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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OMENS Matches Found: 34 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FOREBODING, by MARY M. SINGLETON CURRIE Poem Text First Line: I do not dread an alter'd heart Last Line: The sudden glory of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Fane, Violet; Lamb, Mary Montgomerie; Singleton, Mrs. Subject(s): Omens BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF 'TO PARLIAMENT THE QUEEN IS GONE', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This april last a gentle swain Last Line: She shall be thine own. Subject(s): Omens; Nightingales BRIDAL FLOWERS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bind the white orange-flowers in her hair Last Line: The bride and morning bathe their wreath with tears Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Omens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DREAM AND LIE OF GENERAL FRANCO, by PABLO PICASSO Poem Source First Line: Owl fandango escabeehe swords of octopus of evil omen furry dishrag Last Line: Imbedded in the rock Subject(s): Franco, Francisco (1892-1975); Generals; Lies; Omens; Revolutions GIRL IN NEW ORLEANS, by APRIL DENONNO Poem Source First Line: They city is not Last Line: Inside us like it was our own Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Omens INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration LATE SEPTEMBER, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mail truck goes down the coast Subject(s): Omens OMEN, by V. MERRILL Poem Text First Line: Dark man walking on my grave! Last Line: Quivers through my hair. Subject(s): Graves; Omens; Tombs; Tombstones OMEN, by ALEXANDER SEAWARD Poem Source First Line: It was a bad start to the morning Last Line: I hope he's not a parachutist Subject(s): Omens OMEN, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: For an instant he saw Last Line: Change direction of %his misspent life Subject(s): Omens OMENS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The owlet flaps his wings Last Line: Tidings of approaching death. Subject(s): Omens OMENS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Early on the morning of monday Last Line: And I knew from these %that the year would not go well with me Subject(s): Omens OMENS AND AUGURIES, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night from troy's high battlements Last Line: I wonder who the pedants are %that weave time's dusty plots Subject(s): Omens; Pedants OMENS BY THE WAY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear god! Our pilgrimage Last Line: To meet this fluting run! Subject(s): Graves; Happiness; Omens; Sleep; Voices; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight POEM OF THE CID: 2. OMENS ON THE ROAD TO BURGOS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Then they set spur to horse Last Line: Come back with all the honors Subject(s): Omens POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 3. OPPOSITION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four farmers seen through an open window falling asleep Last Line: "that letter fly between her knees."" they are drunk." Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Omens; Reproduction; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Mating PORTENTS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today they invent Last Line: "sooner or later, Subject(s): Computers; Fire; Inventions And Inventors; Omens PREMONITION, by E. IRENE FYTEN Poem Text First Line: The flash / of a dark bird Last Line: Golden dreams. Subject(s): Omens PREMONITION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when at mary's voice elizabeth Last Line: That sing the present in futurity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Omens; Time PRESCIENCE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day a pale, blond woman Last Line: Knows—what it knows! Subject(s): Omens RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with more glories, in th' ethereal plain Last Line: With beating hearts the dire event they wait, %anxious and trembling for the birth of fate Subject(s): Love; Omens; Rape RORY O'MORE; OR, ALL FOR GOOD LUCK, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Young rory o'more courted kathleen bawn Last Line: "for there's luck in odd numbers,"" says rory o'more." Variant Title(s): Rory O'more;good Omens Subject(s): Courtship; Luck; Omens RYHMEPROSE ON AN OWL, SELS., by CHIA YI Poem Source First Line: The year was tan-wo, it was the fourth month, summer's first Last Line: Be detached, remote, and soar with tao Subject(s): Birds; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Omens; Owls SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; A RAVEN IN A WHITE CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw when I looked up, on either hand Last Line: Cry, thou black prophetess! Lift up! Cry, cry.' Subject(s): Birds; Omens; Prophecy & Prophets; Ravens; Sea; Ocean SONNET: DEATH-WARNINGS, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the ramparts of my native land Last Line: That was not a reminder of the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Death; Decay; Omens; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence THE HEART'S OMENS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt my sorrow ere it came Last Line: The spirit world to ours. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Omens THE OMEN, by JANIE ELLEN LUELLING BYRNES Poem Text First Line: A mother dreamed by a manger bed Last Line: Till it burned like a crown at the stable door. Subject(s): Omens; Stables THE OMEN, by WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK MAGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out its chamber, green and high Last Line: Of that wild symbol traced in air. Alternate Author Name(s): Eglinton, John Subject(s): Omens THE OMEN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He crept behind me, and his gentle hand Last Line: Is tenderly upon mine eyelids pressed. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Omens THE RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not with more glories, in th' ethereal plain Last Line: Anxious, and trembling for the birth of fate Subject(s): Love; Omens; Rape THE RAVEN, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Last Line: Shall be lifted -- nevermore! Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Mysticism; Omens; Ravens; Supernatural; Dead, The THE SIGN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD Poem Text First Line: Loosed were the horses in the grass Last Line: For a bright red butterfly winging. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben Subject(s): Death; Omens; Dead, The THE WILLOW-SEEDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look! The seeds of a willow-tree Last Line: Of more than mortal mysteries. Subject(s): Fate; Grass; Life; Omens; Wandering & Wanderers; Willow Trees; Wind; Destiny THE WIND ON THE HILLS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go not to the hills of erinn Last Line: And the sun is in the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Omens; Wind |
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