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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ROADS Matches Found: 344 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAPE COD WOOD ROAD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent woodlands bend above Last Line: The real is here, it is not there! Subject(s): American Revolution; Cape Cod; Roads; Paths; Trails A COUNTRY PATHWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come upon it suddenly, alone Last Line: That wanders home to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Nature; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Paths; Trails A CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK, by ELIZABETH M. TEFFAULT Poem Text First Line: Yesterday / as I walked along my way Last Line: So I took it home with me. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails A NIGHT TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My tired horse nickers for his own home bars Last Line: The wind is blowing and I want you so! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): The Wind Is Blowin' Subject(s): Love; Roads; Paths; Trails A NIGHT-PIECE, OR, MODERN PHILOSOPHY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when bright cynthia with her silver car Last Line: And next morn pored in plato for more. Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Roads; Silence; Travel; Bedtime; Railways; Trains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips A NIGHT-TIME RIVER ROAD, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were driving down a road Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails A ROAD IN FLANDERS, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a road in flanders Last Line: Or children any more. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails A SONG OF THE ROAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O I will walk wity you, my lad Last Line: O I will walk with you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Roads; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips A WALK THROUGH THE WOOD, by GEORGE W. DAVIS Poem Text First Line: I wandered in the solemn wood Last Line: And mark the way so gladly gone. Subject(s): Forests; Roads; Woods; Paths; Trails AFTER GOING BEYOND TALLEY ABBEY IN OCTOBER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever valley road so full of sound Last Line: Turn in his tracks and swiftly steal away. Subject(s): October; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Roads; Travel; Wales; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen AGRIGENTUM ROAD, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: That wind's still there that I remember afire Subject(s): Roads ALL ROADS SEEM TO LEAD HERE, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: You who stare at us out of the emptiness Last Line: As if. As if again. %as if Subject(s): Massacres; Roads AMBER IS FOR CAUTION, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Eyes of pigeons shine as they fly Last Line: Fuel is low Subject(s): Civilization; Explorers; Roads; Travel AMSTEL DIKE NEAR TROMPENBURG, C. 1649-50, by CHARLES WYATT Poem Source First Line: The dike is a road which curves gently away Last Line: He draws, and stays behind, over and again Subject(s): Drawing; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Roads; Water Supply AN ENGLISH DRIVE, by GEORGIA M. REDPATH Poem Text First Line: I love the english roads and lanes Last Line: But sleep at old land's end. Subject(s): England; Roads; English; Paths; Trails AN OLD ROAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days that were- no matter when Last Line: The road that leads not anywhere. Subject(s): Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Roads; Paths; Trails ANIMAL LOOSE ALONG THE PARKWAY, by JOHN BENSKO Poem Source First Line: Unlike you, they know I'm up here Last Line: We are unretracted like a claw Subject(s): Animals; Roads APPLE TREES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: You and I arrive in arles Last Line: Like yearning and trembling for light Subject(s): France; Love; Paintings And Painters; Roads; Romance; Travel ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I started on a lonely road Last Line: Till I am lost amid the crowd. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Life; Nature; Roads; Youth; Paths; Trails ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and Last Line: Waiting for reinvigoration Subject(s): Art And Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings And Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 84, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Highway, since you my chief parnassus be Last Line: Hundreds of years you stella's feet may kiss. Variant Title(s): The Highway;via Amoris Subject(s): Love; Roads; Paths; Trails AT THE ROAD'S EDGE, by DON WELCH Poem Source First Line: At the road's edge the snowbirds Last Line: What was it, I asked, I had come for? Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Travel BALLAD ON THE PATHS IN VASTMANLAND, by LARS GUSTAFSSON Poem Source First Line: Under the visible script of small roads Last Line: And know all that we wanted to know Subject(s): Brooks; Hunting; Roads; Travel BESIDE THE SHORE ROAD, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Here lies an old, worn highway winding far Last Line: Defying sense to fathom. Subject(s): New England; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips BUSES LONG TO GO HOME, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source Last Line: Of lualalambo, nkongsamba, and of calabar, %and female hippos sleeping under peppertrees Subject(s): Buses; Roads; Travel BY DIFFERENT PATHS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have all had our heads in a book Last Line: Now love is easy, pleases; no answer. Subject(s): Love; Roads; Paths; Trails BY HENSTRIDGE CROSS AT THE YEAR'S END, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why go the east road now? Last Line: "we are for new feet now." Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails BY THE ROADSIDE, by LOUISE ROPES LOOMIS Poem Text First Line: Shy violets among the tangled grass Last Line: Whisper to her that I came by and love her. Subject(s): Love; Roads; Paths; Trails CALIFORNIA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I've seen the world, I've traveled far Last Line: My heart doth yield to thee. Subject(s): California; Cities; Home; Roads; Travel; Urban Life; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips CAR AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS, by ROBERT KING Poem Source First Line: This is how it is done Last Line: Of the woods, left it there, and stayed Subject(s): Automobiles; Roads; Travel CARAVAGGIO'S LIGHT: III., by ANTHONY SALERNO Poem Source First Line: Manifold silences %break the legs Last Line: Merge with sunlight's %sinking hour Subject(s): Love; Roads CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 33. A ROMAN ROAD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: A road shines through the forest of the years Last Line: The ruined roadway still endures and waits. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Roads; English History; Paths; Trails CLARITY, by R. D. PATRICK Poem Source First Line: On this open road the gravel is hard under me Last Line: Tumbling in the white light Subject(s): Fields; Light; Roads COAL ROAD, by CHARLES ANDREW VANDERSEE Poem Source First Line: Coal road in the national forest won't be seen on tv Last Line: Rough road that exists but isn't part of the program Subject(s): Roads COUNTRY ROAD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the painting that hangs in our dining room Last Line: Little things of no great importance, but I'm %aware of them Subject(s): Country Life; Paintings And Painters; Roads COUNTRY ROADS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: A pale morning in june 4 am Last Line: And skidded back again. %traveling over the great and luminous sahara lit by clouds Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Fields; Roads; Sahara Desert; Travel CROSSROAD, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: To stop before the sun Last Line: Without a word to indicate which was the right way Subject(s): Roads; Travel CROSSROADS' BURIAL (SUGGESTED BY GALSWORTHY'S APPLE TREE), by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Green at the crossroads lifts the narrow mound Last Line: And her proud feet have found a pathway home. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Funerals; Roads; Suicide; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Paths; Trails CURVE, by REG SANER Poem Source First Line: His 16-year-old torso Last Line: With gimmicks, devices. Little ploys %for seeing nothing whatever Subject(s): Life; Roads; Travel DOORS, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE Poem Text First Line: The doors close softly, one by one Last Line: Another door? Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails DRIVER EDUCATION, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: I must have been the only boy Last Line: On the road ahead Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Driving And Drivers; Learning; Roads DRIVING HOME, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wheels keep pulling Last Line: It may not carry me much longer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Night; Roads; Bedtime; Paths; Trails ELYSIAN TRAIL, by KATHARINE BROWN BURT Poem Text First Line: Here spreads the salt marsh, here the Last Line: With a fair today? Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails EMINENT DOMAIN, by ROY MARTIN SCHEELE Poem Source First Line: The house torn down now, a hole in the earth, with a snow fence thrown Last Line: The day. It was like a glimpse of a face at a window Subject(s): Houses; Roads; Travel EPIGRAM ON BAD ROADS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm now arrived, thanks to the gods Last Line: Unless they mend their ways. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails F.M. 168, BUFFALO LAKE TO NAZARETH, by ANDY WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: This road lay like an invitation, south Last Line: Knew one another well in that life %where journey and destination were the same Subject(s): Ranch Life; Roads FIELDS OF SORIA: 3, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An undulating country, where the roads %do not conceal the travellers Last Line: With snowy summits blushing like the rose Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Roads; Travel FINCHLEY ROAD, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As we come up at baker street Last Line: And the twilight settling down on us. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: All the way in from the country Last Line: Littering the highway like glittering crumpled cans Subject(s): Automobiles; Refuse And Refuse Disposal; Roads FREIGHTIN', by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forty miles from taggart's store Last Line: Out the stretchin' road. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips FROM ROMANY TO ROME, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the road to romany Last Line: The birds are calling still! Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails FROM THIS DISTANCE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would take a small folded paper from his pocket Last Line: As he stood under the tree looking up. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails FROM TOWN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're the children of the open and we hate / the haunts o' men Last Line: Eeyow! A-ridin' up the rocky trail from town! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): Ridin' Up The Rocky Trail From Town Subject(s): City & Town Life; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States GHOSTING THE ROAD, by JOHN KISTNER Poem Source First Line: 1. Alma Last Line: Maybe - the delicate art of the discard Subject(s): Ghosts; Roads; Supernatural GLEAMS IN THE SNOW LANE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Around the mountain over there %also the radio reports ice Subject(s): Automobiles; Ice; Roads; Winter GOLDEN - OF THE SELKIRKS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trail upwinds from golden Last Line: On the trail that leads from golden. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Children - Lost; God; Roads; Paths; Trails GOLDEN ROAD, by CAROLYN ELKINS Poem Source First Line: It's happened to me only a few times Last Line: A road we have yet to set out on, %and have long ago been down Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Roads; Sun GUSTAV CAILLEBOTTE: BOULEVARD VU D'EN HAUT, by NICOLE PEKARSKE Poem Source First Line: The sky is white, the cobblestones shine blank Last Line: It yawns behind them, dim and full of strangers Subject(s): Roads HAVE YOU (ON THE ROAD TO KINLOCHEVEN), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you tramped about in winter, when your / boots were minus soles? Last Line: You do not know the happiness that fills a navvy's life. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips HE FINDS THE MANSION, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little road went on Subject(s): Roads; Rivers; Paths; Trails HERITAGE, by BLANCHE LEE Poem Text First Line: I have been down the long twisting road of pain Last Line: I know the road the wizards built for elfin lads and lasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Lee-adams, Blanche Ruby Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Pain; Roads; Tears; Heritage; Heredity; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails HIGH ROAD, by THEODORA HALFORD Poem Text First Line: The river-road / has left me far behind Last Line: For drinking with the trees! Subject(s): Roads; Trees; Paths; Trails HIGH WAY, by OLIVIA OPHELIA HARMAN Poem Source First Line: Plain talk he said Last Line: And gassed the pedal, %merging lanes Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; High School Students; Roads; Teenagers HIGHWAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems too enormous just for a man to be Last Line: Than to places you can reach by going on Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hunger; Memory; Roads; Travel Directions HIGHWAY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coast highway at our grade occasioned Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails HIGHWAY 2, ILLINOIS, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at this country Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Illinois; Roads; Solitude; Paths; Trails; Loneliness HIGHWAY 30, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At two in the morning, when the moon Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails HIGHWAY 66, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the absolute road to Last Line: Is going to be 100 percent okay Subject(s): California; Roads HIGHWAY SOUNDS, by RICHARD NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: We live so close to the highway it sounds Last Line: Your breathing regular now as distant waves Subject(s): Home; Roads HIS WISDOM: 6 YEARS OLD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His feet whene'er they walk abroad Last Line: Finds country in the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Roads; Wisdom; Childhood; Paths; Trails HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN [MARCH 8, 1862], by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray swept the angry waves Last Line: As the cumberland went down. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) I GO DREAMING ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who could feel you %nailed in his heart.' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roads; Travel I SPEED TOWARD THE MOON, by CONSTANCE HANSTEDT Poem Source First Line: On a deserted oakland freeway Last Line: Burst of the moon Subject(s): Evening; Moon; Roads; Travel IN CENTRAL EUROPE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: When you cross through the grass in central europe, you see Last Line: When the bamboo grows, %when the bamboo reaches the sipapuni%when each ring reaches the sipapuni %th Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Europe; Forests; Grass; Roads; Travel IN PASSING, by ANITA OLACHEA BUCCI Poem Source First Line: The bee man sells his honey down the road, where the sign says 'park Last Line: Away; 'I wonder if anything's changed at all here in five hundred years.' Subject(s): Fields; Roads; Tourists; Travel IN ROBERT MOTHERWELL'S CAR, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Above a cliff %a boy could see it Last Line: And still don't know %what lasts of what's written Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; New York City; Roads; Travel IN THE SANTA CLARITA VALLEY, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like skinny wildweed flowers sticking up Subject(s): Signs & Signboards; Roads; Paths; Trails INTERSTATE DREAMS, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: And why not? It's smooth travelling we want, why pre- Last Line: Ther side? I tell you, search your souls. Have you ever truly %brought freeways into your life? Subject(s): Roads; Travel INTO YOUR EYE, by VENO TAUFER Poem Source First Line: It is not the foam in the wake of the ship Last Line: In the guest sweeping a lash into your eye Subject(s): Drought; Dust; Roads; Travel INVECTIVE, by C. DALE YOUNG Poem Source First Line: From the turnpike, north-central florida Last Line: Now I search for crude metaphors, like this dirt Subject(s): Death; Florida; Physicians; Roads JEWEL-WEED, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Thou lonely, dew-wet mountain road Last Line: "and blur the dream!" Subject(s): Aging; Nature - Religious Aspects; Roads; Travel; Weeds; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips JOURNEY, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: Day after day %the caravans move through the hot sun Last Line: As if ahead somewhere near destination; %and somewhere stillness Subject(s): Caravans; Cities; Roads; Travel JOURNEYS, by BARBARA CROW Poem Source First Line: My husband wants difficult things Last Line: The poem I was going to write today Subject(s): Hiking; Maps; Roads; Travel KISMET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the rock the road is cut full deep Last Line: Dear hearts, farewell, farewell!' Subject(s): Children; Earth; Roads; Sea; Childhood; World; Paths; Trails; Ocean L'OISEAU BLEU, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Did they make love that night Last Line: Our unbearable urges at all Subject(s): Absence; Love; Roads; Travel LAGOS -- IBADAN ROAD BEFORE SHAGAMU, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bus groaned uphill. Trapped Last Line: Are looking for the driver %who escaped unhurt Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Accidents; Buses; Driving And Drivers; Prisons And Prisoners; Roads; Travel LANE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day, I think, there will be people enough Last Line: The lane ends and once more all is the same Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Roads LAUREL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the road in the month of june Last Line: Than any mood of roses! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; June; Roads; Roses; Paths; Trails LAY OF THE MOTOR-CAR, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're away! And the wind whistles shrewd Last Line: That stuff on the wheel? Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Roads; Cars; Paths; Trails LEAVE-TAKING NEAR SHOKU, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the roads of sanso are steep Last Line: There is no need of asking diviners. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Farewell; Roads; Parting; Paths; Trails LIFE ON THE LAKES: DERELICT, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Driving back thro' the night on the lonely last ride Last Line: Hushed and wistfully. Subject(s): Roads; Solitude; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips LIFE'S VENTURE, by JESSE SILL Poem Text First Line: I've followed the trail / for many a year Last Line: Our feet getting caught. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips LIGHTED PATH, by GABRIELE HOOKS Poem Source First Line: The moon kissed my womb and settled Last Line: I tell myself this matters Subject(s): Light; Roads LITTLE FEET, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: O tiny feet of children Last Line: And see you not? Subject(s): Children; Feet; Homeless; Poverty; Roads LITTLE PATH, by MARTHA MARDEN BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: Little path, where, where are you running Last Line: Or is it everywhere, little path? Subject(s): Heaven; Roads; Paradise; Paths; Trails LOOKING FOR THE TRUE INTIMACY ON THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE, by KRISTI MARIE STEINMETZ Poem Source First Line: This is ot the kind of love that sits you down Last Line: Until death do you part with new brunswick exit 9 %off the new jersey turnpike back east Subject(s): New Jersey; Roads LOST ORIGINAL, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. K said in times of great crudity Last Line: Still asking on down the road Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips LOST ORIGINAL, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. K. Said in times of great crudity Last Line: Still asking on down the road Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips MADONNA DI CAMPAGNA..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madonna di campagna is the name Last Line: Whom the madonna gathers for repose? Subject(s): Churches; Roads; Cathedrals; Paths; Trails MEMORIES OF PIONEER DAYS, by LUCY BURGMAN Poem Text First Line: Do you remember the blizzard, brother? Last Line: As I think of faithful old riley and wise old bill. Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips METAPHYSIC, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dearie I! When I up and follows Last Line: And many a turnip-load! Subject(s): Dreams; Roads; Wind; Nightmares; Paths; Trails MIDDAY, by PASCAL D'ANGELO Poem Text First Line: The road is like a little child running ahead of me Last Line: Of silence. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails MIDWESTERN AUTUMN, by IMRE ORAVECZ Poem Source First Line: The sun still shines warmly Last Line: To the recent immigrants Subject(s): Guests; Presidents, United States; Roads; Tourists; Travel MORE OPPOSITES: 9, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of road? Last Line: Because you are already there Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; Roads MUSTARD GREENS, by MARGARET RABB Poem Source First Line: Before I-40 I pass the minnis back pasture Last Line: Driving the lush surface, how fast it will flip to its opposite Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Farm Life; Roads MUTUAL COMPLAINT OF PLAINSTANES AND CAUSEY, IN THEIR MOTHER-TONGUE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since merlin laid auld reikie's causey Last Line: And let our words gie place to toil. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Conversation; Roads; Paths; Trails MY MEMORY LANE, by LULU MINERVA SCHULTZ Poem Text First Line: I know a lane where shadows fall Last Line: A boy walks there -- but with a cane. Subject(s): Memory; Roads; Walking; Paths; Trails MY PATH, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: My path bending %to the sky Subject(s): Roads NARROW ROAD, PRESIDENTS' DAY, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I drive by Last Line: Happens, the new %lambs will come Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Roads NEEDLES ROAD, by GERNIE HUNTER Poem Text First Line: Lost on a winding roadway Last Line: And the curve of needles road! Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails NETWORK OF ROADS, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: The old village roads are the landscape's fine sinuous net Last Line: Where all our roads will some day end Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Roads; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering NIGHT ROAD, by ROBERT A. DONALDSON Poem Text First Line: A pitch-black road, and rain Last Line: The noisy bumping of a camion train. Subject(s): Night; Roads; War; World War I; Bedtime; Paths; Trails; First World War NUGATORY, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The little roads I travel Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Roads; Travel O LITTLE ROAD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O little road, where do you go? Last Line: This little house and waiting me? Subject(s): Roads OLD COUNTRY ROADS, by NELLIE I. CRABB Poem Text First Line: Little-worn roads used to meander Last Line: Where have the old roads gone to? Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails OLD SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the hour of the dew Last Line: It is the virgin of the peaks Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Roads; Spain; Travel OLD SURVEY ROAD, by ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA Poem Source First Line: Where the land slopes Last Line: Some yet to heal, %others become rings Subject(s): Roads; Travel OLD TURNPIKE, by ABBY ALLIN CURTISS Poem Source First Line: We hear no more the clanging hoof Last Line: We have circled the earth with an iron rail, %and the steam-king rules us now! Subject(s): Roads OLD VERMONT ROADS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old-time roads, they used to run Last Line: Them roads the fathers used to travel. Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ON BOARD THE CUMBERLAND, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand to your guns, men!' morris cried Last Line: For those beneath the wave! Variant Title(s): Attack Of The Cumberland Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Morris, George Upham; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) ON THE ROAD, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those dutiful dogtrots down airport corridors Last Line: At whose end a man just like you guards the grail Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails ON THE ROAD TO THEBES, by TIM ROSS Poem Source First Line: Hey, stranger, you know where you are? Asks the fat guy Last Line: Might actually know the answer Subject(s): Roads; Travel ON WIRRABO ROAD, by ERNEST ROBIN Poem Text First Line: Gone are now old coaching ways Last Line: On the road to wirrabo. Subject(s): Nostalgia; Roads; Trucks & Trucking; Paths; Trails ONE STEP AT A TIME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a mine of comfort for you and me Last Line: A single step at a time. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prayer; Roads; Travel; Belief; Creed; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ONLY CAR ON THE ROAD FOR MILES IS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER CAR, by LUKE WHISNANT Poem Source First Line: It blazes by, blurring, black with speed Last Line: This car keeps going, and maybe gets there Subject(s): Automobiles; Roads PAINTED DESERT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: When we got to the painted desert Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona; Pictures; Roads; Tourists; Travel PATH, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Running along a bank, a parapet Last Line: And stay; till, sudden, it ends where the wood ends Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Roads PATH, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path led just a shade to steeply Last Line: And with their empty glasses began climbing %resignedly back uphill Subject(s): Nature; Roads PATH THROUGH GRASS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source Last Line: Moves like an unreal thing through the summer, %moon bridges built over the green seas Subject(s): Fields; Roads PATIENCE OF THE MAN ON THE PATH, by FRANCOIS DEBLUE Poem Source First Line: See that path over there Last Line: Will go %on ours Subject(s): Mankind; Patience; Roads PAUSE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy needed / to stop by the road Last Line: Across the fields. Subject(s): Drought; Fields; Home; Roads; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips PEPPERING ROADS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you wish to see roads in perfection Last Line: Amply pay you for all you have passed! Subject(s): Nonsense; Roads; Shoes; Travel; Walking PRAIRIE NIGHT, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: I love to go on a straight, white road Last Line: At my scarf, as I go by. Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips RECEPTIONIST'S COMMUTE, by JODY ZORGDRAGER Poem Source First Line: Sheer without fear %is what the nude Last Line: Believe that it's you %he sees straight through Subject(s): Advertising; Commuters; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915); Roads; Signs And Signboards REVOLTING DEVELOPMENTS, by MAURICE DEAN BLEHERT Poem Source First Line: Something there is that doesn't love a highway Last Line: And soon bull-dozers hum, 'I did it my way!' Subject(s): Roads RIDDLE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: It is long, it is long, yet it Last Line: Does not reach the tail of a donkey Subject(s): Riddles; Roads RIDDLE (7), by MARY AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: My 1st when good may claim another Last Line: And puts a stop to speed & hurry Subject(s): Riddles; Roads RIDDLE: 6, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Long as ever / pounded ever Last Line: What is it? Subject(s): Riddles;roads; Paths;trails RIVER ROADS, by NIKI LEOPOLD Poem Source First Line: Our neighbor, in retirement Last Line: And hope the answer will arrive Subject(s): Neighbors; Roads ROAD, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a road that turning aways Last Line: For small is great and great is small, %and a blind seed all Subject(s): Roads; Transience ROAD AND PATH, by EDWIN FORD PIPER Poem Text First Line: O, road, and path, and path and road Last Line: And the needs of folk long dead? Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails ROAD BACK, by DONALD FINKEL Poem Source First Line: The road back sprawls behind me Last Line: My old retainer %my taciturn guide Subject(s): Roads ROAD IS NOT A METAPHOR, by CAROL SNYDER HALBERSTADT Poem Source First Line: There are no symbols. Only Last Line: At the very edge Subject(s): Nature; Roads ROAD LAW, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drive a ford or a packard six Last Line: "a load of stone has the right of way." Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Roads; Traffic; Cars; Urban Life; Paths; Trails ROAD RONDEL, by NICOLE SARROCCO Poem Source First Line: Nothing quite like the force of a near-fatal car crash Last Line: To cement a relationship, that other force, the one that takes life away Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Life; Roads ROAD STOP, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: I can't help wondering how many Last Line: On the long grade out of town Subject(s): Roads; Travel ROAD TAR, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A kid said you could chew road tar Subject(s): Roads; Tar; Paths; Trails ROAD TO DAMASCUS, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Why not take some time off work, go for a spin, recall the bumper to Last Line: Suddenly radiant as never before Subject(s): Change; Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers; Roads ROAD TO EMMAUS, by CAROLYN MILLER Poem Source First Line: All around us, secrets are continually Last Line: The kingdom is here, on the earth Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Truth ROAD TO SKYE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is paved with sheep shit, among other things Last Line: Who want and want and want, drive to no end Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Roads ROAD'S END, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The roads have come to an end now Last Line: Which you hold loose in your hand %--what the hell is this? Subject(s): Roads ROADKILL, by PRISCILLA FRAKE Poem Source First Line: My first boss's hobby was roadkill Last Line: As simple, as dense with meaning, as clean as bones Subject(s): Death - Animals; Roads ROADS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a country laced with roads Last Line: To the opaline gates of the castles of dream. Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Paths; Trails ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From this moorish city %behind the old walls Last Line: Oh, I can no longer walk with her! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Cities; Roads; Travel ROADS, by MARY MOORE Poem Text First Line: From the train the desert stretches to the sky Last Line: Above forgotten graves beside abandoned roads. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails ROADS, by HILDA WORTHINGTON SMITH Poem Text First Line: Where are the songs that will bind us as Last Line: New roads of peace for the oncoming race. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Roads; Stones; Work; Workers; Paths; Trails; Granite; Rocks ROADS, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roads are the infinity of things cut out of paper Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails ROADS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love roads Last Line: And their brief multitude Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Roads; Wales ROADS WE TRAVEL BUT ONCE, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: A road runs down through wonder town Last Line: Than roads we travel but once? Subject(s): Life; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ROADSIDE GRILL, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: I stop at applewhite's grill Last Line: Is shown a hole the carpenter made Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Roads ROADTRIP, by MATT ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Funerals of parents Last Line: With a distant look in %your eyes Subject(s): Roads; Travel ROADWAYS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One road leads to london Last Line: God put me here to find Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Roads ROADWAYS, by SARA NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Just as the little country road divides Last Line: By bringing peace to crown our happiness! Subject(s): Old Age; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ROADWORK, by DERICK BURLESON Poem Source First Line: One worker and one bulldozer are eating every street in the city Last Line: Grackles love the carrion that washes up when it floods Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Roads ROAMING, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I steady my staff at the crossroads, it falls with Last Line: For the road runs the wide world over, and the life of the road is the best. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ROBINSON ROAD, by ROGER FIELD Poem Source First Line: They come & they go Last Line: The sweet white clover in the ditch %& the grasshopper Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Nature; Roads RUBICAM ROAD, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Where, in all the wide world, is the loveliest street? Last Line: Into rubicam road. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails RURAL ROUTES, by ALLEN BRADEN Poem Source First Line: We ride the roads our fathers rode Last Line: Along the houses that huddle before us Subject(s): Houses; Roads RUTS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I count the wrinkles in the road Last Line: Whose track alone is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails SATAN'S HIGHWAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With satan joyously leading the way Last Line: They follow the road to his old home town. Subject(s): Homecoming; Roads; Towns; Travel; Travel Directions; Walking; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips SCENT OF GASOLINE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: As a child I'd inhale deeply the scent of gasoline Last Line: Before the needle stops traveling backward-falls %unencumbered, empty, lost Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers; Gasoline; Roads; Travel SHARING THE ROAD WITH BIKERS, by MICHAEL HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: I though I admired them Last Line: On the butt of humanity Subject(s): Roads SHORT CUTS, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Thoughts of escaping this road Last Line: No more short cuts Subject(s): Pain; Prisons And Prisoners; Roads SNOW FENCE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The red fence Last Line: Much to carry Subject(s): Fences; Roads SONG OF MY SOUL, by CAMILLE DU BARRY Poem Text First Line: As viking bold, I rode on the crest Last Line: That scorns convention's putrid toll. Subject(s): Roads; Vikings; Paths; Trails SONG OF THE AUSTRALIANS IN ACTION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For the honour of australia, our mother Last Line: Kneel thee down, new made sister - let us pray Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Australia; Honor; Roads; Singing And Singers SONG OF THE CATTLE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The dust hangs thick upon the trail Subject(s): Cattle;cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States SONG OF THE FEDERATION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the nations sat together, grimly waiting Last Line: Kneel thee down, new-made sister -- let us pray!