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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 me—and 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