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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PAST Matches Found: 508 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF MEMORIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nae mair, alas! Nae mair I'll see young mornin's gowden hair Last Line: Will shine as bricht, an' fa' as saft, when I hae gaen awa'. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Past A BIT OF GOLD LEAF, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day of judgment came and went and still the sun rose on the dragonflies Subject(s): Past A CRAVING FOR SALT, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I don't trust the future Last Line: Was simply everything. Subject(s): Past A DAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: You, moving with women and men Last Line: When time was a toy of your own. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Past A DAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Well may I shrink to wake, and on me find Last Line: —as I attend! Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Past A DEAD PAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare her at least: look you have taken Last Line: Even dearer still, -- since I have nothing more. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Pain; Past; Soul; Tears; Suffering; Misery A DREAM OF LONG AGO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying listless in the mosses Last Line: Through the dreams of long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Dreams; Past; Nightmares A FAREWELL, FOR TWO YEARS, TO ENGLAND; A POEM, SELECTION, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My native scenes! Can aught in time, or space Last Line: And all the landscape glows with fresher bloom. Subject(s): Love; Past A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could I remount the river of my years Last Line: The essence of great bosoms now no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Past A HANDFUL OF DUST, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stooped to the silent earth and lifted a handful of her dust Last Line: Who is trying to speak to us? Subject(s): Death; Dust; Past; Dead, The A HYACINTH FOR EDITH, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now that the ashen rain of gummy april Last Line: Of our lost innocence, our ghostly childhood. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Hyacinths; Past; Childhood A LETTER TO A FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The past is like a story Last Line: As when scattered o'er the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fame; Friendship; Letters; Past; Reputation A MAN'S LAST LOVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the tenth wave, that offers to the shore Last Line: Live yet in this one passion, grand and vast. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Passion; Past; Sea; Ocean A MAN'S VOCATION IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overcome with humility in the american west Last Line: Bound for the edge of the world Subject(s): History; Past; West (u.s.); Youth; Historians; Southwest; Pacific States A MEMORY, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the barren, lonely hill Last Line: I walked with angels on the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Past; Faces A MEMORY OF 1876, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ages past, before the forest deep Last Line: In the valley of the blue juniata. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Memory; Past A NIGHT THOUGHT; WRITTEN IN ILLNESS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Rest dwells not on my brain to-night Last Line: Among the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Despair; Memory; Past A NOBLE LADY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pale and stately lady, with a brow Last Line: The past had left its darkness. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Past A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, when I was a tiny boy Last Line: To cast a look behind! Variant Title(s): Man And Boy Subject(s): Past A STUDENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over an ancient scroll I bent Last Line: The fluttering of an angel's wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Schools; Time; Nightmares; Students A TALE OF THE AIRLY DAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Tell me a tale of the airly days Last Line: As they did in the airly days. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nostalgia; Past; Pioneers A TIME PAST, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old wooden steps to the front door Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Relationships; Past; Human Behavior; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A VOICE FOR EDWARD, by GLEN BLANCH Poem Text First Line: The glad day, the joyous: what was Last Line: Although it be late; although already the light flickers. Subject(s): Past A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 1. COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wi' my haun on my haffit I sit by the fire Last Line: I mourn for the days an' the folk that's awa. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 2. DRUMPELLIER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye kenna, my cummers, ye never can ken Last Line: But bonny drumpellier they've left evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 3. SIMMERLEE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noo, neebors, ance mair, wi' my stick I' my haun' Last Line: An' his titties lang mourn't the fate o' their brither. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Change; Past A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 4. GARTSHERRIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noo I'll dauner awa' up by carlincraft burn Last Line: May gude gi'e them gumption their wages tae spen'. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Change; Memory; Past A WITHERED NOSEGAY, by LOUIS FRECHETTE Poem Text First Line: Here's a posy of poor faded flowers, that I keep Last Line: Shall touch you caressingly even in death. Subject(s): Flowers; Lament; Past; Time A YEAR, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Paint me a portrait of the year.' Last Line: "we have for memories—and to spare." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Past; Time AD ASTRA: 100, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We doubt of life-for who can hope to stand Last Line: Heeds he the many vigils of our way? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life; Past AD ASTRA: 6, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thus do we nourish in our breasts the sting Last Line: To-morrow will be part of our regret! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Memory; Past AFTER SAPPHO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you, leslie, long ago Last Line: When I was just an ungainly boy Subject(s): Love; Past; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Youth AFTER SAPPHO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you, leslie, long ago Last Line: When I was just an ungainly boy Subject(s): Love; Past; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Youth AFTER SCHOOL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange to think how much may come from just / a little thing Last Line: "and grandma says, ""oh, go to bed,—I've dropped another stitch!" Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Classmates; Courtship; Grandparents; Love - Beginnings; Past; Childhood; Schoolmates; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers AFTER SUNSET, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vast and solemn company of clouds Last Line: Drops in the shadowy gulf of bygone things. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Evening; Memory; Past; Silence; Time; Sunset; Twilight AFTER YEARS, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this really my own roof-tree Last Line: I alone am not the same. Subject(s): Home; Past AFTERMATH, by CONSTANCE ROWELL MASTORES Poem Source First Line: There is nothing I can do to bridge Last Line: What is this temple that we call the past? Subject(s): Past AFTERMATH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: We laughed and loved as the summer went Last Line: Are you content? Subject(s): Love; Past; Summer AFTERWHILES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are they - the afterwhiles Last Line: Out into the afterwhiles. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Life; Past; Sun ALL THAT'S PAST, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Very old are the woods Last Line: Of amaranth lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Past ALPHABET, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one / the old people Last Line: "I" Subject(s): Past AN IMAGE FROM A PAST LIFE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never until this night have I been stirred Last Line: Of the hovering thing night brought me. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Youth; Past; Memory AN OLD MAN TO AN OLD MADEIRA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first you trembled at my kiss Last Line: To other younger sinners. Subject(s): Aging; Kisses; Past; Youth AN OLD MAN'S MEMORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The delights of our childhood is Last Line: And the joy of the swet of his brow! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Past; Spring; Youth ANDREE REXROTH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purple and green, blue and white Subject(s): Love; Past; Solitude; Youth; Loneliness ANDREE REXROTH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purple and green, blue and white Last Line: Flesh is utterly consumed Subject(s): Love; Past; Solitude; Youth ARE YOU SO POOR?, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Are you so poor? But in the past Last Line: To find, is left. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Happiness; Past; Time; Joy; Delight ARISTOMENES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gods of old are silent on their shore Last Line: Whose names are on the hills and o'er the seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Greece; Past AS FROM THE PAST --, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight upon the mullioned pane Last Line: "dorothy -- dorothy!" Subject(s): Past; Yale University AS I SIT IN THE SILENCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many pleasures of youth have been buoyantly sung Last Line: As I sit in the silence and gaze in the fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Envoy Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Past; Silence; Youth AS IN THE BEGINNING, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: In the very far beginning, when our fathers lived in caves Last Line: Yet 'twas only just the night-jar, just the plopping water-rat! Subject(s): Nature; Past AS LEAVES SWEEP PAST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister & joe & mistah rilke Last Line: Way up in the flying dust Subject(s): Memory; Past; Poetry & Poets AT LAST!, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the distant murmur of the fountain Last Line: For hope has come to me—has come at last! Subject(s): Memory; Past AT SUNSET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belov'd meran, supremely fair! Last Line: The past's sweet benison of peace. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Past; Rome, Italy; Sunset; Twilight AT THE FIRE-FIGHTERS' POST, by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: This was a stately victorian drawing-room Last Line: How happy you were. Subject(s): Firefighters; Past AUTUMN IN MERAN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vintage time is gone, but not its glory Last Line: In autumn wearest thou thy fairest crown. Subject(s): Autumn; Past; Seasons; Vines And Vineyards; Fall BAD MEMORY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Think of all your brain once knew Last Line: Pulling closed its heavy iron gate Subject(s): Heads; Memory; Past; Reason BAD OLD DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer of nineteen eighteen Last Line: And the misery, and the %anger, and the vow are the same Subject(s): Chicago; Evil; Past; Poverty BALLADE OF OLD NAVIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Gone are the old-time wooden fleets Last Line: No more we battle man to man. Subject(s): Navy - United States; Past; War; American Navy BALLADE OF THE LADIES OF TIME PAST, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O tell me where, in lands or seas Last Line: Ah, where shall last year's snow be found? Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Mourning; Past; Women BALZAC AND TENNIS, by J. S. VENIT Poem Source First Line: Does the past ... Exist? All those feverish moths Last Line: And your smile smiling through the open veins Subject(s): Past; Tennis BARNACLES, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is sailing through the sea Last Line: And trim me best for sailing. Subject(s): Barnacles; Past BECAUSE FULFILLMENT AWAITS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An arm reaching back through a hole in a ceiling Last Line: To create a bright new past one creates it Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Past; Poisons And Poisoning BECKONED, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has your memory ever been Subject(s): Memory; Past BELLS FROM OUT OF THE PAST, by JOELLEN INGRAM Poem Text First Line: In eerie lights beneath the sky Last Line: The mission bells so far away. Subject(s): Past BETWEEN TWO WARS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember that breakfast one november Subject(s): Lament; Parties; Past BETWEEN TWO WARS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember that breakfast one november Last Line: Over their own fragmented flesh Subject(s): Lament; Parties; Past BEYOND THE HOUR, by MONROE HEATH Poem Text First Line: These hills have stood too long Last Line: Than linger, broken and diminished. Subject(s): Beauty; Past; Time BIO: FITTING INTO MY YEARS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back then the people around us confidently Last Line: Hatched in the cornfields of iowa and crept into %english departments. And I was one Subject(s): History; Past BITTER RUE, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their love that was so exigent Last Line: May wither all life's passion flowers. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Past BORROWED THOUGHTS: 4. FROM ***, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the kingdom of my soul Last Line: The haunted chamber in my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Past; Soul BRONZE THESE SHOES, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Peter says I should bronze these platform shoes Last Line: For some really good blue light special Subject(s): Funerals; Past; Property; Shoes CALDER: A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet calder! On thy flowery marge Last Line: Though youth and joy have fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Nature; Past; Youth CANOPUS; A LEAP FROM THE PAST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the palms, the peaks of pearly gray Last Line: That makes them purely one! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Past; Singing & Singers CHRISTMAS EVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, old friend in the manse by the fireside sitting Last Line: Give ye good-night, but first thank god in your prayers! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Books; Christmas; Past; Time; Reading; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS TREE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This seablue fir that rode the mountain storm Subject(s): Christmas; Past; Children; Death; Stars; Nativity, The; Childhood; Dead, The CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain Last Line: In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Memory; Past; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) CLICK-ROSE 2: 13, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: Rose then hissing in space like a hot iron in water Last Line: Grandmother's neck-piece my guage of the past Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Past; Roses COME BACK, DEAR DAYS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, dear days, from out the past! Last Line: Now I am poor and sad and old. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Old Age; Past CONJUGI CARISSIMAE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marble fragment, freed at last Last Line: "conjugi carissimae." Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Marriage; Past; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONTINUAL USAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No wonder we felt weighted walking in those halls. The blackboards Last Line: Returned to her classroom to pay a different kind of attention, this time. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Past; Schools; Childhood; Students COSMIC MICROBE, by BERNARD SEEMAN Poem Text First Line: Today / rears like a / powerful blue-gray Last Line: Even by yourself. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past CRAIGNETHAN CASTLE; A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cloud of years is upward rolled Last Line: Awakes them, and they live again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Castles; Memory; Past CUL-DE-SAC, by AMY GERSTLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here the things of the past Last Line: Some fleshy hors d'oeuvre Subject(s): Memory; Past CURFEW SONG OF ENGLAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! From the dim church-tower Last Line: With a thought of the olden days. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): England; Past; English DE M. ANTONIO, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, antonius, in a smiling age Last Line: The past, is to have twice enjoyed it all. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Memory; Past DEJA VU, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It happens sometimes when walking down the street, standing on a Last Line: Speak other tongues, worship different spirits and save whatever we can, as we move on Subject(s): African Americans - History; Memory; Past; Slavery DELIO PATRI, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more lake como's storied isle Last Line: Their essence still remains the same. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Past; Roman Empire DELIVERANCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deliverance? You mean this empty cup Last Line: The irresistible current of my past? Subject(s): Future; Life; Past; Time DELUXE CREATIONS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: I am interested in superstitions Last Line: Because the voice of the hare was stronger, %light was created Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Creation; Past; Progress; Supernatural DEVOLUTION, by CHRISTINE BOYKA KLUGE Poem Source First Line: One january afternoon %the chimney will inhale its sweet smoke Last Line: Waiting for someone %to connect their bright dots Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farewell; Past DID YOU EVER GET A PHONE CALL, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dear gods, they say, you wouldn't pilfer a shadow, would you? Subject(s): Telephones; Love; Past; Memory DIMENSIONS THE PAST TAKES, by JOE BONOMO Poem Source First Line: Down there Last Line: Into the common heave of speech Subject(s): Memory; Past DISCOVERY (1), by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the road I walked and stared Last Line: Neath lifting lids discovered? Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Past DISTILLATION, by MORRIS CREECH Poem Source First Line: To invent what is missing Last Line: Into the shadow %it has cast upon the water Variant Title(s): Distillation Subject(s): Past; Photography And Photographers DO YOU REMEMBER, MARY, by ALEXEY (ALEKSEY) KONSTANTINOVICH TOLSTOY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The days that have passed by? Alternate Author Name(s): Prutkov, Koz'ma Petrovich Subject(s): Past DOMESDAY BOOK: BARRETT BAYS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was walking by the river, barrett said Last Line: Came in and led him from the jury room. Subject(s): France; Life; Love; Past; War DOMESTIC LIFE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The woman washing herself watched the team in harness Last Line: Whose grating cry %is lost in the light Subject(s): Household Employees; Life; Memory; Past; Women DREAM OF OLD CLASSMATES, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: August again 1961 Last Line: Which is now dark and silent Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Past; Schools DREAMS OF THE PAST, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As we wander alone where the moonlight resposes Last Line: Would thrust from its visions the dreams of the past? Subject(s): Dreams; Past; Nightmares DURATION, by DOUGLAS MACKINTOSH Poem Text First Line: I look into the ages of the past Last Line: The gate through which I'll find eternity. Subject(s): Future; Past DVM MEMOR IPSE MEI, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How clean forgotten, how remote and dead Last Line: "love from one drop divining all his sea." Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Past ECHOES, LONG AFTER, by JAMES HOWARD FLOWER Poem Text First Line: I hear a voice no other man can hear Last Line: Nor spill devotion at a fairer shrine. Subject(s): Past ECHOES: 39, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The past was goodly once, and yet, when all is said Last Line: The past that, goodly once, is gone and dead and done. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Past ECHOS DU TEMPS PASSE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh hush,' I cried, 'that thrilling voice Last Line: Herself the music there. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Past EGO DOMINUS TUUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the grey sand beside the shallow stream Last Line: Would carry it away to blasphemous men. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Past; Writing & Writers EONS GONE, by HELEN EMMA MARING Poem Text First Line: Eons, gone and forgotten, I was a neptune daughter Last Line: Of ages time forgot and dreams I can't recall. Alternate Author Name(s): Payne, Lorrin A., Mrs. Subject(s): Past EPILOGUE, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset burns upon the river, / its glories fade and die Last Line: Its music unto me! Subject(s): Past ETC., by WAYNE DODD Poem Source First Line: Well these are I think the ones she said Last Line: Of whole closetfuls of garments %such as these their unchanging pasts Subject(s): Past EVASIVE ACTION, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: ...The clip ped possessive moment, the barber on his porch Subject(s): Hair; Past EXPERIENCE, by GREGOIRE LE ROY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked behind two lovers, their kisses hearing Last Line: And I knew the word that chimera would tell them soon. Subject(s): Love; Past FALLEN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My country! By our fathers reared Last Line: Retrace the path that ends in shame! Subject(s): Heroism; Nations; Past; Tyranny & Tyrants; Heroes; Heroines FERGUS FALLING, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He climbed to the top Last Line: Sits in the dry gray wood of his rowboat, waiting for pickerel Subject(s): Death; Past FIFTEENTH CENTURY, by KALEEM OMAR Poem Source First Line: They have set up a committee Last Line: So all I can say is that the fifteenth century %had better end, and soon Subject(s): Muslims; Past FINDING THE WORDS, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: When I walk it Last Line: Like sparks %from a chip of flint Subject(s): Language; Life; Past FISH PEDDLER AND COBBLER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always for thirty years now Last Line: Savage eyed whores paraded the streets Subject(s): Change; Past; Progress; Social Protest; United States; America FISH PEDDLER AND COBBLER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always for thirty years now Last Line: Savage eyed whores paraded the street Subject(s): Change; Past; Progress; Social Protest; United States FLOATING LADY RETABLO: 1, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remember I remember I lay my young bullocks Last Line: Siempre go try your luck on the mountain if it pleases ye Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Past; Relationships; Sex FOR AYE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, lilacs wilt beneath the blast Last Line: For aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Past FOR THE COURTESAN CH'ING LIN, by WU TSAO Poem Text First Line: On your slender body Last Line: And carry you away. Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Memory; Past; Women FORTH FROM YOUR PAST!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from your lowly past! In humble wise Last Line: And live its happy lord for evermore. Subject(s): Past FORWARD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamer, waiting for darkness with sorrowful, drooping eyes Last Line: The joy of the boundless future — nay, god himself — is thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): God; Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness FOUR MEDIEVAL SCENES, FOR ROBERT DUNCAN, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus at a wedding Subject(s): Past FOUR PRELUDES ON PLAYTHINGS OF THE WIND, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman named tomorrow Last Line: And the women warbled: nothing like us ever was. Subject(s): Past; Rats FRAGMENTS, by JESSIE FARNHAM Poem Text First Line: The way you slipped a ribbon in a book Last Line: And yet their fragile fragments clog the traffic of my mind. Subject(s): Past FRAUNCES' TAVERN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Restore, o thought, whose potent weird Last Line: The honest love of gallant men! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Fraunces' Tavern, New York City; Memory; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Past; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons FROM DAWNING TILL DAWNING, by JENNIE EMERY Poem Text First Line: I wish that I could see once more Last Line: All earthly duties done at last. Subject(s): Home; Past FROM INLAND, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that you and I were young Last Line: That fled so bravely to its death. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Old Age; Past; Relationships; Youth FURNESS ABBEY; IN THE VALE OF NIGHTSHADE, LANCASHIRE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish for the days of the olden time Last Line: And I sigh for the days of the veil and the vow. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Furness Abbey; Lancashire, England; Past; Abbey Of St. Mary FUTURE IS TOMORROW MORNING, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's time to write about the things that can't Last Line: Repetitions, escaping old bodies, it skips into new Subject(s): Future; Past; Writing And Writers GATHERINGS, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Having let the people of our youth Last Line: Of the comings of the goings %of the other Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Past GHOSTS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the eve of bosworth, it is said Last Line: And their pale hands the battle shall decide. Subject(s): Ghosts; Life; Past; Supernatural GIRLISH REMINISCENCES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cradled in a nest of flowers Last Line: Where death nor sorrows come. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Friendship; Girls; Past GOLDEN DAYS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden days -- where are they? Last Line: Golden days? Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Love; Past; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness GRANDMA, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Grandma used to sit Last Line: Bright and brief as an adolescent's dress %on a dark porch Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Past GRANDPA'S CHRISTMAS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his great cushioned chair by the fender Last Line: "with grandma, this year." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Death; Grandparents; Past; Nativity, The; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNIE'S TALE: A BALLAD O' MEMORIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The days o' langsyne, oh! The days o' langsyne Last Line: "in that grave lay his wife an' four bairnies dear." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory; Past; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GREATER MEMORY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the heart there lay buried for years Last Line: That heart and that memory dwell. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Past; Reunions HAIKU, by HATTORI RANSETSU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A leaf whirls down, alackaday! Last Line: A leaf whirls down upon the breeze. Subject(s): Leaves; Past; Solitude; Loneliness HALF HOURS WITH THE CLASSICS, by H. J. DEBURGH Poem Text First Line: Ah, those hours when by-gone sages Last Line: Somewhat doubtful quantities. Subject(s): Books; Past; Reading HALL OF ARCHITECTURE, by ROBERT GIBB Poem Source First Line: Touring the past's attic we stopped before Last Line: Something silent and shelfed and permanent Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Museums; Past HAZEL, SOUTH DAKOTA, by BOB JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Just before sunset on the first day of may Last Line: To whenever it all began, %wherever Subject(s): Homecoming; Past; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HE'S SITTING ON A BENCH IN THE PAST, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: I took you for another Last Line: If you renounce your listening %you'll hear the fierce music Subject(s): Memory; Past HOME REMEDY, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whiskey made me invisible Last Line: To stand in it was to blaze / effaced Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Past HON. JESSE HOLDOM OF CHICAGO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the great lake's pride Last Line: And the waning sun sink low. Subject(s): Babies; Fate; Fear; Future; Past; Infants; Destiny HOW IT USED TO BE, by ALMA DENNY Poem Source First Line: The deep dish pie was deeper that day Last Line: Instead of bumper-to-bumper Subject(s): Past HOW THE PAST INHABITS, by BARBARA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: When she was twelve, my mother Last Line: Frets daily over what she should eat Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters; Past HOW TO WRITE TO AN EX-LOVER, by MELISSA KIRSCH Poem Source First Line: The letter begins, my dear, here's an update Last Line: That's what he's become now, no farewell Subject(s): Letters; Past; Relationships; Writing And Writers HOW WE SEE THE PAST, by RICHARD JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was enough to be standing Last Line: Or if the cry of the crows really was %calling us out beyond ourselves Subject(s): History; Past; War HUNGER TO THE TABLE (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nearer the open hydrants of summer to arrive flung, sung, sweat stains tossed aside: all effort Last Line: Legs around: closure rewarding and sustained and thigh-high Subject(s): Past; Baths & Bathing HUSKS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: They will not stay Last Line: The fruit ye leave! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Faith; Past; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed I DO NOT HAVE A BODY, by BILL HERBERT Poem Source Last Line: I shall be everywhere Subject(s): Past; Riddles I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I COUNT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the very feel of tears Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Past; Memory I MET THEE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met thee when thy youthful charms Last Line: Like hope the future, while I wept. Subject(s): Past; Youth I SHALL NOT GO BACK TO THE PLACE THAT I LOVE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I shall not go back to the place that I love Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Past I SHALL REMEMBER, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: The rain has come and washed away the trace Last Line: But I—I shall remember when I'm dead! Subject(s): Memory; Nature; Past; Relationships I'M THINKING OF THAT OTHER MORN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Go up in two by two! Subject(s): Past IN A COLUMBARIUM, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn sun still bravely streams Last Line: Love soars immortal to the skies. Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Past; Roman Empire; Seasons; Time; Fall IN AN OLD NURSERY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: A prim old room where memories stir Last Line: Of some walled garden! Subject(s): Babies; Past; Rooms; Infants IN ANCIENT TIMES, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The oxen bring us power and bring us love! Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Past IN DAYS GONE BY, by LILLA CABOT PERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days gone by when you were here Last Line: In days gone by! Subject(s): Hunger; Memory; Past; Time IN LONG AGO, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In long ago I passed by the castle of leaves Last Line: In long ago you loved me Subject(s): Surrealism; Love; Past IN MEMORY, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long summer shadows calm the grass Variant Title(s): The White Room Subject(s): Family Life; Past; Relatives IN SLEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not drowsihood and dreams and mere idless Last Line: Rises a greatheart where a slave lay down. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Past; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares IN THAT TIME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day had its own shape Last Line: His red coat and ran away. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Past; Childhood IN THE GLOAMING, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Twas long ago, so long I hardly dare Last Line: Will the sweet shadow steal a-down the stair? Subject(s): Memory; Past IN THE HOME OF THE SCHOLAR WU SU-CHIANG ..., by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Half of our borders, rivers and mountains were gone Last Line: Dragons dancing in the depths %and the moss on the shore burning red Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women IN THE OLD DAYS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I lose track of my happiness Subject(s): Change; Past IN THE OLD DAYS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I lose track of my happiness Last Line: Of happiness later, far from that dump we call governance Subject(s): Change; Past IN THE OLD DAYS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We didn't have this and we didn't have that Last Line: In such bodies in those days Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Erotic Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Past IN THE PAST, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: All the confusing thoughts from the past Last Line: Not the old self but my self newly-born Subject(s): Past; Rebirth; Self IN THE PAST, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lies a somnolent lake Last Line: That boatman am I. Subject(s): Lakes; Past; Solitude; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness IN THOSE DAYS, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world was a wild and lonely place Last Line: And filled the world with tales. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Past IN YOUTH, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps, through life, 'twill not be always so Last Line: I wonder that so much of joy can be. Subject(s): Past; Youth INHERITANCE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As flow the rivers to the sea Last Line: You pass unto the further day. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Inheritance And Succession; Past IS AND WAS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was whiter than the ermine Last Line: Doing all from self-respect. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Once Subject(s): Love; Past; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect ISLE OF MONOGATARI: REGRETTING THE PAST, by ARIWARA NO NARIHIRA Poem Source First Line: Is that not the moon? Last Line: Yet everything seems different Subject(s): Past ISOLA COMACINA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There sleeps beneath italian skies Last Line: May all the gods be good to thee! Subject(s): Future; Islands; Italy; Past; Italians IT ROLLS ON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Irresolute, pausing on a doubtful journey Last Line: Here, in this place, each year Subject(s): Autumn; Past; Seasons; Fall IT ROLLS ON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Irresolute, pausing on a doubtful journey Last Line: Here, in this place, each year Subject(s): Autumn; Past; Seasons IT WAS OVER, by JOHN TALBOT Poem Text First Line: Something expired. At the turning Subject(s): Past IT'S GOT TO BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it's got to be,' - like I always say Last Line: "as I say ""good-by! -- good-by!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Past; Dead, The JOHN MCKEEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John mckeen, in his rusty dress Last Line: And the old-time fiddle-tunes! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Past KARMA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phantom of mystery, older than history Last Line: Deathless associates, -- shadow and soul! Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Past; Sin; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life KEEPING STORE, by AMANDA MUTERSPAUGH Poem Text First Line: Out of the land of 'make - believe Last Line: Over a bargain -- then it took tact. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Past KEEPING WATCH, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: Between the old friends I hadn't Last Line: Headed for home. It's about time Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Change; Friendship; Past; Talk KINGRY'S MILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On old brandywine - about Last Line: Down around old kingry's mill! