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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MOON Matches Found: 681 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILD'S SONG, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady moon, lady moon, where are you roving? Last Line: "all that love me." Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Moon A CHILLY NIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rose at the dead of night Last Line: And I was indeed alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ghosts; Moon; Mothers; Night; Supernatural; Bedtime A FLOWER TO THE MOON, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O moon! O moon! Last Line: Up to loving and sorrow? Subject(s): Moon A HILLSIDE THAW, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To think to know the country and now know Last Line: The thought of my attempting such a stay! Subject(s): Sun; Moon; Thaw A LA LUNE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly rising, slowly strengthening moon Last Line: You, o moon, must have understanding of these things. Subject(s): Moon A LEGEND OF THE MOON, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightlong I yearned so madly toward the moon Last Line: Of moons and mortals and of olden days. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Earth; Legends; Life; Mankind; Moon; Urban Life; Dead, The; World; Human Race A LITTLE SONG, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you, my dear, are away, away Last Line: Watch over a century of nights. Subject(s): Moon A LONDON THOROUGHFARE, 2 A.M., by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have watered the street Subject(s): London; Moon A NET TO SNARE THE MOONLIGHT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dew, the rain and moonlight Last Line: Of dreams when toil is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Moon A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery Last Line: For marian, our clear may, so long laid in earth. Subject(s): Earth; Fools; Grief; Hope; Moon; Seasons; Time; World; Idiots; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A NIGHTPIECE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Endymion sleeps along the distant hills Last Line: That sweet strange wondrous consciousness of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Moon; Sleep A PAPER MOON, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: A paper moon, I'll hang it high Last Line: That has no real home to stay Subject(s): Moon A POET'S FANCIES: 4. THE MOON TO THE SUN, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the full moon shining there Last Line: Day all night. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Moon; Poetry & Poets; Sun A POTION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How brew the brave drink life? Last Line: Then down with the brave drink life! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; Moon; Pain; Sin; Wine; Suffering; Misery A ROMANCE, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A calm, delightful autumn night Last Line: A wild, delirious autumn night! Subject(s): Animals; Autumn; Dogs; Love; Moon; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime A ROUGH SKETCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I caught, for a second, across the crowd Last Line: And nose like the beak of a bird of prey! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Moon; Nature A SOLILOQUY OF THE FULL MOON, SHE BEING IN A MAD PASSION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as heaven is my lot, they're the pests of the nation Last Line: I am I myself I, the jolly full moon. Subject(s): Moon A SONG FOR THE WEARY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Seems it so sad and strange Last Line: Thee to his breast! Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares A SONG OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One came to me in the night Last Line: On her starry towers. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Colors; Dreams; Moon; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips A SONG OF THE MOON, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the wonders of the peak Last Line: She will not seize it. Subject(s): Moon A SPY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sighed the languid moon to the morning star Last Line: "while the man-in-the-moon was looking at me." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Moon A TINKLE OF BELLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light of the moon on the white Last Line: Sheer into the judgment day! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Judgment Day; Moon; Snow; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A WASTED VIGIL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Couldst thou not watch with me one hour? Behold Last Line: Thou couldst not watch with me. Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Moon; Night; Wakes; Sunrise; Paradise; Bedtime A WHISPER TO THE MOON, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bend low, o moon, for I fain would tell Last Line: She is thy kindred; and fickle art thou. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Moon A YEAR PASSES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the porcelain fence of the pleasure garden Subject(s): Moon ABOVE HALF MOON, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not even a brid can sleep in thin air, a thousand feet higher Last Line: Shuttered windows, a flower made of timber, whose trail down is a crooked stem Subject(s): Moon; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ACCUSATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If this is what you meant Last Line: If this is what you meant? Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Moon; Rain; Shadows; Sky AFFINITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are not made for me Last Line: That were shaken for me and you? Subject(s): Circe; Hearts; Moon; Sea; Sun; Ocean AFTER BASHO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tentatively, you Last Line: Pallid, famous moon. Subject(s): Moon; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism AFTER READING SOME FAVORITES, by THOMAS HALLORAN Poem Source First Line: When a poem takes you up in its arms says Last Line: Moon that brought the water with its heron %flown off now to form the evening mind Subject(s): Moon; Poetry And Poets AH MOON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat here as a boy Last Line: So must be dark Subject(s): Moon ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by GERTRUDE HUNTINGTON MCGIFFERT Poem Text First Line: As it was promised so I beheld Last Line: A gibbering, furtive beast, by nature damned. Subject(s): All Souls' Day; Moon; Stars; Sun; Trees AN ACROSTIC: THE MOON, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Lo! Yonder rides the empress of the night! Last Line: And gloomy darkness takes its vacant place. Subject(s): Moon AN APPLICATION OF THE WAXING MOON, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fair full moon, that did'st embay the dark Last Line: With comfortable eyes of sheep and kine. Subject(s): Moon AN ODE: THE MOON, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Sweet lady, I would walk across the night Last Line: You wander, and he thinks of you no less. Subject(s): Moon AN OLD MASTER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I saw a picture yesternight Last Line: The white-pure moon looked out. Subject(s): Beauty; Moon; Storms; Transience; Impermanence ANALYSIS, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: A high clear chord will tear my heart Last Line: That I remember all my days. Subject(s): Love; Moon; Rainbows APPARITION, by MAX GARLAND Poem Source First Line: That's the moon come down to drink Last Line: Somewhere deep, quick and moonlike Subject(s): Ghosts; Moon; Supernatural; Water APPROACH OF NIGHT, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the yellow in the sky Last Line: Night is here. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime AS A DECADENT PASSES, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: Bid the dawn come; the moonlight is too pale Last Line: New-cut gardenias for my head and feet. Subject(s): Dawn; Farewell; Life; Moon; Sunrise; Parting AS TO MOONLIGHT, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tell me that when moonlight is in flood Last Line: Whetted with sunlight like a rim of sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Moon ASK THE SWALLOWS WHY!, by MILDRED HANNAN Poem Text First Line: A very young moon Last Line: In sudden haste to fly the other way. Subject(s): Moon; Sky; Swallows ASKING THE MAID HOW FAR THE MOON HAS CLIMBED ATOP THE FLOWERING TREES, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: Quietly the evening fragrance exudes from the flowering branches Last Line: But I do love the moon's shadow, and the maid knows it Subject(s): Moon ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 31, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With how sad steps, o moon, thou climbst the skies Last Line: Do they call virtue there ungratefulness? Variant Title(s): "his Lady's Cruelty;to The Moon;to The Sad Moon;asking The Moon About Love;""with How Sad Steps, O Moone, Thou Climb'st The Skies""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Moon; Faithfulness; Constancy AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy shadow, earth, from pole to central sea Last Line: Heroes, and women fairer than the skies? Subject(s): Eclipses; Moon AT THE NEW MOON: ROSH HODESH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a two day holiday, the most sacred stretches Last Line: Breast, opening, pool, the source Subject(s): Prayer; Jews; Moon AUTUMN WISDOM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wisdom is on me Last Line: Of sinking stars. ... Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Moon; Seasons; Wisdom; Fall AVE MARIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow spaces, large and deep Last Line: That would be the heart of the mother of god! Subject(s): Beds; Earth; Future Life; God; Mary And Martha (bible); Moon; Night; Sleep; Women In The Bible; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime BABY FACE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White moon comes in on a baby face Last Line: Where you come in, white moon. Subject(s): Moon BACK YARD, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shine on, o moon of summer Last Line: Shake out more and more silver changes. Subject(s): Moon BALLAD TO THE MOON, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a dusky night I spied Last Line: "like the dot above an ""I." Subject(s): Moon BEAUTIFUL MOON, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful goddess of the night Last Line: Tell me does he love me true? Subject(s): Love; Moon BEAUTIFUL NIGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh beautiful night, oh, beautiful night Last Line: Of those charms which the earth doth possess. Subject(s): Beauty; Moon; Night; Bedtime BEGINNING, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon drops one or two feathers into the fields. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fields; Moon; Love; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BLUE MOON, by GERIANN DORAN Poem Source First Line: Tonight Last Line: I say moon, what happens happens %once in a blue backlit june Subject(s): Moon; Night BON ESPOIR Y GIST AU FOND!, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One shimmering opal is all the air Last Line: And we are not yet the devil's food! Subject(s): Dreams; God; Moon; Moss; Secrets; Nightmares BOOK OF SONGS: PREFACE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the olden fairy wood! Last Line: "have never ceased to ponder." Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs BOWING TO THE NEW MOON, by GENG WEI Poem Source First Line: Opening drapes, she sees the new moon Last Line: On her skirt's sash the north wind blows Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Moon BOWING TO THE NEW MOON, by LI DUAN Poem Source First Line: Opening drapes, she sees the new moon Last Line: On her skirt's sash the north wind blows Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Moon BROKEN WALLS: MOON OVER HOVENWEEP, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN Poem Source First Line: The sun walked westward, reached a pinoned Last Line: Then raised thier willow arms and sing aloud Subject(s): Moon BUB SAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon in the sky is a custard Last Line: An' talk about suddently droppin' off. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Clouds; Grandparents; Moon; Sky; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers CAT AND THE MOON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat went here and there Last Line: And lifts to the changing moon %his changing eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dancing And Dancers; Moon CHANGING MOON, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green east hagged with prowling storm Last Line: And where his useless gold and silver lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Moon; English CHILD MOON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child's wonder Last Line: With babblings of the moon on her little mouth. Subject(s): Children; Moon; Childhood CHIMNEY-SWEEP, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen leaves skitter fleet Last Line: And ever clean the house of woe! Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Life; Love; Moon; Time CHINESE SPRING, by ELIZABETH HARCOURT Poem Text First Line: The moon of flowers is here Last Line: The moon of flowers is here! Subject(s): Moon; Spring CINQUAIN: MOON-SHADOWS, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still as / on windless nights Last Line: Am dead. Subject(s): Moon CITRONELLA, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight blank newsprint across the lawn Last Line: Beato immaculato, %-- and make me marvelous in your eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Moon; Relationships; Sky CITY MOON, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thin moon hurrying, blown from the sea Last Line: Leaps the last chimney-pot, hurries, and fades. Subject(s): Cities; Moon; Urban Life CITY OF THE MOON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun sets as the moon Last Line: Always read those of heaven Subject(s): Moon CLAIR DE LUNE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to imagine Last Line: Going over.... Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Moon CLAIR DE LUNE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the moonlit room your face Last Line: And I fade into a dream. Subject(s): Moon CLAIR DE LUNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a moonlit landscape fair Subject(s): Moon CLAIR DE LUNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a sealed garden, and there go Last Line: And the slim fountains sob into the air %among the marble statues in the glade Subject(s): Moon CLAIR DE LUNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a moonlit landscape fair Subject(s): Moon CLAIR DU LUNE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It comes with the force of a body blow Last Line: So I may wash my hands of life! Subject(s): Despair; Moon CLOWN IN THE MOON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My tears are like the quiet drift Subject(s): Moon COMMUNION: 2. NOCTURNE, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, night, let down your hair Last Line: My soul's too vast alone. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul; Bedtime COMPENSATIONS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with a flash that rends the blue Last Line: And ask no more in death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Eyes; Love; Moon; Dead, The; Nightmares COMPLAINT TO THE MOON, by HENRY LONGAN STUART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O lady of all the poems in the world! Subject(s): Moon COMPOSED UPON THE MOON ON A FROSTY NIGHT, by ZHU WUXIA Poem Source First Line: The night's atmosphere is cool as water Last Line: And accompany this white beauty in her walk? Subject(s): Moon CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOON, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reflected light reflected again on snow Last Line: Or only a star in the in tre unhorizoned sky Subject(s): Moon CRAQUEODOOM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crankadox leaned o'er the edge of the moon Last Line: With a long piece of crape to her tail. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Spirk Troll-derisive Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Ocean CRESCENT MOON, by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO Poem Source First Line: O crescent of the waning moon Last Line: Now sways beneath your glowing blade Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silence CRESCENT MOON, by ELLA C. MACOMB Poem Text First Line: The crescent moon hangs low in the azure sky Last Line: To bring to all eternal peace. . . Subject(s): Death; Moon; Night; Sky; Dead, The; Bedtime CRESCENT MOON, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: When the crescent moon comes shining Last Line: On the ancient plain there's rustling %and there is no wind Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Moon CRESCENT MOON, by WILLIAM RENTON Poem Source First Line: The moon had risen an hour or more Last Line: Upon the disc a moving spot %that would be, was, and now was not Subject(s): Moon CUCKOO CALLED, by FUJIWARA SANESADA Poem Source Last Line: Of the dawn was there Subject(s): Moon DAYLIGHT AND MOONLIGHT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In broad daylight, and at noon Last Line: All its grace and mystery. Subject(s): Moon DE AEGYPTO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the wet bank shines Last Line: If I die not in my own land. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Moon; Violets; Dead, The DECADENT, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I used to worship the moon Last Line: With the pallor of the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Moon; Sun; Worship DESPAIR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up rose the moon in glory Last Line: "a bringing in the light." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime DIANA, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praised be diana's fair and harmless light Last Line: With circes let them dwell that think not so. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): The Shepherd's Praise Of Diana Subject(s): Diana (goddess); Moon DID A CUCKOO CRY?, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Perishing! Perishing! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Moon; Night DON'T YOU WISH YOU KNEW!, by A. H. B. Poem Text First Line: Glancing in the moonlight Last Line: Don't you wish you knew! Subject(s): Moon DORA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A waxing moon that, crescent yet Last Line: To learn that tears are obsolete. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Love; Moon; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism DOUBLE ABSENCE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rust-red moon above the rose-red cloud Subject(s): Sun; Moon DREAM FANTASY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of dream Last Line: Lie hush'd the valleys of dream? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Moon; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology DRINKING ALONE BENEATH THE MOON, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Among the blossoms, a single jar of wine Last Line: Of all our joys, this must be the deepest Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Moon; Night DRINKING ALONE WITH THE MOON, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Among the flowers with a jug of wine, Last Line: May we meet in the far milky way Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Moon; Solitude DROPPING CHIN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call the illusion what you will Last Line: Stooping to a penny. Subject(s): Guitars; Moon; Singing & Singers; Songs EARLY MOON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby moon, a canoe, a silver papoose canoe Last Line: Early moon, a silver papoose, in the indian west? Subject(s): Moon EARLY NIGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was dead, with requiems of the wind Last Line: That shines for lovers, wheresoe'er they are. Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Moon; Night; Stars; Winter; World; Bedtime EARTH TOUCHED MOON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Blushed. Everyone saw it Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Earth; Moon; Nature ECLIPSE, by GENE SEVILLE COOK Poem Text First Line: There's a shadow 'cross the moon Last Line: Across my happiness! Subject(s): Moon ECLIPSE AT EASTER, by DIANE SEUSS-BRAKEMAN Poem Source First Line: The moon, she is losing Last Line: Orchid, azure, folding into black Subject(s): Eclipses; Moon ECSTASY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon shines now Last Line: Hour of delight! Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightmares; Woods EFFINGHAM NIGHT, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has put her garment of white madness Last Line: As hands, grown vague, drop listless to my side. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silence; Bedtime EL NOCHE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the court- Subject(s): Moon ELDERS, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night the moon shakes the bright dice of water Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Moon ELEGIAC SONNET: 4. TO THE MOON, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of the silver bow! By thy pale beam Last Line: Poor wearied pilgrim -- in this toiling scene! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Variant Title(s): To The Moon Subject(s): Moon ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pressed by the moon, mute arbitress of tides Last Line: To gaze with envy on their gloomy rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Churchyards; Moon; Sussex, England ELEGIAC SONNET: 80. TO THE INVISIBLE MOON, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and conceal'd art thou, soft evening's queen Last Line: And shine for beings less accurst than I. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Moon EQUINOX, by GILLIAN MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Nothing mellows Last Line: The gravity of ruminant %thre relevant of midge Subject(s): Moon; Sun 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 ETCHINGS: 2. PASSAGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dark sail Last Line: The ever-returning stars. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime EVENING BY THE SEA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With noble waste of lazy hours Last Line: The dear old comrade tried. Subject(s): Loitering; Moon EVENING ON THE MOUNTAIN: SONG TO THE MOON THE WELL, by YI KYUBO Poem Source First Line: Blue water ripples the well at the corner of the mossy rock Last Line: That tilting the jar means spilling the moon Subject(s): Moon; Wells FACING THE MOON, by ZHU WUXIA Poem Source First Line: A curtain of bright moon shines profusely white Last Line: Wrongly blaming the flowers and willows at dusk Subject(s): Moon FANTASY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird ran up the onyx steps of night Last Line: The moon, her white laugh rippling from the stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Fantasy; Moon FANTASY, FROM 'AN ADJUSTABLE LUNATIC', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood beneath a summer moon Last Line: Through life and all eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Life; Moon; Soul; Summer FAR SIDE OF THE MOON, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: We already live mostly underground, he said, ventilating Last Line: Heroic, he said, as he lay on the ground, the spun taffy %turning red Subject(s): Heroism; Moon; Night FIELD GUIDE TO THE NIGHT SKY: THE MOON, by SUSAN E. WHEATLEY Poem Source First Line: The moon exists. You can see it from any field Last Line: As you lie on the blanket in your field Subject(s): Moon FIELDS ARE SPREAD, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Moon FINITUDE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One ruby, amid a diamond spray of stars Last Line: And be forgot. Subject(s): Death; Moon; Sleep; Dead, The FOLLY, by VIVIAN YEISER Poem Text First Line: The moon has made me weary Last Line: To each adoring pine. Alternate Author Name(s): Laramore, Mrs. Robert Eugene Subject(s): Moon FOR YEARS I'VE BEEN PROHIBITED FROM MENTIONING THE MOON, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So now the pine-scented moon Subject(s): Moon FRAGMENT (4), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when the new or full moon urges Last Line: Of the pacific main. Subject(s): Moon FRAGMENT OF AN ODE TO THE MOON, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mild orb, who floatest through the realm of night Last Line: Shall woo the god of soft repose -- Subject(s): Moon FREEDOM OF THE MOON, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've tried the new moon tilted in the air Last Line: The color run, all sorts of wonder follow Subject(s): Moon FRIDAY NIGHT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In pale blue dusk sky moon Last Line: Up there friend moon %is getting larger Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Moon FULL MOON, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: All over the city Last Line: At anything that moves Subject(s): Desire; Moon FULL MOON, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Delicate as a flower of silk Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Moon FULL MOON, by BRENDA DE BUTTS Poem Text First Line: How can I sleep with the moon at the full? Last Line: ... Then in the dawning come satisfied home. Subject(s): Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails FULL MOON, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night as dick lay fast asleep Last Line: She vanished, and was gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Moon FULL MOON, by LUCILE ENLOW Poem Text First Line: I / am the still, white moon Last Line: Soon you will reach it—soon! Subject(s): Death; Moon; Night; White (color); Dead, The; Bedtime FULL MOON, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The door is open Last Line: In the house Subject(s): Insomnia; Moon; Night FULL MOON, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: During these nights Subject(s): Night; Moon; Bedtime FULL MOON, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My problem is not enough Last Line: To another nightjar Subject(s): Sleep; Moon FULL MOON, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My bands of silk and miniver Last Line: The clean bones crying in the flesh. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Moon FULL MOON OF SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On pale velvet, set with gems Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Moon; Spring; Stars FULL MOON OFTEN RISES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Activity up there, a general unrest Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature GODIVA MOON, by JOSEPH TWADELL SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: He fashioned in the heat of august noon Last Line: Unto her bed of amethyst and gold. Subject(s): Godiva, Lady (1140-1180); Moon; Night; Bedtime GOING OUT TO SEE PLUM BLOSSOMS IN THE MOONLIGHT ..., by GU RUOPU Poem Source First Line: The blossoms, just to enchant the moon Last Line: I invoke the moon, and the moon radiates coldness Subject(s): Moon GROWN CHILDREN, by CONNIE WANEK Poem Source First Line: The full moon wakes the eldest son Last Line: For the inevitable celestial evidence %that day will come Subject(s): Children; Moon HALF-AFRAID, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, the moon is mockery Last Line: Opens many a door Subject(s): Fear; Moon HARVEST MOON, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Was my whisper Last Line: That harvesting. Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Moon; Seasons; Fall HARVEST MOON: 1914, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the twilight field Last Line: The harvest-moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Women; World War I; First World War HARVEST MOON: 1916, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moon, slow rising, over the trembling sea-rim Last Line: Light, everlasting.) Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Women; World War I; First World War HAS THE MOON BEEN UP THERE?, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who has abandoned whom? Subject(s): Moon HAWAIIAN MOON MAGIC, by FRANCESCA HAWES Poem Text First Line: How yon bright light spreads out a-flame Last Line: Probe chords that set me free. Subject(s): Moon HE RULETH NOT THROUGH HE RAIGNE OVER REALMES, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wilt mighty be, flee from the rage Last Line: Thy wretched life, ne do thy death profet. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Ballade: 6 Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Moon; Dead, The HER LONESOMENESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When little elizabeth whispers Last Line: "way in the night, you know!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Moon; Night; Bedtime HERE LIES PIERROT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon's ashine; by many a lane Last Line: The moon's ashine; here lies pierrot. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love; Moon; Nightingales; Dead, The HOMER'S HYMN TO THE MOON, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughters of jove, whose voice is melody Last Line: Which minstrels, servants of the muses, tell. Subject(s): Moon HOMERIC HYMN: TO THE MOON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye muses, sing of the fair-faced, wide-winded moon Last Line: Sing the renown of heroes half divine whose deeds do minstrels chant from the charmed lips; these mi Subject(s): Moon HOUSE WILL TURN ITSELF, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On a bedpost Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Houses; Moon; Nature HOW BEAUTIFUL THE QUEEN OF NIGHT, ON HIGH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Break forth,—again to walk the clear blue sky Subject(s): Moon; Night HOW PALE THE MOON, HOW PALE!, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Moon HUNTER'S MOON, by FRANCES PARK Poem Source First Line: On a gusty autumnm evening Last Line: And the yellow, flaunting moon %I think I forgot Subject(s): Moon HUNTER'S MOON, by STAN PROPER Poem Source First Line: White and sharp as pre-snow Subject(s): Moon HYMN TO THE HARVEST MOON, by ERIK AXEL KARLFELDT Poem Source First Line: Step out form your curtain of silvered shadow Subject(s): Moon HYMN TO THE MOON, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: No horizons surrounding where the moon is Last Line: The fierce light, sudden wind sheer %of joy Subject(s): Moon; Night; Romance HYMN TO THE MOON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How lovely is this silent scene! Last Line: And ruling o'er the pathless waters. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Love; Moon; Night; Silence; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness HYMN TO THE MOON; WRITTEN IN JULY, IN AN ARBOUR, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou silver deity of secret night Last Line: With all thy greatness and thy coldness too. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Moon I FEEL LIKE FRANKFURT, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: Well I feel like frankfurt and tranquility base Last Line: The idiot is beautifully covered with moons. %the teenage writer can see the stars and stripes Subject(s): Armstrong, Neil (b. 1930); Astronauts; Moon; Pictures; Space And Space Travel; Television I HATE THE MOON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the moon, though it makes most people glad Last Line: And I know one day it'll do me some dreadful thing. Subject(s): Moon; World War I; First World War I SPEED TOWARD THE MOON, by CONSTANCE HANSTEDT Poem Source First Line: On a deserted oakland freeway Last Line: Burst of the moon Subject(s): Evening; Moon; Roads; Travel I WOULD NOT LIFT THY VEIL, by A. LOUISE ASHWORTH Poem Text First Line: I hugged the great body of the night close to me, then closer Last Line: The veil is thine -- I would not, if I could. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime I'M OVER THE MOON, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I don't like what the moon is supposed to do. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Moon; Love - Erotic ILLUSION, by GRACE STARLING Poem Text First Line: The moon! Look at her! In that gorgeous gold gown Last Line: Limping in with rheumatism -- kissing their wives! Subject(s): Moon IMPRESSIONS: LA FUITE DE LA LUNE, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To outer senses there is peace Last Line: Wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Moon IN A MOONLIT GARDEN, by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has cast a spell upon my garden Last Line: Prevails a stillness, as of muted strings. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Moon IN AN ECLIPSE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er in the course of our daytime of doing Last Line: All the stars that we steer by will show in god's skies. Subject(s): Eclipses; Moon; Sky; Stars IN DISPRAISE OF THE MOON, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not be the moon, the sickly thing Last Line: That light, reflected, but makes darkness plain. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Moon IN THE MOONLIGHT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lonely workman, standing there Last Line: Whom during her life I thought nothing of.' Subject(s): Moon IN THE SHADOWS: 23, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, beautiful moon! Oh, beautiful moon! Again Last Line: Shall me delight with dreams and mystic love forlorn! Subject(s): Moon INTROSPECTION, by RUTH D. MCGINNIS Poem Text First Line: Ah moon, how slender sliced tonite Last Line: Without that deadly diet? Subject(s): Moon INVENTION, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the moon is a cracker, Subject(s): Moon IRRECONCILIATION, by FRANCES BROWN (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Tonight the moon hangs low, low Last Line: And shelter for us! Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Stars; Ocean JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 6, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my window I could not see the moon Subject(s): Moon JUST AS MORNING TWILIGHT AND THE GULLS, GLOUCESTER, MAY 1966, by CHARLES OLSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as moving twilight and the gulls start talking the cinnamon moon Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Moon; Seagulls JUST AS MORNING TWILIGHT AND THE GULLS, GLOUCESTER, MAY 1966, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as moving twilight and the gulls start talking the cinnamon moon Last Line: As much condition as the purchase of my soul by love as they Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Moon JUST AT THE MOONRISE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing the rush and roar of the deep-sea breakers Last Line: Just at the moonrise! Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Ocean LA DONNA, by MARY BARNARD Poem Source First Line: The moon is a woman, because it controls Last Line: Marking the times of her ascendancy Subject(s): Moon; Women LADY MOON, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Moon LAMENT OF THIS GOOD MOON, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the lap / of the lord Last Line: There is dancing in a ring. Subject(s): Lament; Moon LAMPLIGHTING, by CHRISTOPHER CAHILL Poem Source First Line: The curfew tolls the death of little nell Last Line: Slowly over the visible world. %nothing seems to vanish but it does Subject(s): Moon; Night LAST SUNSET, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: Topazes, emeralds, sapphires, amethysts Last Line: Fastened in glowing lace of ruby red Subject(s): Evening; Moon; Sky LATE HALF MOON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late half moon %high over head Last Line: In the moonfilled dawn Subject(s): Birds; Moon; Owls; Space And Space Travel LAWS OF GRAVITY, by AMY SCATTERGOOD Poem Source First Line: First the sky fell down in parachutes Last Line: Onto the stone tablet ground Subject(s): Moon; Sky; Space And Space Travel; Stars LEARNED HEVELIUS WHEN HE MAPPED THE MOON FOUND WATERS .., by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: Whether the full moon floats Last Line: Spills into the lake of dreams Subject(s): Moon LES CAMARADES EN VOYAGE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The vessel is restlessly rushing over the waters Last Line: And as they step upon the pier, lo the whiteness there! Subject(s): Boats; Moon; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips LIFE ON THE MOON, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Like anyplace else, it has its problems. It also has its advantages Last Line: Again, safe on the solid ground of a newborn moon Subject(s): Moon LOCKERBIE FAIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the lockerbie fair! - have you Last Line: Simply waiting your orders, at lockerbie fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Festivals; Moon; Night; Fairs; Pageants; Bedtime LOCUST MOON, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Squats orange and pregnant on the horizon Last Line: And stood there swaying and staring. The stick, the color of the clay %thinking think Subject(s): Evening; Moon LONG DISTANCE, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: Near midnight, our daughter calls Last Line: And whatever else we can only begin to imagine Subject(s): Moon LOVE IN EXILE I: 12, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O moon, large golden summer moon Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime LOVE'S LESSON, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon each month is blenched Last Line: Belongs infinity. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Moon; Sleep LOVE'S MASQUERADES: THE GHOST OF LOVE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The wan witch at the creepy midnight hour Last Line: And now the hell-worm all her body hath! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Moon; Soul; Supernatural LOVE'S WITNESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When I was in thy chamber Last Line: This wicked tale of thee Subject(s): Love;moon;night; Bedtime LOW-MOON LAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I often look when the moon is low Last Line: For a longing is on me that will not go. Subject(s): Landscape; Longing; Moon; Sea; Ocean 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 LUNANCY, by EMILE KESSLER Poem Text First Line: The moon is a clown with a silly face Last Line: And dangles a star on the edge of a hill. Subject(s): Moon LUNAR ECLIPSE, by NANCY EIMERS Poem Source First Line: Tonight as the merest ghost of us Last Line: Whether our eyes are open or closed Subject(s): Eclipses; Moon; Night LUNAR ECLIPSE, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: The maid comes into the hall Last Line: Crowds of stars trailing it down the west Subject(s): Moon LUNAR STANZAS, by HENRY COGSWELL KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: Night saw the crew like pedlers withtheir packs Last Line: And revel o'er me, like a soulless sheep. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Nonsense; Bedtime LUNAR TERCETS, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: Things are not as we would have them be Last Line: Bedowned by whirling feathered things Subject(s): Moon; Night LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lotos flower is troubled Last Line: With love and the sorrows of love. Subject(s): Faces; Flowers; Love; Moon LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 3. THE SLEEPING-CAR, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The land is silent, and the moon Last Line: The heart's assumptions and its pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Moon; Railroads; Silence; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MAKING CONVERSATION, by ALESSANDRA LYNCH Poem Source First Line: Maybe if the blue moon listened more Last Line: Frozen, two mouths, fed on winter grass Subject(s): Conversation; Moon MAN IN THE CELLAR UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MOONLIGHT, by AL GABOR Poem Source First Line: If he stands on a chair Last Line: In the bare trees %rooted in the sky Subject(s): Cellars; Men; Moon MAN IN THE MOON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mon in the mone stond and strit Last Line: Pe cherld nul nout adoun er pe day dawe Subject(s): Moon MAN IN THE MOON (2), by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The man in the moon %as he sails the sky Last Line: And frightened him so he spilled it Subject(s): Moon MARGOT, MY PAGE: MOONLIGHT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: As an apen quivers, 'gainst this heart of mine be a ray that shivers Last Line: Dian's archery? Subject(s): Animals; Moon; Nudity; Rabbits; Nakedness; Hares MAULDLIN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mud-mattressed under the sign of the hag Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Moon MAY MORNING, by UNA W. HARSEN Poem Text First Line: Taste to the full this fleeting hour Last Line: Lest, with its passing, joy too shall depart. Subject(s): May (month); Moon; Morning MAY NIGHT, FULL MOON, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I look out into the valley on my way to bed Last Line: Feel warm and fecund in this late light Subject(s): Moon MAY WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The moon on a bright may day Last Line: Like winnie bird, will have her way Subject(s): May (month); Moon 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 MID-AUTUMN MOON, by HENG CHAO Poem Source First Line: Twilight rain %crosses vast space. River sky Last Line: A pure passage Subject(s): Moon; Zen Buddhism MIDSUMMER NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midsummer night, without a moon, but the stars. Last Line: I am ashamed, I have betrayed my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): August; Italy; Moon; Night; Stars; Italians; Bedtime MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT, by MIRIAM OTT MUNSON Poem Text First Line: The calm moon lays her fingers chaste and cool Last Line: Beneath the soft rays of the moon's still light. Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Summer; Nightmares; Bedtime MIDWINTER MOON OVER THE CITY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tarnished moon spins upward like a piece Last Line: Which, to this land of tears, the gods have sent. Subject(s): London; Moon MINIONS OF THE MOON, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They do not feel the vibrant joy of noon Last Line: —university of california chronicle Subject(s): Beauty; Moon MIST AND MOONLIGHT, by JOSEPH TATLOW Poem Text First Line: My love, do you ever remember Last Line: Through a mist of unshed tears! Subject(s): Love; Moon MOCKERY, by KATHERINE DIXON RIGGS Poem Text First Line: Happened that the moon was up before I went to bed Last Line: And poking through the window was her bold gold head! Subject(s): Moon MOOD, by THEODORE ANTHONY STANFORD Poem Text First Line: To dream - and so to watch the wan moon glimmer Last Line: But only waste and molten sky and pain! Subject(s): Dreams; Insanity; Moon; Sea; Nightmares; Madness; Mental Illness; Ocean MOON, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Your sweet face hangs bruised in the night sky Last Line: The smoldering light of stars Subject(s): Death; Moon; Night; Peace; Rest MOON, by DEBORAH DALE Poem Source First Line: Pull that curtain behind you. %for the first time Last Line: Take it. Take it %for show and tell Subject(s): Moon; Mothers And Sons; Schools MOON, by ELIZA LEE CABOT FOLLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, look at the moon! Subject(s): Moon MOON, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: A metallic mammal. Nocturnal Last Line: Sputniks and sonnets Subject(s): Moon MOON, by GEORG HEYM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He whom the far horizon bore, blood-red Last Line: A gentle water where dark elms now lean. Subject(s): Moon MOON, by JUSAMMI CHIKAKO Poem Source First Line: On this summer night Last Line: Stands the moon, brilliant, cloudless Subject(s): Moon MOON, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is a monstrance Last Line: The moon is the number 18 Subject(s): Moon MOON, by MOISELLE RENSTROM Poem Text First Line: Oh, moon, moon, what has happened to you Last Line: Where is the rest of you shining tonight? Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime MOON, by HENRY ROWE (1750-1819) Poem Text First Line: Thee too, modest tressed maid Last Line: Beneath, o maiden moon! Thy ray. Subject(s): Moon MOON & OTHER FAILURES, by F. D. REEVE Poem Source First Line: The stones of paris smell of books Last Line: No one remembers the moon and other failures Subject(s): Failure; Moon MOON ACADEMY, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: You fly into the sky Last Line: For light to follow Subject(s): Moon MOON AFTERGLOW, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING Poem Text First Line: Far down the west I came on night Last Line: Who loved and would not let her go. Subject(s): Moon; Nature MOON AND DAWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The bluest gray - the grayest blue Last Line: Good-night to sorrows left behind Subject(s): Dawn;moon; Sunrise MOON AND MOONLIGHT (AT CAMBRIA), by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How to dance to your music Last Line: I see you waving back %to your old skeptic Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Moon; Night MOON AND THE CLOUD, by MARY MARIA COLLING Poem Source First Line: Full-orb'd in her splendour the moon rose on high Last Line: To an orb that's so great and so glorious as he Subject(s): Moon; Sun MOON AND THE YEW TREE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary Last Line: And the message of the yew tree is blackness - blackness and silence Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Moon; Yew Trees MOON AT MORNING, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Ghostly chalk rounded low in bluest Subject(s): Moon; Mornng; Love MOON BLOOMS, by IRENE DAKIN Poem Text First Line: Flowered the dusky shadows Last Line: To the moon's call. Subject(s): Flowers; Moon MOON CHILD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever slid into my mother's room that Last Line: I always blame the moon Subject(s): Birth; Moon MOON DANCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the shining moon came down Last Line: For the moon and I are wise. Subject(s): Moon MOON FROM THE PORCH, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moon has dusks for walls, Subject(s): Moon MOON IN LLEYN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last quarter of the moon Last Line: Cumbersome shadow, prayer, too, %has its phases Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Moon MOON IN THE BUCKET, by GABRIEL OKARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look! %look out there Last Line: And dirt of this bucket war Subject(s): Moon MOON IS THE NUMBER 18, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a monstrance Last Line: And sound is, is, his %conjecture Subject(s): Moon MOON MADNESS (IN THE PSEUDO-CHINESE STYLE OF THE MODERNISTIC SCHOOL), by ROBERT WOOD CLACK Poem Text First Line: Fragrant evening whispers from the south Last Line: Than are the dead ashes of my heart! Subject(s): Moon MOON MAGIC, by LEIGH BUCKNER HANES Poem Source First Line: Strange, how the moon will come Subject(s): Moon MOON OF BROOKLYN, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Source First Line: When the moon comes over brooklyn Subject(s): Moon MOON ON THE SEA, by MARIE DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the dim twilight dreams Last Line: Pale moon! Alternate Author Name(s): D'houville, Gerard; Heredia, Marie De Subject(s): Evening; Moon; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean MOON OVER L.A., by MARTHA