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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONTRAST, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A humble christian - to whose inward sight
Last Line: Now I go hence to paradise—and died.
Subject(s): Human Rights; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


A CURIOUS THING, by CAROLINE M. LORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: My mind, it seems, is only
Last Line: Of grass and sepal fold.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


A FLIGHT OF FANCY, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the bar of judge conscience, stood reason
Last Line: The hole in the lock, which she could not undo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Subject(s): Judges; Law & Lawyers; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


A HINT TO A YOUNG PERSON, .. IMPROVEMENT, BY READING OR CONVERSATION, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In reading authors, when you find
Last Line: That socrates does now speak truth.
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reason; Reading; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


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 LOVER, ON AN ACCIDENT NECESSITATING DEPARTURE, CONSULTS WITH REASON, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep not, nor backward turn your beams
Last Line: The wheel of fortune, not the sphere of love.
Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Reason; Parting; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


A MORAL THOUGHT, by JOHN HAWKESWORTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through groves sequestered, dark and still
Last Line: "and mingles with eternity."
Subject(s): Life; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


A PARABLE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thougjh well acquainted, mind and heart
Subject(s): Hearts; Mind, The


A PASSAGE IN THE MORALE ENCOMIUM OF ERASMUS IMITATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In awful pomp, and melancholy state
Last Line: Wild schemes of mirth, and plans of loose delight.
Subject(s): Fables; Fear; Reason; Allegories; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


A POSSET FOR NATURE'S BREAKFAST, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life scums the cream of beauty with time's spoon
Last Line: And with this meat doth nature please herself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret
Subject(s): Health; Nature; Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


A REASON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The case is clear as case can be
Last Line: "but I am d, e, f, you know."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


A RECENT DIALOGUE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bishop and a bold dragoon
Last Line: "his nose the cue) ""amen."
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Quarrels; Racism; Reason; Arguments; Disagreements; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


A SATIRE [OR, SATYR] AGAINST MANKIND, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were I (who to my cost already am)
Last Line: Man differs more from man, than man from beast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Variant Title(s): Homo Sapiens
Subject(s): Ingelo, Nathaniel (1621-1683); Mankind; Meres, Sir Thomas (1635-1715); Patrick, Simon (1626-1707); Reason; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


A SHEAF OF PLEASANT VOICES, by JOHN YAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are rooftops
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mind, The


A SOLILOQUY ON THE COURSE AND CONSQUENCE OF A DOUBTING MIND, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I muse, I doubt, I reason, and debate
Last Line: A blessed christian, or a cursed fool.
Subject(s): Doubt; Reason; Selflessness; Solitude; Thought; Skepticism; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Thinking


ADVANCES, by KEITH WALDROP    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seventy wingbeats
Subject(s): Weather; Time; Nature; Mind, The


AGAINST EXCESS OF SEA OR SUN OR REASON, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea that comes to the beach now softly
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Reason; Sea; Sun; Errors; Moderation; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Mistakes; Fallacies


ALAS!, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! The woe the high of heart
Last Line: And dies a victim to its strength.
Subject(s): Reason; Weariness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Fatigue


ANNOUNCEMENT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind is closed pending repairs
Last Line: With a large line of plain and fancy goods.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


APOSTASY, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've run around lately with folk intellectual
Last Line: Just like my own!
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


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


ATHEISM: REASON, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The infinite speaks in our silent hearts
Last Line: Who, though divorced from good, bow to the lord of hosts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Atheism; Death; Reason; Soul; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


BECAUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did we meet long years of
Last Line: And only god knew why it was.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Friendship; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH SYMPHONY, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind's deep history here in tones is wrought
Last Line: And turns to boundless hope the old despair.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Mind, The


BEFORE SHE BETRAYED ME WITH ART, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: She seizes my reason as prize
Subject(s): Love;reason; Intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals


BRAIN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mysterious home of lofty thought
Last Line: Is king of all.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


