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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 love—with 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 tonight—remembering?
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 summons—and 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 asleep—with 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