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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RELATIONSHIPS Matches Found: 1831 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` , by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drop caught / in the curl behind your left ear lobe Last Line: Tip of my tongue. Subject(s): Bodies; Details; Love - Erotic; Man-woman Relationships; Shaving; Water; Zen Buddhism; Things; Male-female Relations "THE GENTLEMAN'S STUDY, IN ANSWER TO THE LADY'S DRESSING-ROOM", by MISS" "W---- [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "some write of angels, some of goddess" Last Line: "they are still fulsome, wretched man" Alternate Author Name(s): "w----, Miss; Subject(s): "man-woman Relationships;men;swift, Jonathan (1667-1745);women's Rights;" Male-female Relations;feminism #8 APPROACHES, by ROY JACOBSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Oh, to circle back from whence we come Last Line: Open, just as it now buzzes shut Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Relationships (MOJ STARY), by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: My old man, says a mountain woman Last Line: And is silent Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Animals; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Newspapers ***, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: What's your favorite color Last Line: He soon died and then he had no influence Subject(s): Colors; Relationships 129F. A RESPONSE TO SHAXPER'S SONNET 129, by DOROTHY HICKSON Poem Source First Line: Th' expense of spirit as a def'nite act Last Line: That rapture (all too often faked) be felt Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights 17 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN, by BARBARA LOUISE UNGAR Poem Source First Line: You can't trust him Last Line: You think you can change him Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women 1941, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wore a large brim hat Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Memory; Relationships 1941, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wore a large brim hat Last Line: In the arms of my total happiness Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Memory; Relationships 22-MAR-93, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: A spiral was distilled Last Line: The castle has a terrible face Subject(s): Chaos; Relationships 7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive through utah. They're silent Last Line: The sun pulls back toward noon. Subject(s): Absence; Bodies; Colors; Deserts; Food & Eating; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Silence; Travel; Utah; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips A BACHELOR'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: If I were younger, mary jane Last Line: And she will love me dearly! Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Valentine's Day; Youth; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People A BOOK OF DAYS. 1, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the story, she gives him everything Last Line: And where shall I go to find her? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships A BOOK OF DAYS; 2. VETERANS DAY, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The game is to kill the king, he said Last Line: Understand: I was trying to win myself Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships A BRIEF ATTACHMENT, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I regard your affection, find your teeth have Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A COLOR OF THE SKY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Windy today and I feel less than brilliant, Last Line: And making more Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Conduct Of Life A CONSISTENT GIRL, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss dorothea birmingham irene amanda / jones Last Line: "and, dorothea, queenly and consistent, answered ""nope." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Courtship; Likes & Dislikes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People A COWBOY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I could not be so well content Subject(s): Cowboys;man-woman Relationships;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Male-female Relations;southwest;pacific States A FIGURE FROM POLITICS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gigantic sweet conspiracy of lovers Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Relationships A GAME OF FIVES, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five little girls, of five, four, three, two, one Last Line: "the answer to that ancient problem ""how the money goes!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Aging; Girls; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GIRL, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A girl, / her soul a deep-wave pearl Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Love; Relationships; Girls A GLASS PANE TOWARD THE SPECTRAL, MYSTERIOUS GARDEN', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When all the forests you have burned are green Subject(s): Change; Relationships A HUNDRED COLLARS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The doctor slid a little down the pillow. Subject(s): Hotels; Relationships; Fear; Money; Collars; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses A KISS, by M. ELLEN HOWELL Poem Text First Line: What is a kiss? A mystery true Last Line: It is god and heaven and home—in you. Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paradise; Male-female Relations A KISS - BY MISTAKE, by JOEL BENTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the railway train we met Last Line: And gently kiss me—by mistake! Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A LA MYSTERIEUSE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only in books I knew you Last Line: To the small of your back. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A LONELY HOUSE, by A. HARDY HETH Poem Text First Line: I dreamed last night there were no / broken hearts Last Line: I'd dream forever that there were no broken hearts. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness A LONG WAY FROM HELL, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two-tone motels and unlit lovers' lanes Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A MADE-FOR-TV ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a year of spirited intercourse Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Romance; Sex; Male-female Relations A MAN AND A WOMAN AND A BLACKBIRD , by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the two rivers Last Line: And the blackbird are one Subject(s): Birds; Man-woman Relationships A MAN TO A WOMAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you complain of me Last Line: In your identity. Subject(s): Fame; Man-woman Relationships; Reputation; Male-female Relations A MARRIED COQUETTE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics! Last Line: And put out the lights. We are through with our play. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations A MITHER, BUT NO A WIFE, by JAMES M. NEILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whist, my bonnie bairnie, dinna greet sae sair Last Line: Thy smiles the only sun-blinks ever on me fa'. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mothers; Male-female Relations A MUSE OF WATER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who must act as handmaidens Last Line: Is water deep enough to drown. Subject(s): Literary Form; Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Sea; Water; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Ocean; Feminism A NEOCLASSICIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know your moral sources, prig Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age; Dead, The; Nightmares; Male-female Relations A OUTRANCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Say, why should I sing of an angel of light Last Line: Like an ardent red rose in a tropical breeze! Subject(s): Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Male-female Relations A PHENOMENON OF NATURE: 1898, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o capriped? How long, sophie Last Line: Slowly now, my dear: we shall be safe Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Man-female Relationships A POEM OF EVERY-DAY LIFE, by ALBERT GALLATIN RIDDLE Poem Text First Line: He tore him from the merry throng Last Line: "what I've escaped this night!" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A POLICEMAN'S LOT, by WENDY COPE Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, once I was a policeman young and merry Subject(s): Gilbert, Sir William S. (1836-1911); Hughes, Ted (1930-1998); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Hughes, Edward James; Male-female Relations; Feminism A PORTRAIT IN DELIA'S PARLOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were that portly gentleman Last Line: With gold-laced hat and golden-headed cane. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4. .. Feelings Respecting A Portrait... Subject(s): Desire; Envy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Male-female Relations A POSTHUMORIST POETICS, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From embarrassment, I made statements. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A PRESENTATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Here's a clove carnation, dear Last Line: Of my heart's consuming flame! Subject(s): Carnations; Desire; Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A REMINISCENCE, by JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas april; 'twas sunday; the day was fair Last Line: Have you forgot? Alternate Author Name(s): C., J. F. Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations A REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest Variant Title(s): Coy Mistress Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism A RING OF CHANGES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shells, husks, the wandering Subject(s): Casals, Pablo (1876-1973); Dreams; Love; Nature; Music & Musicians; Relationships; Nightmares A RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a man flying his wife Subject(s): Kites; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy A ROMANY LAD PASSED BY, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: I know a gypsy boy Last Line: Till I am dead. Subject(s): Children; Gypsies; Relationships; Childhood; Gipsies A SECRET GRATITUDE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She cleaned house, and then lay down long Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Boissevain, Eugen (1881-1949); Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950); Man-woman Relationships; Death; Mourning; Male-female Relations; Dead, The; Bereavement A SECRET MATTER OF GRAVE IMPORTANCE, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Except when once we drew identical lots Subject(s): Relationships A SHORT PLAY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing to do for the fact that wraps around her Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Relationships; Dramatists A SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not say my true love's eyes Last Line: For me and my delight. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a weeping maiden Last Line: And yet she passed him by. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A SONG, by JOHN JONES SHARON Poem Text First Line: My heart's wrapped up in a little, old pine Last Line: Happen you know why she 's done wi' me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A SUMMER IN TUSCANY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember, lucy Last Line: Till we too forget and die! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Relationships; Tuscany, Italy A SWEET NOSEGAY: TO MY FRIEND T.L. WHOSE GOOD NATURE I SEE ABUSDE, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dyd not dame seres tell to you Last Line: And so I say adewe. Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships A SYNOPSIS OF LORD LYTTLETON'S 'ADVICE TO A LADY', by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be plain in dress and sober in your diet Last Line: In short my dearee, kiss me, and be quiet. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Lyttleton, George. 1st Baron Lyttleton; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism A TIME PAST, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old wooden steps to the front door Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Relationships; Past; Human Behavior; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A VALENTINE BALLADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Fair, bashful maid without a beau Last Line: I 'll gladly be your valentine. Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Man-woman Relationships; Valentine's Day; Male-female Relations A VIOL'S PLAINT, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart that dreads what time may bring Last Line: And on thy soft glove left a stain. Subject(s): Language; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Words; Vocabulary; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery A WHITE CITY, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts turn south Subject(s): Relationships A WINDMILL MAKES A STATEMENT, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think I like to stand all day, all night Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Suburbs; Male-female Relations A WINTER TWILIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The year has reached december days Last Line: And so he dreams himself to rest. Subject(s): Animals; December; Dogs; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Winter; Male-female Relations A WOMAN, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They loved each other, in joy or grief Last Line: A bumper of wine and still gaily laughed. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Laughter; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Male-female Relations A-FEARED OF A GAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, darn it all! A-feared of her" Last Line: And me just six-feet two! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ABIGAIL, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: I care for him, although he is a fool Last Line: And reason with the sot when I get back. %but my guess is he'll have a heart attack! Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ABORTED WHALE WATCH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The tent-sized umbrella I have foolishly brought Last Line: Spouts mingling with the mist, then in the hush %create sound waves, create language, create music Subject(s): Marine Animals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea Voyages; Seasickness; Tourists; Travel; Whales ABOUT GOD & THINGS, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to have your child Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): African Americans; Man-woman Relationships; Negroes; American Blacks; Male-female Relations ABSENCE PROVES NOTHING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Fear; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN: MY DATE WITH ELVIS, 1977, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, he doesn't own %a single sequin-studded jumpsuit Last Line: You'll never be a man, %I say, striding out Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977); Relationships ACQUAINTANCE, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: I thought him dull and crude Last Line: A sunrise sky. Subject(s): Relationships ACT III, SC. 2Ï»¿, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Look she said this is not the distance Subject(s): Relationships AD ASTRA: 23, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Nature! Thy grandeur awes the ignoblest mind Last Line: The bright perceptions which first dwelt in her! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Male-female Relations AD ASTRA: 35, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O nature, tho' thy beauty never wanes Last Line: And all the stings of doubt at last remove. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AD ASTRA: 4, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Love is an union sweet of eyes and heart Last Line: Forgetful that the gift is from above! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships AD ASTRA: 48, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: One have I met-o radiant memory! Last Line: Man reverenced all womankind anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Memory; Relationships AD ASTRA: 64, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O soul, which ever whisperest of thy wants Last Line: Against the love which can alone set free? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AD ASTRA: 70, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mid nature's solitudes we needs must feel Last Line: Burdens more sad than human hearts may hold. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Relationships ADAM AND EVE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to punch her right in the mouth and that's the truth. Last Line: As long as there is desire, we will not be safe Subject(s): Male-female Relationships ADAM'S CURSE REVISITED, by DEBRA PENNINGTON Poem Source First Line: So master william has decreed the stitching Last Line: That you can both shape and stitch the world? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) ADDRESS TO THE LOVER, by CARMEN MATUTE Poem Source First Line: Feeling my way Last Line: From now on %let there be room for everyone! Subject(s): Relationships ADJUNCT, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: Today I'm observed Last Line: Of us alone is a looking %down called to learn Subject(s): Change; Relationships AFFAIR WITH VARIOUS ENDINGS, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Kempton, pennsylvania %perhaps the last of the light Last Line: But you'll be gone, nothing filling up your place. Subject(s): Relationships AFFINITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You and I have found the secret way Last Line: Is a living music in us yet. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Time; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER A NOISY NIGHT, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The man I love enters the kitchen Last Line: And kiss him, kiss him. Subject(s): Coffee; Gratitude; Habits; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Morning; Prayer; Sleep; Male-female Relations AFTER HORACE: THE PASTOR'S WIFE DELIVERS SOUP, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: Don't ask, patricia stone, when you will join Last Line: Arrange myself -- the pastor's coming home Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights AFTER MANY YEARS, GRISELDA LOSES PATIENCE, by KEL MUNGER Poem Source First Line: Tonight, I saw him watching her again Last Line: What I've made of him Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights AFTER REPEATED ATTEMPTS, by PAMELA GRAY Poem Source Last Line: What it was about you %and I won't remember Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women AFTER THE END, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Because I left him there so you could see Last Line: The curtain, and wished you home, who could see %these things and know what is beloved, what is %dea Subject(s): Relationships AFTERTHOUGHT, by MAXIANNE BERGER Poem Source First Line: Epimetheus, as an afterthought, blamed Last Line: Soberly blame his victim for the rape? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights AGAINST PLURALISM, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will you point to? In the needle's eye, Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Disappointment; Relationships; Divorce; Half-siblings; Relatives AH, WHAT HAVE I DONE, by HWANG JINI Poem Source First Line: Ah, what have I done -- as though I didn't Last Line: I felt as I was letting him go Subject(s): Absence; Man-woman Relationships AH, YES, TO YOUR MISFORTUNE, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships; Solitude AIR AND ANGELS: 1. THE NIGHT ONLY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight now on malibu Subject(s): Loves; Kissies; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AIRSTRIP, by KERSTIN THOREK Poem Source First Line: On a clear newly-scoured fall evening I tend to Last Line: Where the still-healed nature constantly broods Subject(s): Nature; Relationships ALCOHOLIC'S GRANDCHILD, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: His grandpa used to take him into central park Last Line: And in a husky growl, say %smell dead men Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships ALL HOLLOWS' EVE, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be perfect, make it otherwise. Subject(s): Relationships; Life Choices ALL POSSIBLE PAIN, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Feelings seem like made-up things, Subject(s): Pain; Relationships; Suffering; Misery ALL RIGHT THEN, by MUNHYANG Poem Source First Line: All right then, but don't say those words. If you Last Line: We are all, all from heaven; %there is a love sent for me Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships ALLA BREVE LOVING, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three people drinking out of the bottle Last Line: Ancient terrapin %at the approach of the wheel Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships ALLA PETRARCA, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Downtown / madison, wisconsin at night Last Line: (receding footsteps) Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Scholarship & Scholars; Women; Male-female Relations ALLEN BROOKE, OF WINDERMERE, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, have you in the valley seen Last Line: My allen brooke, of windermere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations ALONE IN YOUR HOUSE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I walk naked and Last Line: Slowly rises behind them Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Solitude ALTER EGO, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All the morn a spirit gay Last Line: I to lose myself in thee. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Love; Relationships; Self; Elves ALTERED STATES, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: While you miss Last Line: When you embrace him %you lifted you legs %and you went up %like her Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Togetherness ALTRUISM, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if we got outside ourselves and there Subject(s): Relationships AM LIT, by SUSAN BLACKWELL RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: So emily sat with her brother walt Last Line: In that grass %a narrow fellow Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women's Rights AMATEURS, by GEROID TANQUARY ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Aloft among the gallery gods Last Line: A moment more to their embrace. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AMERICAN PASSENGER GOLD, by REX WILDER Poem Source First Line: Vultures circle beneath Last Line: Duck gale enact in miniature the outside %world inside them. Both are terrified Subject(s): Relationships AMERICAN WEDDING, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In america / I place my ring Last Line: To free this dream Variant Title(s): Conditions: 24 Subject(s): Desire; Relationships AMY'S CRUELTY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair amy of the terraced house! Last Line: Till doted on for ever!' Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love - Nature Of; Kindness; Unkindness; Male-female Relations AN ACROSTIC, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: M ight I but speak what yearns my soul to say Last Line: No siren tempts me from my mollie bright! Subject(s): Flirtation; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AN EPISTLE, FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS SISTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sister, / if soliloquy conduce Last Line: Of inward life thanksgiving is the sap. Subject(s): Patience; Relationships; Sisters AN IMITATION (TO M.M.), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my sylvia, let us rove Last Line: Sporting o'er the velvet green. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dramatists; Fairies; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elves; Male-female Relations; Dramatists AN INVITATION, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, pretty one, where will you sail? Last Line: I'm afraid! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails AN OCTAVE, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I blush, but must obey. You'll have it so Last Line: Not for their worth, but merely through your grace. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships AN OLD SONG OF A YOUTHFUL TIME, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went for a woodland walk Last Line: I have thought of it oft since then! Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations AN UNKNOWN MAN BEGINS WRITING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It occurs to me that I too could possess Subject(s): Self; Relationships ANACHRONISM, by BARBARA BLOCK ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Married %drank red wine Last Line: Learning sailing to byzantium %by cussed heart Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy doolin, first day on the job, stroked his goatee Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Rats; Murder; Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Memory; Youth; Relationships AND AFTERWARDS (A SAVAGE SORT OF SONG ON THE ROAD), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was a gallant and bold I Last Line: "but I'll never again,"" etc." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Change; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AND DAY BROUGHT BACK MY NIGHT, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It was so simple: you came back to me Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Divorce; Memory; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AND THE MEN, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Want back in Last Line: Please, they're begging you. Look out Subject(s): Men; Relationships ANDANTE PASSIONALE, by ALEXANDER JAVIS Poem Text First Line: Listen, o my city! O my beloved! Last Line: O my city! O my beloved! I have made for you— this—my song! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Male-female Relations ANGER: FIVE PLAYS, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A swirling black rose of cloud Last Line: Would be the most beautiful thing in the world Subject(s): Anger; Relationships ANGLO-SAXON ATTITUDES, by HAROLD BORDWELL Poem Source First Line: When an englishman %and a german frau Last Line: Says she. He: %'like a snowplow!' Subject(s): Relationships; Sex ANN WISHES SHE'D TAKEN A LITTLE MORE HEED, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: Though sweet to lie, my lovely lay Last Line: Yes, once again we've been undone Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights ANNABEL LEE DOES A POST-MORTEM ON THE HAZARDS OF ROMANCE WITH A METRIC, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: When I told him my name was annabel lee Last Line: But simply a case of acute euphonia Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Women's Rights ANNIE, APHRODITE, AND THE ELEVATOR, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annie was some years older, so I trusted Last Line: Stared at me, smiled, and shook her shining head Subject(s): Aphrodite; Elevators; Mythology - Classical; Relationships ANOTHER ART, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Cut me down from four to two, she said Last Line: So he cut her down, he did Subject(s): Relationships; Violence ANOTHER CALL, by JOHN HOPPENTHALER Poem Source First Line: Because I havent' slept in my bed for days Last Line: Rim what seems to be the world Subject(s): Night; Relationships ANOTHER CYNICAL VARIATION, by UNKNOWN+48 Poem Source First Line: Gerald kissed me when he left Last Line: Gerald kissed me! Subject(s): Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ANOTHER NIGHT IN THE RUINS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening Last Line: To open ourselves, to be / the flames? Subject(s): Relationships ANOTHER ONE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Septimius, the forms you know so well Last Line: But not with me Subject(s): Relationships; Women ANOTHER ONE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Septimius, the forms you know so well Last Line: From certitude to tock; %but not with me Subject(s): Relationships; Women ANSWERING TO RILKE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: Cramped by this indoor season -- it's beginning Last Line: Figuring out that much is a beginning Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Women's Rights ANYTHING BUT THE CASE, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do me my elegy now, or I'll scrawl the thing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations APHRODITE METROPOLIS (2), by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations APOLOGY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be not angry with me that I bear Last Line: To go unguessed. Subject(s): Relationships APPARITIONS ARE NOT SINGULAR OCCURRENCES, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I rode the zebra past your door Subject(s): Death; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations APPROXIMATELY FOREVER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But she wasn't holding that snake Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Change; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships APPULDURCOMBE PARK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman, sick for passion Subject(s): Passion; Desire; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Disappointment; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Male-female Relations APRIL NOT AN INVENTORY BUT A BLIZZARD, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met ted at two parties at the same house Last Line: Not read a voice like my own like my own voice will be Subject(s): April; Relationships APRIL NOT AN INVENTORY BUT A BLIZZARD, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met ted at two parties at the same house Last Line: Not read a voice like my own like my own voice will be Subject(s): April; Relationships ARACHNE GIVES THANKS TO ATHENA, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: It is no punishment. They are mistaken Last Line: Hang them with rainbows, ice, dewdrops, darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights ARE YOU THE NEW PERSON DRAWN TOWARD ME?, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Have you no thought, o dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion? Subject(s): Relationships AREITO, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is my mitote, Subject(s): Language; Relationships; Nature; Words; Vocabulary AREOPAGITICA, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: When censors threaten freedom of the press Last Line: Then feed your copy of the first amendment? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights ARGUMENT, by KIM BRIDGFORD Poem Source First Line: I couldn't tell which one of us was wrong Last Line: I couldn't tell which one of us was wrong Subject(s): Quarrels; Relationships ARGUMENT WITH WORDSWORTH, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: People are always quoting that and all of them seem to agree Last Line: Sometimes poetry is emotion recollected in a highly emotional state Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) ARMGART, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, fraulein Last Line: T is better that our griefs should not spread far. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Germany; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Philosophy & Philosophers; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Illness; Songs ARRAIGNMENT OF THE MEN, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Males perverse, schooled to condemn Last Line: Or the creatures of your use! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Guilt; Man-woman Relationships; Women - Abused ART OF NATURE, by CAROL E. MILLER Poem Source First Line: Consider birches on their knees Last Line: Will be walking, almost human Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Shapiro, Karl (1913-2000); Women's Rights AS CHILDREN LOVE TO SPIN THEMSELVES, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Into vertigo, whirling until Last Line: I saw half the face %of a man, where the smile %should go. Such things get lost Subject(s): Relationships AS I TOSSED, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: As I tossed deeply into night, turned Last Line: The night-worn lines across my face Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain AS PHILLIS THE GAY, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As phillis the gay, at the break of the day Last Line: And what they did more there's no guessing. Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ASHOKA BLOSSOM, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a lovely maiden's foot Last Line: And their wild perfume. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations ASPEN MEADOWS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look. Listen. They are lighting Subject(s): Love; Relationships ASPEN MEADOWS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look. Listen. They are lighting Last Line: And the warm wet moonlight Subject(s): Love; Relationships ASTIGMATISM, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet took his walking-stick Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism ASTIGMATISM, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet took his walking-stick Last Line: Peace be with you, brother. You have chosen your part Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights AT A TEA PARTY, by BERNICE SWANSON Poem Text First Line: Over the teacup's rim Last Line: And make me whole. Subject(s): God; Man-woman Relationships; Religion; Male-female Relations; Theology AT AUDEN'S MUSEUM, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: About everything, in fact, they were wrong Last Line: Dangle, broken-winged, treed, becalmed Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights AT DRUMCLIFFE CHURCHYARD, COUNTY SLIGO, by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: That great feather the mind's wind drives Last Line: For this feather breath breathes too %upon you Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) AT MIDSUMMER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We had been in the tall grass for hours Last Line: You smile and cross over me like a welcome storm. Subject(s): Facades; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Appearances; Male-female Relations AT NIGHT, by JOYCE GRENFELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We talked throughout the evening's changing light Last Line: I freely left her side and was with you. Subject(s): Night; Relationships; Bedtime AT NUMBER ELEVEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it now as our corner of heaven Last Line: When I got the breakfasts and you cooked the dinners! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AT ONE AGAIN: 6. LOVERS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crash of boughs! -- one through them breaking! Last Line: And the lips of the youth and the maiden meet Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships AT THE BEACH ALONE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: At the beach alone %I step toward the creaming surf Last Line: One now too fragile, one distant one lost Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Solitude AT THE DEPOT, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: How these two have loved each other Last Line: With the warning taste of sugar on the tongue Subject(s): Relationships AT THE FAIR, by KWAME DAWES Poem Source First Line: From a distance at the fair, esther does not seem Last Line: When she said, 'man, I am late,' in that tiny voice Subject(s): Festivals; Man-woman Relationships; Romance AT THE NEW YEAR, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shape of this night, in the still fall Subject(s): New Year; Relationships; Re;igion ATTACHMENTS, by PHILIP TERMAN Poem Source First Line: How they say we should be free of them Last Line: Wrinkling over itself as in water, mine, my mother's, his Subject(s): Relationships AUBADE, by ALISON PELEGRIN Poem Source First Line: This naked man, her first in months, a clown Last Line: She can't believe her nipples are so pink Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships AUBADE ON TROOST AVENUE, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: The eyes open to a hopper painting Last Line: Loads and reloads her machine Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Wilbur, Richard (b. 1921); Women's Rights AUGURY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: That girl in the stilettos and tight dress Last Line: They topple over and crush any man %who's still alive Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships AUGUST SUNDAY, by PATRICE VECCHIONE Poem Source First Line: Pressing your hand to my ass Last Line: Dissolves slowly like bitter fruit %under my weeping tongue Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women AUNT SOPHIE'S THOUGHTS ON RABBIT, by TAYLOR GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: How lucy's lived so long with a man Last Line: How she's lived so long Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Relationships AURORA, OR THE MAD TALE MADLY TOLD, by ELIZABETH TREFUSIS Poem Text First Line: Tis night. And this the fearful hour Last Line: This maniac had been dead a year, a month, and day! Subject(s): Deception; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2 (HELLOGOODBY), by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The book of company which Subject(s): Life; Relationships; Time AUTOGRAPHS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is blood: close with your lover and bite down Last Line: P.S. Have a wonderful summer and a wonderful life Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Farewell; Man-woman Relationships; Sex AUTUMN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: It's late october and the garden glows Last Line: For the heartbeat before winter comes Subject(s): Love; Psychoanalysis; Relationships AUTUMN'S FINAL FADE, by ANGELINA COFRANCESCO ROSSETTI Poem Source Subject(s): Children; Patriotism; Relationships BABY FINDS HER HAND, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: She rages early evenings, when the breast Last Line: Fall down, like silt, to touch the unseen floor Subject(s): Relationships BABY IN GROUP, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Her mother drank too much, shot up Last Line: Ten months to go until her blood can tell us %if she dies or lives Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships BAD LANDS, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bad because you do not yield Last Line: Ours! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Old Age; Male-female Relations BAD LITTLE GIRL, by TONI LA REE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: There was a little girl Last Line: But when she was bad she wrote poetry Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BALLAD OF TWO SEAS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore, thy woe these many years Last Line: "I trust to know her grace." Subject(s): Death; Hermits; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pirates; Regret; Sea; Sin; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean BALLADE MORALE, by NEIL TRACY Poem Text First Line: Says auccasain to nicolette Last Line: "alas, my lord, you give me pain." Subject(s): Relationships BAROQUE, by PAM BRIDGEMAN Poem Source First Line: Another late night call, long distance Last Line: The byzantine corridors of old harems Subject(s): Relationships; Travel BARRIERS, by ELLINOR L. NORCROSS Poem Text First Line: O, I would never, never dare Last Line: Out from her heart, leaving it bare. Subject(s): Children; Marriage; Relationships; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BATHSHEBA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it was -- it was Last Line: Of the wife of uriah Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Bathsheba(bible); Male-female Relations BATHSHEBA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it was -- it was Last Line: Or the wife of uriah Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Passion BATHSHEBA: LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: It was my habit when my husband Last Line: And then I wake up. Trembling in light Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BATTERY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A trio of instruments you love the notes Last Line: Into eyes of love with eyes of love Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Male-female Relations BE LIKE ME, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will walk, if I must, Last Line: Be like me Subject(s): Relationships BEATRICE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Send out the singers - let the room be still Last Line: O lift me up and I shall reach the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism BECAUSE, by EDWARD FITZGERALD Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sweet nea! For your lovely sake Last Line: And a chaise and four to dover. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BECAUSE OF THE PECULIAR NATURE, by LAZAR SARNA Poem Source Last Line: The best of their ridiculous hopes Subject(s): Relationships BED, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's new wife was looking out a window Last Line: And woman as god had made them, almost %my parents, in love Subject(s): Beds; Fathers; Relationships BEDROCK, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Though I endure the shore Last Line: Came of hardship %wandering the mountains Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality; Nature; Relationships BEFORE I BEGIN, by MARK CONWAY Poem Source First Line: To start again in the candelabra Last Line: To be burned or to be the burning Subject(s): Candles; Relationships BEFORE ME, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: I sometimes think Last Line: Has lived this %life before me Subject(s): Life; Relationships BEFORE SEXTET, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Use a new conductor every time-out Subject(s): Desire; Relationships; Writing & Writers BEFORE THE WICK BURNS OUT, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Al said if I didn't Last Line: The short years before %the wick burns out Subject(s): Lamps; Relationships BELLS ARE RINGING FOR ME AND CHAGALL, by TERENCE WINCH Poem Source First Line: If you are involved in a fantasy relationship with someone Last Line: Or not, is more than enough Subject(s): Chagall, Marc (1889-1885); Fantasy; Paintings And Painters; Relationships BELOVED, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Mortal, if thou art beloved Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Love; Relationships BETTER OR WORSE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daily, the kindergarteners Subject(s): Children; Relationships; Childhood BETWEEN, by JULIE LARIOS Poem Source First Line: Me here, you there, and in-between Last Line: Breath and rivers. And the darkness. And the rest Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Relationships BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chivalry is not dead at new york hospital Subject(s): Hospitals; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations BETWEEN MYSELF AND DEATH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fervor parches you sometimes Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations BETWEEN MYSELF AND DEATH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fervor parches you sometimes Last Line: Dreams instead of myself Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women BETWEEN US, by CLAIRE GENOUX Poem Source First Line: Between us the lavender fields Last Line: A summer of teeth planted in the red fruit Subject(s): Nature; Relationships BETWEEN YOUR PARENTS' SHEETS, by MIRANDA PEARSON Poem Source First Line: After the beach we rinse off sand Last Line: Take his shape %and no one stops you Subject(s): Beds; Parents; Relationships BEYOND POSSESSION, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had it been you Last Line: Your eyes and my eyes. Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sight; Male-female Relations BICYCLE RACERS, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Daredevil riding on the concrete lip Last Line: Found him, set to barking. Subject(s): Relationships BIG QUIET SPACE IN THE BED FOR ALMOST AN HOUR AFTER MIDNIGHT, by HEATHER SELLERS Poem Source First Line: The lover and I are lying squarely Last Line: Pant. No one with the gift of speech. In this bed %tonight, breath a soaking rain Subject(s): Animals; Beds; Dogs; Relationships BIRTHDAY CAKE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For breakfast I have eaten the last of your birthday cake that you Last Line: Will be full of flowers and birds. Subject(s): Birthdays; Cakes; Love - Age Differences; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations BIRTHMARK, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: It has seventy-two hours since he last slept I have been Last Line: The wideness of my hips Subject(s): Birth; Comfort; Man-woman Relationships BLIZZARD, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After agony had left his body to find another, Subject(s): Betrayal; Relationships BLOW-NOTES, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: He said, 'take this gun,' by the loghouse hearth, babydoll Last Line: Two wanted to %embrace and so %arose Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships BLUE FARM HOUSE, CA. 1846, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: At least six cats called; dogs barked by every tree Last Line: Now he smells his own rude smell Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Relationships BLUE RIDGE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up there on the mountain road, the fireworks Subject(s): Fireworks; Man-woman Relationships; Middle Age; Grief; Male-female Relations; Sorrow; Sadness BOB, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bob had a nigger woman Last Line: For seven more she cried! ... Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Murder; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BODIES YOU BROKE, by LENORE BAELI WANG Poem Source First Line: Oats we've rolled and bread you broke Last Line: Or bite us now, your teeth will crack Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights BODY, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: How slightly earned, the body Last Line: Its plainer importunities Subject(s): Bodies; Likes And Dislikes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mankind BONNIE ANNIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Sailors And Sailing BORDER, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That country has never been her enemy Last Line: The king comes over to sleep with her Subject(s): Male-female Relationships BOWLING GREEN, SEWING MACHINE!, by PEGGY LANDSMAN Poem Source First Line: Along the street and under the stars Last Line: This pint of coffee ice cream melts Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BOXED IN, by RENEE WEISS Poem Source First Line: This man: 'stevens? Never heard of him.' Last Line: Goes on, at least for you and me, %revising endlessly Subject(s): Books; Relationships BOY SCOUTING, by D. TRINIDAD HANKS Poem Source First Line: I'm a girl Last Line: Their eagle medals back %to you Subject(s): Boy Scouts; Man-woman Relationships BOYFRIEND, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: He was ugly as a troll and sturdy as a troll. His stubby arms and legs Last Line: Think of how beautiful we all were once and how we learned to love the beast Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Women - Abused BOYS I MEAN, by JULIA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: The boys I mean are too refined Last Line: They shake your world with just a glance Subject(s): Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BRASSAI'S LOVERS, by A. V. CHRISTIE Poem Source First Line: Stall in moments of welcome and/or farewell Last Line: Near the perfect curve of the swan's long, gilded neck Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Relationships BREAD & WATER, by FRANK LIMA Poem Source First Line: What good am I if I'm not a fish? Last Line: I am the kiss banging at your door %you are keys I have lost Subject(s): Life; Relationships BREAK, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: It will come on a cold street corner Last Line: The slush on the sidewalk will prevent you %from making a clean yesterday Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain BREAKING AND ENTERING, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: She kept a stash of forbidden matches Last Line: That strikes on love, that can get past all human walls Subject(s): Adolescence; Love Affairs; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships; Women BREATH CONTROL, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Who wouldn't want a good girl, a soft hand? Last Line: It's just breath control Subject(s): Breath; Girls; Love; Man-woman Relationships BRIDE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: He asks to use your phone Last Line: And lead him through %the already open door Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Strangers; Unfaithfulness BRIDE OF QUIETNESS, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My [sculptor] husband, when he was my husband, possessed Last Line: Forever, when I cradle his cold ashes in this urn Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights BRIGHTEST LIGHT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tranced, almost disappeared into the glare Last Line: I would like to catch him when he falls Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Transcendentalism BRODSKY, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: First the words in english Last Line: And you turn back to your chair Subject(s): Brodsky, Joseph (1940-1996); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BROKEN FRIENDSHIP, by MABEL A. HANSON Poem Text First Line: Well, tiptoe out then from my heart Last Line: But tiptoe, and go lightly. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Relationships BROTHER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not tell you though I were crucified Last Line: Aye, and when my need was, brother through the night! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Family Life; Love - Nature Of; Men; Relationships; Relatives BROWNING TOCCATA, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: Robert browning, weighty poet, this is very strange to find Last Line: But expect your adulation to go on, and on, and on? Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights BULIMIC IN SEARCH OF INTIMACY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: In the secret world of women Last Line: Curl his tongue around her tears %she would never leave him Subject(s): Bulimia; Eating Disorders; Psychoanalysis; Relationships BURNHAM BEECHES, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At two am, chain-smoking in your car Subject(s): Relationships BUT STILL, by JENNIFER SNYDER Poem Source First Line: The street turned into a cannibal Last Line: What I want is to die before you die Subject(s): Death; Relationships BUT YOU WERE NOT A BABII YAR, MR. YEVTUSHENKO, by BARBARA BRENT BROWER Poem Source First Line: You are very aware Last Line: Simply a very complicated, irremeable loss Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny (b. 1933) BUTANE, KEROSENE, GASOLINE, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: They fed the bonfire chips, chair legs Last Line: To supervise the burning of the beds Subject(s): Relationships BUTTONS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The beautiful, tall woman buys jewels Last Line: And tongue - tied Subject(s): Relationships; Shopping; Wealth BY CANDLELIGHT, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Houses red as flower of bean, Subject(s): Relationships CAGE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the branches of the japanese cherry Subject(s): Nature; Relationships CAITLIN TO DYLAN: IN MEMORIAM, by MARGARET ROGERS Poem Source First Line: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Last Line: How at my sheet went the same crooked worm Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mountains did look in Last Line: Like a drone instrument / the highway Subject(s): Mountains; Man-woman Relationships; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Male-female Relations CALL ME CIRCE, by KAREN GLENN Poem Source First Line: They say I like to turn men Last Line: Everything %like some deceitful god Subject(s): Duplicity; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction CALYPSO: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you clouds Last Line: She gave me a wooden flute, %and a mantle, %she wove of thiswool- %-for man is a brute and a fool Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights CAMEO, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Floppy bow settled on her head Last Line: A field of blue cotton, a faceful %of nothing but light Subject(s): Relationships CAN I COME TO YOU, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wide as the river heaven Subject(s): Heaven; Relationships CANDLE AND CUP, by HELEN TEMPLETON DOUGLAS ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I keep a candle burning for each friend Last Line: And tears are of no avail. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations CANDY APPLE RED, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: A boy in a shark-finned car Last Line: Laid out, burning, just for you Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Romance; Youth CANTO 36, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lady asks me Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Social Commentaries; Language; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary CANTO 4, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Palace in smoky light, Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Desire; Relationships; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines CANTO 81, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; ; Relationships; Disappointment; Books; Reading CANZONETTA: A BITTER SONG TO HIS LADY, by PIER MORONELLI DI FIORENZA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lady amorous, / merciless lady Last Line: Fever and ague. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations CAPRICE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You held a wild-flower in your finger-tips Last Line: Alas! It was my soul. Subject(s): Abandonment; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Male-female Relations CAREFUL, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: Paper boat -- the wind loaned Last Line: Thus I had carpentered our entire relationship to go upstream Subject(s): Relationships CARNY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: As we watch him work under Last Line: Until we can't breathe, %until our screams are perfect Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Labor And Laborers; Relationships CAT IN THE PARK, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: If the cat had dragged himself into the cannas Last Line: But petals blown from the cannas, tongues of fire Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Relationships CATALOGUED, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: What is love like?' you ask. I guess Last Line: That love is you! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations CAZORLA, by MILES WAGGENER Poem Source First Line: I remember taking off your shirt Last Line: And sat listening with the bats at the mouth %of a mule trail and a spring Subject(s): Relationships; Sex CELEBRATION, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Where did it come from %the strength to shed that tattered cocoon depression Last Line: To spiral down the molten core of illness %and pop the cork of death Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Psychoanalysis; Relationships CENTRAL LONDON TIME, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We made love early and walked by the thames Last Line: Waiting inside a train as the buffalo passed Subject(s): London; Relationships CERTAINLY THE DEER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only a few places like this left Last Line: Now clearly visible, now disappearing slowly into the swamp Subject(s): Cold; Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Travel CHRISTIAN'S CALLING, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Christian is just learning to speak Last Line: He moans. %I have come to los angeles to die Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Man-woman Relationships; Suicide CHROME, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: So let's be done with this Last Line: I swear I'll survive you all Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships CHURCHYARD IN STRATFORD WITH KATE, by KIRK NESSET Poem Source First Line: Pale pre-raphaelite she, wispy, and he a blue-jeaned Last Line: He in writing his spritely self-epitaph Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Relationships; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) CICERONIS AMOR: LOVE AND JEALOUSY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When gods had framed the sweet of women's face Last Line: Than love united to a jealous thought. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Jealousy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations CINEMATOGRAPHER'S FARO ISLAND LOG, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like so many stories this begins Last Line: What is your favorite body of water. And why Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Water CINQUAIN, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twin stars / gleam in the pool Last Line: Who weeps. Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Stars; Male-female Relations CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE'S PROOF, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Flower, yellow Last Line: The real title is %murder Subject(s): Nature; Relationships CIRCLE OF LORCA, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you take the lost road Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Relationships CITRONELLA, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight blank newsprint across the lawn Last Line: Beato immaculato, %-- and make me marvelous in your eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Moon; Relationships; Sky CIVILIZATION, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Longing; Relationships; Ambition CLADE SONG. ROMANCE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanted to mention / how that bloody cut Last Line: What we were in for Subject(s): Relationships CLAIR ON MY SHOULDERS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: At four, she is fearless Last Line: Sturdy and tall and beautiful Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Love; Man-woman Relationships CLASSIC OF POETRY: 81, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I went along the broad road Last Line: Do not scorn me, %never spurn a love Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Relationships CLEAR HONOR OF THE LIQUID ELEMENT, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of him who holds and sways the trident %of the seas Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships CLEARING, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Walking away from the car he has driven past farmhouses Subject(s): Relationships CLEFT, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cut in half, the breast bone broken, opened Last Line: Bones of the child's small back, wings, %she could fly, she could walk out the kitchen door Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women CLOSER, by SUSAN SPADY Poem Source First Line: A closer look, they said Last Line: I never fully loved you %till this moment Subject(s): Love; Relationships CLOUDS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds as I see them, rising Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Death; Clouds; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations CODA, by BRENNEN T. LUKAS Poem Source First Line: I used these words to stand for a version of me Last Line: In the cold, in your arms, in a dream. You know the rest Subject(s): Relationships COLOSSA, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: My mother has always been larger than life Last Line: Like manhattan reaching for the sky Subject(s): Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships COLOURS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She always picks the wrong man Last Line: If she chooses again, is it more of the same? Subject(s): Aging; Colors; Relationships COME KISS ME, DEAR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Come kiss me, dear - a little play Last Line: "come kiss me, dear." Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations COME WITH ME, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was on the verge of the actual genuine Subject(s): Tourists; Motion Pictures; Man-woman Relationships; Movies; Cinema; Male-female Relations COMMENT, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: A woman seldom knows the east Last Line: She moans to feel them move beneath the heart. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Women COMPENSATION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Your heart broke when you answered me Last Line: I steal away to worship you. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations COMPULSORIES, by BART BAXTER Poem Source First Line: When after a short absence, in the time Last Line: Each wondering if it was worth the bother Subject(s): Change; Relationships CONDITIONS XXI, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You judge a woman Last Line: The way america / loves us Subject(s): African Americans; Man-woman Relationships; Negroes; American Blacks; Male-female Relations CONFESSION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because she spoke no word, but parted wide Last Line: Nothing shall change it till the change of death!' Subject(s): Bashfulness; Doubt; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Silence; Shyness; Skepticism; Male-female Relations CONFUSION OF THE SENSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight fills the senses Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations CONFUSION OF THE SENSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight fills the senses Last Line: Do you hear? We are breathing. We are alive Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance CONFUSION; FOR NANCY SHORES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass your home in a slow vermilion dawn Subject(s): Home; Love; Relationships CONFUSION; FOR NANCY SHORES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass your home in a slow vermilion dawn Last Line: Until a fallen [or, till a wet] vermilion petal quivers before me [or, on my hand] Subject(s): Home; Love; Relationships CONSEQUENCES, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despair is big with friends I love Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Conduct Of Life; Relationships CONSTRUCTIVE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You take a rock, your hand is hard. Subject(s): Relationships COOKING, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: Peel the shrimp, cut the bak choi Last Line: Over dinner, they meet your hands Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Love; Man-woman Relationships COQUETRY, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O women, fated to beguile, / your spells we all confess Last Line: The victim that endures! Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations COR CORDIUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet heart, true heart, strong heart, star of my life, oh, never Last Line: And for thee the lowered banner, o sweet heart never! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Hearts; Loss; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Male-female Relations CORINNA'S NOT GOING A-MAYING, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: I like to sleep late on these fine spring mornings Last Line: Pack it in, bob. I'm going back to bed Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights CORTEGE, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the sea could dream, and if the sea Subject(s): Life; Grief; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness COSSACKS, by ARIEL GREENE Poem Source First Line: When he laughed Last Line: The raid on setyabrisk %on the river szudeva Subject(s): Relationships COUNSEL TO UNREASON, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations COUNTERPOINT: TWO ROOMS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, in the room above, grown old and tired Last Line: The slow grey clouds go slowly gainst the sky Subject(s): Seasons; Death; Man-women Relationships; Despair; Happiness COUNTRY FAIR, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amost anyone, I guess, can rent booth space Subject(s): Country Fairs; Hawks; Man-women Relationships; Dancing & Dancers; Girls COUPLE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: We've been wondering Last Line: You know scott said as %if that explained it Subject(s): Neighbors; Relationships COUPLE IN THE OBSERVATION CAR ON THE TRAIN TO BANFF, by RUTH JEAN SZUCS Poem Source First Line: Outside the wrap around windows Last Line: The back pines become a mountain of shadows Subject(s): Railroads; Relationships COUPLE THERAPY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: She says I found his letters to another woman Last Line: She reaches out and lays her hand on his Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Psychoanalysis; Relationships COUPLING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adolescent bacchus in his grape wreath lies semi Last Line: Of freshly-mown hay, a thousand eyes of sunflowers on them. Subject(s): Relationships COURTESY, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning of time Last Line: On meeting a lady, instinctively raise one's hat. Subject(s): Likes And Dislikes; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations COUSINS, by ELLA STRATTON COLBO Poem Text First Line: Popcorns dancing in the house Last Line: Cousins, just about. Subject(s): Relationships COWGIRL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boots were on the couch and had Last Line: I'll go back home where women are pliant as marshmallows. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Relationships; West (u.s.); Women; Southwest; Pacific States CRESCENT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In recent months I have become intent Last Line: Nightly toward its brightness and we are on it Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Happiness; Relationships CREST, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night was a bad one. Subject(s): Driving; Ferry Boats; Night; Rain; Relationships; Bedtime CROSSING MYSELF, by SARAH GORHAM Poem Source First Line: Shyly at first Last Line: Before turning his jewish face %toward that last kiss Subject(s): Relationships; Religion CROWN OF GLORY, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: After hard rain Last Line: To take a kiss, he will tell you, %once again, about something %lovely and strange %and fatal Subject(s): Relationships CUB LOVE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I am thinking tonight of the sweethearts I had Last Line: The best in the world for my wife. Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CURING TIME, by CLAUDIA EMERSON ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Her muslin shift clung to her, wet and close Last Line: In hearts we leave behind is not to die Subject(s): Nature; Relationships CYNARA RESPONDET, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: So that's your fashion? What a coincidence Last Line: I've been true in exactly the same sense Subject(s): Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights DA CAPO, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Short and sweet, and we've come to the end of it Last Line: Begin it again. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DAD TURNS NINETY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Sometime between the birthday and %the birthday brunch Last Line: We were away, he changed his mind %and didn't die Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Fathers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships DAFFODIL POEM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the cloud on its blue bicycle Last Line: Just as it began to snow. Subject(s): Daffodils; Farewell; Man-woman Relationships; Parting; Male-female Relations DANA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the tender voice calling 'away' Last Line: Mete justice from a thousand starry thrones. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Male-female Relations DANCE AROUND: A ROMANCE, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: My friend, when you went to high school, you loved Subject(s): Relationships DANCING IN THE DARK, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: She did everything fred did Last Line: Her glass slippers glinting %against the stars Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Happiness; Love; Man-woman Relationships DAPHNE, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Poet, singer, necromancer Last Line: With delight, if I so choose Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights DAR A LUZ, by PAULA C. BRANCATO Poem Source First Line: For hours, for months, for years. He's on top Last Line: Gave suckle by the light of her womb Subject(s): Birth; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships DARK LADY LEARNS THAT EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Full many an amorous sonnet hast thou penned Last Line: Or fact or false, all sonnets leave me cold Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights DATE, by WILLIAM FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: When a girl turned down %my brother for a date Last Line: On each windblown velvet %window to the west: %s-h-a-r-o-n k-I-k-I b-l-u-m-e-n-f-e-l-d %s-a-I-d y-e- Subject(s): Relationships DATE MOVIE, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: How I had come to you Last Line: Broadcast over the moon, red drape Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Relationships DAUGHTERS OF OEDIPUS, by GRACE SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: Antigone, choosing her death Last Line: The gods have no design for me at all Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Women's Rights DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONUM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thwart his brow and round his eyes Last Line: And so all inviolate? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DEAD FLEA, by KAREN DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: Tis true I am not weakened by this death Last Line: Go scratch your itching in some other place Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights DEAFNESS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wall-mountain rimmed around the sky Last Line: "he heard! He spoke!"" she said." Subject(s): Deafness; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DEAR JOHN, by SUSAN BROWNE Poem Source First Line: Thank you for suffering blue-balls continuously for three years dur Last Line: Garland of thanksgiving for you, dear john Subject(s): Absence; Drugs And Drug Abuse; Relationships DEATH SPELL FOR A DEPARTING LOVER, by KATE BRAVERMAN Poem Source First Line: We are good at opening dialogue Last Line: Digging in under your skin %in a way you will never forget Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women DEBT, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A withered silence filled my chest of sorrow Last Line: Fleeced I the giver, yet am penniless. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Relationships DECADE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you came, you were like red wine and honey, Subject(s): Food & Eating; Relationships DECONSTRUCTING STEFAN, OR DESTRUCTING STEFAN, by EMMA STRAUB Poem Source First Line: From the lips of monks Last Line: I will expose you %you are exposed Subject(s): Relationships; Religion DEDIKATION: 1, by EGITO GONCALVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cherries %two strangers/ we look at the minaret Last Line: Your eyes are laughing/ fiords/ night Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Relationships DEDIKATION: 2, by EGITO GONCALVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I find a web of streets and byways in your flesh Last Line: And then - your crazy laugh/ and the big towel Subject(s): Bodies; Relationships DEDIKATION: 3, by EGITO GONCALVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our caresses leaven time Last Line: In your shadow: light a candle %also for me/ cover me: silence Subject(s): Relationships DEMONOLOGUE (1), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: It was fascinating to induce fear Last Line: When I raised hs face and held it there Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Supernatural DEMONOLOGUE (2), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: I know his scent and infest there Last Line: Invitation to pure action is ignored Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Man-woman Relationships; Supernatural DEMONOLOGUE (3), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: I had a ward I adored and tortured in four ways Last Line: The more the horse moaned the less I was inclined to lord the less Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Man-woman Relationships; Torture DESIRE, by CHARLOTTE NEKOLA Poem Source First Line: The man steps off a lighted bus Last Line: Cicadas mourn, and he does not know why %he listens, now Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships DESTINY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced on the noon of an april day Last Line: Who cares if a woman's heart be broken? Subject(s): Abandonment; Disillusion; Fate; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Destiny; Male-female Relations DETECTIVE ASKS ME WHAT HE SAID, by SHOASHAUNA SHY Poem Source First Line: He'd pinch the breath %from my lungs Last Line: If I stopped to think about it %he said that Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Single People DEVOTION, by MINNETTE SLAYBACK CARPER Poem Text First Line: She stole a moment from each day of toil Last Line: The grass is clipped, and flowers are planted there. Subject(s): Family Life; Women; Man-woman Relationships DIALOGUE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: My friend george herbert has been chiding me Last Line: Who at sleep's edge %enjoy such privilege Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii; Male-female Relations; Vergil; Feminism; Second World War DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii DILEMMA, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were mild, and I were sweet, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DINA'S HAPPY ENDING, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: And so I married Last Line: I think I laughed half the night %god, it felt good Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights DIRT AND DESIRE: TOUCHES, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As members of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we face Last Line: Closed category where one does not belong Subject(s): Women; Relationships; Touch (sense) DISCOVER ME AGAIN, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships DIVORCEE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Waking in the early morning Last Line: Upon her cheek, her neck, her breast Subject(s): Divorce; Psychoanalysis; Relationships DOCKERY AND SON, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships; Disappointment; Ancestors & Ancestry; Middle Age' Universities And Colleges; Youth; Heritage; Heredity DOING THE EVOLUTION SHUFFLE, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I feel I've shacked up Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DOMESTIC LIFE: 1. TODAY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open yourself up: today Last Line: Except cold inside. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Emptiness; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DOMESTIC SCENES FROM LADY TENNYSON'S JOURNAL, by MARGARET KAY Poem Source First Line: When the days are warm and our island Last Line: And you read to me %about the london poor Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Women's Rights DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was winter, lunar, wet. At dusk Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DONNA JULIA'S FIRST LETTER AFTER JUAN'S DEPARTURE FOR CADIZ, by KATHARINE COLES Poem Source First Line: Isabella, more and more I remember childhood Last Line: To whatever wind he pleases. Bella, no tears Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights DOOR, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound me out Last Line: Myself - / you Subject(s): Relationships DOOR, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: In the clinic, the palsied boy thrashes Last Line: Half-opened, that anyone may see, and know %and bless themselves for their luck Subject(s): Relationships DOOR CLICKS. HE RETURNS TO ME', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Measureless pleasure? %is it measureless pain? Subject(s): Pain; Relationships DOUBLE FEATURE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: My cigarette burns a cave in midnight Last Line: Of my eyelids even in sleep Subject(s): Relationships DOUBLE S-O-B IS BOSS SPELLED BACKWARDS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: He don't care what's been recommended Last Line: I've got to wash my elephant Subject(s): Language; Relationships DOUBLE SONNET, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I recall everything, but more than all Last Line: Speechless, inept, and totally unmanned Variant Title(s): Double Sonnet: I Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DOUBTING THOMAS, by VERNA SAFRAN Poem Source First Line: Mopping up his ordinary puke Last Line: When deft those dragon words %pluck our secret lyre Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights DRACULA'S WAKE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Although I never liked cats much myself Last Line: How did you get so good at death? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sympathy DREAM AND IDEAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Diana with her limbs of dream Last Line: Across the distance for his sake. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations DROP, by MICHAEL DONAGHY Poem Source First Line: We taped it under the seats Last Line: The money? It went where money goes Subject(s): Relationships DROPPING THE NAMES, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alps, island, jet, crest, logo - barnum's own Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Automobile Accidents; Male-female Relations DROWN, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am sick with this Last Line: This will only take an hour %or two Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships DRUM, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The war ends. The lines of women push Subject(s): War; Man-woman Relationships; Freedom; Male-female Relations; Liberty DWARF GETS SOBER, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Daisy saw the world from the sand up Last Line: The judge who's giving her kids back %asks what do you want, daisy? Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships DYLAN, WE WERE LIKE THOSE FLIMSY MOONS, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Two moons there are, one laked, one skied Last Line: Which imperfections yours, which neither's Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights EACH DEFEAT, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please! Keep / reading me Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Friendship; Relationships; Death - Animals; Failure EARLENE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a woman named earlene Subject(s): Machismo; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EARLENE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a woman named earlene Last Line: The way things are Subject(s): Machismo; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage EARLY AUTUMN, HEDGEAPPLES, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: The effortless swing my hand makes, lobbing Last Line: Bobbing in their trees, while all its animals %surround me, weaving their hungry work, their dark ma Subject(s): Relationships EARTH AS DESDEMONA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Unerringly, %let us talk of graves Last Line: A zone of no %destruction Subject(s): Chicanos; Death; Graves; Los Angeles; Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Pacific Ocean; Prejudice; Sin; Women EASY SONG, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's rained every day since you Last Line: In the perfume of your flesh. %moi aussi, je suis content Subject(s): Contentment; French Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships ECHO & ELIXIR 2, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cairo’s taxi drivers speak to me in english Last Line: The wicked binds, the cataclysmic fares Subject(s): Language; Cairo; Taxis; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Enemies; Words; Vocabulary EDEN INCUNABULUM, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So his luciferous kiss, ecliptic : me Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Relationships; Death; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Dead, The EDGES, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've often wondered why she laughed Last Line: Beholding what was cavernous. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Relationships EDWARD LEAR, by LEE UPTON Poem Source First Line: Never can one choose to be %a laureate of restlessness Last Line: No weeping without purchases Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights EFFORT AT SPEECH BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak to me. Take my hand. What are you now? Subject(s): Relationships EGOMANIA, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She-she-who is this she but my creation Last Line: With hands stretched out—and feet that stray and falter. Subject(s): Desire; Egoism & Egotism; Hope; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Optimism; Male-female Relations EIGHT HOURS TO PROVE THE ARTEFACT, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: Well now miz moon %do you remember what you recollected Last Line: Miz moon you're home and welcome Subject(s): Love; Relationships EIGHT VARIATIONS, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Prurient tapirs gamboled on our lawns Last Line: At a small window, green with rain Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Ghosts; Disappointment; Desire EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION..., by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Little sympathy, who kicks beneath my ribs Last Line: Though a late, insistent rhythm %still plays as background %for the waltz you've learned to dance Subject(s): Relationships ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, by ANN TOWNSEND First Line: Richard, you are sinking slowly now into the river Subject(s): Relationships ELEUTHERIA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was named eleutheria Subject(s): Child Molesting; Fathers & Sons; Freedom; Marriage; Relationships; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Child Abuse; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism ELEVENS, by MARILYN HACKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: James a. Wright, my difficult older brother Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Male-female Relations; Feminism ELEVENS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: James a. Wright, my difficult older brother Last Line: You are the fog of language on manhattan %where it's descending Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980) ELLIPTICAL, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Failure; Language; Relationships; Words; Vocabulary EMMA'S EVENSONG, by ANITA WINTZ Poem Source First Line: Cleaving, I call, -- no longer bright-souled Last Line: Bury our dark decembers Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights ENCAPSULATED DELUSION, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Aster can't remember that her father is dead Last Line: The suit of dusty black limp %as if nothing lay within it Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Psychoanalysis; Relationships END OF A MARRIAGE, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Three years after the death Last Line: How to divorce a man %who has been dead three years? Subject(s): Absence; Child Molesting; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women END OF WINTER, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the still world, a bird calls Last Line: The one continuous line %that binds us to each other Subject(s): Relationships; Winter ENIGMA OF THE STIGMA, OR VICE VERSA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm drawn to the ineffable, yet cathedrals leave me empty Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Religion; Spirituality; Male-female Relations; Theology ENIGMA OF THE STIGMA, OR VICE VERSA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm drawn to the ineffable, yet cathedrals leave me empty Last Line: Mysteries inviting both penetration and erasure Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Religion; Spirituality ENOUGH, by KATHLEEN ANN IDDINGS Poem Source First Line: William carlos williams, I'm sick of your poem Last Line: So much depends on a wheelbarrow, dumping her into an early grave Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Women's Rights ENOUGH ALREADY, by MARY CROW Poem Source First Line: I'm sick and tired Last Line: Can't we get up and play Subject(s): Play; Relationships ENTRANCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Subject(s): Lament; Life; Relationships ENTRANCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Last Line: Of the pattern of our lives Subject(s): Lament; Life; Relationships EPISODE 43: BY THE SEA, by TAYLOR GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: All afternoon the sun slicks Last Line: More terrible than moonshine Subject(s): Relationships; Sea EPISTLE 1, 10. TO FUSCUS ARISTUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Health from the lover of the country, me Last Line: The horse doth with the horseman run away. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes EPITAPH, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies john hughes and sarah drew Last Line: For pope has wrote upon their tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Lightning; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Male-female Relations; Feminism EPITAPH TO A WATERING HOLE, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: I keep circling the old haunts, maybe I mis- Last Line: Of men and boys that she favored after hours? Subject(s): Relationships ERATO ERRATUM, by VERNA SAFRAN Poem Source First Line: You say I am your prism and your muse Last Line: When I'm alone, I put you in quatrains Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ERLINTON (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: [lord] erlinton had a fair daughter Subject(s): Love;man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ESTHER, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Let's face it %(I told my mirror) Last Line: But I didn't have to do it %always remember that Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights EURYDICE REVEALS HER STRENGTH, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Dying is the easy part Last Line: Singing to myself, not looking back Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights EVE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: One book has it that eve Last Line: Before she goes to sleep [or, sleeps] Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Man-woman Relationships EVE AND ADAM, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Tis said a clever woman can Last Line: And make a man out of a fool. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations EVE, ON A MORNING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, on a morning, paused before the / gate Last Line: "and adam plans to break new ground to-day." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Peace; Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness EVEN KEEL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking you want to secure 'on an even keel' is not enough in this Last Line: And then be sacrificed the next day to a tutelary deity with your feather headdress on Subject(s): Marriage; Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EVEN KEEL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking you want to secure 'on an even keel' is not enough in this Last Line: A tuletary deity with your feather headdress on Subject(s): Marriage; Relationships EVENING BURNING, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Vapor trails unfurl in the north sky Last Line: It's wet before the rain comes down Subject(s): Relationships EVERY TRACE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: You'd swear the bath was a pagan well Last Line: Every trace of that bastard out of my skin,' she said Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Pagans And Paganism; Relationships EVERYTHING GOOD BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Has been written in mud and butter Last Line: Call it a night. O soul. Flow on. Instead Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the tawny light Subject(s): Autumn; Imagination; Relationships; Truth; Fall; Fancy EXCEPT FOR A FEW FOOTPRINTS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So. Yes. But still there is this peace between us Last Line: You say my name, you remind me %and I return Subject(s): Absence; Footprints; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships EXCHANGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am watching a woman swim below the surface Last Line: And I, having exchanged with her, will swim %away, in the cool water, out of reach Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Swimming; Women EXCLUDED FROM FRESCOES, by MICHAEL TEIG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for the gift. Never have I seen Subject(s): Relationships EXCLUDED FROM FRESCOES, by MICHAEL TEIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for the gift. Never have I seen Last Line: Maybe we could argue over ice cream Subject(s): Relationships EXERCISE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear this touch: grass parts Last Line: Fire selects new wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Activity; Change; Nature; Relationships; Exercise EXHIBIT 1916 - A, B, C:, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Outside my window, branches are breaking off the trees. The Last Line: Your firm little wife, %alexandra Subject(s): Letters; Relationships EXPECTING, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The balls are/ringing grammar Subject(s): Relationships EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave you back my claim on the mining town Subject(s): Relationships; Mines & Miners EYEFUL POWER, by ALMA DENNY Poem Source First Line: Men may not make passes Last Line: Because they can't see them! Subject(s): Relationships FABLE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there once was a lady, and so I've been told, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FACT VERSUS FANCY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When last I strolled these ways with grace Last Line: His circumstances! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Wealth; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes FAINT MUSIC, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. Last Line: First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery FAIR FRIGIDITY, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: There was a lady fair and fairly bright Last Line: Gazing up to her from his watered deep Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships FALL FOLIAGE CALLED BATHERS & DANCERS, by ALEXANDRIA PEARY Poem Source First Line: I said, I want friendships, not love Last Line: Commercials flicker like dolphins in ocean light Subject(s): Autumn; Relationships; Seasons FALSE FLOWERS, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were to have been a love gift, Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Flowers, Artificial; Relationships FAREWELL, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: I have placed you Last Line: Insanity of man's flesh! Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Passion; Male-female Relations FATHER'S GOOD SON, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The wheat hangs heavy to the further hill Last Line: Runs around the spit where turns the fatted calf. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Relationships FEMALE MASCULINITY, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two guys sucking each other in the steam room Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Gays & Lesbians; Relationships; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FEMININE IF, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: If you can wait on those who'll keep you waiting Last Line: Don't wonder what it's like to be a nun Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights FEMINIST'S INCORRECT WEDDING SONG, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: We talk of growth Last Line: Don't tell the women Subject(s): Marriage; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Women's Rights FENCES, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: Shall I fast hedge myself within Last Line: Must surely freeze. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Love; Relationships; Fair Weather Friends FENIX, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Face cross-hatched by violet shadows that fall round her like a net, Last Line: And on the other lens my ass Subject(s): Dreams; Social Classes; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Caste; Male-female Relations FEVER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In your sleep you talked Last Line: I love you too. Subject(s): Fever; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Talk; Male-female Relations FILM NOIR, by ROBERT THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I look for you everywhere: in the 4:00 a.M. Red snapper alleys Last Line: Her rose umbrella and goes downstairs to the underground rail Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Relationships FINALLY, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: Finally (one year down) I dreamed my mother Last Line: With sleek hides instead of howling Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Mothers; Relationships; Southern States FIRE IS, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Cockleshell of, / cockleheart Subject(s): Fire; Man-woman Relationships FIRENZE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The women have all gone %to italy. The men Last Line: Why they were left behind Subject(s): Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships FIRST DEATH, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: The fist pains came slow, Last Line: Toward joy. And that was her sorrow. Subject(s): Relationships FIRST POEM FOR YOU, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I like to touch your tatoos in complete Last Line: So I touch them in the dark; but touch them, trying Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Permanence; Tattoos FIRST TIME, by CHRISTINE GARREN Poem Source First Line: On sunday I was in an upstairs bedroom on the bed, being Last Line: Because the yard was beautiful, and he had stayed %mute among the monarchs Subject(s): Relationships FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you or I should die Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Snakes; Desire; Passion; Adultery; Children; Love; Middle Age; Absence; Relationships; Serpents; Vipers; Childhood; Separation; Isolation FIVE PSALMS, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let us think of god as a lover Last Line: Let us be faithful in another Subject(s): God; Relationships FLESH, CELESTIAL FLESH OF WOMAN!, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh, celestial flesh of woman! Clay Last Line: Before the eternity of what probably is...! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships FLICK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She's another goner Last Line: Like the shy snake's %after dinner. Subject(s): Animals; Relationships; Snakes FLOATING LADY RETABLO: 1, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remember I remember I lay my young bullocks Last Line: Siempre go try your luck on the mountain if it pleases ye Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Past; Relationships; Sex FLOATING LADY RETABLO: 3, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the shape of the sound all the information you need Last Line: Churlish defenses from here to yonder baby it's zero visibility Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Life; Relationships FLOATING TREES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A bed is left open to a mirror Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Sex; Male-female Relations FLOATING TREES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bed is left open to a mirror Last Line: Otherwise not a leaf stirs Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Sex FOLLIES OF THE WISE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A man is a fool in his youth, my son Last Line: Is happy indeed, and wise—so wise! Subject(s): Fools; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Wisdom; Women; Idiots; Male-female Relations FOR AN ANNIVERSARY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Where you dream of water Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FOR HER, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let it be anywhere Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FOR HOMER'S MOSQUITO, by ANN LOUISE HAYES Poem Source First Line: I read the song of llion Last Line: The llion we know Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights FOR K.J., LEAVING AND COMING BACK, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August first: it was a year ago Subject(s): Relationships; Separation FOR NO CLEAR REASON, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt last night Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FOR PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, by LINDA CARTER BROWN Poem Source First Line: Some of us still wear the mask Last Line: Only while we wear the mask Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights FOR PRINCE MYSHKIN, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: When I ride the adventures of my legs through your %heart Last Line: Crusted creatures of the deep Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships FOR ROBERT BRIDGES, by ANITA WINTZ Poem Source First Line: All women born are so diverse Last Line: No man should miss their charms assessing Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights FOR ROBERT FROST, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: Easy as breath, without a trace of toil Last Line: To make our songs no longer quite the same Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights FORGETFULNESS, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: I swear I don't even remember he name Last Line: As all things in life Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Poetry And Poets; Relationships FORMS PF POLITENESS, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking advantage of the relationships and interaction, which actually exist between what happens Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FORT HILL CEMETERY, 1991, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Our plot's a bargain: six feet of earth with ocean view Last Line: With steady beats above the illimitable sea Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Mourning; Psychoanalysis; Relationships FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY POEM, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was. I explained to judith Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 5, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every dame affects good fame, whate'er her doings be Last Line: Happy dame, content that lives and breaks no sleep for toys! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Contentment FRAGMENT, by THELMA HILL WARD Poem Text First Line: I keep wondering why I see you Last Line: And there is no meaning in any song— Subject(s): Lament; Longing; Nostalgia; Relationships FRAGMENT, by DOREEN C. WATTS Poem Text First Line: I know that life could be like poetry Last Line: To lose itself in your heart for all time! Alternate Author Name(s): Armetage, Mrs. Simon Subject(s): Love; Relationships FRATERNITIES, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: When the carriage thief %meets the horse thief Last Line: Couples exchange %their clear words Subject(s): Relationships FRIDA KAHLO & DIEGO RIVERA, by KATHERINE HARER Poem Source First Line: The oil of frying onions hung in the air. When she woke up the next Last Line: He told her he was fragile. She laughed, and you such a big man Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships FRIDA KAHLO & NICK MURAY, by KATHERINE HARER Poem Source First Line: Her long hands his body bright and loose as a shawl rebozo he liked the Last Line: The tiny cushion she gave him when she left Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships FRIENDS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's one comes often as the sun Last Line: I sometimes see across the world—a room. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FRIENDSHIP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of friendship Last Line: Since, yesterday, you passed with lowered eyes! Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships FRIENDSHIP IS A JEWEL RARE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Acquaintances we oft admire Last Line: In blackness of the night. Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships FRISBEE PRACTICE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Smooth limbs flung skyward as the frisbee sails Last Line: Grinning as from his body rises %the sweet odor of spring Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sons FROG POND, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Each night they sing their amens of the water, notes Last Line: A ring of trees edging closely, and water deep enough to drown Subject(s): Relationships FROM A WINDOW, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Through the cloudless glass you noticed Last Line: Marking its way in the everlasting sky Subject(s): Relationships FROM INLAND, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that you and I were young Last Line: That fled so bravely to its death. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Old Age; Past; Relationships; Youth FROM NOW ON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The old woman asked him to wash her feet Last Line: From now on, there's no forbidden fruit Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Relationships FROM SEASON TO SEASON, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: But yesterday / I walked with fay Last Line: For fay has gone and married! Subject(s): Change; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Seasons; Male-female Relations FROM THE BOAT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is it, then -- between us Last Line: Sliding into the troughs Subject(s): Boats; Relationships FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF ANNE VERVEINE, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When his dogs leapt on actaeon, he Subject(s): Mythology; Love - Erotic; Relationships; Art & Artists FRONT DOOR MAN, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You! First thing at the door Last Line: How, cupid, can I cope Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Cupid; Men; Relationships FUCK THE ASTRONAUTS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eventually we must combine nightmares Subject(s): Relationships; Desire; Love - Complaints FULL MOON, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We ran barefoot to see it Last Line: And elephants, dead boneyards gleaming in the moonlight Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 4, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: She could never keep her hair combed. She was a redhead Last Line: Cigarettes in her unquenchable flame Subject(s): Dreams; Man-woman Relationships GAIL SHANNON'S PRAYER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Lord, I don't need another mountain Last Line: A decent man Subject(s): Prayer; Relationships GAMBLING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought Last Line: That smell of marzipan Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting GAMBLING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought Last Line: That smell of marzipan Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships GARDEN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Crocuses invested in the fall Last Line: The garden breathes Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Psychoanalysis; Relationships GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said / once Last Line: That it could be a temple & tempestuous & strange of body because of marriage Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said %once Last Line: - paint them - %ruby red Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex GENEVIEVE AND ALEXANDRA (1), by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why look at me so much as if today Last Line: And don't say that again Subject(s): Relationships; Sisters GENEVIEVE AND ALEXANDRA (2), by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't look at me so much as if to-day Last Line: Oh, stop that! Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Relationships; Sisters GEORGE A GREENE: GEORGE A GREENE AND BEATRICE (BETTRIS), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, sweet love, how is / thy mind content? Last Line: George. Happy am I to have so sweet a love. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships GEORGE HERBERT, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: He speaks to me so that my whole Last Line: Shading and immanence, your signal prayer Subject(s): Relationships; Singing And Singers GERANIUMS, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: As if their rough fans had too much Last Line: I kept wishing I had something else to turn to for the comparison Subject(s): Relationships GERTRUDE TO HAMLET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Inside, the turned liver Last Line: You wander my throne like measles Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY BROTHER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source Last Line: In so many ways %he saved time Subject(s): Brothers; Friendship; Homosexuality; Relationships GETTING UP, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: He should have been getting home Last Line: And all the haze %of the late afternoon clouding the sky Subject(s): Relationships GHAZAL OF THE WINTER STORM, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: The fire's out. I wish you could come home Last Line: One step away's the fire's anvil: come home Subject(s): Relationships GHAZALS: 19, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were much saddened by bill knott's death Last Line: Behind them to feed on the disturbed insects. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature; Relationships; Dead, The GHAZALS: 23, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagined her dead, killed by some local maniac who Last Line: Sack in my teeth. At the dump I pause to snarl at a rat. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Drinks & Drinking; Relationships; Wine GHAZALS: 26, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will I do with seven billion cubic feet of clouds Last Line: House and car and parents. I'm going to greenland at dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Moving & Movers; Relationships; Separation; Isolation GIFT, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: The comb lies on its side, in its filigree Last Line: When one turns to cradle the other %against betrayal, against the future Subject(s): Relationships GIN, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Alcoholics & Alcoholism; Friendship; Relationships GLADS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: I first admired gladioli Last Line: Until even cut, in water, every one %flew its triumphant colors Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Psychoanalysis; Relationships GLASGERION (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Glasgerion was a king's own son Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;love;man-woman Relationships;murder; Male-female Relations GLASS PANE TOWARD THE SPECTRAL, MYSTERIOUS GARDEN', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Overturn %this body Subject(s): Change; Relationships GLOSSTR LEAD, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: This morning from his bed lord Last Line: A beautiful record will never be destroyed Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Relationships GO ON SISTER SING YOUR SONG, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations GOD AND THE FARMER, by FRANKLIN ERASTUS PIERCE Poem Text First Line: God sat down with the farmer Last Line: A toiler more old than toil. Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Relationships; Agriculture; Farmers GOD OF SLEEP, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Feel how skin goes sick in want of warmth Last Line: You were awake the whole time Subject(s): Girls; Guilt; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships GOD'S WORLD AND MINE, by GRACE SUE NIES Poem Text First Line: They tell me heaven lies afar Last Line: Love, my love, came! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The; Paradise GOING DOWN ON AMERICA: THE REGIONAL POET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turned on to the transcendent, he holds her Last Line: Into a land lost %to reality Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights GOING THROUGH THE HOUSE, by CLAIRE BRAZ-VALENTINE Poem Source First Line: I don't care Last Line: I don't care %really I don't Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women GOLDILOCKS, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware of the snare of goldilocks! Last Line: By goldilocks since the world began. Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Women; Male-female Relations GONE, BUT HERE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was here, and she is gone Last Line: Of life be done? Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Music & Musicians; Parting; Male-female Relations GOOD MAN, BAD WOMAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say that spite avails her nothing, that Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations GORDON'S BLUE SHOES, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: This morning at cordova Last Line: Of an odd shaped nickel Subject(s): Relationships GRADUALISM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We slept naked / on top of the covers and woke Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Male-female Relations GRADUALISM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We slept naked %on top of the covers and woke Last Line: Even in mexico even for us' Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sex GRANT ME LOVE THAT I MAY BLOOM AND GREEN, by NIZAR KABBANI Poem Source First Line: Listen, my lady Last Line: And now, by the grace of love, %I bloom and green Subject(s): Green (color); Relationships GRAVE, by MARGARET HASSE Poem Source First Line: At fifty, I wake in the orphanage Last Line: I were abandoned as a child, then %fell into good hands Subject(s): Children; Graves; Relationships GREAT AORTA, by ANGELINA COFRANCESCO ROSSETTI Poem Source First Line: Listen ... Rest your ear upon the ground Subject(s): Children; Patriotism; Relationships GREEN THUMB, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shake out my pockets! Harken to the call Subject(s): Relationships; Farewell; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness GREY MATTER, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They leave us nothing Last Line: Begins the ancient mystery anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Women; Male-female Relations GROWING PEONIES, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The first time I grew peonies Last Line: And a paradisal scent %rare as water in the desert Subject(s): Peonies; Psychoanalysis; Relationships GUILE, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: She surprises herself; she lies so easily Last Line: For itself, impossibly, the organic smell, %a luster innocent despite the age Subject(s): Relationships GUITA BRUNER, by PABLO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: Above a rock %her troglodyte room Last Line: Foam and our love exploding Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Relationships; Tragedy; War GYPSY MOTHS, by SUSAN RONEY-O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: You tell me the females can't fly Last Line: And drop them into oil. %nothing is simple Subject(s): Change; Moths; Nature; Relationships HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is done is done Last Line: You like a dark river Subject(s): Relationships HALVING IT WITH WITHER, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If she be not fair to me Last Line: That is something else again. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Relationships HANDFISHING RETABLO: 2, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Followed us to the shaft end of the song que milagro Last Line: Young epitaph kiss me then count your teeth Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships HANS BRINKER WAS MY BOYFRIEND, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Those were the days, hans Last Line: We glide through our diamond days %on skates of silver Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships; Romance HAPPINESS (3), by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The moment you turned to me on w. 4th st. Subject(s): Relationships HARBOR: 1. MOSAIC, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face clears of expression, your eyes Last Line: Our flesh/fish bodies puddling molten Subject(s): Boats; Relationships; Water HARBOR: 4. HARPOON, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wooden handle cracked but seasoned tough Last Line: Crystal on crystal holding fast Subject(s): Boats; Relationships HARDWIRED, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Zapped dandelions, blown streetlight heads -- o hardwired Last Line: Of heat lighting just before a storm Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships HARRIS, by KIM TAPHIN Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Mackinnon talks of the good water Last Line: Talks on the phone in gaelic and sounds so tender Subject(s): Relationships; Sea HE AND SHE, by BROOKE WIESE Poem Source First Line: She lives beside a bright white mosque Last Line: They hold hands - watch shooting stars fall Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships HE DREAMS A BLUE DRESS, by JOHANNAH RACZ Poem Source First Line: Sometimes this train does not stop in amsterdam and does not stop in Last Line: Returning with a bag of fruit, I don't remember what kind, just his mouth Subject(s): Railroads; Relationships HE GETS DEPRESSED WHENEVER WE ARGUE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, I am talking to you Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HE SAID, SHE SAID, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it something I said Subject(s): Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Words; Vocabulary; Male-female Relations HE SAID, SHE SAID, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it something I said Last Line: And what if it was a trick Subject(s): Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships HE WILL MAKE SOME WOMEN, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: A trail of wringing hands leading back to mother Last Line: A solid reason %to wear back Subject(s): Grief; Man-woman Relationships HE'S ASLEEP, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone was ringing Last Line: In the room, except his wife Subject(s): Sleep; Marriage; Man-woman Relationships HEGEMONY, by TODD BARON Poem Source First Line: But what aspect of keeping that change in particular place Last Line: The part you've had driven Subject(s): Relationships HELIODORA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He and I sought together Last Line: "is a lily kissed." Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Meleager (100 B.c.); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism HELLO, DOLLY; GOODBYE, MAN, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: Without you, I am perfectly complete Last Line: On your way out, would you take the garbage down Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980), by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him bleeding but I thought all blood was a dream Subject(s): Women's Rights; Love - Complaints; Relationships; Feminism HEMISPHERES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the body you draw near Last Line: Only your mortality. Subject(s): Bodies; Relationships; Spiritual Life HENRIETTA, by JOHN KOETHE Poem Source First Line: The limitless blue sky is still a page Last Line: Too remote from us, and too tangible to retreive Subject(s): Relationships HER EYES TWIN POOLS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light Last Line: A man might plunge, and lose his soul. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations HER LITERAL ONE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As for the light - it was a city light Last Line: To the difficult needs of her literal one Subject(s): Relationships HER ROAD SONG, by JIM QUINN Poem Source First Line: He's driving, we're fighting, I forget Last Line: Thought probably, 'only one car? What a tiny wedding!' Subject(s): Relationships HERE I AM, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a subway station bench Subject(s): Subways; Relationships HERE IN BED, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in bed behind a brick wall Last Line: And faces of people Subject(s): Relationships HERE IS MUSIC: 20, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: How do I know I love you? Last Line: Bodily death ... But never sad satiety. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Relationships HIDDEN, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I propose / turning the key Subject(s): Relationships; Fear HIGH PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every evening at seven o'clock Last Line: Swimming overf the mediterranian Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Romance; Provence, France; Male-female Relations HIGH PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every evening at seven o'clock Last Line: Swimming over the mediterranean Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Romance HINDSIGHT, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Simon is beginning to dictate Last Line: Ball up our fists under our tails Subject(s): Relationships HIS COY MISTRESS REPLIES, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: Andrew marvell, you haven't read Last Line: Our mutual purpose is: our pleasure Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights HIS MIND, OF MAN A SECRET MAKES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: However neighborly Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships HIS MODEST WISH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know, alas, fair dame, that you Last Line: Oh, let me be your scepter-bearer! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Modesty; Wishes; Male-female Relations HIS VICTORY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: He deemed it but a passing thought Last Line: She prayed that god might give him strength. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HISTORIES: A WOMAN WAS CONSTRUCTED N 20 OZ. ANTIQUITY, CERTAINLY SHE, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true that ( ) discovered the Last Line: Chassis in the glove of a chandelier Subject(s): History; Man-woman Relationships; Historians; Male-female Relations HITTING BOTTOM, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Swimming in the bottle, aquarium for one Last Line: To say his name and add %I'm an alcoholic Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HOHENSALZBURG, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should always have known; those who sang from the river Last Line: A dweller of the earth, invisible Subject(s): Germany; Relationships HOLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She knows she loves him day and night Last Line: Even through a hole in the door. Subject(s): Love; Relationships; Sex HOLY, by GINA CLARK Poem Source First Line: The widow leaves the lovers alone Last Line: The cool shade covering the boy's bare legs, %and the girl covering him Subject(s): Love; Relationships; Widows And Widowers HOME AND WIFE, by WILLIAM THOMSON MCAUSLANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where in this world, where strife and guile abound Last Line: And god, approving, smile on all thy ways. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HOMECOMING, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was is...Since 1930 Subject(s): Relationships HOMING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The waves come racing to my boat Last Line: To kiss my love. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; War; Male-female Relations; American Navy HORACE TO LYDIA, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Old sweetheart mine, your charms decline Last Line: To satiate my great heart-hunger! Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HORSE SHOW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Constantly near you, I never in my entire Last Line: There, I was so interested to hear about it Subject(s): Relationships HOSPITAL AUDIENCE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The dreary auditorium is rimmed with portraits Last Line: Tomorrow she may be high on crack again %but right now she is dancing, dancing Subject(s): Hospitals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HOT TEA, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midafternoon./her canyon. Her house Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HOT TUB IN THE STARRY NIGHT, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Who wouldn't give an ear for such a night Last Line: Whispery grasses growing as I go Subject(s): Nature; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HOTEL FRANCOIS 1ER, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a very little while and they had gone in front of it. It was that they had liked it Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Friendship; Language; City & Town Life; Art & Artists; Social Commentaries; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary HOTELS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the semi-dark we take everything off Last Line: The bundled outlines of another woman another man %hurrying toward the theater's blue tubes of light Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Beds; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Sleep HOUND VOICE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we love bare hills and stunted trees Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Dogs; Voices; Relationships HOURS CONTINUING LONG, SORE AND HEAVY-HEARTED, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Does he see himself reflected in me? In these hours, does he see the face of his hours reflected? Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships; Time HOUSE, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: We have built the walls, we have spread the roof Last Line: Be left behind when you pass the door! Subject(s): Home; Love; Man-woman Relationships HOUSE WITH THE AQUA-COLORED BARS, by CAROL POTTER Poem Source First Line: Walking up the steep-cobbled hill today Last Line: Fat-pink blossoms against my windows Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women HOW FUTILE A THING DIRECTION IS, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Source First Line: Silos tick in below zero weather wind chill makes a fossil of touch out Last Line: Breasts made me believe silos could hold memory and sift it into maps I %could use to touch a woman Subject(s): Death; Fossils; Man-woman Relationships HOW LANCELOT CAME TO THE NUNNERY IN SEARCH OF THE QUEEN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three days on gawain's tomb sir lancelot wept Last Line: "and cried, ""alas! Ah, who may trust this world!" Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HOW LIKE A WOMAN, by CAROLINE KING DUER Poem Text First Line: I wanted you to come today Last Line: You did not give me one sensation. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Relationships HOW SHALL I SAVE YOU FROM DROWNING?, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: The answer is always the same. %- no-one Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Escapes; Man-woman Relationships HOW THEY GOT HER TO QUIET DOWN, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations HOW TO KEEP FROM MURDERING YOUR MAN, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Instead of a sales training course Last Line: I got in the grass %and swatted gnats Subject(s): Nature; Relationships HOW TO MAKE A BED, by TRINA ZERICK Poem Source First Line: The girl next door Last Line: Were caught under my nail Subject(s): Children; Relationships HOW TO WRITE TO AN EX-LOVER, by MELISSA KIRSCH Poem Source First Line: The letter begins, my dear, here's an update Last Line: That's what he's become now, no farewell Subject(s): Letters; Past; Relationships; Writing And Writers HOW WE FIGHT, by MARK WARREN HALPERIN Poem Text First Line: As only those who lived together a long time Alternate Author Name(s): Halperin, Mark Subject(s): Fights; Relationships HUMAN CYLINDERS, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The human cylinders / revolving in the enervating dusk Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Relationships; Disappointment HUMAN NATURE, by JAMES R. LEE Poem Source First Line: We sat at the bar Last Line: He focused his attention %on her Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Relationships HUSBAND SPEAKS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: My husband, brian, in his long career as reluctant Last Line: Make it clear that he currently has a wonderful boss! Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HYMEN AND DEATH, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sixteen, d'ye say? Nay then 'tis time Last Line: Secure that death will set them loose.' Subject(s): Bodies; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Reproductive System; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations; Sex Organs; Genitalia HYMN, by JEFFREY CROTEAU Poem Source First Line: Late at night and half asleep Last Line: Covered with down %like your wrists Subject(s): Hands; Relationships HYMN, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Less the shadow Subject(s): God; Death; Relationships; Dead, The HYMN FROM A WATERMELON PAVILION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You dweller in the dark cabin, Subject(s): Relationships; Nature HYPOCRITE SWIFT, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite swift now takes an eldest daughter Last Line: The parquet shines; outside the snow falls deep Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism HYPOCRITE SWIFT, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite swift now takes an eldest daughter Last Line: Hypocrite swift sent stella a green apron %and dead desire Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights I AM AN INNOCENT LITTLE GIRL, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: As long as I behave myself, %he'll be as strong as cheops Subject(s): Relationships I AM HIGH ON THE MAN CALLED CRAZY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He has bitten sons Subject(s): African Americans; Man-woman Relationships I ASK MYSELF IF THIS IS THE START OF A PROSE POEM, by NAOMI RACHEL Poem Source First Line: I ask myself if I will write a letter to michael ryan Last Line: Ask myself what the hell could I say to him after all if I don't even %know if this is a prose poem Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ryan, Michael (b. 1945); Women's Rights I CANNOT LIVE WITH YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And that white sustenance — / despair Subject(s): Relationships; Despair I COULD IN SLEEP, by JOHN RIBOVICH Poem Source First Line: I could in sleep reach out and touch her now Last Line: I could in sleep reach out and touch her now %and feel her warmth her back beneath her gown Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Touch (sense) I DANCE WITH MY CAT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dance with my cat in the kitchen Last Line: Snuggled into my breast Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude I DO NOT REMEMBER THE NUMBER', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon your trembling eyelids Subject(s): Kisses; Memory; Relationships I GAVE MY LOVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gave my love to a wastrel Last Line: I'd give it him again. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations I GROW OLDER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I like mexican food Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Man-woman Relationships; Nature I HAVE PIPED AND YE DID NOT DANCE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man once lay at a woman's feet Last Line: "in the place that was flame in the once ago." Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Male-female Relations I HAVE SEEN, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen the delicate golden-haired child Last Line: Might have the joy of one more sweet flow'r snatching. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy I HEAR THE MERMAIDS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: I hear the mermaids singing too, mrs. Stevens Last Line: The mermaids go on singing Subject(s): Mermaids And Mermen; Psychoanalysis; Relationships I KNEW A MAN BY SIGHT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stranger and foe, one day each other know Subject(s): Relationships; Neighbors; Brotherhood I NOTE IN A NOTEBOOK, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Pink sunlight, blue sky, snowed-upon january morning Subject(s): Male-female Relationships I SCREAM IN AMERICA, by DIANE ENGLE Poem Source First Line: It's as if ink has taken on Last Line: In ribbons of language Subject(s): Ashbery, John (b. 1927); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights I SHALL REMEMBER, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: The rain has come and washed away the trace Last Line: But I—I shall remember when I'm dead! Subject(s): Memory; Nature; Past; Relationships I THE PEOPLE, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships I WOULD HAVE TO, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: I would have to take each and every Last Line: I have a longing that will not spare him Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Thought I'M TIRED, by FRANK LIMA Poem Source First Line: I want you to grow old with me Last Line: Wondering if my soul will become a kiss again Subject(s): Relationships I'VE BEEN MARRIED SINCE BIRTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Depth of my insincerity Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature ICE STORM, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: While sixty cars were slewing wildly on Last Line: Not the darkness she expected %but the beckoning tunnel of light Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Psychoanalysis; Relationships IF - FOR WOMEN, by WILLIAM F. MILES Poem Text First Line: If there's a man (alive) in this earthly whirl Last Line: If there's such a man -- would you really want him? Subject(s): Relationships IF I PROPOSE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: If I propose a walk, a ride Last Line: If I propose. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IF IT BE TRUE, by ESTHER JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: If it be true, celestial powers Last Line: Bestow upon my mind Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights IF YOU, by PUDONG Poem Source First Line: If you were yi-doryong Last Line: Light from clear skies Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships IF, MY DARLING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If my darling were once to decide Last Line: Might knock my darling off her unpriceable pivot Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Man-woman Relationships; Reality; Male-female Relations IMPLICATIONS OF ONE PLUS ONE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes we collide, tectonic plates merging, Subject(s): Relationships IN A WORD, by ELIZABETH KUHLMAN Poem Source First Line: The male domestic fowl Last Line: Raises his crowned head Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Violence IN AN ACT OF PITY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Pity; Male-female Relations IN BALTIMORE'S ART DISTRICT, by JOHN LUNDBERG Poem Source First Line: Past the eyes and voices of the city cafe Last Line: By the warmth of a tongue in december Subject(s): Art And Artists; December; Love; Relationships IN DEFENSE OF OUR OVERGROWN GARDEN, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the apple trees shook and gave each lettuce a heart Last Line: To close I’m sorry there won’t be any salad and I love you Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Relationships IN LATE FALL, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I get goose bumps Last Line: For the winter Subject(s): Likes And Dislikes; Man-woman Relationships IN LINE FOR THE EXHIBIT, by OLIVER RICE Poem Source First Line: He is japanese, a schoolboy Last Line: Perhaps she reads far into the night Subject(s): Relationships IN QUOTES, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: She asked me Last Line: One more detail, final %and inoffensive: %I understand Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships IN TEHACHAPI, by DAVID STARR JORDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold is the wind upon the mountain side Last Line: Thy face, teháchapi! Subject(s): Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Tehachapi, California; Male-female Relations IN THE BEGINNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he wakes, he turns Last Line: Who she is, or %what he lost Subject(s): Arabs; Gardens And Gardening; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nature; Palestine; Relationships IN THE LONG RUN LIKE GOVERNMENTS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flattened, in thin snow spread out before us Last Line: No one can pick up or put back Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature IN THE MADNESS OF AGE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the drapery of shadow I forgive Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations IN THE MEN'S ROOM(S), by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young I believed in intellectual conversation: Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism IN THE MOVIE NOW, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: There is no glory in trying to make love to men Last Line: You'll have to scrub out later Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Rape IN THE NIGHT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou, thou lost face Last Line: For her, and thee, and me? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations IN THE OLD DAYS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We didn't have this and we didn't have that Last Line: In such bodies in those days Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Erotic Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Past IN THE PLAGUE YEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the old cartoon the terrified Last Line: In death's and mummy's %and big daddy's one shrinking eye Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Quarrels IN THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O she will have the deep dark heart, for all her face is fair Last Line: A heaven of peace it is beside this mockery of a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Advice; Despair; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Shadows; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy IN THE STORM, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My child, your hero may not be Last Line: And sorrow come to dwell with you. Subject(s): Love; Problems; Quarrels; Relationships; Arguments; Disagreements IN THE YARD, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: If I sit long enough on this wooden bench Last Line: I think I'll sit right here on this old bench %for twenty years and watch the dogwood grow Subject(s): Old Age; Psychoanalysis; Relationships IN THIS CORNER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For as we are hurtling, sucked Last Line: In this corner stopped still Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Togetherness IN TINTAGEL, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah lady, lady, leave the creeping mist Last Line: And in the gardens glad birds sing again! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations IN WITNESS OF WOMEN POETS, by SUSANNA ELIZABETH ZEIDLER Poem Source First Line: Rhapsodius does not imagine women write Last Line: We will be more like equals Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights INDISCRIMINATE KISSES, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: Foreplay of obscene graffiti carved Last Line: Some distance from where I set in Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Youth INSIDE, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time she called across the room while the rain Last Line: She moved inside, as a woman moves into a room. Subject(s): Relationships; Snow INSIDE OUT, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk the purple carpet into your eye Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Relationships INSTITUTIONAL BLUE, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: In the welfare waiting room Last Line: Voice: we won't end up like them. That sticks Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Relationships; Women INTERPRETATION OF LOVE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Two deadly beautiful fighter jets across the sky, and cartographers Last Line: In a flower. May it open just for me when the woman I love gazes at it Subject(s): History; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Self INTERRUPTION, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She'd just gone out onto the stoop, and run down the steps Last Line: Of her palm she would go ahead and sprinkle the raisins in Subject(s): Children; Memory; Relationships INTERVIEW, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ladies men admire, I've heard, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Likes & Dislikes; Male-female Relations INTO THE BREACH, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to tell them we can hear Last Line: Anywhere but inside their faces Subject(s): Relationships INVISIBLE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The parents are fucking. The parents are discussing Last Line: On which we walk through their cities Subject(s): Change; Relationships IRIS ADMITS THE LIGHT THE IRIS WILL ALLOW, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A letter flew into his hand Last Line: Stitched up her eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Eyes; Man-woman Relationships IRISH, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Candles lit to st. Augustine's life-thirst Last Line: In laughter, even in this room, pressing %its suffering outwardly toward grace Subject(s): Relationships IS IT YOU?, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose clouds are those? Whose nematodes? Subject(s): Relationships IT?ÇÖS RANK IT CRANKS YOU UP, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Relationships IVA'S PANTOUM, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pace each other for a long time. Subject(s): Women; Relationships JACOB, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dwelt among 'apartments let' Last Line: The difference to me! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Male-female Relations; Feminism JAEL'S POEM, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Yes %I did it beat Last Line: And sleeps %with one eye open Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights JAMESIAN, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their relationship existed Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Relationships JAMESIAN, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their relationship existed Last Line: In discussing if it existed Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Relationships JAMIE THINKS HE'S ALWAYS RIGHT, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: This is a found poem, a verbatim quotation Last Line: So he's always wrong Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sons JEN, by JOHN COLMAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: Fifteen long years I think it was that jen Last Line: And sue and jim were married the next week. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations JENNY TO L. H., by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Leigh hunt kiss'd me when we met Last Line: Could have kiss'd me Subject(s): Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feast was spread, the sparkling bowl went round Last Line: "we march to rescue orleans from the foe." Subject(s): Duty; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Love; Man-woman Relationships; Missions & Missionaries; Obedience; War; Heroes; Heroines; Male-female Relations JOHN CLARE, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: John clare, I cried last night Last Line: Sometimes for sheer delight %john clare, I cried last night Subject(s): Clare, John (1793-1864); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights JOHNNY RIGHT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Johnny right, his hand was brown Last Line: Her own self had evoked her fate. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Human Behavior; Optimism; Pessimism; Fate; Alcoholism & Alcoholics JOSEPHINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Hark, the very birds are singing, 'josephine!' Last Line: Josephine? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poverty; Wealth; Male-female Relations; Riches; Fortunes JUST WHEN, by KYESOM Poem Source First Line: Just when did my green age go Last Line: Knowing the way would have led me to mourn Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Old Age KARINTHA, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon Last Line: ...When the sun goes down %goes down Subject(s): Beauty; Man-woman Relationships; Youth KATE DALRYMPLE, by WILLIAM WATT Poem Text First Line: In a wee cot-house far across the muir Last Line: He's wedded to and bedded noo wi' kate dalrymple. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations KATHARINE JOHNSTONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there was a may, and a weel-far'd may" Subject(s): Courtship;man-woman Relationships;marriage; Male-female Relations;weddings;husbands;wives KEEP TALKING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it ain't simply this, what is it? Subject(s): Relationships KEY, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And still the planets go by Last Line: In the slow, blossoming traffic %and wallow of seamless oceans Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude KICKING LEGO BLOCKS: 2, by SHAWN WONG Poem Source First Line: Wherever we are in this country Last Line: Up to greet us %in cindy's fire Subject(s): Relationships KIND, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I think of my kindness which is tentative and quiet Subject(s): Kindness; Relationships KINDLY DEATH, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death touched her, not decay Last Line: And closed her eyes a while. Subject(s): Death; Love; Relationships; Rest; Silence; Dead, The KING CHARLEMAGNE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas strange that he loved her, for youth was gone by Last Line: Of the spell that possess'd charlemagne. Subject(s): Beauty; Charlemagne (742-814); Curses; Festivals; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations KOHL, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: There was a time before I called myself Last Line: Their prophet calls up himself. Is it peace? Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights KYRIELLE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Whom do I love? And must I tell Last Line: Shall reign, for I love you! Subject(s): Confessions; Love; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI OFFERS HER VERSION, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: So what! Bewailing last night's charms Last Line: This will bring your colour back %an aspirin Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights LA FELINE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have come back to me through the / ages Last Line: And forswear hope of god for your sake! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations LA VACHE QUI RIT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Please, some dignity! Sorrow, get back up on your throne Last Line: There's a tear dropping from my nose and I must wipe it Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships LACRIMAE RERUM, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs yap, sirens wail through the city Last Line: Sexual damps and dews slide away Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships LADS OF THE VILLAGE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lads of the village, we read in the lay Last Line: Or upon any field of experience where pain makes patterns %the poet slanders Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LADY ALICE WAS SITTING IN HER BOWER-WINDOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Subject(s): Death;love - Loss Of;man-woman Relationships; "dead, The;male-female Relations; LADY MACBETH ON THE PSYCH WARD, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor, I'm lost in these mazy halls that lead nowhere Last Line: And I am lost in it. Doctor, I breathe blood, not air Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights LADY THAT'S KNOWN AS LOU GIVES R. W. SERVICE A PIECE OF HER MIND, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Our boys were whooping it up just fine till you swung through Last Line: Me quicker than those poor stiffs. But before any amour, I gotta mop this bloodyfloor Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Service, Robert (1874-1958); Women's Rights LAIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let her who walks in paphos Last Line: Wishing to see that face and finding this. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism LAMENTATIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scrub woman for the old bank and jailhouse Last Line: One is of welcome; the other, farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Lament; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; World War Ii; Parting; Male-female Relations; Second World War LAMIA TO LYCIUS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you here me, lycius? Do you hear these dreams Last Line: Till every human word you say is clear Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights LANDED, by CARYN MIRRIAM-GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: Here everything is a list of its details Last Line: Out of the stories we have for love Subject(s): Nature; Relationships LANGUAGE OF DIPLOMACY: ADULT COMP., by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: We have a special name for it Last Line: That in this song of survival, %something else has happened instead Subject(s): Relationships LANGUAGE OF THE BRAG, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wanted excellence in the knife-throw Last Line: And I am putting my proud american boast %right here with the others Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women; Women's Rights LAPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the last war we drafted pages and pages Last Line: Sitting up in the seminaked sunshine, %his hair blowing all around Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Relationships; Travel; Wills LAST, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The unsigned architecture of loneliness Subject(s): Cold War; History; Relationships; Sons; Historians LAST FIREFLY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: As the moon rises it circles Last Line: Singing with yellow light its clear small song Subject(s): Fireflies; Psychoanalysis; Relationships LATE, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late and the others have turned Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LATE AFTERNOON, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh see the gorgeous warring clouds Last Line: And other things I can't name I can't %be held responsible for Subject(s): Relationships; Winter LATE ROUND, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: When the fighters slow down, moving towards eaach other Last Line: And are separated, but they don't let go Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Fights; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Sports LATTICES INSPIRED, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We do not know Last Line: Is not what thinks the mind Subject(s): Relationships LAURENCE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew she did not love him; but so long Last Line: No, never. Some men are such gentlemen!' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Soul; Tears; Youth; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The renewal project is doomed: because Subject(s): Relationships LE MAIN DE DIEU, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Leaving rodin's garden, we stole Last Line: Rocked there, believing, in the hand of god Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses LE MONDE EST MECHANT, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is malevolent dear Last Line: What feeling and wit you display! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Earth; Man-woman Relationships; World; Male-female Relations LEAVING THE BEACH ON A SUNDAY IN A STREETCAR, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Daughters; Relationships LEDA, by CHANDA J. GLASS Poem Source First Line: Exactly %fourteen years and Last Line: Fistfuls of %bloody white feathers Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) LESSONS FROM HOUDINI, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You practice disappearing Subject(s): Relationships; Houdini, Harry (1874-1926) LET RAKES FOR PLEASURE RANGE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let rakes for pleasure range the town Last Line: And wedlock's bands make johnny jenny's. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LET THE DAY PERISH, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was meaner than a flimsy dollar the change machine refuses Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: En las manos de nuestro amor Subject(s): Farm Life; Social Commentary; Relationships LET'S WAIT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: What are you wearing Last Line: A government scholarship well invested Subject(s): Homosexuality; Marriage; Relationships LETTER AND ANSWER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After so many years she wrote, but why Last Line: "restore the life that once joined me to you?" Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of; Love Letters; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Youth; Male-female Relations LETTER FROM LESBIA,, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...So, praise the gods, catullus is away! Last Line: The stupid fool! I've always hated birds…. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism LETTER FROM LESBIA, SELS., by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...So, praise the gods, catullus is away! Last Line: The stupid fool! I've always hated birds Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LETTER TO DENISE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember when you put on that wig Last Line: Love the stone, and, yes, I know its soul. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations LETTERS FROM A LOVER FROM ANOTHER PLANET, by SIMONE MUENCH Poem Source First Line: Here, we listen with our tongues, mouths always Last Line: The milkweed smell of your skeleton, %the bloodroot of you Subject(s): Love; Relationships LETTERS TO YESENIN: 15, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul of water. The most involved play. She wonders if she Last Line: It's over. But wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Longing; Relationships; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LEVIATHAN, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Truth also is the pursuit of it Subject(s): Relationships; Reality; Language; Words; Vocabulary LEWIS', by KIM TAPHIN Poem Source Last Line: Giving the thing a caledonian twist Subject(s): Change; Relationships LIFE GOES ON, by MILDRED EVADNE HICKMAN Poem Text First Line: Sudden and abrupt - / the slam of a door Last Line: Nor why. Subject(s): Relationships LIFE IN THE TWISTS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bare freckled skin under black cloak Last Line: "or vice versa..." Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Skin; Male-female Relations LIFE OF THE MIND, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: She sees sky from his bed, red Last Line: All offers of a better life Subject(s): Life; Past; Reason; Relationships LIFE-BINDING, by LENORE BAELI WANG Poem Source First Line: The bombing pressed a building pancake-stacked Last Line: But finding nothing sweet, transferred no spores Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights LIGHT BLUE, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white clothes on the line put the man to sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Nightmares LIGHT HEARTED AUTHOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birches are mad with green points Subject(s): Brothers; Conduct Of Life; Relationships; Birch Trees; Half-brothers LIGHT LOVER, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you go back to the sea, my dear? Last Line: Oh, I think you had better go back to the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Masefield, John (1878-1967); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Feminism LIGHT-YEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under my hand mere Last Line: The sudden flare of feeling we almost touch Subject(s): Death; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers; Sympathy LIKE ANY OTHER MAN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born with a knife Last Line: Unlocked my body. Subject(s): Change; Happiness; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Salvation; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations LIKE BROTHER AND SISTER, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Like brother with dear sister, hand in hand Last Line: I say, 'of which we ne'er shall know who sheds them!' Subject(s): Grief; Man-woman Relationships LIKE ROCKS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They surfaced gradually until the center cooled Last Line: Hunger poetry breath shhhhhh Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships LIKE SISTER AND BROTHER, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source Last Line: We go holding hands Subject(s): Desire; Love; Relationships; Romance LIKELY STORY, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Atalanta, all her life Last Line: To find a fellow who will cheat Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights LILITH, by CATHERINE MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Some say adam reared me from the beasts Last Line: Will fear as their wet dreams Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LIMITATIONS OF THERAPY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Maria sits on the edge of her chair Last Line: That's just what they say about you!' %says maria Subject(s): Jews - Women; Psychoanalysis; Relationships LINES, by MARTHA COLLINS Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships LINES, by MARCO GUAZZO Poem Text First Line: He that appaled with lust would sail in haste to Last Line: All were bliss, if such fond lust led not to repentance. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations LIQUID FLESH, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a light chocolatine room Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Relationships; Body, Human; Infants; Parenthood LISTEN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having lost you, I attract substitutes Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness LISTEN, LADY!, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, lady! Let me sing Last Line: Looks and wins the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Cultural Differences; Loyalty; Passion; Relationships LITANY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: You are the bread and the knife, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LITERACY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Your face is a story, she said Last Line: I'm illiterate Subject(s): Books; Faces; Relationships LITTLE BLACK TANGRAMS, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one felt in the dark for his hat. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Nature; Relationships LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of neighbors' voices and dishes Subject(s): Relationships LIVING AGAIN, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Her life, proscribed and narrow, had been spent Last Line: To clothe anew the life she thought was dead. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Relationships LOCAL MERCHANT, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: In the history of his race, his place Last Line: To fortify himself for another %soft-smelling body, the next robed stranger Subject(s): Relationships LONELIEST ROAD IN AMERICA, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: We could've gone the other way, freeway Last Line: Is lovely, yes lovely, like me Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Travel LONG DISTANCE, by ALEDA SHIRLEY Poem Source First Line: A man in california says he understands me Last Line: Tell me how you do it, I said, and then go on Subject(s): Relationships LONG ILLNESS, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Green accordions %expand at the base %of the geranium Last Line: Who come last, as I might flower, %myself, into something finer Subject(s): Relationships LONGING, by CYRINTHIA J. CLAYTON Poem Text First Line: I need you dear, you know I do Last Line: My dear, is loyal, firm, and true. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Relationships LOOK HERE, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Next time you walk by my place Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LORD MYTH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow through the room, a rising Last Line: A black feather plunges through the spiraling smoke. Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Ravens; Male-female Relations LOS DOS RANCHEROS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I can see the moon like a bullet sunk in the clouds' body Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LOST AT THE FAIR, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at the fair did I lose thee, my honey Last Line: I kiss'd, sung, and linked with her home from the fair. Subject(s): Festivals; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Worry; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations LOST BRAINS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He felt as if his brains Last Line: His ears. Without her he would %become a nobody too Subject(s): Reason; Relationships LOT'S WIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the just man followed god's ambassador here Last Line: For a single look, she gave up her life Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LOUANNE AND THE BIKER, by AEDAN ALEXANDER HANLEY Poem Source First Line: She met him at a flea market Last Line: School books that you read the stuff Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Motorcycles And Motorcycling LOVE, by CHRISTINE GARREN Poem Source First Line: Lorraine might be in the other room writing songs Last Line: Which is when they kissed Subject(s): Love; Relationships LOVE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who veileth love should first have vanquished fate Last Line: Though watched of the divine hesperides. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Destiny; Male-female Relations LOVE AND THE SIERRA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He galloped over harsh sierra ground Last Line: He screamed: to die in these cold hills alone! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Relationships LOVE HEROIC, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Companioned on the path you chose Last Line: Immortal in your life to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LOVE LETTER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see through you. I am your wallflower Last Line: Through them, I see through you Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Man-woman Relationships; Racism LOVE POEM, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Me on my back, you your front Last Line: Now I lay me down on you Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sex LOVE POEM TO STEVEN, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Rust on the razor Last Line: It's a time of scraps, %cold bonds Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Substance Abuse LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 13, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying in the meadow, open to you Last Line: Hazy smoke half hides %my rose petals Subject(s): Nature; Relationships LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 19, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass the day tense, day Last Line: The evening bells ring from temple to temple Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Night; Relationships LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I thought I could get away Last Line: And a mile is longer than a million miles Subject(s): Relationships; Travel LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 20, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is there? Me Last Line: And we are us Subject(s): Identity; Relationships; Self LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the anguish of these secret meetings Last Line: Words with no connection Subject(s): Family Life; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 36, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sad this morning Last Line: As you passed my shoji Subject(s): Grief; Relationships LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 40, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the wheel follows the hoof Last Line: As you leave me in the dawn Subject(s): Grief; Relationships LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 53, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without me you can only Last Line: I am your wisdom Subject(s): Relationships; Wisdom LOVE SONNETS OF A BOXER: 2, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: What's that? Yuh wanta see me scrap? Yuh say Last Line: Might make me look three times as good as now? Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LOVE THE WILD SWAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate my verses, every line, every word Last Line: Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan Subject(s): Relationships; Swans; Poetry & Poets; Freedom; Hate; Liberty LOVE'S GRAMMARIANS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Periwinkle - bluet - quaker lady Last Line: These shall be time and place Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love – Nature Of LOVE'S LIKENINGS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He. To what, love, shall I liken thee? Last Line: Ever till we meet the sea. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LOVE'S NEARNESS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee when golden sunbeams glimmer Last Line: If thou wert here! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Relationships; Separation; Isolation LOVELY MONOCHROMES OF WINTER, by KAREN L. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Then comes the talking easily reconstructed then Last Line: -ungainly lives at best well-put savagery %at worst the visible bone the disappearing Subject(s): Relationships; Seasons; Solitude; Winter LOVER THAT SHOWS, by MYONGOK Poem Source First Line: A lover that shows himself only Last Line: A dream, just show yourself to me Subject(s): Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships LOVER'S LAMENT, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: I clasp you close and feel your arms entwine Last Line: It would be kinder far to tell me so. Subject(s): Hearts; Lament; Love; Relationships LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . . Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; LUCASTA REMAINS UNCONVINCED, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: Honour,' you say, and think I'm unaware Last Line: Of what you plan on chasing over there? Subject(s): Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LUCASTA REPLIES TO RICHARD LOVELACE, by MARGARET ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Tell me not, dick, I should be glad Last Line: I to having fun! Subject(s): Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LUST, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If only he could touch her Last Line: An orange to feel fingernails %run a seam through him Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Sex LUSTRE, by LORENZO THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What does the warmth Last Line: That pulled glenn miller's orchestra %out of the sky Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships LYCIDAS, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: If lycidas could somehow rise again Last Line: Over an ordinary accident Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights LYING MY HEAD OFF, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's my head, in a dank corner of the yard Subject(s): Lies; Truth; Conduct Of Life; Relationships LYRICAL LETTER TO THE OTHER WOMAN, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: I do not know your name, I have never seen Last Line: When nothing is possible! Subject(s): Love Letters; Man-woman Relationships MA LADY'S LIPS AM LIKE DE HONEY (NEGRO LOVE SONG), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breeze a-sighin' and a-blowin' Last Line: Nuff to make me understan'. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MADAME DELUXE'S GUIDE TO THE PLEASURES OF LEATHER, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: On a first date, wear oiled nubuck ankle boots Last Line: Kick off your shoes and walk all over him Subject(s): Courtship; Leather; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Manipulation; Shoes MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 1. ORDERING YOUR BRIDE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: To order, simply send check or credit card information Last Line: And best of all, no more cold shoulders Subject(s): Jokes; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Marriage - Forced MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 3. ASKING FOR HER HAND, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Once you have developed a rapport with your new deluxe bride Last Line: Brides are bribe-resistant and not susceptible to reprimands Subject(s): Jokes; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Marriage - Forced MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 4. HOW TO ENDURE YOUR BRIDE TO YOU, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Tell her she looks lean as a sparerib Last Line: Use ribbed condoms for her pleasure Subject(s): Jokes; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Marriage - Forced MADE-FOR-TV ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a year of spirited intercourse Last Line: How lbullish she was on french kissing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Romance; Sex MADRIGAL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The troubadours sing merrily Last Line: Will dolly, in her gingham gown! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Troubadours; Male-female Relations; Minnesingers MAGGIE AND PAUL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Better marry than burn,' saint paul said Last Line: Bad shoes are better than none Subject(s): Heaven; Marriage; Relationships MAGICIAN'S BEAUTIFUL ASSISTANT, by BART BAXTER Poem Source First Line: She pushes up her chest a little, tries Last Line: Be done with now you see it, now you don't Subject(s): Magic; Relationships MAHLER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mahler endlessly repeats himself Last Line: We'll sing again. My theory is no one Subject(s): Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Relationships MAKING MEN, by CAROL ANN DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Susan makes men from oranges; Last Line: See here is the penis %mine sticks straight out Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sculpture And Sculptors MALENE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked on thee in former days Last Line: No, not as long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations MALIBATUS, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: When he came down from the hills, a crowd surrounded him Last Line: Legs were hurtling her toward the well Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships MALISON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I promised no reproach, elise Last Line: As deadly. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MAN (NEVER SAYING, LOVE, LOVE ME ):, by SUSAN GRIMM Poem Source First Line: This time, before I got up the stairs I smelled Last Line: And every morning she whips me with her joy Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships MAN IN SPACE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All you have to do is listen to the way a man Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MAN PAYS COURT WITH HIS POEMS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A woman dismissed him with hers Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Poetry And Poets MARGARET'S SPEECH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a frogman. Naked by the water Last Line: Who knows that I bleach my hair. Variant Title(s): Margaret Subject(s): Drowning; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Male-female Relations MARICHI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hour before sunrise Last Line: Risen sun - star and crescent gone into light Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Nudity MARIE AT TEA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You remember the extremes Last Line: Love, of marriage, the / extreme Subject(s): Change; Food & Eating; Relationships; Tea MARIE AT TEA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You remember the extremes Last Line: Love, of marriage, the %extreme Subject(s): Change; Food And Eating; Relationships; Tea MARIE TAGLIONI, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: She wondered how she could leave the world behind Last Line: In the mornings, of course, the ice is gone Subject(s): History; Rape; Relationships; Snow; Women MARILINE, SELECTION, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the wheel plied mariline Last Line: To the brow of mariline. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nature; Women; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARILYN AND JONALYN, by DEBORAH BYRNE Poem Source First Line: Twice a month our mothers went Last Line: That made sticky sounds %when they lifted their thighs Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships MARK STRAND, by NAOMI RACHEL Poem Source First Line: The first time %it is safer Last Line: Over %the rails Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Strand, Mark (b. 1934); Women's Rights MARTA OF MILRONE, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him where the rio flows Last Line: O marta of milrone! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Death; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Mexico; Ranch Life; Revenge; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Southwest; Pacific States MARTIAL - XII, LII, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is your own lover, kenneth, marie Subject(s): Death; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations MARTIAL - XII, LII, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is your own lover, kenneth, marie Last Line: Dead bones at my still glowing ashes Subject(s): Death; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships MARY'S PRESENT, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: I'm not believing for a minute shelley's heart Last Line: Next to the plums? Stunning Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Women's Rights MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is yonder poor maniac, whose wildly fixed eyes Last Line: Of poor mary the maid of the inn. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hotels; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Male-female Relations MATINS, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Disappointment; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MATTIE J. PETERSON, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: In a game of snap a man picked her Last Line: In the words of the bible Subject(s): Relationships MAX ERNST'S DAUGHTER SPILLS WINE DURING A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL, by DEBORAH FLANAGAN Poem Source First Line: A candlelight dinner -- her lover flirts with the wine bottle Last Line: Makes love to measure, %sensitive to all colors but red Subject(s): Marriage; Relationships MAXIMIAN, ELEGY 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is perfectly clear Subject(s): Chaos; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Social Protest; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations MAXIMIAN, ELEGY 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is perfectly clear Last Line: Ever lived, had stepped across my grave Subject(s): Chaos; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Social Protest MAXIMUS TO GLOUCESTER, LETTER 27 [WITHHELD], by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come back to the geography of it Subject(s): Relationships ME & RIVER PHOENIX, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: When me & river %go down to the mall Last Line: Then I rise up in his name %& keep rolling on Subject(s): Adolescence; Relationships MEDEA'S SOLILOQUY, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Why didn't I just carry off Last Line: The better thought came one day later Subject(s): Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MEDEA, HOMESICK, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: How many gifted witches, young and fair Last Line: He discovered it himself, and is past harm Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MEDITATION, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Sitting lotus hurts my knees Last Line: And deep inside, a still small voice assures me I can go on Subject(s): Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MEETING, by ALICE FREEMAN PALMER Poem Text First Line: One day we gave each other, one more day Last Line: To meet our future glad and unafraid. Subject(s): Relationships; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College MEETING AND PASSING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went down the hill along the wall Last Line: Before we met and you what I had passed. Subject(s): Relationships MEG GOLDLOCKS, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye've heard of meg goldlocks of willington dene? Last Line: And their lovers allowed to tread willington dene! Subject(s): Beauty; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MEIN LIEBCHEN, WIR SASSEN ZUSAMMEN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My darling, we sat together Last Line: Upon the great sea-flow. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations MEJNUN AND LAILI (AFTER THE PERSIC), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drugged at the breast of anguish, nursed Last Line: And toward the desert ran. Subject(s): Arabia; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations MEMORIES, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou, louise, forgotten yet Last Line: And I alone remember yet! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations MEMORY OF ANOTHER RIVER, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Sleepless nights are vast and almost always crossed by a river Last Line: That bodies can also be the flowing together of happy waters? Subject(s): Insomnia; Memory; Relationships MEN ARE HEAVEN'S PIERS; THEY EVERMORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How far a little virtue goes Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Male-female Relationships; Virtue MEN, WOMEN, AND EARTH, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early in the morning the hermit wakes Last Line: Earth nourishes what no one can see. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mankind; Montague, John (b. 1929); Male-female Relations; Human Race MENAPHON'S ECLOGUE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too weak the wit, too slender is the brain Last Line: My faith is firm, though homely be my lay. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness MENAPHON: DORON'S ECLOGUE, JOINED WITH CARMELA'S, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sit down, carmela; here are cobs for kings Last Line: Come, kiss and part, for fear my mother comes. Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' DESCRIPTION OF HIS MISTRESS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tune on, my pipe, the praises of my love Last Line: A sky-born form so beautiful as she. Subject(s): Beauty; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' MADRIGAL, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are my sheep without their wonted food? Last Line: Whereto this solace tends! Subject(s): Country Life; Happiness; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations MENIAL WORK, by PAUL MCRAY Poem Source First Line: At first I hate it Last Line: How well or poorly it's done. It's almost like being in love Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Relationships MENNEN SKIN BRACER, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Having a boyfriend meant holding hands at the movies Last Line: Of my first dance at the indian school gym Subject(s): Adolescence; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Native Americans - Women MERMAID AS SHE REALLY IS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source Last Line: She hails it blowing a derisive raspberry %on a shell-pink conch Subject(s): Mermaids And Mermen; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea; Women MERMAID'S SONG, by VERNA SAFRAN Poem Source First Line: I'm one of the mermaids in prufrock's song Last Line: To be courted by prufrocks %who cannot, will not, swim Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MESSAGE TO BARLEYCORN, by GAYLORD BREWER Poem Source First Line: I need to see you tonight Last Line: Then darken as goats bleat %in their private nightcomings Subject(s): Relationships; Togetherness MEZZA RAGNA, by TONI LA REE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Stuck somewhere in the middle Last Line: Between two possibilities %mezza donna, mezza dea Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MID-FEBRUARY, WHITE LIGHT, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Country music and a black dog barking Last Line: Cast on the floor, a reduction from action to disorder. %or the gift of a warm wind that feels wet Subject(s): Relationships MILK, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: There is something blue about it Last Line: Of pale grass growing over. Subject(s): Decay; Relationships MILTON'S WOMEN WITH MEMORIES MORE THAN 300 YEARS OLD, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: Milton had 3 wives, 3 daughters, blindness and poetry Last Line: Fumblings? Irrational, yes; but cunning, too %and infinitely vengeful Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights MINT, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already, we’d be driving past Last Line: The chance of a reprieve Subject(s): Forests; Man-woman Relationships MINUTE FINGERS OF A TINY WIND', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Walk back the way we came Subject(s): Relationships; Wind MIRACLE BABY, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: She was born with a cunt and a brain Last Line: To make it up %as I go along Subject(s): Anger; Male Chauvinism; Man-woman Relationships MIRIAM, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: She who could see the light of days to come Last Line: Unlamenated in the widerness of zin Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MISERY AND SPLENDOR, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Summoned by conscious recollection, she Last Line: To which they can’t admit they can never be admitted Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MISOGYNY, by DANIEL GORDON Poem Text First Line: A woman is a wondrous being Last Line: God curse them all! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations MISS DIPLOMACY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I'm writing to you, dear, to-day Last Line: "would one of those ""back numbers"" do?" Subject(s): Courtship; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Letters; Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MISTRUST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You look at me with wan, bright eyes Last Line: "let her be free, let her be free""?" Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Relationships; Trust; Wandering & Wanderers MOCKINGBIRD SUITE: 5. THE STARS, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: In my lover's Last Line: Broken glass, cheese, and a knife Subject(s): Relationships; Stars MODERN LOVE, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: The rain streams past the gutters, overflowing Last Line: At the ghost reflection before her. %he believes she is looking at him Subject(s): Relationships MODERN MIDDLESEX, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: Thank god, nearing ruislip gardens Last Line: Now my mobile phone is ringing -- please excuse me. Hello? Spain? Subject(s): Betjeman, Sir John (1906-1984); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MODERN ROMANCE, by MAX GUTMANN Poem Source First Line: She smiled and showed a bit of thigh Last Line: The image of a model bride Subject(s): Love; Relationships MOMENTS THE BODY RISES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heaped powder hushed %grainy seas drift Last Line: Into the cold, blue %bonfires of air Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Relationships MONARCHS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: I remember when they found the hidden valley Last Line: Pausing for just a moment on its long journey Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships MONTANA PEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of montana, eating Last Line: Look in at the two of them, glowing Subject(s): Old Age; Relationships MORNING STAR, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This isn't the end. It simply Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Morning; Poetry & Poets; Relationships MORNING STAR, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This isn't the end. It simply Last Line: Green. You will be allowed %to color in as much as you want %for green is good %for the teeth and th Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Morning; Poetry And Poets; Relationships MOTETS: 11, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul that releases Subject(s): Relationships MOTHER WAITS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: And mother waits %as only mother can Last Line: And speaks and listens %and tries to understand Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships; Women MOTHER'S DRESSER DRAWER, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: There was something hidden in it Last Line: Pouring brine, shining under the whole sky Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Relationships MOTHERS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: We used to ride the broadway bus together Last Line: I envy you %wait till next year Subject(s): Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MOTHS, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: We flit about Last Line: And our only speech a sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Relationships; Togetherness; Weariness; Fatigue MOTION, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you are the amber mare Subject(s): Relationships MOVEMENT SONG, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have studied the tight curls on the back of your neck Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Relationships; Love - Loss Of MOVIE ABOUT THE DEAD CELLIST, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is perfectly straightforward: it's england so there's a fog but also tea Last Line: Against the ceiling like bats: invisible, making no audible sound Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships MOVING INTO MEMORY, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As long as those last words are never spoken Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MOZARTIAN AIR, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your name to know I cared not Last Line: Bids youth and childhood back again. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians; Voices; Male-female Relations MRS. HOBSON'S CHOICE, by ALMA DENNY Poem Source First Line: What shall a woman %do with her ego Last Line: Faced with the choice %that ig go or he go? Subject(s): Egoism And Egotism; Relationships MUCKRAKER, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That greasy letter into which my legs entered, Subject(s): Disappointment; Conduct Of Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MUNECA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Doll and wrist %first limp, then preciosa Last Line: Manipulate a pretty %spanish bit Subject(s): Beauty; Dolls; Man-woman Relationships; Toys; Women MUSE INTERRUPTS MY RANT AT CHARLES BUKOWSKI OVER HIS POPULARITY .., by SUSAN BLACKWELL RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: The muse is a fine old broad. She can forgive Last Line: The muse is a fine old broad. She can forgive Subject(s): Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MUSE SAYS SHE'S FINISHED, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Says she's turning off Last Line: Her flesh devoured %without a blessing? Subject(s): Graves, Robert Ranke (1895-1985); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MY AUNTS ON BOTH SIDES WITH THE LONGEVITY GENES, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Still a virgin at ninety-one Last Line: I guess the honeymoon is over Subject(s): Aunts; Longevity; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MY FATHER'S BIRTHDAY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: My mother doesn't want to give the party Last Line: Rather pleased about it all %and says: I am an ancient man Subject(s): Aging; Fathers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Worry MY FRIEND MELISSA, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: My friend melissa, eighteen %smokes like a chimney Last Line: Who was the victor and who was the victim? %think Subject(s): Causley, Charles (1917-2003); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MY GARDEN GIRL, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: My garden girl with sunburned nose Last Line: My garden girl. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Relationships MY GRAMDMOTHER HATED MY BOYFRIEND, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: All his pleases thank yous Last Line: Died. She must have hated you Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Relationships MY HEART'S AS GAY AS A YOUNG SUNFLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, who will shoe your pretty little foot Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Parting; Male-female Relations MY HEART'S AS GAY AS A YOUNG SUNFLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, who will shoe your pretty little foot Last Line: It'll stay right there till the day I die, %for all men to behold Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships MY LADY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady has returned to town Last Line: The love that warms my formal phrases. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Fashion; Man-woman Relationships; Urban Life; Male-female Relations MY LAST DUCHESS RESPONDS TO ROBERT BROWNING, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Night after night he didn't satisfy Last Line: To paint my soul, to introduce foreplay Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights MY LIFE, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The huge doll of my body Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MY LOVE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love is like a lily bud Last Line: To love and ne'er to part! Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MY MOTHER IN PROVINCETOWN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Mother, now pushing ninety Last Line: The men are pretty and the women are strong! Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MY NIGHT WITH PHILIP LARKIN, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rendezvous with dweeby philip in the shower Subject(s): Larkin, Philip (1922-1985); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism MY NIGHT WITH PHILIP LARKIN, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rendezvous with dweeby philip in the shower Last Line: The things that others do instead of this Subject(s): Larkin, Philip (1922-1985); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MY PRETTY NEIGHBOR, by ? WEGENER Poem Text First Line: If you've nothing, dear, to tell me Last Line: Pretty little neighbor, say! Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MY SISTER'S BOYFRIEND, by MELISSA KIRSCH Poem Source First Line: Like a mastiff, jowly Last Line: Impossible for anything %to feel quite right again Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships MY SONG FOR SOLOMON, by BARBARA BLOCK ADAMS Poem Source First Line: I have drunk the poisoned milk Last Line: The blood of a ghost among the living Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MY THOUGHTS OF HIM, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: My thoughts of him are muscle and bone Last Line: Through these days after days Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Thought MY WEE WIFE, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, wha is like my wee wife Last Line: Oh, wha is like, etc. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations NAKED LADY PLAYING CARDS, by DAVID THORNBRUGH Poem Source First Line: We'd find them in creek beds Last Line: Naked lady playing cards Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships NAMES OF CURTAINS, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: All day by sheer fullness you strained Last Line: O festoon, jabot, swag, puff, tieback, crescent, priscilla Subject(s): Hall, Donald (b. 1928); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NANA & VICTORIO, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Along this spine of dragoon mountains Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Southwest; Pacific States NAPLES, 1590, by HELEN YETTA WALKER Poem Text First Line: The same old scene of the same old play Last Line: Over her silken knees. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Naples, Italy; Romance; Youth; Male-female Relations NATURAL DEATH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The first my age to die Last Line: Our hands on hers, seeking to hold her and to let her go %and murmured over and over, these are good Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NAUGHTY BOY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When he brings home a whale Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations NAUGHTY JOHNNIE FROST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little leaf,' said young jack frost Last Line: Wore a dress of red! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships NEAR RELATION, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For months after it happened my brother sent gifts Last Line: Like a yellow lance penetrating her skull, but she is smiling Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships NEITHER SPIRIT NOR BIRD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Leaping under the willows Subject(s): Desire;flutes;hearts;love;native Americans;relationships; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America NELL BARNES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They lived apart for three long years Last Line: It was for love she died. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NEOCLASSICIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know your moral sources, prig Last Line: Old women, waited, patiently Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age NETTLE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Nothing binds me to you though I've watched Last Line: My pain is small as things to %and necessary Subject(s): Relationships NEVER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She watched him give his heart first, then his mind Last Line: He'll never make a poet,' she said. 'too kind.' Subject(s): Flirtation; Kindness; Love; Poetry And Poets; Relationships NEVER MND, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never mind the pins Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Relationships NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I look about the place Last Line: "nothing grief-full grows from love." Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Prisons & Prisoners; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Convicts NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S ROUNDELAY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting and sighing in my secret muse Last Line: "wo worth the faults and follies of mine eye!" Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations NEVER TOO LATE: THE PALMER'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old menalcas, on a day Last Line: "the way to good is never late." Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations NEVER TOO LATE: THE PENITENT PALMER'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilom in the winter's rage Last Line: "man is sin, and flesh is grass!'" Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Regret; Sin; Youth; Male-female Relations NEW MAGIC, by KENNETH SLESSOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships NEW MOON HAS REACHED, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Month ago we were strangers Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships NEW PRAYER FOR DAUGHTERS, by JEAN LEBLANC Poem Source First Line: When I was a child there were no towers Last Line: With fire within, your vision is your own Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) NEW YEAR'S 1990, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Joanne's husband was on pan am flight 103 Last Line: And at the turn of the decade write new poems %while you lie breathing Subject(s): Fireworks; Gratitude; Holidays; New Year; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NIGHT POEM, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: It's like the red shoes only listened of dancing Last Line: Kissing my mouth, stroking my ass, parting my thighs %I don't write poems Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NIGHT WATCH IN THE LABORATORY, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: The whipping fishtails beneath the microscope Last Line: Full of the fishy taste of you Subject(s): Relationships NIGHT WE SAY GOODBYE, by LIN FLORINDA COLAVIN Poem Source First Line: We crouch %behind a bulwark Last Line: How to celebrate %what we no longer hold Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women NIGHT: SOBERANES POINT, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: At the ocean my nose Last Line: O blossoming night! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Night; Romance NIGHTFLOWERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I know you'll laugh at this, me love,' she said Last Line: I could feel flowers growin' outa me ears.' Subject(s): Jokes; Relationships NIGHTS AND DAYS OF NINETEEN-SOMETHING, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midsummer with other men's lovers, fumbles Last Line: Come again for me. Take me to the boy Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical; Relationships; Sex; Summer NIGHTS OF 1964€”1966: THE OLD RELIABLE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: White decorators interested in art, Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 4, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A good feast brings us to together today Last Line: Don't stay a common man and poor, %ever in hardship, always beaten down Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Relationships NO ELEGANT CATASTROPHE OF THE HEART, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY Poem Source First Line: It can't get worse but it does. She leaves. She never loved you. What is Last Line: Rain erodes the garden beyond explanation Subject(s): Absence; Loss; Love; Relationships NO MAN CAN ESCAPE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: No man can escape from a woman's love Last Line: No man can escape if he tries. Subject(s): Fathers; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations NO PASTEL PRINCESS, by TONI LA REE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: You expected maybe a %patel princess from oz? Last Line: And put your playthings down Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NO SOFTIE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Snail in the light, worm in bed Last Line: But you're no soft mollusc,' she said Subject(s): Beds; Relationships; Snails; Worms NO THANKS, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Got propositioned today Last Line: Hurting for a fix. %no thanks I said Subject(s): Relationships NO WORLD IS INTACT, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships NOAH'A DAUGHTER, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Good questions %I can answer them Last Line: I wanted the forty days to go on forever Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NOCTURNE, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Moonlight, and the sparkle of nude boys Last Line: Unafraid, they all creep into the shelter of the the throbbing dark. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations NON CARPE DIEM, by PATRICIA FALK Poem Source First Line: Enter gently this good day Last Line: Day will not be seized Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights NORM, by JASON SANTERRE Poem Source First Line: Norm, the dishwasher where I used to work Last Line: I thought he said artistic Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Relationships; Restaurants NORTHAMPTON, 1922 - SAN FRANCISCO, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night rain falls through fog Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Male-female Relations NORTHAMPTON, 1922 - SAN FRANCISCO, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night rain falls through fog Last Line: With children on the verge of youth Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past NORTHWIND ESCARPMENT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mirrors in the hall were a strange backwater Last Line: We always knew it was possible. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Tides; Male-female Relations NOSSIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought to hear him speak Last Line: Nossis, he cried, a flame Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Meleager (100 B.c.); Women's Rights NOT A VERBAL EQUIVILANT, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You said one thing as a way ofsaying something else Last Line: Curve in the road that will point us slowly into as nearby cave Subject(s): Language; Relationships NOT A VOICE, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: Clad in festive robes Last Line: Not a ram to redeem %a mere girl Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He lifts the white skiff up onto the beach. It is easter Last Line: I will marry, he thought of the fish... Subject(s): Drowning; Easter; Fish & Fishing; Holidays; Man-woman Relationships; The Resurrection; Anglers; Male-female Relations NOT TO BE WON, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said there flashes in her wit Last Line: She breaks my heart by staying here. Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations NOT-SO-STILL-LIFE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: White cherry blossoms %float the quad Last Line: Her biting smell in his beak Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships NOTE FROM THE IMAGINARY DAUGHTER, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: Mother always swore your plunge was faked Last Line: Some nights I dream you dead. Some days, unborn Subject(s): Kees, Weldon (1914-1955); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: 4, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two things of opposite natures seem to depend Subject(s): Relationships NOW IS WINTER GONE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long had I known you yet in truth I knew / you not Last Line: Flushes and flowers as gilded fields in april shine. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Nostalgia; Relationships; Winter; Parting NOWHERE NEAR ALBUQUERQUE, by LORENZO THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Should have saved money Last Line: Her silver hair in pocahontas braids Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships NUDE, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: At first, only the soaking sound of the shower Last Line: An architecture of clean skin, wakening muscle, %nerves willingly alive to the watchintg world Subject(s): Relationships O FLAME OF LIVING LOVE, by JOHN CROSS Poem Source Last Line: How delicately thou teachest love to me! Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships O HADA CIBERNETICA: 14, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: Oh nourishing capsule, yet of dust Last Line: In that nutritious pill of dust Subject(s): Bodies; Relationships O LADY FAIR AND SWEET, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Here drifts the blinding sleet Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Male-female Relationships OAXACA 1925, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a beautiful child Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Male-female Relations OAXACA 1925, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a beautiful child Last Line: And black shadows in the moonlight %a lifetime ago Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Past OBSERVATION BY A FORMERLY ROSE-LIPT MAIDEN, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: At the lads who were lightfoot Last Line: Just isn't the brook Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ODE TO HER AROMA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soft woman, what do you smell of Last Line: That awaits me %in your mouth Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships ODI ET AMO, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is the cure for irony in loss I don't mind Subject(s): Love; Relationships ODI ET AMO, by MARTHA RONK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is the cure for irony in loss I don't mind Last Line: It's a relief I tell you. Sets up effigy Subject(s): Love; Relationships OF A GIRL, IN WHITE, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a girl, in white, between the lines, in the spaces where nothing is written Subject(s): Relationships OF THE WOE THAT SWALLOWS HUE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among men, my dimensions Last Line: Spills itself, except %inside another, a receptacle Subject(s): Relationships OF USELESS MEN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Men are usless!' she said, 'simply useless! Last Line: I need a panther to lick my cunt!' Subject(s): Relationships; Sex OFFENDED PARTIES, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake at first light, my mind running fast Last Line: Madman - still one of us Subject(s): Relationships OIL SLICK, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: It surges from us, rhythmic, like a corrupt Last Line: Heron, turtle, grebe, and manatee Subject(s): Relationships OLD BEAU, by MARGARET PEACH VAUGHT Poem Source First Line: I saw him from across the street yesterday Last Line: I wouldn't want him to know. %I don't look the same Subject(s): Aging; Relationships OLD DOGS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those trotskys of relationships Last Line: Famous for not letting you down Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Relationships OLD HANDS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Months since we've made love Last Line: Melting, your fingers blazing at the latch Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age OLD IRISH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The old irish word for kiss Last Line: He knows how stupid it is to think Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Ireland; Kisses; Relationships OLD SMILE AT THE ROAST, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships OLD-FASHIONED LADIES (TO THE MEMORY OF MY GREAT-AUNT, MADAME K-), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ample hall, a stair with wide Last Line: That quaintness, calm and fine, god knows! Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Maturity; Relationships; Relatives ON BEING COY, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Many fish in the murky ocean caves Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ON BERIA'S LAP, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Svetlana, are you grieving Last Line: It is a century you mourn for Subject(s): Beria, Lavrenty (1899-1953); Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Russia - Stalin Era; Women's Rights ON GARI MELCHER'S WRITING IN THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, by HELEN A. PINKERTON Poem Source First Line: How often did she make such quiet, one wonders Last Line: The quiet art of keeping calm the house Variant Title(s): On Gari Melchers' Writing (1905) In The Los Angeles County Museu Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Women's Rights 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 RHODES, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are two kinds of men Last Line: His man might take him Subject(s): Relationships ON SUNDAY MORN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: On sunday morn, down sacred aisle Last Line: On sunday morn! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Public Worship; Religion; Sabbath; Male-female Relations; Church Attendance; Theology; Sunday ON THE COMING OF SPRING, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: During the season when the optic nerve Last Line: The non-existence of unwilling women Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights ON THE GREAT ATLANTIC RAINWAY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I set forth one misted white day of june Subject(s): Relationships; Rain ON THE TIP OF THE TONGUE', by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: On the tip of the tongue Last Line: Territories of our skin Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Montana; Rivers; Travel ON THE WAY TO CHURCH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one I know. I see her sometimes pass Last Line: Nor kneel, god's robber, near that angel face. Subject(s): Deception; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Women; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery ON WOMEN, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three talents to the fair belong Last Line: While thus th' inchanted rashly help it on. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Virtue; Women; Male-female Relations ONCE ONLY: AUSTIN SNOW, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: I saw you that way, late afternoons, always Last Line: Mating of a swan and some god of the night Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Snow ONE DAY IT HAPPENS, by SILVIA CURBELO Poem Source First Line: One day it happens: your lover Last Line: Remembering the short barrel of his heart, %its single bullet Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women ONE TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lone spot on the chanter who is writer Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing & Writers; Paradise; Male-female Relations; Loneliness ONE TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lon- (sounds like 'lawng') on-on-ong Last Line: Reach up now %reach reach Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing And Writers ONE WATCHING THE OTHER ONE A LONG TIME BEFORE IT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Go check on the dogs Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Lingerie; Relationships ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT A WOMAN, by PHYLLIS WITTE Poem Source First Line: Among the late night stillness of city Last Line: The woman stayed with me %stayed very still, with me Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Women's Rights OONA OF THE DARK EYES AND THE CRYING OF WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have fared far in the dim woods Last Line: And the old tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Celtic; Wind; Male-female Relations OPEN, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That yard half-blue with scylla, Last Line: Between its banks -- I am waiting for you Subject(s): Relationships ORIZABA, by ROBERT DEVLIN Poem Source First Line: I see it like a movie screen Last Line: Headfirst into a starless ocean of lament Subject(s): Relationships ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by BRUCE MEYER Poem Source First Line: The incline jagged beneath his feet Last Line: Her to the stars, he prayed they'd hear his pleas %and having hearts, have hearts to break or ease Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships ORTHODOXIES 1, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: His only side -- his face -- to be talked about: the space Last Line: The jew of malta. I took shelter in a coffin Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Graves; Love; Relationships ORTHODOXIES 7, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: The right hand of bardugomeos, the holy relic, helps Last Line: With a swollen throat. Hoot hoot Subject(s): Armenia; Monasteries; Relationships; Saints OTHER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the flux of light Last Line: Talk over its black hidden back Subject(s): Death; Relationships; Sympathy OTHERWISE ELSEWHERE, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere over there the lawyer with a yellowish leaf in his hair; Subject(s): Human Behavior; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature OUR AFTERLIFE [FOR PETER TAYLOR], by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Southbound - / a couple in passage Last Line: Our rust the color of the chameleon Subject(s): Relationships OUR LADY EXAMINES HER ANGER, by NITA PENFOLD Poem Source First Line: Like a foreign object Last Line: The closest she had ever come %to loving herself Subject(s): Absence; Anger; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women OUT OF MY HUSBAND'S POCKETS, by KATHLEEN WAKEFIELD Poem Source First Line: Out of my husband's pockets I shake Last Line: Wood dust like rain on the floor of my house Subject(s): Marriage; Relationships OUT OF ORDER, by T. ALAN BROUGHTON Poem Source First Line: How can it be that for so many years Last Line: I close my eyes and listen to your breathing Subject(s): Death; Relationships OUT OF SEASON, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The first frost is overdue Last Line: And practice positive thinking my mother says %that crap! Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Thought OUTCAST; A TALE OF A LADIES' CRICKET MATCH, by PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE Poem Source First Line: Out in the silent rockies Last Line: There's a thin, sad, pale, grey hermit: %folks know him as 'jaundiced jim' Subject(s): Courtship; Cricket (game); Man-woman Relationships; Men; Service, Robert (1874-1958); Sports OUTING, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Then there was the day I took them to the zoo Last Line: And presenting me with a rose-colored t-shirt %that said we're all crazy about you! Subject(s): Insanity; Psychoanalysis; Relationships OVER, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: It is over, the ceaseless search is over Last Line: Nothing to lose when what is lost was all. Subject(s): Grief; Longing; Loss; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness OZARK ODES: CAFE AT THE JUNCTION, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The way she sees him Last Line: Where oaks vault the road Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Restaurants OZARK ODES: RENT HOUSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O the hours I lay on the bed Last Line: Where we slept together Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Houses; Past; Relationships PAGE 1, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sapphire's lyre styles Subject(s): Relationships PAIN THE DAY CAME, by PANSY MAURER-ALVAREZ Poem Source First Line: Tendencies had developed why he lied and the woman thought Last Line: Some days he hardly remembers it was like this Subject(s): Memory; Relationships PAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY, by VICENTE ESPINEL Poem Source First Line: He who is both brave and bold Last Line: Ne'er have conquered - never could Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Likes And Dislikes; Man-woman Relationships PALE ROSE, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: You laughed uncertainly Last Line: Knowing you wanted red roses again. Subject(s): Affliction; Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations PALM FLOWERS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a land of the sun's blessing Last Line: But forget you quite till then. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PANDOSTO, THE TRIUMPH OF TIME: IN PRAISE OF HIS BEST-BELOVED FAWNIA, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Were she pitiful as she is fair Last Line: Shine in my arms, and set thou in my breast! Variant Title(s): Fawnia Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PANTOUM TO A BEARDED MUSE ON LINES BY ROBERT GRAVES, by KATHLEENE K. WEST Poem Source First Line: A muse does not wear whiskers Last Line: A muse does not wear whiskers Subject(s): Graves, Robert Ranke (1895-1985); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights PAPER DOLL, by JOCELYN HUSSEY Poem Source First Line: Though you made me Last Line: Suggesting a movie I know %you would enjoy Subject(s): Change; Relationships PARADISE LOST, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Not only do you blame the fall of man Last Line: Your memory by blabbering to aubrey Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights PARENTS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old two-hearted sadness, old blight Last Line: "a kind of bird, who believes he reigns there Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Relationships PARNASSUS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She took patrick kavanagh's poems to bed Last Line: Great company, lover and friend,' she said Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Relationships PARTING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: You bore me. I'm leaving you. Tonight Last Line: Don't let the door hit your arse goin' out Subject(s): Home; Relationships PARTING OF SU WU & LI LING, by MARY LEADER Poem Source First Line: The one in a ponytail, the other in a loosened tie; friends Last Line: Both poets, and what they can think of to say is, 'okay,' and 'all right' Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Relationships PARTY SHIP, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships PATIOS OF ITHACA, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: And now he roams the boundaries of my orchard Last Line: There's nothing left to say Subject(s): Relationships; Solitude PATTERN FOR A SWEATER, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: I am banished outside to smoke an evening cigarette Subject(s): Relationships PEACEABLE KINGDOM, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: A tawny lion sprawls on flowers Last Line: She tells him trouble! And he says knowingly, ah, dat freebase, mon! Subject(s): Jews - Women; Psychoanalysis; Relationships PEACH, by JENNIFER TONGE Poem Source First Line: Come here's Last Line: And what else could he say to that %but yes Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches; Relationships PEARLS, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It was the hurt he didn't see Last Line: Shimmering in her eyes Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Love; Man-woman Relationships PENELOPE AND ULYSSES SETTLE A DOMESTIC DISPUTE, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: She'd managed on her own for 20 years Last Line: And so he sailed, pretending he had planned to Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Women's Rights PERCHE QUELLE STRANE GOCCE DI SANGUE SUL CORPO DI JENNIFER?, by KEVIN KILLIAN Poem Source First Line: December 15, dodie, scornful, 'is he your %new boyfriend?' Last Line: What are these strange drops of blood %on the body of %jennifer? Subject(s): Death; Relationships; Time PERFECT POET, by ERICA MANN JONG Poem Source First Line: He says he is a perfect poet Last Line: That every lines smacks of his pefect taste Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights PERHAPS, by GUSTAVE NADAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To horse! To horse! I mount with speed Last Line: Perhaps. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: PHILLIS AND CORIDON, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis kept sheep along the western plains Last Line: Phillis was lov'd, and she lik'd coridon. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Male-female Relations PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: SONNET (3), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is my love, for april is her face Last Line: The rock will wear washed with a winter's rain. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PERSON MEANS CITY, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Sleep crumpled us, our Last Line: The time episode of you Subject(s): Anger; Memory; Relationships; Sleep PERSONAL REASONS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hair - short, long, stars, a bed Last Line: Or not so very much that very way — us. Subject(s): Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PERSONALITY; TO ANN, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER Poem Text First Line: A ray of sunlight flutters in my heart Last Line: Of golden lilies breathing in the sun. Subject(s): Character; Nostalgia; Relationships PETRA, by MARTIN EDMUNDS Poem Source First Line: My laughter Last Line: With food in its cage Subject(s): Relationships PHAEDRA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay not thine hand upon me; let me go Last Line: Or off the knees of murder reaching it. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Women; Male-female Relations PHARMACOLOGY OF THE MARITAL RELATIONSHIP, by MARVIN MALONE Poem Source First Line: It is taught that both efficacy and affinity are Last Line: Be sequestered and shielded from the sun Subject(s): Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Marriage; Relationships PHILIP - A FRAGMENT, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peggy, his sole domestic, slowly grew Last Line: Old peggy sent the manuscript to me. Subject(s): Household Employees; Man-woman Relationships; Writing & Writers; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Male-female Relations PHILOMELA, SELS., by BETH FEIN Poem Source First Line: In the night a winged man comes to me Last Line: Paint our faces ember red %and howl Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights PHILOMELA: AN ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is love once disgrac'd Last Line: Than lead a wanton life with shame. Variant Title(s): Chastity: An Ode Subject(s): Deception; Goddesses & Gods; Honesty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations PHILOMELA: SONNET (ANSWER), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature foreeseing how men would devise Last Line: No more but one, and heart will never lose him. Variant Title(s): Philomela: Woman's Eyes; Answer Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations PHOSPHORESCENCE, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: At the end of love, disaster Last Line: In shapes of peaceful spirits Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION; FOR PAMELA STEWART, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's best, when watching the surprising levitations Last Line: Set aside like land, will be blessed by rain. Subject(s): Children; Dwarfs; Music & Musicians; Relationships; Childhood PICTURES ON ENAMEL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When astraled was lying, like to die Last Line: Was gone beyond the hills upon his battle-steed. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PIECE OF CORK, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But just look at him: bobs like a cork on a stream Last Line: Relax, he says. With a twinkle and a wink Subject(s): Relationships PIED UNTIDY, by MARGARET ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: This dappling's the devil's work we must undo %curse him! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights PINDAR AND CORINNA; FOR CHARLES L. O'DONNELL, C.S.C., by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Corinna, hail the victress! Evoae!' Last Line: Ethereal touched his soul awake with smiles. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Greece; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Greeks; Male-female Relations PISIDICE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daughter of the lesbian king Last Line: To dreamless rest, pisidicê! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations PITS, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We go on and we tremble. Subject(s): God; Relationships; Conduct Of Life PLACES I WOULD LIVE, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: Not paris. Not london Last Line: Like rebecca. Yes. Like that Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Travel PLACES YOUR BROTHER WOULD SEND YOU, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: This doesn't speak to abel's complaint Last Line: I have polished my life to pearl Subject(s): Brothers; Love; Relationships PLAIN SONG, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Of dreams, of memory you sing, small Subject(s): Relationships PLANETS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Together in bed, they're planets apart Last Line: He's chatting with mars. Subject(s): Planets; Relationships PLATONIC YEAR, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wish to live disappears Last Line: Where breathing either way is useless Subject(s): Absence; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915); Relationships PLAYTIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: You're my hypnotic, indecisive one.' Last Line: And you're my perfumed, fleshed out skeleton.' Subject(s): Hypnotism; Relationships; Skeletons POEM, by CAROL E. MILLER Poem Source First Line: I have a beard, smeared Last Line: From these glazed lips the taste %of some golden thing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights POEM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On getting a card Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Relationships POEM 4, by ABELARDO SANCHEZ LEON Poem Source First Line: Irresponsible citizen Last Line: Your word's beautiful, citizen, honest among all the shit Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailors And Sailing POEM ABOUT PEOPLE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The jaunty crop-haired graying Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Relationships; Jews; Judaism POEM FOR MAYA, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dipping our bread in oil tins Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Spain; Relationships POEM FOR PATSY, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind shifts Subject(s): Relationships POEM WITH CAPITAL LETTERS, by JANE MARVEL COOPER Poem Source First Line: John berryman asked me to write a poem about roosters Last Line: And even princeton struts like one god's betters? Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 1. READING HAMLET, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A barren patch to the right of the cemetery Last Line: Like an ermine mantle from his shoulders Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 10, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can you look at the neva Last Line: Bonfires of roses in the snow Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Variant Title(s): How Can You Look At The Nev Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 11. JULY 1914, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All month a smell of burning, of dry peat Last Line: They are casting lots for thy garments.' Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 12, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All has been taken away: strength and love Last Line: But I have run out of tears and excuses Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 13, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We don't know how to say goodbye Last Line: In which we shall always be together Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 14, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the throes of suicide Last Line: Not, in my mourning, to be defiled Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 15, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now nobody will want to listen to songs Last Line: Desperately knocking at the doors of strangers Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 16, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is this age worse than earlier ages? Last Line: And calling the ravens, and the ravens are flying in Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 17, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold Last Line: But wild in our breast for centuries Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 18, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not one of those who left the land Last Line: Straighter than you...More proud Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 19. LOT'S WIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the just man trailed god's shining agent Last Line: Who suffered death because she chose to turn Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 2. PUSHKIN, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A swarthy youth rambled Last Line: His dog-eased verses by parny Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 20. THE MUSE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that I am hangs by a thread tonight Last Line: The lines of his inferno? She answers: 'yes.' Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 21. THE LAST TOAST, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I drink to our ruined house Last Line: That god in fact has not saved us Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 22. BORIS PASTERNAK, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who has compared himself to the eye of a horse Last Line: And his to share with every human spirit Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 23. VORONEZH, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the town stands locked in ice Last Line: Which has no hope of dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 24. DANTE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even after his death he did not return Last Line: Perfidious, base, and irremediably home Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 25. IMITATION FROM THE ARMENIAN, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the form of a black ewe my ghost Last Line: Did you enjoy his taste?' Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 26. IN MEMORY OF M. B., by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is my gift, not roses on your grave Last Line: Hiding the tremor of his mortal pain Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 27. CLEOPATRA, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had already kissed antony's dead lips Last Line: On her dark breast with indifferent hand Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 28. WILLOW, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was raised in checkered silence Last Line: And I am silent...As though a brother had dies Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the terrible years of the yezhov terror I spent seventeen Last Line: Then something like a smile passed fleetingly over what had %once been her face Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such grief might make the mountains stoop Last Line: To them I cry, hail and farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a time when only the dead Last Line: Under the wheels of black marias Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940: 1, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn they came and took you away Last Line: I'll stand and howl under the kremlin towers Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940: 10. CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A choir of angels glorified the hour Last Line: Into her secret eyes. Nobody dared Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940: 2, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quietly flows the quiet don Last Line: In jail. Pray for me. Pray Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940: 3, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound Last Line: Whisk the lamps away... %night Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They should have shown you - mocker Last Line: Innocent lives are ending Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen months I have cried aloud Last Line: Stares me straight in the eyes, %promising death, ah soon! Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940: 6, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weeks fly out of mind Last Line: This body of your death Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940: 7. THE SENTENCE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word dropped like a stone Last Line: This brilliant day, this empty house? Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940: 8. TO DEATH, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will come in any case - so why not now? Last Line: Is clouded over by the final horror Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940: 9, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already madness lifts its wing Last Line: Of consolation's parting word Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 29. REQUIEM: 1935-1940: EPILOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have learned how faces fall to bone Last Line: As the ships sail softly down the flowing neva Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 3, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wrung my hands under my dark veil Last Line: And said: 'why don't you get out of the rain?' Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 30: IN 1940: 1, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the burial of an epoch Last Line: And now, over death-struck paris, %such silence falls Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 30: IN 1940: 2. TO THE LONDONERS, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is now writing with impassive hand Last Line: This one we do not have the strength to read Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 30: IN 1940: 3. A SHADOW, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You swim up from the past, of all our set Last Line: But I am troubled by such memories, o shadow! Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 30: IN 1940: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know, if anyone does, %the trails and cliffs of insomnia Last Line: And this a new edition %of my buried life? Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 30: IN 1940: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But I warn you: %this is my last existence Last Line: Or walk through strangers' dreams %with stanchless groans Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 31: COURAGE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know what trembles on the scales Last Line: Pure on their tongues, and free Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 32: RETURN, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The souls of all my dears have flown to the stars Last Line: Brings me good news, my cup of consolation Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 33, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This cruel age has deflected me Last Line: I should know at last what envy is Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 34, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your lynx-eyes, asia Last Line: From the cupped palms of a stranger's hands Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 35. MARCH ELEGY, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have enough treasures from the past Last Line: A sunstruck tatter dances in the mirror Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 36. EPIGRAM, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could beatrice have written like dante Last Line: God help me shut them up again! Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 37. THE DEATH OF SOPHOCLES, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That night an eagle swooped down from the skies onto sophocles' house Last Line: And to grant the athenians the solace of his fame Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 38. ALEXANDER AT THEBES, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young king must have been terrible to behold Last Line: Only be sure the poet's house is spared.' Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 39. THERE ARE FOUR OF US, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Herewith I solemnly renounce my hoard Last Line: Is like a letter from marina in the mail Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart's memory of sun grows fainter Last Line: Perhaps! This very night unfolds the winter Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 40, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have lit my treasured candles Last Line: I would give the peace of the tomb Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 40. POEM WITHOUT A HERO, SELS., by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the year nineteen forty Last Line: And am going down under dark vaults Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three things enchanted him Last Line: ...And he was tied to me Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 6. TO THE MUSE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muse my sister looked in my face Last Line: And took the gift of gifts away.' Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 7, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're all drunkards here, and harlots Last Line: But that one dancing there, %will surely rot in hell! Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 8. THE GUEST, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is changed: against the dining-room windows Last Line: There's nothing from me he wants, %I have nothing to refuse Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POEMS OF AKHMATOVA: 9. TO ALEXANDER BLOK, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came to the house of the poet Last Line: By the sea-gates of the neva Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Relationships POET IN THE GARDEN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source Last Line: The poet's thighs ache as if she had been riding %a broad wild night of love Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Love; Poetry And Poets; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Romance POET PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF A SOUL FROM HIS LOVE FOR DELIA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some have denied a soul! They never loved Last Line: But sure with delia I exist a soul! Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Male-female Relations POETS AND PEACOCOKS, by MARGARET ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Love hurts and sometimes there's cure for it Last Line: Feathers for peacocks, poetry for men? Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights POINSETTIA, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN Poem Source First Line: It lights the house with his presence Last Line: At the center, pollen-gold knots, %almost invisible Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl Subject(s): Flowers; Relationships POLICEMAN'S LOT, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, once I was a policeman young and merry Last Line: It's enough to make a copper turn to booze %(turn to booze) %patrolling the unconscious of ted hughe Subject(s): Gilbert, Sir William S. (1836-1911); Hughes, Ted (1930-1998); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights POMEGRANATE LIPS, by D. TRINIDAD HANKS Poem Source First Line: Lips like pomegranates Last Line: I had to 9-1-1 the law Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Pomegranates; Sex POOR PETER, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Simon dialed words out Last Line: When we're making a life %instead of a living Subject(s): Life; Relationships POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 3. OPPOSITION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four farmers seen through an open window falling asleep Last Line: "that letter fly between her knees."" they are drunk." Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Omens; Reproduction; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Mating POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 7. SONG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bird drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille Last Line: No longer a bitter poem; no longer a poem that could continue! Subject(s): Birds; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marseilles, France; Nazis; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations; National Socialism PORPHYRIA'S REPLY, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Bobby, my love, you guessed not how Last Line: You too lie strangled in my hair Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PORTRAIT, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: When rita fared along the village walk Last Line: Breaking a heart—or brightening a day. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations PORTRAIT WITH DANDELIONS, by LILIANA URSU Poem Source First Line: The two lovers take their amusement, their glasses always filled Last Line: Or another tale about great love, how it begins %or ends. Really crying Subject(s): Love; Relationships POST AND BEAM CONSTRUCTION, by GENIE ZEIGER Poem Source First Line: These familiar hills, bare in winter Last Line: In the silent winter nights, %I hardly heard them leave Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women POSTPONED NIGHTMARE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the sunshine Last Line: Your breath from down below, perhaps. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Grief; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Summer; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery POTENTIAL, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: He steps up behind his wife Last Line: Hum, she says again. %it's got potential Subject(s): Relationships; Sex POWER IN SILENCE, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though I sing high, and chaunt above her Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Love; Relationships PRAYER, by T. ALAN BROUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I dream we sit on the porch Last Line: Each other hears, in present tense Subject(s): Prayer; Relationships; Sickness PRAYER FROM PONTUS, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: If I forget you, the gift of prophesy will be lost. A wind rose Last Line: Of gold. You are so close when you are gone Subject(s): Loss; Relationships PRELUDE, by NEIL TRACY Poem Text First Line: A thing long sought Last Line: With a thing long sought. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Relationships; Youth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed PRELUDES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you stand where I stand Last Line: I must first dry my face! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Relationships PREMIERE LECON, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: You moved on the platform with aesthetic grace, professeur Last Line: Do you know you are beautiful, michel? Subject(s): French Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Male-female Relations; Students PRESSINGS, by GEORGE+(3) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: I have found poems Last Line: Petals I have tried to press %between the pages of us Subject(s): Memory; Relationships; Spring PRIESTESSES, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: The delicate unearthly music Last Line: Of conquest on a thousand fields. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Male-female Relations PRISMATIC LIGHTS, by AGUSTIN F. CUENCA Poem Source First Line: Below the west, that glows all ruddily Last Line: A crystal glass through which to read the skies Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mourning PRIVACY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The animals are leaving Last Line: A small boat awaits elucidation Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Nature; Relationships PRO FEMINA: ONE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From sappho to myself, consider the fate of women Last Line: Flux, efflorescence -- whatever you care to call it! Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism; History; Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Man-woman Relationships; Women; Women's Rights; Historians; Male-female Relations; Feminism PRO FEMINA: THREE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will speak about women of letters, for I'm in the racket Last Line: And the luck of our husbands and lovers, who keep free women. Subject(s): Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Progress; Women; Women Writers; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations; Feminism PRO FEMINA: TWO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take as my theme 'the independent women' Last Line: Springing, full-grown, from your own head, athena? Subject(s): Independence; Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism PROBLEM IN A MATH BOOK, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a problem in a math book Last Line: And know what I did well and what I did not fo. Amen Subject(s): Growth; Man-woman Relationships; Maturity; Religion; Male-female Relations; Theology PROBLEM IN A MATH BOOK, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a problem in a math book Last Line: And what I did well and what I didn't amen Subject(s): Growth; Man-woman Relationships; Maturity; Religion PROCRASTINATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady wears a big bouquet Last Line: She grows more wasteful. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Materialism; Procrastination; Spendthrifts; Vanity; Male-female Relations PROFESSION, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: Exhausted of rhetoric %and anger Last Line: Astringent as loving %that only music immutable Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Women's Rights PROMISES: ON A FAMILIAR POEM BY ROBERT FROST, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: What vows you made, I don't pretend to know Last Line: A few, or most, or some, before you slept Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PROMISING (A MAN SPEAKS), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, a new world, the sun-swart marinere Last Line: But -- ah, for present joy, give me one kiss. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PROPAGATION, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If botanic roots are divided Last Line: Hold me – to hell with everything else Subject(s): Plants; Love; Man-woman Relationships PROPHETIC SPRING, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today 'tis spring; the hawthorn tree Last Line: Each other, she and I. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Spring; Male-female Relations PROPOSAL TO ROBERT BURNS, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Let's make a wedding time won't hook Last Line: You won't be asked to share your name Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PROTEIN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That year I dated ellen I also met her roommate Last Line: With doorposts of whey curds, aged cheese, pillars of pork %-in some ways, everybody's dream Subject(s): Relationships PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY, 1ST SERIES: THE POOR RELATION OR PIOUS HOPE ..., by MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the humble relation that tended the peevishness of wealth Last Line: And the crime of ananias is branded on his brow! Subject(s): Relationships PROXIMITY OF THE BELOVED ONE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee, whene'er the sun his beams Last Line: Would thou wert here! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Relationships; Separation; Isolation PSALM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not lyric any more Subject(s): Relationships; Love; Hate PSYCHE IN SOMERVILLE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am angry with x, with y, with z, Subject(s): Psyche (mythology); Relationships PUBLIC JOURNAL, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is four in the afternoon. Time still for a poem Last Line: And the american royalties, and an inherited income, %to keep the wolf at bay Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PULP FEMINISM, APRIL INSTALLMENT, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: Because when I go for my yearly physical Last Line: And now if I only had the nerve to %call you first Subject(s): Physicians; Relationships; Women's Rights PUNCHLINE, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: Who can figure how we end up where Last Line: Have come alive, at last, stay with me tonight Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships PUNK HALF PANTHER, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sliding’, always: for black journeys, always in holiness Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Social Commentary; Relationships PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Is too good to be true, in all its definitions. Last Line: Like an imperialist, it has charged the landscape forever. Subject(s): Relationships PURSUER PLEADS WITH THE DISTANCER, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: If you must borrow your survival traits Last Line: Tight shut against the merest dangerous grain of light Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships PYRAMID, by LAURENCE W. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Look at a group of people, any age Last Line: Evidently elevated, fundamentally defeated Subject(s): Change; Pyramids; Relationships QUALITY OF WINE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This wine is really awful Last Line: Let the dying be long. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Dead, The; Wine; Male-female Relations; Illness QUEEN MARY'S LETTER TO BOTHWELL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful gods! Have pity on my passion Last Line: And his the victory who most shall venture. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations RABBI'S WIFE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: A wilted flower child Last Line: To send your prayers with me %I will deliver them Subject(s): Jews; Psychoanalysis; Relationships RABBIT QUEEN, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: In a fascination of curls she waits Last Line: Where light finds its way in, %wherre leaves fall past at wonderful speed Subject(s): Relationships RAINY-DAY NOTES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The rasping rain runs down the pane Last Line: Anon, some hint of rapture? Subject(s): Fate; Letters; Man-woman Relationships; Rain; Destiny; Male-female Relations READING AFTER A CALL FROM MY EX-WIFE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read a novel in which the main character used etcetera Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Marriage; Relationships; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives READING AFTER A CALL FROM MY EX-WIFE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read a novel in which the main character used etcetera Last Line: Become so again, for a while Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Marriage; Relationships 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 READING, DREAMING, HIDING, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were reading. I was dreaming Last Line: The color blue was full of darkness, dreaming %in the wind and trees. I was reading you Subject(s): Books; Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Milosz, Czeslaw (b. 1911); Religion; Women's Rights REALISM, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: He asks, why are we here. His miniature Last Line: A red flame, a torso like a soft wall, to sink into %and disappear, for his momentary comfort Subject(s): Relationships REASON, MY DEAR MARIA, BRINGS US TO PROXIMITY, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: You've said, I'm afraid, if my devils leave me Last Line: See my secretary on the way out; your 50 minutes are up Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Women's Rights RECOGNITION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: In some forgotten grove of france Last Line: When we two loved in france in guiltless guile. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations RECOURSE OF DRIFTING, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Year after year, somehow you never interrupted me Last Line: Washing up against me Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Sea; Tragedy RED WINE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour the red wine about! Last Line: Unto death. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Wine; Male-female Relations RED-HAIRED WAITRESS, by KEL MUNGER Poem Source First Line: I used to smile with more than teeth Last Line: Here's a threat you don't even know about Subject(s): Dugan, Alan (1923-2003); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights REDEFINING NORMAL, by KAREN J. MILLER Poem Source First Line: On your first day home you hand me a plant Last Line: Reminding me of hands folded in prayer Subject(s): Relationships; Sickness RENEWAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lake notice, cupid! Far too long Last Line: Swam in a mist of melted sighs. Subject(s): Aging; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations RENUNCIATION, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I have lost you, my friend Last Line: Me! Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest Variant Title(s): Coy Mistres Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights REPLY TO A DREAM SONG, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: Maybe them macho poets should not marry, man Last Line: Weren't all that keen on women, anyway Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights REPROACH, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eyes still wide from visions Last Line: My eyes upon a star? Subject(s): Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness RESPITE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quick wind weeding the sky Subject(s): Nature; Relationships RESPONSE TO THOMAS GRAY BY HIS FAVOURITE CAT, SELIMA, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: It's not my fault the vase's side Last Line: Like off'ring me your favourite chair %I rest my case Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights RETURN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And after the threats, %time drowned Last Line: In the rosy texture %of the water's cheeks Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Togetherness RETURN TO BROOKLYN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Half an hour early for my appointment Last Line: And said she was bathing the baby now %too fearful to let me in Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Psychoanalysis; Relationships REVELATION AT CAP FERRAT, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not solely the dance Subject(s): Relationships; Music & Musicians REVERSING THE FIGURES, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maria, just at twenty, swore Last Line: As better far than none! Subject(s): Aging; Likes And Dislikes; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations RIDING BACK ON A THIRTY-YEAR-OLD TRACTOR AFTER PULLING OUT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Silent philosophy Last Line: Not tonight; we will ride this tractor %home Subject(s): Love - Marital; Relationships RIFT, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: There is a rift in the world Last Line: Arms outflung to embrace the light, riding the midst %singing as she goes Subject(s): Love; Psychoanalysis; Relationships RING, by DAVID MOOLTEN Poem Source First Line: To leave no self-consuming cresset, no kernel Last Line: Of a spruce before he shatters the black water Subject(s): Relationships RIPOSTE, by MARILYN HACKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tom, / when my next volume (granted: slender) Subject(s): Disch, Tom (b. 1940); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism RIPOSTE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tom, %when my next volume (granted: slender) Last Line: And you might find an artists' colony %a perfectly respectable resort Subject(s): Disch, Tom (b. 1940); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights RISING ABOVE THE EARTH, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: She walks sometines among the treetops Last Line: On a cloud that is floating in the word...' Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets; Romance RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a man flying his wife Subject(s): Kites; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness RIVER-MATES, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll be an otter, and I'll let you swim Last Line: Of the river; the deep, dark, full and flowing river! Variant Title(s): Otters Subject(s): Relationships ROBINSON, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dog stops barking after robinson has gone Last Line: Where trees are actual and take no holiday Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships; Relatives ROBINSON AT HOME, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains drawn back, the door ajar Last Line: And the long curtains blow into the room Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships; Disappointment; Relatives ROCK DOVES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Three years I commuted across the tappan zee, Last Line: The answer rang out sharp and shrapnel-sudden Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Relationships ROCKAWAY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Fuck him. %get it over with Last Line: Settle in against the vinyl %for a long night Subject(s): Deception; Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships ROMANCE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were made of dew and light Last Line: O life! O woman! It is I! Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Male-female Relations ROMANCE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know we made it up, like god Last Line: Throbs, aches. Nothing there %and still, the pain makes a shape Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women ROMANTICS, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The modern biographers worry Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897); Schumann. Clara (1819-1896); Male-female Relations ROOMS BY THE NIGHT OR HOUR, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: Remember how we used to meet Last Line: Hidden by last night's news Subject(s): Hotels; Relationships; Sex ROSA MUNDI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright petals of evening Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ROSA MUNDI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright petals of evening Last Line: As though it were filled with doves Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships ROSE AYLMER'S COUSIN, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Ah, what avails the sceptered race Last Line: Till forced to stand in line Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights ROSE HILL CEMETERY, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: This happened in a town almost entirely without doughnuts. One of the first Last Line: But it was too late. We knew the taste before we licked the hole we were about to fill Subject(s): Cemeteries; Doughnuts; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships ROSSETTI'S WIFE, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: He wants his poems, now: the ones he buried Last Line: He digs you up and grabs his verses back Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Women's Rights ROUGE, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: That morning she stood in the kitchen Last Line: Drawn on the floor where they fall. Subject(s): Relationships ROUNDELS, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Foolish men, who accuse woman without reason Last Line: The world, the flesh and the devil! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women - Abused RUE DE LA POSTE, by FREDERIC WANDELERE Poem Source First Line: The client is not too old but a good age even so Last Line: Under the tongue when it was for death Subject(s): Relationships RUNAWAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are sparkles of rain on the bright Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations RUNAWAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are sparkles of rain on the bright Last Line: Was a magnet to draw you always home Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships RUNNING AROUND THE RESERVOIR, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: God, it's not as if I don't know why you wanted her Last Line: That she should have to miss this perfect day Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Solitude SALT AIRS, by TONY SANDERS Poem Source First Line: Time not being an issue, he'd probably write Last Line: At the tide of unfinished correspondence. Maybe he %would write Subject(s): Relationships; Time; Writing And Writers SALT FOR ME, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: What if I imagine the hired man Last Line: Comes this way, without hesitation, %the salt sweat in his hair Subject(s): Relationships SALT MARSH, by DEBORAH CUMMINS Poem Source First Line: Here, love, on the salt marsh Last Line: Or, like the stars, the moon beckons Subject(s): Love; Relationships; Salt; Swamps SALVE DEUX REX JUDAEORUM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sith cynthia is ascended to that rest Last Line: All what I am, I rest at your command. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Man-woman Relationships; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Eve; Male-female Relations; Virgin Mary SAME NOSE, by CARL LEGGO Poem Source First Line: Carrie says skipper and I Last Line: Carrie says skipper and I %have the same nose Subject(s): Noses; Relationships SAME OLD SONNET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I would a moment of my time engage Last Line: That one can't fathom it with fourteen lines. Subject(s): Beauty; Creative Ability; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations SAMSON AGONISTES, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: What better option does delilah have Last Line: Of intertribal, unprotected sex? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights SAVED, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No tears for him! His light was not your light Last Line: Shine at the sunset with eternal light. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships SCENES FROM THE BATTLE OF US, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are like a war novel, entirely lacking Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; War; Male-female Relations SCRIBNER'S, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a little / more going Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Relationships SEA, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Few think of its going on %when we are inland Last Line: Nearer and nearer the doors banging shut far beyond our farms Subject(s): Boats; Man-woman Relationships; Sailors And Sailing; Sea SEAMY SIDE, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I and my women can unsnarl the state Last Line: Each other versions of an endless tale Subject(s): Relationships; Women SECRETS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Blonde charlotte's face is aquiline Last Line: "that rare coquette—""which?"" you must guess!" Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Polygamy; Secrets; Male-female Relations SECRETS OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The pale eyes flashing in his dark face Last Line: They do not know that I am grieving %they do not know I loved you Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Jews - Women; Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships SEEN THROUGH A WINDOW, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man and a woman are sitting at a table. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SELF-CONTAINED VIEW: 'I AM A WOMAN,', by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said. I was drunk. I sat in t-shirt and shorts and basked Last Line: Destructive. We make ourselves live. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Relationships; Seduction; Women SELF-PORTRAIT, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know I promised to stop Subject(s): Children; Secrets; Relationships; Childhood SENSE, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Streetlights blur, elongated Last Line: An answer to your question mark: yes, yes Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships SERENADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: From mountain heights fair echo calls Last Line: With song that aye should live. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SERVANTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I dream, ophelia, how I'd love Last Line: I'll be your caddy Subject(s): Golf; Relationships; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Sports SEVEN POEMS, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the edge Subject(s): Relationships SEVEN SONGS FOR MARTHE, MY WIFE: 1., by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my childhood when I first Last Line: Golden fires and lamps of years Subject(s): Knowledge; Self; Relationships SEVENTH SUNDAY, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships SHADOW IN THE OTHER'S HEART, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: He has none, of course Last Line: Like a mute veil from the world Subject(s): Hearts; Relationships; Shadows SHADOWS, by ELIZABETH GULLOWAY Poem Text First Line: Shadows, like vague dreams of / youth Last Line: Just evade my grasp. Alternate Author Name(s): Galloway, Elizabeth Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Relationships SHADOWS, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT Poem Source First Line: I have been thinking so much about you Last Line: Leaving the shadows doubly deep and cold Subject(s): Relationships; Shadows SHALL EARTH NO MORE INSPIRE THEE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Relationships; Nature SHE CAME TO ME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: She came to me Last Line: And the past was lost in the radiant flame! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Paradise; Male-female Relations SHE IS AWAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I lay awake beside you Last Line: Through all my flesh the blood of truth Variant Title(s): Marthe Away (she Is Away Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night SHE WRITES TO THE MAN WHO WRITES OF HER IN HIS POEMS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tried to hide me in darkness Last Line: Itself over and over. And over Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Absence; Longing SHELLEY'S DEATH, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: Shelley set out that day Last Line: Spiraling, his understanding %consumed Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Women's Rights SHIPWRECK, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The first few days we worked Last Line: I began to keep a diary Subject(s): Disasters; Love; Relationships; Shipwrecks SHIRT COLLAR, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Out of the least shift in the wind, out of Last Line: From what's unfeathering on the floor Subject(s): Relationships SHORT SHRIFT, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was at and about everything, nodding through the mall lot Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Change; Relationships SHORT SHRIFT, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was at and about everything, nodding through the mall lot Last Line: Thank you, I prefer to stand' Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Change; Relationships SHROPSHIRE LAD'S FIANCEE, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Since, as you most justly say Last Line: You talked to me the other day Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights SHULE, SHULE, SHULE, AGRAH!, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His face was glad as dawn to me Last Line: Shule, shule, shule, agrah! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Songs Of Ethlenn Stuart Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Male-female Relations SIDE BY SIDE, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you asleep? Not really. Subject(s): Night; Relationships; Bedtime SILHOUETTE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gallants, well a day! Last Line: In midmost love—in midmost may! Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; May (month); Male-female Relations SILVER ROSES, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strings, as if they knew Subject(s): Relationships SIMON, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: He sits there with the bible Last Line: Is like a blind woman %looking in the mirror Subject(s): Relationships SIMON'S CHINA DOLL IS SHOWING, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Tonight he draws veiled pictures Last Line: And keeps building up the store Subject(s): Drawing; Relationships SINGING FOR ELIZABETH, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How often have I tried to please you Last Line: Then sing to her down the trash-lit alley of air Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Relationships SINGLES' CLUB, by VERA HENKEL Poem Source First Line: Now I'm all alone again Last Line: Safety in suitable arms others get nothing and return to their %companions Subject(s): Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Single People; Solitude SIR WILLIAM PEPPERRELL'S WELL; ISLE OF SHOALS, 1790-1892, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little maid margaret and I, Last Line: Sir william pepperrell's well. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Man-woman Relationships; Wells; Male-female Relations SIREN SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one song everyone Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights; Iliad; Odyssey; Male-female Relations; Feminism SIREN SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one song everyone Last Line: But it works every time Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry And Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights SIX LOVE POEMS: 1, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are seated at the kitchen table Last Line: The space we occupy together Subject(s): Parents; Male-female Relationships; Parenthood SKIN HUNGER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: You hold me like you'd clutch Last Line: We lie in the simmering confusion %of wasps Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Skin SKIN OF IT, by PHYLLIS WITTE Poem Source First Line: She was black %I was white Last Line: How do we dare? Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights SLAVE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He is so enslaved by money Last Line: In every weather Subject(s): Money; Relationships SLEEP (A WOMAN SPEAKS), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep Last Line: Never to want, never to wish for thee! Subject(s): Grief; Light; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Bedtime SLEEPING CHILD IN A RENTED BED, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Your hair, at night, %still tangled from your bath Last Line: Away from your eyes. Released %from captive sleep, you rise Subject(s): Relationships SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night, wasted, I went back and climbed the fence Last Line: Of a newborn daughter. Subject(s): Divorce; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness SMALL QUARREL WITH T. S. ELIOT, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: If love is not the best of poems ever penned Last Line: Still, every kiss is our beginning and our end Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights SMILE, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's just not as much fun without a good Subject(s): Food & Eating; Friendship; Relationships SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES, by TERRY STOKES Poem Source First Line: Your heart. You have a hard time telling me Last Line: That never blossoms, that never ends Subject(s): Eyes; Relationships; Smoke SNOW, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Moon like an exhausted nickel Last Line: As television circles the globe %aerials strum the wind Subject(s): Cold; Man-woman Relationships; Snow; Winter SNOW, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once with my scarf knotted over my mouth Last Line: The son! Before the weather changes. Subject(s): Cold; Fathers & Sons; Relationships; Snow; Weather SNOW WHITE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: She was beautiful, lying there in the meadow Last Line: Even with this gritty, brown, slammer soap Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Unfaithfulness SO FAR OFF AND YET HERE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I know this is going to be painful Last Line: The nail of love just holds Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sex SO WHAT IF WOMEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I smile to see them! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Smiles SO YOU SAY, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is all in the mind, you say, and has Subject(s): Relationships SOLITARY REAPER GETS HER WORDS' WORTH, by JEAN LEBLANC Poem Source First Line: Behold him, idle dandy there Last Line: Forever, as I am right now Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) SONG, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We parted at noontide, I met her at night Last Line: July bound the death-shroud about her. Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine Subject(s): Relationships SONG, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, my caelia, why so coy Last Line: Nor know a second spring. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Spinsters; Youth; Male-female Relations; Old Maids SONG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I took in my hand Last Line: Grows in weight Subject(s): Fate; Man-woman Relationships SONG, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, hark! 'tis a voice from the tomb Last Line: She hung on his tombstone and died. Variant Title(s): Song The Eighth Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONG THAT ONLY COULD BE SUNG ONCE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Variable, changeable, yes, there are days when Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONG: FOR THEE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What woes are there Last Line: For thee. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Songs SONG: THE COUTHIE AULD MAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wi' a blush an' a glint o' true luve frae her e'e Last Line: But they're aye just as sweet to the couthie auld man. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONGS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus I said to my heart in a pet t'other day Last Line: And vows I shall never possess him again. Subject(s): Deception; Desire; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations SONGS FROM THE HOUSE OF DEATH, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the house of death there is rain Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The SONGS FROM THE HOUSE OF DEATH, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the house of death there is rain Last Line: You left behind. I hold you %there Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Relationships SONGS OF CREATION, by ZELLA MURIEL WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It is spring! Last Line: It has always seemed. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Spring; Male-female Relations 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: REGRET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that word regret! Last Line: My happier days are not the days when I forget. Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Regret; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Bedtime; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: WEDLOCK, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was streaming in. I woke, and said Last Line: And fill the hollow place for ever. Subject(s): Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Sun; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SONKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I want Last Line: Hey! Hey! Subject(s): Relationships SONNET, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts through yours refracted into speech Subject(s): Relationships SONNET TO ARISTE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ariste! Soon to sojourn with the crowd Last Line: Who only names to praise, who only speaks to please. Subject(s): Comfort; Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Parting; Male-female Relations SONNET TO PERCY IN ITALY, FROM ENGLAND, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I cannot come to your quaint italy Last Line: So do as your italians do, and cope Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Women's Rights SONNET: 31, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word Last Line: I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNET: 34, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find Last Line: Hugs the brown bough and sighs before it goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Reason; Male-female Relations; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 3, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unlike are we, unlike, o princely heart! Last Line: And death must dig the level where these agree. Variant Title(s): Death And Love Subject(s): Death; Angels; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 31, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou comest! All is said without a word Last Line: Like callow birds left desert to the skies. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 33, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, call me by my pet name! Let me hear Last Line: With the same heart, will answer and not wait. Subject(s): Names; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 34, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee Last Line: That no child's foot could run fast as this blood. Subject(s): Names; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNETS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM: 1. DELIA AT PLAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She held a cup and ball of ivory white Last Line: Who on that dart impales my bosom's gem? Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Play; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women; Male-female Relations SOUR WINE, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: I met the wife who'd left me bed Last Line: And let it go at that. Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements SOUTH UIST, by KIM TAPHIN Poem Source First Line: A midgy lunch by loch druidibeg Last Line: But they'll no come oot with humans aboot' Subject(s): Change; Relationships SPARE, by JOANNA KLINK Poem Source First Line: Shoulder me up. Drink careless down, for flinching Last Line: Reach. Does not know. But holds. But holds out, feeling Subject(s): Relationships SPEAK NOT, LET NO WORD BREAK', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the silence I have placed on them Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Loss; Relationships; Silence; Weariness SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Again the language fails me Last Line: By some rare, invisible power Subject(s): Language; Relationships SPECIAL EFFECTS, by KNUTE SKINNER Poem Source First Line: The first thing she did was call home Last Line: In the days to follow Subject(s): Plays And Playwrights; Relationships SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a spinster Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a spinster Last Line: Did not want to stop imagining Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing And Writers SPIRIT FLOWERS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I hear a voice, so close it makes me start Last Line: In blasts of time. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations SPLIT SIDE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Rain spits on the tin roof Last Line: The floor with my eyelashes Subject(s): Relationships SPLITTING AN ORDER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to watch an old man cutting a sandwich in half Subject(s): Food & Eating; Old Age; Man-wiman Relationships SPRING ON THE WOODLAND PATH, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So long a winter such an arctic night Last Line: With the old hearts in this forgotten way? Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Grief; Love; Relationships; Spring; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness SPRINKLERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The young moor sipping his paddy Last Line: She sprinkled me with shit.' Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Relationships STATIC, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Well, old flame, the fire's out Last Line: The blankets crackle with bright blue sparks Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Night STEP THREE WITH WHALES, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: When the finback glides Last Line: Boat and water and whale are one Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships STEPFATHER, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: This poem dates from a period in my Last Line: One of the people you like Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Stepfathers STILL WET MUD TABLETS OF THE LAW 3, by AMY ENGLAND Poem Source First Line: God said I am the lord that brought you out of bondage; you will worship no Last Line: People had passed out on the floor, and I was sick all over brad's shoes, for which he did not %than Variant Title(s): The Still Wet Mud Tablets Of The Law Ii Subject(s): Relationships; Religion STOMPING WITH CATALLUS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My love - my love says Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations STORIES, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: January thaw in the berkshires, 4 a.M., and what I want Last Line: As if this cleaving, this consciousness, this barn, %had somewhere to go Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sea Voyages; Travel STRANDS, FOUR POEMS, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The key warmed in your hand and you knew the password Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Hair STRANGE MEN, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said, I am heaven, thou art earth Last Line: Now climbing through her bedroom window Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Men; Sex STRANGERS IN THE DUSK, by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER Poem Text First Line: There is a time when he and I are strangers, in the dusk Last Line: We love a friend not less because we loved another best. Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Love; Relationships; Strangers STRANGERS YET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strangers yet! / after years of life together Last Line: Strangers yet! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Relationships; Strangers STUPID MEDITATION ON PEACE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insomniac monkey-mind ponders the dove, Subject(s): Sex Role; Monkeys; Peace; Breast Feeding; Relationships; Nursing (infants) SUBWAY, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN Poem Text First Line: Brother! Last Line: Are nothing—less than nothing—to each other! Subject(s): Envy; Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness SUCH WAS OUR GARDEN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is all, merely %a matter of poised Last Line: Crimson daggers- %fleshy, %and phallic Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Relationships SUMMER FLOWERS, by WHITTIER W. WELLMAN Poem Text First Line: I have loved others better Last Line: I am content. Subject(s): Contentment; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SUMMER IN THE CITY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: When he finished with her and the afternoon Last Line: His hands clean, smelling of soap and cigarettes Subject(s): Cities; Hopper, Edward (1882-1967); Man-woman Relationships; Sex SUMMER OF ANNA KARENINA, by DANIEL WOLFF Poem Source First Line: Now that the summer is almost over Last Line: And whether - and why - the summer is over Subject(s): Relationships; Summer SUMMER'S JOE, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: He unlocked an apple first, then lifted the latch Last Line: With no again, a feast of no. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SUNDAY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when they sat down in the morning Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships; Relatives SUNDAY EVENING, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am telling you a number of half-conditioned ideas Subject(s): Relationships SUNDAY LUNCH IN PONDER, TEXAS, by MARTHA ELIZABETH Poem Source First Line: All the waitresses who knew us had gone Last Line: I placed my fingertips lightly on his thigh %for the ride home Subject(s): Lunch; Relationships SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They've loosed the opposites who throng Last Line: Wrong number. He marked it in his book Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SURVIVORS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some mornings I do not hear Subject(s): Gay Men; Relationships SUSANNAH TO THE ELDER, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Eyes that pierced my nakedness Last Line: Crush the juice from one Subject(s): Bodies; Nudity; Old Age; Relationships; Youth SWAY, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I find you will no longer love Last Line: And ends I did not know who she was Subject(s): Male-female Relationships SWEET SHORT, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: If your sweetheart sleeps deeply Last Line: Full of catch, like a bucket drawn up a well Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships SWEETIE AT LEICESTER COURT, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Up woodward on leicester court Last Line: She tells me: 'you were never crazy, just %too much alone.' Subject(s): Comfort; Insanity; Relationships; Solitude SWEETIE ELIZABETH HOUSE AND HER FAMILY VISIT ME IN ANN ARBOR, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Yellow peppers cooking in a cast-iron skillet Last Line: Hissing in the wind Subject(s): Michigan; Relationships SWF PROFESSIONAL SEEKS HUSBAND, by CINDY THOMPSON-RUMPLE Poem Source First Line: A very special value Last Line: Hurry! Won't last long Subject(s): Advertising; Mankind; Relationships; Women SWORDFISH, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fingertips marveled at the silvery shimmer, Last Line: Her azure eyelids shimmering with jade Subject(s): Relationships SYMPATHETIQUE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The magnetic moonlight Last Line: The temptation is to stand out in a june rain and enjoy it for itself Subject(s): Love; Relationships TABLETS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Lying, they disagreed. She argued him Last Line: My love would give a headache to an aspirin Subject(s): Lies; Relationships TACTICAL, by CLAUDIA KEELAN Poem Source First Line: You wanted me for my noun and then you wanted me general Last Line: A scribe numbering life, refusing objects and names Subject(s): Military; Relationships TAKING OFF MY CLOTHES, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take off my shirt, I show you. Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Human Body; Love - Erotic; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Courtship; Popular Culture; Relationships; Disappointment; Bullies TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You might as well take a razor Last Line: Ultrahigh frequency station. And it goes like this Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Male-female Relationships TANGLEWOOD, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were trying to talk about love Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TAPISSERIE 8 MONTHS' SNOW, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Kaolin, drawing circles, dust, he said Last Line: There are quite a few of them by now Subject(s): Relationships; Snow; Winter TARANTULA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm drinking coffee with an olive-skinned woman Last Line: But the memory of the tarantula, its proximity, defeats me Subject(s): Insects; Man-woman Relationships; Spiders TASTE OF SWEET, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: I call him simon after simon legree Last Line: Simon smells like a christmas tree Subject(s): Nature; Relationships TELEPATHY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Saturdays they never spent together Last Line: They failed to recognize each other's voices Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception; Psychoanalysis; Relationships TELL ME, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, dear beauty of the dusk, Subject(s): Relationships TEN YEARS, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TENANT FARMER'S WIFE, by JEFF DANIEL MARION Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It never fails, what breaks is what Last Line: In a place that's not my own Subject(s): Appalachia; Farm Life; Loss; Man-woman Relationships THAMAR AND AMNON, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The moon turns in the sky Last Line: And cut the strings of his harp Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Rape THAT GHASTLY NIGHT IN DOVER, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: The sea was calm, and sweet was the night air Last Line: Stuff about naked shingles and sophocles Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights THAT GREEN NIGHT, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Even now, she could give him Last Line: If he had let go any sooner she would have flown beyond earth with those stars Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships THAT TOO, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A long walk up west street along the piers Last Line: The blues and greens fired by crimson are the sea Subject(s): Relationships THAT'S GOING TO MEAN SOMETHING LATER ON, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the way she fumbles for her keys while he keeps talking Last Line: And someone watching knows all of this means something Subject(s): Relationships THE ACTRESS AND THE RAT, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear her feet overhead. As ever, at night Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Man-woman Relationships; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Male-female Relations; Stage Life THE ADVANCE OF THE FATHER, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From rain drenched homeland into a well: the upturned animal Last Line: With the ingratiating stoop of those who came second in the world Subject(s): Relationships THE AMATEUR, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He doesn't play the game for glory Last Line: Won't even know what it is all about! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations THE ANACREONTICS: 1., by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Hush! Those lips unclos'd, I hear Last Line: Which told how theban walls arose. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE ANATOMY OF YOUR BODY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am buried in air, a whirlpool so yellow Subject(s): Relationships; Body, Human THE ANIMALS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night, alone, the animals came and shone. Last Line: Flying with green in her beak; the dove also had come Subject(s): Relationships; Animals THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They are walking in the woods along the coast Last Line: And then he wanders among strangers all he wants Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Apple Trees; Male-female Relations THE ASSIGNATION, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He said he would meet her but she saw him / not Last Line: And tongue-tied shame that mad excuses muttered. Subject(s): Affliction; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE AVENUE, by GEORGES BOUTELLEAU Poem Text First Line: Calm summer eves that once did hide Last Line: The kisses of their old desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Cognac Merchant; Novelist Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Maple Trees; Male-female Relations THE BASKET HOUSE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships THE BEST NAME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When writing verses, dear, to you Last Line: You bear, I still must call you mine. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Names; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations THE BEST OF THE BALL, by WILLIAM SAWYER Poem Text First Line: At last! O, sensation delicious! Last Line: For ours is the best of the ball. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Man-woman Relationships; Talk; Male-female Relations THE BLACK HOLE, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black hole from which nothing comes Subject(s): Nothingness; Relationships; Nihilism; Voids THE BLUE COAST, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peter sat in the garden Last Line: Had given him for his journey: / sentimental education Subject(s): Travel; Friendship; Relationships THE BOND, by JO HARTMAN Poem Text First Line: Bedizened, roughed, with henna-streaked scant tresses Last Line: The gigolo alone broke down and cried. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Relationships THE BROKEN BOWL, by JESSIE D. M. MORTON Poem Text First Line: Whaur neidpath's wa's wi' pride look doon Last Line: "that's hoo the lassie brak the bowl!" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE CARELESS LAD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The careless lad went through the wood Last Line: Who never looked behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Boys; Caregivers; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Youth; Male-female Relations; Illness THE CASTE WIFE SPEAKS TO THE ENIGMATIC PARABOLAS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The two stone breakers in loincloths Last Line: For the rising cream that forms a golden brick of butter. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Social Classes; Water; Male-female Relations; Caste THE CATCH, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the dress-box's plashing tis- Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE CHAIN; TO C.H.P., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Brother of mine, it is good to think Last Line: Lick round us and wrack us, oh, brother of mine! Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships THE CHANCE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All will be fused again, and all Last Line: If you come girl and I come boy! Subject(s): Luck; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE CHANGING VINE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be calm? And was I frantic? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE CHILD OF GOD, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: He's late again tonight Last Line: Can't you -- Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE CHOICE OF FRIENDS, by MOSHARREF OD-DIN IBN MOSLEH OD-DIN SADI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One balmy day in gentle june Last Line: "be careful in your choice of friends." Alternate Author Name(s): Saadi Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Relationships THE CIRCUS RINGMASTER'S APOLOGY TO GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is what we both knew in the sunlight of a restaurant's garden Last Line: Remember? You were glad that I did it once before! Subject(s): Circus; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Story-telling; Male-female Relations THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind. Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE COBRA CAPELLO, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful - yes! For her basilisk eyes Last Line: She'd crumple it, too, like the innocent fan! Subject(s): Animals; Cobras; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Snakes; Male-female Relations; Serpents; Vipers THE COCK AND THE FOX, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a tree there mounted guard Last Line: Tis doubly sweet deceiver to deceive. Subject(s): Brothers; Fables; Quarrels; Relationships; Roosters; Half-brothers; Allegories; Arguments; Disagreements; Cocks THE CUSTODIAN OF BLISS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come out at night, indifferent Subject(s): Relationships THE DEATH OF GEOFFREY RUDEL, THE TROUBADOUR, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her wandering pilgrims, from the syrian shore Last Line: Bore his chaste spirit to the realms above. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Death; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Troubadours; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Minnesingers THE DEATH OF ROLLA, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Marie then, smiling, looked into the glass Last Line: And for a moment two had tasted bliss. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Happiness; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Parting; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations THE DESERT, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark I called to you; out of the enfolding / dark you came Last Line: And only the wind that walks by dusk is over us, and god's grave will. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE DESIRE AND THE LAMENTATION OF COEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, 'tis a good house, and a palace fair, the dun of macha Last Line: And the eyes of fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Lament; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE DIFFERENCE, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking at you Last Line: My body a foreign house, yours home Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Perception; Relationships THE DOG BARKS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog barks and is for the moment a dog heard Last Line: At being a dog or lover or child Subject(s): Relationships THE DREAM HUNT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady rides a-hunting Last Line: My heart and makes away. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Hunting; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Hunters; Male-female Relations THE EQUILBRISTS, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Full of her long white arms and milky skin Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Lust; Love - Erotic; Male-female Relations THE ESCAPE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another yard! Another foot! And then another inch! Last Line: Then melted in another way than girls are wont to melt. Subject(s): Escapes; Man-woman Relationships; Fugitives; Male-female Relations THE EXCHANGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am watching a woman swim below the surface Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Swimming & Swimmers; Women; Nightmares; Swimmers THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE FIRE, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched her, watched the tremulous fire Last Line: And bade the fire be brave. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion; Relationships THE FORCE OF BEING SHE RELEASED IN HIM BEING, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And a cup of mint tea with honey Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships THE FRIENDLY WOOD, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meditations pure were ours Last Line: O my companion of silence dear! Subject(s): Relationships THE FRIENDLY WOOD, by PAUL VALERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meditations pure were ours Last Line: O my companion of silence dear! Subject(s): Relationships THE FROST, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: The dawn - cold, pallid, half afraid, it seems Last Line: Shall we go in? For the new day is here. Subject(s): Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations THE GAME-KEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Georgie, whom do you love best?' Last Line: At a little maid's caress. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Love; Relationships THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: ANTARA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many singers before me! Are there yet songs unsung? Last Line: Slain lies for wild beasts and vultures. Ha! For the sacrifice! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Islam; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sacrifices; Male-female Relations THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: EL HARITH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly took she her leave of me, asma-u Last Line: Stoodst the day of hayáreyn. Our proof is proven! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Fights; Man-woman Relationships; Soldiers; War; Male-female Relations THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: TARAFA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tent lines these of khaula in stone-stricken thahmadi Last Line: Neither for pay nor raiment, nor madest thou tryst with him. Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Travel; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips THE HAND AS A BEING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the first canto of the final canticle Subject(s): Poetry & Poems; Hands; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE HANDSOMEST MAN IN THE ROOM, by WILLIAM MACQUORN RANKINE Poem Text First Line: I've always been told that I'm pretty Last Line: Of the handsomest man in the room. Subject(s): Beauty; Conceit; Man-woman Relationships; Modesty; Male-female Relations THE HARBOR: 1. MOSAIC, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face clears of expression, your eyes Last Line: Our flesh/fish bodies puddlng molten Subject(s): Boats; Relationships; Water THE HARBOR: 4. HARPOON, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wooden handle cracked but seasoned tough Last Line: Crystal on crystal holding fast Subject(s): Boats; Relationships THE HARVEST SEASON, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamt us back to our first home Subject(s): Home; Relationships THE HORSE SHOW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Constantly near you, I never in my entire Last Line: There, I was so interested to hear about it Subject(s): Relationships THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 1. THE GOOD OGRE'S BEARD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from the nuns once a month Last Line: Give me to him, may he live for ever and ever, amen. Subject(s): Children; Relationships; Wishes; Childhood THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 2. HERMAN THE BASTARD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died alone, herman the bastard Last Line: Ach ja, child, he says, humanity! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Escapes; Relationships; Story-telling; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Fugitives THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wraps his scarf around my neck Last Line: That howling will chew up your soul! Subject(s): Advice; Animals; Bells; Children; Churches; Paranoia; Rabbits; Relationships; Childhood; Cathedrals; Hares THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 4. THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roofs of wool row are charcoal Last Line: I don't listen, I don't listen. Subject(s): Bells; Children; Dusk; Farewell; Relationships; Childhood; Parting THE HUMAN LINCOLN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: God sometimes sends Last Line: Beneath the sod. Subject(s): God; Human Behavior; Humanity; Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Male-female Relations THE HUMBLE WISH, by ARABELLA MORETON Poem Text First Line: I ask not wit, nor beauty do I crave Last Line: Give me a mind to suit my slavish state. Alternate Author Name(s): Morton, Bell Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations THE HUNTING OF DIAN, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of a midnight lost, lost forevermore Last Line: As far away I heard the cry her dim sea-lover gave. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Diana (goddess); Eden; Hunting; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women; Hunters; Male-female Relations THE IDEA, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For us, too, there was a wish to possess Subject(s): Relationships THE IMMORALIST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Samaden, the julier, tiefenkasten -- the raw egg Last Line: Like the trench of a young couple crossing a lake. Subject(s): Honeymoons; Man-woman Relationships; Murder; Tuberculosis; Male-female Relations; Consumption (pathology) THE INTERRUPTION, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She'd just gone out onto the stoop, and run down the steps Last Line: From the tidy cup of her palm she would go ahead and sprinkle the raisins in Subject(s): Children; Memory; Relationships; Childhood THE JILT, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let other feet go drudging Last Line: Patches of green on the gray old town. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE KISS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have captured a girl in the middle of tears Last Line: Doctor, midwife, and undertaker. Subject(s): Aging; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE KNIFE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my sleep: Subject(s): Sleep; Relationships THE KNIGHT ERRANT, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: He rode at dusk down woodlands strange Last Line: "but white her soul, say I!"";" Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Desire; Knights & Knighthood; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Temptation; Male-female Relations THE LAD OF BEBSIDE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is away with the lad of bebside Last Line: I'll lie in the arms of the lad of bebside. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE LADY'S-MAID'S SONG, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When adam found his rib was gone Last Line: He wants it back with interest Subject(s): Male-female Relationships THE LANGUAGE OF THE BRAG, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wanted excellence in the knife-throw Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism THE LAST NIGHT OF ARTAN THE CULDEE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is but a little thing to sit here in silence and the dark Last Line: And I shall hear oona's voice as a sleeping seal hears the moving wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE LEAF-PICKING, by FREDERIC MISTRAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, magnarello, merrily Last Line: The two are now together. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE LINK, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Labour past hercules! With golden broom Last Line: Who by a stroke of genius thought of death! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Morning; Male-female Relations THE LITTLE WHITE RABBIT, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May I go to the field,' said the little white rabbit Last Line: So run, my little one, run.' Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Hunting; Man-woman Relationships; Rabbits; Hunters; Male-female Relations; Hares THE LIVING VOICE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Her voice! Like a tone from a thread of gold Last Line: To the love of her love when the world was young! Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Voices; Male-female Relations THE LOOK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strephon kissed me in the spring Last Line: Haunts me night and day. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Eyes; Flirtation; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sight; Vision; Male-female Relations THE LOST SEX, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What, still another woman false Last Line: One woman true, just one. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fidelity; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy; Male-female Relations THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 13, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying in the meadow, open to you Last Line: My rose petals Subject(s): Nature; Relationships THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 19, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass the day tense, day Last Line: The evening bells ring from temple to temple Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Night; Relationships; Joy; Delight; Bedtime THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I thought I could get away Last Line: And a mile is longer than a million miles Subject(s): Relationships; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 20, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is there? Me Last Line: And we are us Subject(s): Identity; Relationships; Self THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the anguish of these secret meetings Last Line: Words with not connection Subject(s): Family Life; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 36, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sad this morning Last Line: As you passed my shoji Subject(s): Grief; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 40, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the wheel follows the hoof Last Line: As you leave me in thr dawn Subject(s): Grief; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 53, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without me you can only Last Line: I am your wisdom Subject(s): Relationships; Wisdom THE LOVE-CHANT OF CORMAC CONLINGAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the swan that is whiter, with breast Last Line: Eilidh, eilidh, o-rì, eilidh, eilidh! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations THE LOVELY SHALL BE CHOOSERS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The voice said, hunt her down Last Line: “trust us,” the voices said Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE LOVER MUSES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She must not think of me as less Last Line: Where love, who's fond of honey, dwells. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE LOVER SPEAKS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear her bringing, while I pass Last Line: A paler sort of earth! Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE LOVER'S POSY, by RUFINUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send a garland to my love Last Line: So must you too, haughty maid. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations THE MAGIC BOW, by CHARLES CROS Poem Text First Line: Her hair was blond as autumn wheat Last Line: Until its tresses touched her feet. Subject(s): Death; Hair; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE MAGIC OF NUMBERS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How strange it was to hear the furniture moved around in the apartment upstairs Subject(s): Relationships; Ooetry And Poets; Love - Erotic; Time; Numbers; Conduct Of Life THE MAID SUBURBAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I must confess that I'm afraid Last Line: Give me the sweet suburban! Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Suburbs; Women; Urban Life; Male-female Relations THE MAP, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Applying to heavy equipment school Subject(s): Relationships THE MARAUDERS, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Now the sun is low, and the winds are dead Last Line: Flapping their vans to the westward. Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Relationships; Wandering & Wanderers THE MARRIAGE (2), by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you miss me less if I took up Last Line: Hawked to the corners of our house Subject(s): Relationships THE MARRIAGE OF SOBEIDE, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wealthy merchant Last Line: [they lift up the body to carry it in.] Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE MARRIAGE OF SOULS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That heat! / that terrible heat Last Line: Unfused / and unfusing Subject(s): Marriage; Man-woman Relationships; Love – Complaints; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MASTER-WOOER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I saw thy heart to-day Last Line: The rock shall yield herself to him for aye. Subject(s): Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Perseverance; Stones; Male-female Relations; Granite; Rocks THE MEASURE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Men, by their glances, are masters or slaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Social Commentary; Relationships THE MEETING OF SIGURD AND GERDA, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O, early love! O, early love! Last Line: And freely to forgive. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations THE MOURNFUL TOURNAMENT, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With shield and spear apace they ride Last Line: To slumber side by side. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Tournaments; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE MUTCHES, by WILLIAM ALLAN Poem Text First Line: I'm just like ither decent men, nae better nor nae waur, o Last Line: "o." Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE NEW WOMAN, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Vulgarity, nor more nor less Last Line: She now affects his vices! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations THE NOVICE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: She had a lover in the world Last Line: "o mary, thou'rt a woman, too!" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nuns; Pain; Prayer; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery THE OBSCURE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the poor first light of morning Last Line: That her breasts filled the window like a mouth. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Pigs; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Boars; Hogs THE ORDEAL, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acknowledged on our side town, Subject(s): Schools; Friendship; Relationships; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Students THE ORPHARION: THE SONG OF ARION, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seated upon the crooked dolphin's back Last Line: Fair women are rich jewels unto men. Subject(s): Arion (7th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations THE OTHER STARS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tripartite schemes were all very well Subject(s): Life Choices; Social Commentaries; Relationships THE PAINTED VASE, by GABRIEL SOULAGES Poem Text First Line: La rosalba disdaining for a day his paints and / brushes Last Line: They dance around a lake on which the leaves of autumn fall. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts; Love; Relationships THE PARIAH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pariah / in the beginning Last Line: In his thoughts Subject(s): Relationships THE PARTING OF SIGURD AND GERDA, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: She stood beneath the moonlight pale Last Line: Won by thine earnest love. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Parting; Male-female Relations THE PARTY, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Parties; Friendships; Relationships; Farewell; Parting THE PATH OF TEARS: 4. LOVE'S GUERDON, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce were the wounds you struck me, o my love Last Line: Crowned in a lonely rapture of renown. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Relationships; Suffering; Misery THE PIG AND THE HEN, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pig and the hen / both got in one pen Subject(s): Hens; Pigs; Relationships; Anger; Friendship THE PLATEAU, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The climb was long Subject(s): Togetherness; Relationships THE POET EXPATIATES ON THE BEAUTY OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The comb between whose ivory teeth she strains Last Line: The ringlets rob for faery fiddle-strings. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Hair; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Women; Eros; Male-female Relations THE POET RELATES HOW HE OBTAINED DELIA'S POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis mine! What accents can my joy declare? Last Line: And I will kiss thee o'er and o'er again. Variant Title(s): Delia's Pocket-handkerchief;love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 1 Subject(s): Desire; Food & Eating; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Story-telling; Male-female Relations THE POET RELATES HOW HE STOLE A LOCK OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Be the day accurst that gave me birth! Last Line: "you stupid puppy—you have spoil'd my wig!" Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4 Subject(s): Anger; Crime & Criminals; Despair; Hair; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Wigs; Male-female Relations; Toupees; Hairpieces THE POWER TABLE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You, lying across the wide bed, vertical, Subject(s): Relationships THE PRAYER OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spirit, that broods upon the hills Last Line: Cry, cry to thee, o compassionate! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Children; Man-woman Relationships; Prayer; Salvation; Women; Childhood; Male-female Relations THE PRICE OF ABSENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: He writes: 'in spite of summer's green Last Line: To court another! Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations THE PROJECT OF LINEAR INQUIRY, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: [let a be taken as . . .] Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE PROMENADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady promenades the drive Last Line: And all the golden days thereafter? Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE QUIET BETWEEN US, by DANIEL GUTSTEIN Poem Text First Line: The red coal of the sun Subject(s): Grandparents; Relationships; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE REASON, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something has changed him; yesterday Last Line: His wife is coming home to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Relationships; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE REPLY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand in the late sun Subject(s): Relationships THE RESERVOIR, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The reservoir is trying to freeze over Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE RETURN, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Helen softly stole to me just now Last Line: Helen died a year ago to-day. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Presence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations THE REVOLUTIONARY, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew her face well enough; had studied this Last Line: For the face he had trusted under the confident stars Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Reality THE RIVER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt both pleasure and a shiver Last Line: We'd found by plunging into the wild river. Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Pleasure; Rivers; Swimming & Swimmers; Male-female Relations; Swimmers THE ROMANCE OF A GLOVE, by HENRY SAVILE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Here on my desk it lies Last Line: This my romance is. Subject(s): Gloves; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Romance; Mittens; Muffs; Male-female Relations THE ROSE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations THE ROSE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, mignonne, hath not the rose Variant Title(s): Ode Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations THE SAILOR'S RETURN, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I see her as she went Last Line: Because so well I love her. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Regret; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE SCRIVENER'S ROSES; FOR MARVIN FISHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gulls fly in close formation becoming a patch of sail Last Line: Inside the convent's south garden wall. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Dead, The; Seagulls; Male-female Relations THE SEAMY SIDE, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I and my women can unsnarl the state Subject(s): Relationships; Women THE SEATON TERRACE LASS, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love at seaton terrace dwells Last Line: The seaton terrace lass. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SHADOWS AT BOXFORD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's not the white powder cauliflower of still distant moons Last Line: Filling with rain. Subject(s): Aliens; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Extraterrestrials; Male-female Relations THE SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He loved me, as he said, in every part Last Line: —nay, vain, vain words: how shall he understand? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Belief; Creed; Male-female Relations THE SHEPHERD, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the palace of the king Last Line: "sweet shepherd, fare thee well." Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Male-female Relations THE SILENCE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took the spareribs out of the oven Last Line: Wish I was there with you Subject(s): Mothers; Farewell; Absence; Gays & Lesbians; Togetherness; Relationships; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE SILENCE OF PLANTS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A one-sided relationship is developing quite well between you and me. Subject(s): Plants; Relationships; Planting; Planters THE SILVER SWAN: MARICHI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hour before sunrise Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Nudity; Male-female Relations; Nakedness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 1, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O for the golden morn of old romance Last Line: Breathe your sweet plainings on this ancient lay! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 32, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The knight hath ta'en her stilly hand in his Last Line: On silken couch she stays her trembling knees. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE SONG OF THOMAS THE RHYMER, by MARJORIE CHARLES DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: You have taken the sun and the stars from heaven Last Line: That you have taken my god from me! Subject(s): God; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands Last Line: (exeunt.) Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 2, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silva was marching homeward while the moon Last Line: "maketh himself as allah true to friends." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Inquisition; Letters; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain - History; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 3, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quit now the town, and with a journeying dream Last Line: Where we have found each other, my fedalma. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Family Life; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Moors (people); Spain; War; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 4, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now twice the day had sunk from off the hills Last Line: Their ignorant misery and their trust in her Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Religion; Spain; War; Gipsies; Male-female Relations; Theology THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 5, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eastward rocks of almeria's bay Last Line: On aught but blackness overhung by stars.] Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Farewell; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain; War; Parting; Male-female Relations THE STREET, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Who are you, walking the streets with me tonight? Last Line: O god! I had forgotten—! The street is between us. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Separation; Isolation THE STREET OF THE MANY LITTLE LOVERS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gaunt gray street goes up the hill, over the hill / and down Last Line: But love walks there with weary eyes and mudbedraggled gown. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Streets; Male-female Relations; Avenues THE SUBVERTED FLOWER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She drew back; he was calm: Last Line: And drew her backward home Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Flowers; Male-female Relations THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sing of wars, of captains and of kings Last Line: Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine. Subject(s): Children; Home; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Women's Rights; Childhood; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; Feminism THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RIVERS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rivers of my life Last Line: Comfortably on the ground, beginning to roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Identity; Life; Memory; Nature; Relationships; Rivers THE THIEF, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it when your man sits on the floor Last Line: Into this other world he cannot build without you. Subject(s): Ambition; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Sex; Male-female Relations THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the westborne snow shall come a memory Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Sex; Male-female Relations THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six months as timeless as dream Subject(s): Relationships; Time THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 8, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Speculation; Male-female Relations THE THREE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: The first he loved was so Last Line: Greenly remote, alone. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE TREMOLO, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I have seen her to-night in a vision Last Line: I doubt, in distress. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations THE TRICKY TUNE, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house was built back from the road Last Line: "jest, 'mooncalf, dolt an' fool!'" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My pretty ladies, mid this christmas cheer Last Line: As you shall hear who listen to my tale. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Harps; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Musical Instruments; Story-telling; Lyres; Male-female Relations THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY: 1. TRAGEDY MARGAIDA AND TROUBADOUR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet margarida, dreaming in her bower Last Line: The hound's sleek head that on his knee did rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Tragedy; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations THE TRUTH IS MALE, AND FEMALES SHY, by HENRY PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Come near it with a careful lie Subject(s): Male-female Relationships THE TUTELAR OF THE PLACE, by DAVID JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She that love a place, time, demarcation, hearth, kin, enclosure Last Line: World-storm, womb of the lamb the spoiler of the ram Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Roman Empire THE TWO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he gets off work at packard, they meet Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Restaurants; Language; Past; Grief; Male-female Relations; Cafes; Diners; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness THE TWO FLOWERS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Helen wore it in her hair Last Line: No little flower so holy anywhere! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE UNSLEEPNG GENIUS OF MISFORTUNE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever there was a story Subject(s): Insomnia; Man-woman Relationships; Sleeplessness; Male-female Relations THE VIGIL I KEEP WHEN NOTHING CAN BE KEPT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He burdened me with unspoken prayers Last Line: Knowing who or where I was, only that I was Subject(s): Relationships THE WALK, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow-leaf parts between fingers Last Line: And came back to us, like a dream that wants to sleep. Subject(s): Relationships THE WALL, by ISIDOR SCHNEIDER Poem Text First Line: Oh, stately though we walk Last Line: Immediate on the wall. Subject(s): Relationships; Walls THE WANDERER'S RETURN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old heart's mourning is a hideous thing Last Line: "and mine is weary at the break of day." Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Male-female Relations; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 1, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write in rage against my sex Last Line: You go home Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE WAY IT SOMETIMES IS, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At times it is like watching a face you have just met, Subject(s): Memory; Relationships THE WEAVER OF SOULS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this unseen messenger Last Line: From thee, o angel of the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Angels; God; Love; Relationships; Soul THE WHITE FEET OF ATTHIS, by HENRY ANDERSON LAFLER Poem Text First Line: Then atthis to her lover-poet said Last Line: Her cold, sweet finger-tips. Subject(s): Feet; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations THE WIFE'S TREASURE, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At sidon lived a husband with his wife Last Line: "now thou art mine, and I will treasure thee!" Subject(s): Jews; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Judaism; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations THE WINDOW, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put out the candles, friend, while I unclose Last Line: They are playing grieg; come in, let us attend. Subject(s): Love; Relationships THE WISE WOMAN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes grow hot, his words grow wild Last Line: Who understands him. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOMAN AT HOME, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Please note this little fact, I beg: it is the Last Line: Softly smiles, for she's content with a reflected glory. Subject(s): Housewives; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOMAN IN THE ROOM, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She stands at the foot my bed and starts to speak Subject(s): Dreams; Silence; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations THE WOMAN'S WAY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are things, I know, that are sad and Last Line: A woman remembers, a man -- forgets! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THEIR LAST GIFTS; FOR MY FATHER, JOSEPH LAPIDUS (1899-1990), by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Her last gift to him Last Line: Such a short time to hurt %such a long time to be immortal Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Jewish Families; Mourning; Psychoanalysis; Relationships THEN, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glow of mahogany, glow of those pulsing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Transience; Male-female Relations; Impermanence THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the westborne snow shall come a memory Last Line: Spring's flesh in my hands Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Sex THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six months as timeless as dream Last Line: Circumvent its dial? Subject(s): Relationships; Time THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 8, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Last Line: A cynical, levantine prayer Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Speculation THINGS AS THEY ARE, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: I've looked for things Last Line: As we gather up our things to carry on Subject(s): Relationships THINGS I MAY NOT SAY, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years now this %what intelligences will you Last Line: Nothing to what's buried in you Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships THINGS KEEP SORTING THEMSELVES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the butterfat know it is butterfat, Last Line: No one can ever know that Subject(s): Male-female Relationships THINGS WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PICNIC, by LILA L. ZEIGER Poem Source First Line: 1. Who conceived the idea of the picnic, and by whom? Last Line: 19. Who forgot the sun? %20 Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Picnics THINK ON EMPIRES, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Many's the man who's fitted to lead Last Line: The future shall make! Subject(s): Future; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 26. FIRST LOVE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silly boy, 'tis full moon yet, thy night as day shines clearly Last Line: Lives of all that ever breathed most worthy the envying. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Relationships THIRD RAIL, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because they are two old birds Last Line: Interminably flowing, in veiled phosphorescencies turning %and turning on themselves, wave on wave Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age THIRST, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Your mouth as necessary on mine as rain on the desert Last Line: When you hurt me %I won't let it show Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Suicide THIS COUPLE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now is when we love to sit before mirrors Last Line: On a mexican station, wondering for the life of us, %where are we going and when would we meet Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships THIS IS JUST TO SAY, by ERICA-LYNN GAMBINO Poem Source First Line: I have just %asked you to Last Line: Driving %me insane Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Women's Rights THIS MORNING, GOD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four a.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab Last Line: The incessant beating in my chest for two now. Subject(s): Coffee; Dawn; Habits; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Memory; Morning; Past; Prayer; Silence; Solitude; Sunrise; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness THIS SLENDER BLUE THREAD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Connects everything Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Relationships THIS WAY, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It could have happened this way Last Line: The warm night enters Subject(s): Male-female Relationships THIS WINTER THINGS HAVE CHANGED, by PESHA GERTLER Poem Source First Line: Remember the days Last Line: You have a wife Subject(s): Change; Relationships; Winter THISTLE AND NETTLE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a night, with sleet and snow Last Line: "to shelter till the day they die." Subject(s): Flirtation; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THOMAS HARDY, UNDER GLASS, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: What count of pebbles fits into an urn? Last Line: Through which man dreams and ultimately hopes Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights THOUGHTS OF THE WOMAN MUCH MISSED, by MARGARET KAY Poem Source First Line: No, husband, that was not me calling you, calling you Last Line: Beneath the daisies now, quite silently Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights THREE-PART INVENTION FOR CELAN, by PATRICIA WILCOX Poem Source First Line: Put out two teacups Last Line: Has the scent of violets %been this potent Subject(s): Celan, Paul (1920-1970); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights THRESHING, by AMY FLEURY Poem Source First Line: Under the polished spokes of the sun Last Line: In sleep they will grow together, %root, stalk and grain Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Relationships THRESHOLD, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: I stand here on the threshold of life's exit door Last Line: Nodding cheerfully as he passes me by Subject(s): Death; Praise; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Writing And Writers TIME ZONES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Downstairs in montana the phone rings and it's my sister Last Line: In the grass that never lies down, that wraps itself around the world Variant Title(s): Time Zones: Sister To Siste Subject(s): Relationships; Time; Travel TIR NAN OG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breeze blows out from the land Last Line: That burns the heart from my breast with the wish to go! Subject(s): Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean TO A FRIEND, by LENA MOORE FISHER Poem Text First Line: Within my heart a space was void Last Line: For having you, my friend. Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness; Relationships; Sincerity TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on Subject(s): Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (1926-2009); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on Last Line: See him acclaiming the sun and come plunging down %while his sensible daddy goes straight into town Subject(s): God; Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Religion; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (b. 1926); Women's Rights TO A GENTILWOMAN, by O. R. Poem Text First Line: Some women fayne that paris was Last Line: Then men forsooth must bear the blame. Subject(s): Fidelity; Helen Of Troy; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Paris (mythology); Faithfulness; Constancy; Male-female Relations TO A LOVER, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: Tonight, of all mad nights of moon and wind and sea Last Line: Ah, my beloved! Come not this way again! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Passion; Romance; Male-female Relations TO A WREN ON CALVARY, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the unremarkable that will last, Subject(s): Wrens; Death - Animals; Man-woman Relationships; Jesus Christ; Male-female Relations TO ALCAEUS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Were you desiring good and fair Last Line: But you had pled your plea outright Subject(s): Alcaeus (6th-7th Century B.c.); Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women's Rights TO AN UNNAMED LADY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: When there are others by, in vain I dream Last Line: For here th' eternal mysteries abide! Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Male-female Relations TO ANOTHER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us sit now in the broad window Last Line: That li po saw in the drowned rushes Subject(s): Books; China; Legends; Li Po (701-762); Relationships TO BETTY LEE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Dear betty lee, my thought for you Last Line: "to pen this sentence, ""I love you." Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Love; Relationships; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TO BREACH SOUND, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Nesting frames, limiting folly, %frictioning potency backwards Subject(s): Relationships TO CATULLUS -- HIGHET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lover says he'd want to lie with none Last Line: Write it on thin air, read on the run Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Highet, Gilbert (1906-1978); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TO CELIA (WHO REFUSES TO BE DRAWN INTO AN ARGUMENT), by E. H. LACON WATSON Poem Text First Line: Dear, if you carelessly agree Last Line: Dear, if you care! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements TO DONNE RHYMING, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Busy young fool, unruly donne Last Line: (the afternoon might be a better time) Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights TO EDGAR, FROM HELEN, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Edgar, your verses are to me Last Line: Let both be banned! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Women's Rights TO FUZZY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was standing outside this cocktail bar, see. On the nile Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TO HIS IMPORTUNATE MISTRESS, by PAUL GRIFFIN Poem Source First Line: Were there no limits to my lust Last Line: Though now for women's rights you weep, %grant me one male right - to sleep Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets TO LAURE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Laure, when I look on thee Last Line: And still its sovran art. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Redemption; Salvation; Male-female Relations TO MALLARME, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: The lamp %the blank paper Last Line: Have no answer %your mistress indifference Subject(s): Mallarme, Stephane (1842-1898); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TO MARTHA, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Mr. Best, you're very bad Last Line: Oh! Wicked mr. Best Subject(s): Disappointment; Man-woman Relationships TO MICHEL, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: Before I found you, michel Last Line: My life is filled—with pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TO MISS -; CHARADE, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings Last Line: May its approval beam in that soft eye! Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships TO MR. POE, FROM HIS BEAUTIFUL ANNABEL LEE, by GRAY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: My dear mr. Poe, you silly twit, to sleep so by the sea! Last Line: Nut I guess I was always a roll in the sepulchre %signed, beautiful annabel lee Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Women's Rights TO ONE WHO NEVER KNEW I CARED, by ELSIE THOMAS CULVER Poem Text First Line: I wonder what it was that made me say Last Line: And hear you chafe about my woman's club! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Youth TO PHYLOCLES, INVITING HIM TO FRIENDSHIP, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Best of thy sex! If sacred friendship can Last Line: T' its native purity we will refine. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TO R.D., MARCH 4TH 1988, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were my mentor. Without knowing it, Subject(s): Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Death; Nightmares; Male-female Relations; Dead, The TO RABBIE, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: O rabbie, at her window see Last Line: The stood-up mary morison! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights TO SIMULATE THE BURNING OF THE HEART, THE HUMILIATION, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poet's Biography First Line: Http://www.Poetryfoundation.Org/poetrymagazine/browse/155/1#!/20602239 Subject(s): Relationships TO THE POINT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't want to get that far, only to where Last Line: Let's let it keep coming Subject(s): Relationships TO VIOLET (WITH A BUNCH OF NAMESAKES), by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a maid - I am afraid Last Line: My rhymes are filled with u. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Violets; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations TO YEVTUSHENKO, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: My dove-gray brother %behaving as poets are supposed to behave Last Line: A resilience almost feminine Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny (b. 1933) TOGETHER, by HANNAH K. AKEN Poem Text First Line: He lays his paper by, refills his pipe Last Line: And such true friends. Oh! These are happy days. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Relationships; Togetherness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TOO PROUD TO PRAY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: She was too proud to pray Last Line: What a prayer. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Prayer; Pride; Male-female Relations; Self-esteem; Self-respect TOTEM, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: How he tried to steal my words Last Line: A foaming stripped tiger becomes my totem Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Fights; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships TOUGH GRAVY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Old man tom cox courted aunt sadie Last Line: Sadie took her geese to a bad market Subject(s): Relationships TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would have broken my wings Last Line: If I escape your evil heart. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What had you done Last Line: That I am wise. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Lies; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Male-female Relations TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had been a boy Last Line: Intolerably cold and sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Admiration; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. OF THE LOVE THAT YOU POURED FORTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the love that you poured forth, dear friend Last Line: Not think so. Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Love; Relationships TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SQUINANCY-WORT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have I done? Last Line: Perhaps in his infinite mercy god will remove this man! Subject(s): Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Sin; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. TO A FRIEND, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faithful eyes, fail not Last Line: Through the dark night by you. Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not by running out of yourself after it comes the love Last Line: Two voices added to the eternal choir. Subject(s): Freedom; Man-woman Relationships; Liberty; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. FROM CAVERNS DARK, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, a hundred and a thousand lives Last Line: Lord of the world from caverns dark within thee. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN AN OLD QUARRY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in an old quarry Last Line: One sentence of thy great world-wisdom out Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mankind; Male-female Relations; Human Race TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. O CHILD OF URANUS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O child of uranus, wanderer down all times Last Line: Thy form in glory clad shall reappear. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Eve; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WIDENING CIRCLES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no hap nor any flaw Last Line: Our widening circles inevitably meet and interfuse some time. Subject(s): Relationships; Time; Universe TRACKS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The small birds leave cuneiform Subject(s): Animals; Relationships TRACKS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: After we'd made love all %night, and morning like a gauze Last Line: Through the forest I keep following you back to Subject(s): Aids (disease); Forests; Homosexuality; Hunting; Love; Relationships; Sex; Sickness TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Her scream of love ripping his head Last Line: Of a bumpy bed Subject(s): Blood; Change; Relationships; Sex TRAVEL PLANS, by LESLIE MONSOUR Poem Source First Line: The pepper tree spilled round us from its source Last Line: I'd like to go to mexico,' you said Subject(s): Relationships; Travel TREASURES ON EARTH, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What no one wants. Coin by coin Last Line: Intervals — till you shut it off completely Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Absence; Transience; Relationships; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TRIOLET: 2. WHAT SHE THOUGHT, by HARRISON ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: To kiss a fan! Last Line: What a poky poet! Alternate Author Name(s): Robertson, T. H. Subject(s): Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations TRIOLETS OF DISCRETION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: She drew her little hand away Last Line: "I thought so, too, but did n't ""call." Subject(s): Discretion; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TRITAMERON: THE DESCRIPTION OF SILVESTRO'S LADY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her stature like the tall straight cedar-trees Last Line: To show what nature's lineage could afford. Variant Title(s): Silvestro's Lady-love Subject(s): Beauty; Facades; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Appearances; Male-female Relations TROIKA FOR LOVERS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His gait is like he's got a cricket in his shoe Last Line: But the dream that produced it. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Men; Relationships; Triplets TRUE NORTH, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Years go. I drive the miles to where you wait for me Last Line: Is for the moment far enough away and sleeping Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Saint Kilda (scotland) TRUTH, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Permit me, madame, to declare Last Line: To flatter them, I'd have you know. Subject(s): Lies; Man-woman Relationships; Truth; Male-female Relations TRYING TO REACH MY YOUNG LOVER BEFORE HIS FEET GET TOO COLD, by LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER Poem Source First Line: Writing my name twenty-two times, I think of you Last Line: Who's anyone has always already said, hurry up please, it's time Subject(s): Letters; Love; Relationships TUMPS, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't ask him the time of day. He won't know it Last Line: We're not like the tumps. Not at all Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TWENTY DAYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty days are barely gone Last Line: Other twenty days like these. Subject(s): Aging; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations TWENTY QUESTIONS, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did the moth fly into the flame? Was it for the same reason Subject(s): Middle Age; Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations TWENTY YEARS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twenty years go by on noiseless feet Last Line: "he mutters, 'my god! And that is she!'" Subject(s): Relationships;reunions;surprise TWO BODIES, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two bodies, balanced in mass and power, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Conception; Male-female Relations TWO HUSSIES, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lady-moon's a hussy Last Line: When they were turned on me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships TWO PREDATORS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He will acknowledge no fault in himself Last Line: Hearts? Of her animated provender Subject(s): Male-female Relationships TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors TWO WOMEN: OR A CCONVERSATION WITH SAHARA NILE, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Change; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TYGER'S REPLY TO BLAKE, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Meagre, meagre, little man Last Line: Dares speculate how I began! Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TYPE A PERSONALITY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my one year anniversary dating him Last Line: And this is about time & location location location Subject(s): Relationships UNA JEFFERS TO HER HUSBAND, ROBINSON, by BARBARA BRENT BROWER Poem Source First Line: All those rocks piled up Last Line: And then your inhumanness %becomes superbly human Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights UNSPOKEN, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a straight-laid, bordered path Last Line: Thus the silence tells the agony and pain. Subject(s): Home; Man-woman Relationships; Peace; Silence; Sleep; Male-female Relations UNTITLED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I come from a rich family Last Line: And you must meet them before I can follow you home Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships US, by DAN HOWELL Poem Source First Line: In the night sometimes even mr. Gates must wake up Last Line: What drug could help us sleep like that - and want some Subject(s): Relationships VACANCY, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Faceless, I chase you Last Line: I am about to become Subject(s): Male Chauvinism; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage VALENTINE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Valentine' is flat on his back being hurt Last Line: Hummingbird looking %for nectar, dead flowers %after frost Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Jealousy; Loss; Love; Relationships VARIATION ON BELLOC'S 'FATIGUE', by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hardly ever tire of love or rhyme Last Line: That's why I'm poor and have a rotten time Subject(s): Belloc, Hilaire (1870-1953); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights VASES OF WOMBS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: For a long time, %I've thought about this body of mine Last Line: I'm melted into earth and planted as a garden Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Women VELVET DUETS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: A couple seeks a corner table in a restaurant where they may dine unobserved Last Line: Faces aglow as they enter the night air from the sill Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Man-woman Relationships; Sex VENETIAN POETICS, by MICHAEL KRUGER Poem Source First Line: I often tried to reach you Last Line: When I heard your steps' hard rhythmic patter %beating the slippery pavement Subject(s): Relationships VERSES ADDRESSED TO IMITATOR OF FIRST SATIRE OF HORACE, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In two large columns, on thy motley page Last Line: Wander like him, accursed through the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Variant Title(s): A Reply To Alexander Pope Subject(s): Hate; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism VERY LATE, BUT NOT TOO LATE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the last one to leave the party. I Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love - Beginnings; Male-female Relations VICTORY, VICTORIA, MY BEAUTIFUL WHISPER, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: You are the daughter who is sleep's beauty Last Line: Make of them your heart's bed Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Hearts; Love; Relationships VIETNAM, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: You become pen pals with a comvict Last Line: Should have fought world war ii %and we should have gone to vietnam Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIEW, POINT, by AKOS FODOR Poem Source First Line: That substance Last Line: Cleave %without me Subject(s): Relationships VIEWS, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Being in rome I wonder will you go Last Line: When I may be your I, your rome my rome. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Rome, Italy; Male-female Relations VII TO CORINNA, by CATHERINE A. SALMONS Poem Source First Line: So that's how it is - I'm supposed to endure your constant Last Line: I give you my solemn oath: I'm not guilty as charged Subject(s): Fights; Relationships VILLANCICO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "three dark maids, I loved them when" Last Line: "axa, fatima, marien" Subject(s): Courtship;man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations VIOLET MOORE AND BERT MOORE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He thinks her little feet should pass Last Line: A sweeter shadow upon a screen? Subject(s): Male-female Relationships VISION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The first time she saw him, he was a nail Last Line: He's a comforting murmur. Subject(s): Comfort; Relationships VISIONARY'S COMPANY (FELPHAM, 1831), by RICK HILLES Poem Source First Line: Fact is I was illiterate & sign'd Last Line: His engravings only seldom do we revel in eternity Subject(s): Growth; Relationships VISIT, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: We lay in your mother's bed Last Line: I kept you from danger a few minutes longer Subject(s): Death; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers; Sex VISITATION OF WELSHMEN, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: This morning he takes the car up the hill Last Line: Into the lucent morning. 'all's well,' he says, 'all's well.' Subject(s): Relationships; Wales VISITOR, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: The man whose muscles I once admired Last Line: And imagine other lives, other places Subject(s): Guests; Past; Relationships VITAS HINNULEO ME SIMILIS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, chloe, like a timid hind Last Line: That thou shouldst own a lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Courtship; Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers & Daughters; Male-female Relations VOLKSWISE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poor girl sat by a tower of the sea Last Line: "just a token, just a glimmer of his ship's lant ... Horn?" Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Waiting; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails WAGES OF LOVE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The house is watched, the watchers only planets Last Line: They enter in, tell their side, and pass through Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships WAIT FOR ME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Give a man his Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WAITING FOR THIS STORY TO END BEFORE I BEGIN ANOTHER, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All my stories are about being left, Subject(s): Divorce; Relationships; Love WALKING A LOBSTER WITH BLAKE ALONG SPEEDWAY, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: Goldbarth says, two hundred years earlier, blake wrote Last Line: I heard it was a langouste, but what matter %the man was unbalanced Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WALKING THROUGH A CORNFIELD IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER, I STUMBLE ..., by BARBARA HARR Poem Source First Line: Blue toads are dying all over minnesota Last Line: Blazing into magazines under my feet Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WALKING TOWARD THE VILLAGE, by GREG RAPPLEYE Poem Source First Line: It is the best part, he decides Last Line: Oremus,' as the snow goes on with its task, %all ornament and silence Subject(s): Children; Relationships; Religion WALT WHITMAN ENCOUNTERS THE COSMOS WITH THE CATS OF NEW YORK, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: The cats of morning awaken, sultry and feral Last Line: Because my people are watching Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women's Rights WALTZ, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night-snow, the floating snow Subject(s): Relationships; Snow; Dancing & Dancers WANT, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wants a house full of cups and the ghosts Subject(s): Relationships; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 1, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write in rage against my sex Last Line: And never wanted %anything but a little female comfort Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 2, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contents of one day's mail. Amnesty international Last Line: Do you know, my innocent friend %as I pour you a cup of tea %sometimes I want to kill you Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 3, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please, you say Last Line: In on me, sneering, we can't afford a bigger %apartment, she used to want me Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 4, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The state of the union Last Line: Lost one third of its crown %survives but is %not beautiful to look at Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 5, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me Last Line: You are crying %I like to see men cry Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 6, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I run my mind over a handful of names Last Line: I get tired of this pulpy body. %I get damned tired of telling people %what they already know Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 7, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you feel on the border: an ounce more effort Last Line: Eat your cookie, drink your tea. %you falsely think I mean to comfort you Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 8, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaps of broken stones weathering slowly, a mountain Last Line: A yellow bar of sunlight, in which gray motes %are flying, touches his cage Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 9, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The worst of it is that we hear the dead Last Line: There is my crippled self, who wipes the crumbs %into a garbabe bag, %hands you your jacket back, le Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WARM DAYS IN JANUARY, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has never been so easy to cry Subject(s): City & Town Life; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Ancestors & Ancestry; Hotels; Male-female Relations; Heritage; Heredity; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WARM KEYS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: A lost love leaps from the fire of my brow Last Line: And it sings an ancient lullaby %audible only to the trees Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships WARNING, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As long as you never marry me, and I never marry you Last Line: To know that I never can marry you, and you never can marry me! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WARRIOR, by SUSANNE DUBROFF Poem Source First Line: They are not merely philologists; they Last Line: And of course, in a moment %he was gone Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAS IT STELLA, OR WAS IT STELLA?, by CAL BEDIENT Poem Source First Line: You're safe, you think, as a train Last Line: I praise you. I praise you Subject(s): Change; Relationships WASTE LAND LIMERICKS: 5, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No water. Dry rocks and dry throats Last Line: I hope you'll make sense of the notes Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WATCHING THE COMPLEX TRAIN-TRACK CHANGES, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You put on an ornate ballgown Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WATERLINE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Walking the beach in winter Last Line: Until the next flows in, and those that can %fly out past sight of shore Subject(s): Longevity; Psychoanalysis; Relationships WE HAVE GONE THROUGH GREAT ROOMS TOGETHER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And when on the dark steel came the roads Last Line: We can always say we have gone through great rooms together. Subject(s): Relationships; Stars WE MET BY CHANCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: We met by chance! Yes, I recall Last Line: We met by chance! Subject(s): Chance; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WE MUST MAKE A KINGDOM OF IT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that a colony will breed here Last Line: The gravedigger's shoulder. Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WE WRITE NASTY NOTES AT THE ACADEMIC CONFERENCE, by PAUL RUFFIN Poem Source First Line: In this place of high seriousness Last Line: The doors close and we ascend Subject(s): Relationships; Schools WEATHER, by CECILIA WOLOCH Poem Source First Line: There is this thread which is really nothing Last Line: You can't move forward, %some death has your heart Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women WEIGHING LIGHT, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Often the slightest gesture is most telling Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Conversation; Male-female Relations WHAT BLIGHT, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: What blight is this eating into my desire Last Line: To know what lies in my far sight Subject(s): Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Thought WHAT GOES THROUGH IT, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Of all places, tonight you're by the ocean Last Line: You can forgive yourself. Subject(s): Fathers; Forgiveness; Pennsylvania; Relationships WHAT HE SAID, by CEMPULAPPEYANIRAR Poem Source First Line: What could my mother be Last Line: Beyond parting Subject(s): Relationships WHAT I HEARD, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: You have bid me speak Last Line: Oh, you'd be surprised what I heard Subject(s): Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WHAT IS A SYMBOL?, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird is flying north across the white sky Last Line: Sit down Subject(s): Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pregnancy; Women WHAT IS GOOD, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the water call Subject(s): Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Mothers WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE FOR CERTAIN WIVES TO READ THEIR WELL-KNOWN HUSBAN, by YVETTE CARBEAUX Poem Source First Line: A man lusts after his wife's young cousin Last Line: Any raw material that good Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WHAT LOVE DOES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fused together, after years %and years of it, mostly the two legs Last Line: Rough arms and straining legs of the other Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Quarrels; Tears WHAT MY HOUSE WOULD BE LIKE IF IT WERE A PERSON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This person would be an animal. Subject(s): Home; Relationships WHAT SPEAKS TO ME NOW, by JUDITH HOUGEN Poem Source First Line: I'm talking with my roommate, who continues with Last Line: Clearing his immense throat. A certain kind of rapture Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships WHEN DE FAT AM ON DE POSSUM, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O de glory ob de fall days, de bes' ob all de Last Line: When de taters in de possum—an' de possum am in me! Subject(s): Hunting; Relationships; Hunters WHEN I AM DEAD, by LILLIAN R. WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Bury me not too deep Last Line: I shall be one with living things. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Relationships; Dead, The WHEN I TOUCHED HER LONG FEET, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I quit eating Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Admiration; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Women WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL AND MY MOTHER DIDN'T WANT ME, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father was killed and I never knew why Last Line: When I was a little girl and my mother didn't want me Subject(s): Adoption; Death; Fathers; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships WHEN I WATCHED HER HANDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I gave up everything I owned Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Admiration; Hands; Man-woman Relationships; Nature WHEN IT BEFORTUNES US, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships WHEN SHE LEFT ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It missed, first left, then right Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lightning; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Storms WHERE THERE WERE ONCE TRAILS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But what is it, the way the whole personality sometimes disappears Last Line: Whoever I thought you were has gone away Subject(s): Relationships; Roads WHERE WE MEET, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: As the world slow-dances through the universe Last Line: Anchored as we stitch our common way %from dark to morning, from past to future Subject(s): Aging; Psychoanalysis; Relationships WHERE WE THINK WE LIVE, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the silent house %he left her, the cat and I Last Line: Trembling tissues, in this cold rain Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude WHILE I BATHED, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: When you opened the door and the flash Last Line: You must have held me, as you do, that night, %cupping your hands around me as we slept Subject(s): Relationships WHILE TRYING TO RIVAL YOUR HAIR, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Into dirt, into smoke, into dust, into darkness, into nothingness Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Carnations; Flowers; Hearts; Man-woman Relationships WHO CARES FOR EARTHLY BREAD THO WHITE?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And bid you meet me there again Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Relationships WHO IS NOW READING THIS?, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or as if it could cease transpiring from me until it must cease Subject(s): Self; Relationships WHO'S ON FIRST, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can be so inconsiderate.' Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WHOEVER YOU ARE HOLDING ME NOW IN HAND, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Therefore release me, and depart on your way Subject(s): Relationships WHOSO LIST TO HUNT, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: I will not live for you and so I die Last Line: Draw closer in, a noose of yellow eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542) WHY I AM AFRAID OF TURNING THE PAGE, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spokes, spooks: your tinsel hair weaves the wheel Subject(s): Relationships; Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The WHY WE NEED A SINGLES CAR POOL NETWORK, by SAM PEABODY Poem Source First Line: It took over an hour to drive home tonight and still Last Line: Her smooth leg resting on mine at night, or the spring pruning %of my unchecked privacy Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Relationships; Traffic; Women WIFE OF THE MAN OF MANY WILES, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Believe what you want to. Believe that I wove Last Line: That never arrived. Kill all the damn suitors %if you think it will make you feel better Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights WILD HEART; FOR TRISHA, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where would I be if not for your wild heart? Last Line: How could I live? How could I make my art? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations WILD OATS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About twenty years ago Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Disappointment; Time; Male-female Relations WINDOW, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I give you an open window Last Line: My love like a homeland Subject(s): Gifts And Giving; Love; Paintings And Painters; Relationships WINDOW BLIND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You keep the blind of our north window drawn Last Line: From clarity there, unseen, unfaltering, and true. Subject(s): Light; Man-woman Relationships; Windows; Male-female Relations WINNING THE PRIZE, by PENNY CAGAN Poem Full Text First Line: There he is one morning when I open my door Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism WINNING THE PRIZE, by PENNY CAGAN Poem Source First Line: There he is one morning when I open my door Last Line: A soft voice in the ear asking what it would be like Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WINTER, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long will the bed that we made together Subject(s): Gay Men; Relationships WINTER MINE, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Mountain wind knocks a low moan from the shaft Subject(s): Relationships WINTER POEM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The quivering wings of the winter ant Last Line: To breathe, to sense another, and to wait Subject(s): Winter; Ants; Relationships WOMAN AMID DREAMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Woman maddened by dreams Last Line: The fingertips of my heart Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships WOMAN RESTING ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON, by MARTHA MODENA VERTREACE Poem Source First Line: At first, the simple astonishment of engines Last Line: I realize that I have known you forever Subject(s): Change; Man-woman Relationships WOMAN WHO THINKS SHE'S IN LOVE WITH MY HUSBAND, by AMBER COVERDALE SUMRALL Poem Source First Line: She whispers %into the black Last Line: What I'm missing Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women WOMAN WITH TONGUE SCULPTED IN CREEK, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: There are no rules for sadness Last Line: And rest his crucified body %in my soft and tired lap Subject(s): Male Chauvinism; Man-woman Relationships; Sex WOMAN'S JEWELRY, by A. F. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The woman in line at the coffee shop Last Line: At once a way in or a way out Subject(s): Jewelry And Jewelers; Man-woman Relationships WOMAN'S SHADOW, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: What you implanted in my marrow I translate into a language Last Line: I know my home will be there, where you mark off the wild garden Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women WOMEN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: If you take them to the ball game Last Line: The contradictory fish! Subject(s): Baseball; Contrariness; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Women; Male-female Relations WOMEN AND WOMEN, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: All women cry to men; for some cry 'give!' Last Line: And from their dust the flower of manhood springs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WOMEN AT FORTY, by KATHLEEN BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Women at forty %have learned to open Last Line: Raising no hope %of a miraculous return Subject(s): Justice, Donald (b. 1925); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WOMEN WHO SEW LIVERY, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: When night falls %the women who sew livery Last Line: And he goes off sad and alone %to phantom dinners Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WONDERS, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The wonders of the modern world %have gathered in a room tonight Last Line: Smaller than the veins of their hands, %and more suited to the heat Subject(s): Relationships; Romance WORD FROM MRS. WALLACE STEVENS, by SIMA RABINOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Nothing grotesque or accidental as the day begins Last Line: And an eager needle plucked the plump white flesh of my thumb Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Women's Rights WORDS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wallace stevens says Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WOULD BE MORE THAN KIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady is most fair and kind Last Line: I cannot bear to be your brother! Subject(s): Beauty; Brothers And Sisters; Incest; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WRITTEN AT SEA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is my quarrel with thee, beautiful sea Last Line: Or bear thy beauty in my misery. Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements X, by CATHERINE A. SALMONS Poem Source First Line: I used to think of you as my helen Last Line: And I'll give you treasures you can't even conceive Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Relationships YEARS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wished you dead and myself dead Subject(s): Relationships; Time YEARS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wished you dead and myself dead Last Line: And leaned over the railing at the top- %strong and warm, that summer wind Subject(s): Relationships; Time YEARS AFTER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The years upon you lightly lie Last Line: And that, of course, is why I save them! Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations YELLOW STARS AND ICE, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am as far as the deepest sky between clouds Subject(s): Relationships; Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension YOU, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By dust made beautiful, Subject(s): Relationships YOU, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes in our sleep we touch Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOU, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: You are something exquisite, michel Last Line: Pagan gaze. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOU AND I, HOWEVER, by MARIA MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: Last night you whispered, I have cancer Last Line: Of an ancient indian tribe whose name %died with them Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Relationships YOU ARE A MEDITERRANEAN, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Nerves can't reach %passion that spills on floorboards Last Line: And rock it to sleep Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Night; Passion YOU ARE ALL LOVELY THINGS, by LORENE BYRNES BURNS Poem Text First Line: You are all lovely things I know in my quiet world Last Line: You are the prayer on my lips. Subject(s): Gratitude; Hearts; Love; Relationships YOU ASK, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: \ Subject(s): Relationships YOU INTERFERING LADIES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: You interfering ladies, you Last Line: Enjoy a pinch of snuff, and sneeze. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOU NOW HOLDING THIS BOOK IN HAND, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man kissed her hand. Little earrings. They're about Last Line: Confederate flag. She kisses the man on his cheek. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOUNG MUSE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: My ears, no, more precisely, my capillaries and body are tuned Last Line: The name, a new source, which opens the doors to the houses of strangers Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Muses YOUR HAND IN MINE, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: But another day I touch your hand. Warm hand Last Line: Where I people you and sing you full within your flesh Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Relationships YOUR MIRROR FRAME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks I see your mirror frame Last Line: To-night with all the rest of them. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Relationships; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes YOUR NUMBER IS LIFTING OFF MY HAND, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships YPSILANTI STATE, by MARCUS CAFAGNA Poem Source First Line: My car spins down the exit ramp to the state Last Line: And eggs rising through the house Subject(s): Relationships ZALINKA, by TOM MACINNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night in a land of triangles Last Line: Slept with her hands in my hair. Subject(s): Admiration; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Male-female Relations ZARA'S EAR-RINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My ear-rings! My ear-rings! They've dropped into the well Last Line: "and that deep his love lies in my heart, as they lie in the well!" Subject(s): Earrings;hearts;love;man-woman Relationships;truth; Male-female Relations ZARE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Artaud was throwing up, artaud was killing Last Line: I don't know how to juggle them properly Subject(s): Death; Relationships ZUDORA, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the pale beach, in the darkness; Last Line: She's carnal, but cold as ice Subject(s): Male-female Relationships “SORRY”, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One thing I dont need' Last Line: & no count straight out stead of being sorry all of the time enjoy being yourself Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Love |
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