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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MEDITATION Matches Found: 78 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ... IN THE LAND OF HYPNOSIS, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I have heard the latest news Last Line: The speck in on'es eye %when it blocks out %a much deeper %evil Subject(s): Hypnotism; Meditation; Silence A MEDITATION IN SEVEN DAYS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If your mother is a jew, you are a jew Subject(s): Day; Jews - Women; Meditation A MEDITATION ON THE THREE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goddess, by threefold ceremonies adored Last Line: To dwell where wholly thou and thine are his. Subject(s): Meditation; Religion; Theology A MIDNIGHT MEDITATION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often have I said Last Line: The christsoul of the universe to shine. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Meditation; Night; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime A PREPARATORY HYMNE TO THE WEEK OF MEDITACIONS UPON, & DEVOUT EXERCISE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: No days, nor weeks, must I Last Line: Think heavn above my head doth ly. Subject(s): Christianity; Meditation A SICK CHILD'S MEDITATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and weariness, aching eyes and head Last Line: Annulled them all without distinction. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Love; Meditation; Pain; Sickness; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Illness A SOLEMN MEDITATION, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is this life, this active guest Last Line: Surely, said Ilife is a ft! Subject(s): Meditation AND WILT THOU WEEP WHEN I AM LOW?, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love; Meditation; Crying BOOK, LAND, NIGHT, by SUSAN TICHY Poem Source First Line: Where trees stop and rock begins Last Line: And began to carry away the chips of bone Subject(s): Betrayal; Meditation; Poetry And Poets BRIEF WYOMING MEDITATION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read / sand creek massacre: white antelope's scrotum Last Line: & the mountains Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Meditation BRIEF WYOMING MEDITATION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read %sand creek massacre: white antelope's scrotum Last Line: Nothing lasts long %nothing %but earth %& the mountains Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Meditation BROTHERS: 5. THE ROAD LED FROM DELIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into delight, into the sharp Last Line: And so forth. Subject(s): Brothers; Humanity; Meditation; Half-brothers CANTE HONDO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was meditating, absorbed, winding Last Line: The dust sweeps away and the ash expels Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; Meditation; Memory; Solitude CLOUDS AND MOUNTAINS ALL TANGLED TOGETHER UP TO THE BLUE SKY, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mindless this life is like water flowing east Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Meditation; Zen Buddhism DAY'S MEDITATION, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In front of the fiery palm Last Line: From river to river, mountain to mountain, %sea to sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Meditation; Spain DREAM OF THE CONDOR, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: As the choir of stars begins Last Line: Down in meditation when alone Subject(s): Meditation; Solitude ELEGY, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've won (lost) my day Last Line: Whether it's poetry still, or a mere game Subject(s): Grief; Love; Meditation FINDING THE BUDDHA, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: In the corner of a garden shop, among the evengreens Last Line: Against the body, your smile nearly ready %to bloom Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Meditation; Romance GOLDIN MEDITATES ON PROVIDENCE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: At the tower of babel, petitions Last Line: Who will take up the cudgel of radiance? Subject(s): Meditation GUILDER POND, by CHRISTINE BOYKA KLUGE Poem Source First Line: Sitting here on the rocks Last Line: Sinking like silver rings %into stillness Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Meditation HOW TO MEDITATE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lights out - / fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Meditation HOW TO MEDITATE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lights out - %fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous Last Line: So I don't have to think %and more Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Meditation INTO THE LIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half-waif, half-woman, at fourteen norma Last Line: And the planter of wandering jew was a japanese microphone Subject(s): Life; Meditation; Women JEROME MEDITATING, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes are closed. %the windows are open Last Line: Like a shell bringing the ocean home Subject(s): Meditation LUTE, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lute set aside Last Line: And it plays itself Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Meditation; Zen Buddhism MEDITATION, by