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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NETHERLANDS Matches Found: 174 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ((((((HOLLANDITIS)))))), by SIMON VINKENOOG Poem Source First Line: Forgotten? %what it was about? Last Line: It is forbidden to forbid Subject(s): Netherlands A POLITICAL DISPATCH, by GEORGE CANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In matters of commerce the fault of the dutch Last Line: Vous frapperez falck aves 20 per cent. Variant Title(s): The Dutch Subject(s): Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People ADRIAN BLOCK'S SONG, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard aport! Now close to shore sail! Last Line: And I name it roses island. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Block, Adrian; Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People ALIENATION, by WILLEM ABMA Poem Source First Line: Back home for a little while Subject(s): Netherlands AMSTERDAM, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pointed houses lean so you would swear Last Line: Under a gable: here lived francis jammes. Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Jammes, Francis (1868-1938); Memory; Paintings & Painters; Travel; Journeys; Trips AMSTERDAM, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: You two drink beer on a bench next to a gracht Last Line: Int he water of the canals Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Boats; Love; Travel AMSTERDAM LETTER, by JEAN GARRIGUE Poem Source First Line: Brick distinguishes this country Last Line: Horse, sky, cow, tree, thank you, I mean, %beauty, and love Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands AN EPITAPH ON SIR JOHN PROWDE, LIEUTENANT TO CHARLES MORGAN, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a march of twenty years and more Last Line: That honour laid me in the bed of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Groenlo, The Netherlands; Prowde, Sir John (d. 1627); War APRIL AGAIN, by JAN WYBENGA Poem Source First Line: April again. And it blows. Images of sun and wind Last Line: Walks into slinky mouth of the shadow %singing and never noticing a thing Subject(s): Netherlands ASCENSION, by GERBEN BROUWER Poem Source First Line: Mount of olives, mountain of peace Last Line: Stir up the winds in north and south %and break out in storms and flames Subject(s): Netherlands ASH WEDNESDAY, by SIMKE KLOOSTERMAN Poem Source First Line: The knees are bending down, the heads are bowed Last Line: You came, you bloomed, only to be transformed %to a handful of dust that flies away with the winds Subject(s): Netherlands AT DELFT; IN MEMORY OF JOHANNES VERMEER, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clocks begin, civicly simultaneously Last Line: By all that accompanies and bounds. The clocks %chime muted underneath domestic calm Subject(s): Delft, Netherlands ATTACK, 1940, by PABLO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: Seeing the movements of cowherds Last Line: My two sane angels! Subject(s): Fights; Rotterdam, Netherlands AUTUMN HAS BURIED THE SUMMER, by PITER JELLES TROELSTRA Poem Source First Line: Autumn took summer in under the trees Last Line: But I brought my love in under the trees %with petals and with singing Subject(s): Netherlands AUTUMN HOUSE, by TJITTE PIEBENGA Poem Source First Line: The rooms with music Last Line: And slowly %the gutter drips Subject(s): Netherlands BIRDS: AMSTERDAM, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands BIRTHDAY, by BEART OOSTERHAVEN Poem Source First Line: I sit in a cornerstone room Subject(s): Netherlands BITTERSWEET, by TINY MULDER Poem Source First Line: Bittersweet bittersweet %taps this lovesong's rainy beat Last Line: Touch the humming they repeat %bittersweet bittersweet Subject(s): Netherlands BUT I STILL CALL, by PITER BOERSMA Poem Source First Line: To live sometime %on the slopes of the rocky mountains Last Line: Loud and strong Subject(s): Netherlands CASTLE OF THE SIX GIRLS, by JACOBUS QUIRYN SMINK Poem Source First Line: Take the woodpecker, and the language of a horse Last Line: My language is no stranger to that %of the horse and to that of the woodpecker Subject(s): Netherlands CITADEL, by DOUWE A. TAMMINGA Poem Source First Line: Never has warm, red-hooded lamplight Last Line: This small citadel will be our last %fort against the storms of november Subject(s): Netherlands CONGREGATION, by INNE DE JONG Poem Source First Line: All gods have we