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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PAINTINGS & PAINTERS Matches Found: 336 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1400, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saps, and the anal juice of an otter, and pig's blood Subject(s): Paintings & Painters 1801: AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE ENVOY TO CONSTANTINOPLE, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May it please lord elgin, earl of kincardine, Last Line: Yours, &c. / philippe-jacques de loutherbourg Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Paintings & Painters A CHILD SCREENING A DOVE FROM A HAWK, BY STEWARDSON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, screen thy favourite dove, fair child Last Line: A hawk for every dove! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Doves; Paintings & Painters A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 1, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In goya's greatest scenes we seem to see Last Line: That devour america Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Paintings & Painters A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 11, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wounded wilderness of morris graves Last Line: Among the hebrides Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters A CONTRAST, BETWEEN TWO EMINENT DIVINES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two diff'rent painters, artists in their way Last Line: That dress could give—but law has hit her face. Subject(s): Hervey, James (1714-1758); Law, William (1686-1761) .; Paintings & Painters A CONVERSATION WITH LEONARDO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a stew of a night. The power failed Last Line: You make me grateful I died in in god's formed day Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters A FACE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If one could have that little head of hers Last Line: Which fears to lose the wonder, should it wink. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters A FAVOURITE SCENE; RECALLED ON LOOKING AT BIRKET FOSTER'S LANDSCAPE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hauntest thou so my waking and my sleeping Last Line: Where boding beauty sighs alas! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Landscape; Paintings & Painters A GIRL AT HER DEVOTIONS, BY NEWTON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was just risen from her bended knee Last Line: On feelings which that picture may not tell. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prayer A LADY'S PORTRAIT, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: At last, with all its silent grace Last Line: The vision of this lady's face. Subject(s): Alexander, John White (1856-1915); Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Wheaton, Eliza Baylies (1809-1905) A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 32, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I was at milan, in such thought Last Line: "all shall abandon me to-night."" so I." Subject(s): Last Supper, The; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Milan, Italy; Paintings & Painters A PAINTER, by THOMAS COLE (1801-1848) Poem Text First Line: I know 'tis vain ye mountains, and ye woods Last Line: Their mystery of beauty! Then mine would be bliss! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What made my heart, at newstead, fullest swell? Last Line: Was woe than byron's woe more tragic far. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death - Children; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Death - Babies A POEM FOR PAINTERS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Our age bereft of nobility Subject(s): Paintings & Painters A SHORT NARRATIVE, by BARBARA GUEST Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Your painting took a long time to dry Subject(s): Paintings & Painters A SONNET. ON THE PICTURE OF CAVALIER GUARINI PAINTED BY BORGIANNI, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who to fam'd guarini, now he's dead Last Line: Borgianni's painting, or guarini's books. Subject(s): Guarini, Giovanni Battista (1538-1612); Paintings & Painters; Writing & Writers A SYMPHONY IN COLORS, by J. W. HAND Poem Text First Line: I never knew the seasons held Last Line: In bridal garments dressed. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Paintings & Painters A VIRTUOSO, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be seated, pray. 'a grave appeal?' Last Line: That durer figure, -- 'charity.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Paintings & Painters AFTER SEEEING THE IMPRESIONIST GROUP EXHIBIT IN KANSAS CITY, WE DRIVE BACK THROUGH FLATNESS TO WICHI, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fofr monet the light is always exclamation points Subject(s): Kansas; Paintings & Painters AFTER THE MASQUERADE, BY THOMPSON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She left the festival, for it seem'd dim Last Line: Of love known all too soon, repented all too late. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters AFTER WATTEAU, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Embarquons-nous!' I seem to go Last Line: Embarquons-nous!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) AIRBRUSH, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky was an occasion Last Line: And they have shadows, double Subject(s): Paintings & Painters 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 AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MOMENT, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young married couple Last Line: Filling the air with their thunderous music Subject(s): Altars; Farewell; Paintings & Painters; Parting AN EPISTLE TO WILLIAM HOGARTH, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Amongst the sons of men how few are known Last Line: Reynolds, in time, may be like hogarth now. Subject(s): Envy; Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Paintings & Painters; Vanity; Virtue AN EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "painter, this likeness is too strong" Last Line: And we shall mourn the dead too long Subject(s): Mourning;paintings & Painters; Bereavement AN HOUR IN A STUDIO, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each picture was a painted memory Last Line: They circled them with music in the night. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Paintings & Painters AN OLD WOMAN'S PAINTING, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ANCHERONTIA (A YOUNG PAINTER SPEAKS), by KATHARINE A. JENKINS Poem Text First Line: See, I have painted your portrait Last Line: Beating your cruel wings upon my soul. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Portraits AND, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black walnut foliage … a burst of gold Last Line: In her studio's air Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Transience AND I TOO IN ARCADIA; SUGGESTED BY A CELEBRATED PICTURE OF POUSSIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have wandered in their glee Last Line: "-- ""I too, shepherds! In arcadia dwelt." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Arcadians; Paintings & Painters; Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665); Arcadia ANDREA DEL SARTO (CALLED THE FAULTLESS PAINTER), by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But do not let us quarrel any more Last Line: Again the cousin's whistle! Go, my love. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Religion; Sarto, Andrea Del (1486-1531); Theology APPEARANCE AND REALITY, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Higgledy-piggledy / josephine bonaparte Last Line: Prudence (her teeth were a carious green) Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Reality; Teeth ART, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I was brought up in a working class family Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ART CRITICISM, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First bring me raffael, who alone hath seen Last Line: On one warm sunset of ausonian claude. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and Last Line: Waiting for reinvigoration Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ARTIST AND MODEL, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carefully, he set an easel out Last Line: Lightly draws him witth powerful repose Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Models; Rape ARTIST, ONCE, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was in a room for rent. Last Line: To be lived, yet untasted, / undefined - all the rest ... Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Pregnancy ASOLANDO: BEATRICE SIGNORINI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This strange thing happened to a painter once Last Line: The pretty incident I put in rhyme. Subject(s): Infatuation; Paintings & Painters ASOLANDO: THE LADY AND THE PAINTER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet womanhood you reverence Last Line: She. That you jest! Subject(s): Women; Paintings & Painters; Models AT LUCA SIGNORELLI'S RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how they hurry Last Line: The open flesh / and mend itself Subject(s): Bodies; Signorelli, Luca (1445-1523); Paintings & Painters BALLADE DEDICATORY TO MRS. ELTON OF WHITE STAUNTON, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The painted briton built his mound Last Line: Beside your manor old. Subject(s): Memory; Paintings & Painters BEAUTIFUL HANDS, by INA LADD BROWN Poem Text First Line: Oh, artist, if I should ask you Last Line: I always keep in my heart. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hands; Memory; Paintings & Painters BEFORE A PAINTING, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine Last Line: The windows in some old cathedral dim. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters BEFORE A SAINT'S PICTURE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My serious son! I see thee look Last Line: And woos the arts with such pure sighs. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Saints BOCCIONI'S MORNING AND TWILIGHT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah the so-bright future Last Line: To the trembling future of the world Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters BOTTICELLI'S 'PRIMAVERA', by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Handmaids of the queen of love Last Line: All the world is love! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Paintings & Painters; Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano CAELICA: 24, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Painting, the eloquence of dumb conceit Last Line: Let him within his heart but cipher love. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Paintings & Painters CEREMONY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A striped blouse in a clearing by bazille Subject(s): Bazille, Jean Frederic (1841-1870); Paintings & Painters; Women CLAY BISON IN A CAVE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clay-tan, eyeless Subject(s): Caves; Paintings & Painters; Paleontology; Caverns COLOR, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: What part of life is hiding Last Line: Touched with diamonds of the sun. Subject(s): Colors; Paintings & Painters COLORS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colors are more complicated than a state Last Line: Our red desire, green aspiration Subject(s): Colors; Paintings & Painters COMPLAISANCE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. B -- , when she sat for her picture Last Line: "without any mouth, ma'am, at all." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Mouths; Paintings & Painters; Portraits CONDOLATORY ADDRESS TO SARAH, COUNTESS OF JERSEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the vain triumph of the imperial lord Last Line: Its hate of freedom's loveliness, and thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Paintings & Painters CONVERSATION WITH A JAPANESE STUDENT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That lovely climbing vine, so fresh Last Line: And tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Art & Artists; Japan; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Paintings & Painters; Women; Japanese; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb CUPID AND SWALLOWS FLYING FROM WINTER, BY DAGLEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away, away, o'er land and sea Last Line: While the winter lords it here. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Winter CUPID AS A LANDSCAPE PAINTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I sate upon a mountain Last Line: No, I trow -- not I! Subject(s): Cupid; Paintings & Painters; Eros CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they go, down to the fatal ship Last Line: Look lovlier still compared to the angry children Subject(s): Abandonment; Art & Artists; Children; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Desertion; Childhood DE KOONING'S WOMAN I, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the first in a series, probably not Subject(s): De Kooning, Willem (1904-1997); Paintings & Painters DEATH'S VALLEY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, do not dream, designer dark Last Line: Sweet, peaceful, welcome death. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Inness, George (1825-1894); Paintings & Painters; Religion; Theology DEGAS'S LAUNDRESSES, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You rise, you dawn Last Line: It’s your winding sheet Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Laundry & Laundering; Paintings & Painters; Women DENNER'S OLD WOMAN, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this mimic form of a matron in years Last Line: Since apelles not more for his venus obtained! Subject(s): Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women DON JUAN DISCOVERED BY HAIDEE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hot dog I got me a naked lover Last Line: On sunset earth Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Don Juan DON'T LET THAT HORSE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And there were no strings / attached Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Chagall, Marc (1889-1885) DREAM CARP, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People traveled from miles away to see Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Fish & Fishing; Anglers DUTCH INTERIORS, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ has been done to death Last Line: With an air of cautious pleasure Subject(s): Paintings & Painters EFFET DE NEIGE, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saying: / figures of light and dark, these two are walking Last Line: The truth, blocking the path of the obvious Subject(s): Art & Artists; Monet, Claude (1840-1926); Paintings & Painters ELEGIAC STANZAS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF PEELE CASTLE, IN A STORM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged pile! Last Line: Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. Variant Title(s): On A Picture Of Peele Castle In A Storm;nature And The Poet;peele Castle Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Paintings & Painters; Wordsworth, John ELEGY FOR SOL LEWITT, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weather map today is pale. The lines on the map Last Line: At hartford, and then the blank newsprint of the sea. Subject(s): Lewitt, Sol (1928-2007); Paintings & Painters ELISABETTA SIRANI, 1665, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just to begin, - and end! So much, - no more Last Line: Safe, where old friends will pass; and still near home! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Sirani, Elisabetta (1638-1665); Paintings & Painters ELIZABETH BISHOP, CROTON (WATERCOLOR, 9 X 5.75, N.D.), by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exiles see exiles everywhere Last Line: Enisled, this ellipse is coral & sable Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ETHICS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In ethics class so many years ago Last Line: And painting and season are almost one / and all beyond saving by children Subject(s): Woman - Old Age; Paintings & Painters EURYDICE TO ORPHEUS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But give them me, the mouth, the eyes, the brow! Last Line: Defied, -- no past is mine, no future: look at me! Subject(s): Consolation; Eurydice (nymph); Leighton, Frederick (1830-1896); Paintings & Painters EVA, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Eva, the first of the fair ones Last Line: Making men see and believe. Subject(s): Daughters; Paintings & Painters EVERY MAN HIS HOBBY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wealthy cit, intent to buy Last Line: "call it my picture, and excuse me." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Collectors & Collecting; Money; Paintings & Painters EXPRESSIONIST HISTORY OF GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue rider rode over the bridge into the bauhaus Last Line: And his ovens were heating / as a tin drum began beating Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters FABLES: 1ST SER. 18. PAINTER WHO PLEASED NOBODY & EVERYBODY, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest men suspect your tale untrue Last Line: Each found the likeness in his thought. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters FAIRIES ON THE SEA-SHORE, BY HOWARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My home and haunt are in every leaf Last Line: Will put us and our glow-worm lamps to flight! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Fairies; Paintings & Painters; Elves FIVE PAINTINGS BY CLARA VAN WANING, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I only paint landscapes. People are just Last Line: All the colors I need for wild horses Subject(s): Paintings & Painters FOR 'OUR LADY OF THE ROCKS' (BY LEONARDO DA VINCI), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, is this the darkness of the end Last Line: Amid the bitterness of things occult. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Art & Artists; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary FOR 'THE WINE OF CIRCE' (BY EDWARD BURNE JONES), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk-haired and gold-robed o'er the golden wine Last Line: Where the dishevelled seaweed hates the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Paintings & Painters FOR A MARRIAGE OF SAINT KATHERINE [OR, CATHERINE], by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystery: katherine [catherine] the bride of christ Last Line: The light is starred in gems and the gold burns. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonnets For Pictures: 2. A Marriage Of St. Katharine Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Paintings & Painters; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR A PICTURE OF ST. CECILIA ATTENDED BY ANGELS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can that eye, with inspiration beaming Last Line: Is the dream-haunted music-land for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Cecilia, Saint (3d Century); Paintings & Painters; Saints FOR AN ALLEGORICAL DANCE OF WOMEN (BY ANDREA MANTEGNA), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarcely, I think; yet it indeed may be Last Line: With all, though the mind's labour run to nought. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonnets For Pictures: 3. A Dance Of Nymphs, By Andrea Mantegna Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Mantegna, Andrea (1431-1506); Paintings & Painters FOR SPRING, BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mask [or, masque] of what old wind-withered new year Last Line: These mummers of that wind-withered new-year? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Art & Artists; Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Spring; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano FOR THE PICTURE, 'THE LAST OF ENGLAND', by FORD MADOX BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last of england! O'er the sea Last Line: She cannot see a void, where he will be. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farewell; Paintings & Painters; Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892); Parting FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sufferance of her race is shown Last Line: Sibylline, yet benign. Subject(s): American Civil War; Paintings & Painters; Slavery; United States - History; Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923); Serfs FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a budding morrow in midnight:' - / so sang our keats Last Line: "leave me--I do not know you--go away!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Paintings & Painters FRA LIPPO LIPPI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am poor brother lippo, by your leave Last Line: Don't fear me! There's the gray beginning zooks! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Guidi, Tommaso (1401-1428); Lippi, Fra Lippo (1406-1469); Paintings & Painters FROM THE PAINTING BACK FROM MARKET BY CHARDIN, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dressed in the colors of a country day Last Line: Like birds in the accumulating snow Subject(s): Chardin, Jean Baptiste (1699-1779); Paintings & Painters GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE ON THE SUBLIME, OR FRA ANGELICO'S 'LAST JUDGMENT', by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How to behold what cannot be held? Last Line: Witness, we judge ourselves, raise your hands Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Angelico, Fra (1400-1455); Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Guido Di Pietro GIVE ME NO HOME 'NEATH THE PALE PINK DOME OF EUROPEAN SKIES, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where I could paint, without restraint, creation redder still. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters HALATION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, you moved so rapidly through my life Last Line: Scored by the years, focused last, and free. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Paintings & Painters; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism HEAD OF A GIRL, AT THE MET, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vermeer's girl in your turban and pearl: Last Line: The light in your eyes like the light on your pearl Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Museums; Time; Art Gallerys HER PICTURE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Paint me her picture, master, thou who / know'st Last Line: The picture, master, never may be done. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Pictures HORSES AT DAWN, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses the horses the wild horses at dawn Last Line: Out of the night Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters HOW THE OLD MOUNTAINS DRIP WITH SUNSET, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Paralyzed, with gold Subject(s): Paintings & Painters HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 6. YEUX GLAUQUES, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gladstone was still respected / when john ruskin produced Last Line: Adulteries. Subject(s): Buchanan, Robert William (1841-1901); Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Critics & Criticism; Dramatists; Novels & Novelists; Paintings & Painters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Dramatists HUGO VAN DER GOES 'PORTINARI ALTARPIECE', by RANDALL JARRELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a while the masters show the crucifixion Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Van Der Goes, Hugo I PAINT WHAT I SEE (A BALLAD OF ARTISTIC INTEGRITY), by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do you paint, when you paint on a wall? Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Freedom; Paintings & Painters; Rivera, Diego (1886-1957); Rockefeller, Nelson (1908-1979); Liberty I WOULD NOT PAINT - A PICTURE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With bolts — of melody! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters IF AND IF, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were a painter, I could paint Last Line: I never shall paint it, nor you ever see. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters IMITATION, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Some flowers from my boy away Last Line: The likeness may be true, though dim. Subject(s): Flowers; Mother's Day; Paintings & Painters IN AN ARTIST'S STUDIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One face looks out from all his canvasses Last Line: Not as she is, but as fills his dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Models; Paintings & Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) IN AN ATELIER, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you, do not turn your head Last Line: Somehow -- as if you'd just been kissed! Variant Title(s): In An Artist's Studio Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Models; Paintings & Painters IN SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for when the sun an hour or less Last Line: Those sharpers, and was strangled, as things went, / for money, by one such picked off the streets Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Caravaggio, Polidora Da (1500-1543); Paintings & Painters IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE END OF SOLITUDE, BEGINNING AGAIN:, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A painter, thin with auburn hair, works before an easel Subject(s): Paintings & Painters IN THE GALLERY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fields of argenteuil, / where the summer day / dreams of claude monet Last Line: Dreams of claude monet! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters IN WALKED BUD WITH A PALETTE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take one pompeii-eyed old man Last Line: Thrower behind the curtain . Subject(s): Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Paintings & Painters INSIDE OUT, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk the purple carpet into your eye Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Relationships INTERIOR OF THE OUDE KERK, DELFT, WITH OPEN GRAVE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you, friend, in a footnote, thanked Subject(s): Paintings & Painters INTERIOR WITH STILL LIFE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desire, artichoke green Last Line: To the woman who has just entered Subject(s): Paintings & Painters INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 1, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flee from london, good my walter! Boundless jail of bricks and gas Last Line: Landscape-lords are left alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Colors; Exhibitions; Landscape; Paintings & Painters; World's Fairs; Expositions INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 2, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are barren, I confess it; but our scope of view is fine Last Line: But, bring shoes to stand a mudding. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Paintings & Painters INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 3, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me take you by the murvagh, sprinkled with those golden weeds Last Line: Round its rocks and sandy verges. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Fairies; Landscape; Atlantic Ocean; Elves ISAAC BALL, by RICHARD HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Painting pictures / worth nothing at all Last Line: Than any man alive. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters JULIET AFTER THE MASQUERADE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has left the lighted hall Last Line: Beating thine unto the last! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters JUNKED BOILER, by LYNNE MCMAHON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For weeks it was his depression detour, / this futuristic box on legs Last Line: Thing whole and finish it, and give it to me Subject(s): Paintings & Painters KATRINA ON THE PORCH; A BIT OF TURNER PUT INTO WORDS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old, old house by the side of the sea Last Line: O'er the luminous air-built castle. