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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ROMANCE Matches Found: 161 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CIDER SONG, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wine they drink in paradise Last Line: Goes all the way to wales. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Hearts; Romance A COQUETTE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am never in doubt of her goodness Last Line: Whose birthdays are three, when all told. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Romance; Spring A LOVE TEST, by CARL HERLOZSSOHN Poem Text First Line: Sweet, do you ask me if you love or no? Last Line: Believe me, darling, that your heart is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Herlosssohn, Carl Subject(s): Doubt; Love - Nature Of; Romance; Skepticism A MADE-FOR-TV ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a year of spirited intercourse Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Romance; Sex; Male-female Relations A SUGGESTION, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Let us go and live in a perfectly new / house Last Line: Where we may live and lovewith nothing more to learn! Subject(s): Hearts; Houses; Love; Romance ADOLESCENCE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: We were alone together Last Line: From her mournful eyes Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Romance; Youth ADOLESCENCIA, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: En el balcon Last Line: De sus ojos Subject(s): Amor; Besos; Corazones; Juventud; Romance ADVENTURE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: I loved my garden; in its cloistered plot Last Line: Nor turn dismayed from unknown fate. Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Roses; Sea Voyages; Destiny AN IMITATION OF SPENCER, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Full many a fiend did haunt this house Last Line: Those weary realms, and kept ease-loving men awake. Subject(s): Love; Romance 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 AROMAS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We could have been happy Last Line: Everything the fragrance of waves Subject(s): Love; Romance; Seashore; Waves AT NIGHT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: I love you and I give you my voice Subject(s): France; Hearts; Love; Poetry And Poets; Romance AT THE FAIR, by KWAME DAWES Poem Source First Line: From a distance at the fair, esther does not seem Last Line: When she said, 'man, I am late,' in that tiny voice Subject(s): Festivals; Man-woman Relationships; Romance BALLAD OF MY BEAUTIFUL LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My friend, my friend Last Line: The one I lost today.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Pain; Romance BEYOND LOVE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything menaces us Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Night; Romance; Sleep; Bedtime BEYOND LOVE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything menaces us Last Line: Pause of blood between this time and another without measure Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Night; Romance; Sleep BOUNTIFUL, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Providence leads us to many tables Last Line: Bought by husbands roaming malls after the divorce Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Friendship; Love; Romance BOY ND THE SHRIKE, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: A boy became enamored of a shrike Last Line: And for that hurt, he loves her all in vain Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance BRIEF ENTERPRISE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Others knew the lazily-shepherded summer years Last Line: Which is indivisible man and his brief enterprise of love. Subject(s): Love; Romance CANDY APPLE RED, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: A boy in a shark-finned car Last Line: Laid out, burning, just for you Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Romance; Youth CAROLINE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: The air is thin here %nothing moves Last Line: You always end up in the kitchen crying Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Self-pity CID: PART 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In a low state Last Line: Expressions, but Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Romance; Spain - History; Spanish Literature CIRCLES OF AFFINITY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sing hey! For the fields of old romance Last Line: And a heart that is worth the wooing. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Romance COMO HERMANA Y HERMANO, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source Last Line: Vamos los dos Subject(s): Amor; Deseo; Dolor; Hermanos; Relaciones; Romance COMO LA MAR, LOS BESOS, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: No importan los Last Line: Magicos en la Subject(s): Amor - PÉrdida De; Besos; Muerte; Romance CONFESSIONAL, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: I think maybe you Last Line: Like wide hips %over our hot skins Subject(s): Love; Romance; Togetherness CONFLUENCE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: How the snow melts to keep this river flowing Last Line: The light of day on the other Subject(s): New England; Romance; Winter CONFUSION OF THE SENSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight fills the senses Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations CONFUSION OF THE SENSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight fills the senses Last Line: Do you hear? We are breathing. We are alive Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance CYRANO DE BERGERAC, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Not so fast! Your fifteen pence! Last Line: Curtain Subject(s): Romance DE AMORE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love-I -- thou -- me-off-pissest Last Line: Everything's changed for the best Subject(s): Love; Romance; Writing & Writers DIVINE WILL, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seven hours: late afternoon here, lightning Last Line: Hand-painted for the orthodox easter Subject(s): Love; Religion; Romance; Spirituality DOGS IN THE STORM, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When this slow heart was raging Last Line: Who howls for us both in such savage moonlight? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Romance DON JUAN'S GOOD-NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "teach me, gentle leporello" Last Line: One his whole wealth could not pay Subject(s): Hearts;love;passion;romance EARLY MORNING WEATHER, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The rain makes me conjure a lover Last Line: Jubilant in wet edge light Subject(s): Commuters; Love; Railroads; Romance; Travel EL AMOR ASCENDIA ENTRE NOSOTROS..., by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source Last Line: Y se encuentran Subject(s): Amor - Quejas; Cuerpos; Deseo; Romance EL AMOR QUE CALLA, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Si yo te odiara Last Line: Que es ma atroz Subject(s): Corazones; PasiÓn; Romance; Silencio EPITAPH FOR A ROMANTIC WOMAN, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has attained the permanence Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Romance ESCAPE OF COUNT FERNAN GONZALEZ, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They have carried afar into navarre the great count of castile Last Line: Their swords shine bright, infanta, -- and every blade is thine' Subject(s): Escapes; Knights And Knighthood; Romance; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714) FINDING THE BUDDHA, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: In the corner of a garden shop, among the evengreens Last Line: Against the body, your smile nearly ready %to bloom Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Meditation; Romance FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Didst thou not praise me, gaultier, at the ball Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Francesca Da Rimini (13th Century); Italian Renaissance; Murder; Romance; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I prithee, rene, charm our ears again Last Line: [falls on paolo's body.] Subject(s): Francesca Da Rimini (13th Century); Italian Renaissance; Murder; Romance; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO Poem Text First Line: Jester, hey, jester Last Line: Sword.] Subject(s): Francesca Da Rimini (13th Century); Italian Renaissance; Murder; Romance; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 1, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The couple was sitting on a bench near the clearing of the Last Line: Finger with a ring in which a lone tooth tried to echo a sad smile Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Romance FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 2, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: I met her on the beach, and soon we were sitting face to face Last Line: By the hand, I chose to make myself the accomplice of silence Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Romance FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 3, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The beautiful lady came up suddenly, walking next to me at a Last Line: Have to give it back Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Romance HANS BRINKER WAS MY BOYFRIEND, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Those were the days, hans Last Line: We glide through our diamond days %on skates of silver Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships; Romance HIGH PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every evening at seven o'clock Last Line: Swimming overf the mediterranian Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Romance; Provence, France; Male-female Relations HIGH PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every evening at seven o'clock Last Line: Swimming over the mediterranean Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Romance HIS FIRST AFFAIR, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I told eliza mary ann Last Line: Will go to war, and maybe die. Subject(s): Children; Courtship; Romance; Childhood HYMN TO THE MOON, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: No horizons surrounding where the moon is Last Line: The fierce light, sudden wind sheer %of joy Subject(s): Moon; Night; Romance I HAVE COME REMEMBERING, by LORENE BYRNES BURNS Poem Text First Line: These are the paths we loved Last Line: Have you come back tonightremembering? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Romance; Sanctuaries IF RAIN, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: If rain can come Last Line: Then shall we know coming and going Subject(s): Clouds; Love; Rain; Romance; Water ILLUMINANTS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love bright things like candlelights Last Line: A single shining head. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Romance; Joy; Delight IN THE GARDEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Your hands are two yellow leaves Last Line: In eddies of rings on its surface Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Love; Romance IN THE LARGE PARKS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The small fountains in large parks Last Line: Lean over your bench and quietly ask: %which star do you come from? Subject(s): Parks; Romance IT'S ME, I'M NOT HOME, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's late in the city, and I'm fast asleep Subject(s): Calls And Calling, Social; Love Affairs; Romance; Telephones IT'S ME, I'M NOT HOME, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's late in the city, and I'm fast asleep Last Line: Please leave a message after the beep Subject(s): Calls And Calling, Social; Love Affairs; Romance; Telephones LA JOLLA, 1943-1993, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Here in the cove at la jolla Last Line: Being carried over a threshold Subject(s): La Jolla, California; Love - Marital; Parents; Romance LA LINDA AMIGA, by ANONIMO Poem Source First Line: Companero, companero Last Line: De aquella que Subject(s): Amor - Matrimonial; Matrimonio; Pena; Romance LA MUERTE DEL REY DON PEDRO, by ANONIMO Poem Source First Line: A los pies Last Line: Su rey muerto Subject(s): Amor; Romance LADY ALDA'S DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In paris sits the lady that shall be sir roland's bride Last Line: For sir roland has been slaughtered in the chase of roncesval Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Romance LANGUAGE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Your tongue like a barefoot walk Last Line: Becomes for a moment %moss, %water, %stone Subject(s): Language; Love; Romance; Tongues LANGUAGE WITH ONE WORD: 1. DURING THE LAST MONTHS, by KRISTY NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: The woman must smile back at the face of death. Privately, she is unable Last Line: Moon with me, he says, meaning: you will remember this forever Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Romance LIKE SISTER AND BROTHER, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source Last Line: We go holding hands Subject(s): Desire; Love; Relationships; Romance LIKE THE SEA, KISSES, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Emblems mean nothing Last Line: Magical in the light, then they turn lifeless Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Romance LOS AMOROSOS, by JAIME SABINES GUTIERREZ Poem Source First Line: Los amorosos callan Last Line: La hermosa vida Subject(s): Amor; Corazones; Deseo; Romance LOS ANGELES NOCTURNE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: It looks like the streets are flowing sweetly in the night Last Line: And when they sleep they will not dream of angels but of mortals Subject(s): Angels; Desire; Los Angeles; Love Affairs; Romance LOS ARRIEROS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arriero, vas Last Line: Occidentales de Subject(s): El Viajar Y Viajes; Romance LOS OFICIOS DE SUEÑO: 1, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Primero vi al Last Line: Remedar una triste Subject(s): Amor; Romance; SueÑos LOS OFICIOS DE SUEÑO: 2, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: La conoci en la Last Line: Y, tomandola de Subject(s): Amor; Romance; SueÑos LOS OFICIOS DE SUEÑO: 3, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: La bella senora Last Line: De devolver Subject(s): Amor; Romance; SueÑos LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, as you come Last Line: Glowing through the night-bound forest Subject(s): Desire; Romance LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 23, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could be Last Line: To embrace you forever Subject(s): Kisses; Romance LOVE WAS RISING BETWEEN US, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source Last Line: And finding each other distant Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Love - Complaints; Romance LOVE'S CYNICISM, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: Wisely you smile at love's sad corollary Last Line: Frail hours with sentiment; think this, and smile. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Sorrow; Sadness LOVERS, by THERESE STEGMAN Poem Source First Line: In august, she had thrown away Last Line: And in each other's blood Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance MÁS ALLÁ DEL AMOR, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Todo nos amenaza Last Line: Pausa de sangre Subject(s): Corazones; Cuerpos; Noche; Romance; SueÑo MADE-FOR-TV ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a year of spirited intercourse Last Line: How lbullish she was on french kissing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Romance; Sex MALENE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked on thee in former days Last Line: No, not as long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations MARCH OF BERNARDO DEL CARPIO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With three thousand men of leon, from the city bernard goes Last Line: But steadfast heart and spirit bold, alphonso ne'er shall sell Subject(s): Bernardo Del Carpio; Courts And Courtiers; Fights; Romance; Spain MARIAN AT TASSAJARA SPRINGS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: I remember your hair Last Line: To black ash and orange flame Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Romance MARIAN/'CHAMA' IN THREE MOUNTAIN RANGES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Now we separate %branching letting go of pine cone Last Line: I have grown old and snowblind Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Passion; Romance MEIN LIEBCHEN, WIR SASSEN ZUSAMMEN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My darling, we sat together Last Line: Upon the great sea-flow. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations MELISENDRA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At sansuena, in the tower, fair melisendra lies Last Line: Saint denis speed the milk-white steed! - no moor their path shall find Subject(s): Grief; Knights And Knighthood; Romance MOONWATCHING AND STEELHEAD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The moon rises over the ridge Last Line: Shining from underwater stones Subject(s): Moon; Night; Romance MOOR CALLAYNOS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I had six moorish nurses, but the seventh was not a moor Last Line: No more,' he cries, 'this moon will rise above the woods of seine!' Variant Title(s): The Moor Calayno Subject(s): Absence; Fights; Knights And Knighthood; Romance; Tyranny And Tyrants MOVIE HOUSE: THE MALACHITE KIOSK, by FRANCESC PARCERISAS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes it's the crystal air at the beach Last Line: Dreaming, unhappy, of another country, traps Subject(s): Love; Romance; Sinatra, Frank (1915-1998); Theater And Theaters MULE DRIVERS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mule driver, you go fabulously glazed in sweat Last Line: Its brute toward the andes, %the occidentals of eternity Subject(s): Romance; Travel NAPLES, 1590, by HELEN YETTA WALKER Poem Text First Line: The same old scene of the same old play Last Line: Over her silken knees. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Naples, Italy; Romance; Youth; Male-female Relations NIGHT: SOBERANES POINT, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: At the ocean my nose Last Line: O blossoming night! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Night; Romance OCTOBER ROMANCE, by LAUREN MCMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: On you I have waited Last Line: Was to be wreathed, for a moment %in your smile Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Romance ON THE BALCONY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both watched the uncertain swallows sudden farewell Last Line: The tumbled, odorous bed, wide-opening in the gloom. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Romance; Roses ONCE ONLY: AUSTIN SNOW, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: I saw you that way, late afternoons, always Last Line: Mating of a swan and some god of the night Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Snow ONLY WATER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every great civilization %we know by heart dries up Last Line: Draining away from the tips %of skyscrapers and bridges Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature; Romance; Waterfalls OPERA BUFFA, by DIANE SHIPLEY DECILLIS Poem Source First Line: At la dolce vita, in the village Last Line: Snapped like a broken string %on a stradivarius! Subject(s): Food And Eating; Restaurants; Romance PICKING WILD FLOWERS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I have been out picking Last Line: Know their true names Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Romance PLUNGE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Your body %like what is inside Last Line: In the seagrass of your hair Subject(s): Love; Romance; Seashore POET IN THE GARDEN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source Last Line: The poet's thighs ache as if she had been riding %a broad wild night of love Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Love; Poetry And Poets; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Romance QUATRAIN, by MARGARET SLACK FUHRMAN Poem Text First Line: This happiness I ask for evening hours Last Line: While sunlight gently falls, and quiet rain. Subject(s): Romance RECOGNITION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: In some forgotten grove of france Last Line: When we two loved in france in guiltless guile. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations RHYMES: 10, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The quivering, unseen atoms of air Last Line: My eyes are closed - what can it be? %love is passing by Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Romance RISING ABOVE THE EARTH, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: She walks sometines among the treetops Last Line: On a cloud that is floating in the word...' Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets; Romance RIVER WIE, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During lovemaking he fell asleep, one moment Last Line: Then turned to stare down the stagnant house %growing paler in the glimmer reflected off the river Variant Title(s): River Wif Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Rivers; Romance ROMANCE, by ANONIMO Poem Source First Line: Asi riselo Last Line: Mas verdad Subject(s): Amor; Romance ROMANCE, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT Poem Text First Line: Day after day as I follow the plow Last Line: When once you have to stay! Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Love; Romance ROMANCE, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loveliest girl in all our country-side Last Line: Oh let me walk alone where breaks the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance; Solitude ROMANCE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young Last Line: He has been dead the while! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Romance ROMANCE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: A wild rose grew by the ocean's edge Last Line: Lay only a withered weed. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Roses ROMANCE, by FRANCISCO SOSA Poem Source First Line: No temas Last Line: Como el roble Subject(s): Amor; Corazones; Romance ROMANCE, by FRANCISCO SOSA Poem Source First Line: Oh, do not fear, my fairest! Last Line: Upon the heights above Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance ROMANCE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born & lost in a throw of time Last Line: Not behaving like any government. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Romance; Eros ROMANCE IN THE OLD FOLKS' HOME, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First he offered to read to her Last Line: And she asked him please to begin Subject(s): Books; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Poetry And Poets; Romance ROMANCE OF THE RACER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The race car driver was different. He made love with all his clothes on Last Line: No matter how many cars were filled with whistling men Subject(s): Love; Romance ROMANCE: A ANGELICA Y MEDORO, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: En un pastoral Last Line: De la locuras Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Amor; Cupido; Romance ROMANTIC MOMENTS, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After the nature documentary we walk down Last Line: To get some ice cream cones and eat them Subject(s): Romance; Animals ROOTS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Threatening night's very roots Last Line: And the body an epilogue without children Subject(s): Love; Romance ROSE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose has a life, they say Last Line: Her smiles and blushes are our soul's mistresses. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Romance; Roses SAND CASTLE, by RICHARD ALLEN TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Perhaps your theory is correct Last Line: Huge waves rising in the distance Subject(s): Castles; Love; Romance; Seashore; Waves SEASHELL, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I found a golden seashell on the beach Last Line: The shell I found is in the shape of a heart Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance SERENADE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: While my lady sleepeth Last Line: Dreams bright and pure as these Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Romance SERVIA EN ORAN AL REY, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Y en vuestro Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Amor - Quejas; Dolor; Relaciones; Romance SEX IN THE DESERT, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: My brain won't admit the desert at first -- won't comprehend Last Line: The cuckoos rise to the bush tops, let out a collective sigh Subject(s): Love; Romance SHELL, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I found upon the shore a golden shell Last Line: (shaped like a heart it is, that sounding shell) Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance SILENT LOVE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: If I hated you, I would give you my hate Last Line: More atrocious than facing death itself Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Romance; Silence SO TO SPEAK AS THEY SAY, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Not that I'd been thinking about you or antything Last Line: No like imperfect as the case may be strangers Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Romance SONATINA, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The princess is sad. What ails the princess? Last Line: To kindle your lips with a kiss of true love! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Romance SONG FOR THE MORNING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come forth, come forth, my maidens, 'tis the day of good st. John Last Line: To dress with flowers the snow-white wether, ere the sun has dried the dew Variant Title(s): Song For The Morning Of The Day Of Saint John The Baptis Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Festivals; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Romance SONG OF THE GALLEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye mariners of spain Last Line: Twill be a blessed day, %if ye fetch him from the moors! Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Love; Prayer; Romance SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 66, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let the moon rise and illumine Last Line: Springs from the depths of my body Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance SPRING &, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The seed shivers, upping its green Last Line: Very breathing the continuum for light Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Romance SPRING CAME IN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring came in with a red-wing's feather Last Line: Yet come no more, should he tarry ... Tarry! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Spring SUMMER NIGHT, RIVERSIDE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the wild soft summer darkness Last Line: With oil of citronella. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry Readings; Romance; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People TANTRIC SEX, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: You hold a chrysanthemum blossom for me Last Line: All night the candles burning Subject(s): Love; Passion; Romance THE HEAVEN OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sunset far over the lea Last Line: "and love a moon-white steed." Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Love Affairs; Romance; Sleep; Nightmares; Paradise THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, as you come Last Line: Glowing through the night-bound forest Subject(s): Desire; Romance THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 23, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could be Last Line: Dainichi to hold you / forever Subject(s): Kisses; Romance THE MAN; ADDRESSED TO MY ALMA MATER, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: You sent the man: he builded well Last Line: The story of a man. Subject(s): Romance THE PLEASURES OF OLD AGE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my grandmother lisette turned ninety-nine Subject(s): Old Age; Romance; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE ROMANCE OF A GLOVE, by HENRY SAVILE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Here on my desk it lies Last Line: This my romance is. Subject(s): Gloves; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Romance; Mittens; Muffs; Male-female Relations THE ROMANCE OF THE RACER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The race car driver was different. He made love with all his clothes on Subject(s): Love; Romance THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 1, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O for the golden morn of old romance Last Line: Breathe your sweet plainings on this ancient lay! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 73, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: They met near by a pinewood's pillar'd shade Last Line: These lovers in close-clasp'd enthralment glide! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance THIS WAY FOR ROMANCE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sat by the edge of the quiet sea Last Line: Their various summonsand followed her! Subject(s): Romance TO A LOVER, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: Tonight, of all mad nights of moon and wind and sea Last Line: Ah, my beloved! Come not this way again! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Passion; Romance; Male-female Relations TO A WATER-LILY, by C. WENTWORTH Poem Text First Line: Thin ivory petals upon dark blue waters Last Line: Between the hills. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Romance TO ONE WHO SCANTS WORDS, by IRENE M. MORSE Poem Text First Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do Last Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do. Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Romance; Words; Vocabulary TO YOU, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts are little boats Last Line: It is my thought of you. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Romance; Seashore; Separation; Isolation; Beach; Coast; Shore TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. EARLY MORNING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thrush sings the meditative high in the bare oak-boughs Last Line: Head bent forward, and asleepwith her hand in his dark short hair. Subject(s): Love; Romance TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. FROM CAVERNS DARK, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, a hundred and a thousand lives Last Line: Lord of the world from caverns dark within thee. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations VARIATIONS ON A THEME: ROMANCE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She grew within his heart as the flushed rose Last Line: A ghost turn to a perfume on the leaves. Subject(s): Romance VENICE, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: I've been there: 1989. Ate squid and scampi Last Line: Wine and crazy in love in venice, in springtime, in 1989 Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance; Travel; Venice, Italy VIEW #13, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Beach sand in the bed Last Line: New moon our dark pearl Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance VILLANELLE OF CITY AND COUNTRY, by ZOE AKINS Poem Text First Line: Beneath the arches of the leaves I lie Last Line: But oh, the towers set in gotham's sky! Subject(s): Ferry Boats; New York City; Romance; Skyscrapers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple WALKING ALONE IN ORSTEDS PARK, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: That place of lovers Last Line: This is joy Subject(s): Love; Romance; Solitude WEDDING MARCH, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Light of the chameleon radiance above Last Line: Of the cretins Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Romance WEEKEND AT THE BEACH, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Also in the room but out of view, the man Last Line: Of blue, at home in buoyant seawash, phosphor, salt Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Love Affairs; Romance; Saint Kilda (scotland); Seashore; Vacation WENDY IN THE '90S, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: This time she would know better Last Line: Pleasure-the telling %of the journey out alone Subject(s): Flight; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Romance; Travel WONDERS, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The wonders of the modern world %have gathered in a room tonight Last Line: Smaller than the veins of their hands, %and more suited to the heat Subject(s): Relationships; Romance YOUTH, by LOUISE SUTHERLAND Poem Text First Line: O, let me sail the seven seas Last Line: If you've not gone romancing, too! Subject(s): Explorers; Love; Romance; Sea Voyages; Youth; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ZOOMING; FOR TOM RAWORTH, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She looked on him and Last Line: As yet unaware of its horrendous designs Subject(s): Romance |
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