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Past; Youth LA FARADOLA DEI FANCIULLI, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How far back the ancient past seems now Last Line: Was being sunlight, flower, heat-shimmer Subject(s): Past LA FARADOLA DEI FANCIULLI, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How far back the ancient past seems now Last Line: Was being sunlight, flower, heat-shimmer Subject(s): Past LARS; A PASTORAL OF NORWAY: TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through many years my heart goes back Last Line: And take the grateful love, wherein I hide thy praise! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Life; Love; Past; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) LAST NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Was it last summer, just last year Last Line: And the new year, love, the new year! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory; Past; Peace; Time; War LAST THINGS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tunnel of woods, as the road Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Past LAST YEAR, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You thought, o love, you loved me then, I know Last Line: Our hearts their morning under last year's skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Past LATER, by WILLARD HUNTINGTON WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: I went to the place where my youth took place Last Line: For a year and a half with the curtains down. Subject(s): Home; Past LEGACY, by MARGARET STANLEY-WRENCH Poem Text First Line: Long after it will happen, when all is forgotten Last Line: The aimless sound of the relentless sea. Subject(s): Fear; Memory; Past LEO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a journey o'er the sea Last Line: That we shall meet again? Subject(s): Death; Past; Sea; Silence; Travel; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips LETTER AND ANSWER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After so many years she wrote, but why Last Line: "restore the life that once joined me to you?" Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of; Love Letters; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Youth; Male-female Relations LETTER TO NO ONE WHO IS NAMED THE PAST AND THE THOUGHTS THAT ..., by JIM ELLEDGE Poem Source First Line: My dearest t.P.- Last Line: As I'd ever get the rest of my goddamned life Subject(s): Letters; Past; Thought LIFE, by GERTRUDE P. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Often our building blocks of life Last Line: For you will find them there. Subject(s): Life; Past LIFE OF THE MIND, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: She sees sky from his bed, red Last Line: All offers of a better life Subject(s): Life; Past; Reason; Relationships LIKE EMPTY BEER CANS, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: Like empty beer cans, like empty Last Line: They swept out the bars Variant Title(s): Gethsemani, Ky: Subject(s): Grief; Past LITTLE POEMS ABOUT LOVE, by STUART MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seven times the four seasons had passed over the woods and the Last Line: Word suffices for my stammering folly, a word you know well, o beloved! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Nations; Past LONDON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black in the midnight lies the city vast Last Line: England's ideal life alone survives! Subject(s): England; London; Past; English LONG AGO, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once knew all the birds that came Last Line: An' sing a song fu' de day dat died, %de day of long ergo Subject(s): Past LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: Twas the tale of any day, / long ago and far away Subject(s): Past LOOKING BACK ALONG LIFE'S TRODDEN WAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Looking back Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Past LOSSES, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speed had not served, strength had not flowed amain Last Line: It may be, to be lost, is not unblest! Subject(s): Life; Loss; Love; Past LOVE AMONG THE RUINS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the quiet-colored end of evening smiles Last Line: Love is best. Subject(s): Love; Ruins; Past LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 50, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the park a crow awakes Last Line: For the years that are gone Subject(s): Grief; Past LOWLANDS LOW, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can be better than to let the screen of years Last Line: Remembering. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LYRIC, by MAO TSE-TUNG Poem Source First Line: Glitter of a northern kingdom Last Line: To count our 'headlong heroes' %come - look at this morning Subject(s): Past MANY YEARS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: My mother is twelve, dressed in white Last Line: Her dark head Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Eucharist; Memory; Mothers; Past MARCHING DAYS, by LOIS CANFIL Poem Text First Line: To some far rendezvous the days march past Last Line: To walk as comrade with the days and years. Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Past MEDICINE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The practice of medicine / is not what it was Last Line: You're going to live. Subject(s): Grandparents; Medicine; Past; Women; Women's Rights; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Drugs, Prescription; Feminism MEMORIALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the shining river's brim Last Line: The well-sweep and the ruined wall. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Past; Rivers; Nightmares MEMORIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As his yarn a seaman spins Last Line: O'er time's sea of songs and sins. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Memory; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Time; Seamen; Sails; Ocean MEMORIES, by HATTIE JOSEPHINE HODGSON Poem Text First Line: There are no friends like the old friends Last Line: There is nothing but memories left. Subject(s): Friendship; Home; Memory; Past MEMORIES WRITTEN IN THE STORMY MONTHS OF THE OPENING OF THE YEAR, 1868, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely musing, sadly thinking Last Line: "just to god and man." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Memory; Nature; New Year; Past; Sorrow; Sadness MEMORY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman I used to know well died Last Line: How could you have let this happen to you? Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Marriage; Memory; Past; Time; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEMORY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When often I think and dream of thee Last Line: As I live those days with thee once more. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Past; Thought; Time; Thinking MEMORY, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Secret memories Last Line: Memories returned from the past Subject(s): Memory; Past MEMORY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, listen! Last Line: This beautiful aching? Subject(s): Memory; Past MEMORY AND HOPE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Memory has a sister fair Last Line: Hopeful future,—lovely past. Subject(s): Future; Hope; Memory; Past; Optimism MENTAL HARMONY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have had pleasant hours, but they are gone Last Line: One volume from its treasures, into day. Subject(s): Past; Togetherness MIDDLE AGE, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Left alone with the cows to-day Last Line: All this is the burthen of middle age. Subject(s): Freedom; Future; Middle Age; Past; Liberty MIGNON, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou, mignon, child of mystery? Last Line: Thy spirit's wings unfolded in the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Life; Past MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the gulf enters the sea and so forth Last Line: Only here. Only now Subject(s): Mississippi River; Past; Rivers; Seashore; Time MONDAY, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Today I met someone I thought might know you Last Line: I think I must be sleeping facing the past Subject(s): Conversation; Memory; Past MORNING AND AFTERNOON, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair girl, the light of whose morning keeps Last Line: If she made a peaceful end! Subject(s): Future; Past MRS., by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: What I'd really like to do tonight Last Line: That summer, a bad one for the farmers Subject(s): Memory; Middle Age; Neighbors; Old Age; Past MUSIC AT THE VILLA MARINA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From some abiding central source of power Last Line: O even wings of music, bear my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Past; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness MUSINGS, by EDWARD HEBENTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days bygone mayhap I dream'd the laurel might be mine Last Line: I know not, nor would I aspire to higher form of bliss. Subject(s): Aging; Muses; Past MUSINGS ON THE OLD YEAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another year has rolled away Last Line: And from memory's page blot out them all. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time MY BONNY KATE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sultry sun with angry eye Last Line: My bonny kate! Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Past MY CHILDHOOD HOME, by OLETA FOX CLOOS Poem Text First Line: I am thinking today of the 'old home Last Line: The scenes of my dear childhood home. Subject(s): Home; Memory; Past; Youth MY DEAD, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give back the soul of youth once more! Last Line: I shall behold my dead again? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Past; Youth; Dead, The MY PAST WHICH IS TO COME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With cymbal's clang and tap of drums Last Line: Lord, save us from that coming past! Subject(s): Past MY WHITE BREAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dem good old days done past and Last Line: Says a-eatin' my white braid! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bread; Night; Past; Bedtime NEVER ANYONE BUT YOU, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never anyone but you despite stars and loneliness Last Line: And you never anyone but you Subject(s): Surrealism; Past; Love NEVER RETURN!, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a meeting, such as on this earth Last Line: Call on the fire-flies dancing through the vines. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Future; Past; Reunions NEW COUNTRY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my grandfather when the boat landed Last Line: A glimmer in his bloodshot eye Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Past NO!, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have closed my ears, I refuse Subject(s): Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness NO!, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have closed my ears, I refuse Last Line: The past you want. You are wrong Subject(s): Grief; Past NORTHAMPTON, 1922 - SAN FRANCISCO, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night rain falls through fog Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Male-female Relations NORTHAMPTON, 1922 - SAN FRANCISCO, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night rain falls through fog Last Line: With children on the verge of youth Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past NOT WISELY, NOR TOO WELL, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: So thou, unmindful of the past Last Line: Thy mission is to bless thy kind. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Past; Optimism O ROCK AND TORRENT, LAKE AND HILL, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The imperishable past Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Past OAXACA 1925, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a beautiful child Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Male-female Relations OAXACA 1925, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a beautiful child Last Line: And black shadows in the moonlight %a lifetime ago Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Past ODE TO THE PAST, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely our path is darker than before Last Line: O change the bridal song for funeral hymn. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Love; Past OLD AGE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What mean the days and years that pass Last Line: Upon the silver wings of peace. Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Grief; Memory; Past; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness OLD AND NEW; THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION, 1847-1897, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is that oft uttered adage true Last Line: "no loss but only of the ship!" Subject(s): Past; Time OLD MEMORIES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright flashes of sunshine - sweet snatches of song Last Line: Where the robin a requiem will sing o'er my head. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Past; Youth OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There broods the pathos of a time long past Last Line: That lit the players in the long-ago. Subject(s): Faces; Life; Love; Past; Schools; Time; Students OLD VALENTINES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny maids with sunlit hair Last Line: In one golden memory. Subject(s): Holidays; Memory; Past; Valentine's Day; Women OLD WORLD, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: From old photographs, it is easy Last Line: Seeking the interstices %of time Subject(s): Past ON A PICTURE OF SELF WITH HOE, CULTIVATING PLUM BLOSSOMS, by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Unmarred blue %redolent hands Last Line: In fly blue kingfishers feathers, %wailing Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women ON AN ANCIENT LANCE, HANGING IN AN ARMOURY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the breezy coppice didst thou dance Last Line: And with his mouldered eyes again replace. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Past; Silence ON GARLIC, HOT PEPPERS, AND ONIONS, by R. ZWERIN Poem Source First Line: Just whisps of memory, forgotten days Last Line: Just whisps of memory Subject(s): Past ONCE AGAIN I HEAR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I am overwhelmed by the past Subject(s): Past ONCE UPON A TIME, by W. L. WERNER Poem Text First Line: I am in love with a foreign word, / jadis Last Line: Loudly I'm singing to banish reason, jadis! Alternate Author Name(s): Jacob Subject(s): Middle Ages; Past; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature ORIGIN OF THE MARBLE FOREST, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Childhood dotted with bodies Last Line: Make them stay, make them stone. Subject(s): Children; Past; Childhood OUIJA, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a chilly god, a god of shades, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Ouija Boards; Past OUR HARDY DADS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Our daddies sat upon unpainted planks Last Line: Our daddies must have been the all-wool stuff! Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers; Past; Sports OUT OF THE EMBERS (SIOUX), by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Embers, embers, in the night Last Line: Embers, embers, keep your glow. Subject(s): History; Memory; Past; Historians OZARK ODES: RENT HOUSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O the hours I lay on the bed Last Line: Where we slept together Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Houses; Past; Relationships PACIFIC COAST, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half across the world to westward there's Last Line: Half across the world from england many and many a year ago. Subject(s): Past; Travel; Journeys; Trips PARADISE LOST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She phoned from idaho, he was in glin Last Line: Hell is the home of lost opportunity Subject(s): Idaho; Ireland; Love; Past; Remorse PARADOX, by HERBERT ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: I have met the unforgotten past Last Line: Are part of my tomorrow. Subject(s): Future; Past PAST, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The corpses wait under my bed Last Line: Even when I wake it doesn't go away Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time PAST, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clocks are chiming in my heart Last Line: The leaves are dropping from my tree! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Past PAST, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have to discard the past Last Line: Lost in the past, and now does not come back Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Past PAST, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Place has its undertone Last Line: Voices of swans in passing agitation Subject(s): Past PAST AND FUTURE FALL AWAY', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sea surface. %no place. %no time Subject(s): Future; Past PAST AND FUTURE TURN ABOUT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn has returned and we return Subject(s): Future; Past PAST AND FUTURE TURN ABOUT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn has returned and we return Last Line: A windrow of the terribly %red dogwood leaves Subject(s): Future; Past PAST AND PRESENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On four-horse coach, whose luggage pierced the sky Last Line: Shot like a pellet from his own pop-gun. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past; Progress; Schools; Time; Travel; Vacation; Students; Journeys; Trips PAST AND PRESENT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll never forgive you! I said Last Line: As I seek to harden my heart? Subject(s): Anger; Death; Forgiveness; Past; Dead, The; Clemency PAST AND PRESENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Linger,' I cried, 'o radiant time!' Last Line: I prize the past much, but the present more. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Love; Past; Time; Sorrow; Sadness PAST AND PRESENT, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our fathers in the georgian era Last Line: Suits the yet thinner conversation. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Georgia (state); Past PAST DAYS, by JOHN FALK Poem Source First Line: Terror, seeds, wine, breasts Last Line: Of luminance and rage were back Subject(s): Past PENNYROYAL, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy with cares no winnowing hand could sift Last Line: Safe 'mid the unblighted treasures of the past. Subject(s): Children; Forests; Memory; Past; Childhood; Woods PERDITA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go beyond the commandment.' so be it. Then mine be the blame Last Line: And nothing, nothing, nothing, can do away with the past. Subject(s): Past; Soul; Tears PHANTOMS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back, ye phantoms of the past Last Line: Call upon me still! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Ghosts; Grief; Hearts; Past; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness PIONEERS OF DETROIT, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In ancient days, on every hand Last Line: To his own happy land. Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Past; Pioneers PLEASURE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Listen to the rock breathing Last Line: You breathe in me. Subject(s): Past; Pleasure; Seashore POEM FOR A CLASS RE-UNION, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether we like it, or don't Last Line: Shall rally together to dine. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Aging; Classmates; Past; Reunions; Time; Schoolmates PRAETERITA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Soft airs that fan the face Last Line: O'er brightness fled? Subject(s): Earth; Faces; Hearts; Past; World PREFATORY STANZAS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talk not to me of necromantic wights Last Line: Bids them all hail, and wafts them every feeling kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Life; Magic; Memory; Necromancy; Past PROPOSITION AND QUESTION, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: If you shrink the universe to fifteen floors Last Line: He watches her dive into the pool? Subject(s): Past; Time PUZZLE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: In days of old, when knights were bold Last Line: When bugs and ants sneaked in! Subject(s): Jokes; Knights & Knighthood; Past RECOLLECTION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the blue shadowy valley I hastened in a dream Last Line: And hearts ere they were broken, and eyes ere they were wet. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love; Past RED MAPLE LEAVES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maple leaves are brilliant Last Line: And then I drive west into the smoky sunset Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Maple Trees; Past RED MAPLE LEAVES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maple leaves are brilliant Last Line: And then I drive west into the smoky sunset Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Maple Trees; Past REMEMBERING THE PAST AT THE CITY OF YUE, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: Desolate state beside the sea, regrets of a thousand years Last Line: Once scattering golden rays all over ancient palaces Subject(s): Past REMEMBERING THE PAST IN THE CITY OF THE SOARING DRAGON, by NGUYEN THI HINH Poem Source First Line: Why did the maker stage such drama here Last Line: The scene from here can break the viewer's heart Subject(s): Past REMEMBRANCE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are moments in life, which are never forgot Last Line: Life may frown -- but its light shall abandon me -- never. Subject(s): Past REMEMBRANCE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were many burning hours on the heartsweet tide Last Line: When we came to the fold of the king for rest in the night. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Past REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm afraid father's hair is slightly cancelled Last Line: In the manner of a painting a work of art. Subject(s): Memory; Past REMOTE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, perchance, there is a love Last Line: The aisles of memory! Subject(s): Past RESURRECTION, by ELIZABETH ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Come to me, my beloved Last Line: Save the plaint of a leaf in the tree. Subject(s): Love; Past; Trees RETROSPECT, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O loving one, o bounteous one Last Line: That they have hid my father's face. Subject(s): Past; God RETROSPECT, by NANCY MCGOVERN Poem Source First Line: Long last turn in the road winding by blue spruce Last Line: The day after merry christmas Subject(s): Christmas; Past RETROSPECT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ain't it rum?' said dan one day Last Line: "what he likes best -- till it goes?" Subject(s): Harbors; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping RETROSPECTION, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: The bleakest pinnacle to him who long Last Line: Finis. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Death; Past; Dead, The RETROSPECTION, by GARNET B. FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: I note this morning how the sunshine falleth Last Line: In that blest land to which our feet are tending? Subject(s): Fairies; Nature; Past; Elves RETURNING TO FIELDS AND GARDENS (1), by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young, I did not fit in Last Line: Cage, but now, at last, can return to nature Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Past REVERIE OVER MEMORIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I did not dream. And yet if I had dreamed Last Line: And the imagination of delight. Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia; Past; Time REVISITING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If one clear road you cannot find Last Line: The rising turmoil in your breast. Subject(s): Change; Childhood Memories; Past RISE NOW, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise now, an end to rest. The wind sighs / from the west Last Line: On boughs that tap the pane thy soft farewell to speak. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Shadows RITORNO, by GIANNA PATRIARCA Poem Source First Line: I have come back to the house Last Line: Waiting %to go home Subject(s): Home; Homecoming; Past SALUTE, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Past is past, and if one Subject(s): Past SANDING THE CHAIRS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the way down to clean wood where the grain Last Line: The curve of wood stays firm in the muscles. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Furniture; Past; Repairing; Mending SAVORING THE PAST, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am savoring the past Last Line: As it breaks my heart again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Past; Sorrow; Sadness SERVITUDE, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: I had a tryst, long years ago Last Line: Something was lost beyond recall. Subject(s): Nature; Past SHADOWS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the latter days Last Line: Girl girl wake up. %somebody calling you Subject(s): Memphis, Tennessee; Past; Southern States SHALL I LOOK BACK?, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From some dim height of being, undescried Last Line: Shall I look back and wonder at my fears? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Past SHE WAS A BEAUTY, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a beauty in the days Last Line: When madison was president. Subject(s): Beauty; Past SINCE THEN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am in search of revival Last Line: What I am left to do Subject(s): Past; Conduct Of Life SLUMBERING YESTERDAYS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Awaken them not, those sweet days of the past Last Line: Surcease to remorse, manifest. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Sleep SOME OF THE THINGS I SEE FOR YOU, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great & dramatic he is sprouting a truant Last Line: Dazzling sun moaning in my past Subject(s): Memory; Past SONG (11), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our early years - our early years Last Line: Recall them not again. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Past SONG IN SIXTEEN WORDS, by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Cold %standing in west wind, green sleeves thin Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women SONG OF TO-MORROW, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, o harp of being, set Last Line: Thou shalt never moan again. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Future; Pain; Past; Suffering; Misery SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 3. THE SETTLEMENT, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give, o ye muses of song, a sketch of old days in / new-sweden Last Line: When o'er the delaware floated, unchallenged, the flag of christina. Subject(s): Colonialism; Past; Sweden SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 66, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it to remember? Last Line: A sigh within a dream! Subject(s): Past SONNET TO MANON: ON READING CERTAIN LETTERS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reading these lines, this record of lost days Subject(s): Letters; Past; Paganism & Pagans SONNET TO THE XVIII CENTURY, by BELDEN WIGGLESWORTH Poem Text First Line: Our world moved on, forgetful of the past Last Line: Against the tyrants that men were and are. Subject(s): Past SONNET: A YEAR AGO, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago I too was proud of may Subject(s): Past; Despair SONNET: 30, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought Last Line: All losses are restored, and sorrows end. Variant Title(s): Loses Restored;remembrance Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Memory; Past SONNET: 7, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a hoard of treasure in my breast Last Line: The best of heaven and the worst of hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Memory; Past SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the shade of a deserted hall Last Line: And here her bridal garlands were unbound. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Ruin Subject(s): Home; Past; Ruins SORRENTO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods are gone, the temples over-thrown Last Line: And bind the myrtle buds to crown a purer venus. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature; Past; Roman Empire; Sorrento, Italy SOUL WHISPERS, by HENRY T. PRAED Poem Text First Line: How shall I seek to know you Last Line: And the centuries' race be done. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Past SPIRIT FLOWERS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I hear a voice, so close it makes me start Last Line: In blasts of time. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Be a facilitator, not a roadblock, says the lady who runs the news stand Last Line: The first now wheeling over the city, how if you look just right, you could %believe we were moving Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Past STITCHES, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: What can I say? I've even forgotten how Last Line: Inscrutable as the ocean, my mother's face? Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Variant Title(s): An Unfinished Figur Subject(s): Absence; Ancestors And Ancestry; Memory; Past STUKA, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: The word for the long long moment is stuka Last Line: Of the black-pigmented tumor, mela- %noma Subject(s): History; Mystery; Past SUNDOWN, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: As the rose of the day lies dying Last Line: On the stream of the vanished years. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Nature; Past; Time SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I realize as I / cast out over the lake Last Line: Made from your blonde pubic hair Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Marriage; Past; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I realize as I %cast out over the lake Last Line: Made from your blonde pubic hair Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Love; Marriage; Past TEARING DOWN THE HOTEL, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are tearing down the oldest hotel Subject(s): Demolition; Past; Hotels; Nostalgia; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE AGES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When to the common rest that crowns our days Last Line: How happy, in thy lap, the sons of men shall dwell? Subject(s): Death; Past; Dead, The THE ANCIENTS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ancients wiled him while he slept Last Line: Lest honor die from elder days. Subject(s): Past THE ANTIQUE DESK, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: This maimed antique still holds Last Line: By time and scars and truth. Subject(s): Antiques; Furniture; Nostalgia; Past; Youth THE ATTIC AND ITS NAILS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard up there. You dig in a box for whatever the moment Last Line: Too occupied to remember what sent you up into the dark. Subject(s): Attics; Change; Memory; Past THE BACK DOOR, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The door which through we step out Subject(s): Past THE BACKWARD LOOK, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Back through the years, still unresigned Last Line: Back through the years. Subject(s): Life; Past THE BAD OLD DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer of nineteen eighteen Subject(s): Chicago; Evil; Past; Poverty THE BADLANDS, by ELMA SCHEEL Poem Text First Line: The badlands are priceless canvasses Last Line: Of yesterday. Subject(s): History; Past; Historians THE BALLAD OF LOVELY LADYES OF LONG AGOE, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tell me where and in what lande Last Line: But where are the white snowes borne awaye? Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Past; Women THE BEAU OF THE DEAD, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John fleming walked in the house his cousin left him Subject(s): Past THE BOOK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I moved from the sun-warmed garden-seat Last Line: Had made me a monk for evermore! Subject(s): Bells; Books; Love; Past; Voices; Wind; Reading THE CASTLE OF TIME; A VISION, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up rose the full moon in a heaven of blue Last Line: And heaven's o'erarching dome, eternal and sublime! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Castles; Memory; Past; Time THE CHRISTMAS LONG AGO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sing a hale heigh-ho Last Line: Gusts of kisses and surprise. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Kisses; Past; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Memory; Past; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On starry heights / a bugle wails the long recall Last Line: Wisdom is vain, and prophesy. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Dreams; Hope; Past; United States - History; Wisdom; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism THE CONTINENTS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a vision in that solemn hour Last Line: "claim empire for the free!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Africa; Past; Prophecy & Prophets; Time THE DAYS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years ago this minute, he possibly sat Subject(s): Past THE DAYS GONE BY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the days gone by! O the days gone by! Last Line: In the golden olden glory of the days gone by. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Past; Youth; Childhood THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Poor faded flower, / thy pale dead form hath caused the tears to start Last Line: For this poor withered thing! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Past THE DEAR ADVENTURER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dear adventurer, once more dost thou Last Line: What talk, what treasures shown, what shining hours! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Past; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DESERTED MANSION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Damp and drear the lonely halls Last Line: On the teachings of the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Mansions; Murder; Past THE DREAMS OF LONG AGO, by IMBERT GALLOIX Poem Text First Line: Mine was a vernal world, delectable with flowers Last Line: -- forget, my soul, the dreams of long ago! Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nature; Past; Nightmares THE FACES AND THE FORMS OF YORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The mothers of our mothers' show Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Past; Memory THE FALSE PAST, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the golden past Last Line: False and fabulous past! Subject(s): Past THE FAUN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within my garden's silence and seclusion Last Line: Thy pagan soul! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Past THE FOOTSTEPS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the kitchen of the old house, late Subject(s): Fathers; Past; Family Life; Relatives THE FUTURE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh future, deep and vast! Last Line: And shadows fall thy waves, without reply! Subject(s): Future; Past THE GARDEN OF REGRET, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the dim walls of the shadowy past Last Line: And shall be. Lo! The spring time is not far. Subject(s): Past THE GEOGRAPHER'S GLORY; OR, THE GLOBE IN 1730, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When through the windows buzzed the way-lost bee Last Line: Those fruitful wonders of the natural world. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Geography; Past THE GHOST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the open door of dreamland Last Line: I gave forth from memory's hold (wondrous hold!). Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Ghosts; Memory; Past; Supernatural THE GHOST OF YOUR WASTED PAST, by J. A. PETERSON Poem Text First Line: You may scoff at ghosts for all I care Last Line: The ghost of your wasted past. Subject(s): Ghosts; Life; Past; South Dakota; Supernatural THE GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED PEOPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we hear uncle sidney Last Line: At uncle used to know! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Story-telling; Uncles THE GUARDIAN DEEPS, by RUTH SHEPARD PHELPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The past is like the sea, for both do hold Last Line: Yet irrecoverable, in our past. Subject(s): Past THE HIGH COST OF LIVING', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love to read the magic tales of old Last Line: A newer knighthood braver than the past Subject(s): Past THE LADY AND THE DAME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So thou hast the art, good dame, thou swearest Last Line: If thou wilt restore all these, good dame. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Past; Time THE LAST MAN: MEDITATION, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bitter past Last Line: Even as I taste it. Subject(s): Future; Past; Poisons & Poisoning THE LAST POST OF SAMADEN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye, old post! It is decreed Last Line: Good-bye, old post, good-bye! Subject(s): Bugles; Farewell; Past; Parting THE LIGHT OF DAYS GONE BY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some comfort when all else is night Last Line: In the light of days gone by. Subject(s): Past THE LIVING PAST, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O faithful souls that watch and yearn Last Line: Who free us from the dreadful past? Subject(s): Past THE LONG-AGO, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes which can but ill-define Last Line: And the past its long-ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Past THE LOST ATLANTIS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in our soul-seas there are sunken hopes Last Line: The mute memorials of the lapsed years. Subject(s): Atlantis; Hope; Life; Mythology - Classical; Past; Sea; Soul; Optimism; Ocean THE LOST FAITH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shrine our fathers as their wars recede Last Line: So true in passing, if it must be past. Subject(s): Fathers; War; Transience; Past; Death THE LOST SHIPMATE, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Somewhere he failed me, somewhere he slipped away Last Line: Shall I find you south of the gulf?