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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SELF-RELIANCE Matches Found: 28 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 REPLY TO CESNURE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Repulse the staring eye Subject(s): Self-reliance 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 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-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-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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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