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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MATURITY Matches Found: 54 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GENTLE ART, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been learning how to light a fire Subject(s): Growth; Maturity A LITTLE GIRL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where have they gone to - the little girls Last Line: "who knows not the meaning of ""flirt"" or ""style" Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Girls; Innocence; Maturity A MAN OF FORTY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: I stood in childhood's narrow vale Last Line: On one of forty. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Maturity; Childhood A MORAL EMBLEM OF MATURITY, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Text First Line: Man grows up Last Line: About myself. Subject(s): Maturity; Solitude; Loneliness A SONNET OF SPOUSAL, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Over the mountain hangs the hush of dawn Last Line: And worship in its holy evening hour! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Maturity; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Weddings; Husbands; Wives AD ASTRA: 111, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: For mark the savage with his simple wants Last Line: And so a thousand years he will remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Maturity ADOLESCENCE, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD Poem Text First Line: White morning, like a frosted window-pane Last Line: Was dark with secrets as the depths below. Subject(s): Adolescence; Growth; Maturity; Time; Youth; Teen Agers APPLICANT, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The past's Last Line: We stood, shook hands. %I promised to be quick with an answer Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Maturity BROTHER AND SISTER, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot choose but think upon the time Last Line: I would be born a little sister there. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Variant Title(s): "i Cannot Choose But Think Upon The Time""; Subject(s): Adolescence; Brothers & Sisters; Evans, Isaac; Family Life; Maturity; Memory; Teen Agers; Relatives CULTIVATED GROUND, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: When young, one is fearful of being influenced Last Line: With a jerk of the arm uniquely one's own Subject(s): Maturity FIVE LITTLE WANDERINGS: 4. MANHOOD, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep and wake and work Last Line: For I dream of the roving still! Subject(s): Maturity FOR A CERTAIN BELOVED GENTLEMAN, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: Although the world may think of you as old Last Line: Will surely dwell in peace through all his days. Subject(s): Aging; Maturity FUTURES, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: He wouldn't take off his coat or hat, his aunt charity says, but he Last Line: Nothing %to change or predict Subject(s): Caregivers; Future; Love; Maturity GEMINI AND VIRGO, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some vast amount of years ago Last Line: Forgiveness to the heartless anna. Variant Title(s): Tommy's First Love Subject(s): Children; Maturity GENTLE ART, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been learning how to light a fire Last Line: Like a child grown up, growing strange Subject(s): Growth; Maturity GRATITUDE TO OLD TEACHERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake Last Line: Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Education; Faith; Growth; Maturity; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Belief; Creed; Students; Educators; Professors GROWING UP, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am reading li po. The t.V. Is on Last Line: Then turn it off and go on reading Subject(s): Television; Maturity; Books GROWING UP, by IVA KOTRLA Poem Source First Line: In the years %when the secret police Last Line: And spoke to us %gently, like a mother Subject(s): Aging; Human Rights; Maturity HUGE WINGS FOR A FRAIL BODY, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: When day approached evening the dusk gathered round a pink doll's Last Line: What did it resemble? Huge wings for a frail body Subject(s): Growth; Maturity; Wings I AM RUNNING INTO A NEW YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I beg what I love and %I leave to forgive me Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Holidays; Maturity; New Year IF, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you Last Line: And -- which is more -- you'll be a man, my son! Subject(s): Fortitude; Human Behavior; Leadership; Maturity; Self-control; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LINES ON REACHING MATURITY, by LEITH SHACKEL Poem Text First Line: I do not weep for days that now are past Last Line: I do not weep for days that now are past. Subject(s): Maturity LONELY MATURITY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from the key-stone of the arch of life Last Line: "and once for all my ancient love regain!" Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Maturity MATURITY, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is companioned secretly Last Line: Figures of his yesterdays. Subject(s): Maturity MATURITY, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: Seeing the fury of the rushing rain Last Line: Pools whose quiet flow sustains an ocean. Subject(s): Maturity; Nature; Youth MOTHER, by BEA LIU Poem Source First Line: I wish that I could talk with her again Last Line: You're a big girl now. You can work things out Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Maturity OLD-FASHIONED LADIES (TO THE MEMORY OF MY GREAT-AUNT, MADAME K-), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ample hall, a stair with wide Last Line: That quaintness, calm and fine, god knows! Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Maturity; Relationships; Relatives ON CHANGE OF OPINIONS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As you advance in years you long Last Line: To rake into his bag of nought. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Death; Growth; Longing; Maturity; Childhood; Dead, The ON MY OWN MINIATURE PICTURE, TAKEN AT TWO YEARS OF AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was once like this! That glowing cheek Last Line: Spirit of spenser! Was the wanderer wrong? Subject(s): Life Change Events; Maturity; Nations; Portraits; Self; Youth ON YOUR TWENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by ADRIAN F. NADER Poem Text First Line: I think I knew, beloved Last Line: Content together.... Subject(s): Maturity PASSAGE, by MATTHEW JAMES BABCOCK Poem Source First Line: When I hear that over the last three months Last Line: Head a purple menagerie of fourteen new finches Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Ecuador; Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Maturity; Teenagers PRIZE WATERMELON, by JAMES O'HERN Poem Source First Line: I carry a huge striped watermelon Last Line: In which I drop the watermelon Subject(s): Maturity PROBLEM IN A MATH BOOK, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a problem in a math book Last Line: And know what I did well and what I did not fo. Amen Subject(s): Growth; Man-woman Relationships; Maturity; Religion; Male-female Relations; Theology PROBLEM IN A MATH BOOK, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a problem in a math book Last Line: And what I did well and what I didn't amen Subject(s): Growth; Man-woman Relationships; Maturity; Religion RECURRING YULETIDE, by JOSEPH TWYMAN Poem Text First Line: How good our every festival appears Last Line: And to receive in knowing how to give. Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Festivals; Maturity; Childhood; Fairs; Pageants SIDE BY SIDE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does it mean to be mature? Last Line: I'm all out of them Subject(s): Maturity SONG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we'll go no more a-roving Last Line: By the light of the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Aging; Ennui; Maturity; Conduct Of Life STILL AT TIME I'M A DUMB LITTLE BOY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wanting to give the family a fish dinner Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boys; Ignorance; Innocence; Maturity; Nature TEMPERATE ZONE, by WILLIAM AIKEN Poem Source First Line: In this waterfront resort where love Last Line: A mist on a quiet wharf %that will rise and clear by noon Subject(s): Maturity THE ENDURING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in an hour the meadows bright with gold Last Line: Yet cannot break their timeless influence. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Maturity; Old Age THE LIGHT THAT NEVER DIES, by SIEG HALBERG Poem Text First Line: From boyhood to manhood we grow Last Line: It is the light which never dies. Subject(s): Aging; Life; Maturity THE LITTLE SEED SPEAKS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I wonder if the people know Last Line: The fifth or sixth or seventh day! Subject(s): April; Growth; Maturity THE RETROSPECT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As on I journey through the vale of years Last Line: Onward in faithand leave the rest to heaven. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Maturity; Memory; Travel; Wisdom; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips THE WATCHMAN AND THE NIGHT: THE WATCHMAN, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through jewelled windows in the wall Last Line: A prisoner of the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Maturity TO A LADY ON COMING OF AGE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear not my frequent verse may raise Last Line: A crown as bright as love does now. Subject(s): Maturity TO A WOMAN, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think that you were born mature Last Line: But only be the happiest of fools. Subject(s): Maturity; Women TO EDITH SOUTHEY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Edith! I brought thee late a humble gift Last Line: Robert southey. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Marital; Maturity; Poetry & Poets; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO HYMEN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God of the torch, whose soul-illuming flame Last Line: Nor knows the dread of death. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Faith; Friendship; God; Humanity; Life; Love; Maturity; Inspiration; Creativity; Belief; Creed TO URBAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where the livid lightning flies Last Line: To slumber in the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Health; Life; Maturity; Passion; Dead, The TRILOGY, by ANN STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child - I chased the butterfly through sunlight Last Line: To meet -- nothing? Subject(s): Maturity TWENTY-ONE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dossing it here in the model, dreary, bedraggled, / dry Last Line: ^1^ let him drink and forget his proverty. prov. Xxxi., 7. Subject(s): Maturity; Youth VIOLET: 5. AT SEVENTEEN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a child, and liked me, yesterday Last Line: Fearing to meet the woman of your eyes. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Maturity; Teenagers WORLD OUTSIDE, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: The blue '86 chevy-side truck is his job corps graduation Last Line: Patient and quiet and loving and... %well, you get the picture Subject(s): Caregivers; Independence; Labor And Laborers; Maturity YOU ARE NEVER READY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: In four minutes you will be gone and I must tell you why Last Line: Get out of this fucking world %as fast as you can Subject(s): Independence; Life; Maturity; Self-love |
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