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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MEMORY Matches Found: 2254 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF BEACONSFIELD", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Disraeli dead! The trappings of late days Last Line: A tear upon the wreath Subject(s): "death;disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881);honor;jews;memory;" "dead, The;judaism; "THE RUBAIYAT OF PRINCE ALEXANDER, SELS.", by PRINCE" "ALEXANDER [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "for some are false, - the empire and the crown" Last Line: And shall through all the ages yet unscrolled! Alternate Author Name(s): "alexander, Prince; Subject(s): Beauty;memory;soul ( ), by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin struggled with the importance of parentheses Last Line: Into the disorienting whirls in which order can be glimpsed Subject(s): Memory (AN) OBJECT, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shining %in the cold Last Line: Completes %its drawing Subject(s): Memory 1-JAN-99, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Everything is still %possible. Each Last Line: To the time your feet got up to leave Subject(s): Memory; Travel 1941, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wore a large brim hat Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Memory; Relationships 1941, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wore a large brim hat Last Line: In the arms of my total happiness Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Memory; Relationships 1992, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's dark down the rue caulaincourt Last Line: Utilizable, every inch, even used up Subject(s): Memory 1ST, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember about that day Last Line: Nothing about the emptied rooms %nothing about the emptied family Variant Title(s): Evictio Subject(s): Children; Emptiness; Memory 2-MAR, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I think of her Last Line: It's also the music of loneliness Subject(s): Absence; Memory A BACKWARD LOOK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sat smoking, alone, yesterday Last Line: Than it ever will have again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Memory; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A BALLAD OF MEMORIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nae mair, alas! Nae mair I'll see young mornin's gowden hair Last Line: Will shine as bricht, an' fa' as saft, when I hae gaen awa'. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Past 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 BLACK HILLS IDYL, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: We came to where two roads instead of one Last Line: Though given years ago, we still obey. Subject(s): Forget-me-nots; Memory A BLURRY PHOTOGRAPH, by MARTHA RONK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tree azalea overwhelms the evening with its scent Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Time; Smells; Memory; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A BOY'S WHISTLE, by JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS Poem Text First Line: If I could whistle like I used to when I was just a boy Last Line: No use in tryin' when we're old, we've been away too long! Subject(s): Lips; Memory; Music & Musicians; Sound; Whistles & Whistling A CAMEO, by DARTHEA ENO YUILLE Poem Text First Line: A frigate born to fulsome sail Last Line: But from the soul and senses never. Subject(s): Memory A CHILD'S DAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a little child Last Line: And dead leaves on a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Day; Memory; Spring; Childhood A CHRISTMAS MEMORY (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pa he bringed me here to stay Last Line: I ist only want my ma! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Memory; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint A COLONIAL MORNING DREAM, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cocks crow memories Last Line: Narrates the halftones of love. Subject(s): Memory; Morning 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 CONFESSION OF FAITH, by JAMES SPRENT Poem Text First Line: Who would remember me were I to die Last Line: If I am worth it, keep my memory. Subject(s): Memory; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A CONTRAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can you open that ebony casket? Last Line: Who is living in me to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Memory; Tears; Time A CURIOUS REMINISCENCE, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Of all the bloomin' awful things, the awfullest I've knowed Last Line: An' gallops off like madmen through the rain. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Practical Jokes; Dead, The; Wine; Pranks A DATE WITH ROBBE-GRILLET, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember didn't happen Last Line: Where I alone could tell the story. Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Loneliness A DOMESTIC POEM FOR PORTIA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is all it is Last Line: The light of what we are, has to be enough. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Duty; Memory A FAN PAINTED BY WATTEAU, by B. B. W. Poem Text First Line: Old ivory and yellow lace Last Line: The courtly world of old watteau. Subject(s): Memory A GENESIS TEXT FOR LARRY LEVIS, WHO DIED ALONE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It will always happen -- the death of a friend Last Line: But where was that woman and her snake when we needed them? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Friendship; Levis, Larry (1946-1996); Memory; Men; Dead, The A GLANCE AYONT THE GRAVE, by ANDREW CRAWFURD Poem Text First Line: My boyhood was a pleasant dreim Last Line: An' airts us to our beild in hevin'. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The A HARVEST SONG, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the mellow days of autumn Last Line: And she sings the reaper's song. Subject(s): Army - United States; Grief; Marching & Marches; Memory; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness A HAUNTING MEMORY, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild rockets blew along the lane Last Line: Still on the eider sings that thrush. Subject(s): Memory A HUNDRED BOLTS OF SATIN, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All you / have to lose Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Reason; Railways; Trains; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A HYMN FOR ST. DAVID'S DAY (TO THE MEMORY OF SIR OWEN M. EDWARDS), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again in unison we stand Last Line: A nation's prayer, a nation's praise. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Edwards, Sir Owen M. (1858-1920); Memory; Prayer; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen A LAST GHAZAL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anconcito. The fisheater. Men were standing on cork rafts Last Line: In my head say please not now, I haven't quite lived yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips A LETTER, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking out of the dark of the town Last Line: And gets its strange spark from the world Subject(s): Letters; Memory A LONG WHILE AGO, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still hangeth down the old accustom'd willow Last Line: A long while ago. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Friendship; Melancholy; Memory; Dejection A LOST MEMORY, by PHILIP C. PECK Poem Text First Line: Listening in the twilight, very long ago Last Line: Some one sang at twilight, very sweet and low. Subject(s): Memory A LOVER'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my little breath, under the willows by the water-side we" Last Line: "oh, my little breath, now I go there alone in sorrow" Subject(s): Lament;love;memory;solitude; Loneliness A MAN IN OUR TOWN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pitied him as one too much at ease Subject(s): Memory; Men; Neighbors A MASQUE OF DEAD QUEENS, by STANLEY E. BABB Poem Text First Line: Queens parade down avenues of memory Last Line: Remains to be said -- ! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Ghosts; Helen Of Troy; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Supernatural; Arthur, King; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A MAY MONODY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my opened window pane Last Line: "come again! Come again!" Subject(s): Birds; Faith; May (month); Memory; Youth; Belief; Creed A MEADOW BROOK, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a quiet nook by a meadow brook Last Line: That meadow brook far away. Subject(s): Brooks; Memory; Streams; Creeks A MEMORY, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest flower that ever saw the light Last Line: But rising clearly on the inner mind. Subject(s): Memory A MEMORY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I have dreamed old loves and lived old times Last Line: For I've been again with nancy. Subject(s): Memory A MEMORY, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart to thee an answer makes Last Line: Within a girl's blue eyes. Subject(s): Memory A MEMORY, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sat in the lamplight's gentle glow Last Line: I shouldn't have -- but I did! Subject(s): Memory A MEMORY, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through rifts of cloud the moon's soft silver slip Last Line: How long ago, my love, how long ago! Subject(s): Memory A MEMORY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came into my life for one brief day Last Line: And dropped a flower there. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; Laughter; Memory; Supernatural A MEMORY, by IRENE R. GILMORE Poem Text First Line: So clearly stands out in memory's vision Last Line: Just kids on a lark from the sweet gum tree. Subject(s): Memory A MEMORY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low sounds of night that drip upon the ear Last Line: Hammer in mine a never easy bell. Subject(s): Memory A MEMORY, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is he! Does he never touch Last Line: What poetry his soul had planned. Subject(s): Memory A MEMORY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the mem'ry of the mistletoe that graced Last Line: She has laid aside a love-wreath for one tired in the fight. Subject(s): Memory A MEMORY, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Over the balsams a golden fleece Last Line: Gently the night winds sigh. Subject(s): Memory A MEMORY, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did it flash at the window there Last Line: Twould matter naught were it wind or rain! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Memory; Thought; Time; Thinking A MEMORY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two stood together one day Last Line: Sealed those sweet love-vows with a kiss. Subject(s): Love; May (month); Memory A MEMORY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is just the weather, a wet may and blowing Last Line: "god send fine weather to carry home the sheaves!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Fathers; God; Memory; Piety; Trust; Weather; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers A MEMORY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, while the loom of winter weaves Last Line: To cluden's hills of heather! Subject(s): Memory; Scotland A MEMORY (1), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One bright memory shines like a star Last Line: And light the dark valley before me. Subject(s): Memory A MEMORY OF 1876, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ages past, before the forest deep Last Line: In the valley of the blue juniata. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Memory; Past A MEMORY OF JUNE, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When june comes dancing o'er the death of may Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Memory A MIDSUMMER MEMORY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swift april ardors bring the white of may Last Line: Rests, circled by that promise: they shall see! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Friendship; Love; Memory; Soul; Spring; Arthur, King; Dead, The A MOTHER'S CHRONOLOGY, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Text First Line: You measure life by months and days Last Line: With which I grieving deck his grave. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Time; Dead, The A NIGHT THOUGHT; WRITTEN IN ILLNESS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Rest dwells not on my brain to-night Last Line: Among the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Despair; Memory; Past A NOVEMBER LANDSACPE, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How like a rich and gorgeous picture hung Last Line: With all its kindling lamps the distant city rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; November; Providence, Rhode Island A PARADOX, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Till memory die one spot I shun Last Line: To ye this heaven I owe! Subject(s): Love; Memory; Soul; Tears A PHOTO OF A LOVER FROM MY JUNIOR YEAR IN COLLEGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or the earth: one half in sun Subject(s): Memory; Photography & Photographers; Universities & Colleges A RAINY DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How tired one grows of a rainy day Last Line: "oh, a rainy day brings back so much" Subject(s): Memory;rain A RECOLLECTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, what's become of all those good old elocution days" Last Line: "oh, what's become of all those good old elocution days?" Subject(s): Memory A RECOLLECTION, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I well remember in my youthful day Last Line: Veil'd, as we met, her blushing cheeks with gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Memory; Youth A RECOLLECTION, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once there in my garden fair Last Line: We would love and prize and cheer. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Memory A REMINISCENCE, by JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas april; 'twas sunday; the day was fair Last Line: Have you forgot? Alternate Author Name(s): C., J. F. Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations A REMINISCENCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose to the wind has yielded: all its leaves Last Line: O sorrow, and commune with thine heart: who knows? Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Roses; Soul A REMINISCENCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the wild honey-bee kissing a rose Last Line: That a bee could have carried me so far away? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Memory; Roses; Sun A ROADSIDE NEAR ITHACA, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we picked wild strawberries Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Memory A ROAMER REVERTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The same thatch and food Last Line: With what's at home to eat. Subject(s): Hearts; Memory; Soul; Wandering & Wanderers 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 SONG OF HOME-COMING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and cold on the far battle-field Last Line: O let the laurel grow there! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Battleships; Homecoming; Memory; Mourning; Peace; Soldiers; War; War Injuries; Bereavement A SONG OF SIXTY-FIVE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one Last Line: The golden time's the olden time, some time round sixty-five. Subject(s): Memory; Paris, France A SONNET TO A PICTURE, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: I do not need this picture on my wall Last Line: And not as mangled by a shrapnel-shell. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Portraits A STUDY FROM MEMORY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If that be yet a living soul which here Last Line: All these must be, or all she was be nought. Subject(s): Memory; Soul A SUMMER IN TUSCANY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember, lucy Last Line: Till we too forget and die! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Relationships; Tuscany, Italy A TASTE FOR THE MODERN, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When passing by a silver shop Last Line: "they were not half as good as these!" Subject(s): Memory A TRAIN WHISTLE, by ROSS LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: I like to hear a train whistle Last Line: To dream the years away. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares A TRIBUTE TO DAD, by CLARA MCKEE BEEDE Poem Text First Line: My dad, he's a star in the heavens Last Line: Let's give them the honor that's due. Subject(s): Honor; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Work; Workers A TRIBUTE TO MR MURPHY AND THE BLUE RIBBON ARMY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail to mr murphy, he is a hero brave Last Line: And adhere to his coloursthe beautiful blue. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Heroism; Memory; Heroes; Heroines A TRIBUTE TO WILL ROGERS AND WILEY POST, by ROSETTA THORSON BEACHLER Poem Text First Line: Oklahoma mourns her sons today Last Line: To realms of greater glory. Subject(s): Honor; Memory; Oklahoma A TWILIGHT MEMORY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At fall of night, when shadows gray Last Line: I dwell a safe and happy child. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Memory A VAGRANT, by JOSEPHINE POLLARD Poem Text First Line: I cannot check my thought these days Last Line: That is not wealth to me? Subject(s): Memory A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 1. COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wi' my haun on my haffit I sit by the fire Last Line: I mourn for the days an' the folk that's awa. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 2. DRUMPELLIER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye kenna, my cummers, ye never can ken Last Line: But bonny drumpellier they've left evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 4. GARTSHERRIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noo I'll dauner awa' up by carlincraft burn Last Line: May gude gi'e them gumption their wages tae spen'. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Change; Memory; Past A WINTER SCENE AND REFLECTIONS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To get at nature's finer nobler grace and power Last Line: Of mind and heart, a lumed light of all eternity. Subject(s): Life; Memory; Nature; Winter A WINTER'S NIGHT IN IRONDEQUOIT, by EMMA MAGIN BISSELL Poem Text First Line: Oh, what a night in irondequoit! Last Line: They blaze before their eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Memory A WISH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I were a little bird Last Line: That springs again no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Wishes; Optimism A WORN-OUT PENCIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welladay! / here I lay Last Line: With his dead songs by his side. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Pens & Pencils; Dead, The AARON JACOBSON, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Again he returns in a dream--, Last Line: Through the underbrush, threads deep %into the landscape. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Virginia (state) AARON LEVY GREEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now dimly thro' our tears we see his face Last Line: Us worthy of joining him on high Subject(s): Honor;immortality;jews;memory;rest; Judaism ABANDONED FARMSTEAD, by RON BLOCK Poem Source First Line: Across the distance of contested lands Last Line: In a car that shrank upon a shrinking road, %until the last speck of farmstead disappeared Subject(s): Farm Life; Memory; Prairies ABOUT CHILDHOOD, by NIN ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I could never remember my childhood, and when therapists Last Line: Folded like cloth napkins in a linen drawer Subject(s): Bodies; Children; Memory ABOVE A SNOW (BETWEEN A SUN AND ETERNITY), by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Not even her slenderness of perfect weight, lying here Last Line: The imagined tunnel; and she also saw the red sun rise above the snow Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Memory ABSCHIED SYMPHONY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone I love is dying, which is why Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Women; Dead, The ABSCHIED SYMPHONY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone I love is dying, which is why Last Line: A peace we could rise to Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Women ABSENCE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wanes the garish light of day, and stilly night comes on Last Line: So is thy presence to my heart, so dear art thou to me! Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Friendship; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Parting ACCOUCHMENT, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Trailing a wall of mottled gray Last Line: Drips ... Ruddy wine. Subject(s): Insomnia; Memory; Sleeplessness ACROSS THE PAMPAS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou remember, oh, dost thou remember Last Line: When we are dead! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Spain; Dead, The ACT THREE, by JOYCE STEIN Poem Source First Line: No one can remember Last Line: Death is the new director Subject(s): Life; Memory AD ASTRA: 41, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What hope have I, if love light not the way? Last Line: I gaveand scorn remembrance of the past! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Memory AD ASTRA: 48, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: One have I met-o radiant memory! Last Line: Man reverenced all womankind anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Memory; Relationships AD ASTRA: 6, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thus do we nourish in our breasts the sting Last Line: To-morrow will be part of our regret! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Memory; Past ADIEU (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God speed thee, setting sun Last Line: Can take away. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Variant Title(s): Vale Subject(s): Memory ADIEU TO COIMBRA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet lucent waters of mondego's stream Last Line: Flies home and bathes her, waters, in your %tide Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Memory ADOBE, by ELIZABETH BILLER CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: Her eyes are dark almonds, remembering Last Line: So, you will ask, how is your life Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Sickness ADVENTURE, by ANNE MATHILDE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Open it slowly Last Line: In memory's eyes! Subject(s): Dawn; Light; Memory; Morning; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime ADVERTISEMENT, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We want a man of forty for the job Last Line: We want such a man for the job. Subject(s): Advertising; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Water; Work; Workers ADVICE, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Let us guard the memory Last Line: To follow . . . Subject(s): Advice; Love Affairs; Memory ADVICE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe this love wanting to be Last Line: If not given away Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Love; Memory AFRICA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home / oh Last Line: All of my bones / remember Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Home; Memory; Negroes; American Blacks AFRICA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home %oh Last Line: All of my bones %remember Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Home; Memory AFTER, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We had been looking at an idol in a glass case Last Line: There is absence, unreadable Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine AFTER A JOURNEY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hereto I come to view a voiceless ghost Last Line: Our days were a joy, and our paths through flowers. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Memory; New Year; Nostalgia AFTER DIVORCE; FOR NAHID SARMAD, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every sunday at 9 pm Last Line: Walk from the potter's field of the past. Subject(s): Divorce; Memory AFTER IKKYU: 28, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lin-chi says, having thrown away your head so long Last Line: Why does she still swim in the eddy in the river's bend? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory AFTER IKKYU: 33, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't accepted the fact that I'll never understand Last Line: Saddle now brings tears of doubt. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory AFTER SUNSET, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vast and solemn company of clouds Last Line: Drops in the shadowy gulf of bygone things. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Evening; Memory; Past; Silence; Time; Sunset; Twilight AFTER THE CIRCUS, by RAYMOND HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: I can remember how the memory Last Line: The coming to one's self is what is meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond Peckham Subject(s): Circus; Memory AFTER THE FEVER LIFTED, by AL GABOR Poem Source First Line: All day gertruda followed her father's wagon Last Line: At the incessant %earthbound pull Subject(s): Child Labor; Fever; Memory AFTER THE LAST PRACTICE; GRINNELL, IOWA, NOVEMBER 1941, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone said, I remember the first hard crack Last Line: Promised land of the empty endzone Subject(s): Football; Memory AFTER THE LAST PRACTICE; GRINNELL, IOWA, NOVEMBER 1941, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone said, I remember the first hard crack Last Line: And then someone began singing in the darkness Subject(s): Football; Memory AFTERBIRTH, by MARISA P. CLARK Poem Source First Line: My mother never could forgive herself Last Line: Work: I love you, mother. Take care. Goodbye Subject(s): Birth; Children; Memory; Mothers AFTERGLOW, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through you, I entered heaven and hell Last Line: To live it all again! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Memory AFTERNOON AT A PARSONAGE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder man should fail to stay Last Line: Doth near its fellows seem to be. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Children; Dreams; Memory; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Tears; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Dramatists AFTERWARDS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay Last Line: "he hears it not now, but used to notice such things""?" Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Memory; Time; Dead, The AGAIN I FIND YOU, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A compulsive flasher, / the limp kelp rises up Last Line: Only the bird. Subject(s): Drowning; Imagination; Memory; Thought; Fancy; Thinking AGAINST THE GATE OF LIFE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: As mute against the gate of life you sit Last Line: A miracle to men! Subject(s): Fate; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Memory; Destiny AGAINST THE MISER MIND, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Never shall these be young again who say Last Line: Into rough golden breakers of the years to come! Subject(s): Love; Memory; Old Age ALBERTINE ASKS FOR A POEM, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dig good graves. No other spade Last Line: Graves I may dig, but not this one. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ALETHEIA, by F. J. BERGMANN Poem Source First Line: It's the opposite of amnesia, losing your memory Last Line: I turn my back and mutter no please go away get lost I refuse Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Amnesia; Health; Memory ALEXANDRIAN SONGS: 2, by MIKHAIL ALEXEYEVICH KUZMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dying is sweet Last Line: And flutes be heard from afar. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Memory; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines ALL AROUND THE CIRCLE, by KEN MCCULLOUGH Poem Source First Line: St. John's newfoundland, 1949-1955 Last Line: Leading tickle, pouch cove, heart's content Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory ALL THAT IS GREEN, by ROB GRIFFITH Poem Source First Line: This halogen morning, we'll take you Last Line: All that returns from memory %in the wreckage of every spring Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Mothers ALMA PERDIDA, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you, vague aspirations; eagerness Last Line: To you, this lost soul! Subject(s): Memory ALMA PERDIDA, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To you, vague aspirations; enthusiasms Last Line: To you this lost soul Subject(s): Memory ALMOST AN ELEGY, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In days gone by I too would stand and wait Last Line: Not music yet, already more than noise Subject(s): Waiting; Jacob (bible); Love – Complaints; Memory ALMOST HIM, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Excuse me, but Last Line: Just for a minute Subject(s): Absence; Memory 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, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked I stood on the soft shingle of sand Subject(s): Memory; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean ALONG SUGARCREEK RAOD, by DONNA SHERRILL COBIS Poem Source First Line: You carried me %wrapped your arms around me Last Line: Snuggled father into your coat. %rocked to sleep with each step Subject(s): Memory; Walking ALWAYS THE HILL REMEMBERED, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text Last Line: With heart wholly expectant of a miracle Subject(s): Youth; Memory ALWAYS YOUR SHADOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I remember the cold mornings Last Line: As the metamorphosis of breath. Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Memory; Thought; Thinking ALZHEIMER'S, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chairs move by themselves, and books Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Memory ALZHEIMER'S, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chairs move by themselves, and books Last Line: It's rumored no longer to exist Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Memory ALZHEIMER'S (2), by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her husband is out in the hallway calling for help Last Line: He's packed his bags. And now no one lives there Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Marriage; Memory AMNESIA, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neither the actors nor the audience knew what was coming next Subject(s): Assassination; Memory 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 AMORIS EXSUL: 5. IN THE FOREST OF ARQUES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I haunted by your hands Last Line: Familiar comfort of your hands! Subject(s): Hands; Memory AMORIS EXSUL: 9. REMEMBRANCE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems to me that very long ago Last Line: I take your hand, and I remember all. Subject(s): Memory 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 AMSTERDAM, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pointed houses lean so you would swear Last Line: Under a gable: here lived francis jammes. Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Jammes, Francis (1868-1938); Memory; Paintings & Painters; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN ADDRESS TO THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail to the rev. George gilfillan of dundee Last Line: You are dead they shall not look upon your like again. Subject(s): Gillfillan, George (1813-1878); Memory AN AMULET, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At noon, the cruel blow fell on his heart Last Line: An amulet of ardor and of dew. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Memory; Night; Tears; Dead, The; Bedtime AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where once we danced, where once we sang, gentlemen Last Line: Gentlemen. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age AN APOSTOLIC MAN, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: O brothers, is the moment past? Last Line: "love one another, and farewell." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 1. PREMONITION, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where does the wind from the wilding blow Last Line: Can april wonder be far behind? Subject(s): Memory; Spring AN AUTOGRAPH (1), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write my name as one Last Line: "may god forgive him wholly!" Subject(s): Autographs; Memory; Mortality; Time AN EMBER PICTURE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange are the freaks of memory Last Line: For is it not all a dream? Subject(s): Friendship; Memory AN EMPTY LITTLE BED, by AUDREY LEE KIRKMAN Poem Text First Line: There is such a world of heartache Last Line: Of a laughing little boy. Subject(s): Emptiness; Memory AN EQUATORIAL SUNSET, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The sun has set-and sea and sky are blending Last Line: Clouds with remembrance many a lover's eye! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory AN ERASURE, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Charmed to most crystal stillness by a wand Last Line: To brood onor such deft forgetfulness. Subject(s): Aging; Forgetfulness; Memory AN IMAGE FROM A PAST LIFE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never until this night have I been stirred Last Line: Of the hovering thing night brought me. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Youth; Past; Memory AN OLD DESIRE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I searched thro' memory's lumber-room Last Line: And there are ruins in my fire. Subject(s): Desire; Earth; Memory; Ruins; World AN OLD SIOUX IN THE CITY, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: He seems a sunburnt page ripped out Last Line: Where ages saya gun. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Soldiers; War AN OLD SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You laugh as you turn the yellow page Last Line: And fills my eyes with tears Subject(s): Memory;music & Musicians AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN, by DORA CLAIRE VANNIX Poem Text First Line: A nosegay of old-fashioned flowers came today Last Line: That in old-fashioned gardens, as elsewhere, my dwell. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Memory ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy doolin, first day on the job, stroked his goatee Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Rats; Murder; Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Memory; Youth; Relationships ANCESTRAL HOME, by JANE HICKS Poem Source First Line: Blood and bone remember Last Line: One believer in blood and bone Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Memory ANCIENT BALLAD: DEATH OF DURANDARTE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Closed in death lies durandarte %montesinos sees him die Last Line: To distract her gentle bosom %and afflict her soul with woe s Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Heroism; Memory AND ABOUT TIME, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the heart of every memory Subject(s): Memory AND DAY BROUGHT BACK MY NIGHT, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It was so simple: you came back to me Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Divorce; Memory; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AND SO, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Someone gets an idea, or does something, or desire Last Line: Printed with soft explosions of cloud Subject(s): Desire; Memory AND TESTAMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He enveloped the review, stuck it in the post Last Line: How is a life's work laid to rest? Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Memory; Poetry And Poets AND THEY WERE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: For how do you talk about the dead? Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory AND THORNS, BUT DID THE SCULPTOR SPARE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the bygone tempestuous birth Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Spring; Memory ANIMALS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They do not live in the world Last Line: On the sixth day we came Subject(s): Bible; Memory; Religion 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 ANNIVERSARIES: CLAREMONT AVENUE, FROM 1945, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting on a bench at one hundred and fifteenth Last Line: No place to go. Subject(s): Chinese Language; Death; Grief; Memory; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Educators; Professors; Feminism ANNIVERSARY, by RICHMOND LATTIMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Where were we in that afternoon? And where Last Line: We relive memory: shell of moon %on day sky, two o'clock in lazy june -%and twenty years gone in an Subject(s): Anniversaries; Memory ANNIVERSARY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were so many to pray for, o dear grey head Last Line: All night long you grieved with me until the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Anniversaries; Death; Dreams; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness ANNIVERSARY TOAST, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN Poem Text First Line: Memory is a rue-y wine Last Line: "once again!"" -- both toast and prayer." Subject(s): Memory ANNUNCIATION, by MELISSA MORPHEW Poem Source First Line: In this photo %she is blonde, blanched almond Last Line: Exotic, holy, %an infinite abacus of bees Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Wishes ANONYMOUS PEOPLE, by BASIL FERNANDO Poem Source First Line: We %are anonymous people Last Line: Are the anonymous people %silence is our mask Subject(s): Human Rights; Memory ANOTHER GRIEVING FOREST ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blood of petals blown adorns the ground Last Line: With nodding blue, lament the lonely trust. Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Trees; Woods ANTI-MEMOIR (MOON DEATH), by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: I don't remember anything Last Line: On your way to being done Subject(s): Death; Memory APACHE PLUME; 5. HOURGLASS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pere lachaise: breaking bread on a green bench Last Line: As white sand begins to touch the bottom of an hourglass. Subject(s): Desire; Memory APOLOGIA: MEMORY, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Love spread its soft Last Line: On my sleeve, %my history Subject(s): Forgiveness; Love; Memory APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At reason's solemn judgment-seat Last Line: That I am ruin'd and forsaken. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Reason; Nightmares; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals APPLE FELL IN THE NIGHT AND A WAGON STOPPED, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It comes back to me' Subject(s): Memory APPREHENSION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I will awake with dawn, arise and go Last Line: Years have conspired their magic to destroy. Subject(s): Memory; Thought; Thinking APRIL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black north wind that chills Last Line: When I was young! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): April; Country Life; Memory; Nature; Spring; Youth ARALUEN (1), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: River, myrtle rimmed and set Last Line: Stays, and paints your face for me. Subject(s): Brooks; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Streams; Creeks ARCHIVES OF MY CHILDHOOD, by JOSEPH CHANEY Poem Source First Line: Last weekend I rooted through Last Line: Of fiery feathers, urgent cries Subject(s): Children; Memory ARMISTICE DAY, by HENRIETTE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The old town clock has struck eleven Last Line: Murmur the name of you. Subject(s): Holidays; Memory; Prayer; Veterans Day AROUND BLUE-SPEAK, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: History ambles then %relents. Memory clears Last Line: Before twine streamed %mindful of travel Subject(s): History; Memory ARRACK, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a sultry land of palm and rice Last Line: And dance with cobras on nude bosoms coiled! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Night; Bedtime ARS POETICA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is almost polio season. The girls Last Line: Considering how beautiful she was. Subject(s): Dreams; Girls; Massachusetts; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ART INSTITUTE MEMORIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: It seems so long since she and I Last Line: Was but a picture in a frame. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fantasy; Imagination; Love; Memory; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Fancy AS GENTLE AS BEGINNINGS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The intrepid dawn awakens Last Line: And the spirits of the disappeared %wound her Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory; Pictures AS I SIT IN THE SILENCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many pleasures of youth have been buoyantly sung Last Line: As I sit in the silence and gaze in the fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Envoy Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Past; Silence; Youth AS LEAVES SWEEP PAST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister & joe & mistah rilke Last Line: Way up in the flying dust Subject(s): Memory; Past; Poetry & Poets AS THEY HAD DIED, by MARTHA RHODES Poem Source First Line: From the rim of a mayan pit Last Line: Centuries of girls, %naked and golden Subject(s): Death; Memory AS WHEN FROM DREAMS AWAKING, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And every grief that clouds our light, %reminds us of the last! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Memory ASAGUMORI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the forest path Last Line: My sleeves wet with memory. Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Woods ASKING, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They asked a dying man if life was everything. He said Last Line: Until we are gone and happy and in want of nothing Subject(s): Friendship; Memory ASPECTS, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clean in the light, with nothing to remember Last Line: In such clean qualities as time and space Subject(s): Memory ASPHODEL, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As some pale shade in glorious battle slain Last Line: With sighs and tenderness, but no regret. Subject(s): Memory; Passion ASSOCIATIONS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know the place is just the same Last Line: And then I know that I am dreaming. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Memory; Dreams; Nightmares ASTROLOGY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's so clear tonight, and calm Last Line: Our own interpretation Subject(s): Memory AT A DOG'S RESTING-PLACE (JACK, MON PAUVRE CHIEN), by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Part of the sylvan scene Last Line: And hearts are glad and ache. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Memory AT A GATE ON THE HILL, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At a gate on the hill in the parting hour Last Line: "in a deathless tryst with thee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Memory AT BALLYSHANNON, CO. DONEGAL, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy from his bedroom-window Last Line: Whether within or without me %they were, I cannot say Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Memory AT DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother in the cylinder %lies still, her small Last Line: I hear the wish of her skirt %forty years ago, %the ghost of a prayer Subject(s): Hospitals; Memory AT FIRST I WAS GIVEN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first I was given centuries Last Line: Before you run out into the street and they shoot Subject(s): War; Life Change Events; Memor AT KENNEBUNKPORT, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together at the ocean's edge Last Line: The balm of silence and the strength of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Memory; Silence AT LAST, by ADELAIDE G. WATERS Poem Text First Line: The rabbi levi let his thoughts be cast Last Line: So, smiling, he passed out into the light. Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Memory; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism AT LAST!, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the distant murmur of the fountain Last Line: For hope has come to mehas come at last! Subject(s): Memory; Past AT MEMORY'S CASEMENT, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Upon the blossom branch in spring Last Line: At memory's casement sings alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Birds; Memory AT SEA, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worn voyagers, who watch for land Last Line: Is our heart's home, is our life's best. Subject(s): Memory AT SOME THOUGHTS, by KANG GANGWOL Poem Source First Line: At some thoughts of him Last Line: Time will keep or lead you back Subject(s): Memory; Thought AT THE END OF SUMMER, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days to come I shall remember these Last Line: To set me freeI have these memories! Subject(s): Memory; Summer AT THE GOETH INSTITUT, by MATTHEW GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: Is there a secret map of the lives of men Last Line: To count the starres on hye. Mitze. Meyer cohen Subject(s): Memory AT THE GRAVE OF ONE FORGOTTEN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a churchyard old and still Last Line: Life is worth. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AT THE PASSING OF A BELOVED MONARCH, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The everlasting wisdom has ordained Last Line: That millions yet unborn shall bless her reign. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Crowns; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Memory; Prayer; War; Wisdom; British Empire; England - Empire AT THE ROOF-TOP BAR, HOTEL ATHENA 1981, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: An oil-lamp moon is flickering, back-lit through Last Line: That glimmering script of stars so far away %and untranslatable Subject(s): Death; Memory; Travel AT THE TIP OF MEMORY'S, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is the nib of a pen Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Nature AT THIRTEEN, by CARYN MIRRIAM-GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: My brother died just as I was touching Last Line: I miss my brother. %I want him back Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Memory; Mourning AU REVOIR, MISS JO, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Must you go, miss jo? Last Line: Don't go, miss jo. Subject(s): Farewell; Memory; Parting AUBADE FROM INSIDE THE WATER, by CHRISTIAN HAWKEY Poem Source First Line: Here is an atlas of your memory Last Line: A bird that moves through the forest %breaking everything in sight Subject(s): Birds; Children; Memory; Water AUCASSIN ET NICOLETE, by GRACE DUFFIELD GOODWIN Poem Text First Line: Sweet his lady, fair of face Last Line: Nicolete were you!) Subject(s): Love; Memory AUNT CAROLINE, by ANNYE LEWIS ALLISON Poem Text First Line: A colored woman, bent and old and wrinkled Last Line: Her patient, kindly face is living still. Subject(s): Memory AUNT JANEY RESTIN' HER EYES SOME, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I remember how she'd Last Line: I was just restin' my eyes some Subject(s): Aunts; Memory AUNT SOPHIA, by LENORE MAYHEW Poem Source First Line: Under the soft hair of her wig Last Line: To worry when that day will be Subject(s): Aunts; Memory AURORA, JULY DOWNHILL, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Fresh from a rainstorm %I walk the hill down Last Line: Steps aside, %to make room Subject(s): Memory; Mountains AUSTRALIA'S HERO, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! They didn't raise no statue - no - nor fix no big brass plate Last Line: Attempt to carry a life-line to the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines AUTUMN MEMORIES, by GEORGE FRANCIS SAVAGE-ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When russet beech-leaves drift in air Last Line: To hear me tell of the olden days. Subject(s): Memory AUTUMN SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A keen west wind from the hills away Last Line: Hopes and dreamings and dead desires. Subject(s): Autumn; Desire; Hope; Memory; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Wind; Fall; Optimism; Songs AUTUMNAL VESPERS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clarion wind, that blew so loud at morn Last Line: My strength, o god! In thine Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Love; Memory; Seasons; Wind; Fall AWAKE! (TO MOHAMED ALI JINNAH), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waken, o mother! Thy children implore thee Last Line: Hearken! O queen and o goddess, we hail thee! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Worship; Dead, The AWAY, by MARY KAY RUMMEL Poem Source First Line: I remember a girl praying the rosary Last Line: In the red light toward a future she won't reach Subject(s): Memory AY WAUKIN, O, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simmer's a pleasant time, / flowers of every colour Last Line: Ay waukin &c. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Summer; Thought; Thinking BABIAANTJE, by FRANK TEMPLETON PRINCE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hither, where tangled thickets of the acacia Alternate Author Name(s): Prince, F. T. Subject(s): Memory BABYLON AND SION (GOA AND LISBON), by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where fecundity of babel frames Last Line: Sion, had I not memory of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Love; Memory BACHELOR HALL, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems like a dream - that sweet wooing Last Line: To the dead and the dying of bachelor hall. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Single People; Sorrow; Sadness; Bachelors; Unmarried People BAD MEMORY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Think of all your brain once knew Last Line: Pulling closed its heavy iron gate Subject(s): Heads; Memory; Past; Reason BAGATELLES, by STEPHEN ORLEN First Line: My father who forgets that yesterday Last Line: And the other, rising white on white, remember what? Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Memory BAKER TOWER BELLS (DARTMOUTH COLLEGE), by LEONARD B. GRAY Poem Text First Line: Across the board campus Last Line: In which one lives uplifted. Subject(s): Bells; Dartmouth College; Memory; Soul BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE JOURNEY TO HEL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The aesir's chorus / fast! Ride fast! Last Line: And silence held its breath for what should come. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Travel; Journeys; Trips BALLAD OF BURTON AND BOBBY AND BILL, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My best friend and I would often stop by Last Line: They've boarded the door. We'll bargain no more %with burton and bobby and bill Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools BALLADE DEDICATORY TO MRS. ELTON OF WHITE STAUNTON, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The painted briton built his mound Last Line: Beside your manor old. Subject(s): Memory; Paintings & Painters BALLADE OF FORGOTTEN LOVES, by ARTHUR GRISSOM Poem Text First Line: Some poets sing of sweethearts dead Last Line: The little loves that I've forgot. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs BALLADE OF LOST LOVES, by WILLIAM JAMES PRICE Poem Text First Line: The music dies away; the guests departs Last Line: The girls are many, and the world is wide! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation BANAL EL DORADO, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The same pain as always Last Line: Sister, we have arrived at this boulevard %in los angeles to stay Subject(s): Los Angeles; Memory; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BARN, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The spring after your death I enter here, opening Last Line: From doors. The way the barn is ours and earth's dark home Subject(s): Barns; Death; Love; Memory BASHO'S FROG, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: A frog went plop in a pond three hundred years Last Line: It sits squat on that luminous leafpad Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Frogs; Memory BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU REMEMBER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Vatican Palace; Statues; Memory BEAUTIFUL HANDS, by INA LADD BROWN Poem Text First Line: Oh, artist, if I should ask you Last Line: I always keep in my heart. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hands; Memory; Paintings & Painters BECKONED, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has your memory ever been Subject(s): Memory; Past BEFORE A SCREEN DOOR, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: Over a darkening spill, water lilies tip Last Line: Trying to forget the touch of so many small deaths Subject(s): Flies; Memory BEFORE NIGHT COMES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before night comes I think of you and for you before I fall Last Line: Goldn skin, melodious bearing, and those huge eyes %like fortresses against death Subject(s): Memory; Negritude (literary Movement) BEFORE THE BIG STORM, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are famous in my mind Subject(s): Memory BEFORE THE BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, thou never art Last Line: Have they hurt thee? Subject(s): Buddhism; Death; Memory; Statues; Buddha; Buddhists; Dead, The BEFORE THIS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Before the minutes Last Line: The small door of their lives Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Sunflowers; Trees BEGINNING AND END, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Every june her family retreated from brooklyn to southampton, where Last Line: Miss murray's picture and name done in lights Subject(s): Fireworks; Memory; Parties BEHIND BLENDING, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Repair %of the moon Subject(s): Memory; Time BENDING TIME, by JULIA VAN GORDER Poem Source First Line: Near your old homestead, grandfather Last Line: And watch you harvest oil Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Memory BENJAMIN ARTOM, by RE HENRY Poem Text First Line: With mournful pomp they bore him to the grave Last Line: He loved themlet them comfort her who mourns him most! Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Honor; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Judaism; Bereavement BEST FRIEND, by PETER DAVISON Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, till now, has kept inviting Subject(s): Memory BEYOND THE HUNTING WOODS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I speak of that great house Last Line: Ever, ever come? Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Memory; Houses BIANCA: 8. MEMORY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a perfume doth remain Last Line: You remain. Subject(s): Memory BIOPSY, by ROBERT C. PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: You remembered that it wasn't like Last Line: Like a thought before sleep Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Memory; Sickness BIRKHILL: A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er thy lone beauty, sweet birkhill Last Line: "but faith and hope say, ""not for ever." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Relatives BIRTHPLACE REVISITED, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand in the dark light in the dark street Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Memory BIRTHPLACE REVISITED, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand in the dark light in the dark street Last Line: Aims a knife at me %I pump him full of lost watches Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Memory BISON BISON, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: In the distance the mud clouds Last Line: In clean white hands Subject(s): Memory BITS OF REMINISCENCE, by GONG PEIYU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A toppled wine-cup Last Line: A dream, half-illumined, half-obscure. Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Memory BITTEN BY THE WORM, by DARYL ROGERS Poem Source First Line: I finally got my own Last Line: You would throw it away Subject(s): Death; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory; Poetry And Poets BLACK EYES, SNUB NOSE, WIDE MOUTH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the speeding train, thinking Subject(s): Memory; Beauty; Old Age BLACK SILK, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem 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 BLEEDING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Shame happens quickly, lingers long Last Line: A grim twist Subject(s): Memory; Shame BLESSED UNION, by DONNA DOYLE Poem Source First Line: Here is one beginning: white church, paint peeling Last Line: Something borrowed, and always, %always,something blue Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Memory BLOODKNOT, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Maybe you knew before Last Line: Through memories window Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors And Ancestry; Death; Memory BLOSSOMS WILL RUN AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is pink eternally Variant Title(s): Poem: 1578; Poem: 161 Subject(s): Memory BLUE SOCKS, by DEBORAH STEIN Poem Source First Line: All the socks I bought for mother to bring on my visits, tan soft cotton Last Line: Cremated in her blue socks, I wear all the socks except her blue ones Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Memory; Mothers BLUE VAULT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: With your silent, slender hand you put out stars Last Line: You have ignited my neck with your silent, soft lips Subject(s): Memory BLUEPRINTS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a long way off I can see the cross- Last Line: Be the planner's. This one touched my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Amish; Farm Life; Memory; Mennonites; Agriculture; Farmers BOLERO 9, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nomadic hearts know there is no rose Subject(s): Travel; Memory; Journeys; Trips 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 BOOKBINDER, MARY L. REYNOLDS, 1891-1950: MANIFESTO FOR THE HANDS, by GLORI SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: My old goat lover Last Line: Marcel. For matthew. %for myself Subject(s): Friendship; Memory BOOKBINDER, MARY LOUISE REYNOLDS, 1891-1950: FOOTNOTE, by GLORI SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: As a girl, I danced as I undressed Last Line: In my hands, each sheet seemed %a contraband letter, survival skill Subject(s): Memory BOUNDARIES, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: All that you have lost, they told me, is yours Last Line: A fleeting light %will drown the silence Subject(s): Memory BOX OF ASHES, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A box of ashes, which we scattered on Last Line: Ponder, father, why these green blades have grown: %a box of ashes Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory; Parents BRAIDS, by MARGO TAFT STEVER Poem Source First Line: Puttering, pouring wine, rummaging Last Line: She is reading her own mind Subject(s): Change; Hair; Memory BRANCH BETWEEN THE BONES: 4. WITHSTANDING, by PIMONE TRIPLETT Poem Source First Line: In the sketch, here's where his angel can't stop %remembering Last Line: The branches, up into that sky going the color of bone Subject(s): Bones; Memory BRAVE DAYS OF OLD, by J. KNOX CHRISTIE Poem Text First Line: The brave days of old, were they better than now? Last Line: Brave days we can see again never. Subject(s): Aging; Memory BREAD, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you make a connection between this table and that table Subject(s): Bread; Grandparents; Memory; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers BREAD, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you make a connection between this table and that table Last Line: For the rest of your life these cast-out bodies of lepers Subject(s): Bread; Grandparents; Memory BREATHLESS, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: I dreamed I brought you back from underground Last Line: Jacket, ever the dirty adulteress Subject(s): Breath; Memory BRIC-A-BRAC LOVER, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: O my lover, bric-a-bac lover, with your eyes Last Line: As aged flesh looks forward to a soul Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Youth BRIDGE, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: The living Last Line: And deal Subject(s): Bridge (card Game); Brothers; Death; Marriage; Memory; Uncles BRIDGE IN THE SOUTH, by JORGE TEILLIER Poem Source First Line: Yesterday I remembered a clear winter day. I remembered Last Line: Less than a gull whose light goes out among the pines Subject(s): Love; Memory BRIDGE INN, LETHBRIDGE, by D. SIDJAK Poem Source First Line: And all my life I'd been thinking guilt Last Line: And into the net of our endless %revision of history Subject(s): Bridges; History; Memory BRIEF PORTRAIT, by MARGARET CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Gay as a garden are her newest summer dresses Last Line: He cannot see her face as pain has traced it now.) Subject(s): Memory BROKEN DREAMS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is grey in your hair Last Line: Vague memories, nothing but memories. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Love - Erotic; Memory BROKEN HEARTED MEMORIES, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when that music starts Subject(s): Memory BROOKLYN, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: And you ask is this okay? Last Line: While I murmur and burn Subject(s): Girls; Memory; Thought BROOKLYN ELDER, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Bones bent and curled Last Line: A three legged bop, over rugged ice Subject(s): African Americans; Memory; Old Age 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 BROTHERS, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: Through the livingroom window Last Line: And abracadabra %disappeared Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Memory BRUCKNER AT SAINT FLORIAN, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something, / in the back of the mind Last Line: Your magdalen mouth Subject(s): Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896); Memory BURIAL HILL, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone with their beautiful faith Last Line: If the dream of their worship came true? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Memory; Praise; Worship; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones BURIALS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: A few townspeople, the police on their evening rounds Last Line: And did not tempt him %with any desire to return Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Memory; Poppies BURIED CHILD, by JAMES MCCORKLE Poem Source First Line: After the shots, one in each arm Last Line: Only in the body's warmth, your light Subject(s): Death - Children; Memory BURNING HILLS, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So he came to write again Subject(s): Memory; Writing & Writers BURNING HILLS, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So he came to write again Last Line: When he finishes he will go back %hunting for the lies that are obvious Subject(s): Memory; Writing And Writers BURNING THE RAIN FOREST, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: I watched webster hold an ax blade to a gray Last Line: And child, I can see the smoke from illinois Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Memory; Rain Forests BUT WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER ..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But what will they remember of the arm Last Line: Which hid itself in her persistent heart? Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Memory; Nightmares BY AUGHNA BRAE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: I mind the burn; I mind the brae Last Line: Thon spire by aughna brae! Subject(s): Churches; Memory; Prayer; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Sunday BY THE ENTRANCE TO CORDOVA HALL, I SAT DOWN AND WEPT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my overheated car, where no one Subject(s): Songs; Memory; Grief; Driving; Sorrow; Sadness BY THE FALL, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Dear bygone days, when with the dawn we / wandered Last Line: To raise no more the curtains of the night. Subject(s): Love; Memory BY THE FOUNTAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: There, by the fountain, where, a child, I cried Last Line: The stranger and the demon walk side by side Subject(s): Devil; Foxes; Memory; Self BY THE RIVERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That spring he was fourteen Last Line: By the rivers of salt. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Duty; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Survival; Shoah; Judaism CALDER: A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet calder! On thy flowery marge Last Line: Though youth and joy have fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Nature; Past; Youth CALMLY WE WALK THROUGH THIS APRIL'S DAY, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time; Transience; City & Town Life; Memory; Impermanence CAMEO, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forever over now, forever, forever gone Last Line: White against a ruddy cliff you stand, chalcedony on sard Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Memory CANCION, by JUAN DE MENA Poem Source First Line: As I upon my pallet lie Last Line: To the breast I'm loving so Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Memory 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 CAPE COD MEMORY, by A. PEARLE CARTER Poem Text First Line: These I shall weave into my tapestries Last Line: Through the gray silence, a low-whispered word. Subject(s): Memory; Sea; Ocean CASPAR HAUSER SONGS: 9. ICH WILL EIN REITER WERDEN, by NEIL AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: The more you see, the more you will return Last Line: Of night: black hurrying hooves Subject(s): Insanity; Memory CASUALTY REPORT, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car coming on, then crossing the divide Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Guilt; Memory CAVENDER'S HOUSE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into that house where no man went, he went Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The CAVENDER'S HOUSE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into that house where no man went, he went Last Line: Or as if laramie had answered him Subject(s): Death; Memory CEDAR, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the cellar, in a far corner, there's a door Last Line: The hat you could almost be wearing Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Memory CELANDINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking of her had saddened me at first Last Line: Gone like a never perfectly recalled air Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Memory CEMETERY WINGS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes a bright swarm of pennies in the grass, or Last Line: At being carried away by such small wings. Subject(s): Allergies; Medicine; Memory; Drugs, Prescription CHALK, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence. Here it's already night Last Line: As in a cathedral in mourning Subject(s): Love; Memory; Passion CHANGE OF ADDRESS, by RUTH EVELYN HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Do not delay and do not look behind Last Line: And the fetters will be less strong on some new ground. Subject(s): Love; Memory CHANSON AU TABAC, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Exotic from that west Last Line: While fancy, from a fragrant clime re-chases care and smart! Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Thought; Dead, The; Thinking CHANT D'AUTOMNE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamp is lit and all the world is gray Last Line: "I paint my dreams." Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Passion; Nightmares CHANUKAH, by MARION HARTOG Poem Text First Line: Down-trodden 'neath the syrian heel Last Line: And live for evermore. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Temples; Historians; Shoah; Judaism; Mosques 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 CHARMIAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter of the sun Last Line: Before thy dangerous beauty: I am free! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Daughters; Memory; Soul CHASING MEMORIES, by GENE FEHLER Poem Source First Line: Across the parking lot, empty save Last Line: And echoes from bursting childhood balloons Subject(s): Balloons; Memory CHERRIES, by JOE LAMB Poem Source First Line: When I was five, we lived in tesuque Last Line: The cherries were thick, sweet, and %yellow Subject(s): Aging; Cherries; Fruit; Memory; Men; Mothers 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 CHICKEN TIME, by SEAN WHALEN Poem Source First Line: The rock %prairie %postville Last Line: You're laughing too hard %to hear me Subject(s): Memory; Time CHILD ON THE CLIFF, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, the root of this little yellow flower Last Line: I should be happy if that could be Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Memory CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, at that time our days wer but vew Last Line: That the timber avore em must rue. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With just a thought for childhood's hour Last Line: Into the larger place. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Thought; Youth; Childhood; Thinking CHILDHOOD MEMOIR, by PAUL DU BOIS JACOBS Poem Source First Line: O, what treats we used to receive under those dark skies Last Line: So far into the future, I am still standing in her blood Subject(s): Children; Memory CHILDHOOD UNDER THE TREES, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say we are trapped in a life Last Line: And with every intention %of getting it all kissed off later Subject(s): Change; Children; Memory CHILDREN AND I SHALL MEET AGAIN, by PIA SEAGRAVE Poem Source First Line: This son grows tall and he grows Last Line: The walls on knotted sheets Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Love - Marital; Memory CHILDS MEMORY, by TERRI MEYETTE WILKINS Poem Source First Line: Daddy rides the rodeo, while pride rides Subject(s): Memory; Prisons And Prisoners CHLOE TO AMARYLLIS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That you are poor, that I grow old Last Line: The god all ready to our hand. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age CHRISTMAS LONG AGO, by ANNE H. WOODRUFF Poem Text First Line: Long, long ago! Oh, heart of youth unheeding Last Line: Another christmas night. Subject(s): Christmas; Happiness; Memory; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight CHRISTMAS MEMORY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: He was my jeroboam man most of the year Last Line: The chimes rang christmas in and out Subject(s): Christmas; Memory CHRONICLES OF THE ENDS AND THE BEGINNINGS - EARLY YEARNINGS, by RUTH WARAT Poem Source First Line: I love my lover Last Line: A bird on her shoulder, her son Subject(s): Life; Memory CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain Last Line: In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Memory; Past; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) CLEVELAND, by SCOTT MINAR Poem Source First Line: How could you know about Last Line: Because I was small and I needed %to be saved Subject(s): Children; Cleveland, Ohio; Driving And Drivers; Fathers; Memory CLICK-ROSE 2: 13, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: Rose then hissing in space like a hot iron in water Last Line: Grandmother's neck-piece my guage of the past Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Past; Roses CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 4. WORTHY MEMORY, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the sorry shelter of a bryer Last Line: In memory by her elder brother, sleepe. Subject(s): Memory CLOSED EPISODE, by MARY N. S. WHITELEY Poem Text First Line: Let this experience / be a picture thrown Last Line: Of something past that once was very fair. Subject(s): Experience; Memory; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals CLOSETS HAVE REMAINED EMPTY FOREVER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Then she begins to sing Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Emptiness; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory; Pictures CLOUDS IN PROSPECT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh pleasant have the hours of my early childhood been Last Line: When I thought the world a thornless garden full of lovely flowers. Subject(s): Memory COLD GLOW: ICEHOUSES, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because the light this morning is recondite Subject(s): Memory COLORADO, by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the plains come to adore the mountain wall Last Line: Part in the swaying and tranquil grandeur here. Subject(s): Memory COME AWAY!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Ah, love! Come away with me Last Line: A magic memory. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation COMING BACK, by ANGELA BALL Poem Source First Line: On my second trip to oaxaca from puebla Last Line: How each green is forgotten Subject(s): Memory; Travel COMOS, by ADRA CAROLINE BATCHELDER Poem Text First Line: With your colors gay and bright Last Line: Of past days we still remember. Subject(s): Memory COMPENSATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After all / there are moments Last Line: The sea! The sea! The sea! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Sea; Wine; Ocean COMPLEX ROBOT, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Under the dim light Last Line: I contemplate my steps, %like a robot that begins %to feel rewarded Subject(s): Memory; Solitude CONCEPTION, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: I will collapse beneath this tender task Last Line: Within their thick green tongues Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Memory; Nature CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL, by MARGARET RABB Poem Source First Line: Flag-high over the stop light, brakes and exhaust Last Line: Whose spirits and %whose souls are free Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Memory CONSIDERATIONS, by DAVID HELWIG Poem Source First Line: Any country is only a way of failing Last Line: Is about as much as a man can ask for, %a place to start Subject(s): Memory CONSTANT LOVE EVEN BEYOND DEATH, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes may close in the last remaining Last Line: Dust they shall be, yet dust in love Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Hearts; Memory; Soul CONTINUAL USAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No wonder we felt weighted walking in those halls. The blackboards Last Line: Returned to her classroom to pay a different kind of attention, this time. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Past; Schools; Childhood; Students CONTRA MORTEM: THE BEING AS MEMORY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A carpet raveling on the loom a girl Last Line: And died a carpet raveling on the loom Subject(s): Memory CONTRASTS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange, that we creatures of the petty ways Last Line: In mien or gesture what that memory is. Subject(s): God; Memory; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts COOLE JERK, by S. X. ROSENSTOCK Poem Source First Line: When we were all the nine-and-fifty swans Last Line: Is some white sovereignty that oversees? Subject(s): Memory CORE OF WOE, by KENNETH SCAMBRAY Poem Source First Line: Did the sirens sing to you in a garbled letter Last Line: The mine became your rood Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory CORSAGE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: I stood in front of the fridge Last Line: And returning to the house my parents lived in Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Variant Title(s): Remembering Your Fathe Subject(s): Fathers; Flowers; Memory 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 COUNTRY DOCTOR, by DANA KNEELAND AKERS Poem Text First Line: Today, in that old junk-pile down the hill Last Line: "how could you guess -- you never rode in one!" Subject(s): Country Life; Memory; Physicians; Doctors COUNTRY MUSIC, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I feel so lean Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Country Music; Divorce; Farm Life; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers CRACKED LEAF GHAZAL, by LAURA D. NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Commit a maple leaf to memory Last Line: Below the bent fibers of asphalt: %the scent of fallen berries Subject(s): Fields; Memory CRAIGNETHAN CASTLE; A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cloud of years is upward rolled Last Line: Awakes them, and they live again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Castles; Memory; Past CREPUSCULE DU MATIN; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I wrestled with a memory Last Line: My arms held nothing but the empty dawn. Subject(s): Memory CROSSING OVER, by BENJAMIN HOLLANDER Poem Source First Line: (march 13-19) %(march 19-24) %the doctor's name: zohar Last Line: We don't know who the book of who are was %was for %such the letters are Subject(s): Celan, Paul (1920-1970); Death; Disappeared Persons; Faith; Farewell; Memory; Sons CROSSING THE BRIDGE: 3, by HUGH HENNEDY Poem Source First Line: Now as he watches water Last Line: Who dove underground %years and years ago Subject(s): Memory; Water CRUSING WITH THE EDITOR (REMEMBERING MARVIN MALONE), by RICHARD M. WEST Poem Source First Line: I guess Last Line: The two martains - I never saw those buggers again Subject(s): Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory CRYSTALS LIKE BLOOD, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember how, long ago, I found Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Memory; Stones; Granite; Rocks CRYSTALS LIKE BLOOD, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember how, long ago, I found Last Line: The bright torrents of felicity, naturalness, and faith %my treadmill memory draws from you yet Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Memory; Stones CUL-DE-SAC, by AMY GERSTLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here the things of the past Last Line: Some fleshy hors d'oeuvre Subject(s): Memory; Past CUTTING FIREWOOD IN AUTUMN, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we cut firewood in the late autumn forest Last Line: In the middle of the autumn forest Subject(s): Forests; Lumber And Lumbering; Memory; Wood D.O. BARNETT, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: How well could I have spared for thee, young swain Last Line: O strength whereof we are most ill bereft. Subject(s): Memory DADDY, by KIM R. STAFFORD Poem Source First Line: Rub my thumb in the empty hollow of the milkweed pod Last Line: Has gone, I found whistling the empty pod you left me Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural DAISIES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down on the hill on grandfather's farm Last Line: You bring to me to-day. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Memory; Youth DARK NIGHT, GO AWAY, by E. HANK BUCHMANN Poem Source First Line: Eating steak and beans Last Line: As if they were empty guns Subject(s): Memory; War DARK WOMEN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must not cease from singing Last Line: Outweighed them one and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Memory; Women DAUGHTER WITH CAMERA, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: There used to be chickens scratching Last Line: Now. You'll always have it. The house.' Subject(s): Cameras; Daughters; Memory; Parents; Photography And Photographers DAVID AND BATHSHUA: BATHSHUA'S PRAYER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Father of life, of light, of love Last Line: The life, the light, that was our day! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; David (d. 962 B.c.); Memory; Prayer; Separation; Isolation DAWN AGAIN PRACTICED, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The sky with stillness, %its edge unsaid Subject(s): Memory DAWN WHISKEY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mind follow the nose Last Line: As this whiskey to my tongue. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Wine DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY: TRIPTYCH, by DICK ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lake beyond the two boys playing basketball Last Line: November day, then night.... Two boys playing ball Subject(s): Basketball; Boys; Memory; Sports 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 DAY UNGLUED THIS WINDOW, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Sounds cities seen in laughter Subject(s): Memory; Music And Musicians DAY'S CATCH, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I remember you back Last Line: The truth of our hands Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love; Memory DAYS OF 1978, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the only thing that clarifies my life Subject(s): Memory; Cavafy, Constantine P. (1863-1933) DAYS OF APPLE JUICE AND CHEERIOS, by JAMIE LYNN KNORN Poem Source First Line: The days of apple juice and cheerios are very special days Last Line: Give me one last kiss - %good night Subject(s): Children; Growth; Memory DE M. ANTONIO, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, antonius, in a smiling age Last Line: The past, is to have twice enjoyed it all. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Memory; Past DEAD, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Their reward is %they become innocent again, Last Line: And most of all, she is beyond reach, beautiful. Subject(s): Death; Forgiveness; Memory DEAD, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: Might they really want to let go of giving back? Last Line: Thought of anyway. They stay awake in her Subject(s): Death; Memory DEAR DERRIDA, by DAVID KIRBY Poem Source First Line: My new grad-school roommates and I are attending Last Line: Yeah, deconstruction might have saved us Subject(s): Deconstructionism; Derrida, Jacques (1930-2001); Language; Memory DEAR DEVOTIONAL, by JOSHUA KRYAH Poem Source First Line: Bird, that I did not mean your song Last Line: They wait for their eyes to adjust, %to be pecked out by birds Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Memory; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages DEAR MEN AND WOMEN, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the quiet before cockcrow when the cricket's Last Line: With a love that is almost joy I remember them: %lost, and all mine, all mine, forever Subject(s): Brooks, Van Wyck (1886-1963); Memory; Old Age 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, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: From the bones of animals Last Line: Pomona %naked and laughing Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Memory; Statues DEATH AND BURIAL OF LORD TENNYSON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! England now mourns for her poet that's gone Last Line: And his name in gold letters written thereon! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Memory; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron DEATH OF CAMELS, by CARRIE ST. GEORGE COMER Poem Source First Line: The clouds have gypsy blood in them today Last Line: Fear stands like a white statue in my chest Subject(s): Memory; Spiritual Life DEATH; MATER NOSTRA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine is the kiss of motherhood. Why fear Last Line: Come, gather godhead from my nearer eyes. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DECEMBER SNOW, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The falling snow a stainless veil doth cast Last Line: To beauty passing all that life has known. Subject(s): Death; December; Memory; Snow; Dead, The DEFINITIONS, by LOLLY WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Dreams are sticks of dynamite Last Line: I shall be warm. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness DEJA VU, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flap in time, a hinge in space, a secret drawer, a panel Subject(s): Memory DEJA VU, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flap in time, a hinge in space, a secret drawer, a panel Last Line: Each episode, each conversation burnished, fiercely clear Subject(s): Memory DEJA VU, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It happens sometimes when walking down the street, standing on a Last Line: Speak other tongues, worship different spirits and save whatever we can, as we move on Subject(s): African Americans - History; Memory; Past; Slavery DEPARTURE OF MEMORIES, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When memories are about to depart they come more often Last Line: So that one day they fall prey to bold oblivion Subject(s): Memory DESERTED FARMS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A foretimes, fruitfulness and tilth were here Last Line: Or toward the peopled cities set your face. Subject(s): Farm Life; Memory; New England; Agriculture; Farmers DESERTED HOUSE, by PHOEBE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Old, neglected cedar trees press close Last Line: Where only memory lingers, only echo calls. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Memory DEXTER GORDON: COPENHAGEN/AVERY FISHER HALL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last time I listened I turned thirty-six Last Line: Leaving nothing left to play. Subject(s): Gordon, Dexter (1923-1990); Memory; Music & Musicians; Saxophones 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 DIALOGUE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghost without: dost thou remember? Last Line: God, how I remember! Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory DIALOGUE PARTLY PLATONIC, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we met by chance at the letter Last Line: In the upstairs dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Memory; Strangers DIARY, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty years ago, a spring / like this one, azaleas spilling Last Line: Together, this blossom, this flower Subject(s): Diaries; Memory DIARY, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty years ago, a spring %like this one, azaleas spilling Last Line: We wanted to make this child %together, this blossom, this flower Subject(s): Diaries; Memory DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: NIGHT PIECE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The sea with no waves we recognize Last Line: But who love it anyway Subject(s): Diaries; Dreams; Memory; Poetry And Poets DID YOU EVER GET A PHONE CALL, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dear gods, they say, you wouldn't pilfer a shadow, would you? Subject(s): Telephones; Love; Past; Memory DIGGER, THE SHORT DAYS, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winter morning in a kitchen yellow Last Line: To the factory gate before you %make your run for it Subject(s): Memory; Morning DIMENSIONS THE PAST TAKES, by JOE BONOMO Poem Source First Line: Down there Last Line: Into the common heave of speech Subject(s): Memory; Past DIRECTIVE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back out of all this now too much for us Last Line: Drink and be whole again beyond confusion Subject(s): Country Life; Houses; Memory DIRECTIVE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back out of all this now too much for us Last Line: Drink and be whole again beyond confusion Subject(s): Country Life; Houses; Memory DISTANCE OVER TIME, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: After death you drive at night Last Line: Between the wheat and the white line Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning DISTANT SONG, by HENRY SPIESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A delicate and downcast air Last Line: Dwells? Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Memory; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Parting DOLL HOUSE, by FRANCESCA ABBATE Poem Source First Line: I thought growing up meant I could live there Last Line: Static. Little waves of leaf-echo, moth Subject(s): Dollhouses; Houses; Memory; Toys DOMESTIC LIFE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The woman washing herself watched the team in harness Last Line: Whose grating cry %is lost in the light Subject(s): Household Employees; Life; Memory; Past; Women DOMESTICITY, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it knowledge, is it knowledge only and fear Last Line: Having no house to inhabit but this of our dead. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DON KARR, by JEFFREY L. DYE Poem Source First Line: Dog-face %pigeon-wit %hail of freckles Last Line: That I was his best friend Subject(s): Children; Memory DON'T THINK, by AHMAD FARAZ Poem Source First Line: And she %pouring red wine into my glass Last Line: Don't think so much Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Human Rights; Memory; Self-criticism; Thought DOOR OPENS, by JILL DALIBARD Poem Source First Line: The way back Last Line: When a slight wind blows %and you enter Subject(s): Memory; Time DOORWAY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: I was young and almost ridiculous that year, riding the train Last Line: Rain falls like tears and the corn grows tall as trees Subject(s): Aztecs; Guests; Memory; Mexico; Travel DOVE NOTES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soft, strange note of the doves, to what Last Line: Like melody heard under water, or music dimmed by a dream. Subject(s): Doves; Memory; Music & Musicians DOWN TO THE NINES, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Oh owner of wind %keeper of river mists Last Line: We are down to the nines Subject(s): African Americans - History; Memory; Slavery; Women DRAGGING THE RIVER, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Behind the hospital where we were born, we start across the plank Last Line: They find no weapon. Later, we hear the wounded victim survives Subject(s): Memory; Nature; Rivers DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once when they came to my bed in dream Subject(s): Memory DREAMINGS, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bog blossom's golden pistil Last Line: One who has ne'er forgotten, one who can ne'er forget. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares DREAMS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the night hours wane, the bleak winds of december" Last Line: "parted no more, at last it is good-night" Subject(s): Memory DREAMS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange! I saw the skies Last Line: From whence all joy, from whence all sorrow springs. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares DREAMS AND FANCIES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every moment in the gloaming Last Line: Halos all our sorrow. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Memory; Soul; Nightmares DRIVING WEST IN 1970, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear children, do you remember the morning Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Memory; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States DRUNKEN MEMORIES OF ANNE SEXTON, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first and last time I met Last Line: As I drank the lees of her wine Subject(s): Memory; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) DRUNKEN MEMORIES OF ANNE SEXTON, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The firsta nd last time I met Last Line: As I drank the lees of her wine Subject(s): Memory; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) DUENDE, by JACK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't remember her name Subject(s): Memory; Women DUH, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is silent and distant Last Line: From rolling over my head one day Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Memory; Relatives DUH, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is silent and distant Last Line: From rolling over my head one day Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Memory DULCE CORAZON, by PEARL HOBSON Poem Text First Line: Love comes and love goes, this I know Last Line: Enriched by my treasured memories of you. Subject(s): Memory DULCIS MEMORIA, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago I heard a little song Last Line: Sweet memory, keep our child with us alway. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Memory DUMP, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died, and I admired Last Line: The precious half foot. Beyond that %nothing, nothing at all Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Death; Homosexuality; Memory DUST, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem 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 E SEMPRE BENE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: But shall we not grow tired of joy Last Line: Shall be astonished at each kiss. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory EARLIEST MEMORY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light - not bright, but deep. No beams Subject(s): Memory EASTER MORNING, by EVERETTE BACH Poem Source First Line: How many years since that easter morning when I left him Last Line: We touched fingers, and whispered like children Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Memory EASTERN WAR TIME, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory says: want to do right? Don't count on me Last Line: Lifting my smoky mirror Subject(s): Memory; World War Ii EASTERN WAR TIME, SELS., by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Memory; World War Ii ECHOES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where of old, responsive / as the wind and foam Last Line: "of all the vanished past, we echoes only stay!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Echoes; Memory EDEN IS THAT OLD-FASHIONED HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But discover it no more Subject(s): Home; Farewell; Memory EDUCATIVE, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: One day, when I was ten or thereabouts Last Line: The deluded ramblings of old ma hope) Subject(s): Memory; Schools; Science EFFIE RUSKIN, 1849, by CATHLEEN CALBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today, another letter from john, calling me Last Line: Who could look at me and find beauty Subject(s): Love; Memory EL SALVADOR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Eva tells me %that she is from el salvador Last Line: Not even the jews Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; El Salvador; Escapes; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; Immigrants; Memory; War ELEGIAC STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF D.M.M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brightly the sun illumes the skies Last Line: And glory dawns beyond the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Death; Farewell; Memory; Mourning; Infants; Dead, The; Parting; Bereavement ELEGY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: They will not remember how you looked sleeping Last Line: Will say they were your friend Subject(s): Books; Death; Grief; Memory; Poetry And Poets; Solitude ELEGY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad nymphs of u l, u have much to cry for Last Line: They lately brought fresh bricks the walls to 10 (heighten.) Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Hair; Memory; Tears; Dead, The ELEGY FOR MY BROTHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll walk awhile, maybe as high as the tree line Last Line: And watch the door now being closed behind you... Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Farewell; Memory; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Half-brothers; Dead, The; Parting ELLIE REMEMBERS, by R. Q. LEIBOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Mourning does not move in stages Last Line: On the day on the moment their daughter was born Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning EMERSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall we say? In quietude Last Line: Our silence, best applause. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Grief; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EN PASSANT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have glanced and passed him, naturally Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural; Dead, The EN PASSANT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have glanced and passed him, naturally Last Line: With deference always due to souls accurst, %came out of his own grave - and none too soon Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 4. FOR FRANCES ANN, by ALBERTA BANCROFT Poem Text First Line: The little shop near pere-la-chaise Last Line: And please remember. Subject(s): France; Memory ENCHANTED HOUR, by SUZANNE POPE Poem Text First Line: A precious jeweled hour Last Line: This tender glimpse of you. Subject(s): Memory ENVISIONED MEMORIES, by GEORGIA PERLE SCHMIDT Poem Text First Line: Morning mists hang heavy over Last Line: Of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Schmidt, G. Perle Subject(s): Memory ENVOI, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Here lies a wretch, arterially ill Last Line: Now still he sits in sight of southern tides. Subject(s): Cemeteries; London; Memory; Graveyards EPHEMERA, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver-green lanterns tossing among windy branches Subject(s): Old Age; Memory EPISODE IN STASIS, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: I remember a visitor's garden, lavender magnolias walled-in by red Last Line: Immortality is the exact length of memory Subject(s): Immortality; Love; Memory EPITAPH FOR THE TOMB OF CESAR FLOREZ IN THE CEMETERY OF THE SAILORS..., by RIGAS KAPPATOS Poem Source First Line: Neither the passing of time nor the pitiless Last Line: He was only nineteen years old Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Guyana; Memory EPITAPH ON CERTAIN SCHISMATICS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These were they whom the body could not please Last Line: A wry shadow between the quick and the dead Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Memory EQUINOX, by TONY WHEDON Poem Source First Line: I stood outside the goodwill shop Last Line: Was scratching at the door Subject(s): Fathers; Memory ERASER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that the power of erasure in our lives belongs to god Last Line: Which will not leave me night or day? Subject(s): Memory ERASURE, by JESSICA HENRICKSEN Poem Source First Line: Your eyes, violet apples in a silent orchard Last Line: Match you up to the sky's %high blankness Subject(s): Faces; Memory ERICA, 1967, by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She liked people who didn't stop looking for something- Last Line: By a war of winds.' it's wild here. I love it Subject(s): Death; Memory; Travel ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep pools there are, pools quiet and still Last Line: And yet cannot escape from you? Subject(s): Escapes; Lakes; Memory; Moon; Stars; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds ESTHER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A face more vivid than he dreamed who drew Last Line: Honor no second place for truth can keep. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fear; Hearts; Jews; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 51, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I hear laughter from a tavern door Last Line: And lived wit esther the world's gods among. Subject(s): Memory ETERNAL, by PIGE EARLY Poem Text First Line: Two things / that stay with me Last Line: Your look. Subject(s): Memory ETUDE FOR MEMORY AND GUITAR: 1. TWO SISTERS, by CONSTANCE MERRITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not unlikely that you will find the sisters quite alike Last Line: For all such musings. Subject(s): Memory; Race Awareness; Sickness; Sisters; Touch (sense); Illness EUTHANASIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a world of pain Last Line: Ah, the pain again -- it will never be! Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Memory; Pain; Rain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery EUTHANATOS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth of our ways and woes Last Line: Could death's self quench or blind, love's self were dead. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EVELYN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dying? Evelyn, darling Last Line: All our love and all our woes. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The EVENING, by LUIS FELIPE CONTARDO Poem Source First Line: Tis like that eve which I shall ne'er forget! Last Line: Uprising like the fragrance of a flower Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Memory; Prayer EVENING TRAIN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man sleeping in the evening train Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Railroads; Railways; Trains EVENING TRAIN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man sleeping in the evening train Last Line: Rocks and bounces onward through sleeping fields, %our unknown stillness %holding level as water sea Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Railroads EVENING TURNED ITS BACK UPON HER VOICE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is she waiting for a knock on the door Last Line: Of how it calls and calls to us without words Subject(s): Memory; Women EVENINGS OF INK, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Obsessive memory of first %contacts Last Line: Sumptuous ink %in the envious town Subject(s): Memory EVENTIME, by JESSIE M. GILMORE Poem Text First Line: They gather around me at eventime Last Line: That I see by the ember's glow. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Solitude; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness; Thinking EVERNESS, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One thing does not exist: oblivion Subject(s): Memory; Shadows EVERY WHERE AND EVERY WHEN, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Catch a moth in the amazon; pin it under glass Last Line: When we spin and shine. Subject(s): Memory; Nature EVERYONE KNOWS THE WORLD IS ENDING, by ALICE FULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The coherent starlight Subject(s): Earth; Memory; Mothers; Judgment Day EVOCATION, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: From the deep mystery of the past I called her Last Line: Forswear not!... %and she kissed me on the mouth Subject(s): Memory EXALT NOT THE DEAD, by TIM DIVITO Poem Source First Line: There it is %down the darkened alleyway Last Line: Through the cracks of broken dreams Subject(s): Death; Memory EXALTATION, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: It's gone, now, %that thrill, that rush Last Line: All points of the compass %before me Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Old Age; Travel EXERCISE IN REMEMBERING, by DANIELA CRASNARU Poem Source Last Line: Geometric locus of %the most brightly glittering cruelty Subject(s): Activity; Memory EXPULSION, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm working like a dog here, testing my memory Last Line: The secret rooms, the long and brutal corridor %down which we sometimes shuffle, and sometimes run Subject(s): Memory EYAM, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For one short week I leave, with anxious heart Last Line: Dim apparition thou! -- and bitter in my tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Memory; Music & Musicians FACTORY-GIRL, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why are your eyes like dry brown flower-pods Last Line: One is curiously blessed if one's eyes are dead. Subject(s): Forget-me-nots; Memory FADED, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah face, young face, sweet with unpassionate joy Last Line: Filling my stillness here. She sings it well. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Women FADED FLOWERS, by MARY M. RANDLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Tis a crimson bud I treasured years ago Last Line: That life is fair and all is well with thee. Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation FAINT BLOW THE BUGLES OF MEMORY, by IRIS LORA THORPE Poem Text First Line: This is the morning of remembrance Last Line: The bugles of that vanished dawn. Subject(s): Bugles; Memory FAIR/BOY CHRISTIAN TAKES A BREAK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This other speaks of bones, blood-wet Last Line: The removal of what my troubled eyes have seen. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Carnivals; Children; Memory; Sin; Childhood FALL JOURNEY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Relatives FALL JOURNEY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river Last Line: And then I stopped: my father's eyes were gray Subject(s): Family Life; Memory FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A LITTLE BOY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I must own, my dear sonny, 'tis likely but few Last Line: look me up in the year nineteen-hundred-and-one. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers & Sons; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise FAMILY GATHERING, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: This park %with its over-bright floating tree-tops Last Line: But the movement in what he says %is another word for freedom Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Photography And Photographers FAR FLIGHT, by JESSIE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My hand upon the wheel, I rode Last Line: My hand still on the wheel! When comes the dawn? Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Memory; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight FAR FROM HOME, I REMEMBER THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND JOE WOLFE, GONE, by ANDREW MULVANIA Poem Source First Line: Judge is quiet tonight Last Line: Swift and silent as the pole of charon Subject(s): Death - Children; Home; Memory FAR FROM THE LAND, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kippure' we heard him matter. He was dying Last Line: To his mountain or his heaven. So he died. Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips FAR MEMORY: 1. CONVENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My knees recall the pockets Last Line: And certainly attended. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Convents; Memory; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 2. SOMEONE INSIDE ME REMEMBERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That my knees must be hidden away Last Line: Than myself Subject(s): Convents; Memory; Nuns; Prayer; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 5. SINNERMAN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horizontal one evening Last Line: And my own whispered / hosanna? Subject(s): Convents; Memory; Nuns; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 7. GLORIA MUNDI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So knowing, / what is known? Last Line: In one life. Subject(s): Life; Memory; Women & Religion FAR WEST ONCE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aloud, I said, with a slight stir of heart Last Line: Far off, far off, in vendurous shade, first birdsong Subject(s): Memory FAR WEST ONCE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aloud, I said, with a slight stir of heart Subject(s): Memory FAREWELL, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: I have placed you Last Line: Insanity of man's flesh! Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Passion; Male-female Relations FAREWELL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Tis sad to part Last Line: Are living memories of your stay. Subject(s): Farewell; Memory; Parting FAREWELL TO SAMSON, by WILLIAM DERGE Poem Source First Line: For how many dreams %did the cancer come to you Last Line: And then you both were dead Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Memory FARNEY'S SISTER, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The storm expected for many days had tasted Last Line: To look up at farney's sister, I can't Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Pictures; Sisters FATHER AND SON, by ROBERT GREACEN Poem Source First Line: I can't remember how it happened Last Line: The siren screams our armistice, %the angry dwarfs ride fast away Subject(s): Memory FEBRUARY SUITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Song, / angry bush Last Line: A long year has gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Seasons; Time; Winter FEELING SORRY FOR MYSELF, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I start with a groan, swelling to a moan Last Line: I shake and shiver, grinning, in the filthy air Subject(s): Hearts; Love Letters; Memory FENGLIUZI: REMINISCING WITH SU'AN, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: It's just like looking back on yesterday's events Last Line: Should have mistakenly flown to fairy isle! Subject(s): Melancholy; Memory FEW CANVASES OF MEMORY, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A laughable phantom kisses a spikenard Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory FIDDLE TIME, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off the fiddle of a man who rented a garage from my father Last Line: Not quite lost, over the curve of a finely honed bridge. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Passion; Childhood 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 FIFTY YEARS, by DENNIS TRUDELL Poem Source First Line: I found a pair of eyeglasses Last Line: He says. 'why I'll die alone.' Subject(s): Aging; Death; Life; Memory FIRELIGHT, by MARGARET RUSH Poem Text First Line: Tonight a picture haunts my blazing fire Last Line: I would not have him as a gift ... Today. Subject(s): Memory FIRST DATE, by SCOTT MONCRIEFF Poem Source First Line: I remember the first time I saw you Last Line: One stuffed, one broke, on the shelf Subject(s): Courtship; Memory FIRST DEGREE, by RUTH BEITTEL Poem Text First Line: I have purchased my calm Last Line: It is memory's ghost! Subject(s): Memory FIRST SNOW, LAST SNOW, by BRIAN BURKE Poem Source First Line: This is the first snow since your death Last Line: Or remember your last snow living Subject(s): Death; Memory; Snow FISHING FOR WATER BUCKETS IN THE CISTERN, by ANDREW MAGNUS FLEMING Poem Text First Line: In the middle west there's a place of Last Line: Peggy o'neil and I will fish for golden water buckets on the celestial shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, A. M. Subject(s): Memory FLAGS, SCROLLS, ROBES, DESERTS, WAVES, SELS, by PHILIP KOBYLARZ Poem Source First Line: A slug. Many wrinkles in sand. The beach is silent after the storm Last Line: Chair when its resting. Clouds another form of ash. We forget the %mementos Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Russia; Seashore FLAME WATCH, by JACK SEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: In my child-mind Last Line: With any slightest movement Subject(s): Children; Fire; Memory FLAME-HEART, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So much have I forgotten in ten years Last Line: Beneath the poinsettia's red in warm december. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Memory FLAMENCO SKETCHES, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Until the end- %I've traveled to other terrains Last Line: Inside my head you multiply %chrysanthemum smiles Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Memory FLASHBACK, by NICK FLYNN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagine I just barely escaped, repeat Last Line: We hunker down, yelling, leave Subject(s): Memory FLASHBACK, by NICK FLYNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagine I just barely escaped, repeat Last Line: We hunker down, yelling leave Subject(s): Memory FLEETING RETURN, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: What did she resemble, my god, tell me? Last Line: I know not how you were, but that you were I know Subject(s): Memory 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 FLIGHT, by TOM SEXTON Poem Source First Line: The sound of geese high above the house Last Line: Arms until they were covered with down Subject(s): Flight; Mankind; Memory FLOOR KEEPS TURNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She looks at her watch Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Time FLYING GEESE, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: The candy box spills over with quilt pieces Last Line: The sound of their many wings taking flight Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Immigrants; Memory FOOTAGE, by ELAINE ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: When the mother remarried in hevitz, she took her husband to meet his stepson Last Line: The heart pounding in another landscape, under wildflowers under bones Subject(s): Memory; Stepfathers FOOTPRINTS IN SNOW, by EDNA ZOE SCRIMGER Poem Text First Line: Out of the mists of my memory they come to me Last Line: Utter impermanence, footprints in snow. Subject(s): Memory FOR A DREAM'S SAKE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: I threw from me my sweetest boon Last Line: For a dream's sake. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares FOR A WOMAN DEAD AT THIRTY: 2, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In memory / you / go through that Last Line: Opened into the third / star-darkness Variant Title(s): For A Woman Dead At Thirty (2) Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The FOR A WOMAN DEAD AT THIRTY: 2, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In memory %you %go through that Last Line: As your words %opened into their third %star-darkness Variant Title(s): For A Woman Dead At Thirty (2 Subject(s): Death; Memory FOR AN EASTER REMEMBRANCE (TO MEMORY OF HEDD WYN & GWILYYM WILLIAMS), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the dead who caught thy word unspoken Last Line: To the glory of the heritage they kept within the night. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Memory; Wales; The Resurrection; Welshmen; Welshwomen FOR DAVID, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: It's evening %the birds perch on the branches with a racket, and Last Line: Frail and gentle as ducks and our distant ancestors s, %dummy Subject(s): Memory FOR ELIZABETH M. (KILLED ON THE I-95 IN SPRING 1994), by ROGER FIELD Poem Source First Line: Standing on the overpass Last Line: Would hold it %against me %for always Subject(s): Death; Memory FOR FELA, by PETER SIEGENTHALER Poem Source First Line: Passion spent Last Line: Sounds of footsteps %on a booming porch Subject(s): Memory FOR HER HIDING PLACE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Straight on to our backs %like death Subject(s): Memory; Sisters FOR MARGARET TAYLOR, FOR SAVING MY GRANDFATHER, by AMANDA PRICE Poem Source First Line: The dogs howled for three days when she died Last Line: From rows of dust, your whispers %louder than blood Subject(s): Death; Memory FOR ONE SAKE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One passed me like a flash of lightning by Last Line: Dream while I wake and dream on while I sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; War; Memory FOR RUTH, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a surprise Last Line: For ruth, for ruth Subject(s): Memory FOR SHIRLEY AND CHRISTA, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: A couple of years ago I Last Line: There ain't no roads, trusted friend Subject(s): Death; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory; Mortality FOR SNOW WHITE, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: I saw you %last night-under Last Line: A reflection-as still as your %body Subject(s): Love; Memory FOR THE COURTESAN CH'ING LIN, by WU TSAO Poem Text First Line: On your slender body Last Line: And carry you away. Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Memory; Past; Women FOR THE INAUGURATION OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man's thought of school Last Line: To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school. Subject(s): Camden, New Jersey; Memory; Old Age; Schools; Students FOR THOSE OF US LEFT BEHIND, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: With life and life's taking there is a darkness Last Line: The silence filled and dream of spring Subject(s): Memory FOR TONY, by DIANA SOLIS Poem Source First Line: Where do you come from Last Line: While I bury you %with my hands Subject(s): Memory; Peace FOR VICTOR JARA, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is to say we remember. Not that remembering saves us Subject(s): Memory FOR VICTOR JARA, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is to say we remember. Not that remembering saves us Last Line: Awful and awful. Good friend. You have embarrassed our hearts Subject(s): Memory FORBIDDEN SPEECH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The passion you forbade my lips to utter Last Line: "the voice of nature saying, ""he remembers." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Memory; Nature; Passion FOREMAN AT REST, by BRETT FOSTER Poem Source First Line: I awoke to his clumsy motions Last Line: Glistening in the lamplight Subject(s): Memory FOREVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Forever and ever the reddening leaves Last Line: Forever the rain rains on Subject(s): Future Life;memory;rain; Retribution;eternity;after Life FORGET HOW TO REMEMBER HOW TO FORGET, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have a rotten memory' began Last Line: Behind you into time already served Subject(s): Memory FORGET ME NOT, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: When in the morning's misty hour Last Line: Forget me not. Subject(s): Memory FORGET THEE, NO, NEVER!, by ALARIC ALEXANDER WATTS Poem Source Subject(s): Memory FORGET-ME-NOT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gallant knight and his betroth'd bride Last Line: And it will solace me in a lonely hour. Subject(s): Courtship; Drowning; Love - Marital; Memory; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FORGETFULNESS, by JEANNETTE DERBY Poem Text First Line: I shut the rooms where we had been together Last Line: All I held most dear! Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Memory FORGETTING SOMETHING, by NICK FLYNN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Memory FORT ORD, CALIFORNIA, 1953: 2. STELL, by HENRY CARLILE Poem Source First Line: We have learned how to march backward Last Line: How he played that longhair shit %on the dayroom piano? Drove me nuts Subject(s): Memory; War FOUR BUTS FOR ALFRED C. KINSEY, by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: South indiana's flat and tidy Last Line: He's now considered standard reading Subject(s): Books; Death; Memory 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 POEMS FOR ROBIN: SIWASHING IT OUT .. IN SISULAW FOREST, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept under rhododendron Subject(s): Camping; Oregon; Love; Youth; Memory; Camps; Summer Camps FOUR RECOLLECTIONS, by SHEN YUEH Poem Source First Line: I recall the times she came Last Line: Sweetly ashamed before the candlelight! Subject(s): Memory FRAILTY, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER Poem Text First Line: My wonderful vase, so fragile and fair Last Line: The gift of the child, eternal bequest. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Memory FRANCISCA MADRE; NEW YEAR, 1907, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: What cheer, francisco madre, what of cheer Last Line: There's a cheer, francisca madre, there is cheer. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Happiness; Holidays; Memory; New Year; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Joy; Delight FRAUNCES' TAVERN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Restore, o thought, whose potent weird Last Line: The honest love of gallant men! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Fraunces' Tavern, New York City; Memory; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Past; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons FRED PERRY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, dear fred, our task is done Last Line: Whose name was alfred perry. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Gratitude; Honor; Memory; Monuments; Dead, The FREEDOM OF A SINGLE BOOT, by TAYLOR GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: For instance this one, left behind Last Line: Reason enough to keep %a single boot? Subject(s): Memory FREEMASONRY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As through the dreary wilderness Last Line: Which will unite them there. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Freemasons; Heaven; Immortality; Memory; Presence; Dead, The; Masonic Societies; Paradise FRENCH HILL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell, acquaint me Last Line: That house known / for love? Subject(s): Memory FROM A BOX OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS, by JAMES ULMER Poem Source First Line: The girl in the picture is seventeen Last Line: Gray like the ocean, bluer on sunny days Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers FROM A DISTANCE THE TOMBSTONES LOOK LIKE A FLOCK OF STORKS, by RONNY SOMECK Poem Source Last Line: I was the only one who knew about this, %now I'm the one who can remember it Subject(s): Cemeteries; Israel; Memory FROM EMMA'S SCRAPBOOK, by NATON LESLIE Poem Source First Line: The article is titled Last Line: Turns, full of the missing Subject(s): Change; Memory FROM MOUNT MANSFIELD, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE Poem Text First Line: I shall recall this day when I am old Last Line: Where we are one with earth and wind and tide. Subject(s): Memory FROM NOW ON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The old woman asked him to wash her feet Last Line: From now on, there's no forbidden fruit Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Relationships FROM OVERSEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From oversea / violets for memories Last Line: Hither to thither oversea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love; Memory; Sea; Ocean FROM SUNSET TO STAR RISE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not Last Line: On sometime summer's unreturning track. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Night FROZEN STIFF, by BRAD GOOCH Poem Source First Line: It's not that I'm wallowing Last Line: Grow and grow %the more it stays the same Subject(s): Aids (disease); Memory; Sickness FULL HEART, by GLORY E. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: I wonder what she looked like / mother sweet Last Line: Since I was one year old. Subject(s): Legends; Memory FUNERAL OF HENRY G. RITER III, by LEE JENNISON SCHWEPPE Poem Source First Line: Henry had donated a garden to the cinder-block church Last Line: Rifting the water as at midway in 1942 Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Memory FUNESTE, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: If the smoke should go out Last Line: This dawn, return, he dies Subject(s): Memory; Night; Self; Solitude; Writing And Writers GAGAKU (80), by STEVE RICHMOND Poem Source First Line: Depressed this 2-2-94 morn then Last Line: Even cute in their red %full cotton %coats Subject(s): Family Life; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory; Mothers GARDENS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my walled california patio Last Line: Speaks on this bell's voice. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Memory; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GARY GILMORE'S 'MY LAST DUCHESS', by RICHARD LAMB Poem Source First Line: As nite came - remember? - we'd sit out back Last Line: To rip that cold, long-broken thing apart? Subject(s): Love; Memory GAS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That year, my mother was dying. And other things Last Line: Behind you say it's time to step on it buddy and go Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline; Memory GATHERED ROSES, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one through some beloved garden strays Last Line: Given to emptiness and wind and snow? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses; Snow GENERATION, by ROWENA TIEMPO TORREVILLAS Poem Source First Line: Up the hill beyond the mayflower Subject(s): Memory GENESIS, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cylinder sacks of water filling the oceans, / endless bullets of water Last Line: It was one drop of salt water against another. Subject(s): Memory GENTLE COMMUNION, by PAT MORA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the long-dead are willing to move Last Line: Our own private green honey Subject(s): Language; Memory; Spirituality; Words; Vocabulary GENTLE COMMUNION, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the long-dead are willing to move Last Line: I know not to bite or chew. I wait %for the thick melt, %our private green honey Subject(s): Language; Memory GENTLEMAN GEORGE, by W. A. HORN Poem Text First Line: Gentleman george in his youthful days was the pride of the eighth hussars Last Line: The slash of a whip on a skeleton hip, as the hoof-strokes echo away. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Soldiers; Dead, The GEO-BESTIARY: 23, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul grew weak and polluted during captivity, a zoo creature, frantic Last Line: Then you're not. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory GEORGE GISSING: IN MEMORIAM, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: To others the victory wreth, to you the memorial tribute Last Line: Swift hand that puts a stop to everything Subject(s): Gissing, George (1857-1903); Memory GEORGE LEVISON OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The noisy sparrows in our clematis Last Line: Supernal wisdom only knows how much. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Angels; Classmates; Death; Friendship; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Soul; Schoolmates; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise GHAZAL VARIATION #3, by SHANE BOOK Poem Source First Line: You were righ dick, %traffic from missoula's light Last Line: It's all you, dick. %we can stop right there Subject(s): Friendship; Memory GHAZALS: 10, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise me at durkheim fair where I've never been, hurling Last Line: And vanessa redgrave in my calvinist fantasies. Don't go away. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fantasy; Memory; Rape; Dead, The GHOST OF THE BEAUTIFUL PAST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ghost of the beautiful past, of the days long gone, of a Last Line: In glory! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GHOSTS OF MEMORIES, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ofttimes the strange thought comes to you and me Last Line: That once of old, as now, I loved you well! Subject(s): Love; Memory GIRL FRIEND POEM: 10, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She woke up in a hotel in the green mountains Last Line: In the brash blast of cascading light Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Memory; Women GIRL IN VALENTINE, NEBRASKA, by ROBERT KING Poem Source First Line: The x-ray map of my foot lit up Last Line: By all her other lives and deaths Subject(s): Memory; Nebraska; Travel GLASS, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd have thought by now it would have stopped Last Line: Not it's still no there, but something like come in, be still Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Fathers; Memory; Mirrors; Mourning GLOSSTR LEAD, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: This morning from his bed lord Last Line: A beautiful record will never be destroyed Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Relationships GOING BACK HOME, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing sadder than returning Last Line: Steeple, and in its shade were planted people who once were chums of mine. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Retrospection GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, by STEPHEN MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: Baled in grave gray, this photo is three-quarters Last Line: And splinter the world, ordinary, slow Subject(s): Graves; Memory; Photography And Photographers GOLDIN REMEMBERS LAST CHRISTMAS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: As he laid out the place mats on the grained oak table, goldin Last Line: Clearly than if she were weeding in the garden Subject(s): Christmas; Love; Memory GOLIATH POEM, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am always sorry for the big ape falling Last Line: And the moon curved above us like an ear Variant Title(s): The Sound Of A Big Ma Subject(s): Memory GONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the morning fair and sweet Last Line: All are gone! Subject(s): Children;memory;old Age; Childhood GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A small square with elms Last Line: "but she does. She has to." Subject(s): Memory; Mothers & Daughters GOODNIGHT IRENE, by CORRINNE CLEGG HALES Poem Source First Line: On my fourth birthdya, she's scooping coal gravel Last Line: All those years ago, by the way %my mother sang along Subject(s): Memory; Parents GOODNIGHT IRENE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am ten and a half and my father Subject(s): Memory GOODNIGHT IRENE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am ten and a half and my father Subject(s): Memory GOTTA DANCE, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: We had to laught: the bricklayer passing by Last Line: Souls replete on their flannel sleeves Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Memory GOVERNANCE, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: These random condolences Last Line: What have I taught myself to forget Subject(s): Memory GOYA'S MOTHER, by KEITH ANTAR MASON Poem Source First Line: She is counting pennies endlessly again Last Line: Now... %klink klink klink klink Subject(s): Children; Memory; Mothers GRACE, by ADELIA PRADO Poem Source First Line: The world is a garden. A light bathes the world Last Line: Like the sky, the real world is pastoral Subject(s): Memory; Youth GRANDFATHER, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Your eyes brushed me Last Line: The loudest language you could give Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Grandparents; Memory GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDSON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I hear it, now when there is company Last Line: Does it remind me of?' till someone comes Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory GRANDMOTHER'S SOUL, by SHARON GOLDYN Poem Source First Line: There's an almost eternal soft pillow Last Line: As I lay my head down and %sleep to dream Subject(s): Dreams; Grandparents; Memory GRANDMOTHERS LAND, by WILLIAM OANDASAN Poem Source First Line: Around the house stood an Last Line: The valley, the field, the trees Subject(s): Memory GRANNIE'S TALE: A BALLAD O' MEMORIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The days o' langsyne, oh! The days o' langsyne Last Line: "in that grave lay his wife an' four bairnies dear." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory; Past; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRATITUDE FOR A BAD DECISION, by RICK CANNON Poem Source First Line: My grandfather who visitied once Last Line: I clutched my father's leg %the man coughed like he had a rat in his throat Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory 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 RAIN, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember long veils of green rain Subject(s): Memory; Rain GREEN RAIN, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember long veils of green rain Last Line: I remember the rain as the feathery fringe of her shawl Subject(s): Memory; Rain GREEN SLATES (PENPETHY), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It happened once, before the duller Last Line: "standing in the quarry!" Subject(s): Memory; Quarries GROTESQUE, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: With the first light on the skyline came the rapping of the sickles Last Line: "and the fields with harvest teeming have forgot them all too soon!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Fields; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Serfs GUALTERUS DANISTONUS AD AMICOS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Studious the busy moments to deceive Last Line: Be now cut off, betwixt the grave and thee. Subject(s): Death; Future; Graves; Happiness; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight GUEST, by ROSALIE B. GEER Poem Text First Line: Whose undaunted knocking breaks the Last Line: but, oh, loved and transient guest, make thy visit long! Subject(s): Memory HAGAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said hagar: nay, I can not see him die Last Line: And mused on abraham and ishmael! Subject(s): Death; Hagar; Ishmael (bible); Memory; Dead, The HALATION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, you moved so rapidly through my life Last Line: Scored by the years, focused last, and free. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Paintings & Painters; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism HALF-DREAM OF THE DOLPHIN, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: My sister tells me the portrait is free Last Line: Another moment, convincingly bright Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Photography And Photographers HARBORS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full many a noonday nook I know Last Line: This side the continent of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Loneliness HARMATAN, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday also has its leaves, newspapers Last Line: Of the earth ceaselessly emptying itself Subject(s): Europe; Immigrants; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Poetry And Poets; Poverty; Protestantism; Racism; Refugees; Sahara Desert; Solitude; U.s. - Foreign Population HATCHERY, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in havana as school children we took a field trip Last Line: The barren and ravaged fields we now call our childhoods Variant Title(s): At The Hatcher Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools HAUNTED CHAMBERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the old and ruined mansion Last Line: Are forever more at rest Subject(s): Haunted Houses;memory HAUNTED STREETS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, haply walking in some clattering street Last Line: We stretch out yearning hands and grasp -- the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Memory; Seeking HAUNTING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If all she remembered at the end Last Line: At my [or, your] daughter with her eyes? Subject(s): Arabs; Children; Daughters; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine HAWTHORN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I see her where the budding may Last Line: My forgotten may Subject(s): Hawthorn;may (month);memory HE THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS WHEN A PART OF ... HEAVEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have drunk ale from the country of the young Last Line: Cry of his love with their pitiful cries. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Mongan Thinks Of His Greatness Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory HE'S SITTING ON A BENCH IN THE PAST, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: I took you for another Last Line: If you renounce your listening %you'll hear the fierce music Subject(s): Memory; Past HEAL-ALL: IN MEMORY OF KANA NAKAMA, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Because the sky is a cipher Last Line: I've grown too pale and thin Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Grandparents; Grief; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Silence HEARSAY, by ALLEN BRADEN Poem Source First Line: So few are left that know your story Last Line: And propped up by the pot-bellied stove? %a dozen take the credit Subject(s): Justice; Memory HEART BEATS, by FLORENCE STEINBERG Poem Text First Line: Time has vanished Last Line: Die. Subject(s): Memory; Thought; Thinking HEART MEMORIES, by JAMES THOMSON (1825-1888) Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There are mem'ries treasur'd in the heart which tongue hath never told Last Line: When into that rich treasure-house we enter without fear? Subject(s): Hearts; Memory HEART OF BAMBOO: TWO LETTERS TO CHRISTOPHER YOHMEI BLASDEL, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Play sanya for me Last Line: But the song is all our own Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Love; Memory HEART, WE WILL FORGET HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I may remember him! Subject(s): Memor HEARTH, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory honoring the landscape Last Line: In the palms of an autumn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Memory HEAVEN AND MEMORIES, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Welcome, my beloved, to paradise! Last Line: The cloud, where 'throned in his omnipotence sits god! Subject(s): Farewell; Memory; Parting HEAVEN'S MOUNTAIN, by WALLY SWIST Poem Source First Line: There is a myth Last Line: Sweetness and depth %of their passion Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Memory HER CHERRY-TREE ABLOOM, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: I mind the jauntin'-cars a jinglin' Last Line: Roun' my lone, wee room! Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cherry Trees; Driving & Drivers; Memory HER EVERY NO, by DAVID PETRUZELLI Poem Source First Line: Maybe it's easier to buy new clothes Last Line: That he brushed one cheek as if checking for dust Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory HER MEMORY BANK, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has no entrance. For years Last Line: Memory bank and I want more Subject(s): Memory HER ONLY PILOT THE SOFT BREEZE, THE BOAT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No fleeting spirit, but my own true love? Subject(s): Muses; Imagination; Memory; Writing & Writers HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 2, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: For full three years Last Line: Obey blest beckonings till I draw last hungry breath. Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Firefighters; Memory; War; Valor; Bravery HERE IS MUSIC: 14. RONDEAU, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Were you but here, this wan, unhappy west Last Line: Were you but here. Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Lament; Memory; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness HERE IS MUSIC: 9. BALLADE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Into this tiny, trivial, one-horse town Last Line: And lets me, singing, loving, live my little hour. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Youth; Childhood HERE IS MUSIC: BALLADE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Not a man's major blunder, fault, misdeed Last Line: From stab, sting, goad of one time slender-seeming sin. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT MUSICUS (UNFINISHED SYMPHONY), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Just kissing-high, full-fleshed, yet not Last Line: "'twas you I loved, still love ... You spoiled me for the rest!" Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Passion; Separation; Isolation HERSELF DIVINED, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Born to a family of scientists Last Line: Poetry is the highest science Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets; Revivals HERZEGNOVI: IN THE MIDDAY SUN, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source First Line: I have been here before Last Line: We venture that rare thing %the now Subject(s): Memory HI, by WILLIAM KULIK Poem Source First Line: My name's james, enlightenment's my game. Comin' at y'all with soul break Last Line: The wall. Cause I got my own confusion. 'night, y'all Subject(s): Memory HIGHWAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems too enormous just for a man to be Last Line: Than to places you can reach by going on Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hunger; Memory; Roads; Travel Directions HINT OF HONSHU, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Oh, leave it, leave it, goldin cried, referring Last Line: The brush that sketched my mind's unhappy paintings Subject(s): Love - Marital; Memory; Paintings And Painters HIS FAVORITE BLUE CUP, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the years - and heart has had many years Last Line: I've been away, says heart, I've been away Subject(s): Memory HIS FAVORITE BLUE CUP, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the years - and heart has had many years Last Line: I've been away, says heart, I've been away Subject(s): Memory HIS ROOM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm home again, my dear old room Last Line: Their sweethearts' and talk love to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Memory; Rooms; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares HISTORY 10020, by ANDREW STEINMETZ Poem Source First Line: Camp %survivor Last Line: And long term memory %deficits %thank god Subject(s): Memory HOMAGE, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Last night I dreamt I was a chinese wild man Last Line: Knowing the emperor's cruel hoax finished not only your career %how did it come to you to break into Subject(s): Home; Memory HOMAGE TO HAT & UNCLE GUIDO & ELIOT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Just like clay who became a world champion Last Line: Magnolia brandenburg & america %two days ago eliot died %my teacher Subject(s): Death; Memory HOME, by LEIGH BUCKNER HANES Poem Text First Line: Tis the place where the sins are forgiven Last Line: In the arms of a mother at dawn. Subject(s): Love; Memory HOME / SCHOOL, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: My childhood's house is Last Line: As death, so strange %is desperately familiar Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Children; Home; Memory; Schools HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD: ANNOUNCEMENTS: JACKSON BLVD 1957 AND 1980, by DIANN BLAKELY Poem Source First Line: I hate babies - they mess up your nice things,' Last Line: She cries, of course, and offers me her ring Subject(s): Babies; Memory HOMER, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the glass of the aegean sea Last Line: Come near and pause, -- which choose you of the two? Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Memory; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HORATIANS: 41, by VICENT ANDRES ESTELLES Poem Source First Line: I lit a bonfire on the mountain top Last Line: I slowly return from the mountain top to my house Subject(s): Memory HORSESHOES, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: It's slipping by, tiny aliquots Last Line: Green beans and a slice of meat Subject(s): Horseshoes; Medicine; Memory; Physicians HOURS, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day, knowing you dead Last Line: O dark! I leave you to oblivious night Subject(s): Memory HOUSE, by NIKO GRAFENAUER Poem Source First Line: The house where you think things over Last Line: Is like the beginning of all that goes away Subject(s): Memory; Solitude HOUSE, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: Their mouths blur like leaves caught Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Memory HOUSE I LOVED, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I go walking along the old street Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Ruins HOUSE ON 19TH STREET, by MARK SANDERS Poem Source First Line: On summer nights, before sleep, the sweet smell Last Line: And the night dissolved, like a boyhood, into morning Subject(s): Children; Houses; Memory; Summer HOW COULD YOU EVER BE FINE?, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt last night I heard someone speak your name Last Line: People on hard streets dragged to inevitable ends. Subject(s): Bodies; Memory HOW GOES THE NIGHT?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: The dragon banner floating in the sun Subject(s): Memory HOW IT WAS, by JEFF GUNDY Poem Source First Line: That day was a frigate, no, a cruise ship Last Line: Hey grandpa, about all of that, and nobody will Subject(s): Memory HOW THIS WOMAN TOLD MARGARET MEADE ABOUT COTTAGE CHEESE, by SUE ANN ALDERSON Poem Source First Line: This woman worked, wore sensible shoes Last Line: Around this poem is a whisper of bright green sequins a shout Subject(s): Memory; Women HOW TO LIKE IT, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These are the first days of fall. The wind Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Memory HOW TO LIKE IT, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the first days of fall. The wind Last Line: Answers to what comes next and how to like it Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Memory HOWARD SHAW, ARCHITECT; DIED MAY 6, 1926, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember? We, the city, shall remember Last Line: The features of a building or a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Death; Memory; Shaw, Howard Van Doren (1869-1926); Dead, The HUGELY, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world greens, opens, remembering.-what? That to keep Last Line: The billion legs of grass walking beneath a blue sky Subject(s): Desire; Memory HUMBLE HERB IS RIVAL TO PROZAC, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An item in science tuesday happens to catch my eye Subject(s): Flowers; Memory HUMBLE HERB IS RIVAL TO PROZAC, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An item in science tuesday happens to catch my eye Last Line: Wreathes the lonely air: %courage. Nothing good will disappear Subject(s): Flowers; Memory HUNDRED BOLTS OF SATIN, by KAY RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All you %have to lose Last Line: Specialized %more than %you imagined Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Reason HUNTING HORNS, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our story is noble and tragic Last Line: Whose sound dies on the breeze. Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Memory HUNTING HORNS, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our history is exalted tragic / like the masque of some despot Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Memory HUNTING HORNS, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our history is the noble tragic Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Memory HUNTING HORNS, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our story is noble, tragic Last Line: Memories are hunting horns %whose sounds die along the wind Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Memory HYMN TO THE TREE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: O brother tree, fast fixed in earth Last Line: Of love unchanging, love to all! Subject(s): Love; Memory; Presence I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT LOVE WOULD BE, by NORMA PAUL RUEDI Poem Text Last Line: A fortress against time. Subject(s): Loyalty; Memory I AM A MASON, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I am a mason, a priest of dust Last Line: Here the memory stands, the order, the signs of the future Subject(s): Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Memory; Shepherds And Shepherdesses I CANNOT FORGET YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: No matter how hard I try to forget you, you always Subject(s): Friendship; Memory I CARE NOT, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I care not though the spring forget Last Line: That I forgot not thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Memory I CHOSE THIS BRANCH, by HONGJANG Poem Source First Line: I chose this branch of mountain willow Last Line: In tht new leaf me Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Shadows I DO NOT REMEMBER THE NUMBER', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon your trembling eyelids Subject(s): Kisses; Memory; Relationships I DON'T GO SHEARING NOW, by W. A. WOODS Poem Text First Line: So you're off to riverina, where the sun is shining clear Last Line: The rheumatism takes me, so I don't go shearing now. Alternate Author Name(s): Drayman, John Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Memory; Sheep; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives I DREAM OF FLO, by ALBERT SARGENT DAVIS Poem Text First Line: I dream of flo, and memory, fleeting light, Last Line: I dream of flo? Subject(s): Memory I FIGHT AGAINST YOU, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I fight against you while I am awake Last Line: It is on waking that I cease to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Sleep; Nightmares I FORGET, by RICHARD LEHNERT Poem Source First Line: One october evening, I was twelve, walking home Last Line: How can I forget? %some days we live Subject(s): Memory I HAD FORGOTTEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had forgotten she was dead, though once I had loved her Last Line: Shall I never age? Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares I HAVE COME REMEMBERING, by LORENE BYRNES BURNS Poem Text First Line: These are the paths we loved Last Line: Have you come back tonightremembering? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Romance; Sanctuaries I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I COUNT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the very feel of tears Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Past; Memory I KNOW NOT IF FROM UNCREATED SPHERES, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Can this be, master, what thine eyes have done Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Memory I MEANT TO FIND HER WHEN I CAME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To memory — and me Subject(s): Death; Memory I REMEMBER, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almost I loved you Last Line: Dancing in the midnight sky. Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Loneliness I REMEMBER IT, by CHARLOTTE ALINGTON Poem Source First Line: Twas a still soft eve in summer Last Line: I remember it Subject(s): Memory I REMEMBER LOST THINGS, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember getting letters addressed to me with my name and street Subject(s): Memory I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Memory; Wedding I SEE MY MOTHER IN BAGGAGE CLAIM, by THOM SATTERLEE Poem Source First Line: She is thirty years younger, her hair Last Line: And out through revolving doors Subject(s): Memory; Mothers I SHALL REMEMBER, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: The rain has come and washed away the trace Last Line: But II shall remember when I'm dead! Subject(s): Memory; Nature; Past; Relationships I STILL HAVE EVERYTHING YOU GAVE ME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is dusty on the edges Last Line: I would not trade. Subject(s): Memory; Time I THINK OF THEE, by KATE GOLDSBORO MCDOWELL Poem Text First Line: When morning's jewelled fingers part Last Line: Where you may be and I am not. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory I WANT TO LIVE AS A MAGICIAN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It is not easy to move about on this earth with crumpled Last Line: From my pocket and perch them on blooming branches Subject(s): Blood; Buddhism; Memory; Pictures; War Injuries I WANTED TO PAINT THE NIGHT, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source Last Line: The night's own light %thin plum skin Subject(s): Love; Memory; Paintings And Painters I WILL ARISE AND GO NOW ...', by SCOTT MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The memories of animals Last Line: Or fire, or own fate, %consumed our hearts Subject(s): Memory I.M. ANNE ALEXANDER DAVIDSON 1937-1994, by JEFFREY WAINWRIGHT Poem Source First Line: I say your shells though they are not really so Last Line: And the horn practice beginning now along the street Subject(s): Death; Memory IANTHE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Ianthe! Could thy name express Last Line: I wake to find the vision fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Memory IBIS-ANUBIS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few traces of erosion Last Line: Under the incomprehensible alphabets of ther moment Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Memory ICE-CROWNED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glancing in armor of crystal Last Line: Into what peace are ye borne! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness IDEAL MEMORY, by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON Poem Text First Line: If in the years that come such thing should Last Line: I did appear, by that remember me! Subject(s): Memory IF LIGHTS DIM, by SANDRA BERRIS Poem Source First Line: When you're asked where Last Line: What makes you remember Subject(s): Light; Memory IF SOMETIMES IN THE HAUNTS OF MEN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Memory IF YOU ARE HERE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two women walk side by side at dawn Subject(s): Memory IF YOU ARE HERE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two women walk side by side at dawn Last Line: You would be you, writing these final words Subject(s): Memory ILLICIT, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of what she said to me that night - no matter Last Line: She played this tune? - or what, then, was intended? Subject(s): Music Y& Musicians; Forgetfulness; Memory IMAGINE MY MOTHER, by ELIZABETH NOTTER Poem Source First Line: Ten years dead and lives forever Last Line: Always closer, to the forsake woman %who inhabits me Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers IMMORTALITY, by M. EDWARD ROSENZWEIG Poem Text First Line: Soft falls the snow, -like a silent veil Last Line: And my footprints are lost, as soft falls the snow. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise IMPERIAL DELHI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial city! Dowered with sovereign grace Last Line: Before whose shrine the spells of death are vain. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Memory; Mourning; Rest; Dead, The; Bereavement IMPRESSIONS, by BERNICE SMITH HAGMAN Poem Text First Line: Tattered eucalyptus trees Last Line: Arbutus springs from snowy bed! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails IN A RAILWAY STATION, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strangely memory serves us! Here tonight Last Line: "will have gone twenty miles tonight for naught." Subject(s): Memory; Pity; Railroad Stations; Women - Middle Aged IN AN EMPTY HOUSE, by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the walls the paper's blue is vanished Last Line: Leaving their yet unforgotten trace. Subject(s): Emptiness; Houses, Deserted; Memory IN BLOOMING ORCHARDS, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again I walk 'mid orchard bloom Last Line: Through mays that manhood ne'er forgets. Subject(s): Memory; Orchards IN BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mourning dove's call woke me Last Line: The call woke me in the still night Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement IN BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mourning dove's call woke me Last Line: And you'll be with your mother again Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning IN CALM CONTENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little smoke lazed slowly up from my big cigar Last Line: And back I leant in calm content that things are as they are Subject(s): Contentment;labor & Laborers;memory;time IN CITIES, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cities you watch the way of wind with smoke Last Line: Delights deeper than any a city divines. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Hearts; Memory; Trees; Urban Life IN DAYS GONE BY, by LILLA CABOT PERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days gone by when you were here Last Line: In days gone by! Subject(s): Hunger; Memory; Past; Time IN FALL, WHEN THE MOON, by HOEYON Poem Source First Line: In fall when the moon visits my garden Last Line: You alone will emerge unchanged Subject(s): Memory; Solitude IN HELL, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The anteroom was just a modern lobby Subject(s): Memory IN HER STUDIO; IN MEMORY OF SUSAN MERRILL FARNHAM, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Within her shadowed room, the hush Last Line: Whose media lay in all material things. Subject(s): Memory; Portraits IN HONOR OF THAT HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCESS QUEEN ELIZABETH, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although great queen thou now in silence lie Last Line: If many worlds, as that fantastic framed, %in every one be her great glory found Variant Title(s): Queen Elizabet Subject(s): Children; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Home; Marriage; Memory; Puritans IN INTERIMS: OUTLYER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He halts. He haw. Plummets Last Line: Aloud and here and now. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Love; Memory; Nature; Reincarnation; Travel; Transmigration; Pretas; Journeys; Trips IN ITALY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lillian, all I wished is won! Last Line: Lies in the heart which mine hath won! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Italy; Love; Memory; Nightmares; Italians IN JOHN UPDIKE'S ROOM, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in your room – I ask them at reception Last Line: That thing you knew here, and darkness is coming fast Subject(s): Scotland; Motion Pictures; Mourning; Memory IN MEMORIAM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This warmish night of the thaw Last Line: And vanish into the mist Subject(s): Death; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, by DAVID CHORLTON Poem Source First Line: Taped to the inside of the window Last Line: Trapped above the custards and the creams Subject(s): Bakeries And Bakers; Memory IN MEMORIAM, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Gone from the earth, forever and forever! Last Line: And trace his name upon the hearts of men. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Memory; Dead, The; Paradise IN MEMORIAM, by J. CLARK GRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Old elms stand stark on a field of snow Last Line: That is all. Subject(s): Memory IN MEMORIAM, by CLARENCE SYLVESTER JARVIS Poem Text First Line: A thousand hours of organ interlude Last Line: And thrice ten million souls are comforted. Subject(s): Memory IN MEMORIAM, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gates of time swing to: our wisest head Last Line: With the eternal anywhere at home. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her gentle spirit passed with peace Last Line: The anguish of the poor. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Memory; Peace; Wilson, Ellen Louise Axson (d. 1914); Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Dust-laden, languid flowers droop and fade Last Line: Brings back the sunlight of a life that shone. Subject(s): Memory IN MEMORIAM, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: Since poems aren't always organized Last Line: You, me, soledad gonzalez Subject(s): Exiles; Memory; Women - Secluding IN MEMORIAM, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: True builders of the state were they Last Line: As toilers, friendsas mothers, wives. Subject(s): Memory; Pioneers IN MEMORIAM, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: His name was Last Line: Still know %that he lived Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory IN MEMORIAM G.D., by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: The church; the moving bier; the psalmist's span Last Line: His own and others' honour to his tent. Subject(s): Leadership; Memory IN MEMORIAM HONORE MERCIER, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, true and gentle, kind and brave! Last Line: May never see his like again. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Courage; Friendship; Heroism; Memory; Mercier, Louis Honore (1840-1894); Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines IN MEMORIAM, A.H., by MAURICE BARING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind had blown away the rain Last Line: Among the very brave, the very true. Variant Title(s): Udite, Si Dolgono Mesti Fringuelli Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Herbert, Auberon Thomas (1876-1916); Memory; Patriotism; World War I; Dead, The; Lucas, 8th Baron; Dingwall, 11th Baron; First World War IN MEMORIAM, NINTH OF AB, by BEN AVROM Poem Text First Line: And all is lost! Thy valiant sons are dead Last Line: And in thy glory, make our glory rise! Subject(s): Death; Jews; Memory; Slavery; Dead, The; Judaism; Serfs IN MEMORIAM. G. M. M., by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His letter lies before me here Last Line: O friend, whom I shall see no more! Subject(s): Death; Letters; Love; Memory; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM: CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why comes the wandered poet back Last Line: So may you live, so be your memory fair. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Norton, Charles Eliot (1827-1908); Dead, The IN MEMORIAM: KEN SARO WIWA, by B. Z. NIDITCH Poem Source First Line: You want to stand %even in your sleep Last Line: Wanting miracles %under a sovereign sky Subject(s): Memory IN MEMORIAM: T.C.P., by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Skies were not yet red with sunset, far off still Last Line: One hand beckoning, and the other resting on the shining goal. Subject(s): Memory IN MEMORIAM; TO REV. DR. B. FELSENTHAL, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Far up the path that leads back nevermore Last Line: Have writ his name with the undying dead. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Memory; Dead, The IN MEMORIUM LEO L., by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Only a week ago Last Line: The eternal tracks %toward home Subject(s): Memory IN MEMORY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the shining parapets Last Line: Your duty you did to the end. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Soul; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF AURELIO SAFFI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wider world of men that is not ours Last Line: April 1890. Subject(s): Death; Hope; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Optimism IN MEMORY OF HENRY A. BRIGHT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet again another, ere his crowning year Last Line: Nor may sorrow find again so sweet a song. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory IN MEMORY OF JEREMIAH BUCK: SEPTEMBER 8TH, 1834, by DAVE CASERIO Poem Source First Line: Flies have tangled and buried themselves Last Line: Kaela -- houm kith kith kaela 3 stone %3 stone Subject(s): Death; Memory IN MEMORY OF JOHN WILLIAM INCHBOLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell: how should not such as thou fare well Last Line: Bid thee, beloved in life and death, farewell. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sleep; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH COTE (1931-1994), by LEONARD GASPARINI Poem Source First Line: Smokin' joe - the conscience of the westend Last Line: A card which said: joe, you're only on the road again Subject(s): Death; Memory IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, by ELMER A. C. WOLFE Poem Text First Line: Many a year has come and passed Last Line: She'll welcome me in the heavenly cloud. Subject(s): Memory; Mothers IN MEMORY OF SOPHIE REDMOND, by LODEWIJK (LOU) A. M. LICHTVELD Poem Source First Line: There's not many like you anymore Last Line: No sranan will ever forget you, sister %sophie Subject(s): Memory; Mourning IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HUGHES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in the month of june Last Line: To my sad and sorrow-stricken heart down here. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Dead, The IN MY FIRST MEMORY, by ANN KENISTON Poem Source First Line: Which might have instructed me Last Line: So that, remembering, I feel only %a slight dizziness Subject(s): Memory IN NOVEMBER, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under my trees of green and gold Last Line: Their memory, after all, is sweet. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; November; Seasons IN PASSING, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a half block off I see you coming, Subject(s): Hope; Identity; Memory; Optimism IN PASSING, by MINNIE MCKENZIE RASER Poem Text First Line: Our lives touched in passing Last Line: For we still may remember, you know. Subject(s): Memory IN PRAISE OF AUDEN, by DICK DAVIS Poem Source First Line: God knows it's possible to fault you Last Line: And distinguished; in cosmic terms a trifle %but an unwasted life Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Memory; Poetry And Poets IN REMEMBRANCE, by ADRA CAROLINE BATCHELDER Poem Text First Line: I shall be better soon,' he tried to say Last Line: Comforts and lingers near. Subject(s): Memory IN REMEMBRANCE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the eclipses of your soul, and when you cry Last Line: "in the ""beyond"" where souls may ne'er forget." Subject(s): Memory IN REMEMBRANCE (VIOLET CLARKE - DIED MARCH 21, 1909), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With eager knowledge of our ancient lore Last Line: Of your sweet wind-blown and love-garnered leaves. Subject(s): Memory IN RESPECTFUL MEMORY OF MR. YARKER: MENTEM MORTALIA TANGUNT, by JOHN CLOSE Poem Text First Line: And have we lost another friend? Last Line: Hark to the tolling bell! Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Dead, The IN SEPULCRETIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not then enough that men who give Last Line: Not shakespeare's grave would scare them off with rhymes. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Memory; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IN SIMON; CATERER FOR FASHIONABLE SUPPER-PARTIES, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear simon! Prince of pastry-cooks Last Line: And bid them twine your bust with roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; New York City - 19th Century; Parties; Statues IN THAT STILL HOME, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Their wants are very few Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Old Age; Memory; Love IN THAT TIME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day had its own shape Last Line: His red coat and ran away. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Past; Childhood IN THE GLOAMING, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Twas long ago, so long I hardly dare Last Line: Will the sweet shadow steal a-down the stair? Subject(s): Memory; Past IN THE HOME OF THE SCHOLAR WU SU-CHIANG ..., by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Half of our borders, rivers and mountains were gone Last Line: Dragons dancing in the depths %and the moss on the shore burning red Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women IN THE MARSHALL MINNESOTA QUICKSTOP, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: They'll never leave you Subject(s): Memory IN THE MEMORY OF ANDREE REXROTH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a question of mutual being Last Line: It is held by a very old very endurable / meaning Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The IN THE MEMORY OF ANDREE REXROTH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a question of mutual being Last Line: Is held by a very old very endurable %meaning Subject(s): Death; Memory IN THE MOMENT, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Before the stone, now in high mid arc Last Line: That flex shake the rigor mortis of eternity Subject(s): Memory IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her class invents angels Last Line: They have nothing to do with you. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students; Educators; Professors IN THE SHADOW, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We walk within the shadow, and we feel its Last Line: But the shadow fades at dawning, and the east is flecked with gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Echoes; Memory; Rest; Shadows IN THOSE OLD DAYS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In those old days you were called beautiful Last Line: A deeper rhythm hearing mine: can it be indeed for me? Subject(s): Beauty; Memory; Youth IN/VOCATION, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: From the being of me, this %receptacle I am Last Line: Arise, arise, arise, arise, arise Subject(s): Memory; Singing And Singers INCARNATION, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day a woman stands in her kitchen Last Line: For the house to fall down. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness INEVITABLY (1), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing in the world that clings Last Line: Like shadows in a looking-glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Memory INFANTA, by IOANNA CARLSEN Poem Source First Line: For a moment it flashed Last Line: Everyone staring into a dream so dense %nothing ever escapes it Subject(s): Memory INFRARED MEDITATION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Body and memory, poles linked in rapid succession Last Line: Body and memory, what survives your spirited sleep. Subject(s): Bodies; Memory INGENERATE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient rune goes running in my blood Last Line: Of mad, sweet things ... Subject(s): Memory INHERITANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in her nineties she recalled Last Line: Once again to feel them soothe me. Subject(s): Memory; Montague, John (b. 1929) INJURY, by SUNSHINE GLENSTONE Poem Source First Line: My memory of my father is that he sat in the parlor Last Line: I suppose we were all happier in summer Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Memory; Pain INLAND, by JOAN DARETH PROSPER Poem Text First Line: He used to talk of ships, and I remember Last Line: (god! How I'm still missing him!) Subject(s): Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping INNER LANDSCAPE, by SANDOR WEORES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I squeeze the minutes out of stone Last Line: Out of cricket songs Subject(s): Heads; Memory; Thought INNER LANDSCAPES, by RICARDO JAIMES FREYRE Poem Source First Line: The orchard is a musical refuge, full of poetry and Last Line: O my soul, forget the ancient idols! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Refugees INNER NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: This spirit road of ghost Last Line: And rich, the sun in love, %past everything but source Subject(s): Eskimos; Love; Memory; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska INNER SEA, by CHON PONGGON Poem Source First Line: I have a memory of sand Subject(s): Memory INSIDE OR OUTSIDE HISTORY, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: At the right level of light Subject(s): Memory INSTANT KARMA, by BRAD DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Like a wool-capped and baggy cadre Last Line: Of forces logic deems prudent to elude Subject(s): Change; Children; Memory; Spiritual Life INTERIM REPORT, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The schoolhouse closet was my favorite house of prayer Subject(s): Memory; Schools; Students INTERIM REPORT, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The schoolhouse closet was my favorite house of prayer Last Line: Yes it could have been her face I turned away from Subject(s): Memory; Schools INTERIM: 7, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I have no desire to instruct you Last Line: Better than light that floods upon smooth stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Memory; Thought; Thinking INTERIM: 9, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are poor spendthrifts, scattering gold youth Last Line: With terrible triumph over our hope and dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Old Age; Nightmares INTERIOR OF THE SUN (1), by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: It is the dream of re-entering %eden - innocent and running Last Line: From play. It's summer again %and someone loves her Variant Title(s): The Interior Of The Sun: Subject(s): Memory; Sickness INTERRUPTION, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She'd just gone out onto the stoop, and run down the steps Last Line: Of her palm she would go ahead and sprinkle the raisins in Subject(s): Children; Memory; Relationships INTIMATIONS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the flowers had dreamed of you Last Line: And silent flowers by night. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Memory INTO THE FOG, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Down thro' the hills winding wearily down Last Line: Light in the windowand home! Subject(s): Memory INTRUSION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After I had cut off my hands Subject(s): Memory INTRUSION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After I had cut off my hands Last Line: Came asking to be pitied Subject(s): Memory 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, by RANDOLPH THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The children linger by the school Last Line: On the trail home when his swim %and the afternoon were over Subject(s): Bakeries And Bakers; Children; Memory INVITE ME INTO YOUR DREAM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: The root of the foliage of the morning Subject(s): Emptiness; Hearts; Love; Memory; Paintings And Painters IONE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, yes 'tis sweet still to remember Last Line: Love stopped with me -- a royal guest! Subject(s): Love; Memory IRIS, by MARC MALANDRA Poem Source First Line: In the dusty lots Last Line: Up out of its husks, %whole and unremarkable Subject(s): Memory; Scars IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: His country's treasure and his people's pride Subject(s): "jews;memory;montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885);" Judaism IS MEMORY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something we have Last Line: Might later have been? Subject(s): Memory ISAAC M. WISE, by WALTER HURT Poem Text First Line: He came into the camp of creed Last Line: To lay upon his hallowed tomb. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Jews; Memory; Wise, Isaac Mayer (1819-1900); Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism ISABEL BISHOP (1904-1988), by STUART MITCHNER Poem Source First Line: She was reciting hopkins the day she died Last Line: With the ages in their eyes Subject(s): Death; Memory ISLE OF MEMORY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, most dear to memory Last Line: And my soul rejoices now that such has been. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Memory; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims IT IS, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now as the body begins to feel the light Last Line: Table. Love is not bodies but a smell of vanishing green Subject(s): Desire; Love; Memory IT MATTERS, SEPTEMBER'S DALLIANCE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Wedge-wood sky, its lengthy avenue. The air, itself Last Line: Light. The whole sky is listening. %listening Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Poetry And Poets IT SOUNDS IT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You & I out of all dreaming Last Line: This scheme Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sleep; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking IT WAS ALL ABOUT..., by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor communications / mistaken identity Last Line: Or, what I remember of tristan and isolde Subject(s): Memory IT WAS YOUR SONG, by STEVE MARK KOWIT Poem Source First Line: I saw her once, briefly Subject(s): Memory JACKSON HEIGHTS CHILD, by TINA CHANG Poem Source First Line: Janet danced a mean salsa Last Line: Aiming %to wound the perfect sun Subject(s): Children; Memory JARDIN DU PALAIS ROYAL, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky's a faded blue and taut-stretched flag Subject(s): Memory JARDIN DU PALAIS ROYAL, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky's a faded blue and taut-stretched flag Last Line: Boxed-in by the frustrating and decayed %walls of the haunted memory's arcade Subject(s): Memory JEAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a' the airts the wind can blaw Last Line: But minds me of my jean. Variant Title(s): I Love My Jean Subject(s): Absence; Armour, Jean (1764-1834); Love - Marital; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Burns, Jean Armour (1764-1834); Wedded Love; Marriage - Love 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 JEWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Pride and humiliation hand in hand Last Line: They saw reflected in the coming time Subject(s): Jews;memory;tradition; Judaism JFK FOR A DAY: THE TOUR, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For $25 bucks, you can sit in the back Subject(s): Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Memory; Dead, The JFK FOR A DAY: THE TOUR, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For $25 bucks, you can sit in the back Last Line: A little extra, for the sake of verisimilitude Subject(s): Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Memory JOAN, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Joan, when the twilight shadows fall Last Line: And your dear eyes shall be my guiding star. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Dead, The JOHN BUTLER YEATS, by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We shall remember him Last Line: "myself seen through a glass darkly." Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) JOHN MCKEEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John mckeen, in his rusty dress Last Line: And the old-time fiddle-tunes! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Past JOHN WEISS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The summer comes again, yet nothing brings Last Line: And aeschylus and shakspeare lived again. Subject(s): Memory; Summer; Weiss, John (1818-1879) JOURNAL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: November 2nd monday evening-took my place Last Line: Myself-yours most obliged Subject(s): Diaries; Life Change Events; Memory; Time JOURNAL ENTRY NO. 1, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: I have been dancing Last Line: Reach for the worms Subject(s): Memory; Solitude JOURNEY, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Probably by now he will have closed up the bookcases at the Last Line: Brambles. And he will have left Subject(s): Memory; Old Age JOURNEY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking for a past %I can rely on Last Line: Undisturbed: love arranged %as order directed at the next day %going to bed was a journey Subject(s): Home; Memory; Poetry And Poets JOURNEY FROM PATAPSCO IN MARYLAND TO ANNAPOLIS, by RICHARD+(2) LEWIS Poem Source First Line: At length the wintry horrors disappear Last Line: And learn to know myself, and honour %thee Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Memory; Nature; Travel JOY'S SONG, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I listen to this Last Line: Evening of a cloudless sky Subject(s): Memory; Singing And Singers; Women JOYS OF MEMORY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the spring comes round, and a certain day Last Line: When spring comes round. Subject(s): Memory JULY, by JULIO HERRERA Y REISSIG Poem Source First Line: Cold, cold, cold! Last Line: Like a black and terrifying moon Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Memory JUST ANOTHER PARADIGM SHIFT, by PAUL GRANT Poem Source First Line: Just a shadow. Hardly that. But audible Last Line: Back down into the woods, whispering %once upon a time Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory; Shadows JUST NOW, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just now, if I look back down Subject(s): Memory JUST NOW, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Memory JUST NOW, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just now, if I look back down Subject(s): Memory JUST THE WIND FOR A SOUND, SOFTLY, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a weed whose name I've meant all summer Last Line: Like your own body to you. And now I can't forget Subject(s): Weeds; Memory; Love KALEIDOSCOPE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember sex before my husband Last Line: Crowded against our window, shivering. Subject(s): Marriage; Memory; Sex; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KALI THE MOTHER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All voices: o terrible and tender and divine! Last Line: Kali! Maheshwari! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Prayer; Worship; Dead, The KENNST DU DAS LAND, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, I have borne in mind this hill, Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Memory; Landscape KEY, by JOHN DICKSON Poem Source First Line: The key! The key! Last Line: Formations of yellow birds %over the evening train Subject(s): Keys; Memory; Secrets KING OF ARAGON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One day the king of arragon, from the old citadel Last Line: (alas! Thou woeful city!) for whom I would have died Subject(s): Absence; Alfonso V, King Of Aragon (1396-1458); Courts And Courtiers; Memory; Naples, Italy KITCHENER, K. G., by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: My lord, congratulations on the gain Last Line: And all good wishes from a humble scribe. Subject(s): Death; Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl (1850-1916); Memory; Prayer; Dead, The KITTY RETURNS TO AUSCHWITZ, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: A woman returns to auschwitz Last Line: No brandenburg there, %just wind of the great nothing Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory LA GOMME A EFFACER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On dit que c'est dieu qui Last Line: Me quitte ni jour ni nuit Subject(s): Memory LABYRINTH, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: Buried alive Last Line: Labyrinth of mirrors %buried alive Subject(s): Memory; Silence LACRIMAE RERUM, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Rossetti walked his sorrow to a field Last Line: And sorrow, and this cause for sorrow, die. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery LAGGARD, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is very swift and gay Last Line: Beside a low green hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Memory LANDSCAPE IN BLUE AND BRONZE, by PATRICIA FARGNOLI Poem Source First Line: If she had lived my mother would have told me Last Line: Toward the deepest water, its blue embrace Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Death; Landscape; Memory; Mothers; Parents; Water LANGSTON HUGHES, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Won't you sned %all heaven's news Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967); Memory LANGUID LEMON TREE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Yes, I know you, bright happy afternoon %of almost spring Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory; Spring LAST NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Was it last summer, just last year Last Line: And the new year, love, the new year! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory; Past; Peace; Time; War LAST THOUGHTS OF PIERRE LAPORTE, STUFFED & LEFT IN A CAR TRUNK AT ..., by CAROLYN MARIE SOUAID Poem Source First Line: Their jackal eyes, their jangling Last Line: Just wanting a pillow %& a last grab of air Subject(s): Automobiles; Death; Memory LATE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your street was named for berries Last Line: Today I would answer for all those other things. Subject(s): Aunts; Childlessness; Family Life; Houses; Memory; Regret; Relatives LATE EVENING LIGHT 7, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Another beginning: it doesn't make any sense. I'd rather not even try again Last Line: Autumn wind in the chimes clinking on the balcony. Only you can hear it Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Photography And Photographers LATE WORDS FOR MY SISTER, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You did not want to remember Last Line: The way his daughters broke from his plan Subject(s): Memory; Women LAWRENCE AND LUDLOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Relics of the fallen brave! Last Line: "noble is the hero's name, / glory claims it as her own!" Subject(s): "death;heroism;lawrence, James (1781-1813);memory;soldiers;trinity Churchyard (new York);" "dead, The;heroes;heroines; LAWYER PETE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Every night of his life my grandfather washed dishes Last Line: Rewashing all the dishes after he went to bed Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory; Old Age LEAP, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The only thing I have of jane macnaughton Last Line: While I examine my hands Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Memory; Suicide LEFT IN LIFE: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have thee know the tears I weep Last Line: That thou shalt never know. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Dead, The LEGACY, by MARGARET STANLEY-WRENCH Poem Text First Line: Long after it will happen, when all is forgotten Last Line: The aimless sound of the relentless sea. Subject(s): Fear; Memory; Past LEGENDA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This song stays Last Line: Delight of air and light and breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Day; Legends; Memory; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs LENNIE SWENSON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 6:00 in the super's smell of pine sol Last Line: Lay still on the white tile, his pockets empty. Subject(s): Memory; Murder; Uncles LEOPOLD ZUNZ, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: To thee o'er whose fresh-closed tomb Last Line: Nor soon nor yet will bid a last farewell. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Judaism LESSONS OF THE PAST, by HARRY WEISS Poem Text First Line: From mem'ry's lofty vantage ground Last Line: Of amaranthine fame. Subject(s): Jews; Memory; Judaism LEST THOU FORGET IN THE YEARS BETWEEN, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Hearing the infinite whisper there Subject(s): Marriage; Memory; Life; Religion LET EACH ALONE WITH TIMELY THOUGHT , by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: That sprang beside the way Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Memory LETTER, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking out of the dark of the town Last Line: And gets its strange spark from the world Subject(s): Letters; Memory LETTER FROM KAMPALA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At this other end of africa Last Line: To get home to you Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Africa; Letters; Memory; Writing And Writers LETTER FROM THE CARIBBEAN, by BARBARA HOWES Poem Source First Line: Breezeways in the tropics winnow the air Last Line: Nothing is lost, nothing has blown away Subject(s): Memory LETTERS TO YESENIN: 11; TO DIANE W., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No tranquil pills this year wanting to live peeled as they Last Line: From want of her, cut off well past our prime. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 12, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was proud at four that my father called me little turd of misery Last Line: And builds a noose. It works too well. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Excrement; Memory; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 18, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus the poet is a beached gypsy, the first porpoise to whom it Last Line: Smell of bacon. Wise souls move through the dark only one step at a time. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Singing & Singers; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Songs LETTERS TO YESENIN: 1; TO D.G., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This matted and glossy photo of yesenin Last Line: Years before the articulate noose. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Memory; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The; Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 25, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An afterthought to my previous note; we must closely watch any self-pity Last Line: Those others. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Memory; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LEVEL ROAD, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I drank blood %I drove a truck Last Line: In tasteless color photographs is much difference between footprints Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures LIFE GOES ON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wade ross turned from vesta his wife to the window Last Line: On the beach-curve by a flood-tide spent and forgotten. Subject(s): Grief; Guilt; Life; Love; Marriage; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LIFE ON THE LAKES: ORDERS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: It is in or out as the orders send Last Line: To the weathered wharves of the grey old town. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Memory LIFE RECONCILING TO DEATH, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: When first with morning step we roam Last Line: Or pulse's beat. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The LIGHT, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think it's light, that something moving beyond the moment Last Line: And how that continues, will not dry up, stubborn, rivering beyond Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Memory LIGHT WIND, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: The wind is light and smells of summer rain Last Line: Is gone, and time, and then the sound of rain Subject(s): Grief; Memory LIKE A WHITE STONE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a white stone deep in a draw-well lying Last Line: And you are changed into a memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Memory LIKE CITIES, LIKE STORMS, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A foot off the ground, / but holding Subject(s): Cities; Music & Musicians; Memory LIKE GOLDEN BELLS, by NORA HEFLEY MAHON Poem Text First Line: Memories stir me like the music of golden bells Last Line: Shall never cease to hear the golden bells. Subject(s): Bells; Memory LIKE ONE WHO WALKS ALONE, by ARDIS M. WALKER Poem Text First Line: Like one who walks alone down silent ways Last Line: I walk alone with glances from your eyes. Subject(s): Memory LIKE STARS BUT MOVING, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Out for an evening run last week Last Line: To find out what they cost Subject(s): Death; Memory; Peace LILACS AND THE ROSES, by LOUIS ARAGON Poem Source First Line: O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations Last Line: Life far-off conflagrations: roses of anjou Subject(s): Memory; War LINES FOR THE INGHAM MEMORIAL AT LE ROY, 1911, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only yesterday it was morning Last Line: The rose, that was seed and flame. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; History; Memory; Historians LINES IN PRAISE OF PROFESSOR BLACKIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The people's hearts are now full of sorrow Last Line: Worthy of a monument, and your name written thereon in letters of gold. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Honor; Memory; Praise; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Burials LINES ON MOISHE NADIR-REDIVIVUS, by MOISHE NADIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halleluja! / I sing to you my beloved friend Last Line: Halleluja! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Dead, The LINES ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last high star of the years whose thunder Last Line: Shelley, trelawny rejoins thee here Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The LINES ON THE DEATH OF MOISHE NADIR (COMPOSED BY HIS VERY SELF), by MOISHE NADIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the memory of moishe nadir Last Line: A wreath of verse. ... Subject(s): Death; Memory; Self; Dead, The LINES TO AN OLD DRESS, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The time has come, old dress Last Line: To long gone joys and pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Memory LINES TO SIR CUTHBERT SHARP, SUNDERLAND, .. NOT FORGOTTEN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forget thee? No! My worthy fere Last Line: Forget you? No. Subject(s): Memory LINES WRITTEN AT COLUMBIA, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky was like a blue blackboard from which Subject(s): Memory; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) LISLE'S RIVER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust followed our car like a dry brown cloud Last Line: What joy have you had since, that equaled this? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Happiness; Memory; Rivers; Water; Joy; Delight LISTENING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I listen and I listen Last Line: Will linger at my door? Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking LISTENING, by SUSAN RONEY-O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: Each morning I lie listening for the suck of the syringe Last Line: That used to do the work of your breathing Subject(s): Memory; Sickness; Sound LITTLE DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 3. ONE IN PARTICULAR, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Showed promise. %it was called the death of unamuno Last Line: As you will tell no one in particular Subject(s): Art And Artists; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Marriage; Memory; Paintings And Painters LITTLE GIRLY-GIRL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little girly-girl, of you Last Line: "calling, ""little girly-girl!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Girls; Love; Memory; Nightmares LOATHING HISTORY, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Slows you %to start again Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Self LOCATIONS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the end you are tired of those places Last Line: Beyond, a green continent. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Desire; Love; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY, by CULVER VAN SLYCKE Poem Text First Line: Lovely the cheer of long ago Last Line: Long ago and far away! Subject(s): Memory; Time LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The things I did, I did because of trees Last Line: And life in the upturned bellies of the fishkill in the creek. Subject(s): Children; Long Island (n.y.); Mathematics; Memory; Childhood LONGING FOR JERUSALEM, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O city of the world, with sacred splendor blest Last Line: As sweet as honey then, my passion, my desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Memory; Judaism 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 AT PICTURES TO BE PUT AWAY, by GARY SYNDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who was this girl Subject(s): Memory LORD ROBERTS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Nestor of happy warriors, blest was he Last Line: Shall come hereafter for comparison. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914); Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Paradise; Dictators 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 LOSING A MEMORY, by JON PINEDA Poem Source First Line: After watching a woman's fingers Last Line: Aloud from a book she has written, poem after poem, %about love Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets; Women LOSS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: This is the last song Last Line: Finally beyond the point of rending Subject(s): Death; Memory; Williams, Hiram (hank) (1923-1953) LOSS OF MEMORY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory! Thou hidest from me far Last Line: And let me think I see it smile. Subject(s): Memory 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 LOTUS SUTRA REVISITED: TWO LETTERS TO KEIDA YUSUKE, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: The great dharma wheel Last Line: Only this gratitude endures Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Memory LOUIS BLANC, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stainless soul that smiled through glorious eyes Last Line: And knew that light should live and darkness die. Subject(s): Memory; Soul 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 IN EXILE I: 25, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem 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 POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 33, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot forget %the perfumed dusk inside the Last Line: After a long night of love Subject(s): Memory; Sex LOVE'S DEMESNE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Old memories come trooping down Last Line: In love's demesne. Subject(s): Memory LOVE'S EVENING, by ANNA C. CARRAHER Poem Text First Line: Love cannot always burn at noonday heat Last Line: And wait, with you, the coming of the night. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Marital; Memory; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE'S FIRST KISS, by THOMAS STEWART Poem Text First Line: I, musingly, in mem'ry, cast my eyes Last Line: But love's pure flame shall light eternal spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): Rustic Rhymer Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory LOWLINESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At purple twilight when the snow lies deep Last Line: Near foddered kine and faithfully folded sheep. Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Memory; Sunset; Twilight LUDGATE HILL-DECEMBER NIGHT, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here was the heart Last Line: Over the craters, a banner from the dome. Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips LUMINARIA, by JEANNE FOSTER Poem Source First Line: The bougainvillaea lets go a few Last Line: Fragile paper lanterns, luminaria %turn brown and melt Subject(s): Light; Memory; Night LUNACY, by WALTER BARGEN Poem Source First Line: Decades ago he cried, %'no more poems about the moon!' Last Line: He follows a nervous column of ants %along a crack to the next moon Subject(s): Memory; Moon; Poetry And Poets; Universe LYRIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the still, sombre evening closes down Last Line: A union through the years. Subject(s): Autumn; Memory; Fall LYRIC, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low laughter of light Last Line: That spans the sky. Subject(s): Memory; Sea; Time; Ocean MAGIC DIVAN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: In my bohemian days, when I was in the circus, I would hang out with the decap- Last Line: Exploited there in the circus Subject(s): Adolescence; Memory MAKING LOVE TO HOUDINI, by NIN ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Often at night I heard whispering and tapping Last Line: He was always gone. And I was always too late Subject(s): Houdini, Harry (1874-1926); Memory MAN IN OUR TOWN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pitied him as one too much at ease Last Line: And though he be forgotten, it was good %for more than one of you that he was there Subject(s): Memory; Men; Neighbors MANNA, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do remember some things Last Line: And said something like my name Subject(s): Memory MANY YEARS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: My mother is twelve, dressed in white Last Line: Her dark head Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Eucharist; Memory; Mothers; Past MARAH, by EDWARD L. PONTZ Poem Text First Line: To the fresh vision of the charmed child Last Line: They give mankind to endure the present hour! Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Optimism MARBLE BOY, by DEBORAH WARREN Poem Source First Line: He was a boy who had a way with games Last Line: This quiet boy [or, so soft-spoken a boy] in death's hard carapace Subject(s): Boys; Death; Memory MARGINAL, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source First Line: Alone and remembering -- what is remembered? Last Line: Goes out in flare of moments -- other dreams -- alone Subject(s): Memory MARVIN, by WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: We always thought marvin Last Line: To qualify %for my marvin canon Subject(s): Death; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory MARVIN MALONE, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: What he had Last Line: And then, as he would want, I put it in the mail Subject(s): Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory MARY SMART, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mistakes flash back and half blind me Last Line: Less like a ghost, she said, than a figure of speech Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Peace MARY VANCE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young, and had the skill Last Line: From shepperton to varley! Subject(s): Courtship; Memory MATE (2), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the countless teeming throng Last Line: A haunting memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love; Memory; Women MAY COMMOTIONS, by RENEE WEISS Poem Source First Line: As the sycamore Last Line: Dreams %its long flight Subject(s): Memory; Plane Trees MAY DIRGE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I welcome not thy coming now Last Line: Sweet may! Subject(s): Memory MAY-TIME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it is may! Last Line: Intimate, ever-renewed, than the circle of shallower changes. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Life; May (month); Memory; Destiny MEASURES, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: I'd forget my body Last Line: A car goes by %and reminds me of cars Subject(s): Memory MEAT AND MEMORY, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: When my father receded, I became small Last Line: The smell of meat and memory Subject(s): Cows; Death; Fathers; Memory MEDALS, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: By the mute parade of purple hearts Last Line: Unlatch the narrow door Subject(s): Memory; Nazis; Numismatics; Prisons And Prisoners MEDICI FOUNTAIN, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Citizens of democracy are gathered here Last Line: Or for the memory of what is gone. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Memory 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, THE MORNING AFTER, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: I listen, still as quartz, to the mud of this earth Last Line: Between worlds, the silence strict, fluid as silks Subject(s): Memory MELANCHOLY, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: First she grew wings, brilliant wings that she wore painfully Last Line: And then everything was just a memory Subject(s): Melancholy; Memory MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: MEMORY, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts flutter like butterfly wings Last Line: With cooling fingers. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Melbourne, Australia; Memory MEMENTO MORI, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: This morning's mountain riffs Last Line: Before it hit the fin Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory MEMOIR OF A QUEEN, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her name, before she was a queen, boots not Last Line: Whose reign was greater or more blest than hers. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MEMORABILIA, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five things glimpsed unexpectedly Last Line: And your love-awakened eyes. Subject(s): Love; Memory MEMORIAL, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Memory, like a piece of beautiful and imprecise canvas Last Line: That cannot say anything Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory MEMORIAL DAY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: In the house of memory Last Line: And washed down by tears Subject(s): Memory MEMORIAL VERSES ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM BELL SCOTT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A life more bright than the sun's face, owed Last Line: Alive above us who strive below. Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Soul; Dead, The MEMORIAL VERSES: 1. YA MAHBUB!, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these the streets that I used to know Last Line: And the dreams I cherished ... When you were king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Memory; Dead, The MEMORIAL VERSES: 2. GOKHALE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroic heart! Lost hope of all our days! Last Line: Upbuild the temple of her unity. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Heroism; India; Memory; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines MEMORIAL VERSES: 3. IN SALUTATION TO MY FATHER'S SPIRIT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell, o brave and tender sage Last Line: Lost in the rapture of the cosmic soul. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise MEMORIALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the shining river's brim Last Line: The well-sweep and the ruined wall. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Past; Rivers; Nightmares MEMORIES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two things there are with memory will abide Last Line: The thrill that shook you at your child's first cry. Subject(s): Memory MEMORIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There dawn dear memories of the past Last Line: Like sounds of ocean in a shell Subject(s): Memory MEMORIES, by HENRY BATAILLE Poem Text First Line: Memories are rooms without a lock Last Line: And yet I feel dim eyelids close within me. Subject(s): Memory; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness MEMORIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As his yarn a seaman spins Last Line: O'er time's sea of songs and sins. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Memory; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Time; Seamen; Sails; Ocean MEMORIES, by PAUL ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: My memories were sharp-edged splinters Last Line: Rancorous evergreens? ... Subject(s): Memory MEMORIES, by HATTIE JOSEPHINE HODGSON Poem Text First Line: There are no friends like the old friends Last Line: There is nothing but memories left. Subject(s): Friendship; Home; Memory; Past MEMORIES, by DAISYMAY CAMPBELL HUBER Poem Text First Line: Clear, limpid waters of peconic bay Last Line: And memory-pregnant silence yearns to speak. Subject(s): Memory MEMORIES, by ALEXANDER HAY JAPP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love he went to burdon fair Last Line: Marjoram, pansies, mignonette! Alternate Author Name(s): Page, H. A. Subject(s): Memory 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 ELEANOR MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: I can't remember names anymore Last Line: I remember it all %so well Subject(s): Aging; Memory MEMORIES, by MRS. R. E. MCLAUGHLIN Poem Text First Line: You cannot take from me the memories of old Last Line: The love of the things that bring pleasure to you. Subject(s): 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 EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rare was the cloud by volga's stream Last Line: Ye glow and glide eternally! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Egypt; Memory MEMORIES, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come, as the breeze comes over the foam Last Line: And the days that were first sway the days that are last. Subject(s): Memory MEMORIES, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Above the busy world at dusk I know Last Line: And listening I hear again her words. Subject(s): Memory MEMORIES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ships...They go,' said murphy, 'like a spent pay-roll Last Line: "an' the times a man remembers . . . They're the best times of all!" Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Ships & Shipping; Time MEMORIES, by JEAN SMITH Poem Text First Line: Only just to be at home once more Last Line: Sweet memories that never can be still. Subject(s): Memory 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 MEMORIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm a picture Last Line: Last a lifetime Subject(s): Memory MEMORIES, by AUGUSTUS WATTERS Poem Text First Line: On sad passaic's murky breast Last Line: Of newark's little saints. Subject(s): Memory MEMORIES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A beautiful and happy girl Last Line: Our early dreams not wholly vain! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Memory MEMORIES OF HOME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts of the dear old homestead Last Line: Have the grass and flowers grown. Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Memory MEMORIES OF HORSES, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The lines in the hands of old people Last Line: And the wind sketches in the grass, if you are happy, %running children and horses Subject(s): Memory; Old Age MEMORIES OF MARRIAGE, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: We were looking for a basement to live in Last Line: For ever Subject(s): Marriage; Memory MEMORIES OF MY FATHER, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we drove a spike too weak into wood too hard Subject(s): Fathers; Memory MEMORIES OF MY FATHER, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we drove a spike too weak into wood too hard Last Line: That in mid-morning bursts %into glittering dust in the sunshine Subject(s): Fathers; Memory MEMORIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a land, I, too Last Line: And sets my sail to seek another sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Home; Memory; Pacific Ocean; Soul; Winter; Youth MEMORIES OF THE PAST, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While, sad and solemn, through the pines Last Line: And future time appals me! Subject(s): Memory MEMORIES WRITTEN IN THE STORMY MONTHS OF THE OPENING OF THE YEAR, 1868, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely musing, sadly thinking Last Line: "just to god and man." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Memory; Nature; New Year; Past; Sorrow; Sadness MEMORIES: 1, by CLAIRE MORRIS GANNON Poem Text First Line: Leaves that cling to the tired ground Last Line: Breathe transient happiness into you? Subject(s): Memory; Wellesley College MEMORIES: 2, by CLAIRE MORRIS GANNON Poem Text First Line: Whenever I hear a bluebird sing Last Line: Those glorious happy other days? Subject(s): Memory; Wellesley College; World War I; First World War MEMORY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind lets go a thousand things Last Line: Two petals from that wild-rose tree. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O dreadful memory! Why dost thou tread Last Line: "canst thou restore thy treasures, memory?" Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by AMANDA LUELLA BARLOW Poem Text First Line: A stretch of sand Last Line: A living memory. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by ANNETTE BETZ Poem Text First Line: In this distant land of dust-covered olives Last Line: Here your spirit dwells with me. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not guard this as rich stuff without mark Last Line: That any spade may strike. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brightly the sun of summer shone Last Line: Though long ago they passed. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Flowers; Memory MEMORY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman I used to know well died Last Line: How could you have let this happen to you? Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Marriage; Memory; Past; Time; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEMORY, by ARTHUR NEWBERRY CHOYCE Poem Text First Line: I know a lone spot on the arras road Last Line: If I could bear to walk that road again. Alternate Author Name(s): Choyce, A. Newberry Subject(s): Death; Memory; Soldiers; War; Dead, The MEMORY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask me to tell how it feels Last Line: She smiles, ask me %how it feels Subject(s): African Americans; Childhood Memories; Memory; Mothers And Daughters; Prejudice MEMORY, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Dear as the brief october sun Last Line: More salt than all the seas of death is memory. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When often I think and dream of thee Last Line: As I live those days with thee once more. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Past; Thought; Time; Thinking MEMORY, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night-dreams trace on memory's wall Last Line: The bias of the will betray. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by FRANCIS ROBERT ST. CLAIR ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: I still keep open memory's chamber Last Line: A holiday, papa? Woe's me! 't is memory! Alternate Author Name(s): Rosslyn, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Memory is an old mexican woman Last Line: Is an old woman humming, sweeping, smoothing her yard: memor Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I live in the lap of a mountain, a valley shadowed with pines Last Line: Long, marvelously touching and weak Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Secret memories Last Line: Memories returned from the past Subject(s): Memory; Past MEMORY, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Ah! Memory can haunt Last Line: To curse us or to bless. Subject(s): Desolation; Memory 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 CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Once I touched her Last Line: And burns %the night white Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Prisons And Prisoners MEMORY, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Spinning up dust and Subject(s): Memory; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MEMORY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother of the muses, we are taught Last Line: It hurries down to wither on the strand. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My childhood's home I see again Last Line: And feel I'm part of thee! Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Home; Memory; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness MEMORY, by LULJETA LLESHANAKU Poem Source First Line: There is no prophecy, only memory Last Line: Pine trees breathe on mountains Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, listen! Last Line: This beautiful aching? Subject(s): Memory; Past MEMORY, by MICHAEL MCIRVIN Poem Source First Line: The way this leaps Last Line: Smiling as if from beyond the grave Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory MEMORY, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Precious glimpses through the future's curtain Last Line: Draw him nearer to the heart of god. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by VIOLET WIGGINS NEWTON Poem Text First Line: Memory is a fragile thing Last Line: A bee's honey, and its sting. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand on a funeral mound Last Line: "'tis pleasant to remember!" Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: There are who deem that virtue's prize Last Line: What can ye do but weep? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Ocean 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, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is memory most of miseries miserable Last Line: Or the one flower of ease in bitterest hell? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: In the cry %of heaven I hear Last Line: The air and %leaves ed their heads Subject(s): Memory; Silence MEMORY, by BAROLONG SEBONI Poem Source First Line: Life is but memories unborn Last Line: In memory lies life Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In silence and in darkness memory wakes Last Line: Those prints of vanished hours. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by MRS. SWIFT Poem Text First Line: Twas but a word, a single word Last Line: The vision it was -- air! Alternate Author Name(s): Lorrain, Miss Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little bookstore used to call to me Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little bookstore used to call to me Last Line: And I haven't the heart to name it Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory! Dear enchanter! Last Line: Along the dun deep streaming. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear, my soul the recollection Last Line: When I shall find substantial rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Memory hath feet Last Line: Below, above. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pen - to register; a key Last Line: To their own far-off murmurs listening. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY (1), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! There are memories that will not vanish Last Line: But memory stands a ghost amid the gloom! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Memory MEMORY (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I go not to the grave to weep Last Line: The bread for both to feed upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Memory MEMORY (2), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not say bequeath unto my soul Last Line: And now its only task is to remember. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Memory MEMORY AND HOPE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back-looking memory Last Line: To 'reach the things before.' Subject(s): Memory; Hope; Dreams; Optimism; Nightmares MEMORY AND HOPE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rebehold you, o beloved death Last Line: About the hearth-stone of eternity? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Time; Dead, The MEMORY AND HOPE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Memory has a sister fair Last Line: Hopeful future,lovely past. Subject(s): Future; Hope; Memory; Past; Optimism MEMORY AND I, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O memory, where is now my youth Last Line: Is only known to me.' Subject(s): Memory MEMORY AND OBLIVION, by MACEDONIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail, remembrance and forgetfulness! Last Line: Oblivion, 'rase the record from our mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macedonius Of Thessalonica; Macedonius Consul Subject(s): Memory MEMORY AND THE PLACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, he says, I no longer need your slide-door Last Line: And the snow freezing on purpose to what purpose? Subject(s): Absence; Memory MEMORY AS A HEARING AID, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, someone is asking a question, Last Line: And everybody passes Subject(s): Memory; Aging MEMORY AT LAST, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory at last has what it sought Subject(s): Memory MEMORY GREEN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes and when the warm unseasonable weather Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Memory MEMORY GREEN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes and when the warm unseasonable weather Last Line: You will close your eyes: with whom, you will say, %ah where? Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Memory MEMORY IMAGE, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source First Line: She held the little boy by the hand Last Line: The late dawn wind the night's shadows would disperse Subject(s): Memory MEMORY IS FILLED WITH FALLING, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The heart's bird in the window of us Subject(s): Insomnia; Memory MEMORY IS THE VESSEL A SHELL BECOMES, FR. POLLEN MEMORY, by LAYNIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: The darkness was not at all transparent, so that turning to look behind me even Last Line: Galaxies. How easily we forget our history, with such certainty. Into the past as %a mirror, into th Subject(s): Memory MEMORY LANE, by E. NOLD Poem Text First Line: When your day's work is done / and you have Last Line: As you wander down memory lane. Subject(s): Memory; Pleasure; Smiles; Thought; Thinking MEMORY OF A PORCH, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember Last Line: Half-asleep in their boxes Subject(s): Memory; Children MEMORY OF ANOTHER RIVER, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Sleepless nights are vast and almost always crossed by a river Last Line: That bodies can also be the flowing together of happy waters? Subject(s): Insomnia; Memory; Relationships MEMORY OF DUST AND LIGHT, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: The sun comes up: a day in june. Time sinks Last Line: In the scorching sun %one day in june Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Labor Unions; Markets; Memory; Riots; Strikes MEMORY OF THE SEINE, by KWON ILSONG Poem Source First Line: Autumn was a wharf Last Line: The collapse of autumn is in fact %a relation between birth and death Subject(s): Memory; Seine (river), France MEMORY'S DOOR, by MARY OTTO ASHER Poem Text First Line: Within the sacred portals of my heart Last Line: "I see the face of ""mother." Subject(s): Memory; Mothers MEMORY'S DREAM, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: I dreamed a dream-but who can tell Last Line: They both were mine and must not go! Subject(s): Memory; Shadows MEMORY'S RIVER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In nature's bright blossoms not always repose Last Line: The music is over, and vanished the wrecks. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Time MEMORY'S SONG, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth cast off her snowy shrouds Last Line: But spring is hard to bear now he is dead. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The 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 MEMORY, A POEM, by LAETITIA (VAN LEWEN) PILKINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In what recesses of the brain Last Line: How just, and good, and excellent thou art. Subject(s): Memory MEMORY: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I nursed it in my bosom while it lived Last Line: Grows old in which I grieve. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Memory MEMORY: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a room whereinto no one enters Last Line: When we're together. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Memory MEMORY: THE WALK ON THE BEACH, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The evening, blue, voluptuous, of june Last Line: But I have never forgotten and I shall never forget. Subject(s): Love; Memory MENODOTIS, by LEONIDAS OF ALEXANDRIA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Menodotis's portrait here is kept Last Line: Menodotis. Subject(s): Memory; Portraits MESSAGE FROM ONE ENAMOURED, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Perhaps I shall forget your face Last Line: My heart how musically your lips could speak. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory METEMPSYCHOSIS OF THE PINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the haze of some wan moonlight makes Last Line: The spirit of the pine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Memory; Moon; Nature; Nightmares METROPOLITAN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world grows furry, grunts with sleep Last Line: Strange threads to hold time fast. Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MID-AUGUST AT SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Down valley a smoke haze Subject(s): Memory; Summer MID-AUGUST AT SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down valley a smoke haze Last Line: Looking down for miles %through high still air Subject(s): Memory; Summer MID-AUGUST AT SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT, by GARY SYNDER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Down valley a smoke haze Subject(s): Mountains; Memory; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MIDNIGHT, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tender elderberries grow in the dark Last Line: In the heavy dust Subject(s): Absence; Death; Memory MIGNON'S SONG, FR. WILHELM MEISTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know'st thou the land where the pale citrons grow Last Line: Thither with thee, o, thither would I wend! Subject(s): Memory MIGNON'S SONG, FR. WILHELM MEISTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know'st thou the land where the fair citron blows Last Line: Our path lies -- father -- thither, oh repair! Subject(s): Memory MIGNON'S SONG, FR. WILHELM MEISTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knowest thou the land where bloom the lemon trees Last Line: Father, away! Our road is over there! Subject(s): Memory MIGNON'S SONG, FR. WILHELM MEISTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know'st thou the land where bloom the citron Last Line: I here lies my path, o father! Let us flee! Subject(s): Memory MIGNON'S SONG, FR. WILHELM MEISTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know'st thou the land where citron-apples do bloom Last Line: "our way runs: o my father, wilt thou go?" Subject(s): Memory MIGNON'S SONG, FR. WILHELM MEISTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, dost thou know the land where citron grows Last Line: Our way must go, my father, let us fare! Subject(s): Memory MIGNON'S SONG, FR. WILHELM MEISTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You know that land, her lemon groves in bloom? Last Line: Our journey goes! Good father, off today! Subject(s): Homesickness; Memory MIGNON'S SONG, FR. WILHELM MEISTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Know you that land where forest shadows fold Last Line: Points our direction: father, let us wander Subject(s): Homesickness; Memory; Wanderers And Wandering MILL, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spoiling daylight inched along the bar-top Last Line: All that I can be sure of is the mill-wheel %it turns and turns in my mind, over and over Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets MILLENNIUM'S ORPHAN, by BOB RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: First a grandfather goes. Then you forget Last Line: Bring out the candles - we're taking a bath - and gin %on the rocks, %for two, %too. %hold the child Subject(s): Memory; Millenium MIRANDA, by DANIEL TOBIN Poem Source First Line: From my window I watch the flurries whirl Last Line: Is rain and wind, grimacing under its weight Subject(s): Memory; Snow; Travel MIRROR MEMORY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The cry is a minor triad Last Line: Worn only to nightclubs and funerals Subject(s): Memory; Mirrors MISS FRASER'S ALBUM, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My album's open; come and see Last Line: One blended whole combining Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Picture Books 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 MIST, by GERARD CHALIAND Poem Source First Line: I am watching great ships Last Line: Against silvered mirrors and %remember what I have never lived Subject(s): Memory MISTS RISE OVER, by YAMABE NO AKAHITO Poem Source Last Line: Memory does not %pass away so easily Subject(s): Memory MNEMOSYNE, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's autumn in the country I remember Last Line: It rains across the country I remember. Subject(s): Memory; Mnemosyne 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 MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE, ROOM 638, by MATTHEW J. SPIRENG Poem Source First Line: There was the view we would Last Line: It was thirty years and more growing into that night Subject(s): Memory; Vacation MOMENTOS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arranging long-locked drawers and shelves Last Line: In some more cheerful room. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Memory; Time; Grief; Marriage; Death; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The MOMENTS, by MARTHA BRINDLEY DARBYSHIRE Poem Text First Line: I saw a seagull Last Line: Breathless in the dawn. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Memory; Seagulls MOMENTS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Moments there are that glorify the years Last Line: From unfrequented corners of the heart. Subject(s): Love; Memory MOMENTS HE REMEMBERS, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moments he remembers? They are those Last Line: So struggling now, so faint across the ground, %to the old man and the nearsighted hound Subject(s): Memory MONDAY, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Today I met someone I thought might know you Last Line: I think I must be sleeping facing the past Subject(s): Conversation; Memory; Past MONITOR, by MARTHA LINSLEY SPENCER Poem Text First Line: A long time ago Last Line: "from having lived so many years in a heated apartment." Subject(s): Conscience; Memory MONOLOGUE OF THE INHABITANT, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: My room opens like a flower Last Line: My monologue has ended Subject(s): Memory; Solitude MONTY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Diving & divers; clowns; memory; Last Line: And then our heads turning, is monty there? Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Clowns; Memory MOON SOLO, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the roof of a coach at night I lie Last Line: As the swish of your skirt is a model of sound Subject(s): Love; Memory; Moon MORIARTY, ALLISON: PP.2, 18, 34, 35, 48, 50., by SUSAN BROWN Poem Source First Line: It's strange to see someone you knew from high school in Last Line: Dangling from this nightie like a bookmark, a reminder of who %knows what Subject(s): Life; Memory MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had known, dear master, when of late Last Line: And lost its matchless cunning only now. Subject(s): Honor; Jews; Memory; Scholarship & Scholars; Judaism MORVA (TO THE MEMORY OF COLONEL OWEN VAUGHAN - OWEN RHOSCOMYL), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the moon by morva Last Line: And the world's great songs be made. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Death; Memory; Rest; Soldiers; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen MOSS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rain-bred moss that now dost hide Last Line: And warn me of the time that's gone. Subject(s): Memory; Moss; Nature; Winter MOST QUIETLY AT TIMES, by CASAR FLAISCHLEN Poem Text First Line: Most quietly at times and like a dream Last Line: It pales and passes, fading when it came. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation MOTHER, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: How can I, mother, ever give to you Last Line: No higher tribute would I need to pay. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Mothers MOTHER (MARGERY CARRUTH, 1896-1981), by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, now at last I must speak to you. The hour, so late but even so has come Variant Title(s): The Event Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers; Dead, The MOTHER AND I, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: We are alone, we two, mother and I Last Line: Wait not, thy time is now, kneel thou and pray. Subject(s): Memory; Mothers MOTHER AND SON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, in the stale cigarette smell Last Line: Drift separately into dawn. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Mothers & Sons; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood MOVING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not those who have lived here and gone Last Line: Of all that happened there. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Longing; Memory; Moving & Movers; Property; Solitude; Possessions; Loneliness MOVING, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tenderly I swathe cups in the times Last Line: As I box my life. Subject(s): Memory; Moving & Movers MRS., by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: What I'd really like to do tonight Last Line: That summer, a bad one for the farmers Subject(s): Memory; Middle Age; Neighbors; Old Age; Past MRS. FRYE AND THE PENCILSHARPENER, by BILL KNOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'll remember how in 6th-grade english class, always Last Line: Its soil rich with words no-one would ever have to write Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Memory; Schools MRS. MCHUGH, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: He wrought in the field through the length av the day Last Line: An' him trimmin' the twist av a hedge! Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Marriage; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness MUSCLES' HOUGEN COMES OUT OF SOFTBALL RETIREMENT, by JUDITH HOUGEN Poem Source First Line: Years ago, I was so lovely Last Line: Leather hand to reach into that much beauty Subject(s): Baseball; Memory; Sports MUSE, by TINA CHANG Poem Source First Line: When I was a girl, I had seven glasses Last Line: Of ink and watch a shadow fall %the length of a burning building Subject(s): Children; Girls; Memory 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 MUSICIAN, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many know you now by virtue of that music Last Line: All the rest of life is lovelier for those years. Subject(s): Memory; Music & Musicians MUSINGS ON THE OLD YEAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another year has rolled away Last Line: And from memory's page blot out them all. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time MUTED GOLD, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: My father died just as my plane touched down Last Line: My father died just as my plane touched down Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Death; Memory; Tragedy; Travel MY BIRTHDAY; OCTOBER 20, 1927, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Sixty-five years ago today Last Line: Dwell in my soul and heart. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Memory MY CHILDHOOD HOME, by OLETA FOX CLOOS Poem Text First Line: I am thinking today of the 'old home Last Line: The scenes of my dear childhood home. Subject(s): Home; Memory; Past; Youth MY DANCIN'-DAYS IS OVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it in old fiddle-chunes Last Line: Jes' like afore her dancin'-days wuz over. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Memory MY FATHER AMONG HIS SISTER'S CHILDREN, by RINA FERRARELLI Poem Source First Line: If his father hadn't been away Last Line: White shirts with collars and ties Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Memory; Photography And Photographers MY FATHER'S NIPPLES, by ANDREA ENGLAND Poem Source First Line: The first dry shave Last Line: Careening back into myself Subject(s): Bodies; Fathers; Memory MY FATHER'S WALLETS, by GEORGE O'CONNELL Poem Source First Line: It was august, and the end Last Line: The breath of a whole season Subject(s): Fathers; Memory MY GRANDMOTHER IN THE STARS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem 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 KIND, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Memory is a tiny room lit Last Line: I yawn, thinking about it Subject(s): Memory MY LIFE ROLLS BEFORE ME IN A DATSUN, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: On the way home from new plague, arizona Last Line: Which I always carry Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory; Travel MY LOST LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the silence of the midnight Last Line: My lost love gives me back my youth Subject(s): Memory MY LOST YOUTH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I think of the beautiful town Last Line: "and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Variant Title(s): Sea Memories;lost Youth Subject(s): Children; Memory; Portland, Maine; Sea; Youth; Childhood; Ocean MY LOVE? TELL ME, DO YOU REMEMBER, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over a frozen fountain? Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory MY MEMORY IS, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The history of time Subject(s): Memory MY MEMORY LANE, by LULU MINERVA SCHULTZ Poem Text First Line: I know a lane where shadows fall Last Line: A boy walks there -- but with a cane. Subject(s): Memory; Roads; Walking; Paths; Trails MY MIND HAS THE SCENT OF A WHITE FLOWER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Bleeding in the ellipsis ed their heads Subject(s): Memory; Thought MY MIND HAS THE SCENT OF AN ALTAR TRIPTYCH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Let him rest, %good spirit, %let him rest Subject(s): Altars; Angels; Death; Heaven; Memory MY MIND SKIS FROM VILLAGE TO VILLAGE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Memory calls us ed their heads Subject(s): Memory; Thought MY MOTHER, by ATTILA JOZSEF Poem Source First Line: Mother held a coffee mug in both hands Last Line: The mailman tipped his hat Subject(s): Death; Household Employees; Memory; Mothers MY MOTHER'S REQUEST (SUNDAY MORNING, 8 O'CLOCK), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sabbath morn dawns o'er the mountain brow Last Line: May praise thy love, who doest all things well. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Separation; Isolation MY MOUNTAIN HOME, by MARJORIE A. SCHRIER Poem Text First Line: The snow covered mountain in the distance Last Line: For that dear old home high on the mountain side. Subject(s): Memory; Sensibility; Youth MY MOUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A venus seems my mouse Last Line: Keep house. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Memory; Mice; Sea; Ocean MY NEIGHBOR OF YESTERDAY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Beneath yon widely spreading tree Last Line: He dwells to-day with god. Subject(s): Memory MY NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Hush! List, heart of mine Last Line: Baptize me, drown me in black swirls of bliss! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Memory; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime MY OLD FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've a manner all so mellow, Last Line: My old friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Time; Youth MY SAINT, by ANNE DEVOORE Poem Text First Line: My arms are empty, and my eyes Last Line: And whisper masses for the dead. Subject(s): Clergy; Memory; Prayer; Saints; Worship; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops MY SISTER LIKED THE POSTCARD OF SNOW, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White and the seven dwarfs Last Line: Light as a bird-bone Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia MY SWEET HOME IS NO LONGER MINE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And ah! When life's summer is flown-my fond home-should I Last Line: Bright symbol of future repose,-I will ever think of thee sweet %home! Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Memory; Retrospection; Solitude MYSTCIAL EVENING TWILIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light Last Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light Subject(s): Evening; Memory; Sunset; Twilight MYSTERIOUS BARRICADES; OR, THE ENCHAINMENTS OF MEMORY, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Surely you have heard this great keyboard piece by couperin Last Line: The lesson begins Subject(s): Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Memory MYSTERY, by GUANETTA GRANT GORDON Poem Text First Line: Today I stored away Last Line: Like narcissus. Subject(s): Memory NAKED FOOT OF AVA GARDNER, by ROLF-DIETER BRINKMANN Poem Source First Line: Is %a nightmare, when it refuses Last Line: The memory is the one side %the other side we'll never know Subject(s): Feet; Memory NARRATIVE OF THE VISION OF OUR LADY OF ARMEIRO, by NATHANIEL TARN Poem Text First Line: The photograph of our lady of armeiro has been placed Last Line: Have we ever known of any death so measured and so rigorous? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Photography & Photographers; United States; Dead, The; America NATHAN HALE, SEPTEMBER 22, 1776, by JOHN MACMULLEN Poem Text First Line: Come all alumni gather round Last Line: Amidst the patriot band. Subject(s): American Revolution; Capital Punishment; Hale, Nathan (1755-1776); Memory; New York City; Patriotism; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NATURAL DEATH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The first my age to die Last Line: Our hands on hers, seeking to hold her and to let her go %and murmured over and over, these are good Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NAZCA POTTERY, by JAVIER SOLOGUREN Poem Source First Line: I recall that time when once I lived Last Line: Soft forms faithful to the hand's caress Subject(s): Country Life; Memory; Nature; Peru NEAR THE SACRIFICAL SITE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On an afternoon like this Subject(s): Memory NEST, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird was making its nest Last Line: First, I love it. %then, I can use it Subject(s): Birds; Memory NEVERMORE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, what wilt thou with me? Autumn gales Last Line: "the first-heard ""yes"" from the belovéd lips." Subject(s): Evening; Memory NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Last Line: And deer walking quietly on the soft red earth Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations NEW ENGLAND WALLS, by AMORY HARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not from the blow that shall deliver death Last Line: My flesh would pass, leaving my spirit here. Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; New England; Walls; Dead, The NEW YEAR'S EVE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The other night I had a dream, most clear Last Line: My hand could feel your hand was warm, warm, warm! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Dreams; Holidays; Memory; New Year; Nightmares NICARAGUAN TRIPTYCH, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember two dwarfs, back there in our country home Last Line: Under the impassivity of the firmament Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Central America; Clowns; Laughter; Memory; Nicaragua; Youth NIGHT, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An odorous shade lingers the fair day's ghost Last Line: Yea, and with more abiding memories fraught. Subject(s): Memory NIGHT AND THE MERRY MAN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neath my moon what doest thou Last Line: Laughs as loud as I can do? Subject(s): Moon; Ambition; Night; Pain; Memory; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery NIGHT COUNTRY, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Night is the country of sounds Last Line: Crying and raving mad Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Old Age; Prisons And Prisoners NIGHT IN THE VALLEY, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: I always like to keep %some sesame seeds Last Line: The close, the far. %I eat the stars Subject(s): Memory; Night; Stars NIGHT WAS DONE, by MIKHAIL ALEXEYEVICH KUZMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night was done. We rose and after Last Line: As though night's twain were not we. Variant Title(s): This Summer's Love Subject(s): Memory; Night; Bedtime NIGHTMARE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night long, / we have heard the sound of guns Last Line: Will the word come to-day?' Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Sleep NINE ELEGIES FOR AMY MCCLELLAND: 1., by HUGH STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: All day going to the sad sad Last Line: And when I die like you will I donate my eyes? Subject(s): Death; Memory NINE ELEGIES FOR AMY MCCLELLAND: 7., by HUGH STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: I want to imagine that you are an angel, taht you are Last Line: Left this world, this sweet old world Subject(s): Angels; Death; Memory NINE ELEGIES FOR AMY MCCLELLAND: 9., by HUGH STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: In a dream I was having a conversation Last Line: To kiss me, with these little, tiny bites Subject(s): Dreams; Memory NO BELL SHOULD EVER RING AGAIN, by FRED VOSS Poem Source First Line: A great one Last Line: Because marvin malone is dead %and no mention made Subject(s): Death; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory NO LONGER A NAME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She's no longer a name, she's a number Last Line: The number's eyes are a laughing blue Subject(s): Memory; Names; Numbers; Prisons And Prisoners NO MORE THAT ROAD, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now do I know Last Line: "sounds the forsaken, ""never, never, never!" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Love; Memory; Supernatural; Dead, The NO PASSENGER WAS KNOWN TO FLEE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Contrives that none go out again Variant Title(s): Poem: 1406; Poem: 145 Subject(s): Memory NO POSTMORTEMS, by GREGORY ORR Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Memory 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 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 NOSTALGIA, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crumbling stone steps of the old schoolhouse Subject(s): Dreams; Education; Memory; Schools; Nightmares; Students NOSTALGIA, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crumbling stone steps of the old schoolhouse Last Line: Never to press my flat hand over my heart again as if I had one Subject(s): Dreams; Education; Memory; Schools NOSTALGIA, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul stands at the window of my room Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul stands at the window of my room Last Line: Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia NOTES ON THE ART OF MEMORY, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are a memory system Last Line: Makes us think so Subject(s): Jazz; Memory; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians NOTES ON THE ART OF MEMORY, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are a memory system Last Line: That fills us %makes us think so Subject(s): Jazz; Memory; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians NOUMENON, by CASSIA BERMAN Poem Source First Line: It would snow so much in russia, my uncle told me, that the roads Last Line: The answers to their questions Subject(s): Memory; Russia; Snow; Winter NOVEMBER, UNREDEMPTIVE, IN THE PAUSING, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: In each sorrowful hour of %after Last Line: There are no more rules %here Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory NOW, by LUCY YAKEY WOOLEDGE Poem Text First Line: Our yesterdays are gone Last Line: Ere it, uncertain, flies awayaway. Subject(s): Memory; Time NOW THAT WE ARE NEVER FINISHED MOURNING, by WILLIAM REICHARD Poem Source First Line: Don't even start. It would be a long, ugly list Last Line: This poem is dedicated to the memory of ... Subject(s): Memory; Mourning O PINE-TREE STANDING, by HAKUTSU Poem Text Last Line: The men of old time Alternate Author Name(s): Hakutsu, Priest C. 704 Subject(s): Memory O SI SIC OMNES, by MARIE EMILIE GILCHRIST Poem Text First Line: Some things I'll not rehearse Last Line: Is to be strictly reticent. Subject(s): Memory OBJECTS OF DESIRE, by ANDREW TOWLE Poem Source First Line: Here is the land of lost hairbrushes Last Line: In the hallway of an empty home Subject(s): Desire; Memory OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 5, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As here among the well-remembering boughs Last Line: Glowing, the light of memory on her brows. Subject(s): Memory; Oxford, England OCTOBER LIGHTS A MATCH, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The car speeds like your thoughts Last Line: It smolders yellow and fleshless Subject(s): Memory; Thought ODE ON THE DEATH OF DON SEBASTIAN, by FERDINAND DE HERRERA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A voice of sorrow and a sound of weeping Last Line: And luco's waters, terror-stained, shall pay %the debt to t he great deep with blood of africa Alternate Author Name(s): Herrera, Fernando De Subject(s): Death; Memory ODE TO CESAR VALLEJO, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone in your face Last Line: Beam of purple stone Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Memory; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917) ODE TO FELIPE RUIZ, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When from this prison drear %philip, may I take flight into the sky Last Line: Fashioned of light and gold %the mansions that the spirits blest enfold Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory ODE TO MEMORY, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O memory! Celestial maid! Last Line: Ambition's toils alike are vain, %but ah! For pleasure yield us pain Subject(s): Memory ODE TO MEMORY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who stealest fire Last Line: Thou dewy dawn of memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Memory ODE TO MICHAEL GOLDBERG ('S BIRTH AND OTHER BIRTHS), by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember anything of then, down there around the magnolias Last Line: And he will be the wings of an extraordinary liberty Subject(s): Memory ODE TO SALINAS, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Calm grows the air around Last Line: To holy thoughts incline %the senses, to all else dull and supine Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Memory ODES 2, 14. EHEU FUGACES, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, what can stay the flying years? Last Line: "I'll drink a health,"" says he." Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Farewell; Memory; Time; Parting OF THE HUDSON AND THE THAMES, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now reigns the joyful may time Last Line: May leave the broken message in love's unerring hands. Subject(s): Love; Memory OH SWEET SOUVENIRS, by GARCILASO DE LA VEGA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh sweet souvenirs, through my misfortune found Last Line: Me dire among sad memories Alternate Author Name(s): Garcillaso De La Vega; Vega, Garcilaso De La Subject(s): Death; Memory OLD AGE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What mean the days and years that pass Last Line: Upon the silver wings of peace. Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Grief; Memory; Past; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness OLD BARNS, by GERARD S. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: There's nothing quite so lonely Last Line: And memories. Subject(s): Barns; Memory OLD FOSSICKER JACK, by J. M. MARSHE Poem Text First Line: Tis a desolate picture, whose colour is dead Last Line: Came here, and has left butold fossicker jack. Alternate Author Name(s): M., J. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Memory; Nostalgia OLD FRIEND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: At being remembered Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Nature OLD LOVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old loves, once so alive, but now long dead! Last Line: Give them remembrance for a coronal. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Memory; Time; Dead, The OLD MAN'S SENSE, by RENNIE MCQUILKIN Poem Source First Line: Of time is shot. Now he is five in indian head dress Last Line: Across the cream and umber landscape of his bride Subject(s): Aging; Memory OLD MEMORIES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright flashes of sunshine - sweet snatches of song Last Line: Where the robin a requiem will sing o'er my head. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Past; Youth OLD MEMORY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thought, fly to her when the end of day Last Line: That would be harsh for children that have strayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age OLD SONGS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I heard an ancient dame hum Last Line: Back to earn the beefsteak and the beans. Subject(s): Memory OLD STORY, by JUDITH MCCOMBS Poem Source First Line: Now, in our time, he is safe Last Line: Because he did not survive, he survives Subject(s): Death; Memory; Story-telling; Survival OLD VALENTINES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny maids with sunlit hair Last Line: In one golden memory. Subject(s): Holidays; Memory; Past; Valentine's Day; Women OMBU, by LUIS L. DOMINGUEZ Poem Source First Line: Every territory on earth has a conspicuous feature Last Line: Beautiful growth, that rises to the clouds, like the lighthouse of %that sea Subject(s): Argentina; Memory; South America; Travel ON A PACKET OF OLD LETTERS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: The choicest blooms that ever blent Last Line: Unshadowed joy, immortal youth! Subject(s): Death; Letters; Life; Love; Memory; Youth; Dead, The ON A PICTURE OF SELF WITH HOE, CULTIVATING PLUM BLOSSOMS, by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Unmarred blue %redolent hands Last Line: In fly blue kingfishers feathers, %wailing Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women ON A SUMMER'S EVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As sweet as a song on a summer's eve Last Line: "when the song of the spheres was love, throbbing love, / and the maid of my heart I clasped to my s Subject(s): Love;memory ON ANSELM'S TRAIL AT DAYBREAK, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER Poem Source First Line: I looked down and saw her Last Line: This earth I walk into sunrise Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Memory; Old Age; Women ON CHICATAWBUT HILL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: On chicatawbut hill I climbed Last Line: On chicatawbut hill. Subject(s): Memory; Milton, Massachusetts; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON GRAY'S ELEGY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Go back beyond the electric light Last Line: And you have gray and gray's good age. Subject(s): Country Life; England; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Memory; English ON MARRIAGE, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: Mary took out her cello Last Line: Before she knew me %and put her cello down Subject(s): Cellos; Marriage; Memory; Musical Instruments ON MEMORY; WRITTEN AT AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, by MARGARET (HOLFORD) HODSON Poem Text First Line: No! This is not the land of memory Last Line: The wanderer's heart and soul to bind! Subject(s): Memory ON PHOTOGRAPHING THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Dramatic staircases leading nowhere Last Line: Some rubbing of the unreal remains Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Travel ON READING THE MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET, by ELIZABETH FITZGERALD HANLY Poem Text First Line: I can remember in my father's house Last Line: Infinite passion and revolt and pain. Subject(s): Dwarfs; Memory ON SECOND THOUGHT, by MEG KEARNEY Poem Source First Line: I was wrong about happiness. I thought Last Line: You look so much like your father Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Happiness; Memory ON THAT SIDE, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April and may. There, very near Last Line: A memory — so vivid, I close my eyes Subject(s): Time; Memory ON THE BICENTENARY OF CORNEILLE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce two hundred years are gone, and the world is past away Last Line: Whence of yore the spell of song drove the shadow of darkling death. Subject(s): Death; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Memory; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF ALFRED TENNYSON, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who took the laurel from the brow Last Line: And kept the lily's whiteness fair. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Prayer; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron 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 GRAVE OF MICHAEL GORDON, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One more gravestone-one more heart Last Line: Spoke in blessing o'er the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism ON THE OCCASION OF A POET'S DEATH, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dedication and intensity of the dead Last Line: The disembodied glories of hades await us. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE PASSING OF KING GEORGE V, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When time has sifted motives, passions, deeds Last Line: And ventured to a nobler marching word. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Memory; Prayer; Rest; Dead, The ON THE RUINS OF A COUNTRY INN, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where now these mingled ruins lie Last Line: Again collect our jovial crew. Variant Title(s): Stanzas Subject(s): Memory ON THE SHELF, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: To pause, to make an end!' to heed Last Line: And polished for the master's use. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age ONCE BEFORE, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once before, this self-same air Last Line: When life that could not be, comes back! Subject(s): Deja Vu; Memory ONCE MORE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will I come? That is pleasant! I beg to inquire Last Line: And then stand at ease, for my service is done. Subject(s): Classmates; Memory; Schoolmates ONE BY ONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One by one the old-time fancies Last Line: In the garden of thy hope Subject(s): Memory ONE DAY'S HISTORY, by FERN WEEMS Poem Text First Line: I watched as day's near evidence Last Line: And strolled beside the streams. Subject(s): History; Memory; Time; Historians ONE FOOT IN THE DARK, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: People forget Subject(s): Memory ONE THING CERTAIN, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's read %memory's broken, that we hold color Last Line: By the testament of his shock Subject(s): Memory; Old Age ONLY YESTERDAY, by PAUL GEORGE YAZOLINO Poem Text First Line: Perhaps, to you, it was Last Line: Only yesterday. Subject(s): Memory OPENING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He opened the book, a letter fell out Last Line: It began, 'my love, why do you hate me so?' Subject(s): Memory OPENING HER JEWEL BOX, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She discovers a finish Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): School; Cats; Jewels; Memory; Hair OPERATION MEMORY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Subject(s): Soldiers; Memory; Conduct Of Life ORIGINALLY CALLED 7/20/96, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Days without sentiment %as the occasion for a poem Last Line: As the gas pump dings, dings, dings Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Emotions; Grief; Memory; New York City; Poetry And Poets OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA, by SUSAN GRAFELD LONG Poem Source First Line: The whites of my eyes are china blue Last Line: And brittle bones, of what is lost to depth, then, %almost always, found and kept Subject(s): Children; Eyes; Memory OTHELLO'S REPORT, by RUDOLFO HINOSTROZA Poem Source First Line: ...Once in aleppo %yes, it was in aleppo Last Line: And a passion for love %tense as a tattoo, signorina' Subject(s): Fights; Memory; Moors (people); War OTHER SPRINGS, by ROSEMARY BASEFLUG Poem Text First Line: Now I again remember Last Line: In a small boy's hand. Subject(s): Memory; Spring OUR BE'THPLEACE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How dear's the door a latch do shut Last Line: Our own vorelivers dead an' gone. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Memory; Relatives OUR BOB, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With humor as sweet as our basin Last Line: In a genius that's oursour bob! Subject(s): Lectures; Memory; Speech; Taylor, Robert Love (1850-1912); Thought; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Oratory; Orators; Thinking OUR CHILDHOOD'S HOME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There is one spot on all the earth Last Line: Who shared with us our childhood's home Subject(s): Memory OUR DEATHLESS DEAD, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we honor them? Last Line: These things will build our dead unwasting obelisk Subject(s): Death; Praise;memory OUR HEDGES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, which way ran the boughy hedge Last Line: All green with summer boughs. Subject(s): Hedges; Home; Memory OUR MOUNTAIN, by PEDRO PRADO Poem Source First Line: We who dwell in these deep valleys Last Line: The calm grandeur of the gift Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Valleys OUR NATIVE LAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The halo round the seraph's head Last Line: With sides of snow, and throat of fires! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Earth; Home; Memory; Nations; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips OUR PARENTS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our parents died atleast twice Last Line: We've been alive long enough Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Children; Memory; Parents OUT OF THE EMBERS (SIOUX), by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Embers, embers, in the night Last Line: Embers, embers, keep your glow. Subject(s): History; Memory; Past; Historians OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 6, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: These are the little things that stir the heart Last Line: I have the vision and it shall not fade. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness OVER THE BIER OF THE WORDLING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friends, what can I say Last Line: And the falling rain Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Gulls OVERSEAS; IN MEMORY OF ALAN SEEGER, by ABBIE CARTER GOODLOE Poem Text First Line: Across the vexed, insuperable sea Last Line: The imperishable essence of his soul! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Seeger, Alan (1888-1916); Soldiers; War; Dead, The OXFORD BELLS: PART 2; TO RHODA BROUGHTON, IN MEMORY OF HER SISTER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bells their loud unchanging task fulfil Last Line: The coronal of this autumnal verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Bells; Memory; Oxford, England PAIN THE DAY CAME, by PANSY MAURER-ALVAREZ Poem Source First Line: Tendencies had developed why he lied and the woman thought Last Line: Some days he hardly remembers it was like this Subject(s): Memory; Relationships PAINTING LESSON, by MARIAN DE ZEEUW Poem Source First Line: Facing surgery I found myself thinking Last Line: Here, give me your hand, and I will show you %how to hold the brush Subject(s): Learning; Memory; Paintings And Painters 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 PANCAKES WITH SANTA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Santa has a bad memory Last Line: Santa says ain't. Subject(s): Christmas; Memory; Santa Claus; Wishes; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint PARADE, by ALBERTA M. PARIS Poem Text First Line: We watched together, my neighbor and I Last Line: And a small gold star. Subject(s): Memory; Parades PARERGON: THE EYES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When his lover died Last Line: And walked on. Like those! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory; Old Age PARIS YOU SENT ME, by JANET MCCONN Poem Source Last Line: The only one left open in %this off-season Subject(s): Memory; Paris, France PASSING PINE BANK, I WAS MOVED, by SU MAN-SHU Poem Source First Line: Orphan lamp drew out Last Line: Plucking hibiscus, for whom? Subject(s): Memory; Zen Buddhism 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 PAST, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The corpses wait under my bed Last Line: Even when I wake it doesn't go away Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time PAST AND PRESENT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember, I remember, / the house where I was born Last Line: Than when I was a boy. Variant Title(s): The Old House At Home;i Remember;stanzas Subject(s): Aging; Children; Memory; Religion; Time; Childhood; Theology 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 PASTORAL, by LOUIS ARAGON Poem Text First Line: The great voice of great streams Last Line: Of relatives. Subject(s): Memory PASTURES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: They are too lost in yesterday, - too dull Last Line: And flocks for lonely pastures where they wait. Subject(s): April; Fields; Memory; Stars; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PAUSE, by ANNE STANTON LAY Poem Text First Line: Today the hours are nuns, soft-shod, grey-clad Last Line: Time pauses, listening for a sharp cold word. Subject(s): Memory; Summer PAVILION TI.' DAWN, by AGUSTI BARTRA Poem Source First Line: My dream's liquid thread has broken Last Line: Tragic metal cock! Subject(s): Memory PENNYROYAL, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy with cares no winnowing hand could sift Last Line: Safe 'mid the unblighted treasures of the past. Subject(s): Children; Forests; Memory; Past; Childhood; Woods PERMANET MEMORIA, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Age has done its dreaded work Last Line: We can enflesh ourselves in memory Subject(s): Aging; Memory PERSEPHONE, SELECTION, by CHARLES DERENNES Poem Text First Line: My eternal desire, my child, my friend Last Line: Each is alone is time's immensity! Subject(s): Memory; Persephone; Solitude; Proserpine; Proserpina; Loneliness PERSON MEANS CITY, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Sleep crumpled us, our Last Line: The time episode of you Subject(s): Anger; Memory; Relationships; Sleep PHANTASMATA: 1, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world was sleeping in the lap of night Last Line: To stay the rise of hyperion's orb. Subject(s): Creation; Hearts; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes PHANTASMATA: PROEM, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts that from the soul come flowing Last Line: Judge not harshly of his day. Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking PHOENIX, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: The fire has faded as I knew it must Last Line: Of all the souls who grieve and lose and yearn. Subject(s): Fire; Light; Memory PHOTO OF A LOVER FROM MY JUNIOR YEAR IN COLLEGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or the earth: one half in sun Last Line: She has one of her arms in an arm of her blouse, %and the other one wonderfully not Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Universities & Colleges PHOTOGRAPH (25 JANUARY 1945), by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Though released your return Last Line: Your soul make invisible circles about me? Subject(s): Death - Children; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures PHOTOGRAPHS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take what you want, we'll throw the rest away Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Memory; Parents; Parenthood PIANO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me Last Line: Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Time; Childhood; Songs PICTURES, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: A stratford swan afloat by elms and spire Last Line: I turned and saw them in a poet's eyes. Subject(s): Memory PICTURES OF MEMORY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the beautiful pictures Last Line: Seemeth the best of all. Variant Title(s): The Little Brother;the Sweetest Picture;among The Beautiful Pictures Subject(s): Children; Memory; Portraits; Childhood PICTURES OF MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A small thatched cottage, moss-grown, old Last Line: Crushed out beneath my careless feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Mothers & Daughters PIER, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: The stars are behind the wall Last Line: And the other breathes in the sky all in one breath Subject(s): Memory; Water PINE CREEK PARISH HALL, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: If what we remember is what we are Last Line: The old rugged cross and rock of ages Subject(s): Life; Memory; Religion PINK DAISIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: A couple av childer played out in a field Last Line: Ay, an' trudged the lone boreen! Subject(s): Children; Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness PITCHING OUT EIGHTY-SIX YEARS, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Jiffy labels stuffed into black plastic, rubber bands Last Line: Looking ahead at the few rounds left for him to mow? Subject(s): Food And Eating; Memory PLAZA AND THE BURNING ORANGE TREES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: See roaming through these old streets Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Cities; Memory; Streets; Travel PLEASURES OF MEMORY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a gale that sighs along Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Memory POEM, by JAVIER SOLOGUREN Poem Source First Line: At the edge of the window that limits space Last Line: By the symbol of open arms in every window Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Memory; Poetry And Poets POEM 2, by ABELARDO SANCHEZ LEON Poem Source First Line: Why did that have to be the only answer? It's true Last Line: Without being afraid of my body, without lowering the eyes Subject(s): Memory; Shadows 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 MARVIN NAIRIN, by BARRY SPACKS Poem Source First Line: Marvin nairin died at twelve, no one would say from what Last Line: Always back to you back then, %marvin nairin Subject(s): Death - Children; Memory; Mourning POEM FOR MY FRIEND, CLARE. OR, WITH WHITE STUPAS WE REMEMBER BUDDHA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So when the gods wearing their colored cloaks of nearness Last Line: "here's a beautiful postcard of five white stupas in nepal." Subject(s): Buddhism; Honor; Memory; Self-criticism; Self-righteousness; Buddha; Buddhists POEM IS SOME REMEMBERING, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's morning; there's lamplight, and the room is still Last Line: It was a poem about heaven, and I wept so.' Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets POEMS OF THE HOME: THE BRAZIER, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Brazier of jewels, illusion for the poor! When we look Last Line: Together over you with love! Subject(s): Home; Memory POET'S HUNTING SONG, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER Poem Text First Line: Just now there was a word: a silver fox Last Line: And watch the curious stroke him in his cage. Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs. Subject(s): Memory POETRY, by GENE MAHONEY Poem Source First Line: Reading the really dangerous stuff is like Last Line: A few poems that sound suspiciously like %literature Subject(s): Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory; Poetry And Poets POETS' CORNER, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: They put me in right field Last Line: Little priss, some kind %of percy bitch shelby Subject(s): Baseball; Memory; Sports POND, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Baltimore's flowers go off like fireworks Last Line: All the best, all for you Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Memory PONTOOSUCE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crowning a bluff where gleams the lake below Last Line: And warmth and chill of wedded life and death. Subject(s): Memory; Pontoosuce (lake), Massachusetts POOR MEMORY, by ALBERTO BLANCO Poem Source First Line: When the first rains fell Last Line: As if waiting %weren't hard enough Subject(s): Memory POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 1, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neither all nor any angels arrive in the mind where Last Line: Out in the first mud and forsythia. Far outside. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Memory; Reason; Time; Childhood; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PORTOFINO, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, on his wine - Last Line: Turned gold in the fall? Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Wine PORTRAIT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My childhood is memories of a patio in sevilla Last Line: And almost naked like the children of the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory; Spain; Youth PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER, MILITANT COMMUNIST, by JORGE TEILLIER Poem Source First Line: On winter afternoons %when a mistaken sun gropes Last Line: In towns that look like pebbles or flushed quail Subject(s): Communism; Heroism; Memory; Military; Revolutions PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I can still remember Last Line: Cover the couch with plastic? %return to cuba? %I can still remember you. %sitting there Subject(s): Cuba; Memory; Mothers; Portraits; Retrospection PORTRAIT OF THE FAMILY WITHOUT A FATHER, by KEN VICTOR Poem Source First Line: In memory of leah shapiro Last Line: Let the women practice constancy. We're always visitors Subject(s): Memory; Portraits; Single Parents POST MORTEM, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since ending must be, this was how to end Last Line: What comfort is there since she went from me? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness POSTCARDS FROM EUROPA, by KIMBERLY LYONS Poem Source First Line: Dial a red telephone and meow Last Line: Ponder %accelerating universe Subject(s): Europe; Memory; Travel PRAIRIE PERSPECTIVE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In northwestern minnesota, the horizon's a circle Last Line: O'clock siren, at the blank, bald eye of empty sky Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farm Life; Memory; Minnesota; Poetry And Poets; Prairies PRAYER BEFORE SUMMER, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more across the frozen hills Last Line: That ends so starkly and so soon? Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Death; Memory; Prayer; Silence; Dead, The PRAYER FOR A YOUNG GRAY FOX, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: You made the night for joe and me Last Line: Who loved you a december night Subject(s): Memory; Prayer PRE-EXISTENCE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While sauntering through the crowded street Last Line: Faints on the outmost rings of space! Subject(s): Memory; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas PREFATORY STANZAS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talk not to me of necromantic wights Last Line: Bids them all hail, and wafts them every feeling kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Life; Magic; Memory; Necromancy; Past PREGNANT, by GRAY JACOBIK Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I wish I were pregnant again Last Line: I was happily huge, joyfully holding Subject(s): Memory; Pregnancy PRESERVES, by ANITA GRAY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: This summer I shall try preserving Last Line: Into spring. Subject(s): Fruit; Memory; Seasons; Summer; Time PRESSINGS, by GEORGE+(3) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: I have found poems Last Line: Petals I have tried to press %between the pages of us Subject(s): Memory; Relationships; Spring PRITHEE, STRIVE NOT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: That the heart went mad about. Subject(s): Love; Memory PRIVILEGE, by STEPHEN SUNDIN Poem Source First Line: He watched black cadillacs come and go along the Last Line: Silence roard in the shells of his ears, louder %than the sea Subject(s): Memory PROBLEM, by XI MURONG Poem Source First Line: My problem is how to keep a memory Last Line: Feeling after we wave goodbye Subject(s): Memory; Reason PRODIGAL SON, BRIEFLY SUSPECTED IN THE SHOOTING OF ANDY WARHOL..., by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One day inlate summer 1982, twenty years after the flower shop first Last Line: Be driving out to the country, and only the wounded will remember where %they were today Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Memory PROMENADES AND INTERIORS, SELECTION, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: I am writing near the lamp. It's fine weather. Pleasant stillness Last Line: Mother, blessèd among all women may you be! Subject(s): Cold; Memory; October; Weather; Writing & Writers PROVIDENCE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was far from the sea's voice and vastness Last Line: Is not without a meaning for mankind. Subject(s): God; Mankind; Memory; Sea; Human Race; Ocean PURIFY ME, by ANA ROSSETTI Poem Source First Line: It's true, I sometimes try to rebel Last Line: Infancy, my homeland, my child, memories Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Self QING YU'AN: REMEMBRANCE OF OLD TIMES IN SUZHOU, by WU XIAO Poem Source First Line: Suzhou used to be a bustling place Last Line: A misty scene of catkins all over the sky Subject(s): Memory QUAIL AND THRUSH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quail's staccato call from out the wood Last Line: Blent in with memories, borne on last year's wind. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Memory; Thrushes; Woods QUATORZAINS: 8. TO SILENCE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Huge, viewless ocean into which we cast Last Line: And to our ears upon the wind are swung. Subject(s): Memory; Sea; Silence; Ocean QUESTION AND ITS MARK, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I cast a spell on the many swans of leda Last Line: Leda possessed a pair of knees that also bent %in prayer. I ask of you only what she asked for there Subject(s): Death; Memory; Wishes QUESTION MARK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He curls like a question mark on the grass Last Line: That there's nothing so unshareable as pain. Subject(s): Memory; Pain QUIET OF THE SEVEN SISTERS, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: I remember the quiet of the seven sisters Last Line: As if in camouflage from some war %carried you away Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Trees R IS FOR REMEMBRANCE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I have no memory of his face Last Line: There's some big giant lives in there!