MATHILDE DORE Poem Text First Line: Voices at twilight Last Line: And joyous with love. Subject(s): Meditation MEDITATION, by PAUL GERALDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One loves at first by chance Last Line: Because you have begun. Subject(s): Love; Meditation MEDITATION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: My life is such a dream as this Last Line: To lift my soul to higher things. Subject(s): Meditation MEDITATION, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The orchestra tunes up, each instrument Subject(s): Meditation MEDITATION, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The orchestra tunes up, each instrument Last Line: And every gathered voice, every amen, %join to compose the sacred conversation Subject(s): Meditation MEDITATION, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a place of barren heaped-up rocks Last Line: Back to the twinkling harbour lights of home. Subject(s): Meditation MEDITATION, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: We are like a train Last Line: Entering still standing stations %anticipating fuel Subject(s): Meditation MEDITATION, by LI HO Poem Source First Line: Sorrow on the mountain Last Line: Over the fresh graves %fireflies! Subject(s): Meditation MEDITATION, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Trumper blasts, that kind of morning Last Line: And more, and more, %a sum of untended time Subject(s): Death; Meditation; News; Soul MEDITATION, by BEYLE SCHAECHTER-GOTTESMAN Poem Source First Line: Overflowing eyes %heavy talk Last Line: Clasp hands %companions of long ago Subject(s): Meditation MEDITATION, by RUTH L. TEISSEDRE Poem Text First Line: I hear the chapel bell again Last Line: Now a walking prayer to an unknown god. Subject(s): Consolation; Meditation; Remorse; Sin MEDITATION, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Sitting lotus hurts my knees Last Line: And deep inside, a still small voice assures me I can go on Subject(s): Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MEDITATION AT FIFTY YARDS, MOVING TARGET, by RITA DOVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never point your weapon, keep your finger Last Line: Sleeping in the next room, all with one shot Subject(s): Bullets; Guns; Meditation MEDITATION AT FIFTY YARDS, MOVING TARGET, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never point your weapon, keep your finger Last Line: Before you know it %I am home Subject(s): Bullets; Guns; Meditation MEDITATION HALL, by LIU TSUNG-YUAN Poem Source First Line: Clear the land, thatch the rush for roof Last Line: A bird in flight, leaving no tracks behind Subject(s): Meditation MEDITATION IN CHURCH (TO MY MOTHER), by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The soft, clear tones of organ heard Last Line: All these and more, thou art to me. Subject(s): Churches; Meditation; Prayer; Cathedrals MEDITATION IN GLEN HELEN, by JEFF GUNDY Poem Source First Line: So I went to the yellow spring, cupped the cold water Last Line: And chewed themselves fat on the oily, convoluted hearts Subject(s): Meditation MEDITATION IN SEVEN DAYS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If your mother is a jew, you are a jew Last Line: I am the woman, and about to enter Subject(s): Day; Jews - Women; Meditation MEDITATION ON A JUNE EVENING, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As evening comes, my thoughts turn back to you Last Line: And a certain place. Subject(s): Love; Meditation; Memory MEDITATION UNDER STARS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What links are ours with orbs that are Last Line: Half strange seems earth, and sweeter than her flowers. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Meditation; Night; Stars; Bedtime MEDITATIONS AT TWILIGHT, by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Text First Line: Ah, more and more at evening Last Line: Of discontentto usbring peace. Subject(s): Jews; Meditation; Judaism MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: MONDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the tender love of god! - behold Last Line: But love remains unchangeably the same. Subject(s): Meditation MEDITATIONS ON DEATH, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: O sister of the shadow Subject(s): Death; Meditation MIRROR MEDITATION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at my face Last Line: Lead me astray Subject(s): Meditation MOUNTAIN LIVING: 20, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: Outside my door Last Line: My illusions completely gone Subject(s): Meditation; Zen Buddhism MOUNTAIN LIVING: 7, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: In the dark valley the Last Line: Smashes my meditation Subject(s): Meditation; Zen Buddhism MY ROOM, by GENEVIEVE W. MASON Poem Text First Line: In my heart there is a room Last Line: Where I am never bored. Subject(s): Meditation POPE ADDS THE MYSTERIES OF LIGHT, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: People pass me by in the street, abuzz like bees Last Line: In the sun between furrowed fingers and thumb Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Meditation; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) PRELUDE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the house where I was nursed Last Line: With her and god, I owe. Subject(s): Love; Meditation; Thought; Thinking