BRAIN OF MY HEART, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god for the walnut in 1986
Subject(s): Mind, The; Walnuts


BUDDHIST LULLABY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind is an apartment
Last Line: On the floor overhead?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Buddhism; Reason; Buddha; Buddhists; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


CAUTION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind needs no fire escape
Last Line: Inflammatory notions.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


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


COMING TO THAT, by DOROTHEA TANNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If it comes to that,' he said, 'there'll be no preventing it.'
Subject(s): Language; Mind, The; Words; Vocabulary


COMMITTEE MEETING, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is something important to say
Last Line: The battle raging while my eyes are shut.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


CONDITIONAL, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: But if the reason were that implement
Last Line: With its indifferent blade?
Subject(s): Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


CONTEMPLATION OF THE SWORD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
Last Line: Reason will not decide at last: the sword will decide
Subject(s): Swords; Strength; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


CONTENTMENT, by EDWARD DYER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind [or, minde] to me a kingdom is
Last Line: Would all did so as well as I!
Variant Title(s): Kingdom;in Praise Of A Contented Mind
Subject(s): Contentment; Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


CREATE DESIRE, by KAREN VOLKMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone was searching for a form of fire.
Subject(s): Desire; Mind, The


DADA, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Intelligence has a future
Last Line: Dada is dada.
Subject(s): Dadaism; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


DEATH FOR THE DARK STRANGER, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The knave of darkness, limber in the leaves
Last Line: So again the miraculous thunder of discovering wings is heard
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Police; Punishment; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


DISSECTION OF A BEAU'S HEAD, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We found by our glasses, that what at first sight
Last Line: We'll reserve the coquette for another occasion.
Subject(s): Heads; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


EINSTEIN'S BRAIN, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because of the certitude of death
Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "while his beard has grown gray, black as ever remain"
Last Line: The brain has had little or nothing to do
Subject(s): Italy;reason;talk; Italians;intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals


EPISTLES BETWEEN AND ANDREW GRAY AND ROBERT FERGUSSON: TO ANDREW GRAY, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nae langer bygane, than the streen
Last Line: And crack and sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Cabbage; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


ETERNAL DREAM, by MORRIS HURLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Intelligence in man conceived
Last Line: In sleep for all eternity.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


EXPERIMENT IN DIVINATION: VOICE AND CHARACTER, by REBECCA WOLFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a curiosity that knows
Subject(s): Mind, The; Thought; Thinking


FABLE: THE SCHOLAR AND THE CAT, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Labour entitles man to eat
Last Line: Instruct vain supercilious man.'
Subject(s): Activity; Animals; Cats; Fables; Reason; Scholarship & Scholars; Virtue; Exercise; Allegories; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


FAIRY'S ANSWER; TO MRS. GREVILLE'S PRAYER FOR INDIFFERENCE, by ISABELLA (BYRON) HOWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Without preamble, to my friend / these hasty lines I'm bid to send
Last Line: Imprinted on my mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carlisle, Countess Of
Subject(s): Greville, Francis (fanny) (1724-1789); Poetry & Poets; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


FAITH AND REASON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reason unstrings the harp to see
Last Line: And death is glorious gain.
Subject(s): Faith; Reason; Belief; Creed; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 1, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A strange discourse, in all impartial views
Last Line: A god-like love embracing ev'ry man.
Subject(s): Advice; Friends, Religious Society Of; Mankind; Reason; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Quakers; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors


FOR ONE MUST WANT/TO SHUT THE OTHER'S GAZE, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are you thinking?
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


FORKHEAD BOX P2 (AKA POXP2), by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What haunts the brain: a cell spell
Subject(s): Mind, The


FOUR SONNETS: 1, by LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have been diligent too many years
Last Line: Unconscious of the loss you have sustained.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: A LOFTY MIND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His thoughts are so much higher than his state
Last Line: They chill and darken it.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