served Last Line: Lord and blessing of all generations, %gather us in forever Subject(s): Netherlands CORVUS CORNIX, by R. P. SYBESMA Poem Source First Line: Gray-black bird, o you wander about Last Line: For the bleached day soon comes to an end %and long, long are the murmurs of the night Subject(s): Netherlands COURTYARD IN DELFT; PIETER DE HOOCH, 1659, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oblique light on the trite, on brick and tile Variant Title(s): Courtyards In Delft - Pieter De Hooch, 1659 Subject(s): Delft, Netherlands; Hooch, Pieter De (1629-1684); Hoogh, Pieter De COURTYARD IN DELFT; PIETER DE HOOCH, 1659, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oblique light on the trite, on brick and tile Last Line: And sword upon parched veldt and fields of rain-swept gorse Variant Title(s): Courtyards In Delft - Pieter De Hooch, 165 Subject(s): Delft, Netherlands; Hooch, Pieter De (1629-1684) DEATH WEARING OUT, by DURK LENIGE Poem Source First Line: Grimtooth, who dungs the churchyard Last Line: And life will never rot. %behold! Behold! Death will die! Subject(s): Netherlands DIONYSIAN; THINKING ON EURIPDES' BAKXAI, by SYBE SYBESMA Poem Source First Line: I have seen god naked: he sprang the mountains Last Line: Our only fulfillment springs from this guilt: bound between beast and god, we bear his sign! Subject(s): Netherlands DON QUIXOTE, FRISIAN, by JEHANNES DOEDES DE JONG Poem Source First Line: For long I did not know Last Line: What a day that will be! Subject(s): Netherlands DOUBLE DUTCH, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dutch on both sides of his family tree-now I can Last Line: I'm dutch. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Identity; Nations; Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People DRONE, by JAN GELINDE VAN BLOM Poem Source First Line: A drone once lived in high honor Last Line: Worms and maggots devour the corpses %of those who strutted with pride only momentgs ago Subject(s): Netherlands DUTCH LULLABY, by HOWARD A. PLUMMER Poem Text First Line: The weather-brown windmill swings to rest Last Line: "signaling, ""kindje, sleep." Subject(s): Netherlands; Yale University; Holland; Dutch People EARTH-LIGHT, by FEDDE SCHURER Poem Source First Line: I cannot keep the flow of sun-splendor Last Line: That sings itself always higher and higher %and never stops Subject(s): Netherlands EASTER MONDAY, by OBE POSTMA Poem Source First Line: Young fellows come singing their way from the meadows Last Line: As he whom I shall not name today! - %and I stand at the pigpen like a wall Subject(s): Netherlands ENCOUNTER IN THE HAGUE, by TEFKE GOLDBERGER Poem Source First Line: One january morning Last Line: Who had already forgiven her %with a swift wink Subject(s): Hague, Netherlands EPIGRAM ON THE PLAY AT AMSTERDAM, by WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Bigots at home, and infidels abroad Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Travel EVENING MELANCHOLY, by JOAST HIDDES HALBERTSMA Poem Source First Line: Over the trees along the lake Last Line: And the alder trees on the shore %slept some more Subject(s): Netherlands EVENING PRAYER FOR REST, by GYSBERT JAPICX Poem Source First Line: Now has the day with its hours and minutes passed Last Line: Help us to take up all that we do in a way %that honors you Subject(s): Netherlands EXPERIMENTS; FOR WILLEM DE JONG (REIMER VAN TUINEN), by SJOERD SPANNINGA Poem Source First Line: And after feeling the joy of shaping the world Last Line: To drink beside the heart, and at its streams Subject(s): Netherlands FATHER'S APPEARANCE, by JELLE DE JONG Poem Source First Line: The ancestral house is full of father Last Line: The smoke is gathered into clouds Subject(s): Netherlands FLOWERS OF AMSTERDAM, by JEAN JANZEN Poem Source First Line: For the sake of the gospel Last Line: Glistening petals, opening a secret passage %in the deep and watery place Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Flowers; Persecution; Religion FREEDOM, by HJERRE GJERRYTS VAN DER VEEN Poem Source First Line: Freedom as the world pursues it Last Line: She is flattery, folly, a foolish fancy, %much too base for a god-loving man Subject(s): Netherlands FRISIAN HORSE, by FEDDE SCHURER Poem Source First Line: How smooth he is in his new black hair Last Line: Twice, three times, and springs to his feet Subject(s): Netherlands FRISIAN SUMMER'S DAY, by EELTSJE HIDDES HALBERTSMA Poem Source First Line: Adrift in a gentle snooze Last Line: Tell my boy it is like %a