REALITY AND ITS DURATION, by ROSEANN LLOYD Poem Source First Line: At the end of the workshop, we're doing a meditation from shakti Last Line: Where and when Subject(s): Meditation; Mothers And Daughters; Reality REFLECTIONS ON THE FOREGOING ACCOUNT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How full a proof of heav'n's all-present aid Last Line: It is all meanness, if the love be mean. Subject(s): Love; Meditation ROTHKO'S LAST MEDITATION, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the days leading to the miracle he did not Subject(s): Abandonment; Disappeared Persons; Meditation; Desertion; Missing Persons ROTHKO'S LAST MEDITATION, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the days leading to the miracle he did not Last Line: Nothing, a miraculous calm he'd soon lose and chase %into his chosen death Subject(s): Abandonment; Disappeared Persons; Meditation SECRETS OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The pale eyes flashing in his dark face Last Line: They do not know that I am grieving %they do not know I loved you Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Jews - Women; Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships SHORT MEDITATION ON LONG-SUFFERING POETS, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Although they tell us suffering helps one write Last Line: And every syllable she writes sheds tears Subject(s): Meditation; Pain; Poetry And Poets SITTING AT NIGHT ON THE MOON-VIEWING TERRACE, by YANG WAN-LI Poem Source First Line: This autumn the days have been hot Last Line: Now happiness has come of itself Subject(s): Meditation SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT; FOR KENNETH REXROTH, by PHILIP WHALEN Poem Source First Line: I always say I won't go back to the mountains Last Line: Like they say, 'four times up, %three times down.' I'm still on the mountain Subject(s): Meditation; Mountains SPRING WOODS, by ELIZABETH ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: I walked in a spring woods Last Line: He starts his work? Subject(s): Forests; Meditation; Woods STAYING AT BAMBOO LODGE, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An evening sitting under Last Line: The gate of mystery! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Meditation; Zen Buddhism STOPPING BY THE TEMPLE OF INCENSE MASSED (1), by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: I knew not of the temple of incense massed Last Line: Towards dusk at the bend of a deserted pool, %in meditation's calm I mastered passion's dragon Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Meditation; Passion; Temples STOPPING BY THE TEMPLE OF INCENSE MASSED (1), by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Not know incense incense heap-up temple Last Line: Towards dusk at the bend of a deserted pool, %in meditation's calm I mastered passion's dragon Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Meditation; Passion; Temples TAN TIEN, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Meditation; Tang Dynasty (618-907) TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: A MEDITATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the hands Last Line: They belong to the ox Subject(s): Hands; Meditation TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: A MEDITATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the hands Last Line: They belong to the ox Subject(s): Hands; Meditation THE CRYSTAL GAZER, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall gather myself into myself again Last Line: In restless self-importance to and fro. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Meditation THE MEDITATION OF COLUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise be to god, and a blessing too at that, and a blessing Last Line: And hath no thought of my sons in the deeps of the air and the sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Legends; Meditation; Salvation THE MOON AND THE OCEAN; TO SYLVIA, by PAUL ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The moon, / the old roue Last Line: And blind him. Subject(s): Death; Meditation; Dead, The THE PINK BUBBLE TECHNIQUE, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On shakti gawain's self help tape Last Line: Left, for better, for worse, to fend for itself Subject(s): Gawain, Shakti (b. 1948); Meditation THERE'S LIFE IN A MUSSEL; A MEDITATION, by GEORGE FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Come here, thou proud pretender unto arts Last Line: T'imbibe the quintessence of flowing sweets. Subject(s): Life; Meditation; Metamorphosis TO TRY TO FIND, by WANG KUO-WEI Poem Source First Line: To try to find my heart, it's hard enough Last Line: Ceaseless, the cawing of crows in the evening cold Subject(s): Meditation TRANSCENDENCY, by NORMAN CABOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A more imposing chaos than our own Last Line: Of some more hugely blundering ass than I! Subject(s): Heaven; Meditation; Paradise TWO-NATURED MONSTER, by DOUGLAS BLAZEK Poem Source First Line: A man sits cross-legged on the living room rug awaiting god's blood. This Last Line: He decides a good place to begin is breakfast Subject(s): Meditation YOU, FOR MY MEDITATION, by SARA DE IBANEZ Poem Source First Line: Did the earth stretch out Last Line: Death has shown me how to walk its valleys Subject(s): Meditation |
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