GOLDEN VERSES, by GERARD LABRUNIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Man, free thinker! Do you believe you alone can reason
Last Line: The spirit grows under the surface of stones!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De
Subject(s): Reason; Spiritual Life; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


HARSH CLIMATE, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brain itself in its skull
Subject(s): Mind, The; Cold


HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The awful shadow of some unseen power
Last Line: To fear himself, and love all human kind.
Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


I BELIEVE THERE IS A SONG, by KAREN VOLKMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I believe there is a song that is stranger than wind, that sips the scald
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mind, The


I WISH NEVER TO SING, by KAREN VOLKMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I never wish to sing again as I used to, when two new eyes could
Subject(s): Body, Human; Mind, The


IDEAL WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Prudence does o'er her wit preside
Last Line: "serenes her brow, and calms her breast"
Subject(s): Love;reason;women; Intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals


IDEOGRAM, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spacialesque trumpets corrode
Last Line: On a spoke of the sick wheel
Subject(s): Freedom; Reason; Liberty; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


IMAGINATION, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rich raptures, you say, our dreams assume
Last Line: "and fondly believes that his thoughts are ""vast""!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Reason; Thought; Nightmares; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


INHIBITED, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could not pity your pain but I pitied the branches
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Mind, The; Sorrow; Sadness


INSIDE THE RIDDLE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's blue in here
Last Line: Seems too petty for god.
Subject(s): God; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


INTELLECT: 1, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is night the excuse for such a star?
Last Line: That darkest are?
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Night; Reason; Stars; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


INTELLECT: 2, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh spirit rare, / in thought devout, and tender with the speech
Last Line: The burden of a fog to clear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


INTELLECT: 3, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Since in the paths of mental liberty
Last Line: Of thought's restraint.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


INTELLECT: 4, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Light meets you by a different way
Last Line: Or pray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


INTELLECT: 5, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: By day and night, / and everywhere
Last Line: In ambush there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


INTELLECTUAL DETACHMENT, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the man who classified the bits
Last Line: It turned on him - he's dead. Shall we detest him?
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


L'AMOUR TIMIDE, by JOHN HENRY MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If in that breast so good, so pure
Last Line: But feel it will not last me long.
Subject(s): Love; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


LET US REASON TOGETHER, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come now, let us reason together
Last Line: We may fly to the bosom of god.
Subject(s): God; Reason; Sin; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


LOGIC AND 'THE MAGIC FLUTE' (IMPRESSIONS OF A PREMIERE), by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up winding stair, / here, where, in what theatre lost?
Subject(s): Flutes; Reason; Theater & Theaters; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Stage Life


LOVE AND REASON, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When panting sighs the bosom fill
Last Line: A dream of glory most exceeding.
Subject(s): Love; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


LOVE AND REASON, by CHARLES DIBDIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman grown, with sparkling eyes
Last Line: "one tale, and love another."
Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr.
Subject(s): Love; Reason; Women; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


LOVE'S REASON, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For that thy face is fair I love thee not
Last Line: When in her arms, and thine, I sink to rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Love; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


LOVE'S TELEPATHY, by ANGELA MORGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, you are near, my love, so near to - night
Last Line: Wherein I love my love and he loves me!
Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception; Hearts; Love; E. S. P.; Clairvoyance; Telepathy; Mind Reading


MADRIGAL SET BY THOMAS WEELKES (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like two proud armies marching
Last Line: And dazzled reason yields as quite undone
Variant Title(s): Song
Subject(s): Beauty;reason; Intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals


MAGIC GLASS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Thought; Mind, The; Thinking


MEN THAT THINK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Be damned, you cheeks, be damned and sink
Last Line: Still keep their first, and have no second state.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


MENTAL BEAUTY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty has gone, but yet her mind is still
Last Line: Fruition, which in hope will never end.
Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


MIND AND HEART, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wisdom and passion
Last Line: Power and bliss.
Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Reason; Wisdom; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


