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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NOTHINGNESS Matches Found: 60 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No soldiers in the scenery, Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids A WAY TO LOVE GOD, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the shadow of truth, for only the shadow is true Subject(s): Nothingness; God; Nihilism; Voids ABYSS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pascal's abyss was with him everywhere Last Line: My acrophobic spirit is falling in love %to be nowhere! -- free of being, form, and name! Subject(s): Nothingness; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) AGAIN, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What in this heap in which the serpent pries Last Line: "how much yet meets the treason of the snow." Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids AT THE GRAVE OF MY GUARDIAN ANGEL: ST. LOUIS CEMETERY, NEW ORLEANS, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sixteen I was so vulnerable to every influence Subject(s): Nothingness; Social Commentaries; Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876); Oswald, Lee Harvey (1939-1963); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Nihilism; Voids AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We disappear Last Line: Nothing in the word Subject(s): Aztecs; Nothingness BY HOMELY GIFTS AND HINDERED WORDS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That renovates the world Variant Title(s): Poem: 1563; Poem: 161 Subject(s): Nothingness COBWEBS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a land with neither night nor day Last Line: No future hope, nor fear for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids CONTRA MORTEM: THE NOTHING I, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look in the flower deep in the tulip cup Last Line: Look at the cigarette smoke rising look look Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids CONTRA MORTEM: THE NOTHING II, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the child's eyes glaze with memory where the man's glaze Last Line: Nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids DOUBLE, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT Poem Source First Line: So these are the hills of home. Hazy tiers Subject(s): Language Poetry; Nothingness DOUBLE BALLADE OF THE NOTHINGNESS OF THINGS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The big teetotum twirls Last Line: O vanity of vanities!' Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids FIRST NIGHT, by O SANGSUN Poem Source First Line: Now night is far advanced Last Line: The night pregnant with dawn %advances into the pitch-dark deep Subject(s): Nothingness FROM OUT OF THE GLOW THE WRATH OF HEAVEN SPOKE:, by STEFAN GEORGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes are turned aside from this vile race Last Line: And all the rest is night and nothingness. Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids GOING NOWHERE, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: How much time do you think you'll need before Last Line: As you were planning on doing, before Subject(s): Moving And Movers; Nothingness GREAT WALL OF WONDER, by PETER PAYACK Poem Source First Line: At the edge of the universe Last Line: To stand on perpetual guard against %the ever-lurking legion of nothingness Subject(s): Nothingness HARMONY IN THE BOUDOIR, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After years of marriage, he stands at the foot of the bed and Subject(s): Marriage; Nothingness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nihilism; Voids HAST NEVER COME TO THEE AN HOUR, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To utter nothingness? Subject(s): Nothingness I WOKE UP AS NOTHING. NOW START PILING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Outdoors. Me, you. Her corpse said stop Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Nothingness; Self IT IS NOT NICE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not nice to see Last Line: An absolute nihilist! Subject(s): Children; Education; Faces; Nothingness; Childhood; Nihilism; Voids IT WILL BE KNOWN IN THE END, by YU CHI-HWAN Poem Source Last Line: That we are a vast emptiness Subject(s): Nothingness JANUARY, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning: blue, cold and still Last Line: Sleep is too short a death Subject(s): Winter; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids MARRIED, by POLLY CHASE Poem Text First Line: Dining with him at home, she looked between Last Line: Now empty, ineffectual, and blurred. Subject(s): Boredom; Emptiness; Marriage; Nothingness; Ennui; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nihilism; Voids MEXICAN LONLINESS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I am an unhappy stranger Last Line: If I do nothing %nothing does Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Mexico; Nothingness; Solitude NAETHING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you, sir, this summons I've sent Last Line: And my friendship, by god, when ye've naething. Variant Title(s): Extempore To Gavin Hamilton. Stanzas On Naething Subject(s): Friendship; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids NEGATIVE SPACE, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you press next to me Last Line: You must, this moment, begin to fill Subject(s): Nothingness NEITHER HERE NOR THERE, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that land all is, and nothing's ought Last Line: Though at night there is the smell of morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids NIHIL, by RAFAEL CABRERA Poem Source First Line: The quiet which I longed for dulls me now Last Line: A broad blue shield with many stars bestrewn Subject(s): Nothingness NOTHING, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since life is nothing in your philosophy Last Line: And since between two nothings nothing can be, %let's drink to the splendor of not being