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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: ROCKS Matches Found: 87 A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, ADDRESSED TO TWO LADIES, SELECTION, by JOHN DALTON Poem Text First Line: Agape the sooty collier stands Last Line: Creative commerce, these are thine! Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines & Miners; Earth; Rivers; Stones; Caverns; World; Granite; Rocks A GRACE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: For all the beryl, pearl and chrysoprase Last Line: Gloria tibi domine! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Stones; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Granite; Rocks A ROLLING STONE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's sunshine in the heart of me Last Line: Praise him who made it all! Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks A VERMONT GRINSTONE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our old big grinstone used to stand Last Line: And leaves him only one to turn. Subject(s): Railroads; Stones; Vermont; Wagons; Wheels; Railways; Trains; Granite; Rocks ANTIPODAL, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk that brings the whippoorwill Last Line: Here and now? Subject(s): Birds; Stones; Trees; Whipporwills; Granite; Rocks ANTWERP, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Towers - eternal towers against the sky Last Line: And from their towers of tyranny hurled down. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Stones; World War I; Granite; Rocks; First World War ANY NUMBER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hole in a sock Last Line: How many years it takes to make a stone. Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks AS PEBBLES IN THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who shall judge man from his manner Last Line: But as pebbles in the sea Subject(s): Sea;seashore;stones; Ocean;beach;coast;shore;granite;rocks BY THE GREY STONE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is quiet here: the wet hill-wind's sigh Last Line: Is it love's lordly vow or mine own bitter shame? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Love; Sighs; Silence; Stones; Waiting; Granite; Rocks CANTO: ROCKS: WHICH HOLD THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD THUS FAR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look! It's a rock depicting the solid Last Line: Forward & back Subject(s): History; Nature; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks CASTLES IN THE AIR, by WILLIAM J. LAMPTON Poem Text First Line: I builded a castle in the air Last Line: And the whole darn thing fell down. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Castles; Crowns; Stones; Temples; Granite; Rocks; Mosques CHILD'S PARK STONES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sunless air, under pines Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks CLAY HILLS, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is easy to mould the yielding clay. Subject(s): Rocks CODA, OVERTURE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stepped out of the framing circle of the dark Last Line: Of hoofs trampling the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): History; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Statues; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks CONTRA MORTEM: THE STONE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Difficult to think of a stone's gratitude Last Line: The primal act with this. So all things waken Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks CRYSTALS LIKE BLOOD, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember how, long ago, I found Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Memory; Stones; Granite; Rocks DIGNITY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rocks jut out of the sea Last Line: They lacked before. Subject(s): Sea; Stones; Ocean; Granite; Rocks ECHO TO A ROCK, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou heaven-threat'ning rock, gentler than she! Last Line: Echo. Well. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Stones; Granite; Rocks ELEPHANT ROCK, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge weight / and granite shape of it Last Line: Ever known as the features of god Subject(s): Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks GEMS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I decked with gems my person fat, they glittered Last Line: Luck planet. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Sapphires; Stones; Granite; Rocks GRAVEL PIT, by ANNE SOUTHERNE TARDY Poem Text First Line: This conclave of innumerable stones Last Line: In battlements that tower toward the sun. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Stones; Granite; Rocks IDYLL 11, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When drop on drop, they say, doth ever follow Last Line: Twill wear the stone at last into a hollow. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Stones; Granite; Rocks IMAGINARY INSCRIPTION (ON A ROCK RESEMBLING COLOSSAL HUMAN FEATURES), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The seafowl build in wrinkles of my face Last Line: In showers of bright white thunder, breaks the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks INKSTONE, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a green river stone, Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks LABYRINTH, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've lost the clue -- somewhere Last Line: The long climb down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Monsters; Stones; Granite; Rocks LAMENT OF GRANITE, by DAVID ROSS Poem Text First Line: Rather had we been ground Last Line: Than granite remembered of man. Subject(s): Lament; Mills And Millers; Progress; Stones; Granite; Rocks LAYING STONE WALL, by FRED LAPE Poem Text First Line: I'll go and lay that corner of stonewall Last Line: One can be glad to be remembered by. Subject(s): Stones; Walls; Granite; Rocks LOVE IN THE WATER, LOVE IN THE STONE, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faithful bean lady of the plantain, Subject(s): Love; Water; Stones; Granite; Rocks MONUMENTAL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I have ceased to rant and rave, and Last Line: Silent sea, a three-foot slab of slippery elm is plenty good enough for me. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Monuments; Stones; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks MY LADY'S GLEAMING GEMS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My lady's decked with gleaming stones Last Line: To me, beside my lady's worth. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Stones; Women; Granite; Rocks MY ROCKERY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Here in my garden I have lovely stones Last Line: Might well forget, and stay to worship stones! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Monuments; Stones; Granite; Rocks NAMING FOR LOVE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the proper names Last Line: May all who read this live long Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks NOTHING BUT STONES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I never passed so sad an hour Last Line: In blaze of gorgeous light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Churches; Grief; Stones; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness; Granite; Rocks OF THE STONES OF THE PLACE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I farm a pasture where the boulders lie Last Line: It came from where he came from anyway Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks ON MICHAEL ANGELO'S STATUE OF NIGHT: LINES BY GIOVANNI STROZZI, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA STROZZI Poem Text First Line: Thou seest the sleeping night in grace reclining Last Line: Speak low, I pray thee, wake me not to pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Strozzi, Giovanni Battista ,the Elde Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks OUT OF ANY DEARTH, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Transmuting rocks to flowers Last Line: I will sieve my songs. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Stones; World; Granite; Rocks PASSAGES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come in in tiny boats Last Line: We must not look back Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Stones; Granite; Rocks POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stones in my heart Last Line: Looks like a simple stripe. Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Prairies; Stones; Texas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains; Granite; Rocks PSYCHOMETRIST, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I listened to a man, and he Last Line: Stones shall sing in ecstasy! Subject(s): Linnets; Stones; Granite; Rocks PULVIS ET UMBRA, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: When thou art lying under ground Last Line: The shadow of oblivion. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Stones; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Granite; Rocks QUATRAIN: PLUTONIC ROCKS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: We are each a surface stone Last Line: Rocks unite. Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks 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 ROCK AND HAWK, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a symbol in which Last Line: Nor success make proud Subject(s): Hawks; Pride; Stones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Granite; Rocks ROCKS, by NATALIE M. HANCOCK Poem Text First Line: Rocks - hoary with age - bearded with barnacles - crouching low Last Line: Is it the music of god, turning life's pages? Subject(s): Sea; Stones; Tides; Ocean; Granite; Rocks SAINT FRANCIS IN WINTER, by RUTH KNOWLES Poem Text First Line: It is a sorry slight to leave out there Last Line: If so he yet can speak, he knows not death. Subject(s): Ice; Snow; Stones; Winter; Granite; Rocks SIMPLICITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How happy is the little stone Last Line: In casual simplicity. Subject(s): Simplicity; Stones; Granite; Rocks STONE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Go inside a stone Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks STONE, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I drove by a pasture, under the sun, Last Line: But when could she have learned that she was stone? Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks STONE DUST, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods have not yet learned to fear the lover Last Line: From a crumbling wall. Subject(s): Dust; Love - Nature Of; Stones; Supernatural; Granite; Rocks STONE INTO ROSE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the paved street dig a place for roots Last Line: Back to the earth in rain to feed a rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Stones; Granite; Rocks STONE WALL BUILDERS, by EDITH HASKELL TAPPAN Poem Text First Line: Sturdy and staunch were those new england men Last Line: In this the land we love! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; New England; Stones; Walls; Work; Workers; Granite; Rocks STONE'S SECRET, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Otter-smooth boulder Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks STONES, by MABEL MUNNS CHARLES Poem Text First Line: Stones there be in fences and in the tall gray towers Last Line: A lonely heart! Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks STONES, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They don't change, or change so slowlhy Subject(s): Stones; Death; Granite; Rocks; Dead, The THE BARMAID AND THE ALEXANDRITE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Route 66, a rut of scenery and cigarettes Last Line: From telluride, to taos, to galisteo. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Stones; Travel; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips THE BASS ROCK, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas summer's depth; a more enlivening sun Last Line: Oft make the hush of midnight more profound. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Guests; Scotland; Stones; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Visiting; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips THE BLARNEY STONE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In blarney castle, on a crumbling tower Last Line: Has kissed, -- not calvary, -- but the blarney stone! Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE BURNS STATUE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This statue, I must confess, is magnificent to see Last Line: In fear of not getting such a beautiful statue after they die. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dundee, Scotland; Monuments; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE DORCHESTER GIANT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a giant in time of old Last Line: And pay for the punch beside. Subject(s): Boston; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE EYE IN THE ROCK, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A high rock face above flathead lake Last Line: Painted this eye that the rock might see. Subject(s): Admiration; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Stones; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Granite; Rocks THE FEAST OF THE GODS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a high tower I gazed at night Last Line: One psalter. ... Will we never know these gods are dead, and cannot live? Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Imagism; Mythology; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE HEAD ON THE TABLE, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The enormous head of a bison Last Line: Of swamp water and peat. Subject(s): Explorers; Museums; Stones; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Art Gallerys; Granite; Rocks THE MAD SCULPTOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far up in the quarry / I hewed a stone for pure delight Last Line: And reaches me his hands! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE MASTER-WOOER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I saw thy heart to-day Last Line: The rock shall yield herself to him for aye. Subject(s): Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Perseverance; Stones; Male-female Relations; Granite; Rocks THE MOSQUE AT EPHESUS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gray shell with a ruined tower Last Line: White on the mouldering tower. Subject(s): Decay; Ruins; Stones; Rot; Decadence; Granite; Rocks THE MUSEUM OF STONES, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These are your stones, assembled in matchbox and tin, Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks THE PATH AMONG THE STONES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the path winding Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks THE RAGGED STONE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking with my dear, my dear come back at last Last Line: I'll not be walking with my dear next year, nor yet alone. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Legends; Love; Stones; War; World War I; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks; First World War THE ROCK, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This rock, too, was a word Last Line: Your thoughts are your, too; naked let them stand. Subject(s): Stars; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE ROCK, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow sloping to its point pyramidal Last Line: And drank the sunrise glory of the sea. Subject(s): Beauty; Stones; Women; Granite; Rocks THE SERENITY IN STONES, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am holding this turquoise Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks THE SPRIG OF MOSS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lived in munich a poor, weakly youth Last Line: And be your only comforter in all your lonely hours. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Explorers; Moss; Stones; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Granite; Rocks THE STONE, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stone found me in bright sunlight Last Line: I liked him Subject(s): New York City; Stones; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Granite; Rocks THE STONE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I carry the stone Last Line: Weep when it won't nurse. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Mothers; Stones; Infants; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks THE STONE LANTERN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Old, dilapidated, grey; no longer a light-giver Last Line: To bring light and perfume. Subject(s): Old Age; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE STONE OF HEAVEN, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where the rivers dredge up Last Line: And seeing, begin to assemble the plain stones of earth. Subject(s): Colors; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE STONES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One night in my room Last Line: Among the excellent vegetables. Subject(s): Environment; Happiness; Nature; Self; Stones; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Joy; Delight; Granite; Rocks THE STONES OF STANTON DREW, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bland was the morn, no fault or flaw Last Line: The stones of stanton drew. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Stones; Time; Granite; Rocks THE TIDE ROCK, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sleeps yon rock, whose half-day's bath is done Last Line: A gallant front to this world's gaudy glare. Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks THINGS, SELECTION, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard, but you can polish it Subject(s): Religion; Stones; Theology; Granite; Rocks THYME FLOWERING AMONG ROCKS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This, if japanese, / would represent grey boulders Last Line: Truer than it seems Subject(s): Stones; Thyme; Granite; Rocks TILLAGE MARKS, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Stones; Agriculture; Farmers; Granite; Rocks TO THE STONE CUTTERS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated Last Line: The honey of peace in old poems Variant Title(s): To The Stone-cutters Subject(s): Stones; Transience; Granite; Rocks; Impermanence TWO VOICES IN A MEADOW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anonymous as cherubs Subject(s): Religion; Stones; Theology; Granite; Rocks ULYSSES BUILDS HIS BED, by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE Poem Text First Line: Glorious ulysses, returned from the war Last Line: And the enraptured mothers smile. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Statues; Stones; Ulysses; Walls; Granite; Rocks; Odysseus UNDER A GARDEN STONE, by CLARA HYDE Poem Text First Line: Blue light and rancid slate is this strange soil Last Line: That nothing but a garden stone can hold. Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks WOOD AND STONES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent trees above my head Last Line: May well give speech to stones and wood! Subject(s): Fate; Nature; Stones; Trees; Wood; Destiny; Granite; Rocks |
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