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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: REUNIONS Matches Found: 70 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 25TH HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We come to hear the endings Subject(s): Reunions; Aging A FRIEND'S PLEADING WORDS TO ANOTHER, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before you should lose me Last Line: I may be the eyeball amplifying the drippings of the sap. Variant Title(s): A Friend's Pleading Words To A Second Person Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Nature; Reunions; Dead, The; Burials A.K.A. MATA HARI, by BARBARA SZERLIP Poem Source First Line: She suggested we meet for lunch the next day at cafe americaine Last Line: Brow. 'a kiss,' she said, bestowing one, and was off Subject(s): Hotels; Restaurants; Reunions; Travel ALL LEGENDARY OBSTACLES LAY BETWEEN, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Move into the wet darkness %kissing, still unable to speak Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Reunions ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The door of heaven is on the latch Last Line: This night again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Comfort; Love; Reunions; All Hallows Night AN OLD TALE OF THREE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, bonnie darling, lift your dark eyes dreaming! Last Line: Ah, hell of my heart! Ye are dust to meand dust with dust may woo! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fidelity; Love; Reunions; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Faithfulness; Constancy; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy AN OLD WOMAN'S VISION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No better day to come Last Line: Like a sucking stone going down... Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Reunions; Dead, The AULD LANG SYNE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should auld acquaintance be forgot Last Line: For auld lang syne. Variant Title(s): The Goal Of Life;auld Lang Syne (with Music) Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Reunions BLUES FOR AN OLD BLUE, by WALKER GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Beneath this tent, clutching this glass of beer Last Line: Watches the hours go by, and mourns his losses Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music And Musicians; Reunions; Yale University CARD SHARKS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: They all sat around Last Line: If I deal the next hand?' Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Reunions; Uncles CARMEN LAETUM; RECITED ... ALUMNI OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A right loving welcome, my true-hearted friends Last Line: May esto perpetua then be the toast! Subject(s): Middlebury College; Reunions CLASS OF 1963: MATHENY, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rmemember me? The class jack-off Last Line: The gold in your memory's coffer Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Classmates; Clowns; Reunions CLASS REUNION, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a dream I teach Last Line: Stay,' they say. 'have a drink with us.' Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Reunions; Schools; Teaching And Teachers COGNAC, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each summer I would coddle a bottle of cognac Last Line: Future still flush with desire Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Friendship; Liquorice; Parties; Reunions COME HOME, by ELEANOR C. KOENIG Poem Text First Line: Come home, john kane, things have changed in our valley Last Line: Come home, come home and -- do not dally. Subject(s): Absence; Home; Reunions; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips COMING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are driving to the airport Last Line: To your curving lips and your %ivory thighs Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love; Reunions DANCING ON ROUGH WATER: FAMILY REUNION, by JAY P. WHITE Poem Source First Line: After decades apart, they sail again on green water Last Line: Their spitfire bite of cloud thinning as it fills Subject(s): Reunions; Water FACE TO FACE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never to be lonely like that Subject(s): Pioneers; Reunions FACE TO FACE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never to be lonely like that Last Line: Burning under the bleached scalp; behind dry lips %a loaded gun Subject(s): Pioneers; Reunions FAMILY REUNION, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The week in august you come home Last Line: Is harder than having let you go Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Reunions FAMILY REUNION, by JIM WAYNE MILLER Poem Source First Line: Sunlight glints off the chrome of many cars Subject(s): Reunions FAMILY REUNION, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside in the street I hear Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Reunions; Family Life; Relatives FATHER AND SON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the suburbs and the falling light Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Reunions; World War Ii; Second World War FATHER AND SON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the suburbs and the falling light Last Line: Among the turtles and the lilies he turned to me %the white ignorant hollow of his face Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Reunions; World War Ii GREATER MEMORY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the heart there lay buried for years Last Line: That heart and that memory dwell. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Past; Reunions HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The troublemaker has become a monk Last Line: Of wishing suzy any harm at all Subject(s): Reunions HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD: REUNIONS: KENSINGTON, 1994, by DIANN BLAKELY Poem Source First Line: Jet-lagged, yanking my mother's huge suitcase Last Line: Would come in swarms. No rooms are ready yet Subject(s): Reunions; Travel HOME: TWO, by STEPHEN MORRISSEY Poem Source First Line: I am feeling too much Last Line: Is home: returned from travels %alone no more Subject(s): Home; Reunions HOW IT SEEMED TO HIM AWAY FROM HOME, by JAMES WHITEHEAD Poem Source First Line: I'm out of town and visiting old friends Last Line: Somebody said poetically in bad faith Subject(s): Reunions IN LOVE'S ETERNITY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body was part of the sun and the dew Last Line: As my love; and together we wept. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Love; Reunions; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise ISLA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Isla, isla, heart of my heart, it is you alone I am loving Last Line: And I to my kingdom come, my king, my mouth to thy mouth! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Death; Desire; Kisses; Love; Reunions; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The MATURITY, by ELYDIA SHIPMAN Poem Text First Line: I was not ready for your return Last Line: We are one in what we are. Subject(s): Absence; Reunions; Separation; Isolation MY SON, by ADA TYRRELL Poem Text First Line: Here is his little cambric frock Last Line: My son, and bring him safely back to me! Subject(s): Fear; Military; Mothers & Sons; Reunions; Soldiers; World War I; First World War NEVER RETURN!, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a meeting, such as on this earth Last Line: Call on the fire-flies dancing through the vines. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Future; Past; Reunions NOW IT IS CERTAIN, by DESANKA MAKSIMOVIC Poem Source First Line: Through the same gate I shall enter too Last Line: Perhaps by the arch of the eyebrow Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Reunions OUR DRAGON, by CHELSEA RATHBURN Poem Source First Line: At summer reunions, great aunt nettie Last Line: Those apples will sink in your gut like stone.' Subject(s): Family Life; Reunions; Summer PARTING AFTER PARTING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Never to part more Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Farewell; Reunions; Togetherness PARTY, by EDDY VAN VLIET Poem Source First Line: After years the reunion. Brushed the dogs Last Line: Wanted to ask something, was already buried Subject(s): Reunions PEACE, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: How will it be when peace shall come Last Line: On the blissful day when the boys come home. Subject(s): Peace; Reunions; Soldiers; War POEM FOR A CLASS RE-UNION, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether we like it, or don't Last Line: Shall rally together to dine. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Aging; Classmates; Past; Reunions; Time; Schoolmates RETURN, by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE Poem Text First Line: How pleasurable to have you here, my friend Last Line: But I have never been away from you. Subject(s): Autumn; Friendship; Reunions; Seasons; Fall RETURN TO CHIANG VILLAGE, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shaggy red clouds in the west- Last Line: Facing each other as in dream Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Reunions; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering REUNION, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The story's that my great-aunt was killed by her mother Last Line: How hard we are to love, how desperate to stay together Subject(s): Reunions; Togetherness REUNION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For more than thirty years we hadn't met Last Line: Grateful, my dear, that I escaped from you. Subject(s): Disappointment; Reunions; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Educators; Professors; Feminism REUNION, by MAY RICHSTONE Poem Source First Line: You haven't changed' Last Line: And appreciate %the welcome lie Subject(s): Reunions REUNION, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By some derision of wild circumstance Subject(s): Reunions REUNION, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By some derision of wild circumstance Last Line: The same old stars will soon be overhead, %but not so friendly and not quite so near Subject(s): Reunions REUNION, by DEBORAH WARREN Poem Source First Line: Clad in candid white like priestesses Last Line: Tales of a certain age in terrycloth %un-homeric - our epics were truth Subject(s): Reunions RIFFS AND RECIPROCITIES REDUX: FACES, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: High school reunions are the proving grounds. Say, one's twenty Last Line: Oh, I still wouldn't approach her, still wouldn't dial whatever her num- %ber had become Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Faces; Reunions ROSE DARNLEY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood above the flooded stream Last Line: She folds her hands, and he departs. Subject(s): Rejection; Reunions SCENE, by RUTH GLASCOTT Poem Text First Line: The voices lulled on covering the air with weight Last Line: And these were only two white candles. Subject(s): Candles; Reunions SEMELE RECYCLED, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you left me forever Last Line: Its birth and rebirth and decay. Subject(s): Bodies; Reunions; Semele (mythology); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 7. THEY MEET AGAIN, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS Poem Text First Line: It chanced one day they met. Each in surprise Last Line: She had, she said, embraced philosophy. Subject(s): Reunions SHAKY REUNION, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Cold water has been thrown down Last Line: While I chop the wood Subject(s): Reunions SONG OF THE ARAUCANS DURING A THUNDER STORM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm cloud grows deeper above Last Line: Waft thither the song of your praise. Subject(s): Chile; Messengers; Reunions; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Storms SONGS IN ABSENCE: 14, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ship, ship, ship Last Line: Come quickly with it to me. Subject(s): Love; Reunions; Ships & Shipping STRANGER IN MILITARY CLOTHES, by ROBERTA BLOOM Poem Source First Line: Suffering is embedded Last Line: From this electric shock %and run, %and come back Subject(s): Reunions; Soldiers; Strangers SUPPER GATHERERS, by FREDRICK ZYDEK Poem Source First Line: The moon on this side %of his universe Last Line: Just before singing Subject(s): Family Life; Reunions; Singing And Singers THE CONVICT'S RETURN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye mountains and glens of fair scotland I'm with ye once again Last Line: I will bid ye all good-bye. Subject(s): Homecoming; Prisons & Prisoners; Reunions; Togetherness THE EXILE'S RETURN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from thee, weeping I removed Last Line: Still shared by thee. Subject(s): Reunions; Exile THE HEATHERBLEND CLUB BANQUET, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 16th of october, in 1894 Last Line: This on my soul and conscience I do confess. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Reunions; Singing & Singers THE LAST MAN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Back at commencement time he came Last Line: Reunion in another clime. Subject(s): Commencement; Dartmouth College; Reunions; Scholarship & Scholars; Graduation THE REUNION; READ TO SURVIVING STUDENTS IN 1827-1830, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gulf of seven and fifty years Last Line: Is herald also of the day! Subject(s): Alumni; Haverhill Academy, Massachusetts; Reunions THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And are ye sure the news is true? Last Line: When our gudeman's awa'. Alternate Author Name(s): Meikle, William Variant Title(s): There's Nae Luck About The House;the Mariner's Wife Subject(s): Absence; Reunions; Separation; Isolation THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet to the morning traveller Last Line: That welcomes his return. Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Reunions; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some morning I shall rise from sleep Last Line: By the dim quayside and embark. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Variant Title(s): The Last Voyage Subject(s): Love; Reunions; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THIRD REUNION POEM, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Oh, some are here and some are there, they are scattered Last Line: And clink and drink while heartstrings link for the best of dartmouth classes. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Poetry & Poets; Reunions TRYST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I thought to have made her my bride Last Line: We leave to love. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Marriage; Reunions; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 WHEN I RETURN, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Once more before me: a worn old man Last Line: Let's rot together till we give off fumes! Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Reunions |
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