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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NOSTALGIA Matches Found: 205 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF QUEENSLAND, by G. H. GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Don't you remember black alice, sam holt Last Line: To the end of the chapter of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Ironbark Subject(s): Envy; Luck; Memory; Nostalgia; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes A BERKSHIRE HOLIDAY, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the spring had flowered away full summer burst in middle may Last Line: World. Subject(s): May (month); Nostalgia A CHARACTER OF JOSEPH PRIESTLY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Champion of truth! Alike thro nature's field Last Line: He tun'd his pipe to suit the wild cascade. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Nostalgia; Friendship; Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) A TALE OF THE AIRLY DAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Tell me a tale of the airly days Last Line: As they did in the airly days. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nostalgia; Past; Pioneers A TRANSCRIPTION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This young man comes from your way, tom Last Line: "there's nothen now for nobody, only sorrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Grief; Home; Nostalgia; Sports; Sorrow; Sadness ABANDONED SELECTIONS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the crimson breast of the sunset Last Line: Is watching you break your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Abandonment; Grief; Nostalgia; Property; Desertion; Sorrow; Sadness; Possessions ACHILL, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie and imagine a first light gleam in the bay Subject(s): Emptiness; Longing; Nostalgia ACHILL, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie and imagine a first light gleam in the bay Last Line: As I glance through a few thin pages and switch off the light Subject(s): Emptiness; Longing; Nostalgia ACTIVITIES, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Grain belt beer, he who gets slapped Subject(s): Human Conduct; Nostalgia AFTER A JOURNEY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hereto I come to view a voiceless ghost Last Line: Our days were a joy, and our paths through flowers. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Memory; New Year; Nostalgia AGAINST PARADISE, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hounds that heralded the rich Subject(s): Nostalgia AGAINST PARADISE, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hounds that heralded the rich Last Line: High on some wall as if alive, %perfectly composed in their huge frames Subject(s): Nostalgia ANAMNESIS AND NOSTALGIA; TO LIONEL JOHNSON, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The traveller in a burning clime Last Line: And something of a mortal pang. Subject(s): Country Life; England; Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902); Longing; Nature; Nostalgia; English ANSEO, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When the master was calling the roll Last Line: And raise their hands / as their names occurred Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Nostalgia ANSEO, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the master was calling the roll Last Line: And raise their hands %as their names occurred Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Nostalgia APAQUOGUE ELEGY [FOR CS AND WM], by JONATHAN GALASSI Poem Source First Line: September brightness sharpens everything Last Line: Caught up in the ongoing game %in the blustery spring sun Subject(s): Nostalgia AROUND THE CORNER FROM FRANCIS BACON, by PAUL DURCAN Poem Source Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Nostalgia AT CHIDEOCK: SEPT 2, 1914, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In skies washed over with bright amethyst Last Line: For england, and for man, and for the world! Subject(s): Anniversaries; France; Future; Nostalgia BOLERO, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So one day when the azalea bush was firing Last Line: Were you when I was burning alive, nightingale? Subject(s): Songs; Nostalgia BREAK, BREAK, BREAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Break, break, break, / on thy cold gray stones, o sea! Last Line: Will never come back to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nostalgia; Sea; Transience; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean; Impermanence BROTHER GENE, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: He differed from the others; they were kind Last Line: And how we miss him since he went away. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Longing; Nostalgia; Half-brothers; Dead, The BROTHER OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Combing the attic for anything extra Last Line: They couldn't stop singing and we were the song Subject(s): Nostalgia CERTAIN BEND, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nostalgia CHRISTMAS NOSTALGIA, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST Poem Source First Line: Some want to see Last Line: Just likes the ones I used to know Subject(s): Christmas; Nostalgia CLOSED DOORS, by MARIE THORSON Poem Source First Line: I stand in the hall upstairs Subject(s): Nostalgia CONSECRATION, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man in the yellow hard hat, Subject(s): Cranes (machines); Home; Commuters; Nostalgia DAY AT THE PARK, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Good to see you again %you are right Last Line: Full %of the mind of god Subject(s): Baseball; Nostalgia; Sports DESERTED HOME, by SIDNEY ROYSE LYSAGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the fields lie lonely and untended Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia DESIRE IN WINTER, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With your white %that is almost blue Last Line: That will one day seem familiar Subject(s): Desire; Nostalgia; Winter DRIED SHRIMP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When no alternatives are left Last Line: And our old father leaves us Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Mexico; Nostalgia DRIVING THROUGH TENNESSEE, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange what the past brings back Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Nostalgia EARLY AUTUMN PROVOKES NOSTALGIC FEELINGS, by YE WANWAN Poem Source First Line: This autumn I recall our parting at the river shore Last Line: Never ask why fleeting time proceeds in such a manner Subject(s): Nostalgia; Time FAREWELL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not soon shall I forget -- a sheet Last Line: I shall remember them with tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Nostalgia FIRST LETTER TO AN IRISH NOVELIST; FOR MICHAEL MCLAVERTY, by ROY MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: Establishment has taken to the hills Last Line: Turn to the running sea %that carries shells like mouths to the hushed sand Subject(s): Nostalgia FIRST MOVEMENT; FOR ALAN RODGERS, by PADRAIC FIACC Poem Source First Line: Low clouds yellow in a mist wind Last Line: Would always darken suddenly Subject(s): Nostalgia FOR A SUICIDE, A LITTLE EARLY MORNING MUSIC, by GIBBONS RUARK Poem Source First Line: Most of the mornings here, when we awaken Subject(s): Nostalgia; Suicide FRAGMENT, by THELMA HILL WARD Poem Text First Line: I keep wondering why I see you Last Line: And there is no meaning in any song— Subject(s): Lament; Longing; Nostalgia; Relationships GHOSTS IN DEPTFORD, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If ghosts should walk in deptford, as very well they may Last Line: The shadowy ships of deptford should melt like mist away. Subject(s): Ghosts; Nostalgia; Supernatural GREY PASTURES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey gloaming where the white moth flies Last Line: Mayhap I may thrill again at the touch of this. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Despair; Kisses; Life; Longing; Nostalgia; Dead, The HANGING THE BLUE NUNS; FOR WARREN CARRIER, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like saints in cathedral windows, they look Last Line: Errors — over the shrine of the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Nostalgia; Nuns HAVE A NICE DAY, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no I don't want my heart broken again today Last Line: For the sake of a kind word. Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Loss; Nostalgia; Quiet Life HEARTH SONG; FOR SEAMUS HEANEY, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The nialls' cottage had one Last Line: A hearth song of happiness Subject(s): Nostalgia HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR, by JILL WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: In olden days we all could eat Last Line: To put the heart before the course! Subject(s): Nostalgia I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming up england by a different line Last Line: I suppose it's not the place's fault,' I said. / 'nothing, like something, happens anywhere.' Subject(s): Nostalgia I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming up england by a different line Last Line: I suppose it's not the place's fault,' I said. %'nothing, like something, happens anywhere.' Subject(s): Nostalgia IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the landscapes of mansiche Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia; Travel; Journeys; Trips IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the landscapes of mansiche Last Line: As if a firmament were being exhumed Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia; Travel IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pensive, ancient woman, like a relief Subject(s): Nostalgia; Old Age IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pensive, ancient woman, like a relief Last Line: Where a shipwrecked manco-capac weeps Subject(s): Nostalgia; Old Age IN A STRANGE LAND, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far hence a lonely exile strayed Last Line: He'd no nostalgia now. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Magazines; Nostalgia; Travel; United States; Journeys; Trips; America IN THE TWILIGHT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men say the sullen instrument Last Line: Long ago! Subject(s): Nostalgia IT IS AN ASHEN AND SHABBY EVENING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Always chasing after god in the haze Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Melancholy; Nostalgia; Poetry And Poets IT MUST BE YEARS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It must be years and years ago Last Line: It must be years and years ago. Subject(s): Nostalgia JOHN COMPANY'S SHIPS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John company's ships, they sailed the seas Last Line: John company's ships of the days of old. Subject(s): Imperialism; Nostalgia; Ships & Shipping; Trade LANDSCAPE, DENSE WITH TREES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you move away, you see how much depends Last Line: N the brick house nearly swamped by leaves. Subject(s): Nostalgia LANDSCAPE, DENSE WITH TREES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you move away, you see how much depends Subject(s): Nostalgia LAST JOURNEY, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: I shall go away. And the birds will stay Last Line: And the birds will remain still singing Subject(s): Death; Nostalgia; Solitude LETTER TO MAXINE SULLIVAN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just when I imagined I had conquered nostalgia so odious Last Line: And that you have your people with you, as I have mine Subject(s): Letters; Singing & Singers; Nostalgia LIKELIHOOD OF SNOW - THE DANGER OF FIRE, by GERALD DAWE Poem Source First Line: Around five in the next garden, a rooster Last Line: And know that the only real news here today %is the danger of fire Subject(s): Nostalgia LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM AT ELBINGERODE, IN HARTZ FOREST, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on brocken's sovran height, and saw Last Line: Himself our father, and the world our home. Subject(s): Hartz Forest, Germany; Nostalgia LITTLE ELEGY FOR THE AGE, by LYNNE MCMAHON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We've sworn off nostalgia Last Line: It is just dust, a gray-whiteness on our shoetops, %then not t even that Subject(s): Nostalgia LITTLE HOUSE, BIG HOUSE, by MEDBH MCGUCKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a day or two the chairs will fall to pieces Last Line: Where the strawberries are redder than anywhere else Subject(s): Nostalgia LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little orphant annie's come to our house to stay Last Line: Out! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): The Elf Child Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Halloween; Hope; Nostalgia; Childhood; Elves; Optimism LIVING MEMORY, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the book of tales you knew by heart Subject(s): Nostalgia MEDITATION AT PEARL STREET, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty of steel-yards, the long lines of workers Last Line: Beauty of the feast, when all our hearts were opened Subject(s): Nostalgia MEET THE SUPREMES, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poet's Biography First Line: When petula clark sang 'downtown,' I wished I could go there with her Subject(s): Music, Rock; Nostalgia; Supremes, The (singing Group); Rock & Roll MEET THE SUPREMES, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When petula clark sang 'downtown,' I wished I could go there with her Last Line: Begins the long and painful process of letting go Subject(s): Music, Rock; Nostalgia; Supremes, The (singing Group) MEMOIRES NOSTALGIQUES DE COCKAIGNE, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: Breath on the window froze. Before sleep Last Line: Into the rattle under the striduolous gulls, %whoever wept felt cleansed Subject(s): Nostalgia METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING, by JILL WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: She's one cookie short of a dozen Last Line: Expressed in a quaint metaphor Subject(s): Metaphor; Nostalgia MINIVER CHEEVY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Miniver cheevy, child of scorn / grew lean while he assailed the seasons Last Line: And kept on drinking. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Men; Nostalgia; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Wine MOVIN' WITH NANCY, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is almost time to grow up Last Line: The wild angels roar into town %it is almost time to grow up Subject(s): Nostalgia MY BIRTHDAY, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, there's no soft hand comes now Last Line: Brighter than that of meeting thee. Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers; Nostalgia MY COUSIN MURIEL, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From manhattan, a glittering shambles Subject(s): Nostalgia MY COUSIN MURIEL, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From manhattan, a glittering shambles Last Line: This last gray filament across a continent %where the unspeakable stirs like a stone Subject(s): Nostalgia MY LEMAN ON THE ROAD, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: When I see by the road Last Line: If only I can, %if only I can Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Nostalgia; Tears MY MOTHER'S YOUNG SISTER, by ROY MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: A new decade, the teacher cried Last Line: Time being short, you had to travel fast Subject(s): Aunts; Nostalgia MY SISTER LIKED THE POSTCARD OF SNOW, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: White and the seven dwarfs Last Line: Light as a