MODERN LOVE: 30, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are we first? First, animals; and next
Last Line: Lady, this is my sonnet to your eyes.
Variant Title(s): "what Are We First? First, Animals; And Next"";
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


MOMENTS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, there are moments in our life
Last Line: When such a moment came to me!
Subject(s): God; Life; Praise; Reason; Sea; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean


NARCISSUS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind is a city like london,
Subject(s): Mind, The; Narcissus (mythology); Nature


NEAP PLUS ULTRA, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind is like the ocean
Last Line: He was afraid of the undertow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Reason; Sea; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean


NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 7. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (2), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heav'n gives the needful, but neglected, call
Last Line: Let the grave listen; -- and be graver still.
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Immortality; Life; Night; Reason; Soul; Virtue; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


NO MATTER, NEVER MIND, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The father is the void
Subject(s): Mind, The


NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: CONCLUSION, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soldier, there is a war between the mind
Last Line: If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech
Variant Title(s): Another Kind Of War
Subject(s): War; Mind, The


O WRETCHED MIND OF MAN, O BLINDED HEART, by GEORGE SANTAYANA            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mind, The; Nature


OF MODERN POETRY, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poem of the mind in the act of finding
Last Line: Combing. The poem of the act of the mind
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Mind, The


OLNEY HYMNS: 19. CONTENTMENT, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fierce passions discompose the mind
Last Line: Have learned to be content.
Subject(s): Bible; Contentment; Religion; Mind, The; Theology


ON FAITH, REASON, AND SIGHT, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a threefold correspondent light
Last Line: The things of god without a light divine?
Subject(s): Faith; Mankind; Mediums; Reason; Sight; Belief; Creed; Human Race; Spiritualists; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now six and thirty rapid years are fled
Last Line: "but the fair guerdon is immortal fame."
Subject(s): Birthdays; Fame; Happiness; Reason; Virtue; Reputation; Joy; Delight; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


ON THE NATURE AND REASON OF ALL OUTWARD LAW, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From this true saying one may learn to draw
Last Line: Till the good saviour's hour is come, to cure.
Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Reason; Attorneys; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


ON TOP, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All this new stuff goes on top
Subject(s): Mind, The


ONLY A THOUGHT, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas only a passing thought, my love
Last Line: Only a passing thought.
Subject(s): Heads; Reason; Thought; Wisdom; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


ONLY THE HEART IS HAUNTED, by VERNE BRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mind is a sunbright house: the mind is not haunted
Last Line: Never the mind is entangled in memory's mesh.
Subject(s): Mind, The


PENANCES, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are my happy penances. To make
Last Line: In beauty's courts the unappeasable mind.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: TO HER LADISHIP, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If those salt showers that your sad eyes haue shed
Last Line: That your so loued mate is gone before.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Grief; Loss; Rain; Reason; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


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


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 2, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so a man I love says fifteen years is all he has
Last Line: Each other's hair. They don't believe in me or you.
Subject(s): Children; Death; Love; Men; Reason; Stairs; Childhood; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


PRAISE TO THE MIND, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And finds its place
Subject(s): Mind


PRAYER FOR INDIFFERENCE, by FRANCES (FANNY) MACARTNEY GREVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I ask no kind return in love
Last Line: Content—but half to please.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


PROPHECY, by LEONORA PEASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When, formed by groping mind and tedious hand
Last Line: It is the city that the dead have dreamed.
Subject(s): Humanity; Prophecy & Prophets; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY, by WILL ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A beaker of yeast
Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


QUERY, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What holds the swift enquiring mind
Last Line: Murmured a spell to guard the soul.
Subject(s): Insanity; Reason; Shadows; Wandering & Wanderers; Madness; Mental Illness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


RATIONAL MAN, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His restless glance abruptly drew
Last Line: Took comfort from the poplar trees.
Subject(s): Men; Poplar Trees; Reason; Solitude; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness


REASON, by JOHN POMFRET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The passions still predominant will rule
Last Line: To conquer truth, and unmixed knowledge gain.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


