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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: POSSESSIONS Matches Found: 46 A BUILDING SITE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not doubt some paltry sheet Last Line: Must take the valley road below. Subject(s): Property; Possessions ABANDONED SELECTIONS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the crimson breast of the sunset Last Line: Is watching you break your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Abandonment; Grief; Nostalgia; Property; Desertion; Sorrow; Sadness; Possessions AN EYE OF A QUEEN AND A TESTICLE OF A BULL, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We each one wear moccasins & a strip of deerskin Last Line: Loving an enchantment of islands Subject(s): Country Life; Friends, Religious Society Of; Hunting; Property; Quakers; Hunters; Possessions ASTRAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh bright, from earthly things astray Last Line: Than earthly limit mars. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Property; Universe; Possessions ECLOGUE: THE 'LOTMENTS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zoo you be in your groun' then, I do zee Last Line: If I could get a little patch o' ground. Subject(s): Duty; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Property; Social Protest; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Possessions ECLOGUE: THE COMMON A-TOOK IN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morn t'ye, john. How b'ye? How b'ye? Last Line: Or I must goo to workhouse, I do fear. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Fences; Poverty; Property; Seasons; Social Protest; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions FAREWELL TO FARGO: SELLING THE HOUSE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Olivia is dying. Bring your best black dress Last Line: Its spring and slams. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Property; Dead, The; Relatives; Possessions GETTING AND SPENDING, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women's Rights; Property; Feminism; Possessions GROWING OLD (2), by YUAN MEI Poem Text First Line: When I was young and had no money to spend Last Line: "to be poor when one is old does not matter at all." Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai Subject(s): Old Age; Property; Possessions IMPERIALISM, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Text First Line: If you see an island shore which has not been grabb'd before Last Line: Crime is christian when it's clearly understood. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Crime & Criminals; Imperialism; Nations; Property; Possessions INCENSE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her boudoir is ornamented with Last Line: Only by their singular frequency Subject(s): Property; Rooms; Women; Possessions KEEPERS, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Judged by the inch Last Line: "home, something Subject(s): Property; Possessions KINGDOM, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As far as the color red Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Property; Possessions LAND, by MARGERY ELDREDGE HOWELL Poem Text First Line: I have great need of land to hold Last Line: Stars to secure the night. Subject(s): Property; Possessions LAND GRANT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To stand up to the ocean, and to say Subject(s): Property; Possessions LAND OWNER, by GRACE KEELAN Poem Text First Line: To a high place that looks all ways Last Line: Of soil and toil to make my yield. Subject(s): Property; Possessions LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 1. LORD CRASHTON, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joining sir ulick's at the river's bend Last Line: And curses all things from his easy chair. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Despair; Fields; Landlords & Tenants; Portraits; Property; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Possessions LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 2. FINLAY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Finlay, next landlord (I'll abridge the tale), Last Line: A hard but honest man', as people say. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Distrust; Landlords & Tenants; Portraits; Property; Possessions LEGAL FICTION, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Property; Attorneys; Possessions LETTERS TO YESENIN: 9, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What if I own more paper clips than I'll ever use in this Last Line: Beautiful duck and my time is free again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Poverty; Property; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Possessions MATERIALISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If things aren't things Last Line: Hold me still Subject(s): Materialism; Nature; Property; Possessions MOVING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not those who have lived here and gone Last Line: Of all that happened there. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Longing; Memory; Moving & Movers; Property; Solitude; Possessions; Loneliness ODE; CHAMBER AND SOUL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My many-windowed room, cupboard of sun Subject(s): Transience; Property; Impermanence; Possessions ON THE MARIAGE OF THE KING: OF GEORGE, AND PROPERTY, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! This the land, where freedom's sacred rage Last Line: And guards, while plenty gives, the golden grain. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Property; Possessions POSSESSION, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you, / I held you Last Line: Or come you now nearer than any man living may be? Subject(s): Property; Possessions POSSESSION, by BARBARA FROST Poem Text First Line: They say I own the cottage on the hill Last Line: So little and so stubborn and so still. Subject(s): Comfort; Idleness; Property; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Possessions POSSESSION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That which we had we still possess Last Line: For what was ours we still possess. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Fates (mythology); Life; Property; Soul; Destiny; Possessions POSSESSIONS, by JAMES E. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: The sand-path dies in marshlands, vast and gray Last Line: And hold my place awhile, -- what else is there? Subject(s): Property; Possessions THE AUCTION, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on returning home, purse-proud and hale Subject(s): Home; Auctions; Property; Possessions THE COMMON A-TOOK IN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! No, poll, no! Since they've a-took Last Line: Vrom all the housen round. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fences; Memory; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE HWOMESTEAD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had all the land my zight Last Line: To zee how things do grow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Property; Quiet Life; Wishes; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE HWOMESTEAD A-VELL INTO HAND, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house where I wer born an' bred Last Line: By elems that did break the storm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Homesteaders; Loss; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE INVENTORY, IN ANSWER TO ... SURVEYOR OF TXAES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, as your mandate did request Last Line: Subscripsi huic, Subject(s): Mnemonics; Property; Taxes; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can love of land give to me Last Line: And delos, the clasp of the white necklace? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can love of land give to me Last Line: And fall back. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has love of land given to you' Last Line: "and they answered -- ""peace." Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But beauty is set apart Last Line: And from greece. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE LEANE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They do zay that a travellen chap Last Line: An' went vurder wi' them than a dreat. Subject(s): Grass; Greed; Property; Roads; Social Protest; Avarice; Cupidity; Possessions; Paths; Trails THE NEW HOUSE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will buy or build a brand-new house,' / she said Last Line: Save the fantastic worm's perpetual boring. Subject(s): Houses; Property; Possessions TO THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES LORD HALIFAX: SALUTE TO PROPERTY, by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But who advances next, with cheerful grace Last Line: Her fleets were freighted, and her fields were till'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Subject(s): Fields; Property; Wealth; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Possessions; Riches; Fortunes TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE CURSE OF PROPERTY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are they not mine, saith the lord, the everlasting hills Last Line: I the lord demos have spoken it—and the mountains are my throne. Subject(s): Property; Possessions TREASURE IN HEAVEN', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Treasures of sound! Kind words, and words of love Last Line: Will glory and rejoice to see them rich Subject(s): Possessions; Wealth TRESPASS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, I had set no prohibiting sign Last Line: But it made my property mine once more Subject(s): Property; Possessions TRUE AND FAITHFUL INVENTORY OF GOODS BELONGING TO DR. SWIFT, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An oaken, broken elbow-chair Last Line: Why not, as well as doctor swift? Subject(s): Property; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Possessions TWO KINDS OF RICHES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since all the riches of this world Last Line: If I thanked my god for worldly things Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Property; Possessions UPON SIR THOMAS MARTIN, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hang out a flag and gather pence - a piece Last Line: May have a knight hanged, yet sir tom go free! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Property; Possessions |
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