frisian summer's day Subject(s): Netherlands FRIST AND LAST: 5, by GARMT STUVELING Poem Source First Line: If I had been a tree Last Line: Lonely and still on her bench, %I would gently shadow Subject(s): Netherlands GEMMA OF BURMANIA, by RINSE POSTHUMUS Poem Source First Line: Ho! A stout-hearted frisian you are Last Line: Be always averse to fawning, flattery and bowing! Subject(s): Netherlands GIN, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Gin (liquor); Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People GIVE THE HAGUE A CHANDE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rome was not fashioned in a day Last Line: So give the hague a chance. Subject(s): Hague, Netherlands; Peace GREEN RONDEL, by GOVERT ALETTINUS GEZELLE MEERBURG Poem Source First Line: Only a smile for our greeting Last Line: Just like the one the augurs made before Subject(s): Netherlands GROWTH, by SJOERD SPANNINGA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes straight in, a piece of eternity comes Last Line: They grow from great great solitudes %that silently keep their secrets hidden Subject(s): Netherlands HAPPINESS, by OBE POSTMA Poem Source First Line: Have you found the land youth longs for Last Line: If my life has run true %to its own bent, then it is good Subject(s): Netherlands HER SLEEPING, by TJITTE PIEBENGA Poem Source First Line: This quiet sleeping on the pillow Last Line: And I won't be able to stop it %will become an older, grayer form Subject(s): Netherlands HERE LIES THE SEA, WIDE-MIRROR REFUGE, by SYBE KROL Poem Source Last Line: Hovers suspended, almost no movement of wings Subject(s): Netherlands HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS, by ANNE WADMAN Poem Source First Line: The high school girls pass by my window Last Line: Intently awaiting the one who is going to come Subject(s): Netherlands I ENJOY LATE AUTUMN, by HARMEN S. SYSTRA Poem Source Last Line: She has again cared for animal and man %before the chilly winter arrives Subject(s): Netherlands I FORGOT MY NAME, by PIER BOORSMA Poem Source First Line: Over horizons %in the echo Last Line: Of the moon %inside Subject(s): Netherlands I ROSE UP SO EARLY THIS MORNING, by DURK LENIGE Poem Source Last Line: Was tira-lira-lira %with its very tiny tongue Subject(s): Netherlands IMAGES OF A SUMMER EVENING, by J. B. SCHEPERS Poem Source First Line: Smell of hay across the wide, smooth water Last Line: Still, while ripples glide ashore - and mild %and full the barge-woman's song floats by Subject(s): Netherlands IN MEMORIAM: 1, by DOUWE A. TAMMINGA Poem Source First Line: I shout this name against the summer sea Last Line: But it is vain; your tides go in and out, %his tide turns not, his mouth forever still Subject(s): Netherlands IN THE BELFRY OF THE NIEUWE KERK, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a breath in the stifled, dirty street Last Line: Mortals dwelling upon the height! Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands IN THE WHITE FIELD, by R. P. SYBESMA Poem Source First Line: In the white field the sleigh - high and thin Last Line: Not your sleigh either, or your lively stir, %not for a longime. How long has it been? Subject(s): Netherlands INDIAN SUMMER, by SJOERD SPANNINGA Poem Source First Line: Evening %that redskin Last Line: For the bright morning lake %that mirrors its peace from the sky Subject(s): Netherlands INFORMAL LAND SURVEY FOR THE REGISTRY OF DEEDS, by FREARK DAM Poem Source First Line: As they will never be mine, I'll name Last Line: Because it will never be mine, I'll dream it Subject(s): Netherlands INLAND SEA, by D. H. KIESTRA Poem Source First Line: Your old farmer's soul Last Line: At best it would be %the most, the most Subject(s): Netherlands IT IS LATER THAN YOU THINK, by HENDRIKA A. VAN DORSSEN Poem Source First Line: The hours like powered dust run through my hands Last Line: I'm trying to hear whether somewhere in this shell %my life's great rustle makes any echo at all Subject(s): Netherlands JEWISH CHILDREN, by FREARK DAM Poem Source First Line: Because she had black hair and a hooked nose Last Line: Jew-son jesus, don't look on us this way Subject(s): Netherlands JOSEPH'S DREAM; FOR RIXT, by FEDDE SCHURER Poem Source First Line: And I dreamt we were in the fields Last Line: And a hand serves the banquet %and softly draws the blinds Subject(s): Netherlands JOURNEY 1, by JAEP DE JONG Poem Source First Line: I set out from fatherland and mother tongue Last Line: Hammering heartbeats of a hastier time %to serve as grist