RONK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon moreover spills onto Last Line: We've seen it all and don't mind Subject(s): Los Angeles; Moon MOON OVER OAXACA, by JIM THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Slowly, stately a nearly full moon rises Last Line: Out of sight into the alien dark Subject(s): Moon MOON OVER PRAGUE, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: The decorator is mixing his plaster Last Line: A thousand letters will be written with its ink %and a single poem Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Moon; Prague, Czech Republic MOON OVER SQUIBNOCKET, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred yards out the rockpile shelters the keeper bass Subject(s): Moon MOON OVER SQUIBNOCKET, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred yards out the rockpile shelters the keeper bass Last Line: Oh yes, perfect summer night. A few of us just looking up Subject(s): Moon MOON PUT HER HAND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To shut up and watch Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature MOON PUT HER WHITE HANDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sent me on into the night Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature; Night MOON RABBIT, by SUSAN TERRIS Poem Source First Line: A daytime moon hovers, and moon rabbit Last Line: Will be the same and the lop-earred moon rabbit %who, day or night, sees everything Subject(s): Day; Moon MOON RIDER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sky of deepening bronze Last Line: Through the lingering night. Subject(s): Moon MOON RISES, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When the moon comes up Last Line: Silver money %sobs in the pocket Subject(s): Moon MOON SAILS OUT, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When the moon sails out Last Line: Break out in sobs in the pocket Subject(s): Hearts; Moon MOON SEEN BY DAY, by ELIZA MARY HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Thou most companionless! What dost thou here Last Line: And there, there only, the cold laurel wave! Subject(s): Moon MOON SITTING, by HUI YUNG Poem Source First Line: High mountain cascades froth Last Line: Of the moon: out of season %heart of ice Subject(s): Moon; Zen Buddhism 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 MOON SONG, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child saw in the morning skies Last Line: Old moon, when we are underground. Subject(s): Moon; Paris, France MOON SPELL, by ELISE AYLEN Poem Source First Line: The moon has set fire Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, Duncan Cambpell, Mrs. Subject(s): Moon MOON WALK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My son lies a monochrome of the moon Last Line: Leaving no mark on this side of space. Subject(s): Children; Moon; Childhood MOON WORSHIPPERS, by ERIC ROBERTSON DODDS Poem Source First Line: We are the partly real ones Subject(s): Moon MOON, ALL LORDLY WHITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of red clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dawn; Moon; Nature; Sky MOON, MOON, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon follows me street by street Subject(s): Moon; City & Town Life MOON-DROWNED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the height of the fete when Last Line: Purple and gold and ivory! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime MOON-FLOWER, by WAYLAND A. DUNHAM Poem Text First Line: I saw a moon / framed in gauze-draped shadows Last Line: And found you gone. Subject(s): Moon MOON-FLOWERS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These white moon-flowers lift to the moon Last Line: The canker of cureless time? Subject(s): Flowers; Moon MOON-LOVER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is like a ping-pong ball Last Line: The moon's eternal worshipper Subject(s): Moon MOON-NIGHT, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon shines full, the elm trees stand Last Line: If night be beautiful like this! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Moon MOON-SHADOWS; A SONNET, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: I leaned out from my window yesternight Last Line: And see my whole sky luminous and fair. Subject(s): Moon MOON-SLANTS, by REGINALD LANSING COOK Poem Text First Line: A boy by a window, nodding over 'treasure island' Last Line: The moon -- a golden spangle sprung open; a bracelet torn apart by vulcan hands. Subject(s): Moon MOON-SONG, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave! 'tis the maiden moon Last Line: Of a wound heart hidden. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Moon MOON-WORSHIP, by EDWIN FORD PIPER Poem Text First Line: I hear them singing in the open spaces Last Line: The worship of the moon. Subject(s): Moon MOONBEAM, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Moonbeam steps down the silken ladder Last Line: To catch the stars Subject(s): Moon MOONBEAMS, by CARL DAVID AF WIRSEN Poem Source First Line: When starry legions gleam on Subject(s): Moon MOONBLIND, by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Beware to sleep unroofed beneath the moon Last Line: Beheld the grael, and lost by it all sight. Subject(s): Moon MOONFLOWER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: I do not want to be like the moonflower worshipped Last Line: That kind of closure after a night-long bloom Subject(s): Moon; Night; Women; Worship MOONLIGHT, by MARGUERITE ATTERBURY Poem Text First Line: The moon's a spectre pirate ship Last Line: They've silvered all the trees. Subject(s): Moon MOONLIGHT, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: The moonlight shimmers on the water's breast Last Line: "is perfect rest." Subject(s): Moon MOONLIGHT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a pale phantom Last Line: Of seeing; what we bring we find. Subject(s): Moon MOONLIGHT, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Was it because it was moonlight Last Line: That always first freezes? Subject(s): Cold; Moon MOONLIGHT, by JACK RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Sleep, all around you! Last Line: Affected by the moon! Subject(s): Moon; Sleep; Soul MOONLIGHT, by JACQUES TAHUREAU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The high midnight was garlanding her head Subject(s): Love; Moon MOONLIGHT, by ROBERT GILBERT VANSITTART Poem Source First Line: Time was when we were closer, moon and earth Last Line: Their feet have never soiled my asphodel Subject(s): Moon; World War Ii MOONLIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a landscape rare Last Line: To the tall fountains, slender among the statuary Subject(s): Moon; Gardens & Gardens & Gardening; Soul; Love; Landscape MOONLIGHT AND DREAMS, by JEANNETTE EUGENIE CUSHING Poem Text First Line: Oh moon, moon hanging in a high translucent sky Last Line: While over our dust the moon shall shine and loving vigil keep. Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Nightmares MOONLIGHT AND GAS, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet in theory worships the moon Last Line: Draw up his venetians and welcome the moon. Subject(s): Moon; Poetry & Poets MOONLIGHT AT SEA, by GERTRUDE M. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: I linger on the deck and watch the moon Last Line: Trace out her golden glory on the sea. Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Ocean MOONLIGHT COCKTAILS ARE THE THING', by ALEXANDRIA PEARY Poem Source Last Line: So you won't feel on trial.' %everything is different Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Moon MOONLIGHT IN ITALY, by ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE DODGE KINNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's not a breath the dewy leaves to stir Last Line: The sense of worship into uttered praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Stedman, Edmund Burke, Mrs. Subject(s): Italy; Moon; Italians MOONLIGHT IN MAY, by CHARLES JULIEN LIOULT DE CHENEDOLLE Poem Text First Line: When run his circuit long and bright Last Line: Around thy solemn, silent throne. Subject(s): Moon MOONLIGHT IN THE PINES, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full-starred, seraphic night arose Last Line: Move with a secret word. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime MOONLIGHT METAPHOR, by ETHEL BROOKS KOGER Poem Text First Line: The moon is brighter than a silver ball Last Line: Between the moonlight and the light of dawn. Subject(s): Moon MOONLIGHT NIGHT, by ERMINIE BROADSTONE Poem Text First Line: Soft, silvery radiance in whose cool, white light Last Line: Gleaming beauty of a moonlight night. Subject(s): Moon MOONLIGHT NORTH AND SOUTH, by ROBERT FULLER MURRAY Poem Text First Line: Love, we have heard together Subject(s): Moon MOONLIT NIGHT, by KUAN HSIU Poem Source First Line: As I wander aimlessly under a frozen moon Last Line: The river already a carpet of scattered white blossoms Subject(s): Moon; Zen Buddhism MOONLIT NIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Path in the garden deep as the draught of a long drink Last Line: The hands of the wind touch %your near face with the farthest night Subject(s): Moon MOONRISE, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I awoke in the midsummer not to call night Last Line: Parted me leaf and leaf, divided me, ' eyelid and eyelid of slumber. Subject(s): Moon MOONRISE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who has seen the moon, who has not seen Last Line: Sooner than our full consummation here %in this odd life will tarnish or pass away Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Consolation; Moon MOONRISE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first snows of the year lie white Last Line: While faint the windy stars are seen. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Moon; Night; Pine Trees; Snow; Trees; Bedtime MOONRISE, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within this silent palace of the night Last Line: That hangs between the darkness and the light. Subject(s): Moon MOONRISE, by ALICE HARLOW STETSON Poem Text First Line: Now by the deepening primrose of the sky Last Line: The rising moon no more. Subject(s): Moon MOONRISE, by HELENE THURSTON Poem Text First Line: The cool and trailing garments of the dusk Last Line: Her face smiles down upon the waiting world. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Rain; Bedtime MOONRISE AT ASHCROFT, by RODERICK TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: Silver crashed and the lights went out in ashcroft Last Line: Click off the flashlight. Write %on the silver page Subject(s): Moon; Night MOONRISE AT SEA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the dark the moon begins to creep Last Line: A drowned body rises solemnly. Subject(s): Moon MOONRISE FROM IONA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where in dim forgotten days Last Line: The bat flies and the owl doth brood. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Wind; Ocean MOONRISE IN THE ROCKIES, by ROUTH PICKETT BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: I've seen the moon rise over vast endless plains Last Line: Against the glamour of the night. Subject(s): Moon; Rocky Mountain Range MOONRISE ON MANHATTAN; FOR LOUIS H. WETMORE, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Out in the harbour, silence and the moon Last Line: In coronation on manhattan's shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Cities; Moon; New York City; Night; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime MOONRISE ON THE ANTARCTIC, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge white icebergs silently Last Line: Voyaging onward without sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Antarctica; Death; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The MOONRISE ON THE VENETIAN LAGOONS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A more than twilight darkness dwells Last Line: Each droplet with a small moon flee. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Lagoons; Moon MOONSET, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Idles the night wind through the dreaming firs Last Line: But I have touched your soul in shadow-land. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime MOONSET, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves of poplars pick japanese prints against the west Last Line: Only dark listening to dark. Subject(s): Moon MOONSHINER'S SERENADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night's blind-black, an' I 'low Last Line: I'll be twic't as good-again! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Moon; Night; Roses; Singing & Singers; Bedtime MOONSTRUCK, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have quarrelled with the moon. I loved her once Last Line: Moonstruck and blind and robbed of our delight. Subject(s): Moon MOONWATCHING AND STEELHEAD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The moon rises over the ridge Last Line: Shining from underwater stones Subject(s): Moon; Night; Romance MOREOVER THE MOON, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Face of the skies Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Moon MOTHER GOOSE (3), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I saw in the moon Last Line: I'll drink mine Subject(s): Moon; Rabbits; Wine MR. MOON: A SONG OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O moon, mr. Moon Last Line: When you comin' down? Subject(s): Moon MUSIC IN MOONLIGHT, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever music lovelier than to-night! Last Line: Fashions, supreme, of life, and fate, and time. Subject(s): Moon; Music & Musicians; Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856) MY FORMER LIFE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under vast colonnades that took the noon's Last Line: Athwart my brow with wafture of green palms. Subject(s): Evening; Moon; Sun; Sunset; Twilight MY SILVER MOON, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: As the moon with silver streaming Last Line: Flood my darken'd soul with light. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Moon; Pity NAILSWORTH HILL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The moon, that peeped as she came up Last Line: Where no such trees have ever been? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Light; Moon; White (color) NATURE RHYMES: 3, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come see the moon Last Line: In the lagoon Subject(s): Moon NATURE'S DRINKING-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth drinks rain through every pore Last Line: Come let us drink, drink, drink! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Earth; Moon; Nature; Singing & Singers; Wine; World NEW MOON, by IDA B. BOTTS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that cupid had lost his bow Last Line: And the bow was just the new moon! Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Nightmares NEW MOON, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much it must bear on its back Subject(s): Moon NEW MOON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now day / drawing his golden waters down the west Last Line: From their too youthful wonder in the sea. Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Stars; Ocean NEW MOON, END OF OCTOBER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Morning met the grass in whiteness Last Line: Star-still, darker %still Subject(s): Moon; October NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: MY MOON, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My moon was lit in an hour of lilies Subject(s): Moon NIGHT AND SHADOWS, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: But yesterday I watched the shadows play Last Line: If I remember morning speeds the night. Subject(s): Light; Moon; Night; Shadows; Bedtime 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 MAGIC, by RUTH ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: When the wail of the swamps and the Last Line: That's a breath of eternity. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 2. VOICE OF A YOUTHFUL TURK, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If only up the straits the tempest flew Last Line: Dying again upon the mouth of you! Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Moon; Storms; Dead, The NIGHT SITTING, by CHING AN Poem Source First Line: The hermit doesn't sleep at night Last Line: Rustles him too Subject(s): Moon; Zen Buddhism NIGHT WINDS, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: The slender moon in its silvery sheen Last Line: For what should the night winds sigh? Subject(s): Moon; Night; Sleep; Summer; Bedtime NIGHTFALL, by ANTONIO MANUEL MARIA DE TRUEBA Y LA QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: The moon is soft arising Last Line: If nought to us replies! Subject(s): Moon; Night; Serenity NIGHTINGALE LANE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down through the thicket, out of the hedges Last Line: The nightingale singeth under the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers NO MOON ALL NIGHT, by CARRIE ETTER Poem Source First Line: No moon, the bode of cloudcover Last Line: No moon, to the quick and not quick about it Subject(s): Moon NO MORE OF THE MOON, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh sing no more of the moon Subject(s): Moon NOCTURNE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rim of the moon Last Line: On my grief, astore! Subject(s): Kisses; Moon NOCTURNE, by WILLIAM GREENOUGH SCHOFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So hand in hand again, through scented dark Last Line: We now keep walking all the deadly while. Subject(s): Moon; Walking NOCTURNE IN AUGUST, by YORK SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: I saw two stars there walking hand in hand Last Line: I try to cling to what is left of night. Subject(s): August; Moon; Night; Bedtime NOCTURNE IN THE SOUTH, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slender new moon seems as frail Last Line: In your white hands. Subject(s): Moon NOCTURNE OF THE POET WHO LOVED THE MOON, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have grown tired of the moon, tired of its look Subject(s): Moon NORMAN CRADLE-SONG, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the moon is afloat Last Line: And the heavenly noon. Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Babies; Moon; Sleep; Infants NORTHERN CALIFORNIA NIGHT (STRAITS OF CARQUINEZ), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like miraculous shining electrum / this wide amber light Last Line: Hushes heaven, whence radiance is drifting! Subject(s): Calm; Moon; Night; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime NOTE ON MOONLIGHT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The one moonlight, in the simple-colored night Last Line: Certain and ever more fresh. Ah! Certain, for sure Subject(s): Moon NOTHING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will my love come to me? Last Line: Alas! I have no love. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Jesus Christ; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Nothingness; Soul; Dead, The; Nihilism; Voids NUN SNOW, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she / thoughtless of life Last Line: Dropping the curtain so soon! Subject(s): Earth; Moon; World NURSE'S WATCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The moon it shines Last Line: Now bring my baby's porridge straight Subject(s): Babies; Moon OBSESSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, take away those haunting eyes Last Line: And the rain cover the hill! Subject(s): Clouds; Moon; Rain; Sea; Water; Ocean ODE TO THE MOON OF THE SOUTH, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let him go down, - the gallant sun Last Line: In thee rejoicing and adoring him. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Moon OF PAPA AL, by OUIDA LOUISE CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: I think he is taking his turn tonight Last Line: And trying to come near, very near. Subject(s): Children; Death; Moon; Childhood; Dead, The OLD MOON CRADLING THE NEW MOON, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we have known is fully formed Subject(s): Moon ON A CERTAIN CRITIC, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, john keats Last Line: In the bodies of innumerable worms. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Moon; Poetry & Poets ON A NIGHTINGALE IN APRIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow moon is a dancing phantom Last Line: O moon-white maid! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): April; Birds; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Theocritus (310-250 B.c.) ON AESTHETICS, MORE OR LESS, by PETER KANE DUFAULT Poem Source First Line: I moved, to keep the moon Last Line: They do say only the lunatic stares at the bare moon Subject(s): Moon ON AN ECLIPSE OF THE MOON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Struggling, and faint, and fainter didst thou wane Last Line: Their beauteous queen and seize her sacred veil. Subject(s): Eclipses; Moon ON LEAPING OVER THE MOON, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw new worlds beneath the water lie Last Line: As o'er our heads, a place of bliss. Subject(s): Earth; Icarus; Moon; Mythology - Classical; World ON THE MID-AUTUMN MOON, FOLLOWING YAO XIAOZHU'S RHYMES, by ZHANG YUNIANG Poem Source First Line: The icy wheel rides on the sea Last Line: The sound of 'plum blossoms' moves the jade lady of the xiang Subject(s): Moon ONCE I COULD HAIL (HOWE'ER SERENE THE SKY), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where joys are perfect—neither wax nor wane Subject(s): Moon ONE OF MANY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who told me Last Line: How about the moon? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Lies; Moon ONLY ONCE, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almost at the equator Subject(s): Moon ONLY THE SEA MIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Full moon %void only Subject(s): Moon; Nature; Nothingness; Sea ORIENT, by ARMANDE ALICE FAIR Poem Text First Line: White butterflies flitting across the face Last Line: In a gauze of opal lure. Subject(s): Asia; Butterflies; Insects; Moon; Stars; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Bugs OUR MOON'S AN ATTIC USED FOR STORAGE SPACE, by DAWSON POWELL Poem Text First Line: Our moon's an attic used as storage space Last Line: From lunar shores when dawn's mist curtains burn. Subject(s): Attics; History; Moon; Historians OUT OF THE MOON, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merely the moonlight Last Line: It falls on the ferns under my may-tree bough. Subject(s): England; Flowers; Moon; English OUTER SPACE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you could turn the moon Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Moon OVER A ROCK-POOL, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: Sits upside down Subject(s): Moon; Native Americans; Riddles OVERSIGHT, by AVERY L. GILES Poem Text First Line: Years past, I trysted' neath the moon Last Line: My arteries would harden. Subject(s): Aging; Moon; Time PAGAN MOON, by HENRY T. PRAED Poem Text First Line: O pagan maiden, bare your breast Last Line: Above them all, queen of the sky. Subject(s): Moon PAN AND LUNA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was Last Line: Arcadia, night, a cloud, pan, and the moon. Subject(s): Pan (mythology); Moon PASSIONATE DOWSABELLA: 2, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The pears were in the perry Last Line: And dowsabella's cry is still -- and is she still in pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Love; Moon; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime PERSEPHONE'S GARDEN, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The makeshift scaffold that held up the moon Last Line: A story the digression overtakes Subject(s): Moon; Night PERSPECTIVE, by MILLICENT SHINE Poem Text First Line: Climb on; the moon, curved finger of mystery Last Line: To win this high, this ultimate, elation. Subject(s): God; Moon PHASES OF THE MOON, by RON DE MARIS Poem Source First Line: Nothing of the milk pitcher foreshadows Last Line: Dust on the bright plain where swift diana rides Subject(s): Moon PHOSPHORESCENCE, by ROSAMOND LANGBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: I went into the larder Subject(s): Moon PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 2. SUNSET, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glowing ruddy sun descends Last Line: I sorrow no longer. Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Moon; Stars; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness PIERROT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierrot alone Last Line: Are on my brows. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Moon PIETY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh liquid moon that silvers the rims Last Line: I come! I come! Subject(s): Charm; Flowers; Graves; Love; Moon; Piety; Roses; Virtue; Tombs; Tombstones PLACES: 2. FULL MOON (SANTA BARBARA), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listened, there was not a sound to hear Last Line: Tracing in crystal the slow way he came. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Moon; Pacific Ocean; Santa Barbara, California PLATONIC, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew it the first of the summer Last Line: For the moonlit talks -- and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Moon; Roses; Summer POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What about moonlight Last Line: What about the moonlight Subject(s): Night; Moon; Bedtime POETIC EPIGRAMS: 1. THE YOUNG MOON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young moon is so shy Last Line: Ere stars half fill the sky. Subject(s): Moon POETIC EPIGRAMS: 10. THE AUTUMN MOON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since the moon has found Last Line: In her desireless round. Subject(s): Autumn; Moon; Seasons; Fall POETIC EPIGRAMS: 18. ON THE WEST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Curled in a dark cocoon Last Line: The chrysalis of the moon! Subject(s): Moon PORCH TALK ON THE SUMMER SOLSTICE, by GEORGE WITTE Poem Source First Line: That day gave way, each ledge of light Last Line: Salvation none of its business Subject(s): Conversation; Moon; Summer PRAISE OF CREATED THINGS, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Text First Line: Be thou praised, my lord, with all thy creatures Last Line: And produces divers fruits with colored flowers, and herbs. Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Animals; Earth; Moon; Plants; Sun; World; Planting; Planters QUATRAIN, by CHIA TAO Poem Source First Line: At the bottom of the ocean: moon Last Line: And you could buy a thousand miles of spring Subject(s): Moon; Zen Buddhism QUATRAINS: THE GOOD QUEEN, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale ruler of the heavens, with lavish hand Last Line: Alike on friends and foes. Subject(s): Moon RACHEL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wan september moonbeams, struggling down Last Line: Crowned with the palm, walking the fields of peace! Subject(s): Moon; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RAIN CLOUDS GONE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On the moon Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature; Sky READING THE GREEKS UNDER A BLANKET OF BLUE, by BILL COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Quarter moon trading light with a snowfall Last Line: Swings off the cumbersome cover of night Subject(s): Books; Moon; Mythology - Classical; Night REFLECTING TIP, EXPECT THE TASTE OF WEDGES, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The dream's prospect a disaster: %the moon Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep 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 LEOPARDI'S MOON: A VERSION, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Moon, the year is over Last Line: Each word next to a word stone Subject(s): Moon RENAISSANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Still we hear it Last Line: Of those that worship the sun! Subject(s): Immortality; Moon; Night; Prayer; Sun; Bedtime REQUIEM FOR A CROESUS, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To him the moon was a silver dollar spun Last Line: With pennies on his eyes. Subject(s): Moon; Religion; Stars; Sun; Theology RIDDLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I saw a strange creature Last Line: Thereafter, where that strange creature went Subject(s): Moon; Riddles; Sun RIDDLE: THE CRESCENT MOON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In mornigan's park there is a deer Last Line: In mornigan's park she walks alone Subject(s): Moon;riddles RIOLAMA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land beyond the lands you know Last Line: My native land that I shall never know. Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightmares; Woods RITOURNELLE, by NEIL TRACY Poem Text First Line: Between the moon and yesterday Last Line: With flutes and somber wine, they met. Subject(s): Love; Moon ROMAN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The new moon Last Line: Of the superstition! Subject(s): Moon; Rome, Italy; Shadows ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: VOYAGE BY NIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The half-moon peer'd from the darksome clouds Last Line: Our number then was two. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Moon; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 13. MEETING AGAIN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One summer eve, in the woodbine bower Last Line: Yes, I and the dead, who my side ne'er quitted. Subject(s): Death; Moon; Summer; Voices; Dead, The ROUND, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In light of day or full of moon Last Line: Kiss her whom you will. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Moon RUNAWAY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What are you doing, little day-moon Subject(s): Moon SACRED DEFOLIATION, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moon! Crown of an immense head Subject(s): Hearts; Moon SACRED DEFOLIATION, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moon! Crown of an immense head Last Line: That wanders the blue while crying verses! Subject(s): Hearts; Moon SAILING BY THE CRESCENT MOON, by MICHAEL FITZGERALD Poem Source First Line: The crescent moon Subject(s): Moon SATURN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the place! / no moon, no mist, no sound Last Line: Oh love -- Subject(s): Death; Devil; Hope; Life; Moon; Planets; Sleep; Wind; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Optimism SCEPTIC, by STANLEY BURNSHAW Poem Text First Line: Let those who know for certain that the sea Last Line: By. Subject(s): Moon; Spring SCIENTISTS SAY THE MOON GROWS 1 HALF INCHES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This cosmic terrorism hand to hand Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature SEA PIECE BY MOONLIGHT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet to mark the softened ray Last Line: Gild again the lovely scene. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Ocean SEA-HOARDINGS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is open again and sea flows in Last Line: And how to hope, in the darkest deeps of thinking. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Moon; Sea; Ocean SEE THE MOON'S BRIGHT BLAZE OF LIGHT, by UNKNOWN+125 Poem Source Last Line: This light knows neither day or night Subject(s): Moon; Zen Buddhism SENSES OF HERITAGE, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandpa waz a doughboy from carolina Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Race Awareness; African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Trees; Moon; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives SERAPHINA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When at evening in the forest Last Line: Each in the other's love blest. Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Moon; Night; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime SERENADE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bright stars are gleaming above Last Line: Oh, dream of me in thy soft slumbers! Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs SERENADE, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon puts on her silver veil Last Line: The eery laughter of the leaves. Subject(s): Moon SERENADE - TO NORA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight is failin' Last Line: And light up the night where the heart av me's gropin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Bedtime SET OF MOON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The archeress had gone Last Line: The city of the gods that never sleep. Subject(s): Archers And Archery; Cities; Moon; Urban Life SETTING OF THE MOON, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As in the lonely night Last Line: The gods have set a sign for us, the tomb Subject(s): Moon SEVEN MARIA: 1. MARE DESIDERII, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turn to the source and feel Last Line: Don't speak, you'll motion to him, %none of us can face it Subject(s): Absence; Moon SEVEN MARIA: 2. MARE IMBRIUM, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The plants have gone to witchcraft Last Line: And the dirt lies quiet at the bottom Subject(s): Absence; Moon; Plants SEVEN MARIA: 7. MARE INCOGNITO, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon makes my son go silent Last Line: He is totally filled with god Subject(s): Absence; Children; Moon; Religion SEVEN NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE MOON, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, am I sick Last Line: Which answers why Subject(s): Moon SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 4, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hour,' she said, 'of transmutation' Last Line: "gathers the stars together and goes out." Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime SHADOWS, by ZARO WEIL Poem Source First Line: Moon %last evening you Last Line: Until morning Subject(s): Moon; Shadows SHREWSBURY NIGHT, by CHARLES WARE BORDEN Poem Text First Line: I love the stillness of the night Last Line: The whole world as it ought to be. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime SIGIL: 11, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you take the moon in your hands Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Moon In Your Hands Subject(s): Bible; Moon SIGIL: 11, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you take the moon in your hands Last Line: Mullein-leaf, dog-wood leaf, moth-wing %and dandelion-seed under the ground Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Moon In Your Hand Subject(s): Bible; Moon SILVER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly, silently, now the moon Last Line: By silver reeds in a silver stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silver; Bedtime SILVER DREAM, by LILA HURLEY Poem Text First Line: At dusk the wood bird's song continuous rang Last Line: That night when summer dreamed a silver dream. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs SILVER ROAD, by HAMISH HENDRY Poem Source First Line: Last night I saw a silver road Subject(s): Moon SILVER SANDALS, by TRAVIS TUCK JORDAN Poem Text First Line: Last night I saw an april moon Last Line: But that I want to pray. Subject(s): April; Moon SIMPLE PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For what are we to think? But that philo Last Line: From simple philo as from the whole. Subject(s): Ignorance; Moon; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Rockets; Dullness; Stupdity SIMPLES, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of cool sweet dew and radiance mild Last Line: Who gathers simples of the moon Subject(s): Love; Moon SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 114, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the moon tired? She looks so pale Last Line: She fades away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Moon SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 119, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lady moon, your horns point toward the east Last Line: Wane, be at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Phases Of The Moon;lady Moon Subject(s): Moon SLEEP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city sleeps; the fierce metallic roar Last Line: They sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Corpses; Dreams; Moon; Sleep; Urban Life; Cadavers; Nightmares SLIPPED FROM THE CLOUD, by D. G. JONES Poem Source First Line: The moon, backlighting briefly Last Line: To mark the turn - and the salute Subject(s): Clouds; Moon; Night; Sun SLOWLY THE MOON RISES', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Forms in my mind Subject(s): Faces; Love; Moon SLOWLY THE MOON RISES', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Forms in my mind Subject(s): Faces; Love; Moon SOCIAL BLUNDER, by LINDA BACK MCKAY Poem Source First Line: Time was Last Line: Eats astronauts for breakfast Subject(s): Moon; Time SOLACE, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Through silver rifts the moon's calm radiance slips Last Line: God wills it so, my love, god wills it so! Subject(s): God; Moon; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sky SOLSTICE, by GEORGE BILGERE Poem Source First Line: The sad light of winter afternoon Last Line: To their chests, safe in the huge heart of sears Subject(s): Moon; Sun SONG, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, moon of flowers! Sweet moon of flowers Last Line: And wish my heart could change like thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Moon; Time SONG (11), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two wedded lovers watched the rising moon Last Line: Aspiring love has hallowed passion's tide. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Moon; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG (6), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is alone in the sky Last Line: Beating to bliss that is past evermore. Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Soul; Ocean SONG AT MORNING, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Stars that trembled on the stream Last Line: The cuckoo calls. Subject(s): Moon; Stars SONG OF RUARK TO BHANAVAR THE BEAUTIFUL, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I counsel the moon in her ascending? Last Line: For a danger and dolour is thy wending! Subject(s): Moon; Singing & Singers SONG OF THE BRIGHT MOON, by PAO CHAO Poem Source First Line: The bright moon comes forth from eastern hills Last Line: A thousand gold pieces don't matter - %what counts is the strength of feeling Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Moon; Singing And Singers SONG OF THE EVENING CLOUD, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Mother, o mother, moon my mother Last Line: Brighten us, lighten us, brother and brother! Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; Moon; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight SONG OF THE MOON, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight breaks upon the city's domes Last Line: To drink your wine mixed with sweet drafts of dews. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Moon SONG OF THE MOON, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, a hidden power is in my breast Last Line: He seeks in vain, confounded. Subject(s): Moon SONG TO A WELCH AIR, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon in silent brightness Last Line: Oh come, my love, to me! Subject(s): Love; Moon; Night; Bedtime SONG TO A WELCH AIR, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mourn not the forest whose verdure is dying Last Line: But the friend of my bosom returns not to me. Subject(s): Love; Moon; Night; Bedtime SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: APPRENTICED, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come out and hear the waters shoot, the owlet hoot, the owlet hoot Last Line: And parson stood within the rails, a-marrying me and thee, o.' Subject(s): Grass; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Songs SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: MORNING WATCH. COMING IN OF THE MERMAIDEN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is bleached as white as wool Last Line: Promised them 'to-morrow.' Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Moon; Morning; Sorrow; Sadness SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 101, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight is a garden Last Line: Against your lover's side! Subject(s): Moon SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 104, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the great stars white and blue Last Line: When I loosed your zone. Subject(s): Stars; Moon SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 116, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know how the great and golden sun Last Line: In the wonderful hills of sleep. Subject(s): Sun; Moon SONGS TO A.H.R.: 10. ASSUAGEMENT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How close tonight the whippoorwill Last Line: But love's star-builded roof. Subject(s): Birds; Life; Love; Moon; Whipporwills SONGS TO A.H.R.: 2. THE HEART'S QUESTION, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it such a little thing Last Line: I think it is god. Subject(s): Faces; God; Hearts; Moon 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, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I sung how ocean woos the stars Last Line: Can it be love? Ah, god! If I were sure! Subject(s): Heaven; Moon; Praise; Soul; Paradise SONNET TO THE AUTUMNAL MOON, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mild splendor of the various-vested night Last Line: Sails, like a meteor kindling in its flight. Subject(s): Moon SONNET TO THE MOON, by ANNA MARIA JONES Poem Text First Line: Thou lovely sorceress of the witching night Last Line: And dart thy pearly lustre o'er my pensive breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Moon SONNET TO THE MOON, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glittering colours of the day are fled Last Line: And lead the muse to soothe a suffering heart. Subject(s): Moon SONNET: 1. THE BRIGHT MOON, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Broad on the sunburnt hill the bright moon comes Last Line: This god of myriad stars whom I thought lost. Subject(s): Light; Moon; Night; Bedtime SONNET: SELENE IN THE SOUTH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fair young moon, that risest on my sight Last Line: The great cross sheds on thee his splendour down. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Moon SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 9. THOMAS MIDDLETON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wild moon riding high from cloud to cloud Last Line: Such tokens and such trophies crown thy name. Subject(s): Moon SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 12, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few more days in this unkind july Last Line: But you -- but you will then be far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): At The Season's End Subject(s): July; Kisses; Moon; Thames (river) SPLENDOR OF THE MOON, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: By this key which rids me of the world Last Line: Recognizes only to see it disappear Subject(s): Moon; Night STORY OF MONGREL GREY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the story the stockman told Last Line: The purchase money of mongrel grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Dogs; Forests; Moon; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods STORY TIME, by NAOMI REYNOLDS HESS Poem Text First Line: Tell them the moon is lemon ice Last Line: Don't try to add a moral. Subject(s): Moon STRANGE, by MRS. L. B. SARTAIN Poem Text First Line: Strange - the darkest shadows Last Line: Delight in hurting me. Subject(s): Happiness; Moon; Shadows; Joy; Delight SUMMER HEART, by SARGENT D. STERLING Poem Text First Line: Be brave when moons change Last Line: Your heart will have no pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Moon; Summer SUMMER-TIME AND WINTER-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the golden noon-shine Last Line: "cheep! Cheep! Cheep!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Katydids; Moon; Summer; Winter SUNSET AND MOONRISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the west whereon the sunset sealed the dead year's Last Line: All the hours are theirs of all the seasons: death has but his hour. Subject(s): Death; Evening; Holidays; Moon; New Year; Night; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime SUPERLATIVE, by HENRY B. WILKINSON Poem Text First Line: The sun one day said to the moon Last Line: "but the stars no man may count!" Subject(s): Moon; Stars; Sun SUPERVISOR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The moon supervises, praises Last Line: Through love's mazes Subject(s): Love; Moon TALKING TO THE MOON, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Out with the dog Last Line: And all that space %that couldn't care less Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Moon; Walking TALKING TO THE MOON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A defeated politician is in circulation Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Moon; Words; Vocabulary TENDER MOON, by KATHARINE KENNON RUCKER Poem Text First Line: Let's to the brow of yonder hill Last Line: To greet the morrow's may. Subject(s): April; Moon TEWA SONG, by WILLIAM HASKELL SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: Above the lands Last Line: Moon old man! Subject(s): Moon; Sun THALIDOMIDE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O half moon--- Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Moon THE ABSENCE OF LITTLE WESLEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sence little wesley went, the place Last Line: With our last prayers, and our last tears, sence little wesley's dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Clocks; Death; Moon; Prayer; Time; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE AMULET, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds are scribbling in the winter heat of the trees Last Line: If I did. Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime THE CAT AND THE MOON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat went here and there Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dancing & Dancers; Moon THE CHIMNEY AFIRE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a chimney afire Last Line: The clamour of owlet throats. Subject(s): Moon THE CHURCH TODAY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outwardly splendid as of old Last Line: Like the dead moon, she still shines on. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Churches; Moon; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology THE COWS AT NIGHT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was like a full cup tonight Last Line: Very gently it began to rain Subject(s): Cows; Moon; Night; Bedtime THE CRESCENT MOON, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slipping softly through the sky Last Line: To please a little boy. Subject(s): Moon THE CRESCENT MOON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though the power that made the nautilus Last Line: And sailing onward ever seems at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE CRIMSON MOON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the legions of the sun, the star battalions of the night Last Line: When the hidden people shall march out beneath the crimson moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Moon; Mortality; Redemption; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE CRITICS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was up and I was young Last Line: Had washed those erring lines away. Subject(s): Animals; Critics & Criticism; Moon; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Bedtime THE CRUEL MOON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cruel moon hangs out of reach Last Line: Moons hang much too far away. Subject(s): Moon THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three yellow slaves were set to swing Last Line: "to-morrow's supper shall be light." Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Moon; Slavery; Work; Workers; Serfs THE DEPARTURE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you got the moon safe? Subject(s): Moon THE ECLIPSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said, tonight is her plenilune Last Line: "and ""the law is the law,"" the astronomers said!" Subject(s): Dreams; Eclipses; Love; Moon; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean THE ELDRICH DARK, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now as the twilight's doubtful interval Last Line: Gathered beneath a greater shadow's wings. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Shadows; Bedtime THE ELVES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned with marjoram, clover and thyme Last Line: The dancing elves in the moonlight mime. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fairies; Moon; Elves THE ELVES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned with thyme and marjory Last Line: Merry elves dance on the lea. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fairies; Moon; Elves THE EPIPHANY OF THE MAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the voice of the outcast things Last Line: Approach and cleansed are. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Moon; Singing & Singers; Voices; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The THE EVERLASTING MONDAY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt have an everlasting Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Moon THE FACE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow spaces I see a face Last Line: If you should move! Subject(s): Faces; Fear; Lips; Love; Moon; Night; Bedtime THE FLOWER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could not see at that hour Last Line: The blindness -- the blindness -- that ruined me! Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Moon; Night; Rain; Destiny; Bedtime THE FREEDOM OF THE MOON, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've tried the new moon tilted in the air Last Line: The color run, all sorts of wonder follow Subject(s): Moon THE FULL MOON SHINES ON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Moon THE GREAT MOON, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see aloft the white full-moon upswaying Last Line: As suffering links the souls of all the living. Subject(s): Moon THE HALF MOON SHOWS A FACE OF PLAINTIVE SWEETNESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To finished loss or finished gain Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Moon; Life; Joy; Pain THE HALF-RING MOON, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the sea, over the sea Last Line: Hangs the half of a ring for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Love; Moon THE HARVEST MOON, by MARTHA ST. JOHN DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: The harvest moon rides in to-night Last Line: And silver hollyhock. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Orchards; Stars; Wind THE HARVEST MOON, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How peacefully the broad and golden moon Last Line: To rise up softly o'er our silver hairs. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon THE HARVEST MOON; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the harvest moon! On gilded vanes Last Line: And pipings of the quail among the sheaves. Subject(s): Autumn; Moon; Seasons; Fall THE HAUNTED MOON, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still closer doth she cowl with night Last Line: To all but her. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime THE HONEY-COLORED MOON, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And dance to the music of the spheres Subject(s): Moon THE HORN OF THE MOON, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I roofed my roof-tree at the wane of the moon Last Line: And the lordings go hunting without me! Subject(s): Moon THE HORNED MOON, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heavens were silent, and bare Last Line: And I married a different bride. Subject(s): Moon THE HUNTER'S MOON, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hunter's moon rides high Last Line: Dead or asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Hunting; Moon; Hunters THE KIND MOON, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think the moon is very kind Last Line: Tho' mother said I might. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Moon THE LAKE OF THE FALLEN MOON, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the thundering of water fills Last Line: Driving beneath the peaks from grass to grass. Subject(s): Lakes; Moon; Waterfalls; Pools; Ponds THE LAST LULLABY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The shepherd moon mothers her shining sheep Last Line: Wait what it saith! Subject(s): Comfort; Moon; Nature - Religious Aspects; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Silence; Sleep THE LIGHT O' THE MOON, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon's a peck of corn. It lies Last Line: Good shepherds guarding sheep. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Moon THE LOST CARYATID, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When over salamis stands homer's moon Last Line: "shall build once more our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Fear; Moon; Belief; Creed THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 21, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The full moon of spring Last Line: On pale velvet, set with gems Subject(s): Moon THE LOVER AND THE MOON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lover whom duty called over the wave Last Line: To tear the false moon from the sky. Subject(s): Moon THE MAID IN LOW-MOON LAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where she be, and yet Last Line: But only I sit here and moan. Subject(s): Grief; Moon; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness THE MAIDEN TO THE MOON, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O moon! Did you see Last Line: We only behaved like your lover and you! Subject(s): Love; Moon THE MALICE-DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An intolerable singing Last Line: Round that dial of the moon! Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dreams; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares THE MOCKING-BIRD, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In mirth he mocks the other birds at noon Last Line: His own wild song beneath the listening moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Love; Mockingbirds; Moon THE MOON, by MORRIS ABEL BEER Poem Text First Line: A baby looks up at the moon Last Line: Through charted space! Subject(s): Babies; Moon; Infants THE MOON, by CHARLES BEST Poem Text First Line: Look how the pale queen of the silent night Last Line: Joys ebb and flow within my tender heart. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Of The Moon;of The Moon Subject(s): Moon THE MOON, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy beauty haunts me heart and soul Last Line: Is greater than thy nightingales. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Moon THE MOON, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was but a chin of gold Last Line: Her dimities of blue. Variant Title(s): Poem: 737 Subject(s): Moon 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 MOON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago the moon was dark Last Line: And walk in brightness. Subject(s): Light; Moon; White (color) THE MOON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul was like the sea Last Line: Moves its great deeps through life and death. Subject(s): Moon; Soul THE MOON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful moon, with thy silvery light Last Line: To catch the rabbits and the hares. Subject(s): Light; Moon; Night; Bedtime THE MOON, by MARCELLA DARLING MILBURN Poem Text First Line: The lady of the night Last Line: And picking stars to wear. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime THE MOON, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is a monstrance Subject(s): Moon THE MOON, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has a face like the clock in the hall Last Line: Till up in the morning the sun shall arise. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Who Love The Moon;a Child's Garden Of Verses: 32 Subject(s): Moon THE MOON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray Last Line: She's mistress of the night. Subject(s): Moon THE MOON AND A CLOUD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sometimes I watch the moon at night Last Line: She turned it black instead of white. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Clouds; Moon THE MOON AND I, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We played a game-the moon and I Last Line: But still she hid behind a cloud. Subject(s): Moon; November THE MOON AND THE SPECTATOR, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dead of the night Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Moon THE MOON AND THE YEW TREE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Moon; Yew Trees THE MOON AT DAWN, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, every dawn, the homeless breeze Last Line: All wicked she, who once was good! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Moon THE MOON HAS HER NEST, by MARIE AUSTIN MAJOR Poem Text First Line: The moon has her nest in a tree Last Line: Little fledgling stars soon follow. Subject(s): Birds; Moon THE MOON IN GREECE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sea is calm and the moon Last Line: The real moon, not the one in the mind Subject(s): Moon THE MOON IN TIME LAPSE, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon in time lapse sliding over skyline Subject(s): Moon; Time THE MOON IS A FIERY ROSE, by MAX DAUTHENDEY Poem Text First Line: The moon comes up as the dusk falls late Last Line: To bring it to her in his dark hands. Subject(s): Moon THE MOON IS DISTANT FROM THE SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thine eye impose on me Subject(s): Moon; Sea THE MOON IS THE NUMBER 18, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a monstrance Subject(s): Moon THE MOON IS VISIBLE TONIGHT, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Moon THE MOON LOOKS IN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have risen again Last Line: And the women sour!' Subject(s): Moon THE MOON OVER L.A., by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon moreover spills onto Subject(s): Los Angeles; Moon THE MOON UPON HER FLUENT ROUTE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As dawn forgets them — now Subject(s): Moon; Stars THE MOON WALKED, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The moon walked across the lake Last Line: Not a silvery trace was seen Subject(s): Moon THE MOON'S LOVE, by LELAND WEST Poem Text First Line: The moon told me she loved the night Last Line: The night about her love? Subject(s): Moon THE MOON, LI PO AND IPHIGENIA, by VIRGINIA RUSS Poem Text First Line: The moon in the afternoon sky is a ghost Last Line: Chaste sacrifices to the cold contending winds. Subject(s): Li Po (701-762); Moon; Li Bai (71-762) THE MOON-BELOVED, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet lies by his silver sea Last Line: The boy has naught, and so has all. Subject(s): Moon THE MOON-CHILD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little lonely child am I Last Line: For me but sighs. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mermaids & Mermen; Moon; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE MOON-SHEEP, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon seems like a docile sheep Last Line: She greets again her lambs, the stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Moon THE MOOSE CALL, by VAUGHN H. KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The full moon rays streak 'cross the lake Last Line: "then tomah whispers -- ""shoot, much shoot!" Subject(s): Hunting; Moon; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE MOTHER AT THE TELESCOPE, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the moons of jupiter! Last Line: Seen with these kitchen-gazing eyes! Subject(s): Jupiter (planet); Moon; Sky; Telescopes & Binoculars; Opera Glasses THE NEW MOON, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New-silver-crescented the moon forth came Last Line: Of grotesque caliph or blotched caliban. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Moon THE NEW MOON, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, as the garish day is gone Last Line: Like that new light in heaven. Subject(s): Moon THE NEW MOON, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you shiver? Has the air grown chill? Last Line: There is no light could make your eyes more blue! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Light; Moon; Spring; Tides THE NEW MOON, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day, you have bruised and beaten me Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Moon THE NEW MOON HAS REACHED, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Month ago we were strangers Subject(s): Moon THE OLD PIER-POST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sea-ward-looking one Last Line: Christ must be coming soon! Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jesus Christ; Moon; Sea; Soul; Wharves; Dead, The; Ocean; Piers THE OLD SATYR TO THE YOUNG PLATONIST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go and get a monk for a lover Last Line: "his love was best of all!" Subject(s): Centaurs; Love; Monks; Moon; Sleep THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out into the cool clear air Last Line: To the other side of the moon! Subject(s): Air; Love; Moon THE PASCHAL MOON, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy face is whitened with remembered woe Last Line: And gaze upon thee as thou didst on him. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Gethsemane; Moon THE PASSING MOON, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my loggia bright I watch to-night Last Line: Yet sail another sea. Subject(s): Life; Moon; Mountains; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean THE PHASES OF THE MOON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man cocked his ear upon a bridge Last Line: The light in the tower window was put out. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Moon THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 203, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above cold mountain the moon shines alone Last Line: Buried in the skandhas submerged in the body Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Moon; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 4, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the glow of the moon Last Line: It shines both night and day Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Moon THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 46, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pine moon looks so cold Last Line: The seven jewels can't compare Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Moon THE POET'S JOURNAL: UNDER THE MOON, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From you and home I sleep afar Last Line: Says in its beating: love is rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Sleep THE RIDER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the horses of desire Last Line: Shall find my tomb. Subject(s): Despair; Graves; Moon; Tears; Tombs; Tombstones THE RIVAL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Moon; Separation; Isolation THE SHEPHERD, LOOKING EASTWARD, SOFTLY SAID, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With one calm triumph of a modest pride Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Moon THE SHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a ship of my cruelty Last Line: And take on board a god! Subject(s): Cruelty; Love; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE SHIPS OF ARCADY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thro' the faintest filigree Last Line: In the misty filigree. Subject(s): Arcadians; Boats; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Water; Arcadia; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE SKEIN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight through my gauze curtains Last Line: So I memorize these lines, without salutation, without close. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Moon; Poetry & Poets; Window Treatments; Women; Women's Rights; Wu, Emperor (140-87 B.c.); Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes; Feminism THE STALLION OF NIGHT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the soft, gray-breasted even like a carrier-dove / goes freed Last Line: Who stamps at the fords of the starlight, and neighs at the gates of the moon! Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Moon; Night; Silence; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime THE SUN AND THE MOON, by ZULA BENNINGTON GREENE Poem Text First Line: Take a lesson, my daughter, from the sun and the moon Last Line: Take a lesson, my daughter, from the sun and the moon. Subject(s): Moon; Sun THE TUNE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I played a crazy tune Last Line: And the same waters flow. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Moon; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers THE VAMPIRE MOON, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vital vapors to absorb Last Line: In wintriness as cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life; Moon THE VOICE FROM THE GRAY MOON, by DONALD CHESTER EWING Poem Text First Line: The gray moon stretches wide her arms Last Line: And given the sword whereby they fall! Subject(s): Moon; Night; Voices; Bedtime THE WANING MOON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: And, like a dying lady lean and pale Last Line: A white and shapeless mass. Variant Title(s): To The Moon (3) Subject(s): Moon THE WATER NYMPHS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waves were plashing against the lone strand Last Line: Continue their loving kisses. Subject(s): Kisses; Knights & Knighthood; Moon; Nymphs THE WATER SPIRIT'S SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silent hour of even Last Line: And with her till morn dwell joyously. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Singing & Singers; Stars; Water; Ocean THE WHITE MOON, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It is the exquisite hour Subject(s): Moon; Time; Dreams THE WHITE WATCH (OPUS 27: NO. 2), by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lifeless garden of the moon Last Line: A little over the garden below. Subject(s): Moon; Sleep; Women THE WHITE WINDOW, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon comes every night to peep Last Line: -- and she never makes a sound! Subject(s): Moon THE YOUNG MAY MOON, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young may moon is beaming love Last Line: He might happen to take thee for one, my dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Love; Moon THERE IS A LAKE OF ICE ON THE MOON, by PAMELA SUTTON Poem Source First Line: Inna cherniahivsky must be dead by now, I promised Last Line: There is a lake of ice on the moon Subject(s): Death; Ice; Moon THERE WAS A TIME AN ECLIPSE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Art' to me is like walking down the street with someone and saying don't you love that building Subject(s): Eclipses; Glaciers; Moon; Music And Musicians; Nature; Sky THREE BABY VERSES: 2, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon shines so bright Last Line: "and dream nor see night pale." Subject(s): Moon THREE JOVIAL HUNTSMEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were three jovial huntsmen Subject(s): Hunting;moon;nonsense; Hunters THREE MOONS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Cartons of %cream. Or white fists now brighter than Last Line: Prodigal, lamenting all beauty now wantonly %brought low Subject(s): Moon; Night; Sky THREE WISE FOOLS, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met two men upon the road Last Line: Or worshipper of cheese. Subject(s): Cheese; Girls; Moon TO A NAMELESS FRIEND, by HUGH WESTERN Poem Text First Line: The uneasy wren, who scolded with a tweet Last Line: Where only I have cares that last so late? Subject(s): Friendship; Moon TO A PINE TREE, by LEILA W. MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: Upon the hill you stand alone Last Line: To worship him with song and praise. Subject(s): Birds; Moon; Pine Trees; Trees TO BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember how the twilight stood Last Line: When it is march -- do you remember still? Subject(s): Birds; Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Moon; Silence; Sunset; Twilight TO LUNA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister of the earliest light Last Line: As endymion once drew thee. Subject(s): Grief; Moon; Sorrow; Sadness TO THE HARVEST MOON, by EDNA LIND COLE Poem Text First Line: Oh moon, enthroned in the starry sky Last Line: Oh moon, silently come other wonders of the night! Subject(s): Moon TO THE HARVEST MOON, by WILLIAM STANLEY ROSCOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again thou reignest in thy golden hall Last Line: Come to his gates, alas, with empty hands. Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail to thee! Radiant ruler of night Last Line: Bringing hope from on high, forming rainbows in tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bless thy bright face! Though often blessed before Last Line: Green cheese --than thus misdoubt thy honest face. Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flooded are the brakes and dell Last Line: Make the night so drear. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul; Bedtime TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bush and vale are filled by thee Last Line: In the night alone. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul; Bedtime TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bush and vale thou fill'st again Last Line: Boldly into night. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul; Bedtime TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flooding with a brilliant mist Last Line: Wanders in the night Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul TO THE MOON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Filling wood and vale you cast %quiet misty sheen Last Line: Roams the labyrinthine zone %of the heart at night Subject(s): Moon; Night; Soul TO THE MOON, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have you looked at, moon Last Line: As I go.' Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cyllene rise! Yon osier trees Last Line: "to thee he carols, ""fair cyllene rise." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of light! How fairly dost thou go Last Line: And close his eyelids with thy silver wand! Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON, by JOHN KENYON Poem Text First Line: That peace, how deep! This night of thousand stars Last Line: Shall love thee yet the more for her sweet sake. Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember, gracious, graceful moon Last Line: Are sad, and when the sadness has not ended! Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O gracious moon, I call to mind again Last Line: Though they were sad, and though our pain endures Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sublime, emerging o'er the orient glade! Last Line: The smiles favonian of life's earliest spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou pale for weariness Last Line: That finds no object worth its constancy? Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright wanderer, fair coquette of heaven Last Line: One fair as -- Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON (COMPOSED BY THE SEASIDE, COAST OF CUMBERLAND), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanderer! That stoop'st so low, and com'st so near Last Line: And thou art still, o moon, that sailor's friend! Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON (RYDAL), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of the stars! - so gentle, so benign Last Line: Than thy revival yields, for gladsome hope! Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON AND BACK, by WILLIAM PLOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Countdown - takeoff Last Line: Splashdown - claptrap Subject(s): Moon; Space And Space Travel TO THE NEW MOON, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lookest on the lonely place Last Line: Thy fairer counterpart till now. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Moon TO THE SAME PURPOSE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the same purpose: he, not long before Last Line: Tis want of sense that makes us poor. Subject(s): Moon TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS TO YOU O MOON, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to you o moon Last Line: Lo! The quiet moon in the sky—yet to a child it has cold its secret. Subject(s): Air Travel; Astronomy & Astronomers; Moon; Science; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Scientists; Opera Glasses TRAGEDIES: 10, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The river's mouth is weary wide Last Line: And mingled and melted over the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Moon; Rivers; Nightmares TRAGEDIES: 12, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: In the warm wax-light one lounged at the spinet Last Line: And all the sweet while they were fading away. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Flowers; Moon; Pleasure; Roses TRAGEDIES: 3, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: My little love, my lily wan Last Line: I'll drift you into the endless sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Moon; Night; Sea; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean TRAGEDIES: 4, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: And I was a full-leaved, full-bough'd tree Last Line: Tranquil, and trembling, and deep in the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Moon; Night; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime TRANSIT MUNDUS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another winter comes. The last comes soon, I know Last Line: Though after me one come, and take the abandoned place. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fortune; France; Life; Moon; Winter TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 3. TRISTRAM IN BRITTANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the dawn loves the sunlight I love thee;' Last Line: So dawned the moonrise of their marriage night. Subject(s): Brittany, France; Love; Marriage; Moon; Sea; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean TWICKENHAM FERRY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Ahoy! And o-ho! And it's who's for the ferry?' Last Line: There's danger in crossing to twickenham town. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Variant Title(s): A Verse From A Song, Once Painted On A Board At Twickenham Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Love; Moon; Twickenham, England TWILIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh day of shadows and scents! Oh day of roses! Last Line: Have mercy! Give me back the one I need! Subject(s): Evening; Love; Moon; Sea; Soul; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean TWO LEADING LIGHTS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never happen to contrast Last Line: Presuming on her femininity Subject(s): Moon; Sun TWO LEADING LIGHTS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never happen to contrast Last Line: An irresponsible divinity %presuming on her femininity Subject(s): Moon; Sun VARIATIONS: 7, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red leaf, red leaf, falling to float Last Line: Rose darkly before us. Subject(s): Moon VERSES WRITTEN IN AN ALCOVE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the moon-beam's trembling lustre Last Line: Lissy! Meet the muse and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Muses; Moon WAITED ALL DAY FOR THE MOON TO RISE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I can't believe my luck Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature WANING AUGUST MOON, by ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the sun routinely sets Last Line: Big and orange above october fields Alternate Author Name(s): Hill, Roberta Subject(s): Moon WANING MOON, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY Poem Source First Line: I rise at midnight when the first Last Line: Lend you the crickets' cadence %to walk home by Subject(s): Moon; Night; Sleep WELCOME MAR OF MOONLIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Before getting into bed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature; Night WHAT DREAM-PEACOCK, THIS MOON, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poet's Biography Last Line: In the sky of night's intangibility? Subject(s): Moon WHAT LIFE HATH, by SARAH DOUDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life hath its barren years Last Line: Hail! Mount of all delights. Subject(s): Life; Moon WHAT THE MOON SAID, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon lives in all the alone places Last Line: It is her nature sometimes %to wander in some distant place,%hidden, absent, gone Variant Title(s): Meditations On The Moo Subject(s): Moon WHEN A RING'S AROUND THE MOON, by MARY JANE CARR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wee folk will eb tripping Last Line: Of the wee folks' dancing tune Subject(s): Fairies; Moon WHEN I DO MOCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I do mock the blackness of the night Last Line: That I might drowse away such rhymes as these. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Moon; Night; Rhyme; Bedtime WHO BUT IS PLEASED TO WATCH THE MOON ON HIGH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The wanderer lost in more determined gloom Subject(s): Moon WHO?, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not been Subject(s): Moon WHOM THE NEW MOON MOCKS, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Text First Line: The sky unfolds a starry cover Last Line: Above the young leaf and the lover. Subject(s): Moon; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible WILD CHERRY, by MILDRED J. ORR Poem Text First Line: The wild cherry is in bloom Last Line: Wild cherry. I give my heart to you. Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Moon; Noon; Wind WINTER MOONLIGHT, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud-voiced night, with the wild wind blowing Last Line: Shall touch land. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Moon WINTER SOLSTICE, by IRENE ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: The haloed moon Last Line: Ever new %o-antiphon Subject(s): Moon; Winter WINTER STOLSICE, by Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cold night crosses Last Line: (the dance unmoving) Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. Subject(s): Winter; Cold; Moon; Earth WINTER'S MOON, by FLORENCE MCCURDY Poem Text First Line: Sometimes, within its frame of dusky sky Last Line: Where winter's moon swings low, its beckoning light. Subject(s): Moon WITCHERY, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the purple drifts Last Line: Comes now the moth-white moon! Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sea; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean WITCHES' NIGHT AND YE SMALL COLORED LAD, by JOSIE H. GRINDLE Poem Text First Line: Old moon peepin' outen de skies Last Line: F I evah gets home I'll 'have mahse'f! Subject(s): Moon; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Bedtime WOLF MOON, by NANCY NAOMI CARLSON Poem Source First Line: This moon seeps through, leaves Last Line: As if it alone outlasts the cold Subject(s): Absence; Moon; Night WOLVES RUN TOGETHER, by SUSAN TERRIS Poem Source First Line: January is the wolf moon Last Line: With howls loud and thin. %the blood too thin Subject(s): January; Moon; Wolves YELLOW MOON LOOKS SLANTLY DOWN, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Within some dead old world of dreams Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep |
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