—or are you dead in my heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Loss; Past; Youth THE LOVE OF THE PAST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As sailors watch from their prison Last Line: That the things of the past are the best Subject(s): Past THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 50, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the park a crow awakes Last Line: For the years that are gone Subject(s): Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness THE MEMORY OF THE PAST, by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, that fancy's pencil still portrays Last Line: Why should you strive to blast the present joy? Subject(s): Past THE MIRROR IN THE DESERTED HALL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dim forsaken mirror! Last Line: Of the solemn world on high. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mirrors; Past THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the gulf enters the sea and so forth Subject(s): Mississippi River; Past; Rivers; Seashore; Time; Beach; Coast; Shore THE NEW COUNTRY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my grandfather when the boat landed Last Line: Glimmer of a glimmer in his bloodshot eye Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Past; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE OLD SHELLBACK, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By murphy's hotel as I loitered along Last Line: And a crew of hard cases from liverpool town! Subject(s): Harbors; Past THE OLD TIMES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you recall what now is living only Last Line: The dear old times. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Past THE OLD YEAR, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Good night, old year, good night! Last Line: And wait god's will with patience till the end. Subject(s): Farewell; Future; Holidays; New Year; Past; Parting THE OLD YEAR'S BLESSING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am fading from you Last Line: While he crowns my past. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Disease; Future; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Past; Temptation; Joy; Delight THE OLD-FASHIONED BIBLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How dear to my heart are the Last Line: The leathern-bound bible my grandfather read. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bible; Fathers; Memory; Past THE PAGAN PAST, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sylvan god was worshipped here? Last Line: I sail, companioned by the past. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Pan (mythology); Past; Dead, The THE PAST, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou unrelenting past! Last Line: Fills the next grave -- the beautiful and young. Subject(s): Past THE PAST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The past is such a curious creature Last Line: Might yet reply! Variant Title(s): Poem: 1203;poem: 1273 Subject(s): Past THE PAST, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The debt is paid Last Line: Alter or mend eternal fact. Subject(s): Past THE PAST, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for the songs that maids sang in times past Last Line: God, what have you done with their love! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Past; Bereavement THE PAST, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The past - the past! It has a tolling sound Last Line: A flame will burst in times we wot not of. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Past THE PAST, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It shows up one summer in a greatcoat, Subject(s): Past THE PAST, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou forget the happy hours Last Line: That joy, once lost, is pain. Subject(s): Past THE PAST, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thick darkness broodeth o'er the world Last Line: Forever near, yet oh how far! Subject(s): Beauty; Future; Life; Night; Past; Bedtime THE PAST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fling my past behind me, like a robe Last Line: My new robe shall be richer than the old. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Past; Tears THE PAST, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the far off time of my youthful prime Last Line: Except in the land of dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Past THE PEWTER TEA-KETTLE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Once, where upon a slender crane you swung Last Line: Drifts down the years like spice-wind from cathay. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Past; Tea; Teapots THE PHANTOM BALL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You remember the hall on the corner? Last Line: And I came away from the hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Ghosts; Past; Supernatural THE PLACE LEFT BEHIND, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look. The place left behind sits in a pale sun Last Line: She was! The deep echoes! The way I care! Subject(s): Past THE PLACE OF REST, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am not happy, though my smiles betoken Last Line: "with triumph towering in thy shattered shield!" Subject(s): Death; Grief; Past; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 270, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emperor wu of the han they say Last Line: Today are nothing but weeds Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Past; Rot; Decadence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 291, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where I once stayed Last Line: Why not read some old lines Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Decay; Past; Rot; Decadence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 58, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The peach would bloom through summer Last Line: Long ago was an endless sea Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Fruit; Past; Peaches; Rot; Decadence THE POET'S JOURNAL: AUTUMNAL DREAMS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the maple turns to crimson Last Line: In the autumns of the past! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Life; Past; Seasons; Fall; Nightmares THE POET'S JOURNAL: EXORCISM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tongues of the past, be still! Last Line: With the phantom of the old! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Exorcism; Graves; Grief; Past; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE POET'S JOURNAL: IN WINTER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The valley stream is frozen Last Line: Wait in the womb of the snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Future; Love; Past; Winter THE POET'S PAST, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembrance makes the poet: 'tis the past Last Line: Only to know it is not of our sphere? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Past; Poetry & Poets THE POTENT PAST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along its backward trailing mystical rod Last Line: We draw the comforting strength of the present hour. Subject(s): Past THE RETURN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood above the well-known shore Last Line: No, never, never, more. Subject(s): Dreams; Past; Nightmares THE ROMANCE OF A GLOVE, by HENRY SAVILE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Here on my desk it lies Last Line: This my romance is. Subject(s): Gloves; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Romance; Mittens; Muffs; Male-female Relations THE RUIN, by MERLE FULLMER Poem Text First Line: About this place there drifts a sense of peace Last Line: Their monuments, to crumble and reveal. Subject(s): Decay; Past; Ruins; Rot; Decadence THE SCOTT MONUMENT, PRINCE'S STREET, EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here sits he throned, where men and gods behold Last Line: While yon grey ramparts kindle to the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Hate; Life; Love; Monuments; Past; War THE SEER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, if my spirit may foretell Last Line: From some most ancient time. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Morning; Past THE SLEEPING GIANT (THUNDER BAY, LAKE SUPERIOR), by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did you sink to your dreamless sleep Last Line: Storm-swept till the world is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Giants; Past THE SNOW, by ALFRED DE VIGNY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When barren boughs above us wave Last Line: And snow lies deep, and earth lies frore. Subject(s): Past; Snow THE SONG OF YESTERDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But yesterday / I looked away Last Line: Of glory gleam the days of yore. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Past; Nightmares THE SPECTRE OF THE PAST, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the great day of my life Last Line: And I felt that the words were true. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Life; Past THE SUMMER CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here slacken rein; here let the dusty mules Last Line: And gird our loins for action. Let us go! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Life; Past; Travel; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods; Journeys; Trips THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 14, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You alone, / a white robe over your naked body Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Dreams; Past; Nightmares THE TURN OF THE YEARS, by H. B. FRIEDLANDER Poem Text First Line: How may we know you, year of all? Last Line: But you, the past. Subject(s): Jews; Memory; Past; Judaism THE TWILIGHT OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The wonder of the world is o'er Last Line: Dominion and ancestral sway. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Mythology - Celtic; Past; World THE TWO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he gets off work at packard, they meet Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Restaurants; Language; Past; Grief; Male-female Relations; Cafes; Diners; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness THE TWO SPIRITS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, when weary silence fell on all Last Line: The starry crown the glorious present wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Past; Dead, The THE UNFORGOTTEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I see, hurrying through worldly ways Last Line: Or men could lose their dearness, being dead. Subject(s): Children; Death; Fairy Tales; Hearts; Past; Childhood; Dead, The THE VANISHED COUNTRY, by GRANTLAND RICE Poem Text First Line: Back in the vanished country Last Line: Down the path of yesterday. Subject(s): Past THE VILLAGE IDIOT, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one remembers him anymore, a boy Last Line: Fogging up in the bathroom, from the wet mirror Subject(s): Fools; Past; Idiots THE VOICES OF ROME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, from the tower of the capitol, looking abroad Last Line: To build an everlasting state. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Past; Roman Empire; Voices THE WAIF, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in my luxurious chair Last Line: And cries in agony to god! Subject(s): God; Grief; Life; Pain; Past; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE WAY IT WUZ, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Las' july - and, I persume Last Line: As me and you is! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): July; Past THE WIND IS WITHOUT THERE AND HOWLS IN THE TREES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I shall never lament for the man Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Past; Memory; Contentment; Future THEN, by ANNE LE DRESSAY Poem Source First Line: I did not notice things then Last Line: Mobile, beyond stillness, at the mercy %of wind and wave, dissolving Subject(s): Past THESE PRETTY YEARS, by LYNN MELNICK Poem Source First Line: All night I am ugly, wryneck whore, fantastic misshape Last Line: I must have walked because I am still walking Subject(s): Past THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 14, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You alone, %a white robe over your naked body Last Line: Through the dreams of twenty years Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Dreams; Past THINGS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think about things that might have been and never were Last Line: The fabled irish bird that alights in two places at once. %the child I never had Subject(s): Change; Future; Life; Past THINK OF THE SOUL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: See, hear, and am silent Subject(s): Men; Women; Soul; Racism; Past; Death; Social Commentaries; Grief; Conduct Of Life THINKIN' BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've be'n thinkin' back, of late Last Line: I hear laughin' on ahead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Thought; Youth; Thinking THIS MORNING, GOD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four a.