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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LUCK Matches Found: 71 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF QUEENSLAND, by G. H. GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Don't you remember black alice, sam holt Last Line: To the end of the chapter of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Ironbark Subject(s): Envy; Luck; Memory; Nostalgia; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes A COMPENSATION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: However fiercely fortune struck Last Line: He did not murder cain. Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Luck A THROW OF THE DICE NEVER WILL ABOLISH CHANCE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A throw of the dice Last Line: All thought emits a throw of the dice Subject(s): Disasters; Fate; Luck; Shipwrecks; Destiny AMOR SEMPITERNUS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: When first I found thee, ruth, I thought: 'how rare!' Last Line: Remembering a chaos of caresses. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Luck; Marriage; Passion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BAD LUCK CARD, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cause you don't love me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Luck; Negroes; American Blacks BAD LUCK CARD, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cause you don't love me Last Line: Gypsy says I'd kill my self %if I was you Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Luck BARNEY MCGEE, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barney mcgee, there's no end of good luck in you Last Line: Barney mcgee! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Luck; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse BEGGAR BILL, by WALTER HENDRICKS Poem Text First Line: Shrapnel would have burst his head Last Line: "had I but turned my head that day!" Subject(s): Luck; Soldiers; War BOSC PEARS, by SUSAN CONLEY Poem Text First Line: We are committed to atoms, to their unseen ways Subject(s): Luck CHANCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "chance, in whom men start and end" Last Line: Goddess excellent and best Subject(s): Luck COINCIDENCES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't it very lucky,' I once heard a youngster say Last Line: "we somehow never spoil it by poor lessons or by folly?" Subject(s): Luck; Schools; Students DOMINO PLAYERS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The players have been doing this Last Line: Of going home at dusk Subject(s): Dominoes; Games; Luck DON'T BE DOWN-HEARTED (A PHILOSOPHIC POME), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world is extremely unpleasant Last Line: Then it will take a turn for the worse! Subject(s): Future; Hope; Luck; Optimism FOR GOOD LUCK, by JULIANA HORATIA GATTY EWING Poem Text First Line: Little kings and queens of may Last Line: And a bit for the nixies and pixies! Subject(s): Luck FOR LUCK, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know for sure you're lucky Subject(s): Luck FORTUNE, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luck today will be skill tomorrow. If only your fear Subject(s): Fortune; Luck FORTUNE, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luck today will be skill tomorrow. If only your fear Last Line: Fabric woven by apprentices whose fingers %are sad and large with the work of beginning Subject(s): Fortune; Luck GAMBLER, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gambler. Golden are my teeth. My head is shining like a cabaret Last Line: Good friend, throw the dice! I live by chance and chance rewards %me well Subject(s): Gambling; Luck GOOD AND BAD LUCK, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good luck is the gayest of all gay girls Last Line: And sits by your bed, and brings her knitting. Subject(s): Cynicism; Luck GOOD LUCK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Birdshit on the window Last Line: But never get stuck Subject(s): Birds; Excrement; Luck GOOD LUCK NOT LASTING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If well the dice runne, lets applaud the cast Last Line: The happy fortune will not alwayes last. Subject(s): Luck HARD LUCK, by BETH GYLYS Poem Source First Line: Allen jones could not believe his luck Last Line: All he'd really wanted was to fuck Subject(s): Luck; Sex HARD LUCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I left the course, and by my side Last Line: Beside the circular quay. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Luck HORSESHOES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half my childhood my father carried in his dusty pocket Last Line: Clanging on the back porch, among the wind chimes. Subject(s): Charms (magic); Gifts & Giving; Horseshoes; Luck INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: That summer we were joey chitwood's thrill show Last Line: With ease. That's how I earned %my first kiss. It still shines Subject(s): Festivals; Luck; Money LINDISFAIRE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horses go down the dingy lane Last Line: You'll find the old bay hunter there. Subject(s): Animals; Caregivers; Despair; Horses; Luck; Patience; Poverty LOVER REMEMBERETH SUCH AS HE SOMETIME ENJOYED AND SHOWETH HOW HE, by LEON STOKESBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Luck is something I do no understand: Last Line: Luck is something I do not understand. Variant Title(s): The Lover Remembereth Such As He Sometime Enjoyed .. Subject(s): Luck LUCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Once / we were young / at this / machine / drinking / smoking / typing Last Line: Closing / space Subject(s): Luck LUCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once %we were young %at this %machine %drinking %smoking %typing Last Line: Makes each word %drill %into the %paper %clear %fast %hard %feeding a %closing %space Subject(s): Luck LUCK, by RALPH BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scrub oak and tumbleweed Last Line: Because we seem to care, and caring, %brighten and disappear Subject(s): Luck LUCK, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: Down the dark day Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Luck LUCK, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the blackjack table he felt it Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Card Games; Luck LUCK, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Years ago at aqueduct, my friend joe, a marxist, bed on a horse Last Line: Gift, a nag that for a while gave some of us hope, like marxism in %the third Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Horse Racing; Luck LUCK, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What bring you, sailor, home from the sea Subject(s): Luck; Sailors And Sailing LUCK, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes a crumb