REASON AND SONG, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Priestess ordained of the high god of speech
Last Line: But not more heartbreaking.
Subject(s): Language; Reason; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


REASON AND THE FOOL, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright reason mocked me from her silver / mask
Last Line: "happy in loss, serene in strife."
Subject(s): Fools; Reason; Idiots; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


REASON AND VANITY; AN APOLOGUE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Appeal to reason!' writes a sage
Last Line: "I scarcely feel it now at all!"
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


REASON VERSUS CUSTOM; AN APOLOGUE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time, a man of sterling sense
Last Line: "my course by reason, and she brought me here!"
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


REASON, FOLLY AND BEAUTY, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Reason, and folly, and beauty, they say
Last Line: Yes,—liked him still better in that than his own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


REASON. THE USE OF IT IN DIVINE MATTERS, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some blind themselves, 'cause possibly they may
Last Line: And from afar 'tis all descryed.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


RIDDLES, by PATRICK F. KIRBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Afterwards, let us make riddles
Last Line: Not now would we let down the mind's gates.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


ROOMS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That it would be okay very soon okay, that okay it could be sooner before I
Subject(s): Buddhism; Psychoanalysis; Reason; Women; Buddha; Buddhists; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


SO IS HE MADE, by SARAH LITSEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath the hill, athwart the stream
Last Line: Conquers the deathless thing and dies.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


SOLUTIONS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The swallow flew like lightning over the green
Last Line: Beheaded it for blooming insolence.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


SONGS TO A.H.R.: 9. SUFFICINGS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day for the mind
Last Line: But you for my breast!
Subject(s): Moon; Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


SONNET: 34, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find
Last Line: Hugs the brown bough and sighs before it goes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Reason; Male-female Relations; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 9, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If all the thoughts of all the minds of men
Last Line: And beauty perfect from the hands of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Sea; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Thinking


SPECIOUS AND SUPERFICIAL WRITERS, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How rare the case, tho' common the pretence
Last Line: Paid without scruple,—he enjoys the trash.
Subject(s): Books; Reason; Writing & Writers; Reading; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


SPRING IN MANHATTAN, by DON WAHN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wish that I could trade this spring for one
Last Line: Why spring should bring them back ... Instead of you.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


ST. ROMAULD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One day, it matters not to know
Last Line: And so we meant to strangle him one night.
Subject(s): Death; Devil; Reason; Religion; Saints; Spain; Travel; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Theology; Journeys; Trips


STEAM SHOVELED NEEDED, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind is like the panama canal
Last Line: And all traffic is halted.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


STOICISM, by LOUIS MENARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brave strength breeds freedom, for each load we bear
Last Line: In envy of the gods that know not death.
Subject(s): Reason; Stoicism; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


SUBSTANCE AND SHADOW, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They do but grope in learning's pedant round
Last Line: Aided by heaven, by earth unthwarted still.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


SYZYGY, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I notice headlights out the living room window
Subject(s): Mind, The


TELEPATHY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And how could you dream of meeting?
Last Line: The fire in my feet than your nay?
Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception; E. S. P.; Clairvoyance; Telepathy; Mind Reading


THE AFFECTIONATE HEART, by JOSEPH COTTLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Even genius may weary the sight
Last Line: It shall last till the wreck of the mind.
Subject(s): Genius; Hearts; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE AGE OF REASON, by SHEROD SANTOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Car lights like lanterns in the pre-dawn dark
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE ASTRONOMER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little dome that holds the brain
Last Line: The deeper mind of man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE BALLOON OF THE MIND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hands, do what you're bid
Last Line: Into its narrow shed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Mind


THE BEINGS OF THE MIND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to me with your triumphs and your woes
Last Line: In the soul's world, with you, where change is not, to dwell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE BETTER WORLD, by HIERONYMUS LORM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who lives by thought or by belief
Last Line: Is in itself a better world.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#65), by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead man struggles not to become crabby, chronic or hypothetical
Last Line: When the river met the shore.
Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reason; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE BRAIN - IS WIDER THAN THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As syllable from sound
Subject(s): Mind, The


