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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PLAY Matches Found: 256 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dead, but how sleek and darkly calm you were! Last Line: Lying, saying I cared nothing about form.... Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Irony; Play; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares A FABLE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a little boy to a honey bee Last Line: Said the honey bee to the little boy. Subject(s): Bees; Boys; Fables; Insects; Play; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs A GOOD PLAY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We built a ship upon the stairs Last Line: So there was no one left but me. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 13 Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood A PICTURE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: On spinet old [or, harpsichord], clarissa plays Last Line: Clarissa plays. Subject(s): Play A REAL BOY, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a joy that is a joy Last Line: In a boy that is a boy! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight A SUMMER SERMON FOR MEN, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: I have fought a good fight,' the parson said, his weekly text declaring Last Line: Felt of his muscle on the sly — and felt like god's anointed! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Play; Sermons; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements A VISION OF CHILDREN, by THOMAS ASHE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I saw a little brook Last Line: Pass'd, weeping like a child. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood ALL THE WORLD IS RIGHT FOR PLAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: In may! Subject(s): Play; May (month) ALL WORK AND NO PLAY, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: As hard as little bonnie tried Last Line: Why don't we rob some piggy banks? Subject(s): Children; Play ALONE AND TOGETHER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I had a lovely lonely day Last Line: It is such fun to be together! Subject(s): Children; Play; September; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness ALTERNATION, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the fountain and the rill Last Line: Of whence we spring and what we are. Subject(s): Play; War AMMERGAU, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is he gone?' o men and maidens where Last Line: Bare witness to the fatherhood of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Oberammergau Passion-play AN ADDRESS TO SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal! William shakespeare, there's none can you excel Last Line: While seated around the fireside on a cold winter's night. Subject(s): Dramatists; Play; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters AND DANCING / AND LEAPING, by IVY ETHEL OLIVE EASTWICK Poem Source Last Line: We go Subject(s): Play AND THEN THERE WERE THE FEET, by WILLIAM KISTLER Poem Source Last Line: Out from the darkening body of evening Subject(s): Feet; Night; Play AT REHEARSAL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O cousin kit macdonald Last Line: Of the part you are playing now. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Play; Disappointment BABIES, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born gorgeous with nerves, with brains Last Line: The first time will ever do Subject(s): Play; Babies BABIES, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Born gorgeous with nerves, with brains Last Line: To be perfect %the first time will ever do Subject(s): Play BALL-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This week it's got so warm that I have been Last Line: Unless I get first innin's at the bat! Subject(s): Balls; Children; Play; Childhood BALTAZAR BEATS HIS TUTOR AT SCRABBLE, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: If myra counts fifteen cows and alfredo counts nine Last Line: On the words she would sing, and the music not separate from them Subject(s): Play BASEBALL BY THE OLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this is the time of the year, my boys" Last Line: The gray - head who would play baseball! Subject(s): Baseball;games;play;spectator (periodical);sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements BED-BOUNCING, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: I hear mom's voice-'no!'-in my %head Last Line: Hop- %py %hap- %pl- %ness %com- %plete! Subject(s): Play BEND-A-FAMILY', by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arrives attached to their own living room Last Line: Hey, I say, loosen up Subject(s): Imagination; Life; Play BLIND MAN'S BLUFF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "blind man, blind man / sure you can't see?" Last Line: "blind, blind man!" Subject(s): Play BLINDMAN'S BUFF, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day, day after day Last Line: Death takes the handkerchief away. Subject(s): Play BOXCAR, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black as snow & ice as cool / miles stood horn-handed while Subject(s): Play BOXCAR, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black as snow & ice as cool / miles stood horn-handed while Last Line: These boxcars pullin & pullin & pullin past Subject(s): Play BOY AND MOM AT THE NUTCRACKER BALLET, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no talking in this movie Last Line: Do you have any more pistachios in your purse? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Play; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life BUBBLES, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Float% float% Last Line: Don't- %pop! Subject(s): Play BUILDER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: On the june strand, emily birdthistle Last Line: She stands back and admires it then, %as do many passing women and men. Subject(s): Children; Play CARD HOUSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My little niece and I - I read Last Line: "yes, lizzie, build it up again." Subject(s): Children;games;play; Childhood;recreation;pastimes;amusements CARNIVAL, by FRANCIS CARCO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gilded mask and domino Last Line: Spare, o lord, thy last bohemian! Subject(s): Carnivals; Games; Play; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements CATCH, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Blue sky %white clouds Last Line: Sound %of %sum- %er's %clock Subject(s): Play CHIEKO PLAYING AMONG THE PLOVERS, by TAKAMURA KOTARO Poem Source First Line: On abandoned kujukuri beach Last Line: I stand transfixed, bathed in the pollen of pines Subject(s): Play; Plovers CHILD'S PLAY, by MILDRED FOCHT Poem Text First Line: On the grass sat two-years-old Last Line: "dead and gone away." Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by ALICE STETTINER Poem Text First Line: I watched a little child one day Last Line: Unpleasantries all in forgetfulness burn. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Play; Childhood CHILDREN AT PLAY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I hear a merry noise indeed Last Line: Snowflakes shall be your butterflies. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood CHILDREN DANCE: 8. EVERYTHING IS A DANCE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: The stars are children in circling dance Last Line: They play at embracing the earth! Subject(s): Children; Dancing And Dancers; Play COLORFUL SOUNDS FILL THE AIR, by SHANNON KEELS Poem Source Last Line: On the ears of a small child Subject(s): Children; Play COMPENSATIONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's goin' to be a chris'mas-tree next door! Last Line: Them upstarts know! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Ice; Play; Snow; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The CONNECT THE DOTS, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: 1. Twin- %15. Are! Last Line: 7. Star, 5. Lit- Subject(s): Play CONSOLATION, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How agreeable it is not to be touring italy this summer Last Line: A road that will never lead to rome, not even bologna Subject(s): Play CONSOLATION, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How agreeable it is not to be touring italy this summer Last Line: Down a road that will never lead to rome, not even bologna Subject(s): Play COUNTRY WISDOMS, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poet's Biography First Line: Out here where the crows turn around Subject(s): Play COUNTRY WISDOMS, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out here where the crows turn around Last Line: More ways than one to skin a cat. %then they say, bootstraps. %pull yourself up Subject(s): Play CYNTHIA SPORTING, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the river's side did cynthia stray Last Line: Her presence fills with perfumes all the field. Subject(s): Play DANDELION, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dandelion, fuzzy-top, must I stop my play? Last Line: I've really got to know at once if mother's wanting me. Subject(s): Children; Dandelions; Flowers; Play; Weeds; Childhood DOLLS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Betty has dolls that can almost talk Last Line: And half of the sawdust out! Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Play; Toys DRESSIN' UP, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's fun up in the attic, when mother lets us 'splore Last Line: "but the women say ""my gracious!"" an' the men folks say ""oh gee!" Subject(s): Children; Clothing & Dress; Play; Childhood ENOUGH ALREADY, by MARY CROW Poem Source First Line: I'm sick and tired Last Line: Can't we get up and play Subject(s): Play; Relationships FALSE LEADS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hey! Mister bloodhound boss Last Line: How to put a bobcat into a crocus sack Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Play FATI VALET HORA BENIGNI, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In myriad swarms, each summer sun Last Line: When all those hours -- are play. Subject(s): Play; Summer FEAST, by SHARON MCDERMOTT Poem Source First Line: Somewhere the moon as full as a breast Last Line: Of heels, phrases %playing between the cracks Subject(s): Play FINGER PLAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This little bunny said, 'let's play' Subject(s): Play FIREFLIES, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Blink here %don't wait! Last Line: And- %let you... %go! Subject(s): Play FOR PHILLIP WHO WOULD BE SIX YEARS OLD TODAY, by HELEN DOREMUS Poem Text First Line: For all of us the world's a stage Last Line: Without a line to say. Subject(s): Play FRISBEE, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: I love %to see %it ride Last Line: When it's %here! %now! Subject(s): Play FROLIC, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children were shouting together Last Line: The lovely lawns of the light. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Stars; Sun; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight FROM ALL THE JAILS THE BOYS AND GIRLS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For such a foe as this Subject(s): Children; Play FURRY LEWIS PONDERS LIFE AND DEATH AS A BLUES MAN, by MICHAEL GRABER Poem Source First Line: Crying low the cart wheels Last Line: Sidetrack death's black train Subject(s): Play GAME AT CHESS: BISHOP TO KING, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: Sir, the kingdom is all in turmoil Last Line: Of a prodigy redeems the game Subject(s): Chess; Courts And Courtiers; Play GAME AT CHESS: ENDGAME, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: One leans into the mirror and speaks Last Line: Hovering in airs of shadow and light Subject(s): Chess; Play GAME AT CHESS: FERDINAND AND MIRANDA DISCOVERED PLAYING CHESS, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: How should she mind if ferdinand had played Last Line: His talk of strategy, his abstract look Subject(s): Chess; Learning; Play GAME AT CHESS: PERPETUAL CHECK, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: The fiscal bishops tear their mitred hair Last Line: Prosperity could balance or redress %the regal magnanimity of loss Subject(s): Chess; Play GEOMETRY PROBLEM, by BARBARA EDELMAN Poem Source First Line: I pass the sunset, squared Last Line: Pulls a blank on his own reflection Subject(s): Play GIRL FRIEND POEM: 3, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was white and flown Last Line: The light. And the peaches fell down around us Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): Girl Friend Poem # Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Laughter; Play GIRLS AND BOYS COME OUT TO PLAY, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And we'll have pudding in half an hour Subject(s): Play GOIN' BAREFOOT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's more fun goin' barefoot than anythin' I know Last Line: Er else I wisht I was so poor I hadn't none t' lose! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Feet; Play; Childhood GOLF, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: On uncle ebenezer's farm Last Line: That gives me weariness. Subject(s): Golf; Play; Sports GOOD OLD BOYS, THE FORTIFICATIONS., by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: Little play parlor under a v Last Line: But a bigger one's on the way Subject(s): Boys; Imagination; Play GRAND RAPIDS CRICKET CLUB, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In grand rapids is a handsome club Last Line: Like many a noble star. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Play HAYMOW, by LUELLA MARKLEY MOCKETT Poem Source First Line: Up in the barn where they keep the hay Last Line: And there they lived - till the rain was over Subject(s): Play HELLO, by KARIN WISIOL Poem Source First Line: Dress rehearsal Last Line: In what was once savannah Subject(s): Play HEY, DR: WHO, LET'S DIAL 1965, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In petaled decade glassy sunlight Last Line: Dancers receding? Subject(s): Screen Writing; Motion Pictures - Play Writing HIDE AND GO SEEK, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was an old, old, old, old lady Last Line: And the boy who was half-past three. Variant Title(s): One, Two, Three!' Subject(s): Children; Games; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HIDE AND SEEK, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit and watch at the window-pane Last Line: As I waited them below. Subject(s): Mortality; Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Play HOLES, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Your father's fighting world war ii %and you're in a brown foxhole you dug Last Line: And wail at the whole damn sky Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Fathers; Play; Soldiers; World War Ii HOLIDAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Of all, the flowers love a holiday Last Line: Love the days when school is out. Subject(s): Children; Holidays; Play; Summer; Vacation; Childhood HOP, SKIP, AND JUMP, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curv'd lines toe-drawn, round cornerd squares Last Line: To do the hop, skip, and jump Subject(s): Play HOP, SKIP, AND JUMP: A QUEER TRIO PERSONIFIED, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Hop is a sailor used up in the war Last Line: Those impalpable ideas of hop, skip, and jump! Subject(s): Perpetual Motion; Play HOTEL BY THE SEA, by SUSAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: In the hotel by the sea a man is playing the piano Last Line: A pack of anything anywhere Subject(s): Hotels; Play HULA HOOP, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Just %turn %and %twist Last Line: It %fall- %ing?) %all %a- %round %you! Subject(s): Play HUNTING FOR CHERUBS, by JEFFREY MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: If you heard your lover scream in the next room, and you ran in Last Line: You rush to and comfort first? Subject(s): Play HUT, by HILDA VAN STOCKUM Poem Source First Line: We built a hut, my brother and I Last Line: Because we felt so dry Subject(s): Play I LIKE HOUSE CLEANING, by DOROTHY BROWN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: It's fun to clean house Last Line: Among the house cleaning %for new things to play Subject(s): Housekeeping; Play IN THE PRESENT TIME, WHICH IS THE END OF THE WORLD: FIRST FLOOR, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY Poem Source First Line: Gothic light. A bedroom with the same architectural structure as those of ... Last Line: Through the window, the red-blue flashing of ememergency lights. The hands raise a few %fingers. All Subject(s): Judgment Day; Play IN THE PRESENT TIME, WHICH IS THE END OF THE WORLD: SECOND FLOOR, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY Poem Source First Line: Darkness. Unrhythmic slapping sound from above. Indigo light rises on a bedroom Last Line: Turns to the bed, removes the picture and the revolver, brushes off the plaster, arranges %the comfo Subject(s): Judgment Day; Play IN THE PRESENT TIME, WHICH IS THE END OF THE WORLD: THIRD FLOOR, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY Poem Source First Line: Bright light. A bedroom with the same architectural structure as that of ... Last Line: Silence. Lights continue flashing. No one comes Subject(s): Judgment Day; Play IN WINTER TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winter time is extra nice Last Line: We put him first, in case we bump. Subject(s): Children; Play; Winter; Childhood INNOCENT PLAY, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Abroad in the meadows to see the young lambs Last Line: And tell you, 'tis all but in sport.' Subject(s): Play INSIDE GERTRUDE STEIN, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right now as I am talking to you and as you are being talked to Last Line: "least likely of saviors, you are my last choice and my last Subject(s): Play INSIDE GERTRUDE STEIN, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right now as I am talking to you and as you are being talked to Last Line: You are the least likely of saviors, you are my last choice and my last resort Subject(s): Play IRONING DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't see why the grown-ups care Last Line: To wash and iron every day. Subject(s): Children; Cleanliness; Dolls; Girls; Play; Toys; Childhood JERK, by JEFFREY MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: Hey you, dragging the halo- %how about a holiday in the islands of grief? Last Line: So how about it? Subject(s): Play JIHAD SOUNDS OF HOME, by MARCEL BEYER Poem Source First Line: They're playing jihad sounds of home Last Line: First cars, you pass into a light sleep Subject(s): Games; Play JUNGLE GYM, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Paula's %made it %to %the %top Last Line: Margaret's mom is calling Subject(s): Play KITE-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night me an' my brother made a kite Last Line: A-hangin' in that elm tree down the street. Subject(s): Children; Kites; Play; Toys; Childhood KITES, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Last! %at %spring Last Line: The wind has a hundred hands Subject(s): Play LA FOI, by KATHARINE ADAMS Poem Text First Line: The branches of the trees are bending close above Last Line: Of the night. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood LABOR DAY, by SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY Poem Source First Line: A morning without work is a morning to breathe, to Last Line: Woman's perfume, lilacs and lemons, the breath of a %baby's hair Subject(s): Play LANGUAGE LESSON 1976, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When americans say a man Subject(s): Americans; Language; Play; United States; Words; Vocabulary; America LANGUAGE LESSON 1976, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When americans say a man Last Line: And let me be %the one you never hold Subject(s): Americans; Language; Play; United States LEAF PILE, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Look out %below! Last Line: Soft and deep!'-next thing I know, we're leaping, all!-and laughing, in the heart of fall! Subject(s): Play LET YOUNG FOLKS PLAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let young folk be blithe and gay Last Line: Let young folks be blithe and play Subject(s): Children;play; Childhood LINES IN DEFENCE OF THE STAGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of high and low degree Last Line: And hasn't the least tendency to lead to prodigality. Subject(s): Play; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Theater & Theaters LOCAL HOPE, by JACK HEFLIN Poem Source First Line: From tangle of water oak, from willows torn free upriver Last Line: The locals laugh but like to rub their little heads for luck Subject(s): Play MAKE BELIEVE (1), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All upon a summer day Last Line: Yes, I think so, without doubt. Subject(s): Children; Play; Work MAN WHO WOULDN'T PLANT WILLOW TREES, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Willows are messy trees. Hair in their eyes Last Line: They claim they are sorry, but they whisper it Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Play MEADOW AND SEA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the children play beside the sea Last Line: The ocean wide before them -- what care they? Subject(s): Play MENDING DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How quickly children's clothes will rip and tear! Last Line: Whose clothes are only painted on their skin. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Play; Toys; Childhood MOON OF GREEN LEAVES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Moon of green leaves come to me Last Line: Come – the whole world wants to play Subject(s): Leaves; Play MORAL: FRANKLIN HYDE, WHO CAROUSED IN THE DIRT AND WAS CORRECTED BY HIS UNCLE , by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From franklin hyde's adventure learn Last Line: May always play with sand Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Children; Play; Uncles MUSIC SURVIVES, COMPOSING HER OWN SPHERE, by JOHN DREXEL Poem Source First Line: All day a blackbird has been trilling. Or Last Line: And all the aviary of heaven %shouting aufersteh'n! Subject(s): Play MY BROTHER THE ARTIST, AT SEVEN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a boy he played alone in the fields Subject(s): Brothers; Play; Solitude; Youth; Half-brothers; Loneliness MY MOTHER'S LIPS, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Until I asked her to please stop doing it and was astonished to find Last Line: My desolate bed behind me, and my voice, hoarse, and the sweet, alien %air against me like a kiss Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Play MY PAPA'S WALTZ, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The whiskey on your breath / could make a small boy dizzy Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dancing & Dancers; Fathers; Men; Night; Play; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Bedtime MY PAPA'S WALTZ, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whiskey on your breath %could make a small boy dizzy Last Line: Then waltzed me off to bed %still clinging to your shirt Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Dancing And Dancers; Fathers; Men; Night; Play MY PLAN, by MARCHETTE CHUTE Poem Source First Line: When I'm a little older %I plan to buy a boat Last Line: And all the hudson river %in which to wash my dishes Subject(s): Boats; Play NOTE ON THE TYPE, by TIMOTHY GEIGER Poem Source First Line: We chiseled them to fill our need to see Last Line: Then humming, speaks up and is recognized Subject(s): Play NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When voices of children are heard on the green Last Line: And your winter and night in disguise. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Play; Time; Childhood NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the voices of children are heard on the green / and laughing is heard Last Line: And all the hills ecchoed Variant Title(s): Play Time Subject(s): Bible; Children; Evening; Innocence; Mythology; Play; Time; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight OBERAMMERGAU, 1890, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trembling vow breathed in a night of fears Last Line: Show forth his passion till the saviour come. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Oberammergau Passion-play; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology ON A PICTURE OF A CHILD TIRED OF PLAY, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tired of play! Tired of play Last Line: Thou wilt sink to sleep on thy mother's breast. Subject(s): Play ON THE PLAYING FIELD, by MARTHA RONK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the vicinity of a scar I never saw before Last Line: But the ball coming full force Subject(s): Fields; Play ONE DAY WHEN WE WENT WALKING, by VALINE HOBBS Poem Source Last Line: I'm going by myself! Subject(s): Play ONE PETITION LOFTED INTO THE GINGKOS, by GABRIEL GUDDING Poem Source First Line: For the train-wrecked, the puck-struck Last Line: To patch such dents and wounds Subject(s): Play OTHER HAND, by MARJORIE MADDOX Poem Source First Line: What is %is another matter Last Line: Turn the other way. %quick Subject(s): Play OUR GANG, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've got a gang, and I belong Last Line: Or all the rest, or me! Subject(s): Boys; Brotherhood; Children; Friendship; Play; Childhood OUR HOUSE (2), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We play at our house and have all sorts of fun Last Line: He'd rather by far live at our house with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Home; Play OUTDOOR PLAY: 1. THE ROSETTE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The rosette is hiding round Last Line: Or else stay seated on the ground Subject(s): Play OUTDOOR PLAY: 2. THE CIRCLE OF ST. MICHAEL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you join st. Michael's ring Last Line: Let___turn to be a donkey Subject(s): Play OUTDOOR PLAY: 3. MARIA BLANCA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Maria blanca here we hold Last Line: "the couple: it's made of gold, and will not break" Subject(s): Play OUTDOOR PLAY: 4. MATA-LI-RI-LI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We are sent by the count Last Line: Mata-li-ri-li-ri-lion Subject(s): Play OUTLAWS' CASTLE, by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH Poem Source First Line: We go there when the wood ant nests Last Line: Who was smith? I say. You do not reply Subject(s): Castles; Play OZARK ODES: GIRLHOOD, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother had one. She and bernice racing for the river Last Line: To hear what their paperdolls were fixing to say Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Dolls; Play; Toys; Youth PAPER AIRPLANE, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: I sent %it smooth- %ly Last Line: In %tea- %cher's %hair?! Subject(s): Play PARENTHESIS INSERTS ITSELF INTO THE TRANSCRIPTS OF THE COMMITTEE, by GABRIEL GUDDING Poem Source First Line: Senator (I have never lain with rubrics Last Line: To appear before you %in this honored room Subject(s): Play PARTCH STATIONS: 13. HE SPEAKETH TO THE AUDIENCE, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: The creative artist acquires a shade of anarchism Last Line: But something that will agitate our cro-magnon genes Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Play PATCH AV GREEN AN' FIELD AV CORN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, a field av goold corn jist ferenst a wee green Last Line: For wee childer's all ris up an' reapin' the day! Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Play; Roses; Death - Babies PATIO PLAY: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The old fat hen of yesterday Last Line: "josefita, josefon?" Subject(s): Play PATIO PLAY: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Chirp little rooster Last Line: And make him fly Subject(s): Play PATIO PLAY: 3, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The setting hen is cackling now Last Line: "she laid three, etc" Subject(s): Play PATIO PLAY: 4, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Pi-pe-re-peen of san augustine Last Line: And said that you must stand this way Subject(s): Play PATIO PLAY: 5, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pulling and pushing, my kingdom was won" Last Line: Push! Pull! Etc Subject(s): Play PATIO PLAY: 6, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Mother and daughter went to mass Last Line: "count sixteen, I think you ought to." Subject(s): Play PATIO PLAY: 7, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "eno, eno, juan coqueno" Last Line: "twenty-four, you've counted well" Subject(s): Play PEAR TREE, by E. ELIZABETH LONGWELL Poem Source First Line: I love our old pear tree Last Line: For me and the bears Subject(s): Pear Trees; Play; Trees PIN THE TAIL ON THE DONKEY, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Yes! Yes! Last Line: Yes, yes! Okay!... You won! Hurray! Subject(s): Play PIRATE'S CAVE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the table when dinner's through Last Line: And mother she gets the crew! Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Pirates; Play; Childhood; Fancy; Piracy; Buccaneers PLAY, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Play, play, while as yet it is day Last Line: Should he confound you, it's only in play. Subject(s): Play PLAYGROUNDS, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In summer I am very glad Subject(s): Play PLAYING CATCH, by KEITH MOUL Poem Source First Line: The instant released, it spins Last Line: Moodily wakes, wants to cry: %we have broken into dreams Subject(s): Play PLAYING CATCH, by BILL SWEENEY Poem Source First Line: A hospital in a river city Last Line: And that the baby's first cry %is surely one of joy and return Subject(s): Birth; Play PLAYING DOCTOR, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some day I'll be a doctor-man Last Line: By bringing aunty from the hall. Subject(s): Children; Physicians; Play; Childhood; Doctors PLAYING FIELD IN KIERI, by NIKOS-ALEXIS ASLANOGLOU Poem Source First Line: Whoever took refuge in my intoxicated soul while looking for Last Line: It is a playing field washed by rain that shelters me Subject(s): Play; Soul PLAYING IN THE BARN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The barn's the nicest place to play Last Line: That flies as high as anything! Subject(s): Barns; Boys; Play PLAYING LADY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to p'ay lady, dear mamma Last Line: "it b'longs on the bare headed one." Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Play; Childhood PLAYING WITH FIRE, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The friends of little mary green Last Line: Again, before she died! Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fire; Girls; Play; Death - Babies POOR CHILDREN AT LAKE ERIE', by ED OCHESTER Poem Source Last Line: Had brought back from italy %after the war Subject(s): Children; Play POOR LITTLE COQUETTE!, by FRANCISCA VALLEJO MCGETTIGAN Poem Text First Line: Your mouth is as crimson, as crimson as sin! Last Line: Poor little coquette! Subject(s): Play PRAYERS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it is bedtime, every day Last Line: There is so little that they need. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Play; Toys; Childhood PRETTY NEARLY EVERYBODY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Pretty nearly everybody has some fun each day Last Line: Yet I've never heard of mothers going out to play Subject(s): Mothers; Play PSALM, by CONNIE VOISINE Poem Source First Line: In the morning, you are the birds I have no names for Last Line: Is lips against the bitten sky, %is the hand pounding at my door Subject(s): Play PUSSY WILLOW DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Birds and pussies in a tree Last Line: In the shining weather. Subject(s): April; Birds; Children; Friendship; Play; Spring; Weather; Willow Trees; Childhood READING PHYSICS, by JOSIE KEARNS Poem Source First Line: It's like a secret code you knew Last Line: Another way, your life has a solution some other %continuum could tell you Subject(s): Children; Memory; Play READY-MADE BOUQUET, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's supposed to be spring but the sky Subject(s): Play READY-MADE BOUQUET, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's supposed to be spring but the sky Last Line: We think of it as a giant rose, %not a tiny room Subject(s): Play REBECCA AT PLAY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lies in the grass and spreads her golden hair Subject(s): Girls; Play; Self RIDDLE, by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF Poem Source First Line: In tibet %land of snow Last Line: Riddle of karma %play with their toys Subject(s): Play; Tibet RIGHT CONDUCT, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boy and a girl were playing together Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood RIGHT CONDUCT, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boy and a girl were playing together Last Line: They could already faintly hear their mother scolding them Subject(s): Children; Play RING-A-RING, by KATE GREENAWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ring-a-ring of little boys Last Line: And you won't catch me! Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood RINGS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A veairy ring so round's the zun Last Line: On elem boughs, on mossy limbs. Subject(s): Games; Play; Wheels; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements RITUAL TWO, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kids yell and paint their bodies Last Line: Bang against each other, scream and scatter Subject(s): Children; Nothingness; Play ROGER FRANCIS, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY Poem Source First Line: Roger francis %isn't quick Last Line: With a rod, a net, %and a pickle-jar Subject(s): Play; Schools ROLLING DOWNHILL, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Green %green Last Line: Blue %blue %through Subject(s): Play ROSEBUD'S FIRST BALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "tis really time you were out, I think" Last Line: "he's very nice, but inclined to be wild" Subject(s): Children;play; Childhood SAILING, by DOROTHY ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Swiftly cutting through the water Last Line: Nor sigh; but sing and laugh with me. Subject(s): Boats; Play; Sailing & Sailors; Sports; Waves; Seamen; Sails SAND CASTLE, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Here was %a tower Last Line: ...For a while; till the %then! Oh well, %and do it all again Subject(s): Play SANDSTONE / BUTTERFLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Whoever lets go %will be cursed Subject(s): Children; Igede (african People); Play SAVED BY MUSIC, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At one time, in america, many years ago Last Line: And they released him from his dangerous position without delay. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Play; Sound SCRIPT MIST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hang on to moment, naked, fair Last Line: In the great carpentry Subject(s): Epitaphs; Screen Writing; Writing & Writers; Motion Pictures - Play Writing SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips SHE DIED AT PLAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Her countenance as spray Subject(s): Death; Play SHORT STORY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Billy bunter and jane austen Last Line: Hates being a child Subject(s): Austen, Jane (1775-1817); Novels And Novelists; Play; Youth SKIPPING, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Left %foot %I %here Last Line: Go %now, %right %foot Subject(s): Play SKIPPING SONG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skippety skip, skippety skip! Last Line: And isn't skipping easy? Subject(s): Children; Games; Play; Rope; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SKIPPING STONES, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Grip %skip Last Line: Skip %tip %dip! Subject(s): Play SLIDE, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: I %climb... %and then %I climb Last Line: Slide and %then I %stop Subject(s): Play SNIFF, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When school is out, we love to follow Last Line: And poke our noses into flowers! Subject(s): Play; Schools; Smells SOCCER, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Kick %kick, %kick %kick, %kick %and pass Last Line: ...A goal! Subject(s): Play SOFTBALL, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: Suppose one pops Last Line: It's the best-if not, %the worst %place %! Subject(s): Play SOME OTHER TIME, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I told him we our game would play Last Line: Some other time that never came. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Play; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth SONATA AT PAYNE HOLLOW, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We never stopped here before Last Line: Out of all the time we were apart Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Play SONATA AT PAYNE HOLLOW, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We never stopped here before Last Line: Out of all the time we lived apart Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Play SONGS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The brook has a way to spend the day Last Line: Says the bird. Subject(s): Children; Play; Summer; Childhood SONGS OF PLAY: BLIND MAN'S BUFF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I go a-hunting a copper fly Last Line: "hunt you may, but you'll never come nigh" Subject(s): Play SONGS OF PLAY: TORTOISE IN THE RING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "turtle-tortle, what dost thou there?" Last Line: He drove a white horse and went splash in the sea Subject(s): Play SONNETS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM: 1. DELIA AT PLAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She held a cup and ball of ivory white Last Line: Who on that dart impales my bosom's gem? Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Play; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women; Male-female Relations STEVENS, by W. J. KEITH Poem Source First Line: His first love was a flower with a withered petal Last Line: Winter: children build in the cemetery %a portly snowman beside a large grave Subject(s): Children; Death; Play STRATEGIC, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I am playing, and I want to rest a bit Last Line: And rest as hard as possible to last me through the day. Subject(s): Children; Play; Rest; Childhood SWING, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: From way %back here %down through Last Line: Where %my %feet %can %touch %the sky! Subject(s): Play TAG, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: You're it! Last Line: You're it! O...Kay Subject(s): Play TAKING A SNOW BATH, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: It's simple when there's powder snow Last Line: But the wingmarks, precise as knifecuts %and the bad blood, pure Subject(s): Play; Snow TEA-PARTIES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I should enjoy, if I was let Last Line: As those of other girls I know!) Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Imagination; Play; Tea; Childhood; Fancy TENNIS WITHOUT A NET, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Courts finally empty, everyone gone Last Line: Disappeared in the unlit july night Subject(s): Play; Summer; Tennis THE CHANGELING, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Squatting, serious Last Line: These little boys can never, never return Subject(s): Change; Children; Growth; Play; Childhood THE CHILD ALONE: 7. THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At evening when the lamp is lit Last Line: At my dear land of story-books. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Children; Mothers; Play; Reading; Childhood THE CHILDREN'S KING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a merry old monarch Last Line: Makes a pretty good ruler of men. Subject(s): Play THE COMMON LOT, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sheets on which I rest at night Last Line: Are sleepy fine and drowsy white. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood THE DIZZY GIRL, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As frances was playing and turning around Last Line: "or perhaps it had never been well." Subject(s): Girls; Play THE ECHOING GREEN, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun does arise, / and make happy the skies Last Line: On the darkening green. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology; Night; Play; Childhood; Bedtime THE FLUTE, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: For the festival of the hyacinths, he gave me a syrinx Last Line: The girdle I have lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Festivals; Flutes; Music & Musicians; Play; Singing & Singers; Fairs; Pageants; Songs THE GAIETY OF FORM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet to weight the line with all these vowels Subject(s): Comfort; Creative Ability; Play; Pleasure; Vowels; Inspiration; Creativity THE GAME, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis played with eyes; one uttered word Last Line: My own to play again. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Eyes; Games; Play; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE GIFT OF PLAY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some have the gift of song and some possess the gift of silver speech Last Line: Defy the withering blasts of age because they have the gift of play. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Play THE GLORY OF THE GAME, by WILLIAM HAMILTON CLINE Poem Text First Line: A song to the football players Last Line: And the honors and glories he bears! Subject(s): Football; Games; Play; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE HOLLOW, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one plays in the hollow. Here / are no explorers. The traders in fur Last Line: No one plays there -- except the wind. Subject(s): Play THE HOLLY ON THE WALL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Play, little children, one and all Last Line: For holly, holly on the wall. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Christmas; Holly; Play; Nativity, The THE HOYDEN, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss agnes had two or three dolls, and a box Last Line: That she never will play with rude boys any more Subject(s): Boys; Girls; Play THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was sick and lay a-bed Last Line: The pleasant land of counterpane. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 16 Subject(s): Beds; Children; Play; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE LITTLE PLANT ON THE WINDOW SPEAKS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If you had let me stay all winter long / outside Last Line: And great big gardens call you out to play. Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; January; Plants; Play; Childhood; Planting; Planters THE LONG AFTERNOON, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the glass door Last Line: Dear brother, I do! Subject(s): Dolls; Time; Play THE LOST CHILDREN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years ago, as dusk seeped from the blue Last Line: Eidolons, adrift on the night air. Subject(s): Children; Games; Loss; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE MONARCH, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am lord of the land and the sea Last Line: Weird creatures of cotton and bran. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood THE MUD CAKE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little drops of water Last Line: Of sweet felicity. Subject(s): Babies; Dirt; Play; Infants THE ONLY CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lest he miss other children, lo! Last Line: His happy mother's tears and prayers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Angels; Children; Play; Childhood THE PLAY-SPRITE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slim woodland faun who stands upon the brink Last Line: On that gay sprite of yours whose name is play. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood THE PLAYER, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His wardrobe is the world, and day and night Last Line: Between the two he stands, timeless — the poet-player. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Dramatists; Play; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters THE PLAYMATE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I barked beneath his window, 'come and play!' Last Line: There's nothing left to do but wait—and wait. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Pets; Play; Childhood THE PRELUDE: BOOK 1. CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze Last Line: This labour will be welcome, honoured friend! Subject(s): Children; Play; Schools; Childhood; Students THE RIDER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've rode a thousand miles or more Last Line: I don't get very far away. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood THE SWING, by PORTIA MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Jared ran under me Last Line: With johnny's hair purple and red in the sun. Subject(s): Play; Swings THE TOY SOLDIERS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, little boy, and sleep secure Last Line: Sleep, then, for we all keep guard. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Play; Toys; Childhood THERE'S SO MUCH IN THE WORLD TO PLAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: One cannot finish in a day Subject(s): Play TIC-TAC-TOE, by BRAD BURG Poem Source First Line: So I hopped up %to the corner Last Line: Her 2nd x %made me stop Subject(s): Play TODAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is so nice to have today Last Line: All peeking out and peeking in! Subject(s): Children; Play; Time; Childhood TOP-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wisht I knew what makes the top-time come Last Line: Each time I spin 'er on the kitchen floor. Subject(s): Children; Play; Toys; Childhood TREE HOUSE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last spring a neighbor boy / nailed up a house in a tree Subject(s): Houses; Play; Trees; Youth TWO BOYS PLAYING CATCH, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: What the blood knows about sickness and reslience Last Line: The seams, and chucks it home, true, true once more Subject(s): Boys; Play UNDER MY WINDOW, by THOMAS WESTWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under my window, under my window, / all in the midsummer weather Last Line: And I give her all my roses. Subject(s): Play VENUS'S-FLYTRAPS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I am five Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Play VENUS'S-FLYTRAPS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am five Last Line: My playhouse is underneath %our house, & I hear people %telling each other secrets Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Play VOYAGE OF JIMMY POO, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A soapship went a-rocking Last Line: The next time you go sailing %beyond enamel shore Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Play WHAT'S THE USE?, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's the use o' growin' up? Last Line: What's the use? Subject(s): Aging; Children; Play; Childhood WHEN A BOY PLAYS IN THE YARD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: For fear some folks are reading Subject(s): Boys; Play; Home Life; Manners WHEN CHILDREN PLAY AND ROMP ABOUT, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Dear children, come, pick me, pick me Subject(s): Children; Play WHEN DAYS ARE CRISP AND BRIGHT, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: To have a white, white world! Subject(s): Snow; Play WHEN THE CAT IS AWAY, THE MICE MAY PLAY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady once (so stories say Last Line: Lest she again repent it. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Duplicity; Fables; Mice; Play; Deceit; Allegories WHERE CUPID DWELLS, by ROBERT LOUIS MUNGER Poem Text First Line: Way over the seas, in a far, far land Last Line: When he rests over there from his play. Don't you? Subject(s): Cupid; Play; Eros WHO IS SHE KIDDING, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is she kidding? Who is she Subject(s): Play WHO IS SHE KIDDING, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is she kidding? Who is she Last Line: Snow to the eskimos; this is america, %honey, we don't need any damned artichokes Subject(s): Play WITH GLEAMING SAIL, by EVELYN GAIL GARDINER Poem Text First Line: Speeding before the gale Last Line: Who would be other than gayest of gay? Subject(s): Play; Sailing & Sailors; Sports; Waves; Seamen; Sails WOODEN SWORD, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Some days I take my bokken Last Line: My best friends. %how I pray Subject(s): Imagination; Play WRITTEN ON SEEING HER TWO SONS AT PLAY, by HENRIETTA O'NEILL Poem Text First Line: Sweet age of blest illusion! Blooming boys Last Line: Where grief is sure, but happiness deceit! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyle, Henrietta Subject(s): Play; Sons XAIPE: 67, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When faces called flowers float out of the ground Last Line: (all the mountains are dancing;are dancing Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Play |
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