falls Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Luck; Negroes; American Blacks LUCK, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes a crumb falls Last Line: Love is given, %to others %only in heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Luck LUCK, by MAUREEN MCDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Everybody knows it's a tough thing to hit a moose Subject(s): Luck LUCK, by DENNIS MCHARRIE Poem Source First Line: I suppose they'll say his last thoughts were of simple things Last Line: He died that's all. It was his unlucky night Subject(s): Luck; War LUCK, by DARE STARK Poem Text First Line: Let there live aye a lad's laugh in the throat of you Last Line: Let death be a step betwix you and the god of you! Subject(s): Death; Life; Luck; Dead, The LUCK, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every week, a deadline. Every week Last Line: My voice answering to any name they called me Subject(s): Luck LUCK IS NOT CHANCE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is that old fashioned coin %we spurned Variant Title(s): Poem: 1350; Poem: 136 Subject(s): Luck LUCKY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If you are lucky in this life, Last Line: And sweet is sweet in any language Subject(s): Luck; Mothers & Sons LUCKY, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever imagining the dire, the sudden Subject(s): Luck; Surgery; Food & Eating; Hair LUCKY DAY, by JEFF DOLVEN Poem Source First Line: Passing buses trouble the composure Last Line: A mirror that is ever to be trusted Subject(s): Luck MONOPOLY, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loneliness of two people %together, rolling dice Last Line: Desire to win without luck Subject(s): Games; Luck MORE POWER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: More power to your elbow,' she said Last Line: The poorhouse %or hell Subject(s): Jokes; Luck MUCHAS GRACIAS POR TODO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This plane has landed thanks to god and his mercy Last Line: Thanks to the small toad that lives in cool mud at the base of the zinnias. Subject(s): Life; Luck; Mercy; Travel; Journeys; Trips OF MONEY, by BARNABY (BARNABE) GOOGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give money me, take frienship whoso list Last Line: Finds ways enough to ease thine heaviness. Alternate Author Name(s): Goche, Barnaby; Goghe, Barnaby; Gouche, Barnaby Subject(s): Friendship; Luck; Money PAIN, by EDITH SODERGRAN Poem Source First Line: Happiness has no songs, happiness has no thoughts, happiness %has nothing Last Line: Love, solitude, and the face of death Subject(s): Luck; Pain PENNIES FOR LUCK, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: A heron flaps upstream, the color of fog over the river Last Line: Where you are Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Luck; Rivers PRODIGAL SON AND THE TWO SINATRAS, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first time he becomes aware of the voice, some are saying that popular Last Line: Clear day. Neither one suspects that they will meet here, and these are %not compassionate times Subject(s): Luck RIDING TO THE HUNT, by WILLIAM AUGUSTINE LEAHY Poem Text First Line: String your arrow to my lips, harry lincoln Last Line: Sober death's dancing, too, at life's door. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Life; Love; Luck; Dead, The; Parting RORY O'MORE; OR, ALL FOR GOOD LUCK, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Young rory o'more courted kathleen bawn Last Line: "for there's luck in odd numbers,"" says rory o'more." Variant Title(s): Rory O'more;good Omens Subject(s): Courtship; Luck; Omens RUNE FOR C., by BARBARA HOWES Poem Source First Line: Luck? I am upset. My dog is ill Last Line: Square and oil-shambled, blue between elms, the caboose! Subject(s): Luck SEE A PIN AND PICK IT UP, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Bad luck you'll have all the day! Subject(s): Pins; Luck SOME SAY YOU'RE LUCKY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where the beloved is born Subject(s): Luck; Poetry & Poets SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Hope; Luck; Optimism SPIDER LUCK, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: One toe-nudge too many and she exploded, poor Last Line: Mouths, never mind, whose little orphan are you? Subject(s): Luck; Survival SPRING LEMONADE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In late april they spread manure on the fields Last Line: Something none of us had ever imagined Subject(s): Spring; Luck THE CHANCE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All will be fused again, and all Last Line: If you come girl and I come boy! Subject(s): Luck; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE COMING OF GOOD LUCK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So good luck came, and on my roof did light Last Line: Are, by the sun-beams, tickel'd by degrees. Subject(s): Luck THE CONDITIONAL, by ADA LIMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say tomorrow doesn't come. Subject(s): Luck THE FORTUNATE SPILL, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! Johnnie thinks. He has his nerve! Last Line: As they fall for each other, and for me Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; African Americans; Courtship; Luck; Love; Relatives THE LIFE OF TOWNS: LUCK TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Digging a hole Last Line: A man struck gold Subject(s): Luck THE MYSTERY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Whence and whither, how and why? Last Line: Lingers luck, or hurries by? Subject(s): Luck THE QUEEN OF HEARTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How comes it, flora, that, whenever we Last Line: Natural affinity. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Luck THREE THROWS AND ONE, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still dusk shuts out the shimmering sea, / shuts in the shadowy shore Last Line: Con sees the white face of his doom through all the world grown dim. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Luck; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wishes; Anglers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TIME AND CHANCE HAPPENTH TO ALL, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, if fond of wonder and surprise Last Line: Their virtues shall exalt them to the sky. Subject(s): Luck; Time WISHING-CAPS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life's all getting and giving Subject(s): Luck WITH A LITTLE BIT OF LUCK, by JULIET RODEMAN Poem Source First Line: So many selves (so many friends and gods each Last Line: The hands tell us so, and then are feeling in the pockets Subject(s): Luck YOUR LUCK IS ABOUT TO CHANGE', by SUSAN ELIZABETH HOWE Poem Source First Line: Ominous inscrutable chinese news Last Line: Then savor the newborn babe Subject(s): Christmas; Fortune Tellers; Luck |
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