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab Last Line: The incessant beating in my chest for two now. Subject(s): Coffee; Dawn; Habits; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Memory; Morning; Past; Prayer; Silence; Solitude; Sunrise; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness THOSE WONDROUS DAYS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They talk about the good old days, when every sportsman rolled Last Line: Those were the days, the glorious days, and money flowed—like glue! Subject(s): Money; Past; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes THOUGHTS OF THE PAST, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the soft gloom of summer's balmy eve Last Line: By the still waters of eternal life! Subject(s): Past THREEFOLD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of grace and mercy Last Line: I leave, my queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Love; Pain; Past; Sin; Suffering; Misery TIME LONG PAST, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the ghost of a dear friend dead Last Line: From time long past. Subject(s): Past TIME, PLACE, AND PARENTHOOD, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are, my son, aliens in this place Last Line: Accept these words that can never say enough. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Past; Time; Childhood; Parenthood TO A CONTEMNER OF THE PAST, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You that would break with the past Last Line: Begone -- and gladly gone! Subject(s): Past TO A FRIEND INQUIRING IF WOULD LIVE OVER MY YOUTH AGAIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do I regret the past? Last Line: Again to wake in light. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Past; Regret; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO AN ARROW-HEAD, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: I find thee here upon this field Last Line: Perhaps in this selfsame spot! Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Past; Dead, The TO OUR CAPTAIN (ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN ANSON), by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They have waited--waited yonder for their captain of the past Last Line: Such was the towering commander—such was the captain we knew! Subject(s): Anson, Adrian (cap) (1852-1922); Baseball; Leadership; Past; Sports TO THE PAST, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In every microsecond of the present, you're here Last Line: Together, might past, we dominate Subject(s): Past; Love – Loss Of; Absence TO THE PAST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wondrous and awful are thy silent halls Last Line: That made the old time splendid. Subject(s): Past TO THE TUNE OF 'TUNG HSIEN KO', by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Old moonlight %shines in old windows Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women TO THE WEST, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: In my heart %the flame subsides Last Line: On my way out %to the west Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Remorse; Travel TO YOU, REMEMBERING THE PAST, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were parted, sweet, and darkness came Last Line: Lo -- you were with me in the darkened room. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Past TO-MORROW, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old fraud, I know you in that gay disguise Last Line: All the dull yesterdays that I have known. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Future; Past; Time TO-MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing away the bliss Last Line: Tomorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Passing Subject(s): Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness TOM VAN ARDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tom van arden, my old friend Last Line: . . . Tom van arden, my old friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Past; Time TOMORROW, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow I will start to be happy Last Line: Your last chance to salvage something of its style Subject(s): Change; Future; Past TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. OF THE PAST, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the past - of those that come no more Last Line: Dear face gazing up into mine, dost thou remind me? Subject(s): Memory; Past TRANSLATION, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Enter the simple landscape Last Line: As if we are stories mere touch can translate Subject(s): Abandonment; Past TREE THAT HOLDS UP THE WORLD, by SUSAN GRIMM Poem Source First Line: Cannon, bandstand. The interstate Last Line: The old names and their kindnesses Subject(s): Past TRIOLET: THE PAST, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh for an hour of the past instead Last Line: To meet thee in to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Longing; Past TUNE: HSING-HSIANG TZU (FRAGRANT WANDERING: A SONG), by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: The night seems endless Last Line: The shrill cry of the geese Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women TUNE: JU-MENG LING. TITLE: SWALLOWS, by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Not all the swallows have left with the spring Last Line: With a smile, I reply, 'no, you mustn't' Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Swallows; Women TUNE: K'U HSIANG-SSU (BITTER LONGING), by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Dusk in the still yard, cut from the same pattern Last Line: And beyond the wall, sound after sound Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women TUNE: MAN CHIANG HUANG (FULL RIVER BED), by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Shut the door against the setting sun Last Line: Is it still too soon for spring? Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women TWENTY GOLDEN YEARS AGO, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O, the rain, the weary, dreary rain Last Line: Twenty golden years ago! Subject(s): Disappointment; Holidays; New Year; Past; Time TWILIGHT, by MILTON C. DOTTEN Poem Text First Line: The twilight turns the mind to inward things Last Line: In that new birth—god's gift of perfect peace. Subject(s): Evening; Past; Peace; Sunset; Twilight TWO VIEWS, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the laterals and faults of strata Subject(s): Survival; Progress; Past; Birds UNBORN DAY, by LIMA BOYD CANON Poem Text First Line: Unborn day, so near my portal Last Line: And will turn to past again. Subject(s): Past UNE PETITE CHANSON DE LAMENTATION A MA MERE, by BELLE DE COEUR Poem Text First Line: Give me my youth, and let me play Last Line: To find a new day and you. Subject(s): Children; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Past; Childhood UNTITLED, by MORRIE WARSHAWSKI Poem Source First Line: So here's the thing Last Line: Of a dark night and its dreams Subject(s): Change; Past; Time UPON OUR VAIN FLATTERY OF OURSELVES...SUCCEEDING TIMES WILL BE BETTER, by ROBERT GOMERSALL Poem Text First Line: Never was there morning yet Last Line: Die unhappy and deceived. Alternate Author Name(s): Gomersal, Robert Subject(s): Future; Past VALUE IN MOUNTAINS: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You return breathless havingb startled Last Line: The past curled like wire Subject(s): The Past Curled Like Wire Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Fatigue VERSES ON THE CALDER IN ITS COURSE BY ST. ENOCH'S, ROSEHALL, ETC., by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone calder! Sweet calder! Beloved of my youth Last Line: A song that is nameless thy beauties to sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; Past; Youth VILLAGE IDIOT, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one remembers him anymore, a boy Last Line: Fogging up in the bathroom, from the wet mirror Subject(s): Fools; Past VISITOR, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: The man whose muscles I once admired Last Line: And imagine other lives, other places Subject(s): Guests; Past; Relationships VOICES OF THE PAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder that my tears should flow Last Line: The echoes that remain! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Past; Soul; Tears; Voices VOLUNTEER, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is not the moment Last Line: Belonged to joy Subject(s): Past WASHING MY FACE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night's dreams disappear Last Line: A transparent rose swallowed by its stem. Subject(s): Dreams; Faces; Introspection; Past; Nightmares WAY A SPRINGER SPANIEL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I was once a lover like that Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Love Affairs; Nature; Past WAY BACK, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The sound the form the way it is Last Line: Sleep to take us way back home Subject(s): Homecoming; Past; Roads; Travel; Youth WHAT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, by JEFFERY DONALDSON Poem Source First Line: Here is the wood we walked in, falls ago Last Line: Hepatica in the nearer one's mind Subject(s): Forests; Past WHEN THE NAMES STILL FIT THE FACES, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: On a shelf in the back of a big closet Last Line: And out of context with a large me %emblazoned arcoss her bosom Subject(s): Death; Memory; Past; Photography And Photographers WHERE THE CHILDREN USED TO PLAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old farm-home is mother's yet and mine Last Line: To the orchard where the children used to play. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Orchards; Past; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers WHILE NOT THE PAST FORGETTING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wreaths of roses and branches of palm Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); Past; Brotherhood WHITE-HAIRED, I WALK IN ON MY PARENTS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the past in our future Subject(s): Parents; Time; Past; Future WRONG WORDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me you can't remember Last Line: Stir cain in the blood Subject(s): Brothers; Fights; Past YEARS AFTER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The years upon you lightly lie Last Line: And that, of course, is why I save them! Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations YESTERDAY, by RUTH LASHORNE BUNDY Poem Text First Line: Swift as a pigeon's wings Last Line: To her finger ladder, rung by rung. Subject(s): Past; Pigeons YESTERDAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, he spoke of a woman's face Last Line: That yesterday is the long ago. Subject(s): Faces; Flowers; Past; Time YESTERDAY, by DIMP MILLIKIN CLEVENGER Poem Text First Line: He used to smoke his briar pipe Last Line: But that was yesterday. Subject(s): Past; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes YESTERDAY, by ANGEL GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Yesterday was wednesday all morning Last Line: Day that no one will ever %see again upon the earth Subject(s): Past YESTERDAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, how I wish I knew Last Line: Today just couldn't wait! Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Memory; Past; Childhood YESTERDAY IS HISTORY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Flutter both away Variant Title(s): Poem: 1292; Poem: 129 Subject(s): Past YESTERDAY'S STEMS, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Still on the walls of your heart clinging Last Line: To put that night to flame yesterday's stems Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Past YOU WHO LOOK ON PASSED AGES AS A GLASS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It shall be nothing to the end of time Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Past; Time YOU WOULD KNOW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That you, father, are 'in my mind' Last Line: What I was, happy, maybe am, you would know. Subject(s): Escapes; Fathers & Sons; Happiness; Past; Fugitives; Joy; Delight YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken moon on the cold water Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken moon on the cold water Last Line: But you have been dead for thirty years Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past |
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