for later Subject(s): Netherlands LATE AUTUMN, by JAN JELLES HOF Poem Source First Line: Now is the time of cruel knowing Last Line: Nothing to long for, not a breath %of knowing except that winter will come Subject(s): Netherlands LAWS, by R. B. WINDSMA Poem Source First Line: What are laws supposed to be? Last Line: But the bumblebees - they will break through Subject(s): Netherlands LIGHT AND MATTER, by ANNE JOUSMA Poem Source First Line: From dank wood the blaze of the flame leaped up Last Line: Is here kindled and burned by longing and pain %until refined again into vivid light Subject(s): Netherlands LINQUENDA - 'NOT WORTH TEN GUILDERS, ALL THAT TRASH', by REIMER VAN TUINEN Poem Source First Line: I rummage through everything, he is quite right Last Line: The shepherd but lingered %an hour, an eon more Subject(s): Netherlands LITTLE LAKE, by EELTSJE HIDDES HALBERTSMA Poem Source First Line: It was on a summer evening Last Line: Aye, come back more often Subject(s): Netherlands LITTLE SKATER, by J. J. KIESTRA Poem Source First Line: Little boele, are you numb? Last Line: And at night he etches the winter flowers %brightly into thewindow-glass Subject(s): Netherlands LITTLE SUMMER MORNING SONG, by WALING DYKSTRA Poem Source First Line: How lovely you are Last Line: All creatures are merry %and so am I Subject(s): Netherlands LOOK, by BAUKJE WYTSMA Poem Source First Line: The children play Last Line: Some jump %some don't Subject(s): Netherlands LOOSENED HEART, by GYSBERT JAPICX Poem Source First Line: Bocke prayed with folded hands Last Line: Dearest, dearest, thief of heart and senses, %my heart in thine and thine around mine Subject(s): Netherlands LOVELIGHT, by GYSBERT JAPICX Poem Source First Line: Dear lyltsen, when I'm with thee Last Line: Lylts is all my dark and light Subject(s): Netherlands LUNCH BREAK, by WILLEM ABMA Poem Source First Line: From twelve to one Last Line: Back to the fields to spread the shit Subject(s): Netherlands MIDSUMMER, by JELLE H. BROUWER Poem Source First Line: Midsummer. Cruel and howling-sharp the sickles Last Line: And forever this flashing keeps its awful balance Subject(s): Netherlands MY LOFT DWELLING RISES WHERE SEA WINDS SING, by DOUWE KALMA Poem Source Last Line: As waves relentlessly run their eternal course. %there I long, ever alone, alone Subject(s): Netherlands NARROW HOUSES OF AMSTERDAM, by MEGAN SEXTON Poem Source First Line: To get to them, think in circles Last Line: Look through each window, each wind's eye Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Houses NEAR AMSTERDAM; AFTER ALBERT CUYP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sober gray skies and ponderous clouds Last Line: Smokes placidly the stout de witt. Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Canals NEAR DEATH, by EPPIE DAM Poem Source First Line: The clothes already fit Last Line: Here our heads were never at home Subject(s): Netherlands NEON ICON, by THOMAS ROSENLOCHER Poem Source First Line: When I turned the corner Last Line: Hurling my wretched, flapping shadow %at the wall Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Streets ODE, by REINDER RIENK VAN DER LEEST Poem Source First Line: I sit on my bike Last Line: And my bike, a pile of scrap, will lie quietly on the road %one wheel pointlessly turning Subject(s): Netherlands OLD HOUSE, by SIMKE KLOOSTERMAN Poem Source First Line: Often we passed through your old door Last Line: O keep them too in the fine mystery %of the poor ones whose love went astray Subject(s): Netherlands OLD MAY, by YPE POORTINGA Poem Source First Line: Now someone goes about in empty rooms Last Line: A stranger on his way to a strange land Subject(s): Netherlands ON MUSIC FOR VOICES, by GYSBERT JAPICX Poem Source First Line: If our earthly sweet uproar of singing Last Line: O god's friends, seek that strange sound %until it is found Subject(s): Netherlands PERSPECTIVE, by JAN RITSKES KLOOSTERMAN Poem Source First Line: The last of the light is breaking under the clouds Last Line: Long into the lengthening final act, %entranced by rosefire tapered into a flare Subject(s): Netherlands POSTCARDS FROM ROTTERDAM, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came such a long way Last Line: Carolyn. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism POSTPRANDIAL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dutch have taken holland,' so the schoolboys used to say Last Line: Another hans as handsome, -- as bright a man as he! Subject(s): Harvard University; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903); Netherlands; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Holland; Dutch People PRAYER, by HARMEN S. SYSTRA Poem Source First Line: Allfather: the sky is overcast Last Line: Teach frisians to think themselves worthy %where nations have to rage Subject(s): Netherlands PRELUDIUM, by STEVEN DE JONG Poem Source First Line: This is my body Last Line: Ourselves %in each other Subject(s): Netherlands RAIN, by BERBER VAN DER GEEST Poem Source First Line: It rains tears Last Line: His back to the menace %stares straight ahead Subject(s): Netherlands RECITAL, by JAN J. BYLSMA Poem Source First Line: The day after christmas Last Line: When I want to %in c and never in a tux Subject(s): Netherlands RONDO, by MARTEN BROUWER Poem Source First Line: For this refrain is good Last Line: We are its reflections scattered wide %in a convex ellipse or parabola of the mind Subject(s): Netherlands SAD NOCTURNE, by STEVEN DE JONG Poem Source First Line: Ao tired why Last Line: Never was it so dark %under the trees Subject(s): Netherlands SAILING-BARGES AT NIGHT, by JEHANNES DOEDES DE JONG Poem Source First Line: It has passed Last Line: And doze off - the currents %have drifted farther Subject(s): Netherlands SCENE, by A. M. WYBENGA Poem Source First Line: An apple tree, a ladder, a farmer Last Line: Just what induces the girl %and that his harvest is good Subject(s): Netherlands SCHOOL HOCKEY TEAM IN AMSTERDAM, by FRANK ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: The talk of knifed bodies in the canals Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Hockey; Travel SCREAM, by J. ROORDA Poem Source First Line: I see waves a hundred thousand %wildly tumble each other Last Line: May the loved one forget you, love, %but never, oh heart, forget her Subject(s): Netherlands SEA-DIKE, by MEINDERT BYLSMA Poem Source First Line: On the one side %the water rises Last Line: No matter which way %one side or the other Subject(s): Netherlands SILENCE HAS BEEN HUNG IN MISTS', by JAN DOTINGA Poem Source Last Line: Never have I been %so happy Subject(s): Netherlands SOFT SEA-GREEN OYSTER-MAID, by HESSEL MIEDMA Poem Source First Line: This is the soft-green oyster-maid Last Line: She has fallen so delicately out of her shell %we will buy her a small plastic bag Subject(s): Netherlands SOME TIMES, by GEART FAN DER MEAR Poem Source First Line: Some times you catch the glint of a stone Last Line: High in the blue a red kite is drifting %free? Not free? O string, o wind! Subject(s): Netherlands SOMETIMES, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the synagogue at amsterdam Last Line: Came into the world Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Synagogues SOMETIMES, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the synagogue at amsterdam Last Line: Came into the world Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Synagogues STAVOREN, by HELEN STEVENS CONANT Poem Text First Line: Upon the shores of zuyder zee, where lands are broad and low Last Line: She stood a beggar in the street before a year had passed. Subject(s): Stavoren, The Netherlands STORMY SUNDAY, by OBE POSTMA Poem Source First Line: The wind whistles through the cracks Last Line: And now the meeting-goers appear again %and cheerfully they walk back to the buses Subject(s): Netherlands STREETS OF PEARL AND GOLD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within, walls white as canvas stretched to stain Last Line: As I try to keep us, here upon this page. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; San Francisco; Villages; Wharves; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Piers; Feminism SURELY IT'S EASTER, THE ENGLISH ARE SINGING, by WILLEM PYTTERS Poem Source First Line: Leave the dead to their rest Last Line: Rest, dear dead ones, rest Subject(s): Netherlands THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land Last Line: Vainly in hell let pluto domineer. Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE DUTCH PATROL, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When christmas-eve is ended Last Line: Proclaim 'tis christmas day. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Memorial Day; Netherlands; New York City - Dutch Period; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Nativity, The; Declaration Day; Holland; Dutch People THE LEAK IN THE DIKE; A STORY OF HOLLAND, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The good dame looked from her cottage Last Line: Divide the land from the sea! Subject(s): Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF BATHSHEBA'S CROSSING, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside a room in amsterdam Last Line: On tracks and side roads Subject(s): Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Amsterdam, Netherlands THE NETHERLANDS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water and windmills, greenness, islets green Last Line: And water seen -- Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE OLD LADIES OF AMSTERDAM, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Indomitable, in black stockings, the old ladies of amsterdam Last Line: In the honey-colored light of vermeer. Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Old Age; Women THE SECRETARY; WRITTEN AT THE HAGUE, 1696, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix Last Line: So blest as the englishen heer secretar' is. Subject(s): Hague, Netherlands; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRUCE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I have no feuds with warring life. We are Last Line: Be lost forever to a world of men. Subject(s): Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A DREAM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a quiet dream last night Last Line: That I could not speak a word. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Dreams; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A GHOST STORY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay awake past midnight Last Line: "pray do not be afraid!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Ghosts; Netherlands; Supernatural; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A LETTER TO CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perchance, on earth, I shall not see thee ever Last Line: Soothe flowers in spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A NIGHT IN THE FISHERMAN'S HUT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the wind had been blowing the devil this way Last Line: Shall yield him my offerings, and make him my bow. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Netherlands; Travel; Anglers; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: AUTUMN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So now, then, summer's over - by degrees Last Line: But wrinkles and red hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Autumn; Netherlands; Seasons; Travel; Fall; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: BLUEBEARD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was to wed young fatima Last Line: "that night, in her own fatal hair." Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: CHRIST'S SYMPATHY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If jesus came to earth again Last Line: The moving of thy hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou never hast sought to divine Last Line: That must yearn after thine till it dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: DEATH-IN-LIFE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest is the babe that dies within the womb Last Line: And curst that death which steals this life's disguise. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Death; Netherlands; Travel; Dead, The; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: FAILURE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen those that wore heaven's armor worsted Last Line: Last sentence! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Failure; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: FATIMA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago thy cheek was bright Last Line: When I talk in my dreams? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: GOING BACK AGAIN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I walked in italy Last Line: A knife across her throat. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Variant Title(s): Check To Song Subject(s): Dreams; Murder; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: JACQUELINE, COUNTESS OF HOLLAND, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the twilight, or my fading sight Last Line: Thy hand, my husband, -- so -- upon thy breast! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Jacqueline Of Hainaut (1401-1436); Netherlands; Travel; Jacoba; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: KING LIMOS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a wicked, old, gray king Last Line: And the love in her two large eyes? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: KING SOLOMON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King solomon stood, in his crown of gold Last Line: And they picked from the dust a golden crown. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: LEAFLESS HOURS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pale sun, through the spectral wood Last Line: Is stolen the very snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: MACROMICROS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the star of solitude Last Line: The sea-nymphs wander and weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: METEMPSYCHOSIS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She fanned my life out with her soft little sighs Last Line: Yonder's my way now. Give place, if you please. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: MISANTHROPOS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day's last light is dying out Last Line: God succeeds at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: MYSTERY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hour was one of mystery Last Line: A song too sad for rhyme. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: ON MY TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night's in november: the winds are at strife Last Line: To my twenty-fourth year. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Birthdays; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: SMALL PEOPLE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The warm moon was up in the sky Last Line: A man, -- to insult and to shoot! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE CANTICLE OF LOVE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once heard an angel, by night, in the sky Last Line: But there's one will not listen, and that one I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE CASTLE OF KING MACBETH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the castle of king macbeth Last Line: Whom no one knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE FUGITIVE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no quiet left in life Last Line: And drove her wild across the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE NORTH SEA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the gray sand-hills, o'er the cold sea-shore; where, dumbly peering Last Line: Teach me unspoken, steadfast endurance; -- the silence of will! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; North Sea; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE PEDLER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man, whom you might see Last Line: O, yet we might........Good by! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Peddlers & Peddling; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE SHORE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can it be women that walk in the sea-mist under the cliffs there? Last Line: The sorrow whose sound is the wind, and the roar of the limitless sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Seashore; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: TO CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not blame thee, that my life Last Line: Have nothing left to dread. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Hope; Netherlands; Travel; Optimism; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: TO THE QUEEN OF SERPENTS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I trust that never more in this world's shade Last Line: Kind offices to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THIN IN THE SUMMER RAIN, by JAN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Softly fall the first drops on the leaves Last Line: I am crude and rough as these hemps %but you are soft as summer rain, summer rain Subject(s): Netherlands THOUSANDS, by JAN JELLES HOF Poem Source First Line: Thousands have taken the paths Last Line: I am young and I love - o come hither Subject(s): Netherlands THUNDER BLOWS ABOUT, by FEDDE SCHURER Poem Source First Line: The weather goes on with its bluster this evening; far in the west Last Line: This one dream, as wonderful at its birth %as it is cruel at its death: our dreams of god Subject(s): Netherlands TIGHT, TIGHT THE LASHES, by GARMANT NICOLAAS VISSER Poem Source Last Line: But has been wounded ands thrust through. %and her tears sanctify this Subject(s): Netherlands TO HIS WIFE (COMPOSED AT ROTTERDAM), by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze upon a city Last Line: I drink at rotterdam! Variant Title(s): Rotterdam;to