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Variant Title(s): A Memory Subject(s): Memory RAIN, by DANE ZAJC Poem Source First Line: The cadavers of memory grow quickly in the night Last Line: Like a chrysalis in the heart of the mountain Subject(s): Memory; Rain RAKING LEAVES IN FAIRPORT, NEW YORK, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Back where my youth occurred Last Line: I have been standing here %all these years Subject(s): Leaves; Memory; Youth RAW SILK, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the door or I'll faint hearing amma's voice Last Line: Raw silk turned to smoke in the night's throat Subject(s): Children; Death; Family Life; Memory; Poetry Readings; Childhood; Dead, The; Relatives RAW SILK, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the door or I'll faint hearing amma's voice Last Line: Raw silk turned to smoke in the night's throat Subject(s): Children; Death; Family Life; Memory; Poetry Readings 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/COLLECTIONS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: When I play my music Last Line: In this music. %in this music. %we are Subject(s): Memory; Music And Musicians READING PHYSICS, by JOSIE KEARNS Poem Source First Line: It's like a secret code you knew Last Line: Another way, your life has a solution some other %continuum could tell you Subject(s): Children; Memory; Play READING THE NAMES OF THE VIETNAM WAR DEAD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a long day and a night we read the names Last Line: "thousands of dense black stones fall forever through the darkness under the Subject(s): Death; Memory; Names; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Dead, The READY POSITION, by JOAN STERN Poem Source First Line: Everything begins with this Last Line: Here, at this moment %with you there, caring Subject(s): Life; Memory REAP THE WILD WIND, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: In the drugstore Last Line: Carlos heads south, I north Subject(s): Children; Grief; Memory REAPING, by JODY AZZOUNI Poem Source First Line: My father is dead Last Line: I pretend the snapshots are flowers Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Memory RECALLED, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing of love, and what sing I? Last Line: So could still them, and be heard? Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Memory; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs RECOLLECTION, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can it be that I forget Last Line: And throws away the grain. Subject(s): Memory RECOLLECTIONS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All round was still and calm; the noon of night Last Line: Myself, for having thus in song recorded them! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Memory RECOLLECTIONS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a lad deserted by his mates Last Line: They found him -- dazed and dumb that this could be. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hearts; Love; Memory; Soul; Tears; Dead, The RECOLLECTIONS, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember all the sunny places Last Line: Let us remember this. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Memory RECOLLECTIONS, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One I knew Last Line: "and whisper'd, ""see, they come!"" till ached her wearied mind." Subject(s): Memory RED COTTAGE, by RICHARD TILLINGHAST Poem Source First Line: What we've called the red cottage Last Line: Dead on the river that pours and pours downstream Subject(s): Houses; Memory RED GLOW THE ASSES, O ...ER ASHES, O, by DAVID E. JOYNER Poem Source First Line: Red glow the ashes o Last Line: Will proffer satisfaction: o! Subject(s): Death; Drinks And Drinking; Honor; Memory; Praise REFLECTIONS, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Thoughts are the consciousness lighted Last Line: But always we pray they remain. Subject(s): Memory REFLECTIONS WHILE OILING A MACHINE GUN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of plato in a schoolroom dusk Subject(s): Army Life; Memory; Drills & Minor Tactics REFLETS, by BENET ROSNY Poem Text First Line: Young green planets of jade Last Line: Teeth meet within it. Subject(s): Fantasy; Memory; Shadows REINCARNATE, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Somewhere my spirit, in the long ago Last Line: As they troop back into my memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Death; Memory; Thought; Dead, The; Thinking RELICS WITH OLD BLUE MEDICINE - TYPE BOTTLE: TO X, by BILL KNOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This old blue medicine-type bottle, unburied Last Line: Most subterranean of discoveries, love? Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Memory REMEMBER, by FRANCES W. CURLEY Poem Text First Line: Remember how you broke a trail with me Last Line: And in remembering know that love was there! Subject(s): Memory REMEMBER AGAIN, by R. W. S. Poem Text First Line: Rain in the blackness. Stabs of flame in the blackness Last Line: Remember again. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Memory; Pain; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Suffering; Misery REMEMBER HIM WHOM PASSION'S POWER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Memory REMEMBER ME, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In seville, when the feast was long Last Line: But yet, remember me! Subject(s): Memory REMEMBER THEE! REMEMBER THEE!, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Memory REMEMBERED BEAUTY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years have pass'd; but yet, in silent mood Last Line: Rendering life beautiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Love; Memory REMEMBERED LOVE, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh power of love! So fearful and so fair Last Line: Send me faint tidings of the things that were. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Memory REMEMBERED MOMENTS, by HELEN RAMSEY Poem Text First Line: At early dawn the sea looked dull and gloomy Last Line: The swans with drifting curves wove the letters of your name. Subject(s): Memory REMEMBERED THINGS, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: A rose-hued dawn Last Line: The comradeship of one I held most dear. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Nature; Nostalgia REMEMBERING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve Last Line: And they lay my soul in strips Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips REMEMBERING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve Last Line: And they lay my soul in strips Subject(s): Memory; Travel REMEMBERING, by BALOIAN Poem Source First Line: Where stone fences merge Last Line: The dark hands of water Subject(s): Memory; Suburbs REMEMBERING, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: She sits beside a grey wall; sits, and sees Last Line: One gift that the gods have laid on her barren knees. Subject(s): Memory REMEMBERING, by ANNA PRIESTLEY Poem Text First Line: I remember a little inn Last Line: Only beauty's ghost? Subject(s): Hotels; Memory; Moon; Spring; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses REMEMBERING JEAN RHYS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To think of bitter memories back in one's sleep Subject(s): Memory; Rhys, Jean (1894-1979) REMEMBERING JEAN RHYS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To think of bitter memories back in one's sleep Last Line: Writing, roughed and ready, dressed to the nines Subject(s): Memory REMEMBERING THE GARDEN, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Like friends who sat whole evenings and spoke Last Line: Through the separate nights I learned to bear Subject(s): Absence; Gardens And Gardening; Memory REMEMBERING THE SIGNS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father took me to coney island Last Line: Getting to see it all as it was then Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Memory REMEMBERING WILD WORDS, by REX HUNTER Poem Text First Line: I remember the wild words, the drunken words, the boast- Last Line: Before the smirking bully knocked them flat with his bony fist. Subject(s): Death; Language; Memory; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary REMEMBRANCE, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Sweetly faint soft notes of song Subject(s): Memory REMEMBRANCE, by EGMONT HEGEL ARENS Poem Text First Line: It is holiday time in the woods Last Line: Of winter's snow. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Old Age REMEMBRANCE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall look back, when on the main Last Line: "oh, such a maid I knew!" Subject(s): Memory 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 ELIZABETH M. COOPER Poem Text First Line: Give rosemary for remembrance Last Line: The memory of a smile. Subject(s): Memory; Superstition; Tradition REMEMBRANCE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Forget? / ah, never! Last Line: That fate does hold for me. Subject(s): Memory REMEMBRANCE, by ENRIQUE FERNANDEZ GRANADOS Poem Source First Line: That night how blue the sky was Last Line: My soul without a pain! Subject(s): Memory 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 MARIE KREBS Poem Text First Line: Rosemary, that's for remembrance,' we are told Last Line: Remembrance keeps the heart aglow. Subject(s): Memory REMEMBRANCE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies on our life like the stars on the sea Last Line: Life's woe from our weariful faces. Subject(s): Memory; Shadows REMEMBRANCE, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: I had not noticed scarlet haw Last Line: The wind-blown tangle of bright hair. Subject(s): Memory REMEMBRANCE, by DAVID NAPOLIN Poem Source First Line: In this garden Last Line: All around you %make the twilight faintly warm Subject(s): Memory REMEMBRANCE, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ought to be joyful, the jest and the song Last Line: For remembrance is all that remaineth for me. Subject(s): Memory REMEMBRANCE, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Where memory broods, sphinx-like, with folded wings Last Line: Remembering whom the world remembers not. Subject(s): Memory REMEMBRANCE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man hath a weary pilgrimage Last Line: The days that are no more. Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Youth REMEMBRANCE (1), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale memory sits alone, brooding o'er the past Last Line: Has absolute dominion. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Future; Memory REMEMBRANCE DAY, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Behind the statue of st. Teresa of the flowers Last Line: Were apple orchards blossoming Variant Title(s): Fal Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Memory; Soldiers; War REMEMBRANCE HAS A REAR AND FRONT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ourselves be not pursued Subject(s): Houses; Memor REMEMBRANCE IS MOVING, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source Last Line: Without turning your head Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Memory REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm afraid father's hair is slightly cancelled Last Line: In the manner of a painting a work of art. Subject(s): Memory; Past REMEMBRANCE: GREEK FOLK-SONG, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not unto the forest - not unto the forest, o my lover! Last Line: There is memory in the forest. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Forests; Greece; Honor; Love; Memory; Singing & Singers; Woods; Greeks REMEMBRANCES, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence comes that tender serenade Last Line: They are olden dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Memory REMIND ME NOT, REMIND ME NOT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Memory REMINDER, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: Haven't you forgot your keys? Last Line: You won't forget your keys again! Subject(s): Keys; Memory REMINISCENCE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I am native to this frozen zone Last Line: And, with the urn, she bore my heart away! Subject(s): Memory; Seasons; Love REMINISCENCE, by DOROTHY ALLISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since, these ghosts lay dead - Last Line: Memories are only heavy prisoners now. Subject(s): Ghosts; Gays & Lesbians; Memory; Supernatural; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men REMINISCENCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the crumbling cliff we ate or meal Last Line: "when destiny cried ""wait!" Subject(s): April; Fate; Heaven; Love; Memory; Destiny; Paradise REMODELING, by DEBORAH P. KOLODJI Poem Source First Line: Icy shock of morning water Last Line: I realize I should buy %interior paint Subject(s): Memory; Paintings And Painters REMORSE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Time must have covered it over Last Line: Wound into %the body Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses REMOTE LUNAR LIGHT OF MEMORY, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source Last Line: Like fish scales near the airy film of the sea Subject(s): Acropolis Of Athens; Memory; Shadows RENDEZVOUS, by MARY BETH LEWIS Poem Text First Line: Do you ofttimes remember those bright days Last Line: We were to pay tomorrow! Subject(s): Memory RENDEZVOUS, by LYDIA LITTELL Poem Text First Line: Once, long ago, by gold and russet hill Last Line: The disembodied voice of the whippoorwill. Subject(s): Memory 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 REPETITION WEAKENS INTOXICATION, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: The exchange of freedoms Last Line: Rowing spasms %of impeccable forgetting Subject(s): Memory REQUIESCAT, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I digged thy grave in my memory Last Line: Not sown of love, not sown of love. Subject(s): Death; Love - Unrequited; Memory; Dead, The REST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "love, give me one of thy dear hands to hold" Last Line: "our blessed home, our little ark of rest" Subject(s): Memory;rest RESURRECTION, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her to-night as she passed in the crowd Last Line: Then memory spake and sank back in its shroud. Subject(s): Memory RETIREMENT DAYS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In my mountain retreat 'mid forest and lakes Last Line: That gives solace and joy to these last. Subject(s): Memory; Retirement; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness RETROSPECT, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love's kisses spurned so long ago Last Line: Would I might givefor memories. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Memory RETROSPECT, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, the darkened vault of day Last Line: A soundless echo of his sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Memory RETROSPECT, by PHILIP RHODES THORN Poem Text First Line: I wonder where the sheep is Last Line: And dining in a tree. Subject(s): Memory RETROSPECTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When we see our dream ships slipping Last Line: Joy will crown the endless years Subject(s): Memory RETROSPECTION, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After all Last Line: For I can never know regret. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Memory 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 FOR AN INSTANT, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: What was it like, god of mine, what was it like Last Line: I don't know what you were like, but you were Subject(s): Absence; Memory RETURNING THANKS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take me up, to put me down Last Line: Thank you, thank you, memory! Subject(s): Gratitude; Memory; Youth RETURNINGS OF LOVE IN VIVID LANDSCAPES, by RAFAEL ALBERTI Poem Source First Line: We believe, my love, that those landscapes Last Line: And the wakeful mountains singing to us afar Subject(s): Landscape; Memory; Nature REVELATION, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far down the moonlight dim of memory Last Line: That brings us life forever and forever. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Life; Memory; Soul; Nightmares REVELATION IN BAGHDAD, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I came here thinking of water Last Line: Flowing like water and memory Subject(s): Desire; Love; Memory REVERIE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The landscape gleams in the soft moonlight Last Line: Are with us still at eventide. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Memory; Silence; Thought; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking REVERIE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lie awake and dream Last Line: Creep the white fingers of the chilly dawn. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory REVERIE, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the crowded shelves the lamplight falls Last Line: Gazes on satan hurled from paradise. Subject(s): Death; History; Memory; Dead, The; Historians REVERIE AND INVOCATION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether the rain comes down Subject(s): Aging; Memory REVERIE DURING BRIEFING, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The simplest memory is books by ferny windows Subject(s): Army Life; Memory; Drills & Minor Tactics REVERIE OVER MEMORIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I did not dream. And yet if I had dreamed Last Line: And the imagination of delight. Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia; Past; Time REVISIONS: IMOGENE CUNNINGHAM AT NINETY, by DEBORAH BURNHAM Poem Source First Line: She had seventy years of images inside her head Last Line: The faces of the dead rise like late white lilies in the black water Subject(s): Aging; Memory REVISITING THE FIELD (2), by WALTER DAVID PAVLICH Poem Source First Line: I come back to cold lights Last Line: Didn't we all block big as trees? Subject(s): Baseball; Fields; Memory; Sports REVIVAL OF PATSY MONTANA, by STEPHEN ROBERT GIBSON Poem Source First Line: It's like things I remember seeing in seattle the lights Last Line: Then they'll begin to play Subject(s): Memory; Montana 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 RHYME FOR REMEMBRANCE OF MAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember may? / oh, till no more a color tincts the spray Last Line: May means remembering you! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; May (month); Memory; Rhyme; Nightmares 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 RIGHT IDEA, WRONG RIVER, by NED PASTOR Poem Source First Line: Washington crossed the delaware Last Line: Across the hudson for that man? Subject(s): Bridges; Memory; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) RIME OF THE CROSS-CUT SAW, by R. S. CLARK Poem Text First Line: I've often said, young feller Last Line: You don't know what you've missed. Subject(s): Memory RISE NOW, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise now, an end to rest. The wind sighs / from the west Last Line: On boughs that tap the pane thy soft farewell to speak. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Shadows RISING ABOVE THE EARTH, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: She walks sometines among the treetops Last Line: On a cloud that is floating in the word...' Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets; Romance RIVER OF MEMORIES, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Text First Line: Where the blue waters of the neva Last Line: Hark to the water's broken song. Subject(s): Memory; Neva (river), Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ROAD OF THE DEAD: 2, by RAUL NINO Poem Source First Line: A scream echoes through tortured trees, over mountain ranges and Last Line: Hastens from the vertex of this point, the temple's novel purpose long forgotten Subject(s): Children; Death; Memory ROCOCO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Take hand and part with laughter Last Line: And ten that you forget. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Time; Nightmares ROMA, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give to the wind thy locks; all glittering Last Line: Awake the tired ages and the world! Subject(s): Memory; Rome, Italy RONDEAU OF THE HORSES, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: The little horses fleeing Last Line: And in my soul-night coming on! Subject(s): Love; Memory; Poetry And Poets ROOMS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know the heaviness of official rooms Last Line: (outside an organ's singing in the road!) Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Houses, Deserted; Memory; Rooms; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The ROSIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: There's a rosie show in derry Last Line: Thon daython day! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; London; Love; Memory; Roses ROUNDED WITH A SLEEP, by KRISSY BRADY Poem Source First Line: They're coarse and dry Last Line: And how they will be remembered in this %illusion of left or right Subject(s): Anger; Character; Fathers; Memory RUIN AT OULAD-MERZOUG, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: All the voices in me have vanished Last Line: Like a rat a cadaver Subject(s): Memory RUINS, by SARAH GALE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I want to know if you remember this Last Line: In the intimate terror of thier beds Subject(s): Memory; Survival RUINS OF ITALICA, by RODRIGO CARO Poem Source First Line: Fabius, this region desolate and drear Last Line: Italica' from ruined tower and wall Subject(s): Italica, Spain; Memory; Ruins; War RUSTIC CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No city primness train'd our feet Last Line: O shining grass, and shady bough. Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Memory; Nostalgia; Childhood RUTH AND NAOMI, by LOWELL COURIER Poem Text First Line: A rabbi's child and puritan's once met Last Line: And reap in joy the harvesttruth sublime. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Judaism SAFE AT HOME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! How can I say Last Line: Safe in that beautiful home. Subject(s): Life; Memory SALAMANCA, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem 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 SALVAGE, by BETH KEMPER GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: From falling barns my grandfather bought boards Last Line: And wondered %if blight blesses us Subject(s): Absence; Drinks And Drinking; Grandparents; Memory SAM PERRY (A GENIUS UNRECORDED), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood by a grave and white grave-stone Last Line: "and tell what you do, and where you are!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory; Science; Youth; Graveyards; Dead, The; Scientists SANCTUM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On top of a hill near the lebanese border Last Line: And trust it to bear our weight %a little longer Subject(s): Arabs; Cemeteries; Cities; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Sculpture And Sculptors SANDY ISLE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: When the south-wind comes a-bringing Last Line: Sandy isle. Subject(s): Anxiety; Islands; Memory SARGASSO FIELDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And then, %the aroma, the waves Last Line: And I awoke in the midst of all homelands, %amid all sargasso fields Subject(s): Fields; Home; Memory SAVING A TRAIN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poor old woman lived on the line of the ohio railway Last Line: Which should be written on her tombstone in letters of gold. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Disasters; Heroism; Memory; Railroad Wrecks; Storms; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Train Wrecks SAVORING THE PAST, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am savoring the past Last Line: As it breaks my heart again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Past; Sorrow; Sadness SCANSION, by MATTHEW COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: There is something suspicious in the line. And when Last Line: A twenty-four hour convenence store, idles %-- where you get in line Subject(s): Memory SCARCELY..., by ALFONSO REYES Poem Source First Line: Sometimes an effluence rises, %made of nothing, from the ground Last Line: Sunlight seems to fall %upon me from your memory! Subject(s): Grief; Memory SCARS, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: \o7 they are the short stories of the flesh, Subject(s): Memory SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are my friends? I am alone Last Line: Just eton boys grown heavy. Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Life; Memory; Solitude; Schoolmates; Loneliness SCRAPS, by RUTH ANDERSON BARNETT Poem Source First Line: Now my mother's house is filling up Last Line: So you won't have to, her voice %like parchment in the flames Subject(s): Conversation; Memory; Mothers SCRAPS, by AGNES STOWELL PINKEY Poem Text First Line: I have among my treasures a book I hold most dear Last Line: But follow suit, and by and by you'll feel the same -- perhaps. Subject(s): Memory SEA IN MY WORDS, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: The sea is alwayst in my words Last Line: Into a triumphant arch Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Memory; Sea Voyages; Storms SEA-PICTURES; FAR NIENTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft languors on the bosom of the deep Last Line: Between the day and me, and end it all. Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Sea; Sun; Optimism; Ocean SEARCHLIGHTS, by MILDRED SUTTON BRENEMAN Poem Text First Line: When I come back Last Line: And the path of faint perfume. Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory SECOND SNOW, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Trees grow wild in the pasture Last Line: Lanterns, light calling %'come home' Subject(s): Bones; Death; Memory; Winter SECOND-HAND, by DAVID RICKS Poem Source First Line: And here's mein kampf in english, leather Last Line: From sanskrit svasti, 'well-being, fortune, luck'.' Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Memory SECRETS, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Lo, for the memory's sake of thee Last Line: Its glory press. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Memory; Secrets SEE! I WILL NOT FORGET YOU. I HAVE CARVED YOU ON THE PALM OF MY HAND, by THOMAS REITER Poem Source Last Line: But can be said to remember you Subject(s): Love; Memory SENTIMENTS RISE AS THOUGH SETTLED, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Just turned, approaching uselessness; %no one talks Subject(s): Memory; Night; Silence SEPTEMBER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden-rod is yellow Last Line: I can never forget. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Autumn; Memory; Seasons; September; Fall SEQUOIA, by CATHY SMITH Poem Source First Line: Later, arm-in-arm Last Line: I could breath. Get on %with my life Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning SERENADE, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: Your pallor is no rose that blooms Last Line: And is forgot. And you, and you. . . . Subject(s): Memory SHADOWS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow of the lantern on the wall Last Line: Restlessly dancing on a cloudy wall. Subject(s): Memory; Shadows SHADOWS OF RECOLLECTION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is no dream! Yet haunting visions come Last Line: To quench all memory of a former state? Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Memory; Shadows; Vision SHE, by GUILLERMO VALENCIA Poem Source First Line: Sunk in the quarry, black and hid from light Last Line: It is her far-off radiance, it is she! Subject(s): Love; Memory; Poetry And Poets SHEAF OF MEMORIES, by AVIS TURNER FRENCH Poem Text First Line: I longed to free my heart from broken hopes of olden years Last Line: Though they were part of yesteryears, they helped to make today. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Youth; Nightmares SHED, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Today we celebrate aunt Last Line: We could never have guessed Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Memory SHEDDING, by SARAH TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Mary sent them all Last Line: Before she begins to %sing Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers SHORTLY BEFORE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: One blue day, in the badbread years, a girl Last Line: At my six years, eyes full of silence. %and smiled at me. Subject(s): Flirtation; Memory; Seashore SIDNEY, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you forgotten that still afternoon? Last Line: But a rose-colored rose. Subject(s): Memory SIERRAN MEMORIES, by ANNA CATHERINE MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: Sometimes, o california, far away Last Line: And toil was romance in that fortunate air. Subject(s): California; Memory SIGH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Memory is the mind's belly Last Line: His mind heaved a sigh. Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets; Sighs SILENCE COMES TO A GARDEN, by MURRAY C. KIRK Poem Text First Line: Pale petals slowly spiral to the earth Last Line: Each hope, like incensed bloom, we could not hold. Subject(s): Memory; Silence SILVER, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: So this is how you run Last Line: Nothing can be so distant and beautiful, %nothing will ever go more right Subject(s): Love; Memory SIMCHAS TORAH, by CALMAN DAVID MATT Poem Text First Line: Full oft has the ark been opened Last Line: Begin to read it anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Matt, C. David Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Memory; Judaism SINCE NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a simple poem Last Line: I want to enter you with nothing Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Poetry And Poets SINERA CEMETERY: 14, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: Crystal, memory Last Line: With pauses of gold and dreaming Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory SINERA CEMETERY: 2, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: What a tiny land Last Line: That are gone forever Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory SINERA CEMETERY: 9, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: Flight of memories of rain Last Line: Into fleeting mirrors Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory SINGING HANDS, by CAREY YATES BUSBY Poem Text First Line: Over-under-patient-slow Last Line: White men wait with yellow gold. Subject(s): Memory; Paintings & Painters; Pictures SIPPICAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: It is a perfect summer day Last Line: "and know ""there is no joy but calm." Subject(s): Calm; Memory; Sea; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Ocean SISTER MAIME FIELDS, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Dull patina %over rim of blue eye Last Line: All heavy loads lighter Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Memory; Old Age SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES HISTORY CLASS: DOCTRINES OF MEMORY, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not one of us recollects Last Line: You were human, every one divine Subject(s): Memory SITTING ON THE BERLIN WALL, by PATRICK HICKS Poem Source First Line: On my way back to belfast I wandered past bebelplatz Last Line: That there is still work to be done Subject(s): Berlin Wall; Memory; Pain SIX EASILY MEMORIZED OFFSHAVINGS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: They're away on leave Last Line: You will understand my state Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses SIX POEMS ON REMEMBERING: 1, by SHEN YUEH Poem Source First Line: I think of when she comes Last Line: Look at one another till hunger is forgotten Subject(s): Memory SIX POEMS ON REMEMBERING: 2, by SHEN YUEH Poem Source First Line: I think of when she sits Last Line: When she sulks, she's more lovely than before Subject(s): Memory SIX POEMS ON REMEMBERING: 3, by SHEN YUEH Poem Source First Line: I think of when she sleeps Last Line: Fearful that the one by her side is watching, %she blushes under the candle's glow Subject(s): Memory SIX WINTERS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the black hotel a child is asleep Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory; War; Graveyards; Dead, The SIX WINTERS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the black hotel a child is asleep Last Line: On the way home. Bewitched avenue Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory; War SKATER, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was all in black but for a yellow pony tail Subject(s): Memory; Skating & Skaters; Sports SKATER, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was all in black but for a yellow pony tail Last Line: At the woman she'd been just an instant before Subject(s): Memory; Skating And Skaters; Sports SKETCH FOR A JOB APPLICATION BLANK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My left eye is blind and jogs like Last Line: Warmth, more warmth, I cry.) Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Self-doubt; Heritage; Heredity; Work; Workers SKETCHES OF VILLAGE CHARACTER IN DAYS 'O' LANGSYNE.', by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've aften been thinkin', whan sittin' alane Last Line: That droons her an' a' that is holy an' gude! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Neighbors; Villages SKIN-THE-CAT, by DAVID LANIER Poem Source First Line: I recognize that boy laughing Last Line: He's just begun to recognize as his Subject(s): Boys; Fathers; Memory SKY IS PANNED, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Around steering wheel Subject(s): Memory SLEEPING WITH MY BROTHER, by CATHY SMITH Poem Source First Line: Like dreaming Last Line: Close your eyes %and hold on Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Memory SLIPPER TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a homely time of ease and rest Last Line: This homely, human slipper time. Subject(s): Children; Life; Memory; Music & Musicians; Peace; Sleep; Soul; Childhood SLOW TO COME, QUICK A-GONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! There's a house that I do know Last Line: Wi' aïr-birds to ha' vled. Subject(s): Houses; Memory SLUMBERING YESTERDAYS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Awaken them not, those sweet days of the past Last Line: Surcease to remorse, manifest. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Sleep SMALL DEFEATS: BID ON BEHALF OF MY AUNT EVA, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: The chaplain left, dissatisfied Last Line: Paw the dry bones of your jewelry Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Memory SMALL DEFEATS: MY SKELETAL FATHER, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Lank leg cocked Last Line: Soft songs to keep %his hells asleep Subject(s): Fathers; Memory SMALL ENOUGH TO HOLD, by MARTIN OTT Poem Source First Line: Redwood, you are almost small enough to remember Last Line: Coffin, a mother's blaze, greatness cleft, a sliver's pain Subject(s): Memory SMALL NOUNS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could tell you Last Line: Whatever it %was Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SNAPSHOT, by NACIA MILLER Poem Source First Line: This cold water flat kitchen in 1950 Last Line: With momma in the background at the sink %cleaning up Subject(s): Memory; Parents; Photography And Photographers SNOW, by GREGOR STRNISA Poem Source First Line: They're not eternal, these heavens Last Line: Will she, will you know? Subject(s): Memory; Mourning SNOW GEESE AT DESOTO BEND, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: The missouri twists below them Last Line: A tolling of bells, a benediction Subject(s): Geese; Memory; Missouri; Wings SNOWBOUND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun that brief december day / rose cheerless over hills of gray Last Line: The benediction of the air. Variant Title(s): New England In Winter;a Winter Idyl;snow-bound;snow-bound: A Winter Idyll Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Massachusetts; Memory; Religion; Snow; Winter; Relatives; Theology SO LONG, ROY, by BARBARA HAMBY Poem Source First Line: Apropos of nothing it seems, I burst into tears on reading Last Line: Zeitung, so the whole world can remember your smile and how great you looked on a horse Subject(s): Absence; Memory SOLDIER'S BRIEF EPISTLE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You think you're better than me Last Line: And he was very difficult to kill Subject(s): Memory; Soldiers SOME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She's determined to explore Last Line: Some of the shit on the surface. Subject(s): Explorers; Memory SOME OF THE THINGS I SEE FOR YOU, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: You will be famous, your mouth Last Line: You will eat the world Subject(s): Memory; Mothers And Daughters; Nature SOME OF THE THINGS I SEE FOR YOU, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great & dramatic he is sprouting a truant Last Line: Dazzling sun moaning in my past Subject(s): Memory; Past SOMEBODY LOVED ME, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody loved me with all of his heart Last Line: Somebody loved me with all of his heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love; Memory SOMEWHERE THERE'S A MAN, by ROBERTO JUARROZ Poem Source Last Line: But only when one had stopped seeing all the rest Subject(s): Death; Memory; Thought SON IO L'AMORE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's what she whispered to me Last Line: I can hardly understand. Sio io l'amore Subject(s): Memory SONATA IN PATHOS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I am tired; tired of all these years Last Line: I shall remember till I die. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Shadows; Dead, The SONG, by MAURICE BARING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To hide my sorrow's secret smart Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness SONG, by DULCE MARIA BORRERO Poem Source First Line: My heart is a corpse Last Line: Flowers ever anew! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory SONG FOR THE CENTENARY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter in spirit elect and consecrate Last Line: Who by thine own words only bid thee hail, and live. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Life; Love; Memory; Roses; Dead, The SONG FOR THE ROYAL PALMS OF MIAMI, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere they stand, slightly bent Subject(s): Change; Memory; Trees; Wind SONG IN SIXTEEN WORDS, by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Cold %standing in west wind, green sleeves thin Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women SONG OF AUTUMN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a sighing begins Last Line: A dead leaf. Variant Title(s): Chansons D'automne Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONG OF RENEWAL: 2, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked the fields when morning freshened Last Line: "and ruined spring renews her flower and anxious eyes are once more glad." Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fields; Memory; Cadavers; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SONG OF RENEWAL: 3, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Following his look, I saw the vale shaking Last Line: Faint marks renewed where love burned through, how many centuries ago! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SONG OF THE HIGHEST TOWER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Idle youth / by all availed Last Line: When hearts entwine! Subject(s): Memory; Old Age SONG ON THE EDGE OF WINTER, by ANNA SHAW BUCK Poem Text First Line: I shall remember, when my years are few Last Line: A melody surpassing that of birds. Subject(s): Memory; Singing & Singers; Winter; Songs SONG TO THE NEW DAY, by LULU E. THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: New day is blushing in the east Last Line: Reminding me of you. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green parrot, %royal lorikeet Last Line: I don't sleep so I won't dream Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Insomnia; Memory SONGS OF NEW-SWEDEN: DEDICATION, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These to my father's memory, since Last Line: Your simple lives, your pious worth. Subject(s): Fathers; Memory SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE WINTER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back shining from the pane, the fire Last Line: My father, in my soul! Subject(s): Children; Cold; Death; Fathers; God; Memory; Night; Winter; Childhood; Dead, The; Bedtime SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 76, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the october wind stole in Last Line: Had spent the night with me. Subject(s): Waking; Memory SONGS OF TRAVEL: 45. TO S.R. CROCKETT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blows the wind today, and the sun and the rain are flying Last Line: And hear no more at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Exiled;vailima;the Whaups Subject(s): Crockett, Samuel Rutherford (1860-1914); Love; Memory SONGS TO A.H.R.: 14. LAST LINES, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could only go back and find you there Last Line: "never, oh never more!" Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness SONGS WITHOUT WORDS, by KRISTIN LORD Poem Source First Line: I do not pray for the dead Last Line: And I'll pray for the dead %songs without words Subject(s): Death; Memory; Prayer 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 SONNET, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I gathered blushing roses kissed by june Last Line: The pure child fragrance in thy soul complete. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses; Time SONNET FOR THE SUBSTANCE, by FRANCES ELEONORE SCHLUNEGER Poem Text First Line: O, doubtless you'll remember till you die Last Line: "when you come shouting late, ""when do we eat?" Subject(s): Memory SONNET TO REFLECTION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, busy torturer, wherefore should mine eye Last Line: In darkness glimmering to disclose a tomb. Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Regret; Self-pity; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism SONNET: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, valentine, and tell that lovely maid Last Line: And heave the sigh of memory and of love. Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Longing; Love; Memory; Messengers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think, valentine, as speeding on thy way Last Line: Who loathes the lingering road, yet has no home of rest! Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Love; Memory; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips SONNET: 20. PICTURE OF A YOUNG LADY, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was sitting, sad, and all alone Subject(s): Memory; Beauty; Youth, Aging 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: 30, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought Last Line: All losses are restored, and sorrows end. Variant Title(s): Loses Restored;remembrance Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Memory; Past SONNET: 4, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, dear as memory's joys! Of life that's past Last Line: Disturb the mutual trust our being shares. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Memory SONNET: 6, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, many a time our memory slips aside Last Line: And crowned our nights with coronals of dreams. Subject(s): Family Life; Games; Memory; Relatives; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SONNET: 6. TO A BROOK NEAR THE VILLAGE OF CORSTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream Last Line: As thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze. Subject(s): Aging; Brooks; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Time; Streams; Creeks SONNET: 7, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a hoard of treasure in my breast Last Line: The best of heaven and the worst of hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Memory; Past SONNET: A REMEMBRANCE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night closes round me, and wild threatening forms Subject(s): Memory SONNET: PALAZZO PAGANI, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the house where, twenty years ago Subject(s): Memory; Love; Houses, Deserted SONNETS OF A REMEMBERED SUMMER, by MERRILL MOORE Poem Text First Line: You are mistaken in your naive guessing Last Line: Is all this knowledge and all this loneliness. Subject(s): Memory; Summer SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said within myself: I am a fool Last Line: Die if thou wilt; but what hast thou to fear? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Memory; Soul SONNETS: 2, by LOUISE ABNEY Poem Text First Line: Hold fast, o heart, remembered loveliness! Last Line: O heart. Remembrance is your sure defense! Subject(s): Desire; Love; Memory SONNETS; TO THE SETTING SUN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou central eye of god, whose lidless ball Last Line: Still bid my memory survive and bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Memory; Night; Sun; World; Bedtime SORBY ELEGY, by LARS GUSTAFSSON Poem Source First Line: Wild chervil and chamomile surge against the base Last Line: From other years. And the june wind sweeps by Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Memory SOUL WHISPERS, by HENRY T. PRAED Poem Text First Line: How shall I seek to know you Last Line: And the centuries' race be done. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Past SOUND OF WATER, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: Time has a certain rhythm Last Line: A house remembered from my youth Subject(s): Memory SOUVENIR, by RAY HEDGPETH Poem Source First Line: As we turned to leave yosemite falls Last Line: In her white coat and scarf Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Souvenirs; Travel SOUVENIR, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little hour of sunshine Last Line: Which lives all vibrant still. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Memory SOUVENIR, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How you haunt me with your eyes Last Line: You remember, I forget! Subject(s): Memory SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 39, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Everytime I climb the hills Last Line: I remember your beauty Subject(s): Love; Memory SPEAKING THE FIRST PIECE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard, when I'm dressed up so nice Last Line: To know her pieces perfectly. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Childhood SPIRIT LEVEL, by KEVIN BLACK Poem Source First Line: When illness whittled uncle james Last Line: Where my mother and father are Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Parents SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where do we reside Last Line: We can no longer see Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Shadows; Vision SPIRITS OF SUMMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three creatures of the summer are to me Last Line: Three summer creatures good to know and love. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Soul; Summer SPOON RAN AWAY WITH THE DISH, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ideal tv commercial pins the attention of the viewer Last Line: Worrying about a once-revolutionary method of dishwashing that has now been outmoded Subject(s): Memory SPRING, by MARY KATHARINE REELY Poem Text First Line: God, how I hate it, spring! Last Line: God, how shall I endure it, spring! Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Spring SPRING FANTASIES: 2. THE SPRING RETURNS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring returns! Not as a strange newcomer Last Line: May rest, but gypsy-like fleets on for ever. Subject(s): Beauty; Memory; Nature; Spring SPRING FANTASIES: 3. THE SYMBOL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the symbol underneath it all Last Line: Is certified by joy and love and peace. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Nature; Peace; Nightmares SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Be a facilitator, not a roadblock, says the lady who runs the news stand Last Line: The first now wheeling over the city, how if you look just right, you could %believe we were moving Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Past ST. VINCENT'S, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: A smell in the air Last Line: Doors wide open to the air Subject(s): Birth; Childhood Memories; Memory STAINED BY EARLIER DAYS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And stories from the grandmother Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory; Old Age STALKING MEMORY, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three months ago, I stabbed your cactus plant Last Line: I am afraid I can't remember Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Memory STANZAS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou at eventide art roaming Last Line: I think of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips STANZAS SELECTED FROM THE PAINS OR MEMORY; A FRAGMENT, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Memory! Mysterious principle, whose power Last Line: Shines with unwelcome ray, and tells of mischief done! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Memory STANZAS; ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND ON HER MARRIAGE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: No voice but that of gladness Last Line: Shall absence it destroy? Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Life; Love; Memory; Parting STAR, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: The book %and the door Last Line: Drinking the water of the mirror Subject(s): Airships; Memory; Stars; War STARLIGHT THROUGH THE SHADOWS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy dear one is with jesus now Last Line: With thee all the way. Subject(s): Memory; Shadows STARSHINE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Once from a ship on the baltic I saw Last Line: Of light on seas of unspeakable dark Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Love; Memory; Saint Kilda (scotland) STEREOSCOPE, by PAUL GERALDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't want to see them. Take the negatives Last Line: Don't make it an historian. Subject(s): Memory; Time; Travel; Journeys; Trips STILLEBEN, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER Poem Source First Line: As she might have called it Last Line: South and southeast. %have I? Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory STITCHES, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: What can I say? I've even forgotten how Last Line: Inscrutable as the ocean, my mother's face? Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Variant Title(s): An Unfinished Figur Subject(s): Absence; Ancestors And Ancestry; Memory; Past STONEBREAKER'S DAUGHTER, by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES Poem Source First Line: A rocky podium. A mannered pose Last Line: The gulls have flown to africa Subject(s): Memory; Old Age STRADA SAN GIOVANNI, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a quiet little by-way Last Line: Shines in strada san giovanni. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares STRANGE FEAST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Went to war, returned, found peace Last Line: Likes to walk the streets now, and the desolate beach Subject(s): Love; Memory; Peace; Regret; Solitude; Walking; War STUNNING, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: As if a lost demented bee had stung Last Line: The hard things we were learning, could not say Subject(s): Love; Memory; Pictures; Saint Kilda (scotland) SUBMISSION, by THEODORE ANTHONY STANFORD Poem Text First Line: I hold your memory, a sacred flame Last Line: Before the rhythmic wish of tide and time. Subject(s): Memory SUCCESS, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drink the foaming chalice Last Line: Who lived and died for men. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Memory; Nations; Success SUDDEN LIGHT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been here before Last Line: And day and night yield one delight once more? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Deja Vu; Holidays; Love; Memory; New Year SUGGESTION, by RICHARD LUFTIG Poem Source First Line: Out at the edge of town Last Line: For saddened sighs, the lonely %remembrances of prior lives Subject(s): Memory SULLIVAN POEM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: March 5: first day without a fire Last Line: Moves through our bodies as if we were gods. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Mourning; Bereavement SUMMER I SPENT SCREWING IN THE BACK SEATS OF STATION WAGONS, by BARRY NATHAN GOLDENSOHN Poem Source First Line: Was the last summer that lasted all summer Last Line: We wondered, how could he tell? Subject(s): Growth; Memory; Summer SUMMER I TURNED SIXTEEN, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Take jewelweed, you told me, for the sting Last Line: Can turn on us as a surprise when we need it most Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Summer SUNDAY MORNING, by JACK GRAPES Poem Source First Line: Sunday morning. Spring 1991 Last Line: So the child reaches out a hand and touches my own Subject(s): Children; Memory; Museums SUNSET, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered towards the sunset in the silence of Last Line: To the storm-swept reefs of danger in the dream-dissolving dawn. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares SUNSET CLOUDS, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH Poem Text First Line: Drifting by on gauzy wings Last Line: Framed in tinted oriels. Subject(s): Memory SUPREME UNCTION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the eternal night Last Line: And in the end come back to me? Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime SURCEASE, by ALICE GARDNER ADAMS Poem Text First Line: When rain is raining wet and gray Last Line: Into eternal yonder. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Memory SURFACES AND MASKS; 2, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sit silently in the dark Last Line: William dean howells swim / in the grand canal Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Memory; Venice, Italy SURVIVAL (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tempest past Last Line: "the least and last of all!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Memory SWEET CORN, by SUSAN RONEY-O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: March, mud-kneeling, harlan Last Line: The broken ones, we chop down Subject(s): Farm Life; Gardens And Gardening; Memory; Neighbors TANABATA, by SHAWN LYNN WALKER Poem Source First Line: Only one hot night Last Line: The scar from which %a lost child was torn Subject(s): Japan; Memory; Night TANGO, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: Just outside chicago, at the home of a dead architect, three of us sat at Last Line: Earth beneath us continued falling through its orbit into fall and beyond Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Music And Musicians TANKA, by SATO NORIKIYO Poem Source First Line: Now I understand Subject(s): Memory TASTE MEMORY, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: The tiny gold plane still Last Line: And mourn the long memory %of the tongue Subject(s): Memory; Taste (sense) TEACHER, by MATT ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Grade 7 whispertalk Last Line: Echoes %of an age. (mine, past) Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools TEARS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Tears born of wild emotion Last Line: And all is stainless gold! Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Memory; Tears; World; Sorrow; Sadness TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: THE OX FORGOTTEN, LEAVING THE MAN ALONE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been arriving Last Line: Where is ox? Subject(s): Memory; Oxeb TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: THE OX FORGOTTEN, LEAVING THE MAN ALONE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been arriving Last Line: Dearly beloved, %where is ox? Subject(s): Animals; Memory; Oxen THAT DAY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across a lake in switzerland, fifty years ago Subject(s): Memory; Switzerland; Swiss THAT DAY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across a lake in switzerland, fifty years ago Last Line: And we laughed for joy astonished Subject(s): Memory; Switzerland THAT IS WHY OUR SONS ARE HEROES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I was awaiting something else, my hopes were of a different kind Last Line: That is why our sons are heroes! Subject(s): Heroism; Memory; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines THAT SACRED CLOSET WHEN YOU SWEEP, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You cannot supersede itself %but it can silence you Variant Title(s): Poem: 1273; Poem: 138 Subject(s): Memory THE 1ST, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember about that day Last Line: Nothing about the emptied family Variant Title(s): Eviction Subject(s): Children; Emptiness; Memory; Childhood THE AFTER SILENCES, by EDNA DENHAM RAYMOND Poem Text First Line: No, not within the depth of grief, one grieves Last Line: And grieves and grieves and longs to be no more. Subject(s): Memory; Night; Silence; Bedtime THE AFTER-ECHO (2), by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long the echoes love to play Last Line: And touches all the soul to tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Echoes; Memory; Time THE AFTERGLOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Sitting here I ponder Last Line: Of the afterglow. Subject(s): Memory THE ALBUM, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I take your book -- of autographs Last Line: Our love can ne'er decay. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Time THE AMENITIES, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I owe you an explanation. Subject(s): Youth; Memory; Rape THE ANIMALS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They do not live in the world Subject(s): Bible; Memory; Religion; Theology THE ANNIVERSARY, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the night I come to my room Last Line: The flesh of his forehead, and old scar. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Fathers & Sons; Memory; Scars; World War Ii; Second World War THE ARCHITECT (2), by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever his dreams have been it is now hard to say Last Line: He hears the wind that cries through feathered wings. Subject(s): Ambition; Architecture & Architects; Memory THE ARCHITECT AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My stride was two to my father's by the sea Last Line: Surge, master of the arch of element. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Fathers & Daughters; Memory; Poetry & Poets THE ATTIC AND ITS NAILS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard up there. You dig in a box for whatever the moment Last Line: Too occupied to remember what sent you up into the dark. Subject(s): Attics; Change; Memory; Past THE AWAKENING, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me sleep on! I would not waken yet Last Line: The quiet land of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Memory; Soul; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness THE BAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange dreams of what I used Last Line: Who either pity or despise. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares THE BARD'S SONG TO HIS DAUGHTER, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter dear, my darling child Last Line: While thus I clasp thee to my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Daughters; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Tears THE BAREFOOT BOY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Blessings on thee, little man Last Line: Ere it passes, barefoot boy! Subject(s): Children; Memory; Youth; Childhood THE BLACK WATCH MEMORIAL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of mars, it gives me great content Last Line: And the company with one accord sung the national anthem. Subject(s): Memory; Monuments THE BLUE STAR, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember of the soul Last Line: The blue star see. Subject(s): Girls; Imagination; Memory; Fancy THE BOAT-HORN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, list the boat-horn's wild refrain" Last Line: The romance of my native land Subject(s): Memory;patriotism THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE HOLDETH FAST TO THE MEMORY OF HIS IDENTITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in the great house, and in the house of fire" Last Line: Let me remember then the name I bore! Subject(s): Easter;holidays;memory; The Resurrection THE BOON OF MEMORY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go, I go! And must mine image fade Last Line: "seek it in heaven." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Memory THE BOTTOM DRAWER, by MARY A. BARR Poem Text First Line: In the best chamber of the house Last Line: "for whom I locked that sacred drawer." Subject(s): Consolation; Memory THE BOYS OF THE OLD GLEE CLUB, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You-folks rickollect, I know Last Line: "god! -- god! -- thank god, they're singing yet!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys Societies And Clubs; Memory; Singing & Singers THE BRIER-WOOD PIPE, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! Bully for me again, when my turn for Last Line: Brings back the white-robed lady with hair like the golden wine! Subject(s): Memory; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE BUSHRANGERS, by EDWARD HARRINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four horsemen rode out from the heart of the range Last Line: The ghosts of the kellys still ride from the range. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Memory; Punishment 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 CASTLE OF TIME; A VISION, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up rose the full moon in a heaven of blue Last Line: And heaven's o'erarching dome, eternal and sublime! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Castles; Memory; Past; Time THE CHAIR, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chair was made Last Line: By dead hands smoothed and followed many years. Subject(s): Memory 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 CHOP-HOUSE IN THE ALLEY, by HENRY M. HYDE Poem Text First Line: Talk about old roman banquets Last Line: When the paper's gone to press. Subject(s): Houses; Memory THE CHRISTENING OF THE STADIUM, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: It was the greatest game that year that mortal ever / saw Last Line: The celebrated christening in famous oughty-three. Subject(s): Competition; Memory; Sports; Youth THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Memory; Past; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The THE CITY IN WHICH I WAS BORN WAS DESTROYED BY CANNON, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How long / will my memories survive? Subject(s): War; Life Change Events; Memor THE CLEARANCE SONG, by JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: From lochourn to glenfinnan the grey mountains ranging Last Line: The sons of the gael have no home in the highlands! Subject(s): Memory THE CLOSING OF PARADISE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods who toss their bounties down / to willing laps Last Line: Compared with her who died of late? Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Memory; Paradise THE CLOSING YEAR, by GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Last Line: Upon the fearful ruin he has wrought. Subject(s): Memory THE COLD HEAVEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven Last Line: By the injustice of the skies for punishment? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Death; Memory THE COMMON A-TOOK IN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! No, poll, no! Since they've a-took Last Line: Vrom all the housen round. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fences; Memory; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: JOHN, SAMUEL, AND RICHARD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a calm pleasant evening, the light fades away Last Line: You drink up your grog and be merry together. Subject(s): Friendship; Judgments; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Soldiers; Story-telling THE COUNTRY CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The country child has fragrances Last Line: And in his cheeks old roses blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Innocence; Memory; Mothers; Childhood THE DAWN OF EVENING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The royal sun has gone his gaudy way Last Line: For youth knows not how long is love's despair. Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love; Memory THE DAYS GONE BY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the days gone by! O the days gone by! Last Line: In the golden olden glory of the days gone by. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Past; Youth; Childhood THE DAYS OF OUR YOUTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: These are the days of our youth Last Line: "joy of joys for an hour to-day; then away, farewell!" Subject(s): Hearts;love;memory;passion;youth THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O memories of green and pleasant places Last Line: "the bygone, happy days" Subject(s): Memory THE DEAD HOUSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here once my step was quickened Last Line: That looks over woodland and corn. Subject(s): Home; Memory THE DEATH OF PRINCE LEOPOLD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Noble prince leopold, he is dead! Last Line: For the loss of the virtuous prince leopold they loved so dear Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Funerals; Leopold I, King Of The Belgians; Memory; Dead, The; Burials THE DEATH OF THE RACE CAR DRIVER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have not slept for a week. / it is matchless-this feeling Last Line: Sack for eternity. Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Dreams; Insomnia; Memory; Sports; War; Race Car Driving; Nightmares; Sleeplessness THE DEATH RIDE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On o'er the rocky ground Last Line: Heroic ones! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THE DEFEAT OF WINTER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But yester morn the frozen snow Last Line: Upon it all shall melt in bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Frost; Memory; Mourning; Snow; Winter; Bereavement THE DEPARTED, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: While yet their fagots scarce had burned Last Line: Blessing their memories with tears. Subject(s): Farewell; Memory; Parting THE DINING ROOM, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a rather dull cupboard here Last Line: "good morning, mr. Jammes, how are you today?" Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Guests; Memory; Spiritual Life; Voices; Visiting THE DREAMS OF LONG AGO, by IMBERT GALLOIX Poem Text First Line: Mine was a vernal world, delectable with flowers Last Line: -- forget, my soul, the dreams of long ago! Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nature; Past; Nightmares THE DWELLING, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not dwell where olives shake Last Line: I may but dwell with memory! Subject(s): Home; Memory THE DYING SPANIEL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old oscar, how feebly thou crawl'st to the door Last Line: And the friend and the foe pass away, one by one! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Youth THE EARTH-ERRAND, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This memory-laden star that winds Last Line: Triumphantly return! Subject(s): Memory 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 EGLANTINE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was setting in the summer west Last Line: And memories of the by-past, sad and sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Memory; Roses; Youth THE ELECTRIC FAN AND THE DEAD MAN ..., by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She remembers his covert sleeves, / the sadness of his quiet Last Line: Ready for, at least mechanically, fin de siècle, à rebours. Subject(s): Memory; Widows & Widowers THE ENDURING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A misty memory - faint, far away Last Line: "have god thy friend: he passeth all the rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Life; Memory; Youth THE EVENING TURNED ITS BACK UPON HER VOICE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is she waiting for a knock on the door Subject(s): Memory; Women THE EXILE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above him in the city street Last Line: The sound of one girl's laughter came from half a world away. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Memory; Mothers THE EXILE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I have lost the mountains, I Last Line: I see the mountains in my dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Exiles; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE FACE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not good any more, not beautiful Last Line: It is terrible to be alive Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Self THE FACES AND THE FORMS OF YORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The mothers of our mothers' show Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Past; Memory THE FACES OF MEMORY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dream faces bloom around your face Last Line: As lip to lip we press. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love; Memory THE FADELESS CANVAS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: For haunting moments these have stood Last Line: This canvas, pure, shall ageless be. Subject(s): Aging; Life; Memory THE FARMER REMEMBERS THE SOMME, by VANCE PALMER Poem Text First Line: Will they never fade or pass! Last Line: And the dark somme flowing. Subject(s): Memory; World War I; First World War THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE FESTIVAL OF MEMORY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doth rapture hold a feast Last Line: Thy sacrament and shrine. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE FIRE OF DRIFTWOOD; DEVEREUX FARM, NEAR MARBLEHEAD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat within the farmhouse old Last Line: The thoughts that burned and glowed within. Subject(s): Farm Life; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIREFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: While on my bed I lay, watching the night Last Line: Compelling, and his radiant name is love. Subject(s): Fireflies; Insomnia; Love; Memory; Glowworms; Sleeplessness THE FIRST GREY HAIR, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, let it stay. It speaks but truth Last Line: And love your chiming, memory bells. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Aging; Memory THE FLOOD, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There have been gorgeous moments, hours and days Last Line: Drowned under the slow surge of commonplace. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Memory THE FLUTE-PLAYER OF BRINDABAN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why didst thou play thy matchless flute Last Line: The nectar of thy flute! Subject(s): Death; Melodies; Memory; Music & Musicians; Dead, The THE FOREST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the golden groves when june walketh there Last Line: But not till now was I with the woods again alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Woods THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a hundred years / nobody knows the place Last Line: Dropped by memory. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THE FORGOTTEN RABBI, by G. M. H. Poem Text First Line: Rabbi ben shalom's wisdom none but his / scholars know Last Line: Whoso gainsays their folly grudges his master peace! Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Memory; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE FUMFAY AND THE MOON, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: A little fumfay fell in love with the moon Last Line: But she'd been in love with the moon! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory THE FUNERAL, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a pang that spurns all soothing cares Last Line: Forever more adored his holy name! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Memory; Time; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It felt like the zero in brook ice Last Line: The cancer ate her like horse piss eats deep snow. Subject(s): Aunts; Cancer (disease); Farm Life; Funerals; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers; Burials THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE PRINCE HENRY OF BATTENBERG, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Prince henry of battenberg is dead! Last Line: And each one left with a sad heart and went home. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Rest; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise THE GANGES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sorry but we can't go to the immersions tonight Last Line: Children watering their charges, the black lulled elephants. Subject(s): Funerals; Ganges River, India; Memory; Spiritual Life; Burials THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 2. THE FEAST, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring no fragrant sandal-paste Last Line: All the secret of your tears. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Old Age THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 8. THE VISION OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! My foolish heart and eyes Last Line: And you the mystic pang of death. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Memory; Dead, The THE GHETTO-JEW, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG Poem Text First Line: I marked in the midst of the glittering throng Last Line: A jeer be the last of its pages? Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus Subject(s): History; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Memory; Old Age; Historians; Judaism THE GHOST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the open door of dreamland Last Line: I gave forth from memory's hold (wondrous hold!). Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Ghosts; Memory; Past; Supernatural THE GOLDEN HOUR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For every blade of grass Last Line: A sweeter life shall give. Subject(s): Memory; Time THE GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED PEOPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we hear uncle sidney Last Line: At uncle used to know! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Story-telling; Uncles THE GRAVES OF THE DEAD; A DIRGE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, when should we visit the graves of the dead Last Line: Like the clouds from heaven, away we pass! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Grief; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE GREAT BLASKET, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone, lone / on tossing seas Last Line: Storm everlasting. Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Loneliness THE GREY MORNINGS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grey mornings I well remember Last Line: Would my feet might follow and find you! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Gray (color); Longing; Memory; Morning; Grey (color) THE GUIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rode across the level plain Last Line: "will I be drunken!' is it so?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Leadership; Memory; Native Americans; Nature; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE HAPPY DAYS WHEN I WER YOUNG, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In happy days when I wer young Last Line: In happy days when I wer young! Subject(s): Happiness; Memory; Winter; Youth; Joy; Delight THE HAPPY DEAD, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he for whom, through portals strangely wrought Last Line: As ways trod once through blinding mirk of night. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Memory; Mortality; Obituaries; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE HAREBELL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Last Line: And flocks in quiet feeding round! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Harebells; Memory; Perfume THE HATCHERY, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in havana as school children we took a field trip Variant Title(s): At The Hatchery Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools; Childhood; Students THE HILLS OF HOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the mighty levels of the west Last Line: The hills of home! Subject(s): Home; Memory; Soul; Trees; Youth THE HILLS OF WALES (TO MEMORY OF THOMAS ELLIS & M. LLEWELYN WILLIAMS), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly the ages come and go Last Line: The hills remain. Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen THE HIRED MAN, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: He was an ex-artillery man Last Line: Almost one heard the caissons rumbling by. Subject(s): Memory; Soldiers THE HOMEWARD ROAD, by CHARLES CAPRON MARSH Poem Text First Line: Through memory's haze Last Line: The farther off the long-lost view. Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory THE HOUR OF MEMORY, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like pallid ghosts of beautiful dead days Last Line: And all the world is gray and still and sad. Subject(s): Memory THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 64. ARDOUR AND MEMORY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cuckoo-throb, the heartbeat of the spring Last Line: With ditties and with dirges infinite. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Memory THE HOUSE OF YESTERDAY, by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER Poem Text First Line: There's an old vacant house on the great highway Last Line: I stop just a moment, to show that I care. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Memory; Ruins THE ICE-CREAM SANDWICH, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In second grade I felt about him, and Last Line: Relive the inexplicable in middle age. Subject(s): Children; Love; Memory; Childhood THE IMAGE BOY, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er has trudged, on frequent feet Last Line: "and his, poor boy, are on it!" Subject(s): London; Memory; Mythology; Poetry & Poets THE IMMORTAL, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're shivering my memory Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Memory; Time; Memory; Educators; Professors THE INFLUENCE OF LOCAL ATTACHMENT, SELECTION, by RICHARD POLWHELE Poem Text First Line: Each object by a few short years how changed! Last Line: Wear, like the joys they speak of, the pale cold damp of years! Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE INQUIRY, by WELDON KEES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you wear a web over your wasted worth? Last Line: You'll walk them – not just now, but soon Subject(s): War; Memory; Love THE INTERRUPTION, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She'd just gone out onto the stoop, and run down the steps Last Line: From the tidy cup of her palm she would go ahead and sprinkle the raisins in Subject(s): Children; Memory; Relationships; Childhood THE JEW (DEDICATED TO BENJAMIN F. PEIXOTTO), by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His dark face kindled in the east Last Line: Art, toil, and hope shall purify. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Memory; Peixotto, Benjamin Franklin (1834-1890); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism THE JEWISH NEW YEAR, 5660, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When chaos lay beneath god's hand Last Line: Will bless you in your works and ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; Memory; New Year; Peace; Judaism THE JOURNEY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking for a past / I can rely on Subject(s): Home; Memory; Poetry & Poets THE KEEP-SAKE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tedded hay, the first fruits of the soil Last Line: And own thenceforth no other name but mine! Subject(s): Memory THE KIND OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kind old man - the mild old Last Line: When he was as tough as they! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Old Age; Youth; Childhood THE KING'S CONSORT, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, was it yesternoon, or years agone Last Line: When you were king of egyptdear, and I was egypt's queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Love; Memory; Nostalgia; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes THE KNICKERBOCKER'S ADDRESS TO THE STUYVESANT PEAR TREE, 1647-1857, by HENRY WEBB DUNSHEE Poem Text First Line: Fam'd relic of the ancient time, as on thy form I / gaze Last Line: Till light no more shall bless the land where liberty was born. Subject(s): Government; Memory; New York City - Dutch Period; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672) 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 LAND OF BEULAH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Brightland of beulah, beatific mount Last Line: And still I long, and dread, to find me there. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Peace; Dead, The THE LAST DEMAND, by FAITH BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Life, you have bruised me and chilled me; fate, you Last Line: I demand to conquer memory! I demand that I forget. Subject(s): Aging; Experience; Life; Memory; Wisdom THE LAST LOOK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her face was like an opening rose Last Line: No need, if I forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise THE LAST LOOK O' HAME, by HEW AINSLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bare was our burn brae, december's blast had blawn Last Line: But the last look o' hame I can never forget. Subject(s): Memory; Winter THE LAST NIGHT OF ARTAN THE CULDEE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is but a little thing to sit here in silence and the dark Last Line: And I shall hear oona's voice as a sleeping seal hears the moving wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE LAST WORDS OF ST. TELEMACHUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sound of weeping; wherefore weep Last Line: For ever blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Praise; Saints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE LEADERS, by LOUISE E. V. BOYD Poem Text First Line: The maiden read the spring time's idyl through Last Line: Death but the entrance to eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Hope; Memory; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism THE LEADY'S TOWER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' then we went along the gleades Last Line: Built up the tower upon the knowl.' Subject(s): Death; Grief; Marriage; Memory; Monuments; Story-telling; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LEAP, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The only thing I have of jane macnaughton Last Line: While I examine my hands Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Memory; Suicide THE LIFE OF HUBERT: MEMORIES OF A DORSET BOYHOOD IN THE 1730S, by THOMAS COLE (1727-1796) Poem Text First Line: The blue expanse of a hyacinthine bloom Last Line: Their num'rous, ceaseless, varied cawings blend. Subject(s): Children; Dorset, England; Memory; Childhood THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in the stilly night Last Line: Of other days around me. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Scotch Air Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Life Change Events; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness THE LIGHT SHINING NOW, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What has begun Subject(s): Memory THE LINK, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Labour past hercules! With golden broom Last Line: Who by a stroke of genius thought of death! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Morning; Male-female Relations THE LION OF LUCERNE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With equal courage soldier and commander fell Last Line: If rank and title, crowned with glory, live. Subject(s): Gratitude; Honor; Memory; Soldiers THE LITTLE FAT DOCTOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He seemed so strange to me, every Last Line: "as the little fat doctor does!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Memory; Physicians; Youth; Doctors THE LITTLE HILL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a little hill, a round green hill, in my own country Last Line: For the song I knew in the dusk and dew and the little green hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Irish; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE LOSER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem 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 LOST BABIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come, my wife, put down the bible" Last Line: Then they'll each go on his way Subject(s): Memory THE LOST CHORD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Seated one day at the organ Last Line: I shall hear that grand amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Heaven; Memory; Music & Musicians; Organs (musical Instruments); Paradise 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 usthe young, young faces. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Youth THE LOST KINGDOM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the castle Subject(s): Memory THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 33, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot forget / the perfumed dusk inside the Subject(s): Memory; Sex THE LOVING CUP, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tranced in the glamour of a Last Line: Our mutual loves, o loving cup! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Wine THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE MADMAN, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a wayside flower Last Line: New ones will blossom and the old will be dead Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Memory; Dead, The THE MAN WHO SAW THE END OF THE JOURNEY, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known anguish, loss and disappointment Last Line: Hand in hand a moment, let us gaze and love thee! Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation THE MEETING OF SIGURD AND GERDA, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O, early love! O, early love! Last Line: And freely to forgive. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations THE MEMORY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The more on my fair voyage I dream, the more my langours lose their Last Line: Remembered dreams I borrow from this, my self-sufficing soul! Subject(s): Death; France; Memory; Dead, The THE MEMORY OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wet dusk silver sweet Last Line: "so to close her tragic story." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Memory; Tragedy; Dead, The; World THE MEMORY OF LOVE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Religious love! It is most sure and true Last Line: For as thou honourest love -- so will love honour thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Memory; Worship THE MILL, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spoiling daylight inched along the bar-top Last Line: It turns and turns in my mind, over and over Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets THE MOCKINGBIRD, by JOHN WARWICK DANIEL III Poem Text First Line: Like a herald rainbow springing from a cloud Last Line: And I have learned the music of a passionate desire. Subject(s): Memory; Mockingbirds; Music & Musicians THE MONKS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the mist-hung cloisters of my soul Last Line: And praise thy hallowed name in endless prayer. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Monks; Prayer THE MOON, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now gently night steals on, and deep'ning shades Last Line: Thou givest peace and sweet forgetfulness! Subject(s): Memory; Moon; Night; Peace; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking THE MOURNERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When they had made the cradle Last Line: On the wide green earth Subject(s): Cradles;death;memory;mourning;nostalgia; "dead, The;bereavement; THE MULBERRY TREE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, it's many's the scenes which is dear Last Line: They go racin' acrost fer the mulberry tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Mulberry Trees; Youth; Nightmares THE MUSIC O' THE DEAD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When music, in a heart that's true Last Line: The music o' the dead, john. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Bereavement THE MUSKMELON MAN, by KATHARINE MCCLUSKEY Poem Text First Line: The dull bell jangled in his tired hand Last Line: We manufacture shoddy! Subject(s): Memory THE NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians THE NIGHT OF THE DEAD, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If in this house ye lie a-bed Last Line: God sends the summons that we bring. Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THE NINTH OF AB, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, vain for hand of mine to strike this harp of / golden strings Last Line: A testimony to mankind that god shall keep his word. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Christianity; Disasters; Earthquakes; God; Israel; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Tragedy; Youth; Judaism; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE OLD CRIB, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know thou art a senseless thing Last Line: My manly boy, my little girls! Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Cribs; Memory THE OLD DEACON'S LAMENT, by ELIZABETH T. CORBETT Poem Text First Line: Yes, I've been a deacon of our church Last Line: I don't believe I can! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbett, E. T., Mrs. Subject(s): Memory THE OLD GUITAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neglected now is the old guitar Last Line: Like that of the old guitar! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aging; Guitars; Memory; Music & Musicians THE OLD HOUSE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O kindly house, where time my soul endows Last Line: Now falls the evening light. God give thee peace! Subject(s): Houses; Memory THE OLD LAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I came back to ireland the leaves on the tree Last Line: For don't you remember? And could you forget? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Homecoming; Ireland; Memory; Dead, The; Irish THE OLD MILL-POND, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is evening, quiet evening Last Line: Far from me you're all to-night. Subject(s): Lakes; Memory; Youth; Pools; Ponds THE OLD PATHWAY, by NELLE J. COLBERT Poem Text First Line: Little path with Last Line: Reveries, redeemed. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Often when coming from labour Last Line: And the village far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Aging; Memory THE OLD SHIP-YARD, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The ship-yard that I knew so well Last Line: The voiceless yard, the vacant stream. Subject(s): Memory; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Ships - Abandoning Of THE OLD WALNUT CRADLE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the attic I found it Last Line: Like a careless babe again. Subject(s): Babies; Cradles; Memory; Infants THE OLD WHIM-HORSE, by EDWARD DYSON Poem Text First Line: He's an old grey horse, with his head bowed sadly Last Line: Are the bleaching bones of the old grey horse. Alternate Author Name(s): Dyson, E. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Memory; Dead, The THE OLD WOODS, by ESTELLE GERALDINE GRIFFIN Poem Text First Line: Dear woods, of cherished memories Last Line: In sweet memory, shall always dwell. Subject(s): Memory THE OLD-FASHIONED BIBLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How dear to my heart are the Last Line: The leathern-bound bible my grandfather read. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bible; Fathers; Memory; Past THE ONE GRAVE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though other friends have died in other days Last Line: One grave there is where memory sinks and stays. Subject(s): Graves; Memory; Tombs; Tombstones THE PAGAN SAINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From this rock-girdled hight / these twenty barren years Last Line: And, ah, it may not be! ... Subject(s): Dawn; Memory; Mountains; Prayer; Solitude; Sunrise; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE PARADOX, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis evanescence that endures Last Line: The loveliness which dies the soonest always lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Memory; Soul THE PARROT; A DOMESTIC ANECDOTE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deep affections of the breast Last Line: Dropped down, and died. Subject(s): Memory; Parrots THE PASSING BELL: IN MEMORIAM, GEORGII GRANVILLE BRADLEY, S.T.P., by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, the bell hung in the tower and waited Last Line: Slowly the bell ceased on the listening midnight. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Bradley, George Granville (1821-1903),; Death; Graves; Memory; Silence; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE PASSING OF THE BIRDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the heart of an autumnal day Last Line: Most fraught with sense of fetterless grace and glee. Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Heaven; Memory; Seasons; Fall; Paradise THE PATH OF TEARS: 1. THE SORROW OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you turn your face away? Last Line: Or the thrall of the old desire? Subject(s): Death; Desire; Hearts; Love; Memory; Old Age; Dead, The THE PEAK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on some solitary height Last Line: Unscattered still. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Memory THE PEOPLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have I earned for all that work,' I said Last Line: After nine years, I sink my head abashed. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Memory; Regret THE PHOSPHORESCENT MAN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smell of roast beef and browning potatoes Last Line: Clung to the stair obstinate as salt. Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE PINES OF MONTEREY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O shadow in a maiden's eye Last Line: Through the pines of monterey. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness THE PLACE OF REMEMBRANCE, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where wouldst thou think of her? Where the young flowers Last Line: There shouldst thou dream of thy darling to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village green Last Line: At once illumined when the cloud is past. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 101, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I recall the days of my youth Last Line: Who'll show an old man pity Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Memory; Youth THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 178, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When birds sang this spring Last Line: Recalling the capital hurts Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness THE POET'S JOURNAL: FIRST EVENING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day had come, the day of many years Last Line: Which she as fondly answered, thus he read: -- Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: SECOND EVENING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the evening of the second day Last Line: "the sole inscriptions they have left behind." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Sunset; Twilight THE POSTILION, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing lovely was the night Last Line: In my ear kept tingling. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory; Mourning; Postal Service; Graveyards; Bereavement; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE PRAIRIE SPEAKS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: I am the prairie singer Last Line: I am the prairie singer. Subject(s): Memory; Native Americans - Wars; Pioneers; Prairies; Spring; Plains THE PRAYER OF ISLAM, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We praise thee, o compassionate! Last Line: Ya rahman! Ya raheem! Subject(s): Compassion; Death; Memory; Prayer; Shadows; Dead, The 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 QUESTION AND ITS MARK, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I cast a spell on the many swans of leda Subject(s): Death; Memory; Wishes; Dead, The THE READER OF THE SENTENCES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead soldiers rise and walk into the trees Last Line: There is the day's work to be done. Subject(s): Books; Children; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Jesus Christ; Martyrs; Memory; Resurrection, The; World War Ii; Reading; Childhood; Eckhart, Meister; Second World War THE RECALL, by FRANK LILLIE POLLOCK Poem Text First Line: An ancient ghost came up the way Last Line: The spirit of the old unrest. Subject(s): Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural THE RED HAT, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady had come right through the front door Last Line: Smiling behind the screen with her clothes off Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Hats; Memory THE REMINDER, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the crossing-tender's geranium border Subject(s): Memory 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 RETURN OF JEANNE D'ARC, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do the vales of paradise Last Line: It is her voice! Jeanne d'arc! Jeanne d'arc! Variant Title(s): The Return Of Joan D'arc Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Paris, France; Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE RING-DOVE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mid beechy umbrage, bosky dell Last Line: Brief solace for my wounded mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Shadows; Nightmares THE RIVER AND THE SEA, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Yes; sweet it was. Most sweet to watch your spanish glances Last Line: And the eternal memory of thy face. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Passion THE RODENT, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day in and day out Last Line: Everywhere I look. Subject(s): Memory THE RUINED COTTAGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye Last Line: I trust in god they will not pass away. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Home; Life Change Events; Memory; Men; Nostalgia; Widows & Widowers; Childhood THE SAME QUESTION, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is all here. It is all with us Last Line: But unsigned, or if so then of no great price Subject(s): Landscape; Memory THE SEA-SHELL, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou silver shell that liest near Last Line: Of days with gray is overcast. Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Memory; Sculpture & Sculptors THE SECRET OF THE SPRING, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet and still the moonlight lies Last Line: Shall learn the secret of the spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Memory; Spring THE SHOOGY-SHOO, by WINTHROP PACKARD Poem Text First Line: I do be thinking, lassie, of the old days now Last Line: Thinking of the old days upon the shoogy-shoo. Subject(s): Memory; Swings 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 SISTER OF MERCY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: She has shone, as glows dawn's fairest blush Last Line: Fond memory will cherish. Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 63, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And to the night winds cried out 'guillardun' Last Line: Rose up to shatter his resolvéd peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Memory; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 72, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: He lands, and still he feels the rocking main Last Line: and she on wings of love to him hath flown. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Memory THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 81, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Her life was innocent-in thought and deed Last Line: My penitence in stone to thee I'll raise.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 92, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Who, waking as from sleep, bewilder'd gazed Last Line: O speak! For thy soft eyes compassion waken.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Nightmares THE SKY, by JOSEPH ENZWEILER Poem Text First Line: The screen door closes at 2 a. M Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Relatives THE SKY OF ANGELS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light within light Last Line: Before memory began, or I was a child. Subject(s): Angels; Memory; Sky THE SNOW, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snow! The snow! 'tis a pleasant thing Last Line: Upon the falling snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Cold; Memory; Mysticism; Snow; Thought; Winter; Thinking THE SONG OF MALONEY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are gambling in the cabin, moleskin joe, / magee and dan Last Line: Shut up, moleskin, here I'm coming, is it banker, brag, or nap? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THE SONG OF YESTERDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But yesterday / I looked away Last Line: Of glory gleam the days of yore. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Past; Nightmares THE SONG-VISION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, warble not that fearful air! Last Line: By its unhallowed gaiety. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Singing & Singers; Tears; Suffering; Misery THE SPELLS OF MEMORY, by MARY N. MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: It was but the note of a summer bird Last Line: I go with the violet's faint perfume. Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mary N.; Bleeker, Mary N. Subject(s): Memory THE SPRING, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Why, gentle spring, why hide away Last Line: "even as now they still are thine." Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Pleasure; Spring THE STAR'S MONUMENT; CONCLUDING PART OF A DISCOURSE ON FAME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there be memory in the world to come Last Line: That gaze up dying into alien skies. Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Life; Love; Memory; Monuments; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Reputation 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 STONE, by IRENE M. MORSE Poem Text First Line: From life and love and the fresh green grass Last Line: I do keep on thinking soof you! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Thought; Thinking THE STRING AROUND MY FINGER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bell that strikes the warning hour Last Line: Another string around my finger. Subject(s): Memory THE STROKE OF THE HOUR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were dead, and yonder chime Last Line: But an immortal memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Memory THE SUMMER OF LONG AGO, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know the land, the fairest land Last Line: In the summer of long ago. Subject(s): Love; Memory THE SUNSET, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There late was one within whose subtle being Last Line: This was the only moan she ever made. Subject(s): Imagination; Memory; Fancy THE TALMUD, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient pages of the talmud Last Line: All that we shall see no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Jews; Memory; Judaism THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RIVERS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rivers of my life Last Line: Comfortably on the ground, beginning to roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Identity; Life; Memory; Nature; Relationships; Rivers THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later when the gloated water Subject(s): Memory; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the westborne snow shall come a memory Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Sex; Male-female Relations THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a hundred years have slept above us Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Catskill Mountains, New York State; Death; Memory; Dead, The THE THREAD, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Long after the used senses abdicate Last Line: As once new fervor, hunger, lust or fear. Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE TIDE OF MEMORY, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am with you I forget Last Line: Distant joys and dawning pleasures. Subject(s): Memory THE TOLLING BELL, by GRANT COCHRAN KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The bell tolled while I slept Last Line: The bell tolled while I slept. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Separation; Isolation THE TOMB OF GAUGIN, by PIERRE CAMO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women of tahiti, when time's pace Last Line: And the infinite love of the archipelago! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory; Rest; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOWN, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: This is a dead man's town. It is his will Last Line: And not remember who built the quaint clock tower. Subject(s): Memory; Tower Of London; Towns THE TRANSIENCE OF HANDS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A swirl of dead skin Last Line: On a schoolroom counter. Subject(s): Hands; Memory; Men; Touch (sense) THE TRAVELLER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years I slept beneath a thorn Last Line: I am the world's ashes, and the kindling fire. Subject(s): Desire; Life; Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRYST, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the land of ra the flaming, by the shores of nile's slow Last Line: As of old, by nile's slow waters, in the land beyond the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich Subject(s): Love; Memory; Passion; Prayer Meetings; Thebes, Greece THE TURN OF THE YEARS, by H. B. FRIEDLANDER Poem Text First Line: How may we know you, year of all? Last Line: But you, the past. Subject(s): Jews; Memory; Past; Judaism THE UNFORGOTTEN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is all calm this love you give to me Last Line: The mocking fate that bade him kiss and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE UNFORGOTTEN HEROES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How the orient's bells are proclaiming Last Line: Something of sympathy, something of tears. Subject(s): Asia; Courage; Heroism; Memory; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines THE UNFORGOTTEN THINGS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are the unforgotten things, my heart? Last Line: Broken into dust their ancient lovers pass. Subject(s): Memory THE UP-HILL STREET, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a lane through grassy meadows Last Line: And merges in the sky. Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Roads; Paths; Trails THE VAICES THAT BE GONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When evenen sheades o' trees do hide Last Line: Do miss the vaïces gone. Subject(s): Children; Evening; Grief; Memory; Night; Voices; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime THE VALENTINE REGAINED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Way high up in the attic-room where me and billy Last Line: "why, mother's name was jane, you know, oh long and long and long ago!" Subject(s): Children; Love; Memory; Mothers; Childhood THE VALLEY OF PALE BLUE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a hidden valley a pale blue flower grows Last Line: My soul slowly, slowly, slowly, will sink to its ultimate hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Memory; Nothingness; Salvation; Youth; Nightmares; Nihilism; Voids THE VIELD PATH, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here oonce did sound sweet words, a-spoke Last Line: Wer here so long as I can mind. Subject(s): Fields; Memory; Nostalgia; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails THE VILLAGE SCHOOL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: With the golden moonlight streaming Last Line: In that dear old village school. Subject(s): Children; Classmates; Memory; Schools; Childhood; Schoolmates; Students THE VOICE, by RUSTICUS [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Through mists of tears I saw the vanished past Last Line: "try exercise, old sport, and simpler diet" Alternate Author Name(s): Rusticus Subject(s): History;memory; Historians THE VOICE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went down the hill I heard Last Line: Elizabeth! Elizabeth! Subject(s): Country Life; Memory THE VOICE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me Last Line: And the woman calling. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Longing; Love; Memory; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement THE WANDERER: DEDICATION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, in the laurel's murmurous leaves Last Line: With thoughts less fond arise! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Youth; Memory; England; English THE WANDERING JEW, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wizard sat within his hall Last Line: It was the wandering jew. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Memory; Wandering & Wanderers; Wandering Jew; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WAY IT SOMETIMES IS, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At times it is like watching a face you have just met, Subject(s): Memory; Relationships THE WESTERN ROAD, by EDWIN JAMES BRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My camp was by the western road - so new and yet so old Last Line: And clearly rose another dayalong the western road. Alternate Author Name(s): Brady, E. J. Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia; Roads; Paths; Trails THE WHITE RABBIT, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, mother / holding the banister with five-year-old fingers Last Line: Come back to climb the stairs. Subject(s): Memory; Mothers & Daughters THE WILD GEESE COME OVER NO MORE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild geese come over no more Last Line: Memory, care, and rue. Subject(s): Geese; Hearts; Memory; Youth THE WILD WIND, by SARA NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: It's only on nights like this Last Line: Childhood memory. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Youth; Nightmares THE WIND IS WITHOUT THERE AND HOWLS IN THE TREES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I shall never lament for the man Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Past; Memory; Contentment; Future THE WINTER WILD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sudden hath the snow come down! Last Line: The early lost, and long deplored! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Cold; December; Memory; Snow; Winter THE WOE OF IT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet was the mavis' song of eld Last Line: And ah! The bitter woe of it! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE WOLD WALL, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, jeane, we vu'st did meet below Last Line: The wall is wold, my grief is new. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Memory; Walls; Sorrow; Sadness THE WREATH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, fling not down those faded flowers Last Line: To even faded bloom! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Memory THE YEARS, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: Each life is like a changing flower Last Line: And leave rich seeds of memory! Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Memory; Time THE ZEPHYR; FRAGMENT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: In the calm of one summer evening Last Line: On that sweet summer night. Subject(s): Memory; Sisters THEME, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The theme is free. %the theme is free Last Line: And listen to what he has to say Subject(s): Death; Melodies; Memory; Music And Musicians THEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can not understand, dear little one Last Line: "then?"" in the dream-like years when I am dead." Subject(s): Faces; Memory; Tears THEN AND NOW, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember those mornings after the blitzes Last Line: Make real, of glory, common wealth, and home. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Factories; Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Memory; News; Strikes; Surrey, England; Unemployment; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts THEN HE ASKED HER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Of the maimed eyes Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory; Pictures THERE ARE DAYS, by MAJA HADERLAP Poem Source First Line: There are days when tapestries are hanging in the town for the curious Last Line: The god whom I have wooed and who, with opium lips, makes fun of the %orphan, of anyone Subject(s): Memory THERE IS A PAIN - SO UTTER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Would drop him — bone by bone Subject(s): Pain; Memory THERE IS NO DEATH, by CONSTANCE ENTWHISTLE HOAR Poem Text First Line: Pansies are best for early spring Last Line: "pansies are for remembering." Subject(s): Death; Memory; Spring; Dead, The THERE LET THY BLEEDING BRANCH ATONE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Youth; Memory; Trees; Wood Carving; Whittling THERE STANDS THERE GREEN, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: There stands there green, he said, bound Last Line: A chair conjuring fire, he said Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Pictures THERE WAS A TIGER HERE, by GREGOR STRNISA Poem Source First Line: A bright spring rain fell the day through Last Line: Through the white, fog chambers beneath december's skies Subject(s): Absence; Memory THEY CROSSED COUNTRY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Memory / was not to be trusted Subject(s): Memory; Travel THEY DON'T JUST GO AWAY, EITHER, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In scandinavia, where snow falls frequently Last Line: And the rabbit who await us in the dooryard Subject(s): Children; Memory; Winter THEY HAVE A NAME FOR IT, by ANDREW FELD Poem Source First Line: Of course. So when the season was called off Last Line: Costs more than you could ever afford Subject(s): Memory; Seashore; Storms THEY NEVER ONCE LOOKED AT HER SHOES, by SUSAN CHIAVELLI Poem Source First Line: We order margaritas Last Line: Where my dreams were painted on black glass Subject(s): Memory; Youth 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 THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later when the gloated water Last Line: Hugely, in vertigo and awe Subject(s): Memory; Pride; Time THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the westborne snow shall come a memory Last Line: Spring's flesh in my hands Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Sex THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a hundred years have slept above us Last Line: The berkshires, %have good memories Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Catskill Mountains, New York State; Death; Memory THINKIN' BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've be'n thinkin' back, of late Last Line: I hear laughin' on ahead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Thought; Youth; Thinking THIRD NOETIC HYMN, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unicursal pentagram Last Line: Is empty, remembering the back of my mind Subject(s): Memory THIS FUN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Two rats play with each other Last Line: Played in his blood Subject(s): Details; Gratitude; Memory; Rats THIS IS REMEMBERED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is remembered when the hairs fall out Subject(s): Memory; Conduct Of Life THIS IS SO, by JAN FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: This is so I won't forget you Last Line: My nose against your damp hair Subject(s): Love; Memory THIS MORNING, GOD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four a.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab Last Line: The incessant beating in my chest for two now. Subject(s): Coffee; Dawn; Habits; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Memory; Morning; Past; Prayer; Silence; Solitude; Sunrise; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness THIS PLACE, by WAYNE DODD Poem Source First Line: Late afternoon light Last Line: Catching, for an instant, the leaves, %flashing, waving in the light wind Subject(s): Light; Memory THIS SPARK, by HELEN HAYS HUTTON Poem Text First Line: What wonder if my memory Last Line: "or ""immortality." Subject(s): Life; Memory THIS WAS IN THE WHITE OF THE YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sometimes, almost more Subject(s): Spring; Winter; Memory THOMSON'S BIRTH-PLACE (EDNAM, ROXBURGHSHIRE), by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is ednam, then, so near us? I must gaze Last Line: How oft our joys depend on ignorance! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children; Memory; Scotland; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Thought; Childhood; Thinking THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHOULD DROWSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Crowned with the light of memory Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Memory THOUGHT DREAMS, by LILLIAN VIGGERS Poem Text First Line: Constant waves of beauty come Last Line: And exalt the heart of man. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips THOUGHTS OF YOU, by ELIZABETH KING COWGILL Poem Text First Line: How strange that thoughts of you Last Line: At mention of your name! Subject(s): Memory THREADS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a young girl Last Line: Fallen in a pit. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Memory THREE FRIENDS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Fate and hard foes are prevailing? Last Line: The cliff, and the wind, and the sea! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise THREE PANELS: GONE, by MARK IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We would like to speak, but only Subject(s): Language; Memory THREESCORE AND TEN, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent he sits from day to day Last Line: And fumbling at the door! Subject(s): Aging; Memory THRENODY, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: I never have known anyone so proud Last Line: This is not you, oh pitiful and dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The TIME, by PAUL GERALDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You trickle between our fingers. We scatter you with our eyes Last Line: The moment drops like a pearl to the end of the thread. Subject(s): Memory; Time TIME, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are places things go to be forgot Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Memory TIME, HOPE, AND MEMORY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a gentle maiden, in the spring Last Line: "thou hast loved hope, but memory loved thee." Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Time; Optimism TIS STRANGE, YOU THINK, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange, you think, that I remember Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Anger; Memory TO - (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Music, when soft voices die Last Line: Love itself shall slumber on. Variant Title(s): Music;memory Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Roses; Bereavement TO A BOY WHISTLING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smiling face of a happy boy Last Line: Or the trivial cause of your smiling face! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Life; Memory; Wrestling And Wrestlers; Childhood TO A CHILD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I thee remember Last Line: "thy ""buon natale"" in my ear." Subject(s): Holidays; Longing; Memory; New Year TO A MORNING GLORY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art the dream of nature when she / sleeps Last Line: Holds to her heart the hopes of long ago. Subject(s): Memory TO BURNS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no death for genius, for it leaps Last Line: That god still reigns and man is king below. Subject(s): Immortality; Memory TO CONTEMPLATION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint gleams the evening radiance through the sky Last Line: And the calmed spirit loves the joy of grief. Subject(s): Contentment; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Happiness; Introspection; Life; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO DR. THEODOR CHRISTOMANNOS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great lover of the upper world Last Line: Of thy beloved tirol. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Soul TO EACH HIS OWN, by RICHARD NICKSON Poem Source First Line: They met, and long thereafter Last Line: Her memory of his foolish face Subject(s): Memory TO ELIZABETH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O noble, true and pure and Last Line: For still we feel and know that thou art here. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Obituaries; Dead, The TO F.M.G. ON HER BROTHER'S DEATH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay not the current of thy tears, for they Last Line: He waits to welcome thee! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The TO FLEE FROM MEMORY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of men escaping %from the mind of man Variant Title(s): Poem: 1242; Poem: 134 Subject(s): Memory TO FLORENCE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Sister, when at the grassy mound I stand Last Line: In god's own time, I lay me down to rest. Subject(s): Memory TO FRIENDS OF OTHER SUMMERS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We heeded the blood's warm nudge, the arterial music Subject(s): Memory; Summer; Friendship TO FUNGO THE TORN ONES, by CRAIG PAULENICH Poem Source First Line: My father would fungo the torn ones into orbit Last Line: Barking somewhere above us Subject(s): Change; Children; Memory TO H. M.: IN MEMORIAM, by HENRY AYLETT SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: The blue wistaria hovers 'round her door Last Line: No saintlier soul, no lovelier flower blows. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The TO HEAR HER SING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To hear her sing - to hear her sing Last Line: Our hearts to her -- to hear her sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Memory; Singing & Singers; Spring TO HER WHO WISHED ME TO FORGET HER, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Forget thee! No, that wish is vain Last Line: To think it has not poisoned thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Memory TO INEZ; IN REMEMBRANCE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well - though the clouds of sorrow haste Last Line: We two shall roam, and never part. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Memory TO JOHN NICHOL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the dead, and friend of all my days Last Line: Memorial to us of morning left behind. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The TO JOSE MARIA PALACIO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Palacio, dear friend Last Line: High espino where is her plot of earth Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Friendship; Memory TO KEEP MY HEART FROM BREAKING, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When all my string gives out Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Memory TO LONELINESS, by IYDA REBECCA HIRSH Poem Text First Line: Great tractless plain upon which mortal strives Last Line: Too soon in my long hours of memory stand. Subject(s): Memory TO M -, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hence from my sight! - I'll obey at once Last Line: For there I left a portion of my soul. Subject(s): Love; Memory TO M.A., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Had I landor's power and pen Last Line: But kiss you on the lips. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TO MANUEL RODRIGUEZ, by MERCEDES MARIN DE SOLAR Poem Source First Line: Vanished art thou, alas! 'twas passion mad Last Line: Hath reared within her heart a lasting shrine Subject(s): Memory; Mourning TO MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: Dear dead poet, in your lyric way Last Line: And you'll write new songs on a bright new page. Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers TO MARY ELLIOTT FLANERY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When looking down the vista Last Line: Wherever you may go. Subject(s): Fame; Fate; Memory; Reputation; Destiny TO MARY; OCCASIONED BY HER HAVING ENGRAVED ON A SEAL 'FORGET ME NOT', by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget thee, mary -- no, not yet Last Line: And all who know must love thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Memory TO MEMORY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, hither come Last Line: With silent melancholy. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Bible; Melancholy; Memory; Mythology; Rivers; Dejection TO MEMORY, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O deeper than the noontide seems when blue Last Line: Till phantom sobs catch in a shrivelled throat. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Memory TO MEMORY, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Pale wistful dreamer, brooding o'er the past Last Line: I shall not stoop o'er embers. With the dawn scatter the ashes wide! Subject(s): Memory TO MONTACUTE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou at memory's holiest shrine caressed Last Line: Is to the heart that loves already given. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Dreams; Love; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, today I sit on the brick bench outside the house Last Line: Coming out. All right? Mama might worry Subject(s): Brothers; Memory; Shadows; Soul TO MY FATHER, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the poorest may borrow some treasure Last Line: May ennoble my words unaware. Subject(s): Fathers; Memory; Prayer TO MY MOTHER, by HELEN WIDOFF Poem Text First Line: Visible through an avalanche of tears Last Line: To find the lost sun that had once shone. Subject(s): Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Memory; Nightmares TO MY OLD FRIEND, WILLIAM LEACHMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fer forty year and better you have been a friend to me Last Line: Fer the name of william leachman and true manhood's jest the same! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Memory; Time TO ONE WHO DIED LAST YEAR, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD Poem Text First Line: What have you learned since then? Do you know all Last Line: Wistful at even with a thought of me? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The TO REMEMBER, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That blue and emerald morning when you came Last Line: Again I'll love you for an hour or two! Subject(s): Memory TO RENE CHAR, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: You too are in the whirling stream Last Line: 1955 with everything that can be %or is best %in it all Subject(s): Memory TO RICARDO CASTRO, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: Life of a flower, a bird! Sweet, winged life Last Line: Like a protecting hand about a flame Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Memory; Mourning; Poetry And Poets 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 ANDES, by GUILLERMO VALENCIA Poem Source First Line: Oh, how I miss you, mountains of my home Last Line: The summits of your rough and craggy heights! Subject(s): Forests; Home; Memory; South America TO THE BOY BRIAN, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: The poppy has spread out her petticoat red Last Line: Come quickly to me. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF THOMAS GUNTON: MR. GUNTON SHOWN AROUND HEAVEN, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle ithuriel led him round the skies Last Line: And took eternal leave of what he built before. Subject(s): Heaven; Memory; Sky; Paradise TO THE FORGET-ME-NOTS; ON THE PASS OF THE MAIDEN, JAPAN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Fujiyama's snowy cone / the green horizon bounds Last Line: These alien hills I tread. Subject(s): Forget-me-nots; Grief; Japan; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Japanese TO THE MEMORY OF A PRE-INCAIC WISEMAN, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: He's my poor relation and despite everything Last Line: Patient philosopher of clay Subject(s): Incas; Memory TO THE MEMORY OF AN OLD MAN (H.F.), by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: And is he gone-the genial, dear old man Last Line: "is re-united to its fathergod." Subject(s): Memory; Old Age TO THE MEMORY OF GAVIN WILSON (BOOT, LEG AND ARM MAKER), by GEORGE GALLOWAY Poem Text First Line: Thank heaven! I'm safely landed frae ostend Last Line: Humming his elegy out o'er a flowing glass. Subject(s): Memory TO THE MEMORY OF GRACE AGUILAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "and thou art gone, grace aguilar" Last Line: Who sing that 'god is love' Subject(s): Authors & Authorship;jews;memory; Judaism TO THE MEMORY OF WILFRED OWEN, by CHARLES NORMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sunset of their youth they strode Last Line: When lads before them paced to pave the ground. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Memory; Military; Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers; Youth; Dead, The TO THE POSTMAN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Most welcome of all sights and sounds Last Line: One note ere day departs! Subject(s): Fate; Fortune; Life; Memory; Postal Service; Destiny; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen TO THE TUNE OF 'TUNG HSIEN KO', by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Old moonlight %shines in old windows Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women TO THOSE WHO REPROVED THE AUTHOR FOR TOO SANGUINE PATRIOTISM, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The riches of a nation are her dead Last Line: If I prove false, it is the future errs. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Patriotism; Dead, The TO WEBSTER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I've never drunk wine before, sir, but I tell you what Last Line: With lips still wet I place the bet you are dartmouth's biggest man. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Honor; Memory; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) TO WHOM?, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: Trivial-? Last Line: To whom? To whom? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TO WILLIAM BELL SCOTT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The larks are loud above our leagues of whin Last Line: Shines no less bright his full-sheaved harvest-home. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Sun TO Y... O..., ESQ, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou standest well, old mountain! Though thy brow Last Line: "the mighty woe hath broke the feeble heart." Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Love; Memory TO YOU, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts are little boats Last Line: It is my thought of you. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Romance; Seashore; Separation; Isolation; Beach; Coast; Shore TO YOU WHOM I SAW ONCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember / that your eyes were tranquil Last Line: And secret dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Memory; Passion; Nightmares TO---- ----, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With memory's eyes I see to-day Last Line: We're far apart to-day! Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Memory TO-DAY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun will set at day's decline Last Line: Allons! Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Love; Memory TOM VAN ARDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tom van arden, my old friend Last Line: . . . Tom van arden, my old friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Past; Time TOO LONG DEAD, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just came on it like a rake in the grass Last Line: In a gust of cherries and cinnamon Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning; Dead, The TOO LONG DEAD, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just came on it like a rake in the grass Last Line: In a gust of cherries and cinnamon Subject(s): Death; Memory TORN CLOUD, THE RAINBOW, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: Like a soap bubble in the wind Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory TOSSING SALAD AS A MEMORY WAFTS THROUGH THE WINDOW, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN Poem Source First Line: Breaking up redtip, endive, arugula, romaine Last Line: Of wine red as a bruise lapping the glass in my wet grasp Subject(s): Memory; Salads TOUCH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Touch wood %like coming up to love Last Line: Say wood, %be like the trees in your memory Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: AFTER LONG AGES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tired child, on thy way to paradise Last Line: "we also pass into peace and joy eternal." Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Paradise TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. TO ONE WHO IS WHERE THE ETERNAL ARE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pass friend pass Last Line: A great star, growing, shining. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Memory; Dead, The TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. OF THE PAST, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the past - of those that come no more Last Line: Dear face gazing up into mine, dost thou remind me? Subject(s): Memory; Past TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AFTER FIFTY YEARS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Looking back now, after fifty years and more when the main work of life is done Last Line: My lovers, and they me, for evermore. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue TRADITIONAL SASE, by MARVIN MALONE Poem Source First Line: Twenty days Last Line: Accept bukowski's %absence Subject(s): Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994); Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory; Poetry And Poets TRAFFIC LIGHTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He reached out, grabbed the child at the traffic-lights Last Line: Twenty years later, a woman thanked him %in a wintry street. Subject(s): Memory TRAKL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In reality the barn wasn't clean, ninety men Last Line: The large sunken eyes of horticulture. Subject(s): Memory; Trakl, Georg (1887-1914); War; Writing & Writers TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sitting outside the small house near the orchard Last Line: She cocks her head at the applesound Subject(s): Books; Country Life; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Memory TRANSPARENT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: In her eyes that throb with presences Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory TRAVEL-WORN, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tired stars have dripped their sapphire dew Last Line: And even stars forsake this high bleak hill. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Prayer TRIAD: 3. REQUIEM, by ALEJANDRO ESCALONA Poem Source First Line: Be gone from my thoughts once and for all Last Line: Written in your memory Subject(s): Death; Memory; Shadows TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES VINE DE PUY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, brave boy! In quiet sleep Last Line: As from the kingdom of the blest. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sleep; War; Dead, The TRICKED, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: We walked along the avenue arm in arm- / and I Last Line: To admire a hat. Subject(s): Memory TRIDUUM, by MARY ANNE REESE Poem Source First Line: No image graced the cloth that wiped Last Line: She stood and walked out of the room Subject(s): Memory; Mothers TRIFLE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the day of sorrow Last Line: And a heart that is young again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Memory TROUBLE IN MIND, by ALICE FULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A murdered body's shallow grave Subject(s): Memory; War TRUE HISTORY, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: All the trees around Last Line: To kiss the earth Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Memory TRYING TO FORGET, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bereaved of all, I went abroad Last Line: Remained in memory. Variant Title(s): Poem: 784;poem: 886 Subject(s): Graves; Memory; Tombs; Tombstones TU'M, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tum' %tomb %pro %prodromus Last Line: Penance for an age feminine: %plastique Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Memory; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War TUNE: HSING-HSIANG TZU (FRAGRANT WANDERING: A SONG), by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: The night seems endless Last Line: The shrill cry of the geese Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women TUNE: JU-MENG LING. TITLE: SWALLOWS, by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Not all the swallows have left with the spring Last Line: With a smile, I reply, 'no, you mustn't' Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Swallows; Women TUNE: K'U HSIANG-SSU (BITTER LONGING), by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Dusk in the still yard, cut from the same pattern Last Line: And beyond the wall, sound after sound Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women TUNE: MAN CHIANG HUANG (FULL RIVER BED), by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Shut the door against the setting sun Last Line: Is it still too soon for spring? Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women TURTLE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Turtle alone can with its poisonous Last Line: Only turtle erupts memory Subject(s): Memory; Turtles TWENTIETH CENTURY CHILDREN (1), by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: One night sitting around the meteor pit Last Line: Here the gorge of solitude Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Soul TWILIGHT MUSINGS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, at this hour, when silently Last Line: To the life-key of thy soul! Subject(s): Memory; Silence; Thought; Time; Thinking 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 LOVERS, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two lovers by a moss-grown spring Last Line: O past that is! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Aging; Children; Love - Marital; Marriage; Memory; Nostalgia; Parents; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I said underneath the dusky trees Last Line: And whose day shall no more turn back to night. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Earth; Love; Memory; Dead, The; World UNCE UPON A TIME IN SPAIN, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I have only a few postcards Last Line: But thanks to our parting, %that last embrace, %I have good memories Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Farewell; Gypsies; Memory; Travel UNCLE JIMMY, by ANDREW L. COHEN Poem Source First Line: When I was nine, my mother took me to boston so Last Line: This tuft of hair - uncle jimmy has a wonderful view %of the common Subject(s): Boston; Children; Memory; Uncles UNDER MR. HALES PICTURE, by ANNE KING Poem Text First Line: Though by a sodaine and unfeard surprise Last Line: Which less resemblance of the persons have. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Graves; Hales, John (1585-1656); Memory; Portraits; Tombs; Tombstones UNDER THREAT OF DISASTER, by HENRY PICOLA Poem Text First Line: Always shall I remember Last Line: And bade me follow him! Subject(s): Leadership; Life; Memory UNDERTONES, by GRACE HOLBROOK BLOOD Poem Text First Line: When this today Last Line: To find eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Memory; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNDINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She did not answer him again Last Line: The hope of life was o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faces; Hearts; Love; Memory UNFINISHED STILL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A baby's boot and a skein of wool Last Line: Down in the churchyard drear Subject(s): Memory UNFULFILLED, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is dew upon the meadows brightly glancing / in the morn Last Line: It can ne'er fulfil the promise that the springtime made to me. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Spring UNREAL PRECISION OF THE HOUSES AT FIRST LIGHT, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Memory; Women; Fathers; War UNTIMELY TIME, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved purity, which my eyes Last Line: Little was born, but so much is dying! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory UNWANTED MEMORY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My memory of myself Subject(s): Memory UNWRITTEN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Numberless letters that form across the page Last Line: But fold my hands till the terrible joy is past? Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Letters; Memory; Old Age; Writing & Writers UP, DOWN, SIDEWAYS, AND ACROSS, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Your breath still smells of cigarette smoke like the night we Last Line: Your memory stains me up, down, sideways, and across Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory UPROOTED UPROOTER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: By the uprooting window Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Roses VARIATIONS: 3, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind in the sunlit trees, and the red leaves fall Last Line: Making the trees more scarlet, the sky more blue. Subject(s): Memory; Love VASANT PANCHAMI (LILAVATI'S LAMENT AT THE FEAST OF SPRING), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, dragon-fly, fold up your purple wing Last Line: That hath foregone the kisses of the spring. Subject(s): Birds; Festivals; Memory; Spring; Fairs; Pageants VASHTI, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far- / off land I used to know Last Line: Served low at her feet. Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love - Cultural Differences; Memory; Slavery; Separation; Isolation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Serfs VEILED MEMORIES, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of love that was, of friendship in the days Last Line: Is woven through the soul's strange warp and woof. Subject(s): Life; Love; Memory; Time VERA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child, I know not if thy poor old father Last Line: I could not keep her here, nor lose her there. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Love; Memory; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am monarch of all I survey Last Line: And reconciles man to his lot. Variant Title(s): Verses By Alexander Selkirk;alexander Selkirk;the Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk Subject(s): Explorers; Memory; Selkirk, Alexander (1676-1721); Solitude; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness VERSES TO SOME FRIENDS RETURNING FROM THE SEA-SIDE, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget not the moments Last Line: Yours on the morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore VIBRATION, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: You live, afar, across a continent Last Line: I feel your thoughts wing by! Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Thinking VICIOUS, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Alone in a room watching it snow Last Line: Or maybe you did: her: you Subject(s): Memory; Solitude VIET NAM ON MY RETURN, by LE THI THAM VAN Poem Source First Line: Back, back again in viet nam Last Line: I stand there aghast %staring at myself Subject(s): Memory; Vietnam VIETNAM, by SAMUEL HAZO Poem Source First Line: It's not the monument, sad Last Line: They defended separates %before them like a sea Subject(s): Memory; Vietnam VIEW FROM A THOUSAND MILES OUT, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Clouds like continents afloat on seas, our lives nets Last Line: I didn't need you in my arms. I needed you in the world Subject(s): Memory; Saint Kilda (scotland) VIGIL, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: No matter that the eye Last Line: As the heat that now is not Subject(s): Memory VIGNETTE FROM MEMORY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The late dusk settles heavy thro' Last Line: "I come in?" Subject(s): Memory VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were yesterday polemons natales kept Last Line: With satten sleeues hath grac'd his sackcloth sute. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Names; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect VISIBLE MAN, by TIMOTHY RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: So difficult, moving opaque through the land Last Line: And finally your only crime is becoming apparent Subject(s): Mankind; Memory VISITATION, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: At serenity gardens, winter Last Line: She for what I remember Subject(s): Memory; Parents VISITATION RIGHTS, by LAURA LEE WASHBURN Poem Source First Line: He liked the old kind of lighter Last Line: With its smell of cars, of work, of oil Subject(s): Memory VISITING THE WALL, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet gum %hover in the granite Last Line: A child so hopefully, %so violently born Subject(s): Landmarks; Memory; War; Washington, D.c. VISITOR, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Down the hill, in the field of sweet alfalfa, they're freezing each other, the Last Line: Bring that strange dusty book you were reading. Subject(s): Children; Guests; Memory; Night VOICES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will never taste cantaloupe Last Line: Ocean shell, chinese button, against the sky. Subject(s): Grandparents; Legacies; Memory; Regret; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers VOLFRAM, SELS, by MILAN JESIH Poem Source First Line: Unseen angels walk noiselessly-barefoot without stirring the wind Last Line: I take a clean napkin; an immense drop of the sun's light floods the shadows %of earth Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Thought WABAN MERE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Fair centre of a fair demesne Last Line: The age of gold is now. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Old Age; Pictures WAITING FOR THE DEAD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The last time he came to see us Last Line: In simple cloth among his kind Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory WAITING FOR THE PIES, by DAVI WALDERS Poem Source First Line: This is the moment before the year draws Last Line: The rich blessings of the day and each other Subject(s): Memory WALKING THE MALL, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: In winter, before the shops open Last Line: Just for good memories and the sport Subject(s): Fargo, North Dakota; Memory; Travel WALTHER VON DEM VOGELTHAL, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my door I washed my hair Last Line: Come whistling home again! Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Separation; Isolation WATCHING HOME MOVIES, by JOE WENDEROTH Poem Source First Line: When night fell we set up the projector Last Line: Without knowing %what we were actually looking at Subject(s): Memory WATER'S EDGE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: At the edge of the universe it's earlier than here Last Line: That replicates a woman's curved form bent around the water Subject(s): Memory; Saint Kilda (scotland) WAYFARERS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is very cold! Last Line: "follow the wind!" Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Memory; Sea; Soul; Wind; Urban Life; Nightmares; Ocean WAYFARERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O comrade sun, that day by day Last Line: Of life, one hovering shade the less? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Memory; Wandering & Wanderers WE SPEAK OF YOU, VIRGINIA WOOLF, by OLIVER RICE Poem Source First Line: Some children found your body thee weeks later Last Line: Your revelations almost intelligible Subject(s): Death; Memory; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); Writing And Writers WE WILL NOT GO INTO THAT RIVER, by IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA Poem Source Last Line: All goodness of the earth -- for his shoulder Subject(s): Human Rights; Memory; Prisons And Prisoners; Rivers WELCOME, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, o fiery pain! Last Line: Vision of love immortal. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Memory; Dead, The WHAT HE SAID WHEN I WAS ELEVEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August, a dense heat wave at the cabin Last Line: That's what he said forty years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory WHAT KEEPS US ALIVE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Is someone who knew you Last Line: I'll see you again Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ancestors And Ancestry; Family Life; Memory WHAT MEMORY REVEALS, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angels, pulled into light - provoking the air, fall Last Line: Each open mouth awing in the light / on columbus avenue Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Memory WHAT MEMORY REVEALS, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angels, pulled into light - provoking the air, fall Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Memory WHAT NEED HAVE I FOR MEMORY?, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Winding the trail regret? Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Memory WHAT SHE DOES NOT KNOW IS, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: That she is a widow Last Line: That it is not his car she will soon hear slowing down outside Subject(s): Memory; Widows And Widowers WHAT SOLITUDE WHEN YOU REFUSED TO SPIT ON ME YOUR BUTTOCKS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Will be atttttously more complicated more uncertain going into trance Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses WHAT THE BONES KNOW, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering the past Last Line: I do not waste my breath. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Self-consciousness; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Feminism WHAT WINTER FLOODS, WHAT SHOWERS OF SPRING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Memory; Time WHAT?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strengthening as secret manna Last Line: But oh how sweet the stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Memory; Nightmares WHEEL OF BECOMING, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: For a long time you have been wandering Last Line: Like a question mark Subject(s): Memory; Peru; Travel WHEEL OF TIME, by SUSAN LUZZARO Poem Source First Line: If memories were genetic, the kumeyaay would be missing chula vista, which was Last Line: That looks like the ghost of a beautiful bird on which we all might ride Subject(s): Memory; Time WHEN DAYS OF BEAUTY DECK THE EARTH, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Memory WHEN I AM DEAD, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have you mourn when I am dead Last Line: Murmur my name and smile, remembering me. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WHEN I AM OLD..., by LEO LARGUIER Poem Text First Line: When I am old and poet of renown Last Line: And this poor laurel of a glorious name. Subject(s): Aging; Life; Love; Memory WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER...', by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A bitter twitter Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Memory WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER...', by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bitter twitter Last Line: Old friends die. %goodbye! Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Memory WHEN I WAS THIRTY-FIVE YOU TOOK MY PHOTOGRAPH, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lying full length on the grass Last Line: By modigliani's nudes. Subject(s): Memory; Photography & Photographers; Youth WHEN LIGHT COMES UP, by JULIE ILES O'LEARY Poem Source First Line: There's a moment each morning Last Line: Against a blue-morning sky Subject(s): Houses; Memory; Neighbors WHEN MEMORY IS FULL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Presumptious evening said Variant Title(s): Poem: 1266; Poem: 130 Subject(s): Memory WHEN THE EVENING LIGHT BURNS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And I begin to dream with %my photo Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Insanity; Love; Memory WHEN THE EYE IS SHUT, by AUDREY POETKER Poem Source First Line: Oh, you have plenty to say Last Line: My mind remembers you. I love you %like that, just like that Subject(s): Love; Memory WHEN THE LIGHT DIES AWAY ON A CALM SUMMER'S EVE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That the joys which first woke it, are long ago crushed! Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Mourning; Solitude WHEN THE NAMES STILL FIT THE FACES, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: On a shelf in the back of a big closet Last Line: And out of context with a large me %emblazoned arcoss her bosom Subject(s): Death; Memory; Past; Photography And Photographers WHEN WINTER COMES, by PEARL CROOKS Poem Text First Line: When winter comes with its chilly blast Last Line: Unfolding itself about us, when winter comes. Subject(s): Memory; Winter 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 WHERE DO THOUGHTS COME FROM?, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The minute I'm awake in bed Last Line: Especially the good and true! Subject(s): January; Memory; Thought; Thinking WHILE JOURNEYING, by KANG GANGWOL Poem Source First Line: While journeying a thousand miles Last Line: Each morning, I awake %my vision spilling Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sleep; Travel WHILE WE MAY, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands are such dear hands Last Line: There's such a little way to go. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Memory WHISTLES AT NIGHT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night in the city when the far-off whistles blow Last Line: And the dawn comes slow. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Memory; Night; Parks; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues WHITE NOCTURNE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first soft snowflakes hovering down the night Last Line: Wait far off in the undisturbing night. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Ghosts; Love; Memory; Supernatural; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The WHITESIDE MOUNTAIN, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Are you calling me, my mountain Last Line: Calling coaxingly to me. Subject(s): Heaven; Memory; Mountains; Valleys; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain) 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 WHOSE TURN IS IT, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: Stand, each of you who has in your closet Last Line: Who carry sticks and guns for a living Subject(s): Games; Memory WHY FLIRT WITH FATE, by ILEY WINN Poem Text First Line: Our wicked acts we would like Last Line: Memory hears your last sad rites read. Subject(s): Memory WHY WE DON'T REMEMBER THE FUTURE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: January and no shadows so the ghosts come out Last Line: Where we aren't. Send me a postcard, I say. %something short and jazzy Subject(s): Change; Future; Memory WHY?, by CHARLOTTE A. BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: Chill fall nights with a harvest moon - Last Line: And I shall quite forget you -- soon. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Separation; Isolation WILD ROOT, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: It has stayed stuck in my eyes Last Line: You brought to your side years ago Subject(s): Love; Memory WILL, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE Poem Text First Line: Something I give to all my loves Last Line: But I loved silence best. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory; Silence; Soul WILL THE SPELLBOUND WORLD DIE WITH YOU, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Been working for dust and wind? Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory WILL THESE HANDS NE'ER BE CLEAN?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who is this lies prostrate at thy feet Last Line: But thou shalt not forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Vengeance; Dead, The WINDOW, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That gives the light is not the window Last Line: Beautiful accidents, an astonishment %the body finds Subject(s): Memory WINGS, by BARBARA LEE SHELLEY Poem Source First Line: Swing! Last Line: Like this Subject(s): Memory; Swings WINNING ON THE BLACK, by JACK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence is so complete he can hear Subject(s): Memory; Women WINTER IN MEATH (TO TOMAS TRANSTROMER), by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Again we have been surprised Last Line: But the sky healed up again after the passing that left %only a faint, pink thread, like a scar Subject(s): Absence; Memory WINTER MEMORY OF SUMMER TRESPASS, by JAMES HARMS Poem Source First Line: Somewhat lovelier than snow Last Line: Not yet,' I said. 'wait a minute. Yes.' Subject(s): Memory; Winter WINTER SOLSTICE--2001, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Sunder %and give, only towering shadows of buildings Last Line: Into trebles %of flame Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Memory; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WITH EACH CLOUDED PEAK: INDICATIONS, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: The power plant glittering, he said, quite contrary to Last Line: We continued on our way, tottering and uncertain Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets WITH ETERNITY STANDING BY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I bid you good-bye Last Line: With eternity standing by. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Future Life; Love; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITHDRAWN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I miss thee everywhere Last Line: As fragrance to the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Memory WITHIN THE HEART, by RUFINO BLANCO-FOMBONA Poem Source First Line: I called to my heart. No one answered. No one was Last Line: And I remained gazing at the heights Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Soul; Thought WOKIKSUYE, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Like a horse's tail Last Line: I knew him well Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Memory WOMAN PLANTING SWEET POTATOES, by BETHANY REID Poem Source First Line: At eleven, I worried Last Line: And over her shoulder, the new moon %rocking the ghost of the old in her arms Subject(s): Birth; Children; Memory; Women WOMAN; A FRAGMENT, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a frame, more glorious than the gem Last Line: Why let the docile darling have -- her way! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Memory; Truth; Women; Liberty WORDSWORTHIAN REMINISCENCES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I walked and came upon a picket fence Last Line: "but where the posts comes in, I could not tell" Subject(s): "memory;poetry & Poets;wordsworth, William (1770-1850); WORLD SERIES, by EILEEN B. HENNESSY Poem Source First Line: By then the war had been over for three years, and the men were Last Line: Got free of its skin. Then I heard the fans on the radio roar. I heard the %announcer say, 'that's I Subject(s): Baseball; Memory; Sports WOUNDED CHILD, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: She wants to be heard, waits patient as earth Last Line: There-among the stalks and leaves, sighing Subject(s): Death - Children; Gardens And Gardening; Memory WRITTEN AT SCARBOROUGH. AUGUST, 1799, by MARY TIGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As musing pensive in my silent home Last Line: To each new storm which frets the angry main. Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Memory YEARBOOK PHOTOGRAPHER, by TOM CHANDLER Poem Source First Line: Some sleazy weasel who called himself Last Line: Behind the couch, old dust, %drawn blinds of memory's rooms Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers YEARS AGO, by ALLAN S. LAING Poem Text First Line: Sitting alone and silent, by the light of the dying fire Last Line: And shall love -- my darling and I -- as we loved long years ago. Subject(s): Love; Memory YELLOW COIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the only changes are Last Line: The only wall that holds my history. Subject(s): Change; Cities; Memory; Urban Life YELLOWJACKETS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How many years past was it I burned out their nest Last Line: Their buried nest & one who could not live with them Subject(s): Bees; Death; Future Life; Insects; Memory YESTERDAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, how I wish I knew Last Line: Today just couldn't wait! Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Memory; Past; Childhood YESTERDAY, by OTIS PEABODY SWIFT Poem Text First Line: Masterless,-yet not the master of myself / I stand Last Line: Shall lead me to my god. Subject(s): Memory YESTERDAY MY SORROWS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Under the blows of a pickax Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Pain YESTERDAYS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sixty-two, sixty-three, I most remember Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Time; Friendship YOU, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: You who vainly %made your tongue Last Line: Landscape %between my hands Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory YOU, by CHARLOTTE DEMOREST CURREN Poem Text First Line: The path to the woods where the leaves lie dead Last Line: Far stretch of relentless sky, -- and you! Subject(s): Memory YOU ARE NOT, by DANE ZAJC Poem Source First Line: You are not in the voice of the wind, not in the diffusion of the mountain Last Line: Would be to find a name for the end Subject(s): Abandonment; Memory YOU CANNOT MAKE REMEMBRANCE GROW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It's iron buds will sprout anew %however overthrown Variant Title(s): Poem: 1508; Poem: 153 Subject(s): Memory YOU SAID YOU HADN'T YET, by SARAH SHAW Poem Source First Line: Forgotten, the night and stars and strange Last Line: Lying open, the single kiss, the other girl, my blood Subject(s): Memory YOU STOOD AT A BEND, by OSAKABE ATAECHIKUNI Poem Source Last Line: So I picture you Subject(s): Memory YOU TALK OF GOING BUT DON'T EVEN HAVE A SUITCASE, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will be an old man sometime Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Memory YOU WILL KNOW YOURSELF, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is the clean gift of evoking dreams Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken moon on the cold water Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken moon on the cold water Last Line: But you have been dead for thirty years Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past YOUR LETTERS, by MARIE TELLO PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: Today I came across your letters, tied Last Line: But how I miss you, oh, my dear, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs. Subject(s): Memory YOUR THOUGHTS ARE LIKE WARTS, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: Your thoughts are unpleasant, they are like warts, they Last Line: Your eyes are like lakes, like lakes Subject(s): Memory; Thought YOUTH, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: I shall remember then Last Line: Old dreams, old roses ... And old friends. Subject(s): Memory; Youth YOUTH, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the spacious east of life Last Line: And showering storms of glory o'er the beaten way. Subject(s): Innocence; Memory; Youth YOUTH AND AGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wanton youth, this wind was not Last Line: "the heart of youth is wise." Subject(s): Aging; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Memory; Wind; Wisdom; Youth YOUTH'S PROGENY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the sad little dreams of the dim yesteryear Last Line: Just to bid them good-night at the close of the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Memory; Youth ZARA (2) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pale sad face of her I wronged Last Line: Shall not we twain repose together? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cups; Love; Memory; Soul ZARA (3) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that loving me he would love on Last Line: Oh love that gnaws and gnaws and cannot kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares ZIGZAG, by RAY CLARK DICKSON Poem Source First Line: I walk down country backroads along zigzag fences Last Line: Zigzag fences wondering where my life had gone Subject(s): Fathers; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory |
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