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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: READING Matches Found: 482 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` $2.50, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that dashing, dauntless, delphic, diehard, diabolic cracker likes his fiction turned Subject(s): Books & Reading; Popular Culture; Class Struggle A BLACK-LETTER STORY-BOOK, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: In dingy binding dark with time Last Line: In brimming flagons! Subject(s): Books; Time; Reading A BLURB FOR 'ANNA LIVIA PLURABELLE', by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Buy a book in brown paper Subject(s): Books; Reading A BLURB FOR 'HAVETH CHILDERS EVERYWHERE', by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humptydump dublin squeaks through his norse Subject(s): Books; Reading A BOOK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no frigate like a book Last Line: That bears a human soul! Subject(s): Books; Reading A BOOK, by HANNAH MORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a strange contradiction; I'm new and I'm old Last Line: And no monarch alive has so many pages. Variant Title(s): A Riddle (a Book) Subject(s): Books; Reading A BOOK FULL OF PICTURES, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father studied theology through the mail Subject(s): Books; Reading A BOOK OF CELTIC VERSE (TO SEUMAS MACMANUS), by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That was never a book that you brought me and gave to my hand Last Line: That you gave to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Celts; Poetry & Poets; Reading A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some, fingering the leaves of memory's book Last Line: Began, continued, ended -- all with you! Subject(s): Books; Reading A CORONAL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New books of poetry will be written Last Line: Many and many a time. Subject(s): Books; Reading A COURSE OF REGULAR READING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master bee, as you wanton among the sweet flowers Last Line: Let's be foolish and happy to spite them! Subject(s): Books; Reading A DEDICATION, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take these rhymes into thy grace Last Line: Lies reflected on its pages. Subject(s): Books; Reading A FAIRY TALE, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in days of yore a little princess, who had summers seen Last Line: Then she laid her down, and, praying, slept the long unmorrowing sleep. Subject(s): Books; Fairy Tales; Story-telling; Reading A FORGOTTEN BARD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a dim nook beneath the street Last Line: Some book of mine be housed and read? Subject(s): Books; New York City; Poetry Readings; Reading; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A HINT TO A YOUNG PERSON, .. IMPROVEMENT, BY READING OR CONVERSATION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In reading authors, when you find Last Line: That socrates does now speak truth. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reason; Reading; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A LATE HISTORY, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Black, under the candlesticks, moving in harness Last Line: Do I wake or sleep? It is late tonight as it will ever be Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Books & Reading; Social Commentary; Nature; Eton College; Historians A MANUAL MORE ANCIENT THAT THE ART OF PRINTING ..., by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a book, which we may call Last Line: So brilliant and so keen. Subject(s): Prints & Printers; Books; Reading A MARTIAN SENDS A POSTCARD HOME, by CRAIG RAINE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings Subject(s): Books; Civilization; Language; Reading; Words; Vocabulary A PRAYER, by CATHARINE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Lord, let me think of life as an account Last Line: God grant the balance may be on the right! Subject(s): Books; God; Life; Prayer; Reading A RHYMED REVIEW; 'LAUGHING MUSE' (BY ARTHUR GUITERMAN), by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An obvious thing for one to do Last Line: "I hope to god a lion bit her." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Guiterman, Arthur (1871-1943); Literature; Poetry & Poets; Reading A SHELF IS A LEDGE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't understand by what perversity Last Line: As he screams in the dark: survive! Survive! Subject(s): Books; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Inanimate Objects; Survival; Reading A STUDY OF READING HABITS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When getting my nose in a book Subject(s): Books; Hate; Reading A VALEDICTION: OF THE BOOKE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell thee now (deare love) what thou shalt do Last Line: But to marke when, and where the darke eclipses bee? Subject(s): Books; Reading A VISIT TO THE POET, by RODOLFO PUCELLI Poem Text First Line: The bard received me with open-heartedness ... Last Line: Bowed underneath the universe. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading AETIA: PROLOGUE. THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go learn, o green-eyed monster's fatal brood Last Line: Let me go light, and flit my dainty way. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Books; Reading AFTER READING A CHAPTER BY HENRY JAMES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "and after angelina, laying down" Last Line: "sank back upon her pillows, quite fagged out" Subject(s): "authors & Authorship;books;james, Henry (1843-1916);" Reading AFTER READING AUSTIN DOBSON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In a crowded room I seemed to stand Last Line: "to find it closed, and ended the song / whose gay, glad cadence lived on in my heart" Subject(s): "books;dobson, Austin (1840-1921);parties;solitude;" Reading;loneliness AFTER READING HASSAN: 1, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haroun, haroun, thou art gone from us, haroun! Last Line: Haroun the caliph wears a blackened brow. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading AFTER READING TAKAHASHI, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is the same to anyone Last Line: That is my life. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Books; Change; Reading AGAINST THE EVIDENCE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I reach to close each book Subject(s): Books; Reading AGAINST WRITERS THAT CARP AT OTHER MEN'S BOOKS, by JOHN HARRINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The readers and the hearers like my books Last Line: I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John Variant Title(s): Of Writers That Carp ... Other Men's Books Subject(s): Books; Critics & Criticism; Reading AMORETTI: 1, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy ye leaves! When as those lily hands Last Line: Whom if ye please, I care for other none. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "to His Book;""happy Ye Leaves When As Those Lilly Hands,""; Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reading AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The art of english poetry, I find Last Line: With righter verdict, tho' the court's a dream. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; English Language; Language Poetry; Poetry & Poets; Reading AN EXCUSE FOR SO MUCH WRIT UPON MY VERSES, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Condemn me not for making such a coyle [coil] Last Line: Thus write I much, to hinder all disgrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Variant Title(s): An Apology For Writing So Much Upon This Book Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading AN EXPERIENCE AND A MORAL, by FREDERICK SWARTWOUT COZZENS Poem Text First Line: I lent my love a book one day Last Line: Unless you read it afterward! Subject(s): Admiration; Books; Reading AN INTERIOR, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because you cannot sit with me Last Line: Which brings death -- not escape. Subject(s): Books; Death; Pine Trees; Trees; Voices; Reading; Dead, The AN INTRODUCTION TO MY ANTHOLOGY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a book must contain Last Line: But only as a peacock among barn fowl. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Love; Poetry & Poets; Reading ANOTHER BOOK, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another book! How my heart flees Last Line: Toward the inclusive sinecure. Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Soul; Reading ARABEL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twists of smoke rise from the limpness of jeweled fingers Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Books; Youth; Reading BALLAD OF YOUNG MAN THAT WOULD READ UNLAWFUL BOOKS & HOW HE WAS PUNISH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cornelius agrippa went out one day Last Line: How in a conjurer's books they read. Subject(s): Books; Devil; Magic; Punishment; Reading; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub BALLADE OF A CONSPICUOUS OMISSION, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I admit I've made a book Last Line: Why did I leave out t. A. Daly? Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Criticism & Critics; Daly, Thomas Augustine (1871-1948); Reading BALLADE OF RAILWAY NOVELS, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let others praise analysis Last Line: Miss braddon and gaboriau. Subject(s): Books; Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets; Reading BALLADE OF READING BAD BOOKS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sad-eyed man who yonder sits Last Line: "not to remember -- but forget." Subject(s): Books; Reading BALLADE OF THE BOOK-HUNTER, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In torrid heats of late july Last Line: Aldines, bodonis, elzevirs? Subject(s): Books; Reading BALLADE OF THE BOOK-MAN'S PARADISE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a heaven, or here, or there Last Line: Within that book-man's paradise? Subject(s): Books; Reading BALLADE OF THE TEMPTING BOOK, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Sometimes when I sit down at night Last Line: "the oxford book of english verse." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Books; Oxford University; Reading BECAUSE OF LIBRARIES WE CAN SAY THESE THINGS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is holding the book close to her body Last Line: Her life starts here. Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians BEL CANTO, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp, Subject(s): Inspiration; Books; Wisdom; Reading BEST WAY TO READ A BOOK, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Best way to read a book I know Last Line: For him who reads them to his boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Books; Fathers & Sons; Reading BIBLIOLATRES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowing thyself in dust before a book Last Line: Still at the prophets' feet the nations sit. Subject(s): Books; Religion; Reading; Theology BODY OF BOOK, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This is one way to talk about a book: Subject(s): Books & Reading BOOK BORROWERS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks are rather funny; if they should Last Line: Roosting on my shack. Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Reading BOOK OF LU T'ANG CHU, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the reign of the great emperor lu Last Line: To celebrate our good and glorious reigns. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Books are alcohol to me Last Line: From the contact of the cover. Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the heart of this dark evacuated campus Subject(s): Books & Reading BOOKS, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Books, books that I love so Last Line: For one penny or two. Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS, by JOHN HIGGINS Poem Text First Line: For why, who writes such histories as these Last Line: Well fare his heart, say they, this book that wrote! Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rows of letters on the page Last Line: And guess at what the letters say. Subject(s): Books; Children; Illiteracy; Reading; Childhood BOOKS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're standing on the high school steps Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Schools; Women; Reading; Library; Librarians; Students BOOKS, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fatal fruits, nurtured with tears and blood! Last Line: And aspiration more than happiness. Subject(s): Books; Knowledge; Reading BOOKS, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How you loved to read in the snow and when your Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians BOOKS, by FLORENCE VAN CLEVE Poem Text First Line: My neighbor's books sit primly in a row Last Line: Upon my neighbor's shelves, I pity you! Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS & READING, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: These journals, notes, and missives of the dead Last Line: Save a small volume on the scholar's shelf. Subject(s): Books; Poverty; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading BOOKS AND FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come! Let me make a sunny realm around thee Last Line: Look on an empire -- mind and nature -- ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Reading BOOKS AND THE MAN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the years gather round us like stern foes Last Line: But only old because they proved the best. Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Literature; Osler, William, Sir (1849-1919); Reading BOOKS FOR THE PEOPLE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light to the darken'd mind Last Line: Upon our upward way. Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS IN THE RUNNING BROOKS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is enough, enough, one said Last Line: To the purple west. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Nature; Reading BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: THE NEW TESTAMENT, by JOHN NELSON DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Four are the men who tell of the life of our saviour and master Last Line: Next is the letter by judas, and last is the great revelation. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Religion; Story-telling; Reading; Theology BOOKS POST MORTEM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I care not that some other man Last Line: And pack them off to heaven! Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS WE HAVEN'T TOUCHED IN YEARS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The person who wrote yes! Last Line: Beside the road. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Books, books, books, books! Last Line: Books, books, books, books! Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKWORLD, by JAMES MACFARLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the dim presence of the awful night Last Line: That fill time's channel like a stream of suns! Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Reading BRIGHTON ROCK BY GRAHAM GREENE, by BILL KNOTT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pinky brown must marry rose wilson Last Line: And read brighton rock by graham greene. Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Reading BRIT. MUS. ADD. MS. 33219, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At th' ivory tribunall of your hand Last Line: Is her lifes wing, or her death's winding-sheet. Variant Title(s): With Some Poems Sent To A Gentlewoman (1) Subject(s): Books; Reading BURIAL INSURANCE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It came each month from omaha Last Line: Grandmomma took her picture off the wall Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Death; Books & Reading; Dead, The BY WAY OF PREFACE (A REVERIE), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A preface!' yes. It might be well Last Line: Refer the ruling ... To the reader! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading CANTO 81, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; ; Relationships; Disappointment; Books; Reading CATULLUS I, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it I should give my little book to, Subject(s): Books & Reading CHANGING GENRES, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, Subject(s): Books; Literature; Reading CHAUCERS WORDES UNTO ADAM, HIS OWN SCRIVEYN, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam scriveyn, if ever it thee bifalle Last Line: And al is thurgh thy necligence and rape. Variant Title(s): To His Scribe Adam Subject(s): Books; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Reading CHILDREN SELECTING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With beasts and gods, above, the wall is bright. Last Line: Change, dear to all things not to themselves endeared Subject(s): Children; Books & Reading; Childhood 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 CLOSE THE BOOK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close the book, and leave the tale Last Line: To relate the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Reading COMFORT, by CHARLES EDMUND MERRILL JR. Poem Text First Line: With pipe and book, an old armchair Last Line: With pipe and book. Subject(s): Books; Smoking; Reading; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CONSEQUENCES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside it's been snowing Last Line: A russian romance! Subject(s): Books; Death; Reading; Dead, The DANCE TIME, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's I live in a very wise town Last Line: "than once upon a time!" Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Learning; Towns; Wisdom; Reading DAY DREAMS, by TSO SSU Poem Text First Line: When I was young I played with a soft brush Last Line: But refusing with a bow, retire to a cottage in the country. Alternate Author Name(s): T'ai-ch'ung+(1) Subject(s): Books; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Writing & Writers; Reading DE AMICITIIS, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though care and strife Last Line: Without a fear my wife shall chide me! Subject(s): Books; Marriage; Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DESULTORY STANZAS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is then the final page before me spread Last Line: That treasures, yet untouched, may grace some future lay. Subject(s): Books; Reading DEUS INENARRABILIS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Did ever author pen a book Last Line: That men might make a book of it. Subject(s): Books; Creative Ability; God; Writing & Writers; Reading; Inspiration; Creativity DICKENS IN CAMP, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting Last Line: This spray of western pine. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Books; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Pine Trees; West (u.s.); Writing & Writers; Reading; Southwest; Pacific States DOMESDAY BOOK: DOMESDAY BOOK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take any life you choose and study it Last Line: And of her birth: -- . . . Subject(s): Books; Death; Life; Loss; Soul; Reading; Dead, The ENVOI, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, dumb-born book, Subject(s): Books; Love; Reading EOTHEN, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Although I have not seen thee face to face Last Line: Or the last slave-bride to her lord is brought. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading EPIGRAM, by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because with bought books, sir, your study's fraught Last Line: The merchant now, the fiddler the next day. Subject(s): Books; Reading EPIGRAM ON GEORGE I'S GIFT OF BOOKS TO CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN TRAPP Poem Text First Line: King george observing, with judicious eyes Last Line: How much that loyal body wanted learning. Subject(s): Books; Cambridge University; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Oxford University; Reading EPILOGUE, by SAMUEL FOSTER DAMON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think that I shall live again Last Line: I shall return my own book to its shelf. Alternate Author Name(s): Dalton, S. Foster Subject(s): Books; Reading EPISTLE TO MRS. BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these gay thoughts the loves and graces shine Last Line: Still to charm those who charm the world beside. Variant Title(s): To Miss Blout, With The Works Of Voiture Subject(s): Books; Voiture, Vincent De (1598-1648); Reading EPITAPH FOR A CONDEMNED BOOK, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader placid and bucolic / sober, guileless man of the good Last Line: Pity me! . . . If not, be damned! Subject(s): Books; Epitaphs; Reading ERRATA: AN ECLOGUE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This text is not what it should be Last Line: Until the masterpiece is ... Pulped! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading ESTEEMING THE BIBLE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This holy book I'd rather own Last Line: Their tears shall cease to flow. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the outlying districts where we know something Last Line: And open it in my face. You knew that Subject(s): Books; Reading EX LIBRIS, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an old book at even as I read Last Line: Interpret not the messenger aright. Subject(s): Books; Death; Reading; Dead, The EXTRACTS FROM THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR CAYENNE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! For the hack can scatter into flight Last Line: There'd be a world's best literature indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Books; Critics & Criticism; Love; Reading FACE THE ORIENT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need to be dancing over the birth Last Line: Look here. The horizon is the book. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is blue and scarlet on my page, Subject(s): Reading; Mythology; Dreams; Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Burials FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman Last Line: To answer what was being insisted on Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night; Old Age; Love – Nature Of; Reading; Bugs; Bedtime FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 4, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gospel's simpler language being writ Last Line: Of brisker tempers—let us next enquire. Subject(s): Bible; Bible, N.t. Gospels; Books; Language; Religious Education; Writing & Writers; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FAMILIAR EPISTLES TO A FRIEND: 6, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By 'reformation from the church of rome' Last Line: May be the subject of succeeding rhimes. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Christianity; Churches; Learning; Religious Reformers; Religious Education; Wisdom; Reading; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FATHER GOOSE, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mother goose became quite new Last Line: The tales of father goose. Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank Subject(s): Books; Geese; Parents; Reading; Parenthood FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON], by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the giant weapon came Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms & Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968); Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FEBRUARY MORNING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old man takes a nap Last Line: The snow falls all day long. Subject(s): Books; February; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Morning; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Winter; Reading FICTION AND THE READING PUBLIC, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a thrill, says the reader Subject(s): Books; Reading FIFTY-THREE, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've already had a lot of them Subject(s): Birthdays; Middle Age; Books; Trees; Reading FIRST READER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can see them standing politely on the wide pages Subject(s): Books & Reading FOR A CHILD'S BOOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My book is such a dainty thing Last Line: You'll have a nest all to yourself. Subject(s): Books; Children; January; Reading; Childhood FOREWORD, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an old book I find the words of all Last Line: The book? You know it well—the human heart! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Reading FOURTEEN PAGES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers; Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930); Books & Reading FRAGMENT (2), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom should I choose for my judge? The earnest, impersonal reader Last Line: Each with a different tone, compleat or in musical fragments. Subject(s): Books; Reading FRIAR JEROME'S BEAUTIFUL BOOK; A.D. 1200, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The friar jerome, for some slight sin Last Line: The volume was not writ in vain! Subject(s): Books; Reading GAS OR NOVOCAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I sit, reading the stoic Last Line: The senses, and the right / to homosexuality Subject(s): Books; Latin; Reading GENTLE READER, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late in the night when I should be asleep Last Line: Saying like molly, yes, yes, yes o yes Subject(s): Books & Reading; Poetry & Poets GOD'S BOOK, by EDGAR DANIEL KRAMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God spreads a book before my eyes Last Line: Of trees and brooks and fragrant sod. Subject(s): Books; God; Reading GRASSY MEADOW SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In the grassy meadow school Last Line: That the best thing is to grow! Subject(s): Books; Knowledge; Scholarship & Scholars; Schools; Summer; Reading; Students GREEN LAMPSHADE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the page of all the books Subject(s): Books; Reading 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 HALOS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four tiny folk Last Line: And less lonely. Variant Title(s): Less Lonely Subject(s): Books; Dwarfs; Hats; Reading HANS READING, HANS SMOKING, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, poised around behavior, would say Subject(s): Reading; Smoking; Human Behavior; Family Life; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Relatives HAPPINESS THROUGH THE YEAR, by J. MARGARET CRUTE ASHCRAFT Poem Text First Line: Give me a good book Last Line: And life seems just only begun. Subject(s): Books; Nature; Seasons; Reading HE WAS A VISITOR, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cast flesh / as the song into the room is cast Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Books; Reading HELEN'S FACE A BOOK, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Helen's face is like a book Last Line: Underneath her lashes? Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Books; Faces; Women; Reading HERE IS MUSIC: 19. BEFORE AND AFTER: BEFORE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Books as my background. Books Last Line: Of e'er-increasing anger, ice-cold, hun-ward hate. Subject(s): Books; History; Libraries & Librarians; Scholarship & Scholars; Youth; Reading; Historians HERE IS MUSIS: 19. BEFORE AND AFTER: AFTER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Books as our background. Books Last Line: All life still brings ... True, blest begetter of these songs! Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Old Age; Reading HIS HIEROGLYPHS, by GRACE KIESS SWIGGETT Poem Text First Line: Like phantom symbols placed throughout the world Last Line: And then, remodel life by god's own plan. Subject(s): Books; God; Writing & Writers; Reading HIS VIGIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close the book and dim the light Last Line: Just as god were sitting here. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; God; Night; Reading; Bedtime HISTORY BOOKS, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is, their authors, leave out Subject(s): Books; History; Reading; Historians HOW TO READ ME, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To turn my volumes o'er nor find Last Line: And all my joys but dreamt. Subject(s): Books; Reading HUITAINS; FOR ANDREW LANG'S 'THE LIBRARY', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Books, books again, and books once more! Last Line: Reprint them at the press of clark. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Lang, Andrew (1844-1912); Reading I WRITE TO TELL, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I write to tell, when I have ceased to be Last Line: And he gathers me, of all most favored, to his breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading IDEA: 49, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou leaden brain, which censur'st what I write Last Line: Come thou, and read, admire, applaud my lines. Subject(s): Books; Reading IN A COPY OF 'FOUR FORSYTE STORIES', by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An author who has what is called a vogue Last Line: "the more his pinnacle in air he'll see!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Books; Reading IN A LIBRARY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wealth of silence, that is all. The air Last Line: The valor, bloom, and wisdom of a world. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Librarians & Libraries; Life; Silence; Reading; Library; Librarians IN A LIBRARY, by LENORE MAUDE CROUDACE Poem Text First Line: Silence more eloquent than noise or sound Last Line: For thought transcending our little human span. Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians IN A LIBRARY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A precious, mouldering pleasure 'tis Last Line: And tantalize, just so. Subject(s): Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290); Books; Reading IN A LIBRARY, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: They left me there Last Line: And shook my head. Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Reading IN A LIBRARY: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A miracle - that man should learn to fill Last Line: For them they talk and sing like uncaged birds. Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians IN AN ALBUM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The misspelt scrawl, upon the wall Last Line: "in vain, ""this lowell, who was he?" Subject(s): Books; Reading IN BED WITH A BOOK, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In police procedurals they are dying all over town, Subject(s): Books; Crime & Criminals; Reading IN COMMENDATION OF GEORGE GASCOIGNE'S STEEL GLASS (1576), by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet were the sauce would please each kind of taste Last Line: I fear me much, shall hardly reach so high. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Subject(s): Books; Gascoigne, George (1525-1577); Reading IN MEMORIAM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate lifts us up so she can hurl Last Line: Watch o'er the happier of his lives: say, does he ewake, or sleep? Subject(s): Books; Motion Pictures; Reading; Movies; Cinema IN THE AFTERNOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You in the hammock; and I, near Last Line: Kiss me again, my dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Afternoon; Books; Hammocks; Kisses; Reading IN THE LIBRARY, by HARRIET A. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: Like cells in a prison Last Line: The lad is prospero. Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians IN THE LIBRARY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the oriels one by one Last Line: Premonitions of the morn! Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Speech; Reading; Oratory; Orators IN THE LIBRARY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There's a book called Subject(s): Books; Angels; Reading IN THE RAGING BALANCE; I.M. JACK CLARKE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Energy, the man said, equals Last Line: Think of it it couldn't possibly be Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Reading IN THE SHADOWS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent music of the flowers Last Line: Against my name which was a shade. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Music & Musicians; Reading IN THE SLEEP OF REASON, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so I closed that book, Subject(s): Books & Reading; Conduct Of Life INITIAL CONDITIONS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way the sun will slant Last Line: As you breathe, let your chest sag to feel bone Subject(s): Books; History; Restaurants; United States; Washington (state); Reading; Historians; Cafes; Diners; America INSCRIPTION FOR A LIBRARY, by GEORGE SEIBEL Poem Text First Line: Put on the cowl, take up thy staff! Last Line: Across the ancient aisles of time. Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Poetry & Poets; Time; Reading INSCRIPTION FOR BOOKS, by BERNARD DE LA MONNOYE Poem Text First Line: Here by our master ranged in file Last Line: Or, still more likely, send to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): La Monnoye, Bernard De; Monnoye, Bernard De La Subject(s): Books; Reading IZAAC WALTON, COTTON, AND WILLIAM OLDWAYS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son cotton! These light idle brooks Last Line: Just like these idle waves, son cotton! Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Literature; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Writing & Writers; Reading JOTTINGS; BOOKS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only on the days when my life has ebbed Last Line: And read what never yet was told in ink. Subject(s): Books; Reading JUST AS GOOD, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You write a book that makes a hit; it's full Last Line: Letters. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading KENTUCKY, 1833, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is sunday, day of roughhousing. We are let out in the woods Last Line: If we could read, would change our lives Subject(s): Slavery; Books & Reading LENDING LIBRARY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the valentines and birthday greetings Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Women; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians LESSER EPISTLES: TO BERNARD LINTOTT, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when some skilful cook, to please each guest Last Line: And tonson yield to lintott's lofty name. Subject(s): Books; Lintot, Barnaby Bernard (1675-1736); Reading LIBRARY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book saved my life. Subject(s): Books & Reading LIGHT BY WHICH I READ, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One does not turn to the rose for shade, nor the charred song of the redwing for solace - see more a Subject(s): Books; Reading LIKE GOD, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hover above the page staring down Last Line: The book in your hands, like god reading Subject(s): Books; God; Reading LINES, by ELIZABETH J. EAMES Poem Text First Line: Of making many books there is no end' Last Line: That all the days of man's short life are vanity! Subject(s): Books; Wisdom; Reading LINES FER ISAAC BRADWELL, OF INDIANAPOLIS, IND., by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through fire and flood this book has passed Last Line: Than 'fore they tried to burn the thing! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Fire; Poetry & Poets; Reading LINES FOR AN ECCENTRIC'S BOOK PLATE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To use my books all friends are bid Last Line: Than I -- why don't return it! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Books; Reading LINES HAVE THEIR LININGS, AND BOOKES THEIR BUCKRAM, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in our clothes, so likewise he who lookes Last Line: Shall find much farcing buckram in our books. Subject(s): Books; Reading LINES WRITTEN IN A COMMONPLACE BOOK, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sweet and gentle maiden Last Line: An earnest of the skies! Subject(s): Books; Women; Youth; Reading LINES WRITTEN IN THE AUTHOR'S COPY OF 'FROM THE FOUR WINDS', by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrote this book and certify Last Line: I write these words, and send her out. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reading LISTEN HARD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough and you can hear Last Line: Listen to the sound of the book when it closes Subject(s): Books; Sound; Reading LITERARY, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of simple people and the hardier virtues, by associated stuffed shirts & Subject(s): Books & Reading LOGIC, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Palmam qui meruit ferat'-he who wins the Last Line: Are wise. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading LOOKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What knowledge do my ears provide Last Line: Stirs to her treachery. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Books; Eyes; Knowledge; Learning; Sight; Reading LOVE'S INTERPRETATION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: A maiden sat beside the sea Last Line: Fall in love with the author of the book! Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading LOVE'S NIGHTINGALE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though now 'tis neither may nor june Last Line: Shall sitt and sing. Variant Title(s): With Some Poems Sent To A Gentlewoman (2) Subject(s): Birds; Books; Nightingales; Reading 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 MAGIC, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Take some little words Last Line: Made from little words. Subject(s): Books; September; Story-telling; Reading MCARONI BALLADS: ARGUMENT, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: My title has a foreign look Last Line: Mcaroni? Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Books; Reading MEDITATION, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Diving within myself, I found Last Line: But fell, and vanished into sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): Books; Oxford University; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677); Reading MEDITATION ON SOME BOOKSHELVES SHORTLY TO BE BUILT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend carpenter, in re those shelves of mine Last Line: And his good name will surely be included! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Books; Carpenters; Reading MEDLEY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ignorance came in stones of gold Subject(s): Ignorance; Books; Crimes & Criminals; Dullness; Stupdity; Reading MISAPPLIED, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fie! What a sinful waste it is to use Last Line: We need fine paper for racine and poe! Subject(s): Books; Reading MORAL EMBLEMS I: 2, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, your soul upraise to see Last Line: He will regret it when he's dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Reading MORAL EMBLEMS I: 4, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See in the print, how moved by whim Last Line: Joys to observe his bold resistance. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Reading MORAL EMBLEMS I: 5, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark, printed on the opposing page Last Line: By dwelling on that mangled body. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Reading MUTATIS MUTANDIS, by MARGARET VAN S. RICE Poem Text First Line: By care and strife Last Line: Down where (to say the least) it's summer. Subject(s): Books; Marriage; Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY BOOK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I drink myself to death Last Line: A right, a glory and a song. Subject(s): Books; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Reading MY BOOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A little gate my book can be Last Line: Afar in foreign fields I roam. Subject(s): Books; February; Travel; Reading; Journeys; Trips MY BOOK HOLDS MANY STORIES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My book holds many stories, wrapped tightly in itself Last Line: Are sailing on a fairy sea or floating in the sky. Subject(s): Books; January; Reading MY BOOKS, by JULIA JOHNSON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: When falls the winter snow I little care nor yet what Last Line: With happiness anew. Subject(s): Books; Reading MY BOOKS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They dwell in the odour of camphor Last Line: But those are the books I read. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading MY BOOKS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sadly as some old mediaeval knight Last Line: In which I walked, now clouded and confused. Subject(s): Books; Reading MY BOOKS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Well I love these books of mine Last Line: Have been so useful and so pleasant? Subject(s): Books; Reading MY BOOKS AND I, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My books and I are good old pals Last Line: I'm stronger than before. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Books; Religion; Reading; Theology MY GHOSTS, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My house is filled with ghosts Last Line: In payment for my reverent love of them. Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Ghosts; Supernatural; Reading MY JOURNAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a dreary evening Last Line: And my eyes are dim to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Books; Life; Tears; Time; Reading MY LIBRARY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrine of my mind, my library! Last Line: Hence to the outer world good night! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Libraries & Librarians; Life; Love; Solitude; Reading; Loneliness MY MASTERPIECE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's slim and trim and bound in blue Last Line: That little book I never wrote. Subject(s): Books; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Reading MY SCRAPBOOK, by M. ANNETTE PAPAYANAKOS Poem Text First Line: I wander away to my little secluded brook Last Line: Will end the mystery veiling the deep. Subject(s): Books; Reading MY UPPER SHELVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close at my feet in stolid rows they sit Last Line: So long as love is love and blooms a sole red rose! Subject(s): Books; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Graves; Love; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Tombs; Tombstones NATURAL STATE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books & Reading NATURE, by HAZEL HANNA Poem Text First Line: One summer day I chanced to stray Last Line: In nature's lovely bowers? Subject(s): Books; Reading NEAR MISS HAIKU, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Order out of chaos equals frogs Last Line: Opens the book Subject(s): Books; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Poetry & Poets; Violins; Reading NO DETACHMENT, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Step out snow and sunshine Last Line: Flashed out of the void today Subject(s): Books; New York Times (newspaper); Reading OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: THE WRITER TO HIS BOOK, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither thus hastes my little book so fast? Last Line: Thy lightness cannot help or hurt my fame. Subject(s): Books; Reading OLD BOOKS ARE BEST, by BEVERLY CHEW Poem Text First Line: Old books are best! With what delight Last Line: Beverly chew. Subject(s): Books; Reading OLD BOOKS IN HEAVEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven would lose its heavenly looks Last Line: Beneath my arm! Subject(s): Books; Heaven; Reading; Paradise OLD SUSAN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When susan's work was done, she'd sit Last Line: And rooted in romance remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Books; Reading ON A BOX CONTAINING HIS OWN WORKS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I break up cypress and make a book-box Last Line: To be left by them to give to my grandchildren. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Books; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Writing & Writers; Reading ON A TRAILWAYS BUS A MAN WHO HOLDS HIS HEAD STRAGELY SPEAKS TO THE SEAT NEXT TO HIM, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought a book to make the time pass Subject(s): Buses; Human Behavior; Books; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading ON BEING FORCED TO PART WITH HIS LIBRARY FOR BENEFIT OF HIS CREDITORS, by WILLIAM STANLEY ROSCOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one who destined from his friends to part Last Line: And kindred spirits meet to part no more. Subject(s): Books; Debt; Grief; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness ON CERTAIN BOOKS (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faith and fixt hope these pages may peruse Last Line: Shall shake it into dust, like older lies. Subject(s): Books; Reading ON CERTAIN BOOKS (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! My friend, 'tis motive power one needs Last Line: While smart theosophies lose heart and die. Subject(s): Books; Reading ON EXPECTING SOME BOOKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: To-morrow they will come. I know Last Line: Together in one room with me. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Books; Reading ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much have I traveled in the realms of gold Last Line: Silent, upon a peak in darien. Variant Title(s): To The Adventurous Subject(s): Books; Chapman, George (1559-1634); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Thought; Translating & Interpreting; Reading; Iliad; Odyssey; Thinking ON GEORGE HERBERT'S BOOK, THE TEMPLE, SENT TO A GENTLEWOMAN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know you, fair, on what you look Last Line: Of your white hand, they are mine. Subject(s): Books; Herbert, George (1593-1633); Reading ON HIS BOOKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bound (almost) now of my book I see Last Line: Are lost, and theirs, in everlasting night. Subject(s): Books; Reading ON HIS BOOKS, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, I hope it may be said Last Line: His sins were scarlet, but his books were red Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): Epigram Subject(s): Books & Reading ON READING - THOUGH NOT FAR - IN A CRITIC MUCH TOUTED TODAY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These never change, while time's pollution thickens: Last Line: Cackle of critics, and the shit of chickens Variant Title(s): Dear Reader, From Juvenal, I, 79 Subject(s): Books; Reading ON REREADING TELEMAQUE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I place thee back upon the shelf Last Line: Until another man was sent her! Subject(s): Books; Man-woman Relationships; Writing & Writers; Reading; Male-female Relations ON SEEING ON THE SAME BOOKSHELF JOHNSON'S LIVES OF THE POETS ..., by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See british bards and british cut-throats made Last Line: Dryden on wings or turpin on a hack! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reading ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (1), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So then - the vandals of our isle Last Line: The burning of his own. Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (2), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wit and genius meet their doom Last Line: The honey on his tongue. Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To hear the words of scripture, or to read Last Line: To seek the truth, receive it, and retain. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Language; Reading; Words; Vocabulary ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ought to read, my worthy friend ponthieu Last Line: The book of books is ev'ry man's own heart. Subject(s): Books; Language; Religious Education; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ON THE FLYLEAF OF A BOOK OF OLD PLAYS, by WALTER LEARNED Poem Text First Line: At cato's head in russell street Last Line: And watch her at her binding. Subject(s): Books; Plays & Playwrights ; Reading; Dramatists ON THE GIFT OF A BOOK TO A CHILD, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child! Do not throw this book about Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Books; Reading ON THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF READING MATTER, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lad whose life is pure and clean Last Line: And love its cardiac motive power. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings; Rhyme; Reading ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This figure, that thou here seest put Last Line: Not at his picture, but his book. Variant Title(s): To The Reader Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Droeshout, Martin; Engraving & Engravers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading; Dramatists OR, TO HOCUS THE ANIMALS OF THE PURSUERS BY CHANGING THEIR DREAM..., by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold and windy cloud with delicate Last Line: Joseph cornell knew it well Subject(s): Books; Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Poetry & Poets; Reading ORGANIZATION MEN IN AFFLUENT SOCIETY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is deep twilight, my wife Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Books; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); History; Love; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark; Reading; Historians OUR LORD'S ONE WRITING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strange that he, fount of a million books Last Line: Of those few transient words upon the ground! Subject(s): Books; Reading OUT OF AN OLD BOOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I opened, read: lo, like a sun Last Line: Beauty is dateless, life is one. Subject(s): Books; Life; Reading OWED' TO MY POCKET-BOOK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "how fair thou art, o little book" Last Line: Will carry all my money Subject(s): Books;money;russia; Reading;soviet Union;russians OXFORD, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Homeless and never sadder, Last Line: The book is out of print Subject(s): Oxford, England; Books & Reading PAUL ELUARD, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been reading about paul eluard tonight Last Line: He lived on love, cold water, and poetry. Subject(s): Books; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Suffering; Misery PHYLLIS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: She might have stepped out of a little book Last Line: And there was phyllis playing by the brook! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Reading PICTURE BOOKS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the world is freshly tinted Last Line: They delight the children's eyes. Subject(s): Books; Children; Reading; Childhood POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF ADVERTISEMENT ...VOLUME OF POEMS, BY A SERVANT, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tea-kettle bubbled, the tea things were set Last Line: Like courtiers contending for honours, sat down. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Advertising; Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF THE BOOK HAVING BEEN PUBLISHED AND READ, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dinner was over, the tablecloth gone Last Line: And gave the discourse a definitive blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste POETRY MACHINES, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw your new book today. Just after I saw your new book. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading POST ULIXEM SCRIPTUM, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man dear, did you never hear of buxom molly bloom at all Subject(s): Books; Reading PRECIOUS WORDS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He ate and drank the precious words Last Line: A loosened spirit brings! Subject(s): Books; Freedom; Reading; Liberty PRIE-DIEU, by DONALD DAVIDSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of what sins have you made confession here Subject(s): Books & Reading; Beauty PROEM: BALLADE OF THE BOOKWORM, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the past I peer, and see Last Line: The books I loved—to love them still. Subject(s): Books; Reading PROLOGUE TO 'A BOOKMAN'S BUDGET', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye, my book. To other eyes Last Line: That should be counted to your credit. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading PROLOGUE TO 'VIGNETTES IN RHYME', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little book, on this thy first emprize Last Line: Of art, or grace, or song, -- that is not hers. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: OF READING, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Read not milton, for he is dry, nor shakespeare Last Line: And if thou canst not realize the ideal, thou shalt at least idealize the real. Subject(s): Books; Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor; Reading PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three images flash on the screen Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Books; Youth; Reading QUARTOS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bad quartos were my first love Subject(s): Books; Reading READ A BOOK A WEAK, by HELEN S. MORSE Poem Text First Line: If I were king of zululand, a grand and noble sheik Last Line: But I take some minutes every day and read a book a week. Subject(s): Books; Reading READING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is spring when the storks return Subject(s): Books; Reading READING ALOUD, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once we read tennyson aloud Last Line: A living lyric there! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading READING ALOUD TO MY FATHER, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chose the book haphazard Last Line: And let them pull it free Subject(s): Books & Reading; Fathers & Daughters; Mortality READING IN WAR TIME, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boswell by my bed Subject(s): Books; Boswell, James (1740-1795); War; Reading READING LATE IN THE COTTAGE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There aren't that many pages left Last Line: Insect trapped in the lightbulb. Subject(s): Books; Houses; Reading READING THE RUSSIANS, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course they are gloomy; / they drink a lot of vodka Last Line: Chernobyl, and gogol's nose. Subject(s): Books; Russia; Translating & Interpreting; Reading; Soviet Union; Russians READING, DREAMING, HIDING, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were reading. I was dreaming Subject(s): Books; Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Milosz, Czeslaw (1911-2004)); Religion; Women's Rights; Reading; Male-female Relations; Theology; Feminism REMARKS ON DR. BROWN'S 'ESTIMATE OF THE MANNERS OF THE TIMES', by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The book appears to my perusing sight Last Line: All-bearing meekness, and all-conq'ring love. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; England; Writing & Writers; Reading; English RESPONSIBILITIES: PROLOGUE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain Last Line: Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Books; Reading REVIEWING THE TAPE; I.M. PIERO HELICZER, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calling 1959 calling 1959 what does he know Last Line: Cave equals room equals window Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading SAPPHO BURNS HER BOOKS AND CULTIVATES THE CULINARY ARTS, by ELIZABETH MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Companions of my favorite hours Last Line: Severest -- disappointed love. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth Subject(s): Books; Cooking & Cooks; Women - Writers; Reading SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 8. IN THE STUDY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair Last Line: No household skeleton at all. Subject(s): Books; Reading SHAKE, MULLEARY AND GO-ETHE, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a bookcase, which is what Last Line: Shake, mulleary and go-ethe. Subject(s): Books; Reading SHAKESPEARE READS THE KING JAMES VERSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by our lady, here is master speech! Last Line: "and pluck a heedless world anew from hell!" Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dramatists; God; James I, King Of England (1566-1625); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists SHAWL, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Eight hours by bus, and night Subject(s): Books & Reading SHELF DECEPTION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On virtue all my soul is bent Last Line: And make myself an honest woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Books; Soul; Reading SI, SI, E.E., by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Warm legend, blue shadow Last Line: (& yes, they wore great big hats, size extra large Subject(s): Books; Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Words; Vocabulary SICK BED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half dead with fever here in bed I sprawl Last Line: My face in pillows, praying for merciful sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Books; Sickness; Reading; Illness SIERRAS HERMITAGE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books & Reading; Aging SOLACE DERIVED FROM BOOKS, by EDWARD MOXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hence care, and let me steep my drooping spirit Last Line: The heart, and burn through shakspeare's matchless page. Subject(s): Books; Reading SONG BOOK, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To everybody Last Line: Blue wings. (no faces.) don't tell me a thing. Subject(s): Books; Reading SONG: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rose and cypress and tinsel gay Last Line: And whisper with sadness and loving sighs. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers; Reading; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: DOMINION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When found the rose delight in her fair hue? Last Line: He lent me the world for a book.' Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: LAMENTATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read upon that book Last Line: And for the rest, o god, thy will be done.' Subject(s): Books; Lament; Life; Loss; Pain; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Reading; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 1, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reading ends in melancholy Last Line: Farewell all, if friendship ceases. Subject(s): Books; Disease; Friendship; Melancholy; Reading; Dejection SONNET (ON AN OLD BOOK WITH UNCUT LEAVES), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emblem of blasted hope and lost desire Last Line: Hugs its incongruous virginity! Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET ON AN OLD BOOK (PICKED UP IN A SECOND-HAND BOOK SHOP), by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good friend, to wisdom and to beauty born Last Line: Some other, to the books I love, give grace! Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET TO H.S., by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I thy book, friend, open hastily Last Line: When spring returns, fresh leaves it dons apace. Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET TO ZOE KING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaf after leaf, like a magician's book Last Line: 02/29/24 Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNET: 11. ON THE DETRACTION FOLLOWED MY WRITING TREATISES, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A book was writ of late called tetrachordon Last Line: When thou taught'st cambridge, and king edward greek. Variant Title(s): The Detraction Which Followed Upon Writing Certain Treatises;sonnet 11;on The Detraction Which Followed Upon My Writing Certain Treatises Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET: 3: WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF DUGDALE'S MONASTICON, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deem not devoid of elegance the sage Last Line: Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET: 6, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So shall this book wax like unto a well Last Line: Shall melt before the sunshine in thy book. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET: SIBYLLINE BOOKS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first, a boy, at your fair knees I kneeled Subject(s): Books; Time; Reading SPECIOUS AND SUPERFICIAL WRITERS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How rare the case, tho' common the pretence Last Line: Paid without scruple,—he enjoys the trash. Subject(s): Books; Reason; Writing & Writers; Reading; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALFRED MOIR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why was I not devoured by self-contempt Last Line: As I read it over and over? Subject(s): Books; Reading SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: IMANUEL EHRENHARDT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I began with sir william hamilton's lectures Last Line: Who showed me a letter of john muir. Subject(s): Books; Reading SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SETH COMPTON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I died the circulating library Last Line: Who knows not what is false. Subject(s): Books; Reading STANZAS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often rebuked, yet always back returning Last Line: Can centre both the worlds of heaven and hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Travel; Books; Journeys; Trips; Reading STILL BURNING, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me trying to understand say whence Subject(s): Books; Thought; Reading; Thinking STRAWBERRIES IN MEXICO, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 14th street and first avenue Last Line: It's just a very blue sky I'm looking at Subject(s): Books; Madison Avenue, New York; Retail Trade; Reading; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers SUGGESTED BY THE COVER OF A VOLUME OF KEATS'S POEMS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild little bird, who chose thee for a sign Last Line: To bear this untamed, passionate burst of song. Subject(s): Books; Reading SUPERNATURAL LOVE, by GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father at the dictionary-stand Alternate Author Name(s): Schnackenberg, Gertrude Subject(s): Books; Fathers; Reading SUSPIRIA NOCTIS, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reading, and reading - little is the gain Last Line: Moans like a dying hound. Subject(s): Books; Reading SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE: TO THE READER, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reade if you will: and if you will not chuse Last Line: I rest your honest, carelesse friend Subject(s): Books; Reading TAKE BACK THE VIRGIN PAGE; WRITTEN ON RETURNING A BLANK BOOK, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take back the virgin page Last Line: Guiding my way. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Books; Reading TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PRELUDE. THE WAYSIDE INN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One autumn night, in sudbury town Last Line: Yielded; and thus the story ran. Subject(s): Books; Music & Musicians; Stradivari, Antonio (1644-1737); Sudbury, Massachusetts; Reading 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 THE A. OF WA - - (AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY), by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, john, I will not own the book Last Line: The worn-out wriggler Subject(s): Books; Reading THE ARGUMENT OF HIS BOOK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of brooks, of blossoms, of birds, and bowers Last Line: Of heaven, and hope to have it after all. Variant Title(s): His Theme;lyric Argument;preface To Hesperides;the Argument Of Hesperides;hesperides Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading THE ART OF BOOK-KEEPING, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How hard, when those who do not wish / to lend, thus lose, their books Last Line: "they have not left me ""sterne." Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Books; Reading THE ART OF BOOK-KEEPING, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How hard, when those who do not wish / to lend, thus lose, their books Last Line: "they have not left me ""sterne." Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BIBLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this book-this holy book, on every line" Last Line: "and earnest sighs, to read, believe and live" Subject(s): Bible;books;jews;religion; Reading;judaism;theology THE BIBLE, by PHOEBE PALMER Poem Text First Line: Blessed bible! How I love it! Last Line: Sweeter still thy truths shall be! Subject(s): Bible; Books; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology THE BIBLIOMANIAC'S PRAYER, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep me, I pray, in wisdom's way Last Line: Uncut, unique, unknown to lowndes. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOK, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: Red-gold and rough morocco are its covers Last Line: With truth at rhythmic heel of song, its lord. Subject(s): Books; Literature; Poetry & Poets; Reading THE BOOK, by ROBERT CREELEY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books & Reading THE BOOK, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, I have made a book of my mistakes Last Line: In all the world, not one -- save only I. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Schools; Reading; Students THE BOOK, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the book of shadows Subject(s): Books; Death; Reading; Dead, The 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 BOOK, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal god! Maker of all Last Line: Who in them lov'd and sought thy face! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Books; Doubt; Reading; Skepticism THE BOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gallery of sacred pictures manifold Last Line: The one ineffable face, love, wonder, and adore. Subject(s): Books; God; Reading THE BOOK, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I held it in my hands while he told the story Subject(s): Books; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Reading; Shoah; Judaism THE BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bound and bordered in leaf-green Last Line: The book of joyous children. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Children; Laughter; Reading; Childhood THE BOOK OF LIFE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything very hardy Last Line: Jews like ourselves have just begun to plant Subject(s): Books; Life; Reading THE BOOK OF STONES AND LILIES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read a book Last Line: Across the dew and the gold of a young day. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOK [OF THE WORLD], by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of this fair volume which we world do name Last Line: It is some picture on the margin wrought. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): The Book Of Nature;the Lessons Of Nature;the World Subject(s): Bible; Books; Earth; Religion; Reading; World; Theology THE BOOK'S CREED, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR. Poem Text First Line: Reader, listen ere we go Last Line: You will live this simple creed. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOK-STALL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It stands in a winding street Last Line: In the book-stall old and gray. Variant Title(s): The Bookstall Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOKPLATE'S PETITION, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While cynic charles still trimm'd the vane Last Line: Cheltenham, sept. 31, 1792. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOKS I OUGHT TO READ, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On dusty shelves in serried ranks they stand Last Line: The books I ought to read! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOKSHOP, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierrot has grown old Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOKWORMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through and through the inspired leaves Last Line: And spare his golden bindings. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BURDEN OF MODERNITY': THE BOOK, THE GOD, THE CHILD, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: United airlines check-in: and the line is arranged Subject(s): Books; Children; God; Reading; Childhood THE CEREMONY OF THE PRINTER'S APPRENTICE; A GERMAN MORALITY PLAY, by WILLAM BLADES Poem Text First Line: My worthy masters all, whom we are glad to see Last Line: So long as worthy books find readers in our land. Subject(s): Apprentices; Books; Farce; Reading THE CHILD ALONE: 4. PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer fading, winter comes Last Line: Reading picture story-books? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Winter; Reading 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 CHILD READS THE ALMANAC, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near her egg-basket, the child is reading the almanac Last Line: They're weighing coffee, salt, and consciences. Subject(s): Almanacs; Books; Constellations; Markets; Zodiac; Reading; Supermarkets THE COLLECTOR TO HIS LIBRARY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown books of mine, who never yet Last Line: This, more than other good, I pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Variant Title(s): The Final Word Subject(s): Books; Collectors & Collecting; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians THE CURATOR EXPLAINS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is my kingdom, this my small domain Last Line: That leave my heart aglow with joy and praise Subject(s): Books; History; Museums; Reading; Historians; Art Gallerys THE DEAD ONES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have grown up in the belief that all the Last Line: Five cents a yard. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Authors And Authorship; Books; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Reading THE DEMON OF THE STUDY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brownie sits in the scotchman's room Last Line: That reading demon, that fat old man! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE ELDER BROTHER: THE PLEASURES OF A LIBRARY, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me leave / to enjoy myself. That place, that does contain Last Line: To incre se in knowledge. Lights there, for my study! Variant Title(s): The Library A Glorious Court Subject(s): Books; Reading THE EROTIC PHILOSOPHERS, by KIZER. CAROLYN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It’s a spring morning; sun pours in the window Last Line: Let me enter my chamber and sing my songs of love Subject(s): Books & Reading; Women's Rights; Innocence; Love - Erotic; Feminism THE EXILE'S REVERIES, SELECTION, by JAMES KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Chased from my calling to this hackneyed trade Last Line: Patriots drag the felon's chain. Subject(s): Books; Exiles; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Reading; Dejection; Seamen; Sails THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best words get said frequently—they are like fertile pips Last Line: For whom r would have released a flock of red canaries Subject(s): Language; Books; Words; Vocabulary; Reading THE FAVORITE, by DOROTHA M. SHOEMAKER Poem Text First Line: An old book soiled and worn from handling Last Line: An immortality greater than a memory? Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Reading THE FIRST EDITION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sighed the book, 'I am bound to be read Last Line: "my friends are the first that will cut me." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Books; Reading THE GOLD BOOK, by KAREN VOLKMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It told the story of a runaway rose Subject(s): Books; Roses; Reading THE HA' BIBLE, by ROBERT NICOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, I could worship thee! Last Line: A sunbeam sent from god,—an everlasting bow! Subject(s): Bible; Books; God; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: FEBRUARY3RD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your own ideas may be too fanciful to be practical Last Line: Useful, graceful, sturdy, and with no caper no plan Subject(s): Ideas; Books; Reading THE HUNDRED BEST BOOKS, by MOSTYN T. PIGOTT Poem Text First Line: First there's the bible Last Line: And -- some verses of mine. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Reading; Theology THE ILLUSTRATION?ÇÖA FOOTNOTE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Months after the muse Subject(s): Books; Pictures; Reading THE INCUNABULUM'S TALE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Master: tacitus in red morocco Last Line: Sine anno, sine loco. Subject(s): Books; England; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Reading; English THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past! Last Line: To gentle slumbers call. Subject(s): Books; Fate; Peace; Singing & Singers; Reading; Destiny; Songs THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past! Last Line: To gentle slumbers call. Subject(s): Books; Fate; Peace; Singing & Singers; Reading; Destiny; Songs THE INN ALBUM: PART 1, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That oblong book's the album; hand it over Last Line: Occupied by the elm at window there. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE JUDGMENT-BOOK, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The book was opened! Men in wonder stood! Last Line: Then passed into the dark — his page was white! Subject(s): Books; Judgments; Soul; Reading THE KING OF SPAIN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LAST MAN: RECOLLECTION OF EARLY LIFE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaf after leaf, like a magician's book Last Line: My life unfolds. Subject(s): Books; Life; Reading THE LAST PROOF; AN EPILOGUE TO ANY PROOF, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finis at last - the end, the end, the end!' Last Line: To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LAST READER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes sit beneath a tree Last Line: When the last reader reads no more! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LIBRARY, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sad soul, by care and grief oppressed Last Line: And tell them, such are all the toys they love.' Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians THE LIBRARY, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Petals of flowers filling my vases Last Line: Always to be mine. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LIBRARY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, e'en the sturdy democrat may find Last Line: T is wise to learn; 't is godlike to create! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LIBRARY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My days among the dead are past Last Line: That will not perish in the dust. Variant Title(s): Among His Books;the Scholar In His Library;his Books;the Scholar;stanzas Written In His Library Subject(s): Books; Heaven; Reading; Paradise THE LIBRARY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My house is very large and tall Last Line: They are the friends that never die. Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Libraries & Librarians; November; Reading THE LIST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man told me he had calculated Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LITTLE FRIEND; WRITTEN IN THE BOOK WHICH SHE MADE & SENT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The book thou givest, dear as such Last Line: Ye meet th' advancing years! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LOON, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not quite four a.M., when the rapture of being alive Subject(s): Insomnia; Books; Loons; Sleeplessness; Reading THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race THE MIND OF THE FRONTISPIECE TO A BOOK, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From death and dark oblivion (near the same) Last Line: The light of truth, and life of memory. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Engraving & Engravers; Reading THE MISSING PAGE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a poem, the jittery sort Last Line: Yearning and delight Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading THE MODERN BOOK, by M. R. Poem Text First Line: Extremely small or of giant size Last Line: And five cents' worth of literature. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE NEW BOOK, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See my dainty little girl Last Line: Write my name, and make it mine! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE NEW RIVER HEAD; A FRAGMENT, by E. DOWER Poem Text First Line: Tired with books and rolling on the bed Last Line: I leaned upon my staff and fell asleep. Subject(s): Books; Insomnia; Reading; Sleeplessness THE NOVEL, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For two days I've been crying Last Line: So astonished was he by her beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Grief; Italy; Novels & Novelists; Story-telling; Travel; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE OLDER ARTIST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Kid's written a 200-page lament Last Line: And too many shoes. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Reading THE PARADE OF BOOKS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the parade of books Last Line: The loverly, quiet, reserved parade of books. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE PLUTE'S LIBRARY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, stately books, in handsome cases, all Last Line: Come and read them. Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Libraries & Librarians; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 201, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reading won't save us from death Last Line: And you'll forget the bitterness Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Books; Chinese Literature; Reading THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 31, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain man lives under thatch Last Line: A shelf full of nothing but books Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Books; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Mountains; Reading; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POET'S HOUR, by FRANCIS CARO Poem Text First Line: The violet-laden flower girl Last Line: That I thought were dead. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets - French; Reading THE POETASTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a poet, as poetry goes now-a-days Last Line: The man, after all, is but just where he was. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading THE POETS OF OLD ISRAEL, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old israel's readers of the stars Last Line: Abides, quenchless forevermore. Subject(s): Books; God; Israel; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Judaism THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet west wind, the prairie school Last Line: A legacy to those who come from those who come no more. Subject(s): Books; Prairies; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Plains; Students THE PRESS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A worthy parson, once upon a time Last Line: On freedom's shores a weak and venal press. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Freedom; History; Libraries & Librarians; Literature; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Liberty; Historians; Journalism; Journalists THE RARE BOOK, by EDNA SCRUGGS WILLIAMSON Poem Text First Line: Twas just a little while ago - or so, to me, it seems Last Line: Long upon the cherished pages marked by baby fingers. Subject(s): Books; Children; Mothers; Reading; Childhood THE READER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I sat reading a book Subject(s): Books; Reading THE READER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She is going back, these days, to the great stories Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Reading THE READER OF THE SENTENCES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead soldiers rise and walk into the trees Last Line: There is the day's work to be done. Subject(s): Books; Children; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Jesus Christ; Martyrs; Memory; Resurrection, The; World War Ii; Reading; Childhood; Eckhart, Meister; Second World War THE READING BOY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: He is carved in alabaster, he is called the reading boy Last Line: Discard that trojan magazine, and give a real good stretch. Subject(s): Books; Sculpture & Sculptors; Reading THE SCHOLAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When I was ignorant and small Last Line: I keep my eyes tight on my book. Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Education; January; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading THE SCHOLAR'S EDEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the eden I'd like to build Last Line: In the eden I'm wanting to make? Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Reading THE SEAMY SIDE OF MOTLEY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, when we sat together Last Line: Funny every day. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Editors; Humor; Writing & Writers; Reading THE SERIAL, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I burst upon the reader's eye Last Line: But this goes on forever. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading THE SHAM LIBRARY; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in madrid, there dwelt a worthy man Last Line: The costly volumes which they never read! Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Reading THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: DEDICATORY SONNET, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goe, little booke: thy self presente Last Line: Immerito. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Books; Reading THE SMALLISH SON, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A small voice is fretting my house in the night Last Line: And if you do not find them, turn away Subject(s): Books; Sons; Reading THE SOLILOQUY OF THE BLANK PAGE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, in the distance there is a river, a bridge Last Line: An airborne cloud of selfhood giving a poetry reading Subject(s): Books; Self; Reading THE SUMMER HOUSE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took his hand Subject(s): Human Behavior; Books; Solitude; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading; Loneliness THE SUMMER RAIN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read Last Line: Who in a beaded coat does gaily go. Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading THE SUNDAY BOOK, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Read to him, connie, read as you sit Last Line: Across the waves of a wintry sea. Subject(s): Books; Sabbath; Reading; Sunday THE TRUE BIBLIOPHILE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is a bibliophile? Mere lover Last Line: The terror of it. Subject(s): Books; Collectors & Collecting; Reading THE UNFINISHED BOOK, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take it, reader, idly passing Last Line: In the heaven of heavens alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Books; Reading THE USE OF BOOKS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's there to praise Last Line: Of those lost finds no longer use to me Subject(s): Books; Praise; Reading THE VISIBLE WORLD, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I dig my hands into the absolute. The surface Subject(s): Human Body; Transience; Reading And Books; Impermanence THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE NOVEL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, I have a book at last Last Line: And you have not learned to read it. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Books; France; Love - Unrequited; Travel; Reading; Journeys; Trips THE WORLD'S WAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He wrote his soul into a book Last Line: "behold, the world brought out his book!" Subject(s): Books;rhyme;writing & Writers; Reading THOMPSON'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The book, by george! I'd rather own Last Line: "in zadock thompson's book ""vermont." Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Native Americans; Travel; Vermont; Reading; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips THOSE DICKINS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I s'pose you think it queer, an' 't ain't no common thing, I know Last Line: She'll know her husband sent 'em, an' wants -- to be -- forgiven. Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Marriage; Reading; Clemency; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THOU READER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I Last Line: Therefore for thee the following chants. Subject(s): Books; Reading THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: TO THE READER (1), by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reade one, and say, 'tis good; I beare the name Last Line: So that I know a foole be not my iudge. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Critics & Criticism; Reading THREE SEVERAL BIRDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The romancer's a nightingale Last Line: And only dreams for him!) Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Books; Nightingales; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Reading THUS, SPEAK THE CHROMOGRAPH, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saying: one night in a cloud chamber Last Line: Run toward the sea) Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Nature; Reading TO A DAFFODIL, OR PERHAPS A LITTLE GOSSIP ABOUT FLAUBERT, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of simple people and the hardier virtues, by associated stuffed shirts & Subject(s): Books & Reading TO A MISSAL OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Missal of the gothic age Last Line: Something mute -- but eloquent! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading TO A NEW BOOK, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I wonder if I dare to place you here Last Line: Can prove your worth and right to be there, too. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Reading TO A PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT, by IDA O'NEIL Poem Text First Line: Behind the high white wall Last Line: Upon my knees. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO ALMON KEEFER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This first book that I ever knew Last Line: And I will listen as you read. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Youth; Reading TO AN ANTHROPOLOGIST, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, even the devil should have his due Subject(s): Books; Reading TO AN AUTHOR, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Last night at last I found a chance Last Line: The clock struck five. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO AN OLD, OLD BOOK, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: To what strange chance, thou sere and yellow books Last Line: Thy wisdom taught cannot for aye grow old. Subject(s): Books; Old Age; Wisdom; Reading TO E.G. DEDICATING A BOOK, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken tale of endless things Last Line: And does not mean to end. Subject(s): Books; God; Gosse, Sir Edmund (1849-1928); Story-telling; Writing & Writers; Reading TO GARIBALDI - WITH A BOOK, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When at philippi, he who would have freed Last Line: And thank my god amid the golden clang. Subject(s): Books; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Gifts & Giving; Reading TO HENRY WRIGHT, OF MOBBERLEY, ON BUYING THE PICTURE OF F. MALEBRANCHE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, dear mr. Wright, I must send you a line Last Line: Huzza! Father malebranche and shorthand for ever. Subject(s): Auctions; Books; Malebranche, Nicolas De (1638-1715); Portraits; Reading TO HIS BOOK, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For mart and street you seem to pine Last Line: Both lollius ruled and lepidus. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Books; Reading TO HIS BOOK, by WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1707) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little book, and to the world impart Last Line: What's built upon esteem can ne'er decay. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO HIS BOOKE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To read my booke the virgin shie Last Line: And never staine a cheeke for it. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): Epigrams, Book Xi, 16: 9-10 Subject(s): Books; Reading TO HIS BOOKE (12), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the press scarce one could see Last Line: She'l runne to all adulteries. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO HIS BOOKE (4), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a bride, come forth my book, at last Last Line: Some pearls on queens, that have been counterfet. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO HIS BOOKE (5), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art a plant sprung up to wither never Last Line: But like a laurell, to grow green for ever. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO HIS VALET, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want three days to read the iliad through! Last Line: His heaven, shut fast the door! Don't let him in! Subject(s): Books; Goddesses & Gods; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Iliad; Odyssey TO LALLA, READING MY VERSES TOPSY-TURVY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darling little cousin, / with yout thoughtful look Last Line: Though I know the most. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Books; Eyes; Reading TO MASTER FELTHAM, ON HIS BOOK OF RESOLVES, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this unconstant age, when all mens minds Last Line: Whereby to write, I mean to live by thine. Subject(s): Books; Felltham, Owen (1602-1668); Reading TO MISS JESSY LEWARS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine be the volumes, jessy fair Last Line: So prays thy faithful friend, the bard. Subject(s): Books; Gifts & Giving; Reading TO MOMUS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who read'st this book that I have writ Last Line: Anathema to it, and me. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO MY BOOK, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will be looked for, book, when some but see Last Line: For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO MY BOOKS, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent companions of the lonely hour Last Line: On these, my unripe musings, told so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Books; Reading TO MY BOOKSELLER, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that mak'st gain thy end, and wisely well Last Line: Send it to bucklersbury, there 'twill, well. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO MY GOOD MASTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fancy, always, at thy desk, thrown Last Line: My listening heart and all the love of it! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Attics; Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading TO MY ILL READER, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou say'st my lines are hard Last Line: If thou not read'st them well. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Books; Reading TO RICHARD BENTLEY, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In silent gaze the tuneful choir among Last Line: A sigh of soft reflection. Variant Title(s): Stanzas To Mr. Bentley Subject(s): Bentley, Richard (1662-1742); Books; Reading TO SIR HENRY GOODYERE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I would know thee, goodyere, my thought looks Last Line: It was a knowledge, that begat that love. Variant Title(s): To The Same Subject(s): Books; Goodyer, Sir Henry (1571-1627); Reading; Goodyere, Sir Henry (1571-1627) TO THE GENTLE READER, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three kinds of companions, men, women, and books Last Line: And I've frequently found them the best kind of books. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To draw no envy, shakespeare, on thy name Last Line: And despairs day, but for thy volume's light! Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists TO THE READER, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pray thee, take care, tak'st my book in hand Last Line: To read it well: that is, to understand. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO THE READER: IF YOU ASKED ME, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want you with me, and yet you are the end Subject(s): Language; Books; Words; Vocabulary; Reading TO THE SOUR READER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou dislik'st the piece thou light'st on first Last Line: The extreme scab take thee and thine, for me. Variant Title(s): To The Soure Reader Subject(s): Books; Reading TO THE VERS LIBRIST WHO USES ONLY THE MINOR KEY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not, o mournful poet Last Line: And I'm weary of the theme. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading TO THOMAS PALMER ON HIS BOOK 'THE SPRITE OF TREES AND HERBS', by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When late, grave palmer, these thy grafts and flowers Last Line: And thou in them shalt live as long as fame. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO WILLIAM BEDELL, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Willy, thy rhythms so sweetly run and rise Last Line: To follow him, while others follow thee. Subject(s): Books; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Reading; Songs TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE BODY AND THE BOOK, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chambers are all in order; all the doors stand open Last Line: Then come thou forth to where I wait for thee. Subject(s): Bodies; Books; Reading TRAVELS BY THE FIRESIDE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ceaseless rain is falling fast Last Line: Better than with mine own. Subject(s): Books; Reading TWO SONNETS: 1, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hardly there, and then it vanishes Subject(s): Books; Forgetfulness; Reading UNDER SORACTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another day, deep in the stacks Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Sex; Reading UPON A TABLE-BOOK PRESENTED TO A LADY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When your fair hand receives this little book Last Line: Here, both the scribe and author to become. Subject(s): Books; Reading VERSES SENT TO MRS. T.B. WITH HIS WORKS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this book, which, like its author, you" Last Line: "no, trust the sex's sacred rule; / the gaudy dress will save the fool" Subject(s): Books; Reading VERSES TO BE PREFIXED BEFORE BERNARD LINTOT'S NEW MISCELLANY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some colinaeus praise, some bleau Last Line: For some folks read, but all folks sh --. Subject(s): Bleau, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638); Books; Elzevier, Louis (1540-1617); Manutius, Aldus (1450-1515); Plantin, Christophe (1514-1589); Printing And Printers; Reading; Manuzio, Aldo; Mannucci, Aldo VERSES WROTE IN A LADY'S IVORY TABLE-BOOK, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peruse my leaves through every part Subject(s): Books; Reading VIE DE JESUS; ON HEARING OF A FORTHCOMING CHEAP EDITION, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A book of pleasant phrase, but narrow span Last Line: A frail young saint, in lieu of god the word! Subject(s): Books; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Reading VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 5, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would now that matho were the satirist Last Line: Mammon himselfe shalbe a citizen. Subject(s): Books; Death; Life; Murder; Reading; Dead, The VIRGILII CARMINA, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I love thee, little book! Last Line: With my virgil hand in hand! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Printing And Printers; Singing & Singers; Reading VISION OR DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: On a bed of soft mosses, I lay 'neath the trees Last Line: He went as he came—in vision or dream. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dreams; Knowledge; Modern Man; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Nightmares; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors WARNING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worthy friend, 'twill be perdition Last Line: Have long ears, or I'm mistaken! Subject(s): Advice; Books; Reading WARNING TO THE READER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes farm granaries become especially beautiful when all the oats Last Line: So I wouldn't perish, and that's a lot more important to me Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings; Reading WAVELENGTH, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were sitting on the thin mattress Subject(s): Books; Togetherness; Reading WHAT WE DON'T KNOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is wednesday. My day off Last Line: Of two soundless fighter jets. Subject(s): Books; Insomnia; Silence; Reading; Sleeplessness WHEN MOTHER READS ALOUD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "oh, thick and fast the visions crowd / my eyes, when mother reads aloud" Subject(s): Books;mothers; Reading WHERE BROKEN (THE DARKNESS, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cows on the spine of the hill like the spine of a book are some letters Subject(s): Books; Cows; Alphabets; Reading WHERE MY BOOKS GO, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the words that I utter Last Line: Storm-darken'd or starry bright. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading WHIGS AND TORIES, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1692-1774) Poem Text First Line: The king to oxford sent a troop of horse Last Line: For whigs admit no force but argument. Variant Title(s): Oxford And Cambridge;epigram: The Answer To Trapp's Epigram Subject(s): Books; Cambridge University; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Oxford University; Reading WHILE READING BASHO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Basho, you made / a living writing haiku? Last Line: The goldfish are still. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading WHITE BUTTONS, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Having been blown away Subject(s): Books; Parents; Reading; Parenthood WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: As on the blissful fields musaeus stood Last Line: Old plutarch would have loved and envied him. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Sloane, William Milligan (1906-1974); Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Historians; Educators; Professors WILLIAM PINKNEY FISHBACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say first he loved the dear home Last Line: Shall he live longest in men's memories. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Love; Reading WITH A BARRIE BOOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old year dies, and a new is born Last Line: Lo, here's barrie! Subject(s): Books; Hate; Holidays; Laughter; Lies; Love; New Year; Reading WITH A BOOK, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You fain would know the story of my life? Last Line: Then turn these leaves, and you my soul shall know. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Books; Reading WITH A CHILD-BOOK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is lore of more devices Last Line: This old tailor and his mice is! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Reading WITH A COPY OF 'A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES', by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little book Last Line: May find that golden maidens dance through thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Books; Reading WRITTEN IN A COMMON-PLACE BOOK, CALLED 'THE BOOK OF FOLLIES', by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This tribute's from a wretched elf Last Line: Then shut the book, o god! For ever! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Books; Reading WRITTEN IN A LADY'S PRAYER BOOK, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fling this useless book away Last Line: Through all the joys on earth to those above. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Books; Love; Reading WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM AT CLIFTON, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long have I racked my brains for rhymes to please Last Line: Forgive, and shut these pages up for ever. Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Longing; Poetry & Poets; Story-telling; Travel; Women; Reading; Clemency; Journeys; Trips YE SCHOLAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Ho! Ye scholar recketh not Last Line: And pour our laughter out most tenderly. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Learning; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading YOUTH, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life in the book of lovers bade me look Last Line: "I go to add another page to this!" Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Love; Love - Nature Of; Reading ZOOM!, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It begins as a house, an end terrace Subject(s): Books; Reading |
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