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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SECRETS Matches Found: 169 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "SAYS MARMONTEL, THE SECRET'S MINE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Never was secret kept so well Subject(s): Secrets A MESSAGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little white dove fluttered close to my pane Last Line: "I whispered my secret that non else might ken, / and it eagerly bore it along" Subject(s): Longing;love;secrets A SPRING THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring I have leaned me full close to the bark of a tree Last Line: In the secrets the bird and the rose and the tree have confessed. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs ABSTRACTION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came that morning, in gowns of pale green and white Last Line: Unprovisioned and naked, had fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Escapes; Forests; News; Secrets; Soldiers; Fugitives; Woods AFTER LOOKING UP INTO ONE TOO MANY CAMERAS, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the bones of my arm were emptied I began Last Line: Dangerous words are the ones we never hear Subject(s): Self; Bones; Secrets AMBITION, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy says his father wants to be a smurf Last Line: Now that the father wants his identity based on %something the son understands Subject(s): Ambition; Fathers; Marriage; Mothers; Secrets AN ODE (4), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While from our looks, fair nymph, you guess Last Line: Fair prophetess, my grief would cease. Subject(s): Love; Mercy; Nymphs; Prophecy & Prophets; Secrets ANTIQUE FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something Last Line: If you ever knew Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Secrets; Silence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism AT THE MUSEE RODIN IN PARIS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front of a window Last Line: A shadow to the ground. Subject(s): Air; Museums; Paris, France; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Art Gallerys BARBARA ROSE WRITES FROM SOUTH UIST, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: It's been cold here and hard, with the war Last Line: Safe, aloft in all that wild blue, untethered Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Saint Kilda (scotland); Secrets; Sin; Writing And Writers BEHIND THE SCENES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Behind the scenes! What secrets dwell Last Line: Behind the scenes! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters BLACK CROSS FARM, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: After full many a mutual delay Last Line: The secret of the black cross back with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Crosses; Emptiness; Farm Life; Home; Secrets; Agriculture; Farmers BON ESPOIR Y GIST AU FOND!, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One shimmering opal is all the air Last Line: And we are not yet the devil's food! Subject(s): Dreams; God; Moon; Moss; Secrets; Nightmares BY NIGHT AND DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I find you in the amber evening glow Last Line: But home-returning to your smile, -- your smile. Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Smiles; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit. Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness CHLOE, M.A, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Careless rhymer, it is true Last Line: Violet. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Blue (color); Secrets; Sin; Women CHRISTMAS SECRETS, by BERTHA E. NICHOLAS Poem Text First Line: Say, fellers, how is it at your house' Last Line: "will find our christmas secrets out." Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Secrets COLLEEN OF CONNEMARA, by MARGARET LATHROP LAW Poem Text First Line: By a gift of magic uniquely hers Last Line: The secret must lie in the tilt of her head. Subject(s): Magic; Secrets CONFESSIONS OF A YELLSTER: CHACUN A SON GOUT, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was boisterous and turbulent as a youth, a loud mouthed, impossible Last Line: And when I go to sleep, my dreams are full of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Peace; Secrets COULDN'T KEEP A SECRET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I told my secret to the sweet wild roses Last Line: In telling secrets sweet as mine and thine Subject(s): Love;secrets DOORS, by RUBY MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: I like doors, small friendly doors Last Line: If there were not any doors. Subject(s): Secrets; Temples; Mosques DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone out and seen the lands of faery Last Line: And beauty and peace and sorrow are dreams within dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Fairies; Grief; Peace; Secrets; Wisdom; Nightmares; Elves; Sorrow; Sadness DUST IS THE ONLY SECRET, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Smuggled to rest! Subject(s): Death; Secrets EARTH'S SECRET, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not solitarily in fields we find Last Line: For earth, that gives the milk, the spirit gives. Subject(s): Earth; Secrets; World ELSINORE IN THE LATE ANCIENT AUTUMN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a dead march. A thin wrist is mincing roses Last Line: They buried me. Subject(s): Death; Loyalty; Secrets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Dead, The ENCOUNTER, by ANGELA GREENE Poem Source First Line: In a garden planted Last Line: She held her secret %like a daisy holds light Subject(s): Secrets ENTREATY, by H. PAULINE ZEBO Poem Text First Line: Oh! Silver disc Last Line: He would be mine. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Idols; Secrets EXILE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A common folk I walk among Last Line: When this sad pilgrimage is done. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Secrets; Solitude; Loneliness EXISTING LIGHT; FOR LEE NYE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A picture is worth a thousand words Last Line: Where I stood, half woman, half nun, exposed. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Identity; Nuns; Secrets EYES WATCH THE STARS, by CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO Poem Source First Line: Eyes open on the beach Last Line: Over man with woman Subject(s): Secrets FINIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the torch-lit city of finias that flames on Last Line: Here! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; Fire; Immortality; Laughter; Secrets; Urban Life FIRST CLASS, by JUDY DIGREGORIO Poem Source First Line: Compare me to a vintage wine Last Line: Cause then you've send too much Subject(s): Aging; Secrets FIRST SECRET, by VALERIE L. EGAR Poem Source First Line: In the photograph Last Line: In whispers and hoped %I'd never know Subject(s): Secrets FOUND - WHO LOST?, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, tell me, will you, pray Last Line: Known but to me, I'll tell it not. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Secrets FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DAY OF SURPASSING BEAUTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is bright, her forests all are golden Last Line: A crown, or cross, for one is born to-day. Subject(s): Beauty; Birth; Earth; Nature; Secrets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World GIANTS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone's old parents in the desert on folding chairs Last Line: To each memory station -- pause, hold, mute, flash. Subject(s): Abandonment; Lies; Marriage; Quarrels; Secrets; Desertion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements GRETA GARBO AND THE STAR MESSENGER, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her face the preface to water, stirred Last Line: Bends into the current and is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Secrets GUERDON, by DARIEN WEST Poem Text First Line: Not from their own desire they find it good Last Line: I truly was a teacher, and a friend. Subject(s): Desire; Secrets; Teaching & Teachers GUILTY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loathe this room, for it seems to blab Last Line: The spirit indwelling is mine, is mine! Subject(s): Fear; Guilt; Pain; Secrets; Soul; Suffering; Misery HALF-LIGHT, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: My son and I sat on the bed of a late half-light Last Line: Nourished within this half-light Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Secrets; Sons HEDGEHOG, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snail moves like a Subject(s): Hedgehogs; Secrets HER BODY IN THE LANDSCAPE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: First it was cursive --, Last Line: Through the bare limbs of trees. Subject(s): Bodies; Murder; Secrets HER HEART BREADS SILENCE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Because that thou art pale and cold and still Last Line: His holiest honour in this faithful breast! Subject(s): Knowledge; Love; Pain; Secrets; Winter; Suffering; Misery HER SECRET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That love's dull smart distressed my heart Last Line: Did he dream of following me! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Secrets HER SECRET IS BETRAYED, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a happy time you said to me Last Line: That grief for you no longer grieves my heart. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Secrets HERR STIMMUNG ON TRANSPARENCY, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To those of a certain temperament, there is nothing worse than the Subject(s): Secrets; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) HIDING OUR LOVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never believe I leave you Last Line: Hiding our aromatic, vulnerable love. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Love; Secrets; Women; Women's Rights; Wu, Emperor (140-87 B.c.); Feminism HIS SECRET, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The field wraps around him Last Line: Of three days. Subject(s): Secrets; Solitude; Loneliness I CAN'T TELL YOU, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't tell you about switching his wooden leg Last Line: That microphone! - can't, I can not Subject(s): Confessions; Secrets I WOULD THAT EVEN NOW, by SHOKU Poem Full Text Last Line: Remain unspoken Alternate Author Name(s): Shoku, Princess (13th Century) Subject(s): Secrets IN THE CROWD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy they are, in all seeming Last Line: T is better than showing the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Secrets; Smiles; Spring; World ISLANDER, by ALICE LAWRY GOULD Poem Text First Line: Many have felt the lure and fantasy Last Line: Who can know islands like the island-born? Subject(s): Fantasy; Islands; Secrets IT'S FUN TO HAVE A SECRET, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: Until the secret's out and then at last they tell Subject(s): Secrets JENIFER'S LOVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small is my secret - let it pass Last Line: Above your bed, as I o'er mine? Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Secrets; Social Classes; Caste KEY, by JOHN DICKSON Poem Source First Line: The key! The key! Last Line: Formations of yellow birds %over the evening train Subject(s): Keys; Memory; Secrets KNOWLEDGE, by FRANCIS S. COOK Poem Text First Line: Men form all their best designs Last Line: Know the things to say. Subject(s): Secrets KOBES I, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In eighteen hundred and forty-eight Last Line: The echo rang wildly long after. Subject(s): Germany; Ghosts; Life; Secrets; Supernatural; Germans LETTER, by MARY KATHLEEN HAWLEY Poem Source First Line: You say floors sink with the weight of secrets Last Line: Bleak world is blind and deaf. You should resist Subject(s): Letters; Secrets LIFE'S SECRETS, by ELIZA TIMBERLAKE DAVIS Poem Text First Line: The dreams of youth to ripe fruition never came Last Line: The secrets of life's day with me abide. Subject(s): Aging; Friendship; Secrets LINGER, O GENTLE TIME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: All that I hold from thee and call my own? Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Hearts; Secrets; Time LIVING WHERE WE DO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to think of the man under the house Last Line: Its root lodged deep in the ground. Subject(s): Houses; Moving & Movers; Secrets LORD WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No eye beheld when william plunged Last Line: Heard william's drowning scream. Subject(s): Boats; Drowning; Ghosts; Murder; Secrets; Supernatural; Vengeance LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the anguish of these secret meetings Last Line: Words with no connection Subject(s): Family Life; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets MAGIC, by ELISE FELLOWS WHITE Poem Text First Line: Waiting, listening, long I stood Last Line: Held secrets I could never share. Subject(s): Forests; Secrets; Waiting; Woods MANDALA, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The centre of the mandala is everywhere Last Line: Into the perennial circle of the sun. Subject(s): Love; Secrets MARGARET'S SPEECH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a frogman. Naked by the water Last Line: Who knows that I bleach my hair. Variant Title(s): Margaret Subject(s): Drowning; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Male-female Relations MASKS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: It's our pure abandon you covet: to don the false Last Line: We are your disembodied selves Subject(s): Ghosts; Imagination; Masks; Secrets; Supernatural MON SECRET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Je demande qu'on me doone Last Line: Arrangera tout pour mon bien Subject(s): Identity; Psychiatric Hospitals; Secrets MY ANGELINE, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She kept her secret well, oh, yes Last Line: My human snake, my angeline! Subject(s): Animals; Marriage; Secrets; Snakes; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serpents; Vipers MY JOLLY FRIEND'S SECRET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, friend of mine, how goes it Last Line: I am purty tight -- that's all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Friendship; Kisses; Secrets; Wine MY PICTURE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand this way - more near the window Last Line: It shall stay and cheer the end! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Portraits; Secrets MY SECRET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I demand that they give me a bed Last Line: And arrange things for my welfare Subject(s): Identity; Psychiatric Hospitals; Secrets MY SECRET, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not what I am fain to hide Last Line: Alas, in vain to tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Secrets MYSTERY: 1, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Coral-tipped blossoms Last Line: Sap-lusty apple-tree! Subject(s): Mystery; Secrets MYSTERY: 2, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: In her petals, blue iris folds Last Line: Only clear mid-day skies. Subject(s): Iris (flower); Mystery; Secrets NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 14TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Safe in thy breast close lock up thy intents Last Line: For he that knows thy purpose, best prevents. Subject(s): Secrets ONE DARK COTTAGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The stars over the small houses Last Line: Will not say why Subject(s): Night; Rape; Secrets; Suicide OUR LITTLE SECRETS SLINK AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With this that may compare Variant Title(s): Poem: 1326; Poem: 131 Subject(s): Secrets PLEA, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Secrets, you said, would hold us two apart Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Secrets PLEDGES OF SECRECY 1, by JOHN FOY Poem Source First Line: How could he have known what he would find? Last Line: He inferred that there were no instructions, %there had never been any instructions Subject(s): Secrets PLEDGES OF SECRECY 2, by JOHN FOY Poem Source First Line: I won't discourage you from coming here Last Line: And don't let my condition frighten you Subject(s): Secrets POSTSCRIPTS 2, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are of course tho' we don't see them Last Line: Where the brute hammers fall unceasingly %on the mind Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Secrets PROLOGUE TO 'THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies! (I hope there's none behind to hear) Last Line: To trump their diamonds, & they trump our hearts. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Secrets; Dramatists READING LIPS, by BERNADETTE GEYER Poem Source First Line: I am trying not to stare at the man Last Line: That truth I know he knows, but he doesn't yet realize Subject(s): Secrets; Silence; Truth RELIGION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To learn the secret of the silent grass Last Line: The life that lasts, tho' I and all men die. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Love; Religion; Secrets; World; Theology RETURN TO HELOISE, by MARTYN CRUCEFIX Poem Source First Line: Secrecy and discretion must be preserved Last Line: Cross dim rooms to where the streets' fogs %deaden the stamping of horses Subject(s): Discretion; Secrets RETURN TO WORK, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: I have returned to the job from which I was fired a whole decade ago Last Line: I am a new man. How wonderful. How wonderful it is to return to work Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Office Employees; Secrets RING AROUND, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We dance around in a ring and suppose Last Line: But the secret sits in the middle and knows Subject(s): Secrets RONDEAU OF SECRET SORROW, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Text First Line: Howe hard a thynge it is to dree Last Line: How hard a thynge it is to dree. Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Grief; Secrets; Sorrow; Sadness SAID SECRECY TO COWARDICE AND FRAUD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hurrah for—, hugging his ballot-box! Subject(s): Secrets SEA-SECRETS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Little one, woman-one, whither are you sailing? Last Line: Is my heart your haven, or his? Subject(s): Fidelity; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Secrets; Faithfulness; Constancy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A secret love or two I must confess Last Line: Judge then what debtor can keep touch truly. Subject(s): Confessions; Secrets; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SECRET, by HAN YONG-WOON Poem Source First Line: A secret? You mean a secret? What secret do I have? Last Line: And the final secret cannot be expressed in so many words, like a voiceless echo Subject(s): Secrets SECRET, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Breaking into static as she spoke, %into cancelling sparks, %her now never-ending speechlessness, ne Subject(s): Secrets SECRET, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two girls discover %the secret of life Last Line: For that %most of all Subject(s): Secrets SECRET, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: She whispers it Last Line: My eyes. She says %everything %I forget, except %welcome home, %forever Subject(s): Secrets SECRET LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I feed a flame within, which so torments me Subject(s): Love; Secrets SECRET LOVE; SONG, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hid my love when young till I Last Line: Was nothing else but secret love. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Joyce, Mary; Love; Secrets SECRET MEAL, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Swept sky, swept shore: always Last Line: The words burn upon our lips Subject(s): Old Age; Secrets SECRET TOLD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And whom you told it to - beside Variant Title(s): Poem: 381; Poem: 64 Subject(s): Secrets SECRETS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three secrets that never were said Last Line: The urge of a poet to sing Subject(s): Secrets SECRETS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Had I a secret plan by which Last Line: In one weak foolish hour? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Secrets SECRETS, by LILLIAN EVERTS Poem Text First Line: When drowsy time discards her spangled dress Last Line: Each wrinkle holds. . . . Subject(s): Secrets SECRETS, by RUBY ARCHER GRAY Poem Text First Line: Deep down in the vale is a canyon green Last Line: I will show you a blue-bird's darling nest! Subject(s): Secrets SECRETS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life has dark secrets; and the hearts are few Last Line: Avenging, and betraying. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Secrets; Time SECRETS, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Lo, for the memory's sake of thee Last Line: Its glory press. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Memory; Secrets SECRETS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How do you think they make the dew? Last Line: You'd be as wise and blind as they! Subject(s): Secrets SECRETS, by CATHERINE NEEDHAM Poem Text First Line: Hush! / secrets! / lean your heads this way Last Line: Hush! Subject(s): Secrets SECRETS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Blonde charlotte's face is aquiline Last Line: "that rare coquette—""which?"" you must guess!" Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Polygamy; Secrets; Male-female Relations SECRETS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think not some knowledge rests with thee alone Last Line: Shall drag thy secret out into the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; God; Secrets; Tears; Dead, The SECRETS OF NIGHT, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Midnight. Past my open sill Last Line: Of wondrous dreams, dreams without solutions Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Secrets SECRETS OF THE DEEP, by KURT BROWN Poem Source First Line: Slick, flaccid, glistening in jackets of fat Last Line: Mere sea-wrack scraped hollow, the only good %they'll ever know Subject(s): Lobsters; Sea; Secrets SECRETS' IS A DAILY WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Will emerge but once and dumb %to the sepulchre Variant Title(s): Poem: 1385; Poem: 149 Subject(s): Secrets SELF-PORTRAIT, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know I promised to stop Subject(s): Children; Secrets; Relationships; Childhood SILENCES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I was there,' he said, 'the night the hitmen done in my friend Last Line: To ask forgiveness of the wind.' Subject(s): Murder; Secrets; Silence SOLVING FOR X, by ROBERT B. SHAW Poem Source First Line: Protean emblem, how to pin you down Last Line: Sturdy tape bracing each starting window %in the gray lull before the hurricane hits Subject(s): Mathematics; Secrets SONG: THE WELL OF OBLIVION, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is, they say, a secret well Last Line: But never to forget! Subject(s): Love; Magic; Secrets; Wells SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 13, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, inform thy faithful creature Last Line: Ever tortured if we're friends. Subject(s): Fidelity; Friendship; Love; Secrets; Faithfulness; Constancy SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 53, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have told your mother Last Line: Your father will soon know Subject(s): Fear; Secrets STANDING NAKED, by CHARLES P. RIES Poem Source First Line: I stand naked. I let everyone look into me Last Line: Naked to truths and secrets. Naked before a curtain %of spring rain Subject(s): Secrets; Truth THE BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I quarrel not with destiny Last Line: The best is good enough for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fate; Quarrels; Secrets; Destiny; Arguments; Disagreements THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE EMULATION. A PINDARICK ODE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah! Tell me why, deluded sex, thus we" Last Line: "will owe our charms of wit, of parts, and poetry" Subject(s): Beauty;secrets;women THE HOLE IN THE SEA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's there Last Line: The driest thing there is. Subject(s): Courage; Language; Religion; Sea; Secrets; Spirituality; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Ocean THE HOUSE CAT, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The house cat sits and smiles and sings Last Line: He knows a lot of secret things! Subject(s): February; Secrets THE LAST MAN: ANTICIPATION OF EVIL TIDINGS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear there is some maddening secret Last Line: Telling of murder. Subject(s): Evil; Murder; Secrets THE LEAVES, LIKE WOMEN, INTERCHANGE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To notoriety Subject(s): Leaves; Women; Secrets THE LITTLE BIRD THAT TOLD THE SECRET, by MARY N. MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: So I've heard your secret, mabel Last Line: And live beside the mill. Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mary N.; Bleeker, Mary N. Subject(s): Marriage; Secrets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the anguish of these secret meetings Last Line: Words with not connection Subject(s): Family Life; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE LULLABY, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When she had the abortion Last Line: As I washed and put away the dishes. Subject(s): Abortion; Secrets THE MASK, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am as some frail harlot whose pale face Last Line: The leprous growth of my immense despair. Subject(s): Despair; Faces; Masks; Secrets THE PARALLAX MONOGRAPH FOR RODIN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt, last night, of your stone cabinet, porte de l'enfer Last Line: "it's hell, of course." Subject(s): Dreams; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Sex; Nightmares THE SECRET, by READ BAIN Poem Text First Line: Shall I seem silly speaking some of spring Last Line: The black manure -- the white killarney rose! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Spring THE SECRET, by JASPER BARNETT COUDIN Poem Text First Line: The cedars hold a secret in their heads Last Line: Goes on its way with death. No word comes back. Subject(s): Death; Secrets; Dead, The THE SECRET, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What says the wind to the waving trees Last Line: Of the secret that birds and breezes bear. Subject(s): Secrets THE SECRET, by FREDERICK FAUST Poem Text First Line: They drew the blinds down, and the house was old Last Line: Perhaps the lilies knew, but could not speak. Subject(s): Secrets THE SECRET, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sigh not, and the eye's not moisten'd Last Line: To which I never utt'rance gave. Subject(s): Secrets THE SECRET, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two girls discover / the secret of life Subject(s): Secrets THE SECRET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a fancy: how shall I bring it Last Line: Known, since the world was, by scarce two or three. Subject(s): Secrets THE SECRET, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I go in vesture spun by hands Last Line: Nor my star-powdered hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Secrets THE SECRET, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was frightened, for a wind Last Line: In my mind! Subject(s): Secrets; Supernatural THE SECRET COMBINATION, by ELLIS PARKER BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her heart she locked Last Line: "and at ""a kiss"" the door flew wide." Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Secrets THE SECRET DEWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor little songs, children of sorrow, go Last Line: The secret dews fall under the evening-star. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Grief; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE SECRET GARDEN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way you see it first is through Last Line: Before we're through with tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Flowers; Food & Eating; Gardens & Gardening; Green (color); Guests; Lilies; Secrets; Tea; Worms; Visiting THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen god Last Line: And go thy way. Subject(s): God; Knowledge; Secrets THE SECRET OF A HAPPY DAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just to let thy father do Last Line: Secret of his promised rest. Subject(s): Secrets THE SECRET OF THE STARS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah well! If were so Last Line: Do thy work, and do it well. Subject(s): Secrets; Sky; Soul; Stars THE SECRET ROSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, most, secret, and inviolate rose Last Line: Far off, most secret, and inviolate rose? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Guests; Secrets; Roses; Beauty THE SECRET SITS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We dance round in a ring and suppose, Last Line: But the secret sits in the middle and knows Subject(s): Secrets THE SECRET THAT SHOULD NOT BE BLOWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: But never the mouth of a foe Subject(s): Secrets THE SUBURBS OF A SECRET, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To scrutinize the sleep Subject(s): Secrets THE TREES OF MADAME BLAVATSKY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is always the cough. In the afternoon Last Line: Showing her breasts to a boy in a cemetery. Subject(s): Convalescence; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Trees; Walking; Songs THE VOICES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the night I hear them Last Line: Laughs in the shadow-land. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Secrets; Voices; Bedtime TIDAL MARSHES, AUGUST, by JAMES WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Gray rain. Old gravity Last Line: What a family does not speak of Subject(s): Family Life; Secrets; Summer TO A CYPRESS; ATHENS, 1913, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and mysterious watcher of the dead Last Line: To wander in thine ancient spell. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Ghosts; Grief; Secrets; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO A PORTRAIT, by LALIA MITCHELL THORNTON Poem Text First Line: Look down upon me from your oaken frame Last Line: I've kindled flax, and cannot stop the fire. Subject(s): Eyes; Portraits; Secrets TO A YOUNG LADY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, madam, may with safety go Last Line: It must proceed from you alone. Variant Title(s): The Fortune-teller Subject(s): Future; Happiness; Prophecy & Prophets; Secrets; Joy; Delight TO AN UNNAMED LADY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: When there are others by, in vain I dream Last Line: For here th' eternal mysteries abide! Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Male-female Relations TO HIDE LOVE, by ISTVAN VAS Poem Source First Line: Dearest, you too have to change Last Line: All miracles are brief Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Secrets TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE OPEN SECRET, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet secret of the open air Last Line: And all things are at home. Subject(s): Secrets TRIADS: 1, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word of the sun to the sky Last Line: Who knows all three? Subject(s): Life; Nature; Secrets; Sun TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHILDREN: THE NEW BOY-WONDERS, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: They would have found the place earlier Last Line: The wolf-boy left by accident in the middle of someone's field Subject(s): Secrets; Towns UNDER THE ZANZARIERE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She put the comb in one hand and with the left waved. With that Last Line: Persistent voices, like whispers in another room. Subject(s): Girls; Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Daughters; Secrets VALENTINE FOR ERNEST MANN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can't order a poem like you order a taco Last Line: And let me know. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Secrets VIOLIN SONGS: SUMMER SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Murmuring, 'twixt a murmur and moan Last Line: "but it tells me I love you eternally." Subject(s): Love; Sea; Secrets; Summer; Ocean WHAT A DEAD MAN SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what a dead man said to me Last Line: That the voice of the dead man spoke to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Corpses; Flowers; Roses; Secrets; Cadavers WHEN SHADOWS LENGTHEN, by LOIS MAHAVIER Poem Text First Line: I am no longer young, and drifting fast Last Line: No echo answers; yet serene, I go. Subject(s): Old Age; Secrets; Shadows WHY DO YOU WHISPER THE SECRET, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: I will hide you in the south of france, naked, %sheltered from oblivion Subject(s): France; Secrets WINTER: MY SECRET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell my secret? No indeed, not I Last Line: Or you may guess. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): My Secret Subject(s): Secrets; Winter |
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