THE BRAIN, WITHIN ITS GROOVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And blotted out the mills!
Subject(s): Mind, The


THE BRIDE, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse
Last Line: "am reason, and the other was a dream."
Subject(s): Reason; Drinks & Drinking; Rerality; Dreams; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Wine; Nightmares


THE CAMERA OBSCURA, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside the skull the wakeful brain
Last Line: Where formless shades blindfold the light.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And wherefore do the poor complain?
Last Line: And these have answer'd thee!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Experience; Pain; Poverty; Reason; Wealth; Suffering; Misery; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Riches; Fortunes


THE CONFERENCE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree
Last Line: Who lives to reason, and who dies a man.
Subject(s): Conscience; England; Justice; Politics & Government; Reason; Virtue; English; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE DEATH OF MYTH-MAKING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two virtues ride, by stallion, by nag
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mythology; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That garden of sedate philosophy
Last Line: The crucifix that came of nazareth.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE INFINITE REASON, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rilke thought it was the human part
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Reason; Truth; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE INTELLECTUAL, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man behind the book may not be man
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE INTELLECTUAL ECSTASY, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of epicurus it is told
Last Line: Walk down to darkness in great light.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


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 MIND IS AN ENCHANTING THING, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is an enchanted thing
Variant Title(s): "the Mind Is An Enchanting Thing"";
Subject(s): Gieseking, Walter Wilhelm (1895-1956); Reason; Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757); Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE MIND SPEAKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Poor body, sitting there so calm
Last Line: To act beyond its power.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Mind, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


THE MIND'S LIBERTY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The mind, with its own eyes and ears
Last Line: With its dark nipple in a cloud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Reason; Mind, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE MIND'S UNREST, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mind, dangerous and glorious gift!
Last Line: It is itself its sacrifice.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE MIND-READER, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some things are truly lost. Think of a sun-hat
Subject(s): Religion; Mind, The; Theology


THE PILL, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pill, in the pill bottle, humming like a wheel at rest, confident ...
Last Line: Could have sworn that it could see them, and that it blinked.
Subject(s): Humanity; Medicine; Reason; Self-consciousness; Drugs, Prescription; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 1, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With what attractive charms this goodly frame
Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre.
Subject(s): Imagination; Perception; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 3, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What wonder therefore, since the endearing ties
Last Line: And form to his, the relish of their souls.
Subject(s): Imagination; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 1, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With what enchantment nature's goodly scene
Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre.
Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 2, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus far of beauty and the pleasing forms
Last Line: Nor so effaced the image of her sire.
Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Truth; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 3, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What tongue then may explain the various fate
Last Line: "I flung me, sad, faint, overworn with toil."
Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 4, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One effort more, one cheerful sally more
Last Line: The palm of spotless beauty doth resign.
Subject(s): Imagination; Prophecy & Prophets; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 142, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People think the body's their root
Last Line: You'll make bodhisattvas sick
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Bodies; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Reason; Buddha; Buddhists; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 239, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The superior man's mind is terribly sharp
Last Line: When will creation end
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 20, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There exists one type of person
Last Line: And all his wrongs return
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Punishment; Reason; Idiots; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE POET PERPLEXT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brain! You must work! Begin, or we shall lose
Last Line: So gentle brain! I thank you and conclude.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reason; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE PRAYING-MANTIS, by ANNIE CHARLOTTE DALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the dark dungeons of the mind
Last Line: The mantis mounts the stair.
Subject(s): Mantis; Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE PREFACE TO DIVINE SONGS AND MEDITACIONS, by ANNE COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Being through weakness to the house confin'd
Last Line: Will his and all their works for him defend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, An
Subject(s): Activity; Evil; Grief; Reason; Exercise; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE PURPOSE OF LIFE, by FRANK PUTNAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do the tears that arise in the heat of the strife
Last Line: But the weakest may live as becometh a man.
Subject(s): Life; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE REELING BRAIN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind is a movie film
Last Line: Will applaud ironically.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Reason; Movies; Cinema; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE RESOLVE, by MARY LEE CHUDLEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For what the world admires I'll wish no more
Last Line: Esteems it mean to court the world for praise.
Subject(s): Humility; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE SOLITAIRES (ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH OF JOHN HAMPDEN, JUNE 24, 1643), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hampden, when charge on charge o'er chalgrove field
Last Line: Through reason and old ever-beckoning death.
Subject(s): Death; Hampden, John (1594-1643); Reason; Solitude; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness


THE TRANSFIGURATION; THE OLD 'PAULUS' THEORY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fiction or a fact? An interview
Last Line: That sternest link in the great unity.
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Paulus, Heinrich (1761-1851); Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE TUTELARY SPIRIT, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind is strange
Last Line: May the power use.
Subject(s): Love; Reason; Time; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE TWO NESTS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wise thrush, the wise thrush, she choseth well her tree
Last Line: Oh, pitiful her perished dreams to see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Girls; Reason; Thrushes; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE ULTIMATE (2), by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So this is the ultimate
Last Line: Towards eternity!
Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Reason; Sea; Soul; Destiny; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean


THE WELL DRESSED MAN WITH A BEARD, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the final no there comes a yes
Subject(s): Mind, Tne


THE WHITE ROOM, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The obvious is difficult
Subject(s): Summer; Trees; Mind, The


THINGS TO THINK, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think in ways you've never thought before
Last Line: Been decided that if you lie down no one will die
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 1. INTELLECTUAL POWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thought! O memory! Gems for ever heaping
Last Line: Ere it can hold your gifts inalienably fast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Reason; Sickness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Illness


THOUGHTS UPON HUMAN REASON, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, I have read them - but I cannot find
Last Line: "have prov'd the point, by their complete rotation."
Subject(s): Human Rights; Mankind; Reason; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THREE PERSONS, by FANNY HOWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fields are infertile
Last Line: There was never any other
Subject(s): Mind, The


THROUGH THE WOOD (BY DARTMOOR, SEPT. 1893), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day long upon her throne
Last Line: Now the heart must beat alone!
Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Reason; Solitude; Travel; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


TO H. M., by FRANCIS BARNARD (20TH CENTURY)    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've disciplined my loving with a scourge
Last Line: And to this logic leaves me wholly blind.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


TO HER MIND, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Exalted mind! Whose character doth bear
Last Line: Thyself to us, thou shouldst be still a wonder?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


UNDERSTANDING, by ELSIE GLENN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cool, crisp air filtered with moonlight
Last Line: I dropped asleep, thankful for this blessed peace.
Subject(s): Peace; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


UNRELATED THOUGHTS, by NANCY WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: At night before my final sleep, I know
Last Line: The secrets of its undiscovered way.
Subject(s): Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


UNSUSPECTING, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a natty kind of mind
Subject(s): Mind, The


UNTITLED, by LAURIE SHECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are times when the mind
Subject(s): Mind, The


WHAT IS REASON?, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whene'er the mist, that stands 'twixt god and thee
Last Line: Which thou hadst seen, had that been shaken off.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


WHAT TO DO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell your mind and its
Last Line: For a little while.
Subject(s): Introspection; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


WHY FOOL AROUND?, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How smart is smart? Thinks heart. Is smart
Last Line: Smart or stupid they circle the hook: their education
Subject(s): Reason; Schools; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Students


WINDOWS AND DOORS, by EPHRAIM CUTLER SHEDD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mind can open windows wide
Last Line: May enter by that door.
Subject(s): Reason; Soul; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


WISDOM, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often when I wanter talk, grown-ups say I ourghtn't
Last Line: But I mostly want to know—will I feel it coming?
Subject(s): Children; Reason; Wisdom; Childhood; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals