled %across the sea, from one tiny carib %outpost to Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DARK-WINGED SWALLOWS WILL RETURN, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They will not love you so! Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Swallows DARKNESS, by SHARON RUBENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Darkness steals a city Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Neighbors; Schools; Youth DARRELL GRAY DIES WHEN I AM IN MEXICO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For the next hand to fill up Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DAVID, by WILLIAM I. ELLIOTT Poem Source First Line: Last fall you threw the softball in the gutter Last Line: More than underground Subject(s): Loss DAVID'S RUMOR, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am busy doing drawings Last Line: This riot, that hall, that vacancy and pressure %wherein we draw towards goodbye Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DAWN OUTSIDE THE CITY WALLS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: You can see the face of everything, and it is white Last Line: In the soul, as they say, not in time at all Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Soul DAY OF SCATTERED RAIN, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: It is a day of scattered rain Last Line: And let me break open! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory DAYS OF 1971, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen from the clouds, well-met Last Line: Little horse, still blushing, set to cool Subject(s): Love - Loss Of DE EROTIO PUELLA, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This girl was sweeter than the song of swans Last Line: My child-love and my playmate -- snatcht away. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Loss Of DEAD JOYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moan on with thy loud changeless wail Last Line: Or art thou pitiless as wind or sea? Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Disasters; Funerals - At Sea; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Seamen; Sails DEAD LOVE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Of all that's cold in arctic skies Last Line: Nor dead as love that once had birth. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The DEAR DEAR LITTLE WRENTIT WITH WHITE CIRCLE AROUND YOUR EYE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As all falls silent Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DEAREST ONE; A SONG, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: My thoughts are all of thee Last Line: Dearest one, o dearest one. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Separation; Isolation DEATH OF A WAR HERO, by MICHAEL H. BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: So many rambo movies have been made Last Line: Opening wide so that he could escape Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DEATH VALLEY DESERT NOTES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With depressing & unexpected news Last Line: And awe majestic old time news Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Death Valley; Grief; Loss DEEPER STILL, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Deep in my grief Last Line: Richard, was this your way of saying that you love me Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of DEFEAT, by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: They, too, have quaffed the bitter cup Last Line: And I—met you! Subject(s): Failure; Loss DEFERRED, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not grieve for you while autumn lingers Last Line: But, oh, the time comes ... When I must! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness DEFIANCE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Catch her and hold her if you can Last Line: Sparkled, and ran into the shade. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Women DEFINITELY RESISTANCE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The wind is in the light of the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DEFYING GRAVITY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Rain storm late morning Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DEISM, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must ethiopians be imploy'd for you Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality DENOUEMENT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The telegram says you have gone away Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Circus; Loss DEO GRATIAS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The gates of death yawned wide, my love Last Line: To have thee evermore. Subject(s): Death; God; Love - Loss Of; Prayer; Dead, The DEPENDING ON THE WIND, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A score of years ago I felled a hundred pines to build a house. Subject(s): Loss; Transience; Divorce; Impermanence DEPRESSED ENNUI BEFORE 11 A.M., by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now's the time to catch it in words, those pungent Last Line: Of the danger of the situation. He lays down and goes to sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DESDEMONA, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So the slim moon, a young girl, shines upon Last Line: And all that stays is grief for all that's gone. Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness DESERTED LOVER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I go through wet spring woods alone Last Line: I want you so Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Love - Loss Of DESIDERIUM, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Face in the tomb, that lies so still Last Line: Gazing forever in immortal eyes. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The DESPAIR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up rose the moon in glory Last Line: "a bringing in the light." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime DESTINY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced on the noon of an april day Last Line: Who cares if a woman's heart be broken? Subject(s): Abandonment; Disillusion; Fate; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Destiny; Male-female Relations DESTRUCTION, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: First of all do you remember the way a bear goes through Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness DESTRUCTION, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First of all do you remember the way a bear goes through Last Line: Of lsd, peyote, psilocybin, amanita, benzedrine, valium and aspirin Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DEVOTION, by CHRIS PEALER Poem Source First Line: You find yourself alone Last Line: In devotion to the god of loss Subject(s): Loss DEW SWEET LAW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All the food is his Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DHARMA: THE SUITCASE OF MANY MEANINGS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amid all the blood of illusion, eating roast chicken Last Line: But cuts across the reflex of a star Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Grief; Loss; Pollution DIAL-THOUGHTS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee at daybreak still Last Line: But in thy breath from heaven above. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Loss; Love; Marriage; Memory; Thought; Sunrise; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking DIALECT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't remember the air, the light, the voices Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration DIALECT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't remember the air, the light, the voices Last Line: Surveying burning blocks by helicopter Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DIASPORADIC, by PATTY SEYBURN Poem Source First Line: When I saw the jews floating, I knew Last Line: By the waters -- now where are they going Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DICTIONARY'S GUARANTEED SUCCESS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was no electgricity. Simone couldn't type Last Line: And lumbricoid. And finally, there was smiley's Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DID I CALL YOU?, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was it you I called up Last Line: Last night? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DIFFERENT THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY G.S. NEWTON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which is the truest reading of thy look? Last Line: On which I swear forgetfulness Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Paintings And Painters; Women DIGGING UP PEONIES, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Overcoming fear of stalks that are too close Last Line: I can of my mother, of my father from this earth, %from the dissolution that binds us after all Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DINNER AT BRIARCOMB, THAT ARTISTS' POSH RETREAT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: My absolute best worst Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DIRGE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I reached the middle of the mount Last Line: The silent organ loudest chants %the master's requiem' Subject(s): Brothers; Childhood Memories; Death; Love - Loss Of DIRGE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What longer need hath she of loveliness Last Line: And flowering springs that mock her empty years? Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The DIRGE WITHOUT TEARS, by HERBERT J. LIPSITZ Poem Text First Line: Grass will not wither when you have left me Last Line: Little enough need for wringing of aged hands. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Dead, The DISCORDANTS: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music I heard with you was more than music Last Line: They knew you once, o beautiful and wise. Variant Title(s): Bread And Music Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of DISCOVERY (1), by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the road I walked and stared Last Line: Neath lifting lids discovered? Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Past DISENCHANTED, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time has come, as I knew it must Last Line: Or a god of common clay. Subject(s): Farewell; Love – Loss Of DISENCHANTMENT, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love has sicklied unto loath Last Line: The very buttercups are rancid. Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of DISILLUSION, by PHOEBE SMITH Poem Text First Line: I thought your love would clothe me Last Line: Of my heart. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of DISILLUSIONMENT, by LOIS E. SANDISON Poem Text First Line: I wonder if you knew, and kept from me Last Line: I never dreamed regret itself would go. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Regret DISLOCATION, by RALPH ADAMO Poem Source First Line: We move the word into the river Last Line: If there ever were a word-deeply silenced Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DISTANCE, by CAROLINA HOSPITAL Poem Source First Line: Distance has made of us all strangers Last Line: And the habitual echoes of empty rooms Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DIVORCE, by JACK GILBERT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woke up and suddenly thinking I heard crying Subject(s): Loss DIVORCE, by JACK GILBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woke up and suddenly thinking I heard crying Last Line: Out at the bright moonlight on concrete Subject(s): Loss DIXIE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had no idea Last Line: And wish the same old wish, that we were %anywhere but here Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; Southern States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DO YOU REMEMBER THAT NIGHT?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: I am ready to go with you Subject(s): Love - Loss Of DOG AFTER LOVE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you walked out Last Line: One sock between his teeth that once was yours. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Loss Of; Revenge DOMESDAY BOOK: DOMESDAY BOOK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take any life you choose and study it Last Line: And of her birth: -- . . . Subject(s): Books; Death; Life; Loss; Soul; Reading; Dead, The DOMESTIC LIFE: 3. BEFORE DAWN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your wife left before you woke Last Line: Burns less brightly. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DON'T HOPE TO GAIN BY WHAT HAS PRECEDED; LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back to silent big soap flakes Last Line: Dreamed for, brain spinner, %garbage maker Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING ELECTRONIC, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Well no. The neighbor's doggy ate him Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DONAL KENNY, by JOHN KEEGAN CASEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, piper, play the 'shaskan reel' Last Line: For donal kenny's heart was broken. Alternate Author Name(s): Leo Subject(s): Love - Loss Of DONNA MARINA: WITHOUT YOUR LOVE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Without your love, life hath no hope for me Last Line: And live—without your love? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS, TENDER AND TRUE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could ye come back to me, douglas, douglas Last Line: Douglas, douglas, tender and true! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Variant Title(s): Too Late Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DRACULA'S WAKE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Although I never liked cats much myself Last Line: How did you get so good at death? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sympathy DRAWINGS: FOR JOHN WHO SAID TO WRITE ABOUT TRUE LOVE, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Loss DREAM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a big art show in a large auditorium Last Line: Words down the page. %'oh louie' I say Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DREAM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm doing this poetry reading with simone Last Line: So please - bring me the light Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DREAM HOUSE, by MARGO SOLOD Poem Source First Line: The logs are numbered before removal Last Line: Can the door to my room, this time, lock? Subject(s): Loss DREAM IS DREAMING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: On- - on- %off - off Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DREAMING THEM INTO THE WORLD AGAIN, by TINA LETCHER Poem Source First Line: I'm dreaming him into the world again Last Line: Everywhere, every place, there are trees! Subject(s): Loss DREAMS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave my life to another lover Last Line: Is waiting tho' I see him not. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares DRIED SHRIMP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When no alternatives are left Last Line: And our old father leaves us Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Mexico; Nostalgia DRIFTER, OWL, MOUSE, by KEN FONTENOT Poem Source First Line: It's a shame we have to train porpoises Last Line: This is the world none of them wanted Subject(s): Loss DRIFTS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: With drifts of bloom on the hills Last Line: Through the drifts of smiles and tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Youth DRINKING SONG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to die in the saddle. An enemy of civilization Last Line: Chest, clouds above, she was in ny forever and I, fishing and drinking. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Loss; Singing & Singers; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs DRIVING, by HAAS H. MROUE Poem Source First Line: Nothing will ever again Last Line: Pies and we drive %to jordan Subject(s): Loss DROWN, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am sick with this Last Line: This will only take an hour %or two Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships DU LINIANG, by WU QI Poem Source First Line: Though your accurate portrait you compared yourself to a divine beauty Last Line: At peony pavilion your reincarnation accomplished fate Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Plays And Playwrights; Tragedy DUST, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Someone spoke to me last night Last Line: And you're just too tired to open it. Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Truth DUTCHESS OF MONMOUTH'S LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF HER DUKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "loyal hearts of london city, come, I pray, and sing my ditty" Last Line: "then from her eyes, with fresh supplies, down trickles many a brinish tear" Subject(s): "cooper, Anthony (1621-1683);great Britain - History;love - Loss Of;scott, James. Duke Of Monmouth (1649-85);" "shaftesbury, 1st Earl Of;english History; DWARF WITH VIOLIN, GOVERNMENT CENTER STATION, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long-distance connections fade and rectify Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DWARF WITH VIOLIN, GOVERNMENT CENTER STATION, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long-distance connections fade and rectify Last Line: Everything looked alive as if forgotten Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EACH NIGHT, by JAY BREMYER Poem Source First Line: Images, %dream news Last Line: This story. Be remembered! Subject(s): Loss EAGLE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I stand %with my arms held aloft Last Line: I will make you proud Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of EAST RIVER PRISON BARGE, by HUNT HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: The powerboats cut the water Last Line: Escape for their long weekends Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EASTER, CIRCA 1960, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a clattering of black shoes. Mine are very tight and have pointed toes Last Line: To my room. Lie down. Click my cuban heels Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EBB, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know what my heart is like Last Line: Drying inward from the edge. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ECLOGUE: ELINOURE AND JUGA, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On rudborne bank two pining maidens sat Last Line: Yelled their deadly knell, sank in the waves, and died. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ECLOGUE: SALICIO AND NEMOROSO, by GARCILASO DE LA VEGA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet lament of two castilian swains Last Line: Did, face to face upbraid her questioned %truth Alternate Author Name(s): Garcillaso De La Vega; Vega, Garcilaso De La Subject(s): Absence; Lament; Love - Loss Of ECONOMY, by MICHAEL HUFF Poem Source First Line: I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtledove Last Line: And all my books in the attic Subject(s): Loss EDGED TOOLS, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, helen, quite two years have flown Last Line: And why his spirit will not rest. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of EDWARD GRAVES, by ANDREW NELSON LYTLE Poem Text First Line: Here where the honey-suckle vines grow wan Last Line: The table set, and jane run off with a show. Subject(s): Betrayal; Love - Loss Of EDWIN MORRIS; OR, THE LAKE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O me, my pleasant rambles by the lake Last Line: The light cloud smoulders on the summer crag. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Lakes; Love - Loss Of; Pools; Ponds EFFIE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was wearin' awa'! She was wearin' awa'! Last Line: The dear lassie dwells wi' the angels o' licht. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Girls; Life; Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EL BALSERITO, by CAMPBELL MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: Because my spanish is chips-and-salsa simple, and I am desirous of improving Last Line: Of the journey, shells of arrival, shells of departure Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ELEGY, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Through air beaten back, beaten Last Line: Begin their lonely dissolve %into swans Subject(s): Absence; Bones; Love - Loss Of; Solitude ELEGY AT A LOVER'S GRAVE, by CLINTINE STRINGER Poem Text First Line: My eyes / are filled with tears Last Line: From an eternity of sun! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ELEGY FOR ARNOLD, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in my living room, I let waves of the music Last Line: Of a love come into its own. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Death; Liberty Bell; Loss; Dead, The ELEGY ON LEAVING, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewel! Ye friendly bowers, ye streams adieu Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ELEGY WRITTEN AFTER READING THE 'SORROWS OF WERTER', by ROBERT MERRY Poem Text First Line: Alas, poor werter! To himself a prey Last Line: He lost that charlotte, and he sought for rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Prejudice; Rest; Sorrow; Sadness; Bias; Intolerance ELEGY WRITTEN ON A BLUE CEMENT GRAVESTONE (TO YOU, THE ARCHEOLOGIST), by BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ Poem Source First Line: What history is: %a mound of gathered rocks. In time the rocks will Last Line: The earth will break us all Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ELEGY, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF REVEREND DR. SAMUEL COOPER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou whose exit wraps in boundless woe Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ELLIPTICAL AND IRREGULAR, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I mean learning Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ELUDED, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the night I heard Last Line: (no lost love stepped within my room -- only the pallid dawn!) Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Rain EMERGENCY SITUATION, by HAL SIROWITZ Poem Source First Line: I threw out your blue underwear Last Line: You're too old to get away with anything Subject(s): Loss EMIGRANT, by KATHERINE SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: I am the boy, stomach flat on the sand Last Line: I am the homeland. %your family sings %in my quicksand Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EMITTING A FLOOD OF LIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Forces which came from without Subject(s): Love - Loss Of EMPTY ROOM, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: My wife is %gone Last Line: I'll rise above the far-off river, %a crescent moon Subject(s): Absence; Death; Emptiness; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Prisons And Prisoners EMPTY SHRINE BUDDHA, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you grow your hair you save on heating bills Last Line: Money can't buy Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss END OF SEASON, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: It was a month like october Last Line: With the last tip of the year Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Seasons END OF SOUP KITCHENS, by MARK TAKSA Poem Source First Line: You put your money on the pavement Last Line: Declares the end of soup kitchens Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ENDURANCE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: He bent above: so still her breath Last Line: To be immortal and alone. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Immortality; Love; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ENORMOUS SIGH, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bardo of continuing limbo equals no access Last Line: Is just that longing Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss EPHEMERA, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Whither do the sweet sounds fly Last Line: Lives my love, o lady fair? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Rest EPICEDIUM, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nevermore! Ah, nevermore! Last Line: Ah, sweet word, never more! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I have lost my mistress, horse and wife" Last Line: "my wife damn'd ugly, and a scold, - / I am sorry for my horse" Subject(s): Loss EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear cupid, (I cried) do consult with your mother" Last Line: And my chloe at length fell in love with another Subject(s): Love - Loss Of;women EPIGRAM: 38, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thing is that that I both have and lack Last Line: For that that was ready is new to begin? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Loss EPIGRAM: 43, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The loss is small to lose such one Last Line: Though all such pique were wiped away. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Loss EPITAPH FOR MY TOMB, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: Here I lie at rest: alfonsina says Last Line: Still another lie: that she was ever satisfied Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of EPITAPH: 29, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said of me? He lived a span Last Line: Then died.—no more?—what more of any man? Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The EPITAPH: TO A FRIEND LOST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I remember, friend, whom lost I call Last Line: Partakers of a strife they joyed to share. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Friendship; Loss EROTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet Last Line: Lull thee or lure, more fond thou wilt not find. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ESCAPE, by JACQUES GEORGES CLEMENCEAU LE CLERQ Poem Text First Line: Just a little while to wait,' she said, 'and I'll be back' Last Line: "she may come again or stay away, I shall not care at all!" Alternate Author Name(s): Tanaquil, Paul Subject(s): Escapes; Love - Loss Of; Fugitives ESSAY: FOR ANYONE WHO'S EVER SPED APART, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What symmetry can there be Last Line: In pursuit of roads and balance, birds. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation ESTRANGEMENT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was so hard to say good-bye Last Line: So close, yet far away! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ESTRANGEMENT, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, without overt breach, we fall apart Last Line: And idle is the rumour of the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ESTRANGEMENT OF LUIS MORONE, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Luis morone %cuts adrift Last Line: Don't worry mother %you aren't blind %nobody sees him Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EURYDICE, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it that he sings to thee Last Line: O poor eurydice, o my beloved one! Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Loss; Mythology; Sorrow; Sadness EVENING, by ELLEN M. DODSON Poem Text First Line: Come love, let's wander to the woodland / west Last Line: E'en at life's close, I'm thrilled by that strange power. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The EVERY DAY I BURN A STICK OF INCENSE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The power of belief %is from me Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Buddhism; Grief; Loss EVERYONE IS FLYING VERY WELL, EASILY IN THE SKY KITTY, POPPED OUT..., by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One would just like to fly out in pure invention Last Line: Never quite the same Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss EXCEPT FOR A FEW FOOTPRINTS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So. Yes. But still there is this peace between us Last Line: You say my name, you remind me %and I return Subject(s): Absence; Footprints; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships EXCEPT THE HEAVEN HAD COME SO NEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tis lost — and lost to me Subject(s): Loss EXCERPT FROM THE REAL NEWS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Joe dunn's sweet laugh, 'kids, come to poetry' Last Line: I forget I can be here with you in the evening- %a full fragment Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss EXILE, by SANDRA M. CASTILLO Poem Source First Line: We are gitanas Last Line: Because he knows %he is my first obsession Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EXILE, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: Everywhere I turn I find homes Last Line: But there are days when learning means nothing Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration 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 EXPEDITION, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Again the grand eunuch was dispatched Last Line: Would cleave the indian ocean %and pry open our shores Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first time, when at night I went about Last Line: Such things the heart can bear and yet not break. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The EXTINCT HOMELAND-A CONVERSATION WITH CZESLAW MILOSZ, by ANA DOINA Poem Source First Line: Home? Somewhere we belong? The metaphor Last Line: I worshiped. I am my own myth, the first memory, nebulous %like any beginning Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EXTREMITIES, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the mildew's blight we see Last Line: O our father, make us thine. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Death FAINT MUSIC, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. Last Line: First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery FAIR HELEN OF KIRCONNEL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hold me upon thy faithful heart Last Line: Clasp me once more -- I go! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FAITH DESTROYED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I love him? I looked up to him Last Line: That which I loved. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Troy FALL EQUINOX, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A lone %hummingbird sits on the limb where there used to be Last Line: In fall's purple blossoms my sleeve sniff! Is wet Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FALL HAS ARRIVED WITH QUICK CLEAR BLUE SKIES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Down the dusty night road Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FAME, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: Fame does not care for one who wants it Last Line: Almost %like %a %shovelful %of %dirt Subject(s): Loss FAMILY CAR, by TOM ABSHER Poem Source First Line: When I was a kid we always had big cars Last Line: This was life. This was certainty. This was big car roominess Subject(s): Loss FAR BELOW, PLOWED FIELDS..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far below, plowed fields vibrated Last Line: An emptiness he could fill with song. Variant Title(s): "far Below, Plowed Fields""; Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus FAREWELL TO HIS WIFE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fare thee well! And if forever Last Line: More than this I scarce can die. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Fare Thee Well Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Divorce; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Milbanke, Annabelle Isabella (1792-1860); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness FAREWELL TO LOVE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a heart that doted once in passion's boundless Last Line: That peace on earth itself begins, when love has bid farewell. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FAREWELL TO LOVE; SONNET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, sweet love! Yet blame you not my truth Last Line: With thoughts that please me less, and less betray me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FAREWELL TO NANCY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ae fond kiss, and then we sever Last Line: Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee! Variant Title(s): Song;a Fond Kiss Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Parting FARRAGUT NORTH, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tunnel-light at the top of the station two or three Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FARRAGUT NORTH, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tunnel-light at the top of the station two or three Last Line: Truant spirit, moving dead leaves with the wind among the shadows Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FATHER, HERALD ME HOME, by TERESA PALOMO ACOSTA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wind down %the streets bearing Last Line: Reach across and pull me over the ravine Subject(s): Loss FATHER, WHO COULD NOT SWIM, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: Morning was a mouthful of water Last Line: The screen door closing behind him like an eyelid Subject(s): Loss FEAR, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Fear grips me Last Line: I am sad beyond words Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Fear; Love - Loss Of FEBRUARY 27 SUNDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes were rolled up into his head Last Line: This is too hard Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FELISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said between us here Last Line: Good-night, good-bye. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Love - Loss Of; May (month) FELO DE SE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's delight, I must for love forget you Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of FELO DE SE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's delight, I must for love forget you Last Line: In all my pulses, and dissolves the marriage %of soul and soul, and at he heart's core kills you Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of FEW DAYS LATER AT THE WASHTUB, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That the present has always existed Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FIELDS OF SORIA: 7, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Silvered hills %grey downs and sombre rocky places Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love - Loss Of FIFTY YEARS, by LAJOS KASSAK Poem Source First Line: So you are here to salute my years Last Line: And now I smile because I belong to her Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory FINALITY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love's triumphant day is done Last Line: And leave the emptiness to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FINDING WHAT'S LOST, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the poem my daughter reminds me Last Line: Like an orange flower over the gravel street. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Loss; Mothers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets FINDING YOU, by VIRGINIA GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Maybe it was the way Last Line: Good-byes. It gives me something %to look forward to Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FINIS, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it's over, and now it's done; Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FIRES OF LOVE, by VILETA NELSON CHARTIER Poem Text First Line: You lit the spark of love one day Last Line: The embers warm. Subject(s): Fire; Love - Loss Of FIRST GRADE, by ROGER JONES Poem Source First Line: Aftertaste of chocolate milk Last Line: And could I tell her now? Subject(s): Loss FIRST LOVE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was sunday morning, I had the new york Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Death; Dead, The FIRST NATION, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back in first nation time, morning of the world time Last Line: It's always been Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FIRST SIGHTING EVER OF GREY SQUIRREL ON MESA!, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Party which holds power by deception %repression & fraud Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FLESH, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of this world I live for-a woman you named Last Line: Where everything appears to be either angel or skull Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Memory FLOATING OF THE SILVER CHINESE PAPER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Would you put this piece Last Line: And goes away out there Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FLOCK OF PHANTOM LIMBS GATHERS AT THE BORDER, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: An amputee is a brood of indecisions; %the scent of smoke lingers in her shirt Last Line: He hears the thrum of planes like some immense stone %bearing down through a hole in the world Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FLOOD PLAIN: THE RIGHT-OF-WAY, by JAMES LEONARD SHUGRUE Poem Source First Line: Are we ever anywhere, can we ever feel Last Line: Laying claim to absence, I will own %no region but the evicted heart Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FLOOD: YEARS OF SOLITUDE, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To the one who sets a second place at the table anyway Last Line: To those who are destined to inherit the meek %to us Subject(s): Loss FLOWERS FOR MY FRIEND, by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER Poem Text First Line: The flowers that I would give my friend Last Line: While he can see. Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Love - Loss Of FOLK SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What shall I doe if love me leave? Last Line: Is my owne beloved one.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FOLKSONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O goatherds and you shepherds say Last Line: Weeping and wailing she went east! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FOOD. MUSIC. MEMORY, by SUSAN MARIE SCAVO Poem Source First Line: She says: cupcakes. Brownies. Pies. She says Last Line: I was there. Remember? Subject(s): Loss FOR AYE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, lilacs wilt beneath the blast Last Line: For aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Past FOR BORSCHT, by RODGER LEE KAMENETZ Poem Source First Line: A bowl of borscht-sea of blood Last Line: Borscht shekhinah, borscht mother of us all Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOR CUPID DEAD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love is dead, what more but funeral rites Last Line: Since he is gone, the world is out of tune. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FOR SOMEONE CONSIDERING DEATH, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: I told you. %life is one big hanon Last Line: In that small, closed room Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOR THE OLD RIDER AT THE MALL IN SIOUX FALLS, by DONALD MORRILL Poem Source First Line: I didn't have change for a jug of thunderbird Last Line: And the helpless thing lives, bruising, human Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOR THE PITTOSPORUM TENUIFOLIUM OUTSIDE THE STUDIO WINDOW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Much too hard to understand all Last Line: In the attentive noon breeze Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Variant Title(s): For The Pittasporum Tenuifolium Outside The Studio Windo Subject(s): Grief; Loss FOR THE SAKE OF THE KAGYU TEACHINGS,, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: On december 15, 1982 by chogyam trungpa Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FOR THE SAKE OF TIGER LILIES, by C. DALE YOUNG Poem Source First Line: In a clearing, in a swell of grasses Last Line: Always the sound, always the salt licking the air Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; West Indies FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY, PHILIP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A superabundance, an excess, a plethora of greetings Last Line: And those far off peaks shining pure and rare Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Colorado (state); Grief; Leaves; Loss; Mountains; Seasons FOREST OF MY HAIR, by JAMES TOLAN Poem Source First Line: I'm 28 years old in the flesh Last Line: I wear it long in honor of him Subject(s): Loss FORGET ME NOT, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me, when morn with trembling light Last Line: Forget me not! Subject(s): Farewell; Forgetfulness; Love - Loss Of; Parting FORGOTTEN, by CORA L. BUTTERFIELD Poem Text First Line: Her pathway was strewn with rose petals Last Line: And gone the love he bestowed. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FORTUNE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Loss FOUR CLOUDS LIKE THE IRISH IN MEMORY, by CAMPBELL MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: First memory of school: sitting in the grass beneath a dogwood tree Last Line: I had no idea there were such great forests left Subject(s): Clouds; Loss; Memory; Moving And Movers; Refugees; Schools; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOUR LACK SONGS, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hammer to a copper bowl, Subject(s): Loss; Love FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: DECEMBER AT YASE, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You said, that october Subject(s): Japan; Love - Loss Of; Japanese FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: DECEMBER AT YASE, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You said, that october Last Line: Or have done what my %karma demands Subject(s): Japan; Love - Loss Of FOUR SONNETS: 4, by FRANK DAVIS ASHBURN Poem Text First Line: So lucy found at last the world was blind Last Line: A quaint old lady, with old-fashioned curls. Subject(s): Consolation; Love - Loss Of FRAGMENT WRITTEN SHORTLY AFTER THE MARRIAGE OF MISS CHAWORTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hills of annesley, black and barren Last Line: Makes ye seem a heaven to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FRAGMENTS (1), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is winged for two Last Line: For that then so winged were we. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FRAGMENTS (5), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy is fleet Last Line: Sorrow, be mine! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness FREEDOM, by BARBARA BROOKE RAWLINS Poem Text First Line: From you I have been independent, free Last Line: Which none but time or you can ever free. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FRESH EARLY MORNING LIGHT AND AGAIN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of very teeny pot plants Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FRIAR BACON: THE DEAD WIFE SOON FORGOTTEN, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, serlsby, is thy wife so / lately dead? Last Line: ('friar bacon,' xiii., p. 70.) Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FRIDAY 2:44 PM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is about to pass Last Line: It's here the moment begins Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Loss FRIDAY NIGHT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In pale blue dusk sky moon Last Line: Up there friend moon %is getting larger Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Moon FRIENDSHIP AFTER LOVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Last Line: And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of FROM HERE TO BERKELEY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To kwan yin's yarrow patch Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FROM SEASON TO SEASON, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: But yesterday / I walked with fay Last Line: For fay has gone and married! Subject(s): Change; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Seasons; Male-female Relations FROM SPRING DAYS TO WINTER (FOR MUSIC), by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the glad spring when leaves were green Last Line: Fond dove, fond dove return again. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FROM THE JATAKA TALES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He gave the king a charm Last Line: To the voice of the ants: so little - is so big Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FROM THOUGHT TO THOUGHT, FROM HILL TO HILL, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Tis my spirit dwells in thee Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FULL OF BIRDS IN THE FIRST, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In this rain, in the gather dome Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FUNERAL, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of funerals, the saddest Last Line: And gods: the resurrector. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Burials GACELA OF LOVE'S MEMORY, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Don't take away your memory. Last Line: Leave it alone in my chest Subject(s): Love - Loss Of GALE WAS UPON US IN A SECOND. WAS IT THE DOPE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Down in an obligatory %engulfing swoosh Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GALLERY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my grandfather stepped from the boat Last Line: And pretty as a picture Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration GALLERY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my grandfather stepped from the boat Last Line: And pretty as a picture Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GALLEYS OF SPAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye galleys of our land %arrest your oars again Last Line: Sp let my lover rest %who drags your heavy chain Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Peace; Rest; Spain GAMBLING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought Last Line: That smell of marzipan Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting GAMBLING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought Last Line: That smell of marzipan Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships GARAGE SALE, by BRIAN ANDREAS Poem Source First Line: After she had %that last big Last Line: I got rid of after that Subject(s): Loss GATHERING OF FRIENDS, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: We were a gathering of friends Last Line: And I'm glad you were there Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of GAUCHE MARE, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: O hear!' %but what may I hear, dear lost, if you are mute to me? I knew Last Line: Station agents, we are looking for a lost item Subject(s): Absence; Loss; Writing And Writers GEHENNA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When locked in marble death's embrace Last Line: At last—at last? Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Love - Unrequited; Dead, The GENERATIONS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Somewhere a shop of hanging meats Last Line: An empty plate. This is the place Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GENTLEMAN'S DREAM, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Dead drunk, he snores %like a bellows under the linden Last Line: He drowns them in an ocean of urine Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GET UP THE SCREEN OF DRINKING HERONS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With silken shawls Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GHAZAL (FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD), by DAVID KEEFE Poem Source First Line: I will follow my master and in the soft quiet Last Line: Perhaps it is because your father couldn't reach you Subject(s): Loss GHAZEL OF UNFORSEEN LOVE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: No one could perceive the perfume Last Line: Your mouth now without light for my death Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Jasmine; Love - Loss Of GHOST PASSENGER, DAY AND NIGHT, by MICHAEL DENNISON Poem Source First Line: Each morning, I wake batlike upside down Last Line: The face in here is here to stay, %even after the light is gone Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GIFT, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Life, are you keeping something in reserve? Last Line: Evening falls...Hurry to bring your gift? Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Prayer GIFT, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: O life, are you perhaps keeping some gift for me? Last Line: Make haste to bring me your gift! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Prayer GIFT FROM RICK MORNING DREAM JUNE 14, 1999, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rick fields and I Last Line: Christ is a coyote Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GIN JOHN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Michelle tells me Last Line: Grace! Copal! Iris! Eleusis Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GIRLS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: When he leaves, %he leaves a space Last Line: Trying to breathe %and waiting to be kissed Subject(s): Girls; Love - Loss Of; Single People GIVERNY I AM FOR GEE VERR NEE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I try to talk numero uno Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GLAD TO BE BACK TO YOU, NOW, SOFT FOG, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Its brittle way, in crisp windswept day, after day with poetry Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GLASS OF WATER, by CHARLES RAFFERTY Poem Source First Line: A glass of water spilled into the sea Last Line: Of water being spilled into the sea %soon to be vanished in that enormity Subject(s): History; Loss; Sea; Water GLIDING STEPS GLIDING STEPS WE ARE AT THE EDGE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of the ocean & land and a fire Last Line: Goodbye so gracefully Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GLIMPSE OF YOU, A VISION, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: What else was I doing in the kitchen Last Line: Vanishing in the yard through leaves. Subject(s): Loss; Vision GOD OF SLEEP, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Feel how skin goes sick in want of warmth Last Line: You were awake the whole time Subject(s): Girls; Guilt; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships GOD'S WORLD AND MINE, by GRACE SUE NIES Poem Text First Line: They tell me heaven lies afar Last Line: Love, my love, came! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The; Paradise GOING HOME, by BEN JUDSON Poem Source First Line: I saw you in the airport today Last Line: But I didn't know her at all Subject(s): Loss GOING OUT TO WATER THE GARDEN,, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is all about at this moment of bamboo buckeye hesitation Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GOLIATH OF GATH, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye martial pow'rs, and all ye tuneful nine Last Line: "with me, nor quit my regal roof again." Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality GONE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: When I am gone your pillows will smell like me Last Line: You will swear your apartment is haunted Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Moving And Movers GONE, by CHARLOTTE A. BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: The fall you went away - Last Line: I know you'll not return. Subject(s): Absence; Loss; Separation; Isolation GONE, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About the little chambers of my heart Last Line: One door alone is shut, one chamber still. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Friendship; Loss GONE, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: Without the solar flare I starve Last Line: Was too much. First, you laughed, %then you left Subject(s): Love - Loss Of GONE, by M. A. MAYS Poem Text First Line: The point was settled / the year went out Last Line: And some . . . Went out . . . Forever. Subject(s): Loss GONE, BUT HERE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was here, and she is gone Last Line: Of life be done? Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Music & Musicians; Parting; Male-female Relations GOOD MANNERS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bodhisattva waits Last Line: Before he excuses himself Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GOOD-BYE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye! - 'tis like a churchyard bell - goodbye! Last Line: Good-bye! Good-bye! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of GOOD-NIGHT, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night. Good-night. Ah, good the night Last Line: Good-night. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Night; Religion; Parting; Bedtime; Theology GRAINNE: AFTER THE DEATH OF DIARMUID, by CATHAL O'BYRNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from the twilight of a wood she came Last Line: Deep in the inmost core of her lone heart. Subject(s): Legends, Irish; Love - Loss Of GRASSES, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the distance, when purpling clouds lean down close Last Line: And is going-breath, shadow-feather, cloud Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital GRATEFUL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After two months in mexico Last Line: And one woolly one.' Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GRAVEYARD AT HURD'S GULCH, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His grave is strewn with litter again Last Line: Just before the terrible hunger returns. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Loss; Love; Graveyards; Dead, The GREAT LOVERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Why did we think no power in heaven Last Line: There'll be a poor, unhappy lady, crying. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of GREATER MEMORY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the heart there lay buried for years Last Line: That heart and that memory dwell. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Past; Reunions GREEN ASH, RED MAPLE, BLACK GUM, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often the names of trees consoled me Last Line: Black gum, black gum, black gum. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Marriage; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Trees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GRIEF, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I have ridden on waves of grief Last Line: Chisled of rough edges %and made new Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of GRIEF, THOU HAST LOST AN EVER-READY FRIEND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The mantling triumphs of a day too blest Subject(s): Loss; Spinning & Spinners GROWN AND FLOWN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved my love from green of spring Last Line: Now bitter bitter grown to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of GUIDE TO THE TOKYO SUBWAY, by HALVARD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: At shinjuku station %one entrance is haunted Last Line: Happy to be alive %not knowing which way to turn Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HAIKU FOR CHARLES BERRARD ON HIS 40TH BIRTHDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man get relaxed Last Line: Women get permanent Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HARVEST-HOME, by JOHN MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: The moon was curving like a sickle Last Line: To tell her that his heart was broken. Subject(s): Harvest; Home; Love - Loss Of HAUNTED, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are looking for your laugh Subject(s): Loss HAVE A NICE DAY, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no I don't want my heart broken again today Last Line: For the sake of a kind word. Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Loss; Nostalgia; Quiet Life HAVEN AND LAST REFUGE OF MY PAIN, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Lest death should vanquish love Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of HAVEN'T I SEEN YOU, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: When I began Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Deja Vu; Grief; Loss HAVING A GRAND TIME WITH THE HOT SHOTS...OR HOW I RAN INTO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well I'm back from new york poetry trip now and raring to go Last Line: Bolinas store and caught up some more names with him. Um Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HE HEARS THAT HIS BELOVED HAS BECOME ENGAGED, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she came on, you couldn't keep your seat Last Line: You'll only change her. Till, I'm sure you're right Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HE HEARS THAT HIS BELOVED HAS BECOME ENGAGED, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she came on, you couldn't keep your seat Last Line: In saying love, but meaning interference? %you'll only change her. Still, I'm sure you're right Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HE MAKES LOVE TO HER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Some clothes, some jewels %some food, some love Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He marched away with a blithe young score of him Last Line: Borne with the hell called war! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Loss; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War HEADY DAY OF SUN WADING IN BOLINAS LAGOON TOPS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And I discover my own %particular habitual ennui Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HEART CRY, by STELLA DOTY HARE Poem Text First Line: If only you and I by chance had met Last Line: Wait there, my dearest one, wait there for me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HEART'S TIDE, by ETHEL M. HEWITT Poem Text First Line: I thought I had forgotten you Last Line: Your memory floods them and I weep. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Nature HEART-DEATHS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearts oft die bitter deaths before Last Line: And eyes must watch and weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HEARTBREAK, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE GROOM Poem Text First Line: I would remember the flower Last Line: The frost on a flower's face. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HEAT WAVE: LIBERTY, MISSOURI, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: I can't wait to see %that evening sun go down Last Line: Before the bedroom mirror, %touching my nipples to the glass Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HEAVY SUMMER RAIN, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The grasses in the field have toppled, Last Line: Lie shattered on the lawn Subject(s): Rain; Loss HEINELET, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: They met, as it were, in a mist Last Line: And the cold mist is thicker than ever. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HER FLOWER, by GEORGE ALBERT SOPER Poem Text First Line: Little flower, fading, dying Last Line: In her breast. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of HER GIFT TO US, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes %when I am with you Last Line: Do you know how much she loved you Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of HER INITIALS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a poet's page I wrote Last Line: The radiance has died away. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HER LOST BOOK, PART II, SELS., by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wrote a book. Lost to us Last Line: Generation to generation, %bone to bone Subject(s): Loss HER SECRET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That love's dull smart distressed my heart Last Line: Did he dream of following me! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Secrets HER SECRET IS BETRAYED, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a happy time you said to me Last Line: That grief for you no longer grieves my heart. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Secrets HERE IS MUSIC: 15. VILLANELLE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: No matter what the future bring, or give Last Line: Not to have known you had been not to live! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of 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 HERE YET BE DRAGONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So many languages have fallen Last Line: Tongue and remain proud? Subject(s): Loss HERNANI, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cistercians might crack their sides Last Line: The horn of the old gentleman! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy HEROIC LOVE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When our glowing dreams were dead Last Line: "love can never be till then." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Heroism; Hope; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares; Heroes; Heroines; Optimism HESITATIONS OUTSIDE THE DOOR, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm telling the wrong lies Subject(s): Loss HI! IT'S TOM', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: No more phone calls ever again Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HIALMAR'S HEART, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A clear night, icy wind, and blood-streams staining Last Line: "my seat where the high gods are in the sun." Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Ravens; War; Dead, The HIDDEN SHORE, by DINA COE Poem Source First Line: All quiet behind the briars until the sparrow that hushed at Last Line: That's left %to love? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Seashore HIGH HOLY DAYS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the princess of life gone out Last Line: We got both harbors Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation HIGHER REACHES, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: A man had less and less to say Last Line: Nothing to say, and I'll say it perfectly.' Subject(s): Loss HIGHLAND MARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye banks, and braes, and streams around Last Line: Shall live my highland mary. Subject(s): Campbell, Mary; Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celestial choir! Enthron'd in realms of light Last Line: With gold unfading, washington! Be thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): George Washington Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) HIS FOOTSTEP, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy will come no more Last Line: Like an old tune. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Feet; Footprints; Homecoming; Loss; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HIS LADY'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in the gardens, all through may, the rose Last Line: That dead, as living, she may be with roses. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Tombs; Tombstones HIS LAMENT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is it she lies here Last Line: Could pearl a piece of dust. Subject(s): Death; Eurydice (nymph); Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The HISTORY CLASS, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To enter was to breathe in Last Line: And not the ones of infamy, %those of the blinding fraud Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HITCHHIKER, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving home tonight Last Line: With the chalky pumice of his heart Subject(s): Loss HITCHHIKER, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving home tonight Subject(s): Loss HOLDING ON TO THE EDGE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Too good for you, kid. %kid Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HOLY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I eat only sleep and air Last Line: And I will be so slight that I will pass through all of you %silently %like wind Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Self-consciousness; Selflessness HOME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am home Last Line: (like here dog! Here dog!) Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Loss HOMECOMING, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In time, thunder unshackles the rain Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HOMECOMING, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In time, thunder unshackles the rain Last Line: The bird for the objection its sustains? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HONEY HALF, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: You pass by those who would hold you up Last Line: You want no part of this world Subject(s): Girls; Love - Loss Of; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate HOPE FOR THE SORROWING, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Ye holy ministers of love Last Line: To nobler toils pass on! Pass on! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HOPE FOR THOSE SEPARATED BY WAR, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They crossed her face with blood Last Line: Yet his thin hands %crawled back and found her out Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of HORACE TO LYDIA, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Old sweetheart mine, your charms decline Last Line: To satiate my great heart-hunger! Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HORRENDOUS PREFERENCES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With the awareness of death: quel probleme Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HOTEL, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Loss; Disappointment HOUSE AT 5 ALLENDE STREET, by HECTOR CARRETO Poem Source First Line: They've knocked down a colonial house at the center of the universe Last Line: That leads to the sealed room %I've never seen Subject(s): Loss HOW DOES ONE ATTAIN THAT POPULAR NARRATIVE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In the late afternoon Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HOW FORGETTING WORKS IN LATE WINTER, by ROBERT HILL LONG Poem Source First Line: Fog thrown over house and pines, flimsy comforter Last Line: Waving hard. I made small clouds of breathlessness Subject(s): Loss HOW GREY THE WORLD WAS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How grey the world was with its memories Last Line: The news that you are here, in psalm and shout! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness HOW IT BEGINS-HOW IT ENDS, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, somehow the clever dust slips in Last Line: Into an almost invisible earth I taste, inhale, take it in Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HOW LANCELOT CAME TO THE NUNNERY IN SEARCH OF THE QUEEN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three days on gawain's tomb sir lancelot wept Last Line: "and cried, ""alas! Ah, who may trust this world!" Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HOW THE POET FOR AN HOUR WAS KING, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a garden space, saadi saith Last Line: "time is his prophet for the souls who wait." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Loss; Prisons & Prisoners HOW THE STREETS IN FRONT OF KAUFMANN'S DEPARTURE STORE TELL ME ....., by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: For years I have been lost. Some nights I have known it Last Line: For the light to change, together at last Variant Title(s): How The Streets In Front Of Kaufmann's Department Store Tell Me.... Subject(s): Home; Loss; Moving And Movers; Night; Pennsylvania; Refugees; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Walking HOW TO LOOK WEST FROM MOUNT PLEASANT, UTAH, by SETH TUCKER Poem Source First Line: Your brushstrokes licked dryly at cheap canvas Last Line: At what the color of soil %looks like on canvas Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HURRICANE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At twilight / the leaves of palmettos screeching like cicadas Last Line: The ox beetle gores up through blown sand. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Loss; Weather HYMN FOR A FRIEND IN HIS LOSSES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We seek to plumb death Last Line: Made it to and from the other shore. Praise him Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Loss I AM FREEZING, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid sunshine's glow I freezing stand Last Line: I freeze -- my heart is dead! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of I AM LIKE ONE THAT FOR LONG DAYS HAD SATE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: About my lone life settles, wild and wide Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love - Loss Of I AM NOT GOING TO BE INTIMIDATED, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I can just enjoy breathing Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I BLINKED MY EYES, LOOKED UP AND EVERYONE WAS 25 YEARS OLDER-, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you're alive you get to Last Line: An hour and a half late for lunch Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 DIED FOR BEAUTY, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: What can be said Last Line: In the shallows just below %my pelvic hollow Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Death; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Skeletons I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO UTTER A MEANINGFUL UTTERANCE BUT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can take the lightweight branch of a tree from a window Last Line: Land.... Plenty of room there Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I GIVE YOU BACK, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I release you, my beautiful and terrible Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Peace; United States - Race Relations I GIVE YOU BACK, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I release you, my beautiful and terrible Last Line: I am alive and you are so afraid of dying Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Peace; U.s. - Race Relations I GO DREAMING ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who could feel you %nailed in his heart.' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roads; Travel I GOT SO I COULD TAKE HIS NAME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Itself, too vast, for interrupting – more – Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Mourning I GOT SO I COULD TAKE HIS NAME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Itself, too vast, for interrupting - more Variant Title(s): Poem: 29 Subject(s): God; Love; Love - Loss Of I HAVE NO STRENGTH FOR MINE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stay clear. %I won't listen Last Line: Arrows in their stiff form laid in sleep %and the moons stacked up like shields Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I LONG FOR SOLID EARTH IN HEAVEN, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: So they do not rise Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of I LOST A WORLD THE OTHER DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh find it – sir – for me! Subject(s): Books; Loss I MET WI' HER I LUVED YESTREEN, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sin' I hac lost that bonnie blossom! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Loss Of I MYSELF, by ANGEL GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I myself %met me face to face at a crossroads Last Line: Distorting whatever plans I make Subject(s): Loss I NEED SOME TEA TO WAKE TO BEAUTIFUL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clear warm evening on the way to alice's reading Last Line: As a perfect gift Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I NEVER SAW THE ROAD BETWEEN OUR, by DONNA LEE Poem Source Last Line: I'll wake up in the old station wagon %almost there Subject(s): Loss I SEEK A FORM, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I seek a form that my style cannot discover Last Line: And the neck of the great white swan, that questions me Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses 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 SHOULD HAVE KNOWN, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: In those last days Last Line: I should have known Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of I THOUGHT, I'LL MAKE IT SO SIMPLE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anyone can get it understand Last Line: Who's not so wild anymore Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I USED TO BE IN LOVE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As asking permission they have / changed places? Subject(s): Love – Loss Of I WANT A SMALLER THING IN MIND, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They happen to me all the time Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I WILL GIVE YOU MY SONG, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To say it on your balcony Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Loss; Pain I WILL SET OUT TO-MORROW, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will set out to-morrow when the dawn-light whitens all the land Last Line: Then will I lay this holly-spray and heather on thy bier. Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Waiting; Dead, The I WISH YOU COULD HAVE BEEN HERE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: You were miles away Last Line: I wish you could have been here Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of I'M GOING TO SLEEP, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: Teeth of flowers, coif of dew Last Line: Tell him not to keep trying, tell him I've gone out Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude IDYLL 1. LAMENT FOR ADONIS, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wail, wail, ah for adonis! He is lost to us, lovely Last Line: Thou must lament him again, and again shed tears in a new year. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Cythera (greek Island); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Sorrow; Sadness IF, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What had I been, lost love, if you had loved me? Last Line: You will not find in gardens that are new. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of IF, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, if the world were mine, love Last Line: No more, I think, shall I. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Poverty IF BIRD GETS NOISY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bird! Queen of the night! Last Line: Put sarong over cage) Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Loss; Nature; Parrots; Silence IF I AM BUT THE WATER, by CHRISTOPHER LA FARGE Poem Source Last Line: It will be you that locked its power %and you that broke its seal Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of IF I MAY HAVE IT WHEN IT'S DEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Outvisions paradise! Subject(s): Longing; Imagination; Death; Love – Loss Of IF TEARS WERE PEARLS, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: If tears were pearls, I would have Last Line: That is my new sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Tears IF THOU HAST LOST A FRIEND, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Let pride no more be heard Subject(s): Friendship; Pride; Loss; Forgiveness IF YOU WERE HERE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: These flowers would lose their wistfulness Last Line: If you were here! Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery II, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Muso soseki %companion on the beach Last Line: Silver inlets %down the coast Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Seashore IKKYU WAS AWAKENED BY A CROW'S CAW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O master, why count flowers that re gone? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Admiration; Loss; Nature ILLIMITABLE, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Parting love, far-fled content Last Line: Kiss me, and I will go. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ILLUSTRATIONS FOR KATHLEEN O'MORE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love still I think that I see her once more-but alas! She has left Last Line: On kathleen & c &c &c Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of IN A PASTURE UNDER A CRADLED MOON, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hung between pinetops Last Line: From loss. Subject(s): Birth; Children - Lost; Fields; Loss; Child Birth; Midwifery; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN A U-HAUL NORTH OF DAMASCUS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, what are the sins Last Line: To believe in new beginnings? Could I be moved? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Pain; Popular Culture - United States; Suffering; Misery IN ABSENCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide-stretching plains, and mountain-peaks farseen Last Line: "hills, valleys, groves, say for me, ""fare thee well." Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness IN AN ACT OF PITY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Pity; Male-female Relations IN AN ALAMEDA FIELD, by ANNA CATHERINE MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: Lost sappho's voice passed on the wind today Last Line: How could she know my heart last night had died? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of IN ANCIENT DECEMBER, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ideal american Last Line: Singing singing? What am I singing? Subject(s): Americans; Forget-me-nots; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs IN CALIFORNIA, by KATHY FAGAN Poem Source First Line: One either believes in god %or believes one is Last Line: You have, maestro, who planted me here Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IN HEAVY FOG OUTSIDE BISHOPVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: I held the slippery secret of life %between my thumb and forefinger Last Line: But I know I was at peace Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IN MEMORIAM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First, there were the first people Last Line: Want to move, they didn't want to move Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Grief; Loss IN MY DREAM LAST NIGHT DEER LADY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of land outside the door Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IN OUR YARD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In the late may rain Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IN THE BEAUTIFUL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be still. Be still. Do not speak Last Line: Or stay—and be still! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness IN THE CHIPS, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: A self steps out of the self, pauses Last Line: An armful of white red & blue Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IN THE COUNTRY, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Said the gardenia, 'I am very white!' Last Line: But leave me her! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Revivals IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE ALL I KNOW IS THE COMMERCIALS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Big things in the wind: %big dirty things in the wind Last Line: Well I'd like to know whose they are Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IN WINTER, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Winter; Love - Loss Of INCARNATE, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day I heard you'd died, that day, toward evening, I was alone in the Last Line: Here, look at this. Hold this, feel this Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Soul INCENSE FOR THE BUDDHA, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Boy do I burn Last Line: A lot & that's about all %I do Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Buddhism; Grief; Incense-trees; Loss INFLECTION, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rita was mad at me. At lynn's opening she was wearing Last Line: Again was the hit word, gwenn told me Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss INFLUENCES IN POETRY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dream: %in a room - getting ready for a party Last Line: Duncan looks pretty strange himself Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss INIS FAL, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now may we turn aside and dry our tears! Last Line: Remains to us of all that was our own. Subject(s): Ireland; Loss; Irish INSIDE THE ROOM, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: There's not much to notice: against the far wall Last Line: The ending, the slow opening. Subject(s): Emptiness; Loss; Mothers; Rain INSURANCE, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: Each passing bird's a bit of punctuation thrown through the air Last Line: Love is in the rewrites. %be slow Subject(s): Loss INTERNAL EXILE, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What you will not grieve %is forced on you Last Line: As some enter a shrine, %not to worship %but to be forgotten Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration INTO THE DARK, by EDVARD KOCBEK Poem Source First Line: And when I stretch my hands into the darkness Last Line: And that I can never %again neglect you Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of INTROSPECTION, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you sent her back her letters? Have you given her back her ring? Last Line: The secret of love's persistency: I too have loved and lost! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration INVENTORY OF THINGS LOST, by EDWARD SCHELB Poem Source First Line: An inventory of things lost on the train Last Line: Standing at the station before our journey home Subject(s): Loss; Railroads INVINCIBLE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fate, betwixt the grinding-stones of pain Last Line: Save bitter buds of doom. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery INVISIBILITY, by RENATO ROSALDO Poem Source First Line: We celebrae their days Last Line: Who nods yes, yes, but isn't listening Subject(s): Loss IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN DO THIS ANY BETTER?, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, this is fine Last Line: And feed as we've done? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ISAIAH: 63, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, heav'nly muse, what king, or mighty god' Last Line: Smiles at their arts, and all their force defies. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality IT CERTAINLY WAS DIVINE RUNNING INTO YOU, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, just a momentary good idea as your form Last Line: New moon %has hardly seemed to grow Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Conventions; Environment; Grief; Loss IT IS NOT, by VLADIMIR HOLAN Poem Source First Line: It is not all the same were precisely we are Last Line: Only simple people do not seek happiness Subject(s): Love - Loss Of IT IS TOO COLD TO CHANGE THE SHEETS, by KRISTINE DUGAS Poem Source First Line: Hour after hour I lie listening Last Line: Opening now Subject(s): Longing; Love; Love - Loss Of IT IS TRUE, THERE IS POWER WITHIN US. BUT I AM SO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh it's all passed, gone, gone, gone Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT WAS HERE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: It was here. Right here Last Line: Silently, toward %what isn't Subject(s): Loss IT'S A GREAT DAY. LAST NIGHT I VISITED MY OLD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Air, the best teacher is alive Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: On what only: the song that girl sang the song that girl sang Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S DIFFERENT HERE NOW HAVING BEEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To the other coast and returned to hit Last Line: At the table Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S LONELY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh no %oh no Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S SO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's so hot and sleepy at two this afternoon Last Line: O go to the beach drag yourself to the shore Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S SO QUIET, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In the courtyard fountain Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ITSY BITSY POLKA DOT REVIEW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I'll never sell myself Last Line: Darn hard to come by Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss JA NULS HOMS PRIS NE IRA A RAISON, by RICHARD COEUR DE LION Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forbecause a prisoner lies Last Line: But worse than all is loss of love Alternate Author Name(s): Richard The Lion-hearted; Richard I Of England Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JASMINE, by GEORGE KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: There is no beginning and no end Last Line: Who and what you are Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JEHANE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: In garments gray of sleety rain Last Line: Where they had parted, long ago. Subject(s): Children; Love - Loss Of; Murder; Childhood JEMMY DAWSON, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen to my mournful tale Last Line: So sad, so tender, yet so true. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JENNY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now I grow old, and flowers are weeds Last Line: The world seems one big grave to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of; Memory JEW'S HARP, by RODGER LEE KAMENETZ Poem Source First Line: Held lightly against the teeth, lightly Last Line: Throb, a tone deep and urgent %and a breath like a sigh Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JILTED, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy done gone back on me Last Line: I sh'd like to know? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JOHN SEVERIN WALGREN, 1874-1962, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trees die of thirst or cold Last Line: She moves us to terror. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Death; Epitaphs; Loss; Nature; Dead, The JOINT VENTURE, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shanti doesn't talk -- sweet Last Line: And walk out, free, lonely Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JOSE CANSECO BREAKS OUR HEARTS AGAIN, by GUSTAVO PEREZ FIRMAT Poem Source First Line: Out for the season, what's new Last Line: When jose, like a certain country I know, %will break our hearts again Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JOURNEY, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father is looking at the end of his life Last Line: Shavings of wood %drift to the far %corners of the room Subject(s): Loss JOURNEY OF THE MAGI, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A cold coming we had of it Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi; Estrangement; Outcasts; Nativity, The JOURNEY OF THE MAGI, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cold coming we had of it Last Line: With an alien people clutching their gods. %I should be glad of another death Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi JULIANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Off! Off! Ye hounds! - in madness an ill death be your doom Last Line: While her moor lord beside her slept, the tears fell on his face Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Knights And Knighthood; Love - Loss Of JULY '92 AT NAROPA, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With the term 'counter-poetics' we might ask Last Line: Eruption of the marvelous into everyday life' --p.L. Wilson Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Poetry And Poets JULY 4TH, by GAYLORD BREWER Poem Source First Line: It doesn't attack %as scripture details Last Line: You can begin today %to be magnificent Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JUST FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the table endlessly rocking Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JUST FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the table endlessly rocking Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JUST FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the table endlessly rocking Last Line: If you look long enough Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JUST WHERE DID THESE THOUGHTS GO?, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Ride bicycle out into the night Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Idealism; Loss KARMAPA SPOKE TO ME FROM A CENTER OF LIGHT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: While we lay low Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss KASHMIRI SONG, by ADELE FLORENCE CORY NICOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale hands I love beside the shalimar Last Line: Crushing out life than waving me farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, Laurence Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of KIND, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN Poem Source First Line: I hadn't noticed Last Line: We drop and we drop %everything Subject(s): Loss KING AND NO KING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would it were anything but merely voice! Last Line: When neither soul nor body has been crossed. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Courts & Couriers; Loss KING OF WOUNDS, by SEAN BRENDAN-BROWN Poem Source First Line: He lived on our place %since before I was born Last Line: On those barren islands %they die blamed and blaming Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration KISS THE EYES OF PEACE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Kiss the eyes of peace, may it stream down Last Line: All. Too many blessings break a man apart Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Peace KIST (I.M. 14TH FEBRUARY 1975), by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: On that lovers' morning, our hearts chimed Last Line: Took on the wrinkled grain %of coffin wood Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Valentine's Day KNOWLEDGE, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now there is no confusion in our love Last Line: These moons know nothing of. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Knowledge; Love - Loss Of L.T.N., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Happy winds whose wings caress Last Line: For thine and love's sake, sweet. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O [or, ah] what can ail thee, knight at arms [or, wretched wight] Last Line: And no birds sing. Subject(s): Fairies; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Love - Loss Of; Magic; Supernatural; Elves LA FIGLIA CHE PIANGE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand on the highest pavement of the stair Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Regret LA FIGLIA CHE PIANGE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand on the highest pavement of the stair Last Line: Sometimes these cogitations still amaze %the troubled midnight and the noon's repose Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Regret LADY ALICE WAS SITTING IN HER BOWER-WINDOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Subject(s): Death;love - Loss Of;man-woman Relationships; "dead, The;male-female Relations; LADY MARJORY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady marjory lay on her bed Last Line: Were as cold as ever her feet had been! Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Dreams; Love – Loss Of LAMENT, by CATHERINE BOWMAN Poem Source First Line: When the whippoorwill cries Last Line: Through a sky gone dark Subject(s): Loss LAMENT DROLATIQUE, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: Death overtook her Last Line: Than ever. ... Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The LAMENT OF JOSEPHINE, by MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The empress! - what's to me the empty name! Last Line: Hath o'er their ruin leapt to liberty! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mary Elizabeth Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LAMENTATION CANZONE, by SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY Poem Source First Line: Why after so much breath %do you return to me from the body, the city Last Line: My grasp is the suburb of your new city Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LAMENTATIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scrub woman for the old bank and jailhouse Last Line: One is of welcome; the other, farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Lament; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; World War Ii; Parting; Male-female Relations; Second World War LANDSCAPE RISING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These people may not be everybody's cup of tea Last Line: Of marin county and the golden gate bridge Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LANGUAGE WITH ONE WORD: 1. DURING THE LAST MONTHS, by KRISTY NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: The woman must smile back at the face of death. Privately, she is unable Last Line: Moon with me, he says, meaning: you will remember this forever Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Romance LANGUAGE WITH ONE WORD: 2. BEFORE HE DIES, by KRISTY NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: It is best to try in the morning. She makes her lips into fish and kisses Last Line: Love,' the angel says seductively. 'all love.' Subject(s): Angels; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of LAS! MORT QUI T'A FAIT SI HARDIE, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Death, you have made it your pleasure Last Line: Torment, sorrow, and pain Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of LAST GIFT, by FREDRICA KAY Poem Text First Line: They have laid me here on this windy hill Last Line: Thru the long grass overhead. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LAST WORDS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His voice, toward the end, was a soft coal breaking Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Women LAST WORDS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His voice, toward the end, was a soft coal breaking Last Line: Mouths open. Last words flown up into the trees Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Poetry And Poets; Women LAST-MINUTE MESSAGE FOR A TIME CAPSULE, by PHILIP APPLEMAN Poem Source First Line: I have to tell you this, whoever you are Last Line: From this deaad and barren place is %to beware the righteous ones Subject(s): Environment; Loss; Nature LATE AFTERNOON RAINBOW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Coyote's bow Last Line: Somebody is getting born Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LATE ROUND, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: When the fighters slow down, moving towards eaach other Last Line: And are separated, but they don't let go Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Fights; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Sports LATE?, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes everything feels like a trick Subject(s): Loss LAY IT TO REST WHERE YOU ARE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After agate beach reef Last Line: Over compost heap %in our garden Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LE ROI EST MORT, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And shall I weep that love's no more Last Line: Can never rise again! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LEANING INTO THE AFTERNOONS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets Last Line: Shedding blue tassels over the land Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of LEARNING PERSIAN, by REZA SHIRAZI Poem Source First Line: A hibernating language Last Line: Waiting to be sung Subject(s): Loss LEAVE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One winds through firs - their weeds are ferns Last Line: The mote dances in a nature full of squirrels Subject(s): Loss; World War Ii; Second World War LEAVING, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark black line Last Line: Wet canvases . . . Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LEAVING, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark black line Last Line: Waiting for you. %I wanted to Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LEAVING THE LIGHT ON, by JACK MYERS Poem Source First Line: Returning home late one night Last Line: And they go on Subject(s): Loss LEFT BEHIND, by RUBY RAHMAN Poem Source First Line: A century's dialectic Last Line: And our sitting face to face, all left behind Subject(s): History; Loss LEGEND, by CRAIG CZURY Poem Source First Line: Even while you were looking straight at me Last Line: To a place where I was born, growing up before I was born Subject(s): Loss LENOX HILL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hun so loved the cry, one falling elephant's Last Line: When I remember you – beyond all accounting o my mother? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration LENOX HILL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hun so loved the cry, one falling elephant's Last Line: When I remember you-beyond all accounting-o my mother? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LENS, by KIMBERLY J. BROWN Poem Source First Line: I spend hours in my red room coaching myself Last Line: I am just a toddler. We look innocent and clean Subject(s): Loss LEOLINE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the molten-golden moonlight Last Line: My lost love, leoline! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LET ME WALK ALONE WHERE BREAKS THE SEA, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loveliest girl in all the country-side Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude LET NO BIRD SING, by VERNE TAYLOR BENEDICT Poem Text First Line: Tread softly here, upon this spot Last Line: Love died, and it was night. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LETHE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not ask for love, ah! No, Last Line: To sink in quiet seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LETTER, by KASEY JUEDS Poem Source First Line: He didn't want to remember ireland, %my mother says: her grandfather Last Line: In the pit's extravagant black- %and just as fragile, as needed Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LETTER AND ANSWER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After so many years she wrote, but why Last Line: "restore the life that once joined me to you?" Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of; Love Letters; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Youth; Male-female Relations LETTER TO AN ANCESTOR, by DWIGHT FULLINGIM Poem Source First Line: What was it I always wanted to Last Line: To find the very mention of %your name Subject(s): Loss LETTER TO MIRTA YANEZ, by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES Poem Source First Line: I read some place in ruins, %your recent book of poems, and that title Last Line: Invisible behind bars %of sugar cane Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LETTER TO TERRY DOBSON, by ABBOT CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Here it is june, maine, overcast Last Line: Does breath mean? Shadow? %sunlight? Beehive? Subject(s): Loss LETTING GO, by DARYL HINE Poem Source First Line: I loved you first the time I saw you last Last Line: That indispensable, improper fiction %of your unforgettable perfection Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LI FU-JEN, by WU-TI (157 B.C.- 87 B.C.) Poem Text First Line: The sound of her silk skirt has stopped Last Line: How slow she comes! Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Loss Of; Winter LI HO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Li ho of the province of honan Last Line: He hears a child cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): China; Grief; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness LIBERTY AND PEACE, A POEM, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Freedom comes. The prescient muse foretold Last Line: And heavenly freedom spread her golden ray. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Liberty LIFE AND TIMES OF SKIN-GIRL, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: She decided to follow the gods home Last Line: The god being %one who never turns around Subject(s): God; Loss; Love; Spiritual Life LIFE LOOKS ON DEATH, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Tonight I sit alone with my dead love Last Line: In fright that wondrous life should lose itself. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement LIFE OF NAROPA FOR TED BERRIGAN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In dream land where I am sitting on evergreen road, the fly Last Line: Uncover the wish-fulfilling gem, the hidden home of the dikini Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LIFE-HOOK, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: Love: if I die don't take me to the cemetery Last Line: I will rise to watch you. I'll be the purple lilies Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of LIGHT AS MY HEART WAS LONG AGO, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Light as my heart was long ago Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LIKE THE SEA, KISSES, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Emblems mean nothing Last Line: Magical in the light, then they turn lifeless Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Romance LILI'S PARK, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's no menagerie, I trow Last Line: I must be free! Myself will force my freeing! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery LINES ON THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother! O my mother! When thy spirit heavenward fled Last Line: Oh joy, we soon shall meet! Till then, my mother, fare thee well! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Dead, The LINES WRITTEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER PARTING FROM A LADY, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is gone! The occasion for ever is past! Last Line: On delusion my raptures arose! Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation LISTEN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having lost you, I attract substitutes Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness LITANY, by CAROLYN CREEDON Poem Source First Line: Tom, will you let me love you in your restaurant? Last Line: Tom, richmond is so far away. How will I know how you love me? %I have left you. That is how you wil Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LITE PENDENTE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The leaves lie dead about my feet Last Line: Or art thou, as thou seemest, dead? Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness LITTLE DAUGHTERS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is sweeter, sweet, than you? Last Line: "she is not dead till ye have murdered me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LITTLE WINDOWS, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From dusk to dawn, the worlds on high Last Line: I'll journey in a dream. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LIVING A SPIRITUAL LIFE IN THE 'WOODS', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At least it's simple %to mind the wild Last Line: The red fuchsia %has just gone has just gone to the dump Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LIVING FLAME OF LOVE, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O living flame of love %that, burning, dost assail Last Line: How delicate the love thou mak'st me bear Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion LOATHING HISTORY, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Slows you %to start again Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Self LONE VESPERS, by BERT MOREHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Your love Last Line: Each day. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LONG NIGHTS WHEN HE NEGLECTS ME - WHERE'S HE GONE?, by KU HSIUNG Poem Source Last Line: Maybe then you'd know how much I care! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of 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 LOOK ON THE PICTURE AND ON THIS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish we once were wedded, - then I must be true Last Line: Will she sound our accusation in intolerable light Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love – Nature Of; Portraits; Memory; Death LOOKING FOR LEVEL GREEN, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: Seneca once told a white man Last Line: Dark pines down in there %alive and holy, alive with her Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO RAIN ANY MINUTE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's been four months since my mother died, aged 92 Last Line: Separated according to color Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LOOSE SUGAR, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: I hardly remember any sounds from childhood Last Line: I disagreed with the concept of 'need' Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LORD OF MY LIFE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He laid his dear face next to mine Last Line: My grief! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Loss; Love; Sorrow; Sadness LORELEI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Where the rhine pursues its track Last Line: Plunging - in the rhine she sank Subject(s): Drowning;love - Loss Of;magic;suicide LORNA, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Pure as the air that breathes the moorland o'er Last Line: I love you too, I love you too. Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Paradise LOSER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I kissed you, bride and lost, and went Last Line: You stagger against the wind Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory LOSER, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: I felt like a loser Last Line: My head has grown %to fit my ears Subject(s): Children; Loss LOSING IS A FULL TIME JOB, by FRIEDA STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: I don't and life doesn't go Last Line: (go inward and choke, go inward and choke) Subject(s): Loss LOSS, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not hell Last Line: And all the secret shadows shot with fire? Subject(s): Loss LOSS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost sweetheart, how our memories Subject(s): Loss LOSS, by JULIA JOHNSON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: She went about accustomed tasks Last Line: She had no pride. Subject(s): Loss LOSS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life may moult many feathers, yet delight Last Line: Till the thinned feathers end our eager flight. Subject(s): Death; Life; Loss; Dead, The LOSS, by PATRICIA ZONTELLI Poem Source First Line: Digging up the bones. Reburying them Last Line: In a place where even I can't find them Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Death - Animals; Dogs; Loss LOSS AND WASTE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up to far osteroe and suderoe Last Line: To see the lost things found, and waste things used. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Loss; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean LOSS PUSHES ME TO HONE MY DEFENSE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: There is nothing common in %your steps, your breath Last Line: Will keep me awake all night Subject(s): Loss LOSSES, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Loss LOSSES, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speed had not served, strength had not flowed amain Last Line: It may be, to be lost, is not unblest! Subject(s): Life; Loss; Love; Past LOST, by EMMA MAGIN BISSELL Poem Text First Line: Fluttering leaves by the wind are tossed Last Line: Did you say farewell when I plucked that rose? Subject(s): Autumn; Loss; Seasons; Fall LOST, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I've lost my notebook. % I've lost a poem Last Line: I've lost my notebook. %I've lost a poem Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers LOST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Notices - flutter / from - telephone - poles Last Line: Call me call me call me Variant Title(s): So Far Subject(s): Loss LOST, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: At 4:30 this morning Last Line: Locked & still as %a midnight morgue Subject(s): Loss LOST AND FOUND, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking for the photo that would make all the difference in my life. It's Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration LOST AND FOUND, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking for the photo that would make all the difference in my life. It's Last Line: Come back to me, you little fool, before I find I can live without you Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LOST AT THE FAIR, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at the fair did I lose thee, my honey Last Line: I kiss'd, sung, and linked with her home from the fair. Subject(s): Festivals; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Worry; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations LOST FOR A WHILE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When I scratched through %my hair Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Names; Nature LOST GLOVE IS HAPPY, by NUALA ARCHER Poem Source First Line: Is it in the terminal I left %the brown, rabbit - fur - lined gloves Last Line: In the lubbock mall, without %labels stripped to our bones Subject(s): Loss LOST IN TRANSLATION, by MARTHA E. BOSWORTH Poem Source First Line: Wisps of color glisten, music gleams Last Line: By full noon-light, and sullen in the day's %dull gold Subject(s): Loss; Translating And Interpreting LOST LAD, by AMY MAY ROGERS Poem Text First Line: The lad I love shall be as straight Last Line: "who always walked this way?" Subject(s): Aging; Love - Loss Of LOST LOVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I play my sweet old airs Last Line: A woman as I was born! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOST LOVE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Geese fly from north to south Last Line: Wind never blows Subject(s): China; Love - Loss Of LOST LOVE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Geese fly from north to south Last Line: Wind never blows Subject(s): China; Love - Loss Of LOST LOVE'S FLIGHT, by DONN BORING Poem Text First Line: I see you now, yes barely, far away Last Line: That came to hide your angel's flight. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOST SHADES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many times the flow'rs have blown Last Line: You copied in our day of bliss. Subject(s): Loss; Seasons LOST THINGS, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: Those little things we search for, find us - the misplaced key we unex Last Line: Combs, and yellowing photographs of us Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Poetry And Poets; Survival LOUELLA WAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Louella wainie! Where are you Last Line: Louella wainie! Where are you? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Night; Bedtime LOVE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: You have not died, no Last Line: You are eternal, love %even as is the spring Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory LOVE AND DEATH, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: While I was pondering lazily Last Line: "I struck your love this morning dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LOVE AND DEATH, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed my love had set thy spirit free Last Line: Or save thee from the swift decrees of death. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The LOVE AND DEATH, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watcher, whose eyes are fever bright Last Line: For death's vast mystery grows clear. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE AND DEATH, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow lies upon the earth Last Line: Can this be death? Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE AND GRIEF, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my heart, one treach'rous winter's day Last Line: And love, pride purged, was chastened all his life. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE AND THE MOUNTAINS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He rode through bitter mountains Last Line: He cried: oh in these cold hills to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of LOVE AND THE SIERRA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He galloped over harsh sierra ground Last Line: He screamed: to die in these cold hills alone! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Relationships LOVE BOAT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lynn doesn't want to miss the full moon tonight Last Line: - named tequila moonshine %light touched waters Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LOVE COME AND GONE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider me a memory, a dream that passed away; Last Line: Within, without the vassal heart—its reasoning, who knows? Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE DEAD, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morn with trembling I awoke Last Line: With but phantoms round me flitting! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE DISPOSED OF, by ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here goes love! Now cut him clear Last Line: Now that he is gone. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails LOVE HEROIC, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Companioned on the path you chose Last Line: Immortal in your life to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LOVE IN EXILE I: 25, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you wake from troubled slumbers Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory LOVE IN EXILE I: 6, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou remember ever, for my sake Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mdmory; Love - Loss Of LOVE IN THE TIME OF AIDS, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: You are afraid Last Line: Will crash or glide across the sky %as if the sky knows what is written underneath its skin Subject(s): Aids (disease); Airplane Accidents; Danger; Health; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Travel LOVE IS DEAD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard one cry out strongly, 'love is dead!' Last Line: Nay! Let him rest with death, the lord of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The LOVE IS DEAD, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A form across my threshold lies Last Line: The only way love ever dies. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery LOVE IS FOR EVERMORE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I had thought to bury my love too deep for tears Last Line: In the heart of a woman by love forsaken! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE ITSELF DOES NOT MAKE A DISPLAY OF ITSELF, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But when you think you've met miss right Last Line: I guess I didn't realize the effect on her Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE KILL'D BY LACK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be warme; let me be fully fed Last Line: I shall dislike, what once I lov'd before. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE LIES BLEEDING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love that is dead and buried, yesterday Last Line: Was this to meet? Not so, we have not met. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Collinson, James (1825-1881); Love - Loss Of LOVE NOW, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You will love me the day I lie dying Last Line: At the coldness of death? Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The LOVE PENNED RED, by SEAN BRENDAN BROWN Poem Source First Line: My mother finished her life in side-boxes Last Line: That'd do it; god willing she'd be his halting place Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LOVE PLUMES HIS WINGS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love plumes his wings to fly away Last Line: And laughs to scorn our idle pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 52, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source 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 LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 57, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source 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 LOVE POEMS: 11, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caelia is gone, and now I sit Last Line: More grief in parting, but grow old and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE WE HAD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love we had for one another is somewhere Last Line: That fits the face of grief, %at risk among others Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 3, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How is it possible Last Line: Now, am I nothing? Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 4, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fallen oak still keeps its yellow leaves Last Line: Although I love no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 5, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so I shall meet you Last Line: -- yesterday?) Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 6, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me, do you remember still Last Line: Resolved, abandoned by us two! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Italians LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 7, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know you love me not - I do not love you Last Line: And charm you like a song. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S BURIAL-PLACE: A MADRIGAL, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If love be dead Last Line: And died at length of a decline.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S CYNICISM, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: Wisely you smile at love's sad corollary Last Line: Frail hours with sentiment; think this, and smile. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE'S ENDING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this, then, is love's ending. It is like Last Line: By passion's earthquake, loathes the name of love. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S GHOST, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is love at end? How did he go? Last Line: This tyrant ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S PARTING, by MINUCHIHRI Poem Text First Line: O tentsman, haste, and strike the tent, I pray Last Line: "but now in love imperfect, well-a-way!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S PROUD FAREWELL, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am too proud of loving thee, too proud Last Line: And laugh within thy breast. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S SLEEPLESSNESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I can no more mine eyes to sleep compose Last Line: Would stop for aye if sever'd from its shrine! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Sleeplessness LOVE'S SUICIDE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas for me for that my love is dead! Last Line: Divinest harmonies. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE-FREE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am free of love as a bird flying south in the autumn Last Line: I am my lover's. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE-LETTER-BURNING, by DANIEL HALL Poem Source First Line: The archivist in us shudders at such cold-blooded destruction of ... Last Line: A match is struck: it's done. The past %will shed some light, but never keep us warm Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE-LORN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In her cage by my window swings a bird Last Line: The strain of the singer, her mate, that died. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE/SNOW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When people say they love me I tell them/I wish I could stop thinking of robert Last Line: Give me a loaf of bread -- I loaf you!/frost whenever it snows Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Frost; Grief; Loss; Puns; Winter LOVE: AN ELEGY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too much my heart of beauty's power hath known Last Line: And lose, with pride, the lover in the man. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Parting LOVERS, by ANNE PORTER Poem Source First Line: I can still see Last Line: Than death or anger %a love began Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVERS' LEAP, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In greece I found the place, though earth Last Line: And leap to find thee where thou art! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Seasons LOVES FAREWELL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light hearted, careless, shall I take my way Last Line: With usurer's craft, more than myself to find. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LUCY (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She dwelt among the untrodden ways Last Line: The difference to me! Variant Title(s): "the Lost Love;when Lucy Ceased To Be;song;""she Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways""; Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement LUCY TO RAVENSWOOD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, shall sweet roses scent the air Last Line: And I not trust in thee? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 24, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why have the roses lost their hue Last Line: O wherefore leavest thou me? Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have felt for each other emotions soft Last Line: That never since then have we seen each other Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 31, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And when I so long, so long had delay'd Last Line: Was the silliest far of my silliest actions. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 38, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since my darling one has left me Last Line: Wellnigh breaks, I cannot weep. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 54, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When two fond lovers are parted Last Line: Too surely came by-and-by. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Tears LYRICS OF LOVE: 3, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet pigeon carrier upon my roof Last Line: Six feet of darkness 'neath the churchyard green. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LYRICS OF LOVE: 4, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Returned am I, my trusted sweetheart dead Last Line: But never taste the sweetness of the wine. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MA BELLE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, dear heart! Since needs it must I go Last Line: He loved me well!' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MADCAP LOVE, by PAUL GUEST Poem Source First Line: I am archie, made flesh, if ink can be Last Line: My home and heart, bones and bars, broken Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of MADRIGAL, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, by what rite shall I upbraid Last Line: No slumber to my pain Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MADRIGAL, by LUIS MARTIN DE LA PLAZA Poem Source First Line: On the green margin of the land Last Line: Leapt in the water to escape the fire Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of MAN WHO LOST HIS WIFE, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words get to him now. They leap out of Last Line: Everything means something else Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning MANATON, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O it's manaton, little manaton, high over the moor Last Line: For the want of her and manaton, and the long while ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MANIFESTO, by MARGOT SCHILPP Poem Source First Line: Look in the window and extract a name Last Line: Terraces erode, groves lie fallow- %order is cognate of joy Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MARGARET GILL'S QUIET LIFE, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a woman, dead at eighty-seven, who's left Last Line: Down at the bottom, called social studies Subject(s): World War Ii – Casualties; Women; Love – Loss Of; Conduct Of Life MARIA, THE VILLAGE GIRL, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a pleasant village, in a lone Last Line: Could trace her, through the silent wood withdrew. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness MARIAN/'CHAMA' IN THREE MOUNTAIN RANGES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Now we separate %branching letting go of pine cone Last Line: I have grown old and snowblind Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Passion; Romance MARKER, by ANN KENISTON Poem Source First Line: To find a marker for the invisible losses Last Line: Consoled us until repeated failure %prohibited it Subject(s): Loss MARRIAGE A LA MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should a foolish marriage vow Last Line: Twas pleasure first made in an oath. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARTYRDOM OF SAINT SEBASTIAN, by EUGENIO FLORIT Poem Source First Line: Yes, come to my arms, little doves of iron Last Line: Lodged within the contents of my heart Subject(s): Angels; Death; Doves; Love - Loss Of MARY LEE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What ails ye, bonnie mary lee? Last Line: Kin' jamie's faithfu' wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is yonder poor maniac, whose wildly fixed eyes Last Line: Of poor mary the maid of the inn. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hotels; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Male-female Relations MASK, by MARCOS MCPEEK VILLATORO Poem Source First Line: Today I will consider tekum uman Last Line: Across my white carpet, newly shampooed Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MASOCHIST, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My black-eyed lover broke my back Last Line: As if they never called you mine, %mine, mine Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MAUD MULLER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Maud muller on a summer's day / raked the meadow sweet with hay Last Line: Roll the stone from its grave away! Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Loss Of; Social Classes; Caste MAUREEN OGE, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh maureen oge across the foam Last Line: The walls are lonesome for your clothes. Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MAX BECKMANN & QUAPPI IN BLUE, by J. J. BLICKSTEIN Poem Source First Line: 1924 pleasure %possible bed fanatic clean Last Line: The tattooed crown and the reality %of the undreamed imagination Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MAY 2 MUSINGS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm spaced after the liturgy of it all, the very Last Line: On the mesa ghetto Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MAY YOU ALWAYS BE THE DARLING OF FORTUNE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March 10th and the snow flees like eloping brides Last Line: Vigilant. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Spring; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness MAZE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the %dead bird on the sidewalk Last Line: To the walls Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ME IN PARADISE, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be ready for it, unfucked, ever-fucked Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Passion; Absence; Separation; Isolation MEDIEVAL NORMAN SONG: 17, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Maid marjory sits at the castle gate Last Line: And men will say they were true lovers sweet Subject(s): Grief;love - Loss Of; Sorrow;sadness MEETING THE BARBARIANS: AN OPIUM SMOKER, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: After the eleventh pipe Last Line: Twist like a possessed worm Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MEETING THE BARBARIANS: ETIQUETTE, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: As only one sun rules heaven Last Line: Actually the letter had been drafted before macartney came Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MEETING THE BARBARIANS: THE FIRST EUROPEAN, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Having waited for twenty years Last Line: Dangers encountered and labors endured Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Immigrants; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees MEETING THE BARBARIANS: TRADE, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: The sea barbarians live by trade Last Line: Is no more than a crippled dinosaur Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MELILOT, by MUNA LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the house is the millet plot Last Line: All but the smell of the white melilot. Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Plants; Planting; Planters MEMENTO MORI, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, could I but once more have gazed into Last Line: Oh, could I but once more into thine eyes have gazed! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The MEMENTOS, I, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorting our letters and piles of my old cancelled checks Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MEMENTOS, I, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorting our letters and piles of my old cancelled checks Last Line: I will find that it's still there Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MEMORIAL VERSES ON THE DEATH OF THEOPHILE GAUTIER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, what hast thou to do with me? So saith Last Line: Leave thy sweet light to rise upon the dead. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872); Love - Loss Of; Dead, The MEMORIES, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When at evening in the vale I walk Last Line: In the heart of dying marigold. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory MEMORIES, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou, louise, forgotten yet Last Line: And I alone remember yet! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations MEMORIES, by MARIE SYRKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wistful and strange and sweet Last Line: My heart breaks at their tugging mild. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory MEMORY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, once lived in arcady Last Line: A little while! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MEMORY, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light / of the white night Last Line: Might still. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery MEMORY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When first we quaffed love's jeweled cup Last Line: The sunset of the days of old. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory MEMORY PRAYER, by JOHN PHILLIP SANTOS Poem Source First Line: I learned to breathe this way Last Line: Weaving its net of forgetting across these lands Subject(s): Loss MEMORY'S VISIT, by DEAN ALETTA BAILLIE Poem Text First Line: Night had settled on the hilltops Last Line: I behold an empty chair. Subject(s): Loss; Memory MENONA GIVES ME VERTIGO, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Boulders along the canal form a bucktooth shore Last Line: But rarely win love back Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of MENTALIST, by MEMYE CURTIS TUCKER Poem Source First Line: Cards are chosen; he reads through the pockets Last Line: Seat, the battery running low Variant Title(s): The Mentalist Leaves The Stag Subject(s): Loss MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poet's Biography First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Plains - Texas MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains Last Line: Caliche canyon and haul back barrels of water %from the river of the arms of god Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration METAL EYE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Secretly I'm dead inside Last Line: At 3,200 degrees platinum liquefies Subject(s): Desire; Girls; Indifference; Love - Loss Of; Obsessions MI VIDA: WINGS OF FRIGHT, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The refugee's run Last Line: Found himself %knelling on the floor %with a paper towel Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MICHAEL HOLLEY, BRUTHAMAN BOSTON GLOBE SPORTS WRITER, COVERS THE ..., by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the old teams you see at night Last Line: In this room it is sane to be profane Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Loss; Sports MICHELANGELO HOMEBOY, BLUE, by ROBERT NAZARENE Poem Source First Line: For years they sat Last Line: Intention Subject(s): Art And Artists; Love - Loss Of MID-MAY, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hand clamped to desk, / and eyes on task undone Last Line: When pan is at the door? Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery MIDAS, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I guess like losing anything, I thought Last Line: Her moulting feathers proof and consequence Subject(s): Birds; Loss; Midas MIDNIGHT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Phone call from cass Last Line: You gave to me %to encourage phenomenology Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Singing And Singers MILLAIS'S 'HUGUENOTS', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Your fav'rite picture rises up before me Last Line: Is hushed in deepest calm Subject(s): "love - Loss Of;mendelssohn-bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847);millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); MINDLEAVING, by HAYAN CHARARA Poem Source First Line: Mindleaving, %the son calls it, the way his father Last Line: And then the downpour Variant Title(s): Mindleavin Subject(s): Loss MINKS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the backyard of our house on norwood, Last Line: The shining of the soul, gives us each %character and beauty. Variant Title(s): Captivity: The Mink Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MISCARRIAGE: THE NURSE SPEAKS TO THE BABY, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: We are going back to the dirty Last Line: Vine of warm ground %born to suffer loss Subject(s): Babies; Death; Loss; Medicine; Nurses MISSING, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Has anybody seen my beau? Last Line: Hasn't anybody seen my beau? Subject(s): Loss MISSING YOU, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Susan, susan I am missing you Last Line: And susan, susan I am missing you Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of MISSION, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: He was sent by our emperor to the west Last Line: Use barbarians to subdue barbarians Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MISSY 1966-1971, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to be worthy of this waking dream Last Line: Bound. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Loss; Memory; Nightmares MIWOK MANDARIN BOLINAS BAMBOO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's that fur rug hanging over there Last Line: Deer passing thru Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MO-LENNAV-A-CHREE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eilidh, eilidh, eilidh, dear to me, dear and sweet Last Line: Mo-lennav-a-chree! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Closing Doors Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Loss; Memory; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MODEL OF THE HEART AT THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, by KASEY JUEDS Poem Source First Line: Once, as a child, I walked inside Last Line: Red house, a longing blue sky Subject(s): Loss MOMENT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A person wakes from sleep Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration MOMENT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A person wakes from sleep Last Line: Who must so love their lives Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MOMENT FOR WHICH THERE IS NO NAME, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: On the sixteenth floor of one of the tall old buildings in Last Line: That is the moment for which there is no name Subject(s): Loss MOMENTS THAT COME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am dancing around the plaza with a policeman Last Line: Who passes through softly %on her journey Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Dreams; Fantasy; Grief; Loss; Sin MONDAY AFTERNOON MAY 14, 1984:, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now we've gotten that out of the way Last Line: On 6 o'clock - tv tonight Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MOOD, by DOROTHY ALLISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Floating like a dust moat Last Line: But little laments in a row. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Loss; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MOON'S WALTZING ALONE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: In deserted kitchens Last Line: Only their love, like a thing never done, burns through %into morning Subject(s): Abandonment; Bones; Death; Love - Loss Of MORNING IS SUCH A WELCOME TIME. IT DOESN'T DEMAND, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Are my startled guests as this morning proceeds normally out of doors Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, JULY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haze. Three student violists boarding Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MOSTLY SKY, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: We eat lunch next to massive windows Last Line: A fiddle string, taut enough and waiting Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Saint Kilda (scotland) MOTHER'S DAY, by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: I do not doubt you would have liked Last Line: After I've been lost at sea Subject(s): Loss MOTHER'S GRIEF, by HILDEGARD OTT RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Dry-eyed she sat up waiting through the night Last Line: A poignant pain is dumb and gnaws the bone. Subject(s): Boys; Grief; Loss; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness MOUNTAIN STREAM, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I am like this stream Last Line: And yet %the same Subject(s): Brooks; Grief; Love - Loss Of MOVEMENT, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We crawl, we eat. Like commas Last Line: Laying wings down gently over the land Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of MOVEMENT SONG, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have studied the tight curls on the back of your neck Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Relationships; Love - Loss Of MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Easter is coming, and I without him Last Line: My heart is cruelly grieving for him Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of MUNDI VICTIMA: 6, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is all over, I am left alone Last Line: And dearest love works most the work of hate. Subject(s): Hate; Love - Loss Of MURDER, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Language must suffice Subject(s): Love; Loss; Poetry & Poets MUSE: 3. WARD IN CHANCERY, by SUSAN AIZENBERG Poem Source First Line: Photographs she'd lived with twenty years, her husband's love letters Last Line: Scrawled with purple-inked comments in her spidery hand Variant Title(s): Muse: Ward In Chancery: What They Took From He Subject(s): Loss; Memory MY BABY'S GONE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I paw at you Last Line: My baby's gone Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of MY BIRDEEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On bonnie birdeen Last Line: My passion, my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Loss; Love; Pain; Passion; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery MY BOAT, CUT, by KUJI Poem Source First Line: My boat, cut from tallest pine Last Line: Back into dark rip tides Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Love - Loss Of; Tides MY BONNY KATE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sultry sun with angry eye Last Line: My bonny kate! Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Past MY CONNOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Weary's on money - and weary's on wealth Last Line: My heart's in the grave with my cushla machree Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MY DOG GIRLFRIEND ROSE WAS LOST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: During which I uncontrollably sobbed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Loss; Nature 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 FATHER DIED THIS SPRING', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And an old man. It's impossible to know %but strange how blood brings curiosity Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MY FATHER IN THE STACKS, by DAVID HASSLER Poem Source First Line: For hours in his study he'd disappear Last Line: We pass each other, my hands are clean Subject(s): Loss MY FATHER LEARNS TO SPEAK (AGAIN), by C. V. DAVIS Poem Source First Line: When you left the appalachian farm for Last Line: Safe in the valley between those mountains %you would soon leave behind Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MY FATHER RECOUNTS A STORY FROM HIS YOUTH, by KEVIN PRUFER Poem Source First Line: He who discovered Last Line: And he is surrounded by everything that is Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MY FATHER'S COAT, by SUSIE MEE Poem Source First Line: My father's coat was made Last Line: Sleeves, I stepped inside %the dark forest Subject(s): Loss MY GRANDMOTHER IN THE STARS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is possible we will not meet again Last Line: And only memory making us rich. Subject(s): Grandparents; Loss; Memory; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD US JOKES, by RICHARD BEBAN Poem Source First Line: Like the one about the man who Last Line: At the rest of us, who took it all so seriously Subject(s): Loss MY HOW THE DAYS FLY BY IN LIFE TIME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So now the sun shines Last Line: Of being born human, once again Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MY JOY HAS FALLEN IN THE GRASS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: My joy has fallen in the grass, good people of the plain, fortunate Last Line: Fallen in the grass, help me to find it again. Subject(s): Grass; Happiness; Love - Loss Of; Joy; Delight MY LADY AND I, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a year and a day I must tarry away Last Line: A year and a day! Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Time; Unfaithfulness; Parting; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy MY LOST FATHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See where he moves Last Line: Of husbands fathers sons Subject(s): Loss MY LOST LOVE, by KATE VAN HORSSEN MEYLINK Poem Text First Line: My dear lost love passed by last night Last Line: In the wailing of the wind. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Parting MY LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Dearest, there is no one above thee that Last Line: Unto the rich-crown jeweled seat of paradise. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Paradise; Suffering; Misery MY LOVE DIED, by LAJOS KASSAK Poem Source First Line: My love died she left but said nothing to me Last Line: But he also says nothing Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of MY LOVE, WHY DO YOU HATE ME NOW?, by HABBA KHATUN Poem Source First Line: Which rival wife has turned you from me? Last Line: My love, why do you hate me now? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MY PICNIC WITH LOLITA, by JACK(+1) CONWAY Poem Source First Line: I brought the cherries Last Line: And wish I could have died at my picnic, with lolita, %by lightning, instead Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Poetry And Poets MY SONG, by PAULINE TYSON STEPHENS Poem Text First Line: My love is dead, and mystic plaints Last Line: My song a dirge. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MY THOUGHTS GO FORTH TO THE ABIDING PLACE, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I did believe I was in paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MY VALHALLA, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Forget the museum of natural history Last Line: And what should be Subject(s): Loss MY VISION IS A LARGE GOLDEN ROOM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You're there to move out %from the source. %god's mountain, sun street Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MYTHICAL MANY ANTLERED WHITE BUCK, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Nibbling new green grass %stop the car! Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NAME FOR GRIEF, by HELEN BRYANT Poem Text First Line: Tell me any, any, tell me your name for grief Last Line: Of a young girl shakes in the withered crone. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Names; Sorrow; Sadness NAMING, by NANCY PEDRICK MAIRS Poem Source First Line: Let me tell you this once Subject(s): Loss NANNY TO BESSY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eleven long winters departed Last Line: And thrice — but ah, let me refrain. Subject(s): Duplicity; Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Shame; Deceit NARCISSUS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Credit %I never get any credit Last Line: I am so lonely. I've never been so lonely Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NAROPA APPROACHES HIS TEACHER: INSTRUCTION TIME AGAIN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How's it going boss? Last Line: Here, I'll kiss it and make it better Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Naropa Approaches His Teacher Instruction Time Agai Subject(s): Grief; Loss NARRATIVE AS ATTENTION ON A RAINY SUNDAY'S PHENOMENOLOGY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And sweet sly good nights Last Line: Of enlightened harmony a week later Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NELL AND JOHN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nell, given o'er by the doctor, was dying Last Line: When you lost your white heifer, and I my brown mare! Subject(s): Death; Loss; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NEUROLOGICAL PATHWAYS VERY RAPIDLY SENSITIVELY MOVING OVER THE BODY..., by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mystic heat is tuned up in naropa's awareness Last Line: A continent away Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NEUTRAL TONES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood by a pond that winter day Last Line: And a pond edged with grayish leaves. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Winter NEW BULLETIN FROM KEITH LAMPE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This applies to both greater vehicles and lesser vehicles Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NEW LOVE AND OLD, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my heart the old love Last Line: Or to you? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NEW SMELL IN THE WRITING ROOM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After nine years these walls are painted white; again Last Line: On still sagging shelves Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NEW SPRING: 34, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy letter, sent to prove me Last Line: Far otherwise we act. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NEW WORLD, by SANDRA LARSON Poem Source First Line: Dark green burnished skin Last Line: Just now, how I had divided in two Subject(s): Loss NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, by SUSAN THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Five young men get off the boat in new york city Last Line: To the library, where he studies %astronomy and insects Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NIGHT POEMS: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again in a still peace, in clear Last Line: Endured by all, breathed by how few! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The NIGHTINGALE, by GIL VICENTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rose looks out in the valley Last Line: Sings his song of woe Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Love - Loss Of 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 NINE, by AMY ADAMS Poem Source First Line: On his first day of baseball practice Last Line: Hey chrissy! Why won't you kiss me? Subject(s): Loss NINE SENTIMENTS (IX), by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old book on the poisons Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NINETY-ONE IN THE SHADE, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: It's always the same Last Line: Into the hot gust %like a word remembered %that we do not say Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NIOBE IN DISTRESS FOR HER CHILDREN SLAIN BY APOLLO, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo's wrath to man the dreadful spring Last Line: "but from the marble steal the silent tears." Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Paintings And Painters; Wilson, Richard (1714-1782) NO ELEGANT CATASTROPHE OF THE HEART, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY Poem Source First Line: It can't get worse but it does. She leaves. She never loved you. What is Last Line: Rain erodes the garden beyond explanation Subject(s): Absence; Loss; Love; Relationships NO ESCAPE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A form of aggression towards yourself %--pema chodron Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Change; Escapes; Grief; Loss; Self NO LIVING IN PARKED VEHICLES, by STEVE FAY Poem Source First Line: Only the dead may park, all others Last Line: Happy motoring. Now, make it happy Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NO MORE PRINCESS, by ERICKA PAZCOGUIN Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning in my cold bed, and you were gone Last Line: Cool pearls of sorrow resting stark around my throat Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NO USE CREEPING THRU THE FOG WITH A DRIVER WHO WON'T, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Attempting meditation this morning mind jumps all Last Line: Ball back and forth three miles to town bye-bye Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NOBODY MIND, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Lost words, lost people Last Line: Helloing the sea, farewelling the land. Subject(s): Loss; Memory NOCTURN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Whispering voice of the modest night Last Line: The face of my love again—at last? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Night; Bedtime NOCTURNE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always I knew that it could not last Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NOCTURNE OF REMEMBERED SPRING, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight silvers the tops of trees Last Line: And then we laugh, with shadows in our eyes. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Old Age; Spring; Dead, The NOCTURNE OF THE STATUE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: Dreaming, dreaming the night, the street, the stairway Last Line: Till hearing it say, I am sick to death of dreaming. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Mourning NOD, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: In this mind %beyond dry cornstalks Last Line: If there's no solid place to go %no world called home Subject(s): Automobiles; Homosexuality; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NONSENSE RHYMES: 17, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Little maiden dressed in mourning Last Line: "weep not, here am I" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of;nonsense NORTHAMPTON, 1922 - SAN FRANCISCO, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night rain falls through fog Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Male-female Relations NORTHAMPTON, 1922 - SAN FRANCISCO, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night rain falls through fog Last Line: With children on the verge of youth Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past NORTHERN DARKNESS, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Winds die and shadows wrap us %in trunks of trees. We anticipate silence Last Line: The faint hymn of our breath %pales visibly Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NOT MUCH TIME LEFT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Or relocation breath like me interested %in prolonging history Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NOT REALLY APRIL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever see robins sumo wrestle? Last Line: Know how to call you up Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I gave birth to living metaphors Last Line: Springs from the very separateness of things. Subject(s): Children; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Loss; Metaphor; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Similes; Parenthood; Feminism NOT YET, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not tomorrow night Last Line: Then the moon will be full Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NOTE ON MY SON'S FACE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, I look, thunderstruck %at the gold head of my grandchild Last Line: The worst is true. %everything you did not want to know Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations NOTHING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will my love come to me? Last Line: Alas! I have no love. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Jesus Christ; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Nothingness; Soul; Dead, The; Nihilism; Voids NOVEMBER 19: 50 YEARS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This year's birthday Last Line: The buddha %gets enlightened %tomorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NOW AND THEN, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love will make the leal heart ache Last Line: She -- passes babe-in-arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Transience; Impermanence NOW IS WINTER GONE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long had I known you yet in truth I knew / you not Last Line: Flushes and flowers as gilded fields in april shine. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Nostalgia; Relationships; Winter; Parting NOW SILENCE REIGNETH OVER EARTH AND SKY, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: So far away doth my salvation lie! Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Grief; Love – Loss Of O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done Last Line: Fallen cold and dead. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of President Lincoln;my Captain;to Abraham Lincoln;on Lincoln Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Sea; United States - History; Liberty; Ocean O LOVED AND LOST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit beside the sea this autumn day Last Line: And we are one in life for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Autumn; Loss; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Ocean O MORS! QUAM AMARA EST MEMORIA TUA HOMINI PACEM HABENTI, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exceeding sorrow / consumeth my sad heart! Last Line: This one day! Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The O NOW, ALTHOUGH THE YEAR BE DONE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Led me on Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Transcience; Love – Loss Of OBITUARIES, by ERIC ZUCKERMAN Poem Source First Line: I go to them first Last Line: Which went and leapt the realm Subject(s): Loss OBITUARY, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: We two in w.2 Last Line: Seems silly now really Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Love - Loss Of OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 15. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE ELEVENTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His late loss the wiveless higs in order Last Line: Hadst no heart I think, I know no liver. Subject(s): Murder; Loss; Marriage OBSERVE THE LACYPINK CORALINE ALGAE ON THE ROCKS AT LOW TIDE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A stately form proceeds Last Line: Voice over again %voice over Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss OCEAN PARKWAY GAZING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ocean up %against cliff Last Line: The sea closes in %up to the edge %of mythology Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Grief; Loss; Nature; Sea; Trees OCTAVIO PAZ ADDRESSES MARIE-JOSE, by ANTHONY SEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Body of the world which I taste Last Line: The one without wings, and the other on fire Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of OCTOBER 29, 1963, WEDNESDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a crowd of people I am suddenly elevated. No matter that Last Line: As much as a foot, two feet, grind. In my tibetan bathrobe. %silence Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ODE TO NEPTUNE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While raging tempests shake the shore Last Line: Not give my wishes to the empty air. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea; Ocean ODES IV, 1. TO VENUS FOR LIGURINUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O venus, why are you renewing Last Line: You, cruel one! Through waves whirling, swirling Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) ODIN'S RAVENS, by TOM RILEY Poem Source First Line: Odin's ravens speak no nevermore Last Line: With his lone eye what we %have denied - that we'll lose the last war Subject(s): Knowledge; Loss; War OF ALL THINGS FOR YOU TO GO AWAY MAD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You read a lot of books Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss OF COURSE, by JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS Poem Text First Line: A merry shepherd lad was jock Last Line: Of course! Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of OF THOSE WHO WALK ALONE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women there are on earth, of courage and high Last Line: Earth's wrongs are ended. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Earth; Faith; Loss; Love; Soul; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed OH GOODY THIS AFTERNOON WE'RE GOING TO THE HOLY FOREST, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to find the place Last Line: Of content content and form Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss OH MAN IS THE HIGHEST TYPE OF ANIMAL EXISTING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That man about town gone again Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss OH, THE WEATHER, THE WEATHER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And calm drastic winds of change Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Change; Grief; Loss; Weather OLD AMONTILLADO, by M. E. W. G. Poem Text First Line: Fill my wine-glass brimming high Last Line: M. E. W. G. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Love - Loss Of; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse OLD MOUNTAIN, by HWANG JINI Poem Source First Line: Old mountain, here you are still Last Line: Coming to me, going away Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Love - Loss Of ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land Last Line: May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON BEING TOLD I DON'T SPEAK LIKE A BLACK PERSON, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emphasize the h, you ignorant ass Last Line: Greetings familiar %in any language Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ON FANNY GODWIN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice did quiver as we parted Last Line: This word is all too wide for thee. Subject(s): Godwin, Fanny (d. 1816); Love; Love - Loss Of; Suicide ON FORGETTINGS, by PATTY SEYBURN Poem Source First Line: My father's cemetery planted squarely in detroit Last Line: We say the wait is worse when we mean, the forgetting Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ON FRIENDSHIP, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let amictia in her ample reign Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON IMAGINATION, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thy various works, imperial queen, we see Last Line: Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON MESSRS HUSSEY AND COFFIN, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did fear and danger so perplex you mind Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON MOVING TO THE NAROPA CAMPUS FALL 1991, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This for the tuesday morning Last Line: Snow %on the way in the foothills Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Moving And Movers; Rooms; Universities & Colleges ON READING ENOUGH SAID, FOR JOANNE (AS PER USUAL), by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Calm down! %white crown sparrow pop-pop-pop-pop Last Line: Generous fearlessness & skillfull compassion with the flame tree Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ON READING SOME VERSES ENTITLED 'A FAREWELL TO LOVE', by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Stern indeed must be that minstrel's heart Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ON RECOLLECTION, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mneme begin. Inspire, ye sacred nine Last Line: Feels himself shelter'd from the wrath divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON REVISITING CINTRA AFTER THE DEATH OF CATARINA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apparel of green woods and meadows gay Last Line: Sere with herb that suits the %broken heart Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Mourning ON SEEING THE QUEEN'S TRAIN PASS THROUGH COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My queen! Beloved, bereaved - no festal car Last Line: To thee and thine be husband, father, friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ON SHARING A HUSBAND, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Screw the fate that makes you share a man Last Line: I think I would have lived alone. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Polygamy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE CAPTURE OF GENERAL LEE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deed perfidious, and the hero's fate Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Lee, Henry (light-horse Harry); Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE OLD SPANIEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they have drowned thee then at last! Poor phillis Last Line: Of their own charity, may envy thee! Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Drowning; Future Life; Grief; Loss; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF GREAT PROMISE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who taught thee conflict with the pow'rs of night Last Line: And trace him to the bosom of his god. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY OF FIVE YEARS OF AGE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From dark abodes to fair etherial light Last Line: Shall join your happy babe to part no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF CATARINA DE ATTAYDA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those charming eyes within whose starry Last Line: Sighed o'er the ruin, and returned to %heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory ON THE DEATH OF DR. SAMUEL MARSHALL, 1771, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through thickest glooms look back, immortal shade Last Line: The spouse, the sire, the universal friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL WOOSTER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this the muse rich consolation draws Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF HER BODY, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a thought breaking the granite heart Last Line: Plucking the flowers of the abyss. Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The 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 DEATH OF J.C., AN INFANT, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more the flow'ry scenes of pleasure rise Last Line: Not at your bar must sov'reign wisdom stand. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF MARY COWDEN CLARKE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She who saw blue-eyed shelley plain is gone Last Line: Now that their last contemporary dies. Subject(s): Clarke, Mary Cowden (1809-1898); Death; Finality; Funerals; Grief; Loss; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF MR. SNIDER MURDER'D BY RICHARDSON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In heavens eternal court it was decreed Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF THE REV'D. DR. SEWALL, 1769, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: E'er yet the morning heav'd its orient head Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. DR. SEWELL, 1769, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet the morn its lovely blushes spread Last Line: "when the same graces in our bosoms thrive." Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, 1770, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, happy saint, on thine immortal throne Last Line: Till life divine re-animates his dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): An Elegaic Poem Subject(s): Christianity; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Whitefield, George (1714-1770) ON THE OTHER SIDE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the other side of the sliding glass door Last Line: Vanishes in the out of doors Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ON THE SUICIDE OF A YOUNG BOY I DID NOT KNOW, by JENNIFER WEINBLATT Poem Source First Line: What do I do with this grief Last Line: And takes what it wants Subject(s): Loss ON VIRTUE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou bright jewel in my aim I strive Last Line: O thou, enthron'd with cherubs in the realms of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ONCE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a woodcutter Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Beginnings ONCE AGAIN ANOTHER CENTURY AHEAD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again. Is this happening again? Last Line: Does this include even what you don't like? %oh ick Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ONCE WE PLAYED, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once we played at love together Last Line: One lies lonely in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ONE ART, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The art of losing isn't hard to master Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement ONE ART, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The art of losing isn't hard to master Last Line: Though it may look like (write it!) like disaster Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning ONE LOVE STORY, EIGHT TAKES, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ONE NIGHT, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: If only sleep would come as it has come Last Line: Ah, that which I have lost, only I know Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Night; Thought ONE PRAYER, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: And now must I lose thee, o dark-eyed love, o darling? Last Line: This once I look thee in the eyes and speak. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Widows & Widowers; Youth; Parting ONE TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full 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 TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lon- (sounds like 'lawng') on-on-ong Last Line: Reach up now %reach reach Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing And Writers ONE YEAR AFTER: 1, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not once in all our days of poignant love Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Race Awareness; Love - Loss Of ONE YEAR AFTER: 2, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ONLY A WOMAN, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, the truth's out. I'll grasp it like a snake Last Line: The other woman was less true than I. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Loss Of; Women ONLY ONE JAY LEFT AFTER NOISY CONFERENCE OF TWO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For springtime garnering Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss OONA OF THE DARK EYES AND THE CRYING OF WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have fared far in the dim woods Last Line: And the old tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Celtic; Wind; Male-female Relations OOOLD MAN TOLSTOY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I need a bitter taste a tonic Last Line: For spring %lightness Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Loss; Spring OPEN AMARYLLIS SALMON PINK & WHITE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A varied thrush arrives Last Line: Buried underground Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ORAN-BHROIN (A CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the west is blowing wild Last Line: Is blowing wild. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Bereavement ORANGE JUICE, by LISA RUTH SHULMAN Poem Source First Line: It was dark %when my father drank Last Line: Listen for clues Subject(s): Loss ORDEAL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and pity are pleading with me this Last Line: Where the dark immortal would shepherd our weeping souls? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Love - Loss Of; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness ORGANDY CURTAINS, WINDOW, SOUTH BANK OF THE OHIO, by JAMES BAKER HALL Poem Source First Line: I lived the whole time with my hands cupped to the open eye Last Line: Briefly, hanging there, %in the light Subject(s): Loss ORIGINS OF MILK, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Mushrooms grow in my thighs Last Line: I long to be an apple tree standing in your garden Subject(s): Introspection; Love - Loss Of; Milk ORINDA UPON LITTLE HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice forty months of wedlock I did stay Last Line: The last of thy unhappy mothers verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): On The Death Of My First And Dearest Child Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Loss; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness ORISON, by RUTH JEFFERY Poem Text First Line: If only dreams came true, my dear Last Line: When love supplants the sabre. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Patriotism; Soldiers OTHER LIVES, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: You see them from train windows Last Line: In certainty, who believe, who age %with precision, growing gray like %actors in a high school play Subject(s): Loss OUR LOST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They never quite leave us, our friends who have passed Last Line: But they live, like ourselves, in god's infinite care. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Loss; Dead, The; Paradise OUR PHOTOGRAPH, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She played me false, but that's not why Last Line: To leave my boots. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Variant Title(s): On Photographs Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Photography & Photographers OUR WIDOWED QUEEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The husband of the widow care for her Last Line: Then may her husband praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Albert Of Saxe-coburg-gotha (1819-1861); Death; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Widows & Widowers; Prince Consort Of Queen Victoria; Dead, The OUTGROWN, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Nay, you wrong her, my friend, she's not fickle Last Line: As plainly, perhaps, and as bluntly, as I might in our earlier youth. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of OUTSIDE, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dead thing mashed into the street Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The OVER, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: It is over, the ceaseless search is over Last Line: Nothing to lose when what is lost was all. Subject(s): Grief; Longing; Loss; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness OZONE AVENUE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These days I love to dream Last Line: Flicking volcanic ash off a cigarette. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; San Francisco; Separation; Isolation PAL OF MY HEART, by JULIA A. BRAND Poem Text First Line: Pal of my heart, need we to part Last Line: In my heart. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Separation; Isolation PALE ROSE, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: You laughed uncertainly Last Line: Knowing you wanted red roses again. Subject(s): Affliction; Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations PALM-TREE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: When comes the hour I long for Last Line: Returning to the tree Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Silence PAN AS THE SON OF PENELOPE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Refresh my thoughts of penelope again Last Line: About waking up the world Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Penelope (mythology) PARADISE LOST: BOOK 4, LINES 639-654, by LESLIE JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: It's all the same to me what time it is Last Line: When you are not around, just leaves me flat. Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Milton, John (1608-1674); Separation; Isolation; Paradise PART, by STEVE WILSON Poem Source First Line: Always someone's leaving for good. Easy to Last Line: Always someone's on the way out. You? Subject(s): Loss PART OF MY SEMINAL GROUND WORK, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Help %the gold crown song returned today Last Line: This is the very best I can do %achoo Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Allergies; Grief; Loss PARTING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life closed twice before its close Last Line: And all we need of hell. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Immortality; Love; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The PARTING, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moment more, the swelling sails Last Line: Within the grave a dreamless rest! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness PARTING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis you not I, have chosen. Love, go free! Last Line: I died when died my faith in that dear dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of PASSAGE OVER WATER, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have gone out in boats upon the sea at night, Subject(s): Loss PASSING NECESSITY, by CAMILLE DOMANGUE Poem Source First Line: When I hear the first few bars of vivaldi's Last Line: By flute or mandolin or real by absence Subject(s): Loss PASSING THROUGH THE GARDEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jim anderson phones to tell me max did not Last Line: As we watch. %vast Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Memory PASSIONS PAST, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were I a boy, with a boy's heart-beat Last Line: "ay, forevermore." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Love - Loss Of PASSPORTS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Naah,' she says, voice too low for a wheedle Last Line: The irishman I married %is half handsome chinese %half russian jew Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PAST DAYS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead and gone, the days we had together Last Line: Cliffs and downs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Roundels; Sea; Ocean PATIENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I put her letter by, because Last Line: And wait in patience yet awhile. Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of; Waiting PATRIOT, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Confused, using no maps, oldies Last Line: No turning knob. No flowered oz. No hope of god Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PATTERNS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down the garden paths Last Line: Christ! What are patterns for? Subject(s): Absence; Clothing & Dress; Fashion; Freedom; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Loss Of; World War I; Separation; Isolation; Liberty; First World War PAULA'S MOTHER'S GARDEN, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Why is it a violation? -- paula Last Line: Of an individual, those lies, %those tired promises. Subject(s): Death; Gardens And Gardening; Loss; Mothers PENDULUM, by WILLIAM DALZIELL TRADER Poem Text First Line: Until you came my heart lay cold and merciless Last Line: Because the bell is gone -- the clock is incomplete. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: DEDICATION, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved bride, whom my dear mother blessed Last Line: In that far east -- the lotus-land of earth. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of PERHAPS, by CHRISTIE LUND COLES Poem Text First Line: Perhaps we'll meet someday, in some far year Last Line: The other's sudden sense of loneliness. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of PERSONA, by BRIGITTE BYRD Poem Source First Line: I suddenly feel slav, oh, no, not suave, rather slavic. You know Last Line: To the old rich uncle stories. I am la tante d'amerique who builds up a stock of words Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PERSONAL REASONS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hair - short, long, stars, a bed Last Line: Or not so very much that very way — us. Subject(s): Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PHILIP WHALEN'S HAT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I woke up about 2:30 this morning and thought about philip's hat Last Line: You can just play with the beads Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Hats; Loss PHILIS'S REPLY TO THE ANSWER ... BY THE GENTLEMAN IN NAVY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For one bright moment, heavenly goddess! Shine Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality PHONE CALL FROM MILOSZ, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: American poetry equals an enormous collection Last Line: And that's the end of the day again Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss PHONOGRAPH, by TODD JAMES PIERCE Poem Source First Line: And so I come to you, my uncle Last Line: Can be found on my lips as well Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PHOTO, 1945, by FRANCISCO ARAGON Poem Source First Line: The only photo of you black and white Last Line: I've never really seen, %or touched Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PIGS FOR CIRCE IN MAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I almost ruined the stew and where Last Line: And the great pigs waddle off in the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss PINDAR AND CORINNA; FOR CHARLES L. O'DONNELL, C.S.C., by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Corinna, hail the victress! Evoae!' Last Line: Ethereal touched his soul awake with smiles. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Greece; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Greeks; Male-female Relations PITY, by FLORA WARREN BROWN Poem Text First Line: It would not hurt me quite as much Last Line: Lest they might pierce the joy in you. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pity PITY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They never saw my lover's face Last Line: Men who have never seen god's face. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pity PLATONICA, by JEANNETTE FOSTER Poem Text First Line: Dear, dearest, / why do the arms of me yearn? Last Line: Could I be distant and cold? Variant Title(s): Platonics Subject(s): Absence; Cold; Death; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The PLEASE DON'T LEAVE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I lay right down beside her Last Line: Right here by my side Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of PLUM TREES, by ALISON SEEVAK Poem Source First Line: There are no seasons in california Last Line: To make good use %of plums Subject(s): Loss PLUS SHIPPING, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Certainly it was a premonition of a navajo warrior that men Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration POEM AT AN UNMARKED GRAVE, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: Your grave is untouched by flowers Last Line: A college education is a room with a fire %inside a strange city Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POEM FOR A VIETNAMESE STUDENT, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: Some words have tongues sharp as punji stakes Last Line: Repeat after me: gobbledygook, gobbledygook, gobbledygook Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POEM FOR DOROTHY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No shape in darkness single stands Last Line: From ruin moving amends our peace Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory POEM FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I read your lines Last Line: Is still beautiful. Subject(s): Beauty; Creative Ability; Loss; Salvation; War; Wright, James (1927-1980); Inspiration; Creativity POEM FOR PANCHO GONZALES, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: This was the world of white lines, a game Last Line: A dish, a lamp, an ashtray at a time Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POEM FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY, by MARGOT SCHILPP Poem Source First Line: The flowers have checked their suitcases Last Line: To heat me so that I didn't %burn from the inside out Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POEMS ON DEATH OF THREE CHILDREN .. WITHIN A MONTH: HENRY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yellow leaves, how fast they flutter -- woodland hollows thickly strewing Last Line: Into endless day for you Subject(s): Death - Children; Loss POEMS ON DEATH OF THREE CHILDREN .. WITHIN A MONTH: KATIE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All rough winds are hushed and silent, golden light the meadow steepth Last Line: Ay, forever -- evermore! Subject(s): Death - Children; Loss POEMS ON DEATH OF THREE CHILDREN .. WITHIN A MONTH: SAMUEL, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have left you, little henry, but they have not left you lonely Last Line: Into endless day for you Subject(s): Death - Children; Loss POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: TO HER LADISHIP, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If those salt showers that your sad eyes haue shed Last Line: That your so loued mate is gone before. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Grief; Loss; Rain; Reason; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals POISON OAK FOR ALLEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am reading about your trip to india again Last Line: The bear? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss POLITICAL OR NOT, HERE COMES THAT POEM, by WENDY BISHOP Poem Source First Line: My mother, who happens to be dead, %had little or nothing to say about Last Line: Or the serviceable plaid pattern of our lives Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POLITICS OF THE BISEXUAL DEEP FRY, by MICHELLE T. CLINTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said: my woman left me Last Line: Maybe we could work something out Subject(s): Love - Loss Of POOR ROSE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware!' you bird now in glee on the bough Last Line: But when will the best beware? Subject(s): Birds; Love - Loss Of; Weariness; Fatigue PORTRAIT OF A COUPLE AT CENTURY'S END, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Impatient for home, %the after-work traffic fanning out along Last Line: By a beeswax candle pooling beside %their dinnerware Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POST CONSCIOUSNESS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Implausible thoughts around very real spring flowers Last Line: Now move those awful blue glass bunnies Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss POSTCARDS FROM FLORIDA, by LARRY WAYNE JOHNS Poem Source First Line: The vertical blinds separate and come back together Last Line: By clearing the understory, %allowing more light to reach the ground Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POSTCARDS TO COLUMBUS, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning at the front door of the white house, travel west Last Line: Of your television set? Can you hear the ghost of drums approasching? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration POSTCARDS TO COLUMBUS, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning at the front door of the white house, travel west Last Line: Of your television set? Can you hear ghosts of drums approaching? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POSTMODERNISM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene you loathe, the sheer fervor, the speed Last Line: And now even your pity is worthless Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration POSTMODERNISM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene you loathe, the sheer fervor, the speed Last Line: And now even your pity is worthless Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POSTPONED NIGHTMARE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the sunshine Last Line: Your breath from down below, perhaps. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Grief; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Summer; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery PRAYER FROM PONTUS, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: If I forget you, the gift of prophesy will be lost. A wind rose Last Line: Of gold. You are so close when you are gone Subject(s): Loss; Relationships PRENUPTIAL, by WILLIAM WENTHE Poem Source First Line: Lying in bed with you, not sleeping -sleep Last Line: Our little life is rounded with a sleep Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of PREPARE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you write me a poem that will prepare me for your death?' you said Last Line: Reading now. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd Last Line: There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. Variant Title(s): When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Mourning; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; America PRIMUM MOBILE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou art gone, then all the rest will go Last Line: Out-footing death to over-take thy face. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of PRISON NIGHTFALL, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night descends Last Line: They cannot blind the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Prisons And Prisoners PROCESSES, by JOAN COLBY Poem Source First Line: Ten years ago %I was writing poems Last Line: I keep on writing %and writing Subject(s): Loss PROCLAMATION OF KING HENRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At the feet of don henrique now king pedro dead is lying Last Line: Not one remains to cry to god, 'our lord lies murdered here!' Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Love - Loss Of; Murder; Tyranny And Tyrants PRODIGAL, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: You had walked out, carrying the rain Last Line: Erect, lifting how far it took you to get here Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PROVERBIAL FRIDAY THE 13TH: BOLINAS MYSTERIES UNREVEALED, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Katherine mansfield's life unfolds on the pages of Last Line: Is to have obtained the highest realization in mahamudra Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 18, PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: Miss wilson's eyes, opaque %as blue glass, fix on me Last Line: And my rage will blow %your house down Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; New Jersey; Refugees; Schools; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations PULSE OF MY HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these your eyes, isla Last Line: Pulse of my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Grief; Legacies; Loss; Love; Parents; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood PULVIS ET UMBRA, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: When thou art lying under ground Last Line: The shadow of oblivion. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Stones; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Granite; Rocks PURPLE AUTUMN, by GEORGY IVANOVICH CHULKOV Poem Text First Line: Purple autumn unloosened her tresses and flung them Last Line: Weaving a wreath of thorns. Variant Title(s): Autumnal Love Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The QUAG-HOLE, by WHITTAKER CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: He waited and, as he waited, grew less eager Last Line: And marched to beat the silence through the wood. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of QUATRAINS, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Sad that I should lose my crown Last Line: —quests into the blue Subject(s): Change; Longing; Love - Loss Of QUESTION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some questions have no answer Last Line: He liked to see them catch it, %and grow immediatly less strange Subject(s): Loss QUESTION TO ANNE WALDMAN AFTER BEING INTERVIEWED BY BILL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Joanne kyger is 'ok' Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss QUESTIONS FOR ECCLESIASTES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if on a foggy night in a beachtown, a night when the pacific leans close Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration QUESTIONS FOR ECCLESIASTES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if on a foggy night in a beachtown, a night when the pacific leans close Last Line: People who needed urgently to hear it, god kept a secret Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration QUIS DESIDERIO, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Dark and vast are thine outer walls, / o king of light! Last Line: She of the silvered, even-parted hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Love - Loss Of RABBITS RABBITS RABBITS 2/1/80, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I leave you this morning Last Line: Before, I was with you, / now I'm here Subject(s): Love – Loss Of RAFAEL HERNANDEZ, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: Born exactly in aguadilla %north coast puerto rico Last Line: To the children of %eternal liberation Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RAGE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: In a flash %I am out of the car Last Line: Bring her back to me Subject(s): Anger; Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of RAIN, by VERNONA CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Soft lips I've known Last Line: And shall not love again. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of RAISED VOICES, by JACK BRANNON Poem Source First Line: I am so glad when you call, even with news Last Line: And I am so glad when you call Subject(s): Loss RE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: After he realized helen would not come that day, he struggled Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory 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 REACHING, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Your eyes close Last Line: Susan, where are you Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Fear; Love - Loss Of READING KEROUAC, YORKSHIRE, by STEVE WILSON Poem Source First Line: Today, jack, your words won't console Last Line: We would taste in our minds Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration REAPPEARED, by VIJAY SESHADRI Poem Source First Line: Long after we stopped remembering, word of him Last Line: Resurface, and simply swim away Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RECALL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What call may draw thee back again Last Line: As they through love the call of death? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of RECENTLY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Recently, this life of mine, likes to stay 'home' more Last Line: One hundred percent pure Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss RECONCILIATION, by HERMAN ASARNOW Poem Source First Line: Translating from the spanish Last Line: Irreconcilable differences, %the death of a love Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Translating And Interpreting RECOURSE OF DRIFTING, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Year after year, somehow you never interrupted me Last Line: Washing up against me Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Sea; Tragedy RED FINGERNAILS, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: Briefly I dwelt upon my mother's tongue Last Line: Before the first one has to be lifted away Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RED MAPLE LEAVES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maple leaves are brilliant Last Line: And then I drive west into the smoky sunset Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Maple Trees; Past RED MAPLE LEAVES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maple leaves are brilliant Last Line: And then I drive west into the smoky sunset Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Maple Trees; Past REFLECTION OF A YOUNG WOMAN BY A LAKE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disease was spreading on the lawn Subject(s): Loss REFUGEE, by VIJAY SESHADRI Poem Source First Line: He feels himself at his mind's borders moving Last Line: Pinned like a flower on the genocidal past Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration REGRET, FOR MARY STUART'S DEPARTURE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If spangled fields should lose their every flower Last Line: To end my days. Subject(s): France; Loss; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Singing & Singers; Mary Stuart REGRETS ON THE WAY TO AN AIRPORT, by ALI ABUNIMAH Poem Source First Line: I never filled my suitcase with the remnants of the sky Last Line: It's not becaause I couldn't but because I didn't try Subject(s): Loss RELAX THY HEAD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I go to get the velvet seat %ande heater Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss RELUCTANCE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Out through the fields and the woods Last Line: Of a love or a season? Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of REMEMBER, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember / when we ended Subject(s): Love - Loss Of REMEMBERING EURYDICE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have lost the best of women Subject(s): Loss REMEMBRANCE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee! Last Line: How could I seek the empty world again? Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): R. Alcona To J. Brenzaida Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Grief; Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness REMEMBRANCE, by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The season comes when first we met Last Line: And tears the fading vision close! Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory REMEMBRANCE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I keep no days for fast and mourning-lay Last Line: Deep hid within the tear-sealed casket of my heart. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Memorial Day; Mourning; Dead, The; Declaration Day; Bereavement REMEMBRANCE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love was with me yesterday- Last Line: "love was with me yesterday!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of RENEGADE BELIEVER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: At times %I still remember you Last Line: I've let you down %and the last embrace %and the breeze that%finally blew into my eyes %convinced me Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory RENOUNCEMENT, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong Last Line: I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of RENUNCIATION, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air is full of the peal of bells Last Line: Of the lord's bow now breaks into flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Marriage; Courtship; Flowers; Loss; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RENUNCIATION, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I have lost you, my friend Last Line: Me! Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations REPLACEMENT BUDDHAS', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What do all those buddhas mean Last Line: Translucent like last night's dream Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss REQUIEM, by MARY DUNCAN UPHAM Poem Text First Line: Oh, cedars, guard him well, ye sentinels, for near ye Last Line: As after sunset, earth, her lord's warm rays. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones RESIGNATION (2), by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could resign that eye of blue Last Line: To -- do without you altogether. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): To Cloe Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Women RETIREMENT', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An unfamiliar warble 9 times more Last Line: Of under and over tones Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss RETROSPECTIONS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-night she will dance at the palace Last Line: With fresh wild-flowers in her hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Memory; Love - Loss Of; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness RETURN TO THAT FAMILIAR, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The quail love to eat %so much Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss RETURNED CRANE, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Then I land on the belfry Last Line: I was told I'd lose nothing %but my human flesh Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RETURNING HOME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great to be back to beauty Last Line: Lone when the story gets going. Hang on Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss RETURNING TO THE WEST: MOUNTAIN LEGEND, by DENISE OVERFIELD Poem Source First Line: The mountain voice rises Last Line: Now I know only the wind Subject(s): Loss 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 REVERIE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He thinks of the dead. But they Last Line: A party's noise. Bottle caps stuck to them. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Loss; Dead, The REVERIES, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The early autumn night descends; the storm Last Line: Which once I kissed, another kisses now. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of REVOLUTIONARY STORY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good mother, what quaint legend are you reading Last Line: "who ever have been loved." Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Books; Roses; American Revolution; Love – Loss Of; Memory RHYMES: 52, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great waves, crashing on desert shores Last Line: Take, in pity! - I fear to stay %alone with misery Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Poetry And Poets ROBIN BLASER'S OLD PLASTER OF PARIS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Now residing in our back guest shed Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ROCK DOVES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Three years I commuted across the tappan zee, Last Line: The answer rang out sharp and shrapnel-sudden Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Relationships ROGER AND DOLLY, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young roger came tapping at dolly's window Last Line: Mumpaty, mumpaty, mump. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Parting ROMANCE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young Last Line: He has been dead the while! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Romance ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 14. MRS. CARE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When fortune on me shed her ray Last Line: While the nurse her snuff is taking. Subject(s): Dreams; Fortune; Loss; Nurses; Nightmares ROMANTICISM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is to emerson I have turned now Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Death - Wives; Loss; Corpses; Cadavers ROMNEY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, romney, nay -- I will not hear you say Last Line: You know not what love is -- now go away! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Lips; Love - Loss Of; Thirst; Wine RONDEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kissing her hair I sat against her feet Last Line: Kissing her hair. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness ROOM 301, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: #name? Last Line: Clip-clop. That's how %a life ends Subject(s): Brides; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of ROSALIND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon a mountain Last Line: Fair rosalind is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ROSE AND MURRAY, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the movie, when the lights come up Last Line: "drew a heart and wrote, ""I'd die for you." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Loss Of ROSE AYLMER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah what avails the sceptered race Last Line: I consecrate to thee. Subject(s): Aylmer, Rose Whitworth (1779-1800); Love; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement ROSEMARY, by PERCY LOVEDAY Poem Text First Line: Oh, night sublime, too brief, when we two stood Last Line: We still remember. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting ROSES OF MY ROSE TREE, by FABIO FIALLO Poem Source First Line: Within the courtyard of my home Last Line: A myriad roses white Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses ROSINA ALCONA TO JULIUS BRENZAIDA', by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Living long is containing Last Line: The crossways fade; the freeway rushes forward. %'these days obscure but cannot do thee wrong' Subject(s): Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Love - Loss Of RUDIGER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright on the mountain's heathy slope Last Line: Adown the dark profound. Subject(s): Birds; Boats; Curses; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Soldiers; Swans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RUNNING TO AMERICA, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: They are night shadows %violating borders Last Line: Kissing black earth %then run to america Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RURAL PARTICLES, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: Asters, yarrow, an enormous oak at the edge of the bank leading down Last Line: He won't be there to see, and it's time to go. It doesn't make sense at all. It's %something he unde Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RUSTIC, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A distant vibration of dejected cowbells Last Line: A tragic blue of dead idylls weeps! Subject(s): Death; Loss; Prayer 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 RUTH AND I, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not day, and was not night Last Line: Unloving and unloved? Subject(s): Love – Loss Of SAD ST. JOHN'S EVE, by MARTA PESSARRODONA Poem Source First Line: We didn't jump even the last bonfire Last Line: We're already burned Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SAILING BEYOND SEAS (OLD STYLE), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought the stars were blinking bright Last Line: Did mourn, and mourn, and mourn. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails SALAMANCA, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall grove of towers that as he goes down Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory SALAMANCA, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall grove of towers that as he goes down Last Line: In thy tongue of eternal herald tell what I have been Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory SALT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one woman has been sobbing Subject(s): Air Travel; Family Life; Love - Loss Of; Relatives SALT LONGING, by AUSTIN HUMMELL Poem Source First Line: Inland far though and away Last Line: Its scorched, ashen soil Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SAND DUNES, by EVA WARNER Poem Text First Line: The winds of chance that picked us up Last Line: Conformant to a chance wind's will. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Wind SAPPHIC ODE, by ESTEBAN MANUEL DE VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou gracious dweller of the woodland green Last Line: Shatter thy pinions! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring SATIA TE SANGWINE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you loved me ever so little Last Line: I hope he will some day die. Variant Title(s): Satia Te Sanguine Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sea; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SATURDAY NIGHT CHICKEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are empty at this moment Last Line: More than enough Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SAYING THINGS LIKE, IF YOU COULD ONLY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And I wish all well %I do, I really do Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SCARABAEUS, by ELIZABETH SHAW MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: The lady was white as ivory Last Line: Split wide for passion's sake. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Murder SCHATTEN KUSSE, SCHATTEN LIEBE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow kisses, shadow love Last Line: Lamps once blazing with kisses Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude SCHOOL FOR FLOWERS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gold nasturtium - %five petals Last Line: To one who is on her journey %outward Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SCOURED, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: My two daughters chase each other %in the laundromat, past the banks Last Line: I have nothing at all to give Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SEA HOLLY, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Begotten by the meeting of rock with rock Last Line: The rock loved and laboured; and all is lost. Subject(s): Loss SECOND LOVE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So surely is she mine,' you say, and turn Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SECOND THOUGHTS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were here, ah foolish then Last Line: You are no longer here. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Regret; Separation; Isolation SECRET OF LIFE, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: Once during the war Last Line: To the secret teller %who will whisper it %in your ear Subject(s): Loss SEDGE SONGS: 1, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the west the sun departing Last Line: Trembles soft yon evening star. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Absence; Evening; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Sunset; Twilight SEEING FOR YOU, by LINDA ALLARDT Poem Source First Line: The leaves left at the tops of trees Last Line: Now that you play at being gone Subject(s): Loss SEEING OFF THE DEAD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could have sworn by the veil Last Line: For four men to carry her to the altar Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers 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 SEIZURE, by MICHELE WOLF Poem Source First Line: You spoke in a language only you could imagine Last Line: The entire hidden field, sparking and rumbling Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SELF LOATHING & SELF PITY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Away, maybe %a robbery Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SELF PORTRAIT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ere I grow over prissy groves Last Line: Once more in heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SEND SOME KIND OF SIGN AT LEAST', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing matters. You do not matter, you are not Last Line: Be so good, am I recognized? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SEPARATION, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We wandered down, at dawn of day Last Line: Where one deep shadow wraps it all. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SEPTEMBER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The grasses are light brown Last Line: And whose skin is made dusky by stars Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SERENADE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: I was he that came in pain and trouble Last Line: Thus to love thee more and better still! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Worship SERENADE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: While my lady sleepeth Last Line: Dreams bright and pure as these Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Romance SERENADE AT NOONDAY, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not love you, no, nor all your beauty Last Line: Haunting your silence. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SEVEN & SEVEN, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Looking back at it now he Last Line: Everything can be fixed o %lord anything can be fixed Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 1. THE HAPPENING, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS Poem Text First Line: It had to be. She from his weariness Last Line: To no avail, what then? It had to be. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SHADOWS: 5, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twould seem the world were large enough to hold Last Line: Is lost with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Loss SHAME, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask for justice but do not release Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Sons; Divorce; Grief; Loss; Shame; Guilt; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sorrow; Sadness SHAPES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the longer view it doesn't matter Last Line: At the farthest edge; accepting that blur. Subject(s): Grief; Homeless; Loss; Sympathy; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy SHARP KNIFE AND THE THE SOFT NIGHT IS GONE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The raccoons last night sounded Last Line: See the lights %come on again Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Shark Knife And The Soft Night Is Gon Subject(s): Grief; Loss SHE HAD THOUGHT, by PHEBE DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: It wouldn't always be like this Last Line: You're the best there is Subject(s): Loss SHE NO LONGER LOVES HIM, by CHARLES WILLIAM DALMON Poem Source First Line: I'll go no more on fancy flights Last Line: Are things I do not wish to own, %because her heart is turned to stone Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SHEDDING SKIN, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pulling out of the old scarred skin Subject(s): Loss SHEDDING SKIN, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pulling out of the old scarred skin Last Line: I'm going to be tender again Subject(s): Loss SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Yiddish SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Last Line: Anything for a minute. So that's what I said. They asked me %my name and I said I've forgotten Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Yiddish SHRINK-WRAPPED, by CARLA HARTSFIELD Poem Source First Line: How did she arrive Last Line: Within her little life Subject(s): Loss SILENCE, by PETER SEARS Poem Source First Line: When I was young, I tried to make friends with silence Subject(s): Loss SILK DRESS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: In my heavy new silk dress, dark blue Last Line: Flesh, that fluttering small light, its guttering wick Subject(s): Absence; Death; Ghosts; Loss; Saint Kilda (scotland); Supernatural SIMPLE SONG OF BEING ONESELF, by VITTORIO BODINI Poem Source First Line: The ivy tells me: you'll never Last Line: I try to stay alone. I find %death, fear Subject(s): Loss SIMPLE VERSES, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source First Line: I am an honest man Last Line: And the awesome owl Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SIMPLE VERSES, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source First Line: I am an honest man Last Line: And the awesome owl Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SINCE WE PARTED, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since we parted yester eve Last Line: Than I loved thee, love, before. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Love - Loss Of; Parting SIR ELIDUC; A LAY OF MARIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch ye the harp with tender hand Last Line: By man was never known! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marie De France (12th Century); Marriage; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SIRENS OF LOS ANGELES, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: All summer as the blacktop softens, drugged Last Line: For land and feasting, longing to be poured Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SISTER, by ANDY YOUNG Poem Source First Line: You will arrive Last Line: On the ground %until you grow Subject(s): Loss SIXTEENTH KIND OF FEAR, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: Who was it moving the curtain then? Last Line: Only the future, love, coming and going Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Solitude SLEEP, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A reason's powers by day our god disclose Last Line: Our god forgetting, by our god forgot! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality SLEEP-SONG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunken bell is ringing up through the sea of / sleep Last Line: Love, if we sank together beneath the sea of sleep! Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full 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 SLOWLY HE STARTS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And slowly he starts to seem more far / away, he seems to waft, drift Subject(s): Loss SMALL PLANES NEAR NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: For fifty years Last Line: Who boards that plane %will never return Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Eskimos; Loss; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska SMALL TOWN, by CHARLES OWSLEY Poem Source First Line: The trains through our town Last Line: With a town too small to see Subject(s): Loss SMALLEST BLESSING, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cold wind freezes me inside Last Line: Lost and long for its return Subject(s): Loss; Mortality SNAPSHOT FOR LEW WELCH; 25 YEARS LATER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hold on to the bright Last Line: White furry rump Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SNOW FALL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On green leaves %eye is twitching quite dreadfully Last Line: And pity I have in my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Loss; Seasons SNOW ON HER LIPS, by JAIME KLEIMAN Poem Source First Line: The only eyes who meet mine on the street belong to Last Line: Fire in her gloveless hands Subject(s): Cold; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of SNOW QUEEN, by RON BLOCK Poem Source First Line: Ever since she discovered the mirror Last Line: And go on living as before Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of SNOW-FLAKE, by SALVADOR DIAZ MIRON Poem Source First Line: To soothe my pain because thou canst not love me Last Line: Whose burning lava-depths beneath it spread! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of SO GONE HE COULDN'T COME BACK IF HE WANTED TO, by RUBA NADDA Poem Source First Line: He says baby, come here Last Line: He's so far gone he couldn't come back if he wanted to Subject(s): Loss; Travel SO PROUD, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: You were proud Last Line: How hard this must have been for you Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Love - Loss Of; Pride SO WE'LL GO NO MORE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it's fare thee well, my own true love; Subject(s): Illness; Abandonment; Love - Loss Of; Desertion SO, WELL, NOW, YOU'VE GOT IT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: New york school stuck on their typewriters Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SOLSTICE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just living in the dark time night time Last Line: Onto the back of time waving Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SOME CHOICE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With joanne it's the fact that she has Last Line: This really interesting and colloquial way in the woods.' Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SOME FRIVOLITY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crazed the baby tape cassette Last Line: Distinctly piqued, mostly graceful Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Grief; Loss SOMEBODY'LL HAV' TO SHOOT YA DOWN', by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Charlie parker running a tow-line / from a red barge Last Line: That is beyond the grave like a great granite keep. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Family Life; Life Change Events; Loss; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Peace; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Relatives SOMEONE TOLD ME YOU WERE IN LOVE, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source Last Line: For which they then %put me into jail Subject(s): Loss SOMETHING I REMEMBER, by LINDA ELKIN Poem Source First Line: I used to live on the 18th floor Last Line: Won't notice he's not there Subject(s): Loss SOMETHING IN THE SPRING MUD, by MICHAEL MOOS Poem Source First Line: There must be something in the spring mud that wants to set us free Last Line: In the still, bare branches Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring SOMETHING LIKE AN ARIA, by STEVEN BARZA Poem Source First Line: All through the springtime afternoon Last Line: For the touch and love of a woman who wanders Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of SOMETHING THAT SHROUDS ITSELF, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Twelve months ago, on new year's eve Last Line: To all of manhattan coming ashore in the dark Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time SOMETIMES WITH ONE I LOVE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse Last Line: Yet out of that I have written these songs.) Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Unrequited; Poetry & Poets SON, SKATING, by JUDITH KITCHEN Poem Source First Line: He could be anybody's child Last Line: Than he evr was Subject(s): Loss SONATINA, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The princess is sad. What ails the princess? Last Line: To kindle your lips with a kiss of true love! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Romance SONG, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All my heart is stirring lightly Last Line: Back to its abandoned nest? Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a golden day Last Line: Ne'er to whole again, %my heart lies broken Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fly not, pleasure, pleasant-hated pleasure Last Line: Of fair love lost for ever and a day. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I love? / is it for men to choose Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glad bird, I do bewail thee, / thy song it was so sweet Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou take me for thy slave Last Line: For I love thee as no other man can love. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lilac and gold and green! Last Line: And our weeping skies shall once more be blue. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To her whose name Last Line: To be no less to me my sweetest soul and friend. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had known you-oh, I had known you! Last Line: Prophet and priest, your poet for all time. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have let the beauty of the day go over Last Line: Of fair love lost for ever and a day. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think no more of me, / if we needs must part Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come with the summer leaves, love, to my grave Last Line: The love I loved you with and left unsaid. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I forget thee! How shall I forget thee! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we had met when leaves were green Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love in the summer hills, / with youth to mock at ills Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love me a little, love me as thou wilt Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for a day of spring, / a day of flowers and folly Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red, red gold, a kingdom's ransom, child Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thou art happy, thou dear heart of pleasure Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by C. KATHLEEN CARMAN Poem Text First Line: Sleep, o, my darling, sleep Last Line: O, wake, my darling, wake. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by CHRISTIAN MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At eve, when dee's transparent stream Last Line: For him who far, far hence lies low! Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONG, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look on thee once more Last Line: Thy fair, but frozen, breast! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love – Loss Of SONG, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world's asleep Last Line: Or fly within and bid them close the gate? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (10), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, my dearest, / sing no sad songs for me Last Line: And haply may forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Requiem Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Life Change Events; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement SONG (13), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should thy love die Last Line: Bury it, bury it, bury it where it was born. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG (3), by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We must silence, with words of cold reason Last Line: I may wish to use them again! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG BEFORE DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mother, in a minute's span Last Line: My true love to my dying day. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONG FOR JEANNIE, by BILL TREMBLAY Poem Source First Line: This is a song for you about you Last Line: Dance, little flower of the womb, dance now! Subject(s): Jazz; Love - Loss Of; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians SONG FOR THE SQUEEZE BOX, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Gambling; Money; Loss; Unemployment; Wine; Wagering; Betting SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All are sleeping, my sad heart Last Line: All are sleeping, thou art not Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Passion SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The little brown maid wailing sore Last Line: Out in the olive grove %and the branches tremble above Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning SONG IN A MINOR KEY, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a place I know where the birds swing low, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG OF CHANG-KAN, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my hair just began to cover my forehead, Last Line: Ignore the long distance, even to long wind sands Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Youth SONG OF PARTING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say farewell, and let me go Last Line: Say farewell, and let me go. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Parting SONG OF THE PINES, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O pines,o brothers of the earth and air Last Line: From far away, and towards the future goes Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SONG OF THE PRODIGAL SON, by HEBERTO PADILLA Poem Source First Line: Give me back the sun's din Last Line: And the sea of always Subject(s): Loss SONG OF THE TROUBADOUR, by J. R. PERRY Poem Text First Line: Where is her lip's soft laugh to-night? Last Line: My lips with a death-sad song. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONG TO A VIOL, FR. FUIMUS TROES, by JASPER FISHER Poem Text First Line: So the silver-feathered swan Last Line: When my heart-strings are all broke? Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Violas SONG, FR. THE LOVER'S PROGRESS, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu fond love, farewell you wanton powers Last Line: Fond love declines, this heavenly love grows higher. Variant Title(s): The Farewell To Love Subject(s): Consolation; Love - Loss Of SONGS FROM THE HOUSE OF DEATH, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the house of death there is rain Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The SONGS FROM THE HOUSE OF DEATH, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the house of death there is rain Last Line: You left behind. I hold you %there Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Relationships SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 79, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her hair was crocus yellow Last Line: Dies in the aspen tree. Subject(s): Beauty; Love – Loss Of SONGS OF THE WEST: THE CROWS FLY BY NIGHT (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hateful old crow! Last Line: And my love went off in the dark Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Love - Loss Of SONGS WITH PRELUDES: LAMENTATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read upon that book Last Line: And for the rest, o god, thy will be done.' Subject(s): Books; Lament; Life; Loss; Pain; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Reading; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: REGRET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that word regret! Last Line: My happier days are not the days when I forget. Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Regret; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Bedtime; Songs SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 16, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, amynta, we must part Last Line: Because thou hadst my love. Subject(s): Absence; Anger; Charm; Cruelty; Love - Loss Of; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 2, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither would my passion run Last Line: So each will equal triumph share. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Loss; Passion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The SONGS: 1. LEND ME THE LYRE AGAIN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: That once she lent it. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise SONGS: 6. THE WEARY MOON GOES DOWN INTO THE WEST, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Wilt thou not also rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONGS: 7. I KNOW THEE, O THOU WAILING WIND!, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Pass by and tread them under foot. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Passion SONGS: 9. WHETHER SLEEPING, WHETHER WAKING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: While we lovers lean and mock them under. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Paradise SONNET, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus ends my love, but this doth grieve me most Last Line: It be a temple, but without a saint. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thus I sin, repent, and sin again Last Line: Whilst I do talk with my creator thus. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Innumerable beauties, thou white haire Last Line: Thou seemest, wreath'd by some immortal hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a rived tree, that stands beside the grave Last Line: Aghast she stands, the statue of her fears! Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Fear; Floods; Love - Loss Of SONNET TO MANON: HIS BONDAGE TO MANON IS BROKEN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this day forth I lead another life Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET: HE LAMENTS THAT HIS LIVE IS DEAD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is dead, dead and in spite of me Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Lament SONNET: IN ANNIVERSARIO MORTIS.1, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I can bring no tribute of fresh tears Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The SONNET: 102, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming Last Line: Because I would not dull you with my song. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of SONNET: 24, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you, that at this moment are to me Last Line: The wind whereon its petals shall be laid. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of 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 SONNET: 29, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity me not because the light of day Last Line: Pity me that the heart is slow to learn %what the swift mind beholds at every turn Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Pity Me Not Because The Light Of Da Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of SONNET: 31, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word Last Line: I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNET: 32, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a wound that never will heal, I know Last Line: Between my ribs forever of hot pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though no sculptured monument proclaim Last Line: Sad sounding as the cold breeze rustles by. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Graves; Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 42, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why Last Line: A little while, that in me sings no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "what Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why""; Subject(s): Aging; Love; Love - Loss Of SONNET: 7, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an enfranchised bird, who wildly springs Last Line: My heart still feels the weight of that remembered chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Liberty SONNET: 76. FATAL INTERVIEW: 7, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is my sister, and how deep in love Last Line: Watches beside me in this windy place. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "night Is My Sister, And How Deep In Love""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Love - Loss Of SONNET: 87, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing Last Line: In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter. Subject(s): Absence; Gays & Lesbians; Loss; Love; Separation; Isolation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: AT MY WORD, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ever said that I could pay high toll Last Line: Since this you will, my heart must grant you this! Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET: FOR FREEDOM'S SAKE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For freedom's sake, farewell. I would not fret you Last Line: "one kiss? -- our last. Goodbye, -- ""for freedom's sake." Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Liberty SONNET: TO ONE WHOM HE HAD LOVED TOO LONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I cling to thee, sad love? Too long Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SORCERER, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: When the slave arrived as %a tributary article from a vassal state Last Line: Though another sister of mine is widowed in her early teens Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SORROW, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: This divine october morning Last Line: To feel the sea's oblivion forever Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of SORROW'S MADNESS, by YAKOV POLONSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, clinging to your lidded coffin Last Line: To death's void galley chained like sullen slaves. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SOUL, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: Each time I look at my friend's %red sunset maple, in season Last Line: Not even the occasional snick of a %delicate motor, %missing Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration 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 SOUP, by ELISABETH STEVENS Poem Source First Line: The night of the day Last Line: Forming and breaking %forming and breaking Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Soup SOUTH OF THE GREAT SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My love is living Last Line: And then it too wil know Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 113, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart was taken to prison Last Line: It was sentenced to death Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 159, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart breaks Last Line: And that you are dead for me Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 52, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You say you do not love her Last Line: Over her path Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 70, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The love you once had for me Last Line: Branch and stem it took away Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 73, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was at the foot of the almond tree Last Line: A stranger came and took it Subject(s): Competition; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 79, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Had I known how false Last Line: So narrow a heart Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 85, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Good bye, and go with god Last Line: At the spring of oblivion Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of SPARROW AND THE CRUMB, by NATHAN SPOON Poem Source First Line: A sparrow nears a crumb Last Line: To say, 'fat chance!' Subject(s): Loss SPEAK NOT, LET NO WORD BREAK', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the silence I have placed on them Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Loss; Relationships; Silence; Weariness SPECIALLY FOR YOUR EYES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Calm the torrent of breathing Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Hiking; Loss SPIRAL IN VERMILLION; AFTER HUNDERTWASSER, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the fog submits to the lake, the lake Last Line: You have arrived. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Loss Of; Women SPIRIT, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I watched her Last Line: My baby's gone Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of SPIRIT BRIDAL, by JESSIE STORRS FERRIS Poem Text First Line: She sleeps within a sheltered marbled close Last Line: Beneath the moon to-night? Subject(s): Brides; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy SPIRIT FLOWERS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I hear a voice, so close it makes me start Last Line: In blasts of time. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations SPIRITUAL CANTICLE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND CHRIST, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where hidest thou from me Last Line: The cavalry rode by %descending where they saw the waters lie Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage SPIRITUAL WEDDING, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: You are not with me in fleeting moments Last Line: And I love you as one loves a small and lifeless bird Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage SPOILS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all is over and you march for home Last Line: For fear they burn a hole through two-foot steel Variant Title(s): The Spoils Of Lov Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; War 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 ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that each feather'd chorister doth sing Last Line: Nor search the grave for my lost valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Valentine's Day STANZAS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a bitter pang for love removed Last Line: Of the cold tomb, and the long grass for ever! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sure then, as I sang along Last Line: Ricky's accent so much like how she remembers yours Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration STATIC, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Well, old flame, the fire's out Last Line: The blankets crackle with bright blue sparks Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Night STEADFASTNESS; THE LOVER BESEECHETH HIS MISTRESS, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Forget not yet the tried intent Last Line: Forget not this. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): A Supplication;song: 65 Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Love - Loss Of; Faithfulness; Constancy STEALING THE RELIGIOUS RELIC, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why was it so important to steal it away form the family Last Line: Spotlight shows the passionate couple in a yabyum embrace Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss STEW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: California lilac, ceanothus, embraced Last Line: And looking towards the stew Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Guests; Identity; Loss STILL KICKING IN AMERICA, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Now that I'm older, %the old ones ask %the same questions Last Line: Hoping for words %to come out right in english Subject(s): Family Life - India; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration STILL LIFE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After your letter arrived I left the oven on Last Line: All in shadow that I must bathe and dress. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation STILL THE MOMENT INTENDS TO REPLACE US, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Evening; Loss; Sunset; Twilight STILLNESS, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: It is especially strong Last Line: The spirit is among us %now Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of 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 STORM IS UPON US, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Did I throw it out the door last night? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss STORMS OF THE SEASON MAKE ME LOOSE MY REASON, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I never have been able to spell 'lose' correctly- Last Line: I refuse to rewrite this, but I did Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss STORY FROM EASTER: HE HAS RISEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mouse under the sink Last Line: Buries mouse next day Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Easter; Grief; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Loss; Resurrection, The STRANDED, by JENNY BROWNE Poem Source First Line: I am so in love I can't find my hat Last Line: When you decide to keep going Subject(s): Loss STREETS, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT Poem Source First Line: Loves that ended long ago Last Line: Because you don't remember whose faces %appear in the darkness behind the windows Subject(s): Love - Loss Of STRIPES OF RED, BLACK, AND GOLD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fire, and the excitement of ending this day Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss STUPIDLY INSPIRED, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's true %the cricket ate the lace curtain of the studio, not Last Line: No-no, thats right, you got it right, believe it Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUDDEN, by NICK FLYNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it had been a heart attack, the newspaper Last Line: & the ringing all we'd eat Subject(s): Loss SUDDEN, by NICK FLYNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it had been a heart attack, the newspaper Last Line: & the ringing all we'd eat Subject(s): Loss SUDDENLY!, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The same moon in the next century! Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUDDENLY. IN DECEMBER, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Suddenly. In december. I stand knee-deep in snow Last Line: Dearest, you who are sleeping. Eurydice. %--under the snow. Under the wreath of cedar Subject(s): Absence; Death; December; Love - Loss Of; Nostalgia; Winter SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2000, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Struggle through the morning Last Line: Of the day is put on Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUNDAY BAY LOOKOUT CHECK UP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A few party %boats looking for labor Last Line: False pacific jungle makes no sound Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Bicycles; Grief; Loss; Seasons SUNDAY IT RAINED ALL NIGHT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed liz tuomi got married all of a sudden Last Line: What do you expect from an 'I' this morning? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUNDAY'S GRACES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are at war, swimming down a river Last Line: They won't sit still Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUNRISE, by H. PALMER HALL Poem Source First Line: A moment in the thicket, that time Last Line: Soft, moist, and in the light, white wings flutter Variant Title(s): Into The Thicket; Big Thicket Requie Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SURPRISINGLY SHE FELL BACK INTO A LINE THAT WAS SURELY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In a friendly sinuous manner. It's getting freezing Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SURRENDER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strove, and strove with fate. I leave my throne Last Line: My once-imperial soul! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The SURRENDER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So hard I strove to crowd you from my heart Last Line: Come, if you will, although you bring me pain! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SURVIVOR'S SONG, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: All my good friends have gone away Last Line: There's nothing more I want to say Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SWEPT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we say I Last Line: Swept away to / gone Subject(s): Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness SYMBOLIC, by DAVID WILSHIRE Poem Text First Line: The black night...Dark and dreary Last Line: Too...Soon, we know ... 'tis day! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SYMMETRY, by BARRY BALLARD Poem Source First Line: This body's stretched with its patchwork tilled so Last Line: From a need for fences with no escapes? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TAKE IT O MOON ON THE RUN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That's fine. For me Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TAKING MY SON TO HIS FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: As the eight o'clock bell spills Last Line: Fearless, blameless, gone Subject(s): Kindergarten; Loss TEENAGERS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day they disappear Subject(s): Loss TEENAGERS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day they disappear Last Line: Familiar skin now stretched on long bodies %that move past me %glowing almost like pearls Subject(s): Loss TENANT FARMER'S WIFE, by JEFF DANIEL MARION Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It never fails, what breaks is what Last Line: In a place that's not my own Subject(s): Appalachia; Farm Life; Loss; Man-woman Relationships TERRACE ROADS SLUMPS INTO THE CANYON, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just one access to the mesa now Last Line: Undulating, casual Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TESHUVAH, by LAMAR THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Gathering up all the dolphins %in my dreaming. %I'm coming home Last Line: Toward what must be made romantic %in a world that says no Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration THANKSGIVING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On birch road is a large gathering including anselm Last Line: Both decide the other is from the c.I.A Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss THAT CRY, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Something in that cry Last Line: They were the very last words you uttered Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Crying; Love - Loss Of THAT KING OF MARRIAGE, by JOHN SANGSTER Poem Source First Line: He slept upstairs Last Line: Two distinct beams Subject(s): Loss THAT WAS THE SUMMER WE HAD ANIMALS, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: Everything then was a comfort Last Line: Walking. And then the hand Subject(s): Loss THE ACQUIRED ART, by ANNIE HIGGINS Poem Text First Line: I will forget that I have loved him Last Line: Once you learn how it is done. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE AFFAIR, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then the long fencerow, that years ago had Subject(s): Love Affairs; Parting; Loss THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 12. PRELUDE: THE MARRIED LOVER, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, having won her, do I woo Last Line: And more to-day than yesterday. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE ANGEL OF MADEIRA, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Each eve I lie a-musing on madeira's hills Last Line: To awake o'er the myrtle grave time alone has lent. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise THE ANSWER, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My johnny is left me and gone to the sea Last Line: We are all born to troubles, I must that endure. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Parents; Parenthood THE ANSWER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering the way of sleep, the timeless shore Last Line: And then the eternal silence makes reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE APOCRYPHA OF JACQUES DERRIDA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ruptured underbelly of a black horse flew overhead Last Line: Moving over snow. Subject(s): Animals; Derrida, Jacques (1930-2001); Horses; Loss; Napoleon I (1769-1821) THE ASHES; FOR WILLIAM GASS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This elderly poet, unpublished for five decades Last Line: Her name known to everyone, safe in her fame. Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Honor; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE BARRIER, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must not gaze at them although Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Race Awareness; Love - Loss Of THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1808, and in the autumn of the year Last Line: By giving them an inch or two of cold steel. Subject(s): Death; Loss; Napoleonic Wars; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE BLACK CUP, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night's a cup of evil. The shrill whistle Last Line: And my thirst paws in my flesh Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Night THE BLOOM HATH FLED THY CHEEK, MARY, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Transcience; Aging; Farewell THE BOAST, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not need you now! Thus do I end Last Line: "I do not need you now!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE BOND, by JO HARTMAN Poem Text First Line: Bedizened, roughed, with henna-streaked scant tresses Last Line: The gigolo alone broke down and cried. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Relationships THE BRIDEGROOM OF BEAUTY: THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM'S SONG, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a tree beside the river Last Line: Runs from my embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE CALL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The unforgotten voices call at twilight Last Line: They will not give me peace at dawn and twilight. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Grief; Ireland; Loss; Memory; Voices; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish THE CALLING MOTHERLAND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On the lone height of some untrodden hill Last Line: Across the world dear voices calling still. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Children; Loss; Mothers; Childhood THE CHALLENGE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who dost quell in thy victorious tide Last Line: The radiant silence of my sleepless pain. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The THE CHARM IS GONE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not wish to see his face Last Line: It can be charmed no more! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE CHIEF AMONG TEN THOUSAND (SONG OF SOLOMON), by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold thou art all fair, my love Last Line: And eat his fruits of love. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Heaven; Jews; Love - Loss Of; Paradise; Judaism THE CHURCHYARD ON THE SANDS, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love lies in the gates of foam Last Line: Until I rest by thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Cemeteries; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards THE CITY CLERK (WHEN HIS CHILD LAY DYING), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of her when sunshine falls Last Line: Would pass her by. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE CLEARING, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dog and I push through the ring Last Line: Is wait for you to come back to me Subject(s): Dogs; Love - Loss Of THE COMPLAINT OF LISA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no woman living that draws breath Last Line: Ere day be done, to seek the sunflower. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sun; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE CONFLICT: 5. KRUPPISM, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned on the twilight battlefield, there bends Last Line: So long shall we serve krupp instead of christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Germany; Jesus Christ; Krupp (industrial Conglomerate); Loss; Loyalty; World War I; Dead, The; Germans; First World War THE COQUETTE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone she sat with her accusing heart Last Line: To loathe her beauty and to curse her fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Truth; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones THE DAMSEL OF MOBILE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met thee in the summer time Last Line: Darling damsel of mobile! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Summer THE DAY'S END, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Boys, I've been out in the clearin' Last Line: "come in, pa, the night is fallin'!" Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Poor faded flower, / thy pale dead form hath caused the tears to start Last Line: For this poor withered thing! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Past THE DEAD BRIDE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within my circled arm she lay and Last Line: But oh, the emptiness of dawn that breaks the dream!) Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dreams; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DEAD LETTER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And can it be? Ah, yes, I see Last Line: The strongest human passion! Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of THE DEAD LOVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is so long when a man is Last Line: That wants to fly back to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Time; Dead, The THE DEMON LOVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o where have you been, my long, long love" Last Line: And sank her in the sea Subject(s): Devil;love - Loss Of;suicide;unfaithfulness; Satan;mephistopheles;lucifer;beelzebub;infidelity;adultery;inconstancy THE DEPTH OF LOVE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because he brought no tears to her dear Last Line: Can never sound our sea. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of THE DESCENT OF ORPHEUS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cockatoo with nervous, quick cockade Last Line: What shall I do without lher? / che faro? Subject(s): Orpheus; Love – Loss Of THE DESERTED LOVER CONSOLETH HIMSELF ..., by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Divers doth use, as I have heard and know Last Line: That often change doth please a woman's mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE DESERTER, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: I know not why or whence he came Last Line: The house where faith is dead. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE DIAMOND POINT, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Use the diamond point of grief Last Line: Incise a clear hibiscus in the windowpane. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness THE DISSOLUTION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is dead; and all which die Last Line: A latter bullet may o'rtake, the pouder being more. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When awful darkness and silence reign Last Line: The dong with a luminous nose! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Nonsense; Noses THE DOWNFALL OF DELHI, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1857 and on the 14th of september Last Line: And will be handed down to posterity. Subject(s): Delhi, India; Failure; Loss; War THE DREAM, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you were here to-night, o my dead love Last Line: In silence down the shadowy stream of life. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DYING POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the motionless and silent grass Last Line: Falls, and I shall not see another morn. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Kisses; Life; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE EARTHQUAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hour ago the lulling twilight Last Line: And still shall weep, a world above its loss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Disasters; Earth; Earthquakes; Evening; Loss; World; Sunset; Twilight THE EEGRASS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With stricken heart, and melting mood Last Line: But this bright-bladed eegrass. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness THE END OF THE EPISODE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indulge no more may we Last Line: Than thoroughfares of stones. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of THE FAITHLESS KNIGHT, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady she sate in her bower alone Last Line: Ere that steed and its rider return again! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Grief; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERDESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a time when I loved Last Line: And arrest all these fast-flowing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Unfaithfulness; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE FIDDLER OF BERLIN, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, and a black pall over the city Last Line: And broken women, and ghosts. Subject(s): Death; Fiddles; Loss; Military; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Soldiers; Truth; War; Dead, The; Bereavement THE FIND, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are losers always weepers? Finders keep Last Line: Of loss, a well-planted treasure Subject(s): Loss THE FIRST CUCKOO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May had bid the young lambs play Last Line: The dead youth, the dead delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Death; Loss; Dead, The THE FIRST PERSON, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I wanted seemed little enough at the time Subject(s): Loss THE FLIGHT OF LOVE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lamp is shattered Last Line: When leaves fall and cold winds come. Variant Title(s): Lines Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of THE FLOOR AND THE CEILING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter and summer, whatever the weather, Subject(s): Houses; Loss THE FOREST, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You should lie down now and remember the forest, Subject(s): Forests; Deforestation; Loss; Woods THE FORSAKEN MAID (1), by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, fickle man, and teach the moon to change Last Line: And make the cordage of his heart to crack. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE FORSAKEN MAID (2), by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know, falsest man, as my love was Last Line: Attain'd, come then, and I'll scorn thee. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE GHOST, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Since you I loved are lost Last Line: And the cocks both white and red. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Longing; Loss; Love; Supernatural; Dead, The THE GHOSTS LISTEN TO ORPHEUS SING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood before the throne Last Line: The deep bursting emptiness of song. Variant Title(s): Betrayals/hades, Eurydice, Orpheus Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Harps; Loss; Musical Instruments; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Lyres THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND (NEW WORDS TO AN OLD AIR), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sweet regret - (the dearest thing that yesterday has left us) Last Line: So she may lean upon my love, the girl I left behind me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She watched the blaze Last Line: ...I toddled home! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE GIRL'S LAMENTATION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With grief and mourning I sit to spin Last Line: For my innocent days will come back no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Courtship; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE GLORY OF THE DAY WAS IN HER FACE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are one with all the dead, since she is gone Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Beauty THE GRAY BROTHER; A FRAGMENT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pope he was saying the high, high mass Last Line: Did that gray brother lay. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Vengeance THE GRIEF OF A GIRL'S HEART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It is late last night the dog was speaking of you Last Line: And my fear is great that you have taken god from me! Variant Title(s): Donal Og Subject(s): Grief;holidays;love;love - Loss Of;new Year; Sorrow;sadness THE GRIEF OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "love, I am sick for thee, sick with an absolute grief" Last Line: "never again to mock at love, ah, never, never!" Subject(s): Death;grief;hearts;love - Loss Of;peace; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness; THE HARVEST-SUPPER (CIRCA 1850), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nell and the other maids danced their best Last Line: "mourned nell; ""and never wed!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Spinsters; Old Maids THE HAUNTED, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Masters of music, ye of tuneful vein Last Line: God's blessing is your bane. Subject(s): Ghosts; Loss; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Supernatural; Songs THE HEART ENTIRE, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1580-1630) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Canst thou love me, and yet doubt Last Line: Love being only soul to both. Alternate Author Name(s): Pembroke, 3d Earl Of Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of THE HEART FLED AGAIN, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: False, foolish heart! Didst thou not say Last Line: Without thee, then without a mistris thou. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE HEART RECALCITRANT, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does the heart grieve on Last Line: Across its own oblivion? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness 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 HOURS; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The meadows are empty. There are two villages Last Line: We were always counting our losses. Subject(s): Bells; Echoes; Loss; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Villages THE HOUSE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, on waking, she would close her eyes Subject(s): Houses; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 49. WILLOWWOOD (1), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat with love upon a woodside well Last Line: Bubbled with brimming kisses at my mouth. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 50. WILLOWWOOD (2), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now love sang: but his was such a song Last Line: And still love sang, and what he sang was this:-- Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 51. WILLOWWOOD (3), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, ye, all ye, that walk in willowwood Last Line: "that willowwood should hold her wandering!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 52. WILLOWWOOD (4), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So sang he: and as meeting rose and rose Last Line: Till both our heads were in his aureole. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 53. WITHOUT HER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What of her glass without her? The blank gray Last Line: Sheds doubled darkness up the labouring hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of THE HUGUENOT; 1686, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dry-lipped with terror, o'er the broken flints Last Line: You're very good to say so. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Tragedy; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE HWOMESTEAD A-VELL INTO HAND, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house where I wer born an' bred Last Line: By elems that did break the storm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Homesteaders; Loss; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE IMMORTAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where I went in and out Last Line: My birds and I shall be together. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Comfort; Immortality; Loss THE IMPROVISATORE: LEOPOLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The battle is over; the dews of the fog Last Line: The storm was hushed. Men tell not where he went. Subject(s): Adoption; Betrayal; Blood; Clergy; Death; Despair; Evil; Loss; Love; Violence; War; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE INDIAN MAID'S LAMENT, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Low as the moon on her course through the heavens, so is Last Line: Here came my lover to woo me, manito sent him to woo me. Subject(s): Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Mourning; Bereavement THE ISLAND OF DREAMS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tis a close-shelter'd island-the island of dreams! Last Line: Where hearts that are broken, again are made blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness THE JILTED LOVER TO HIS MOTHER, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You needn't pray for me, old lady, I don't want no one's prayer Last Line: For if I catch them two together, by hell! I'll swing for the pair of them. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mothers THE KISS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stole into the secret room Last Line: Stood sovereign. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE LADY OF THE BLACK TOWER, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Watch no more the twinkling stars Last Line: "to prove myself, sweet lady, thine." Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War 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 LAMENT OF IAN THE PROUD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this crying that I hear in the wind? Last Line: And wind crying to me who am old and blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness THE LAMENTATION OF BALVA THE MONK, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Balva the old monk I am called: when I was young, balva honeymouth Last Line: "and a voice that whispered ""balva honeymouth, drink, I am thy wine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Monks THE LAST TRYST, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cowbells wander through the woods Last Line: And find each other in god's sight. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE LAST WISH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since all that I can ever do for thee Last Line: The all-endured this nothing-done costs me. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids THE LAST WORDS, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And if he ever should come back Last Line: Do not let him weep. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE LEGEND OF LADY GERTRUDE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen the lofty halls, where vassal crowds Last Line: The phantom of a lady and a hound. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Death; Dogs THE LETTER, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not expect you Subject(s): Marriage; Loss; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF GRETA GARBO, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my idol left it broke Last Line: Hearing still hear Subject(s): Loss THE LIFT DESCENDING, by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES Poem Text First Line: The lift descending took my love from me Last Line: And all time stopped, though space was still escaping. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE LION GROTTO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing odd Last Line: He'll ask again why things die. Subject(s): Children; Death; Loss; Childhood; Dead, The THE LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Father! Where are you going? Last Line: And away the vapour flew. Subject(s): Bible; Loss; Mythology THE LITTLE GIRL LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In futurity / I prophetic see Last Line: To caves the sleeping maid. Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Girls; Loss; Mythology THE LITTLE HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will have a little house Last Line: For the children lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Houses; Loss; Mothers; Old Age; Childhood THE LITTLE MOTHERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange mockery of motherhood! Last Line: Give them a fate more frolicsome. Subject(s): Home; Loss; Mothers; Tears; Time; Women THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The humming sea is full of dirges Last Line: Who have passed into repose! Subject(s): Bones; Death; Life; Loss; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE LONELY HUNTER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green branches, green branches, I see you Last Line: But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hearts; Hunting; Loss; Love; Trees; Hunters THE LOSER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I kissed you, bride and lost, and went Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory THE LOSS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou shalt search thy glass nor find the flower Last Line: But for the wounds it healed not bow thy head. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Loss THE LOSS, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet ere I go Last Line: For love from sympathy doth flow. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE LOSS OF THE 'VICTORIA', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Now o'er britannia there hangs a gloom Last Line: For the brave british tars that have been drowned. Subject(s): Accidents; Battleships; Death; Loss; Dead, The THE LOSSE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O who has found! / for I have lost Last Line: Henceforth (& tis a bargaine) but to thee. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Hearts; Loss THE LOST BOWER, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pleasant orchard closes Last Line: Lost ... And won!' Subject(s): Innocence; Loss; Children; Childhood THE LOST CHILDREN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years ago, as dusk seeped from the blue Last Line: Eidolons, adrift on the night air. Subject(s): Children; Games; Loss; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE LOST COMRADES, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we are dancing in the former places Last Line: When I see the shadows round us—the young, young faces. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Youth THE LOST LAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wind is it that stirs Last Line: Whence none returns, none goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Flowers; Loss; Roses; Wind; Youth THE LOST SHIPMATE, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Somewhere he failed me, somewhere he slipped away Last Line: Shall I find you south of the gulf?—or are you dead in my heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Loss; Past; Youth THE LOST WINE, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day into the sea I cast Last Line: Forms unfathomed leaping there. Subject(s): Loss THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 52, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full 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 Full 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 LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 60, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chilled through, I wake up Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE LOSS OF LOVE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale brows, still hands and dim hair Last Line: She has gone weeping away. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Aedh Laments The Loss Of Love Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE LOVER SHOWETH HOW HE IS FORSAKEN, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: They flee from me that sometime did me seek Last Line: I would fain know what she hath deserved. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Remembrance;vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus;they Flee From Me;ballade: 2;the Lover Showeth How He Is Abandoned Of Such As He Onetime Enjoyed Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Falcons; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares THE MAID OF NEIDPATH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lovers' eyes are sharp to see Last Line: Which told her heart was broken. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of THE MAID'S LAMENT; ELIZABETHAN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone Last Line: And, o, pray too for me! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE MEANING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: It seemed to me the night she died Last Line: Her spirit passed to paradise. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise THE MINER OF PERU, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that vast realm, where down the rivers wash Last Line: Beside the cherish'd grave of him she loved! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mines And Miners; Nature; Dead, The THE MINKS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the backyard of our house on norwood, Last Line: Character and beauty Variant Title(s): Captivity: The Minks Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration THE MOURNING LOVER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a noble form, which oft I marked Last Line: That smile which in the court of heaven doth beam. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE NEGRO GIRL, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark was the dawn, and o'er the deep Last Line: And, with her heart's true love, plung'd in a wat'ry grave. Subject(s): Blacks; Love - Loss Of; Slavery; Serfs THE NEST, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day the birds were lifted from my shoulders Last Line: It killed me — and almost cost me a life... Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Life; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness THE NEW BOY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He never knew before how heavenly the places Last Line: He strangles with his sobs till the grey day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Boys; Children; Grief; Loss; Orphans; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings 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 MAID'S STORY, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, many and many a year's gone by Last Line: But it was too late to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Spinsters; Grief THE ORPHARION: ORPHEUS' SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He that did sing the motions of the stars Last Line: To take in love and lose it with a wink. Subject(s): Deception; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PALLOR OF SURVIVAL, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm lucky: autumn is flawless today Last Line: Turns, an open gate. Subject(s): Christianity; Converts, Catholic; Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Loss; Moving & Movers; Nuns; Refugees; Survival; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Violence; Judaism THE PARTING OF DECOURCY AND WILHELMINE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Lo! Enthroned on golden clouds Last Line: Lay the corpse of wilhelmine Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE PASSER-BY, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Text First Line: I have seen the shattering of shells Last Line: From the shattering of hearts. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE PASSER-BY (L.H. RECALLS HER ROMANCE), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He used to pass, well-trimmed and brushed Last Line: And disappear! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE PAST, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for the songs that maids sang in times past Last Line: God, what have you done with their love! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Past; Bereavement THE PITCHER, by YUAN CHEN Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I climbed to a high, high plain Last Line: Streamed from my eyes and fell on the collar of my dress. Alternate Author Name(s): Wei-chih Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness THE PRICE OF ABSENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: He writes: 'in spite of summer's green Last Line: To court another! Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations THE PRINT OF YOUR HAND, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mouth's full of snow Last Line: The print of your hand on my scarf still. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The THE PROFLIGATE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! I must go Last Line: And husks for swine. Subject(s): Faith; Farewell; Life; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Sin; Belief; Creed; Parting THE PURSUIT, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: I had visited her often Last Line: Found it bitter, and forgot her. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE QUARREL, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt not me persuade Last Line: Ah! That's the way. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE QUEEN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her many years ago, my gladness and my grief Last Line: Ni houlihan, ni houlihan, she came a splendid queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of THE QUESTION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some questions have no answer Subject(s): Loss THE RAVEN, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Last Line: Shall be lifted -- nevermore! Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Mysticism; Omens; Ravens; Supernatural; Dead, The THE REJECTED WIFE, by YUAN-TI Poem Text First Line: Entering the hall, she meets the new wife Last Line: That her present pain will never come to an end. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Loss Of THE RELIC TAKEN, WHAT AVAILS THE SHRINE?, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A separate furrow far from her and grace Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Solitude; Love – Loss Of THE RHYME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is the sign of Subject(s): Flowers; Loss THE ROAD TO CABINTEELY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the lonely road, the road to cabinteely! Last Line: Though my poor heart should break. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Roads; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails THE ROOM, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that my heart is empty Last Line: Since love has died? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE ROSE HAS LEFT THE GARDEN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose has left the garden Last Line: Still in her death. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The THE RUNE OF THE PASSION OF WOMAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who love are those who suffer Last Line: Hopes unfulfilled, and unavailing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Life; Loss; Love; Mothers; Pain; Passion; Women; Suffering; Misery THE SACRIFICE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Pale lips that trembled under mine Last Line: Repay to her! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE SAME OLD STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same old story told again Last Line: "till ""time shall be no more." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness THE SCEPTER OF THE DEAD, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: I would achieve-through long trails of purpose Last Line: Will shrink my soul with fear ... And I am bound. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE SCRIVENER'S ROSES; FOR MARVIN FISHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gulls fly in close formation becoming a patch of sail Last Line: Inside the convent's south garden wall. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Dead, The; Seagulls; Male-female Relations THE SEA'S WITHHOLDING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ladye's bower faced the sea Last Line: "can it be dawn and love away?" Subject(s): Disasters; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind 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 SHEPHERD, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the palace of the king Last Line: "sweet shepherd, fare thee well." Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Male-female Relations THE SINGER, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: She sang with the voice of an angel Last Line: "I sing for him alone." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 2, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why should we break the chancel of the dead? Last Line: Of loves and passions that long time have set. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Passion; Dead, The; Bereavement THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 34, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: He takes his leave,-and all her sun of life Last Line: Love's plaint alone the brooding silence grieves. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 80, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O thou who fashion'd her so beautiful Last Line: Save, lord, I may not—till thou cleansest me. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So has she lain for centuries unguessed Last Line: No doubts, no dreams, no laughter and no tears! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE SMELL OF GASOLINE IN MY NOSE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon us and upon all lovers in autumn Subject(s): Farewell; War; Love – Loss Of 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 STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sure then, as I sang along Last Line: Ricky's accent so much like how she remembers yours Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration THE STILLED VOICE, by FERNAND GREGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain in my garden Last Line: Of a moan. ... Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Silence; Dead, The THE STORY OF BROTHER PAUL (SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY FRANK DICKSEE), by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Dear friend, you question me if I Last Line: I sleep at last, beneath the sod! Subject(s): Dicksee, Sir Frank (1853-1928); Love - Loss Of; Monks; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE STRAYED LOVER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've lost the way to sylvia's heart Last Line: Then, having found it, dwell there. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of THE STREET, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Who are you, walking the streets with me tonight? Last Line: O god! I had forgotten—! The street is between us. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Separation; Isolation THE SUSPICION UPON HIS OVER-MUCH FAMILIARITY WITH GENTEWOMAN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And must we part, because some say Last Line: From fames black lips, as you from me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE SWEATER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will lose you. It is written Last Line: His death into the sweater. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Loss; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TAVERN, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the tavern of my heart Last Line: None will come forevermore. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE TEARS OF AMYNTA FOR THE DEATH OF DAMON; A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a bank, beside a willow Last Line: Love and damon are no more. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs THE TIME WILL COME, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The time will come, when thou and I Last Line: The time will come. Subject(s): Hope; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Optimism THE TOPMOST BOUGH, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Don't you love me now Last Line: God, then, I'll forget you. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE TORN LETTER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tore your letter into strips Last Line: But that, thank god, you do not know. Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of THE UNFORGOTTEN: 2, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rested by the broken brook Last Line: As I recall the blue? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Brooks; Love - Loss Of; Streams; Creeks THE UNKNOWN BELOVED, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I passed a doorway Last Line: About a flowery wreath. Variant Title(s): Ballad Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE UNPEOPLED, CONVENTIONAL ROSE-GARDEN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are cannas now on the guarded lawns Last Line: The brittle privet leaves, the day sleeps Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Lament; Love - Loss Of THE UNREALISED IDEAL, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My only love is always near Last Line: Shall never see her face. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE USED-TO-BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the purple, hazy trees Last Line: The lips of used-to-be. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Loss; Summer; Trees; Nightmares THE VAUDOIS WIFE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice is in mine ear, beloved Last Line: One only -- leaving thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE VIOLIN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing sweet, sing sweet, my violin, sing Last Line: Is gone for us. Good-night, good-night. Subject(s): Curses; Desire; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of THE VISION, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Softly she comes at the close of day Last Line: Can leave the world so drear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE VISITANT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud moved close. The bulk of the wind shifted Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE VOICE OF THE THORN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the thorn on the down Last Line: A heart, and by thee.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE WAITING ANGEL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are leaning through the roses Last Line: Surely I shall rise and go. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement THE WAITING HORSEMAN, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At every door where lovers dwell Last Line: But love, ah love, has flown. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Love - Loss Of THE WALL-FLOWER, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Text First Line: O wall-flower! Or ever thy bright leaves fade Last Line: Be its bridal torch! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Spring; Dead, The THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A CHAIN TO WEAR, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away! Away! The dream was vain Last Line: Hush! ...Do not speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: CHANGE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is unkind, unkind! Last Line: "I shall not see her to-night." Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WEDGE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When there were two of us Last Line: Will only bruise. Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sorrow; Sadness THE WOUND, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shock comes slowly Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE WREATH, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child through sunny meadows strolled Last Line: Both fruit and flowers it bore! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THEFT, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Death could not have thee, sweet, and be unsatisfied Last Line: Has ever love or beauty died? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THEN AND NOW, by JAMES RENNELL RODD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There never were such radiant noons Last Line: The blight has killed the roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Transience; Impermanence THEREFORE I AM NOT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: At thirty-five, he gave up trying to think Last Line: And became head of a global control bank. Subject(s): Ambition; Banks And Banking; Loss THEY ARE ALIVE ALTHOUGH CELADON, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The house is lightly lived in Last Line: But he lives here, he really lives here Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Abandonment; Emptiness; Grief; Loss 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 TELL ME OF A PLACE, by FLORENCE HARRIS HOOKE Poem Text First Line: They tell me of a place where lovers pine Last Line: All loveliness made memorable by you. Subject(s): Longing; Loss; Memory THIEVES OF LIGHT, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We all knew about gus Last Line: I had to close my eyes Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration THINGS THAT GET LOST, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me, when I lose a thing Last Line: It's happy, 'cause it knows! Subject(s): Children; Loss; Childhood THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN LOST, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From newspaper columns and notice boards Last Line: On the table Subject(s): Loss THINGS WAITING TO BE DANGEROUS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something gets tired fo beingn said Subject(s): Love – Loss Of THINKING OF WHAT THE JURY IS DELIBERATING, by MICK HATTEN Poem Source First Line: I bet your grandmother made you cookies Last Line: How you could drive that ryder truck Subject(s): Loss THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breake now, my heart, and dye! Oh no, she may relent Last Line: At last a shaft daunted, which his hart did feele. Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 29, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I then hope when faith is fled? Last Line: Faith failing her, love died in me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Hope THIRD RAIL, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because they are two old birds Last Line: Interminably flowing, in veiled phosphorescencies turning %and turning on themselves, wave on wave Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age THIRST, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Your mouth as necessary on mine as rain on the desert Last Line: When you hurt me %I won't let it show Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Suicide THIS IS A LOVE, by EFRAIN HUERTA Poem Source First Line: This is a love that had its beginning Last Line: And crying from love Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of THIS ISN'T FAIR, by CHRIS MAHON Poem Source First Line: I love you as my mother loves the orchid Last Line: Strangely, as if I were a camera, or something Subject(s): Loss THIS MAN CRIES, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source Last Line: Will this pain ever cease Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of THIS POEM IS MORE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Leaving these words for you Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss THIS YEAR HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO REMEMBER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Now, this instant after their previous form demises Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss THO' LOVE HAS FLOWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the wind wail on, my dear Last Line: He will come back. Subject(s): Hope; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Wind; Optimism THOREAU, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I have no place to go Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Estrangement; Outcasts THOU FLOWER OF SPRING, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in summer thou walkest Last Line: And shed its perfuming and bloom on thy breast. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of THOUGH WE NO LONGER POSSESS IT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you know me, my body at least Last Line: Though we no longer possess it Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THOUGHTS OF PHENA AT NEWS OF HER DEATH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a line of her writing have I Last Line: I may picture her there. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sparks, Tryphena THOUGHTS ON THE WORKS OF PROVIDENCE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, my soul, on wings enraptur'd, rise Last Line: What songs should rise, how constant, how divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality THOUSAND YEARS, YOU SAID, by HEGURI Poem Source Last Line: And the ache is hard to bear Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Otomo Yakamochi (718-785) THREE GOOD FRIENDS, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I can't remember how Last Line: Did she choose to let go %for us Subject(s): Friendship; Friendship - Selectivity; Love - Loss Of THREE MEETINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met with life one day at dawn Last Line: "their friends are mine,"" said death, and smiled." Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THREE SORROWS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I honour thee, o sacred grief? Last Line: Into a deathless shrine! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THRENODY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sunny ray, no silver night Last Line: . . . . . . Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Grief; Loss; Love; Poetry & Poets; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THROUGH AGONY: 2, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not fear to face the fact and say Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THROW AWAY MIND, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's the use etc. Do they have classes Last Line: For a diagnosis for joy, for the first fresh steps Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss THRUSH, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I guessed the letter Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of TIS STRANGE, YOU THINK, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange, you think, that I remember Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Anger; Memory TIS TIME FOR US TO SAY GOOD NIGHT, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I have known thee not, I swear, nor seen Subject(s): Love – Loss Of TO --, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never dreamed that lips so sweet Last Line: Can thee forgive, but not forget! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO A BEREAVED FRIEND, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy mary hath gone from thee; - thou hast folded Last Line: Even to heaven, from such a love as thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement TO A CLERGYMAN ON THE DEATH OF HIS LADY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where contemplation finds her sacred spring Last Line: To dry thy tears how longs the heav'nly muse! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO A DEAD LOVER, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark is thrown Last Line: To leave what is over. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The TO A GENTLEMAN & LADY ON THE DEATH ... CHILD NAMED AVIS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: On death's domain intent I fix my eyes Last Line: And seek beatitude beyond the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO A GENTLEMAN OF THE NAVY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celestial muse! For sweetness fam'd inspire Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO A GENTLEMAN ON HIS VOYAGE TO GREAT-BRITAIN, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While others chant the gay elysian scenes Last Line: And own thy work, great ruler of the skies! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea Voyages TO A GOLDEN HEART, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pledge of departed bliss Last Line: To mark it as a thrall of past captivity. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of TO A LADY AND HER CHILDREN, ON THE DEATH OF HER SON ..., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erwhelming sorrow now demands my song Last Line: And to your god immortal anthems raise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO A LADY ON HER COMING TO NORTH-AMERICAN WITH HER SON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indulgent muse! My grov'ling mind inspire Last Line: With shouts of joy the country rings around. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO A LADY ON HER REMARKABLE PRESERVATION IN AN HURRICANE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou did'st hear the tempest from afar Last Line: And what the blessings of maternal care! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Americans; Hurricanes; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; United States; America TO A LADY ON THE DEATH OF THREE RELATIONS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We trace the pow'r of death from tomb to tomb Last Line: And to thy father tune the praise divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO A LOST LOVE, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seek no more to bridge the gulf that lies Last Line: But unto you and me will never come. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO A LOST LOVE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold snowdrops which the shrinking Last Line: And praise is mute. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO A LOVER, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: Tonight, of all mad nights of moon and wind and sea Last Line: Ah, my beloved! Come not this way again! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Passion; Romance; Male-female Relations TO A WATCH LEFT IN A HOTEL ROOM, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Text First Line: Not long ago the sun was shining Subject(s): Hotels; Loss; Watches; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TO A YOUNG GIRL WEEPING, by MURIEL DOE THURNEYSEN Poem Text First Line: Indeed there are not few of us who know Last Line: Hold healing for such bitterness of heart. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO AN UNKNOWN GODDESS, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Like to the violet amongst her leaves Last Line: Will wonder pensively, 'who can it be?' Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Worship TO BE SUNG ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We come to this country %by every roundabout Last Line: Because well-being needs a grief %to make the feeling last Subject(s): Literary Form; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TO CAPTAIN H--D, OF THE 65TH REGIMENT, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight Last Line: Britannia glories in no son like you. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO CYNTHIA, by GEORGE CLIFFORD Poem Text First Line: My thoughts are winged with hopes, my hopes with love Last Line: Till cynthia shine as she hath done before. Alternate Author Name(s): Cumberland, 3d Earl Of Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO DOROTHY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You are not beautiful, exactly / you are beautiful, inexactly Last Line: I'd have to ask the grass to let me sleep. Subject(s): Beauty; Loss; Love; Poetry & Poets TO HIS HONOUR THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, ON DEATH OF HIS LADY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All-conquering death! By thy resistless pow'r Last Line: That fain thy soul to heav'nly scenes would raise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Dead, The TO HIS RIVALL, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her lov'd I most Last Line: And helpe to beare you out, sir. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO JULIAN (WHO IS NOT JULIAN, BUT THAT IS ENOUGH), by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: He does not notice her Last Line: She cuts out their eyes %one by one Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Murder; Suicide; Unfaithfulness TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD AGAIN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You must hide yourself Last Line: Entertainment. You are camouflaged %with simplicity Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TO LOSE THEE, SWEETER THAN TO GAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No caspian could be Subject(s): Love – Loss Of TO M. LE VAYER ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by MOLIERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep on le vayer, make thine eyes an urn Last Line: And for these things we must for ever weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Poquelin, Jean Baptiste Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Loss; Dead, The TO MAECENAS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maecenas, you, beneath the myrtle shade Last Line: Hear me propitious, and defend my lays. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO MISS. MARY MOORHEAD, ON THE DEATH OF HER FATHER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Involv'd in clouds of wo, maria mourns Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO MR. AND MRS. - , ON THE DEATH OF THEIR INFANT SON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death! Whose sceptre, trembling realsm obey Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO MRS. LEONARD, ON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grim monarch! See depriv'd of vital breath Last Line: And better suited to th' immortal mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Widows & Widowers TO MYRA, by GEORGE GRANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The happiest mortals once were we Last Line: Is to love -- and love in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Grenville, George; Lansdowne, Baron Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO ONE IN HEAVEN, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After you died, a few stray letters came Last Line: O little angel-maid, god's gifts are freely given! Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The TO ONE WHO NEVER KNEW I CARED, by ELSIE THOMAS CULVER Poem Text First Line: I wonder what it was that made me say Last Line: And hear you chafe about my woman's club! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Youth TO PITY, by SALVADOR DIAZ MIRON Poem Source First Line: You come to me in pride of gentle beauty Last Line: I love the desert for its green oasis! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of TO S.M., A YOUNG AFRICAN PAINTER, ON SEEING HIS WORKS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent Last Line: Now seals the fair creation from my sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Moorhead, Scipio (18th Century); Mortality; Paintings & Painters TO TERESA, by JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA Poem Source First Line: Visions of days outworn, why do ye grow Last Line: Who recks of one more corpse laid low in earth? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory TO THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDON MAGAZINE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, %as your magazine is a proper repository for any thing valuable or cusiou Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE BIO-BIO, by ANDRES BELLO Poem Source First Line: Blest were he, o bio-bio! Last Line: Wish to live now for myself' Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Solitude TO THE BOUGAINVILLAEA, by C. DALE YOUNG Poem Source First Line: How could I have imagined your absence? Last Line: And everywhere bougainvillaea, bougainvillaea Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; West Indies TO THE HON. COMMODORE HOOD ON HIS PARDONING A DESERTER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was thy noble soul and high desert Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE HONOURABLE T.H. ESQ; ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade Last Line: "converse with heav'n, and taste the promis'd joy" Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY ... AMERICAN STAMP ACT, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your subjects hope Last Line: A monarch's smile can set his subjects free! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 1768, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your subject hope, dread sire Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE PAST, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In every microsecond of the present, you're here Last Line: Together, might past, we dominate Subject(s): Past; Love – Loss Of; Absence TO THE REV. DR. THOMAS AMORY ON READING HIS SERMONS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To cultivate in ev'ry noble mind Last Line: A nobler title, and superior name! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE RIGHT HON! WILLIAM EARL OF DARTMOUTH, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Happy day! When smiling like the morn Last Line: Where, like the prophet, thou shalt find thy god. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Legge, William. 2d Earl Of Dartmouth; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; United States; Liberty; America TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, IN NEW-ENGLAND, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: While an intrinsic ardor prompt [or, bids] me to write Last Line: And in immense perdition sinks the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): To The University Of Cambridge, Wrote In 1767 Subject(s): Harvard University; Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE WILLOW TREE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art to all lost love the best Last Line: Come to weep out the night. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Willow Trees TO-MORROW, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She walks in a lonely garden Last Line: Who never will come at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TODAY I'LL SIT STILL, by ERNESTO TREJO Poem Source Last Line: On the checks that I'll refuse to write Subject(s): Loss TODAY'S GOT THE BRIGHT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cool awareness of fall and be careful Last Line: Nine town drunks %drinking Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TODOROV AT ELLIS ISLAND, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The secret of narrative %in the sight of the lovely Last Line: To turn, as if spoken to %into what we represent Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TOEING THE LINE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So hot! %okay everybody take off your toes Last Line: The full moon leftover air Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TOO LATE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here was I with my arm and heart Last Line: Ere I drank it, and you down with it, thus! Subject(s): Loss; Absence; Separation; Isolation TOO LATE, by CLARISSA HILL HAWKINS Poem Text First Line: I never told you of my love Last Line: Had told you so. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Regret; Dead, The TOO LATE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too late I bring my heart, too late 'tis yours Last Line: Too late! Too long! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time TOUGH RIDE, by MARY ANN WEHLER Poem Source First Line: You smacked my five-year-old son on Last Line: Tough sledding; I'm glad you're dead Subject(s): Loss TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. REST AT LAST, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Love - having journeyed through all of life Last Line: And I in them attain at last to rest. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE END OF LOVE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seek not the end of love in this act or in that act Last Line: Great and immortal possession, which no man can take away. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TOWN HALL READING WITH BEAT POETS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ed sanders onstage telephones william burroughs Last Line: And it's my big dusty footprint on the cover Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TOWNS, by ANGELA BALL Poem Source First Line: Somewhere in midcentury %things spread out, scattered Last Line: Replied, 'yes. But our village %will not be here' Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TRAGEDY, by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN Poem Text First Line: I brought you a rose Last Line: The blood was mine! Subject(s): Blood; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy TRANQUIL HABIT, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tranquil habit, with her silent hands Last Line: Dear tranquil habit, thy consoling touch! Subject(s): Loss TRANSFORMATION, by LAWRENCE R. KAHN Poem Text First Line: Bitter as gall and wormwood Last Line: It is queer how your faults are magnified. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TRANSLATING MY PARENTS, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my father would growl, %wash the wares now, I always thought Last Line: As in zipper, as in zero, and write %it plainly, so I can read it Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TRAVELLING LIGHT, by KIRSTI KATARIINA SIMONSUURI Poem Source First Line: It's as though I saw it all Last Line: Onto a distant shore Subject(s): Loss TRIOLETS: 1, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love looked back as he took his flight Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TRUE LOVE, by ELIZABETH SIDDAL Poem Source First Line: Farewell, earl richard Last Line: Watching or fainting, %sleeping or dead Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of TRUTH, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: Mine has always been a silent world Last Line: And that is the truth Subject(s): Loss; Mexican American Families TRY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Daytime mind find %teachings in many realms Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TRY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Very hard. See Last Line: Teachings in many realms Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TRYST (AFTER READING FROM SHAKESPEARE), by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, thou art heavy, with no stars to chain Last Line: A dead hand lies like flame upon my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Love - Loss Of; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists TUESDAY MAY 7, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind thru a field of wild oats Last Line: Fades into early summer Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TUESDAY OCTOBER 27, '87, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Finest - first rain Last Line: Over that little silver beach Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TUNE, by FRANCES RICHARD Poem Source First Line: He went from us into Last Line: Of a tyewriter from an upstairs room Subject(s): Loss TUTU ON THE CURB, by ERIC EDWARD CHOCK Poem Source First Line: Tutu standing on the corner Subject(s): Loss; World War Ii - Japanese-americans TWAS SUCH A LITTLE, LITTLE BOAT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My little craft was lost! Subject(s): Boats; Loss TWENTY-FOUR HOKKU ON A MODERN THEME, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That day was happy. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TWENTY-FOUR HOKKU ON A MODERN THEME, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the larkspur Last Line: That day was happy. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of 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 TIME, by ANNA MCINTOSH BEVILLE Poem Text First Line: When twilight falls o'er land and sea Last Line: That lies long buried in a grave. Subject(s): Evening; Love - Loss Of; Sunset; Twilight TWO BATHS: 2, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light roused us from the depths of our separate longings Last Line: Past the horizon, writing you out of existence. Subject(s): Activity; Baths & Bathing; Loss; Love - Complaints; Memory; Exercise TWO FOR ROBIN BLASER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is pruning the privet Last Line: Which look real enough in the damp late morning air Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TWO FOR THE FIRE: 1. LATE SPRING, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: The old wooden witch they call winter in the old country Last Line: If a heart were there Subject(s): Cold; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Winter TWO MARGARETS: 1. MARGARET BY THE MERE SIDE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying imbedded in the green champaign Last Line: Maid margaret beneath her sycamore Subject(s): Loss TWO MARGARETS: 2. MARGARET IN THE XEBEC, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Resting within his tent at turn of day Last Line: The dove and olive-branch upon her breast Subject(s): Loss TWO MARRIED, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER Poem Text First Line: Do you remember how we came that day Last Line: And life itself is one more certainty. Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TWO SOUNDS, by MICHAEL H. BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: Grandmother came here in the cargo hold Last Line: Which always fade, as I will, in the night Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TWO TREES, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Widower now, uneasy in the stern Last Line: Light on the lifting blades breaks and falls Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Widows And Widowers TWO UNCERTAINTIES, by PAUL HOOVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Around the attic bird, the century is silent Last Line: Please bind us to a version of ourselves Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TWO WAYS, by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oncet in the museum Last Line: Now you're gone for good - say, %wasn't they no other way? Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of ULALUME, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The skies they were ashen and sober Last Line: This ghoul-haunted woodland of weir Variant Title(s): Ulalume - A Ballad;ulalume - A Ballad (2) Subject(s): Auber, Daniel Francois (1782-1871); Death; Halloween; Landscape; Love - Loss Of; Mysticism; October; Soul; Supernatural; Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889); Dead, The UNCLE BOB, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old uncle bob lay on the settle Last Line: "and ""tea! Tea!"" she said, ""uncle bob." Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The UNDER THE BARK IS INDIAN WRITING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the francisco mesa Last Line: Under the bark is indian writing Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss UNDER THE COLD, PINE ARBOR MOON, by HONGJANG Poem Source Last Line: My love departs %not to return Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of UNDERWATER, by HEATHER SELLERS Poem Source First Line: Well, we are underwater here and I am Last Line: Just one eye on the tiniest of the peculiar glowing fish Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration UNITY, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, my clock pants Last Line: A bullet in the blue shape of a heart Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of UNKNOWN FAIR FACES, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I am faithful to my loves lived through Last Line: My heart she goes from -- never from my sight! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of UNLUCKY LOVER, by MAGEMESO NAMUNGALU Poem Source First Line: Oo, from which wing do you come? Last Line: But without you, for sure, I'll die unhappy Subject(s): Love - Loss Of UNPEOPLED, CONVENTIONAL ROSE-GARDEN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are cannas now on the guarded lawns Last Line: Between tremulous, tired fingers Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Lament; Love - Loss Of UNSPOKEN DIALOGUE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the trailing mignonette Last Line: The man she loved no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Love - Loss Of UP, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reach me / I reach you Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise UP, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reach me %I reach you Last Line: Taste me now (offers up palm of left hand) %(right hand lifts up making gesture as if writing on the Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of UPON THE LOSS OF HIS MISTRESSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have lost, and lately, these Last Line: Their departures hence, and die. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of VAGRANT SIRENS, by SHARON RUBENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Love's thin galt Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Neighbors; Schools; Youth VAIN FREEDOM, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I am free whom love held thrall so long! Last Line: With the old dreams, old tortures, for love's sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Liberty VALENCIA STREET, by ROBERT FUNGE Poem Source First Line: You find yourself on a street you've never Last Line: You've lived with and just found, the haunting over Subject(s): Loss VALENTINE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Valentine' is flat on his back being hurt Last Line: Hummingbird looking %for nectar, dead flowers %after frost Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Jealousy; Loss; Love; Relationships VALLADOLID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart was happy when I turned from burgos to valladolid Last Line: Twill ease my heart if thou depart, - thy peace may god restpre Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of VANISHED, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the wild and weary night Last Line: And sickness, pain, and death are not. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of VANISHING, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: You wish to pull yourself together Last Line: In order to help you out %of your loneliness Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude VANITY OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, by JOHN BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Face it, michael. She never loved you. The ocean with as many lovers as there Last Line: Way memory spills when you try to remember, and all you get is sexless salt, %bisected water Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration VARIATIONS FOR HENDRIX AND VIETNAM, by MONIFA LOVE Poem Source First Line: We %not white %not yellow %corner sounds Last Line: A circle of grey petals %at our feet %quiet Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration VICTORY STUFF, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What d'ye think, lad, what d'ye think Last Line: Me that's wheeled in a chair. Subject(s): Loss; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Survival; Victory; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples VIEW #2, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: It was just one task to recover the taken-for-granted Last Line: And good intentions. Begin again Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of VIEW NORTH, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back dropped %blue-grey clouds Last Line: Low tide, windless Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss VILLANELLE, by PHILIPPE DESPORTES Poem Text First Line: Rosette, because I stayed awaye Last Line: Which shall be first to knowe regret. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Regret VILLANELLE, by JEAN PASSERAT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have lost my turtle fleet Last Line: After her I fayne would beat. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The VIOLIN AND VIOLA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At times, when, with an anguish all too keen Last Line: The grave viola plaining of old loves. Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Violins; Sorrow; Sadness VIOLIN PLAYS A SPRIGHTLY 10 NOTE THEME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Practicing footwork for the tennis court Last Line: If not puzzled Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss VISION, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: Was it perhaps in an imagined frame Last Line: In I know not what huge fold of darkness! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy VISIONS, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lone glenartney's thickets lies couched the lordly stag Last Line: My heart beat wildly -- and I woke, and lo! It was a dream. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Dreams VISIONS: 2, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After, at sea a tall ship did appeare Last Line: So great riches, as like cannot be found Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Shipwrecks; Storms VISITANT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud moved close. The bulk of the wind shifted Last Line: The tree, the close willow, swayed Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WAIL, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love has gone a-rocketing. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WAIT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wait, for now Last Line: Rehearsed by the sorrows, play itself into total exhaustion Subject(s): Suicide; Love - Loss Of; Patience; Faith; Belief; Creed WAITING, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah yes, I see the sunshine play Last Line: That we may find right meanings out. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Grief WAITING, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought my heart would break Last Line: And my heart broke, too! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Spring WAITING ON FAMILY COURT, by JEFF KNORR Poem Source First Line: I know little of lawyers and courts Last Line: After grandfather's slick-handled %brushes are hung, away on their nails Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WAKE UP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wake up this morning and gingerly open the door Last Line: In the whole of clear new space %for you Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WAKING AT 3 A.M., by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time humans feel closest to the grave Last Line: Try to touch him. I dare you. %try to kiss her Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Sleep WAKING AT NIGHT, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I won't die in my sleep Subject(s): Night; Loss; Bedtime WAKING INSTRUCTIONS, by EMMA MELLON Poem Source First Line: Crawl ashore %to the damp beginning of day Last Line: It has waiting attached Subject(s): Loss WAKING UP IN THE MORNING, by ZYMUNT FRANKEL Poem Source Last Line: Left the crumbs on my face Subject(s): Loss WALKING BACK, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: I have no business here, a bearded stranger Last Line: On the last bell, rubs the shiny nickel in his pocket Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WANT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You swore you loved me all last june Last Line: But you cannot restore. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WARM KEYS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: A lost love leaps from the fire of my brow Last Line: And it sings an ancient lullaby %audible only to the trees Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships WARUM SIND DENN DIE ROSEN SO BLASS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dearest, canst thou tell me why Last Line: That thou forsakest me? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WATCHING TV, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ahoy! Electronic nightmare ... Last Line: With tiny frightful screams Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WATER, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Inviting to my touch, but cool at first Last Line: To hold you, the less of you remained Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of WATER, WINTER, FIRE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the little light of dawn Last Line: Now it is useless to be home. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Home; Loss; Water; Winter; Dead, The WAY THE LIGHT WAS, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How completely useless beauty Last Line: A bird picks up a seed and carries a life away Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Supernatural WE ARE ALL TWENTY-THREE, 1957, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We're all 23, 1957. The lantz dresses Last Line: She's an innocent, she really means the bread Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WE ARE STRONG, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Was this a test? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Loss; Sickness WE WERE EACH ALONE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source Last Line: Carrying a photograph of your eyes Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; San Francisco; Solitude WEAKNESS ENDS WITH LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say not, regret me; you will not regret Last Line: It died with the sentence -- I love thee no more! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WEDDING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young pine tips & forgwet-me-nots Last Line: Cow parsnips hercules plant %lupine Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WEEKEND, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: 11 o'clock on a fog Last Line: Watching for the red gold line of morning to rise Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WELCOME TO DEATH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Why should we linger on earth, when have fled Last Line: There's release from all ills in thy grasp! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Weariness; Dead, The; Fatigue WELL YOU KNOW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If you know what I mean Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Well, You Kno Subject(s): Grief; Loss WELL BELOVED HOUSE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Poorly dressed and sad %along the old street I am walking Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude WELLS II, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last sinhala word I lost Subject(s): Language; Childhood Memories; Farewell; Loss; Water; Words; Vocabulary; Parting WESTERN WIND (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o western wind, when wilt thou blow, / the small rain down can rain?" Last Line: "christ, if my love were in my arms / and I in my bed again!" Variant Title(s): The Lover In Winter Plaineth For The Spring;seventeenth-century Poem Subject(s): Absence;longing;love;love - Loss Of;wind; Separation;isolation WESTPHALIAN SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When thou to my true love com'st Last Line: "say, I come tomorrow" Subject(s): Death;germany;hearts;heaven;love - Loss Of; "dead, The;germans;paradise; WET EARTH, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: Wet earth of liquid evenings when the rain Last Line: An acolyte of camphor, %slightly swordfish, slightly %saint isador labrador... Subject(s): Angels; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR, MY MOTHER ASKS, by ROSELLEN BROWN Poem Source Last Line: They touch you. They fill you like music Subject(s): Loss WHAT CAME TO ME, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took the last / dusty piece of china Subject(s): Loss WHAT CAME TO ME, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took the last %dusty piece of china Last Line: I grieved for you then; %as I never had before Subject(s): Loss WHAT GETS LOST/LO QUE SE PIERDE, by PETER SEARS Poem Source First Line: I keep translating traduzco continuamente Last Line: En la palabra misma Subject(s): Loss WHAT GRANDMA TAUGHT HER, by MELISSA A. STEPHENSON Poem Source First Line: She hates to be Last Line: Right after her mother died Subject(s): Loss WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Because it was raining outside the palace Last Line: Because there was no rain in her vicinity Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because it was raining outside the palace Subject(s): Loss WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because it was raining outside the palace Last Line: Because there was no rain in her vicinity Subject(s): Loss WHAT HURTS, by GUSTAVO PEREZ FIRMAT Poem Source First Line: We are called broken %because we do not humor the age Last Line: We break them with our brokenness %until they are broken too Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WHAT I LOVE, by LORINC SZABO Poem Source First Line: I must love the things Last Line: Because they're all that's left of her Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of WHAT I WANTED TO SAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I am everybody Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT I'M SAYING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I'm saying isn't exactly news Last Line: Once you decide to live, you have to lose. Subject(s): Life; Loss WHAT IF EVERYONE YOU'VE LOVED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the young, who don't know it Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Old Age WHAT IS ONE TO DO...WITH WHAT ONE...PERCEIVES...AS ACTUALITY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dunno %a mirror look today say Last Line: Today in muted light greens, warm browns and rose of fall again Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT IS UNUSUAL IN THIS COLD FRESHNESS OF HANGING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The light lavender sharpness of cloth Last Line: I'm not going to kiss and tell are you crazy? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT LOSS IS, by JUDE NUTTER Poem Source First Line: What is it we are saying Last Line: And walk and not come back Subject(s): Loss; Nature WHAT STARTS OUT AS A HALLOWEEN BUDDHIST LOVE POEM FOR JOHN D, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It takes so long to do things. For example Last Line: Was definitely accepted in my backyard, and I wanted more of it Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT THE DUST DOES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can't be measured. It filters everywhere, all night Last Line: Maybe there's still something hidden in there, something green %as it is invisible, flickering in th Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of WHAT THE STONES KNOW, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: Fire says %'the flesh. The flesh.' Last Line: On everything that's yours.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Loss WHAT WAS ONCE REACHED FOR, by JEFFREY SHOTTS Poem Source First Line: The quiet old house we have come to sift through is for the Last Line: These things before, as if we didn't now own them Subject(s): Loss WHAT WAS THAT? SOME FINE LINES FOR YOU, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spiders, on light blue paisley Last Line: To learn. Being sentimentally engaged Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT WE WANT, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The longer we look, the younger you get. At nine o'clock, we Last Line: Welcomed home in the smoky darkness of any summer night Subject(s): Loss WHEN I WAS WELL INTO BEING SAVORED, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh lord, the possible %bells ringing, to bring me out of here Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHEN LOVE AND BEAUTY WANDER AWAY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When love and beauty wander away, Last Line: Who have known beauty, and spring, and love? Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Love - Loss Of WHEN PHILIP WHALEN HAD HEART SURGERY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dreaming, a lot of us are lying down together. Philip Last Line: He answers, how're you doing, you ok? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHEN SHE LEFT ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It missed, first left, then right Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lightning; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Storms WHEN SHE WENT, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: She'd long gone strange %a yellowed button Last Line: And when we knocked those down, nothing Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Sky WHEN YOU ARE OLD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When you are old and grey and full of sleep Last Line: And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Helen: 1 Subject(s): Desire; Loss; Love; Memory; Old Age WHEN YOU ASKED FOR IT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, / the day the seal came up the beach and mother fed him Subject(s): Farewell; Loss; Parting WHEN YOU ASKED FOR IT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, %the day the seal came up the beach and mother fed him Last Line: Dont worry about it dont think I mean everything I say it will %be all right Subject(s): Farewell; Loss WHEN, WITH YOU ASLEEP, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: When, with you asleep, I plunge into your soul Last Line: The secret of the center %of the heavens Subject(s): Angels; Dreams; Heaven; Love - Loss Of WHERE IT LISTETH, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love came / but when or how I do not know Last Line: Told me so. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness WHERE ON THIS EARTH, by PATRICIA KIRKPATRICK Poem Source First Line: Where on this earth do we reach the ones who are gone? Last Line: Where on this earth do we reach the ones who have left us? Subject(s): Loss WHERE, O, WHERE?, by ELINOR WYLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need not die to go Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of WHERE, O, WHERE?, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need not die to go Last Line: You shall see me no more %though each night I hide %in your bed, at your side Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of WHEREABOUTS, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Isn't it odd how anyone who disappeared Last Line: Just before fadeout, their famous last scene Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WHILST THE IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDS GUZZLE RED WINE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the dear companion climbs the tree Last Line: For the equinox Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHISPERING WIND, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Whispering wind that blows across this lake Last Line: Whispering wind my love has gone away Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Love - Loss Of; Wind WHITE IBIS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: The first white ibis ever recorded in minnesota was reported Last Line: He imagined it all white and shocking in the sun. %no ibis. No sun Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Teaching And Teachers WHITE NOTES, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly there was a dress Last Line: Then, in another time Subject(s): Love – Loss Of WHO WILL BUY ME AN ORANGE?, by JOSE GOROSTIZA Poem Source Last Line: To console me know? Subject(s): Consolation; Hearts; Love - Loss Of WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT THE OWL SO FIERCE?, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: At night, when the whole flock herds together Last Line: Grow more and more infrequent Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Widows And Widowers WHO'S STANDING, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Are you the stone of a fruit, dear soul? Mandorla, fetus Last Line: Loaded among wooden logs Subject(s): Continents; Death; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Yugoslavia WHY DID SHE ASK US TO WRITE THIS WAY ANYWAY THE MOOD MOVES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we even practice this craft while the radio is on Last Line: Homage to kerouac Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHY, MINSTREL, THESE UNTUNEFUL MURMURINGS', by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To its sad lord, far from his native fields? Subject(s): Homesickness; Longing; Loss; Music & Musicians WIDE MIND, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Occupies a wide mind, a wide consciousness Last Line: I was thinking the same thing.' Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WIDOW, by AL MASARIK Poem Source First Line: Together so many years Last Line: Here are his empty shoes Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Widows And Widowers WILD GEESE SANG, by KUMHONG Poem Source First Line: Wild geese sang across a thin jade sky Last Line: Its cold glimmers faded within me Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Geese; Love - Loss Of; Wings WILDERNESS POEM 2, by JOHN BRANDI Poem Source First Line: I walk, trails stop Last Line: I follow deer tracks beyond clouds. %lost again, %where the world begins Subject(s): Loss WILLIAM O KELLY, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not since the gael was sold Last Line: The topmost blackberry! Subject(s): Ireland; Loss; Irish WILLIE AND THE TRAIN, by CARISSA NEFF Poem Source First Line: Willie carsten opens the bakery early Last Line: Take my chances %like immigrants did Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WILLIE THE MINER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Ghastly and strange was the relic found Last Line: Standing still with her lover dead! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mines And Miners; Youth; Cadavers; Dead, The WIND CHILL FACTOR, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You point to a photo of your family Last Line: Into a perfect circle at the nape of my neck, %insulating me, still, against the chill Variant Title(s): Wind-chill Facto Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WIND OF THE SOUTH, by JENNIE MCBRIDE BUTLER Poem Text First Line: Tender you were and shy, wind of the south Last Line: My love is dead, beneath the southern stars. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Wind; Dead, The WINDOW LEDGE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny light grey moth Last Line: Light grey moth Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WINDOW'S GROVE, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Drinking sleep I grow old Last Line: Gathered me, sinking, from sleep Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Widows And Widowers WINTER BRANCH, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: When I see you Last Line: Of agony. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness WINTER BURIAL, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD Poem Text First Line: Lift - and walk! - they will shut the door for us Last Line: But her cold lover death was more discerning. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Loss; Dead, The; Burials WINTER PIECE, by GUIDO GOZZANO Poem Source First Line: Cree - ee - eak %the spreading fracture Last Line: Her small hand to me as she hissed -- you worm Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy WINTER SONG, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full 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 WITH CHERUBIM AND A FLAMING SWORD, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bed of grass too damp where love too soon Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WITH CHERUBIM AND A FLAMING SWORD, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bed of grass too damp where love too soon Last Line: Of the simple bliss that they had always known Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WITH ROSES, by SHEFFIELD PHELPS Poem Text First Line: Within the box whose gilded sides Last Line: Long years ago. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses WOMAN PRIDE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of his life she will go quietly Last Line: So softly she will go—in woman pride! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect WOMAN'S LOVE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: They told me of her history - her love Last Line: Was as a home. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Women; Sorrow; Sadness WOMAN, GALLUP, N.M., by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow of her profile lay stringent Last Line: She shattered on the pavement. Subject(s): Loss; Mothers; Silence WOMAN, WIFE, WIDOW: UNVEILING THE VIETNAM MEMORIAL, by FRAN CASTAN Poem Source First Line: In the failing light, survivors Last Line: History of our kind, which murders its own Variant Title(s): Unveiling The Vietnam Memoria Subject(s): Loss WONDERFUL THINGS, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anne, who are dead and whom I loved in a rather asinine fashion Last Line: Tell you wonderful things Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation WORDS, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are keys Last Line: Though it dreams of leaving Subject(s): Language; Love – Loss Of WORDS MY FRIEND CAN'T BRING HIMSELF TO SAY, by QUINTIN PROUT Poem Source First Line: Miss betty showed us the game Last Line: Wondering why I hadn't looked for her sooner Subject(s): Loss WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I loved a maid (oh, she was fair of face!) Last Line: I learned the maiden some one else had married! Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Time; Words; Vocabulary WORK, by GEOFFREY RIPS Poem Source First Line: A man with the name angel sewn on his shirt stands glumly Last Line: Nothing left to tame Subject(s): Loss WOUNDS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I'm scared %I'm just a stone's throw away from god Last Line: If I lose you, I lose form Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WRAPPING STONES, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything I am is what survived Last Line: To walnut creek for the last three years Subject(s): Love – Loss Of WREN, by BARBARA MCCAULEY Poem Source First Line: He was small not ready yet Last Line: I felt the spring of his legs Subject(s): Loss WRITTEN FOR MY NEIGHBOR: HE WAITED FOR LOVED ONE NEVER CAME, by SHEN YUEH Poem Source First Line: Her shadow races with slanting moonbeams Last Line: She said yes when she really meant no - %you'd like to laugh but you cry instead Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WYOMING, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: With each new death I push Last Line: The sky that leads us on Subject(s): Death; Loss; Travel; United States; Wyoming XANTHA STREET, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I close my eyes and all I see is rain Last Line: We blink in darkened rooms towards exits that are gone Subject(s): Loss YEAR'S END, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the seasons are closing their files Subject(s): Loss YEAR'S END, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the seasons are closing their files Last Line: We fell in love again, finding %that one red feather on the wind Subject(s): Loss YEARS, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: My grandmother's russian/ %english dictionary-she must Last Line: Newspapers spill %the years into my eyes Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration YES, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to culture shock: / a guide to customs and etiquette Last Line: What he means by his yes Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration YES, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to culture shock: %a guide to customs and etiquette Last Line: Then study his lips, wondering if I'll be able to decipher %what he means by his yes Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration YES!, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I said 'let's go rollerblading Last Line: Yes!,' I answered 'yes' Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of YESTERDAY WHEN DIANA DROPS ME OFF ON EVERGREEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That's who he's interested in Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOU BELIEVE THIS STASH OF WRITING IS 'SCHOLARLY'?, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A heart-stopping glimpse of nature's larger grazer? %you fence it in Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOU KNOW WHEN YOU WRITE POETRY YOU FIND, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Do I mean perfection? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOU LIKE IT HUH? YOU LIKE THAT DULCET STUFF, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Breath of air. See you Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOU MURMUR 'EARTH', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A return to this continuous story Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Loss YOU SAID, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You said, 'I will put a glowing armor about you' Last Line: Keep your answer awhile . . . Yet awhile . . . I am coming to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Love - Loss Of YOU SPLIT ME DOWN TO MY ATOMS, by SIMON LINDQUIST Poem Source Last Line: After you %take me apart Subject(s): Love - Loss Of YOU WERE YOU ARE ELEGY, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fragile like a child is fragile Subject(s): Love; Loss YOU, IF NO ONE ELSE, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, you %who transformed your anguish Last Line: In this round hour now %where your voice strikes time Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration YOU?, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was that you whistling for me, the snake in the shower? Last Line: Look quickly Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOUNG BENJIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of a' the maids o' fair scotland Last Line: To scug his deadly sin Subject(s): Love - Loss Of YOUNG CHARLOTTIE, by WILLIAM LORENZO CARTER Poem Text First Line: Young charlottie lived by a mountain side in a wild and lonely spot Last Line: Till at last he died with the bitter grief -- now they both lie in one tomb. Subject(s): Death; Love – Loss Of; Mourning YOUR HEART IS FINE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your heart is fine feeling the widest Last Line: In the mutual air %awake without defect Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOUR LAST ILLUSION OR BREAK UP SONNETS: 19, by WANDA PHIPPS Poem Source First Line: I forgot you with donnatol & too much wine on the upper west side Last Line: We'll meet there soon to drown all thoughts of loss Subject(s): Loss YOUTH, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She paved the way with perfume sweet Last Line: She left me to grow old alone. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of YUPPY WITTGENSTEINS ARISE!, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And sleep again the puzzle Last Line: Rise upon its occasiona and all our normal body functions Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss |
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