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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 colours—the 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 gave—and 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 on—or 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 say—a 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 me—has 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 free—I 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 them—let 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 tonight—remembering?
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 I—I 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, friends—as 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 window—and 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 away—away.
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 but—old 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 ours—our 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 give—for 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 day—thon 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 harvest—truth 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 egypt—dear, 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 us—the 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 faith—and 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 so—of 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 day—along 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 father—god."
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