bird-bone Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia NEVER GET USED TO THIS, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never get used to this: the feathery, swaying casuarinas Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia NEVER GET USED TO THIS, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never get used to this: the feathery, swaying casuarinas Last Line: The yachts studying their reflections in black glass Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia NIGHT ON THE GREAT RIVER, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We anchor the boat alongside a hazy island Last Line: The moon comes down amongst men Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by KOFI ANYIDOHO Poem Source First Line: Above all -- I shall forever Last Line: Memories alone are not enough soulguide %into futures filled with many absences Subject(s): Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: We will see more passing than any Last Line: When life was coming to only moderate harm Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All through their lives men build or dream them homes Last Line: Deeming it, more than mortal homes are, blest. Subject(s): Desire; Heaven; Home; Nostalgia; Peace; Paradise NOSTALGIA, by CHONG CHIYONG Poem Source First Line: Winding eastward through a wide plain Last Line: How can I ever forget that place even in my dreams? Subject(s): Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by MYRTLE HILL ERDMANN Poem Text First Line: O my heart is longing, longing Last Line: Come, my children, come, come home. Subject(s): Childlessness; Longing; Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by HARRIET GARRETT Poem Text First Line: Sometimes a lilac tree in bloom Last Line: In silence, weeping! Subject(s): Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by LAURA M. GRADICK Poem Text First Line: I am homesick for the ocean Last Line: And my humble, seaside home! Subject(s): Homesickness; Nostalgia; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore NOSTALGIA, by GWENDOLEN HASTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He brought the record home with sheepish pride Last Line: With great buttes shouldering the windy skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs Subject(s): Grief; Nostalgia; Sorrow; Sadness NOSTALGIA, by IGNACE M. INGIANNI Poem Text First Line: I must go back where emerald waters hide Last Line: By gazing at the glory of a field. Subject(s): Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Could see the wedding guests step out of the house if I craned my Last Line: Veiled, thistles in their hair, a dream of course, he said, thistles in %their hair Subject(s): Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, o hellas lorn and whist Last Line: Smiles when we ask her what she said! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by WILLIAM JACOB SANDS Poem Text First Line: As shipwrecked sailor on some sunny isle Last Line: That blessed hope he must forever cherish. Subject(s): Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul stands at the window of my room Last Line: Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul stands at the window of my room Last Line: Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by LLOYD STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To wander in a foreign land... Alone Last Line: To keep the tears away. Subject(s): Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by ELEANOR VOSWINKEL Poem Text First Line: I hear the tread of many restless feet Last Line: God speaks, and faith and courage are reborn. Subject(s): Nostalgia NOSTALGIA, by MAUDE MILLER WHITLOW Poem Text First Line: At sundown, when the first soft shadows lengthen Last Line: My loneliness abides, and will not cease. Subject(s): Nostalgia; Solitude; Loneliness NOSTALGIA OF THE LAKEFRONTS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cities burn behind us; the lake glitters Last Line: Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain, you know Subject(s): Lakes; Nostalgia; Pools; Ponds NOSTALGIA OF THE LAKEFRONTS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cities burn behind us; the lake glitters Last Line: Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain, you know Subject(s): Lakes; Nostalgia NOSTALGIC SONG FOR MY BELOVED, by ADOLF WOLFLI Poem Source First Line: Nothing more beautiful have I, ever seen! Last Line: Chehr: u.S.W Subject(s): Nostalgia NOW IS WINTER GONE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long had I known you yet in truth I knew / you not Last Line: Flushes and flowers as gilded fields in april shine. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Nostalgia; Relationships; Winter; Parting NOW THAT TIME SEEMS ALL MINE, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time; Nostalgia ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 8. ON LEAVING HOLLAND, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to leyden's lonely bound Last Line: There public zeal shall all reproof disclaim. Subject(s): Nostalgia; Travel; Journeys; Trips OF POLITICS, & ART, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula Last Line: God-rendering voice of a storm. Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Nostalgia; Politics & Government; Storms; Teaching & Teachers; Tuberculosis; Women; Educators; Professors; Consumption (pathology) OLD FOSSICKER JACK, by J. M. MARSHE Poem Text First Line: Tis a desolate picture, whose colour is dead Last Line: Came here, and has left but—old fossicker jack. Alternate Author Name(s): M., J. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Memory; Nostalgia OLD FURNITURE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not how it may be with others Last Line: But sink away. Subject(s): Nostalgia OLD MULEMBA, by GERALDO BESSA VICTOR Poem Source First Line: That old mulemba... %men armed with machetes Last Line: My old mulemba... %ah! I alone know what make me suffer! Subject(s): Nostalgia OLD NOSTALGIA, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night the old nostalgia Last Line: Has enduring worth, %will light me a long way, %songs to sing Subject(s): Nostalgia OLD PICTURES, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old pictures, faded long, to-night Last Line: Set in their midst, a child again! Subject(s): Nostalgia ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE VILLAGE AND SCHOOL OF HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye scenes of my childhood, whose loved recollection Last Line: Oh, such were the days which my infancy knew!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Children; Harrow, England; Nostalgia; Schools; Childhood; Students ON WIRRABO ROAD, by ERNEST ROBIN Poem Text First Line: Gone are now old coaching ways Last Line: On the road to wirrabo. Subject(s): Nostalgia; Roads; Trucks & Trucking; Paths; Trails ONE OF THE BOYS, by JAMES SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Our youth was gay but rough Last Line: We think of nights in cars %with energy to burn Subject(s): Nostalgia OTHER OBIT, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, what more do you want Last Line: Tock and such deep wagons on so many panged wheels Subject(s): Nostalgia OTHER OBIT, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, what more do you want Last Line: Tock and such deep wagons on so many panged wheels Subject(s): Nostalgia OTHER ORBIT, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, what more do you want? Why this second per second Subject(s): Nostalgia OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Easter again, and a small rain falls Last Line: Is a short life of trouble Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Nostalgia OUR HOMESTEAD, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our old brown homestead reared its walls Last Line: They are in my heart to-night! Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia; Parents; Parenthood OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wasn't it pleasant, o brother Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Old Aunt Mary's Subject(s): Aunts; Nostalgia; Youth OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wasn't it pleasant, o brother Last Line: Asleep this morning, whispering, %'tell %the boys to come.' ... And all is %well %out to old aunt ma Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Old Aunt Mary' Subject(s): Aunts; Nostalgia; Youth PERSONALITY; TO ANN, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER Poem Text First Line: A ray of sunlight flutters in my heart Last Line: Of golden lilies breathing in the sun. Subject(s): Character; Nostalgia; Relationships PIANO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me Last Line: Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Time; Childhood; Songs PLAYER PIANO, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ate pancakes one night in a pancake house Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION, by PETER MCDONALD Poem Source First Line: Again I'm caught staring %at the sky Last Line: He aspires to symbolism %and perhaps, one day, to nothing at all Subject(s): Nostalgia PORT O' DREAMS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a deal o' ports,' said murphy Last Line: "an' the fireflies gleamin' golden in the palms I'll never see!" Subject(s): Harbors; Nostalgia; Regret PREMONITION, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking this field I remember Last Line: But when he stood up, that face %was lost in a maze of water Subject(s): Nostalgia RAFT, by KATHY FAGAN Poem Source First Line: Walking this inland city under rain there are Last Line: Out from a harbor the odor of loss, %the odor of a woman, looking back Subject(s): Nostalgia RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot go to the country Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Rot; Decadence; Dramatists RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot go to the country Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays And Playwrights; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) RANGE-FINDING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung Last Line: But finding nothing, sullenly withdrew. Subject(s): Decay; Nostalgia; Soldiers; War; Rot; Decadence RED CREEK; A REQUIEM, by MARGARET ROBISON Poem Source First Line: Fragrance of tea olive, mint Last Line: The night sky is filled with their light Subject(s): Brooks; Cairo, Georgia; Home; Nostalgia RELEASE, by GLADYS NAOMI ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: Nostalgic yearnings grip my heart Last Line: That little town will bring release. Subject(s): Nostalgia REMEMBERED THINGS, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: A rose-hued dawn Last Line: The comradeship of one I held most dear. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Nature; Nostalgia RESIDUE, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: The fragrance of the rain today Last Line: That friend alone has stirred. Subject(s): Friendship; Longing; Nature; Nostalgia REVERIE OVER MEMORIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I did not dream. And yet if I had dreamed Last Line: And the imagination of delight. Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia; Past; Time RUSTIC CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No city primness train'd our feet Last Line: O shining grass, and shady bough. Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Memory; Nostalgia; Childhood SCENES OF CHILDHOOD, by EDWARD MOXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And do I then behold again the scene Last Line: With dream of years long past, and drop a tear. Subject(s): Children; Nostalgia; Childhood SEE SPOT RUN AKA CD-ROM, by JILL WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Ah, for the days of dick and jane Last Line: Lest the next generation forget Subject(s): Nostalgia SEVENTH ECLOGUE, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Do you see night, the wild oakwood fence lined with barbed wire Last Line: Lager heidenau, in the mountains above zagubica Subject(s): Nostalgia SEWING MACHINE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: A fair head over a sewing machine Last Line: And there's nothing urgent anymore, %not for you or for me Subject(s): Grief; Nostalgia SINCE THE COUNTRY CARRIED SHEEP, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We trucked the cows to homebush, saw the girls, and started back Last Line: You'd own the place was beggared—since the country carried sheep. Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony Subject(s): Nostalgia; Sheep SINGLES' CLUB, by VERA HENKEL Poem Source First Line: Now I'm all alone again Last Line: Safety in suitable arms others get nothing and return to their %companions Subject(s): Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Single People; Solitude SISTER'S REGRET, by JILL WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I've always been ashamed of home somehow Last Line: But it's too late to beg her pardon now Subject(s): Nostalgia SMALL WANTS, AGAIN, by BIBHU PADHI Poem Source First Line: The wants have dwindled Last Line: My younger child, his voice %as rapturous as a bird's in itsnest, %asks me questions I cannot answer Subject(s): Nostalgia SONG (2), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Ye voices gone Last Line: But more deeply lone. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Nostalgia SONG TO GUIOMAR, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your poet %thinks of you. The distance Last Line: For you, guiomar, this nostalgia of mine Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Love; Nostalgia; Poetry And Poets; Vengeance SONGS OF TRAVEL: 17. TO THE TUNE OF WANDERING WILLIE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? Last Line: But I go for ever and come again no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Wandering Willie Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia SONNET, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A man talking to his ex-wife on the phone. Last Line: Patient animals, and tangled vines, and rain. Subject(s): Love; Divorce; Nostalgia SOY SAUCE, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on a stepladder Last Line: In the dark, / the deer Subject(s): Nostalgia SOY SAUCE, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on a stepladder Subject(s): Nostalgia STANZAS TO A HINDOO AIR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! - my lonely - lonely - lonely - pillow! Last Line: Oh! My lone bosom! -- oh! My lonely pillow! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Nostalgia STEPHANO REMEMBERS, by JAMES SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: We broke out of our dream into a clearing Last Line: We were no good as murderers, we were clowns Subject(s): Nostalgia STRAUS PARK, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you know about the babylonian jews Last Line: Do not cry out again in clumsiness and shame Subject(s): Nostalgia STRAUS PARK, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you know about the babylonian jews Last Line: Do not burn again for nothing. %do not cry out again in clumsiness and shame Subject(s): Nostalgia SUBJECT OF A LIMERICK, by JILL WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: There once was a gerund named angling Last Line: Was the sight of his participle dangling Subject(s): Nostalgia SUDDENLY. IN DECEMBER, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Suddenly. In december. I stand knee-deep in snow Last Line: Dearest, you who are sleeping. Eurydice. %--under the snow. Under the wreath of cedar Subject(s): Absence; Death; December; Love - Loss Of; Nostalgia; Winter SUNDAY IN GREAT TEW; 8TH NOVEMBER 1987, by PETER MCDONALD Poem Source First Line: It's time to get back to the car. Already, at half-past three Last Line: On our way home, leaving absolutely nothing behind us Subject(s): Nostalgia SWEEP, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The two garnett brothers who run the shell station here