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Nations; Roads; Singing & Singers; War; Paths; Trails SONNET: 12. TO A GRAVEL WALK, by WILLIAM MASON Poem Source First Line: Smooth, simple path! Whose undulating line Last Line: Take then, smooth path, this tribute of my love, %thou emblem pure of legal liberty! Subject(s): Roads SONNET: 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the road, where on that little mound Last Line: Whilst the proud levite scowls and passes by. Subject(s): Children; Death; Graves; Pain; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails SONNETS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My heart was where a hundred roads converge Last Line: To gaze so pityingly at my gray hair Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Roads; Spain; Travel SOUTH ON 17, by ANDREW VARNON Poem Source First Line: Miles of dirt and rows Last Line: I don't really know what was here before Subject(s): Roads SOUTHERN ROAD, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swing dat hammer - hunh - / steady, bo' Subject(s): African Americans; Roads; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Paths; Trails; South (u.s.) SOUTHERN ROAD, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swing dat hammer - hunh - %steady, bo' Last Line: Let me go; %po' los' boy, bebby, %evahmo... Subject(s): African Americans; Roads; Southern States SPRING FANTASIES: 5. ROAD SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is wide and the wind smells sweet Last Line: Then, ho for the inn that welcomes all! Subject(s): Life; Roads; Singing & Singers; Sun; Paths; Trails; Songs STRANGE PATHS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a way I used to know Last Line: I know not which to take! Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails STREET LANTERNS, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Country roads are yellow and brown Last Line: Topaz, and the ruby stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Light; London; Roads; Paths; Trails T'UNG PASS, by CHANG YANG-HAO Poem Source First Line: Masses of mountain peaks Last Line: Dynasties rise, people suffer, %dynasties fall, people die Subject(s): Roads; Zen Buddhism TAKING THE OLD ROAD, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: Yesterday we fell for it again Last Line: Windows in all the lonely farmhouses Subject(s): Farm Life; Maps; Roads; Travel Directions TANGLED TRAILS, by GLADYS NAOMI ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: The forest has a tangled maze of trails Last Line: The straighter ways that lead to joy or fame. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE ATHABASCA TRAIL, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is gliding downwards; it speeds swifter to the day Last Line: I'll be out with pack and packer on the athabasca trail. Subject(s): Canada; Nature; Roads; Canadians; Paths; Trails THE ATTACK, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In hampton roads, the airs of march were bland Last Line: She sank, thank god! Unsoiled by foot of traitor! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Morris, George Upham; Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE BEAUTIES AROUND US, by JESSE SILL Poem Text First Line: The beautiful scenes around us Last Line: Old utah, is just good enough for me. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE BEST ROAD OF ALL, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like a road that leads away to prospects white and fair Last Line: But, best of all, I love a road that leads to god knows where. Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE BLAZED TRAIL, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just when the path is lost to me Last Line: The trail shows broad and plain. Subject(s): Fire; Roads; Paths; Trails THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE ROAD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are roads to take when you think of your country Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Travel; Roads; Journeys; Trips; Paths; Trails THE BUFFALO TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deeply the buffalo trod it Last Line: Over the green or the snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Roads; Paths; Trails THE CAMPUS IN VACATION, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: The road winds grey, deserted Last Line: Waiting for many feet. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Vacation; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE CHANCELLOR'S GRAVEL-DRIVE, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A government-bull yoked to a government-cart! Last Line: Need not trouble him at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Government; Roads; Paths; Trails THE CINDER PATH, by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL Poem Text First Line: The start - the strain - the springing! Last Line: And make the race worth winning! Subject(s): Roads; Victory; Paths; Trails THE CIT'S COUNTRY BOX, by ROBERT LLOYD (1733-1764) Poem Text First Line: The wealthy cit, grown old in trade, / now wishes for the rural shade Last Line: To stare about them, and to eat. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Roads; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE CLIMBING ROAD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where do you go, oh climbing road, mounting, mounting ever Last Line: For still my heart within me cries to seek the great endeavor! Subject(s): Ambition; Climbing; Roads; Paths; Trails THE CREEK-ROAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calling, the heron flies athwart the blue Last Line: And now a barefoot truant and his dog. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE CROSSROADS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I stood at the crossroads one day Last Line: When life on earth is done. Subject(s): Advice; Life; Roads; Paths; Trails THE CRUISE OF THE MONITOR [MARCH 9, 1862], by GEORGE M. BAKER Poem Text First Line: Out of a northern city's bay Last Line: Hurrah for the monitor's famous cruise! Subject(s): American Civil War; Hampton Roads, Virginia; Monitor (ship); Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE CUMBERLAND, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some names there are of telling sound Last Line: Cumberland! Cumberland! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE CUMBERLAND [MARCH 8, 1862], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At anchor in hampton roads we lay Last Line: And without a seam! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Patriotism; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE DAMASCUS ROAD, by EMMA LEE GLENN Poem Text First Line: How far on the road to damascus Last Line: You have traveled this glorious day. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE END OF THE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "soh, bossie, soh!" Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States THE FAIRY TRAIL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Over stick, over stone, over fence, over / rail Last Line: In crookedy turns goes the fairy trail. Subject(s): Roads; Summer; Paths; Trails THE FRIGHTENED PATH, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wood grew very quiet Last Line: "and -- nothing living stays!" Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE GLORY TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Way high up the mogollons Last Line: "I'll never turn him loose!" Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): High Chin Bob Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States THE GREEN ROADS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green roads that end in the forest Last Line: And hear all day long the thrush repeating his song. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE GYPSIES' ROAD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shall go on the gypsies' road Last Line: The road that has no ending. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Gypsies; Roads; Gipsies; Paths; Trails THE GYPSY ROAD, by EDITH TATUM Poem Text First Line: The road is a gypsy, it calls night and day Last Line: I hear it, I answer ... I am up and away! Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE HAPPY TRAVELLER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the monarch of the road? Last Line: I travel to the far away! Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE HILL-ROAD TO ARDMORE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's the hill-road to ardmore, mary Last Line: By the hill-road to ardmore? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Home; Roads; Paths; Trails THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the people and horses have gone Last Line: It whispers the world-secret. Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Roads; Silence; Soul; Stars; Sunrise; Bedtime; Paths; Trails THE JOYS OF THE ROAD, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the joys of the road are chiefly these Last Line: For him who travels without a load. Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Fall; Paths; Trails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE KING'S HIGHWAY; EL CAMINO REAL, by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in the golden weather, forth let us ride today Last Line: With the breath of god about us on the king's highway. Subject(s): California; Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE KNAPSACK TRAIL, by EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like the wide and common road Last Line: Till suddenwe are there! Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Paths; Trails THE LEANE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They do zay that a travellen chap Last Line: An' went vurder wi' them than a dreat. Subject(s): Grass; Greed; Property; Roads; Social Protest; Avarice; Cupidity; Possessions; Paths; Trails THE LEVEL WAY, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My road lies open, over level country Last Line: Monotony. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: As o'er a sea untried and dark Last Line: Throw open wide the door! Subject(s): Exhibitions; Oregon; Roads; World's Fairs; Expositions; Paths; Trails THE LITTLE ROADS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great roads are all grown over Last Line: And lead us by a wandering way. Subject(s): April; Forests; Hearts; Roads; Woods; Paths; Trails THE LONG ROAD, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: Down through our troubled age-long puzzlement Last Line: Our feet must climb again, and yet again. Subject(s): God; Life; Roads; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL, by MINNI MILLS NEAL Poem Text First Line: Riding down the dixie highway Last Line: That's just ahead of me. Subject(s): Hunting; Roads; Wealth; Hunters; Paths; Trails; Riches; Fortunes THE LONG TRAIL: ANSWER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: From the clearing's scope in the breaking wood Last Line: The motherland is calling the children home! Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: CALLING THE CHILDREN HOME, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: So the long trail sleeps. But fast and far Last Line: Mother-mine calling the children home! Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: OUTWARD BOUND, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Out on the long trail. The foam drifts back Last Line: These pioneers. Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE CORN LANDS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: And the corn-lands call! The long, long trail Last Line: From the soft blue haze of the timber line. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE GOLD RUSH, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Now it's gold and gold! Last Line: And we strike it rich. Subject(s): Canyons; Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: THE MOUNTAIN WALL, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The long trail calls! Last Line: The snows drift deep thro' the closing night. Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: THE PIONEERS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Thro' the breaking wood Last Line: With its call to new days. Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE PRAIRIE FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Under the lifting ridges of smoke Last Line: Is comeis come! Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE TIMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Hickory and walnut, the thicket's mass Last Line: Thro' open glades to splashing feet. Subject(s): Fields; Plums; Prairies; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Plum Trees; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LOST PATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone they walked - their fingers knit Last Line: Was leading safely on to paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Heaven; Roads; Spring; Paradise; Paths; Trails THE LURE OF ROADS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close to my heart, the roads of men! Last Line: Follow, I follow wherever they go! Subject(s): Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails THE MAGIC OF ROADS, by GERNIE HUNTER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes my heart rebels at concrete's gray Last Line: Where the grass grows deep, and a hill road bends. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE MASSY WAYS, CARRIED ACROSS THESE HEIGHTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of those pure minds that reverence the muse Subject(s): Ruins; Time; Roads; History & Historians THE MESSINES ROAD, by JOHN E. STEWART Poem Text First Line: The road that runs up to messines Last Line: And give the highway back its state. Subject(s): Roads; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Paths; Trails; First World War THE MIDDLENESS OF THE ROAD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road at the top of the rise Last Line: And local green suggest Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE NEW HIGHWAY, by ELIZABETH MORSE Poem Text First Line: My fear is the fear of the road - of the new highway Last Line: All the years in between the boy and the man -- all the fears! Subject(s): Fear; Roads; Paths; Trails THE NEW HIGHWAY, by EVA SMITH TURNER Poem Text First Line: A smooth, broad highway girds our town Last Line: Cast cold, dark shadows on my heart. Subject(s): Environment; Roads; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Paths; Trails THE NIGHT HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I laughed when the dawn was a-peepin' Last Line: And a lone rider sings to the moon? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE OLD BUFFALO TRAIL, by ISABEL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: On the old buffalo trail, I'm glad this autumn day Last Line: O, buffalo trail, what legends and what marvels you could tell! Subject(s): Autumn; Native Americans; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails THE OLD COOLGARDIE ROAD, by DORHAM DOOLETTE Poem Text First Line: A flitting shadow follows Last Line: Back to her breast again! Alternate Author Name(s): Prodigal, The Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Horses; Nostalgia; Roads; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails THE OLD COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I go home at end of day, the old road Last Line: And you sleeping so quietly under the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Fathers; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Roads; Dead, The; Irish; Paths; Trails THE OLD MACKENZIE TRAIL, by JOHN AVERY LOMAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, stretching yonder o'er that low divide Last Line: Went rangeing o'er the old mackenzie trail. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States THE OLD MARLBOROUGH ROAD, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where they once dug for money Last Line: By the old marlborough road. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE ONWARD TRAIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as of old, - with fearless foot Last Line: Merge and be ever one again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Parting; Paths; Trails THE PASSING OF THE TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a sunny, savage land Last Line: Far riding down the years! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Roads; Paths; Trails THE PATH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far I've strayed me in the long endeavor Last Line: And just ahead, my home. Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Truth; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails THE PATH, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He followed the curve of the sunrise Last Line: Was no longer the way for him. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE PATH, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path led just a shade too steeply Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE PATH, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a path, I'd keep it open Last Line: Always wider, for people to pass. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Woods; Paths; Trails THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 16, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People ask the way to cold mountain Last Line: You would be here Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 224, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I enjoy the simple path Last Line: Until the moon comes up cold mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 255, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People search for cloud roads Last Line: Cloud roads are in space Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Clouds; Roads; Taoism; Paths; Trails THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 3, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cold mountain road is strange Last Line: Form asks shadow where to Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 300, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On cold mountain road Last Line: What are my signs Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 32, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who takes the cold mountain road Last Line: And sit with me in the clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 35, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trail to cold mountain is faint Last Line: Year after year no spring Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Loneliness THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 27, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Partial to pine cliffs and lonely trails Last Line: Trusting the current like an unmoored boat Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Boats; Chinese Literature; Laughter; Roads; Paths; Trails THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 34, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old buddha road is deserted Last Line: Need to see my teacher Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Roads; Teaching & Teachers; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity; Paths; Trails; Educators; Professors THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 45, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up high the trail turns steep Last Line: To wait for that lone crane once more Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails THE ROAD, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Now where are ye goin',' ses I, 'wid the shaw! Last Line: Still 'twas me that went wid her right on to the end! Subject(s): Friendship; Roads; Paths; Trails THE ROAD, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On gilead road the shadows creep Last Line: So dear is that before. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE ROAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My way of life is a winding road Last Line: "and something coming around the bend!'" Subject(s): Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Roads; Singing & Singers; Paths; Trails; Songs THE ROAD, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a road that turning aways Subject(s): Roads; Transience; Paths; Trails; Impermanence THE ROAD MENDERS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How solitary gleams the lamplit street Last Line: The fiery destiny of man. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Roads; Work; Workers; Paths; Trails THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood Last Line: And that has made all the difference. Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Life Change Events; Roads; Time; Destiny; Liberty; Paths; Trails THE ROAD THROUGH CHAOS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one road, one only, to the light Last Line: Conquer your world, and find the eternal goal. Subject(s): Beauty; Chaos; Hearts; Light; Pilate, Pontius; Roads; Truth; Paths; Trails THE ROAD TO CABINTEELY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the lonely road, the road to cabinteely! Last Line: Though my poor heart should break. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Roads; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails THE ROAD TO CHURCH, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rutted by wheels and scarred by hoofs Last Line: Which they shall walk no more. Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Roads; Cathedrals; Theology; Paths; Trails THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain road goes up and down Last Line: The lonely road to gundagai. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Australia; Kisses; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails THE ROAD TO HOGAN'S GAP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now look, you see. It's this way like Last Line: And hogan's old grey mare! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Roads; Paths; Trails THE ROAD TO OLD MAN'S TOWN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fields of youth are filled with flowers Last Line: The road to old man's town! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Flowers; Roads; Towns; Youth; Paths; Trails THE ROADS OF MEN, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Text First Line: The roads that men have made wind everywhere Last Line: A shining lane to join all souls to god! Subject(s): Men; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Paths; Trails THE ROMAN ROAD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roman road runs straight and bare Last Line: The roman road. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE ROMAN ROAD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bury me close to the roman road Last Line: And still is the riding sweet. Subject(s): Graves; Roads; Tombs; Tombstones; Paths; Trails THE ROUND FISH, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With neither bones nor skin Last Line: From the one that you are making as you go. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Roads; Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Paths; Trails; Ocean; Swimmers THE SAFE DRIVER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the street I drive my car, my rate of Last Line: "gets it in the neck, is he who swears by safety first!" Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Roads; Paths; Trails THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE SHORT ROAD TO HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a short road to heaven, but you must take it young Last Line: The night darkens on themand there's god at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Roads; War; World War I; Youth; Paradise; Paths; Trails; First World War THE SONG OF THE HILL TRAILS, by ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH Poem Text First Line: Quiet runs the valley way Last Line: And of the years to be! Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE SPRING, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beating asphalt into highway potholes Subject(s): Reparing; Roads; Drinks & Drinking; Paths; Trails; Wine THE SUNFISH LAKE ROAD, by BEATRICE MARY BILLING Poem Text First Line: The long road lures me and I leave the town Last Line: And pale spires pierce the blue of evening sky. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE TOLL-GATE MAN, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tore down the toll-gate Last Line: From the next far hill. Subject(s): Toll Roads THE TRAIL, by DAVID ATKINS Poem Text First Line: In solemn rank on either hand Last Line: Leads .... Home, like any old-world street. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE TRAIL, by J. O. GARRETT Poem Text First Line: Dust clouds and dragging hoofs Last Line: Up the long trail to better pastures. Subject(s): Cattle; Roads; Paths; Trails THE TRAIL OF NO RETURN, by JESSIE JANE HUSSEY CASKEY Poem Text First Line: Along the trail my way I wend Last Line: Away, from world sojourn. Subject(s): Future Life; Roads; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paths; Trails THE TRAIL TO LILLOOET, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sob of fall, and song of forest, come you here on haunting quest Last Line: And call across the cañon on the trail to lillooet. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Fraser (river), British Columbia; Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE TRAIN DOGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night and the north Last Line: The wolfish blood in their veins. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Native Americans; Roads; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails THE TURN OF THE ROAD, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where this narrow lane slips by Last Line: At the turn of the road.' Subject(s): Footprints; Roads; Solitude; Time; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE UP-HILL STREET, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a lane through grassy meadows Last Line: And merges in the sky. Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Roads; Paths; Trails THE VIELD PATH, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here oonce did sound sweet words, a-spoke Last Line: Wer here so long as I can mind. Subject(s): Fields; Memory; Nostalgia; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails THE VISION OF RABBI BEN ISAAC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For three score years my wandering Last Line: A snow-white feather fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clergy; God; Roads; Vision; Wandering & Wanderers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Paths; Trails THE WATCHERS ON THE ROAD, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hill road, the desert road Last Line: With a white and terrible sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Angels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Roads; Paths; Trails THE WAY, by COLETTA RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I find you, oh, my dear?' Last Line: "so loving, loitering, mount the steps -- no doubt I will be there." Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They shut the road through the woods Last Line: But there is no road through the woods. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Roads; Time; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods; Paths; Trails THE WAYSIDE BANK, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With primroses gentle / she did her bedight Last Line: For the dusty day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE WESTERN ROAD, by EDWIN JAMES BRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My camp was by the western road - so new and yet so old Last Line: And clearly rose another dayalong the western road. Alternate Author Name(s): Brady, E. J. Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia; Roads; Paths; Trails THE WINDING ROAD, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: The beckoning road winds round the hill Last Line: My blithely winding road. Subject(s): Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THEIR FIRST PILGRIMAGE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still is north hinksey very much the same Last Line: The toiling masses come to try their hand on thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Oxford University; Roads; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Paths; Trails THERE WAS A ROAD, by LOUISE SNODGRASS Poem Text First Line: There was a road, white sparred Last Line: We found it and the night was starred. Variant Title(s): The Road Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THROUGH FROST AND SNOW AND SUNLIGHT, by BRIAN PATTEN Poem Source Last Line: I pass all things, yet stay Subject(s): Riddles; Roads TINY TRUCKS, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: Careful on roadways, he's the genius engineer Last Line: Of their fearsome engines hushed Subject(s): Roads; Sickness; Trucks And Trucking TO A LITTLE GIRL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All on a day of gold and blue Last Line: Follow them little darling! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Children; Roads; Childhood; Paths; Trails TO ARCADY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, singer, of the way Last Line: "love's at home in arcady!" Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips TO HER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cut loose a hundred rivers Last Line: Go clean-hearted to her! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Roads; Togetherness; Paths; Trails TO MY MOTHER, by FLORANZ HILDRUP EMTAGE Poem Text First Line: She walked a high road, I could see her there Last Line: But this I know, that she still walks -- and sings. Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Roads; Singing & Singers; Walking; Paths; Trails; Songs TO THE DOE LAST SEEN RUNNING UP THE SOUTH EXIT RAMP TOWARD WAL-MART, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Through rearview mirrors %you promise her Last Line: Be the whisper that tells her %wait steady now go run Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Driving And Drivers; Roads TO YOUR HEART, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL Poem Text First Line: The path to your heart is a new england roadway Last Line: And ends with a stone. Subject(s): Hearts; New England; Roads; Paths; Trails TOURING THE SOUTHWEST, by KATHERINE MERCURIO GOTTHARDT Poem Source First Line: The drive from santa fe Last Line: Lifting dust from mouth to tongue, sitting as time permits Subject(s): Cities; Roads; Tourists; Travel; West (u.s.) TRAILER, by CONSTANCE R. DOWD Poem Text First Line: When people say a witty thing Last Line: That will not come again! Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails TRAILS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: He leaves his silver trail behind Last Line: And never see their golden trails. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails TRAIN, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Train skims fields like a low-flying Last Line: As weeds beside the rail bed Subject(s): Commuters; Home; Railroads; Roads; Travel TRAVELERS IN THE ORIENT, by CATHARINE MORRIS WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: The pikes of pennsylvania run Subject(s): Roads TRURO, by ROGER FIELD Poem Source First Line: The dog and I stumble on rough cut gravel Last Line: There's only sudden storms in the night, %only the dark road Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Night; Roads TRUTH, by MONICA OCHTRUP Poem Source First Line: There were two ways to get to my grandmother's house. One was to cross Last Line: The diffusion of countless spores %flying thick in the air like fine dust swelling your nostrils. Br Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Roads TURN OF THE ROAD, by ALICE ROLLIT COE Poem Source First Line: Soft, gray buds on the willow Subject(s): Roads TWO HEARTS IN A FOREST: LOST ROADS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As though following a series of clues, we drove Last Line: Already the sad rapture entering Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Roads; Summer TWO PATHS, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: I had not hoped last year Last Line: I castthe other way. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails TWO ROADS, by MYRTLE WRIGHT GILILLAND Poem Text First Line: The new road runs in smooth, marked lanes Last Line: Well suited to my dreams. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails TWO TRIPS TO IRELAND, by DAVID POLLOCK YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Well-eye, gazing at daytime stars Last Line: By a man so trapped in time Subject(s): Hotels; Ireland; Roads; Travel VERMONT IN LATE SEPTEMBER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roadside bloom I saw last week Last Line: The goldenrod and asters. Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips VERSE ON THE TOLL-GATE NEAR HARTLEBURY, WORCESTSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On wednesdat last old robert sleath, %passed through the turnpike gate of death Last Line: To him death would no toll abate, %who stopped the king at worcester gate Subject(s): Toll Roads VERSES FROM ANTI-TURNPIKE RIOTS; PEMBROKESHIRE, 1843, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where is rebecca? That daughter of my story! Last Line: Bu all to no purpose - good-bye then, rebecca! Subject(s): Social Protest; Toll Roads VERSES TO THE TOLL-COLLECTOR, CARMARTHEN, WALES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: By blood and fire christ strikes the blow Last Line: Who admits none, except they pay %the piper Subject(s): Social Protest; Toll Roads VIA SACRA: TO A FRENCH FRIEND, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that in years to come shalt tread this sacred way Last Line: Hark! Up the avenue, the nightride of the maid! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): France; Patriotism; Roads; Paths; Trails VILLANELLE OF ROADS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, whither go the roads that lead away? Last Line: Ah, whither go the roads that lead away? Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails WALKING ROAD, by RICHARD HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The world is all orange-round Subject(s): Roads WAY BACK, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The sound the form the way it is Last Line: Sleep to take us way back home Subject(s): Homecoming; Past; Roads; Travel; Youth WET GRASS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tinges corner dripped and sighed Last Line: And not a word was said. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails WHAT SHALL ENDURE?, by ETHELYN M. HARTWICK Poem Text First Line: Great roads the romans built that men might meet Last Line: The walls are fallen, but the roads endure. Subject(s): Permanence; Roads; Roman Empire; Walls; Paths; Trails 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 WHICH PATH SHALL YOURS BE?, by RAY D. SMITH Poem Text First Line: What is there in living when one has lost all Last Line: Which of them shall yours be the weak or the strong? Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails WHICH ROAD?, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still green on the limbs o' the woak wer the leaves Last Line: Gaït o' walkèn, so smooth as an aïr-zwimmèn cloud Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants; Paths; Trails WHY WAIT? DO IT NOW: 2. ON BRIGHTNESS AND YOU, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come home with roses Last Line: The road was narrow and not much traveled Subject(s): Home; Roads; Travel WINDSHIELD WIPERS, by IOANNA CARLSEN Poem Source First Line: The bus uses up the road Last Line: This wetness no obstacle, %this road no map Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Rain; Roads WINTER ROADS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring thaw Last Line: Looking for winter Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Spring; Winter; Fall; Paths; Trails XXIII, by GIZELLA HERVAY Poem Source First Line: I don't know what fear is Last Line: The roads don't know where they're leading Subject(s): Exiles; Roads; Travel |
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