our bodies Subject(s): Nothingness NOTHING, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whsst, and away, and over the green Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Nothingness; Supernatural 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 NOTHING, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY Poem Source First Line: That of which many large varieties are found in the major Subject(s): Language Poetry; Nothingness NOTHING AND THE INCIDENT IN THE STREETS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing forced those kids Last Line: Will be their voice. Subject(s): Nothingness; Social Protest; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989; Universities & Colleges; Youth; Nihilism; Voids NOTHING VENTURED, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing exists as a block Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids NOVEMBER IN ENGLAND [OR LONDON], by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sun - no moon! / no morn - no noon Last Line: November! Variant Title(s): No!;november Subject(s): Nature; Nothingness; November; Nihilism; Voids O HADA CIBERNETICA: 10, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: If there's only air in my purse and my brain Last Line: And finally into nothing Subject(s): Nothingness ODES: 13, by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA Poem Source First Line: Nothing comes of nothing, we are nothing Last Line: We're stories telling stories, nothing Subject(s): Nothingness 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 PERHAPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am going blind Last Line: And I am turning Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids PERHAPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am going blind Last Line: Our lives are a circular stair %and I am turning Subject(s): Nothingness POEM ABOUT NOTHING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young / I fell in love / with nothing Last Line: And we lack for nothing. Subject(s): Grief; Nothingness; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Nihilism; Voids PRAYER, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who are nothingness can never be filled Subject(s): Nothingness; God; Nihilism; Voids PRAYER IN FOUR VERSES: 2, by PARK MOK-WOL Poem Source First Line: I have nothing, lord Last Line: Left at random on the table Subject(s): Nothingness RETURN TO THE BARRIO, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: A long walker, pock-cheeked Last Line: Muffled taps fading to satisfied nothingness %nadda Subject(s): Nothingness RITUAL TWO, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kids yell and paint their bodies Last Line: Bang against each other, scream and scatter Subject(s): Children; Nothingness; Play ROSES, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: The phones ring in the empty house, both upstairs and down Last Line: And the roses are left without a recipient Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Nothingness SATIRES: 51. UPON NOTHING, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing! Thou elder brother even to shade Last Line: Flow swiftly into thee, and in thee ever end. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids SEA MIST, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The sea assumes her most mysterious dress Last Line: The ramparts and armadas of his race. Subject(s): Nothingness; Sea; Nihilism; Voids; Ocean SIX POEMS OF LONELINESS: 3, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: Everything's ready for war except me Last Line: Standing for poetry, standing for nothing Subject(s): Nothingness; Solitude; War THE BLACK HOLE, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black hole from which nothing comes Subject(s): Nothingness; Relationships; Nihilism; Voids THE DAY IS COME, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is come that I knew must be Last Line: Nothing may trouble me any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Boredom; Nothingness; Ennui; Nihilism; Voids THE DREAM OF NOTHING, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All morning snow has heaped up Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids THE LAST WISH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since all that I can ever do for thee Last Line: The all-endured this nothing-done costs me. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids THE LEMMINGS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a hundred years the lemmings come Last Line: Westward, in search, to death, to nothingness. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Lemmings; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids THE MINISTER OF CULTURE GETS HIS WISH, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The minister of culture goes home after a grueling day at the office Subject(s): Patience; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids THE PROMPTER, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The one who had been whispering Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids THE TORAH OF THE VOID, by NACHMAN OF BRATZLAV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, / for mercy's sake / created the world Alternate Author Name(s): Nachman Of Breslo Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Nothingness; Judaism; Nihilism; Voids THE VALLEY OF PALE BLUE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a hidden valley a pale blue flower grows Last Line: My soul slowly, slowly, slowly, will sink to its ultimate hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Memory; Nothingness; Salvation; Youth; Nightmares; Nihilism; Voids TROAS: ACT II. LATTER END OF THE CHORUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After death nothing is, and nothing death Last Line: Dreams, whimseys, and no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Mourning; Nothingness; Bereavement; Nihilism; Voids VERS DE SOCI??T??, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids |
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