Last Line: And the ballcarrier who follows the sweep, %and it comes, and comes on Subject(s): Nostalgia SWITCHBLADE, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the past is lost Subject(s): Nostalgia SWITCHBLADE, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the past is lost Last Line: That sounds now like just a tsk of disappointment, %it has become so sweet and quiet Subject(s): Nostalgia TEARING DOWN THE HOTEL, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are tearing down the oldest hotel Subject(s): Demolition; Past; Hotels; Nostalgia; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE ANTIQUE DESK, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: This maimed antique still holds Last Line: By time and scars and truth. Subject(s): Antiques; Furniture; Nostalgia; Past; Youth THE BACHELOR'S CANE-BOTTOM CHAIR, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In tattered old slippers that toast at the bars Last Line: And yonder she sits in my cane-bottomed chair. Variant Title(s): The Cane-bottom'd Chair Subject(s): Chairs; Friendship; Home; Nostalgia THE BELL FROM EUROPE, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tower bell in the tenth street church Last Line: As the sound of a dead europe hangs in the streets Subject(s): Bells; Nostalgia; Europe THE BLADE OF NOSTALGIA, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When fed into the crude, imaginary Subject(s): Nostalgia THE COLLAPSE OF THE TWO-RIVERS HOTEL, by SAADI YOUSSEF Poem Text First Line: The desert is not far from it Alternate Author Name(s): Youssef, Saddi; Yusuf, Sa'di Subject(s): Hotels; Nostalgia; Ruins; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE DAYS OF '84, by RANDOLPH BEDFORD Poem Text First Line: Let's go back on to the roper, where they say they've struck the stuff Last Line: We were men, and we dealt straight with all in the days of '84. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Nostalgia THE DIRGE OF THE FOUR CITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Finias and falias, / where are they gone? Last Line: The city of murias. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; History; Lament; Nostalgia; Time; Urban Life; Historians THE EXILE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not when the seamew cries above the grey-green foam Last Line: Or the hill-wind in a broom-sweet place. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Exiles; Home; Longing; Nostalgia; Sighs THE EYE-MOTE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blameless as daylight I stood looking Last Line: A place, a time gone out of mind Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Nostalgia; Eyes THE GLAMOUR OF IT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glamour of it to a child all sniffing Last Line: Curiosity fattened on those scraps Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Nostalgia; Ancestors & Ancestry THE GOOD INTENT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They built her in the olden days Last Line: "as honest as their grandads did!" Subject(s): Nostalgia; Ships & Shipping THE KING'S CONSORT, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, was it yesternoon, or years agone Last Line: When you were king of egypt—dear, and I was egypt's queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Love; Memory; Nostalgia; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes THE LISTENERS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked down the street Last Line: In the distance going away Subject(s): Home; Childhood Memories; Nostalgia THE MOURNERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When they had made the cradle Last Line: On the wide green earth Subject(s): Cradles;death;memory;mourning;nostalgia; "dead, The;bereavement; THE OLD AGE OF NOSTALGIA, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined Last Line: Like flireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night Subject(s): Nostalgia THE OLD BAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's mighty good to git back to the old town, shore Last Line: I want to hear the old band play. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bands; Kansas; Music & Musicians; Nostalgia; Orchestras THE OLD CONSERVATIVE, by E. S. EMERSON Poem Text First Line: The old bush-whacker bowed his head Last Line: "orstralier is comin' to." Alternate Author Name(s): White, Milky Subject(s): Grief; Idleness; Nostalgia; Sorrow; Sadness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE OLD COOLGARDIE ROAD, by DORHAM DOOLETTE Poem Text First Line: A flitting shadow follows Last Line: Back to her breast again! Alternate Author Name(s): Prodigal, The Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Horses; Nostalgia; Roads; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have had playmates, I have had companions Last Line: All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Grief; Mourning; Nostalgia; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How dear to my [or, this] heart are the scenes of my childhood Last Line: The moss covered bucket which hangs in the well. Variant Title(s): The Bucket Subject(s): Children; Nostalgia; Scituate, Massachusetts; Childhood THE OLD TIMES WERE THE BEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, my heart is half aweary Last Line: That the old times were the best. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Happiness; Nostalgia; Time; Joy; Delight THE PLAYER PIANO, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ate pancakes one night in a pancake house Last Line: Plays itself out a half-inch from my fingers Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos THE RETREAT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy those early days! When I / shined in my angel-infancy Last Line: In that state I came return. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Absence; Children; Christianity; Faith; Innocence; Nostalgia; Regret; Separation; Isolation; Childhood; Belief; Creed THE RUINED COTTAGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye Last Line: I trust in god they will not pass away. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Home; Life Change Events; Memory; Men; Nostalgia; Widows & Widowers; Childhood THE SOWER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a sower walking slow Last Line: "the happy days when I was young." Subject(s): Nostalgia THE STONE TABLE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the stone table on the hill Last Line: Grafted for our lifetimes onto paradise root-stock Subject(s): Nostalgia; Nature; Death; Friendship THE TOY BONE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking through boxes Last Line: In the room dark with the shades drawn Subject(s): Nostalgia THE VIELD PATH, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here oonce did sound sweet words, a-spoke Last Line: Wer here so long as I can mind. Subject(s): Fields; Memory; Nostalgia; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails THE VIERZIDE CHAIRS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though days do gain upon the night Last Line: A-look'd on as I look'd on you. Subject(s): Chairs; Comfort; Fireplaces; Marriage; Nostalgia; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WESTERN ROAD, by EDWIN JAMES BRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My camp was by the western road - so new and yet so old Last Line: And clearly rose another day—along the western road. Alternate Author Name(s): Brady, E. J. Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia; Roads; Paths; Trails THE WIDENING SPELL OF THE LEAVES, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill Last Line: Taciturn, oblivious until the end of time Subject(s): Nostalgia THEN AND NOW, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When this old hat was new Subject(s): Nostalgia THINGS THAT MAKE ME CRY INSTANTLY€”, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Tears; Happiness; Nostalgia; Love; Joy; Delight THINKING ABOUT THE PAST, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Certain moments will never change, nor stop being Last Line: Time a bow bent with his certain failure. / dusks, dawns, waves, the ends of songs Subject(s): Nostalgia THINKING ABOUT THE PAST, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Certain moments will never change, nor stop being Last Line: Time a bow bent with his certain failure. %dusks, dawns; waves; the ends of songs Subject(s): Nostalgia TIME'S ALTERCATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When this old cap was new Subject(s): Nostalgia; Time TO A LOVER, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: Tonight, of all mad nights of moon and wind and sea Last Line: Ah, my beloved! Come not this way again! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Passion; Romance; Male-female Relations TO MY OLD FRIEND, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who through every change remain Last Line: The days of eighteen-ninety-five! Subject(s): Change; Competition; Nostalgia; Poetry & Poets; Time; Writing & Writers TO THE REPUBLIC, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Past / fences the first sheepmen cast across the land, processions Subject(s): Life; Nostalgia TOY BONE, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking through boxes Last Line: I was happy %in the room dark with the shades drawn Subject(s): Nostalgia TWO LOVERS, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two lovers by a moss-grown spring Last Line: O past that is! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Aging; Children; Love - Marital; Marriage; Memory; Nostalgia; Parents; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood WHEN THE TEAMS BROUGHT IN THE WOOL, by BARNEY O'TOOLE Poem Text First Line: I loaded at george elbourne's some thirty bales of wool Last Line: He simply took the good with the bad, and brought the wool-clip down. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Nostalgia; Trucks & Trucking; Wine WHERE A ROMAN VILLA STOOD, ABOVE FREIBURG', by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On alien ground, breathing an alien air Last Line: But not our english hills!' Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Nostalgia; Roman Empire; Ruins; Travel; Journeys; Trips WIDENING SPELL OF THE LEAVES, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill Last Line: And always coming back-steadfast, orderly, %taciturn, oblivious-until the end of time Subject(s): Nostalgia YOUR RICHES TAUGHT ME POVERTY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While just a girl at school Subject(s): Nostalgia; Childhood Memories; School |
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