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851) KNOWLEDGE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Anatomy And Anatomists; Paintings & Painters LAKESIDE GEESE, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desoltaion. The forest's bones Subject(s): Cold; Geese; Paintings & Painters LARGE BAD PICTURE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering the strait of belle isle or Last Line: It would be hard to say what brought them there, / commerce or contemplation Subject(s): Paintings & Painters LATE IMPRESSIONIST DREAM, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a late impressionist dream I am riding in an open touring Last Line: Kerouac and hearing the sound of the sea in which the fish / still speak breton Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters LAUS VENERIS (A PICTURE BY BURNE-JONES), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pallid with too much longing Last Line: Daughter of foam and fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Variant Title(s): The Venus Of Burne-jones Subject(s): Art & Artists; Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women LAYING THE WAVES, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is almost dark, so dark Subject(s): Paintings & Painters LEONARDO DA VINCI'S, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint jerome and his lion Last Line: Lions as symbols of sovereignty Subject(s): Animals; Jerome, Saint (347-419); Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Lions; Paintings & Painters LEONARDO'S 'MONNA LISA', by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make thyself known, sibyl, or let despair Last Line: Allure us and reject us at thy will! Variant Title(s): Mona Lisa Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Mona Lisa; Paintings & Painters LETTER TO A PAINTER IN ENGLAND, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where you rot under the strict gray industry Last Line: That would inform the blind world of its flesh Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Letters; Seasons; West Indies LIKE MOST REVELATIONS; AFTER MORRIS LOUIS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the movement that incites the form Last Line: It is the movement that creates the form Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Louis, Morris (1912-1962); Paintings & Painters LINES ON A PICTURE OF A GIRL IN THE ATTITUDE OF A PRAYER BY THE ARTIST GRUSE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was man e'er doomed that beauty made Last Line: Impassive on thy beauty. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prayer LINES TO A STUPID PICTURE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five geese, -- landscape damp and wild Last Line: In most unhopeful pictures. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Paintings & Painters LINES TO AN ARTIST, by GERTRUDE FRENCH Poem Text First Line: Each stroke of your brush, a true story doth tell Last Line: All the glory of life that enhances. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters LOOKING UP FROM TWO RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS TO MASSACRE TIANANMEN SQUARE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fruit flies lift off the bowl of brown pears Last Line: Will drag over the ground. Subject(s): Irony; Paintings & Painters; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 LOST AT SEA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face that carlo dolci drew Last Line: Looks down on them, and seems not sad. Subject(s): Dolci, Carlo (1616-1686); Paintings & Painters LOVE NURSED BY SOLITUDE, BY W. I. THOMSON, EDINBURGH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, surely it is here that love should come Last Line: With thy sweet wings furl'd but in solitude? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love; Paintings & Painters; Solitude; Loneliness LUNCH AT HELEN FRANKENTHALER'S, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake up / what was I dreaming about? Subject(s): Frankenthaler, Helen (b. 1928); Lunch; Paintings & Painters MARS AND VENUS (BOTTICELLI, CA. 1475), by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold tape gently billowing with her breathing Last Line: Rhyming, secret, intimate, and familiar, / their two mysteries mingle in this: deferral / of ever af Variant Title(s): Mars And Venus Subject(s): Art & Artists; Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano MARY'S GIRLHOOD (FOR A PICTURE): 1, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is that blessed mary, pre-elect Last Line: Because the fulness of the time was come. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Mary's Childhood Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary MASACCIO (IN THE BRANCACCI CHAPEL), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came to florence long ago Last Line: Shall silently be drained to you! Subject(s): Masaccio (1401-1428); Paintings & Painters; Tommaso Di Giovanni Di Simone Guidi MATISSE, TOO, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Matisse, too, when the fingers ceased to work Subject(s): Paintings & Painters MAUBERLEY: 5. MEDALLION, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Luini in porcelain! Last Line: The eyes turn topaz. Subject(s): Luini, Bernardino (1480-1532); Paintings & Painters MESSENGER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone has been painting Subject(s): Advertising; Graffiti; Letters; Messages & Messengers; Paintings & Painters MICHAEL MAZUR, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you really Subject(s): Mazur, Michael (1935-2009); Paintings & Painters MICHELANGELO, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stern and grim-visaged, gaunt, and dark of gaze Last Line: Into unfurrowed fields of light. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Decay; Genius; History; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors; Sistine Chapel; Time; Rot; Decadence; Historians MIRROR PAINTINGS, by JESSIE HAEFNER Poem Text First Line: God has painted varied scenes Last Line: And then -- the evening star. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters MONET'S LILIES SHUDDERING, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monet never knew Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters MOURNING PICTURE (PAINTED BY EDWIN ROMANZO ELMER), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have carried the mahogany chair and the cane rocker Variant Title(s): Mourning Picture Subject(s): Elmer, Edwin Romanzo (1850-1923); Fathers & Daughters; Paintings & Painters MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery MUSEUM PIECE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The good gray guardians of art Subject(s): Paintings & Painters MY CORNER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By now the view Last Line: I didn't have a good leg to stand on Subject(s): Paintings & Painters MY FIRST DAY AS A PAINTER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things to paint Last Line: Streams of human eggs! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Paintings & Painters MY LAST DUCHESS; FERRRA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's my last duchess painted on the wall Last Line: Which claus of innsbruck cast in bronze for me! Subject(s): Este, Alfonso Ii D'. Duke Of Ferrara; Jealousy; Love - Marital; Marriage; Murder; Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Villains In Literature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY PICTURE-GALLERY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house, Last Line: With finger rais'd he points to the prodigal pictures. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters NEAR THE BRIDGE OF SAINT-CLOUD; AFTER ROUSSEAU, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A swollen infant under a tree, rose petals Last Line: Equal to childhood, throughout the kingdoms of the east. Subject(s): Babies; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Paintings & Painters; Rousseau, Theodore (1812-1867); Infants; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin NEW YORK HARBOR, by PARK BENJAMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a painting? Are those pictured clouds Last Line: Jar the deep stillness and dissolve the spell! Subject(s): New York Harbor; Paintings & Painters NOCTURNAL VEILS, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In bed, looking up at the light-peppered dark, Subject(s): Night; Death; Paintings & Painters; Bedtime; Dead, The O YOU IN THAT LITTLE BARK, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Paintings & Painters OCTOBER, by MARGARETTA P. CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: The summer days were almost gone Last Line: "your work's well done, my child." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Paintings & Painters OLYMPIA, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I convinced manet to paint me with a tinge of ocher Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Paintings & Painters; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON A PAINTER, by MARGETTA FAUGERES Poem Text First Line: When laura appeared, poor apelles complain'd Last Line: The charms which destroy, or the charms which repair. Subject(s): Beauty; Paintings & Painters ON A PICTURE BY HOPPNER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you went once with myrtle crowned!' Last Line: By goldsmith's jasmine flowers! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774); Hoppner, John (1758-1810); Paintings & Painters ON A PICTURE OF CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS; PAINTED BY VELASQUEZ, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the dark stillness brooding in the sky Last Line: One living beam of dayspring from on high. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Crucifixion; Paintings & Painters; Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Jesus Christ - Crucifixion ON A REMEMBERED PICTURE OF CHRIST; AN ECCE HOMO, BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met that image on a mirthful day Last Line: Sounded all depths of love, grief, death, humanity! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters ON CARPACCIO'S PICTURE: THE DREAM OF ST. URSALA; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swept, clean, and still, across the polished floor Last Line: A lark is singing as he flies away. Subject(s): Carpaccio, Victore (1460-1525); Paintings & Painters ON GETTING HOME THE PORTRAIT OF A FEMALE CHILD; BY EUGENIO LATILLA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Type of the cherubim above Last Line: Back, -- and alive, unchanged, -- to heaven! Subject(s): Latilla, Eugenio (1808-1861); Paintings & Painters ON HIS PORTRAIT (IN A LETTER TO HAYLEY), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abbot is painting me so true Last Line: If I were here or there. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ON JULIA'S PICTURE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How am I ravisht! When I do but see Last Line: When once he gives it incarnation? Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ON MR. FREDERICK PORTER'S ROOM OF PICTURES, 1930, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's your radiant painter, he Last Line: Like these, and life's a pictured room. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ON SEEING A PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN MARY; A FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Roll back, thou tide of time, and tell Last Line: Love's last, love's sweetest sacrifice. -- Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Time; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ON THE DEATH OF SIR ANTHONY VANDIKE, THE FAMOUS PAINTER, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vandike is dead; but what bold muse shall dare Last Line: And let him end your picture with his life. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Vandyke, Sir Anthony (1599-1641); Vandike, Sir Anthony; Van Dyck, Sir Anthony ON THE GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT GIVEN BY ENGLISH NOBILITY & GENTRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the ignorant savage will sell his own wife Last Line: To give these rascals a dose of cawdle Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Paintings & Painters ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky Last Line: Gazing in death on heaven from those wet rocks. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters ON THE NOBLE ART OF PAINTING, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strike a bold stroke, my muse, and let me see Last Line: You'll praise the pencil and deride the pen. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ON THE PICTURE OF AN ANGEL BY FRA ANGELICO, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Press each on each, sweet wings, and roof me in Last Line: To rest me in a fairer italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Angelico, Fra (1400-1455); Angels; Italy; Paintings & Painters; Guido Di Pietro; Italians ON THE SEPARATION OF ADAM AND EVE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Goltzius, Hendrik (1558-1617); Paintings & Painters; Adam & Eve; Eve ONE OF THOSE PAINTINGS THAT WOULD NOT DIE', by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hollered horribly / for lovers and sleepers Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ORCHID ABD ROCK, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have painted them in the same mild tones of grayish green Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Orchids PAINTED LADY, by ELIDA MERRIAM GREEN Poem Text First Line: You flashed across my vision Last Line: Until death -- and beyond. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters PAINTERS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cave with a long-ago flare Last Line: A woman among them, painting Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Women PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm Last Line: Beauty, which limbs and flesh enough invest. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors PAINTING SOMETIMES PERMITTED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If nature do deny Last Line: Colours, let art supply. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE: GERARD DE LAIRESSE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, but - because you were struck blind, could bless Last Line: Dance you, reds and whites and yellows! Subject(s): Lairesse, Gerard De (1641-1711); Paintings & Painters PARRHASIUS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stood an unsold captive in the mart Last Line: We! Subject(s): Greece; Paintings & Painters; Parrhasius (5th Century); Tragedy; Greeks PEOPLE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was painting dolphins on a silver sea Last Line: "whoo-oop!"" I bellowed. ""who will? Who will? When?" Subject(s): Humanity; Mankind; Paintings & Painters; Human Race PEOPLE WHO MUST, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I put my easel on the roof of a skyscraper Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; City & Town Life PHYLLIS LEE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a primrose 'broider'd rill Last Line: "I'll keep them shut,"" said phyllis lee." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Women PICTOR IGNOTUS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could have painted pictures like that youth's Last Line: Tastes sweet the water with such specks of earth? Subject(s): Paintings & Painters PICTURE GALLERY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a tight corner of the house, we'd kept Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art & Artists; Housekeeping; Paintings & Painters PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 1. SELF-PORTRAIT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a red winter hat blue Last Line: No time for anything but his painting Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings & Painters; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 3. THE HUNTERS IN THE SNOW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The over-all picture is winter Last Line: A winter-struck bush for his / foreground to / complete the picture Subject(s): Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 3, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hintertime praxiteles Last Line: At a later hour said Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 8, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sarolla's women in their picture hats Last Line: And night's trees stood up Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters PICTURESQUE; A FRAGMENT, by JOHN AIKIN Poem Text First Line: New follies spring; and now we must be taught Last Line: Suffice to charm, and all it sees is good. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Vision POEM BY A PERFECTLY FURIOUS ACADEMICIAN, by CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I takes and paints Last Line: Then nobody will buy. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, Shirley Subject(s): Paintings & Painters POEM FOR PICTURE: TO A DRAWING OF A HORSE BY GEORGIO DI CHIRICO, by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. Poem Text First Line: Out of what stabled brain have you pranced Last Line: Carrying me back to that lost age of beauty. Subject(s): Animals; Chirico, Giorgio De (1888-1978); Horses; Paintings & Painters POEM FOR PICTURE: TO AN OIL PAINTING BY WINSLOW HOMER (DRIFTWOOD), by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. Poem Text First Line: Water of sea-green Last Line: It one time knew in its lost youth. Subject(s): Driftwood; Homer, Winslow (1836-1910); Paintings & Painters POETICAL CATALOGUE OF PICTURES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful art! My worship is for thee Last Line: What his high communing had been. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters PORTRAIT OF A LADY, BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, thy lofty brow is fair Last Line: Grace and ornament of all! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830); Paintings & Painters PRAYER, by LILIAN B. FORDE Poem Text First Line: Dear god, of all the prayers I'd make Last Line: And may each picture bless the one who reads. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters PROJECT FOR AN AESTHETIC SUB-TITLE: MOONLIGHT OF A MAN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. And mrs. Longfellow little who Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Paintings & Painters; Taste (esthetics) PROMETHEUS ILL PAINTED, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How wretched does promethe'us state appear Last Line: The flames he once stole from thee grant him now. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prometheus RAILROADING, by NORMAN CABOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I paid two dollars and was hurled Last Line: Pen, brush, or sculptural instrument can show? Subject(s): Paintings & Painters REMEDIOS VARO AS DAPHNE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the rooms are tall, begin to open Last Line: And a welter / of water Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Daphne (mythology); Water; Paintings & Painters RESURRECTION (BY PIERO DEGLI FRANCESCHI, AT BORGO), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep holds you, sons of war: you may not see Last Line: Awake! This god will hunt you from the sun! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Piero Della Francesca (1420-1492) RETALIATION, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of old, when scarron his companions invited Last Line: He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Paintings & Painters; English History RETURNING TO PARIS WITH PISSARRO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am in a painting by camille pissarro Last Line: From the new world Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters RHYME FOR A CHILD VIEWING A NAKED VENUS IN A PAINTING, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed Last Line: Amazed, amazed, amazed, amazed. Subject(s): Nudity; Paintings & Painters; Nakedness RIVALS, by ARCHIE AUSTIN COATES Poem Text First Line: Along the avenue of an afternoon Last Line: Her rivals. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters SAINT PETER RELEASED FROM PRISON, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So whether you read from left Subject(s): Paintings & Painters SAN SEPOLCRO, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this blue light Last Line: Finding all of the stops Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Piero Della Francesca (1420-1492) SANCTA URSULA, by WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is her room; this is her narrow bed Last Line: Since all her dreams start here or here abide. Subject(s): Carpaccio, Victore (1460-1525); Paintings & Painters SARA, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sara stays at home. / her looks are plain Last Line: A white cloth against the glass Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Insanity; Paintings & Painters; Suicide; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness SE APROVECHAN', by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They take advantage' -- the soldiers need clothes Last Line: Rears up! - bugt the head is out of the picture Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Paintings & Painters SEEING A WOMAN AS IN A PAINTING BY BERTHE MORISOT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah tes cuisses Last Line: As if we did not know the melody Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters SELF-PORTRAIT, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sitting in her living room Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Family Life; Relatives SHORT STORY ON A PAINTING OF GUSTAV KLIMT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are kneeling upright on a flowered bed Last Line: He / is not the one Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters SINGING HANDS, by CAREY YATES BUSBY Poem Text First Line: Over-under-patient-slow Last Line: White men wait with yellow gold. Subject(s): Memory; Paintings & Painters; Pictures SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Divinest art, the stars above Last Line: By showing what her sex can be. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830); Paintings & Painters; Women SONNET FOR A PICTURE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That nose is out of drawing. With a gasp Last Line: But may be ravenously unripped in hell? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) SONNET: 24, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eye hath play'd the painter, and hath stell'd Last Line: They draw but what they see, know not the heart. Variant Title(s): "mine Eye Hath Played The Painter And Hath Stelled""; Subject(s): Friendship; Paintings & Painters SONNETS FOR PICTURES: A VENETIAN PASTORAL (BY GIOGIONE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water, for anguish of the solstice - nay Last Line: Life touching lips with immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonnets For Pictures: 4. A Venetian Pastoral, By Giorgione Subject(s): Art & Artists; Giorgione Da Castelfranco (1477-1511); Paintings & Painters; Venice, Italy SONNETS ON PICTURES: MARY MAGDALEN AT THE DOOR OF SIMON THE PHARISEE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why wilt thou cast the roses from thine hair? Last Line: He needs me, calls me, loves me: let me go!' Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Mary Magdalen; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Mary Magdalene SPACES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the dome that afternoon, she studies reproductions Subject(s): Paintings & Painters STANZAS TO PAINTING, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou by whose expressive art Last Line: And call thee brightest of the nine! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters STILL LIFE, WITH GLOXINIA, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will make something of you both pigment Last Line: As suspected. I am cold now and I cannot / paint or move you Subject(s): Paintings & Painters STUDY IN ORANGE AND WHITE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew that james whistler was part of the paris scene Last Line: Some water into the glass, milky-green Subject(s): Paintings & Painters SUBJECTS FOR PICTURES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seek I here to gather into words? Last Line: And grows distinct with poetry. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Imagination; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Fancy SUN AND MOON FLOWERS: PAUL KLEE, 1879-1940, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: First, there is the memory of the dead priest in norway Last Line: With its ice water, blue spikes of lupine, and morphine. Subject(s): Europe; Klee, Paul (1879-1940); Paintings & Painters; Sickness; World War Ii; Illness; Second World War THE 'MOVING WATERS' OF GUSTAV KLIMT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are they then Last Line: And know each other Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters THE ARTIST, by ARTHUR GRISSOM Poem Text First Line: He wrought with patience long and weary years Last Line: And signed the canvas with his own great name! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters THE ARTIST, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you subdue yourself in golds and purples? Last Line: And yet I think I could bear your beauty unshaded Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Love THE BAPTISM OF THE NEOPHYTES, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knelt because the others knelt. And Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE BENCH OF BOORS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bed I muse on tenier's boors Last Line: Cat-naps take in pipe-bowl light. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Peasantry; Teniers, David, The Younger, (1610-1690) THE CAVE PAINTERS, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holding only a handful of rushlight Last Line: Upright and bright behind them in the dark. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Primative Man THE CHINA PAINTERS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They have set aside their black tin boxes, Last Line: And the world had been nothing but flowers Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How I remember cleaning that strange picture! Last Line: From the adjacent steeple. Subject(s): Collectors & Collecting; Paintings & Painters THE COMBAT, BY ETTY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They fled, - for there was for the brave Last Line: He strikes, -- the work of death is done! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Etty, William (1787-1849); Paintings & Painters THE COMING STORM' (A PICTURE BY R. S. GIFFORD), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All feeling hearts must feel for him Last Line: Man's final lore. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Gifford, Robert Swain (1840-1905); Paintings & Painters THE CURATOR, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We thought it would come, we thought the germans would come, Subject(s): Leningrad, Siege Of (1941); Paintings & Painters; Imagination; Museums; Blindness; Fancy; Art Gallerys; Visually Handicapped THE DILETTANT, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most oppressive form of cant Last Line: To win such praises -- from a fool! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Paintings & Painters THE EMBARKATION FOR CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The picnic-goers beautified themselves Last Line: He'd hidden there Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) THE ENCHANTED ISLAND, BY DANBY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And there the island lay, the waves around Last Line: His bride to the fair island. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Danby, Francis (1793-1861); Paintings & Painters THE FAIRY QUEEN SLEEPING, BY STOTHARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lay upon a bank, the favourite haunt Last Line: Wake, titania, wake, our queen! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) THE FLOWER SELLER AT COVENT GARDEN 1989, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great great great granddaughter Last Line: Over the madding crowd Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters THE GALLERY, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clora [or, chlora], come view my soul, & tell / whether I have contrived it well Last Line: To crown her head, and bosome fill. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE GUARDIAN ANGEL (A PICTURE AT FANO), by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear and great angel, would'st thou only leave Last Line: This is ancona, yonder is the sea. Subject(s): Catholics; Paintings & Painters; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE HEART'S PICTURES, by HIRAM H. BICE Poem Text First Line: Hearts are galleries, wide and long Last Line: Around that mystic shrine. Subject(s): Hearts; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE HISTORY OF PAINTING, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: A shadow and reflection quarreled once upon a time Last Line: That beauty might be glorified by love forever more. Subject(s): Nature; Paintings & Painters THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 10. THE PORTRAIT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord of all compassionate control Last Line: They that would look on her must come to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 74. ST. LUKE THE PAINTER (OLD & NEW ART), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give honour unto luke evangelist Last Line: Ere the night cometh and she may not work. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Paintings & Painters; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 77. SOUL'S BEAUTY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the arch of life, where love and death Last Line: In what fond flight, how many ways and days! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sibylla Palmifera Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Soul THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 78. BODY'S BEAUTY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of adam's first wife, lilith, it is told Last Line: And round his heart one strangling golden hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Lilith Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Lilith; Paintings & Painters THE INCOGNITA OF RAPHAEL, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long has the summer sunlight shone Last Line: The kindred rapture of the heart! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Raphael (1483-1520) THE IVORY PALETTE (FROM THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS), by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Safe from the fan of time's long winnowing Last Line: The daughter of a king! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE JEW AND THE ROOSTER ARE ONE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After fighting with his dead brothers and his dead sisters Last Line: Dying on the way to paris and he was / tethered to a table, he was slaughtered Subject(s): Soutine, Chaim (1893-1943); Paintings & Painters; Jews; Butchery; Judaism THE KAKEMONO, by JESSIE GODDARD BROMAN Poem Text First Line: Then I arose before the rosy day Last Line: The dream must stay unseen -- forever bright. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE KING'S PICTURE, by HELEN LOUISE BARRON BOSTWICK Poem Text First Line: The king from the council chamber Last Line: "the form of the god within." Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE LION'S HEAD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, take thy pencil - paint my love Last Line: Sweet tale of love, &c., &c. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE MAN WITH THE HOE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Last Line: After the silence of the centuries? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology THE MASTER, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For leonardo, sound, my sonnet string! Last Line: But first he stayed the tremble of his hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters THE MYTH OF PERFECTABILITY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hand the still life of flowers Last Line: Season after season, even in his sleep Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE NATIONAL PAINTINGS: COL. TRUMBULL'S 'THE DECLARATION...', by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake! Ye forms of verse divine Last Line: I'll sound your praises in a sonnet. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Trumbull, John (1756-1843) THE NEW YORKER POEM, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is best to mention a painter Last Line: Quotidian and blemished and loved by everyone Subject(s): New Yorker, The (periodical); Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE NUDE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Studios are stations of reminiscence Subject(s): Nudism; Paintings & Painters; Models THE ORIENTAL NOSEGAY, BY PICKERSGILL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the light curtains came the perfumed air Last Line: Fling, fling the flowers away! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Paintings & Painters THE PAINTED LADY, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sick of lust,' the painted lady said Last Line: "and I would to god that I were dead!" Subject(s): Beauty; Lust; Paintings & Painters; Women THE PAINTER, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting between the sea and the buildings Last Line: As though his subject had decided to remain a prayer. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE PAINTER ON SILK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man Last Line: Bursting into sound Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Roses THE PAINTER'S LAST WORK-A SCENE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fever's hue hath left thy cheek, beloved Last Line: With thee and thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE PAINTER'S LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your skies are blue, your sun is bright Last Line: When hearts they would have soothed are broken! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love; Paintings & Painters THE PAINTER'S MISTRESS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And still you paint, and still I stand Last Line: And in dark hollow tresses, gold. Subject(s): Models; Paintings & Painters THE PAINTING AFTER LUNCH, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't working. Didn't look back. Needed something else. So Last Line: Like a deranged bird in wild cherries, having the time of its life Subject(s): Nature; Paintings & Painters THE PASSOVER IN THE HOLY FAMILY (FOR A DRAWING), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here meet together the prefiguring day Last Line: And mary culls the bitter herbs ordained. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Paintings & Painters; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE PHOTOGRAPH OF RAMONA POSING WHILE FATHER SKETCHES HER IN CHARCOAL, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father is transforming ramona Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE PICTURE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Painter, by unmatch'd desert Last Line: All of her, but voice, is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE PICTURE, by MARIA JAMES Poem Text First Line: Ere dissolves the house of clay Last Line: But in blessing was she bless'd. Subject(s): Models; Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 192, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seng-yao I hear was a talented man Last Line: He couldn't paint master pao-chih Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Paintings & Painters THE POET'S PROPOSAL, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phyllis, if I could I'd paint you Last Line: "paintings must be framed with gold!" Subject(s): Courtship; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE PRAYER IN THE DESERT'; PAINTED BY GEROME, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene, alone, the arab stands Last Line: And lo! We meet the lord alone Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prayer; God THE PRAYER IN THE WILDERNESS; SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF CORREGGIO'S, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep wilderness unseen she prayed Last Line: Like the dim night-flower's odour, up to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Correggio [antonio Allegri] (1494-1534); Paintings & Painters; Prayer THE PRICE, by EMMA J. BEASLEY Poem Text First Line: I painted a picture in gladness Last Line: Was the blood from a broken heart. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Paintings & Painters THE PROGRESS OF ART, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy time! Art's early days! Last Line: As nothing to the young! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Youth THE RUSTIC PAINTER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His sheep went idly over the hills Last Line: With his little sweetheart's face. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Farm Life; Love THE SCREAM, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Observe. Ridged, raised, tactile, the horror Last Line: The repose of art that has distance Variant Title(s): Munch's Scream Subject(s): Art & Artists; Munch, Edvard (1863-1944); Paintings & Painters THE SHOES THAT DANCED, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blossoms perish in the snow Last Line: Even to destruction and to utter death. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Paintings & Painters; Shoes; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE SITTING, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So like a god I sit here Last Line: And know not it ends in you. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE SONS OF HEAVEN, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: Deep in the shoreward crags of earth is cleft Last Line: Sightless before the ruddy sons of heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Paintings & Painters; Shadows; Paradise THE STORM-PAINTER IN HIS DUNGEON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight, and silence deep! Last Line: Answer, my spirit! -- answer, storm and night! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prisons & Prisoners; Storms; Convicts THE STORY OF ROSINA; INCIDENT IN LIFE OF FRANCOIS BOUCHER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene, a wood. A shepherd tip-toe creeping Last Line: Poor beating heart! And so the story's told. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Boucher, Francois (1703-1770); Paintings & Painters THE TEARS OF A PAINTER, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Apelles, hearing that his boy Last Line: Or of thy labour or thy love. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE TEMERAIRE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gloomy hulls, in armor grim Last Line: O, the temeraire no more! Subject(s): American Civil War; Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Sea Battles; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851); United States - History; Naval Warfare THE TWO PAINTERS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In art some hold themselves content Last Line: But one grew great. And which one? Guess. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THE VIRTUOSO; IN IMITATION OF SPENCER'S STYLE AND STANZA, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilom by silver thame's gentle stream Last Line: And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Subject(s): Art Patronage; Museums; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Patrons Of The Arts; Art Gallerys THE WELL, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One hundred peaceable kingdoms, and in all of them Subject(s): Hicks, Edward (1780-1849); Paintings & Painters THE WINDOWS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delaunay wrote on / the back of his simultaneous windows Last Line: Bowl of fruit full of light Subject(s): Windows; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE YOUNG GLASS-STAINER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These gothic windows, how they wear me out Last Line: Mary, and think of aphrodite's form.' Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Glass & Glassblowers; Labor & Laborers; Paintings & Painters; Glaziers; Work; Workers THERE IS A GOLD LIGHT IN CERTAIN OLD PAINTINGS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Last Line: Shall be forgotten as though it had never existed Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO A PAINTER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conceal not time's misdeeds, but on my brow Last Line: May glance once more. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO A PAINTER IN THE DAYS OF SUNG, by ENID D. JONES Poem Text First Line: Across a thousand years you mutely gaze Last Line: Pure golden are the bells her temples ring! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO AN ARTIST, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear - , I'll gie ye some advice Last Line: But no sae weel a stranger. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO BESSIE DRENNAN, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: Is it anything but joyous, / the arc his red scarf / transcribes in the air? Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO COLE, THE PAINTER, DEPARTING FOR EUROPE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine eyes shall see the light of distant skies Last Line: But keep that earlier, wilder image bright. Variant Title(s): Sonnet--to An American Painter Departing For Europe Subject(s): Americans In Europe; Cole, Thomas (1801-1848); Paintings & Painters TO FRANK PARKER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Forty years ago we were here Last Line: If two glasses of red wine are poison? Subject(s): Friendship; Paintings & Painters TO GEORGE H. BOUGHTON, R.A (1), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring stirs and wakes by holt and hill Last Line: Spring stirs and wakes! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Boughton, George Henry (1833-1905); Paintings & Painters TO GEORGE H. BOUGHTON, R.A (2), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spring will come, but ah! Will she? Last Line: The girl that boughton promised me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Boughton, George Henry (1833-1905); Paintings & Painters TO GIOVANNI DA PISTOIA ON THE PAINTING OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL, 1509, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've grown a goitre by dwelling in this den Last Line: Since foul I fare and painting is my shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Variant Title(s): On The Painting Of The Sistine Chapel Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Paintings & Painters; Sistine Chapel TO HIS NEPHEW, TO BE PROSPEROUS IN HIS ART OF PAINTING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On, as thou hast begunne, brave youth, and get Last Line: No, not the glory of the world, vandike. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO MY FRIEND MR. LELY, ON HIS PICTURE OF THE .. LADY ISABELLA THYNN, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature, and art are here at strife Last Line: A painter, no creator art. Subject(s): Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Paintings & Painters TO MY GRANDMOTHER'S PORTRAIT, by JULIA DAINGERFIELD GLASS Poem Text First Line: O lady fair, with your laughing eyes Last Line: And yet, so inexpressibly sweet. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO MY LOTUS LADY, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: Background of dark deep brown Last Line: Back to its sad dwelling. ... Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Portraits TO S.M., A YOUNG AFRICAN PAINTER, ON SEEING HIS WORKS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent Last Line: Now seals the fair creation from my sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Moorhead, Scipio (18th Century); Mortality; Paintings & Painters TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I beheld the fairest of her kind Last Line: And give more beauties, than he takes away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Speech Disorders; Voices; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Kniller, Gottfried; Stuttering; Muteness TO THE PAINTER, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond man, that hop'st to catch that face Last Line: When the glad world shall see their heir. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO THE PAINTER, TO DRAW HIM A PICTURE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, skilfull lupo, now, and take Last Line: Sho'd by his breathing, poyson thee. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO THE PIOUS MEMORY OF THE YOUNG LADY MRS. ANNE KILLIGREW, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies Last Line: The way which thou so well hast learn'd below. Variant Title(s): Ode To The Pious Memory Of Mrs. Anne Killigrew;to The Pious Memory Of The Accomplished Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew Subject(s): Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685); Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets TO THE YOUNG ARTIST, KAYSER OF KASERWERTH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kayser! To whom, as to a second self Last Line: Be wise! Be happy! And forget not me. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO VENETIAN ARTISTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That god is colouring newton does shew Last Line: Those who taste colouring love it more & more Subject(s): Bible; Colors; Mythology; Paintings & Painters TUESDAY, JUNE 4TH, 1991, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the time I get myself out of bed, my wife has left Last Line: Offering a handfull of birdsong and a small cup of light Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Chores UNE MARQUISE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As you sit there at your ease Last Line: Belle marquise!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Louvre, Paris; Paintings & Painters UPON THE CURTAIN OF LUCASTA'S PICTURE IT WAS THUS WROUGHT, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh stay that covetous hand, first turn all eye Last Line: Is but its shadow, as this its;---now draw. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters VENETIAN INTERIOR, 1889, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand to one side. No, over here with me: Last Line: But only that we yield. And we yield Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Browning, Pen (1849-1912); Paintings & Painters; Jews; Judaism VENICE BRIDGE: FOR A PAINTING, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away back in an old city Last Line: And end in the sky. Subject(s): Bridges; Paintings & Painters; Venice, Italy VENUS TRANSIENS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me / was venus more beautiful Last Line: The sands at my feet. Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men VERMEER'S A WOMAN HOLDING A BALANCE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picture-within-a-picture closed on themselves: a Last Line: Try to cross it. The painting means: itself. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) VERSES TO ORDER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How weary 'twas to wait! The year Last Line: Is found again -- and well! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Abbey, Edwin Austin (1852-1911); Paintings & Painters VINCENT, HOMESICK FOR THE LAND OF PICTURES, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this what you intended, vincent Subject(s): Paintings & Painters WHISTLER'S MOTHER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father said his mother bought it for him Last Line: It was the only art my father owned Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Family Life WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not a painter, I am a poet Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No ideas / but in things? But then Last Line: A world where desire has been eliminated? Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Landscape WHY I WOULD RATHER BE A PAINTER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For one thing Last Line: As the new perfect title for my new painting Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Likes & Dislikes WHY KNOWING IS (& MATISSE'S WOMAN WITH A HAT, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why knowing is a quality out of fashion and no one can decide to Subject(s): Knowledge; Paintings & Painters WITCHCRAFT BY A PICTURE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fixe mine eye on thine, and there Last Line: Being in thine owne heart, from all malice free. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters WITH A PICTURE SENT TO A FRIEND, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I paint so ill, my peece had need to bee Last Line: My love, or feign'd or painted should appeare. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters WOMAN AT LIT WINDOW, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps if she stood for an hour like that Last Line: With their pulse, ungovernable, of light Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Models WRITTEN, AT THE REQUEST OF A GENTLEMAN, UNDER A .. PICTURE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even as apelles could not paint campaspes face aright Last Line: Till art by nature was supprest, as all the worlde may see. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Paintings & Painters |
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