His Wife Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips TO IVAN GOLL, by FEDDE SCHURER Poem Source First Line: The dark blue near the end of a summer night trembles Last Line: That forever renews against the gold of youth Subject(s): Netherlands TO THE PEACE PALACE AT THE HAGUE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Builded of love and joy and faith and hope Last Line: Thou shalt be capitol of all the earth. Subject(s): Hague, Netherlands; Peace; World War I; First World War TO THE POETS EXILED IN AMSTERDAM, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The scene must open with a narrow house, sleepless with the fear Last Line: Like an eternal light, rises above the uproar of the mob, dancing endlessly Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Exiles; Poetry And Poets TO THOSE WHO WILL READ ME IN LATER TIMES, by OBE POSTMA Poem Source First Line: I do not say: higher than the pyramids Last Line: He gives himself to him who tackles life - %to a young man, a child - without a pole or a shield Subject(s): Netherlands TODAY WE HAVE EATEN THREE POUNDS OF BRAMBLES, by HESSEL MIEDMA Poem Source Last Line: Also when our sons have already fallen Subject(s): Netherlands TRAKL, by JAN WYBENGA Poem Source First Line: Frost-petals brushed on glass drift Last Line: As the light glows and brightens again %with des geistes heisze flamme Subject(s): Netherlands TRAVEL LETTER TO GAY FROM HOLLAND, by LILIE MICKEL Poem Text First Line: Here we saw dutch windmills Last Line: Mama, you and me. Subject(s): Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People TURNING, by KLAES DYKSTRA Poem Source First Line: Autumn is a woman Last Line: Under skies of lead: %autumn is a woman Subject(s): Netherlands UPON DRINKING IN A BOWL, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vulcan contrive me such a cup Last Line: And then to love again. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Variant Title(s): Upon His Drinking A Bowl Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Dutch War, Third (1672-1674); Maastricht, Netherlands; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine VERSE 74, by TRINUS RIEMERSMA Poem Source First Line: If I had to die in an hour Last Line: And walk over to lemstra's for a meatball %I still would like to eat one Subject(s): Netherlands VIEW OF DELFT, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the view of delft that vermeer presents us Last Line: You've been longing again for what you have Subject(s): Delft, Netherlands VREDEMAN SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With all my heart is thee I love Last Line: And only through thine eyes my sun Subject(s): Netherlands WASHDAY, by DURK VAN DER PLOEG Poem Source First Line: Our mom did the wash every monday on the doorstep Last Line: The light, the wind, the blue from the washing Subject(s): Netherlands WAY TO GROW OLD, by DOUWE A. TAMMINGA Poem Source First Line: A way to grow old: being part of the evening talk Last Line: At the falling of rain, a hint of wind perhaps, %death will lower the weary lids of the eyes Subject(s): Netherlands WHAT THE POET MUST KNOW, by OBE POSTMA Poem Source First Line: And if it should be that he didn't know the nights of which rilke spoke Last Line: There is still the mother who dispenses it always, %the soul, which embraces all generations Subject(s): Netherlands WHEN I FIRST SAW YOU, I KNEW YOU AS MY BRIDE, by DOUWE KALMA Poem Source Last Line: But sometimes hear the ancient chords again %strumming through god's ancient spheres like a sigh Subject(s): Netherlands WHEN YOU GROW OLDER, by GARMANT NICOLAAS VISSER Poem Source First Line: When you grow older, you're going to own Last Line: When you taste the blood, and taste the ashes Subject(s): Netherlands WHERE I'VE BEEN ALL MY LIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sirs, in our youth you love the sight of us Last Line: Come die with me in the mosques of rotterdam. Subject(s): China; Ethnic Identity; Identity; Netherlands; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Self-consciousness; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips; Feminism WIND POEM, by TSJEBBE HETTINGA Poem Source First Line: Making poems is %shadow-boxing the wind and Last Line: And who very simply %is called you Subject(s): Netherlands YOU TOOK MY RUMMER AND FILLED MY GLASS, by PITER JELLES TROELSTRA Poem Source Last Line: We drank that love like an exquisite wine Subject(s): Netherlands |
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