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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PERCEPTION Matches Found: 50 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASOLANDO: INAPPREHENSIVENESS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We two stood simply friend-like side by side Last Line: "I said, ""vernon lee." Subject(s): Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Lee, Vernon (violet Paget) (1856-1935); Weeds; Perception BLACK HAIRS, by HEINZ PASSMAN Poem Source First Line: My darling, you know how much I like to see the light on a Last Line: Light on the bird's wing Subject(s): Men; Perception CHARLES ON FIRE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another evening we sprawled about discussing Subject(s): Perception CHARLES ON FIRE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another evening we sprawled about discussing Last Line: He filled a fresh glass and sank down among us Subject(s): Perception CLAIRVOYANCE, by AMY GERSTLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've an uncommon calling Last Line: I want to have you to ponder %when I join their damp precincts Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception CLAIRVOYANCE, by BEATRICE HAWLEY Poem Source First Line: She is afraid %or a tower of strength Last Line: Wise lovers know the future: %journeys, separation Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception CLAIRVOYANCE, by ELLEN MORRILL MILLS Poem Source First Line: Like a fair gleaming of unvisioned waters Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception CLAIRVOYANT'S READING, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Unlock the sphinx, she tells me, there's Last Line: Is forgiven. Now go, unlock the sphinx Subject(s): Egypt; Extrasensory Perception; Museums; Pyramids; Sphinx COMMUNION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the subway I had the impulse to kill Subject(s): Perception COMMUNION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the subway I had the impulse to kill Subject(s): Perception DISTANCES, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Driving a prairie, we see a mill far off Subject(s): Perception ESP, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know that mind Last Line: Of empty blowing prairie %on the coldest winter day Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception FRACTAL LANES, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Being menial, how can we let vastnesses strike through Last Line: Meager, too evident for credit -- that unreckoned -- breadth Subject(s): Perception GLAD SIGHT WHEREVER NEW WITH OLD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We gaze, we also learn to love. Subject(s): Beauty; Perception HAD THERE BEEN FALSEHOOD IN MY BREAST, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Night; Day; Perception; Bedtime HOW MUCH IS NOT TRUE, by KABIR Poem Source First Line: There is nothing but water in the holy pools Last Line: If you have not lived through something, it is not true Subject(s): Men; Perception IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing And Singers INTUITION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rhythms of exultation flow Last Line: That imagination traces. Subject(s): Perception KNOWING NOTHING SHUTS THE IRON GATES; THE NEW, by KABIR Poem Source Last Line: Kabir says: fantastic! Don't let a chance like this go by Subject(s): Perception LILA, by MICHAEL GRAVES Poem Source First Line: Lila looks like a slim swan poised for flight Last Line: And smiles at me, %incredibly Subject(s): Perception LOVE'S TELEPATHY, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, you are near, my love, so near to - night Last Line: Wherein I love my love and he loves me! Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception; Hearts; Love; E. S. P.; Clairvoyance; Telepathy; Mind Reading PERCEIVING IS THE SAME AS RECEIVING, AND IT IS THE SAME AS RESPONDING, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thought begins as small floral bowls Subject(s): Perception; Thought; Thinking PERCEPTION CALLS CONSTRUCTION, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: A leaf shadow delivers light Last Line: To again anoint knowledge Subject(s): Perception PERCEPTION OF AN OBJECT COSTS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That situates so far Subject(s): Perception; Worth PHYSICAL PERCEPTION I, by RAOUL SCHROTT Poem Source First Line: He fell out of november -- hail brought Last Line: Origin and from somewhere in the north Subject(s): Perception; Winter POEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the mirrors in the world Last Line: Oh rain, melt me! Mirror, kill Subject(s): Aging; Mirrors; Perception PREFERENCE, by CATHERINE LE MASTER ECKRICH Poem Text First Line: I do not like to look too deep Last Line: A truth I'd wish I did not know. Subject(s): Beauty; Perception SEEING FOR A MOMENT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I was growing wings Subject(s): Mirrors; Perception; Reality SEEING FOR A MOMENT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I was growing wings Last Line: Word after word %floats through the glass. %towards me Subject(s): Mirrors; Perception; Reality SEVENS (VERSION 3): IN THE CLOSED IRIS OF CREATION, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pair of heavy scissors lay across the sky Last Line: Began to sever us Subject(s): Creation; Humanity; Life; Perception TALL SHIPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The one who reaches the crow's-nest Last Line: And by turning his face to the blind dial of the cosmos Subject(s): Boats; Perception; Vision TELEPATHY, by LINDA KELLER Poem Source First Line: I rise up Last Line: If you can't see it %from every spot on earth Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception TELEPATHY, by CARL KIKUCHI Poem Source First Line: I thought of you today, after I'd left Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception TELEPATHY, by DAN LENIHAN Poem Source First Line: When they moved clete out of intensive care (his vital Last Line: His side on top of the covers, then he was able to get %somesleep Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception TELEPATHY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And how could you dream of meeting? Last Line: The fire in my feet than your nay? Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception; E. S. P.; Clairvoyance; Telepathy; Mind Reading TELEPATHY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Saturdays they never spent together Last Line: They failed to recognize each other's voices Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception; Psychoanalysis; Relationships THE DIFFERENCE, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking at you Last Line: My body a foreign house, yours home Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Perception; Relationships THE DOOR, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fifteen years in each other's heat Subject(s): Doors; Perception THE FRACTAL LANES, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Being menial, how can we let vastnesses strike through Last Line: Meager, too evident for credit – that unreckoned – breath Subject(s): Perception THE IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean; Songs THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 1, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what attractive charms this goodly frame Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre. Subject(s): Imagination; Perception; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE SNOW MAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One must have a mind of winter Last Line: Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. Subject(s): God; Nature; Perception; Religion; Theology THE UNNAMABLE RIVER, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it in the anthracite face of a coal miner Last Line: Of an avocado blossom, and in the true passion of a kiss. Subject(s): Life; Perception THE WINDOW, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long, by a distant bell Last Line: "and the arms of god around her, she quietly takes her rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Perception; Thought; Vision; Thinking THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among twenty snowy mountains Last Line: In the cedar-limbs. Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Perception VICTIM OF HIMSELF, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He thought he saw a long way off the ocean Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Perception; Pride; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Self-esteem; Self-respect WE CONTINUE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rust, a little pile of western color, lies Last Line: Charity, come home, %begin Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Perception WHEN YOU DRINK FROM DAWN'S LIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You see the bottom of the cup Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dawn; Morning; Nature; Perception WHICH ONE IS GENUINE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once knew a woman named benedicta, who infused everything Last Line: Perhaps for the rest of my life, to the grave of the ideal Subject(s): Men; Perception YOU TOLD ME YOU COULDN'T SEE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So I gave you my eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Comfort; Hope; Nature; Perception |
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