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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SELF Matches Found: 927 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` , by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than air Last Line: Don'tknow where I've gone Subject(s): Self; Human Behavior "DO NOT, O DO NOT PRIZE THY BEAUTY AT TOO HIGH A RATE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Through their own delay Subject(s): Beauty;pride;vanity; Self-esteem;self-respect (TRAUMA) STORM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hunkered down, nerve-numb Last Line: Where tender is not. Subject(s): Self 30TH BIRTHDAY, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I never be afraid Subject(s): Birthdays; Self; Conduct Of Life 47TH BIRTHDAY, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exactly the color / of a grey tear the sky is still Subject(s): Birthdays; Self; France A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect A CAPELLA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ms. Steiger said, write about who you are. Last Line: I am singing out Subject(s): Chicanos; Identity; Self; Mexican Americans A CASE STATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now how shall I do with my love and my pride Last Line: Her spark saying nothing talks better than I. Subject(s): Blood; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect A CHARM, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have a twin who bears my name; Subject(s): Self A DREAM OF BURIAL, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing was left of me Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Dreams; Self-pity; Nightmares A LAST LOOK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sick of self-love, malvolio, like an owl Last Line: Where high-strung hate and strenuous envy cease. Subject(s): Self-righteousness A LIFE'S LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I loved him in my dawning years - Last Line: "my sweet, my own - myself" Subject(s): Self A LOAFER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hang about the streets all day Last Line: A phantom voice that cries by rote. Subject(s): Discretion; Idleness; Pride; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Self-esteem; Self-respect A LOVE BARGAINE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O love, how faine my heart would dye Last Line: Musik jesus is. Subject(s): Self-consciousness; Temptation; Worship A LYKE-WAKE SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair of face, full of pride Last Line: Nae man kens if ye have been. Subject(s): Death; Pride; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect A MAN BESMITTEN SO, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There never was a man besmitten so Last Line: The sum of such a noise would sing a song! Subject(s): Self; Singing & Singers; Songs A MEDAL, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why does it pleasure me, isotta, why? Last Line: Give me my plato. Pray, how stands the hour? Subject(s): Chivalry; Love - Unrequited; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect A PRIZE RIDDLE ON HERSELF WHEN 24, by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a strange composition as e'er was in nature Last Line: For those who first guess me shall have me for guessing. Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth Subject(s): Self A REDOLENCE FOR NIMS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O triple sob - turned forty Last Line: Back my heart alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Self-pity A SECRET SIGH, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Guilty, guilty, must I crie Last Line: With such enamouring grace art pleasd to move. Subject(s): Confessions; Self-criticism A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sits on the bed Last Line: Unlike any other. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Love - Erotic; Self-doubt; Sex A SONG TO ILLINOIS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: Lift a song to illinois, a song of pride and praise Last Line: Her mighty, marching city, and the lifting hopes of men. Subject(s): Illinois; Praise; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect A THOUGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look into a glass Last Line: When I look into a pool. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Self A WARNING-PIECE TO ENGLAND AGAINST PRIDE AND WICKEDNESS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When edward was in england king Last Line: That pride must have a fall. Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect A WIDOW IN WINTERTIME, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a baby gargled in the throes Last Line: Or waken in a caterwaul of dying. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Self-consciousness; Widows & Widowers; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 3, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the pride for which I once was blamed Last Line: Spite of my worship, thou wilt turn away? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect ABASEMENT, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With matted head a-dabble in the dust Last Line: Yet learn that strange delight may lurk in self-disgust. Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F. Subject(s): Eyes; Poverty; Self-criticism ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFETIME, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was born near four miles from nith-head Last Line: Yet never was a married wife. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Self; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People AD ASTRA: 149, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The sceptic warns us that the christian creed Last Line: Until we lay them at our master's feet? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Christianity; Self-love AD ASTRA: 73, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Self is thy basic creed, philosophy! Last Line: No loftier sapience than this instil? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Self; Soul ADDITION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am myself -- poor, foolish, weak Last Line: I'll add as long as figures come! Subject(s): Self ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a man with no ambitions Last Line: Nymphomaniacs of my imagination Subject(s): Learning; Self-criticism ADVENTURES OF ID, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh you kid!' %shouted id Last Line: Well, I never did!' %said id Subject(s): Self AFFECTATION, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The men of simple manners please; they Last Line: Blamed ridiculous you are! Subject(s): Etiquette; Men; Pride; Manners; Courtesy; Self-esteem; Self-respect AFTER, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The space we feel inside us Subject(s): Self; Fortitude AFTER CAREFULLY LISTING MY 10,000 ILLUSIONS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the depths was lost int he shallows Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imagination; Nature; Self-consciousness 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 AFTER READING WILLIAM BLAKE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Those who cut a worm in twain Last Line: Thrusts the spear into jesus' side. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Jesus Christ; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect AFTER ROWING MY BLUE AND BROWN BOAT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The two loons close by, the theory of red wine Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Nature; Rowing; Self AFTER TWELVE DAYS OF RAIN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't name it, the sweet Last Line: And smiled back. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Self-reliance; Solitude; Loneliness AFTERTUNE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been alive since thirty-four Last Line: And singing Subject(s): Self AH, WOE IS ME! MY MOTHER DEAR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last Line: By lad and lass blackguarded! Subject(s): Self ALCIDA: VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bird of juno glories in his plumes Last Line: Makes beauty wreck against an ebbing tide. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Peacocks; Self-love ALIEN, by JESSIE E. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: I met my long - lost self today Last Line: I could not woo it back again! Subject(s): Self ALL MY LIFE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Running the locomotive Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Nature; Self ALPHABESTIARY: I, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, naturally enough, any author Last Line: In whatever I-dea time is Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Self ALTER EGO, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the boyish poet Last Line: His face against the east. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Aging; Self ALTER EGO, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All the morn a spirit gay Last Line: I to lose myself in thee. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Love; Relationships; Self; Elves ALTER EGO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art to me as is the sea Last Line: Wherein I dwell. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Self ALWAYS MISTAKEN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We see the ocean and hear Last Line: In heaven, a table set with bowls %of rice and cups of tea Subject(s): Greece; Life; Sea; Self AMORETTI: 59, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice happy she that is so well assured Last Line: But he most happy who such one loves best. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): The True Woman Subject(s): Self-assurance AN AMERICAN POEM, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in boston in Subject(s): Self; Gays & Lesbians; Ancestors & Ancestry; Boston; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Heritage; Heredity; Caste AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by ERNEST RHYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wales england wed; so I was bred Last Line: Am content to have from death. Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival Subject(s): Self AN EPITAPH UPON HERSELF, by MEHETABEL (WESLEY) WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Destined while living to sustain Last Line: A broken heart can bleed no more! Subject(s): Self AN EPITAPH, INTENDED FOR HIMSELF, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Escaped the gloom of mortal life, a soul Last Line: I was a friend, o man, to thee, to all. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self AN EPITAPH, ON A FOOLISH BOASTER, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here to its pristine dust again is hurl'd Last Line: Flutter a while, fall, and are seen no more. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect AN EVENING OUT, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered into chekhov Last Line: Velvety and dark / finally falling Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Self AN IDEAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the gray mists of early dawn Last Line: For that bright morning dream of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Love; Pride; Tears; Self-esteem; Self-respect AN ODE COMPOSED IN SLEEP, by JUDITH (COWPER) MADAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely fairy! Charming sprite! Last Line: And the prevailing voice of love. Subject(s): Dreams; Self; Nightmares AN OLD SAW NEWLY RENDERED, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Although nor wise nor deep in thought Last Line: Then toot your horn and row your own canoe. Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Death; Pride; Proverbs; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Maxims; Adages AN UNKNOWN MAN BEGINS WRITING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It occurs to me that I too could possess Subject(s): Self; Relationships AND NOW, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That’s my corpse you’re looking at, laid out as I’ve Last Line: "earth was good to me, and I would give myself back in Subject(s): Corpses; Funerals; Self AND STEP, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I understand myself Last Line: And step over / stone Subject(s): Self ANGEL, by PEGGY ANN TARTT Poem Source First Line: In the clamor of crows Last Line: Faint sounds of traffic, %and wings overhead beating Subject(s): Conversation; Self ANNIVERSARY, by ODYSSEUS ALEPOUDELI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I brought my life this far Last Line: Which turns toward the sea the void of its eyes %supporting infinity Alternate Author Name(s): Elytis, Odysseus; Elytis, Odysseas; Alepudelis, Odisseus Subject(s): Self ANORECTIC, by ANYA KRUGOVOY Poem Source First Line: I love a bare tree in the winter Last Line: Self the straight line the space with nothing %inside it no way to get in nothing to escape Subject(s): Self; Solitude; Winter ARMELLE NICHOLAS'S ACCOUNT OF HERSELF, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the god of my love, in the morning,' said she Last Line: "could have nothing more added than what I possess." Subject(s): Self-gratification AS RED MEN DIE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captive! Is there a hell to him like this? Last Line: He bends to death—but never to disgrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Hostages; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Pride; Valor; Bravery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Self-esteem; Self-respect AS THYSELF', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Seest thou a fault in any other? Last Line: God's in that life; this is his duty Subject(s): Brotherhood;self ASCETIC'S SOLILOQUY, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How carnal the whole thing seems to the finer grain Last Line: The marrow cry “soon, soon” to the cooling bones Subject(s): Self-denial AT THE NAVAL EXHIBITION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What pulse but throbs, what heart but quicker beats Last Line: Only the seamen voiceless are and dumb. Subject(s): England; Patriotism; Pride; Sailing & Sailors; Strength; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect ATTILA JOZSEF, by ATTILA JOZSEF Poem Source First Line: I really love you Last Line: To keep them spotless for the days of %celebration Subject(s): Self AUTHOR UPON HIMSELF, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By an old red-pate, murdering hag pursued Last Line: What could he more, but decently retire Subject(s): Self AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am leading a quiet life Subject(s): Self; Life AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I dumped on my son the following story Last Line: But to my fifteen brothers -- the finger Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Self AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by LISA JARNOT Poem Source First Line: I didn't sleep with anyone for six months until I met x. While I was sleeping Last Line: It was that simple but somehow it seemed all wrong Subject(s): Self AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All clocks are clouds. Subject(s): Life; Self AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1997: THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1 archipelago of the wandering dream Subject(s): Self AUTOBIOGRAPHY 3, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Self; Aging; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity AUTUMN SONG, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is but a leaf upon the tree Last Line: Is mystery of mysteries to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Self; Fall AVARO, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fast by the trent (whose gods this fable tell) Last Line: So pride foretels we ne'er can need relief! Subject(s): Envy; Farm Life; Greed; Knights & Knighthood; Pride; Story-telling; Agriculture; Farmers; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect AYLMER'S FIELD, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust are our frames; and, gilded dust, our pride Last Line: Follows the mouse, and all is open field. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Landscape; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect BAD RAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That was bad rain bad rain endless bad rain Last Line: I believed I was necessary. I'm not.' Subject(s): Rain; Self BARABBAS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he opens the gates of the morning Last Line: Amplias. Perhaps, perhaps! Subject(s): Bible; Generosity; Pride; Religion; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Theology BE NOBODY'S DARLING / BE AN OUTCAST, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Among your dead Subject(s): Self-reliance; Conduct Of Life BEFORE THE SOUL'S TRIBUNAL, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: The champion of a lawless crew Last Line: And o'er my being reign! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Life; Pride; Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect BEGINNING, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here am I slippery Subject(s): Self BEGINNING GRIEF, by MARYANN FRANTA Poem Source First Line: Solitaire, %the flutter-slap Last Line: On the animals %too small to be brave Subject(s): Grief; Self BEHAVE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: On tv when the cops crash through your door they scream Last Line: It had worked, it always knew it hadn't Subject(s): Human Behavior; Self BELLS OF DUMBLETON, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So frankly had the cowslips come Last Line: Friend! Subject(s): Bells; Religion; Self-doubt; Theology BENCH, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin approached the bench by the path. There sat a plump Last Line: The future always does.' Subject(s): Old Age; Self BEST THAT I HAVE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Green sea and grey sky and blue sky Last Line: Through the best that I have, my own expression Subject(s): Love; Self-consciousness BEWITCHED, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Give me a night in june that's clear and quiet Last Line: With half my spirit in a wonder-trance. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Self; Trances BEYOND THE EAST GATE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: I listen to the voice of the cricket Last Line: Come down from the mountain Subject(s): Desire; Hope; Introspection; Self; Women BIO, by LLORI STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: Abstract alice & the vogue goat (enclosed) Last Line: Last fling with fists, cause I drank to much again Subject(s): Self BIOGRAPHY OF MASTER FIVE WILLOWS, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We don't know what age the master lived in, and we aren't certain of his Last Line: The age of lord no-cares? Was he a person of the age of ge-tian? Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Self BIOTHANATOS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O vile ingratefull me Last Line: Unhappy hearts obdurateness. Subject(s): Confessions; Self-pity; Sin BIRTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The moment he glimpsed the cat under the tree Last Line: To sink his teeth deep %into a neighbouring smartalec rat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Self; Wishes BIRTHDAY (AUTOBIOGRAPHY), by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seventy years ago my mother labored to bear me, Last Line: Swim in my blood and distort my thought but the old man's welcome Subject(s): Birthdays; Self; Parents; Parenthood BLACK MAPS, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the attendance of stones Subject(s): Self BORN IN THE U.S.A., by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born in 1937 in the usa Subject(s): United States; Self; Patriotism; America BOUNDLESS ROOM, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Yes, I belong to those who were once under the spell Last Line: I don't sleep at night so day will shine more truly Subject(s): Introspection; Self BRANCH: 3. RELATIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the problem is we want to be a 'self,' a pure Last Line: In the deeps of the pacific: our cousins, contacting us Subject(s): Family Life; Self BROKEN COLUMN, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are / you / too Last Line: And what ever un-broken marbled do you strain to see Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect BROKEN OFF, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: In the spring-time of youth didst thou bless me Last Line: I leave thee for death. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Pride; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect BROTHERHOOD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you want to find your brothers Last Line: Shall dawn benign brotherhood. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Self BROTHERLY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wasn't he the one that flew? And wasn't he the one Subject(s): Self; Dreams; Nightmares BROTHERS: 2. HOW GREAT THOU ART, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, you are beyond Last Line: Imperfection. Subject(s): Brothers; Creation; Desire; Self; Half-brothers BURNING ONESELF TO DEATH, by TAKAHASHI SHINKICHI Poem Source First Line: That was the best moment of the monk's life Last Line: The delighted sparrows flew round like fire balls Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Self-immolation; Zen Buddhism BY THE FOUNTAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: There, by the fountain, where, a child, I cried Last Line: The stranger and the demon walk side by side Subject(s): Devil; Foxes; Memory; Self BY THE LOOKING-GLASS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone at last in my room Last Line: Lost in the peace of the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Self CANADIAN BORN, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We first saw light in canada the land beloved of god Last Line: That they were born in canada beneath the british flag. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canada; Nations; Pride; Canadians; Self-esteem; Self-respect CANNIBAL, by JR. STANLEY TRAVIS RICE Poem Source First Line: Hide me %from me Last Line: Eat in time Subject(s): Self 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 CAST AWAY MOAN (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She inventories her interior and despite the striking good looks Subject(s): Despair; Self CAST AWAY MOAN (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She inventories her interior and despite the striking good looks Last Line: Like an introduction, like dominion stretched out Subject(s): Despair; Self CAST AWAY MOAN (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plumage of bird Subject(s): Despair; Self CAST AWAY MOAN (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plumage of bird Last Line: How to have lived this? Subject(s): Despair; Self CAST AWAY MOAN (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every towel. Every glass of ice water. Seduced Subject(s): Despair; Self CAST AWAY MOAN (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every towel. Every glass of ice water. Seduced Last Line: I only mean you need to reenter, bring forward yourself Subject(s): Despair; Self CELEBRATION ODE, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great city of our love and pride Last Line: Newark belongs to the world. Subject(s): New Jersey; Newark, New Jersey; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect CELEBRATION OF RUST, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I am so weak my enemies Last Line: With rust, the loveliest pollen Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Rust; Self-reliance CELESTIAL DESOLATIONS; FOR MARJORIE SARGENT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now god wants even Last Line: Thread by thread. Subject(s): God; Life Change Events; Self-consciousness; Soul CENSURE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O no! I'm sure it was presumptous pride Last Line: Hell fears no pride, but is of humble feare afrayd. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 11. MONOGAMY STRAYS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just once, I thought just once. I know you're not Last Line: For once, I was what I would always be Subject(s): Marriage; Self; Unfaithfulness CHILD, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: And the image of her unknown face Last Line: Begging forgiveness from a wailing child %that is not yours Subject(s): Children; Self-pity CHILDHOOD, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man in the booth is talking Last Line: The day ouyside the window. / boom, agua Subject(s): Children; Growth; Self; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man in the booth is talking Last Line: As he watches the rain now dissolve %the day outside the window Subject(s): Children; Growth; Self CHILDHOOD'S RETREAT, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Self CHIQUITA: A LEGEND OF THE WESTERN SEAS, by BARRETT EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Her name? Chiquita. Ah, senor Last Line: Farewell — forever! — Subject(s): Legends; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect CINEMA OF A MAN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is bright though the boughs of the moon like a dead planet Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Self; Travel; Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Journeys; Trips CIVILL WARR, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Untoward passions, peace: I'm wearied quite Last Line: Of mine will help: sweet jesu lend me aid. Subject(s): Anger; Self-consciousness; War CLINICAL THERMOMETER SET WITH MOONSTONE, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Self COASTING TOWARD MIDNIGHT AT THE SOUTHEASTERN FAIR, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stomach in my throat Last Line: And hurl them out among the stars. Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Festivals; Self-control; Southern States; Fairs; Pageants; South (u.s.) CODICIL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the world's poetry Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Poetry & Poets; Self CODICIL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the world's poetry Last Line: The use of the pronoun, 'I' Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Poetry And Poets; Self COLD, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: You've swallowed a wool sock, and you've got Last Line: God bless you! My goodness. God bless you! Subject(s): Cold; Self-pity; Selfishness; Sickness COME TO THINK OF IT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who you are Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Identity; Introspection; Nature; Self COMMUNION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once when my heart was passion-free Last Line: Revealing god and man. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Self CONCEIT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: High in the sky and away so far Last Line: Blinking and twinkling all for me!— Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect CONCERNS OF SUMMER, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Finally, my time is my own, all of it really my own, I may Last Line: Who will help me now to gnaw eternity Subject(s): Self; Solitude; Summer CONFIDO ET CONQUIESCO, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fret not, poor soul: while doubt and fear Last Line: So trust and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; God; Love; Pride; Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect CONGRATULATING WEDGE, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things belie me, I think, but I Last Line: May—june 1983 Subject(s): Self-criticism CONNIE DEANOVICH, by CONNIE DEANOVICH Poem Source First Line: I am a woman in a red blouse Last Line: A temperamental crystal in the %temperamental sunshine Subject(s): Cities; Self CONSECRATION, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The achromatism of the sky Subject(s): Self CONSOLING THOUGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sleep as brutus slept of yore Last Line: Is not a den of murderers roman. Subject(s): Nations; Pride; Sleep; Thought; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Thinking CONSULTING THE BOK OF CHANGES: RADIATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning you will cup Last Line: If you do, you will cry forever Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cancer, Breast; Grief; Self-pity; Women CONTRADICTIONS, by KERSTIN THOREK Poem Source First Line: This is the way I want the world to look on a day off Last Line: Saturn in a butterfly net Subject(s): Contrariness; Self-consciousness CONVERSION, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: It happened in the cold and starlit dawn Last Line: I know the cause shall stand, though I may fall. Subject(s): Conversion; Faith; God; Religion; Self; Belief; Creed; Theology COUNTERPOINT, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: So close the heights to things set cycle deep Last Line: As outer find its flaming self within. Subject(s): Self CUSTOM OF WRITING FOR THE SELF, by MARY SHAW Poem Source First Line: Through Last Line: Tell me %how the sky is Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self DARK DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am not of this family, I know now Last Line: Mother, I'm already gone Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Love - Loss Of; Mothers And Daughters; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate; Suicide DARK HARBOR: 29, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The folded memory of our great and singular elevations Subject(s): Language; Self; Words; Vocabulary DAVID HAS SLAIN HIS TEN THOUSANDS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would rise from my covering Last Line: My wrath or my regret Subject(s): God; Self DEAR SELF, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man writes himself a letter: dear self, I would like to know Last Line: He writes back: dear self, please write soon, don't keep me waiting, that's all I seem to do these d Subject(s): Self DECRYPTING THE MESSAGE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It came to me in the bathroom Last Line: Reclaim the topn / and stand tall Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Bodies; Self; Hair DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN THREE WORDS OR LESS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not the kind of person who praises Subject(s): Self DESIGNS OF GALLANTRY, by ELIZABETH WELDON Poem Text First Line: My future, once so well-arranged Last Line: I must remember to forget. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Self DIRTIED UP (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Door opening to green bowl of narcissus Last Line: Its that's-enough-now, enough, dank hint of constriction Subject(s): Despair; Self DIRTIED UP (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you thought you heard, so surely you heard Last Line: To smile, inappropriate, awkward Subject(s): Despair; Self DIRTIED UP (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suspecting only illusion (some vindicative act of mind Last Line: The woods are disappointed in me Subject(s): Despair; Self DIRTIED UP, SELECTION, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suspecting only illusion (some vindicative act of mind Subject(s): Despair; Self DISJECTA MEMBRA, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Backyard, dry flower half-border, unpeopled landscape Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Self; Zen Buddhism DISJECTA MEMBRA, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Backyard, dry flower half-border, unpeopled landscape Last Line: I tell myself what I've told myself for almost thirty years - %listen to john, do what the clouds do Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Self; Zen Buddhism DIVINE POEMS: SELF, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Traitor self, why do I try Last Line: As its own ruin shows? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Religion; Self; Theology DON'T THINK, by AHMAD FARAZ Poem Source First Line: And she %pouring red wine into my glass Last Line: Don't think so much Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Human Rights; Memory; Self-criticism; Thought DOUBTS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if guys think I can't kiss because I can think? Subject(s): Self-doubt; Kisses DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was twenty-five years ago Last Line: That you are just as foolish as can be Subject(s): Disasters;jesus Christ;pride;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship); Self-esteem;self-respect DREAM IN WHICH I MEET MYSELF, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the butter's a block of sleazy light. I see that first, Subject(s): Dreams; Self; Nightmares DUALITY, by ELIZABETH MATHEWS FOOTE Poem Text First Line: I found myself in old and well-known places Last Line: The stranger that was I. Subject(s): Self EAGLE AND THE DRY LEAF, by SANTIAGO H. ARGUELLO Poem Source First Line: One day the eagle said, with pride: 'none can soar up %like me! Last Line: Then higher than the eagles the dry leaves rise and soar! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Irony; Self-gratification EARTH SCIENCE, by J.T. BARBARESE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I smell me Subject(s): Self EARTHLY PRIDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How baseless is the mightiest earthly pride Last Line: Is but an insect's sepulchre at best. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect ECHOES: 4. INVICTUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night that covers me Last Line: I am the captain of my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): R. T. Hamilton Bruce;to R. T. H. B. ...;unconquered;urbs Fortitudinis;invictus;in Memoriam: R.t. Hamilton Bruce Subject(s): Bruce, R. T. Hamilton (1846-1899); Consolation; Courage; Hope; Independence; Life Change Events; Pain; Self-control; Self-reliance; Soldiers; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Suffering; Misery ECZEMA, by MARYANN FRANTA Poem Source First Line: That miserable itch of the skin Last Line: That needs to be touched Subject(s): Eczema; Self; Skin EGG, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside me is the peace of an egg Last Line: So peaceful too under snow Subject(s): Eggs; Peace; Self; Clemency EGO, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Day passeth day in sunshine or shadow Last Line: Life but the urge, death but the balm. Subject(s): Self EGO, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just didn't get it Subject(s): Schools; Self; Students ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT RUISSEAUX, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now robin lies in his last lair Last Line: Ye roos'd him then! Subject(s): Self ELEVEN SHORT SCENES FROM MY LIFE, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: There, sick in my bed in early june, an Last Line: Forever without ending Subject(s): Life; Self ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As each syllable leaves these lips as touch, feel how onerous Subject(s): Despair; Self ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Viewed in this way Last Line: The thrown off Subject(s): Despair; Self ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This then is -- Subject(s): Despair; Self ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This then is -- Last Line: Losing, beforehand, inside Subject(s): Despair; Self ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Similar also Last Line: Nothing to shadow. I want to say, a life can take a life away Subject(s): Despair; Self EMBELLISHMENTS, by VIRGINIA CHASE SUTTON Poem Source First Line: Mother called it mutilation Last Line: All the way down to the bone Subject(s): Self-mutilation EMPTY MIRROR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As long as we are lost Subject(s): Self EMPTY MIRROR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As long as we are lost Last Line: Snake skin and an uncut stone Subject(s): Self EPIGRAM, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Set not the faults of other folks in view Last Line: Will tend but little to reform thy own. Subject(s): Self EPIGRAMS, by JAMES VINCENT CUNNINGHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not what I am. I think I know Alternate Author Name(s): Cunningham, J. V. Subject(s): Self EPITAPH, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jerk, loser, fuck up Last Line: And fell in a lake of shit Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Self-hate EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The monument which thou beholdest here Last Line: With his creator, peace, joy, truth and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self EPITAPH: 34, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because too proud almost to live or die Last Line: Over this mound of earth stumbled and fell. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect ET POUR EUX SEULS, LES PARADIS CHANTENT ENCORE', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mist that moves off acheron Last Line: Measure of my eternities Subject(s): Nature; Self EVERYONE FLEES FROM ME, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: The moisture of love %desire %on the transparent canvas Subject(s): Love; Paintings And Painters; Self EVERYTHINGS A VERB, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Boundaries or the lack thereof Last Line: My junk yard dog husband Subject(s): Marriage; Psychology; Self-criticism EXCURSION, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a tourist Subject(s): Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (1). ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As each syllable leaves these lips as touch, feel how onerous Subject(s): Despair; Language; Self; Words; Vocabulary EXTENT AND ROOT OF (1). ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As each syllable leaves these lips as touch, feel how onerous Last Line: With no more room, falling %into nowhere else Subject(s): Despair; Language; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angled between sperm and please, tugging at her hem Subject(s): Despair; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (ripped out night, your core untranslatable. Preverbal, paralyzed Last Line: And in her way against him, saying, love, I love you Subject(s): Despair; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angled between sperm and please, tugging at her hem Last Line: Of the umbilical cord and waste what is. Misery gone Subject(s): Despair; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaved into procelain: crumbs to chicken, neither orange Last Line: Gripping the senses; then-anywhere but where I am heading Subject(s): Despair; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (5), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She would not see it if she had been disgraced she would not Last Line: Listen to me disgraced do not put it do not bring it to me Subject(s): Despair; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (6), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Observe that meanwhile Last Line: No foreigner comes Subject(s): Despair; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (7), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then the blond arm, taken Last Line: But, as it will be how I survive, I will not feel so Subject(s): Despair; Self FAITH, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: Faith is a blessed candle light Last Line: And quiet peace. Subject(s): Comfort; Faith; Self; Belief; Creed FALLOUT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If I shake myself Last Line: Who knows what'll fall out? Subject(s): Self-criticism FAME, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fame guards the wreath we call a crown Last Line: But the poor conceit of pride. Subject(s): Fame; Pride; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect FEW FACTS ABOUT ME, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: I am moved often, and easily Last Line: And living selfishly when that too is exhaustible Subject(s): Life; Self FIVE CRITICISMS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich Last Line: And we're the lonely dreamers after all. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Death; Dreams; England; Hate; Pride; Soul; Youth; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect FLESHING IN, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Keep coming, you humans, old customers of the earth Last Line: I will be all of myself Subject(s): Mankind; Self FOOL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The day I knew my world is one of the glimpses Last Line: Then I asked myself if anyone has ever %seen anybody whole. Subject(s): Fools; Self-criticism; Truth; Writing And Writers FOOLISH ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Would never turn Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Nature; Self-criticism FOR A TALL HEADSTONE, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, it was I who never listened Last Line: That looking-glass Subject(s): Headstones; Death; Self; Dead, The FOR SELF-HELP, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Master, I do not ask that thou Last Line: Thy love attested, is my prayer. Subject(s): Self FOR SIXTY-THREE YEARS I'VE GROUND MYSELF, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It out and put it high on the pantry shelf Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Self FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Variant Title(s): Little Gidding Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter; Historians FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season Last Line: Into the crowded knot of fire %and the fire and the rose are one Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Variant Title(s): Little Giddin Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter FRAGMENT 113, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not honey / not the plunder of the bee Last Line: And fiery tempered steel. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Self FRATERNITY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not but in every leaf Last Line: Till harmonized to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Self FROM THE BRIDGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have freed myself at last Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Self FROM THE BRIDGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have freed myself at last Last Line: There's a stench of carrion %surrounding me Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Politics; Self FULFILMENT, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do you ask, o soul? Last Line: "shall ever be the token for the onset." Subject(s): Life; Self-satisfaction; Soul FULL CONSCIOUSNESS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: You are carrying me, full consciousness Last Line: With the glowing diamond in its center Subject(s): God; Self-consciousness; Voices FUNESTE, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: If the smoke should go out Last Line: This dawn, return, he dies Subject(s): Memory; Night; Self; Solitude; Writing And Writers GARDEN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: After the wedding she glimpsed herself Last Line: She didn't like the way %her bones were arranged. Subject(s): Marriage; Self-doubt GENITALS FIT FATALISM, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Reality decomposes a person's parts Last Line: In the territory of the continuous Subject(s): Bodies; Reproductive System; Self-consciousness GHAZAL OF THE BETTER-UNBEGUN, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too volatile, am I? Too voluble? Too much a word-person? Subject(s): Self GIVING MYSELF UP, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I give up my eyes which are glass eggs Subject(s): Self GLADE, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN First Line: All that I was I gave away Last Line: Shaken in sunflakes over the lawn %after the children disappear Subject(s): Self GLIMMER OF SELF, by CHARLES PIERRE Poem Source First Line: There are poems composed of water and wind alone Last Line: Enduring as chaos and the poem sung from it Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self GLIMPSE FROM THE PAST, by ILSE AICHINGER Poem Source First Line: I've gotten used to this window Last Line: Lay down in whiteness %and accepted me myself? Subject(s): Self GLOUCESTER SPRING, by NATHANIEL EVANS Poem Text First Line: Sequestered from the city's noise Last Line: The world around shall say. Subject(s): Pride; Towns; Self-esteem; Self-respect GOD KEEP A PURE LOVE BURNING, by ELMA SCHEEL Poem Text First Line: God, keep a pure love burning in my heart Last Line: But this. Subject(s): God; Love; Prayer; Self GODOLPHIN HORNE, WHO WAS CURSED WITH THE SIN OF PRIDE, AND BECAME A BOOT-BLACK, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Godolphin horne was nobly born Last Line: Who blacks the boots at the savoy Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Pride; Coming Of Age; Satire; Social Commentary; Self-esteem; Self-respect GOLD SANDALS, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Theatrical %as a shepherd of air Last Line: Me with my miser ways Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self GRACE MYSELF MIGHT NOT OBTAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For I inhabit her Variant Title(s): Poem: 707; Poem: 77 Subject(s): Self GRAVITY'S FIRST LESSON, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Tired of raging ive decided Last Line: Let myself go %gently Subject(s): Games; Introspection; Self; Youth GROOM FALCONER; CIRCA 1903, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out walking along the river Last Line: One reserves for a ghost. Subject(s): Children; Insomnia; Self-mutilation; Childhood; Sleeplessness GROUND PLAN, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Wonderful if at our deaths some savior neatly clipped our souls Last Line: Made from the same tragical textures, %figures woven into ground Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Self HAEC FABULA DOCET, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The play seems out for an almost infinite run. Last Line: Are absolutely sure to come to grief Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect HAG RIDING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why / is what I ask myself Last Line: I ride I ride Subject(s): Africa; Hope; Life; Self-satisfaction; Optimism HAG RIDING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why %is what I ask myself Last Line: Over the rump of the day and honey %I ride -- I ride Subject(s): Africa; Hope; Life; Self-satisfaction HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come from the same Last Line: Nobody speaks in tongues Subject(s): Self HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come windless invader Last Line: Stars a poem of blood Subject(s): Self HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am who I am Last Line: Above two knees Subject(s): Self HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Derelict with eyes Last Line: Carnival of waves Subject(s): Self HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a small piece Last Line: Like a leper Subject(s): Self HAMMER, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To be both author of Last Line: This statue, and the statue itself Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Self HAMMER, by FRANK BIDART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be both author of Last Line: Dreams it can descend upon itslef Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self HEAD HANDED, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop belonging to me so much, face-head. Subject(s): Self HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT ARCHITECTUS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A summer's night Last Line: Symphonic songs in stone. Subject(s): Pride; Self-gratification; Self-esteem; Self-respect HEREB I AM, NAKED, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the fire Subject(s): Self HIS OWN EPITAPH, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One aeschylus, athenian born Last Line: Who tried and found it good. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self HOLY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I eat only sleep and air Last Line: And I will be so slight that I will pass through all of you %silently %like wind Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Self-consciousness; Selflessness HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, that [or, wha] in the heavens does dwell! Last Line: Amen, amen! Variant Title(s): Prayer Of Holy Willie, A Canting, Hypocritical Kirk Elder Subject(s): Calvinists; Hate; Hypocrisy; Prayer; Self-righteousness HOMAGE TO SHARON STONE (1), by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's early morning and across the street Last Line: T is just sharon stone driving past the house of someone who is, at the time, trying to write a book Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Self; Stone, Sharon; Actresses HOMAGE TO SHARON STONE (1), by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's early morning and across the street Last Line: Has been gravely labeling with her name, this poem Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Self; Stone, Sharon HOMAGE TO SHARON STONE (2), by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's early morning. This is the before Last Line: Trying to unwrite the world that is all around her Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Self; Stone, Sharon; Actresses HOMAGE TO SHARON STONE (2), by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's early morning. This is the before Last Line: Trying to unwrite the world that is all around her Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Self; Stone, Sharon HONEY HALF, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: You pass by those who would hold you up Last Line: You want no part of this world Subject(s): Girls; Love - Loss Of; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate HONOUR'S MARTYR, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is full this winter night Last Line: If faithful in my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): M. Douglas To E.r. Glenden Subject(s): Honor; Truth; Self HOW CAN I DISAPPOINT MYSELF?, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wrinkled skin? Just one in pieces Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Disappointment; Introspection; Nature; Self; Self-pity HOW I'D HAVE TURNED OUT, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO Poem Source First Line: Mother pours %mathematically precise Last Line: Petals, a river cresting %in our living room Subject(s): Family Life; Growth; Self HOW TALL WOULD I BE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To measure me? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Enemies; Nature; Self HUNGER TO THE TABLE (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though we occupied our regular seats, the tolling Last Line: Without vision of the casting down Subject(s): Despair; Self HUNGER TO THE TABLE (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even today, after Last Line: Until the space between them asks, how wide this? Subject(s): Despair; Self HUNGER TO THE TABLE (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A turned ankle is its own consequence. She hops about Last Line: Respond like any woman collecting rainwater to stay alive Subject(s): Despair; Self HUNGER TO THE TABLE (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nearer the open hydrants of summer to arrive flung, sung, sweat Last Line: Is the voice nice. Just as the lips open open the eyes Subject(s): Despair; Self HUSK, by KEVIN STEIN Poem Source First Line: It's testament to faith to say I'm not surprised Last Line: But the soul within the husk of us this body is Subject(s): Bodies; Self HYMN TO INDRA, LORD OF RAIN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, who rousest the voice of the thunder Last Line: Hearken, o lord of rain! Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Pride; Singing & Singers; Worship; Self-esteem; Self-respect HYMN: FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY: 1, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Room for the proud! Ye sons of clay Last Line: "far from his palace door." Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect I, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Self I AM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I assume a buddha-like expression in the mirror Last Line: In his eyes and am understood Subject(s): Buddhism; Self; Buddha; Buddhists I AM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I assume a buddha-like expression in the mirror Last Line: To know he exists and that I exist %in his eyes and am understood Subject(s): Buddhism; Self I AM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am a person who's nice, I never stole Last Line: I act what I am Subject(s): Self I AM ..., by ROSIE MARTORANA Poem Source First Line: I am all the things of my past Last Line: And everyone crying Subject(s): Self; Time I AM FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: ?Took me cruising on his yacht Subject(s): Middle Age; Self-criticism; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes I AM FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is better not to be rich Subject(s): Middle Age; Self-criticism; Wealth I AM FRANCOIS, TO MY DISMAY, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: My neck'll learn what my arse may weigh Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Self; Capital Punishment I AM NOT I, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source Last Line: The one who will remain standing when I die Subject(s): Self I AM, SAID HE, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: I am the ground, the tree, and the sky, said he Last Line: And last beating in the center of the sea Subject(s): Nature; Self I DIDN'T COME TO FORGET, by BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA Poem Source Last Line: Like bells of strange doors Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Sea; Self I HAVE A HORSE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I have a horse. My horse has four legs Last Line: In the evening when they put her to bed she says salamun %and falls asleep Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Property; Self-consciousness I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Do it anymore Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mirrors; Nature; Self-doubt I KNOW MY SOUL, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plucked my soul out of its secret place, Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Soul; Self I LOOK IN MY HEART, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look in my heart as into a mirror Last Line: Or the ash of a fire put out by rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Self I MIGHT HAVE SUNG OF THE WORLD, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But the chart I made is true. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Self I SAW MYSELF, by LEW WELCH Poem Source Last Line: Bell does Subject(s): Self I SURMOUNT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain at fraud, believing Last Line: Giving as its reason that myself exists. Subject(s): Life; Self-reliance I THINK DELILAH HAD A HEART, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: I think delilah had a heart Last Line: Heard the breathless shears snap. Subject(s): Hearts; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect I TOOK MY POWER IN MY HAND, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or was myself — too small? Subject(s): Self I WOKE UP AS NOTHING. NOW START PILING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Outdoors. Me, you. Her corpse said stop Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Nothingness; Self I'LL BE WHAT I WANTED TO BE, by MARY BRABYN WACKMAN Poem Text First Line: Sometime I'll come to you again Last Line: For I'll be what I wanted to be. Subject(s): Self I'M CHARLES, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swaying handcuffed Subject(s): Self I'M SIXTY-TWO AND CAN DROP DEAD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I kissed the river's cold moving lips Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature; Old Age; Self-gratification I, I, I, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, the self. Then, the observing self Last Line: It had no mirrors. I no longer needed mirrors. Subject(s): Independence; Self; Self-reliance ID, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did I? Is it? Subject(s): Self IDENTITY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: But the eye of god Last Line: That is his own bad eyesight. Subject(s): Identity; Mankind; Men; Self; Human Race IF, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you Last Line: And -- which is more -- you'll be a man, my son! Subject(s): Fortitude; Human Behavior; Leadership; Maturity; Self-control; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IF I BE, by ALISON WOODS Poem Source First Line: If I am tight, sponge me mainline Last Line: Are mire and tremble, like all good nature Subject(s): Self IF YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEAD WHEN ALL ABOUT YOU, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Self-control IMPERFECT PASSION OF A WORD, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Where a flock of starlings should fly-only the emptiness Last Line: Of language: I know in my blood that this is not in vain Subject(s): Language; Self IN BRAZIL I LEAPT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into it, a onetime-only trick Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Brazil; Nature; Self IN EVERY LIFE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Self IN THE COUNTRY OF GILBERT WHITE (OBIIT JUNE 26, 1793), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghosts of great men in london town Last Line: We love her servant much! Subject(s): History; London; Nature; Pride; White, Gilbert (1720-1793); Historians; Self-esteem; Self-respect IN THE FIELD, by PHYLLIS JANIK Poem Source First Line: My name is phyllis janik Last Line: Not for dinner, just for tigers Subject(s): Self IN THE MOON LIGHT, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight white, the yard is bare Last Line: And letting dew soak his clothes Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Self-consciousness IN THE PAST, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: All the confusing thoughts from the past Last Line: Not the old self but my self newly-born Subject(s): Past; Rebirth; Self IN THE TOWN WHERE EVERY MAN IS KING, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of reinforced concrete, become before him %mirrors. He licks the glass Subject(s): Independence; Self-reliance IN THIS LOWBROW WILDERNESS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I give up my opinions Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Self; Wilderness IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then I think, I must have done something perhaps Last Line: Each truth runs blood the breath began Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We store at this late date repair against the base insults Last Line: The railing is gone Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to bad-mouth a momentary mood of mind Last Line: So unwilling though spilling into this disfigured future Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brought to this: chagrin of falling rock Last Line: This world is only our stillborn: company Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (5), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Better to think, the descent before me is a stranger's Last Line: From all brooding, sidestep this wilderness preceding amen Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (6), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Addie says, sin and salvation are just words for cora Last Line: Masked in retelling because the feeling forgiven is too much Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (7), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To bring such need Last Line: All this, the relief it brings me Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (8), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So you, in this role as you own rescuer, trebled voice Last Line: Look out for yourself. Go outside. Stand up. Straighter. Flirt Subject(s): Despair; Self INFIRMITY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In purest song one plays the constant fool Subject(s): Self INFIRMITY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In purest song one plays the constant fool Last Line: How body spirit slowly does unwind %until we are pure spirit at the end Subject(s): Self INNER FLESH: 1, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Mt. Chiak %is dawning within me Last Line: Along this first snow-covered dusk road Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Self INNER MAN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the body Subject(s): Self INSIDE MY HOUSE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: I remember wishing Last Line: In search of a way back in Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Mirrors; Self INSOMNIA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: E'en this, lord, didst thou bless Last Line: To comfort me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Self INTENDED FOR A STONE IN THE GROUNDS OF RYDAL MOUNT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these fair vales hath many a tree Last Line: As one of the departed Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self INTERPRETATION OF LOVE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Two deadly beautiful fighter jets across the sky, and cartographers Last Line: In a flower. May it open just for me when the woman I love gazes at it Subject(s): History; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Self INTRODUCTION, by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It had to be from someone whose grandparents were born in shanghai Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Asian Americans - Chinese; Self; Heritage; Heredity; Chinese In The United States INVENTORY, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four be the things I am wiser to know: Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Self INVOCATION BY A SMALL BED, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The water bubbles in the radiator. And the ebb and flow of the sea Last Line: I'm untouchable. And thrilled to learn there is no other way Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Life Change Events; Self-satisfaction IRON COIN, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before us is the iron coin. Now let us ask Last Line: Within the other's mirror, our reciprocal mirror Subject(s): Mirrors; Religion; Self IS AND WAS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was whiter than the ermine Last Line: Doing all from self-respect. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Once Subject(s): Love; Past; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect IT WAS A DREAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In which my greater self Last Line: This. This. This. Subject(s): Dreams; Self; Nightmares JIGOKU: ON THE GLAMOUR OF SELF-HATE, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I must have always wanted to go it alone Subject(s): Self-hate JOHN HOLLANDER, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Higgeldy-piggeldy / schoolteacher hollanders Last Line: Higgeldy-piggeldy / schoolteacher hollanders Subject(s): Self JUST LIKE HOME, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: The loss of self should be dark horses Last Line: But usual as the sparrows and wrens perservering through the seasons Subject(s): Home; Self KEEPING THINGS WHOLE, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a field / I am the absence Subject(s): Self KIND SIR: THESE WOODS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind sir: this is an old game Subject(s): Children; Games; Self; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements KNOW THYSELF, by WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT Poem Text First Line: What am I? How produc'd? And for what end? Last Line: Repair by meekness what you lost by pride. Subject(s): Mankind; Physicians; Self; Human Race; Doctors KNOW THYSELF, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know thyself - and is this the prime Last Line: Ignore thyself, and strive to know thy god! Variant Title(s): True Self-knowledge Subject(s): Self; Worship L'INNOMBRABLE (EXTRACT 2), by PHILIPPE LEIGNEL Poem Source First Line: Then Last Line: Much loved place. Where I should never have been... %I recover my name Subject(s): Change; Nature; Self LAST LINES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I look out I see the fair Last Line: Their supple thighs towards the sleek ocean. Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Self; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness LAST WORDS OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bill, I feel far from quite right -- if not further: already the pill Last Line: Jam satis. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Self-criticism; Dead, The LATE SEARCH, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: In the unreal time of a dream Last Line: A dog—my purse—my life. Subject(s): Self LATE SHOW, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After rain, paint bubbled on a ceiling Last Line: My thoughts are never unanswered Subject(s): Night; Self; Sound LAUGHTER, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, whom these eyes, no longer mine Last Line: Youthful and cruel, wild, divine! Subject(s): Youth; Old Age; Self LEARNING STICK: 3. WITH ME, by JENNY FACTOR Poem Source First Line: Into a rhythm ruled by kgrrrr and bprrrr Last Line: Lessons of my life I've learned alone Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Homosexuality; Independence; Self-reliance; Solitude LEAVING THE ASYLUM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The metal harps of the high gates Last Line: I love its glint among the dust and stones. Subject(s): Change; Hospitals; Insanity; Introspection; Self-reliance; Madness; Mental Illness LEAVING THE DOOR OPEN: 19. STABILITY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a fault in the universe Last Line: Each particle of self in search %of assurance, constancy, stability Subject(s): Self; Universe LET GO OF THE MIND, THE THOUSAND BLUE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Each day to keep the world underfoot Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Reason; Self-reliance; Thought LET NO CHARITABLE HOPE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now let no charitable hope Last Line: And none has quite escaped my smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Self; Women; Work; Workers LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Please say something really good Last Line: Something glowing - %and sign my name Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Labor And Laborers; Self-gratification LIBER QUARTUS, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor will ingenious women, free from pride Last Line: That parents nature is most prevalent. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Family Life; Pride; Women; Relatives; Self-esteem; Self-respect LIGHT OF THE SOUTH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: That is born %and is %untamed %in its muteness Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Self; Solitude LIKE A HENRY MOORE STATUE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And suspend it in my opening Subject(s): Moore, Henry (1898-1986); Body, Human; Self; Mothers & Daughters LIKE VANISHING DEW, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Thus should one regard one's self Subject(s): Self LINES FOR WINTER, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Tell yourself / as it gets cold and gray falls from the air Subject(s): Winter; Self-love LINES ON THE DEATH OF MOISHE NADIR (COMPOSED BY HIS VERY SELF), by MOISHE NADIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the memory of moishe nadir Last Line: A wreath of verse. ... Subject(s): Death; Memory; Self; Dead, The LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What silence drear in england's oaky forest Last Line: . . . . . . Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Galileo (1564-1642); Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Switzerland; Truth; English; Galileo Galilei; Dramatists; Self-este LINES; WRITTEN AFTER THE PROMISE OF A REWARD, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Whene'er the muse pleases to grace my dull page Last Line: Nor pegasus rear, till I've taken my ride. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect LITTLE DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 4. THE FIRE, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Also destroyed her diaries. Although I think that even there Last Line: Springtime, when the whole world dies through its petals Subject(s): Diaries; Self; Women LITTLE OF MYSELF DO I REMEMBER, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Self LOATHING HISTORY, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Slows you %to start again Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Self LOOKING FOR LEVINE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the airport they Subject(s): Self LOOKING-GLASS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slid my face along to the mirror Subject(s): Mirrors; Self LOVE AFTER LOVE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time will come Subject(s): Food & Eating; Drinks & Drinking; Self-love; Wine LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 20, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is there? Me Last Line: And we are us Subject(s): Identity; Relationships; Self LOVE THYSELF LAST. LOOK NEAR, BEHOLD THE DUTY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And all god's joys shall be at thy command Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Self-love LOVE'S WOUNDING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the young stag, when lusty spring supreme Last Line: Planted a thousand arrows in my side. Subject(s): Love; Pride; Spring; Wandering & Wanderers; Self-esteem; Self-respect LOVE, PRIDE, AND FORGETFULNESS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet my heart was sweet love's tomb Last Line: What marvel that she died? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect LUGGAGE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You wear your body as if without Last Line: Rise like grief before you Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Self; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LUGGAGE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wear your body as if without Last Line: Rise like grief before you Subject(s): Homosexuality; Self LUTHER BENSON; AFTER READING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor victim of that vulture curse Last Line: And praise to him who gave release. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Galilee, Palestine; Peace; Sea; Self-criticism; Youth; Ocean MADRIGAL, by GUSTAF SOBIN Poem Source First Line: Only in the gaze's Last Line: In - %eluctable abduction Subject(s): Self MAJOR SURGERY, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: My dreams rise, a twist of smoke Last Line: Cars buzz in the walls Subject(s): Life Change Events; Self-reliance; Surgery MAKING A CHAMPION, by HENRY E. HORNE Poem Text First Line: While bill was sitting by the door Last Line: A post for fifty pound. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Pride; Wine; Self-esteem; Self-respect MAKING BELIEVE, by RUTH A. HARTZELL Poem Text First Line: Sometimes it's hard to cover up Last Line: It's the best thing to do. Subject(s): Self-control MALEDICTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man's not a singing animal Last Line: Rivet his stone with worms. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Curses; Pain; Self-pity; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs MAN OF LETTERS, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blank scrolls of waves unfolding at his feet Subject(s): Self MANIFESTO FOR MYSELF, by ERIC GAMALINDA Poem Source First Line: Know all persons by these presents Last Line: But he never learned %to shut up Subject(s): Self MASQUERADE, by F. LOUISE COOK Poem Text First Line: I hardly know myself all day Last Line: I wear a silver mask by day. Subject(s): Masks; Self MASTER: 8, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And it was he himself, he who set me free Last Line: He was rather casual, %'we won't argue about that' %(he said) %'you are a poet.' Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Poetry And Poets; Self MAYBE, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I stretch myself tall Subject(s): Self-criticism ME, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As long as I live Last Line: And the spirit within it %is gone Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Self ME, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bleeding hearts in the garden Subject(s): Grief; Self-pity; Sorrow; Sadness ME, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bleeding hearts in the garden Last Line: I float in the plunging year Subject(s): Grief; Self-pity ME FROM MYSELF -- TO BANISH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Except by abdication-- %me - of me? Variant Title(s): Poem: 642; Poem: 70 Subject(s): Self MEETING A GENTLE RAIN ON THE SWORD-GATE PASS ROAD, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dust of travel on my clothes Last Line: I enter sword-gate pass Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Self-consciousness MELANCHOLIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Out hideous monster; in thy name Last Line: Which can be sober, yet not dull. Subject(s): Grief; Hell; Self-pity; Sorrow; Sadness MELODY GRUNDY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take me or leave me, cries Subject(s): Self-satisfaction MEMO TO MYSELF, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me: / is everything else Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Self MENTAL HORIZONS: 2. MR. BOOSTER-CIVIC PRIDE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: His interest leaps to the city line Last Line: By knocking other boosters down. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect MESCALINE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rotting ginsberg, I stared in the mirror naked today Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Self; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) MESCALINE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rotting ginsberg, I stared in the mirror naked today Last Line: No point writing when the spirit doth not lead Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) METAL MATERIAL REACHES, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The jar that twitch ends Subject(s): Self-consciousness; Silence; Solitude MIDDAY, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: It takes so little Last Line: Someone who would stay on for a bit Subject(s): Self MIDPOINT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of nothing bur me, me Last Line: Which brought me this far; henceforth, if I can, %I must impersonate a reasonable man Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Life; Self MIRROR, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Aging; Self MIRROR, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions Last Line: Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Aging; Self MIRRORS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandma makes me mad Subject(s): Grandparents; Beauty; Self-doubt; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MIRRORS AT 4 A.M., by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You must come to them sideways Subject(s): Mirrors; Self MIRRORS HAVE ALWAYS GIVE THE WRONG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So do I. Let's stop this right now Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Facades; Introspection; Mirrors; Nature; Self MONODY, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: My soul is a small, black island washed by the sea Last Line: When will its restless fingers reach my heart ... Subject(s): Fear; Introspection; Self; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness MORE CLUES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, because you never spoke to me Last Line: Can they reach me now, or inside out in a universe, %of touch, of speech is it? Somewhere in me, clu Subject(s): Self MULTIPLE IDENTITY QUESTIONNAIRE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a jew? A nice jewish boy? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Jews; Buddhism; Self; Identity; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY BODY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever I go, it also goes, Subject(s): Body, Human; Self MY CLOAK, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I took / some bits of life Last Line: I wear. Subject(s): Experience; Life; Self MY ENEMY, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An enemy I had, whose mien Last Line: And, lo! Myself I saw. Subject(s): Self MY EROTIC DOUBLE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Self; Love - Erotic MY GUEST, by BENEDICT AUER Poem Source First Line: A stranger %lives in my room Last Line: So as not to disturb %his tranquility Subject(s): Identity; Self; Self-consciousness MY HEART AYE WARMS TO THE TARTAN, by THOMAS MILLER (1831-) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scotland, country of my birth Last Line: As dearly as my home! Subject(s): Pride; Scotland; Self-esteem; Self-respect MY HUSBAND TAKES SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF ME, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's like coal in your stocking Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Self; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY INTERIOR, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: One bordello, three suites in the buttock Last Line: I go to it like a callboy to a c-note Subject(s): Night; Self; Shadows MY LIFE, by MICHAEL LALLY Poem Source First Line: I ate everything they put in front of me Last Line: Tired of this but that's history now Subject(s): Self MY LIFE 2, by MICHAEL LALLY Poem Source First Line: When I was 10, %I thought I was 'irish,' Last Line: An irish-black- %queer-movie-star Subject(s): Self MY MESSMATE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why fear thee, brother death Last Line: And to the past is known. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Self; Dead, The MY NAME, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child saw my name passing into Subject(s): Self; Names; Language; Words; Vocabulary MY NAME, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once when the lawn was a golden green Subject(s): Self MY NEW TRIFOCALS HURT MY NOSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Just to find my way Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Nature; Self; Self-reliance MY OLD BODY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Self MY OWN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loaden with earth, as earth by such as I Last Line: To waken in fit time what herein sleeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self MY OWN EPITAPH, by MARY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: Here lies a true maid, deformed and old Last Line: Believing she lost not her soul with her breath. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self MY PLACE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a place to come to Subject(s): Self-reliance MY PLACE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a place to come to Last Line: Having located himself %through my place Subject(s): Self-reliance MY SAD SELF, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when my eyes are red Subject(s): New York City; Self; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MY SAD SELF, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when my eyes are red Last Line: In the mind to come %where all manhattan that I've seen must disappear Subject(s): New York City; Self MY SHRINE, by ELMA SCHEEL Poem Text First Line: I love the friendly loneliness of plains Last Line: And waft to me old dreams that cannot die. Subject(s): Calm; Introspection; Prairies; Self; Shrines; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Plains MY TWENTIETH CENTURY, by CLAUDIA KEELAN Poem Source First Line: It is better to appear Last Line: It is better to appear to %than to be to Variant Title(s): My Twenteith Centur Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self MYSELF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I have to live with myself, and so" Last Line: Self-respecting and conscience-free Subject(s): Self MYSELF, by HARRIET ELLEN (GRANNIS) AREY Poem Text First Line: I knew the tree where slept the crows Last Line: That I was wild as they. Alternate Author Name(s): Garey, Hannah E. Subject(s): Self MYSELF, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to live with myself, and so Last Line: Self-respecting and conscience free. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Self; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology MYSELF, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the catholic priest Last Line: "though from flesh he was wholly released." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clergy; Self; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops MYSELF AND I, by BARBARA E. KNITTEL Poem Text First Line: A small, mean someone Last Line: Happily. Subject(s): Self; Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers MYSELF I SING, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me! He says, hand on his chest Subject(s): Self-reliance; Identity; Americans NAKED EYE, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: The least touchable of all things Last Line: The way one mirror rushes into another Subject(s): Eyes; Self NAPOLEON, by MIKE TYLER Poem Source First Line: Everybody thinks they're napoleon Last Line: I think I am scorched earth Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Self NARCISSUS AS IS, by ELTON GLASER Poem Source First Line: Always myself, whatever waters I look into Last Line: Always myself, whatever waters I look into Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Self NATURALLY, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since naturally black is naturally beautiful Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 23D PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seem not too conscious of thy worth, nor be Last Line: Whilst they that are above thee fall below. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION, by LISA MECKEL Poem Source First Line: All night I've remained awake Last Line: Know again that the river is never the same river, ever Subject(s): Creation; Self; Self-criticism NEIGHBORS, by REYNOLDS PRICE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: My name is edward reynolds price Last Line: Scapegoat? Porter of an alternate fate Subject(s): Self NEPENTHE: THE UNICORN, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! In the mute, mid wilderness Last Line: Far athwart his lair I run. Subject(s): Pride; Unicorns; Wilderness; Self-esteem; Self-respect NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My husband was hanging wet sheets, almost in disbelief Last Line: I told her I was done feeling sorry for myself. Subject(s): Canyons; Hearts; Gays & Lesbians; Laundry & Laundering; Self-pity; Widows & Widowers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NEW SPRING: 44, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey's the sky and every-day like Last Line: See, and weather foul as this is! Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 5. THE RELAPSE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lorenzo! To recriminate is just Last Line: Tis the survivor dies. -- my heart! No more. Subject(s): Contentment; Death; Fortune; Grief; Life; Night; Pride; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Self-esteem; Self-respect NO ESCAPE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A form of aggression towards yourself %--pema chodron Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Change; Escapes; Grief; Loss; Self NOBLESSE OBLIGE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold it the duty of one who is gifted Last Line: Which lifts up the king to the crown's demands. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NOR ON BEDS OF FADING FLOWERS, by JOHN DALTON Poem Text Last Line: Eternal bliss for transient pain. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NORTH AMERICAN SEQUENCE: JOURNEY TO THE INTERIOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long journey out of the self Subject(s): Self NORTH AMERICAN SEQUENCE: JOURNEY TO THE INTERIOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long journey out of the self Last Line: And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep Subject(s): Self NOSCE TEIPSUM: WHICH IS A PROUD, AND YET A WRETCHED THING, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I know my body's of so frail a kind Last Line: Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing. Variant Title(s): A Proud And Yet A Wretched Thing Subject(s): Bodies; Self NOT AGAIN, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I am embarrassed Subject(s): Self NOT YOUTH PERTAINS TO ME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Composed these songs Subject(s): Self; Poetry & Poets NOTE TO MYSELF, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having survived self- / esteem (both low & high), like Subject(s): Self NOTUS IGNOTO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you sigh for the power you dream of Last Line: Are ever revealed! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Pride; Truth; Nightmares; Self-esteem; Self-respect NUPTIAL, by CLAUDIA KEELAN Poem Source First Line: I's not an altar Last Line: The bodies inside I Subject(s): Marriage; Self O HADA CIBERNETICA: 20, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: What can I do with this room Last Line: This brain, %father, %mother Subject(s): Discontent; Mankind; Self O'ERSPENT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is as a fainting noonday star Last Line: May touch me into light. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Self OCTOBER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At my feet the stream flows backwards Last Line: Only larger, like two wings of ice. Subject(s): Fear; October; Self ODE UPON LIBERTY: 1, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where honor or where conscience does Last Line: Does, like an unthrift, mortgage his estate %before it falls into his hand Variant Title(s): Libert Subject(s): Self-control ODES I, 38. TO HIS ATTENDANT, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the persian's costly pride Last Line: Beneath th' o'erarching vine. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect OF BEING NUMEROUS, 1, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There are things Subject(s): Reality; Self; Ruins OF MYSELF, by QIAO JI Poem Source First Line: I didn't graduate in the top ten Last Line: Of life's finer pleasures, %connoisseur Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Self OLD HEN SCRATCHES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then looks, scratched then looks. %my life Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hens; Life; Nature; Old Age; Self OLD INDIANY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old indiany, 'course we know Last Line: Of both town and country lots. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Indiana; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect ON FLOWER WREATH HILL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: Circle of dancing gopis Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: In the streets of thhazy city Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought; Woods; Thinking ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No leaf stirs. I am alone Last Line: Rustles softly like fine silk Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This world of ours, before we Last Line: Sands of the shores of all the world Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON HER OWN BIRTHDAY, AUGUST 26, 1723, by JUDITH (COWPER) MADAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day beginning to a creature gave Last Line: That howe and pope vouchsafe to call her friend. Subject(s): Birthdays; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Self ON HER PORTRAIT, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This day that you see, this colorful pretense Last Line: It is a corpse, dust, shadow, nothingness Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Love; Portraits; Self ON HIMSELF, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My birthplace was of syria Last Line: Such garrulous age mayest thou enjoy. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Self ON HIMSELFE (4), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Borne I was to meet with age Last Line: Drinking wine, & crown'd with flowres. Subject(s): Self ON MY FEET, by JAY HOPLER Poem Source First Line: They will never be mistaken for mosquitoes Last Line: They affect the weather Subject(s): Feet; Self ON MY OWN MINIATURE PICTURE, TAKEN AT TWO YEARS OF AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was once like this! That glowing cheek Last Line: Spirit of spenser! Was the wanderer wrong? Subject(s): Life Change Events; Maturity; Nations; Portraits; Self; Youth ON MYSELF, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good heaven, I thank thee, since it was designed Last Line: And in retirement, I can bless the shade. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Self ON REVISITING HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here once engaged the stranger's view Last Line: And blotted out the line for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Harrow, England; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect ON SELF-IMPROVEMENT, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: I looked at what I was Last Line: And it didn't seem to matter Subject(s): Change; Self ON THE CAUSE, CONSQUENCE AND CURE OF SPIRITUAL PRIDE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose a heater burning in the fire Last Line: That casts itself into the holy fire. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect ON VIEWING HERSELF IN A GLASS, by ELIZABETH TEFT Poem Text First Line: Was nature angry when she formed my clay? Last Line: With never-fading charms to dress my mind! Subject(s): Mirrors; Self ONCE MORE KASPAR HAUSER, by ERNEST WICHNER Poem Source First Line: Nothing's there but what my eyes will bear like Last Line: And in the shirt the hole. %the sun, it's said, flinched %away Subject(s): Self ONE SOURCE OF BAD INFORMATION, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a boy in about three Last Line: Five don't work. Right now he's repeating them to you Subject(s): Self ONE'S-SELF I SING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One's-self I sing, a simple separate person Last Line: The modern man I sing. Subject(s): Self ONLY ONCE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Momentous to himself as I to me Last Line: I felt this truth, an instant, and no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Epigram Subject(s): Self OPEN HOUSE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not easy to love oneself Subject(s): Parents; Schools; Self-doubt; Parenthood; Students OPEN HOUSE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not easy to love oneself Last Line: His bloody march across mexico Subject(s): Parents; Schools; Self-doubt OPEN WINDOWS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: Through windows open wide, the free air flows Last Line: That beg to share. Subject(s): Self-gratification; Selfishness ORPHIC SOUL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I walk slowly along Last Line: Kept secret even from myself Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul OTHER I, by ROBERT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Written it was, across the years (dark years Last Line: Must I by some decree repeat the act? Subject(s): Self OUR HEAVEN MUST BE WITHIN OURSELVES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And these are love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Self; Hope; Faith OURSELVES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: We live to read each other's soul Last Line: To cast their lightning on my own! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Self; Soul OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Difficult to pinpoint Last Line: Bullet templed, rip the mind out. Go ahead Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Difficult to pinpoint Last Line: Bullet templed. Rip the mind out. Go ahead Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn will clear through the night rains so hard. Rain Last Line: Thought-damaged throat Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn will clear through the night rains so hard. Rain Last Line: Thought-damaged throat Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember a future Last Line: Sense, jane, disabled Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember a future Last Line: Sense, jane. Disabled Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assurance collapses naturally Last Line: Yourself. All I want Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assurance collapses naturally Last Line: Yourself. All I want Subject(s): Despair; Self OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away. Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence PALINDROME, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere now she takes off the dress I am putting Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Self PALINDROME, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere now she takes off the dress I am putting Last Line: With both of us looking the other way Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Self PANIC, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: What causes all this sudden tumult, running Last Line: What causes all this panic? It is you. Subject(s): Self PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 9. THIS DAZZLE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it only Last Line: Radiant labyrinth? Subject(s): Heaven; Introspection; Self; Paradise PARAPHRASE; FAILURE AND SUCCESS, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Who can tell how hard it is to climb Last Line: Levi bishop. Subject(s): Failure; Pride; Soul; Success; Self-esteem; Self-respect PARITY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle believed he had Subject(s): Character; Identity; Self PARITY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle believed he had Last Line: And go about his business Subject(s): Character; Identity; Self PASCAL'S CHARACTER OF HIMSELF, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love and honour a poor humble state Last Line: I'm nothing else but misery and woe. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Salvation; Self-pity; Sin; Human Race PASTICHE OF MY SUBJECTIVITY, by PAUL BAEPLER Poem Source First Line: I celebrate my subjectivity and write myself Last Line: You shall listen to all side and filter them from yourself Subject(s): Self PATTERNS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you lay a pattern on life and say, thus shall ye live? Last Line: For the only sin is death, and the only virtue to be altogether alive and your own authentic self. Subject(s): Death; Growth; Life; Order; Self; Sin; Dead, The PERPLEXITY, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in some cavern dark and deep Last Line: And, sighing, sleeps again. Subject(s): Soul; Self PERSON, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who writes my poems Last Line: Him but will never know Subject(s): Self PERSONAL HELICON; FOR MICHAEL LONGLEY, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child, they could not keep me from wells Subject(s): Self; Wells PERSONAL HELICON; FOR MICHAEL LONGLEY, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child, they could not keep me from wells Last Line: To see myself, to set the darkness echoing Subject(s): Self; Wells PERSONAL LETTER NO. 3, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: You do not know of what you speak Last Line: You are the only voice you hear Subject(s): Self PERSONAL LETTER NO. 4, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: I am lost in my self today Last Line: In my mind I know you will help me realize I am naked Subject(s): Self-consciousness; Solitude PERSONALITY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With words of other men, with memories Last Line: No man may teach. Subject(s): Self PERSONALITY, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not what I am. -- 'oh dreadful thought' Last Line: Be but a cog-wheel in the cosmic plan Subject(s): Self PET PANTHER, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My attention is a wild Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Self PET PANTHER, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My attention is a wild Last Line: Is song, coils of song, play %it out, run with it Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Self PILOT RAZOR-POINT PEN IS MY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thousands of miles of black squiggles Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Pens And Pencils; Self PLAN OF SELF-SUBJECTION, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fragment of weak flesh that circles round Last Line: My circle's end is where I have begun Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Self POEM, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Mark's place caught at night in hot summer Subject(s): St. Mark's Place, New York City; Self; Solitude POEM FOR MY BIRTHDAY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have stopped being the heroine Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Birthdays; Self POEM FOR MY FRIEND, CLARE. OR, WITH WHITE STUPAS WE REMEMBER BUDDHA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So when the gods wearing their colored cloaks of nearness Last Line: "here's a beautiful postcard of five white stupas in nepal." Subject(s): Buddhism; Honor; Memory; Self-criticism; Self-righteousness; Buddha; Buddhists POET'S PRIDE, by IBN AMMAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am ben ammar: my repute Last Line: Are ever on the margins penned. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pride; Self; Self-esteem; Self-respect PORTRAIT, by CLAIRE EMERSON Poem Text First Line: You are my breath / ... By daylight Last Line: You've lied. Subject(s): Portraits; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PORTRAIT, by CECILIA MEIRELES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't have this face then Last Line: Was my face lost? Subject(s): Mirrors; Portraits; Self POWER OF THE NAME, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: Forget the western sky's steep steps Last Line: Between stones & drink from anywhere Subject(s): Names; Nature; Self PRAISE AND PRAYER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been well, I have been ill Last Line: O help me wi' the lave! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): God; Prayer; Self-criticism PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, I walked in the february rain Last Line: And the reassurances of my own pulse Subject(s): Love; Self; Time; Writing And Writers PRIDE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O countess gudel of gudelfeld town Last Line: She smells of garlic -- this gudelfeld! Subject(s): Garlic; Pride; Wealth; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Riches; Fortunes PRIDE, by EVELYN HAZLETT HUNT Poem Text First Line: I have a proud flag flying / though none may Last Line: A broken vow. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Pride; Clemency; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIDE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To pride, upon its altar, what priceless offerings we bring Last Line: We strive to still the heart's low cries. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIDE, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One by one we lay aside Last Line: Receives the ultimate pride of life. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIDE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pride should effect your escape Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIDE, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: To-day / proud cherry blossoms Last Line: Of sordid, humble, cherry-blossoms. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIDE ALLOWABLE IN POETS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As thou deserv'st, be proud; then gladly let Last Line: The muse give thee the delphick coronet. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIMER LESSON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look out how you use proud words Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PROBLEM WITH POETRY, by MARTIN ARNOLD Poem Source Last Line: In silence could only have been %because of greed Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Self PROGRESS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Yapping, he can't stop yapping Last Line: Who said he always made %an awkward bow. Subject(s): Self-consciousness; Talk PROMOTED, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: J. Rufus jinks is stepping high, the light Last Line: "beneath this worst of strokes, and will not pass around the smokes." Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PROOF: SELF IN CONTEXT, by SALLY BALL Poem Source First Line: The eye doctor %usually I do this for a kid Last Line: Turns out to be itself, forgetting you completely. Subject(s): Self PROPERTY, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life does not belong to me Last Line: But I shall not forget the business of the stars just above the roof of the room. Subject(s): Self PSALM: 10, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why stand'st thou lord aloof so long Last Line: On vs may tyrannize no more. Subject(s): Curses; God; Hearts; Poverty; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PSYCHE, by ZINAIDA HIPPIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shameless thing, of every vileness capable Last Line: This horror that I shrink from—is my soul. Subject(s): Psyche (mythology); Self; Soul PURIFY ME, by ANA ROSSETTI Poem Source First Line: It's true, I sometimes try to rebel Last Line: Infancy, my homeland, my child, memories Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Self QUATRAIN, by HENRY T. PRAED Poem Text First Line: I saw a beast in forest ways Last Line: "and touched the ""me"" of other days." Subject(s): Self QUATRAIN, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: France's I am; my outlook's glum Last Line: A rope, will learn the weight of my bun Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Self QUATRAIN: SELF-RELIANCE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cast the bantling on the rocks Last Line: Power and speed be hands and feet. Variant Title(s): Power Subject(s): Self-reliance QUOTIDIAN (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we live Last Line: What the hardware of slumber draws below Subject(s): Despair; Self QUOTIDIAN (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night sky %all day the light Last Line: Its murmurous mirror Subject(s): Despair; Self QUOTIDIAN (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its drained tongue Last Line: Here in the skin of -- otherwise) shoveling out, dryly Subject(s): Despair; Self REBECCA AT PLAY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lies in the grass and spreads her golden hair Subject(s): Girls; Play; Self RECORDERS AGES HENCE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoul-der of his friend, while the arm o Subject(s): Self RED DUST, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This harpie with dry red curls Subject(s): Self-pity; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness REFLECTING TREES OF BEING AND NOT BEING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my childhood when I first Last Line: Golden fires and lamps of years Subject(s): Introspection; Love; Ontology; Self REFLECTION, REFLECTOR, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: So quick is the image that you send out Last Line: That amazingly mattered Subject(s): Mirrors; Self REMAINS, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I empty myself of the names of others Last Line: I empty myself of my life and my life remains Subject(s): Self REMBRANDT/PANTIES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A couple if having a vitriolic lulu Last Line: To the power of x and delicate under the slow turn %of the equally unreadable stars Subject(s): Marriage; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Self-criticism RENUNCIATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What man doth once with all his heart renounce Last Line: And one to him are joy and woe Subject(s): Abandonment;pride; Desertion;self-esteem;self-respect REPLY TO CESNURE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Repulse the staring eye Subject(s): Self-reliance REQUIEM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It came to me the other day Subject(s): Death; Self; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she arrived Last Line: She laughed. She was laughing. She was lying. The rain Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (10), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the naked nude must stagger the soul's Last Line: A bold personification of sky: purview Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day it is happy birthday or I love you or how did you know? Last Line: Lying on the ground too ironic to call for help Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here. Take the photo. In the photo she is not gorgeous Last Line: I was alive. Did I say this? I asked. I stood up. The rain Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the arrival of everyone, drinking glass after glass Last Line: The sky is blue. This in time reminds. Stands one up Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughter has the house to itself. It wraps to hide Last Line: Ever peaceful. Tell her, she cannot rest there Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (5), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the untrained ear Last Line: She didn't appeal to him Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (6), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later in a bar with a friend. He muses: there we were Last Line: Even with her wet eyelash picking up dust she must realize Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (7), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In another language hunger might bring her to her feet Last Line: What put her here brought her to the ground so to speak Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (8), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or did she (not he) simply stretch out? She Last Line: Is a mountain range pulsing Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (9), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day it is happy birthday or I love you or how did you know? Last Line: Lying on the ground too ironic to call for help Subject(s): Despair; Self RESPONDING TO ALLOW, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: That existing mind, %a point Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self-consciousness RIDDLE OF GOD, by PAUL SOUTHWORTH BLISS Poem Text First Line: Riders three and they leaped away Last Line: Nor the black needed whip or goad. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Self-love RISING FROM A CRAMPED POSITION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That here's blood in my legs Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Legs; Nature; Self; Self-consciousness ROADSIDE POEMS: AFTER THOMAS KEMPIS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who follows jesus shall not walk Last Line: Of the one thing needful! Subject(s): God; Humility; Jesus Christ; Knowledge; Life; Pride; Truth; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect ROCK AND HAWK, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a symbol in which Last Line: Nor success make proud Subject(s): Hawks; Pride; Stones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Granite; Rocks ROYAL PRIDE, by AL-NASIR Poem Text First Line: Are we not the progeny Last Line: Joy possesses all the earth. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect SASSY, by ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love myself when I want Last Line: To do %to love %your %self Subject(s): Self-reliance SECRET SONG, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Self SEEING HIS OWN PICTURE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This, which the shadow of my face does give Last Line: Destroys my labours, and so blasts my bays. Subject(s): Self SELECTION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the trees, o god Last Line: "was made for me." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Self SELF, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: So established in its solitude Last Line: There the end is an end by its self Subject(s): Absence; Self SELF, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I freed myself of my duties to tasks and Last Line: Myself and I, long parted, clasping and married till death. Subject(s): Self SELF, by ANITA L. PETRUCCI Poem Source First Line: I was given self Last Line: Hang that self Subject(s): Self SELF, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who am I, who Last Line: On the beloved face? Subject(s): Self SELF AND LIFE, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Changeful comrade, life of mine Last Line: Life is justified by love. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Experience; Life; Love; Self SELF AND SOUL TAKE TWO, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hair was black as night sea Last Line: In my name and a red door to the house Subject(s): Identity; Self; Soul SELF AS WORD, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: You can hear the meaning in the sonics Last Line: Elves in a world of giants, brash eyes in the potato flesh Subject(s): English Language; Language; Self SELF CONTROL, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A worthy triumph; one that shines afar Last Line: Its rule assert, sublime in self-control. Subject(s): Life; Self-control; Virtue SELF PORTRAIT, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would be Subject(s): Self; African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks SELF PORTRAIT AS YOU, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always receding %you are %what I come out %to see Last Line: What is the sky anyway, %but a reply to the earth Subject(s): Portraits; Self-criticism SELF PORTRAITS, by CRICKET LEE Poem Source First Line: I take photographs of myself Last Line: The lens catches vulnerability %in black and white Subject(s): Art And Artists; Portraits; Self-criticism SELF'S THE MAN, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, no one can deny Subject(s): Self SELF'S THE MAN, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, no one can deny Last Line: At knowing what I can stand %without them sending a van - %or I suppose I can Subject(s): Self SELF-ANALYSIS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not writing because I feel as though Last Line: Victims of their dreams. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Self; Dead, The SELF-CONGRATULATION, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ellen, you were thoughtless once Last Line: The bitter burning woe! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Desire; Self-control SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS MAKES ALL CHANGES HAPPY, by JONATHAN RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Tis not the gaudy stream of rosy flame Last Line: Regards the heart sincere, sits smiling there. Subject(s): Self-consciousness SELF-CONTROL, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When questioned by reporters Subject(s): Self-control SELF-CONTROL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Befo' you says dat ugly word Last Line: Dat donkey cain't count ten Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs; Self-control SELF-CRITICISM IN FEBRUARY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bay is not blue but sombre yellow Last Line: Justice will prevail. I can tell lies in prose Subject(s): Self-defeat; Self-knowledge; Disappointment SELF-DEPENDENCE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weary of myself, and sick of asking Last Line: "who finds himself, loses his misery!" Subject(s): Identity; Self-reliance SELF-EMPLOYED, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand and listen, head bowed, Last Line: To do the job in dark, airless conditions? Subject(s): Self SELF-EXHORTATION, by LIAO HSING Poem Source First Line: I see these hills, hear the streams - and all grief fades Last Line: Timeless and unchanging, each and every twist and turn Subject(s): Self-consciousness; Zen Buddhism SELF-HATE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: What I cannot bear %is knowing that I wanted you- Last Line: I live %the intolerable misery %of hating not only you %but me Subject(s): Incest; Self-hate SELF-HATRED OF DON L. LEE, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I %began Last Line: Brown %outer Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): African Americans; Self-hate SELF-MASTERY, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To catch the spirit in its wayward flight Last Line: A gift from him who lifts our ev'ry care. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Self-reliance SELF-PITY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never saw a wild thing Last Line: Without ever having felt sorry for itself Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Self-pity SELF-PORTRAIT, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Outside this cylinder of skin Last Line: They roost, cooing, at my window. Subject(s): Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Photography And Photographers; Portraits; Self-consciousness SELF-PORTRAIT, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sniff after the sparrow and the spaniel, flitting around Subject(s): Self SELF-PORTRAIT, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: Father was a serf, seldom came home at night Last Line: Like a sick dog with his tongue hanging out %in the sun and in the shade Subject(s): Family Life; Self SELF-PORTRAIT, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the computer, a pencil, and a typewriter Subject(s): Self SELF-PORTRAIT 1, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You lie packed Last Line: And go in clouds! Subject(s): Self SELF-PORTRAIT 2, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is raining Last Line: Lips opening upward. Subject(s): Self SELF-PORTRAIT AT TWENTY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood inside myself Last Line: And the rain came. Subject(s): Introspection; Self-hate; Self-pity SELF-PORTRAIT IN EAST MELBOURNE FLAT, by PETER BAKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: My telephone wants a better job Last Line: Say, about the size %of a mouse or a matchbox Subject(s): Australia; Portraits; Self SELF-PORTRAIT IN FRONT OF AN EASEL, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Back to us, the easel's picture must burn blue Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Self SELF-PORTRAIT OF AN OTHER, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: It is late in th eyear, he is alone on the sheltered beach in the small bay... Last Line: Silent again. Only then did everything become silent Subject(s): Death; Life; Portraits; Self SELF-PORTRAIT WITH PAINTBRUSH, by MARGARET RABB Poem Source First Line: You block out the four-foot board lower left till a place Last Line: Any sinner love a face that loves him but you %adore artifice and its open doors into the blue Subject(s): Self SELF-RELIANCE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Though savage force and subtle schemes Last Line: And live and die in self-reliance! Subject(s): Self-reliance SELF-RELIANCE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henceforth, please god, forever I forego Subject(s): Self-reliance SELF-REPROACH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the heart is an avenging power Last Line: There is no wretchedness like self-reproach. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Self-criticism SELF-RIGHTOUSNESS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Self-righteousness SELF-SACRIFICE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, all I have is thine Last Line: But I, henceforth, am poor. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Self SELFING, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Out of my way! %all day it Last Line: Chain links circling the sprockets of a stationary bike Subject(s): Introspection; Self SELFLOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: To love thy neighbour as thy self, will prove Last Line: By self-loves rule mayst charity bestow. Subject(s): God; Self-love; Soul SELVES, SUBJECTS AND SOULS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In that picture of us standing by the toyota at crater lake Last Line: Carving out canyons, electrons burning like brush fires. %hold on kids Subject(s): Introspection; Self SEQUEL, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Each day ends, a record left turning Last Line: There must be someone there %waiting in the silence Subject(s): Introspection; Self; Self-reliance; Solitude SEQUENCES, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Tonight I stretch my hands Last Line: My arms will drink %from them Subject(s): Self; Silence; Solitude SEVEN SONGS FOR MARTHE, MY WIFE: 1., by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my childhood when I first Last Line: Golden fires and lamps of years Subject(s): Knowledge; Self; Relationships SHAPER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I love the strange men and women Last Line: Shaping the self Subject(s): Self; Strangers SHOT GLASS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll never forget the day this beautiful woman Last Line: She left me some room for improvement and %a sense of what to work on... Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Conversation; Self; Women SIGN, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first white hair coils in my hand Subject(s): Aging; Hair; Self-pity SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head and shoulders, and my book Last Line: Of pale cold light that was alive Subject(s): Nature; Self SINCERITY, by AGNES NEMES NAGY Poem Source First Line: I wince in self-revelation Last Line: The big blonde horses, washes Subject(s): Self SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA, LOVING THE SELF, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning again Last Line: Habitual act of love, I'm back Subject(s): Self SKETCH FOR A JOB APPLICATION BLANK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My left eye is blind and jogs like Last Line: Warmth, more warmth, I cry.) Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Self-doubt; Heritage; Heredity; Work; Workers SNOWMAN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: This is a poem for tom Last Line: For all of the good providers Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Labor And Laborers; Men; Murder; Self-doubt; Snow SO, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I search within Subject(s): Self SO THAT'S WHO I REMIND ME OF, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider men of golden talents Last Line: I resemble every genius in his vice, however henious - %yet I only write like me Subject(s): Self SOCIAL SCIENCE', by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O happy souls, that mingle with your kind Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Self-satisfaction SOLILOQUY OF THE BLANK PAGE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, in the distance there is a river, a bridge Last Line: Selfhood giving a poetry reading Subject(s): Books; Self SOLITUDE, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: I searched a mountain top for solitude Last Line: Is where I found my utter solitude. Subject(s): Self; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from you, sweet, I am away Last Line: But never in flesh may I return. Subject(s): Nature; Self SON OF JUDAS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I prayed to escape from my body Last Line: And leave us go Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Body, Human; Self SONG, by BERNIECE GRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Love is life / things that follow Last Line: Love will keep as his own. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For I, my mother, I Last Line: The flower of the town %it was I Subject(s): Admirals; Self-gratification SONG OF MY SELF, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is there about me that likes the arly dark? Last Line: In a sort of cosmic sourness, the sweat of my mind Subject(s): Self SONG OF MY SELF, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is there about me that likes the arly dark? Last Line: With something else, which rides and sees Subject(s): Self SONG OF MYSELF, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: I am without an echo Last Line: And %crow Subject(s): Self SONG OF THE SELF-STIMULATOR, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Johnny had a steamboat Subject(s): Self-gratification; Sex SONG TO THE GOD OF FOND DESIRE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day the god of fond desire Last Line: "you drag him at your chariot-wheels." Subject(s): Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONGS OUT OF SORROW: LESSONS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unless I learn to ask no help Last Line: Why was I ever given birth? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Self; Knowledge; Conduct Of Life SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 20, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, give this humour over Last Line: Live in far more perfect joy. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Happiness; Pride; Women; Youth; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 5, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let perjured fair amynta know Last Line: That pity ever dwelt with pride. Subject(s): Fever; Love; Pain; Pity; Pride; Suffering; Misery; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONNET, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel I am, I only know I am Last Line: But now I only know I am, -- that's all. Subject(s): Self SONNET TO MANON: HE ARGUES WITH HIS LIFE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life, what strange mad garments hast thou on Subject(s): Self SONNET TO REFLECTION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, busy torturer, wherefore should mine eye Last Line: In darkness glimmering to disclose a tomb. Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Regret; Self-pity; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism SONNET: 15, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fairest ganymede, disdaine me not Last Line: Learne for to folde, and to unfold our sheepe. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#21): 2. LESS SELF, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throwing your voice is one of those things also Last Line: Green remains. Subject(s): Self; Ventriloquists & Ventriloquist Dummies SOW YOUR SELF, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shake off your sadness and your will regain Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Self SOW YOUR SELF, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shake off your sadness and your will regain Last Line: With works, whose reaping is the self you sow Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Self SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 145, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As we came down towards the valley Last Line: Tis my face that guards my body Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Self-consciousness ST. JAMES PARK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas june, and many a gossip wench Last Line: "may be a little altered too." Subject(s): London; Nature; Parks; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect STABLE EGO, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Any serif like / this at or Last Line: Not any seraph Subject(s): Self STEPHANYA, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I am a mind Last Line: Am only stephanya the crazy one. Subject(s): Introspection; Self-consciousness STORY OF A BLACKBIRD, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gather round me, children Last Line: "this comes of being proud." Subject(s): Blackbirds; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect STORY OF MY LIFE, by CARROLL ARNETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down there where I was Last Line: I have never been %a homeowner, have %always been a tenant, %will always be %a tenant and hold %as m Alternate Author Name(s): Gogisgi Subject(s): Self STRANGE KNEES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's one of the ways you see Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Knees; Self STRASBOURG, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee sombrely enthralled Last Line: Seen thro' glad tears, the tricolors! Subject(s): Flags; France; Happiness; National Songs; Pride; Progress; Strasbourg, France; Victory; Joy; Delight; National Anthems; Self-esteem; Self-respect STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming back over the col between Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Mountains; Self; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming back over the col between Last Line: Standing sentry for the avalanche Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Mountains; Self STRETCHED OUT AT LENGTH, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Self STRONG I STAND, THOUGH I HAVE BORNE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Mankind; Pride; Human Race; Self-esteem; Self-respect STUDIES STATIC AND ECSTATIC, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: In the house of my fathers Last Line: And goes on its way, whistling. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Home; Self; Soul; Relatives STUDYING, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: American lit. Is beside you Last Line: And what you are Subject(s): Self; Knowledge SUITE TO QU TUNES: 1. ZUI XI SHI, by ZHULIAN XIV Poem Source First Line: Recalling with care the romantic elegance of former times Last Line: This is the time to sorrow Subject(s): Self-pity SUITE TO QU TUNES: 2. BINGTOU LIAN, by ZHULIAN XIV Poem Source First Line: The wind is weak Last Line: Listless, I climb the loft for evening toilet Subject(s): Self-pity SUITE TO QU TUNES: 3. SAI GUANYIN, by ZHULIAN XIV Poem Source First Line: The flowers bud with smiles Last Line: Broken heart, the xiang river, about to reach their end Subject(s): Self-pity SUITE TO QU TUNES: 4. YU FURONG, by ZHULIAN XIV Poem Source First Line: When will the loneliness end? Last Line: I'd still be a romantic ghost Subject(s): Self-pity; Solitude SUMMONING THE PERSONAL DEVIL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ink, fire, quintuple mirrors Subject(s): Self SURFACE DISTANCE DISTORTION LIKE THE SEA, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Nuance, itself rational %like introspection, offers Last Line: Of our invented remains Subject(s): Introspection; Self-consciousness SURFEIT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I am betrayed by multiplicity Last Line: Had for horizon his own straining knees. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Religion; Self; Eve; Theology TATTOO, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a tattoo of a tiny gun on my hand symbolic of the tiny wars I Last Line: My other hand until I fall asleep Subject(s): Self-criticism; Tattoos TATTOO, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a tattoo of a tiny gun on my hand symbolic of the tiny wars I Last Line: Bed, where I stare at the tiny doorknob tattooed on my other hand %until I fall asleep Subject(s): Self-criticism; Tattoos TATTOOED CITY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, who am only an incomprehensible Subject(s): Self; City & Town Life TEARING UP MY MOTHER'S LETTERS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain of summer thunders down past the sweet peas Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Letters; Grief; Self-hate; Sorrow; Sadness TESTIMONIAL (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if I craved error, as if love were ahistorical Subject(s): Despair; Self TESTIMONIAL (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if I craved error, as if love were ahistorical Last Line: It was june and brilliant. The sun higher than god Subject(s): Despair; Self TESTIMONIAL (2). ATLANTIC SHORES, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this bed, a man on his back, his eyes Subject(s): Despair; Self TESTIMONIAL (2). ATLANTIC SHORES, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this bed, a man on his back, his eyes Last Line: As all the hurt this world could give Subject(s): Despair; Self TESTIMONIAL (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gnaw. Zigzag. The end of the alphabet buckling floors Last Line: The outside tap turns tentatively on Subject(s): Despair; Self TESTIMONIAL (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lower the lids and the mind swims out into Last Line: So say, this earth untouched is ruptured enough to grieve Subject(s): Despair; Self THANK YOU, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thank you for giving me the chance Subject(s): Advertising; Teeth; Self; Careers; Toothaches THANK YOU FOR SAYING THANK YOU, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This is a totally Subject(s): Self; Poetry & Poets; Gratitude THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unwelcome and self-conscious sheen of morning Last Line: That makes us shudder and fall back into the self Subject(s): Summer; Self THE ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a man with no ambitions Subject(s): Learning; Self-criticism THE ALIEN, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like myself, the body gets in bed Last Line: It does not care what is hanging in my head Subject(s): Self THE AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In humble dwelling born, retired, remote Last Line: On earth for lofty verse and lofty sense. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Self THE BIRD OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy, holy, holy Last Line: All the birds together. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Rewards; Salvation; Self-immolation; Women - Bible; Belief; Creed; Virgin Mary THE BLACK POINT, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When to the sun a man hath raised his eye Last Line: Unblinded face the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Pride; Sun; Youth; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE BRAGGART, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the redwood tree Last Line: "shall his death be dug." Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 11. MONOGAMY STRAYS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just once, I thought just once. I know you're not Last Line: For once I would be what I would always be Subject(s): Marriage; Self; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE CITY AT NIGHT, by MARGUERITE AVIS WHITCOMB Poem Text First Line: With light on light the city streets now blaze Last Line: We babel view, and feel our earthborn might. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CITY OF HERITAGE, by ANNA BLAKE MEZQUIDA Poem Text First Line: Down where the swift passaic Last Line: The city men love to-day! Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CONDITION, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness within me is growing Last Line: Like a thing seen. Subject(s): Growth; Self THE CONTRAST; THE SUNNY SIDE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the nuptial morn. Now hearts are light Last Line: Thy love and peace, and worship ever there! Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CROWN, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silently through the dusk my thoughts return to me Last Line: One coronet for both of astral buds and leaves. Subject(s): Children; Crowns; Fear; Flowers; Life; Pride; Childhood; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN SINS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call in the dancers Last Line: Heaven too shall vanish in pale smoke. Subject(s): Anger; Dancing & Dancers; Gluttony; Idleness; Lies; Lust; Pride; Sin; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE DEATH OF THE SELF, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like discarded pages Subject(s): Self THE DEATH-DAY OF KORNER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song for the death day of the brave Last Line: With the sword, his bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Courage; Death; Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813); Pride; Singing & Singers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Songs THE ENEMIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As fish that take the motion of the sea Last Line: But god who made me so? Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Finality; Hearing; Love - Unrequited; Self; Sight; Touch (sense); Winter; Dead, The THE ENEMIES OF THE LITTLE BOX, by VASKO POPA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't bow down to the little box Alternate Author Name(s): Popa, Vasco Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE EUROPEANS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or me wanting another man's Subject(s): Self THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was jesus humble or did he Last Line: Or call men wise for not believing Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FACE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not good any more, not beautiful Last Line: It is terrible to be alive Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Self THE FASHION, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: I likewise might inamour'd be Last Line: That, & no other fashion wee'l receive. Subject(s): Facades; Fashion; Pride; Appearances; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FATHER OF PREDICAMENTS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came at night to each of us asleep Subject(s): Fathers; Self; Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians THE FEAR OF ONE'S SELF, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As we get near the house. Taking off our gloves Subject(s): Self THE FORSAKEN WIFE, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Methinks, 'tis strange you can't afford Last Line: I yet superior am to you. Subject(s): Men; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FOUNDERS, by DAVID MACLURE Poem Text First Line: Here where a giant city's pulses throb Last Line: Proud of his home, the city beautiful. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FUR COAT, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked out in my coat of pride Last Line: And sneezed a while; and scratched myself. Subject(s): Fur Trade; Pride; Furs; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE GARLAND, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pride of every grove I chose Last Line: The justice of thy chloe's sorrow.' Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Nymphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE GIFT OF FIRE, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a time of damnation Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Self-immolation; Anti-war Protests THE GREAT DIGEST OF CONFUCIUS, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great learning (adult study, grinding corn in the head's mortatr to fit it Last Line: "happen. ""take not cliff for morass and treacherous bramble." Subject(s): Confucius And Confucianism; Discipline; Education; Order; Self-control THE GREATER TESTAMENT, SELECTION, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knowe full well I am noe saynte Last Line: But so it goes with many a one Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Self THE GRIEVINGS OF A PROUD SPIRIT, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crime may be clear'd, and sorrow's eyes be dried Last Line: There is no after health -- no hope -- no pardon! Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 98. HE AND I, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence came his feet into my field, and why? Last Line: Even in my place he weeps. Even I, not he. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Self THE ILLUSION, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not the genes and the genes are not me Last Line: I am the simple sieve that drinks the universe. Subject(s): Self-criticism; Twins THE INNOCENTS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The watcher guarded the innocent one Subject(s): Self; Human Behavior; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE KING OF DREAMS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some must delve when the dawn is nigh Last Line: Every man is a king of dreams! Subject(s): Dreams; Self-gratification; Nightmares THE KING'S FAVORITES, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A king, once summoned his favorites Last Line: "since I've lost ambition and high-headed pride?" Subject(s): Ambition; Humility; Pride; Prudence; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Caution THE LIBERTY, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I be one, of those obsequious fools Last Line: With what reluctance they indure restraints. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Pride; Women; Liberty; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE LIGHT THAT CAME TO LUCILLE CLIFTON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The truth is furiously knocking Subject(s): Self; Knowledge; Truth THE LITTLE TOWN O' TAILHOLT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You kin boast about yer cities, and their stiddy growth and size Last Line: But the little town o' tailholt's good enough fer me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Towns; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 20, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is there? Me Last Line: And we are us Subject(s): Identity; Relationships; Self THE MAN IN THE MIRROR, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down the narrow Subject(s): Mirrors; Self; Aging THE MISER, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I was out last night Subject(s): Self; Reality; Misers; Obsessions THE MOUNTAIN IS STRIPPED, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I no longer have to declare myself Last Line: The mountain is stripped Subject(s): Justice; Self-control; God THE NIGHT, THE PORCH, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To stare at nothing is to learn by heart Subject(s): Self THE OAK AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oak said to the forest trees Last Line: Said: in my woods the wind stirreth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ignorance; Life; Mankind; Oak Trees; Pride; Dullness; Stupdity; Human Race; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE ORPHIC SOUL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I walk slowly along Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul; Bugs THE OTHER TWO, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All summer we moved in a villa brimful of echos, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Self-deceit THE PAUPER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! And not one to heave the pious sigh? Last Line: I pause—and ponder on the days to come. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Graves; Grief; Honor; Poverty; Self; Tears; Estrangement; Outcasts; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE PEACE OF GOD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We ask for peace, o lord! Last Line: Thou keepest for those hearts who love thee best. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Peace; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PEDIGREE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Or if I will not rape Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Self THE PILGRIM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, but a child, I wandered hence Last Line: Where we were wont to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Innocence; Self THE PILL, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pill, in the pill bottle, humming like a wheel at rest, confident ... Last Line: Could have sworn that it could see them, and that it blinked. Subject(s): Humanity; Medicine; Reason; Self-consciousness; Drugs, Prescription; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POEM AS MASK, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I wrote of the women in their dances and Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Self THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 197, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a self or not Last Line: Leave offerings by my bier Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Self THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 258, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Get your own clothes if you're cold Last Line: There's never enough food and clothes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Clothing & Dress; Food & Eating; Self-reliance THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 78, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man descended from pride Last Line: And never grows tired of meat Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Greed; Pride; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 80, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you would increase increase your essence Last Line: You won't survive the trauma of death Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Death; Immortality; Self; Dead, The THE POET'S OWN EPITAPH, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies the son of battus Last Line: Friendly laughter with his wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self THE POOL, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My embarrassment at his nakedness Subject(s): Self; Nudity; Nakedness THE PRIDE OF THE KINGS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Two monarchs of the cymry on a hill Last Line: And cleft his skull, and bore the cloak away. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fights; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PROUD, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are the proudest who have met defeat Last Line: The ghost of beauty in an empty breast. Subject(s): Failure; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PROUD FROG, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When poor men to expences run Last Line: She raged and puffed, and burst in two. Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Frogs; Pride; Size And Shape; Allegories; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PROUD MISS MACBRIDE; A LEGEND OF GOTHAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Terribly proud was miss macbride Last Line: Is subject to irritation! Subject(s): Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PROUD ONE'S DOOM, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen pearl's own equal - nay Last Line: And with her pride did into lethe pass. Subject(s): Nature; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE QUAKER POET; VERSES ON SEEING MYSELF SO DESIGNATED, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quaker poet!' -- is such name Last Line: Of him, who is its donor! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Poetry & Poets; Self; Quakers THE QUOTIDIAN, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we live Last Line: Here in the skin of . . . Otherwise) shoveling / out, dryly Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Self THE RAPTURE (1), by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet infancy Last Line: Did make the same? What hand divine! Subject(s): Self THE RAVAGED FACE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outlandish as a circus, the ravaged face Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Self; Despair THE RE-CURED LOVER EXULTETH IN HIS FREEDOM, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I am as I am, and so will I be Last Line: That I am as I am and so will I be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 70 Subject(s): God; Life; Self THE RECOGNITION, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I recognize myself, but not by sight Subject(s): Self THE RELAPSE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Wert thou not what thou art Last Line: Sett ope, & bleed out every thing but thee. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Self-pity; Sin; Clemency THE REMAINS, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I empty myself of the names of others Subject(s): Self THE ROOM IS A FOUNTAIN IN EXPERIENCE, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though a previousness, cushioned by dark, aggregates the room Subject(s): Self THE SEEKING OF SELF, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dying, the seed will discover the self it finds in the losing Last Line: Purer and purer the sound, clearer the fore-uttered word. Subject(s): Self THE SELF AND THE MULBERRY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to see the self, so I looked at the mulberry Last Line: Let nature take a turn at saying what love is! Subject(s): Mulberry Trees; Nature; Self; Trees THE SELF UNSATISFIED RUNS EVERYWHERE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday and sunlight ashen on the square Subject(s): Self THE SERVICE STAR, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Text First Line: She saw in the window a single star Last Line: "he is in fort leavenworth." Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Pride; Soldiers; Sons; War; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that midas Subject(s): Gluttony; Pride; Envy; Greed; Lust; Anger;sloth; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Avarice; Cupidity THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head and shoulders, and my book Subject(s): Nature; Self THE SOLILOQUY OF THE BLANK PAGE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, in the distance there is a river, a bridge Last Line: An airborne cloud of selfhood giving a poetry reading Subject(s): Books; Self; Reading THE SONG OF THE MASK, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: In primal years through infancy of man Last Line: Than the mask removed from his naked soul. Subject(s): Masks; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE SONG OF THE SLATTERN, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing me a song of the sloven Last Line: As she erred, so will many another fool err. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Self-pity; Solitude; Women; Loneliness THE SPIRIT OF THE GAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With the glamour of the gay Last Line: Overhung with starry tears. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Deception; Grief; Life; Self-reliance; Sorrow; Sadness THE STARLING; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forever the impenetrable wall Last Line: To be some other person for a day. Subject(s): Self THE STARS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do they shine so brightly if not to be themselves Last Line: Because it is in me to change. Subject(s): Self-reliance; Stars THE STONES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night in my room Last Line: Among the excellent vegetables. Subject(s): Environment; Happiness; Nature; Self; Stones; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Joy; Delight; Granite; Rocks THE STORY OF MY LIFE, by CARROLL ARNETT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down there where I was Alternate Author Name(s): Gogisgi Subject(s): Self THE STRANGER, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A crisis came. Before I could dart Last Line: A person ran whom I did not know. Subject(s): Self-doubt THE STRANGER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He entered, but the mask he wore Last Line: "as seen of others' eyes." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Self THE SUBURBANS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgetting sounds that we no longer hear Last Line: Our limited salvation is the word. Subject(s): Conformity; Poetry & Poets; Self-consciousness; Suburbs; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later when the gloated water Subject(s): Memory; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE TIME TO BE CROSS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The time to be cross is when you have found Last Line: It's time to be cross—with yourself. Subject(s): Anger; Pride; Strength; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE TRAGEDIE OF MARIAM, FAIRE QUEENE OF JEWRY: CHORAL SONG, by ELIZABETH (TANFIELD) CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those mindes that wholy dote upon delight Last Line: That care for nothing being in their power. Alternate Author Name(s): Falkland, Viscountess Subject(s): Jews; Self-gratification; Judaism THE TURNING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unknown faces in the street Subject(s): Jews; Self; Judaism THE TWO PEACOCKS OF BEDFONT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! That breathing vanity should go Last Line: How they once lived, and wherefore they are there. Subject(s): Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE UNKNOWING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in the palm of its hand. I wake in the quiet Last Line: My body, be hidden with it, be one of its secrets Subject(s): Self THE VISION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flight is but the preparative: the sight Last Line: Sees and enjoys the holy one. Subject(s): Self; Vision THE VOYAGE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Could I but be / perpetuallie Last Line: Another voyage make to hell. Subject(s): Explorers; God; Hell; Self; Temptation; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE WAGES OF PRIDE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of wonder, when theology Last Line: He was the children's sport and mockery. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE WALLS DO NOT FALL: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a spell, for instance Last Line: That pearl-of-great-price. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Self THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sneer and we laugh with the lip Last Line: Very well! There is somewhere a nemesis waiting for you. Subject(s): Desire; Human Behavior; Self-righteousness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WIFE'S APPPEAL, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sat and read. A book with silver clasps Last Line: Frighted with calumny! -- and this is fame! Subject(s): Marriage; Pride; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE WOUND, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Dear love, thou needst not send a dart Last Line: Thy life is ratified by the rebound. Subject(s): Love; Self-consciousness THEIR BEHAVIOUR, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their guilt %is not so very different from ours Last Line: Becomes obscene in orgies Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Guilt; Human Rights; Self-consciousness THEM & [UZ], by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, ay! - stutterer demosthenes Last Line: Automatically made for tony anthony! Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self; Speech THERE IS NOTHING IN VAIN: A THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a mission, no doubt, for the mole in the dust Last Line: And the agents are needed, for god has supplied. Subject(s): Agents; Missionaries & Missions; Pride; Thought; Trust; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Thinking THERE SHALL COME FAINT LIGHT', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a meditative white crane Subject(s): Self; Thought THERE'S SO MUCH I MISS, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: What sort of hunger, %what sort of thirst Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Self-gratification THESE SONS OF THE SUN, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: If you turn around Last Line: You will go headfirst alone %and they will watch you %from their treetops %mute Subject(s): Self; Solitude THIS FIGURINE (THIS IS I), by GEORGIA BOIT GIERASCH Poem Text First Line: Just near the lighted candles - place it there Last Line: Dipped in the tide the flight of a passing swallow. Subject(s): Self THIS LAND, by HELEN BRYANT Poem Text First Line: Beloved sea, fall gently on this land Last Line: Your loveliness long after I depart. Subject(s): Pride; Sea; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean THREE FRIENDS, by VIRGINIA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Many the friends you name Last Line: Thrust in my side. Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott Subject(s): Hope; Pride; Youth; Optimism; Self-esteem; Self-respect TICHBORNE'S ELEGY, WRITTEN IN THE TOWER BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, by CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My prime of youth is but a frost of cares Last Line: And now I live, and now my life is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Tychborn, Chidiock; Ticheborne, Chidiock Variant Title(s): Retrospect;elegy;lines Written By One In The Tower;verses Written In The Tower;poem Written On The Eve Of Execution;elegy For Himself;lines Written In The Tower, The Night Before .. Execution Subject(s): Adversity; Capital Punishment; Death; Mourning; Remorse; Self-pity; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Bereavement TO A BOASTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shall not cover you Last Line: And be forgotten. Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Pride; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wouldst thou seek the low abode Last Line: Of hermit happiness. Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Life; Peace; Self-reliance; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A PRODIGY OF SAPIENCE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's an orange - thou hast drained its juice Last Line: Though moon and stars be minced to yield it stuffing. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO A PROUD BEAUTY, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperious fool! Think not because your're fair Last Line: Provoke my pen to write in such a strain. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Beauty; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO CHARIESSA, BEHOLDING HERSELF IN A GLASS, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cast, chariessa, cast that glass away Last Line: Learn how to love thyself in loving me. Subject(s): Self-love TO D. G. ROSSETTI, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the darkness cometh never a sound Last Line: And we inherit now its deathless pride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Pride; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO DIANEME (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes Last Line: When all your world of beauty's gone. Subject(s): Admiration; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO FAME, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be self-deceived Last Line: Sets the dews shaking and the thorn-twig bends. Subject(s): Fame; Introspection; Self; Reputation TO FIGHT ALOUD IS VERY BRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And uniforms of snow Subject(s): Heroism; Self-criticism TO FORTUNE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst I in prison or in court look down Last Line: And, wouldst thou have me humbled, make me great. Subject(s): Fortune; Pride; Prisons & Prisoners; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO HIMSELF; AN ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When fumes of wine ascend into my brain Last Line: I'm sure 'tis better to be drunk, than dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Self; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse TO JOHN CLARE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, honest john, how fare you now at home? Last Line: And jack the giant-killer's high renown. Subject(s): Self TO MADAM BHEN, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam! Permit a muse, that has been long Last Line: Her want of skill, than want of zeal to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Behn, Aphra (1640-1689); Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO ME, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night, as drough the mead I took my way Last Line: Vor they be now my own, a-bound to me. Subject(s): Self TO MINE OWN SELF, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hands the hook thunder hangs its hat on Subject(s): Self TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 21. THE BETTER SELF, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: There are those whose better self lies slain Last Line: And live the christ life here on earth below. Subject(s): Self TO MUTIUS, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: A thousand great resolves, as great Last Line: With his eternal doom. Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Mutability; Pride; Destiny; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO MY DAUGHTER, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, are they proud, whose leafy pomp outshone Last Line: Strews flowers beneath us, holy stars above. Subject(s): Daughters; Love; Pride; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO MY HEART AS I GO ALONG, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sorry you feel lonely Subject(s): Self TO MY OWN PORTRAIT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is it that before mine eyes Last Line: To flee away and be at rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Portraits; Self TO MY OWN SELF, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hands the -- hook thunder hangs its hat on Last Line: My soul song of all life Subject(s): Self TO MY OWN SELF, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hands the -- hook thunder hangs its hat on Last Line: My soul the -- song of all life Subject(s): Self TO MY PHOTOGRAPH: A.D. 1897, by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER Poem Text First Line: Dear, round-eyed one, I wish I knew Last Line: To your dewy charm and your smug complacence. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Self TO MYSELF, by ABBA KOVNER Poem Source First Line: Mathematicians take a huge area like a whole world Last Line: After all, if I fall dead in the empty space %it's not the mathematicians who'll be surprised Subject(s): Self TO MYSELF, AFTER FORTY YEARS, by TERENCE HANBURY WHITE Poem Source First Line: Terence, if I could return Last Line: One heart could have loved this hulk - %the ignorant heart of you Subject(s): Self TO THE AUTHOR OF TEUCHSA GRONDIE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal bard! Thy graphic pen Last Line: As if you felt the red man's glory. Subject(s): Bards; Pride; Soldiers; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO THE HONOURED EUGENIA, COMMANDING ME TO WRITE TO HER, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair excellence! Such strange commands you lay Last Line: Quarrel with them that give you not your due. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Heaven; Pride; Soul; Paradise; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, by PAKENHAM THOMAS BEATTY Poem Text First Line: By thine own soul's law learn to live Last Line: And see thy long day's journey done. Subject(s): Self TO THOSE OF MY SISTERS WHO KEPT THEIR NATURALS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters! I love you Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Conformity; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect TOES, by FREYA MANFRED Poem Source First Line: A woman lost both her big toes Last Line: Beneath the brussel sprouts %seventy-two toes under Subject(s): Accidents; Self-doubt; Toes TOO PROUD TO PRAY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: She was too proud to pray Last Line: What a prayer. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Prayer; Pride; Male-female Relations; Self-esteem; Self-respect TOTEM, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the %beginning %you wobbled Last Line: But even more so %from light Subject(s): Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who distributes the live or die Last Line: Is all effort to shape what surfaces within the sane Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ignore your own devastation and it doggedly shadows, resurfacing Last Line: We can enter into hell and still sit down for sunday dinner Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inconsolable outdoorness of the heart Last Line: Waiting-dear, heart, you break in two. You do not break into Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Privately, %dukes up, duel or duck, beat on Last Line: Calm, outside the mirror Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (5), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if anguishing should be excrement Last Line: As if anguishing Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (6), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plunging. This time complex Last Line: The floor). Sit down the long while Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (7), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mosquitoes abundant, limit of white wall, stray thread, this Last Line: I apologize, but I do not apologize Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (8), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sit next to the self Last Line: As if grief needs to be and is in the end, anyway Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (9), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue is a muscle Last Line: Better to curse, shut up, before understanding sets in Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 1, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom at last! Last Line: Written—and of this book. Subject(s): Democracy; Expressionism - Poets; Freedom; Life; Nations; Politics & Government; Self-consciousness; Liberty TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I KNOW THAT YOU ARE SELF-CONSCIOUS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know that you are self-conscious Last Line: Beside you, over your shoulder? Subject(s): Self-consciousness TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. TO ONE IN TROUBLE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord of heaven and earth, out of darkness, out of silence Last Line: Thou understandest not, shall redeem thy soul. Subject(s): Self; Soul TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. NOTHING LESS THAN ALL, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All, all - and nothing less than all Last Line: And shall be content with nothing less than all. Subject(s): Identity; Self-satisfaction TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE WANDERING PSYCHE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who un-united to yourself roam about the world Last Line: How shall you indeed know what it is to be yourself? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Self-love TREAD THE DARK: 16, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am standing on the soft, spongy surface of my brain Last Line: And I accept myself falling and sing out my terror like a song Subject(s): Self-consciousness TREAD THE DARK: 23, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside me is the peace of an egg Last Line: I am prepared to enjoy it Subject(s): Eggs; Peace; Self TREAD THE DARK: 5, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Examine me, I am continuous Last Line: In time and die %when I am dead Subject(s): Self TREAD THE DARK: 6. THE TWO SELVES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I existed before my mind realized me Last Line: And withdraw into a stone, forever %known to you Subject(s): Self TREE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Be me, become me Last Line: In my unrepeatable form of innocence Subject(s): Pain; Self; Solitude TRINKET, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love watching the water Last Line: Small enough to contain it. Subject(s): Plants; Self; Time; Water; Planting; Planters TRUISM, by GLORY E. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: We alone / must set / our path Last Line: In aftermath. Subject(s): Self TWENTY POET SKETCHES: 13, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: The chauvinist poet Last Line: Often became %great wizards Subject(s): Self-gratification TWENTY POET SKETCHES: 2, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: The landscape poet met Last Line: Adopt one another %and became twins Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self TWILIGHT, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm the crazy girl you've been looking for. I'm the one on the phone that Last Line: Think I was a princess because my blood was blue. See? Subject(s): Insanity; Self-criticism; Self-hate TWILIGHT, by MOISHE NADIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Opposite my house is a church Last Line: "I may be sure I have not become dumb." Subject(s): Self; Solitude; Loneliness TWO FLAMES! -- NO, TWO MIRRORS!, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The mirros of the underworld abyss: %two mortal eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Mirrors; Self TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Self-love, which, never rightly understood Last Line: Find but those faults, which they want wit to make. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Self-righteousness; Dramatists UNFINISHED SONG, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: It hangs unfinished in the air Last Line: My unshed tears. Subject(s): Grief; Self; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness UNREST, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The motorman bangs on his noisy gong Last Line: I know I'm tired of being me! Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Self; Childhood; Work; Workers UNWRAP THE CELLOPHANE, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Self-righteous with stories of the sow that ate her young in a sty Last Line: But oranges prices plaster windows, block my view, quench the vision %of the hog, wild then stilled Subject(s): Self UPON HIMSELF (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could [co'd] never love indeed Last Line: Neither broke I'th whole, or part. Subject(s): Self; Spinsters; Women; Old Maids UPON HIMSELF (5), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dislikt but even now Last Line: I shall quite dislike agen. Subject(s): Self UPON HIMSELFE (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sive-like, and can hold Last Line: Herrick keeps, as holds nothing. Subject(s): Self UPON HIS PICTURE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When age hath made me what I am not now Last Line: Whose shadow is less given to change than he. Variant Title(s): To My Picture Subject(s): Portraits; Self VARIATIONS ON SAPPHO: 35, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gorgo, put the rug in place Last Line: Thy pride upon a ring? Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Variant Title(s): Long Ago: 35 Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Pride; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Self-esteem; Self-respect VICTIM OF HIMSELF, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He thought he saw a long way off the ocean Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Perception; Pride; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Self-esteem; Self-respect VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, and that was term'd the time of gold Last Line: Thriuing in ill, as it in age decayes. Variant Title(s): The Golden Age Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Pride; Sea; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were yesterday polemons natales kept Last Line: With satten sleeues hath grac'd his sackcloth sute. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Names; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The satire should be like the porcupine Last Line: For welthy thames to change his lowly rhene. Subject(s): Nature; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Porcupines; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect VOTIVE TABLETS: THE KEY, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To know thyself -- in others self discern Last Line: Wouldst thou know others? Read thyself — and learn! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Self WAGES OF SELF-INTEREST, by WALTER BARGEN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes there is only the sorting of dry Last Line: Of loss this law of desiring corrupting what he %desires these equal and opposite reactions Subject(s): Desire; Self; Sleep WAR OF POVERTY, by JONAS L. GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: I fight the war of poverty Last Line: Of self hate %and blind pity Subject(s): Self-hate WASHINGTON, by EVALYN TERRY BROOKS Poem Text First Line: O washington, the beautiful, our city glorious Last Line: Salute our washington! Subject(s): Cities; Love; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect WEEK'S END, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet to rest serenely in the gloaming Last Line: Heaps of mon. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Pride; Wages; Working Class - United States; Work; Workers; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Salaries WESTWARD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And dost thou lead him hence with thee Last Line: And bless the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Self WHAT CAN BE WRONG WITH ME?, by DORY LEVISS Poem Source First Line: I never hld the world in all its beauty, close %to me in ecstasy Last Line: That there is nothing wrong with me? Subject(s): Self WHAT I LEARNED: DOGS WALK UPSTAIRS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tonight the moon owns this river Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Knowledge; Nature; Self WHAT IT TAKES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Take a deep breath before you drop the bomb Last Line: That's what it takes to rubbish the claim, %I am. Subject(s): Self-consciousness WHAT THE BONES KNOW, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering the past Last Line: I do not waste my breath. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Self-consciousness; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Feminism WHAT THE COUNTRY MAN KNOWS BY HEART, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Why he lives there he can't say Last Line: And blood beats the walls of his heart Subject(s): Life; Men; Self; Silence WHAT THE MIRROR SAID, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, / you a wonder Last Line: Damn / body! Subject(s): Self; Women WHAT THE MIRROR SAID, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, %you a wonder Last Line: Damn %body! Subject(s): Self; Women WHEN I FOUND MY TRACKS IN THE SNOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They turned the wrong way and went on Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Errors; Nature; Self-criticism WHERE I'VE BEEN ALL MY LIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sirs, in our youth you love the sight of us Last Line: Come die with me in the mosques of rotterdam. Subject(s): China; Ethnic Identity; Identity; Netherlands; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Self-consciousness; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips; Feminism WHERE ILIUM WAS PROUD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the sands where ilium was proud Last Line: Only a deathless tale in poets' mouths. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Iliad; Odyssey; Self-esteem; Self-respect WHERE IS THE SEA? (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy with his skate, the man in llove, st. Christopher Last Line: I will dance to the rhythm. You will play Subject(s): Despair; Self WHERE IS THE SEA? (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though we nedd make civil the war in our hearts, deeper is Last Line: For you, willingly, every day, room for she, my suitcase, all my stuff? Subject(s): Despair; Self WHERE IS THE SEA? (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To locate the self salvaged. Persuaded by, within the drawn Last Line: There must be an uninvolved and there, outrageous calm Subject(s): Despair; Self WHICH IS ME?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Within my earthly temple there'sa crowd Last Line: If I could once determine which is me Subject(s): Self WHO IS NOW READING THIS?, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or as if it could cease transpiring from me until it must cease Subject(s): Self; Relationships WHOLE AND WITHOUT BLESSING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is beautiful alters, has undertow Last Line: Where there are no clues except pleasure Subject(s): Self WHY CAN'T I BE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why can’t I be an empty house falling into decay, unaware of myself? Last Line: Shine upon me, sun, so that I become lit up like a sunbeam Subject(s): Self WHY DO I BEHAVE SO BADLY?, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A good answer Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Self-righteousness; Social Problems WILL, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: I'm not myself today (nor any other), Last Line: That knowledge makes me wise if never free. Subject(s): Self-consciousness WILL'S LOVE, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: Love god - %my mother said Last Line: I am %love me Subject(s): Self WIND IN A BOX, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This ink. This name. This blood. This blunder. Last Line: In the body. This wind in the blood Subject(s): Touch (sense); Self WINDOWS (VERSION A), by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Disgusted with the dreary hospital, and the rank fumes Last Line: -even at the risk of falling in eternity? Subject(s): Self-hate WINTER TREES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: Over their stark austerity the trees Last Line: To sing, and winds to stir with passionate words. Subject(s): Birds; Pride; Trees; Winter; Self-esteem; Self-respect WISCONSIN, by CORA BLAKESLEE BEEBE Poem Text First Line: The scotsman rightly sings Last Line: And that is home to me. Subject(s): Pride; Wisconsin; Self-esteem; Self-respect WOMAN IN FRONT OF POSTER OF HERSELF, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said I shouldn't. Subject(s): Women; Self; Faces; Love WOMAN PRIDE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of his life she will go quietly Last Line: So softly she will go—in woman pride! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect WOMEN WILL KNOW, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My tears ran down Last Line: But women will know the answer well! Subject(s): Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect WORK, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: The work, which no one asked me to do Last Line: And start all over again Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self-doubt; Writing And Writers WORKING ON THE ROOF, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: The thing is to pay attention Last Line: Where only the air can bear you Subject(s): Roofing And Roofers; Self-reliance WORST SIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He sings as he has always sung Last Line: Small though it be %it's the one for me. Subject(s): Laughter; Self; Sin; Singing And Singers WORTHLESSNESS, by NORMAN CABOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good spirits turn shuddering from scenes of / decay Last Line: The tangible form of my own worthlessness. Subject(s): Self-criticism WRITTEN IN HER FRENCH PSALTER, by ELIZABETH I Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No crooked leg, no bleared eye Last Line: As in the inward suspicious mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Tudor, Elizabeth Subject(s): Self-doubt YEARS AGO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I became a nail Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Self YOU AND YOUR ILK, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have thought much upon Subject(s): Self YOU ARE NEVER READY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: In four minutes you will be gone and I must tell you why Last Line: Get out of this fucking world %as fast as you can Subject(s): Independence; Life; Maturity; Self-love YOU COULD HATE YOURSELF', by DZVINIA ORLOWSKY Poem Source Last Line: Simply roll past yourself like thunder Subject(s): Hate; Self YOUR HONOR, by PARTHENIA GADDY WILSON Poem Text First Line: When walking down the street Last Line: We lift old glory the u. S. Around. Subject(s): Pride; United States; Self-esteem; Self-respect; America YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: ALTER EGO, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imprisoned in this body I have found Last Line: Before my song that shakes the walls of night! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Self |
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